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The best thing about analysing video games is when you have that "eurika!" moment and realise just what makes a game you love so good. Two moments I remember vividly are:

1. Watching this video and upon the first mention of "momentum physics" having every little detail of the Classic Sonic games and why the Modern games seem so far-removed to me start to fall into place in my head at once

and 2. Playing Crash Bandicoot 3, wiggling the joystick a little at a jetpack spot, noticing that Crash is locked to 8 dimensions, and thusly realising that's why Crash games always felt more precise.

People tend to say Sonic was either "always supposed to be like anime" or "turned from Mickey Mouse to Dragon Ball", but as a Classic fan I don't see it either way. I see him as a middle ground between the western and eastern tropes of animation with a tiny bit more Mickey DNA than Goku. I like the idea of Sonic being a malleable IP that can be either edgy or silly depending on the game/show/comic rather than flip-flopping a universal tone every 5-10 years (as long as they don't go too edgy like with the guns and hyperrealistic castles and such) That's what they did early in Sonic's lifespan and we ended up with two of the most beloved game TV adaptations ever.
TBT being liked at all is an acomplishment for a DiC show, let alone being beloved.

If you think the YouTube ad results for "Mario Pillow" were weird in that picture, you should see them now. Some memelords have been tagging dumb pillows as "Mario" on RedBubble it seems.

It's really weird how low the viewcount on Zendaya is Meechee is. When it first came out it was trending and there were news articles about it, but it only has 1M views to this day. Either this is some WB marketing conspiracy (kinda like how the surprised Pikachu meme was theorised to be a marketing stunt for Detective Pikachu), or it was really popular on some other site.

I think the wording of the hashtag "#BringBackNationalDex" was the main reason a lot of people, myself included, opposed it. The NatDex was one of the smallest issues with SwSh, if it even is an issue, but the hashtag generalised and simplified it down to a distaste of the one element of SwSh that was absolutely inevitable at some point. The big fuss about trees didn't help either.

Just realised everything in New Pokemon Snap is named after beans in reference to "Jack and Beans".

Is this a meme or excert from a lift-the-flap book for infants?

I keep on forgetting that Mew has hands.

While I'm quite strictly against the idea of Nintendo Kart, I wouldn't be opposed to turning Mario Tennis or Golf into a crossover - though I'd have different standards for what characters could get in compared to Smash (cartoony aesthetic and oddball/obscure characters would be favoured, but moveset or historical relevance is no longer a factor at all and popularity is barely a factor)

Bide your time, lie and wait

Post these images to scare a SiIvaGunner fan.

Contains a few no no words and a bit of Kiki's Krazy Kuest blood.

I seriously cannot understand how anyone can find anything salvagable in Sonic 06 (other than the music of course), that being said there is a game that I can apply the "revolutionary on paper" mentality to:

Bubsy 3D is actually a tragic miracle of game development. It started production a year after Mario 64 did with no reference as to what that game (or others like Croc or Crash Bandicoot) looked like. Despite being created with an 11-or-so person team and no other 3D platformers as a guide except maybe Jumping Flash, Bubsy 3D actually is a rather sophisticated 3D platformer for its time and dev background, in some cases more so than Crash or Mario 64.

-Power-ups, not featured in either Mario or Crash (discounting Aku Aku crates and the wing/metal caps, the prior being a basic extra hit/invincibility and the latter two being extremely situational)

-Co-op mode similar in nature to what would later be done in Mario Galaxy 2, and arguably conceptually better with the reticle player being able to swap with player 1 by shooting Bubsy, as well as an ammo system.

-The ability to use collectables as projectiles - Pac-Man World did something similar later into the PS1's lifespan but Bubsy did a better job of it IMO given that you have to press a button when close to an atom rather than stockpiling them. Also Pac-Man World had a really strange angle to the throw - but that's irrelevant since Pac-Man World is overall a different type of platformer level layout-wise than Bubsy 3D so the throw angles can't be fairly compaired all things considered.

Bubsy 3D is not a good game in the slightest, but damn it has some great ideas and is an amazing acomplishment given it's development circumstances.

Add metrosexual Max Goof to Kingdom Hearts, cowards.

If I could use a PC right now, I'd go out and download a bunch of NES games and reskin them with popular characters, upload the reskins to ROM hack sites, then wait a few decades to see if they end up in any bootlegs. That would be an amazing acomplishment for me.

Finding out the correct spelling is "disconfirmed" is like biting the the apple from the Garden of Eden - it's such haunting knowledge that haunts you every time you go into any Smash discussion.

The most important characters to come from failed consoles

Wii U: Inklings
Jaguar: Rayman
3DO: Gex
Ouya: Duck Game ducks
Pippin: The flower thing on UmJammer Lammy's shirt
Lynx: Chip McCallahan
Sega Saturn: The Tails Doll

Assuming Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is really Monkey Ball Retro, I love the idea of "Mania" becoming a go-to word for Sega games that restore series to their roots.

How is this legal? Even capitalists have to draw a line SOMEWHERE, right?

If AoStH continued after Sonic 3's release, Knuckles would absolutely have a Jamacian accent done by a white guy.

They better bring back the Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUUUN-UUN-UUN jungle. I remember being distraught as a kid when they stopped using that at the end of shows.

Ahh yes, the worst held secret in gaming since Mario + Rabbids. Can't wait either way, assuming this is "Retro".

-the UFOs look nothing like the UFOs from Chicken Little
-either Mr. Enter missed, or Buck Cluck is tiny
-He isn't holding the bat correctly
-I can't tell if Chicken Little is dead on the side of the road, or a plushie being held by Buck
-If the prior is true, Mr. Enter is portraying his rantsona as a child murderer
-Even if that's a plushie, Mr. Enter is still portraying his rantsona as a murderer

To be completely honest Mr. Enter's old thumbnails aren't that bad, they just have some questionable thematic and design choices...

except the Norm of the North one, that one's just bad.

Everybody wants a Tetris stage in Smash but we all know if that was a real stage it'd be seen by most as one of the worst in the game.

Logan Kart 8 (an intentionally bad meme clone of Mario Kart) has a legitimately great soundtrack. I highly recommend giving it a listen. Two favourites of mine are "Miserable Rainy Stage" and "Reflected Light Boulevard".

I'm pretty sure the only reason NES Pro Wrestling has never been represented in Smash is because of Kin Corn Karn.

I watched the Scientifically Accurate Sonic video back when it first came out and I still don't know who this is supposed to be.

The world if TJ Davis and Richard Jacques still did music for Sonic games.


They would've been perfect for Colours and Mania especially.

I really dislike the reputation of Miis as "the Sans character". You can make almost any character you could possibly imagine as a Mii, including some real spicy memes, yet you just go for the same, homogenised pick?

Mr. Dark from the first Rayman is such a generic, bland, motivation-less villain that that kinda becomes a unique, defining trait that sets him apart.

tf is up with this guys ears they look like fugging POP CORN

Can someone help me? I accidentally turned on mobile mode on YouTube and I can't switch back to desktop. Using Safari.

Why is it licensed movie games specifically that have really dark death animations?

Crash gets flattened, Sonic falls through the screen, then Remy slowly suffocates to death while haunting chimes play in the background.

Funny how Disney basically made Wreck-It Ralph 2 to promote the Oh My Disney website... and then 2 years later closed the website because Mulan underperformed, leaving them with a completely useless movie.

My hype for Space Jam 2 dropped substantially when they revealed it'd have CGI. I legit only wanted to see it to support 2D animation.

As a linear 3D platformer connoisseur I really dislike when they try to force in collectathon elements for progression.

Fun fact: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the only Smash game not to feature a stage based on Super Mario Bros. (not counting the Super Mario Maker stage)

People tend to complain about people complaining about Indie World directs but like... they're right. Not about the whole "where smash where f zero where silksong" thing but rather about how they tend to highlight the worst possible games. I get they're trying to focus on little known could-be-hits, which is super admirable, but they rarely choose goo-wait they just showed the new TMNT never mind.