Wario Wario Wario

My biggest worry for Monkey Ball Banana Mania, even though it's completely unfounded if Brian Matt's YouTube Q&A is to go by, is that just like Sonic Mania Sega will learn nothing from the game's success and go straight back to the Banana Blitz style.

UK Parlament when Smash adds Greninja and not Grehero

You need to have some audacity to turn a world-famous audio manipulation software into spyware.

Switch Pro announced

No hardware updates

Lateral thinking with withered technology reigns supreme.

75M is a good stage (with 8 players at least).

Strongest Chemical Plant Zone fan:

Weakest Marble Zone fan:

The Virgin Nividia RTX

• Just makes games a little fancier
• Ruins gaming history with disgusting photorealistic water mods
• Cheapest version costs over $600

vs.

the Chad Super FX Chip.

• No hardware upgrades required, comes on the cartridge
• Opened up new gameplay possibilities previously thought impossible
• Aesthetic AF

Un(Annoyed Grunt)Tale

Strongest "how old is..." Googler

Weakest "is... ...supposed to be black?" Googler

Adventure Time brazenly ripped off the concept of "snail who appears in the background every episode" from Blue's Clues and we don't talk about that enough.

We live in a society

"Haruhi Suzumiya in Peppa Pig" has the exact same energy as "EarthBound in Frasier"

Didn't know Lappy was in Chicken Little.

Disney protagonist: forms a long lasting, valuable friendship
Disney protagonist when it's a sequel released in 2019:

Pictured below: the weakest pre-ESRB-leak "Duck Hunt Dog" supporter.

So, why is Lemmy forwards-facing in Smash? I'm pretty sure that outside of blinking the Koopalings' pupils don't animate at all so why not just model him with his regular eyes?

Sonic fans when someone says they don't like a game where you're too slippery to collect a slightly curved row of collectables as much as a game that changed the gaming industry forever and single-handedly ended a rival corporation's monopoly.

Smash stage renaming frenzy, let's go:

Peach's Castle 64 "Sky Castle Contraption"
Dream Land 64 "Whispy Woods"
Rainbow Cruise "Rainbow Ride" (better name, don't @ me)
Jungle Japes "Cranky's Shack"
Temple "Hyrule Temple" (everyone calls it that anyway)
Yoshi's Island (Melee) "Dinosaur Land"
Yoshi's Story "Storybook Island"
Mushroom Kingdom 2 "Subspace"
Mushroomy Kingdom "Dilapidated Kingdom"
WarioWare, Inc. "Variety Tower"
Smashville "Animal Crossing"
Mario Bros. "Shellcreeper Sewers"
Hanenbow "Hanenbow Habitat"
3D Land "Gimmick Kingdom"
Paper Mario "Paper Mario Story"
Unova Pokémon League "N's Castle"
Prism Tower "Lumiose City"
(I want to rename Balloon Fight but can't come up with anything)
Streetpass Quest "Dark Lord's Castle"
Tomodachi Life "Mii Apartments"
Mushroom Kingdom U "New Mushroom Kingdom"
Mario Galaxy "Gateway Galaxy"
The Great Cave Offensive "The Great Cave"
Gamer "Gamer's Room"
Town & City "Let's Go to the City"
Gaur Plain "Bionis' Leg"
Duck Hunt "Hunting Grounds"
Wrecking Crew "Demolition Site"
Pilotwings "Pilotwings Islands"
Super Mario Maker "Course World"
Minecraft World "New Seed"

Super Happy Tree is the closest thing Smash has to a food-themed stage.

Biker Wario being Wario's default costume is one of the smartest game design decisions in Smash history IMO as it subtley clues new players less familiar with Diamond City or Kitchen Island into the fact Wario isn't a Mario clone, and I seriously hope the same is done with Waluigi's tennis outfit should he get in.

The Sausage Party fan wikia being called "Sausage Party Recipe Book" is more clever than anything in the entire movie.

I'm kinda curious as to what it'd look like if you were to design a character who is a human, but in the same way Sonic is a hedgehog.

Remember: always seperate art from artist. Otherwise, you'll either:

A. be completely inable to enjoy something close to your heart unless you make up revisionist BS about Hatsune Miku

or

B. end up worshipping and growing an emotional attachment to a homophobic millionare who is more than willing to weaponise your passion.

Hoodie Wire-Frame Little Mac is easily the most specific and niche costume in Smash. I don't know why they even decided to add it, but I want more alts like it. Love Wireframe Mac.

me after i googled who sings one little slip in chicken little

Subspace Emissary sucks. Who looks at ROB and thinks "yes, this robot was clearly tricked into enacting genocide against his entire race". Who plays WarioWare and thinks "it'd totally be on-character for this Wario guy to petrify children for fun." Who plays a Game & Watch game and thinks "it sure would be awesome if all these beep-boop people fused into a two headed car robot". Also, if "all the trophies know is fighting" HOW ARE THEY FORMING FRIENDSHIPS AND WHY IS THERE A GOD DAMN ZOO WHAT PURPOSE WOULD A SOULLESS PERCALIN ROBOT MADE JUST FOR FIGHTING HAVE TO WATCH ANIMALS

Every masterpiece

Has its cheap copy

Same composer.

Every masterpiece

Has its cheap copy

You've heard "life imitates art", now get ready for "canon imitates fanon."

Imagine killing gods every Thursday instead of providing food for your loving wife and kids at home.

This meme was made by Pac-Man Gang

I've always wondered why there's never been a proper Game Boy rep in Smash, but now I think about it there's only really two realistically viable options: Muddy Mole and Prince of Sablé.

Who Are You Running From? is based on a real guy
Warlocked technically isn't Nintendo, and never released in Japan
Alice would more likely than not be passed up in favour of the more recognisable Balloon Fighter
Tatanga is an obscure rep for a well known IP
Yakuman Player is well... Yakuman Player.
X has no real characters to draw from

I should note that Kakrurenbo Battle Monster Tactics is a bit of an outlier, since I can't find much English info about it. There could be stuff to work with, there could not, but what I can find about it doesn't make it sound very interesting.

top 10 blue characters

No prizes for guessing who this character is a parody of.

Sega have never said what Metal Sonic is powered by and that makes me mad.

Smash really picks and chooses which DK songs to give their proper titles and which to give an extremely vague title relating to their gameplay role. "Ship Deck 2/King K. Rool" is a glaring example of this as 1. another remix of this song exists with the actual name, and 2. Gangplank Galleon is the only ship deck in DKC1. (Unless you count DKL, which had a completely different Gangplank Galleon theme)

I'm really enjoying LS Mark's every Disney movie video so far, but hearing the Melee unlockable menu theme play as the Snow White logo pops up, or an extragagant Tim Follin tune contrasting against the elegant and pretty Bambi logo is such a mood whiplash.