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Howdy, Smash fans! I sure hope you enjoyed last week’s <a href="http://smashboards.com/blog/2007/11/30/japan-time-time-goes-back-in-time-weeks-1-2-and-3/">adventure throughout the history of Japan Time Time</a>, because the amazing journey continues here! Today, we’ll be covering weeks 4 to 6, from Fox’s not-so-dramatic reappearance to the day we learned more about Wario’s moves. Clearly, endless fun and excitement are waiting for us!
So, get ready for another (long, but you’ll get used to it, I promise) trip down memory lane, as a thirty years younger version of me rattles on and on about crates and barrels. Please hold on to something, and make sure not to change the course of history irrevocably while you’re there. Once again, our pal the Phase Distorter will provide commentary from me, using my knowledge of the future to explain things that may be confusing to you rookie time-travelers.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Testing… testing… All right! We’re all set. Just this once, I’ll let you man the controls of the time machine. Set course for June 11th! And yet another… Japan Time Time!</em>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/thethingxq3.png" alt="When they hired me, they probably didn't think I would post completely irrelevant images of Fantastic Four characters on the front page." />
<strong>Noooooo! You messed up! That’s Clobbering Time! This is the last time I let you drive.</strong>
<strong>WEEK #4: June 11th to June 15th, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/fox.html"><strong>Day #15: Entry #21: Fox</strong></a>
<em>Run! Fly! Move boldly!</em>
Oh look! It’s another one of those entries about a character we knew about already! And it’s Fox, too! Man. Seeing that entry reminds of the crushing bitter disappointment that was the second trailer. I’ve slipped a word on said trailer in my first entry, but in case you forgot, here! You can watch it again!
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie02.html">The shocker at the end is more like an UN-shocker!</a>
Uuuuugh. The fact that I’m taking this so seriously is proof of a somewhat pathetic and intense nerdiness. The outside world must NEVER read this, lest I be forever ostracized from those serious gentlemen’s clubs I frequent! So let’s keep this between us.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>…Oh, damnit.</em>
Where was I at? Oh yeah, Fox. SCREW YOU, NINTENDO. That wasn’t a reveal, that was a TURD! You’ve forever ruined the franchise by posting this entry months ago and making this trailer even earlier!
<strong>DAY #13 RATING:</strong> 1 Screw Ball out of 5
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To be fair, a double entry of that kind is worth 2 icons anyway! Also, yes, I’m calling them Screw Balls. They’re BALLS that give you the SCREW ATTACK. I still have trouble believing that they’re not actually called that officially.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>By the way, you’ve probably noticed by now if you’ve been reading my previous entries, but ratings are really inconsistent and random, ESPECIALLY in the old updates. Don’t think about it too hard. (</em><em>I’ll probably be saying this a lot.</em><em>)
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage03.html"><strong>Day #16: Entry #22: Yoshi’s Island</strong></a>
<em>The whimsical Support Ghost.</em>
Remember in last week’s entry, where I complained about Yoshi’s Island not getting enough exposure? That was accidental foreshadowing.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>This is Younger Me trying to cover up the fact that I can see the future. Hey, it worked for a while.</em>
Even though it seems it may be paired with the somewhat unfitting Yoshi’s Story song we heard earlier, it still looks pretty awesome. The place looks GREAT, and while the gimmick of “appearance changes as time passes” was already revealed in another stage less than a month before, it still seems to come out looking good, and it’s better than a simply static stage, after all.
What amuses me, though, is that I hear that the Japanese have a common misconception that they’re one of the only countries in the world with four seasons. This may or may not actually be true, but I keep imagining this meeting table where those Japanese men in suits argue about how totally ballsy it is to include the whole four-seasons thing in a game meant to appeal to an international market. And then they get into a huge argument full of cultural misunderstandings, and someone mentions that Americans box against astronauts, so maybe they should put an astronaut-punching minigame in the US version in order to please everybody. Pffthahaha.
Woah, tangent.
Oh man, and the moon has a log sticking out of it. Thumbs up to them including a reference to one of the simplest yet somehow most awesome boss fights EVER.
<strong>DAY #14 RATING:</strong> 4 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music03.html"><strong>Day #17: Entry #23: Metroid: Boss Battle Music (Ridley Fight)</strong></a>
<em>As such, this arrangement features a suitable sense of cruelty and tension.</em>
Oh yes, a new music entry! While it’s too bad that they didn’t reuse the same song they used in the previous two games, which I thought was already the best thing ever, variety is good. The song is a little repetitive (at least the unremixed version is, but it’s not like I can tell much from that short clip of the remix here, really), but it’s not really bad.
It’s a bit weird that the clip is only 36 seconds long, leading me to come up with a crazy theory saying this implies the song isn’t meant to be played for long matches and looped a lot, so maybe it could be for a boss battle of some sort. A battle… against RIDLEY, maybe?! Hmmm.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Speculation on that still runs wild even to this day!</em>
<strong>DAY #15 RATING:</strong> 3 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/item03.html"><strong>Day #18: Entry #24: Crates and Barrels</strong></a>
<em>It… makes things hectic!</em>
For such incredibly boring items, they’ve managed to come up with a pretty interesting update. I dig the whole appearance-changing thing for some reason. Maybe it’s just the idea that, among all those characters and things that look out of place, only the <em>crates</em> are even trying to blend in.
…Speaking of blending in, I hope there are cardboard boxes on the Shadow Moses Island stage. That would RULE. But I digress.
It’s rather amusing that the crates now slide down on hills and whatnot, but the little scenario they show as an example makes me blink a bit. Is the crate disregarding physics so hard that it’s hitting Wario with enough speed and force for him to even be particularly bothered? Or maybe it’s just that I’m used to games that actually do disregard physics, so I’m ignoring the fact that, in <em>real</em> physics, Wario would totally be getting his butt kicked. Hm.
<strong>DAY #16 RATING:</strong> 3 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/samus.html"><strong>Day #19: Entry #25: Samus</strong></a>
<em>Look at her Power Suit shine!</em>
Why are you doing this to me, Japan Time?! I just gave an entry about CRATES three Screw Balls! THREE! And how do you reward me? By making another entry like Monday’s. You hurt me. You really do. This angers me so much that I’ll make this my shortest review so far! Grrr!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I think to this day, this is my second shortest entry ever.</em>
<strong>DAY #17 RATING:</strong> 1 Screw Ball out of 5
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<strong>WEEK #4 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 2 Screw Balls out of 5!
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Another week with insubstantial updates, but with some interestingness thrown in. None of the awesome bombs I might have grown too accustomed to by now, really. Yeah, early Japan Time features a lot of disappointment. But it gets BETTER later, woo!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Just to recap, this is me in September reviewing updates from June and promising that they would get more interesting soon. Meanwhile, I, in December, reedit those old reviews I did in September and promise that what I wrote would get more interesting later on. You following? Because I’m not. Anyhoo, on to this update’s second week! With a few exceptions, there should be three of those in every “back in time” week. A triple dose, if you will!</em>
<strong>WEEK #5: June 18th to June 22nd, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/link.html#3rd"><strong>Day 20: Entry 26: Link: Final Smash</strong></a>
<em>SKRAAAAH!</em>
Um… I don’t remember the part in the games where Link did that… Joking aside, that’s a pretty awesome-looking attack they’ve got there. It’s not canon, but it calls back to the game’s elements, with the Triforce and all, so I can’t really complain, can I?
Not much to say on this, really. It looks awesome, which is good! We knew about it already, though, but that gets a free pass because I like flashy attacks.
I never said anything about being particularly objective!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>If I had written this as I am now, I’d probably have added a tangent about hamburgers or used the opportunity to parody GaoGaiGar somehow.</em>
<strong>DAY #20 RATING:</strong> 4 Star Foxes out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/pikachu.html#3rd"><strong>Day 21: Entry 27: Pikachu: Final Smash</strong></a>
<em>Hunt them! Hunt them down!</em>
Another Final Smash? Huh, okay! It’s much better than two updates about basic controls in a row, anyway. This one is less impressive overall than Link’s, which is too bad, but not terrible. I sort of question why, of all attacks out there, they chose Volt Tackle. I’m not 100% sure what that one does, I think because the attack was introduced in the third gen or something, but nothing about it really screams “ultimate attack” to me. Why not, say, Thunder or, heck, Zap Cannon? Thunder is basically Thunderbolt with less accuracy and some pretty great (and easy-to-overblow!) firepower, while Zap Cannon has a cool name! Oh well.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I was sleepy when I wrote that bit, and didn’t feel like doing the research. But now I know! Volt Tackle is a pretty awesome move that can only be learned through Pikachu breeding, it seems.</em>
Either way, it’s not really so bad! I sort of worry about the fact that the entry about an ultimate ends with said move being thwarted, but I’m sure that’ll be fiiiiine.
(MEANWHILE, IN THE FUTURE…)
<strong>EXTRA! EXTRA! PIKACHU STILL ON BOTTOM TIER ON VERY SLOW NEWS DAY!</strong>
(BACK TO THE PRESENT…)
Damnit.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I wonder why I even bothered trying to hide my fantastic gift.</em>
<strong>DAY #21 RATING:</strong> 3 Star Foxes out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html"><strong>Day 22: Entry 28: Wario</strong></a>
<em>It’s rumored that this unpredictable character will give birth to a form of martial arts that other characters cannot even see.</em>
Pffft, liars.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/wario_070629d.jpg" alt="I remember a time when Wario dressed in yellow and purple and actually tried being a good rival to Mario. He's really let himself go these days." />
See? Clear as day. Can’t be certain about the other characters, though. Hmmm… Maybe seeing Wario’s farts is a special gamer power.
But as usual, one icon for characters we knew about already! HA! I might discuss him a little more in depth once we get to his moves.
<strong>DAY #22 RATING:</strong> 1 Star Fox out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/fox.html#2nd"><strong>Day 23: Entry 29: Fox: Special Moves</strong></a>
<em>Take it out to initiate the Reflector!</em>
YAY! More stuff we knew about already! Nothing’s been changed about those TWO MOVES, except… for the quote above. As my brother pointed out, this means that his reflector does NOT execute in a single frame like it used to, making it much less reliable. Could it be… the nerf effect at work? While it was getting annoying seeing so many Foxes at tournaments, I wouldn’t want him to get overnerfed like anyone who was cool in SSB was in the transition to Melee.
(MEANWHILE, IN THE FUTURE…)
<strong>EXTRA! EXTRA! FOX DEMOTED TO BOTTOM TIER ON VERY SLOW NEWS DAY!</strong>
(BACK TO THE PRESENT…)
Damnit.
It says a lot when the most interesting thing about an update is a <em>difference in the amount of frames it takes to execute</em>. …oh, and Fox wears a scouter, now. Hey, Fox! What does the scouter say about your special moves’ rating?
<strong>DAY #23 RATING:</strong> 1 Star Fox out of 5
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WHAT, ONE STAR FOX?!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>The reviews for that week are really short because I wrote them all in a single evening while half-asleep. So to make things last, imagine me repeating what I said above with various special effects applied, and throw in random footage of GaoGaiGar punching a giant robot monster horse for good measure. There!</em>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage04.html"><strong>Day 24: Entry 30: Lylat Cruise</strong></a>
<em>How are they breathing? And why is there gravity? I suggest that you not worry about it too much.</em>
Haha, awesome. It’s yet another one of those stages that changes as time passes, but from the look of things, what changes looks SWEET. The name of the stage is LYLAT cruise, too, which means it might just take you basically anywhere in the Star Fox universe. If that’s not great, I don’t know what is! I don’t have many illusions about how much we’ll get to see, but from what little there is, the ship goes through the asteroid field, a space battle in… Sector X, maybe, and goes through the atmosphere of what is probably Corneria. That’s already a lot, and it looks great!
By the way, anyone here played Star Fox Armada? I don’t recognize the ship (here referred to as the Pleiades), and I was wondering if it came from that game. Either that, or it’s another Falcon Flyer, introduced in Smash for no clear reason!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Don’t bother sending in postcards answering that question. I already know it’s new, and the contest is over now. You can still send in tasty, tasty proofs of purchase, but I can’t guarantee I’ll send a free gift back for the trouble.</em>
Heeheehee. Inexplicable gravity and no space suits.
<strong>DAY #24 RATING:</strong> 4 Star Foxes out of 5
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<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Why didn’t I take the opportunity to link to <a href="http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050131.html">this</a>? It would’ve been rather appropriate. The world may never know.</em>
<strong>WEEK #4 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 3 Star Foxes out of 5!
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Once <em>again</em>, stuff we know coupled with some sort of neat new stuff. But at least some of the stuff we knew WAS sort of neat! I think this may be getting a bit redundant, but worry not! Next week, gears slowly shift toward the More Awesome.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>That they do. And my reviews will start gradually getting longer, too! Yes, that does mean future “Back in time” entries will be EVEN LONGER than that. I suggest bringing something to eat for your next trip into the past. But now, on to the third week! Japan Time Time Zone, Act 3!</em>
<strong>WEEK #6: June 25th to June 29th, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/zelda.html"><strong>Day 25: Entry 31: Zelda</strong></a>
<em>She has a slightly more subdued color scheme.</em>
This update is interesting because, if you don’t count Regular Samus (who was seen for a few seconds in the first trailer but quickly became Zero Suit Samus), this is the first character to actually be confirmed BY the blog. She returned from Melee, so it wasn’t a huge surprise, but that was still significant!
Here, Zelda is seen sporting her brand-new Twilight Princess outfit and a “slightly more subdued color scheme” because there’s no time to eat veggies in her darker and edgier world, you know? I don’t know if this means that Sheik won’t be returning as a playable character, since OoT and TP Zeldas are different, but it may still be possible since she’s here representing all Zeldas, in a way. Or maybe she has a different alternate form (I wouldn’t know, I only started playing TP very recently, and Midna and her are sighted in the same room early on, so there goes THAT theory)? Or maybe she has none at all and Sheik will be a different character altogether?
Guess we’ll have to see! We still don’t know that one yet.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Not in this time period either! But I did beat Twilight Princess in the meantime.</em>
<strong>DAY #25 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music04.html"><strong>Day 26: Entry 32: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Medley</strong></a>
<em>It’s the preeminent Zelda listening experience!</em>
Oh man. I love that song! I like medleys in general, and this one delivers. While I don’t subscribe to the “Ocarina of Time was the best game ever made” newsletter that some people seem to read, it was by no means a bad game, and the various ocarina songs were rather dang memorable.
The only thing, though… It seems that for some songs, the composer wasn’t entirely sure what they were FOR. Saria’s song, for example, is supposed to be a whimsical forest-themed song, but here it comes out sounding entirely too epic. Not that it’s entirely wrong, but just weird.
<strong>DAY #26 RATING:</strong> 4 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/item04.html"><strong>Day 27: Entry 33: Banana Peel</strong></a>
<em>I wonder if this joke is understood around the world. Ah, well.</em>
According to some, the ONLY joke understood around the world is farts. Luckily, now Wario is there! (FORESHADOWING FORESHADOWING)
Yup, another one of those items they made just for the game! It’s got a Smash icon, see. I don’t get it. There were banana peels in Mario Kart, DK collects and hoards bananas all the freaking time, and I’m pretty sure Captain Falcon enjoys the taste of bananas. So why couldn’t they have just said the thing came from one of those games? Or maybe they just couldn’t decide, so they made it original instead? Hm.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I hadn’t noticed that I ended so many paragraphs that way. Hm.</em>
Either way, it’s still somewhat amusing. I mean, it’s a banana peel. So no <em>absolute</em> suck, here. If they put a cream pie item, though, I won’t be so forgiving!
<strong>DAY #27 RATING:</strong> 2 Triforces out of 5
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<strong>Day 28: Entry 34: Names</strong></a>
<em>The character-selection screen is still a secret!</em>
<strong>DAMN YOU.</strong>
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I’LL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SECOND THAT.</em>
All right, first: Japan! Quit it with the cell phone crap! Look around you, for once! The only ones aside from you who have instinctive mastery of writing stuff on a cell phone interface are fifteen year-old girls. And I know you’re doing all that stuff to make games accessible to casual gamers (at the expense of everyone else, etc. etc.) but now that’s just silly!
Aside from this gripe, that’s actually a pretty awesome feature. Now there’ll be a reason for using those names, aside from keeping records, forgetting to turn them on and off, and then messing up said records! That, and playing as Kirby with the word “POOP” over his head. Oh, and ruining half of the cloaking device’s effect when playing against humans.
<strong>DAY #28 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html#2nd"><strong>Day 29: Entry 35: Wario: Special Moves</strong></a>
<em>Where’s my hog?!</em>
I love the idea of Wario’s motorcycle (which we do see in WarioWare, so score one for actual canon moves!) being an item just anyone can pick up. I can see it now. A few weeks after the game’s release, some kid goes on a bike-stealing spree (by carrying them away, see) and then the media watchdogs immediately blame Nintendo. Bah! If parents even BOTHERED to teach their kids the difference between video games and reality, those problems wouldn’t even exist!
Aaaand a fart attack! (I FORESHADOWED THAT EARLIER, REMEMBER? TWICE.) I won’t say more, really.
Also, I said I’d say more about Wario when we got to his special moves! Here we are! In <a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html">his entry</a>, they say that many fans were clamoring for his appearance in the game. Now, I don’t hate Wario or anything. I dig his ’stache. I like it when he says he’s-a gonna win. But didn’t they think we had enough Mario characters as is? Was the prospect of a fart attack and a character even weirder than their depiction of Luigi (What’s <em>up</em> with that anyway?) enough to sell him? I’m not really complaining, but it’s sort of weird. Maybe he’s one of those “Japan loves it to bits but EVERYONE ELSE FREAKING HATES HIM” thing. Sort of like Raiden in MGS. I need to rant about that phenomenon later. I’m suuuure I’ll get an opportunity, even if I don’t know which one.
Oh, right! Let’s get to the rating already!
<strong>DAY #29 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<strong>WEEK #6 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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That’s right! This week actually averaged three icons across the board. That’s a <em>good</em> thing when you consider that my scale includes a Zero Icons possibility and a car explosion. As I said in the last week’s entry, things are changing for the better! Slowly, the general quality of the blog increases, which sadly makes it harder to have Angry Nerd moments. Great entries are good, yes, but they make it harder to have a funny reaction. But I look forward to that challenge! Yes! Come on, BRING IT, Nintendo! Throw the BEST UPDATES you have at me! Don’t hold ANYTHING back!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>And… that’s it? Yes! The original entry didn’t cut off here, as it covered both weeks 6 and 7. Too bad too, because 7 was such a great week. So… I guess the only way for you to see it will be to read next week’s “Back in time” entry! Hahahaha!</em>
And… we’re back to good old 1955! I swear, and this time I mean it, you’re not touching the machine’s steering wheel ever again. Tune in next week, where we will meet a bunch of cool people. Four excited guys, Dr. Wright and… Enton! Who’s Enton? That one will require some explanation. Oh, and we’ll have more <strong>images</strong>, too! I can’t wait to put wacky hidden messages into them. Until next time!
So, get ready for another (long, but you’ll get used to it, I promise) trip down memory lane, as a thirty years younger version of me rattles on and on about crates and barrels. Please hold on to something, and make sure not to change the course of history irrevocably while you’re there. Once again, our pal the Phase Distorter will provide commentary from me, using my knowledge of the future to explain things that may be confusing to you rookie time-travelers.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Testing… testing… All right! We’re all set. Just this once, I’ll let you man the controls of the time machine. Set course for June 11th! And yet another… Japan Time Time!</em>
<p align="center"><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/thethingxq3.png" alt="When they hired me, they probably didn't think I would post completely irrelevant images of Fantastic Four characters on the front page." />
<strong>Noooooo! You messed up! That’s Clobbering Time! This is the last time I let you drive.</strong>
<strong>WEEK #4: June 11th to June 15th, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/fox.html"><strong>Day #15: Entry #21: Fox</strong></a>
<em>Run! Fly! Move boldly!</em>
Oh look! It’s another one of those entries about a character we knew about already! And it’s Fox, too! Man. Seeing that entry reminds of the crushing bitter disappointment that was the second trailer. I’ve slipped a word on said trailer in my first entry, but in case you forgot, here! You can watch it again!
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/movies/movie02.html">The shocker at the end is more like an UN-shocker!</a>
Uuuuugh. The fact that I’m taking this so seriously is proof of a somewhat pathetic and intense nerdiness. The outside world must NEVER read this, lest I be forever ostracized from those serious gentlemen’s clubs I frequent! So let’s keep this between us.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>…Oh, damnit.</em>
Where was I at? Oh yeah, Fox. SCREW YOU, NINTENDO. That wasn’t a reveal, that was a TURD! You’ve forever ruined the franchise by posting this entry months ago and making this trailer even earlier!
<strong>DAY #13 RATING:</strong> 1 Screw Ball out of 5
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To be fair, a double entry of that kind is worth 2 icons anyway! Also, yes, I’m calling them Screw Balls. They’re BALLS that give you the SCREW ATTACK. I still have trouble believing that they’re not actually called that officially.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>By the way, you’ve probably noticed by now if you’ve been reading my previous entries, but ratings are really inconsistent and random, ESPECIALLY in the old updates. Don’t think about it too hard. (</em><em>I’ll probably be saying this a lot.</em><em>)
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage03.html"><strong>Day #16: Entry #22: Yoshi’s Island</strong></a>
<em>The whimsical Support Ghost.</em>
Remember in last week’s entry, where I complained about Yoshi’s Island not getting enough exposure? That was accidental foreshadowing.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>This is Younger Me trying to cover up the fact that I can see the future. Hey, it worked for a while.</em>
Even though it seems it may be paired with the somewhat unfitting Yoshi’s Story song we heard earlier, it still looks pretty awesome. The place looks GREAT, and while the gimmick of “appearance changes as time passes” was already revealed in another stage less than a month before, it still seems to come out looking good, and it’s better than a simply static stage, after all.
What amuses me, though, is that I hear that the Japanese have a common misconception that they’re one of the only countries in the world with four seasons. This may or may not actually be true, but I keep imagining this meeting table where those Japanese men in suits argue about how totally ballsy it is to include the whole four-seasons thing in a game meant to appeal to an international market. And then they get into a huge argument full of cultural misunderstandings, and someone mentions that Americans box against astronauts, so maybe they should put an astronaut-punching minigame in the US version in order to please everybody. Pffthahaha.
Woah, tangent.
Oh man, and the moon has a log sticking out of it. Thumbs up to them including a reference to one of the simplest yet somehow most awesome boss fights EVER.
<strong>DAY #14 RATING:</strong> 4 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music03.html"><strong>Day #17: Entry #23: Metroid: Boss Battle Music (Ridley Fight)</strong></a>
<em>As such, this arrangement features a suitable sense of cruelty and tension.</em>
Oh yes, a new music entry! While it’s too bad that they didn’t reuse the same song they used in the previous two games, which I thought was already the best thing ever, variety is good. The song is a little repetitive (at least the unremixed version is, but it’s not like I can tell much from that short clip of the remix here, really), but it’s not really bad.
It’s a bit weird that the clip is only 36 seconds long, leading me to come up with a crazy theory saying this implies the song isn’t meant to be played for long matches and looped a lot, so maybe it could be for a boss battle of some sort. A battle… against RIDLEY, maybe?! Hmmm.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Speculation on that still runs wild even to this day!</em>
<strong>DAY #15 RATING:</strong> 3 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/item03.html"><strong>Day #18: Entry #24: Crates and Barrels</strong></a>
<em>It… makes things hectic!</em>
For such incredibly boring items, they’ve managed to come up with a pretty interesting update. I dig the whole appearance-changing thing for some reason. Maybe it’s just the idea that, among all those characters and things that look out of place, only the <em>crates</em> are even trying to blend in.
…Speaking of blending in, I hope there are cardboard boxes on the Shadow Moses Island stage. That would RULE. But I digress.
It’s rather amusing that the crates now slide down on hills and whatnot, but the little scenario they show as an example makes me blink a bit. Is the crate disregarding physics so hard that it’s hitting Wario with enough speed and force for him to even be particularly bothered? Or maybe it’s just that I’m used to games that actually do disregard physics, so I’m ignoring the fact that, in <em>real</em> physics, Wario would totally be getting his butt kicked. Hm.
<strong>DAY #16 RATING:</strong> 3 Screw Balls out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/samus.html"><strong>Day #19: Entry #25: Samus</strong></a>
<em>Look at her Power Suit shine!</em>
Why are you doing this to me, Japan Time?! I just gave an entry about CRATES three Screw Balls! THREE! And how do you reward me? By making another entry like Monday’s. You hurt me. You really do. This angers me so much that I’ll make this my shortest review so far! Grrr!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I think to this day, this is my second shortest entry ever.</em>
<strong>DAY #17 RATING:</strong> 1 Screw Ball out of 5
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<strong>WEEK #4 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 2 Screw Balls out of 5!
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Another week with insubstantial updates, but with some interestingness thrown in. None of the awesome bombs I might have grown too accustomed to by now, really. Yeah, early Japan Time features a lot of disappointment. But it gets BETTER later, woo!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Just to recap, this is me in September reviewing updates from June and promising that they would get more interesting soon. Meanwhile, I, in December, reedit those old reviews I did in September and promise that what I wrote would get more interesting later on. You following? Because I’m not. Anyhoo, on to this update’s second week! With a few exceptions, there should be three of those in every “back in time” week. A triple dose, if you will!</em>
<strong>WEEK #5: June 18th to June 22nd, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/link.html#3rd"><strong>Day 20: Entry 26: Link: Final Smash</strong></a>
<em>SKRAAAAH!</em>
Um… I don’t remember the part in the games where Link did that… Joking aside, that’s a pretty awesome-looking attack they’ve got there. It’s not canon, but it calls back to the game’s elements, with the Triforce and all, so I can’t really complain, can I?
Not much to say on this, really. It looks awesome, which is good! We knew about it already, though, but that gets a free pass because I like flashy attacks.
I never said anything about being particularly objective!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>If I had written this as I am now, I’d probably have added a tangent about hamburgers or used the opportunity to parody GaoGaiGar somehow.</em>
<strong>DAY #20 RATING:</strong> 4 Star Foxes out of 5
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/world_w_03.gif" /><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/world_w_03.gif" /><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/world_w_03.gif" /><img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/world_w_03.gif" alt="We don't have enough images around here, so I'm resorting to those icons to write secret alt-text in. Mention this message before January 1st to get a free diet Pepsi along with your order!" />
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/pikachu.html#3rd"><strong>Day 21: Entry 27: Pikachu: Final Smash</strong></a>
<em>Hunt them! Hunt them down!</em>
Another Final Smash? Huh, okay! It’s much better than two updates about basic controls in a row, anyway. This one is less impressive overall than Link’s, which is too bad, but not terrible. I sort of question why, of all attacks out there, they chose Volt Tackle. I’m not 100% sure what that one does, I think because the attack was introduced in the third gen or something, but nothing about it really screams “ultimate attack” to me. Why not, say, Thunder or, heck, Zap Cannon? Thunder is basically Thunderbolt with less accuracy and some pretty great (and easy-to-overblow!) firepower, while Zap Cannon has a cool name! Oh well.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I was sleepy when I wrote that bit, and didn’t feel like doing the research. But now I know! Volt Tackle is a pretty awesome move that can only be learned through Pikachu breeding, it seems.</em>
Either way, it’s not really so bad! I sort of worry about the fact that the entry about an ultimate ends with said move being thwarted, but I’m sure that’ll be fiiiiine.
(MEANWHILE, IN THE FUTURE…)
<strong>EXTRA! EXTRA! PIKACHU STILL ON BOTTOM TIER ON VERY SLOW NEWS DAY!</strong>
(BACK TO THE PRESENT…)
Damnit.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I wonder why I even bothered trying to hide my fantastic gift.</em>
<strong>DAY #21 RATING:</strong> 3 Star Foxes out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html"><strong>Day 22: Entry 28: Wario</strong></a>
<em>It’s rumored that this unpredictable character will give birth to a form of martial arts that other characters cannot even see.</em>
Pffft, liars.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/wario_070629d.jpg" alt="I remember a time when Wario dressed in yellow and purple and actually tried being a good rival to Mario. He's really let himself go these days." />
See? Clear as day. Can’t be certain about the other characters, though. Hmmm… Maybe seeing Wario’s farts is a special gamer power.
But as usual, one icon for characters we knew about already! HA! I might discuss him a little more in depth once we get to his moves.
<strong>DAY #22 RATING:</strong> 1 Star Fox out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/fox.html#2nd"><strong>Day 23: Entry 29: Fox: Special Moves</strong></a>
<em>Take it out to initiate the Reflector!</em>
YAY! More stuff we knew about already! Nothing’s been changed about those TWO MOVES, except… for the quote above. As my brother pointed out, this means that his reflector does NOT execute in a single frame like it used to, making it much less reliable. Could it be… the nerf effect at work? While it was getting annoying seeing so many Foxes at tournaments, I wouldn’t want him to get overnerfed like anyone who was cool in SSB was in the transition to Melee.
(MEANWHILE, IN THE FUTURE…)
<strong>EXTRA! EXTRA! FOX DEMOTED TO BOTTOM TIER ON VERY SLOW NEWS DAY!</strong>
(BACK TO THE PRESENT…)
Damnit.
It says a lot when the most interesting thing about an update is a <em>difference in the amount of frames it takes to execute</em>. …oh, and Fox wears a scouter, now. Hey, Fox! What does the scouter say about your special moves’ rating?
<strong>DAY #23 RATING:</strong> 1 Star Fox out of 5
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WHAT, ONE STAR FOX?!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>The reviews for that week are really short because I wrote them all in a single evening while half-asleep. So to make things last, imagine me repeating what I said above with various special effects applied, and throw in random footage of GaoGaiGar punching a giant robot monster horse for good measure. There!</em>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/stages/stage04.html"><strong>Day 24: Entry 30: Lylat Cruise</strong></a>
<em>How are they breathing? And why is there gravity? I suggest that you not worry about it too much.</em>
Haha, awesome. It’s yet another one of those stages that changes as time passes, but from the look of things, what changes looks SWEET. The name of the stage is LYLAT cruise, too, which means it might just take you basically anywhere in the Star Fox universe. If that’s not great, I don’t know what is! I don’t have many illusions about how much we’ll get to see, but from what little there is, the ship goes through the asteroid field, a space battle in… Sector X, maybe, and goes through the atmosphere of what is probably Corneria. That’s already a lot, and it looks great!
By the way, anyone here played Star Fox Armada? I don’t recognize the ship (here referred to as the Pleiades), and I was wondering if it came from that game. Either that, or it’s another Falcon Flyer, introduced in Smash for no clear reason!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Don’t bother sending in postcards answering that question. I already know it’s new, and the contest is over now. You can still send in tasty, tasty proofs of purchase, but I can’t guarantee I’ll send a free gift back for the trouble.</em>
Heeheehee. Inexplicable gravity and no space suits.
<strong>DAY #24 RATING:</strong> 4 Star Foxes out of 5
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<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Why didn’t I take the opportunity to link to <a href="http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050131.html">this</a>? It would’ve been rather appropriate. The world may never know.</em>
<strong>WEEK #4 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 3 Star Foxes out of 5!
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Once <em>again</em>, stuff we know coupled with some sort of neat new stuff. But at least some of the stuff we knew WAS sort of neat! I think this may be getting a bit redundant, but worry not! Next week, gears slowly shift toward the More Awesome.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>That they do. And my reviews will start gradually getting longer, too! Yes, that does mean future “Back in time” entries will be EVEN LONGER than that. I suggest bringing something to eat for your next trip into the past. But now, on to the third week! Japan Time Time Zone, Act 3!</em>
<strong>WEEK #6: June 25th to June 29th, 2007</strong>
<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/zelda.html"><strong>Day 25: Entry 31: Zelda</strong></a>
<em>She has a slightly more subdued color scheme.</em>
This update is interesting because, if you don’t count Regular Samus (who was seen for a few seconds in the first trailer but quickly became Zero Suit Samus), this is the first character to actually be confirmed BY the blog. She returned from Melee, so it wasn’t a huge surprise, but that was still significant!
Here, Zelda is seen sporting her brand-new Twilight Princess outfit and a “slightly more subdued color scheme” because there’s no time to eat veggies in her darker and edgier world, you know? I don’t know if this means that Sheik won’t be returning as a playable character, since OoT and TP Zeldas are different, but it may still be possible since she’s here representing all Zeldas, in a way. Or maybe she has a different alternate form (I wouldn’t know, I only started playing TP very recently, and Midna and her are sighted in the same room early on, so there goes THAT theory)? Or maybe she has none at all and Sheik will be a different character altogether?
Guess we’ll have to see! We still don’t know that one yet.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>Not in this time period either! But I did beat Twilight Princess in the meantime.</em>
<strong>DAY #25 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music04.html"><strong>Day 26: Entry 32: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Medley</strong></a>
<em>It’s the preeminent Zelda listening experience!</em>
Oh man. I love that song! I like medleys in general, and this one delivers. While I don’t subscribe to the “Ocarina of Time was the best game ever made” newsletter that some people seem to read, it was by no means a bad game, and the various ocarina songs were rather dang memorable.
The only thing, though… It seems that for some songs, the composer wasn’t entirely sure what they were FOR. Saria’s song, for example, is supposed to be a whimsical forest-themed song, but here it comes out sounding entirely too epic. Not that it’s entirely wrong, but just weird.
<strong>DAY #26 RATING:</strong> 4 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/item04.html"><strong>Day 27: Entry 33: Banana Peel</strong></a>
<em>I wonder if this joke is understood around the world. Ah, well.</em>
According to some, the ONLY joke understood around the world is farts. Luckily, now Wario is there! (FORESHADOWING FORESHADOWING)
Yup, another one of those items they made just for the game! It’s got a Smash icon, see. I don’t get it. There were banana peels in Mario Kart, DK collects and hoards bananas all the freaking time, and I’m pretty sure Captain Falcon enjoys the taste of bananas. So why couldn’t they have just said the thing came from one of those games? Or maybe they just couldn’t decide, so they made it original instead? Hm.
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I hadn’t noticed that I ended so many paragraphs that way. Hm.</em>
Either way, it’s still somewhat amusing. I mean, it’s a banana peel. So no <em>absolute</em> suck, here. If they put a cream pie item, though, I won’t be so forgiving!
<strong>DAY #27 RATING:</strong> 2 Triforces out of 5
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<strong>Day 28: Entry 34: Names</strong></a>
<em>The character-selection screen is still a secret!</em>
<strong>DAMN YOU.</strong>
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>I’LL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SECOND THAT.</em>
All right, first: Japan! Quit it with the cell phone crap! Look around you, for once! The only ones aside from you who have instinctive mastery of writing stuff on a cell phone interface are fifteen year-old girls. And I know you’re doing all that stuff to make games accessible to casual gamers (at the expense of everyone else, etc. etc.) but now that’s just silly!
Aside from this gripe, that’s actually a pretty awesome feature. Now there’ll be a reason for using those names, aside from keeping records, forgetting to turn them on and off, and then messing up said records! That, and playing as Kirby with the word “POOP” over his head. Oh, and ruining half of the cloaking device’s effect when playing against humans.
<strong>DAY #28 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html#2nd"><strong>Day 29: Entry 35: Wario: Special Moves</strong></a>
<em>Where’s my hog?!</em>
I love the idea of Wario’s motorcycle (which we do see in WarioWare, so score one for actual canon moves!) being an item just anyone can pick up. I can see it now. A few weeks after the game’s release, some kid goes on a bike-stealing spree (by carrying them away, see) and then the media watchdogs immediately blame Nintendo. Bah! If parents even BOTHERED to teach their kids the difference between video games and reality, those problems wouldn’t even exist!
Aaaand a fart attack! (I FORESHADOWED THAT EARLIER, REMEMBER? TWICE.) I won’t say more, really.
Also, I said I’d say more about Wario when we got to his special moves! Here we are! In <a href="http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/characters/wario.html">his entry</a>, they say that many fans were clamoring for his appearance in the game. Now, I don’t hate Wario or anything. I dig his ’stache. I like it when he says he’s-a gonna win. But didn’t they think we had enough Mario characters as is? Was the prospect of a fart attack and a character even weirder than their depiction of Luigi (What’s <em>up</em> with that anyway?) enough to sell him? I’m not really complaining, but it’s sort of weird. Maybe he’s one of those “Japan loves it to bits but EVERYONE ELSE FREAKING HATES HIM” thing. Sort of like Raiden in MGS. I need to rant about that phenomenon later. I’m suuuure I’ll get an opportunity, even if I don’t know which one.
Oh, right! Let’s get to the rating already!
<strong>DAY #29 RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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<strong>WEEK #6 OVERALL RATING:</strong> 3 Triforces out of 5
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That’s right! This week actually averaged three icons across the board. That’s a <em>good</em> thing when you consider that my scale includes a Zero Icons possibility and a car explosion. As I said in the last week’s entry, things are changing for the better! Slowly, the general quality of the blog increases, which sadly makes it harder to have Angry Nerd moments. Great entries are good, yes, but they make it harder to have a funny reaction. But I look forward to that challenge! Yes! Come on, BRING IT, Nintendo! Throw the BEST UPDATES you have at me! Don’t hold ANYTHING back!
<img src="/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/phasedistorterfd1.png" /> <em>And… that’s it? Yes! The original entry didn’t cut off here, as it covered both weeks 6 and 7. Too bad too, because 7 was such a great week. So… I guess the only way for you to see it will be to read next week’s “Back in time” entry! Hahahaha!</em>
And… we’re back to good old 1955! I swear, and this time I mean it, you’re not touching the machine’s steering wheel ever again. Tune in next week, where we will meet a bunch of cool people. Four excited guys, Dr. Wright and… Enton! Who’s Enton? That one will require some explanation. Oh, and we’ll have more <strong>images</strong>, too! I can’t wait to put wacky hidden messages into them. Until next time!
just like he was in the video i already saw!!!"
!*cough*
