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[Noipoi]

Here is something very promising:

Apparently, Nintendo is sending out surveys about the Mario RPGs, this is really interesting. It even mentions very specific things like the original characters and battle mechanics (including Bros. Attacks, stickers, and SPM's real-time combat). pic.twitter.com/vinwBEhKFc

— Paper Reecee (On a Short Hiatus) (@Reecee_yt) April 2, 2024

The Mario and Luigi games may not be dead yet

Nintendo is really trying to fix the Mario RPGs

 

[ninjahmos]

You know what I think would be pretty cool? Nintendo VS Capcom.

As a fighting game in the style of Marvel VS Capcom.

 

[Z25]

There's still the situation of Mario & Luigi series being without a developer.

I mean they own the rights, they can have any group of employees or studio work on them or even get back alpha dream employees back if they wanted.

 

[TheMightyP]

I mean they own the rights, they can have any group of employees or studio work on them or even get back alpha dream employees back if they wanted.

They have enough money to just buy the ashes of Alphadream if they really wanted to.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Not bothering with making a roster but if there was a Disney Channel fighting game, who would y'all main?

Bill Cipher is the correct answer.

Or Zach and Cody, that's also acceptable.

Grunkle Stan, Bill Cipher, Anne Boonchuy. King Andrias, Hunter or Emperor Belos.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

My mom and dad are going on a flight for a wedding and I need some reasurence that they are gonna be ok. I hate planes. I hate hate hate planes

 

[Noipoi]

My mom and dad are going on a flight for a wedding and I need some reasurence that they are gonna be ok. I hate planes. I hate hate hate planes

The average plane ride is completely uneventful. They’ll be fine.

 

[TheMightyP]

My mom and dad are going on a flight for a wedding and I need some reasurence that they are gonna be ok. I hate planes. I hate hate hate planes

Hide in the luggage.

Then hijack the plane.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

The average plane ride is completely uneventful. They’ll be fine.

See, my father says the same thing of "you have more chance getting into a car accident then you do a plane falling from the sky" and he is right and there is 1000s of planes out there that are mostly safe, Im still get super scared

Hide in the luggage.

Then hijack the plane.

What if I get hungry in the luggage??

 

[Pink Yoshi]

My mom and dad are going on a flight for a wedding and I need some reasurence that they are gonna be ok. I hate planes. I hate hate hate planes

Aww, don't worry. I'm sure they'll be totally fine! It's said that air travel is the absolute safest mode of transportation.

It's totally fine that you're nervous, but trust me, they will be okay.

 

[TheMightyP]

What if I get hungry in the luggage??

Jet fuel can't melt stomach cells.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Just saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. I loved it! It was a little long but it was ghostbusters through and through and it had so many cool things in it. Garaaka was cool as far as a new villain goes, Lucky and Podcast were in way more of the movie than the trailers and posters would make you believe. Peck still has no ****. It’s just good ghostbusters content and I can’t ask for more than that. It didn’t need to be more than that. I had a blast watching it and I really hope they get to make another one with this cast (though with less of the mom and Paul Rudd. The team that had chemistry in Afterlife was Phoebe, Trevor, Podcast, and Lucky. The non-legacy adults feel like third wheels).

 

[Shroob]

Can't believe THE Sonic the Hedgehog was a Vtuber simp all along.

 

[TheMightyP]

Can't believe THE Sonic the Hedgehog was a Vtuber simp all along.

Also a Heavy is Dead reference?

 

[Dukefire]

Also a Heavy is Dead reference?

The Heavy is Dead!?
Click here for the video. Age restricted by youtube

 

[HyperSomari64]

Can't believe THE Sonic the Hedgehog was a Vtuber simp all along.

Nah, he's not yellow to be qualified as a true simp

 

[TheMightyP]

So speaking of Sonic simping, I signed up to attend my first anime con.


That has nothing to do with simping but I want to give an update on my character developmenttm

 

[StormC]

My mom and dad are going on a flight for a wedding and I need some reasurence that they are gonna be ok. I hate planes. I hate hate hate planes

I just got off a plane Sunday and I'm still alive

 

[Shroob]

The Heavy is Dead!?
Click here for the video. Age restricted by youtube

It is GOOD DAY to be NOT DEAD!

 

[TheMightyP]

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It is GOOD DAY to be NOT DEAD!

pow

You are dead

 

[Wario Bros.]

I tested out playing Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory with an arcade stick and it works really good.

 

[Dukefire]

pow
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You are dead

I'm dead!

Hehehehe

 

[Noipoi]

So speaking of Sonic simping, I signed up to attend my first anime con.


That has nothing to do with simping but I want to give an update on my character developmenttm

Ayyy have fun there! I’m trying to get to a con or something too, gotta see what’s around.

 

[TheMightyP]

Ayyy have fun there! I’m trying to get to a con or something too, gotta see what’s around.

thanks, I plan on doing so.

And to think I hated anime when I was in middle school. Note to self, Eiken was not a good starter.

 

[Noipoi]

Eiken was not a good starter.

That Eiken??

 

[TheMightyP]

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That Eiken??

Yeah.

That Eiken

 

[Z25]

What’s about to happen to me when the switch 2 has 4d and the characters will actually use their moves irl:

 

[KingofPhantoms]

I'm dead!
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Hehehehe

-GASP- The Heavy is dead!

 

[cashregister9]

Weezer x Samba De Amigo real

also hell yes Rhythm Thief acknowledged!

 

[Peepo T. Skeleton]

Here is something very promising:

Apparently, Nintendo is sending out surveys about the Mario RPGs, this is really interesting. It even mentions very specific things like the original characters and battle mechanics (including Bros. Attacks, stickers, and SPM's real-time combat). pic.twitter.com/vinwBEhKFc

— Paper Reecee (On a Short Hiatus) (@Reecee_yt) April 2, 2024

The Mario and Luigi games may not be dead yet

You know, last time they did a Mario RPG related survey we got Sticker Star.

All the default answers were to the effect of "I don't care about characters or story" and people just clicked through it as fast as possible because they wanted their Nintendo points.

I'm mostly joking though.
I don't actually think this was the reason why that game is the way that it is.

It's more that the entire franchise seemed to be heading in that direction around the late 2000s.

Stuff like Toadsworth getting unpersoned, E. Gadd and his inventions disappearing from everything outside of Luigi's Mansion, and Mario Galaxy's director having to sneak Rosalina's backstory into the game because Miyamoto didn't want it in there.

 

[Noipoi]

You know, last time they did a Mario RPG related survey we got Sticker Star.

All the default answers were to the effect of "I don't care about characters or story" and people just clicked through it as fast as possible because they wanted their Nintendo points.

I'm mostly joking though.
I don't actually think this was the reason why that game is the way that it is.

It's more that the entire franchise seemed to be heading in that direction around the late 2000s.

Stuff like Toadsworth getting unpersoned, E. Gadd and his inventions disappearing from everything outside of Luigi's Mansion, and Mario Galaxy's director having to sneak Rosalina's backstory into the game because Miyamoto didn't want it in there.

The early to mid 2000s seemed to be Nintendo realizing that Mario truly was a massive franchise that was here to stay, so in an attempt to protect the brand’s identity they just made everything so ridiculously basic. Just the standard Mario iconography you see on lunchboxes and backpacks, no more zaniness.

Glad they finally seem to be moving away from that.

 

[TheMightyP]

Sticker Star is almost 12 years old btw

 

[SnakeFighter64]

The early to mid 2000s seemed to be Nintendo realizing that Mario truly was a massive franchise that was here to stay, so in an attempt to protect the brand’s identity they just made everything so ridiculously basic. Just the standard Mario iconography you see on lunchboxes and backpacks, no more zaniness.

Glad they finally seem to be moving away from that.

Bring back Toadsworth! Bring back... EVERYONE! Like seriously. How is it that NSMB1 has the most creative bosses in the 2D series?

 

[Noipoi]

Sticker Star is almost 12 years old btw

most tragic event of my life tbh

Bring back Toadsworth! Bring back... EVERYONE! Like seriously. How is it that NSMB1 has the most creative bosses in the 2D series?

Toadsworth passed away peacefully in his sleep in 2018

 

[TheMightyP]

I actually liked Sticker Star first playthrough. Iirc it was my 2nd Paper Mario game, after TTYD (then came 64 then Super). I enjoyed it but I saw it as inferior to TTYD

I did however spend hours in the trash heap level because i wanted to read Goombella's research notes. Yeah, I was that much of a diehard fan. It was worth it.

And then I found out that Parakarry had a letter too and I already used the vacuum so I never got to read it.

 

[StormC]

I feel like games like the Mario RPGs help give the brand longevity if anything. It makes fans more invested longterm to see projects like that, but corporations take the path of least resistance and want to sand down the edges on their marketing mascots because it makes things easier to control.

I get that Super Paper Mario's weird setting and story might have been a stretch too far, but putting the kibosh on games like TTYD was shortsighted. Hopefully with the remake on the horizon they're moving past that mentality.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

The new movie just reminds me of how much I want a new Ghostbusters video game (in the style of the critically acclaimed one from 2008) with the new cast. I don't care about Spirits Unleashed and it's asymmetrical multiplayer garb.

Considering I apparently went off the deep end last night (I still think that was just y'all being unreasonable but whatever) I won't go on a rant about how not everything needs to be some big multiplayer game and capitalism and dominant trends are ruining video games, but just know that I wanted to.

 

[TheMightyP]

For what it was worth I find Origami King to be the 3rd best in the series, and I could tell they were focusing on returning to form from that game. It sold really good too, it was right behind Super in terms of sales.

Mario and Luigi is cooked tho. Last original game was a total failure on all sides and the last remake was the same exact game that you could already get for the 3DS but with the same side game that nobody liked in the first remake.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I feel like games like the Mario RPGs help give the brand longevity if anything. It makes fans more invested longterm to see projects like that, but corporations take the path of least resistance and want to sand down the edges on their marketing mascots because it makes things easier to control.

I get that Super Paper Mario's weird setting and story might have been a stretch too far, but putting the kibosh on games like TTYD was shortsighted. Hopefully with the remake on the horizon they're moving past that mentality.

I love how Super was barely even an RPG by traditional standards and was by all accounts, a Paper Mario spinoff, but it somehow ended up being treated like a "main line" Paper Mario game and it's reception shaped the series going forward.

 

[Noipoi]

Origami King was really cool, I enjoyed it the most out of any Paper Mario this decade! But it's still got a few really frustrating things about it