#Regiwi's playing games

[regiwi]

It’s been a while. What I’ve been up to.

Hey, so I dunno who still follows me on here, I tend to avoid a lot of social media now and don’t really look on tumblr like I used to years ago, still I’ve been working on something lately and wanted to use this blog to advertise it to anyone who’s interested that might follow this etc. I’m afraid this isn’t me returning or anything (granted it’s hardly like I did much exciting with this blog anyway). With that said, I wanted to wait until I was a bit more used to doing it and had at least a bit of content on there already before saying about this thing here. I want to make it clear before I carry on this isn’t anything big, just a ‘project’ I’ve been doing for fun that I decided to do a little more with.

So, for the last couple of years now I decided to do something I always wanted to but felt too big of a thing. Being the massive Super Smash Bros and Nintendo fan I am, I always wanted to play the various games the characters have come from etc. Over the years I played a fair few and started some but admittedly never got far on them, although I usually trawled websites reading spoilers eventually regarding them anyway. As a way of finally doing this and clearing a fair bit of my backlog of games I’ve never finished, I decided to make a list of every single game represented in the Super Smash Bros series, from playable characters all the way down to spirits and trophies. Yeah, I know the obvious response to that is ‘you have way too much free time on your hands’ and, yeah there’s no real argument against that. Still, what I decided to do, was where possible pick a game to represent every element present in Smash, the priority being it’s a game where the character is playable or the location is present or the item plays a key role for example. My main aim for this was I wanted to sort of see what stories these characters and locations etc came from, granted some don’t exactly have stories, but my favourite aspect of crossovers is seeing characters with vastly differing narratives meeting together so I wanted more context beyond just reading of their origins.

Following making the list, my big plan with this was to do sort of ‘Super Smash Bros canon runs’ so to speak, where I try to play through the games using setups as close as possible to how they appear in Super Smash Bros. As an example, Robin appears in Super Smash Bros with the default avatar settings, the Tactician class with various tomes, a Levin Sword and Bronze Sword. Therefore for my playthrough that was the equipment I mostly kept him with when I could. As part of this simply for my own amusement I would take screenshots of my playthroughs and try to perhaps get a comparison shot in Super Smash Bros. Here’s an example using Lucina.

As you can see I tried to keep her as close as possible to her look in Smash. So, I have played through quite a few of the games at this point and I decided that I wanted to maybe do something with all this rather than just keep it purely to myself, especially as I’d gathered a lot of screenshots by this point. It was with this I decided as I’m not really capable of making videos of my playthroughs (especially as I’ve done a lot of them already) that I wanted to start a new blog and write some posts going over my playthroughs of the various games. There’s info on anything you could ever want to find regarding most games and things now on the internet, so instead of just doing straightforward reviews or something, I decided to make these posts a lot more personal to me, going over my history with the games often relating it to my past and going over how my playthrough of the game for my list went. I also detail other things like writing bios for the subject (currently just the playable Smash Bros fighters) and detailing what setups I used on my playthroughs for characters etc.

So, that’s basically it, I’ll link the blog at the end of this post for anyone who wants to check it out, there’s a few options at the top such as the ‘Blog Map’ where you can find links to all the posts I’ve done so far, ‘My Goal’ where I go over everything I can regarding the blog, what I’m doing and what I’d assume would be common questions from people on it, and finally ‘The List’ which is an updated version of the list I’ve been using for all this, with the games I have yet to complete at the top and the ones I’ve already played through at the bottom. With new characters, spirits and stages still being added to the Smash series as well as new games where possibly characters who weren’t playable before become so for the first time, I’m always tinkering with the list adding in games. Age of Calamity for example I recently added because it has the Champions, who are spirits, playable for the first time. I realise this is ridiculously nerdy and if you’re looking for deep analysis of these games and a critical eye I’m afraid you’ll probably be disappointed. Unless it’s something I really find frustrating I tend to be more on the positive side most of the time with these games (there are one or two down the line I’ll probably be a bit more critical on.) so don’t think of these as reviews or anything like that is what I’m saying. These posts also aren’t necessarily recommendations, I know I tend to be very easy to please to the point I’ll pretty rarely find something absolutely awful to play. This is mostly just my way of going over my experiences with these games and having some fun with them whilst hopefully making something somewhat entertaining to read for a couple of minutes.

Finally, as I said earlier, I’m not really coming back to this blog, but I have just opened asks on my other blog so if you have any questions feel free to ask and I’ll try to answer there. Other than that, here’s the link, hope you enjoy.

My Smash Playthroughs.

[regiwi]

The Life and Times of Beardo

It's not often I post on here, and for a while I've been building up this collection of photos, but I feel now is the time to chronicle the life of one citizen in my town. Beardo.

Things started off simply enough, the happy little community of Noontown was hardly a big spreading metropolis. We took pleasure from the simpler things in life, celebrating each little bench as we went. As time went on however, as is often the case with small communities, a new craze hit the scene.

The moldy shirt fad was a rather interesting one. Apparently highly fashionable, the villagers were pleased to wear shirts covered in mold. They danced and sang as they enjoyed it, but slowly the fad died out. There was one bear though to whom this was no simple fad.

The people of Noontown first started to take notice when Beardo began attending celebratory events dressed still in his moldy old shirt. The other villagers each of course had their own quirks, so they accepted Beardo's eccentricities and decided not to question it.

Weeks passed by, and still Beardo refused to wear anything else. He also began selling his furniture at this point. I'll admit I began to grow concerned, so I had a talk with him, but he seemed to simply be preoccupied with how he felt we needed more dancing right now.

The first stage to recovery is identifying you have a problem. Beardo decided to try it out. I felt perhaps we could begin a path to recovery.

Things seemed to be progressing well, Beardo seemed happy to admit it and felt the town were all behind him. I left feeling perhaps the road to recovery was within reach. Then it happened...

Beardo was slowly selling off his furniture, as he did so he began to take in new interests.

I've always been one to support my friends with their interests, I felt perhaps he merely wanted the sink to try and clean up his act, so that he could carry on on the road to recovery. Over time however, Beardo's house declined further. He began to slowly scare away his neighbours, who left over time until his house was situated away from all others. I felt it was time to try and get him up and about again, sending him a new shirt in the mail as I had done before.

This time, it worked. Beardo however had begun to grow slightly more paranoid.

Regardless he still felt his moldy shirt was the height of fashion, something that should be displayed proudly at his front door. Beardo's worries began to get the better of him though.

I told him not to leave, that he needed to work at recovering and not run away. He agreed and time moved on.

It was at this point however, Beardo began to change again, his confidence began to build too much. He felt he was destined for more, a true captain of industry in Noontown. I supported his ambition, but he began to question my loyalties.

Beardo's self-obsession grew to the point he became blind to everyone around him, only seeking self gratification. Many months passed sleepily in the town.

Finally, after months Beardo began to get rid of his moldy shirt.

Of course, he wasn't above trying to sell it off. As a concerned friend, I decided to buy it from him, to make sure he could move on with his life.

He still showed clear signs of affection for it, but we agreed it was time to move on.

Beardo felt his life was finally in an upturn. We settled on a new catchphrase for him, the new Beardo. Things were finally looking up...

Before they came crashing back down...

Beardo wanted to visit one day, which just happened to be a day I was busy. It was then, his thoughts of me began to take a darker turn...

He began wearing a rather familiar outfit, one referencing another bear... We competed in the bug contest, he was the champion until I caught a winning bug.

Beardo... was not pleased.

Not pleased at all... Where things go from here, I don't know. I have a feeling though that I might need to start sleeping with one eye open in future.

So there you have it, I just wanted to share the rather strange tale of Beardo. It's one that I've watched unfold for a while now, and one which always leaves me perplexed.