#Sonic as Sakurai

[numberonerandomblogger]

A very normal Nintendo DS video about very normal DS games

[scepty-ssb]

rare dr mario w

doctor mario prescribed me testosterone btw

[blazehedgehog]

Samurai’s recent game dev video was about monitor colors/tones and discrepancy between brands. Have you ever ran into this issue when editing videos?

Considering I've been using the same monitor since 2011, I don't know if I can really comment on that too much. I dialed this screen in where I wanted it using some color tool (maybe Adobe's?) and have left it there ever since.

I don't really have multiple monitors, either. Just the one screen. I have a TV to my left, which is also technically just a monitor (about the same size, too), but the TV is for the PS4 and Roku. The TV is a little brighter than my monitor is, and thus black levels aren't quite as dark.

I also have a laptop, which is also a lot brighter than this monitor is, but also has a lot worse color saturation and contrast. But I can't really "do work" on that laptop -- it's 12 or 13 years old and can barely watch Youtube these days. It's mainly for chatting on discord or as a word processor when I can't use my desktop. So I don't really edit videos there, either.

The one thing that does get me when editing videos is color space, however. Nvidia's capture tool uses a different color space than what Vegas outputs, which can make PC games look kind of washed out and flat.

However, a friend pointed out how easily this is fixed using a preset in the Vegas Levels effect.

Using this gets it much closer to what it looked like during capture:

[ponett]

Do you have any youtube recs for video game analysis/critique in the vein of gmtk?

I do! Well, maybe not 100% in the same vein as the very focused design analysis that GMTK does, but I follow a lot of YouTubers who do thoughtful video game analysis from various angles.

Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games - An obligatory rec if you haven't already watched Sakurai's videos.

Errant Signal - A longtime pillar of video game video essays, Chris Franklin focuses on interpreting video games as art and critiquing how design decisions contribute to (or detract from) a game's themes and artistic goals.

Matthew Matosis - Less active these days, but he's another legend of longform, in-depth video game analysis on YouTube.

New Frame Plus - A channel about studying and appreciating video game animation from professional animator (and former host of Extra Credits) Dan Floyd. I love all of his videos, but in particular I love his series about the evolution of Final Fantasy's animation.

Video Game Animation Study - And if that's not enough video essays about game animation for you, here's another channel! I enjoyed his recent video about the animations in the Sonic Advance series, which have always been favorites of mine.

Jeremy Parish (Video Works) - I absolutely love Jeremy's chronological retrospectives on classic game console libraries that put them in their historical perspective, explaining how games of the '80s built on the design ideas of previous works and set the stage for future successors. His main focus is his ongoing retrospective on every game in the North American NES library, but he also talks about Sega and Atari releases from the same era, as well as some extremely obscure old Japanese consoles I'd never even heard of.

hotcyder - A fan of weird and quirky games, with a particular interest in exploring the burgeoning "Wario-like" scene.

8-Bit Music Theory - I will admit that half of what this guy says goes over my head as a musical plebeian, but it's still really cool to see formal music theory analysis of video game music.

Scruffy - And for something perhaps a little more digestible for a general audience, there's Scruffy's similarly good videos about video game music theory.

And that should be enough for now!

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Round 1 Matchups!

Side A

L Lawliet (Death Note) VS Muichirou Tokito (Demon Slayer)

Gohan (Dragon Ball Z) VS Kiibo/K1-B0 Idabashi (Danganronpa)

Haruka Sakurai (Milgram) VS Seishirou Nagi (Blue Lock)

Satoru Gojou (Jujutsu Kaisen) VS Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Umetarou Nozaki (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun) VS Tamaki Suoh (Ouran High School Host Club)

Gin Gagamaru (Blue Lock) VS Taisei Yoshida (Assassination Classroom)

Itona Horibe (Assassination Classroom) VS Souichi Tanuma (Those Snow White Notes)

Light Yagami (Death Note) VS Tenma Matsukaze (Inazuma Eleven)

Shouto Todoroki (My Hero Academia) VS Sunny (Omori)

Broly (Dragon Ball Super) VS Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Yu Narukami/Souji Seta (Persona 4) VS Sechs (XBlaze)

Kiyotaka Ishimaru (Danganronpa) VS Kento Nanami (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Nate River/Near (Death Note) VS Kyouya Ootori (Ouran High School Host Club)

Mash Burnedead (Mashle: Magic and Muscles) VS Noiz (DRAMAtical Murder)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) VS Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)

Lan Wangji (Mo Dao Zu Shi) VS Rui Kamishiro (Project Sekai)

James (Pokémon) VS Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Yuusuke Kitagawa (Persona 5) VS Tsubasa Yuunagi (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure)

Hitoshi-san (Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls) VS Illumi Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Mikazuki Augus (Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans) VS Wakatoshi Ushijima (Haikyuu!!)

Homare Arisugawa (A3!) VS Kamille Bidan (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam)

Subaru Mikazuki (My Roommate is a Cat) VS Atsushi Murasakibara (Kuroko no Basket)

Tanaka (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless) VS Natural Harmonia Gropius (Pokémon)

Haru (Tsuritama) VS Giorno Giovanna (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Floyd Leech (Twisted Wonderland) VS Laios Touden (Dungeon Meshi)

Touma Akechi (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) VS Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece)

Lotte “Roy” Carmine (BlazBlue) VS Gon Freecss (Hunter x Hunter)

Nahoya “Smiley” Kawata (Tokyo Revengers) VS Senkuu Ishigami (Dr. Stone)

Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) VS Mafuyu Satou (Given)

Alhaitham (Genshin Impact) VS Shichirou Balam (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Shintarou Kisaragi (Kagerou Project) VS Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia)

Toshinari Seki (Tonari no Seki-kun) VS Takashi Natsume (Natsume’s Book of Friends)

Side B

Haruka Nanase (Free!) VS Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai)

Takeo Gouda (My Love Story!!) VS Karna (Fate)

Shintarou Midorima (Kuroko no Basket) VS Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) VS Junpei Tenmyouji (Zero Escape)

Sig (Puyo Puyo) VS Kanata Shinkai (Ensemble Stars)

Kyoujurou Rengoku (Demon Slayer) VS Yugi Mutou (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Legoshi (Beastars) VS Gaien "Enkidu" Enkidou (Under Night In-birth)

Doppo Kunikida (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Hiroshi Odokawa (Odd Taxi)

Kusuo Saiki (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) VS Katsuya Serizawa (Mob Psycho 100)

Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa) VS Haruhito Yano (Odd Taxi)

Yotasuke Takahashi (Blue Period) VS Manjirou "Mikey" Sano (Tokyo Revengers)

Kyouya Onodera (Talentless Nana) VS Misumi Ikaruga (A3!)

Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) VS Shu Itsuki (Ensemble Stars)

Meguru Bachira (Blue Lock) VS Ren Mihashi (Big Windup!)

Ranpo Edogawa (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Kaito (Vocaloid)

Zero (Puyo Puyo) VS Masayoshi Hazama (Samurai Flamenco)

Genos (One Punch Man) VS Jotaro Kujo (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Vivia Twilight (Master Detective Archives: Raincode) VS Sora Harukawa (Ensemble Stars)

Satori Tendou (Haikyuu!!) VS Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic X)

Houtarou Oreki (Hyouka) VS Kabane Kusaka (Kemono Jihen)

Ghiaccio (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) VS Tenya Iida (My Hero Academia)

Malleus Draconia (Twisted Wonderland) VS Tetsuya Kuroko (Kuroko no Basket)

Kensuke Aida (Neon Genesis Evangelion) VS Goku (Dragon Ball)

Shinichi Kudou/Conan Edogawa (Detective Conan) VS Toya Aoyagi (Project Sekai)

Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies) VS Gin Ibushi (Your Turn to Die)

Jade Leech (Twisted Wonderland) VS Akihiko Sanada (Persona 3)

Xiao (Genshin Impact) VS Loid Forger (Spy x Family)

Souya "Angry" Kawata (Tokyo Revengers) VS Sabro Sabnock (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Apollo Justice (Ace Attorney) VS Tobio Kageyama (Haikyuu!!)

Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter) VS Saitama (One Punch Man)

Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear) VS Langa Hasegawa (Sk8 the Infinity)

Subaru Natsuki (Re: Zero) VS Yusei Fudo (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)

[lscholar]

A SEMI-REASONABLE 40 CHARACTER SMASH ROSTER

An exercise in indulgence and egoism, and posted as the same.

THE RULES:

1. Characters shall be semi-reasonable! Beatoriche I love you but this needs to be a roster composed of characters who could conceivably actually make it into Smash. They should be from video games, and ideally ones people care about.

2. Characters shall be gender balanced! I separated my picks into four categories: GUYS, GIRLS, and CREATURES AND CHARACTERS, TYPICALLY PLAYER, OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER (like Pikachu or the Animal Crossing Villager). the number of GUYS shall be EQUAL TO OR LESSER THAN the number of GIRLS. I set this restriction on myself and so should you.

3. Characters shall be 40 of them! but you could tell that from the title.

GUYS

MARIO - You have to have this guy. also like it's been like 20+ years since Sunshine can we not give him something other than FLUDD?

DONKEY KONG, LUIGI, NESS, BOWSER, FOX, WARIO - You also have to have these guys. I cut Captain Falcon, as we already had Fox as a Smash original character.

LINK - Someday we will be able to put Link in the CHARACTERS OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER list, but not yet.

KING DEDEDE - Sakurai made this so his faves get a little extra attention. I claim that same right.

SNAKE - Updated for MGSV, naturally.

SONIC (Palette Swap: SHADOW) - I really really don't care about these guys. I kind of actively hate them actually. but they deserve to be here, even if all their moves are the same (turning into a ball and the ball flies at you).

CLOUD - The iconic Final Fantasy pretty boy. Would I prefer Lightning? yeah. but this is the semi-realistic roster.

PHOENIX WRIGHT - I know, preaching to the crowd here. This guy is a tumblr darling behind only his boyfriend Miles Edgeworth. But they've put him in fighting games before! And he totally has a moveset, right? Presenting his badge as a jab, shooting OBJECTION and TAKE THAT! (HOLD IT! is a grab!), submitting paperwork and random items hoping and praying that they'll be accepted as evidence...

Barely missed the cut: Sans Undertale, Sekiro, Shulk, Solaire, Paper Mario, Sora.

GIRLS

SAMUS - You have to have this girl.

PEACH/DAISY - Ideally Daisy would get Luigified (this is the very technical term for when a Smash character starts out as a clone and then gets differentiated) as the Mario Sports Game Representation. But that probably wouldn't happen. Peach is fine. kind of

ZELDA (Breath of the Wild/Tears Of The Kingdom) - The opposite of the Smash Ultimate dynamic. Smash Lscholar Link is old-school Link; Zelda is newer Zelda. Like in Hyrule Warriors she fights using runes on her magic ipad/wii u pad/nintendo switch game console. Bombs, Ice Block, Ultrahand - and the ability to Recall all of them, sending them flying backwards along their trajectories when the attack is reinput. An evil zoner but let's be honest: she already is. Maybe she has a "take a picture" that can stun?

ISABELLE, ROSALINA - both need reworks. Isabelle in particular has the potential to be a Kirby for new players - but hitting with her is so hard that most try her for a round and play Toon Link instead.

BAYONETTA - No notes.

HORNET (Hollow Knight: Silksong) - Clear moveset, fan favorite, zero questions.

D.VA (Overwatch and, fine, Overwatch 2) - The single most popular Overwatch character by far, and a much needed female heavyweight character. Would translate pretty well to Smash as a pushy zippy tank-type.

EDELGARD VON HRESVELG (Fire Emblem: Three Houses/Three Hopes) - big smashy axe, avowed militant atheist, Vriska, Fire Emblem rep. Smash Lsclr's Ike. Slow but dangerous, with surprising range, much like Byleth; unlike Byleth she is an actual character. also her axe twirl has to be a taunt. Also she's canonically bisexual. which would make her the second bisexual smash character after Snake, and the third in my heart after Cloud Strife (Byleth isn't real).

REIMU HAKUREI (Touhou) - Iconic rep from possibly the single most important indie game series.

CHUN LI (STREET FIGHTER) - Honestly surprised they put Ryu in Smash. I feel like if you asked anybody to name a Street Fighter character Chun Li would be first?

UNDYNE (Undertale) - Fine. Susie (Deltarune) is also acceptable.

VI or JINX or SOME LEAGUE OF LEGENDS GIRL (LoL) - as with Sonic I don't care for these but they have undeniably earned their places. Arcane was better than it should have been and I really hope Mel Medarda survives into s2.

SABER (Fate/Stay Night) - It's Saber! I know this seems like a meme pick but I really do think she deserves to be here.

Barely missed the cut: Karlach or Shadowheart, The Silent, Arle Nadja, Vriska

CREATURES AND CHARACTERS, TYPICALLY PLAYER, OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER (like Pikachu or the Animal Crossing Villager)

PIKACHU - You have to have this thing. Brand recognition on par with Santa Claus or Jesus. A creature for sure, even if its tail indicates biological gender.

KIRBY - This is technically a Guy but in practice this is a creature. also I have one less Guy than Girl so I could put him there, but I chose not to.

YOSHI/BIRDO - Put a trans woman in Smash. She's just a Yoshi reskin and that's fine.

MARTH/LUCINA - The other Fire Emblem rep. Why does Awakening get like three characters? may have to make Marth a bit less floaty to make this work but they really should consolidate these two.

POKEMON TRAINER (Charizard, Ivysaur, Squirtle) - good on nintendo for making it possible to play pokemon trainer as a guy or girl.

POKEMON TRAINER 2 (Gengar, Gardevoir, Lucario) - We have so many pokemon and here's three more. swap out one of your choice for Jigglypuff or Mewtwo or Mimikyu or Greninja or whatever, as long as your substitution isn't from Kanto. This pokemon trainer is a bit more of a tryhard, and wears darker clothing. also their pokemon are category balanced: one is a guy, one is a girl, and one is a creature.

INKLING - Kind of a creature and definitely not of either cardinal gender. these kids squids are nonbinary. A good addition to smash; may they goop and bloop for many games to come.

Wii FIT TRAINER - Mix in Wii Sports and Ring Fit and whatever else.

ANIMAL CROSSING VILLAGER/MINECRAFT STEVE AND ALEX/PACMAN AND MS PACMAN - CHARACTERS OF EITHER CARDINAL GENDER

NOAH AND MIO XENOBLADE (XENOBLADE 3) - Like Pyra and Mythra but less gross. Mio has faster short range chakram attacks and mobility; Noah has slower harder-hitting moves.

THE ASSASSIN (Assassin's Creed) - Snake represents Solid, Naked, and Venom; why can't The Assassin be Altair, Ezio, and whoever else?

Barely missed the cut: Duck Hunt, Toad/Toadette.

if you got mad at me about removing your favorite character reply and I'll tell you why I took them out. probably because I didn't care about them.

[bearfoottruck]

FANFIC UPDATE 1-21-2024:

Fanfic updates!? On a SUNDAY!? Well, since today is National Hug Day, I just couldn't help but go hog wild and write a bunch of hug fics. Here they are along with the names of the featured huggers:

Cherry Blossom Hug - Shadow and Amy (Fanfiction, AO3)

Little Sister Hug - Shadow, Cream and Cheese (Fanfiction, AO3)

Blazing Hug - Sonic and Blaze (Fanfiction, AO3)

A Hug For the Kazekage - Gaara and Sakura (Fanfiction, AO3)

A Special Hug In Team 8 - Hinata and Kiba (Fanfiction, AO3)

TodoDeku Hug - Todoroki and Fem!Deku (Fanfiction, AO3)

BakuMina Hug - self-explanatory (Fanfiction, AO3)

KamiJiro Hug - again, self-explanatory (Fanfiction, AO3)

The Cat/Dragon Hug - Kagami and Adrien (Fanfiction, AO3)

Snug As a Bug In a Hug - Luka and Marinette (Fanfiction, AO3)

Hug From a Big Ox to His Little Mouse - Mylène and Ivan (Fanfiction, AO3)

A Liar Hugs Her Artist - Nathaniel and Lila (Fanfiction, AO3)

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hug! - Sakurai and Uzaki (Fanfiction, AO3)

I also reuploaded the following older stories to Archive of Our Own:

Hugs Change Everything - Shadow and Sonic

Best Hug Ever - Sonic and Rouge

Warm Hug - Hinata and Naruto

Gaara Wants a Hug - Fem!Naruto and Gaara

[gaijin-fujin-resonance]

スブロサ - SUBROSA

This was one of the few album tracks that was legally previewable before the album launch, and even just from a brief SMS snippet, it was clear that this was metal-banging Industrial EBM at its finest. The prowling panther beat of Yuta’s hip-hop bass plays off a sproingy synth-bass lick, the backbone of the 80s Industrial sound*. Endlessly repeating, weird electronic squiggles of sound are run through heavy filters to emulate robotic chatter. It even features a mentasm Hoover Synth. And, of course, the Aphex Twin-pioneered micro-edited, infinitely fast snarerushes and LFO-twiddling that seem to collapse the song into itself during the breaks.

*There’s some controversy as to the original of this tone: depending on who you ask, it was invented by either NU Unruh hammering a giant spring with Einstuerzende Neubauten (the ‘Bassfeder’ comes in about 0:17); or Chrislo Haas’ analogue synth work, as one of the founders of DAF, a band whose aggressive minimalism would become the blueprint for the European EDM sound.

Yokoyama-san’s working notes on the track reveal the incredibly complex editing work, like an auditory jigsaw puzzle. (The track names are incredible: "Dissonance Progress"; "Pitch Black Night"; "Future Breaks"!) You can see the beats double, quadruple, multiply exponentially as the cuts become smaller and denser. The stereo manipulation is mindblowing - truly a song made for headphones! - as sounds flicker and skitter and pan in every direction. He said that Imai “insisted on leaving out his guitar (even though the guitar can still be heard)”. £5 reward to anyone who can spot any guitar on the track!

Imai also revealed in an interview, that this song was originally written during the Izora sessions, and rewritten for Subrosa. Imai’s playful raps and dizzying flow are so perfect for the song’s swaggering attitude that I can’t imagine how Sakurai would have sung it. I fear it might have become something in a playful, slightly silly vein a la Gustave. (I love Gustave as much as anyone, but it has a very different atmosphere.) But instead, Imai created a blueprint for a far more dance-oriented, synthesiser-based B-T Mk II. Vocals here are just another instrument: more of a rhythmic element than a melodic one; a background textural element to provide colour, rather than the main figure of the foreground.

Favourite moments: oh, there are just too many to count. Maybe the very end of the ecstatic drop, where the Jungle beats from 2:20 give way to the scratched (phased out? Leslie-speakered?) vocals coming in at 2:34. Very Beastie Boys – memories of my first time hearing their mixture of acid rock and hip-hop on Check Your Head in pot-scented student digs in New York. Can you imagine the stereophonic fun they could have with a pair of these babies?

The NOIZE solos at 3:11 and 3:27 (these would sound great live on a theremin, Mr. Imai, hint hint!) The stereo-panned sawtooth tremolo synth that comes in during the very last verse (starting at about 4:05) like a flash forward to the extreme noise-gating of Muyubyo’s guitars? It’s the tiny sonic details that make Buck-Tick so moreish – I’ve listened to this song dozens of times and on each deep listen, I catch another tiny sound I hadn’t noticed before. (I just caught a tiny stereo twitch in the synths at 1:58!) It works as a pop song – the irresistible panther rhythm and the strutting vocals drive it along with charismatic velocity – but the detail and complexity of the soundscape is like the whirling, ornate pattern of a Persian carpet you can lose yourself in forever.

[gl1tchy-4rt]

I have two questions;

what Whitney, Alex n the twins, Noise siblings and Pillar Cousins dressed up as?

where's Snick in Spaghetti Family if he's canon?

OH BOI THESE TOOK A WHILE BUT IM FINALY DONE!!!!!

So as for what the kids dressed up for Halloween we have:

Buck Bumble from the N64 Classic: Buck Bumble

A Crow! (+ a crow buddy from the farms!)

Horse n' Pony!! (or maybe it's Pony n' Horse??)

The Best TV Character ever duh (And his Dad!)

She saw her Mom's Bunny costume and loved it, you know the one:

Yeah :3

"The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant" - MewTwo

These one came from Gravity Falls, AKA: The Pb&J combo.

So Those are the kiddos!

And about Snick, well... His past company sold him and his IP.

But not everything is bad! this new company, despite being a "rookie company" it was FAR more competent and they made an amazing game:

"Snick N' The 3 Dimentions!!"

This new game did amazing! Probably the first Snick game that ever did this good! Fans were pleased and Snick became more than a "Sonic Rip-off"

But Snick never forgot his origins in the Gaming industry, henceforth, he never forgot about his first fans: like Peppino! This allows Peppino to know about the New games on the making and events!

This allows Peppino to have special access to the new SAGEs and The Meet-And-Greets, while Peppino himself is not that interested in events like this...

Is quite convenient to have this info. when your kid is Obsessed with The Snick the Porcupine saga.

Yeah Gio is the kiddo "Who's dad knows Masahiro Sakurai" except it's Snick and it's True.

So yeah that's today's post! As for my heath im much better, save for the fact im still coughing like my body want's to cough out a lung :/ it's just anoying, thankfully not painful.

See y'all next post and take care!

Buh-Bye!!!

Edit: Forgot about Cassie and Max, sorry babies :(

[son1c]

HEY SO IDK WHAT THE SONIC ARTS ABOUT BUT THE LITTLE DRAWING OF KIRBY AT THE BOTTOM IS SAKURAIS SIGNATURE. DID SOMEONE GET SAKURAI TO SIGN IT????

it seems as though that specific line of trading cards all has his signature on them? here's two more

[rainee-da]

🍀rainee's fandom list — this is the list of fandom i'm a part of & list of characters i'm willing to work with! (bolded means favorite!)

anime/manga series — character is listed in alphabetical order!

Mashle: Magic and Muscle ❥ Abbyss Razor / Abel Walker / Agito Tyrone / Carpaccio Luo-Yang / Cell War / Charles Contini / Delisaster / Domina Blowelive / Doom / Dott Barret / Epidem / Famin / Finn Ames / Galuf Gargaron / Kaldo Gehenna / Kenny Clark / Lance Crown / Lemon Irvine / Lévis Rosequartz / Love Cute / Lovie Rosequartz / Malcolm Curtis / Margarette Macaron / Mash Burnedead / Max Land / Milo Genius / Orter Madl / Rayne Ames / Renatus Revol / Shuen Getsuku / Sophina Biblia / Tsurara Halestone / Wirth Madl One-Punch Man ❥ Amai Mask / Atomic Samurai / Blue Fire / Captain Mizuki / Darkness Blade / Drive Knight / Eyelashes / Feather / Flashy Flash / Fubuki / Garou / Gearsper / Genos / Glasses / Golden Ball / Iaian / King / Lightning Max / Metal Bat / Mumen Rider / Mountain Ape / Needle Star / Okamaitachi / One Shotter / Poison / Saitama / Sekingar / Sneck / Speed-O'-Sound Sonic / Spring Mustachio / Tanktop Master / Tatsumaki / Twin Tail / Zombieman Dr. STONE ❥ Chelsea Childe / Chrome / Francois / Gen Asagiri / Ginro / Homura Momiji / Hyoga / Joel Gar / Kinro / Kohaku / Luna Wright / Minami Hokutozai / Moz / Nikki Hanada / Ryusui Nanami / Sai Nanami / Senku Ishigami / Stanley Snyder / Taiju Oki / Tsukasa Shishio / Ukyo Saionji / Xeno H. Wingfield / Yo Uei / Yuzuhira Ogawa My Hero Academia ❥ Aizawa Shouta / Himiko Toga / Hizashi Yamada / Jin Bubaigawara / Keigo Takami / Mirai Saaki / Mirio Togata / Nejire Hado / Neito Monoma / Rumi Usagiyama / Sako Atsuhiro / Shigaraki Tomura / Shinya Kamihara / Shuichi Iguchi / Tamaki Amajiki / Toshinori Yagi / Touya Todoroki / Tsunagu Hakamada Mob Psycho 100 ❥ Arataka Reigen / Hiroshi Shibata / Ichi Mezato / Katsuya Serizawa / Keiji Mogami / Matsuo / Megumu Koyama / Nozomu Hatori / Ritsu Kageyama / Ryo Shimazaki / Shigeo Kageyama / Sho Suzuki / Tenga Onigawara / Terada / Teruki Hanazawa / Toichiro Suzuki / Tome Kurata / Toshiki Minegishi / Tsubomi Takane / Yusuke Sakurai Osomatsu-san ❥ Choromatsu Matsuno / Ichimatsu Matsuno / Jyushimatsu Matsuno / Karamatsu Matsuno / Nyaa Hashimoto / Osomatsu Matsuno / Todomatsu Matsuno / Totoko Yowai Kakegurui ❥ Ibara Obami / Kaeda Manyuda / Kirari Momobami / Mary Saotome / Midari Ikishima / Miri Yobami / Miyo Inbami / Ririka Momobami / Rin Obami / Ryota Suzui / Sayaka Igarashi / Sumika Warakubami / Terano Totobami / Yumeko Jabami / Yumemi Yumemite / Yuriko Nishinotouin

manhwa series — character is listed in alphabetical order!

Eleceed ❥ Amyeong / Arthur Bryan / Cain Luterain / Chul Young / Dr. Delein / Duke Grane / Elay Pigarun / Gangseok Choi / Giwook Jang / Glant Gesimov / Guestella / Ian Patrick / Inhyuk Goo / Iseul Ju / Jiwoo Seo / Jisuk Yoo / Jiyoung Yoo / Jurion Patrick / Kartein / Kayden Break / Lia Eresby / Miyoung Ko / Muse / Pluton / Roist / Schneider / Seongha Park / Subin Lee / Sucheon Kang / Suman Kang / Vator / Wooin UnOrdinary ❥ Arlo / Blyke / Darren / Isen / John / Kuyo / Leilah / Remi / Rei / Seraphina

video games series — character is listed in alphabetical order!

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[blazehedgehog]

I've seen the developers of Sonic, Mario, Kirby, and Balan Wonderworld refer to their games as "action games" (in Kirby's case, with the specification that Kirby Super Star was an action game while Kirby's Dreamland 3 was a platformer). I've also seen Sakurai call Super Smash Bros. an action game along with it being a party game and a fighting game. Any idea why these devs think about genres like this compared to a lot of us? Is it a cultural thing (East vs West, or maybe audience vs developer)?

Genres, especially game genres, are a whole huge mess because everybody started drifting on how they define what, and nobody was happy with how existing games were defined.

I'm technically part of that. Most people probably are.

Like, people who refer to Mega Man as a "platformer" to me are insane. Mario is a platformer, because Mario's primary thing is jumping. It's like, 75% of his games.

Mega Man... I know the meme (I think from Arin Hanson) is "Jump & Shoot Man" because you kind of do equal parts of it, but I definitely think of Mega Man more as a shooter. Like if Mario is a platformer, Mega Man having so much shooting disqualifies him from being platformer, unless we do literally just call it a "shooter-platformer" like the way music genres mix.

To me, "action game" feels too generic. So your game contains action? Great. You've described 80% of all video games made in the last 50 years. This isn't like movies.

And then you get the cheeky idiots out there who are like "RPGs mean role-playing games, huh? Well you play roles in most games, so they all must be role-playing games."

Generally speaking, I try not to engage in genre discourse because it always leads to this kind of frustrating, smug nitpicking.

To me, an "action game" is more for modern games that can't be defined by any other genre. Like, Uncharted. Uncharted has stealth, but it's not a stealth game. Uncharted has shooting, but it's not a shooter. Uncharted has climbing, but it's not a parkour game. Uncharted has adventure, but it's not an adventure game. "Prestige game" kinda works, but it lacks the drama element I'd associate with that kind of stuff (see: The Last of Us).

So Uncharted is an Action Game to me. Fast paced, contains a little bit of a lot of different things. But I also admit that's not a great definition, but it's also not a conversation I want to have on how to define it.

In general I think it's up to the people to decide what genres are and people who swing in like "WE NEED TO CHANGE AND STANDARDIZE ALL OF THIS" are never going to be successful. It's like the people who try to rail against the term "Metroidvania." Buddy, that ship sailed a long time ago and you weren't on it.

[puyopuyoconfessions]

Just imagine a Puyo Puyo Meteos game. Considering that Meteos was designed by Masahiro Sakurai (the creator of Kirby and Super Smash Bros. and the writer-director of Kid Icarus: Uprising), Sonic Team (Puyo's current dev. studio) and Sora Ltd. (Sakurai's company) should work on the game. Considering how hysterical Kid Icarus: Uprising and the Palutena's Guidance portions of Smash Ultimate are, having Sakurai co-write the story of Puyo Puyo Meteos with Utako Yoshino (the Puyo series' current writer) would be the funniest shit imaginable (so would Sakurai co-writing a Puyo Puyo story in general).

I cannot fit this into an image but I'll still post this of course, so here ya go.

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Round 2 Matchups!

Side A

L Lawliet (Death Note) VS Gohan (Dragon Ball Z)

Haruka Sakurai (MILGRAM) VS Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Umetarou Nozaki (Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun) VS Taisei Yoshida (Assassination Classroom)

Itona Horibe (Assassination Classroom) VS Light Yagami (Death Note)

Sunny (Omori) VS Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Yu Narukami/Souji Seta (Persona 4) VS Kiyotaka Ishimaru (Danganronpa)

Near/Nate River (Death Note) VS Mash Burnedead (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) VS Rui Kamishiro (Project Sekai)

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) VS Yuusuke Kitagawa (Persona 5)

Hitoshi-san (Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls) VS Wakatoshi Ushijima (Haikyuu!!)

Kamille Bidan (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam) VS Subaru Mikazuki (My Roommate is a Cat)

Natural Harmonia Gropius (Pokémon) VS Giorno Giovanna (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Laios Touden (Dungeon Meshi) VS Touma Akechi (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)

Gon Freecss (Hunter x Hunter) VS Senkuu Ishigami (Dr. Stone)

Ash Ketchum (Pokémon) VS Shichirou Balam (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Shintarou Kisaragi (Kagerou Project) VS Takashi Natsume (Natsume’s Book of Friends)

Side B

Haruka Nanase (Free!) VS Takeo Gouda (My Love Story!)

Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint) VS Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Sig (Puyo Puyo) VS Yugi Mutou (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Legoshi (Beastars) VS Doppo Kunikida (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Kusuo Saiki (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) VS Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa)

Yotasuke Takahashi (Blue Period) VS Misumi Ikaruga (A3!)

Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) VS Ren Mihashi (Big Windup!)

Ranpo Edogawa (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Masayoshi Hazama (Samurai Flamenco)

Jotaro Kujo (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Sora Harukawa (Ensemble Stars)

Miles “Tails” Prower (Sonic X) VS Kabane Kusaka (Kemono Jihen)

Tenya Iida (My Hero Academia) VS Tetsuya Kuroko (Kuroko no Basket)

Goku (Dragon Ball) VS Shinichi Kudou/Conan Edogawa (Detective Conan)

Gin Ibushi (Your Turn to Die) VS Akihiko Sanada (Persona 3)

Loid Forger (Spy x Family) VS Sabro Sabnock (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Apollo Justice (Ace Attorney) VS Saitama (One Punch Man)

Langa Hasegawa (Sk8 the Infinity) VS Yusei Fudo (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)

[yanderefairyangel]

YOU HEINOUS FOOL! Remember the Coronavirus? The disease, that broke out so much, the entire world had to quarantine for a year in fear over it, and millions of people DIED of it! Guess who started it? Byleth! The malicious dictator Sakurai decided to release an awful trailer telling everyone that the genocidal excuse for a character would become playable in a game made to celebrate Mario, Pokemon, Sonic, and Zelda. And guess what? It caused so much destructive damage, it CONCEIVED A DEADLY ILLNESS, named the Coronavirus, and look where THAT has done to the world. Shut up, you omnicide-supporting FREAK! Leave ME alone.

By the way Byleth, were was this destructive power when we needed you to end the Edelgard discourse ?

[game-boy-pocket]

Kid Icarus II: Of Myths and Monsters complete absence in Sakurai's material also bugged me alot, as its a great game that accurately captured the spirit of the original.

Like StarTropics it was made by Japanese developers, so it feels kinda rude for Smash bros and Uprising to just pretend it never exited. Probably a hot take here, but I wasn't too fond of how Uprising handled the Kid Icarus series.

Also Pit's design is the absolute cutest in that game.

He didn't have Laurels in his hair in the original NES game. He was cute in the NES game too but this is a big improvement.

I'm with you though, Kid Icarus uprising fees like it didn't want to be a Kid Icarus game to begin with. The gameplay felt more fitting for Star Fox, and the writing felt like it wanted to be a goofy shonen anime. Character designs were all over the place, some of them were fine but others felt ill fitting for the franchise.

I know not many people care about Kid Icarus before Uprising, but I did, it was my first virtual console game on Wii, and I fell in love with it and was always hoping for a new game, but Uprising is just not what I wanted.

I know Nintendo isn't known for doing this, but it would be nice if they could make a new game that uses something resembling the classic designs, and using the classic shooter platformer gameplay in the future, have it set before Uprising, kind of treat Kid Icarus the way that Sega treat Sonic, make the modern Kid Icarus it's own thing while Classic Kid Icarus continues in it's own way.

Of course for that to happen, they'd have to treat Kid Icarus good in the first place, and I don't think they care about it that much. It's not Sakurai's IP, so it's not like they need him to make a new one.