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diamondsandplumbobs · 2 years ago

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🪙 Coin Flip Legacy Challenge

There are two sides to every coin and two paths your sims can take in this new spin on the ten generation legacy challenge. Each generation your sim will be given a basic background and personality along with a set of requirements like usual, but that’s only half the story. You will have to choose either heads or tails in order to decide your sims future, each side with its own pros and cons, effecting not only the required tasks but your sim’s story as well.

Will your sim become a mad scientist or a tomb raiding adventurer? Will they explore their love of nature through gardening, or help animals in need as a vet? Will they become a werewolf, or a vampire? You decide! Or... leave it up to fate, and flip a coin.

General Rules:

No, you do not actually have to flip a coin. I wanted to create a flexible, customizable playing experience, so feel free to choose whichever side you want to play or works best for your story. Though you can certainly flip a coin if you want to.

The challenge is designed so that your heir sims can stay neutral through their baby - teen life stages. You can decide which side they end up pursuing as they grow. However, the deadline to choose a side is when your heir ages up into a young adult.

The only exception to the above rule is the founder, you do not necessarily have to choose which side to pursue immediately, but I’d recommend officially choosing their route by the time they’re at most halfway through their young adult hood.

Each generation must complete their specified career and aspiration.

If the career branch is not specified, you can choose whichever branch you’d like.

Some generations only have 1 required base trait, so if you haven’t decided on a path before your sim becomes a teen, feel free to choose any trait you want and then change it to the required trait once they become a young adult and you’ve chosen your desired path.

Bonus Challenges are optional. Their just fun extra things I thought of to make things more challenging, but they’re not required.

If you decide to play this challenge and share your game play, please feel free to @ me and use the #coinfliplegacy. I’d love to see what you guys create 😊

Gen 1 - Family First

You always loved making things with your hands. You have always forged your own path in life, and that is exactly what you intend to do now. You moved away from home to start a new life that you plan to build up from scratch, literally. Just as you forge bonds with new friends and neighbors, you build the foundation of your legacy. You're a crafter, and you sell your creations to survive, but just what is it that you craft, exactly?

Base Traits: Self-Assured, Family Oriented

Base Requirements:

Start on an empty lot with 0 simoleons

Master Handiness

Meet someone and have at least two kids with them

Craft each piece of furniture and carving on the woodworking table and use it in your home

Bonus Challenges:

Have the “Gremlins” lot challenge on

Fully upgrade every appliance in the house

Heads:

Furniture! Appliances! Tools! You love getting your hands dirty and are willing to fabricate anything you or your family might need from scratch. You are strong and independent, so when your relationship with your partner takes a turn for the worse you aren't afraid to break things off and become a single parent. Nothing will stop you from living your own way. It’s probably for the best.

Unique Trait: Maker

Aspiration: Master Maker

Career: Freelance Crafter

Requirements:

Master the fabrication skill

Use every piece of craftable furniture on the fabricating machine, in your home at least once (color variants not included).

Break up with/divorce your partner and become a single parent

Find love with someone who you truly connect with

Later reconcile with your former partner and become good friends

Tails:

Clothes! Plushies! Decorations! You love putting your own personal flare on things by decorating your home and adorning your loved ones in hand made goods. You are determined and loyal, so when your relationship with your partner takes a turn for the worse you are willing to try and make it work, even if that means you have to make a compromise. You are certain it’s the best thing for your children, even if it’s not the best thing for you.

Unique Trait: Perfectionist

Aspiration: Lord/Lady of the Knits

Career: Self Employed (sell your creations any way you like: through plopsy, on vending tables, or just selling them in your inventory)

Requirements:

Master the knitting and cross stitching skills

Make every type of knitted item (color variants not included)

Make every type of knitted item and use them to decorate your home (size and color variants not included). Have at least one cross-stitch of each size displayed in your home.

Stay with and marry your partner despite your issues, eventually resulting in a loveless (but functional) marriage

Have a secret affair with someone you truly love

Gen 2 - Find Yourself

You were always an energetic kid. You loved going outside and being active. It’s no surprise that you end up getting into fitness. You want to see what the big wide world has to offer, which means you have always been a bit indecisive when it comes to love. I mean, there are so many fish in the sea! Anyways, you want to focus on yourself, follow your dreams, and become the best you can be. The question is: what does that mean to you?

Base Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Active

Base Requirements:

Master the fitness skill

Bonus Challenge:

Complete the Rambunctious Scamp Aspiration as a child

Heads:

It means finding inner peace. You want to cultivate and maintain a mind-body connection, as well as a connection to the natural world around you. Granite Falls is your favorite place to do so. As for your love life, we’ll, you certainly have options, it’s just a matter of choosing one. You want to make sure you find the person who is truly right for you, and that means getting to know yourself first.

Unique Trait: Vegetarian

Aspiration: Inner Peace

Career: Athlete (Bodybuilder Branch)

Requirements:

Master the wellness and herbalism skills

Travel to Granite Falls at least once a week

Have three love interests at once

After completing your aspiration, choose your partner and start a family with them, having at least two kids

Have a strained relationship with one of your children (the heir)

Tails:

It means being the best athlete to ever hit the slopes. You chase the thrill of pulling off daring stunts and competing in intense competitions, and what better place to do it than Mt. Komorebi? You end up having quite a few partners in your lifetime, each with a different outcome and lesson to take away, but in the end you realize you're not interested in settling down. You’ll always be chasing that thrill.

Unique Trait: Adventurous

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast

Career: Athlete (Professional Athlete Branch)

Requirements:

Master the rock climbing and the skiing OR snowboarding skill

Live in Mt. Komorebi

Have at least five partners over your lifetime (never two at the same time), but end up with none of them

End up being best friends with one, become enemies with another, and accidentally have a baby with a different partner from the other two

Have a strained relationship with your child

Bonus Challenge:

Successfully climb to the top of Mt. Komorebi

Gen 3 - Just Be You

Unlike your parent, your totally uninterested in being active. This causes a rift in your relationship. You’d rather be on your computer than be outside. However, you have an eccentric personality that people are drawn to, and you are incredibly talented in your own right. Unfortunately, your parent doesn’t seem to see that. They think you should focus on “more practical pursuits,” but you intend to utilize your talent to show them how wrong they really are. What is that talent?

Base Traits: Geek, goofball

Base Requirements:

Master the comedy skill

Heads:

Making online content! People love your posts, videos, and live streams, and you realize you can make a lot of money doing it. You find your own success as a social media personality, despite your parent’s reservations regarding your career path.

Unique Trait: Outgoing

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Career: Social Media (Internet Personality Branch)

Requirements:

Master the gaming and mischief skills

Have a distant relationship with your parents (maintain the “acquaintances” relationship status). Siblings are unaffected by this rule.

Have two roommates who end up becoming life long friends

Find love with a fellow Internet personality and start a family

Tails:

Hacking! You love making money and spreading mischief with your abilities, and you make a name for yourself in the criminal underworld as one of the most infamous hackers. Your family cuts all ties with you as a result, but you don’t need them anymore anyway.

Unique Trait: Genius

Aspiration: Chief of Mischief

Career: Criminal (Oracle Branch)

Requirements:

Master the programming and mischief skill

Have a bad relationship with your parents and siblings (maintain the “despised” relationship status or worse)

Form your own found family of criminals

Find love with a fellow criminal, and start a family

Gen 4 - Knowledge is Power

Your parent encouraged you from a young age to find your passion and pursue it, no matter what it was. You find your passion is knowledge, and so you embrace your education to its fullest. Your parent supports you every step of the way, even going as far as to completely cover your university expenses. What do you decide to study?

Base Trait: Genius

Base Requirements:

Master the logic skill

Heads:

Physics! You are obsessed with the laws of aerodynamics, more specifically, how to break them, which leads you to pursue a career in engineering. By day, you pioneer new and innovative forms of technology, but by night you follow your true passion by making your own homemade rocket ship! It may be “unregulated” and “illegal” but they’ll eat their words when you're the first sim to set foot on undiscovered alien planets! You don’t have time for love, but you are determined to have a child of your own.

Traits: Geek, Self Assured

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Career: Engineering

Requirements:

Master the robotics and rocket science skills

Go to Foxbury, and get a distinguished degree in physics.

Visit Sixam on your homemade rocket (must be after graduating)

Have a child/children by unconventional means: either adopt, use mods or cheat to do IVF, find a surrogate, or have an alien pregnancy

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Whiz Kid aspiration as a child.

Have 3 children through alien abduction, IVF/Surrogacy, and adoption respectively

Complete the Aliens collection

Tails:

Psychology! You are fascinated by human nature, which leads you to pursue a career in anthropology. By day, you will be a professor, teaching students about ancient Salvadoradan culture, but by night you will go on daring adventures in the Selvadoradan jungle, exploring tombs and excavating artifacts. All so you can teach your students about them when you return home. Who said being a professor wasn’t cool? You meet someone and have a child with them, but you soon learn that they can’t handle your lifestyle, so you become a single parent when your child is young. It doesn’t get you down, though! It’s nothing you can’t handle!

Traits: Bookworm, Adventurous Aspiration: Archeological Scholar

Career: Education (Professor Branch)

Requirements:

Master the Research & Debate and Archeology skills

Go to Britechester, and get a distinguished degree in psychology

Explore a temple at least once a week after graduating

Meet someone in university and have a child/children with them

Have them leave before your kid ages up into a child.

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Whiz Kid aspiration as a child

Complete the Omiscan Artifacts Collection

Gen 5 - Love Comes Naturally

Your primary parent is always busy chasing their passions, and your secondary parent is either non-existent or completely absent from your life. As a result, you ended up forming a strong connection with nature from a young age. You spend most of your childhood outside fishing and taking in the world around you. You want to spend your life embracing the natural world, but there are many facets of nature, so you need to choose what you love most about it, what is it exactly?

Base Trait: Loves the Outdoors

Base Requirements:

Master the fishing skill

Heads:

The plants! Because who needs people? You yearn to spend your days peacefully alone in the wild, nurturing your very own garden, cultivating beautiful flowers and growing your own herbs, fruits, and vegetables. What more could you ask for? You always thought you’d spend your life alone, but you meet a special someone who changes all that.

Traits: Loner, Vegetarian

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist

Career: Gardener

Requirements:

Master gardening and flower arranging skills

Have the Simple Living lot trait

Socialize with other sims as little as possible

Eventually find love with someone who is able to earn their way into your heart

Have a child/children with that person.

Bonus Challenges:

Join scouts as a kid, and try to collect all the badges

Collect all fish

Collect all the magic beans to obtain the forbidden fruit and become a plant sim (you can stay a plant sim for as long as you like after that)

Complete the Plant collection

Tails:

The animals! You yearn to spend your life caring for animals by running your own vet clinic and looking after your own pets. After all, there are a lot of animals in need. It’s the least you could do. You don’t have a lot of time to yourself, but your naturally nurturing nature makes you yearn for a family. Unfortunately most can’t handle all the animals you keep… until one day you meet that special someone who shares your passion.

Unique Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Dog Lover OR Cat Lover

Career: Veterinarian

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

Master: veterinarian, animal training

Requirements:

Run your own vet clinic and get it to a five star rating

Always have at least 2 dogs or cats (depending on the trait you chose)

Have at least two failed attempts at a relationship, then meet the love of your life

Have a child/children with them

Bonus Challenges:

Join scouts as a kid, and try to collect all the badges

Collect all fish

Live in Henford on Bagley and befriend at least one of each farm and wild animal

Also complete the Animal Caretaker aspiration after completing Friend of the Animals

Gen 6 - Define Your Sound

For as long as you can remember you’ve always loved music, and as you get older you realize you want to make it yourself someday. You love the adrenaline and the attention that comes with performing on stage, and dream of doing it for a living. Question is: what kind of music will you be performing? For what audience? And what sort of image do you want to maintain?

Base Trait: Music Lover

Aspiration: Musical Genius

Base Requirements:

Master the singing skill

Join the Entertainer Career (Musician Branch)

Heads:

You choose classical music. You’ve always had a love for the great composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach. You excel at the piano and violin. You hold prestigious concerts that the rich and the elite pay hundreds to see. In turn, you feel the need to become elite yourself. You become obsessed with cultivating your image, an expectation you place on your family as well.

Traits: Snob, proper

Requirements:

Master the piano and violin skills

Maintain a perfect, classy appearance

Marry the “perfect,” upper class spouse

Have at least 2 kids

Hold your children to high standards, resulting in a negative relationship with any child who isn’t the heir.

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Creatively Gifted aspiration as a child

Max the pipe organ skill

Tails:

You choose house music. You’ve always loved a catchy beat that makes you want to get up and dance. You quickly pick up the guitar, but more importantly: the DJing skill. You want to make music that everyone can enjoy, especially those who just want to have a good time at the club. You pride yourself on being your authentic self, even if that means living under your means. You want to make sure your family is never negatively affected by any sort of fame or reputation you receive.

Trait: Dance Machine, Insider

Requirements:

Master the guitar and DJing skills

Maintain a decidedly “un-classy” appearance.

Marry your true love, regardless of their personal image

Have at least 2 kids

Protect your kids from the limelight, and give them an ordinary childhood, resulting in a positive relationship with all of them.

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Creatively Gifted aspiration as a child

Max the media production skill

Get signed onto a music label

Gen 7 - Find Your Flavor

You were so excited when you got old enough to finally help your parents in the kitchen, and as you grew you never got tired of it. Experimenting with ingredients and seeing how they affected the flavor was always something you found fun and exciting. You look up to your musically talented parent and you desperately want to impress them with your culinary prowess. This is what led you to realize you wanted to utilize your culinary skill for a living, the question is how?

Base Traits: Foodie, Ambitious, Self Assured

Base Requirements:

Master the cooking skill

Heads:

By becoming a chef, of course! You might hate the high stress environment of a restaurant kitchen and the late hours, but it all feels worth it when you see people enjoying the food you made. One day, you’ll become head chef and create an environment where people can come together and enjoy your culinary vision. However, your hard work comes at the expense of your relationship with your family. Can you rekindle your relationship once you’ve made it to the top?

Career: Culinary (Chef Branch)

Aspiration: Culinary Connoisseur

Requirements:

Master the gourmet cooking and baking skills

Eventually run a bakery or restaurant

Marry someone, have a child/children together, but later divorce due to working all the time

You start a relationship with someone new, but it doesn’t work out

After opening your restaurant/bakery, you rekindle your relationship with your ex, but you never remarry.

Bonus Challenges:

Develop the workaholic trait

Run a Bakery AND Restaurant

Create ambrosia

Tails:

By becoming a mixologist! It’s unconventional, yes, but you love the energetic atmosphere of nightclubs, and the intimate social atmosphere of bars. Plus, you were always a bit of a night owl anyway. Most importantly though, you love providing your patrons with the comfort of a good drink. You find love with said patron, but you soon realize you found each other at the right place in the wrong time. Ironically, the choice to break up was exactly what allowed your relationship to work out in the end.

Career: Culinary (Mixologist Branch)

Aspiration: Master Mixologist

Requirements:

Master the mixology and juice fizzing skills

Eventually run your own juicery (A retail lot that sells the juice you make)

Fall in love with a customer at a nightclub, have a steady relationship before breaking up due to not wanting to commit at the moment

Have a child with another sim as a result of a one night stand

After opening your juicery, you end up reconnecting with the sim you initially fell in love with and get married

Bonus Challenges:

Create every type of juice

Create the Snaggle Fluster Drink (A drink that can be unlocked by a chance card you can receive at level 9 of the mixologist career)

Gen 8 - The Price of Fame

You’ve always been the creative type. Someone who yearns to express themselves through their art. You want an audience, a following, and a big one. It is not enough to be a niche creator. You want to be famous. You want the whole world to know who you are and what you can do. The question is: What can you do?

Base Traits: Creative, Self Absorbed, Art Lover

Base requirements:

Master the media production skill

Become a five star celebrity

Heads:

You can create! With an eye for composition, you're incredibly talented at painting and photography. You dream of having your works displayed in galleries all over the world, and hope that one day art history books will have an entire chapter dedicated to you and your artistic genius. If achieving that means exploiting your loved ones for fame and profit, then so be it. You look like a kind, caring, family oriented sim on the outside, so what’s on the inside doesn’t matter.

Career: Artist

Aspiration: Artistic Prodigy

Requirements:

Master the painting and photography skills

Marry a celebrity who is one star above you when you first meet

Exploit your family for viral attention, leading to you having a distant relationship with your child/children

While your relationship with your spouse is great, your children come to resent you. Your home life may be messy on the inside, but it looks perfect on the outside.

Have a pristine reputation

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Social Butterfly aspiration as a child

Open an art gallery OR have a museum dedicated to your work

Tails:

You can perform! Born with a natural sense of rhythm and a talent for acting, you were cast as the lead for every musical your high school put on. You dream of being Plumbob Pictures’ next big star. You want a role in every big film, and to be nominated best actor for each one. All you ever wanted was to focus solely on your career and your craft, but when you suddenly find yourself married with a child, you are sorely unprepared for the pressure and responsibility. This causes you to act out, and soon you become just as famous as you are infamous for your awful behavior.

Career: Acting

Aspiration: Master Actor

Requirements:

Master the acting and dancing skills

Mary a co-worker, whether it be another actor, a director, or hair/costume designer

Have an accidental pregnancy that you don’t want, and have a distant relationship with your child as a result

Become distant from your spouse as well, leading to you having an affair. Eventually, this affair is revealed to the public, and your partner.

Have the worst possible reputation

Bonus Challenges:

Complete the Social Butterfly aspiration as a child

Get to level 3 of Drama Club before becoming a young adult

Gen 9 - Taking Control

Growing up in your parent’s spotlight made you weary of all the attention. You choose to live a life of secrecy while studying your favorite subject: the paranormal. As you research, you realize your fantasies may be a reality, turning your fascination into an obsession. You leave your normal life behind to follow a lead on your research… Where does it take you?

Base Traits: Loner

Base Requirements:

Master the medium and vampire lore skills

Heads:

It takes you to Forgotten Hollow, where you discover a community of vampires living in secret. Enticed by the promise of eternal life, you become one yourself and join their ranks. While at first they call you weak for maintaining a human sense of morality, you prove them wrong by becoming stronger than all of them. You vow to overthrow Vlad and create a newer, kinder society of vampires. One where you can live in peace with your partner.

Traits: Good, Gloomy

Aspiration: Grand Master Vampire

Career: Secret Agent (Diamond Path)

Requirements:

Become a Vampire

Develop the Guilty Drinker trait

Meet and fall in love with either a spellcaster, werewolf, or human (non of which can be turned into vampires)

Become a grand master vampire

Make the vampire cure, defeat Vlad in a duel, and then use the “Slay Vampire” interaction to strip him of his power and usurp him as leader

Bonus Challenges:

Live in a haunted house

Never drink from a human sim, and survive solely on plasma fruit/plasma packs

Master the pipe organ skill

Tails:

It takes you to Moonwood Mill, where you are attacked by a werewolf, and as a result become one yourself. Your new bestial instinct makes you bitter and spiteful. You resent the human world you came from and how you were treated growing up. As a result you join the Wild Fangs, but that’s not enough. You decide that you will become the new leader of the pack, and lead your people into a radical and violent new era. You will wage war on the Moonwood Collective, as well as vampires, spellcasters, and humans alike.

Traits: Evil, Hot Headed

Aspiration: Wildfang Renegade

Career: Secret Agent (Villain Path)

Goals:

Become a Werewolf

Join the Wildfangs

Completely cut ties with your old human family and friends

Become enemies with every vampire and spellcaster you meet

Fall in love with a werewolf within your pack

Become the leader of the pack, and defeat the Moonwood Collective’s leader in battle

Bonus Challenges:

Live in a haunted house

Be responsible for the death of the leader of the Moonwood Collective, Vlad, and at least 1 out of the three sages.

Complete the Lone Wolf branch of the aspiration after completing the Wildfangs branch

Gen 10 – Domestic Bliss

You hated being so different from all the other kids growing up. Your parent lived a life pursuing supernatural and political power, but all you want to do is settle down and live a peaceful, domestic life raising a family. You give up your supernatural nature and start a new, normal life with your partner. The question is: what kind of parent will you be?

Base Traits: Family Oriented

Base Requirements:

Master the parenting and writing skills

Heads:

Your the fun parent! You love to take your kids on fun trips out of the house. Do they have homework to do? Yes, but you're only a child once, and you want to make sure they enjoy it. You might not be setting the best example for your kids, but you are their best friend, and that means the world to you.

Traits: Bro, Childish

Aspiration: Super Parent

Career: Writing Career (Author Branch)

Requirements:

Have at least 3 kids

Be Best Friends with all of your kids (if you don’t have a mod that allow you to have multiple best friends, just make sure the bar is entirely green with all of them)

Go on a fun outing with your kids at least once every three days

Write a children's book and read it to your children

Bonus Requirements:

Max the Bowling skill from taking your family out bowling so often

Max the invisible skating skill while out with your family

Tails:

You are the strict parent! Your kids might hate doing homework and studying now, but they will thank you for it later. You love your child/children with all your heart, but you want to be sure that they’re prepared for life in the real world. You know you won’t be around to provide for them forever, and you want them to be ready when that day comes, even if that means being the bad guy sometimes.

Traits: Perfectionist, Neat

Aspiration: Successful Lineage

Career: Freelance Writer

Requirements:

Have at most 2 children

Write a novel based on your child’s favorite genera and have them read it

Max all your child’s toddler skills so they get the Top Notch Toddler trait

Raise your child/children to have:

An A in school

A completed child aspiration

At least 3 character values maxed

Bonus Challenges:

Have your child join scouts and collect all badges

Complete all school projects your child receives

Have your child do extra credit at every opportunity

Have your child/all of your children go to university with a distinguished degree

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bulbagarden · 1 year ago

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guess what??? bulbapedia had its 50,000th wiki article created a bit ago, and to celebrate we made a news article celebrating bulbapedia! i'm actually in it, soo... take a look if you'd like!! (this was written by our twitter admin and my overlord wyndoncalling)

Celebrating 50k Bulbapedia articles with our favourite wiki pages!

As one of the world's largest media franchises, Pokémon is monolithic to say the least. Documenting every facet of this gargantuan IP is a task perhaps only the most dedicated and/or foolhardy would embark on, yet that's exactly what our Bulbapedia team and thousands of selfless contributors have done over eighteen long years! With Pokémon now encompassing nine generations of main series games along with dozens of spin-offs, mobile games, movies, anime and manga series, merchandise and much more, the wiki itself has grown in tandem - we recently hit a whopping 50,000 articles!

To celebrate, we've compiled a list from across the Bulbagarden team of our favourite wiki articles. For our non-wiki team members, these might simply be pages that they enjoy reading and help inform their work in other aspects of the site. For wiki Staff, these could instead be pages that they've sunk many productive hours into. Read on for an eclectic collection of articles detailing some of the most obscure corners of the Pokémon franchise!

Credits to Staff artist Sirius for the awesome header image!

WyndonCalling (Social Media) - Tall grass

On the one hand, I think it's faintly hilarious that anyone would go into such detail for a mundane and omnipresent mechanic of the main series games; the tall grass that awaits the player on every starting route just feels so self-explanatory in function. On the other hand, I think it speaks volumes about the commitment and mentality of the Bulbapedia team and contributors that no scrap of information is left undocumented - on the tall grass page you'll find the basic details about how it works, but also variations such as tall grass and seaweed, animations of the Cut mechanic, in-battle effects, and more. Who knew that simple grass could be so fascinating in a world with flame-throwing dragons and electric mice?

Runner-up - List of Pokémon by base stats

As the Admin of the Bulbagarden Twitter account, I'm always on the hunt for interesting trivia to share; having the base stats of all Pokémon in one, sortable place makes it so much easier to make fun comparisons between species (did you know that Krabby has more Attack than Eternatus?).

Maverick Nate - Bulbapedia - Coin (TCG) (and its three subpages: Gens 1-4, Gens 5-6, and Gens 7-8)

This page is what I consider my best accomplishment during my 10 years as Bulbapedia's TCG Leader. There is an incredible amount of research, time, (and personal financial investment) baked into the article, and it always gives me a swell of pride when I update it with fresh images of newly acquired coins. There are over 700 different coins documented here, and I still fondly remember the long-night research sessions I would have with my best friend when we would do things like watch countless YouTube openings to figure out release information, check out endless eBay and Yahoo Auctions listings for never-before-seen coins, hold up physical coins to a spotlight trying to determine the Holofoil pattern. Our other friends would poke fun at us for researching in the field, (which was just our excuse to go shopping for newly released TCG products with new coins or hitting up garage sales and card shops on the off chance they had old ones). All of those years of effort produced what is now considered the definitive list of all coins in existence for coin enthusiasts. Whenever I see people online referencing it and using it for their own collections, I just have to smile, knowing that my favorite article is helping people all around the globe.

Wowy (Bulbapedia) - Red (Masters)

This page is just an example for all the character pages for Pokémon Masters. As one of the main editors covering Pokémon Masters when the game was first released, I feel very content to see many other editors who have taken the mantle to make Bulbapedia's coverage of the game quite comprehensive! I also enjoy the gallery section at the bottom because there are some sweet artwork pieces that come out of the game / the PMEX Twitter.

Runner Up - Face board

An article that was initially written for fun ended up being moved from the userpage to the main Bulbapedia page. Like the tall grass page, it's a niche page that showcases how much we like to document every minor and obscure detail in the franchise (albeit there is still so much to cover)!

Lisia (Social Media) (omg HIIII that's me!!!!) (姉ちゃん見て見て、あたしテレビだ。。) - Pokémon world in relation to the real world

This is a very extensive page, and it's very useful for a lot of different things! I use it for worldbuilding for fanfiction and roleplay stuff usually, but it's fun to look at just in general as well! I remember looking at the page first like... years ago, and it blew my mind to see that the Pokémon world was actually based off of real locations! It's something that I'd call a huge resource for anyone who creates Pokémon fanworks, especially written ones!

Runner Up - Lisia (i had to LOL)

Maybe it's a little... self-serving? But I really like this article of my personal namesake; she's my favorite character after all! She's a relatively minor character within the whole of Pokémon so there's not a whole lot of information about her, so I like reading all the stuff there is about her! It makes me happy that people have put work into articles about everyone, because well... in a way I wouldn't be me without it. I should probably contribute to it sometime!

Orchid (Forums) - Pokémon food

I picked this article because it is astoundingly comprehensive on its topic, and offers a lot of really interesting insight into the Pokémon universe as a whole. From Poffins, to prey, to parasites, to Slowpoke Tails... it's all here! It's amazing how having all this information in one place puts into perspective just how much there is to cover on what, at a glance, might seem like such a simple subject. I find myself coming back here every now and then just out of curiosity (or perhaps to settle a debate about what an Aerodactyl really eats).

Runner-up - Twerp

This page is silly and I love it. I've even shown this one to friends and family who are fellow Pokémon fans, and they've gotten just as much of a kick out of it as I have! But as amusing of a read as it may be, what I love most about this page is the fact that even a short and lighthearted bit of terminology like this is documented thoroughly here, just like anything else would be. All across Bulbapedia, you can find so much care and detail put into the littlest of things, and that does bring a smile to my face

DapperCody (Multimedia) - Ash Ketchum

Like many people, I grew up watching the Pokémon anime as a youngster. I enjoy Ash's article because it is comprehensive account of the quarter century that he has graced our screens - looking it over is very nostalgic. The history section with photos is fantastic, and I love being able to see all the Pokémon he has ever owned or used and their current status. It also has an extensive trivia section like all my favorite articles do. I've fallen down the anime rabbit hole on Bulbapedia numerous times, and Ash's page is a great place to start.

Runner Up - Ash's Noctowl

See all of the above, but from a different perspective. Pages for individual Pokémon from the anime are fantastic to get a glimpse into all the highlights from their time in the spotlight, and what better example of this than my personal favorite, Noctowl? The move history is really neat, especially the fact that it designates the moves recently used (and the illegal ones when applicable). Did you know Noctowl was the first Shiny Pokémon in the anime?

bthrussellUK (Bulbapedia) - Pokémon Battle Chess

I really love this article because I think it’s an example of what Bulbapedia is great at; taking obscure Pokémon topics (especially outside of Japan) and saving them from being lost to the sands of time. The original Pokémon Battle Chess website has been taken offline, so without articles like this one, the game would be forgotten. Instead, because it’s here, I decided to find and buy a copy of both Pokémon Battle Chess BW Version and Pokémon Battle Chess and use them to help expand the gameplay section of the article. They're actually pretty fun games! Now I just need a copy of Pokémon Battle Chess W…

Runner Up - Pokémon games

It looks like it's just a really long list... and it is! But for me it's a really great reminder of how massive Pokémon is, how many games have been released in the last 26 years, and how many different platforms Pokémon games have released on. Ever heard of the Advanced Pico Beena or the iQue Player?

Whether they're popular or niche, wide-ranging or obscure, we hope you've enjoyed our short tour of our favourite Bulbapedia articles! Do you have your own? Are you tickled by the trivia on a given page? You can let us know on our forums or Discord server - or even start editing yourself!

The wiki can never have too many contributors, and if your love of Pokémon is as deep as ours we'd be delighted to have you with us for the next 50,000 articles!

(lisia note: thank you for reading!!!!!!!!!! hopefully you enjoyed it!)

#bulbanews #bulbagarden #bulbalisia #pokemon #pokemon news #bulbapedia

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existslikepristin · 1 year ago

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Unexpectedly busy week, that was. Except today. Today I got home and ate ice cream

Only two options in the poll this time! Is there a secret reason?! Yes, it's because I didn't have any more ideas The poll is only going to be available for 24 hours, because I should be able to get the next part up tomorrow!

Tags: NSFW, S.M.U.T., genie, microtransactions???

(Story Index)

Anime Girls

"I wish for a harem of anime girls!" you blurt out before you can think.

Joy appears mildly shocked for a moment, but then she gives you a wry smirk. "Look at you, making a wish like that. You perverted weeb."

You frown and put up a finger of protest, but Joy quickly continues, "I know. I know. You're not the first of your kind I've come across, master. Being a weeb is an honored profession nowadays, and you're all special because of your unique waifu and/or husbando selection(s). I know the drill."

The air around you seems to contract and expand simultaneously, and everything in your line of sight briefly tints green. Except, that is, for Joy herself. Even as space bends in front of your very eyes, causing no small amount of queasiness to knot about in the pit of your stomach, Joy remains on the table, sitting up with the same smooth grace she has continuously displayed up to this point and only looking as green as usual, which isn’t all that green, really.

And then it's over. The air feels normal again, and your standard color vision has returned.

"Was that the wish?" you ask.

"Sure was!"

You look around. Nothing has changed. You see no anime girls. Not even your waifu (though, considering Joy told you she can't read your mind, you're not sure how she would have known to pick her). "So, where's the harem?"

"I figured you wouldn't be able to list each and every anime girl you've ever wanted to fuck."

Joy pauses. After a few seconds you say, "That's not a useful explanation."

"Oh. Right. Check your phone."

"My phone?" you inquire, as you reach down to take your phone from the pocket of your discarded shorts.

"Yup! I've noticed that most weebs are very heavily invested in their own tropes, which I appreciate, as you can imagine. And one of the more common tropes in harem anime I've seen is that the protagonist controls some aspect of the world around them with a supernaturally-powered smartphone."

You tap your phone out of sleep mode. "So, I have a phone… harem?"

"No, master. You have a magic app that summons anime girls into your presence, all of which are suspiciously and sexually attracted and devoted to you, of course. This will make your harem as weebly wobbly as you can possibly get!"

You exit your phone's internet browser, where, obviously, you had been reading existslikePristin fanfics, and go to your home screen. A new app does a little inflation animation to let you know of its location. The icon is a silhouette of a lithe woman on a green, circular background, and is not labeled. You tap to open it. There is no waiting on load time. You're immediately taken to a very cluttered generic fantasy town isometric view, with bubbles of text all over the place. You think the text might be Sumerian.

"It's a mobile gacha game!" Joy looks and sounds far too proud of herself. "And with my special djinnfluencer promo code, you get one thousand free shards! And that's not all! You get ten free spins, five billion gold coins, and double daily rewards for the first week!”

Options:

Okay, that was exceptionally dumb. Ask if there’s a way to undo a wish.

Whatever. A harem’s a harem. Figure out this app and summon an anime girl.

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shellem15 · 5 months ago

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The Nine Hells of Baator

As a devil fangirl, I finally decided to write a basic overview of the Nine Hells, which has consumed my brain since forever. While most of this is taken straight from forgotten realms lore (shoutout to the wiki!), I've put my own spin on things and emphasized certain details I found interesting. The list of sins associated with each layer (Wrath, Fear, Greed, Lust, Deceit, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy, and Pride) is taken from the Enneagram sins, because I needed 9 of them instead of just 7.

I might decide to go more into depth for each layer/archdevil, but no promises!

Overview:

The Nine Hells of Baator is a plane of pure law and evil, a place where tyranny reigns supreme. Devils, or Baatezu, make their home here, crafted from the souls of the damned and eternally bound to serve their betters. The Hells consist of nine descending layers of sin and punishment, connected by the flowing waters of the river Styx. Each layer is ruled by an Archdevil, a devil of immense power and influence who exerts total control over their domain. While the layers are distinct, they are still interconnected, each serving a purpose to further the Hells' agenda.

Devilish society is centered around power, hierarchy, and order, with those without power seeking to claim it and those with power seeking to keep it. The Blood War, the endless conflict between Devils and Demons, keeps the Hells running; an eternal enmity that keeps the populace from turning against their masters. Everything in the Hells ultimately serves to further the goals of Asmodeus, the Lord and Master of this dark domain.

Avernus:

The first layer of Hell is Avernus, a blasted plane of endless trenches and rivers of blood. It is a war-torn battlefield, the Hells' first line of defense against the ceaseless hordes of demon-kind. This is the layer of Wrath, of eternal bloodshed and unending hatred. The armies of the Hells are stationed here, ready to be thrown to the crushing wheel of the Blood War.

Avernus is ruled over by their fell general, the Archduchess Zariel. A fearsome warrior—a fallen angel—who lives for the kill, for the next great conquest.

Dis:

The second layer of Hell is Dis, a plane of those who watch, and those who are watched. An iron city, one of smoke and steel and hidden eyes. This is the layer of Fear, whose denizens live in terror of those beyond the walls—and of those within, as well. Dis acts as a multi-tool for the Hells: it is a hub of interplanar trade, a great titan of industry that produces the arms and means needed to fuel the Blood War, and, most critically, it contains the greatest surveillance network in the outer planes. Knowledge is as valuable as souls in the streets of Dis.

The overseer of this foul city is the Archduke Dispater, an old devil, paranoid about usurpation despite the tight grip he keeps over his domain. He locks himself away in his iron tower, a panopticon from which he monitors all dealings in his realm.

Minarous:

The third layer of Hell is Minarous, a plane of those who have, and those who have not. It is a thick swampland, home to monstrosities that slither and crawl through the muck and mud. This is the layer of Greed, of crushing poverty, sinking debt, and grabbing hands. The heart of this fetid realm is the Bank of Minarous, the center of all commerce in the Nine Hells. This is only bank allowed to mint soul coins, the official currency of the Hells. The Blood War runs on the souls of the damned, and all souls pass through Minarous' coffers.

The master of the bank is the Archduke Mammon, a miserly, serpentine devil who sits upon a hoard larger than any dragon's. He is a devil loved by none, but money speaks louder than words, and power is oft bought rather than earned.

Phlethegos:

The fourth layer of Hell is Phlethegos, a plane of flame and rock, pleasure and penance, judges and those who whisper in their ears. The great courts of the Hells reside in this volcanic realm, and so too do the pleasure houses and casinos. This is the layer of Lust, of tipped scales and weighted dice, of burning passion underneath cool indifference, of great rewards and dire consequences. Law and order is the backbone of Hellish society, and it is here where "justice" is served.

Reflecting the dual nature of Phlethegos, the rulers of this place are the Archduke Belial and Archduchess Fierna. Belial is the original ruler of the fourth Hell, the great Justiciar who presides over the court system. Fierna is the newcomer, Belial's daughter and rising challenger, the Lady of Lusts and Pleasures. On the surface, it seems that father and daughter are at odds, each vying for power over the other; Much like their realm, however, their interests are more entwined then one might think.

Stygia:

The fifth layer of Hell is Stygia, a plane of lies and exaggerations, of truths distorted in icy reflections. A frozen ocean of dark waters and bright glaciers blinding those who gaze into the ice. This is the layer of Deceit, of endless news cycles and lies sold as truths. A war cannot be fought without support, and the broadcasts of the fifth ensure the thirst for blood among Hell's populace is never sated.

The chief of this artic bureau is the Archduke Levistus, a handsome, silver-tongued devil frozen in a vast glacier. The conniving charlatan was trapped as punishment for his own treachery, and now can only speak though the forked tongues of his servantry.

Malbolge:

The sixth layer of Hell is Malbolge, a twisted plane of cushioned cellblocks, of iron bars and shackles disguised as sweet salvation. It is an endless labyrinth, a prison of luxury and extravagance which traps its inmates like flies in honey. This is the layer of Gluttony, where excess and indulgence bind souls tighter than any chain. Even the Hells have its lawbreakers, its criminals and traitors, and here is where those souls are sentenced, forced to pay penance for their crimes and misdeeds.

The warden of this dreadful prison is the Archduchess Glasya, Princess of the Hells and daughter of Asmodeus. While she oversees the Hells' penal system, she is also the Hells' greatest criminal, bending Baator's laws and rules as far as she can while skirting her way out of consequences.

Maladomini:

The seventh layer of Hell is Maladomini, a once-bustling plane now fallen to rot and ruin. It is a place of the lost and forgotten, of decaying cities, crumbling infrastructure, and long-abandoned ghost towns. This is the layer of Sloth, of malicious negligence and crushing complacency, of rusted factories and strip-mines long since dried up. Bureaucracy is the bane of progress, and here, where all the records in the Hells are kept and stored, bureaucracy reigns supreme.

The chief executive of this putrid domain is the Archduke Baalzebul, the Lord of the Flies. Once a beautiful angel of the Heavens themselves, he is now as grotesque and wretched as the realm he rules.

Cania:

The eighth layer of Hell is Cania, a plane of melting ice and rapid development, of forbidden knowledge and those who wield it. It is a frozen mountain range, one where vast glaciers and snow-capped peaks hide secret laboratories and great libraries, where "progress" is made at the expense of morality and reason. This is the layer of Envy, of the relentless strive to be greater than your peers, of the pain one feels at others' success. The Blood War demands bigger weapons and greater firepower, and Cania is at the forefront of these advancements.

The mastermind behind this frigid realm is the Archduke Mephistopheles, the Hells' greatest wizard and second-most powerful Archdevil. In his resentment of his fellows, the Lord of Hellfire has thrown himself to invention and experimentation, creating new and terrible magics that melt the very foundations of his icy domain.

Nessus:

The ninth and lowest layer of Hell is Nessus, a plane of those who rule and hold themselves above all else—a plane of power itself. It is a wind-swept wasteland scarred by endless chasms and ravines, where grand citadels and fortresses light up the darkest trenches in the Outer Planes; where the greatest deals are struck behind closed doors. This is the layer of Pride, of great hubris and unwavering conviction—the mother of all vices. It is here where laws are made and authority is unchallenged, where power is held as most sacred and holy. All the Hells are beholden to the will of Nessus.

The Lord of this realm, and of all the Hells, is the Archduke Asmodeus. The greatest of all devils, the Lord of Lies and Prince of Evil, the mastermind behind the Hellish Project. He is ancient and powerful, unchallenged in his dominion, and a being of pure, unfettered arrogance. A tyrant who seeks absolute domination over all of reality, and one willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.

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bolithesenate · 10 months ago

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Okay, I've had time to think.

Serennians may look human, but the longer you interact with them, the stranger they get. It is certainly just the proximity to Mandalorian Space, you think, that's gotta do funky things to your genetic code one way or the other.

You're not wrong. But you also aren't right.

Serenno is an old world, many know that. But few know what that means.

There were no humans on old Serenno, no Chiss, no other bipedal creatures that called themselves master over other lifeforms. But there was, how the Jedi would say it, the Force. The Force on Serenno is old as the forests that cover the planet and in those forests it influenced life, as it always does.

No one knows when the first Tirra'taka was born, only that it had to have happened. And many followed.

In the wake of a predator with such unique skills, there are only ever two choices: adapt or die. Much of the fauna on Serenno simply didn't have the time to do the former, so the latter happened. Species populations dwindled, bottlenecked and many ultimatively died off. But those that came out on the other side were changed forever. Old tales will say the light of the Red Moon changed the wolves and made them More – but that isn't necessarily true. Not just.

A Force Nexus was born on Serenno, old and older and living and dying. Two sides of the same coin, always in motion, spinning.

Such things, of course, attract attention. The proximity to Mandalorian Space helped.

People settled on the foot of old mountains and in clearings of older forests. And the planet changed them too, slowly, gradually. Generation after generation.

But change did not just come from the inside. The tides of war swept over Serenno more than once until it was final – or so it seemed. The Sith came, saw and prevailed. And with the arrival of the Sith the coin stopped spinning, tipped to one side for far too long. Change that had previously been slow and gradual, natural for all that it counted, now was brought in quick and agonizing waves.

But the Sith didn't come alone. They brought their allies as overseers, as masters, as errand boys. No one quite knows why, but maybe vecazse the glaciers of Serenno's poles do remind of the vast ice seas of Csilla, the imperial Chiss found a home in the planet more than once. Far more.

Enough, in fact, for their strange predisposition to grow out of their Force use to get baked into the genetic make up of the Serennian populace.

Amongst whatever Sith Alchemy and the planet itself did for that matter.

When the Sith finally were driven off, the result was a planet ravaged by the Dark Side, desperately clinging onto its connection to the Light and a people strangely untouched by it all.

Unless the one-in-a-billion chance happens and someone is born of Old Blood, untouched by those that came after. Someone who shares the planet's song and the spine wolves' bones and the Tirra'taka's cold fire.

#some ramblings about my serenno headcanons #will probably do a separate posts for like the specific nonhuman traits serennians have too #because theres some fun headcanons there too #also yes i went with the 'all of the above' option from my first post #because i am fun like that #random boli thoughts #star wars #me writing #art for my fic #all of this is mud fic canon btw #⛏️⛏️⛏️#count dooku #dooku #serenno #star wars headcanons

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the-larxist-manifesto · 6 months ago

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GameGirl28 ~ Wario Land 3

When deciding the first set of games to play for this challenge, I just HAD to make Wario Land my first heavy-hitter game. As a lifelong fan of the Mario extended universe, platformers, and quirky games in general, this series always spoke to me. The problem is... most of the games are stuck on the GameBoy!!!! So actually, I haven't played very many of them at all! Thankfully, I've outlined this challenge so that I hit all three of the GB games (after which I plan, outside of this challenge, to play Wario Land 4 and Shake it).

Why am I playing the 3rd one first? Erm.... anyway, moving on...

Wario is such a fucking creature, dude. I love how much they lean into that angle for him in this game. The entire tone of Wario Land 3 basically reads "shakily drawn feral comic book characters get into Looney Tunes shenanigans together." I'll be saying this a lot throughout the challenge, but for a GameBoy game, I was so charmed by this game's art style and presentation. Pictures are favored in the exchange rate with words, so let me just showcase a scrapbook of my faves

Like in Mario 3, this sun will swoop down and attack you. But since Wario is invincible in this game, your ass just gets set running on fire

Wario can destroy the natural landscapes around him in a multitude of violent and absurd ways

Don't fuck with Wario or he WILL turn you into one of those worm on a strings....

~A competent platformer~

Aside from just being pretty, I think the developers objectively made very efficient use of the small screen real estate. The objects, enemies, and Wario himself are blown up quite large to make room for detail and style, while also increasing the legibility for platforming and squashing enemies. I've played games on a WIDE SCREEN HD TV and had more trouble seeing ahead of me. In Wario Land 3, I almost never struggled to see jumps or areas of interest ahead of me.

This game is, after all, all about exploring. On this particular adventure, Wario is transported to a whimsical island contained inside a magic music box. His aim is to escape, but not without nabbing every goblet and gold doubloon he can. Search every nook of this unfamiliar land, find every giant key to open the treasure chests, and help restore the power of the music box deity in order to go back home with your pockets lined $$$$

The gameplay loop consists of essentially three phases:

One: Metroid-vania style level progression. You enter the first level sorta unable to do much at first. It's kinda funny playing as this worthless fat old man just wandering around the forest, until you just HAPPEN upon one of these giant chests which hold little powerups for Wario. As he powers up, he resembles the tough-and-tumble brawler we know Wario to be, and can start busting through blocks and climbing up cliffs that he could not when you first visited the level. When blocked off areas become accessible, the levels evolve into wide-open platforming sandboxes. It makes the adventure feel vast, despite the size of the console!

Two: Boss battles. Like most platformers, you will encounter bad guys way huger and eviler than the other ones, and you will have to defeat them set to special battle music. All bosses, save for the final boss, follow the rules of Three Hits and Hit the Glowing Part of their Body. Each one is a unique creature with some fun arena gimmick, making them a nice change of pace after all the jumping and smash attacking.

This soccer rabbit was a particularly memorable fight. Whoever can kick a ball-ified version of the other into the net three times wins

Three: Mini games. Well, actually, there's just one mini game. Golf! For a 2D golf game, I found it fun to master power adjustment and spin to conquer the various courses. There's even a secret course you unlock by collecting the special music coins! I LOVE me a classic unlockable, especially unnecessary ones thrown in as a fun extra goodie

... Para-Goom? Is that, like, a relative of the Goomba? I was not ready to be introduced to a Darwin-esque Mario universe evolutionary tree

~Reading the enclosed instruction booklet~

OKAY TIME FOR A BRIEF SIDE TANGENT!! Given how strange and arbitrary as some of the "puzzles" were in Alone in the dark, I ended up using a GameFAQs guide at certain points. As with most old video games, console limitations and lack of in-game tutorials make it tricky to blindly play GameBoy games. Sometimes, it makes them a matter of pure trial and error. I don't find that particularly fun, personally... so when it came to some obscure bits of Wario Land (what levels to visit next after triggering an event, how certain transformations worked, etc.), I felt a sense of annoyance growing in me. What were the devs THINKING? Surely they didn't make a game THIS OBSCURE and expect children to be able to beat it??

In that moment, I tapped into my very empathetic mind and remembered... game devs may not have invented tutorials yet, but they DID include manuals with every single game! That's right! Those little booklets used to be good for something. Really quite important, actually!!

With that, I researched to find an online PDF scan of the game's original manual. That way, without the need of external guides, I could understand the full context of the game! And I am not exaggerating when I say that this guide HELPED. A LOT. It's not like the game was impossible to play without it... but it was, quite simply, a worse game. I learned how to quickly replay event cutscenes, instantly check the next level to explore, the full capabilities of every transformation, and more! Stuff that was programmed into the game but that I simply didn't know existed. Neither me nor the devs would have wanted me to continue without knowing all this!!

As you've seen from some of my previous screenshots, the manual has lots of little lore tidbits and cool official art scattered throughout. It's like a little love letter to the game, stitched together by the developers to go, "Lookie! Look at this cool thing we made! Have fun!!! :D"

With this discovery, I have decided that I will be locating and reading the official instruction booklet for every single game in this challenge from now on. Not only is it helpful, but it's fun! Manuals have always been one of my favorite parts of video game collecting, so it totally enhances this challenge and gives me even more to look forward to as I go!!

~Conclusion~

My only criticisms of this game stem from my own bias against Metroidvania-type games. I don't consider it super fun to wander around the giant ass levels over and over, struggling to find one random block you couldn't break before. But I will admit, it's an economical way to maximize the gameplay in a modest number of levels and maintain a fairly high play time! That is, without abusing artificial difficulty or unfair level design... (looking at YOU, Dr. Wily's revenge....)

Aside from that: the levels look so good, the music is so catchy, and the powering up is so addictive, I can easily forgive a little repetition in exchange for the feeling of absolutely BASHING ENEMIES SKULLS IN and KNOCKING THEIR BONES TOGETHER LIKE PINBALLS with how absolutely beefed up Wario becomes later on

It's a classic for a reason. I am definitely turned on to the Wario Land series now, and I can't wait to see how they all build off each other as a franchise! Shame Wario only seems to star in minigame collections now... which only serve to kill our chances at a new Rhythm heaven game..... >:{

((jk I luh waryo where <3))

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Check out this lil medley of the game's soundtrack, made by our very own SiIvaGunner team! :D

Phew, that was a long one...

#wario #wario land #gameboy #gamegirlchallenge #nintendo #Youtube

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