#darkwing dusk

[theriantastic]

dusk - n. the transition from sunset to nighttime

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[subtleshenanigans]

Wow I really do have a fixation with characters who struggle with being half-human/not quite human/were human but not anymore exactly. (Instead of human you can apply a base species as well. Basically someone who is othered or has to come to terms with not being what they once thought they were??? Dunno how to explain it)

[fancoloredglasses]

[RERUN] Gargoyles (Gettin’ medieval for the kids)

[All images are owned by Disney. Please don’t sue me]

(Thanks to Jan Schmelter)

(If you would like to see the wall of text that was the original review, you may do so here)

In the 90s, before there were a ton of cable stations devoted to cartoons and kids’ fare (The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were it) and you could still watch a ton of cartoons between the time that kids would be coming home from school and the time parents came home from work (every TV station not affiliated with the “Big Three” (Fox was not yet the major network it is now, and its stations were often regarded as “independents” that happened to have Fox programming a few nights a week) had this format in the afternoon)

(Thanks to DuckTales Wiki)

In 1990, Disney decided to get in on this action with The Disney Afternoon, a two-hour block of cartoons using series previously aired on the Disney Channel, with such well-regarded shows as Duck Tales, Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and Goof Troop.

Then in 1994, Disney took a serious risk with its block. Instead of the kid-friendly mild adventure (and outright comedy) reruns, they premiered a show with a much darker (though still kid-friendly) tone that included characters being wounded and (gasp) killed! Needless to say, this got the immediate attention of my college-age friends and myself!

The cartoon is about a group of gargoyles (hence the series’s title) from the 10th century who, despite a symbiotic relationship with Celtic nobility (they defended the nobles’ castle at night and the humans protected them during the day when they were stone and helpless), were feared and shunned by the very humans they helped protect (almost sounds like a metaphor for racial tensions, much like the mutants in X-Men)

The clan of Gargoyles (well, the ones who the series centers on) consists of 7 warriors

...led by Goliath, the only one of them with a name (voiced by Kieth David who went on to voice Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect video game franchise)

...along with his mate (voiced by Marina Sirtis…we’ll get to her in a moment)

...his mentor (voiced by Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show)

...three younger warriors

...and a gargoyle-dog (dog-goyle?)

There are others, but as you’ll see they’re not that important.

When their main ally among the humans betrayed them, (though, to be fair, he was actually betraying the nobles. He assumed the invaders would leave the gargoyles alone after they won. WRONG! The invaders smashed the majority of the gargoyles while they were stone, killing them in a way that was technically kid-friendly) and the nobles blamed them for their defeat (Why? The invaders attacked during the day!) The court mage (who is known as the Magus) cursed the gargoyles to remain stone forever “until the castle rises above the clouds”. What dicks!

Fortunately, the nobles realized who really betrayed them, but unfortunately the mage could not undo the spell, so they took it upon themselves to care for the unborn gargoyle eggs as they fled (This will become important later)

Fast forward about a thousand years, when billionaire industrialist David Xanatos (voiced by Jonathan Frakes…I swear I will address this!) has the castle carefully taken down and reconstructed (making sure to use every piece) atop his skyscraper. Sure enough, this meets the conditions of the spell and the gargoyles awaken at dusk. Goliath discovers his mate was not demolished by the invaders, but was somehow still alive (after a millennium? Given Goliath’s mentor is old, they are obviously not immortal!) and told Xanatos about the spell.

As thanks, Goliath agrees to work with Xanatos, until it’s obvious that Xanatos isn’t exactly on the side of the angels.

Nor, apparently, is Goliath’s mate, who had grown more cold and ruthless (and has developed a hatred of humans) in the past thousand years (again, how? I mean, it is sorta-kinda explained in later episodes, but for now it’s a mystery). Eventually, the pair turn on the gargoyles.

(Thanks to Tooth)

About this time, Goliath meets...

...(and accidentally nearly kills) an NYPD detective named Elisa Maza.

Elisa becomes a fierce ally to the Gargoyles, eventually helping them find a new home since living over Xanatos’s roof could be hazardous to their health (and sorta-kinda becoming a mate to Goliath? Well, at least a romantic interest in a “will they/won’t they/is the biology even possible?!” kind of way)

Elisa is also inadvertently responsible for naming the rest if the Gargoyles. When she asked Goliath’s mentor what his name was, he was exasperated that humans needed to name everything, and asked if a nearby river had a name too. She replied it was the Hudson. He then threw his hands up and declared that he, too, might as well be called the Hudson, which led to the rest of the clan to choose their own names...

(Thanks to Chris bentley)

OK, time to address the Enterprise in the room. A lot of actors affiliated with Star Trek gave their voices to the series (the fact that Sirtis and Frakes played villains when so many associated them with the crew of the Enterprise-D was surreal at the very least) Every chapter in the Trek mythos to date was represented, with TNG being the most heavy.

(Brent Spiner voiced the fae known as Puck

…and LaVar Burton voiced a spider god), though there were voice actors from...

the original series (Nichelle Nichols voiced Elisa’s mother)

Deep Space Nine (Michael Dorn voiced an undead cyborg gargoyle (yes, the series had some weird characters) known as Coldstone)

Voyager (Kate Mulgrew played Xanatos’s lover’s mother,

...as well as Queen Titania of the fae)

…and even the movies! (Paul Winfield, who played the captain of the USS Reliant in Star Trek II, played a recurring role as blind man who befriends Hudson)

The show’s creator has said that, while he did cast Sirtis and Frakes for the roles, it was not originally his intent to fill the series with voices to please the Trekkies, but he did seem to favor Trek actors more as new characters were written.

Many sci-fi and (urban) fantasy tropes were visited, including time travel (again with the time-travel…however, I like how the series handled the concept: you aren’t altering the past by going back in time, events in the past happened as they did because your present self traveled to the past!)

The series was very well-written, especially for its time (X-Men showed that younger audiences could handle more mature content and could follow a continuing storyline…plus a series written as such could draw in an older demographic that could afford all the merchandising)

As always, let me know if there are any episodes you would like reviewed.

[chaoskirin]

Book Review--Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel

OK, I have to start by saying this was another can't-put-down book, but unfortunately... I have a biology degree. And have a special interest in the era generally discussed in this book, the K-Pg extinction. (Not the C-T extinction as the description says. AFAIK, there was no extinction event called the C-T extinction, although the K-Pg extinction used to be called the K-T extinction.)

What I really wish is that this book would have leaned into its fantasy elements as the author had done with the first three books. I needed some suspension of disbelief. The interference of a god. Maybe the intervention of mystics or shaman. Something to make the events of this book make sense in its context. But this book was very much presented as an EXTREMELY low fantasy tale, and sort of sidelined into the talking animal trope with no fantasy elements. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

So I'll go into what I really liked about the book first.

To make a quick summary of the plot, the dinosaurs are in their death throes and other animals are inheriting the earth. The animals made a pact to destroy the last of all saurian eggs whenever they were found to hasten their extinction, but a group of pre-bats (which the authors called chiropters) decided they didn't want to do that because it was morally wrong. The other chiropters resent this group for making that decision and they have been banished. The plot expands from there.

So... Oppel knows how to tell a story. Like I said earlier, this book was extremely compelling and kept me reading because I did truly care about the characters. I had feelings over them, got in their heads, and generally liked them all--even the characters presented as villains. The main character, Dusk, is a chiropter who was born much different than others; it turns out, he can fly, and find his way in the dark. His story parallels an early felid named Carnassial, who has discovered he has a taste for meat and is different than the others in his pride (called a prowl in the book) which only eat bugs.

I didn't love the unspoken lack of morality Oppel assigned to Carnassial, and would have liked to have seen this predatory switch be more honorable (which still would have made him an effective villain to the other characters), but meat eating was generally presented as an act of savagery rather than survival. This switch to meat eating was also scientifically problematic, but I'll get more into that in a bit.

I know I seem really hard on the book, but like I said, I could not stop reading it. I stayed up all night to finish it, despite my better judgement. Because I cared about Dusk, and I wanted to see him succeed. I wanted to see him find a place he belonged. And therein lies the importance of writing sympathetic characters. I kept reading because I liked him. I also liked his sister, Sylph, and his father Icaron. Some of the side characters were also enjoyable, and I understood the foil, Nova's, role in the story. Nova had come to shift her ways of thinking over time, and did not like Icaron, who was the leader of the hero group of chiropters.

But...

There are so many issues with the book, starting with the lack of fantastical elements. According to the author, this is supposed to be a fantasy world. And just introducing SOMETHING--magic, gods, anything--in Darkwing would have made 90% of my problems with the science just go away. I would have given the book 4 stars. But these fantasy elements are completely absent, save for a moment where Dusk licks a mushroom and has a terrible trip wherein he hears a voice (possibly Nocturna???) tell him that he's new. It's never outright stated. Had Oppel done so and leaned into the canonical existence of gods, so much more would have made sense. Instead, this can literally be written off as a drug-induced dream. In a children's book.

And now we can get into the problems this leads to when it comes to science.

A quick primer on evolution: it happens over millions of years through natural selection. Let's say a group of pre-bats occasionally produces young with stronger chest muscles. This is a natural variable in the lives of these creatures, and generally does not affect them in a positive or negative way. But as the environment changes over time, pre-bats born with stronger chest muscles are able to stay aloft longer and avoid predators more successfully. Which means those individuals are the ones left alive to breed. Other adaptations may follow. Less fur on the wings makes individuals more aerodynamic, and more of them survive.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, this trait is selected for within specific environments, and eventually this species is no longer similar to its parent species. Should they encounter each other (because the parent species might still survive in environments suited to it) they would no longer be able to interbreed, due to mutations in genetics. But you would have two related species--one with weaker chest muscles and furred wings, and one with strong chest muscles and bare wings.

The way evolution is presented in Darkwing is that every once in a while, a bat is born from chiropters. Dusk isn't like his fellows, who have weak chests, three claws on their wings, the inability to flap/fly, and the inability to truly echolocate. Later in the book, (view spoiler)

It's just. Not how evolution works. It isn't even a simplified version of how evolution works. And this continued to bother me, because all Oppel would have had to say is that the goddess, Nocturna, selected certain individuals to become Something New (tm) and it would have been FINE.

Likewise, as long as there have been creatures on earth, there have been predators. Obligate carnivores. Things that cannot survive eating berries and roots and must have a protein-rich diet with the vitamins that can only come from meat. This is niche-filling and promotes a healthy food web. If you're curious as to how carnivores can effect entire ecosystems, look no further than the effect the reintroduction of wolves had on Yellowstone... A phenomenon that surprised even scientists. From the very beginning, there were simple eukaryotes which ate plant cells, and those which ate OTHER eukaryotes. This maintained a balance in any given ecosystem and caused it to thrive.

So for the author to write that no beast would ever eat another beast and then have one particular character just decide he wanted meat... It was a little unbelievable. Evolution drives predation. Necessity drives predation. Again, this could have been solved by a god or goddess flipping a switch in the minds of some of the animals of the world. It would have been awesome for a higher power to note that populations were increasing to unsustainable levels and cause some animals to become predators. But in the book, this change is instead presented as a natural occurrence. I didn't like it.

Beyond the science, this book had absolutely NO levity. While this presented constant action, the inability for my brain to rest between chapters actually made me more tired reading it. I am a firm believer that even the most action-oriented books need to leave space for their readers to breathe. A place where I can put down the book without thinking about picking it back up again. Not only was it constant action, but it was also CONSTANTLY dumping on the main characters and they never had any good luck. Whether they were being predated or attacked by birds, it never let up. They were constantly harried, and I'm surprised they didn't all have heart attacks from the stress.

Even with all that, I STILL have to recommend this book, as long as you have no issues with hand-waving some pretty solid scientific theories. It's a good story, and it's a fun read.

[williecthepoet]

Dancing With Lust In Our Eyes

In dusk’s embrace, we move with primal graceEntwined in rhythm, bodies speak in tonguesEyes locked in ardor, igniting fires Embracing the heat, our souls alightEach step a story, whispered in the darkWe dance with lust, our passions take flight In the waltz of desire, our spirits entwineLost in the moment, we surrender controlFuelled by yearning, our hearts intertwine We move as one, in this…

[drawesomejulia]

[4shfur]

the main difference between goth and carnassial as villains is that goth was dreaming of ripping shades heart out and killed his son in revenge like a freak and carnassials just like im gonna go commit some crimes. also theres some guy who can fly but whatever.

[imnotjellyatall-art]

practicing drawing bats in anticipation of more darkwing fanart.

[aquatic-batt]

honestly this was such a sweet ending to this book tbh

[sleep-writes]

To cap off my reading experience with silverwing, as well as my little review series, here are my takeaways with firewing and Darkwing!

Firewing is a larger than life conclusion to Shade’s story, starring his son, Griffin. Griffin is a refreshing protagonist, a unique, meek individual who happens to be a hybrid of two different kinds of bat. He’s overly cautious and anxious, but finds himself thrust into the underworld, an alien and uncanny place.

I found the underworld in this story very captivating! It was unlike anything I’ve read about before, and some unique twists at the end show you just how sinister it really can be. Firewing veers deep into fantasy territory while maintaining enough realism to keep you hooked. It’s paced to keep you on your toes, unsure of what might happen next. Overall, I think this novel is a fitting end to a fun series.

Darkwing. Let me talk about darkwing.

Immediately it sets itself off as a different beast than the other three books, not only with its larger length, tone, and cover (I chose a variant cover than the one I own, because I find this one more compelling), but Darkwing takes place in the Palaeocene Epoch, in a vivid reimagining of the world millions of years ago.

I can’t possibly describe Darkwing in a way that does it justice. It’s, as the name suggests, dark, with gore, disease, and a new world order struggling to be born. As the dinosaurs die out, beasts (mammals) begin to fill their old niches, turning on eachother and devouring flesh. The eggs of the “saurians” are sought out and destroyed, forcing them into extinction. Dusk, a pre-bat known as a chiropter, and his colony struggle to survive as the world changes. Dusk himself is a changing creature, and finds out that, unlike the rest of his colony, he can fly rather than glide. Throughout the novel, this ability is both tremendously useful, and incredibly othering. His changes are paralleled with Carnassial, the antagonist. Carnassial is a Miacis, a prehistoric species belonging to the stemgroup within the carnivoramorpha. Carnassial finds himself to be one of the first “felids” to crave meat, and like Dusk, this proves to be both an advantage and disadvantage. I thoroughly enjoy this narrative foil!

Darkwing is intensely visual. If you have a keen mind’s eye, it’s like stepping into a world that breathes and shudders. Every bite, ache, and snap has weight, and every glint of saliva and blood etches itself into your mind. The setting serves the story extremely well, without the distraction of human presence and modern day obstacles. Darkwing is raw, and it won’t let you forget about it.

As I suspected, it remains my favourite in the whole of the series. It stands on its own as a powerful, evocative novel filled to the brim with rich visuals, well paced storytelling, and an unrivalled setting. I HIGHLY recommend Darkwing, even if you haven’t read the other books.

[turtletangerine]

The 1991 Darkwing Duck pony trio!

• Darkhoof Horse (potential names: Dusk Debut, Fierce Farce, Spot Light)

•Spirit Spark (Gosalyn)

•Launchpad: I’m considering naming him Turbine Twister even though his original name is ponylike enough

Also Drake’s cutiemark is a lil lazy I just like giving the Darkwings similarish cutiemarks amd since ‘91 is the OG, he gets this one. Idk you can consider it to mean he is the center of the DW-verse as the original, the inspiration of three stars, ‘17 Drake, Jim Starling, and Negaduck.

[rcwrittcn]

@calvinsmuses​ SAID: “Mr. Starling!!” Launchpad runs over to him, waving enthusiastically. “I knew you’d be here! Y’know, cause it’s your high school reunion. I promise I’m not stalking you, I just thought it would be fun to go, since there’s an episode of Darkwing Duck about his high school reunion, and you’re Darkwing Duck, and- yeah! Hi!”

calvin stop murdering me and jim challenge // crying

It’s early dusk; he’s watching people arrive through the high school’s reception, lights in the street fizzling to life as he sticks to the shadows. Negaduck’s expression is ominous, almost pondering as he seems to search for a specific person in the crowd. For the moment, it seems he’s no results. But he knows they’ll come. After all, if they didn’t, that’d just be very rude! Also, it’d be more inconvenient to find them.

He is lost in deep thought, stuck in his inner monologue until the loud voice of Launchpad McQuack broke his concentration.

❝ Launchpad?! ❞ there’s a hushed shriek as Jim almost jumps out of his feathers at hearing the pilot behind him, whirling around. Wh... How... What?? His voice is quiet and cracked, whispering hoarsely, ❝ What are you doing up -- ❞ he stops mid-sentence, taking offence. ❝ Don’t sneak up on me like that!! I could’ve fell!! ❞

[bigwigxhazel]

“Chiropters were made for gliding,” Sylph said.

“I’m not sure I was,” said Dusk. “My sails never glided that well. They always wanted to flap. Always!”

It was the first time he’d ever admitted it, and the secret, after being clenched inside of him for so long, came out in a triumphant cry.

—Kenneth Oppel, Darkwing

[fancoloredglasses]

Gargoyles (AKA gettin’ medieval for the kids)

(Thanks to Jan Schmelter)

OK, technically I was too old for “children’s programming” in the 90s, but DAMN did Disney knock this one out of the park when I was in my 20s!

In the 90s, before there were a ton of cable stations devoted to cartoons and kids’ fare (The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were it) and you could still watch a ton of cartoons between the time that kids would be coming home from school and the time parents came home from work (every TV station not affiliated with the “Big Three” (Fox was not yet the major network it is now, and its stations were often regarded as “independents” that happened to have Fox programming a few nights a week) had this format in the afternoon)

In 1990, Disney decided to get in on this action with The Disney Afternoon, a two-hour block of cartoons based on its properties, with such well-regarded shows (many of which can still be seen on the Disney Channel years after their cancellation) as Duck Tales, Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and Goof Troop.

Then in 1994, Disney took a serious risk with its block. Instead of the kid-friendly mild adventure (and outright comedy) shows, they premiered a show with a much darker (though still kid-friendly) tone that included characters being wounded and (gasp) killed! Needless to say, this got the immediate attention of my college-age friends and myself!

The cartoon is about a group of gargoyles (hence the series’s title) from the 10th century who, despite a symbiotic relationship with Celtic nobility (they defended the nobles’ castle at night and the nobles protected them during the day when they were stone and helpless), were feared and shunned by the very humans they helped protect (almost sounds like a metaphor for racial tensions, much like the mutants in X-Men).

The main group (well, the ones who the series centers on) consists of 7 warriors, led by Goliath, the only one of them with a name (if you recognize the voice, you’ve obviously played Mass Effect), his mate (voiced by Marina Sirtis...we’ll get to her in a moment), his mentor (voiced by Ed Asner), three younger warriors, and a gargoyle-dog (dog-goyle?). There are others, but as you’ll see they’re not that important.

When their main ally among the humans betrayed them, (though, to be fair, he was actually betraying the nobles. He assumed the invaders would leave the gargoyles alone after they won. WRONG! The invaders smashed the majority of the gargoyles while they were stone, killing them in a way that was technically kid-friendly) and the nobles blame them for their defeat (Why? The invaders attacked during the day!), the court mage (obviously magic exists...) cursed the gargoyles to remain stone forever “until the castle rises above the clouds”. What dicks... Fortunately, the nobles realized who really betrayed them, but unfortunately the mage could not undo the spell, so they took it upon themselves to care for the unborn eggs as they fled (This will become important next season...)

Fast forward about a thousand years, where billionaire industrialist David Xanatos (voiced by Jonathan Frakes...I swear I will address this) has the castle carefully taken down and reconstructed (making sure to use every piece) atop his skyscraper. Sure enough, this meets the conditions of the spell and the gargoyles awaken at dusk. Goliath discovers his mate was not demolished by the invaders, but was somehow still alive (after a millennium? Given Goliath’s mentor is old, they are obviously not immortal!) and told Xanatos about the spell.

As thanks, Goliath agrees to work with Xanatos, until it’s obvious that Xanatos isn’t exactly on the side of the angels. Nor, apparently, is Goliath’s mate, who had grown more cold and ruthless (and has developed a hatred of humans) in the past thousand years (again, how? I mean, it is sortakinda explained in later episodes, but for now it’s a mystery). Eventually, the pair turn on the gargoyles and we find that Goliath’s now ex-mate has been given a name as well...Demona.

About this time, Goliath meets (and accidentally nearly kills) an NYPD detective named Elisa Maza, who becomes a fierce ally to the Gargoyles, eventually helping them find a new home since living over Xanatos’s roof could be hazardous to their health...and sortakinda becoming a mate to Goliath? Well, at least a romantic interest in a “can they/can’t they is the biology even possible?!” kind of way.

Elisa is also inadvertently responsible for naming the rest to the Gargoyles. When she asked Goliath’s mentor what his name was, he was exasperated that humans needed to name everything, and asked if a nearby river had a name too. She replied it was the Hudson. He then threw his hands up and declared that he, too, might as well be called the Hudson. The other three named themselves Lexington, Brooklyn, and Broadway, and then named the dog-goyle Bronx.

OK, time to address the Enterprise in the room. A lot of actors affiliated with Star Trek gave their voices to the series (the fact that Sirtis and Frakes played villains when so many associated them with the crew of the Enterprise was surreal at the very least). Every chapter in the Trek mythos was represented, with TNG being the most heavy (Brent Spiner voiced the fae known as Puck and LaVar Burton played a spider god), though there were voice actors from the original series (Michelle Nichols plays Elisa’s mother), Deep Space Nine (Michael Dorn played an undead cyborg gargoyle...yes, the series had some weird characters), Voyager (Kate Mulgrew played Xanatos’s lover’s mother, as well as Queen Titania of the fae)...and even the movies! (Paul Winfield, who played the captain of the USS Reliant in Star Trek II, played a recurring role as blind man who befriends Hudson) The show’s creator has said that, while he did cast Sirtis and Frakes for the roles, it was not originally his intent to fill the series with voices to please the Trekkies, but he did seem to favor Trek actors more as new characters were written.

Many sci-fi and (urban) fantasy tropes were visited, including time travel (again with the time-travel...however, I like how the series handled the concept: you aren’t altering the past by going back in time, events in the past happened as they did because your present self traveled to the past!)

The series was very well-written, especially for its time (X-Men showed that younger audiences could handle more mature content and could follow a continuing storyline...plus a series written as such could draw in an older demographic that could afford all the merchandising, though in the early 90s that was still a new concept; most children’s programming was written thinking kids had short attention spans and geared toward selling toys)

As always, let me know if there are any episodes you would like reviewed.

[meimikana]

Meimiday 2020 Wall of Awesome

GET HYPE!

January 28th is my birthday, dubbed Meimiday several years ago by my friends (I think it was hojo who started it). For those years, I would spend all day watching streams from said friends playing games for my birthday entertainment. Eight years ago, however, when asked what I’d like to see I kinda just went “Why don’t you just beat some games?” and so the festivities truly began. Most of us frequent the Backloggery, so it’s kinda easy to see why it has snowballed~

IT'S TIME TO PARTY!

Lilith :B: Deadly Premotion: Origins :C: Vice Project Doom :B: Darius Genesis Mini :C: Sailor Moon: Another Story [20th Anniversary Translation] :C: Sega Ages: Shinobi :C: Sega Ages: Fantasy Zone

John :B: The Wonderful 101 (and that finishes off his Wii U backlog too!) :B: Pokémon Sword :B: Bravely Default :B: A Short Hike

CephiYumi :P: Death Stranding :B: RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2

SaintTweeter :B: Final Fantasy VIII :B: Outer Worlds

Hojo :B: Hotel Dusk: Room 215 :B: Red Dead Redemption 2 :B: Nioh :C: Mirror's Edge: Catalyst :B: Gears 5 :B: Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis

highanimalhouse :C: Jack N Jill DX

Krile :B: Link's Awakening

Floony :B: Monster Hunter World

Ginger :C: Wandersong :B: GRIS

Sobou :B: Pokemon Shield :B: Shalnor Legends: Sacred Lands :B: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze :C: War Theater :C: I Am The Hero :C: Tetra's Escape :C: Riddled Corpses EX :C: Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom :C: Reverie (Vita) :C: Reverie (PSN) :C: Reverie (CHN) :B: ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! :C: ACA NeoGeo: Burning Fight :C: ACA NeoGeo: Sengoku :C: Back in 1995 :C: Adventures of Mana :C: Castlevania Anniversary Collection: Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge :C: Castlevania Anniversary Collection: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse :C: Contra Anniversary Collection: Contra (NES) :C: Contra Anniversary Collection: Contra (FC)

ShadowStarEXE :C: Pokemon Sword :B: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate :B: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Drumble :B: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Lyndis :C: Pokemon Sword :B: Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

CherryTonic (by way of Neko #GamesforCherry) :B: Trials of Mana

Lyndis and Drumble :B: The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

Moomba :B: Super C

Slythex :C: Donut County :C: Inside :C: Lara Croft GO :C: River City Girls

Lottie :B: Code Vein :B: Castlevania: Bloodlines

Ange :B: Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu!

Macc :C: Megaman Legacy Collection: Community Challenges :C: Pocket Tanks :C: Tetris

WorldDude :C: Kentucky Route Zero

Tony :B: Lightning Returns

WanderingMind :B: Russian Subway Dogs

Pally :C: Sega Ages: Shinobi :C: Gradius :C: Ninja Gaiden (SP)

MechaGojira :B: Assault Android Cactus

iErebus :B: Sayonara Wild Hearts

Trace Bullet :C: Terraria

MattThorndark :C: Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 :C: Darkwing Duck

TheKnightOfNee :B: Solstice

Honorable Mention: Rikkuni :B: Dragon's Dogma (Premature Somalation from the excellent future Brazilian Timeline) :B: Sayonara Wild Hearts

Honorable Mention: PaperLink64 :C: BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!

[shadoninja]

Shadoninja’s Year in Review (2013)

Piano

Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire - Ruby Board

Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Sharance Village (Day)

Advance Wars - Olaf’s Theme

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - Cabanela ~ A White Lovely Lanky Man

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - Combat Preparation

Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Spring

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - Dream 1: Mushroom Forest

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - Dream 7: Topsy Turvy

The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse - Pete’s Peak

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose - Spook Mansion

Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story - Fawful is There

Seiken Densetsu 3 - Ordinary People

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Scarlet Battle Soul

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Title

EarthBound - Saturn Valley

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Don’t Wait Until Night

Pokémon Black/White Version 2 - While Shooting in Pokéstar Studios!

Soul Blazer - Solitary Island

Soul Blazer - Lonely Town

Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver Version - Route 24 (GB Sounds)

Kirby Super Star Ultra - Masked Dedede

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - Hyrule Town

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - Shi-Long Lang ~ Speak up, Pup!

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - Confess the Truth 2009

Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum Version - Spotted! Artist

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - High Spirits

Dr Mario/Puzzle League - Game Selection

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - The Mogmas

Batman Returns - Gotham Plaza

Mother 3 - Volcano! Inferno!

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Spring

Mario Kart Wii - Toad’s Factory

Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel - City (Wing & Wing Zero Stage)

Swapnote - Main Theme

Pokémon Trading Card Game - Club Leader Duel

Darkwing Duck - Credits

Darkwing Duck - Bonus Stage

Darkwing Duck - Game Over

Darkwing Duck - Job Well Done!

Darkwing Duck - Stage Clear

Darkwing Duck - Boss Battle

Darkwing Duck - Steelbeak Stage

Darkwing Duck - Moliarty Stage

Darkwing Duck - Megavolt Stage

Darkwing Duck - Bushroot Stage

Darkwing Duck - Liquidator Stage

Darkwing Duck - Wolfduck Stage

Darkwing Duck - Quacker Jack Stage

Darkwing Duck - Stage Select ~ Where should we go now, DW?

Darkwing Duck - Title Theme

Pokémon Platinum Version - Battle! Frontier Brain

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - DESTROYER

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! - A Break in the Action

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! - Acme Looniversity

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! - Go, Buster! Go! Go! Go!

Kid Dracula - Go-Go in the Great Castle

Skullgirls - Learning One’s Craft

Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Sol Terrano Desert

Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse - Mad Forest

Pokémon Black/White Version 2 - Battle! Champion Iris

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Winter

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness - Battle! Wild Pokemon

Final Fantasy VI - Another World of Beasts

Kirby’s Adventure - Orange Ocean

Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum Version - Sinnoh Underground

Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon - Sharance Tree (Night)

Kirby’s Dream Land 3 - Sand Canyon 1

Dr. Sudoku - Music 1

The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse - Final Boss

Pokémon X/Y Version - Snowbelle City

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Town

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - In the Amber Valley (Piano Duet Arrangement)

Pokémon Trading Card Game - Normal Duel

Seiken Densetsu 3 - Splash Hop

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time - Sewer Surfin’

Mega Man Battle Network 2 - Marine Harbor

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Concert 2 (with Ocarina)

Kirby’s Dream Land 3 - Game

Pokémon Card GB2: Great Rocket-Dan Sanjō! - Team Great Rocket Duel

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature - Festival 1 (Fun)

Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Version - Battle! Team Magma/Aqua

Dark Cloud - Owl Forest

String Quartet

The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse - Dark Forest

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Space Storm Galaxy

Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver Version - Cianwood City

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - Blue Badger March ~ Gatewater Land Theme

Wind Quartet

Pushmo - Intro

New this year: 87 (82 Piano/4 String Quartet/1 Wind Quartet) Overall Total: 87 My first year on Tumblr. A good majority of these pieces I created for another site and I just cleaned them up. Other Years