#fossil fighters revival

[ailingwriter]

Fossil fighter fan game project

Idk how this work, like if you're going to see this, but I recently came across your fossil fighter fan game project and I first of all wanted to know how the project was coming along because i could only find stuff from 2021 on your tumblr. I created an account on tumblr but didnt know how to reach out on there. I wanted to reach out today in order to ask you if there is a way i could help with the project if it is still being developed or even if it was put on hold. I'm on discord (Scrufflez)

Hey thanks for sending in this ask!

At the moment, I have no plans on making this an actual game, unfortunately. I have largely moved on to other projects. That being said, I have been known to migrate between different fandoms, so it is entirely likely that I will return to it at some point in the future.

If you want to help out, probably the best way to do that at the moment would be to help make drawings for the Vivosaurs that don't have art yet. As long as it isn't AI art, I'd be absolutely enthused to see my ideas come to fruition.

Other than that, if there is any genus of dinosaur or other prehistoric animal that you want to see made into a vivosaur, please feel free to suggest them! As long as they are at least 1 foot in length, I'm willing to take a crack at it.

[zestyderg]

Here's Auron! Aster's Ourano and their first vivosaur. He's a bright, shiny gold color, with desaturated purple stripes replacing the dark blue of a typical Ourano. His eyes have blob-like markings underneath, and his front hooves are rimmed with purple too. The sail is vastly different from the norm, boasting blotches of purple ringed by thick, dark grey outlines. Even the thin grey stripes that surround the purple stripes running down his back are less rigid and more squiggly.

Aster doesn't know much about their new friend yet, but I listed some traits he's gonna have anyway.

[captainmvf]

Dinurian Hydra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love him so much I decided to just give him a design <3

Hydra here is an Air-type Chasmo to match the element he specializes in! He's also from a long-distance Dinurian trade route but he does get a chance to shine after meeting Rusty on Earth.

Despite being new to his situation on Earth, Hydra had it a bit rough as he was traded from ship to ship and couldn't fit in well with the rest of his coworkers. After getting the neat ability to super evolve and befriending Rusty, Hydra can now stand out tall and proud!

[frogges-enlightenment]

today i ponder the inexplicable scene in Fossil Fighters DS where the player character is presented a choice between two companions for the final boss fight: a cute weird alien girl and the most annoying human being ever to exist. The twist is that the character you choose gets turned into a statue and you are stuck interacting with the character you did not want for the post-game, which felt so deeply unfair that teenage me nearly stopped playing the game.

[modifiedyincision]

7 z rex

1 lugmos

the unfathomable power of lugmos

[ochrearia]

omg based fossil fighters fan??????? i swear it's so hard to find other people who enjoy the series

do you have. a favorite vivosaur

oughfgfeuh I feel lik I have to say Lagia because that's my dinauriansona base. extraterrestrial Lagia but like I have. so many. Toba is the only starter I ever pick and I will never not pick my baby Toba. I seriously think that sauropods have the best 3rd stage attack animations and I will hold to that

Pelto. I don't really know why but Pelto makes my brain happy. Carchar. Centro's goofy but I like that one. Einio too despite not likin most of the tricera-adjacent ones. Guera. Shanshan. Cryo. Yango. Dunkle. Dilopho. ohhh I'm probably forgetting a bunch because there's so damn many I like to begin with FRICK

I'm gonna remember more later and I'm gonna kick myself every time uhh Dacerus. Salto. These are just not even considering super revivers either

[aggressively-crying]

I think we should find a way to get Joel vinesauce to play fossil fighters. Not just because it would cause another revival of the fandom (thank you jaidenAnimations), but because I genuinely think it's like tailor made for him.

-hes Mr skeleton metal and it's a game about digging up bones

-every time he plays Pokemon he stays firmly in the camp of attacking moves only, status moves are for nerds. Most of the status effect moves in ff are damage dealing anyway, and stat fuckery is done passively by just sticking your guys in the right spot, which, as someone who also usually plays pokemon like a ten year old, feels a lot less like youre wasting your turn.

-most of the dino designs are either Huge Badass, Ugly Little Freak (affectionate), or little tiny boingyboof

-it would be extremely funny to watch him yell at the game when he inevitably fucks up cleaning a fossil

-there are aliens happening

And, lastly...

LIDL ass dinosaur

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[doctordragon]

"An ancient wizard sealed within a tomb is awakened and plots to take over the world by stealing the skull of a cowboy so that he can run a tournament where people fight with revived dinosaurs so that he can choose a new host to inhabit" sounds like a fever dream but it's the actual plot of fossil fighters champions god I love that game

[cosmopoliturtle]

have you ever played any of the first 2 fossil fighters. I think you would like the designs of thr vivosaurs(revived dinosaurs)

I haven't, again it was another creature collector that I missed out on back in the day. I've seen a few designs now and they look pretty fun! C:

[maxwell-grant]

Sorry, I see you already answered that question in 2021, found that post.

My new question is: what is “the shadow”?

(Art by Dan Schkade)

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows…” The maxim that the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, intoned at the start of every program, was biblical in its sternness. The Shadow was an Old Testament avenger, a ruthless slayer of the wicked, very befitting the Depression decade of his greatest strength. The Shadow was both the force for good and lurker in the darkness. - The Shadow Scrapbook

The Shadow, also known as The Master of Darkness, The Dark Avenger, The Master of Men's Minds, Weird Creature of the Night, Identity Theft Georg, That Guy Who Lives in Lamont Cranston's House, "Shads" and other many names, is a mysterious figure who fights evil by turning it against itself. He is a former globetrotting aviator-spy-soldier (revealed to be named Kent Allard, 7 years into the character's run) turned crimefighting paladin who fights to protect and uplift the innocent and bring justice to victims of strife and calamity, and he does so with the black-clad design, domineering charisma, sinister cackle, Machievellian theatrics and ruthless efficiency of a villain.

In action, The Shadow loomed as a cloaked figure, materializing from out of the night, rescuing helpless victims and striking terror into the hearts of evildoers. However, he reserved such theatrics for a logical climax. Between times, The Shadow proved himself a master of deduction as well as disguise.

While his major missions were to stamp out mobs or smash spy rings, he often tabled such routines in order to find a missing heir, uncover buried treasure, banish a ghost from a haunted house or oust a dictator from a mythical republic. The Shadow was such an incredible character in his own right that almost anything he encountered was accepted by his ardent followers. - Walter Gibson

The Shadow began life as the spooky narrator of publisher Street & Smith's radio program, whose sibilant, mocking personality and sinister cackle were dramatically more interesting than any of the programs he was narrating, and so when listeners started asking Street & Smith for a Shadow Magazine that did not exist, they had to make one of their own. To that end, they recruited a young magician turned newspaper writer and former associate of Houdini's fraud-busting network, Walter Gibson, to write the adventures. Gibson was extremely acquainted with the ins and outs of illusionism and sleight-of-hand and worked personally with many of the greatest magicians at the time, and would extensively use said knowledge in crafting The Shadow's character and adventures.

And so The Shadow Magazine began, reviving the "hero pulp" format that had died out in the pre-WW1 dime novels and redefining the mold of crimefighting "pulp heroes" from that decade onwards, as well as many superheroes from that time period inspired by him and his successors. He is currently more famous for being plagiarized by the chief inspiration for a certain guy who runs around with bat ears and for his general role as a highly influential forerunner and influence in forms of storytelling still extensively used today.

On the taxonomical chart of Western comics he’s a common ancestor for a sizeable chunk of the marketplace. Every street vigilante, every masked crime-fighter, every necessary monster: he’s in the DNA of them all. A living fossil, a coelacanth or goblin-shark for the comics world, swimming in waters of ice and ink - Si Spurrier

The Shadow maintained a fluctuating radio career over the 1930s to go along with his highly successful magazine, and he'd eventually reach newfounds heights of stardom from 1937 onwards thanks to the debut of a new radio show, initially starring Orson Welles in the titular role. Said radio show would become an audience hit well into the 1940s and would introduce new fixtures to the character such as friend-and-companion Margo Lane and an invisibility superpower, which were eventually integrated since into the comics and pulps and other media. You can still easily find many of the character's radio adventures online as well as his exploits in comics and pulps (harder to find now, but still possible if you know where to look). I'll pass along my personal recommendations here.

(Art from Matt Wagner's The Curse of Blackbeard Skull, in The Shadow #100)

In the taxonomical history of American crimefighters he sits in between the hardboiled detectives of the 1920s and the 1940s superheroes, and although the 1930s pulp heroes were in part defined largely by imitating him, he is no traditional square-jawed do-gooder: he is a tall, gaunt, cadaverous wraith with the mask of a Western bandit and a vampire's cloak and the clothes of 19th-century cartoons of saboteurs and anarchist bombers. The barest glimpse of the man beneath is that of a judgemental patrician's aquiline nose and intense, sharp eyes, like icepicks probing the back of your skull. He makes a point to show every now and then how easily he can reshape that face to suit his needs, and make it your own, even doing so in front of you to make a point.

He is Dracula meets King Arthur, Sherlockian brainpower and Lupin trickery joined forces, centerpiece to urban thrillers turned into fairytales as The Big Bad Wolf switches sides to save us. Though his setting looks the part, The Shadow is no gritty film noir creature: he is what happens when the cutthroat gangsters and invincible spymasters and predatory businessmen behind it all meet the actual scariest guy around: Death itself, as the ultimate master and servant joined in one, who found a higher calling fighting for us instead, breaking and bending and controlling the rules and tipping them ever so slightly in the favor of those who are usually in no position to fight back.

(Art by Giovanni Timpano, for The Shadow #25)

As we discussed The Shadow, I suggested an opening scene with a cloaked figure emerging from a night fog to prevent a desperate young man from taking a suicide plunge from a high bridge. Thus befriended, the young man would swear loyalty to his rescuer and thereby become involved in exciting adventures with otherp persons who had been aided by the same benefactor, all being united in a common cause against crime. - Walter Gibson

That is where the Agents come in. As The Shadow is a distant living puzzlebox, we are very rarely privy to his thoughts and feelings, he glides through many stories scarcely-seen until he needs to be, and so we frequently experience things from the viewpoint of proxies, whether they are agents or characters swept into intrigue that only The Shadow can save them from. The first Shadow story opens up with a broke and depressed young man named Harry Vincent, ruined by the Great Depression reality of the time and trying to commit suicide, who is saved from it by The Shadow, and upon accepting a new purpose in life as his agent, grows into a dependable and strong ally, friend and even leader to people once like him over the course of the following adventures.

Across his history The Shadow has had agents and allies among all walks of life: redeemed/pretend criminals who use their reputations to provide The Shadow with inside knowledge, war vets, police officers, prison reformists, troublemaking journalists, government agents, politicians, criminologists, psychologists, high society chameleons, streetwise cabbies, janitors, the homeless, even crooks who once worked for those that The Shadow opposed, with some stories dedicated entirely to The Shadow playing guardian angel or working to provide second chances to those who've turned to crime. Community leaders with opposing viewpoints, rebel spies, prostitutes, historical figures such as Amelia Earhart and Nikola Tesla, robots, political activists and freedom fighters, doctors, birds, boxers, actors, magicians, beavers, and a list too big to get into here. There was a crimefighting dog at some point also and he was a very good boy.

Said list also includes the guy most people initially assume is his secret identity, a wealthy globetrotting man-about-town named Lamont Cranston. The first on-screen meeting between The Shadow and his secret identity Lamont Cranston consisted of The Shadow showing up in the dark at Cranston's bedside, wearing his face and telling him in pristine detail how much he's usurped Cranston's life, and effectively blackmailing him into leaving town so he can continue being Cranston uninterrupted. It is considerably less known, however, that eventually Cranston and The Shadow became weird friends following this ordeal and worked together several times, with Cranston turning out to be a pretty entertaining hero in his own right even besides his designated purpose of being rich and useless, even he was not immune to The Shadow's ability to enact positive change on his allies. Which is one note I'll end this post on: that The Shadow and his surroundings can be a lot more layered than given credit for.

I make the argument again and again that The Shadow is an intriguing character with much more to him than simply the gun violence and spooky laughter and murderousness that he's frequently reduced to, even if he isn't quite consistently so (as expected of one who's been around in virtually every medium for over 90 years). He can be compassionate, thoughtful, cautious and consequence-minded in his approach to effectively combat crime and protect others, ridiculous, eccentric, flawed in ways big and small and humanizing, for better or worse depending on who's writing him. He is a versatile shapeshifter as well as an unassailable force of personality to throw into any gathering, any circumstance, any narrative, and remain unique.

(Art by Michael Kaluta, from Hell's Heat Wave)

With those other “masked avenger” pulp types, their masked identities are an act, at least in part. Underneath the hat and mask they are regular guys with relatable motivations. With the Shadow, the guy in the hat and scarf IS the real guy, and his motivations and feelings are largely kept from us.

When we see him in his “civilian” identity, THAT is an act. So there’s a kind of brutal simplicity to his dialogue.

He is what he appears to be, and says exactly what he means. - Chris Roberson

And that's about it as a summary. I have a masterpost pinned at the top because, evidently, I have a lot more to say about the character and more I can't cover here. If you want, feel free to shoot me any additional questions and let me work out my fixation on the weird crime spooky murder man. I have to go off about him at least once a month or else I start eating my furniture so, help me out here.

[shoezuki]

God. Fossil fighters is a phenomenal game actually.

It starts with you, some kid, digging up and cleaning fossils and reviving dinos and fighting with them and helping some girl get her dino tokens back. Ends with you going into outerspace with some dino-alien babe to defeat a gargantuan monstrosity that exist between the planes of space and time and consumes entire planets and galaxies.

[ailingwriter]

#245

Estemmo

Air

Mid-Range

Small

LP: Average

Atk: Low

Def: Low

Acc: Average

Spd: Above Average

Support: Ally +Atk 75%, +Acc 75%

FP plus helps this vivosaur make full use of its position-shifting abilities. It is also able to restore the LP of its allies, making it an excellent support vivosaur.

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Estemmenosuchus

10 feet

Paleozoic Permian

Location:

Diet: Omnivore

An early synapsid with horn-like structures.

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Estemmo has black cloud patterns covering its body. This is broken up by some lighter clouds and yellow lightning. Its legs and tail in particular are wreathed in lightning, and its horns are gold.

Estemmo is found in giant fossil rocks. It has no super evolver.

Thanks to @mojojax2500 for pointing me towards this synapsid!

[zestyderg]

Imagine Diggins decides to try reviving a fossilized plant instead of an animal, seeing if he can create one of the very first "Vivophytes" and what effects fossil revival will have on the plant.

He calls Hunter over to assist him, but initially neglects to tell him that there's kind of a problem, actually.

[captainmvf]

Me explaining Stex: "Trains have no brain!!! And they're all bi until proven otherwise." 

Me explaining Fossil Fighters: "All you need is the head to fully revive any dinosaur or human from the dead."

[very-best-vivosaur]

Seeing people vote on these polls is so awesome, I’m happy there’s still fellow fossil fighters out there!

Does anyone here have confirmation of Fossil Fighters online play functionality on the unofficial Nintendo DS server? We should choose a time and then all try to match with each other for a Fossil Battle.

I honestly don’t know, I’m not the right person to ask about FF Online, I never really got to try it out myself because I just liked reviving my fellas.

But yeah, I am also very happy to see the support this blog has been getting (even if my auto-correct has decimated at least two vivos in the poll choices. Sorry Gomp and Frontier Zino). I love Fossil Fighters, and while I don’t always use every Vivosaur, I always find something to love in each and every one! Part of the reason I made the propaganda sections was to share what I like about the vivos (and to make jokes)

I love seeing everybody’s tags, even if it’s something as small as “[VIVO NAME] SWEEP”. It makes me happy, and I WILL be using some of my favorite tags as propaganda for the next round!

[sepublic]

            I’m about to introduce you all to a couple of favorite OCs of mine I’ve had in the works since forever: The Council of Warlocks! But before I discuss them individually, first I want to establish them as a group.

         Said to be the most powerful witches in all of the Monster Realm, the Council of Warlocks consists of seven witches, who each wield one of the seven Magestones. The Magestones are crystals that each possess a unique power, and once they were a singular, whole Magestone; That too was once something else…

         A group of young upstarts, these Warlocks have begun a conquering spree across the Monster Realm, quickly gathering followers with a combination of charisma and the right of conquest. Their goal is to unite the disparate, scattered settlements and kingdoms of the Monster Realm into a single nation; A strong and powerful one in which every resource and magical creature serves its purpose in contributing to a greater society. All will be made to learn magic, creating a utopia free from feudal warfare that can elevate all.

         …That’s the intention, anyway; But in practice, they’re fascists creating a magical dictatorship. And while they ultimately mean well, that doesn’t necessarily make them right; The way they’re willing to also commit war crimes to stop war crimes is questionable. They’re a dangerous group that has swept the Monster Realm by storm, with many radicalized by them. Some kingdoms fall and kneel, others feel pressured to by citizens dissatisfied with their current governments.

         This is where our protagonists of this arc, the new Monster Fighters, are called in to stop the Council of Warlocks and their growing regime. While this new generation of heroes has complicated feelings regarding the xenophobic nature of the occupation they’ve inherited, by the end of the day these Warlocks are subjugating many populations who don’t wish to join, and those opinions and voices matter and need whatever allies they can get; So then, who do the Monster Fighters choose to listen to, by their own judgment? They can’t befriend everyone. Which monsters do they fight?

         The Council of Warlocks also has an additional phase to their plan; A potent method to ensure magical supremacy by garnering the fanatical worship of everyone. For their seven Magestones are fragments of an original Magestone; And that crystal is the fossilized remains of a powerful being, transformed like a buried body into carbon, and then diamond. Its name is Magic, and it is the namesake of the very power that everyone practices and breathes. Said to be the most powerful witch of all, the progenitor, they dared to conquer other worlds beyond the Monster Realm, and were struck down by the three Wyverns for it, falling to the earth and being buried deep below.

         The Warlocks have calculated a magical equation that can revive Magic, albeit without a soul; A puppet of raw power for them to control. Such a spell requires the participation of thousands, if not millions of witches; Were it not for this, they would’ve simply done this part of the plan first. But in the end, reviving Magic is indeed part of that same goal, it is just another, controversial method that could garner rivals. Likewise, the ritual must be kept secret until the last second; The longer their followers know about it, the more it risks being leaked and sabotaged by their enemies.

         Their belief in their cause is almost naïve; They aren’t young young, being middle-aged, but they could always use more experience. They’re clearly still figuring out the whole ‘running an empire’ thing but are managing on a lot of youthful optimism and reckless idealism. But there will come a point where the number of atrocities they commit outweighs the justifications they can come up with….