#gba little one

[asmrtist-brainrot]

Back on my tyr loving bullshit, remember in the final fourseen series where little one was essentially tortured by Okami with visions of scenarios where they would want to die but couldn't for some reason or another before being shown all the characters horrified or betrayed BY little one? That's gotta stick with them

Now that they essentially live with Tyr/Hades I can imagine there are nights where even brave little one dreams of those horrible things and they wake quietly, leaving their room and just wandering around Tyr's home until their mind settles.

Most nights they go unnoticed cause they tiny and quiet but sometimes, Tyr finds them and he doesn't ask, he doesn't pry, he just kneels down in front of them. Offering a hand out, they reach out after a few moments and he's so slow and cautious lifting them up and taking them to his room to sleep for the night, curled up close while he hums or tells a story until they fall back asleep.

In the morning if they seem like they're up for it he usually ask about how they're feeling and such but sometimes it's just an unspoken thing between them.

(no I totally don't think about this a lot)

Am I obsessed with this song? Yes.

Can I imagine Tyr singing it in his lovely voice? Yes.

Also him singing little one to sleep - rubbing their back and holding them close to listen to his heartbeat.

Lil' One despite all these rough feelings and bad dreams, always feels very at ease when Tyr is in the vicinity. It's likely because they subconsciously felt safe in his presence - they usually get a good night sleep when he's there to see them to sleep.

... Either that or being a deity, he literally scares away nightmares.

~ Dari

[nessypanda-art]

The smoke part is my favorite

[sanji-screenshots]

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[firestorm09890]

FUCK what I said about the majority of significant changes to dialogue in Re:CoM being to adjust Axel's characterization, the most egregious change is actually this

(GBA CoM)

(Re:CoM)

if I had to guess, the reason for this change was because in GBA CoM, The Superior was a spooky, unknown being at the head of this Organization we had very little knowledge on, and for Vexen, the guy who runs his mouth constantly about how much better he is than the others, to be terrified of him, he must be some pretty scary dude. But then after kh2 we know him, it's Xemnas, he's very dramatic, he likes to talk to the moon, and the effect of your mind filling in the gaps about what "The Superior" must be like is gone. So it wasn't really necessary anymore, right?

(rest under cut because it's long)

Except... the way they changed it is so weird. In the GBA version, what's happening is pretty clear:

Marluxia tells Vexen that his project is a failure

Vexen demonstrates that he does not give a shit about Marluxia's opinion

he does care very much about The Superior's opinion, though, and Marluxia uses this to blackmail him into eliminating Sora- an action which is nonsensical, as the entire point of what they're doing needs Sora alive, making it clear to everyone in the room that he is deliberately sending Vexen to die

and then after that, when Vexen shows up to fight Sora, he goes "if you want to fight me for real you've gotta do it in the memories from the other side of your heart lol bye" and Sora goes "huh? other side?" and then it cuts to a scene on the top floor:

and then this gets more into subtext but here, Vexen has realized he's totally fucked and his only hope is to mess directly with Marluxia's plans (well, they were the Organization's plans, but it's pretty obvious by now Marluxia's abusing his power for his own purposes) by giving Sora more information than he should know. This does get the traitor gang worried enough to send Axel to go kill him (as opposed to just letting Sora take care of him, which was presumably the original plan)- he very specifically cuts Vexen off to keep him from saying too much (this is retained between the original and the remake)

Anyway, what happens in Re:CoM sort of follows the same order of events, but everything is changed slightly in a way that just makes things more confusing.

Marluxia tells Vexen his project is a failure and Vexen demonstrates that he doesn't give a shit about Marluxia's opinion, as before

Marluxia threatens Vexen with a weapon, rather than threatening to tell the Superior

this, notably, does not seem to faze Vexen very much. he continues to run his mouth while having the scythe pointed at him.

Xemnas is still leveraged- Marluxia points out it was the Superior who entrusted him with the castle

...even though reasonably Vexen would already be aware of this, and has still demonstrated that he has zero respect for Marluxia despite it

the lines about betraying the Organization being a capital crime are retained, probably because it's super relevant later, but then that line of thinking is abandoned in favor of Marluxia and Larxene just taunting Vexen instead

The part where Marluxia says "do it. you won't" could be seen as a sort of threat... if not for Axel's line: "You give a challenge like that to Vexen and he'll seriously want to eliminate Sora." It frames it all as though Vexen went to fight Sora out of some sort of pride.

And look, Vexen may have a temper and a superiority complex, but he's not stupid. They're obviously baiting him. Plus, what happened to him seeing himself as above the others and countering things he doesn't like with "well actually I'm higher ranked than you and also you're an idiot"? Is he that insecure in his fighting capabilities? I could deal with characterization changes doing him dirty if it didn't also make no sense in the context of the plot.

So now we have Vexen going to try to kill Sora, something that really makes no sense to do, out of pride. What was the purpose of sending Sora to Twilight Town? Also pride, over the fact that he managed to get that information? Giving the writing the benefit of the doubt, I could say that these nonsensical actions can be explained as evidence that Nobodies can have hearts and people with hearts do strange and rash things, but that just feels like a reach, which is bad because what they had in GBA CoM worked perfectly fine and made sense without any reaching for the "idk emotions make you do strange things" explanation.

It continues. After Vexen gives Sora the Twilight Town card in Re:CoM and Sora wonders about what the "other side" means, this is that version of the conversation the top floor members have:

...what? "If Sora disappears, that would mess up the Organization's plans"? what are you worried about? the only reason Sora would disappear is if Vexen killed him. there's no way they think Vexen being in Twilight Town would give him an advantage, right? they know he's a pathetic fighter. "Vexen has clearly committed a treasonous act against the Organization" HOW? HOW IS IT CLEAR? they don't express any worry about Sora learning too much, up until Axel says "I came to stop you from talking too much" when killing Vexen- and that being there makes it seem like they were worried about Sora learning to much, but if that's the case, why would they replace the perfectly serviceable lines in the above scene? it's just... baffling that they would want to lean into the narrative that Vexen going to kill Sora (which he'd been goaded into doing) is the problem here, because it just makes so little sense compared to what it was originally.

once again giving them the benefit of the doubt: Marluxia's real plan was to take over the Organization, and he saw an easy way to pick off one of the members, so he took it. the motive for stopping Vexen doesn't actually matter.

buuuuut it's the same as with Vexen earlier. Marluxia may be too self-absorbed and power-hungry to notice Axel is scheming against him, but he, too, is an intelligent man. he's plotted for a while, getting into Xemnas's good graces in order to be put in charge of the Castle. this is incredibly sloppy for him. I guess it could be said that getting so close to his goal would make him sloppy, but again, if they'd just left things the way they were in GBA CoM, I wouldn't even have to be saying this

in conclusion: GBA Chain of Memories' intra-Organization strife subplot is so tightly woven with calculated moves on all sides that Re:CoM changing certain things without taking into consideration the consequences makes certain parts of the plot fall flat and become far more confusing than in the original story

[coldgoldlazarus]

It's kinda funny how scattershot my approach to the 2D games has been lol.

AM2R: Beat, 100%

Zero Mission: Beat but haven't/won't complete percentage

Metroid: Completed percentage but haven't beat

Dread: Working on it

What a skip lol

I want to play Super and Fusion and the other two versions of Metroid II properly, I've watched enough playthroughs to have a good feel for them but it's no replacement for actually experiencing them myself. But I do think I want Return Of Samus to be the last one, (until future releases anyway) but not in a "putting off the worst until all other options are exhausted" way, more a "saving the best for last" way. I already know I'll love it for the story and how that's conveyed, but I want it to be special.

[roxanna-moxie]

Davor and Gloomy :)

[cornertheculprit]

Luke Atmey ~ I Just Want Love (GBA Vers.) Noriyuki Iwadare

[starlitangels]

Relistening to the Fourseen after not sleeping well last night be like

I swear just snuggling up on his shoulder under his hair and taking a thirty-minute nap would feel like a full night’s sleep

[darkdragon768]

I lost my mario keychain :(

[allbeendonebefore]

got distracted cleaning and going through boxes of souvenirs and things, i guess i figured it was silly to keep all these pins in their packaging and stuck them up on my pinboard

and then i went through the things i bought in japan on my trip in 2009 and its somewhat ironic that i bought a bunch of cellphone charms (didn’t have a cellphone) and then kept them in storage until cellphone charms were obsolete OTL

[autumnarcanavo]

My first Nintendo Console was the Wii but my first gaming thing ever was the GBA with Pokémon Sapphire ah memories hehe

[red-dyed-sarumane]

found a copy of okamiden for ¥660 today & my inner middle schooler came out. absolutely no way i could go home without it

[intomybubble]

Tfw arranging shelf but its been like 5 hours total and I have like 11 inches of dead space which makes it harder for this to look right and my books keep falling over, even with book ends ㅠㅠ

At least it’s not hot yet today but this is annoying. I wish I could just buy the rest of the manga I’m planning to a buy eventually so I can just fill in the gaps (most of it) but I can’t bc I’m out of money and some aren’t even released yet

[crystalpaw]

I have this one and loved it as a kid

This post made me get out of bed at 6am to go through my game drawers to find it again lmao

I hope this doesn’t come out as mean.- Your art is amazing and I envy your creativity, yet the mixing of all these characters feels very weird in my brain. I never imagined them working together, even less being friends. Guess Tommy and Jimmy did crossover movies but the rest? My brain got mushy. Anyway, keep on the good work! Don’t let my confusion ruin your fun!

I don't really take offense to this at all because I can understand how people would think this crossover is weird at first... but it's not even my idea in the first place! ANYWAYS HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE VERY CANON CROSSOVER GAME WHICH IS NICKTOONS UNITE AND ITS SEQUELS

while they're just your average platformer/beat em up games the interactions are very silly and funny (and honestly shouldve been tv specials like the power hours) and i was just one of those people who got obsessed with the concept of being friends LMAO anyways. play Nicktoons Battle for Volcano Island

[syrupyy]

Vivian finally being out as trans in the new Paper Mario remake hit me like a truck and it took me a while to fully understand why (light spoilers for chapter 2)

it's like.. I don't know how to describe it. I play a lot of indie games and I've gotten used to many of them having the full array of LGBTQ+ representation, and at this point I look at it and smile and then move on

with a huge corporation who has everything to lose like Nintendo, it feels like an entirely different world. here, I step back into this game I've owned on disc since I was a kid, and everything's the same if not slightly better... and then I start noticing the changes, one by one. picking up all the little clues, when suddenly I get to this line

I had already been spoiled on her full confession by Twitter, but... when I saw even this much with my own two eyes, it felt like something that had been hiding in my mind for 12 years just leapt out. the subtext is now text. the characters of this world that I've thought about all this time, that I would doodle in my notebooks, that I used to read so much fanfiction about... are canonically going through the same real struggles as me and so many others I know

and I just felt... seen. like, as if I'm finally allowed to be a real person, like I'm not crazy for telling people to use gender neutral terms around me, like I'm truly nonbinary and not just in writing

I never really talk about my gender identity in public because I've never had that validation telling me that it's not just in my head. my friends will reassure me, my mom won't hate me for it... but at the end of it all, Nintendo raised me since I was three years old, and that was a pillar of my life whose approval I never expected to have

so when I saw this, I just... sat there, staring, for a full minute. processing these emotions I never even realized I had. it's just one little sentence in a 30 hour long video game, it shouldn't mean that much, but... it did to me. the writers actually cared. they stuck their faces out the window that is the trans experience and they came back and rewrote the script to match. they left the Fire Emblem toad the same, not even changing "GBA" to "Switch" or "3DS", but they knew to change this

thank you, Vivian. I understand how you feel now