#let me know these things nintendo

[new-haven-psych-ward]

I enjoyed playing Princess Peach: Showtime! but I wish they had slightly more plot. Like, do the mini stages for each 'show' lead to like actual different realms? Or is it still just a stage and the cast of Theets and Grape's minions are being super method about it? I was playing the first level and the bit about 'oh we need to move forward to this place' really got me cuz I was just constantly like 'but... but that's a cut-out? it doesn't exist until we change scenes and switch the backdrop? didn't you say that this was a theater stage?' Idk I just wish there was slightly more thought put into world building

[love-3-crimes]

Day 11: 8-BIT

MARIO MARIO MARIO MARIO MARIO MARIO

[moogghost]

...so now that grandfest is over and the results were revealed am i allowed to say that some of y'all were such dicks to team present over their team choice for NO good reason ever since grandfest was revealed or am i going to get mauled for being right.

anyways congrats to the team past members who weren't assholes about their team choice and those team past members only every match against you guys made me feel like i was crawling in the trenches and it's very impressive 👍

[wario-land]

- It all returns to nothing -

[itsamenickname]

So you know how in the Frog Prince story, the prince got turned into a frog and the only way to break the spell is for the princess to give him an kiss of true love on the lip. So imagine that tiny Bowser, locked up in the cage, threw a tantrum and hurt his nose against the bar so Luigi decided to kiss his boo-boo on the tip of his nose just like how his mom kissed his boo-boo and…

BAM!

Bowser returned back to his normal size.

So I think part of the reason why it took me a while to answer this ask (besides irl personal stuff) is because while I do really like this idea, the main concern I have with this particular idea is that it conflicts with the movie’s idea that people can to return back to their normal size if they get hurt (whether someone else hurts them or they intentionally hurt themselves).

Now obviously, this is purely based on the assumption that this idea would take place in the same timeline as the movie (most likely after the events of the movie based on the context clue that a tiny Bowser is locked in a cage). You certainly don’t have to include the events of the movie in your idea/au and you can always make a completely new timeline where the events of the movie either just flat out don't exist (like the Yoshi's Island series for example) or change 1-2 details of the movie (i.e., Peach telling Mario that he returns back to normal size if he gets hurt) enough to where you can then include your ideas with the movie timeline.

But regardless of how you would incorporate this idea into the Super Mario universe, I do want to reiterate that I do really like the idea of a retelling of the Princess and the Frog featuring the one and only Bowuigi. I can definitely see this either go into a wholesome route where Bowser develops feelings for Luigi while he's a prisoner and officially becomes a good guy after he returns to normal size or more towards the angst(ish) route where Bowser immediately escapes and forcefully takes Luigi with him back to the Dark Lands after he returns to normal size (or you could even do a little bit of both).

But either way, Luigi kissing tiny Bowser's nose is 100% absolutely adorable and I thank you for the cute imagery anon. :)

[the-knife-consumer]

"Yona was just added bc Nintendo wants people to stop shipping sidlink!" Literally what the hell are you talking about

[ellenent]

One of the most important things that happens in totk but almost no npc talks about it is Link losing his arm. We don't even see a big reaction from him also, he just accepts he got a new arm from a dead king and that's it. I know he has the stoic-knight-personality going on yet, but that's such a big thing that happened and there is no emotional impact at all?

And even if Link won't emote about it because is probably a traumatic event and he could shut down because of it, other characters that know him should immediately notice his arm is gone. And the fact that almost nobody did is so weird and a missed oportunity to highlight Link as a character and as a protagonist

And his new arm? Imagine you waking up with your arm gone and you have a strangers arm in place, and knowing that you were so close to dying (again). You find out the person you care the most got teleported to the past and you can see glimpses of things that happened, but everything is still confusing and you don't know what is going on yet

But when we discover with Link what in fact happened, we don't get anything from him, just our own reaction as the players

Link deserves to have more highlight for the things that happens with him, and I wish they gave him that at least now in totk; he deserves it as the one of the main protagonist of the series

[front-facing-pokemon]

[jaythelay]

SH2 remake beat expectations, haven't gotten past the apartments yet but it's surprising that it's actually competant, given Konami's downright horrific handling of their major gaming divisions and in addition IPs.

My main gripe is the graphics. One, all I can think going through the rather limited and limiting graphics settings is "Boy fuckin HOWDY there's entire countries that will never be able to play this" followed by "Even a 3090 isn't enough for these fuckin games like why the hell bother with triple a???"

It's rather insane how poorly optimized it is. It looks like absolute dogshit with AA and upscalers off, and runs even worse without upscalers. I will say finally having a reeeeally high quality monitor with HDR has opened my eyes to modern gaming's reasoning behind graphical fidelity and even desaturation, if ya got a bright as hell monitor with insane colors, yeah, I get it, still looks like shit without reshade tho.

HDR is a nightmare and I don't get how companies are so bad at this. Your reference images are quite literally useless and represent nothing in-game. This goes for the entire industry not just this game. It's rather incredible seeing an entire corner section of a room go from absolute black to having any detail by adjusting some settings. Straight up, I don't know how brightness options are so hard to get right, and they were miserable to set up to what I can accept, but likely not what was intended.

The combat is always meant to feel the way it does and they did alright. Dodging is a genuinely good addition I feel is a bit clunky. Sometimes there's no option other than to take damage it feels, but I'm still getting used to things. Just not much of a "If you press button at wrong time then failure" kinda guy, but it's pretty relaxed at times in that regard. Genuinely not bad stuff, kinda a cut above the rest.

Instead of obnoxious, artistry killing, intelligence insulting yellow paint, they have some of that and white cloth and wow, I didn't think they could make it work but I'll be honest, I have no issues with their methods of direction so far. Like, dude, they used SOUND to help the player navigate. That's so fuckin rare I swear to you, usually it's capcom branded yellow paint or quest markers n whatnot. It's seriously good feeling to see EFFORT in this regard after capcom and co dropping standards so hard. It's good. Really good.

Otherwise my complaint really is just the HDR and performance. I dunno man, I think I'd honestly prefer more people being able to play it than whoever can truly afford the hardware for it. Like bro, the 40 series is all above half a thousand dollars. No thanks, that used to get you a whole ass PC, I'm no chump. Used 3090 should be far and a ways more than enough for any game.

Just nonsense that games are made with the highest degree of hardware and barely give a shit for anything even mildly below that. Then the forced AA and upscaling, jesus christ it's like they only want their games viewed after youtube's compression and not at all played for real. Looks horrible like why the hell is Jame's hair glitching sideways, why are leaves leaving god damn smear trails as tall as James? All this graphical fidelity and the second I turn it's gone and takes a second to adjust. Bro, pick and choose, make it look good and run well or don't bother because no one will be able to enjoy it. Especially hair, oh my god I hate all of it. Pixel nightmares, just make it a setting already, have a blur for hair option, anything but making your game look like that or worse, TAA'd.

Anyways I reccomend pirating it as I do anything Konami. Better for your soul, better for the industry, better for employees, better for the consumer! Everyone wins!

[emile-hides]

I’m so obsessed with the Mario family and while I’m a very hard Uncle Tony stan I’m also insanely obsessed with Auntie Marie and her daughter. I want to know all about them.

[colorfuldream]

Say all you want about the Shiver hate but the funniest thing is that people are making those stories addressing the hate with one character feeling so bad for poor Shiver because people are upset at her and the game iykyk

Especially if they include the "I'm so strong and protective" bit only to "subvert" our expectations with the character being upset FOR her and not AT her

Straight up hilarious, can't believe we're doing this unironically

Anyway yeah I'm salty too that she keeps winning and the Splatfests should be regional again but let's be real, this isn't gonna change and we all knew it was gonna happen when we saw the initial reaction for her. Being salty won't change anything, it's time to accept it y'all

[featherhasaface]

We're gonna start out with a hc I have that Meta lost his wings to Nightmare and the dimensional cape acts sort of like a prosthetic. He doesn't fly in the anime because he doesn't want people flipping out over his wings (although his random habit of spawning at obscene speeds tells me he probably does when no one's looking). This means his wings are like this in every one of our AU's.

The rest is canon art. Plus Ah.

[thicc-astronaut]

Currently thinking about: Animated web series about a small cast of non-human characters and the relationships between them, mostly taking place in a featureless white environment and a lot of surreal humor derived from the characters underreacting to the absurdism around them.

[emdotcom]

I hated the Switch so fucking much, I gave mine away so I didn't have to have it around, anymore.

That said, very excited for the people who intend to play that new pokemon, when it comes out.

[quibbs126]

So I started replaying Ocarina of Time yesterday because why not (and because I was thinking about Legend of Zelda but didn’t want to just keep playing TotK), and it’s such a different experience compared to Tears of the Kingdom

I mean yeah, no shock, the games are like 25 years apart, but still. You don’t have the free reign to just blast anything you see with a bow and arrow, heck it’s a long time before you get the bow and arrow, you can’t jump or climb whatever you like, there’s no mini map, no shrines or ingredients to collect, you have only one sword and shield (when you start at least) and they’re unbreakable, the world is considerably smaller (which is obviously because limitations were different as well as the style of BotW and TotK)

I know these mostly sound like limitations compared to Tears of the Kingdom, and in some sense yeah, that’s what it is, but also again, it’s just such a different experience

Also speaking of different experience, I really like the dungeons in Ocarina, and I hope whatever new Zelda game comes out after Tears of the Kingdom goes back to that style of gameplay. Yeah the open world is fun and the shrines are cool enough, being little puzzles, but I grew up on Ocarina’s dungeons and I want the dungeon system back

[todayisafridaynight]

At this rate I need a Yakuza live action just so that SEGA normies realize there’s incredibly NSFW, M rated, very much adult content from that company. How do so many people still think they function like Nintendo 🫠

idk who these Sega Normies you're talking about are but they really must have only ever played sonic cause nearly every other sega IP's p not safe for kids💀💀