#listen I love pk as a character but things would probably have gone better if he died earlier
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First attempt at drawing a human(ish) hollow knight
#themmmmm#tbh āI had no clue what to do with the armour so I just slapped a hallowbest seal on it and called it a day#my first idea was to draw the kings brand?? for some reason??#couldnāt draw that without a reference tho and I didnāt wanna look one up#maybe that version was from the better au where the pale king falls off a cliff or smth and the hollow knight takes over#listen I love pk as a character but things would probably have gone better if he died earlier#hollow knight#the hollow knight#thk#pure vessel#hollow knight fanart
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Enstars awesome crazy bass
somebody in enstars songs always goes crazy on the b
bass crazy on the bass Iām glad theyāre there.. whoever plays it does a really good job like on Undead songs and also Crazy:B I think i kinda forgor nowā¦, Iām really hearing it on the Yami no Mermaid or whatever ššššššššš LISTEN TO THAT SOONGGGGGG THE INTRO IS SO GOOD I ASCEND EVERY TIME AND REI SOUNDS SOOOOOO GOOD IVE NEVER FELT AFFECTE BY HIS VOICE BEFOR BUT HIS SINGING IS REALLY GREAT HEREā¦.. saying this as someone who is almost a Rei anti..(sorry to nice And pleasant Rei fans)
I feel like there is lots of focus on Kaoeu too ā¦. He won WE WON how happy was he getting to have their album theme and big exclusive song for the it be mermaid/ocean themedā¦ how wonderfulā¦.. HappyEle was liek Cater 2 U Destinyās Child to him last year, he got SO MANY cards!!!!! Nobody else noticedā¦ but I noticed . *slams hand on chest like defensive if u know what I mean liek proclaiming, hand on heart*
ok now Iām going to listen to Nightless World in ful for the first time Iāve never liked it cuz the chorus falls suuuuuuuper flat to me , I will update when finished ā¦.. anyway the event IH THE BASS OK.. anyway the event associated with this song was the first one I ever grinded and worked hard for ā¦ I was doing calculations and stuff in my agendaboom LOLLLLLLLL to figure out how much BP, diamonds, and time I would need to be able to obtain Kaoru šš it was super easy.. duh lol. He was just the 4* KAORU SOLO LINEšš„°š„°š£š¶ he sang so clearly *gone to heaven* ok song over now itās better in full but not superb still
I mean it was either Nogthless Workd Kaoru or Midnight Butker HiMERU that were the first event I ever worked for. Now, well no because I havenāt been playing but even before that I was falling off pretty severelyā¦ just not feeling like playing the actual game lol.. :/ or Iād save up entry passes and forget to use them all uo UGHHHHHH or MIXING UP THE TIME AT WHICH EVEENTS END DUE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CHANGESSSSSSSSS so many cards lost ā¦ so many diamonds that could have been redeemed with event ribbbonsā¦ so many possible memorial coins ā¦.. so much L$ā¦ *sighs and droops headā¦.. * but anyway for a LONG TIME! I would always reach 1M points in each event just from like. Doing stuff hrmā¦
Okk ell anyway thatās it I wanted to draw something blub while I was thinking of how to write that I forgot and reremembered it again but itās a surplise so I canāt say it here hehe .. šø also the interlude for UNDEAD trip album is so nice, called No one knowsā¦ I could totally sleep to it and I think I will tonite.. š ok but first I draw Natsumw and yes oi pk BYE!
last thing I love Kaoruās āare you ready?ā In Forbidden Rain, he sounds like a girl but my sister hates that about him š¢š¢š¢š¢ she thinks he has a weird inconsistent voice which is .. sigh.. itās trueā¦ BUT I LIKE THAT ABIUT HIMMMMM when he sounds cool or normal or like a girl lol . She doesnāt get it she doesnāt get it she would like him more if not for his voice ššššš HATERRRR I HATE HER FOR HATING HIM no i dont but I canāt be too ššš¤©š¤© about him or like anything toooooo much or else she wonāt like it itās like reverse psychology to herself,
I like it: itās probably cool and good unless itās onvisousky something not aligning of interest with her
I hate or dislike it: if she didnāt like it before, she will also have a negative bias against it. If she like sit she will be offended and/or forcibly converted against her will (case in point: project sekai)
I like it too much: if itās not something that we directly share, such as a favorite character (i.e. Kaoru and Kanata) or something that we both like it but she isnāt into it at the time (happens a lot with Baruto cuz I will be bugging her to watch it which makes her want tot not watch it. I tink) then she will form her own hate bias against it ā¦ sad world, sinssnt it? Where loving something too much makes those around you not like it? :( h
but anyway she doesnāt hate Kaoeu or even dislike him, I thought she was eh on him but she put him on ālikeā on a tier list so ., šš ! She doesnāt like Kanata tho which makes me sad also she says that Iām a lot like him so this worries me š and says weāre both stupid and absent minded and clueless and stuff and liek marine life (tho I already love & loved animals my specific interest in marine life predominantly stemmed from him (& Kaoru) even tho my mom wants to believe itās because of Jotaro ā¦ I donāt want to lie to her or let her down so whenever she asked and joked that I should study dolphins I would say yesā¦ she doesnāt know that his research was actually on starfirsjā¦ or maybe i mixing it up with my online friend who was working on his thesis to get a doctorate or something lol) but me and Kanata we areā¦ MECCHA KAWAIIIIIIII ā©^Ļ^ā© >* ))))>< !!!!! āå½”ļ½„.ļ¼ļ½”āāŖā”
Also I really love Kaoru second solo song, Surf on Smile because he is soooo happy and cute I cried a lot when I first heard it and listened to it over and overā¦ #GoneCrazy? Yes but Feather Heartache was mg most played song last year š¤«š¤«šš
GOODBYE TUMBLR!!!!
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āBut Theyāre Covered In Nipplesā: The Story Of Destroy All Humans - Quillās Scribbles
Another E3 has come and gone. There was some good announcements. Square Enix unveiled their Avengers game, Keanu Reeves came on stage to give us the release date of Cyberpunk 2077, Ubisoft are making another Watch Dogs set in London, and... um... what else happened?
Oh yeah!
DESTROY ALL HUMANS IS BACK!!!!!!
Yes, the cult classic Destroy All Humans is returning next year, developed by THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games. This was quite possibly the nicest surprise Iāve ever had. When the teaser trailer came up on my YouTube recommendations, I practically screamed the house down. Itās a level of excitement I felt when 20th Century Fox announced they were finally making a Deadpool movie.Ā
Yeah. That excited.
Destroy All Humans was my favourite video game series growing up. I played the first two games non-stop on my PS2 and I even bought a Nintendo Wii and PS3 just so I could play Big Willy Unleashed and Path Of The Furon (yeah, weāll get to them). Unfortunately, while the series was reasonably successful, it never quite broke through into the mainstream, and it ended up having a very short lifespan, making it one of the most underrated franchises of all time.
So, to mark the return of Crypto and Pox, I thought Iād take a retrospective look at the series as a whole. Analysing each game in the franchise and talking about what made them so good, whilst also looking at how it faded into obscurity and how THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games can hopefully avoid this fate with their remake.
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Radioactive, Exploding, Zombie Cows
The first Destroy All Humans was developed by THQ and Pandemic Studios (the latter probably most famous for making the original Star Wars Battlefront games. You know? The good ones that werenāt overloaded with loot boxes and microtransactions) and was released in 2005 on the PS2 and Xbox. You play as a Furon warrior called Cryptosporidium 137, or Crypto for short, who is tasked with harvesting the brains of humans in order to extract pure Furon DNA from them. His leader Orthopox 13, or Pox, explains that the Furons are at risk of cloning themselves into extinction as they are unable to reproduce naturally due to a lack of genitalia and the DNA in their cloning banks are starting to degrade. Fortunately the Furons visited prehistoric Earth on their way back from destroying the Martians and took the opportunity toĀ ālet off some steamā with the natives. As a result, humans possess a strand of Furon DNA that can hopefully restore the Furonsā reproductive organs. Unfortunately a secret government organisation called Majestic (a sort of cross between Project Blue Book and the Men in Black) have caught wind of the Furon invasion due to Crypto 136 crash landing in Roswell 10 years earlier. So Crypto 137 will have to be extra cautious in his quest to take over Earth.
The game was released four years after Grand Theft Auto III, which had completely revolutionised gaming with its open world sandbox. As a result, other companies were attempting their own open worlds and putting their own spin on them. While Destroy All Humans didnāt quite have the same scale as GTA, it made up for it with quality over quantity. The game offered six small open world areas for players to have fun in and its central premise was utterly captivating. After countless games where you had to fight alien invaders, Destroy All Humans allowed you to play as the alien invader.
Pandemic Studios completely embraced the alien invasion premise, giving the player a vast number of weapons and abilities to wreak havoc on planet Earth. You had access to weapons like the Zap O Matic, Disintegrator Ray and Anal Probe (no, really, thereās actually a gun called the Anal Probe and itās as funny as it sounds) as well as mental abilities such as Psychokinesis, Hypnotism and the Cortex Scan, which allowed you to read the thoughts of humans and was also used to help maintain your Holoblob disguise in stealth missions. And if that isnāt cool enough, you also get your own flying saucer, which you can use to destroy buildings and landmarks. The game gave you a lot of freedom, essentially dropping you in a small destructible playground and telling you to go and enjoy yourself.
But the thing I loved most about the first game was the writing. The plot itself is actually pretty good with plenty of twists and turns as the military and Majestic become more and more desperate to stop you. And the humour, my God the humour! Honestly Destroy All Humans remains to this day one of the funniest games Iāve ever played. Itās use of satirical humour and 50s pop culture references never failed to make me chuckle. There was one moment that Iāll always remember where I scanned the mind of a police officer and it revealed that he was thinking about forming the Village People. If only he could find a cowboy, an Indian and a construction worker.Ā
The gameās main source of comedy mostly came from poking fun at the culture and attitudes of the time period. 1950s America was of course gripped byĀ āthe Red Scare,ā which the game mocks frequently as we see Majestic and the US government try desperately to cover up alien activity by blaming the death and destruction on communists, to the point where it just gets more and more absurd. At the end of each mission, a newspaper headline is shown, often blaming recent events on freak weather or communist propaganda. Yes, that should explain perfectly why peopleās heads are exploding and why the cows are glowing green. Itās all perfectly normal. No aliens here. Whatās that? A little green man in a flying saucer is blowing up ice cream trucks? Damn you commies!
The game also pokes fun at 50s sci-fi B movies, often parodying and lampshading the tropes and gimmicks one would expect in a low budget sci-fi flick. For example, the game ends with you fighting a giant robot that houses the Presidentās brain. Itās fully aware of how ridiculous and stupid it all is and clearly revels in it. Killer robots, mind control, radioactive animals, mad scientists and secret government conspiracies galore. Destroy All Humans is very much a love letter to cheesy sci-fi.
But by far the biggest draw was the main characters. Crypto and Pox. Theyāre both such funny, wonderfully realised and likeable characters. Pox is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz, who you may remember from Invader Zim, and he gives the character a maniacal glee. I honestly could listen to his rants all day. Heās the quintessential evil genius. Crypto meanwhile is voiced by J. Grant Albrecht, who gives the character a Jack Nicholson-esque voice. Unlike Pox, Crypto is crass, crude and craves destruction, which often puts him at odds with Pox, who favours more subtle styles of invasion such as mind control. The two characters often bicker and squabble, which never fails to be entertaining, and yet there is an underlying respect and fondness for each other that helps ground the relationship. Itās the perfect double act.
Destroy All Humans was a good game, but does it still hold up? Well there are a few issues. Controls can be a bit clunky at times and missions can often get repetitive. Destroy x number of farmers. Collect x amount of DNA. That kind of thing. Also, annoyingly, thereās no checkpoints, which means if you die or fail the mission, youāre automatically sent back to the Furon Mothership and you have to start the mission all over again. But the writing, humour and entertainment value more than make up for it.
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Hot Monkey Love
While the first game wasnāt what youād call a hit, it was successful enough for THQ to commission a sequel. Destroy All Humans 2 was released in 2006 on PS2 and Xbox, just one year after the first game, and this time Crypto was going international.
Set in the 1960s, ten years after the events of the first game, the KGB in Russia learn about the Furonās takeover of America and plan a counterattack. They nuke the Furon Mothership, killing Pox, and try to assassinate Crypto 138, who is posing as the President of the United States. The assassination fails and Poxās mind is able to survive in hologram form. The two then embark on a global adventure, seeking revenge against the KGB and uncovering a massive conspiracy that puts the entire Furon invasion at risk.
Destroy All Humans 2 is an ambitious sequel that increases its scope from the first game. No longer confined to America, we see Crypto terrorise San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Russia and even the Moon. Our arsenal of weapons are also expanded. The original weapons from the first game return as well as some all new ones such as the Disclocator, which fires a purple disc at a human or vehicle and sends them flying around the map, the Burrow Beast, which summons a Tremors-esque space worm to cause carnage, and Meteor Strike, which I think speaks for itself. We also get a few new mental abilities such as Transmogrify, which allows you to turn objects into ammo, and Free Love, which causes everyone in the general vicinity to start dancing, allowing you to make a quick getaway while theyāre distracted. The saucer too has some extra features, including a cloaking device and the ability to drain vehicles of health using your Abducto Beam.
This sequel pretty much takes everything that worked from the first game whilst tweaking the things that didnāt. The GTA style Alert system got a complete overhaul. If you want to raise or lower the Alert level, all you have to do is bodysnatch a cop or a soldier and make a call using a police box (you can also make prank calls from them, which is good for a giggle). Holoblobbing has been replaced with Bodysnatching, which works so much better and it does away with the annoying Concentration meter, so you can PK cars and humans to your heartās content. Thereās also a lot more stuff to do now. There are numerous collectables such as Alien Artefacts, which unlocks the Burrow Beast weapon, and FuroTech Cells, which are your main currency that can be used to upgrade your health and weapons. Missions have greater variety than in the first game. Thereās a lot more side missions, including Odd Jobs and my personal favourites the Cult of Arkvoodle missions, where Crypto brainwashes humans to worship the Furon God Arkvoodle of the Sacred Crotch.
As you can tell, the humour is still just as wacky and ridiculous as ever. Destroy All Humans 2 lampoons and ridicules the 60s mercilessly, taking aim at the Cold War and the hippie counterculture movement. It also pokes fun at 60s sci-fi films, spy films and Japanese movies like Godzilla. In fact thereās a boss fight that involves you fighting a Godzilla-esque monster and itās honestly the best boss fight in the series. It regains health by destroying buildings, so you have to destroy them first before you can kill the monster. Itās a great premise.
Story-wise, Destroy All Humans 2 is a worthy successor, raising the stakes and expanding the lore. Weāre introduced to the Blisk, the Martians that were presumed extinct by the Furons millions of years ago. Itās a brilliant conflict and ostensibly allows the developers to make commentaries on America and Russia at the time using the Furons and the Blisk respectively as stand-ins. Crypto and Pox are well written, funny and likeable as ever and weāre also introduced to an assortment of new characters, including the Russian spy Natalya and MI6 agent Ponsomby (voiced by none other than Anthony Head from Buffy). The game is engaging and rewarding, but it crucially never takes itself too seriously. For example thereās one instance in Tokyo where Crypto learns about the battle between the White and Black Ninjas and he guesses that the conflict started because of the cliche student betraying his master type origin, but it turns out that both groups of ninjas were originally Grey, but then they ran out of grey fabric and disagreed over which colour they should be instead. Thereās so many great comedic moments like that and they pretty much hit bullseyes every time.
That being said, there was one aspect of the game I didnāt like and that was the crude sex jokes. Crypto 138 is the first clone to have pure Furon DNA, which means he now has genitalia. As a result, this new incarnation of Crypto is far more randy than 137 was in the first game.Ā This mostly takes the form of Crypto constantly trying to hit on Natalya, despite her showing no sexual interest, which I personally found pretty gross. Worse still, the game ends with Crypto cloning Natalya andĀ āmaking a few adjustmentsā so she will consent to have sex with him. The word ācreepyā doesnāt begin to cover how I felt about this. If THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games ever decide to remake the second game, I really hope they consider rethinking that ending because... Jesus!
On the whole, Destroy All Humans 2 was a brilliant sequel. It was also sadly the last Destroy All Humans game to be developed by Pandemic Studios before they were bought by EA and eventually shut down in 2009. Unfortunately this would have a severe impact on the future of the series going forward.
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Limp Willy
The next game in the series was a spinoff for the Nintendo Wii, released in early 2008 and developed by Locomotive Games. A PS2 version was also planned, but was scrapped due to budget cuts (remember this. Itāll become relevant later).
Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed was... underwhelming, to say the least. Set in the 1970s, six years after the second game, Crypto and Pox have opened a fast food restaurant called Big Willy as a way of disposing of the corpses left behind during Cryptoās missions. However a rival fast food chain, run by Colonel Kluckinā, is stealing their business and socialite Patty Wurst is threatening to expose Big Willy (smirk). So itās up to Crypto to protect Poxās Big Willy (haha) and maintain their cover on Earth.
Now youāre probably thinking this sounds quite tame compared to the previous two games, and yeah, it is. But itās a spinoff, so I can understand to a certain extent. However there are a few narrative discrepancies. The big one being Crypto has retired from being the President. No explanation given as to why and we have no idea what Crypto is doing instead. When we first see him, heās watching TV. He doesnāt even know Big Willy exists until Pox brings it up. So whatās going on exactly? Are they still trying to invade Earth or have they gone native? Also, compared to the grand conspiracy stories of the previous games, Crypto protecting a fast food restaurant sounds a little beneath him.
Gameplay is virtually unchanged from the previous game. Thereās some new guns such as Ball Lightning and the Zombie Gun, but nothing special. The biggest addition is Big Willy, the restaurant mascot thatās actually a Furon battle mech in disguise. Itās... fine. Not that much different from the Saucer really. We also get some new locations. Harbor City, Fairfield in Kentucky, Fantasy Atoll (a weak parody of Fantasy Island) and Vietmahl (a painfully obvious homage to Vietnam). None of these locations are particularly interesting however. Thereās also a multiplayer mode, which... exists.
Honestly the game as a whole is just lacklustre. The story just isnāt as good as the first two games and the humour doesnāt have the same wit or intelligence. Most of the comedy surrounds the fact that Pox has called his restaurant Big Willy and isnāt entirely aware of the double entendre, which admittedly is funny for the first few missions, but by the time youāve finished Harbor City and move on to Fairfield, the joke gets old real fast. Thereās less of an effort to actually satirise the culture or films of the time, instead merely making 70s pop culture references without ever actually doing anything with it. Itās like the Family Guy school of comedy. Take Fantasy Atoll for instance. A pisstake of Fantasy Island, but instead of Mr. Roarke and Tatoo, we get Mr. Pork and Ratpoo. Thatās the level of humour weāre talking about here.
Whatās worse is that J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Steven Horwitz donāt return as Crypto and Pox. Sean Donnellan and Darryl Kurylo voice the characters instead and itās just not the same. It doesnāt feel like Crypto and Pox. So from the very first cutscene, weāre already off on the wrong foot.
And then thereās a bunch of other stuff that I find really questionable. The most obvious being the revelation that Colonel Kluckinā makes his chicken wings from the corpses of the Vietmahl (Vietnam) war, which just seems in very bad taste to me. If there is a satirical point being made here, I canāt find it for the life of me. Thereās also some side missions where Crypto finds out that he and Natalya have a son, which goes absolutely nowhere and doesnāt feel like something that should be in a Destroy All Humans game.
Overall, Big Willy Unleashed was a massive dud meant to tide us over until Destroy All Humans 3 came out later in the year. Honestly the one aspect of it I thought had potential was the side missions involving Crypto and Pox being assessed by a Furon Efficiency Expert called Toxoplasma Gondii. Considering what happened in the second game, including the destruction of the Furon Mothership, the return of the Blisk and the Furon operation on Earth being jeoprodised, this could have been a great premise for a sequel.
Instead what we got was...Ā
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Disco Inferno
Oh boy. Where do I begin?
Path Of The Furon was developed by THQ and Sandblast Games and released in December 2008 on the Xbox 360 in North America. The PS3 version was cancelled because Sandblast (and Locomotive Games) was closed down before development was finished due to THQās financial problems at the time. However the PS3 version was released in Europe and Australia, so either THQ got another studio to complete it or, more likely, they just released it in a broken, buggy state.
Fans really didnāt like this game, myself included, but before we go tearing it a new one, lets look at the few positives the game has. First off, J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Steven Horwitz return to voice Crypto and Pox, which is great. As a result, the original chemistry is back and they help salvage the game when the writing fails to deliver. There are a few cool new weapons, like the Black Hole Gun and the Venus Human Trap, which creates a giant man eating plant. The Saucerās weapons have been tweaked, so now they affect the environment as well as destroy buildings. So if you fire your Death Ray at the ground, for example, you can create scorch marks. PK now has its own dedicated button, which means you can pick up and throw objects whilst using your guns simultaneously. Thereās also the titularĀ āPath Of Enlightenment,ā which upgrades your mental abilities significantly as well as allowing you to freeze time.
Thatās the good stuff. The bad stuff is... pretty much everything else.
The humour is, again, quite poor. Rather than satirising 70s culture, the game continues to make references to 70s films like The Godfather and Star Wars, but not actually doing anything with them. Just making the reference. The writing as a whole is quite substandard as the plot pretty much recycles the plots of Destroy All Humans 2 and Big Willy Unleashed, except instead of the Big Willy restaurant, itās the Space Dust casino and instead of the Blisk, itās Nexosporidium warriors, who are basically Furon cyborgs. Things do threaten to get a bit interesting when Crypto and Pox discover someone has been manufacturing synthetic Furon DNA, but nothing ever really comes of it. Instead the game focuses mainly on the Master.
Ah yes. The Master.
In an attempt to recapture the magic of the second game, Path Of The Furon tries to spoof kung-fu movies just like how DAH 2 spoofed spy films. Unfortunately this leads us to a slew of unfunny gags, cultural appropriation and some of the worst racial stereotyping I think Iāve ever seen. The Master is a Furon who crashed on Earth a hundred years ago and embroiled himself in Eastern culture, enhancing his PK abilities. This is what he looks like:
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YYYYeah.
Oh and if thatās not awkward enough, he also speaks in an over the topĀ āah soā accent. Itās incredibly cringeworthy and made me want to crawl out of my body and hide in the darkest corner I could possibly find. How anyone involved in this gameās development could look at this deeply racist and downright embarrassing excuse for a character and think this was okay, I donāt know.
And before anyone tries to excuse it by saying that he has been living in China for a hundred years, so heās bound to pick a few things up, please note that Nolan North is in this game playing the Furon Emperor Meningitis, who also has an over the topĀ āah soā accent. Now I suppose some could argue that the game is satirising how Asian people were portrayed at the time, but if thatās what the game is going for, theyāve failed miserably. See, the problem with that argument is that replicating something doesnāt count as satire. By recreating over the top racist caricatures, youāre not making fun of them. If anything youāre just reinforcing them. The first gameās satire of the Red Scare worked so much better than this because there was an actual point behind it. It comments on how paranoid the people of the 50s were at the time by using Majestic to exploit the threat of communism in order to cover up alien activity, and everyone willingly buys into it because of that sheer paranoia. Now yes, admittedly the humour in Destroy All Humans isnāt the most sophisticated in the world, but it used to be a LOT better than this. Not only do I find the racial stereotyping in this game deeply offensive, itās also frankly beneath this franchise. And itās not just limited to the Chinese either. The final act takes us to the Furon homeworld (which was pretty underwhelming after four games worth of buildup) and we meet another Furon called Endometriosis whose only characteristics are that he has an Italian accent and wears a beret. Itās these broad strokes and general laziness that makes this game such a disappointing experience.
Path Of The Furon is subpar in every way imaginable. The writing, the humour, the gameplay and even the graphics. The first two games looked so much better than this and they were on older consoles from the previous generation. Itās shocking.
Itās hard to blame Sandblast Games for this considering they were shut down before development was finished. It was THQās mismanagement and financial woes that killed off this franchise and indeed themselves. The company went bankrupt in 2012 and their various IPs were sold off to other studios, with Nordic Games buying the lionsā share, including Destroy All Humans, which briefly reignited hopes that we might get another game, but that seemed unlikely considering the franchise has never exactly been a mainstream success. There was even talks of doing an animated sitcom based on the games for Fox, to be written by the same guy who did King Of The Hill, but that never went anywhere.
No. It seemed like Destroy All Humans was gone for good and fans reluctantly made peace with that. It was fun while it lasted, but perhaps it was time to move on.
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Oh The Furonity!
Iām not going to lie. I was pretty sure we were never going to see Destroy All Humans return. Not just because of its lack of mainstream appeal, but also because game development studios and publishers in recent years have become more and more reluctant to make single player, mid-tier games. Instead pivoting toward massive triple A releases andĀ ālive servicesā. So it came as a rather pleasant surprise when Nordic Games, now named THQ Nordic, released Darksiders III in 2018, a sequel to a series of games that were also not very mainstream but still had a significant cult following. This briefly reignited a small flicker of hope within me that maybe, just maybe, we might see our favourite Furon return.
And as you already know, I got my wish. A new Destroy All Humans game will be released next year by THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games.
So what can this remake learn from the franchiseās past? Well thankfully the writing and voice acting is going to remain the same, so story, characterisation and humour wonāt be an issue. Theyāre also incorporating elements from the sequels such as Transmogrify from Destroy All Humans 2 and giving PK its own button like in Path Of The Furon. Thereās also a few new additions that Iām excited about such as the ability to dodge and strafe using the jetpack. That should make combat much more exciting and dynamic. I know a few people have a problem with the new cartoony designs of the humans and the world, but I honestly donāt mind. In fact I think it suits the tone and setting quite well. Hopefully people will eventually get used to it. The big question mark hovering over all this is whether theyāre planning to remake the other games in the series. I for one would love to see a remake of the second game. As for Big Willy Unleashed and Path Of The Furon, I think itās best to leave them firmly in the past. The big dream would be to see Crypto and Pox have further adventures together beyond the first two games. Hopefully even have enough sequels to get the characters to the present day. Weāll just have to wait and see what the future brings. My only word of advice for them would be to never forget what made the first two games so good and so beloved. Big Willy Unleashed and Path Of The Furon lost their way, as its writing and humour grew lazier and lazier. If we are fortunate enough to get more games, the developers will need to remember what it was about the first game that made it so special and build off of it.
This is a second chance. Not a lot of franchises get this. Donāt waste it. Hereās hoping the remake will provide the definitive Destroy All Humans experience and that it will gain the success it deserves.
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Sooo the point is to make a simself (yup, that sim up there is me) and put your traits, things you like and whatever you wanna share. You donāt have to do it if you donāt want to!
After the keep reading thingy are +100 questions I found that you can answer if you want, but you donāt have to (itās tiring as hell)
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1. What is your full name? L
2. What is your nickname? Lizer, Lizard, Turtle. Idk why.
3. Birthday? August 13th.
4. What is your favorite book series? Harry Potter series.
5. Do you believe in aliens or ghosts? Both ._.
6. Who is your favorite author? Richard Matheson, the original master of horror stories.
7. What is your favorite radio station? Oldies station
8. What is your favorite flavor of anything? Vanilla and/or birthday cake stuff.
9. What word would you use often to describe something great or wonderful? Thatās awesome. Iām a 90ā²s kid I still use those words dude.
10. What is your current favorite song? I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Do It All The Time
11. What is your favorite word? Mhm. I mean itās not really a word but there you go.
12. What was the last song you listened to?Ā Blind Deaf & Dumb
13. What TV show would you recommend for everybody to watch? The Office.
14. What is your favorite movie to watch when youāre feeling down? Anything from Disney.
15. Do you play video games? Yep
16. What is your biggest fear? Water. (Like the ocean, lakes, or rivers)
17. What is your best quality, in your opinion? my good mannersĀ
18. What is your worst quality, in your opinion? my social anxiety.
19. Do you like cats or dogs better? Both! I refuse to answer just one.
20. What is your favorite season? Autumn <3
21. Are you in a relationship? Yup.
22. What is something you miss from your childhood? How easy life was back then.
23. Who is your best friend? @xanezephyr
24. What is your eye color? Dark brown
25. What is your hair color? Black
26. Who is someone you love? My furry babies (My dogs and cat)
27. Who is someone you trust? My mother.
28. Who is someone you think about often? My childhood friend Cyndy.
29. Are you currently excited about/for something? Getting a new computer upgrade so thatās pretty sweet!
30. What is your biggest obsession? Food.
31. What was your favorite TV show as a child? Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
32. Who of the opposite gender can you tell anything to, if anyone? My nephew Aaron.
33. Are you superstitious? Hell yes I am.
34. Do you have any unusual phobias? Water like I stated before. Aquaphobia? Iām too lazy to look up the actual name.
35. Do you prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? Controlling the camera.
36. What is your favorite hobby? Sims.
37. What was the last book you read? Gone Girl
38. What was the last movie you watched? Bohemian Rhapsody.
39. What musical instruments do you play, if any? Piano
40. What is your favorite animal? I love all animals, canāt discriminate.Ā
41. What are your top 5 favorite Tumblr blogs that you follow? @deathseeksyou @teanmoon @fuchsiateasims @tekri @mizushibaĀ
42. What superpower do you wish you had? invisibility
43. When and where do you feel most at peace? In the forest, or anywhere green and naturey
44. What makes you smile? My fur babies
45. What sports do you play, if any? Hah no
46. What is your favorite drink? Green tea
47. When was the last time you wrote a hand-written letter or note to somebody? Itās been years I canāt even remember now
48. Are you afraid of heights? yes
49. What is your biggest pet peeve? Spitting. Itās so gross to hear people spitting.
50. Have you ever been to a concert? Yup
51. Are you vegan/vegetarian? Iāve tried both and they just werenāt for me.
52. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? Rock star
53. What fictional world would you like to live in? The Wizarding World.
54. What is something you worry about? Yeah I worry about everything
55. Are you scared of the dark? sometimes
56. Do you like to sing? Not as much as I use to
57. Have you ever skipped school? I use to skip certain classes back in high school and would go over to my friends house that lived a few blocks away from the school and just sleep until school was over.
58. What is your favorite place on the planet? Home
59. Where would you like to live? Up in the cold mountains, or in a green lush forest.Ā
60. Do you have any pets? I have 4 dogs and one cat.
61. Are you more of an early bird or a night owl? Early.
62. Do you like sunrises or sunsets better? Sunsets.
63. Do you know how to drive? Yup
64. Do you prefer earbuds or headphones? headphones
65. Have you ever had braces? Oh yeah
66. What is your favorite genre of music? Rock, Alternative, Oldies, Electronica, Classical. I listen to everything.
67. Who is your hero? Donāt really have one but I do adore Freddie Mercury.
68. Do you read comic books? yes, especially mangas
69. What makes you the most angry? Rude people
70. Do you prefer to read on an electronic device or with a real book? real book please
71. What is your favorite subject in school? history!
72. Do you have any siblings? I have a sister >_>
73. What was the last thing you bought? dog treats
74. How tall are you? 5ā²8
75. Can you cook? Kind of, depends.
76. What are three things that you love? My family, my animals, and food.
77. What are three things that you hate? social situations, hypocrites, and being broke.
78. Do you have more female friends or more male friends? Female
79. What is your sexual orientation? Pan baby.
80. Where do you currently live? California
81. Who was the last person you texted? Mario
82. When was the last time you cried? Not too long ago. Just shit going on with my dad.
83. Who is your favorite YouTuber? I donāt like a specific YouTuber but my favorite channel is Lutch Green. I like those spooky crime docs.
84. Do you like to take selfies? Nah
85. What is your favorite app? Tumblr
86. What is your relationship with your parent(s) like? Good.
87. What is your favorite foreign accent? British accents are so nice.
88. What is a place that youāve never been to, but you want to visit? Japan
89. What is your favorite number? 13
90. Can you juggle? I donāt want to brag but yeah *cool glasses emoji* lol
91. Are you religious? Iām spiritual.Ā
92. Do you find outer space of the deep ocean to be more interesting? Both. Though deep ocean sounds terrifying.Ā
93. Do you consider yourself to be a daredevil? Nope
94. Are you allergic to anything? Cat dander
95. Can you curl your tongue? yeah
96. Can you wiggle your ears? no
97. How often do you admit that you were wrong about something? Iāll admit it most of the time.
98. Do you prefer the forest or the beach? forest
99. What is your favorite piece of advice that anyone has ever given you? Expect the worst but hope for the best.
100. Are you a good liar? Probably?
101. What is your Hogwarts House? Slytherin, hence my user name.
102. Do you talk to yourself? yes
103. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? introvert
104. Do you keep a journal/diary? yeah
105. Do you believe in second chances? Depends
106. If you found a wallet full of money on the ground, what would you do? Turn it in.
107. Do you believe that people are capable of change? Iāve never seen it in person but who knows.
108. Are you ticklish? oh yeah
109. Have you ever been on a plane? yes
110. Do you have any piercings? My ears. I use to have my nose and brow pierced but you know my boss was being a bitch.
111. What fictional character do you wish was real? Dracula.
112. Do you have any tattoos? Yes I have 2.
113. What is the best decision that youāve made in your life so far? Moving to a new town.
114. Do you believe in karma? yeah, itās always instant for me -_-
115. Do you wear glasses or contacts? Glasses, I canāt afford contacts.
116. Do you want children? idk
117. Who is the smartest person you know? My friend PK, sheās got a Masters in Psychology.Ā
118. What is your most embarrassing memory? I have so many, and they mostly involve me falling somewhere in public.
119. Have you ever pulled an all-nighter? Almost, I was like 2 hours shy.
120. What color are most of you clothes? black
121. Do you like adventures? sure
122. Have you ever been on TV? I have but like as a walking background extra on some cop show in LA.Ā
123. How old are you? Iām a grown ass adult.
124. What is your favorite movie quote?Ā
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125. Do you prefer sweet or savory foods? savory
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