#sidegames

[kerubimcrepin]

Crepinlore and the 30-50 random games 90% of fandom has never heard about

This post, like everything else about this blog, is very self-indulgent. I discovered many things during its making, and I simply can't not share. So, let's begin with something you likely have literally never heard about, and go to more popular things from there:

KROSMASTER ARENA 3D

Krosmaster arena online was a video game it seems nobody played, and honestly, I am mentioning it here because I fear that if I don't document it, it will disappear, and it will turn out that it was simply a vision I had, as if in a David Lynch movie. Evaporating, like tears in rain.

I don't think anyone ripped/tried to rip/found a way to rip the models from it — and considering the fact they're pretty... mobile ad-core, not much may have been lost.

Anyway, here's Keke beating the shit out of some guy.

Wakfu Les Gardiens

Joris appears in the quest "The Tree of Life" of this game, which, as far as I'm aware, was updated in time with Wakfu episodes.

Even back then, Ankama knew that 1. Joris is very sus and 2. you cannot let him get close to you during a battle, or it's OVER.

It's all very cute.

There is something interesting I wanna say about this sprite, actually:

An alternate version of it exists, made as a concept for the Dofus MMO. I am assuming it was Juien Druant elaborating on the ways Joris might look in the game. The first two designs are: baby Joris (probably not used because he looks too young to be a 200 year old man...) and Welsh & Shedar 60yo Joris. They were combined to make the iconic Dofus MMO-era 200yo Joris design.

I'm quite sure that this sprite references the Les Gardiens one very heavily.

One More Gate: A Wakfu Legend

The first game in this list that actually has implications for real lore, and yet its plot is literally "it was all a dream that Oropo was having while inside the Eliacube"

For this reason, the events of this game are not entirely reliable — but are probably based in some way on the memories Oropo has.

The main contribution this game has to Crepinlore is a third Crepin, who might be an ancient ancestor of the brothers, whom Oropo met and remembered, some sort of cousin, or he might be based entirely on fiction, and inspired by Kerubim (though ehhh I severely doubt Oropo would care so much about him that he'd hallucinate a guy like him within Eliacube's fake world).

I really want to headcanon that the events of the game are based on something he really experienced, waaay before forming the brotherhood. But that's just my brain disaeses.

Here we can see the store itself.

Krosmaga

I saved the best for the last — Krosmaga.

A video of the casts of Dofus and Wakfu beating the shit out of each other

There are characters besides Atcham, Joris, and Kerubim in this game — Julith, Jahash, Lou... But I choose to concentrate on my favorite three ones. Or I will die fr.

If this Ecaflip gives the impression of constantly having a bad hair day, it's precisely because he doesn't have any! Brother of Kerubim Crépin, Atcham is fiercely jealous of the man he considers his worst enemy. And how could he not be, when not only does he occupy the prestigious position of Ecaflip's favorite son, but also displays his dense, silky fur without any modesty or sensitivity?

Here are his three forms:

I'm.,. unwell about the white one. I have to draw Atcham in a Bontarian getup one of these days.

They're really giving a fight to this Joris costume recolor from a Christmas event in one of the MMOs... (Now I want to see Kerubim in red too!)

On topic of Joris,

Adopted son of Kerubim Crépin, Joris is a curious and mischievous little boy. His favorite pastime is listening to the childhood adventures of his beloved "Papycha". And when he's too busy serving customers in his antique store, he's off playing with his best friend Lilotte! An avid boufbowl player and fan of Khan Karkass, Joris also hopes to become a star of the horned ball. While his destiny may already be mapped out on the stadium pitch, his origins are much less clear… But the good thing about not knowing where you come from is that you can imagine anything! For the little boy, there's no doubt: his parents were great boufbowl players, and it doesn't matter if it's true or not!

Here are his alternative forms:

I LOVE THE WAY HIS ADULT SELF IS DRAWN IN THIS GAME... I'm insane.

And now, last but not least: Kerubim.

Judging by his adventures, Kerubim seems to have had more than 9 lives! From small-time opera rat, to Bontarian police officer, to lawyer: the least we can say is that during his youth, the man Joris calls his Papycha never stopped working! So much so that today, the owner of the antique store Aux Trésors de Kerubim takes advantage of his free time to purr quietly in his armchair, or to tell his adopted son about his past adventures. Past? Well, not quite! Because when the terrible witch Julith arrives to retrieve Jahash's Ivory Dofus, and seems intent on attacking Joris, the old tomcat doesn't hesitate to get in her way. With Kerubim, there's no age limit to being a hero!

Once again, it is confirmed that the store's name s literally "Aux Trésors de Kerubim". Sorry, I'm insane about the name of the show being the name of the store.

And his alternative forms:

He's beautiful.

[veveisveryuncool]

i really fuckinf miss prince fluff 😭😭 put him bacj please im begging hal

[randomnameless]

Now that I can play with the Nopes datamine

Rhea BaD

She has no regards for HuMaNiTy :(

Supreme Leader is so pragmatic :)

uwu route title drop slay qween :)

[vaugarde]

i do like how the anime takes some of the smaller generic enemies from the games and makes them incredibly important in the anime. (besides the cappies) like kabu being a guardian deity they all look to for advice and masher being an unstoppable monster they cant even control and has nearly destroyed dreamland and killed kirby.

and then you play the games and they look like this

[flovverworks]

speaking of dragons (looks at the new rf)

[mantegato]

oh my god im so tired of this STOP!!!! STOP!!!!!

[flash-from-the-past]

Daymare Cat

[adcraball-a]

--hey why is the actual game protagonist here

[toestalucia]

april fools events hihi

[lord-pigeon]

Man I wish Pokemon actually continued making side series games like Ranger or Mystery Dungeon to appeal to their older audience again instead of trying to half-ass tread the middle ground and appeal to only the kids or hardline fans

They have more money than god, they can afford it, but they don't want to. The closest we got was Arceus and that was literally just a tech demo for Scarlet/Violet

[celepeace]

So has the new pmd news made it to the tumblr community yet or

[mourning-again-in-america]

Vladeck once outlined the military commission legal debate as being one where each side cites the few cases that exist as being the "real" cases at issue, while others are always distinguished (usually without much care) from the current case in question, so the scholarly consensus over what the exact holdings are in Johnson v. Eisentrager or ex parte Quirin or ex parte Milligan isn't very well settled

I feel this way about the power of Congress to regulate the powers of the several states, in their judicial and legislative capacities. Usery, Testa, FERC v. Mississippi: be clearer and say what you mean, instead of what's pleasant!

[unregisteredskybox]

can we talk about how the reason siffrin is so close with bonnie is because he, too, knew what it was like to be a child alone and wandering without family before? can we talk about how the reason bonnie was so hurt by siffrin losing his eye is because they though they'd lose another person close to them? so close that, hey actually can we talk about how they're so close that multiple times bonnie compares siffrin to nille? can we talk about how nicknames are probably really important to bonnie and nille, as an act of rebellion against their parents, and so siffrin's ceasing of using the nickname probably harmed them greatly? or smth? hey where are u going

uhhhhhh can we think about siffrin and bonnies relationship for a second please. can we think about how bonnie probably latched on to sif pretty hard after they joined the party? how he was the one to find them when they were lost and afraid and alone and how that wouldve impacted their bond? can we think about how much bonnie trusts them in general, even if after the eye incident, and even for small or silly things? like trusting sif to know whats really an adult issue and whats not? and to take their word in whole and to barely question it because siffrin said so and siffrin would know whats best for them? can we think about how bonnie still very specifically remembers the conversation the others had to have with them about how siffrin didnt like to be touched? on the point that it probably felt very important to them for them to remember it like that, but also that the change likely meant something to them as well? knowing that bonnie, as a child, and as the character who was most open to touching sif post ending, is probably very touch-dependent? can we think about how during the events of the game, even as bonnie “hated siffrin”, they still thought to make food special for him, to include him in jokes and teasing (what i would imagine to be a love language of sorts), etc etc? can we think about? can we

[nocturne-of-illusions]

hi, just spent a few hours straight transferring pkmn from my many old games to home bc i completely forgot about the server shutdown tomorrow and i'll be at a doc appt most of the afternoon. lays down and sighs.

[gachaparadise]

i've been dabbling with the hot new gacha reverse/1999 and its... okay so far. like everything is presented gorgeously and the battle system seems fun! but i can just tell this is NOT a game that's going last for me >_>

[flash-from-the-past]

Submachine 1: the Basement