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The virgin MGS2: The government ;) wants to redo ;) the first mission ;) using a guy who was trained on a virtual ;) version of it

The chad We <3 Katamari: I'm the King of All Cosmos, the gamers loved the first Katamari Damacy so they want us to roll more balls in this sequel.

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Were finishing Revolutionary Girl Utena in the discord and I drew this to commemorate

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Top: a pre-release screenshot of Mario Superstar Baseball, published on the IGN gaming news website in 2005 (note the IGN logo in the bottom right).

Bottom: in the game, the preview image for Mario Stadium uses that exact screenshot, including even part of the IGN logo, seen overlapping Mario's shoe.

This indicates that the developers, despite having full access to the game's code and being able to take any kind of preview screenshot they could want without any restrictions, instead went online and took a screenshot from a gaming journalism website without even editing out the logo.

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Top: on Level 3 of the “Pop-Up Patrol” microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together, a window depicting a smiling devil with four words of distorted text may appear.

Bottom: this is actually a reference to a malware website that gained notoriety in 2004, called “You Are An Idiot”, which would display this image, play a song, and hijack the user’s browser to resist being closed, with the only way to leave being restarting the computer. Note that the distorted text in the game lines up exactly with the lengths of the four words on the website, and the last word is clearly recognizable as “idiot”.

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Animation of Wario and Link dancing together, from a 1994 Japanese commercial for Wario’s Woods and The Legend of Zelda, which released on the same day for the Famicom.

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What secrets does he hide...

In a 2009 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto talked about the story of Super Mario Galaxy 2, ending the interview with a remark that a Whittle that could be seen in the game’s announcement trailer is “a person that has a bit of a story”. In the finished game, the Whittles are a species and there are no prominent Whittle individuals; in addition, very little is revealed about their backstory. It is unknown if Miyamoto was referring to some manner of more elaborate story cut during development or if he was referring to the small amount of dialogue in the game as “a bit of a story”.

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Updated Ranked List of First-Person Puzzlers I’ve Played

Someone liked my original list recently so that reminded me I should make a new one.

1. The WItness 2. Portal 2 3. Antichamber 4. Portal 5. The Talos Principal 6. Superliminal 7. Maquette 8. Please Don’t Touch Anything

Nothing in the list has moved because the 3 games I’ve played since I made the first list came in under all of those.  There are several more games in this subgenre that I plan to play and I’m in the middle of the game that could be said to have originated it, Myst.

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I was thinking earlier today that it’s a strong possibility Geoff was referring to Game 4 in his tweet.  He’s a fan of Ueda, he understands how important Ueda is, the first tease of Game 4 was in January 2018 almost four years ago, so 2.5 years ago they could easily have started working on a long vertical slice gameplay reveal or something like that.  The fact that he visited them in Sept. 2019 just makes it more likely!

Long post ahead but I need to get this idea out of my head.

The more Geoff Keighley speaks about this year's TGA ceremony, the more he's starting to convince me there might be something in store for us this year... and I definitely do not want to be a crazy conspiracy theorist who gets everything wrong (too late for that, let's be honest, I already am) BUT:

there have been a few dots out there... tiny, little dots... about the size of a dust particle... but I think I've connected them. Hear me out:

Geoff tweeted this earlier today,

and whatever dev and game he's talking about, even if it's not Gen, sounds like something really interesting and almost like an "honor" to have on the show. He's got my attention already. But then, he also added this,

So whoever it is, I don't think it's a team from the US, since he mentions a "global" trip. Then I remembered something my brain had buried so deep in my memory archives that I almost had to tear twitter apart to find it, because I wasn't even sure anymore if it had happened or not. Do you know who he was with on summer of 2019? You're absolutely right, my friend.

I ALWAYS wondered what this meeting was for because he never posted anything else related to this, so I ended up forgetting about it, but it's really curious that the dates kinda match. I also noticed Geoff recently followed Ueda and Gen on twitter, he wasn't following them before. This part might be just a silly coincidence, but for some reason it caught my eye as well.

Honestly I might just be connecting dots that are light years apart, for things that aren't even related, but my curiosity is getting the best of me and I can't help but think this might be it. Geoff keeps talking about how this ceremony will show what the future of games is truly about and that they have their biggest lineup ever. But then again, this could be literally about anyone else. There are so many long-awaited and legendary games out there that could make a comeback at any point, it's too difficult to pinpoint his clues down to a single developer.

If this is true, I'm gonna be so happy because no matter how patient I wanna be... it's time guys. It's time. I just want to see what comes next. And if it's not... well I'll just pretend this post never happened

Just kidding lol, it is what it is. Feel free to share your thoughts or add to the insane theory if you wanna say something hahaha

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I am definitely using these in a trap when I become Jigsaw

Set of officially licensed 1998 Mario Party padlocks from Japan.

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Officially licensed 2002 Hi-C juice boxes depicting Nintendo characters and explaining how the character in question relates to the flavor of juice inside each box (zoom in to read text).

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“I see you, by the way. I see that you decided to show up, and it’s not… you’re not gonna ruin my night. “

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Thank you for reblogging my post (for anyone else that may see this: not the defense seen here but another response I removed from this reblog) but I just want to say that I wrote this years ago and while the opinions I express are pretty much the same, the way I’d write them has probably changed a lot.  Just to clarify, it makes me cringe a little to read a post like this now.

Also I believe it was Tia who said she wanted to be like Wonrei, so that’s a mistake.

Defense of Suzy/Suzume Mizuno (Zatch Bell)

Okay I know this one was a bit ago but I'm gonna cover it anyway cos I can.

Annoying: While Suzume can easily be seen as annoying (i.e. she follows Kiyomaro around and sticks to him like glue and is kind of loud and strange), the first thing you gotta remember is that the Zatch Bell characters are FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. Suzume is a middle school girl and she's got a crush on Kiyomaro. She wants to be near him all the time and she wants him to like her, so she tries very hard to get his attention. Because she's fourteen and she's not very mature yet, it's natural and normal for her to come off as kind of obnoxious about it. Honestly, what silly fourteen-year-old girl with a crush that huge isn't going to end up being accidentally clingy and obnoxious about it?

Clumsy/Ditzy: this goes back to the silly awkward fourteen year old girl with a crush thing. I don't know how many people remember being fourteen and having a crush, or if that's not something that happened to all of the people that hate on Suzume. But in my personal experience and from what I've witnessed, it's perfectly normal to lose your composure when you're young and get nervous around someone you like. That said, being clumsy isn't a character flaw and shouldn't be something she gets hated on for. Plenty of people in real life are clumsy like that. As for the ditzy part, again, she's fourteen years old. She draws faces on fruit and stuff because she's still not very mature. That's just that. Chill out.

Anime Portrayal: I'll admit they overexaggerated her less desirable qualities in the anime. I think they did it for comedic purposes and it may have backfired.

Gets in the way of other ships: This is never a reason to dislike a character and I don't enjoy addressing it, except for the fact that, canonically, Suzume literally attempts to get in the way of Kiyomaro/Megumi. This isn't just a NaruHina iz best and i hate Sakura 4 existing kind of thing; Suzume and Megumi meet in canon and Suzume sees her as a rival for Kiyomaro's attention, and Megumi not only recognizes that Suzume also likes Kiyomaro, but she acknowledges there is a real romantic rivalry going on. And they basically duke it out passive-agressively over him. She is in the way of Kiyomaro/Megumi in exactly the same way that Megumi is in the way of Kiyomaro/Suzume; it's done on purpose by the author for comedic value because aside from all the other genres it traverses, Zatch Bell is a comedy series, remember?

Useless: Not gonna restate the for comedic purposes thing because that's basically the initial reason ALL of Kiyomaro's school friends are there. Aside from that, I'd like to remind you that she keeps Kiyomaro's mother company while he's away, she gives him the notes he's missing from class, even when she knows she's not as good a student as him. There is one chapter that I always remember where Kiyomaro's home for a bit and he notices that she's got all these bandages on her fingers and so he follows her because he's worried about her and discovers that she's been helping this little boy build a tribute to his family in order to make a wish for his parents to get back together. She's getting herself beat up for a kid she coincidentally met and becoming emotionally invested for someone else's sake. And she brings Kiyomaro all sorts of get well presents in the hospital. One of the hospital visits, when the red spellbook gets stolen, Kiyomaro asks her to help get it back and she agrees to help instantaneously, despite knowing she's spacey and forgetful and is going to get distracted. She forgets, of course, but she ends up getting a balloon out of a tree for a little kid who's sick at the hospital.

She has her spaciness and her absentmindedness and her short-term memory problem and all that, but she genuinely wants to help because she cares.

Tell me that's fucking useless, I dare you. 

okay done.

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Ranked List of First-Person Puzzlers I’ve Played

1. The Witness 2. Portal 2 3. Antichamber 4. Portal 5. The Talos Principal

Maquette comes out March 2nd, I wonder where it will fit in these.

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Release it!

During the 2019 New Year’s celebration, Nintendo of Japan arranged an animation to be projected onto the side of a building at Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. The animation featured an original dog character in the Mario series art style, representing the ending year 2018 (that being a year of the dog in the Chinese Zodiac). The dog helps Mario by giving him a dog power-up (top image), which Mario uses to defeat Bowser, who pilots a golem (second image).

Unfortunately, the animation was only shown once, projected onto a wall with a prominent grid, and as such, a version of it without artifacts is not available to the public.

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No More Heroes 3 Direct Notes

Just some things I jotted down while going through the new footage. - Obviously the voiceover was done by Robin and Paula Tiso just for this direct which is cool - It looks like Travis is in a spaceship at the start, it has a triangular door so it might be the pyramid ship from the trailers.  The corridor he's in reminds me of the long one you walk through to get to the first boss in NMH.  Would not surprise me if this was NMH3's first level. - Sylvia is in disguise as Damon's secretary just like in the Return trailer. - There's a really brief shot of the "press A to turn the beam katana on" bit that starts levels. - We see Travis fighting some alien robot dude using, surprisingly, the Blood Berry Mk. II from the first game. - Damage numbers on enemies are one of the several things brought over from Travis Strikes Again. - In This clip we see: - Health Meter - Battery Meter - Ectasty Gauge (tiger) - Special Move Chips (under health) - Henshin/robot suit activation (L+R) - Wrestling grab activated by thumbsticks - The slot machine from killing an enemy So Travis can do everything he can do from past games PLUS the special moves and the robot suit too.  He has a ton of abilties now and I hope the game balances them all.

-This level looks like a factory of some sort. - Then we see a cutscene of FU and the "Superheroes" in presumably Damon's boardroom with several board members who are wearing gas masks and look unconscious. - There's some pink thing under FU in the clip where he reflects the missiles but you can't tell what it is. - Then we have a clip of FU fighting Travis in front of the motel.  Given that the motel sign says "No More Heroes III Motel", this may be at the very start of the game, like the first few seconds after the start menu. - We get a shot of Shinobu doing a jumping attack, I think she has her outfit from TSA. - The graphical style is actually more reminiscent of TSA than the past two games were.  It's not the style we saw in the first two trailers (Well the one shot at the end of the second one) which looked more like an evolution of the first two games' graphics. - We get a really brief shot of what looks like some kind of ship combat stage with a different HUD.  The enemy ship has a health bar that says "PHASE 1".  It looks like Travis is firing a big beam from his robot suit at the ship.  I wonder how many of these fights will be in the game? - Then we see Travis using a good old Death Blow on some enemies.  This is done using the control sticks and not the motion controls, which I hope are still in the game beyond recharging the katana. - Then we see Travis and a very angry FU butting heads...Certain people in the fandom are going to be very creatively inspired by this shot, let's just say that. - "The Galaxy vs. The Hood".  What the heck did this say in the Japanese version? - We see Travis using a special move against the boss we saw in the "leaked" footage awhile back.  Looking at some of the icons I think there are returning specials from TSA.  But it seems like he actually doesn't use a special, he just closes the menu and goes back to slashing. - We see FU beating up...Badman!  Missed this the first several times I watched. - Then FU gets very mad.  I think this is also in front of the motel.  All this stuff and the Shinobu shot are probably from the intro.  Basically, I think nearly everything from this trailer is from early in the game, which makes sense. - Sylvia delivers her catchphrase and Travis says "Bring it on, I'll give you a little kiss!" a line that is probably in some sort of context in the game, and will also probably creatively inspire people. - At the beginning of the port announcement we hear the phone from NMH1 ringing, which is cool. - Not much to say about the Henshin but there are a few enemies just standing around behind Travis. - I assume those dancing festival guys are just for fun and not from NMH3. - There's a pic of Sylvia on the trucks that pull up at the end. - No open world to be seen in any of this.  Suda has said this game will have an open world, but he also said that about 2 and look what happened.  The open world was scrapped and we got to explore it in first-person during the game's credits.