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pk-freezer-burnt · 6 months

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Epic Yume Nikki - Dream Diary - Review

Five years ago a reboot of the cult classique video game Yume Nikki was released into the world at the tender age of zero. I have recently completed the game in its entirety, and today....... I share my thoughts.

I remember shatting myself when this game got announced on Steam. I got it on release day! However.... my laptop back then was not strong enough to run it - like I couldn't even move Madotsuki at all and my laptop was torching up. So, super duper sadly, I had to refund it......

And then.... I felt even more disappointed when the initial reviews came rolling in for the game on Steam and they were "Mixed" - and if you are familiar with Steam game reviews, if a game manages to have a mixed reception, it's p much synonymous to shit. I was shocked bro. So since then I was under the impression it was a failed reboot that didn't get the same feel as the original game, or just too new to be seen as Yume Nikki.

Fast forward to recently, when I figured I'd pick the game up again (and now able to play it since I've gotten a new laptop within the past 5 years) and.... I SERIOUSLY wish I didn't listen to those reviews, because now I get that they were probably the crowd that gets too repulsed by reboots/remakes that are too different from the original (Pokemon fans know what Im talking about). Like cmon guys it was made under the supervision of the dude who made the original Yume Nikki themselves

Anyways. HOLY shmoley. I'm serious. This game was SO GOOD!! The art... it was just BEAUTIFUL! In the reboot, you actually get to see Madotsuki's diary (which is full of sketches and concept art as you progress thru the game) and I went ahead and collected ALL the drawings because I love them so much.

I do remember being a little sad that there were less doors (I think?) compared to the original. Number World in the og was my favorite place because somehow seeing a really really long number on the floor was somewhat unsettling. Sadly it wasn't there, but the way the worlds were intertwined and different areas were referenced were SO genius.

Shout out to le new creature made by the original creator, thanks for throwing up blood everywhere when I played hot cross buns on my recorder I mean flute

Ok so I figured out his name is Wrapi :]

Likewise with the worlds, there were only a few effects present in the game instead of 20+. Although I do like the Eye with Hand effect being remade into a Hamsa ^___^ I don't usually see that amulet in media which is awesomesauce. And it's fitting.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Fisherman, cup boy at the mall filled with blood or juice who tripped and spilled everywhere, AND.....

Also, ironically, the scariest part of the game for me was after you make Mado stab the monster on the highway. and she wakes up. And your controls stop working and she stares at you. Yeah I shat myself bro not even gonna sugarcoat it.

Second scariest part was when the last achievement I had to get was to score 5000 POINTS ON SUPER NASU ARRGHH!! (i did it tho).

Ok so now IT'S ENDGAME TIME.

The game actually has two endings and neither of them are the same as the original. And I think I like that. The main ending... it gave Madotsuki more hope, i think - Like escaping those nightmares and getting back to living life happily. Even though the majority of the game is in the dreamworld, the further you progress, the messier Mado's room got and the more she woke up upset. Seeing the main ending made me happy for her :] I also liked the secret ending (had to look up how to do that one), I think this one implied more of an escapism ending. So not as much closure but yeah.

Overall, I really liked this game. It was a great homage to the original, had engaging puzzles, beautiful arts, and lovely OST remixes.

IN CONCLUSION:

#yume nikki #yume nikki dream diary #the ice cubes speak #my epic game reviews

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johnnyd2 · 10 months

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Arc V Month extra prompt: 3) Doodlebook - Uh Uh Uh!

@arcvmonth

thought i would share a pair of fan concept “Dimension Dragons” for both Link Summoning, and the main fan summoning method of my Yugioh x Pokemonm epic, YxP

First the Link Dimension Dragon, Electro Circuit Link Dragon

being summoned by one of my DA friends Train’s OCs, Mari.

meet Noble Kaiser Synergy Dragon. And yes that is Ash from Pokemon wielding it.

Both of these dragons have major roles in their respective arcs and YxP as a whole

still thinking on their effects in full though

thank you for reading.

sources (i commisioned both of these

https://www.deviantart.com/xero-j/art/Mari-s-Electro-Circuit-Link-Dragon-Commission-767950289

https://www.deviantart.com/xero-j/art/Noble-Kaiser-Synergy-Dragon-Commission-744411546

#arcvmonth

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silphwave · 2 years

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Are there any pixel artists that you look up to or whose work you particularly like? I am getting interested in pixel art recently and I am looking for more artists to follow :)

@kldpxl is one of my favourites, really detailed scenes. @haus_of_pixels on Instagram is amazing at dithering. I've been enjoying @jrchair98 recent Pokemon pixel art. @lonelyalbino (IG) is a must follow for any Pokemon and pixel fans. @pixeldanc3r makes epic landscapes. There's many more I'm forgetting right now, but I must say Mark Ferrari is the greatest pixel artist ever in my opinion. He also has some great talks and interviews on YT.

#pixel artist #pixelartists

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darkray-chan · 5 months

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Sooo...an introduction I guess

Hello! My name is Kasper (or Kieran or Ray, depends which one you're comfortable using!), and I am a 23-year-old artist from Finland. I am non binary (I heavily prefer they/them pronouns but you may use any pronoun that fits you, I don't give a crap) and very aroace.

This is my blog for art. I mainly draw fan art and OCs. Though I may also reblog funny memes as well.

WARNING: I OCCASIONALLY DRAW GORE AND SUGGESTIVE THINGS! Do not follow if you cannot handle that stuff

Currently I am really into the following series:

Murder Drones

Sonic the Hedgehog

Hazbin hotel/Helluva boss

Pokemon

Digimon

Super Mario

Cult of the lamb

Mickey Mouse (Mostly Epic Mickey!)

Ace Attorney

Jak and Daxter

Hi-Fi Rush

Expect to see a lot of art/reblogs of these series!

Though, I am also sort of interested in these things too, not much but can talk about these:

Resident Evil

Dungeons and Dragons/Baldur's Gate 3

Monster Hunter

Tomb Raider

Dragon Ball

Devil May Cry

Lackadaisy

Rayman

Spyro the dragon

Crash Bandicoot

TMNT

LittleBigPlanet

Miis

Skylanders

The Elder Scrolls (mainly Skyrim)

Ratchet and Clank

I may draw fanart about these series once in a while; maybe even rarely

I hope we can be friends, or at the very least mutuals!

Check out my carrd in case you wanna know where else I am: https://cyberspacium.carrd.co

#intro post #introduction #introductory post

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karigarihakase · 6 months

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Drive Head and Earth Granner were not flops in Japan

Let me start with a small disclaimer. I’m not writing this because I’m a big Tomica fan and I don’t like seeing their anime slandered. I’m also a big Spider Riders fan and have no problem telling you that it was a flop of epic proportions. I’m also not writing this to slander Shinkalion. I think it’s a great show.

This seems to be an ongoing misconception, mainly outside of Japan though I’ve seen some Japanese fans too that assume this (and usually get shot down right away because this is just not true).

I should start by addressing the elephant in the room, which is Shinkalion, as it’s often the context for this discussion coming up in the first place. Shinkalion was a smash success in Japan. It was the perfect storm. Trains are huge, so a series devoted to them, packed with accurate train facts and detail, was going to be big. The work was targeted at young children, but attracted an audience of older railfans as well. The series had a ton of popular seiyuu, so it attracted older otaku who watch for seiyuu. The series had Google as a sponsor, so it had big money behind it from the getgo. It had collabs with hugely popular properties, including Vocaloid, Evangelion and Godzilla. So yes, it attracted fans of Vocaloid, Evangelion and Godzilla who weren’t going to watch it for any of the other reasons listed above. So yeah, there’s no denying Shinkalion was a big success in Japan. But there’s no denying Frozen was a big success in the west (and Japan, and all over the place.) An argument that Drive Head and Earth Granner weren’t successful because they never reached Shinkalion’s level of popularity is like saying Tangled or Big Hero 6 were flops because they weren’t as big as Frozen. (And to be honest, I’m not in Disney fandom. Maybe there are people that argue that? But if there are, they’re idiots.)

Let’s start by talking about the origin of Drive Head a bit, because it’s rather important for explaining what happened. Drive Head was the first TV anime made to promote the Tomica brand of die-cast cars. It was neither the first Tomica anime, nor their first TV series. But it still was something of an experiment, given the brand has existed since 1970. Drive Head was billed as a co-production between OLM (a.k.a. the Pokemon studio) and XEBEC. But as anyone who takes the time to look through the credits can tell you, OLM had very little actual involvement in it. And XEBEC was on its last days. Drive Head had a dismally low budget, with constant off-model animation and two recap episodes, which is another reason that western anime fans were not impressed. Ignoring the fact that the series was aimed at children in Japan as a vehicle to sell toys, not sakuga fanatics.

And the reason that the creators just didn’t care? Well, besides the fact that it was experimental in ways, and that it was just made to sell toys to pre-schoolers? Because Drive Head was merely designed as a placeholder for Shinkalion while it was in production. Takara Tomy wanted Shinkalion to be big. Drive Head was a throwaway. Even the toys themselves were just retools from the Hyper Series line in the first wave.

But Drive Head was a big surprise to the Takara Tomy execs. Because it was big with its target audience. Now, the target audience of Drive Head is not on social media. They’re not the type pouring out fanart on Pixiv. Probably, they can’t even draw (some of the fan-submitted art on Drive Head News Channel, the live-action variety show it spawned proves this.) They’re pre-schoolers! That being said, Drive Head does have aspects that can appeal to adults (as long as they care about more than sakuga). Yeah, I did write that essay and a million fanfics about the villain/heroine romance straight out of Megamind that probably wasn’t written with the target audience in mind. Drive Head did somehow manage to trend on Twitter whenever new episodes aired. Heck, the series character designer posts fanart on Twitter that often treads NSFW territory and has an audience for it. But, Takara Tomy also doesn’t care about that audience, nor should they. They care about selling toys to kids.

Now, the first wave of Drive Head toys went out of print pretty quickly, when the robots were replaced in-universe by their mid-season upgrades. And the price of Sonic Interceptor, the main character’s first mech spiked up right away. There was still a demand for it. This probably should’ve been the first sign the toyline was doing well. Takara did take notice, and this placeholder show that was originally only planned for 37 episodes (an unusual amount when most kids shows run for 4+ cour) was expanded to have a sequel web series and movie. It has been officially stated from the staff that the series was planned to end at episode 37, and changes did have to be made to expand the plot. It must have been early enough in its run for this to be decided. However, given that the web series was primarily recap episodes (and even the entirely new ones were short episodes) and the movie was about an hour long and didn’t have significantly higher production values than the TV series, they clearly still rushed to get these made. The success of Drive Head was said to be unexpected. Even with the movie, they were still surprised. They had planned for two interactive Drive Gear linked screenings (the Drive Gear being a toy that made certain sounds in response to the show itself). Drive Gears were available for loan at these showings. Not only were these showings sold out so quickly that they set up a few more, but many kids brought their own Drive Gear from home, not needing to borrow one. The movie itself was also shown only in limited theaters, which led to enough complaints that they were forced to expand locations (and it still wasn’t enough). Though the movie wasn’t a box-office topping success and it’s actual revenue remains unknown barring in Korea where it seemed to indeed be a flop, it still proved popular with (once again) its target audience. Two theatres even kept playing it for a couple months after all the rest stopped.

Drive Head has continued to be rebroadcast on satellite networks and various streaming services. It is -still- popular with its target audience. You get posts on Twitter like, ‘my kid loves Drive Head and is asking for the toys, but they’re $200 on Amazon. Help!’ There’s still that much demand for these toys.

Unfortunately for these kids and parents, Drive Head hasn’t seen a single re-issue on the toys since its end, and has barely been acknowledged by Takara Tomy at all. There are a number of reasons for this. One is Shinkalion itself. The show that Drive Head was designed as a placeholder for and that Takara Tomy expected to be successful was so successful that it ended up running for longer than planned as well. It held onto the timeslot on TBS where Drive Head once aired until it was prematurely cancelled itself thanks to TBS wanting that timeslot to promote the ill-fated 2020 Olympics. So while there was talk from reliable sources about a Drive Head season 2 happening, it never got its chance to happen. The next reason is TBS itself. They screwed over all their anime programming, barring late-night fare, and it wasn’t until Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury came out in 2022 that they would even consider daytime anime again. So all of Takara Tomy’s properties jumped ship to TV Tokyo. And Drive Head, unlike Shinkalion, is so intrinsically tied to TBS that the likeness of their headquarters and even some of their staff members are featured in the anime. Though, given that real-Sasagawa no longer works for TBS, and has expressed interest in reprising her role one day, it could be feasible to get her on board if a TV Tokyo sequel ever happened. But for a time, there would definitely be some messy legal hoops involved, and there still could be for all I know. Thirdly, XEBEC. While Drive Head could be given to another studio easily enough (perhaps Studio Mother?), XEBEC is no longer of this world. A sequel under a new studio could lead to a radical staff change which might help or harm it. That and well… time’s passed. The time Shinkalion had the timeslot, Covid screwing with anime production after that… Despite new kids discovering the show through streaming platforms, the original target audience is older now and has moved on. It’s the kind of show that could get a nostalgia sequel 10 years from now but for a direct sequel at this point, that ship has sailed, for better or for worse. Even when Shinkalion got its long-awaited sequel, it was mainly focused on new characters and mecha, with the old cast reduced to cameos. And Takara has been releasing toylines with similar gimmicks and aesthetic, such as the currently-running Jobraver. So for that reason, the coveted re-issue of the Drive Head toys is basically doomed.

But now, Earth Granner. The special anime released to commemorate Tomica’s 50th anniversary. I mentioned above that the Tomica brand was born in 1970, so you do the math. You should see right away why that was an unfortunate year for a big 50th anniversary celebration.

When Earth Granner’s toys first hit the shelves, late April 2020, the biggest of the lockdowns were happening worldwide. While Japan’s lockdowns were not as long lasting or extreme as some countries (barring its extreme embargo on foreign tourism), they did happen, and toy stores were certainly deemed nonessential and were shut down for a brief period. So while yes, you could order the toys online on Amazon or the like, right from the get-go Takara Tomy lost their chance to have kids see the big cool $50 robot toy in the store and beg their parents for one. When it was revealed in a first-quarter sales report that the Earth Granner toys sold less than expected, there was almost gloating from a certain section of Shinkalion fans (-not- the target audience of either show) who were not happy that a new Tomica anime debuted before Shinkalion’s season 2 did. Despite the fact that new Shinkalion toys were still being produced and the brand was still very much alive even without a currently airing anime. This clearly ignoring the global crisis which was quite likely to blame for this new line to not have stellar sales from day one. And note that these low sales were quite temporary. Come December, Earth Granner was -the- hottest toyline for young boys. According to lists of the top Christmas toys, it was outselling both Rider and Sentai. That does not seem like a flop to me.

Earth Granner actually appeared to be a quite ambitious project from Takara. They’d learned from the success Drive Head had and planned all sorts of things for it. This included having tokusatsu-style costumes designed in real life of the two main heroes, who would allegedly appear at events and perform stage shows. But again, this was 2020. There was never one stage show. The costumes were only used for a few special events late into the anime’s run where they had drive-in advance showings of new episodes and Raiga and Kuga would be around to greet the kids though their car windows, assumedly. It’s unknown if there were ever plans to make suits for the remaining three Granners, or exactly what would’ve become of the franchise if it had the chance to be what Takara Tomy clearly wanted from it. But Earth Granner simply ended after its year run without even getting a movie like Drive Head and Shinkalion did, and it’s gimmicky extra-packed Blu-Ray box was canceled, having done poorly on the crowdfunding. Clearly, the show was again not a huge hit with adult fans, perhaps even less-so than Drive Head in Japan which did get a BD release. But the toys were still a top seller that year, despite the circumstances they had to deal with.

Again, Takara Tomy barely acknowledges the franchise anymore, and the toys are out of print. However, it also seems that Takara Tomy is going in a direction of less new anime, given their toys themselves prove to be more successful than the probable cost of the shows that promote them. With Tomica’s current Jobraver line, it’s clearly doing well enough that it’s survived for over a year. Its anime is merely sporadically-released all-CG-animated episodes on Youtube. The other currently airing Takara Tomy works include Go! Go! Vehicle Zoo (2-minute long episodes that air sporadically, and cross-promoting three toylines at once, including Tomica), Bouken Tairiku Ania Kingdom (10-minute episodes, and entirely done in stop-motion), a rebroadcast of Punirines (an all-CG 10-minute-episode anime from last year), Duel Masters (which has been running near-endlessly since 2002), and Beyblade (another long-running franchise which only recently made its return to TV after being relegated to streaming only for a while). Shinkalion may be a special exception due to its massive crossover appeal, but even that has no anime currently, rumors of an upcoming new series aside.

Tldr; Drive Head and Earth Granner did great with their target audience despite being screwed over by outside circumstances. You just don’t hear about them because you don’t chat with too many 4-year-olds in Japan.

#drive head #earth granner #takara tomy #shinkalion #tomica #god this mobile app seems to be destroying my formatting but I’ll have to try and fix that later

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saskle · 1 year

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★★★★★

The quality of this print is great! The colors are vibrant, and the artwork is absolutely stunning. Fantastic job all around!!!

- Kryn

Thanks a lot, Kryn!

Get a print like this one here!

#pokemon mystery dungeon #explorers of time #explorers of darkness #epic pokemon fan art #pokemon gift #mystery dungeon gift #pokemon art print #mystery dungeon art print #sharpedo bluff #sunset #etsy seller #etsy shop #art print for sale

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perenlop · 2 years

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can you recommend some good pokemon blogs please?

ahhh i mostly have mutuals to recommend but ill do my best! most dont post exclusively pokemon but theyre very nice people ^^ ill start w people i know that mostly post pokemon and then them

@pokemon-personalities is a good pokemon exclusive blog! posts a lot of positivity and im not sure when they do this but do like pokemon assignments sometimes? idk but its cute

@lovepmd idk if ur a pmd fan but this blog has a lot of good content from several different pmd fans! i haven’t followed them in a while i just realized ig i never refollowed after moving a while back? hm but afaik its the same content!

@monsoon-of-art focuses on legends arceus and isnt centered on pokemon exclusively but has a lot of good content including all of the wardens! (and not just ingo, he still gets love but its pretty even which i appreciate as a pla fan) they have a lot of aus with the characters too and plenty of fun hcs (personal fave is pokerus bc. well if youve seen it you know. im extremely shallow.)

@onetwothree is also pokemon exclusive! focuses on the pokemon anime i believe with a lot of good game content as well!

@th3trixst3r/@trixi3z not pokemon exclusive and i think hes focused on splatoon rn but still posts plenty of it! very epic person in general he is my friend and i think you should give them a follow regardless for their oc content as well! posts pmd and game content! (and also has pmd ocs aside from that ur gonna see a lot of pmd in these recs)

@lesbianminior another friend of mine!! again not exclusive to pokemon but is currently putting together a pmd rpg and posts her ocs from that and posts a lot of good pokemon content from pmd and the main games (+ rejuvenation which is a fangame i highly recommend)

@pinkcanine is also a good pokemon blog! like trixie i think hes more into splatoon atm but still consistently posts pokemon and hes also a good friend of mine! theyre into competitive pokemon, fangames, pmd, and the anime!

@moonscape is also a good pokemon blog! again, non exclusive to pokemon but posts a lot of stuff from pmd (including his ocs!), the games, the anime, and fangames like rejuv and unbound! also again very epic person yay ^^

@sparkxii is more focused on transformers but also has good pokemon content from the games and occasionally the anime!

@revalentinee again non exclusive but posts a lot of her ocs! she does a lot of nuzlocke runs and posts her content from them, she also posts a lot of art from them and is also a very nice person!

@rocknoceros is also pretty cool! its also doing a big rewatch of the pokemon anime and also a mega nuzlocke run! very nice person as well ^^

honestly i could recommend most of my mutuals but we’d be here all day if i did that sjdjd i also dont know who u already follow but i hope this helps!

#mail #qvackjack

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sunlightfeeling · 1 year

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very interested in your console/game collection actually, if you wanna talk about that 👀

Yo! Yes, yes! I’d love to. 🥰 This post is prettyyyy long, but this is for what I currently have. But I can totally go over past buys too. I’ve honestly had quite a bit more than this. Just let me know.

Consoles: ps5, ps3, ps2, wii(/gamecube since it’s backwards compatible), and the 3ds xl I mentioned

Games are pretty standard so this isn’t inclusive but here’s some of my rares/unusuals are:

ps2: Burnout, The Dog Island (my childhood omg), SSX Tricky, We ❤️ Katamari (I just realized I don’t have Katamari Damacy but I also realized I know why…oof…maybe someday I’ll buy it again LOL)

Those are all mostly nostalgia games for me from stealing the console from my brothers 🥰

ps3: The Simpsons Game, Yakuza Dead Souls, Nier, Puppeteer, Journey Collector’s Edition, Hitman HD Trilogy

ps4, I’ll include all steelbooks: Hitman Complete First Season Steelbook, Dragon Quest XI (Definitive Edition), Final Fantasy XV Deluxe Edition Steelbook (probably the most gorgeous thing I own, I’ll add a picture at the bottom of this post), Yakuza remastered collection box set (with a freaking Y5 ps3 box lmao it’s empty but so sick…I actually have another remastered copy but it’s just the ps4 box with all the games), steelbooks for both kiwamis and LAD, and the essence of art edition of Y6 (phew, this was a lot lol)

Wii/GameCube: Pikmin (New Play Editions for Wii), Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, Kirby’s Dream Collection (the special edition/20th Anniversary thing), Animal Crossing GC and City Folk, PokePark 1, and Mario Party 4 and 8 (my two ultimate faves)

DS/3DS: Kirby Super Star Ultra, Super Princess Peach, Fantasy Life, Poochy and Yoshi’s Wooly World, Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, Pokemon Ultra Moon

and that’s about it for current consoles and games!

I also have the Yakuza 0 record collection and Cuphead OST records. The Cuphead is at my parents house cuz I basically forced my dad to listen to it since I needed his opinion (he’s a huge jazz fan so his opinion is so vital 😂). But I do have the Y0 set to show off.

Final Fantasy XV Steelbook:

#vg collection #thank you!!

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usingthisurlsomewhereelse · 2 years

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WOOOO NEW BLOG. talk to me abt ace i wanna hear abt them <3 are they from like, a fan game?

OMG YES MY BESTIE.Look At Them

^WHEN MY BESTIE

ya they are from a pokemon fangame called pokemon reborn (which this post contains very minor spoilers for i think if anything counts at spoilers idk) um i actually found it via a blazed tumblr post and went OMG popymon and downloaded it without a second thought.and that was an Excellent choice bc now i have My bestiest bestie ever<3they are a funny little magician programmer who is also a member of team meteor aka the villain team in reborn huh member of villain organization who wears a top hat whered i hear that one before and ummmmmm.Theye my bestie OK I NEED TO SAY MORE INFORMATION ABT THEM OTHER THAN THAT THEYRE MY BESTIE.BUT ALSO THEY ARE MY BESTIE.ALSO THEIR BIRTHDAY WAS ON THE 8TH LOOK AT THIS GIF EDIT I MADE.

art courtesy of crimsoncrim/crimcrimart again<3

also yes they are a canon theythem and also canon asexual bc what nonbinary named ace wouldnt be.Also fun fact they have different colors on their outfit for different card suits and they even have a RAINBOW ONE LOOK

ok not technically rainbow but its a cool gradient of colors and it is so epic<3AND AT ONE POINT IN THE GAME U GET A FENNEKIN THAT THEY LEFT IN THE PC FOR SOME LUCKY TRAINER AND THEY ASK U ABT IT IN THE POSTGAME AND WHEN THEY ASKED ME ABT IT I WAS SO EMOTIONAL ABT IT THAT I COULDNT HELP BUT KEEP IT IN MY PARTY<3i just.they are So.MY BESTIE.id kill and die for them i just appreciate them so much ok<3

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monkeyandlucas · 27 days

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Lucas & Monkeys Play-Doh Diner: Shrek & Friends Epic Food Adventure

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sonic7ischaos · 5 months

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So annoying when Sonic fans say "There is no definitive Sonic because everyone has a different jumping on point", like Sonic 1 had in series competition when it came out.

We've actually had the definitive Sonic from the beginning, liking Unleashed or Prime or whatever more doesn't make them the more authentic to Sonic's core artistic vision than Sonic 1 and the things that iterated directly on it. You make those things without Sonic 1 coming first and you'd NEVER come up with stuff like loops and rolling and the specific crossover between rubber hose animation and shounen battle/adventure anime stylistic sensibilities.

Everything that came after is either a remix of Sonic 1, or it isn't, and the ones that AREN'T are fundamentally less Sonic than the ones that are.

I've talked about this before, but the reason every Mario game or Mario side thing, like the movie, always feels like Mario is because it's all built on the foundation established in Super Mario Bros. Actually, it's why MOST Nintendo properties always feel like they belong to the same series, everything that they are, all the ideas they execute are built on the foundation established in their first game, with all iteration being additive to that foundation. This applies to EVERYTHING, game mechanics, musical composition, sound design, art direction, EVERYTHING. Super Mario Bros.' core gameplay is built around the way he runs and the specific inertial mechanics of that run, and the way he jumps, and the specific mechanics of his jump arcs, the way he interacts with game objects like blocks and shells. Those core run and jump mechanics can be found in every single mainline Mario game, and even a lot of the spinoffs use those 2 run and jump mechanics as a jumping on point for their own.

Take Zelda, which is built on free exploration, sword swinging, and item use to find secrets and open doors. From Zelda 1 to Breath of the Wild (haven't played Tears of the Kingdom yet), this has been at the core of what Zelda IS and so aesthetically it's only tied down in a few ways. Zelda can essentially take place in an entirely new world each and every time because its core elements are so consistent it doesn't even matter when it goes from a classic, grand, epic quest in a medieval fantasy kingdom to the cartoony, cel-shaded ocean world of Wind Waker to the Peter Jacksonian semi-grounded fantasy realism of Twilight Princess. It's always Zelda. And yes, until BoTW (or arguably Link Between Worlds, but that's another topic), that meant that there was a serious problem of stagnation, of repeating the same gameplay loop in every game (a problem Pokemon struggles with even harder, though Legends Arceus is more evidence to my point, since Pokemon is more about catching party members and the fantasy of building a team of favorites in the wild), but they MADE Breath of the Wild and by building it directly on the foundation of Zelda 1, it still felt like Zelda at its core.

I think it's a failing of language to some extent. People hear someone saying "it's LESS SONIC" and think they're saying it's worse, or bad. But Mario RPG is less Mario than Super Mario World, and it's not because it's classified as a spinoff. It's the reverse actually, it's classified as a spinoff BECAUSE it's so different, so much less of what Mario is on a gameplay level that it can't be anything BUT a spinoff. It still manages to feel like Mario in its own ways, the aesthetics, music, and mechanical references, that it doesn't catch any flack for being so fundamentally different (nor should it), but that's the thing, it's still not the definitive take on Mario, because one has already been established.

Sonic's problem is that it takes things that should've made spinoffs and keeps them in the same category of things as the main series, so now Sonic isn't about rolling and abusing the physics of inertia to platform, but now it's about boosting reaction challenges. It's not a series of semi-connected stories with an impatient delinquent with a heart of gold as its lead, but disconnected episodic stories with a self aware cartoon character as the lead. Even Frontiers, which is the first 3D game in the series I've loved since Heroes (because Mania exists) inherits some of these problems. As good as Sonic feels to control now, he's still not based on building inertia using running and rolling on slopes, which, good or not, is LESS Sonic. He still has the problem of missing his impatient, abrasive anime delinquency and disrespect for authority. The core art direction is still very disconnected from his origins, which feels less like the sort of intentional disconnect of Mario's aesthetics in New Donk City, and more like a consequence of carelessness about it. Frontiers didn't make the islands and cyberspace look like that to fulfill a creative vision that was consistent with Sonic, they did it because that sort of realism is cheaper and easier for modern 3D artists to make, because the industry prioritized it in developing the techniques and workflows for that sort of realism.

And yes. All this means that a lot of the Sonic stuff the fanbase has become invested in, Prime, the movies, even a lot of the games, from Unleashed to Frontiers I'd argue, and Heroes to 06 to a lesser extent, is LESS Sonic than the stuff that came before. It has less to do with the ideas that defined Sonic to begin with, and doesn't justify those deviations by making them explicitly not jumping off points for the main series. People jumping into the games expecting movie Sonic or Prime Sonic are not getting what they came for, because those things are so disconnected from Sonic's core ideas, and the people going from one era of the games to the next are disappointed for the EXACT SAME REASON.

And all this is coming from someone with more hope for Sonic than I've had since the leadup to Sonic 06, before THAT hammer came down and crushed everything in its wake. Sonic is course correcting, and it's closer than it's been in decades to that original vision. But it's not there

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic team #sega #game design #artistic integrity #sonic fans #sonic community #sonic discourse #the definitive Sonic comes from Sonic 1 #that's not even the best or my favorite Sonic game #2D OR 3D #Adventure 1 is my favorite game of all time #and my favorite 2D Game is a tie between Mania and Sonic 3K #Haven't played Superstars yet so I can't place it #this isn't me gatekeeping btw #like what you like #but to say there is “no definitive Sonic” is to fail to understand what that even means #SOMETHING defined Sonic or it wouldn't BE Sonic #Super Mario Bros. defined Mario The Legend of Zelda defined Zelda Megaman 1 defined Megaman and Sonic 1 defined Sonic #Everything you associate with the character and series came from there IT DEFINED those things so it is the definitive version #Words mean things #It's fine #in fact IMPORTANT #for series' to add and remove ideas to iterate on what came before #that's how good sequels happen #but you can't just replace all of what those sequels were built on without making something fundamentally disconnected from everything else #Sonic has ideas that define it #You're not building on what came before if you completely overwrite those definitive ideas #you're just replacing Sonic with something else and gaslighting people into thinking it's the same.

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