I'm waiting on hold and sipping some kombucha so this is the perfect time to reply to some things I grabbed to quote later.
This is a weird thing to dig up, but do yall remember Aaron Webber, aka RubyEclipse? He ran the Sonic social media for a while (he's the one who turned the official Sonic twitter into a meme-spitting snark-fest), and ran a lot of their events, acting as sort of a community liason. A year or so ago he left the social media team, having been promoted to a pretty good position in Sega of Japan (Director of Strategy, Studio & Community Relations), and ever since I've been wondering:
What are the chances that these new directions, like open-world Sonic, their announcement that they were going to spread out releases in order to give the team more time to work/polish (which is why they said Rangers/Frontiers is missing the 30th anniversary), are at least in part due to this guy who was the Sonic fan community conduit being promoted to a position within the company where he could go to high-level Sega people and say "Guys, respectfully, here's how our fans think we're fuckin up and here's what we need to change"?
I'm obviously exaggerating a bit and I know corporate crap is not that simple, but I do wonder if Aaron's fingerprints can be found on Sonic's development now.
I don't remember why I quoted this but I really like the idea of this and I can see it happening. It seems logical that Sega of Japan was aware of how Sonic was marketed by Aaron in NA and got a deeper understanding of the West's complex fascination with Sonic this way.
I've been clamoring for a modernized Sonic Adventure for
years. Honestly that's kinda what I'm hoping Sonic Frontiers is.
Also, can I just say I actually preferred the same "Sonic Rangers?"
You mean
Dark Gaia? Where they tried to out-grimdark Perfect Chaos?
Maybe these were quotes from a Sonic thread. Oops. I really wonder why I quoted this. Maybe just that I really like Sonic Rangers too.
Just saw La La Land for the first time. Such a lovely film.
Also if Nintendo has anything else in the pipeline for March we could find out within just a few weeks and I think that's pretty cool.
Hey, within a few weeks we
did find out! This post is probably from within a few weeks ago. Are you excited for Kirby?
But yeah I quoted this because I absolutely love La La Land. It's one of my favorite movies. The soundtrack has been on repeat in my head for ... I can't believe it's been five years now. Feels like just yesterday I saw it in the theatre.
One of my hobbies is studying Japanese and I like to try to translate the songs from La La Land into Japanese in my head. 星の街。。。What's kinda cool is that City of Stars translates just like Kirby of the Stars.
Not my food entry since I’ll keep the other one, but I’m having fun posting my creations. I’ll probably make this a routine thing. Home made honey mustard chicken salad. Easy dressing (1 part Dijon, apple cider vinegar, EVOO to 3/4 part honey, then S/P to taste). Candied the pecans with some bourbon barrel maple syrup and cinnamon. Could be veg easily (not sure what a good vegan honey sub is. Probably agave due to consistency).
This looks amazing. I like the Cobb salad-type plating here with all of the portions of ingredients beautifully segmented into their own areas of the plate, like a delicious color wheel.
Well, I'm mostly over covid at this point, and was feeling well enough to actually play and beat a video game!
Decided to play Tangle Tower, a beautifully designed and animated mystery game that I bought a few months back but hadn't played... for no adequate reason. It's actually the third game in a trilogy, but the other two games are mobile games and a bit primitive in style compared to this one. It endd up being a very short game, only about 3-4 hours, but it's filled with tons of intrigue and charm. The character design if fantastic, the mystery is strange and compelling, and the atmosphere and music give me chills at time. If you like mysteries and have an afternoon to burn, I reccomend it!
Here's a trailer!
Tangle Tower was one of my favorite games I played in 2019. It's such a good PnC with a mix of Layton elements. I thought the OST and voice acting was top-notch, too. I hope we get a sequel soon. My other favorite PnC on Switch is Broken Age, so please give that a look sometime if you haven't yet.
I’ve been playing through the Kirby series. Did Dream Land 1,2,3 and Adventure and now I’m going on to Super Star. Don’t know if I’ll actually play through every mainline game of the series before the new one but definitely want to do a good amount. Might skip over the more modern games that I already played.
I think I just quoted this to say this is a really neat series for a playthrough. I think Canvas Curse and Mass Attack are must-plays - not to mention Epic Yarn - so I hope you give them a spin as part of your playthrough if haven't played them before.
I did enjoy Hey Pikmin. Thought it’s fun little game
Hey! Pikmin is a super under-appreciated game. I know
@TheMoon will back me up here. And the moon is the size of billions of Pikmin. But yeah it's a brilliant translation of the series into 2D and I hope other Pikmin fans here like
@Raccoon enjoyed it a great deal. The only miss for me is the choppy framerate on my OG 3DS for one of the levels. It made it feel impossible to get a Gold medal in that level. And they were really tough to get to begin with. But that's just part of the fun of Pikmin - mind-numbing difficulty to 100%. See also the brilliant and underrated Pikmin attraction in Nintendo Land.
Was gone for a bit and I have a lot of thoughts on the last 30 pages:
This NSMB praise pleases my soul.
While a new Mario Kart being in active development is about as obvious as the sky being blue, it’s just nice to have some Assurance™ that the game seems to be coming sooner rather than later, especially considering Tour seems to have eaten up a lot of manpower and is still getting consistent content updates over 2 years after launch.
This happened to me too. My circle pad started feeling weird almost immediately after playing Smash for the first time, then just a few months later it fell off.
Unrelated but the possibility of Kirby getting a release date within just a couple of weeks is every exciting, and a Direct just a few weeks after that even more so. Real life has been kinda meh lately, but Nintendo’s potential offerings for the near future fill me with joy.
I'm sorry to hear real life has been meh and I hope you are very glad about Kirby's release date. You and other posters who said similar things seemed to have willed it into existence. I'm really psyched it's coming out near my birthday. Tunic is coming out not long beforehand so I hope they both turn out to be amazing and make it really difficult for me to pick which to play.
I just want assurance that DK exists tbh. If I get that then I'll wait as long as I have to.
Same here. I mean, I know DK exists, because he resides on a little podium with the other amiibo in the closet in Pinto's bedroom/my office. But I would be very glad if DK exists
(Pinto is my kitty.)
This .gif is so wholesome and adorable. Dream Land 3 is filled with animations like this. I hope they revisit the style one day.
Man, it seems everyone is beating a game here. Just went through my first run of Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, no where done with playing, but still counts as beating a game I guess. lol
How are you liking SKPD? I haven't gotten a chance to play it yet.
LAST MINUTE FOOD ENTRY
@Skittzo
not sure if it counts since it was mostly assembly but this is romantic charcuterie
Charcuterie is so good. Love the berries on there too.
I really hope they announce a release date for Pac-Man Museum+ soon. I've got a Pac-Man Fever that only that collection can cure.
I've even got Pac-Fever dreams. I legit last night dreamt of a Pac-Man game for the Wii wherein Pac-Man's son is turned into a ghost, and Pac-Man has to come to terms with his son's condition. it was a visual novel like game and had a weirdly somber mood to it as Pac-Man struggled with concepts of mortality.
Now I really want to play that. Please make that game.
I only played a handful of Kirby games, but forgotten land is something I’m really excited for as well.
I also hope Kirby 64 comes to NSO before then, really want to check that out
Kirby 64 is really under-appreciated. One of the rare 2D console games from Nintendo in that era and they nailed it. Kirby's copy ability combos are incredibly awesome too.
Yall.
I just walked into a beef bowl place
(small town, nobody else in here, triple-vaxxed and masked, don't worry) and they're blasting, believe it or not, fuckin Japanese city pop. I know all these songs.
This
never happens. In all my 30
sumethin years of being a weeb, I've never walked into a place where they're blasting Japanese pop songs that I
actually know. Hell, that didn't happen in the two weeks I was
actually in Japan.
This is so cool.
I loved this story. This happened to me at an izakaya once. They were playing Anata ni by mongol800. I was like...oh shit, it's the theme song for Osozaki no Himawari. Amazing show and amazing song.
Just had an amazing day off
Morning: Waste time because there's not enough time before lunch to start anything substantial
Afternoon: Waste time because there's not enough before the dogs need feeding and my Mum gets home from work to start anything substantial
Evening: Waste time because there's not enough time before dinner to start anything substantial
Night: Waste time because there's not enough time before I have to go to sleep to start anything substantial
Fuck I just want to escape this cycle I barely do anything anymore except shitpost on the internet and mindlessly browse Reddit/Tik-Tok/whatever.
I feel you dude. Days off get sucked up like Kirby with a strawberry shortcake
sometimes. I'v found that for me the trick is to schedule yourself blocks of specific things you wanna do on your time off.
The COVID movie binge continued tonight with Once (2007). Really charming, scrappy little indie musical. Super simple, super romantic through a shared love of music between the two leads, and an incredible original soundtrack to back it up.
The guy who made this movie went on to produce and showrun the wonderful anthology Modern Love on Amazon Prime. If you haven't seen it I definitely recommend it.
Kirby looking promising in a first 3D game is great, but part of my brain is now demanding Cube Boy and see UFO as the next 3D games from HAL.
Brilliant. Cube Boy starring Qwerty.