The Nintendo Switch

https://i.imgur.com/P9YeM9d.png

nintendo getting hardcore there

damn

rip mario

sephiroth has murdered mario

I'm Mario and that's how my Smash Bros experience generally ends

if i count up my smash bros. fights over the years, across platforms, all on friends systems since i never owned it, i think my cumulative record is

0 - 57

"it's-a me!" but to the tune of aerith's theme

i haven't played smash bros since the n64 — the newer games seem kinda dumb with the ten billion characters to choose from

sephiroth isn't even a nintendo character!!

sonic has been in smash bros since like 2008!

the hilariously large roster is the main appeal of the newer ones

I've got no idea what a sephiroth is, but when we do play Smash Bros. we usually just set character to random.

i was gonna post a steve and alex video but are you telling me you've never played FFVII

Me? That's Final Fantasy, right? No, I don't have any idea what that game/those games are, really. I just assume all the characters I don't recognize in Switch are Final Fantasy, Pokemon, or some other beloved legacy games I've never played.

ok. just fyi that's a recreation of a much discussed and traumatic-for-some scene from final fantasy 7

Well it's safe to assume the characters you don't know are from a game you don't know, yes.

heres a website that will give you some background if you want to know what ff7 is all about http://izmo.tripod.com/project/ff7.htm

In the meantime, I am an absolute sucker for a beautiful looking indie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHuDtuUEyGo

I do know that people love the Final Fantasy ... music? And is this the series with the utterly impenetrable and/or confusing chronology/plot? Or am I thinking of Metal Gear Solid (another series I've never played)? Anyway, yeah, don't know much about games I've never played, but I do recognize a few Pokemon or Solid Snake characters here and there despite being unfamiliar with the properties. There are a host of Smash Bros. characters that are total blanks to me, though. Marth, Roy, Ike, Bob, Phil, Troy, Cletus ...

MGS is pretty impenetrable, but still amazing. Final Fantasy basically reboots every single entry and just carries certain creatures/magic/lore along but you don't need to play any entry to understand the next.

This is an extremely unoriginal complaint but this is the problem I have with all those Fire Emblem / general anime sword characters. For people unfamiliar with the source games, they're just so much more boring and generic than the more unique characters from games with overtly distinct art styles, and character variety is a very important part of any fighting game. They have to be visually/thematically memorable so that their movement and attacks are justified and differentiated (think Street Fighter). Anime character designs are a very ingrained part of JRPG franchises but they don't make for intriguing fighting game choices despite the fan service of including them into the all-star lineup.

The problem is worsened by Sakurai’s “protagonists first” philosophy, there’s archers and axe wielders and mages in fire emblem but Smash is loaded up with sword guys. If they had done Tifa, Aerith, or Barret instead of Sephiroth it’d be a better world but I guess we get another sword guy.

some of it is that the 'everyone is here' gimmick for this game meant they have to bring back a lot of overlapping ones where the past games would rotate them in and out

a lot of it is that they always choose the protagonist of the game rather than a distinctive secondary character and anime/jrpg protagonists tend to be straight out of central casting (since the contrast with more animated / visually distinct sidekicks is often the point!)

Xp Which I guess is the result of picking an antagonist over an ally, in any case, while Smash characters are extraordinarily varied in gameplay they are woefully male and light-skinned because they are drawing mostly from the protagonists of popular video games. Some people are very mad about this

ive never played smash but i like how they have all the characters its fun

https://i.imgur.com/VQyFc0V.png

you know what other game had cloud and sephiroth in it

https://i.imgur.com/cDxtPtt.jpg

maybe i should learn to be more like GamemasterAnthony

ive been meaning to talk to you about that

Smash brothers lineup selection began with an open session of vince mcmahon memes. Then they worked backwards.

I am truly pish at slay the spire :/

Slay the Spire is pretty fun but I'm no good either!

I can't do anything with the fourth character. Been enjoying replaying it since buying it on switch.

give us silksong u cowards

oh yeah what happened to that

They have been totally mum about it iirc. Like, no tweets or anything in months, maybe a year? Which I am all for if the game ends up as perfect as Hollow Knight.

Though speak of the devil, this popped up two days ago:

pic.twitter.com/OQ5o6EvAZH

— Edge (@edgeonline) December 13, 2020

And some psycho went deep

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJLgS5EeBK3nnCPb_vUGJCi32DqhqziYPQwxd92TtWM/edit

i can't believe hollow knight invented ellipses. what an accomplishment

alba looks lovely

too many games on my wish list on sale ffs

Which games? I need inspiration for new stuff to buy and never have time to play

Hades, Pathfinder

hades

hades.

hades.

It’s good?

GOTY iirc

Is Hades on sale?

iirc it was less than $30, brand new

i got 150 hours out of it. that's less than a quarter per hour, and it's arguably better than an arcade game

I picked up kentucky route zero and streets of rage 4. this is irresponsible when I'm still working through a backlog of: doom; doom II; doom 64; fight'n rage; slay the spire.

at least I didn't pick up the other games on sale from my wish list: paradise killer; hades; if found; river city girls

enjoying 'i am dead'
nice easy game, beautiful graphics, soothing with lovely voice performances

ha, that looks pretty cool actually