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Flying an active volcano into it

Donkey Kong Country (Super Nintendo)
Shaq Fu (SNES, Genesis)
King of Fighters '94 (Arcade, Neo Geo)
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Arcade)

WHIRLPOOL
+3 Castform
+2 Palossand
+1 Gorebyss
-1 Skarmory
-2 Eevee
-3 Axew

this is a rare division where i'd have rather given a + to everything down to skarmory, and don't feel comfortable giving eevee or axew minuses either. oh well

STRING SHOT
+3 Carnivine
+2 Electrike
+1 Jellicent
-1 Gourgeist
-2 Hakamo-o
-3 Goodra

looking through at what i feel might as well warrant a bump up before the lock deadline and eh this works

+ Beatmania IIDX 16 Empress | Turii ~ Panta Rhei | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtgifnqxhM

+ LOSTCOLORS/Gentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec

no regrets

15
++ Pudding | Encounter | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUqK9Ia_-GY
TRACKLENGTH: 6"26
COMPOSER: watson (MusMus)
Released 2023/10/25

- LOSTCOLORS/Gentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec

once more with feeling (i used the wide slash again the first time lmao) (i still want this to be a single currently i'm not dropping it outright)

oh no

just kidding of course

- TEKKEN REVOLUTION | wHITe | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0Aut9yTPM

You're still safe (no change for now)

5
Fight Crab 2 | You still my loves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-k7vTfNAQ
TRACKLENGTH: 448
COMPOSER: DEKU (vo. MuMemkyo)
Released 2024/02/14

9
beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER / SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR | Discordia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA89jaMWScQ
TRACKLENGTH: 202
COMPOSER: Penoreri vs. BEMANI Sound Team "HueR"
GENRE: CROSSOVER
Added 2021/04/07

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Doubles to singles (these will be reassigned tomorrow depending on the situation tbh)

2
- Touhou Gensou Mahjong (Switch) | Tales of Far East Soul | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlUdJ34inA
TRACKLENGTH: 3"22
COMPOSER: ZUN
ARRANGER: TECHNOuchi feat. Hayashi Saki
Added 2021/12/16

4
- Mashiro Witch - Midnight Marchen | requiemforxxx -InParadisum- | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdttllnbSg
TRACKLENGTH: 3"25 (1"55 loop)
COMPOSER: xaki (HiguUmi Sound)
Released 2018/11/01

7
- Ano, Subarashii wo Mou Ichido | Sekai no Chishiki (Sogetsu) (FM Ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQW1yWsv1fE
TRACKLENGTH: 307
COMPOSER: Mizuno Hiroyuki
Released 1999/09/15

8
- LOSTCOLORSGentei Saisouban | RGB | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tS_lp20ec
TRACKLEGTH: 229
COMPOSER: Mizuno Hiroyuki
Released 2015/05/02 (orig. 2004/02/22)

10
- Noctuary | Chromesthesia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6XZyKI2vA
TRACKLENGTH: 329
COMPOSER: Nhato
Released 2023/11/28

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Bye (nobody's allowed to support these now because i said so)

1
- Senko no Ronde DUO/2 | Unholy Pray (alternate ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC_MSd450o
TRACKLENGTH: 3"38
COMPOSER: Watanabe Yasuhisa
Released 2017/09/06 (orig. 2010/05/10)

3
- Mist Train Girls ~From the Window of the Mist World~ | Mist Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7uSX1sqHNc
TRACKLENGTH: 4"20
COMPOSER: Kudo Yoshimi (vo. Kawasaki Hinako)
Released 2020/09/16

6
- SEQUENCE PALLADIUM 3 | Extraordinary Silence | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urT5QvMIrpA
TRACKLENGTH: 229
COMPOSER: Saitoh Hiroto
Released 2004/06/03

11
- Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Itoshisa no Photograph | Amai Hanazono ~Complete MIX~ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvSnMiIWZ8o
TRACKLENGTH: 4"35
COMPOSER: Hamada Tomoyuki (vo. Haruna Yumi)
Released 2008/06/06

12
- Placid Plastic Duck Simulator | Reflecting Pool | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2y-165KmQ
TRACKLENGTH: 329
COMPOSER: Wizard of Loneliness
Added 2022/12/16

13
- TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Wii U Edition | Highschool love! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUWG58l-s_I
TRACKLENGTH: 1"41
COMPOSER: Shiina Go (NBGI) (vo. Laura Intravia, Nicole Intravia, Joe Popson, Omar Najmi, Nakagawa Nami, Doi Shoko (NBSI))
Released 2012/11/18

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Now that I've caught up on the playlist, I'm going to evaluate my options now. See you in an hour or a few if I decide to make any moves before the lock deadline.

Oh yes, and one more thing

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+ TEKKEN REVOLUTION | wHITe | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0Aut9yTPM
TRACKLENGTH: 2"07 (1"54 loop)
COMPOSER: Yano Yoshihito
Released 2013/06/11

Wordle 1,044 2/6*



heck yeah (i got unreasonably lucky with that first word lol)

let's go was pretty much an anti-experiment, they were hedging their bets by maximising the casual appeal (from go players and anime fans) so that feels like a pretty bad example compared to "x and y sequel for legends arceus players"

anyway i was caught out, i was rewriting the narrative of the topic to suggest that the choice would be THE launch title, the flagship

pretty difficult to say tbh since a lot of stuff was 30fps locked and still couldn't stay there

if we ignore all the gross galarian variants and sneasler and arguably overqwil sure

while that is not wrong, can you really imagine nintendo deciding to rely on a... sequel? prequel? to do the business for them on a new unproven console

i'm even doubting that mp4 would manage to leave enough of a dent if it doesn't at least also come with 1-3 hd

the possibility that switch 2 could be another wii u case isn't impossible

MacArrowny posted...

Pokemon Z-A itself seems like it might be coming out around the same time as the Switch 2.

to elaborate, while it wouldn't surprise me if z-a could be a launch title for switch 2, i think it'd only really be a key system seller if it was gen 10 (and also far less rushed than swsh/sv which is impossible given the circumstances)

gen 8 poison was maybe in the running for my least favourite possible type-gen combinations even before the tournament phase so

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+ TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 Wii U Edition | Highschool love! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUWG58l-s_I
TRACKLENGTH: 1"41
COMPOSER: Shiina Go (NBGI)
VOCALS: Laura Intravia, Nicole Intravia, Joe Popson, Omar Najmi, Nakagawa Nami, Doi Shoko (NBSI)
Released 2012/11/18

nobody asked for this but i decided i must

if the metroid launch game in question is prime 4 (and trilogy hd at the same time) then yeah it would be the big one, anything less and it's debatable

paper mario would not be unless it's literally a ttyd hd direct sequel lol

pokemon would be a good one if they were solely focusing on it rn and not busy making z-a lol

animal crossing would be if the switch 2 launch coincided with a new epide-too soon?

dkc is a solid shout but it'd need to be something on a level beyond anything the series has had before to be a STRONG launch title compared to what came before. i wouldn't rule that out though, they've had time to quietly plan something like that

if pikmin 4 had been a switch 2 launch title then it'd have been pretty good for one, but since it's not...

KI would be a bold launch title tbh, i think it'd only work if it's specifically an uprising hd release and the switch 2 is prioritising all the same things that the 3ds had, 3d included (and that's never happening)

star fox could've made for a good launch title but zero's reception killed any hope it'd have at being treated as a flagship now

mario sports games are not system sellers lol

smash and mk are the obvious answers

still i think it's a less than good sign when a followup to nintendo land feels like a better system seller than most of them (in all fairness i think that could comfortably rival the peaks of the wii series on a console with a far higher potential install base)

Wordle 1,043 4/6*

7

X-Scissor Division
+3 Phione
+2 Kyogre
+1 Masquerain
Meowscarada
Manaphy
Forretress
Nidorina
-1 Furfrou
-2 Minior
-3 Iron Treads

yes i am probably the only person who likes phione markedly more than manaphy lol

Sucker Punch Division
+3 Jumpluff
+2 Grovyle
+1 Omanyte
Tentacruel
Wingull
Alomomola
Nuzleaf
-1 Monferno
-2 Brionne
-3 Great Tusk

needless to say, i'm more of a donphan fan than of either paradox form

oh i did not expect to see a fight crab support, that's an interesting development...

i guess i am technically at 5 supported noms now but like i already mentioned i plan to do drops once i'm done catching up on noms (i've only now hit nom 450/4 pages done, progress was worse than i expected today...), there is now a chance i'll switch doubles around when i do though

ok i've decided now to switch to Ace Combat 3D: Cross Rumble+ (aka. assault horizon legacy+)

there's not much advantage to the + version but there's also no reason not to pick it when it's right there

but yeah they may have had to downscale compared to the psp games even but it was still a planegame with a lot of massive stages and stuff (3d was well optimised too)

gonna be honest here when i suggested the prompt i was assuming the answers were going to be mostly things like Tactical Espionage Action or Cyberpunk Bartender Action and all

i guess there were some but eh. still can't complain at the results we're getting instead tho

DeviDoesNothing posted...

in that case I can confirm that video is already down

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e14978e0.jpg untrue

since i'm pretty sure chromesthesia is the unsupported nom of mine with the most interested I'm going to go ahead and make that my last double

+ Noctuary | Chromesthesia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6XZyKI2vA

i want to note that i will be dropping any unsupported ones tomorrow (once i'm caught up on listening, i'd guess like 40 hours from now) though, so just be aware that these are on my chopping block as things stand

Senko no Ronde DUO/2 | Unholy Pray (alternate ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nC_MSd450o
Mist Train Girls ~From the Window of the Mist World~ | Mist Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7uSX1sqHNc
Fight Crab 2 | You still my loves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-k7vTfNAQ
SEQUENCE PALLADIUM 3 | Extraordinary Silence | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urT5QvMIrpA
beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER / SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR | Discordia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA89jaMWScQ
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo: Itoshisa no Photograph | Amai Hanazono ~Complete MIX~ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvSnMiIWZ8o
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator | Reflecting Pool | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2y-165KmQ

Snarl Division
+3 Kirlia
+2 Shiftry
+1 Mismagius
Dugtrio
Shuckle
Quaxly
Typhlosion
-1 Dipplin
-2 Raticate
-3 Nymble

Explosion Division
+3 Breloom
+2 Lombre
+1 Gothitelle
Persian
Staryu
Poltchageist
Azumarill
-1 Calyrex
-2 Dragalge
-3 Genesect

feel a bit said i couldn't also + persian or staryu, though i'm neutral at best on the rest

LightningStrikes posted...

There are more New 3DS exclusives than PS5 exclusives lol. But yes, lets combine them together. I still dont think its Xenoblade because its kind of a messy port.

i agree, it was a victory to get it on the 3ds but quite a pyrrhic one given the extreme limitations even as an exclusive to the enhanced hardware. still it was an easy meme vote though lol

i might change my vote by the end, i haven't decided on what to yet though... i'd had stuff like the aforementioned sonic all stars transformed, mk7 and also ace combat 3d on my mind

(sonic transformed runs like absolute hot garbage on 3ds though, and i'm not fully convinced that either of the others is a good pick really)

there are literally like 5 new 3ds games though lol, i think it's fair to amalgamate them here

Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

lol

Escalator

(yes, escalator, not elevator)

FL81 posted...

French (chaos language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TjVfCR9N7M

Wordle 1,041 3/6*

i'm not sure what i thought the angle of this topic was going for when i opened it but i don't think it was this

i don't think i usually think of settings in fiction when i'm dreaming

MacArrowny posted...

Also why are you including sequels when we're specifically excluding them?

mostly because initial d and yama no susume were the two 9/10s i had marked lol (i only have 0.4% of the anime i watch above an 8)

(edited because i mathed very wrong lol)

edit 2 actually wait i miscounted the shows it's actually less than 0.1% lol (most of my 9+es are for films so)

as someone who really likes altaria i actually am still amazed it ever got a mega, especially while flygon didn't. the gap in their popularity is colossal. i felt it was in the running for the least popular fully evolved mon in gen 3, along with the likes of medicham, swalot, grumpig, masquerain and cradily (which i also like personally for the most part, but, y'know)

i was skim checking the comments after my last post on the prior topic and i noticed some talk about 2014's anime, and since that was one of the years i watched a decent amount(https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bb581ae9.png) i figured i might as well say what my favourites that year were

i get it wasn't for everyone by then but liked the conclusion to initial d a lot and still consider it a ways better than mf ghost s1 at a minimum
yama no susume s2 is a top 10 anime season for me of anything so that alone definitely carries the year for me
madoka clones as they may have been, yuuki yuuna and selector infected+spread wixoss were both amazing imo
kawai complex was legit tbh
mekakucity was also a strong showing and underappreciated given it was still in the middle of peak monogatari years (and nisekoi was there too i guess)
wake up girls is still one of the most uniquely worthwhile idol anime and it deserved a lot better at the time (even if it fell off in quality hard past s2)
a lot of anticipated shows of the time fell off in due course, such as aldnoah, terror in resonance, trinity seven, mahouka, black bullet, tokyo ghoul, glasslip, (maybe) m3, and chaika... but some were still at least solid even while underperforming, which is why i'm not putting akame ga kill, shingeki no bahamut or noragami in the same category personally (i get others definitely would disagree though)
besides yamasusu s2, while 2014 did lack the presence of stuff like kiniro mosaic or non non biyori on the cgdct/iyashikei front, it did also have gochiusa and somewhat unique productions like hanayamata and sora no method to make up for it

and short anime had arguably their peak year then, with ai mai mii s2, both seasons of strange+, hacka doll and tesagure s2 all among my favourites in that niche, even if one DOESN'T of course count yamasusu s2 lol (and they're unlikely to ever leave that upper eschelon given the state of modern short anime...)

on the ova side, the japan animator expo series brought about a lot of great pilots, and the young animator training project then known as anime mirai also had a strong year then too (even if the projects then never got the recognition little witch academia or death billiards did). it was a bit of a nothing year for feature length films though, outside of marnie and expelled from paradise if you want to be exceedingly generous (i wouldn't even be putting it in the discussion as a key film release if not for the sequel tbh)

building further on my comment (more biased commentary i'll spoiler to avoid trying to influence votes incoming) the big reason i somehow ended up neglecting to directly touch on before on why i felt an mmo was notable is because among the many ways the wii was a terrible option for one, its netcode being complete and utter dogshit compared to the ps3 and 360 (even if, again, technically still demonstratably "viable" thanks to the likes of pso and arguably also ffxi before them, never mind the fact that they needed adapters lol) was a crucial point. the amount of headaches i can imagine development must've caused at the time makes me really wonder why they didn't just jump ship to solely working on the wii u version at a moment's notice. heck, even the fact that they didn't cancel it and only release the wii u version at the time was wild, it was right before its release.

i do think that wii spearheading motion controls did give a valid reason to consider games that put said tech to actually impressive use (especially given the advantages wiimotes still hold in several areas over the likes of joycons), the one real issue is not much of that is really at the top of the pile here past that, as many of the more experimental stuff was just remarkably limited on the control front because of it (often only playable in one control style, or else practically only)

of course, considering that most of the real technological advantages the wii had over the gamecube were the larger disc sizes, it's not really super fair to say its games should've been any looking better than they did lol. it was a low budget shovelware library system for reasons beyond just its successfully marketed gimmicks, there was just that little reason to push it given how blatantly far behind it was for its time

in light of that, it's another reason i think the fact that SE decided an mmo was worth pursuing on the system at all is a noteworthy outlier, even if it wasn't the most advanced on the market. sure, there wasn't much doubt that it could handle one given the gamecube had pso, but there was really no reason to put in the work to make one for the wii of all things in its generation, let alone to continue prioritising its development through two further expansions (well okay, square was also still supporting ps2 ffxi so it's not that out there but still, ps2 was actively comparable to it in performance right down to the disc space lol and there were reasons to optimise its (non-gimmick) hardware. heck the sheer novelty value of ffxi on ps2 kicking on more than likely lead it to hold onto a larger playerbase through the 2010s than dqx did even in just japan, probably)

man

what *was* the last movie i watched i actually can't remember lol

whatever the case absolutely not since i thought of a battle royale (in particular fortnite entered my mind) so

edit: oh it totally was wonka i'm grateful the rest of the topic jogged my memory. still absolutely not lmao

figured i'd mention i was contemplating other alternative options like smg 1/2, sonic colors, dkc returns, skyward sword, and also the last story, but due to their largely linear design they didn't really justify being taken over xenoblade imo (it's probably not a big surprise but colors had the overall edge among them slightly for me). i also thought a bit about ones like brawl (for how much content it had), mkwii (for having much better netcode), certain gamecube ports such as new play control pikmin 1 or 2 and re4 (for the quality of their controls), and i also thought about prime 3 and also prime trilogy, and if not for the fact that i realised that dqx beat it out handily in size and scope i probably would've gone with trilogy

AriaOfBolo posted...

it's the anxiety

this tbh

NO RETREAT
+3 Ivysaur
+2 Dewott
+1 Magneton
-1 Turtonator
-2 Charcadet
-3 Landorus

LIGHT SCREEN
+3 Chimecho
+2 Porygon2
+1 Samurott
-1 Wiglett
-2 Gloom
-3 Whirlipede

Wordle 1,040 5/6*






had a brain fart on the 3rd and 4th guesses tbh, put the same letter in the 4th slot three times in a row and didn't think about it since i'd also put it in the 2nd on guess 2

+ Mashiro Witch - Midnight Marchen | requiemforxxx -InParadisum- | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdttllnbSg

doubling down on another of my supported noms

once i get to 5 noms with supports i may cut all the others, thinking about that now (there's no rush though, i don't even have supports planned out until i check day 2 and beyond noms, which i guess i'll finally get started on tomorrow after having taken this multi-day break to catch up on anime/event albums/videogames, just figured i'd make it clear now that i most likely will be aiming to cut a lot of stuff eventually)

xenoblade is an easy answer but it's guaranteed on the poll so instead i'll give a support to Dragon Quest X, for being unsurprisingly the only game big enough to require multiple discs lol

SUPERSONIC
+3 Claydol
+2 Blaziken
+1 Vanillish
-1 Umbreon
-2 Wartortle
-3 Zeraora

SILK TRAP
+3 Minun
+2 Coalossal
+1 Dunsparce
-1 Naganadel
-2 Grimmsnarl
-3 Sandy Shocks

i'm not usually one to be negative about these divisions but yeah silk trap is kinda one of the weakest so far for me by a lot

5

bad anime entry gets a bad anime twist closer when it didn't even need to

4

a... ahem, stellar cast can't save this one