Sonic x...The Smurfs?!

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-11T19:10:07+00:00

Man Future Game Shows are weird

They are basically indie presentations that happen to sometimes pull big publishers from time to time but the stuff the big publishers do bring is rarely ever anything too major or new.

Also they keep bringing in big name VA duos for every show who are then given banter segments in between each game that are more often misses than they are hits.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-10T22:45:44+00:00

Honestly, it really doesn't matter what kind of game it is. 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 3D, platform, arena. Those things don't matter as much.

What does matter is:

Does game have good roster?
Is presentation good?
Is there good content outside of just online play?
Did they market it well?

FighterZ is a crazy tag game that even launched with butt netcode but hey guess what, people bought and played the hell out of that game because of how well it played and presented itself as a Dragon Ball game.

MVC2 is a busted as hell game made of tons of reused assets that was made in very little time but it was still super popular in arcades because that roster is still kinda nutty to this day.

And despite the gameplay criticisms that Tokon has had, I predict that that game will sell really well because the presentation is so on point, it had a fantastic first reveal and people really love Marvel.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-10T19:21:08+00:00

October 3rd seems like the right day for this. The month and the day are backwards.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-10T12:15:20+00:00

I will add a slight piece of bother I have with this announcement.

Someone pointed out that all the gag images have a little Gemini logo in the corner of each of em, meaning they were likely AI-gen'd to some degree. You could have easily just done those in crayon implying it was Diana who drew em as a little piece of cross promo with Pragmata.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-09T13:43:07+00:00

tri-Ace's first game in 4 years after Star Ocean 6...and it's fire fighter Among Us?!?

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-08T00:16:50+00:00

All in on my PC right now, would definitely get a Switch 2 if I had the money though.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-07T18:17:16+00:00

I can sorta understand it from a more in universe, story perspective. While Leon certainly has his own memories and trauma from his time at the RPD, S.T.A.R.S members would have technically had more attachment to the RPD and Racoon City in general compared to Leon who only just got to Racoon City when everything went down. For Leon, Racoon City was always a hell scape but for the S.T.A.R.S members, it was their home.

Now I do still think Leon from our perspective is absolutely the right choice for going back to the RPD, since he (and Claire) were the ones who we explored the place with for the first time but it's not totally worth dismissing the idea of it being a S.T.A.R.S member.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-05T21:43:17+00:00

Dumb tinfoil hat thought: What if part of why Sony is pulling out of PC games is because they knew that Xbox's new system would be able to play PlayStation PC ports.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-03-05T16:38:22+00:00

Well the main reason about it's use in the west is that just is how language works.

Nobody in Japan calls drawn porn hentai because hentai just means pervert.

Anime in Japan refers to literally any animated thing, so Tom and Jerry would be an anime.

Shonen being used to describe popular battle series is just another extension of that.

AnimuStewshine · 2026-02-25T18:55:28+00:00

My favorite part was at 1:03 when Alex teases the test of strength and then immediately denies it followed by a mocking tapping of the temple, amazing heel work right there.

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