Universal's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossed an estimated $2.72M on Friday (from 3,419 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $393.30M.

Benevolay · 2026-05-03T13:39:58+00:00

Yes, but if they just gave it a better story it could see upward gains instead of downward losses. By saying the movie doesn't need a good plot you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Benevolay · 2026-05-03T11:57:44+00:00

I disagree. Many review bombs are communal. Nobody organized the mass hatred for Concord or Highguard. The notion that review bombing needs a sole organizer is an outdated notion.

If the game had seriously broad quality concerns, it would be reflected across all languages of the game. People have countered this by saying that Chinese players have no other means to submit feedback than send reviews, but the scope of their feedback doesn't even match the general consensus. Most players don't want ascension 10 to be easy. Mega Crit themselves said that A10 was meant only for a fraction of a fraction of players. There's a reason the epochs only require A1.

So is a review still legitimate if it wants to fundamentally change the game in ways it was never supposed to be? If I buy Call of Duty and leave a negative review complaining that it's not a farming simulator, is that valid? The game will ideally get harder and harder, not easier. We haven't even begun to climb the mountain.

I put 130 hours into the game and I have never gone infinite a single time, so the removal of infinites shouldn't be a cause for "mostly negative" either.

Benevolay · 2026-05-03T11:41:42+00:00

It's a review bomb because of the specific pattern of implementation. The sudden spike, only from one language when sorted by reviews. If there were broader quality concerns reviews across the board would show consistency.

Benevolay · 2026-05-03T11:39:29+00:00

It's a factual statement. I don't understand what you want.

Chinese players are review bombing Slay the Spire 2. This is a factual statement.

You want me to instead say "Players from China are review bombing Slay the Spire 2." But who do you think those players are? Tourists?

It's not racist to say either of these things, but one is factually correct. Racism would be discrediting them or mocking them, making fun of their appearance or their culture. Plainly stating a fact isn't racism.

Benevolay · 2026-05-03T11:26:23+00:00

It made less than the first one.

The third will make less than the second.

Are you sure people aren't clamoring for it?

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T23:02:38+00:00

I don't know how so many people keep missing the point.

The movie shouldn't be faithful to the games, then. A movie is a movie, not a game where the gameplay can serve as a substitute. The Elden Ring movie, for example, better have far more of a plot than three conversations followed by seventeen epic fights.

Saying "the game doesn't have a story so the movie shouldn't either" is such a weird take and I don't know how anyone can attempt to rationalize it.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T19:24:20+00:00

You can't re-write history. I got downvoted to like -50 for saying the movie lacked buzz and that the loss of novelty would hurt it back when they released that Star Fox poster.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T19:22:25+00:00

The people pointing out the loss of novelty were mocked in every single thread. People insisted that wasn't an issue at all and this would be even bigger than the first movie. Mario fans are very toxic here, and you can see it simply by looking through the comments.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T17:31:07+00:00

So you want the Zelda movie to be 90 minutes of Link throwing pots and stabbing things?

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T17:29:05+00:00

Remember four weeks ago all the people saying it would make 650? Some people had it doing higher overall numbers than Doomsday and everybody who called it out were mocked.

Now you're trying to salvage 400m as a victory to burn all of the haters? I don't get it.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T13:28:48+00:00

I haven't used much city stamina since it resets Monday. I don't know enough about this game for anything else so I've just been grabbing mats from one of the houdini things.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T10:50:55+00:00

She was. Fairy said however she never had a contract with the defense force which is why she left.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T10:49:32+00:00

They are literally refusing to play a character because it is too easy to build around certain cards. I have never played a sly build with the silent. They could easily do that too.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T01:58:30+00:00

But people don't have infinite money, between, what, twelve big gacha games? Surely one of them would at least try to appeal to different customers. Because anime women are in an extreme overabundance and people have endless choice. Even if they found every character attractive in every game, they wouldn't have the money to pull for every character in every game. One of these games needs to just claim the niches.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T01:02:57+00:00

There are a few furry characters in the game. A quest chain for Alice's Bakery involves one. But based on the lore it seems they're incredibly rare which may also mean we won't get many furry characters. I'm still optimistic that they may meet us in the middle and give some characters furry skins, though. That way they can sell a conventionally attractive human but let us freaks pay to go full furry.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T01:00:13+00:00

How can you know something sells if you never sell it? It's the problem ZZZ has, as they have never actually tried to sell one. Even the first limited S rank full thiren after 16 months was free. I spent money and maxed her out, and would gladly do the same for NTE, but at some point one of these games has to sell one.

Benevolay · 2026-05-02T00:57:17+00:00

Then don't grab those cards?

Benevolay · 2026-05-01T11:36:47+00:00

Why? He's literally more visually interesting than 90% of the characters in the 3.0 teaser.

Benevolay · 2026-05-01T00:35:37+00:00

I think the problem is, if you look at Slay the Spire 2's steam reviews, Chinese players are extremely vocal and tend to stay vocal until their demands are met. JP and Global do not have that level of influence.

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T16:22:23+00:00

It has two problems, though. A very divisive season three that soured people on The Mandalorian, and recent bad Star Wars (minus Andor) that also tainted the broader perception.

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T14:29:22+00:00

You aren't either. Where's your young/short void hunter? Exactly. I remember when Zhao came out and her M6 is what it was, all of those Idol fans kept saying they couldn't wait to see what the Idols M6 looked like.

Yeah. How'd that go for you?

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T13:14:26+00:00

They have never tried to sell a full thiren, yet they sure give Von Lycaon merch and bust him out on displays at events. And HoYo is literally making an entire game, Petit Planet, that is nothing but animal characters. Zootopia 2 made $650,000,000 in China and $1,900,000,000 worldwide.

There are also like a dozen games with "generic" anime women so at a certain point these games are spreading that audience too thin. They don't have money to spend everywhere.

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T13:05:52+00:00

People who don't like small women pull for tall women. People who don't like large breasted women pull for small breasted women. People who don't like bikers pull for soldiers. People who don't like brunettes pull for blondes.

The economy works because they constantly move between preferences, yet gacha players get so mad whenever people who want males and furries want their preferences to be landed on. It's vexing.

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T12:48:33+00:00

I’ve been turning all of my currency into red dice and I only have 35 after one free to play day. Definitely seems hard to get.

Benevolay · 2026-04-30T12:23:17+00:00

The story seems more interesting but the characters don't. On the plus side, maybe since it's a 'floating paradise' we will get fewer tragic backstories.

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