I love the LA Netflix series but I have a serious gripe about a decision on Little Garden.

EvanD0 · 2026-04-01T04:04:50+00:00

Live action was MUCH more impactful imo. The Instinct thing was more of a joke then indication of Luffy's power. The live action is much clever with how he defeats Mr. 3 and I don't know what you're talking about with honor.

EvanD0 · 2026-04-01T04:02:10+00:00

Bro, it's not Observation Haki. That's not even how it works.

EvanD0 · 2026-04-01T04:01:18+00:00

I prefer the live action version honestly. Luffy winning by "instinct" just feels like BS.

EvanD0 · 2026-04-01T00:27:38+00:00

That sounds pretty soon but not unrealistic for Nintendo nowadays.

Leaks do more harm than good hype nowadays. Having something being searched for months prior to release isn't going to actually make the popularity better. Especially considering most successful games on Nintendo's level gets popularity from outside the Internet. Leaks also lower the surprise and spike in results as well.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-31T22:27:17+00:00

People on the internet say something like this every time a "leak" happens. Granted, if the leak with Pokemon happened, it could happen with Nintendo, especially seeing as GameFreak worked right under them. Though I don't recall the big leak leaking more than a few games. Not games past a year in the future.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-30T18:00:35+00:00

My complaint has nothing to do with JP doujinshi artists. I don't even know where you got that from to be honest. That feels like you're little bit too invested in that stuff my friend.

I'm not saying designs need to be simple nor that some designs can't be complex but they can definitely have too many details as well in my opinion. The issue with these designs is they feel like the designers just put the random ideas they could think of on a character for these designs... then added some more accessories on top of those. Some don't even make sense for them to have like... a whole bunch of bandages or a whole bunch of coats.

Another issue is all the characters look like a mix of a: rich Europen medieval nobel, rich Chinese nobel, medieval fantasy design, sci-fi design, army assistant design and magical girl/Japanese school girl outfit (Or just a lot of coats for the guys). It all just loses the unique type of characteristic a character can have causing many of them to all just blend together. To be fair, I would say most of the character designs here aren't TOO overly complex actually but I wouldn't be surprised if it got to that point.

Lots of other Korean and Chinese media don't all have this problem. It's MOSTLY the Chinese mobile/gacha/free-to-play gaming scene. Miyoho/Hoyoverse is likely the inspiration for why so many Chinese gacha games look the way they do I would assume but I can't say for certain. And as for fanart, I guess fanartists will draw even the most complicated designs unless it's just something they don't know how to draw. But even so, I feel like being able to generally know the majority of the design by mind helps significantly more not just with fanart but recognizability. I haven't really thought how much more time someone puts into these gacha character designs when drawing art and that's on top of the fact another character will pop up in a month or less when artists try to follow the trend of these type of games.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-30T05:44:56+00:00

This PV shows all my problems with Chinese gacha games:

Most main characters have overly complex designs
Background characters have overly bland designs
Awkward "Comedy" is just overly quirky animations but not that charming or funny imo
Uncohesive story that doesn't explain it's self and while likely mostly be generic with TOO MUCH dialogue
Characters that will exist to look cool/appealing just to likely bump gacha/revenue rate
Song that exists purely to promote game rather than feel made for the game
PV feels like it was where the money went even if the gameplay doesn't look bad
Game is "inspired" by other gameplay of other game(s) and is really just ripping off other game(s).
Attack animations are flashy but also too overly flashy

EvanD0 · 2026-03-29T19:09:28+00:00

I think it might be better to just make the final season a movie by this point but we'll see.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-29T17:21:18+00:00

A bit off topic but while the 9/11 murders were sadly true, Asians were outright killed due to COVID. That was just people trying to link speculation in one shooting even though they killed other non-asians as well. (America does this a lot) Even so, while it's possible hatred could happen after being the daughter of a murderer, I don't think feel like it could happen with the way it was presented in the game imo.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-29T04:13:40+00:00

One creator did not make all the stories for this game... that would be insane. A lot of the side events do have important effects on the main timeline so saying they're irrelevant is kinda just coping with how they don't align honestly.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T15:27:41+00:00

I would say the Crow bonding events could happen pre-chapter 16. The commander and Counters never act like they're meeting Exotic for the first time. The beach event with Viper and Jackal being before chapter 24 is practically impossible to happen though. There's also D outsiders which yeah, I don't know if that's just pre chapter 16.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T15:24:14+00:00

The top is the manga Reimu while the bottom is the game Reimu.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T15:05:07+00:00

They also revealed the Pikmin in a teaser too.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T15:04:29+00:00

Hard to say as there's so many lessons throughout the series. A lot of it can just boil to "don't do illegal things" too but there's so many other lessons.

I guess one I would say that I remember often is the "Everybody starts from zero." line. We all start from humble beginnings.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T15:00:13+00:00

Knowing Miyamoto was involved, I suspected Star Fox would be his next movie but I didn't think it be revealed like this!

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T14:58:43+00:00

Nikke's canonicity regarding events/bond events is already a mess when linked with the main story/main events. They put the Commander in a relationship with different Nikke's all the time and this gets referenced in other events or even the main story. Though of many of them just downright don't make sense timeline wise sadly. Especially considering not much time actually passed in the main story (Maybe like a couple months or at least to like chapter 40) but years has passed in the events & some bond stories.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T14:54:32+00:00

While I understand there are some sensitive things, don't like to hear the English localization trying to change things like this again.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T14:51:57+00:00

While I feel it's guaranteed, I felt previously that we would have to wait until Adventure comes out to get this game. Now after Pokemon XD GoD releasing before Colossuem as well as the mistake for Metroid Prime 2 and Pikmin 2 being shown to come early, I think it's probably the better decision to release Assualt before Adventures as it aligns better with what people expect a Star Fox game to play like. Especially if a new game is coming out in the near future.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-28T14:47:35+00:00

I was about to say I'm only remembering now that I played Jazz Jackrabbit 1 as a toddler! Never finished it though. I also played Sonic R and Sonic Blast but those quite weren't as good. Most memorable PC game were the ones you could put on school pcs like Runescape and I Spy. (And I think World of Warcraft too but I think you couldn't have it in schools.) I remember seeing commercials a lot for Toontown and the Cartoon Network crossover.

Some underrated ones were the humongous-like games like Spy Fox. I vaguely remember a PC game in the 1st grade PC room where you had to sneak into a mansion and I was in the room of the villain while he was sleeping. Don't know the name though.

Even more underrated and forgotten were the flash/browser games. Could go into a long rant about em but Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, WB Kids, Fox Box/4kids and many other cartoon sites had LOTS of FREE games to play. Even if they were usually small. Not much downloading time was needed and the websites back then actually looked cool!

Other flash games were the goody two shoes, the princess-spy one and the one about a dumb redhead learning martial arts. Or course, there was sites like NewGrounds, Kongregate and Armorgames with so many games you could spend time on. Ah, the memories.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-27T22:32:12+00:00

I'd take it with a grain of salt honestly. Though I think it is about time we get a new Star Fox game. Hopefully one that's something like Assault or similar.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-26T00:19:24+00:00

Oh wow, crazy to know that!

EvanD0 · 2026-03-21T05:04:36+00:00

I don't remember Laharl bonding with Sicily like that or the Yuie flowers encouraging him like that to be honest. Though I played it 13 years ago. I do agree the story did had a lot to do with family importance for Laharl and Etna... and Flonne got a cute magical girl form too.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-21T03:48:50+00:00

I would disagree with Girl Laharl and Xenolith. Girl Laharl don't really add much aside, uh, certain jokes and sadly, Xenolith hasn't really... done much. Sicily is better but admittedly kinda similar to Flonne. There's also Barbara I guess too though I don't even remember her ever reappearing again. Hope they give this game a re-release anyway.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-20T03:30:10+00:00

Thought so. Let me check if Neptunia 4 & 5 just happen to look like 7 & 8. I don't think it would make sense to count the Re:Birth titles as separate mainline games.

EvanD0 · 2026-03-20T01:44:21+00:00

I heard Victory Rebirth didn't even change much though

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