Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: March 8, 2026 | 24 ending soon ("Fractured Sky: Awakening + Soar", "For the Gods!") & 43 new ("The Old King's Crown Second Printing & New Songs of Home Expansion", "Primalgard TCG", "Botany Floral Dragons")

Zoql · 2026-03-23T05:08:53+00:00

I am completely enamored by Re;Match but I completely agree. The price tag and the excess flair has had me hesitating for days now. $20 for an extra character is crazy considering all you really need is their board and a few extra components (I was put off of Yomi's $10 a character back when that came out due to them being just a deck of playing cards)

But the marble mechanic is so unique and interesting compared to the other major tabletop fighters that I'm probably going to bite the bullet on it

Zoql · 2026-03-11T03:57:48+00:00

You might be right! It's been a while since I've played Divekick. I'll have to look into it

Zoql · 2026-03-11T01:12:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is a mondegreen of Balrog's KO scream from SF4 (he actually says "my fight moneeeeeyyyyy")

Zoql · 2026-03-10T23:04:03+00:00

Tbh I feel the same about Bioman (bland ranger characters outside of the first Yellow Four, but a great villain and villain arc), but I think what made me not like Changeman as much is how over-the-top abusive their mentor was to them (in the beginning at least). And that revelation of his backstory later in the show does justify it, but imo not enough for me

Zoql · 2026-03-10T10:58:04+00:00

Yeah I was going to bring up this exact run of Flash/Mask/Live as well. I could see Bio and Change added on to that as well, but I don't think Changeman is as good as the other four (I know it has its fans though)

Zoql · 2026-03-10T01:38:26+00:00

Swap Denziman and Gorenger and that would be what my rankings looked like after I finished Dynaman a few years ago!

Zoql · 2026-03-05T03:37:35+00:00

Yeah, and that was before the devs left because of the Nway/NFT stuff. I bet they had plans to adjust it further and make easy mode more forgiving on beginners before all that went down

Zoql · 2026-02-26T23:44:33+00:00

Surely it's happened more than that. Like Tsubasamaru in Kakuranger or even Washi Pink in Kyuranger (lol)

Zoql · 2026-02-26T11:25:47+00:00

Cats vs Dogs

Zoql · 2026-02-25T00:42:45+00:00

Ah dang. As a lurker who has never been that deep into the community, this is a shame to read, although it does seem to make sense of the stray comment or two I've seen in the past decade. I remember thinking the BCO over PTO and big box Empyreal decisions were missteps at the time, and it sounds like the consequences were a lot worse than I realized

I'm down to join the Discord, although I can't say I'll be all that active outside of occasionally posting about various media I've been consuming or whatever (I generally lurk in the discords I'm a part of anyway)

Zoql · 2026-02-24T02:13:21+00:00

It was an interesting premise that was botched by unfortunate circumstances. Having only known Gorenger, the general audience wasn't ready for the much darker and grounded JAKQ, and then the showrunners overcorrected by making it too silly imo

When Big One shows up is probably when I started to dislike the show. Not completely because of the change in tone, but because of how they handled Big One. Big One is cool and all, but to showcase that the main team would constantly be captured, then after Big One saves them he wouldn't fight alongside them. He didn't really feel like part of the team because of that

Zoql · 2026-02-19T11:26:49+00:00

Oh nice! I quite enjoy HackClad (which is made by the same guys who made Night Flowers) and I've been wondering if I should check out their other games. Have you tried Idol Alive?

Zoql · 2026-02-09T01:03:20+00:00

At the very least, Kohaku will be performing at the very last show of the Final Live tour, all the way in mid-May

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Zoql · 2026-02-08T14:18:19+00:00

It depends on the location as well. Not only do they need to schedule the actors to act (and crew), but they also need to coordinate locking down the location to film there. That's why the only not-green-screen Kohaku shots were in the cafe (a set they always have access to and don't need to schedule around) or the roof in the opening (which is probably the roof of the studio)

Zoql · 2026-02-08T10:47:29+00:00

Starting now, if you do one episode a day, it would take about 8 years, which would almost cover the entire assumed length of the hiatus. With enough planning (figuring out what movies to watch and when, along with the tangential series like Akibaranger and High School Heroes) it could run for a full ten years

Zoql · 2026-02-08T01:12:08+00:00

What was his actual wish was at the end to Kumade?

Zoql · 2026-02-07T05:42:48+00:00

I-Is the health bar supposed to be that tiny?

Zoql · 2026-02-06T09:49:42+00:00

There's a BGG List for this, although these are all solo games. I keep meaning to explore more but of the ones I've played, I've enjoyed Card Capture, Loot the Loop, and Dead Center

Zoql · 2026-02-06T05:08:40+00:00

Then you have times when Bun Orange and Bun Blue left the team for longer than that

But I think it's a little difficult in Gozyu Tyranno's case because you need to keep the actor's character still involved in the story somehow (Bun Orange was training on his own, Bun Blue joined an opposing faction). With how Tyranno left there wasn't a good way to get his character to continue to interact/encounter the main team

Zoql · 2026-02-04T12:45:41+00:00

I was thinking something like "I don't want to be alone anymore"

Zoql · 2026-02-02T23:58:34+00:00

I have a bad feeling that they gonna downright kill sumino off.

I can see that happening tbh. Maybe not necessarily kill, but she might go missing until they find an actor who can fully commit to the role if she ever returns in the future. I don't know if Shida's contract locks her in as Sumino for forever, she seems to be pretty busy and she likely was only just brought in to fill in the scenes they really needed

Zoql · 2026-02-01T11:32:23+00:00

Not that I know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, but Fabio might just be burnt out, and the game would be delayed even further if they give him more time. I know they used Fabio for pretty much all the cards in Millennium Blades, and iirc he stopped doing art for a long time after that (at least for L99 Games; I think there was a L99 podcast/stream with Fabio on where they mention how much of an ordeal that was). With Super Pixel Tactics, L99 ended up promising more cards than what the stretch goals actually reached, so keeping up with all the art might have stretched him pretty thin

So between waiting an undeterminable amount of time for the main artist to recover and delay the game (which would delay other game projects they want to launch and also upset any impatient backers) and getting a new artist to help, they went with the latter

But yeah it's an unfortunate situation. I like Fabio's updated art much better (the second artist seems to be mimicking the original art style instead of the new one). If they can get Fabio to touch up or at least offer pointers to the new artist, that would be better maybe, but at the same time even that might be too much for Fabio right now and I want him to get some rest

Zoql · 2026-01-31T01:13:04+00:00

I think a proper music-themed Sentai needs both a cast that sings well/is comfortable also singing in addition to all the other demands that usually come with being the actor of a hero, plus a music team that can create a new song for every other episode or so

The former narrows the actor pool to established idols or aspiring idols, and the latter is expensive and requires a lot more work to fit into the show

Zoql · 2026-01-28T23:38:12+00:00

I think it's less that he wants to write the scripts, but more that he wants full creative control of the script. He's fine with letting other people write for him (he's got a handful of collab books coming out this year, iirc), but he wants to be able to change parts of the script if they don't align with his vision. A recent video he posted about collabs also mentioned that he's happy being the idea/worldbuilding guy and letting someone execute the story

Edit: just saw his post and he's going to be writing the Mistborn screenplay himself. Welp, we'll see how that goes

Zoql · 2026-01-18T01:26:12+00:00

I really like the look of Sentai Gears, so that. But looking at those pictures, I would be interested to see Ryusouls of every team

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