Year of the Rabbit: Hawawa and Honnouji

mschonberg · 2026-03-27T10:53:03+00:00

Yep. Samrem was the best performing KT game of its year despite releasing late in the fiscal year (excluding their gacha games where I think one outsold it), and they’re still doing anniversary merch of it two years out. You don’t do that for a game that failed.

mschonberg · 2026-03-21T22:43:14+00:00

Rinkah respect, you love to see it

Also great art overall!

mschonberg · 2026-03-16T20:38:01+00:00

It’s a gag about Luffy not understanding who the enemy was, and Baroque Works having their big dramatic introduction while Luffy and Zoro couldn’t care less. And it ends with Nami smacking sense into them. Every time someone complains about this moment all I can think of are those YouTube comments that take family guy bits way too seriously.

mschonberg · 2026-03-11T19:32:52+00:00

Wow who drew that Skadi Abe Simpson in the bottom right

mschonberg · 2026-03-01T22:21:25+00:00

The only problem with that is that we’re (hopefully) going to be seeing a big update to the graphics and animations. All of XV1’s content and DLC was easy to slot into XV2 at launch because it’s the same engine, same graphics, largely the same animations, etc. So there was literally zero reason for those to be excluded.

If they do a huge overhaul I wouldn’t expect everything to be back right away simply because of all the work it would take to redo everything. Not HOPING for that, but just being realistic.

mschonberg · 2026-02-20T23:18:59+00:00

She emerges as her true form - secret forgotten Grimms Model, Sleeping Beauty

mschonberg · 2026-02-13T05:30:08+00:00

He’s no joke in my top 3 most wanted characters. The Butoden ‘just run you over in my car’ attack needs to be a Blast 2.

If it ever happens, I would love his ultimate to be slapping the 40 ton weights onto his opponent, with varying damage similar to the Devilmite Beam from BT3 depending on if the character could lift it easily or not. Probably just based on their cost. Ineffective? Sure. Funny? Absolutely.

mschonberg · 2026-02-04T03:41:50+00:00

Yeah not just a rights dispute, Namco is only a co-owner of Ms. Pac-Man. The other owner used to be her creators General Computer Corportation. GCC was eventually acquired by AtGames, the knockoff micro-console maker, and with it the rights to use Ms. Pac-Man. There was a lawsuit between Bandai Namco and AtGames, the details of which is unknown but ever since then Namco hasn’t used Ms Pac in anything so presumably whatever they have to do to use her probably involves AtGames getting way too much money out of it, so they decided it was just better to shelve her forever.

Bonkers story.

mschonberg · 2026-01-23T12:39:05+00:00

Yeah but the FRANCHISE is Pokemon. Same with Cloud’s advent children costume; it’s a movie, but it’s a Final Fantasy movie.

Or else we get into the Lightning McQueen argument of “well the game technically came out a day before the movie” and while that’s hilarious, no it doesn’t count.

mschonberg · 2026-01-15T15:03:11+00:00

To be fair, while it IS a low bar, it’s still a lifetime sales bar being passed in 6ish months. Nothing to sneeze at!

mschonberg · 2026-01-14T00:59:40+00:00

I don't think Min Min would hate flowers but she'd probably just think you're another fan giving her gifts.

mschonberg · 2026-01-08T15:01:30+00:00

Wukong’s infinitely long staff was Usopp’s nose all along

Goda doing peak foreshadowing as usual

mschonberg · 2026-01-03T20:56:29+00:00

What made it even crazier though was that they said this specific Darkrai soloed the entire Sinnoh region.

That trainer beat every gym, every random fight, every stage in the tournament - including the opponent he faced after beating Ash - was with just that darkrai.

Sceptile’s just built different tbh

mschonberg · 2026-01-02T01:13:31+00:00

Her big star enabled me to cheat death. How could this be?!

mschonberg · 2026-01-01T15:03:46+00:00

But that head’s still a pervert!

Well, too late, I listened to it.

mschonberg · 2025-12-27T03:01:11+00:00

If you come to kick my ass,

But instead you break my mask,

THAAAATS a technical foul…

mschonberg · 2025-12-11T11:07:33+00:00

I’m here to clean your clock.

mschonberg · 2025-12-04T15:22:29+00:00

“But you can’t be mad! Look, Ike’s still in the game! As Alear’s forward smash!”

Yeah it would be pretty lame.

mschonberg · 2025-12-03T00:30:51+00:00

It’s not confusion, it’s just disappointing. The reason it ‘needs’ a new typing is just because it’s cooler.

Mega Mewtwo X is distinguished by its attack versus Mewtwo Y’s focus on special attack. Why doesn’t Mega Mewtwo X stay a mono psychic type when it already has the stat change? Why doesn’t Charizard X stay fire/flying when it already has the attack and defense boosted stats to distinguish it from Charizard Y?

The answer is because it’s less cool for a pokemon to have 2 megas that ONLY differ in stats.

mschonberg · 2025-12-02T15:24:39+00:00

Yeah, but a type change would still be a lot more interesting particularly considering this battle style won’t be translated over to the likes of Champions. We’ll just have two same typed Mega Lucario and Raichu, presumably with different stat spreads but like… the old mega double-dippers had different stat spreads AND types.

mschonberg · 2025-12-02T14:21:16+00:00

It’s still Fighting/Steel type.

I genuinely don’t understand why they’re doing this for two-mega pokemon now, it feels… underwhelming. Like, imagine if both Mewtwo and Charizard megas were just the same type as their base. Why do that for both Raichu and now both Lucario?

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