You’re also forgetting that those other shows are western made and subscribe to fairly recent trends in cartoons in terms of continuity and per-season showrunning. Whereas Pokemon is still fundamentally a late 90's Japanese children’s anime specifically made to advertise a separate, preexisting product. That’s why it…

Origins was a 4 episode thing and this is just a 20th anniversary based special. I wouldn’t call either of them “reboots.”

I’m still catching up on Yuri (just saw ep 4), but its honestly one of the most refreshing shows I’ve seen in a good long while. So far, it’s a gay romance told with enough straight faced, good natured passion that I think it has more crossover potential than any shonen-ai show ever produced. It doesn’t hurt that the…

Unlocking fast travel between bonfires partway through DS1 always struck me as a genius level, seamless way to combine function and lore and development. You’re gaining power not just through leveling up and equipment upgrades but gameplay as your navigation through the world itself goes from frightened mortal tourist…

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a risk/reward fast travel equivalent in modern Elder Scrolls games. At least as an option a la hardcore survival modes. Sure you *can* fast travel, but the chance of getting waylaid might be higher than walking yourself. I believe Daggerfall had something like that.

We had a pizza chain in my neck of the woods, Mr Gatti’s. They had a head to head setup of Cruisin USA and later Cruisin World. The World theme song is burned into my brain to this day. I dunno what the N64 version was like, but pumping the gas pedal to nonsensically turn into a two wheel-ed tilt felt so goddamn good…

Cruisin’ is indeed some dumb shit but it’s the dumb shit I grew up on. As they ran down the list of “tricks” you can do, I can still feel the muscle memory and smell the cheap pizza and semi-toxic plastic prizes of the arcade room. My MUGEN setup still has the Cruisin’ World Stage/Car Select music as the fighter…

I actually find that most anime “styles” work better on the comic page than they do in animation. There are some adaptations and original anime that take advantage of the of the animation medium, but lots of shows tend to use their manga source material as a dogmatic storyboard and suffer for it as a result. One Punch…

It’s not the only advice you need, though. It’s a core tenet, to be sure, but without instruction or guidance you’re rolling the dice as to whether all the time you spend practicing is in fact GOOD practice. Practice that is focused on correcting bad habits and enriching your understanding of what the world looks like…

Don’t even with the Prequels. The only reason ANYONE should let go of their hatred of the Prequels is the blessed fact that now that other Star Wars movies are happening, there’s literally no reason to ever watch or think about them ever again. Even if TFA is a bad movie, it’s at least a bad movie that was competently…

I’m not a big fan of the shtick either, but his prequel trilogy reviews are almost universally considered legendary and totally worth your time if you can swallow the hammy acting and uncomfortable jokes.

This makes sense when you keep in mind that Dragon Ball is literally made for 5-10 year old boys. Of course their star protagonist has never kissed a girl. You can’t save the universe 10 times over AND deal with cooties at the same time.

Actually, are we SUPER SURE that this isn’t all viral marketing for the “It” reboot?

I honestly don’t know how you would make Tribes relevant today. With multiplayer shooters its either ubiquity or ghost towns, and I just don’t see a 64 player, team based, high-precision, mouse and keyboard exclusive game setting the world on fire in the post-Overwatch era. You could attract the Tribes fans,…

Ascend was a VERY good game. I think its problem was that it wasn’t quite hardcore enough for Tribes diehards, but it still had a crazy enough difficulty ramp to discourage the mainstream crowd you need to make a F2P multiplayer game really thrive. Torn between two worlds, it just sort of died on the vine. A damn…

It’s been a long time since I’ve followed anything MLP related (season 2 i think?) but I’ve never stopped being impressed by how smart character design and world building by a team that genuinely cares managed to rehabilitate the fuck out of a franchise that anyone would’ve assumed to be dead in the water. Faust’s…

Can’t we have any TV articles where commenters do not act as if the subject matter was the only thing available on television? Like, just one, maybe?

This is less about “protecting” other streamers and Twitch wanting to mitigate a potential trend that could affect future advertising deals. If a significant portion of the top streamers give the appearance that the object of the stream is to titillate rather than simply entertain, certain advertisers will want to…

I think having Inafune’s name (however tangentially) attached to the product might have gotten the marketing team spooked after the Mighty No. 9 debacle.

It’s easier to animate a rubberhose arm period. It doesn’t matter if you’re drawing it on paper or on a tablet. Look at black and white Fleischer and Disney and Warner Bros and you’ll see rubberhose everywhere. The animation became stellar in subsequent decades because those guys basically invented all the animation…