miccat87.bsky.social

miccat87.bsky.social

@miccat87.bsky.social

Longtime fan and challenge runner of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and the other Mario RPGs. Enjoyer of some other Nintendo franchises. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRZhM2GXHTdoKTVI4tOMKKw

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miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

I've seen multiple cases of people saying Mario & Luigi: Brothership feels like it was made by AI. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. At this point, people will call anything they don't like AI, which is incredibly disrespectful and stupid.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

I've seen this video show up a few times, and I don't really understand it. If you have fun with a game, then doesn't that mean you don't find it mediocre? Who's even to say what is or isn't mediocre? You can't objectively measure how good a piece of media is.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

You know, considering just how many scrapped ideas there supposedly were for Super Mario Bros Wonder, I'm kind of curious what potential there might be for a sequel. Maybe we'll see some more interesting stuff whenever they get around to releasing another 2D Mario game.

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Culture Crave 🍿
@culturecrave.co

A US lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a new bill that would give gamers ownership of the games they buy 🎮 The Power To The Players Act would require publishers to make games playable offline before shutting down their servers

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🌱 milkteas
@cozymilkteas.bsky.social

day 2 of #poketober challenge ! today it’s eevee 🍂🍁 (with a little jumpluff in the bg teehee) it might look a little different from my usual art style because i wanted to try out some new techniques, i hope you all like it ! ✨ #pokémon #eevee #octoberartchallenge #smallartist ♡

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Supper Mario Broth
@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

Videos like this trying to push the idea that Modern Mario & Luigi is inferior to classic Mario & Luigi kind of bother me. If it was just Paper Jam, I'd kind of get it, but Dream Team and Brothership are both great games that outshine the original trilogy in certain ways. I will die on that hill.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

Hot take: I honestly think Super Mario RPG is kind of overrated. I recognize its importance in laying the groundwork for future Mario RPGs and I'm sure it was great for its time, but having played through the Switch remake twice, it honestly feels a bit lackluster to me.

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miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

The story also feels a bit too disjointed to me. I suppose the sheer zaniness of it all can be a bit fun in a certain way, but I definitely prefer having a more cohesive narrative.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

To be clear, I don't hate or even dislike Super Mario RPG. I still certainly had some fun with it. However, I just can't see it standing toe-to-toe with many of the great Mario RPGs that have since come out, such as TTYD, Bowser's Inside Story, and Brothership.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

Hot take: I honestly think Super Mario RPG is kind of overrated. I recognize its importance in laying the groundwork for future Mario RPGs and I'm sure it was great for its time, but having played through the Switch remake twice, it honestly feels a bit lackluster to me.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

I think it has the weakest battle system of any Mario RPG, excluding modern Paper Mario, because it's just too simplistic. Things like Paper Mario's badges and Mario & Luigi's dodging are great expansions of the system that add far more depth to battling, which is something Super Mario RPG lacks.

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Reecee 🎃
@reecee.bsky.social

Say what you will about Color Splash but looking back, despite its issues, it technically was the first step towards the TTYD Remake happening. It was Paper Mario’s first foray into HD, requiring a new engine (that TTYD HD eventually used) and a revamped/expanded dev team...

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

Still my favorite Pokemon games to this day.

Bulbapedia@bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net

14 years ago today, Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 were first released for the Nintendo DS in North America! Sequels to Pokémon Black and White respectively and the second and final paired versions of Generation V. https://bulbapedia.b...

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🩸 Dio 🩸
@bloodblight.bsky.social

Chase that dopamine, weird little plaything [ #reclusa #originalcharacter #brothership #marioandluigi #marioandluigibrothership #selfshipping ]

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lnl
@longnecklupin.bsky.social

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miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

Not sure if this is a hot take, but I think "Danger" and "Peril" in classic Paper Mario are actually pretty well-designed risk vs. reward mechanics. Sure, they're crazy strong, but using them to their fullest typically requires a lot of knowledge and careful planning.

miccat87.bsky.social
@miccat87.bsky.social

They also work very well with the lower and easily calculable damage numbers used in classic Paper Mario games. Other RPGs typically are a lot more complex in that regard, and Danger/Peril really highlight how much having those lower numbers can add to the strategy of the game.

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George Koopa
@kinggeorge64.bsky.social

More proof Miyamoto was not responsible for the spamming of generic Toads being NPCs in the Paper Mario games after Super Paper Mario.

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Toad is his least favorite character in Mario Kart. Despite this, in all footage of him playing Mario Kart 8, he picked Toad every time. Whether he was joking or specifically picking a character he hates to challenge himself is unknown.

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Techneti
@techneti.bsky.social

just realized where the partners are standing aligns with the chapter / star you got them with - and by this logic ms mowz gets garnet star and goombella gets crystal (good I always saw it that way and not vice versa)