Oricalle

Oricalle

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Writer and video game enjoyer. NB. Honorary Kong.

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Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games counting would also force me to put Bowser, Bowser Jr., and Daisy at least in "Literal Earth" tier, though I honestly think I'm probably missing something that puts them in Seen. Mario Party minigames?

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dark pit i specifically put on bottom because he is like, a week old and created only for Heavenly Warfare but probably also deserves "Exists". maybe all three kid icarus characters should be bumped to "Literal Earth" but it's sorta ambiguous IIRC

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Splatoon is the reason I put "currently" in there, because it seems to be a post-apocalypse situation where frogs may have once existed but are now extinct.

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there is an event in Fire Emblem Heroes in which a frog appears. however, i postulate that crossovers are by necessity excluded from the criteria. even if not, smash ultimate predates heroes, so it would be a different Marth version. We'd also have to do the "are summoned heroes clones" debate.

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Smash Snake is explicitly Solid Snake, so he doesn't get the bump up Naked Snake/Big Boss would for famously "someday feeding on a tree frog" in the Russian jungle.

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Mr. Game and Watch probably should go in "Exists". There's a robot frog in Pac-Man World 2 so I think that's right but you could maybe argue against it.

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i am considering Dr. Mario a separate entity from Mario here as well, one who only performs medical procedures and thus has never been shown with a frog. Unless there's something in that dead mobile game? Shit.

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pokemon trainer is hard. if this is just meant to be the protagonist of red/blue as pictured, there are no Gen 1 frogs. however, if they are a gestalt consciousness representing all Pokemon Trainers, they're in Seen

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Ness - frog enemies Lucas - frogs are save points Cloud - can be turned into a frog by enemy attacks xenoblade guys - frog adjacent enemies banjo and kazooie - bubblegloop swamp frogs Yoshi - frog enemies in Yoshi's Island

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Luigi is also interesting! He can wear a Frog Suit in SMB3, but IIRC the only living frog he encounters is Wart in SMB2, which did turn out to be a dream Mario was having.

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star fox gang - slippy exists mario, peach, bowser - directly know frogfucius in SMRPG sonic - knows big the cat/froggy mega man - fought Toad Man (robo-frogs count) villager - you can fish up frogs young link - frogs in ocarina toon link - frog gods in wind waker

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Adult Link is an interesting one, because if we count ANY adult link we see them directly in Breath of the Wild, but I think the Smash Link is Skyward Sword Link i checked this halfway through typing. it's botw link lol never mind

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reasoning: - Lissa mentions playing pranks with frogs, which puts Chrom and Robin in "Exist", LIKELY "Seen" but that's not canonically stated. Lucina is similar, with the caveat that Grima may have wiped out all the frogs in her home time. Marth also counts unless frogs haven't evolved yet.

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How are we feeling regarding a group name for the games in the 3H/Hopes/Fortune's Weave setting? Continent/progagonist/console name doesn't work like in the past. No shared title word, so "Radiance"-isms are kind of off the table too. Sothis games? Three-ves?

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Speaking of local elections, I referenced and then explained the "puppies for everyone VS diarrhea forever" meme to my 89 year old grandmother this week and it was the hardest I've seen her laugh in years.

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put some time into Age of Wonders 4 today. things got a bit dicey towards the end, but managed to get the win here with my eldritch sovereign test leader.

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My ratatouille rat is making me fight someone else also controlled by a ratatouille rat. Me and the other guy have no beef, only the rats are enemies and we have no idea why. While punching with limbs no longer our own, we lock eyes with mutual grief and compassion, forgiving whoever kills the other

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they're saying they're wario they're saying they're a gonna win

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current retroachievements event giving me an excuse to Wariomaxx this weekend

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you've probably already heard my song and dance about this one already, but I highly recommend this visual novel

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this is unironically me sometimes talking about this one. don't watch the trailer. don't look at the screenshots. just plunge your entire head into the murky puddle of goo for the price of 15ish dollars and come out ALTERED (positive).

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It's not an easy read. Everything gets pretty miserable. but it is not an exaggeration to say that hitting credits for the first time on this one, tears in my eyes as the sun rose in the window behind me, is a moment can still remember. R E C L A I M Y O U R S E L F

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this is one of those games that I know I will adore but will also make me so incredibly sad, so I am waiting until I'm having a really good week to cushion the blow

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