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Status Updates posted by Sean
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Been watching the Powerpuff Girls Z dubbed and it's pretty fun. The dub script seems like an improvement over the fansubs I watched years ago.
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I watched the first twenty or so episodes a good amount of years back, but found the show pretty fun. It's a fun twist on PPG, as long as you don't expect an exact 1:1 to the original show. I liked a lot of the ways they recreated villains (Sedusa, Mojo and Fuzzy off the top of my head).
At the time as well, I thought it was novel to age the girls up too, and making them friends, as opposed to sisters, since in the context of the time, it was when the original show had really run out of steam after Season 6, so putting them into a new dynamic was a welcome change that introduced a lot of new ideas, like each girl having their own different family and such.
I don't think it holds a candle to the original show, but I think it can be appreciated for what it tried to do differently, especially considering the reboot came out attempting to redo the original show and ended up failing spectacularly. I think PPGZ still has value as a show because it at least did so much differently that it didn't try to compete with the original show, as much as it was just a different interpretation by a different culture - similar to the Ninja Turtles.
The main thing I disliked was the changes to the Professor. His family didn't really add much to the show at all.
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Honestly I find PPGZ far more enjoyable than anything PPG-related outside of the first four seasons and movie. I watched several episodes of the subbed version years ago and had forgotten about it until now. And the dub is a pretty solid effort that brings it back a little closer to the original PPG's naming conventions (the girls' names, Tokyo City becoming New Townsville, etc.), although the changed BGM and shortened OP/ED themes are disappointing.
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Ryannumber1gamer reacted to this
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That's pretty much what I think of the show as well. I understand a lot of people dislike a lot of the ideas PPGZ has, but I think looking at them now, especially with hindsight goes to show how much of an interesting shake-up it was. Seasons 5 and 6 of the original show was when the show had run out of ideas and was essentially just going on for the sake of it, while the reboot is just plain terrible, erasing a lot of the good stuff from the original show, and replacing it with crap.
PPGZ is pretty enjoyable because not only does it retain the charm of the original PPG (Especially in the dub where there's an active effort to bring it a bit more to the show, as you said), but the ideas it has is really creative. I really liked some of the re-imaginings as well to make villains not just constantly evil. I might be misremembering, but IIRC - Sedusa was just a dorky girl who ended up corrupted into someone obsessed with beauty, and she still continued to go to the PPG's school, while Morbucks and Blossom actually had a friendship.
Obviously not everything it did was great, but I do think a lot of it is admirable. It feels like a good update, while remaining respectful to the source.
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That TMNT theme is fire
The Japanese dub for PPG also had some of its own themes that I thought were pretty neat:
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Ryannumber1gamer reacted to this
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LOL
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didn't denuvo get removed from the steam version?
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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@Strickerx5 Not true, because EA games released on Steam still require Origin. I don't know what Sega is aiming for here.
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Wow, I actually live about a mile away from a Kura Sushi restaurant and have been there a few occasions. I'd definitely go if it weren't for that thing about people dying from some worldwide-devastating disease right now.
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@Zaysho -grimly stares at my #1 Sonic fan badge before I tearfully cast it onto the ground-
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@AlphaRuby They do takeout but it's not something I feel like risking going outside for anyway. Oh well.
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Watching Lucky Star for the first time since it initially aired and by Jove, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in an anime.
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play Rodea the Sky Soldier (Wii ver.)
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Second-hand copies are still really cheap too. And if you get a copy you can try playing it in Dolphin, both the Wiimote and mouse controls work great for this type of game.
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Supah Berry and Dejimon11 reacted to this
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I remember it having some pretty annoying balance issues toward the end, and the final boss is frustrating in a "this definitely wasn't playtested" sort of way. Also it crashes your system after watching the credits (though it saves your data and doesn't happen again on the same save file, thankfully).
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It was a really fun game, but I felt it kind of straddled the line between an adventure game and an arcade game too much for it's own good. Some levels were great fun to have at it and just explore/fly through for the sake of it, while others felt like they were less interesting levels where you were intended to go for a high score and that's it. And with more than half of those levels being the latter, it felt like there wasn't that strong of a gameplay loop for an arcade experience, with only a set amount of gems available through the level, a time trial, and I think collectables/medals? You could succeed at one or the other without actually playing the game to it's full potential altogether, and that kind of leaves it at a disadvantage compared to NiGHTS imo.
That said, flying around 3D levels with homing attack/light dash mechanics was way too much fun for what it was; definitely a game worth playing just for the Sonic Adventure-esque level design cues
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Yeah I can see all of that. Generally speaking I think it's more of a classic Sega game successor than it is specifically a Nights one, because aside from flying it's not really anything like it, though I think it does share the same philosophy behind its simplistic control scheme. If anything I see way more Sonic in Rodea's gameplay than Nights, it's basically a game designed entirely around the homing attack
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(tweet)
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ahh yes, my favorite franchise: a giant hand. such a masterpiece.
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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https://archive.org/details/astroboytetsuwanatompremierversion
Someone discovered an Animax-produced English dub of Astro Boy 2003's first episode. Jesus, as bad as the Sony dub was, it could have been a lot fucking worse.
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The only dead Nintendo IPs I'm still lamenting are Cing's games, because they were some of the best adventure games ever made and nothing has come along to fill the gap they left behind for me.
There was Cold Case Investigations on the 3DS but that was a two hour teaser for a sequel that will never happen. Meh.
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P-06 got another major update. All of Sonic's levels are playable now.
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Considering Sonic's main stages are about the most playable/fun parts of 2006 it's kind of funny that every subsequent release of this project now will be actively making the game worse in terms of overall content quality.
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Sean and Supah Berry reacted to this
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classic Sonic mix versus modern Sonic mix
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How is Persona: Trinity Soul? It slipped past me all these years because I heard it had nothing to do with P3 aside from one character appearing later on.
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Just watched the first Persona 3 movie (out of four). It was REALLY good. It retains all the important qualities of the game without feeling rushed or bloated, and I like how they did Makoto (the protag)'s development. The fight scenes were pretty exciting too, especially that last one. The only downside I guess is that there aren't any social links, but imo it makes the adaptation feel more focused since it's exclusively on SEES.
Hope the sequels stay true to this standard. It feels like it could shape up to be an almost-perfect substitute for the game.
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TWEWY anime teaser
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Give me now.
Also plz do a KH anime in this style nomura
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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LOL Sega leaked a Denuvo-free .exe for P4G by accident.
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This did get me to buy the game finally so thanks for the fuckup Sega
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AWild No.1 washed up gamer and Kuzu reacted to this
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This game is criminally underrated and deserves a remaster/remake for at least the Nintendo Switch.
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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What are they holding?
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american cheese
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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@Monkey Destruction Switch holy shit
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Monkey Destruction Switch and Ferno reacted to this
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another day spent thinking about video games rather than playing video games
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lol TVTropes acting like a fanmade mod for DDLC is an official spinoff.
QuoteOn January 2, 2020, Dan Salvato announced that there would be new added content for the game, with a spinoff/sequel called Doki Doki Blue Skies being announced on May 20, 2020.
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If it's endorsed by the creator, I can see why they did it.
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Supah Berry reacted to this
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I don't see Dan endorsing the mod anywhere so it's just TVTropes being fucking wrong again.
I'm also pissed because I spent a good five minutes being excited about new DDLC content (I specifically remember Dan saying there will be earlier this year) before it dawned on me. I have no interest in playing fan mods for this game.
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I really appreciate the file sizes for indie games