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Sorry I haven’t been online basically at all for the last week. (Lots of schoolwork, and a little Pokemon-based procrastination sprinkled in. But mostly schoolwork, holy crap.)
This week will probably be much of the same. At least I get some meguca movies this weekend as a reward?
I just realized I never drew the twins in oversized sweaters, after all.
I…I think I missed the Sweater Train. By the time I get around to it everybody will either forget that it happened, or think I’m trying to bring it back and be all “: U”. “: U” is a thing people say, right?
Now that I’m done with (one of) my essay(s), I can finally play some White 2.
So, you guys all enjoying your Pokemans? I am essay.
…On a more coherent topic, remember when the Pokemon game manuals had all sorts of art and little snippets of worldbuilding in them? Now it’s all technical information and stuff like that.
(Then again, at least this is an…
Oh yeah! I remember reading through that. Really interesting stuff.
When I think about game manuals from my childhood, the first one I think of is actually the Gold/Silver manual - I just remember it’s “welcome to the world of Pokemon”-esque first page and how much wonder it incited in me, more than anything else.
I do remember Fire Red and Leaf Green preorders came with this really nifty Pokemon Trainer’s Manual thing - about the size of the game box, though obviously not as thick, but it was this surprisingly comprehensive guide to type matchups and characteristics and it talked about the gym leaders and other cool things, and it had lots of decent-sized art in it. It was pretty cool.
But yeah, the relationship between games and their manuals seems like it’s really changed - as more can be fit in a game (I mean with literal technological limitations, not in any imaginative sense), there’s far less, if any, vital need for worldbuilding and flavor text in manuals. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is, of course, entirely subjective.
So, you guys all enjoying your Pokemans? I am essay.
…On a more coherent topic, remember when the Pokemon game manuals had all sorts of art and little snippets of worldbuilding in them? Now it’s all technical information and stuff like that.
(Then again, at least this is an actual, multi-paged manual: OoT3D just had a folded insert. I remember after opening the OoT3D box for the first time and staring blankly at the insert, I pulled out my Wind Waker box, opened the manual - slight water damage on the first few pages, page corners bent and unbent and literally worn with how much I used to flip through it - and cried nostalgia tears. Okay, I didn’t actually cry, but still.)
I have to go pick up my copy of White 2
And then get groceries
And then finish my essay, while staring at the game box out of the corner of my eye every few minutes.
Yep.
That feel when the cleaned Mother 3 version of Leder’s Gymnopedie has better audio quality than the non-Mother 3 version of Gymnopedie #1 that’s sitting on my computer.
I’ve been listening to these all week and they’re just… it’s like listening to them for the first time all over again. I love hearing the little details you can’t hear over the fuzz.
Ah, that’s exactly how I was going to describe it XD It’s like going back in time and listening to some of these tracks for the very first time.
(Source: ohseagull, via legoisland)
That feel when the cleaned Mother 3 version of Leder’s Gymnopedie has better audio quality than the non-Mother 3 version of Gymnopedie #1 that’s sitting on my computer.
Mother 3’s “Phantasmagoric,” without the GBA’s fuzzy background static. A.k.a. everything I’ve ever wanted out of life.
WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS OMG ;__;
Check the source~ : )
(Source: earthboundcentral.com, via ta-to-ba)
NEW CLEAN MOTHER 3 BGM
GET ON MY COMPUTER
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nonakani working on essays time.