Happy Halloween!
I’ve spent the last 12 months learning animation and now finally I can fulfill my small goal of animating Sailor Moon :)
I haven't had any luck getting anyone to make a feature film of Masami Nagasawa reprising her role as Scorpion-Aug from Shin Kamen Rider (2023).
So, in the meantime, I present instead this Under Armour™ commercial she did.
TMNT ages
Okay here are the new revised ages for all the IDW TMNT characters! Given how animal-born mutation works in this continuity and how it makes a character's age confusing, this system takes into account the actual chronological age of the individual, despite them all having the biological and mental faculties of adults. Also the Turtles' past lives are not taken into account here since they're sort of separate characters in a way. Example: Leo was a regular turtle for let's say 1 year before mutation, and then I'll translate the "several years" that have passed into 5 years just for simplicity's sake. Feel free to imagine the characters as any age you want to, though, since those details have always been pretty vague and open to interpretation.
Leo: 6
Mikey: 6
Don: 6
Raph: 6
Jenny: 24
Alopex: 6
Venus: 19
Zink, Zanna, and Mushroom: 5
Lita: 6
Future Lita: 25
Now, I think you’ve really got something here. Handles all the concerns I assume people have brought up and such. But gosh darn it if they’re not teens.
Unless of course we rename the series…
With the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, jan Misali is doing an update to their "how many Super Mario games are there?" video to document which games fans consider to be mainline, this time with a much more robust survey! Be warned, this survey is not for the faint of heart, but all good surveys benefit from a larger sample size, so if you're willing to take the time, make your voice heard!
Every time I thought I could come up with a rule I found an exception to that would just break me. Eventually I decided that if a game spun off from Mario even if you don't play as him and was a platformer it could be a Major Spinoff. Remakes of obvious mainline Mario Platformers? Also major. Mario Kart and RPG? Sorry they're minor.
But what about Donkey Kong Land or DKC for GBC and GBA? They're remakes of spinoffs... I guess I'll say they're minor. That feels bad but okay.
Then there's DK Jungle Beat and Yoshi's Topsy Turvy. They add motion control nonsense, but they are still platformers. Still, they're so far afield I can't bring myself to call them Mario games at all.
Then there's the big question of Donkey Kong, DK94, and Mario vs Donkey Kong. They're clearly platformers where you play as Mario, but they are definitely not SUPER. I settled on "Major Spinoff" but with Distinct Entry checked.
I said Captain Toad was a Major Spinoff but Luigi’s Mansion was “Not a Mario Game”. How can I reconcile this conflict when both are 3D character games without jumping.
I claimed Mario Run and Maker 3DS are Mainline but also that they’re not distinct entries in the series. This is the move of a coward.
With the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, jan Misali is doing an update to their "how many Super Mario games are there?" video to document which games fans consider to be mainline, this time with a much more robust survey! Be warned, this survey is not for the faint of heart, but all good surveys benefit from a larger sample size, so if you're willing to take the time, make your voice heard!
Every time I thought I could come up with a rule I found an exception to that would just break me. Eventually I decided that if a game spun off from Mario even if you don’t play as him and was a platformer it could be a Major Spinoff. Remakes of obvious mainline Mario Platformers? Also major. Mario Kart and RPG? Sorry they’re minor.
But what about Donkey Kong Land or DKC for GBC and GBA? They’re remakes of spinoffs… I guess I’ll say they’re minor. That feels bad but okay.
Then there’s DK Jungle Beat and Yoshi’s Topsy Turvy. They add motion control nonsense, but they are still platformers. Still, they’re so far afield I can’t bring myself to call them Mario games at all.
Then there’s the big question of Donkey Kong, DK94, and Mario vs Donkey Kong. They’re clearly platformers where you play as Mario, but they are definitely not SUPER. I settled on “Major Spinoff” but with Distinct Entry checked.