Let's play some goddamn Nintendo.

Hey, welcome, I'm Pocket, and this is my Gaming blog it's primarily Nintendo stuff since that's what I grew up with and what I find the most appealing, but I try to throw in a little bit of everything, I mostly reblog with the occasional text post or art. This blog will tend to favor retro games, as I'm a stubborn dude that doesn't spend money on new things when I can replay an old favorite or emulate an old hidden gem, but plenty of modern games will appear too. I will also favor Nintendo games, as that's what I grew up with, but i'm trying to branch out. There will be no Pokemon content. I find it irritating how much it overshadows other Nintendo franchises sometimes and I do not think it's a very respectable series these days. Speaking of not very respectable, I'm feeling a similar way about Nintendo themselves lately. I will always be a fan of the games Nintendo has made and will be attached to their franchises, but I cannot say I'm a fan of the actual company Nintendo, and even their fans get under my skin sometimes, If you can't handle the occasional critique of Nintendo's business or legal action, or the quality of some of their games, then following this blog is not a wise decision, and I tend to block people that refer to anyone who has criticism as "whiny complainers", I don't like those kinds of people and won't tolerate them in my inbox or notes. My favorite Nintendo Console is the Wii, a strange choice I know, but not only did the Wii have some solid titles, but it could still play all my Gamecube games, and it introduced the Virtual Console, which gave me my first time playing many retro titles I missed out on before the Gamecube. And that was before softmodding. The Wii was quite literally my retro gaming machine. Feel free to send some asks, I would love nothing more than asks. Lots and lots of asks. Please send me asks I love interacting. I don't bite. If I come off as rude, I honestly do not mean to. I'm not good at talking sometimes.... but I still want to do it, so please, please, please, send some asks! Spare some change? Want to give me a little tip? Please donate to my Ko-Fi Other Blogs: Personal Blog Old School The Legend of Zelda Blog Gen 1&2 Pokemon Blog Virtual Pet & General Digimon Blog

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This is my video game blog.

Primary focus is Nintendo, and it's skewed heavily to retro stuff. But that doesn't mean I'll completely ignore other content. I can be critical at points so fanboys, ye be warned.

I am currently going through Nintendo Power Magazine and playing as many of their featured games as I can, you can check out any of my thoughts playing games in the tag #pocket_plays

By all means alert me of accidentally relogging harmful content, but please tell me why it's harmful. And don't waste my time with ship discourse.

I can't be bothered to tag things regularly, so follow at your own risk. I only pledge to avoid posting spoilers for a thing until it's been out for a few months, and I will try to tag it with spoilers for a little while.

Asks are welcomed, but I'm not the most up to date person in the world so don't think i'm being an asshole for not getting your jokes or references, and if yo uwish to ask me something unrelated to the topic this blog covers, do so at my main account @always-thirsty-pocket, if you have an ask in relation to Pokemon, ask @kanto-jhoto, this is a pokemon-free zone aside from the occasional crossover pic.

For those of you who clicked my display pic and you're not looking at my blog on the side of your tumblr dashboard, if you want to do a deep dive, I recommend opening the full blog up to make use of my long music playlist that I worked hard to assemble.

If you like what I do in any way, maybe you could leave me a small tip on Ko-Fi? My Ko-Fi is currently dedicated to my virtual pet art project but I like to use it as an all purpose tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/A057359G

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35 Days of Sonic: Guardian

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For rockman day on 6/9 :]

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I don't think i'll ever understand people who suggested Mario Maker could have been a proper replacement for new traditional 2D Mario games, lmao.

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zelda pets the floof

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One thing I noticed is that Fox ends up being stuck with kids, lol! 😆 Diddy, Tricky, and the Lumas. But, we know he’ll do his best for them, even if they can be irritating sometimes. :’3

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Feels like it was only yesterday that the whole internet was clowning on Nintendo fans for this meme

Remember that? How people thought it was incredibly unreasonably for someone to like every Nintendo IP, especially the obscure shit? And rightly so, because it is unreasonable.

But now it feels exactly like the pendulum has swung completely into the opposite direction.

Now it's more like "What? How dare you find the lack of Nintendo announcements disappointing! Nintendo has plenty of games, they're just not the ones you want! You only care about Mario and Zelda and Pokemon, fuck you!!

Like... maybe this is a Goomba Fallacy ass take but I really odn't feel like it is, I just feel like this is the nature of the internet where people are just looking for someone to punch down at, and people who are disappointed about something are often times easy targets because for some fucking reason the entire internet feels like people owe it to them to match their enthusiasm levels about any given announcement.

Don't get me wrong here.

I'm not bitching about the lack of major Nintendo announcements ( even though I did think that Direct was lame ), I'm actually overwhelmed by the amount of games I have to play. I just fucking hate internet culture man, I hate how shitty everyone is to each other all the time, always trying to post a "gotcha", always trying to invalidate people's feelings over the most trivial nerd shit. always expecting people to match their excitement or hatred, always got their finger on the trigger to whip out some fucking lame ass gif or wojack for clout.

I'm so tired of internet culture man, it was always really annoying but it's reached such a boiling point that it's spilling over into how people act offline too.

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PRO GAMER FALCO LOMBARDI 🔥🎮

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I cycled between sketching Mega Man, Elec Man, or Proto Man, and suddenly I found myself drawing Skull Man with some minor edits to his design.

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Cooling off a little since the Nintendo Direct, I'm going to say, I hope the Ocarina of Time remake is very different from the original if they're going to change the art direction anyway, that way I can treat it like the Resident Evil remakes or Metroid Fusion where it's not actually a replacement for the original, just an alternate version of it. You would think that should just be the attitude for remakes in general, but I feel like remakes that stick too closely to the originals are meant to actually be replacements in the eyes of their creators and, unfortunately, in the eyes of most people who play video games and can't stomach the idea of playing anything older than they are.

Also, I've been eyeballing an ebay listing for all 3 Xenoblade Chronicles games that would be cheaper than buying all 3 games individually for a while now and decided to take the plunge, i'll just get the upgrades for the Switch 1 versions when I finally decide to play them, which, probably won't even be this year but we shall see.

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Check Tomodachi Life every day so you don't miss the new items in the shop or the daily donation.

Be sure to do all your Pokemon Champions dailies every day so that you can maximize your rewards.

There's a limited time collaboration in Donkey Kong Bananza.

There's a limited time emerald rush in Donkey Kong Bananza.

There's a limited time challenge event in Donkey Kong Bananza.

There's a limited time challenge event in all the classic Donkey Kong games.

Be sure to play Splatoon every day so you can see what's new in the shop and earn currency and upgrade points, or you'll always be a chump.

Be sure to play F-Zero 99 before we decide to discontinue it.

Btw there are also other games you might want to play coming out soon, be sure to make time to play them, they might also have limited time events!

By the way, how's your Animal Crossing town doing?

MAKE IT STOP!!

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I'm sorry but the more I look at the Ocarina of Time remake, now that HD screenshots are popping up of the trailer, the more I don't like how it looks.... It definitely feels like they're leaning in to realism. And I know a lot of people think that works for Zelda, but I don't. I don't even think it worked well for Twilight Princess, most of the character designs in that game are fucking trash outside of Link and Midna themselves.

Again, I'll wait for gameplay footage and more screenshots before making complete judgements, but I'm leaning more toward pessimism instead of cautious optimism now.

Ocarina of Time had some of my favorite character designs and art direction in the entire series second only to the classic 2D Game's promotional artwork. So them doing anything other than sticking to the promotional artwork for Ocarina of Time was always going to disappoint me.

And this is all without addressing gameplay and story. Are they going to change the story? The original Ocarina has amazing pacing. Are they going to bog down the perfect pacing of the gameplay with like hours of new dialogue and mandatory cutscenes?? Godddd fuck off, please don't turn Ocarina of Time into Skyward Sword, please, I don't need Navi to stop me every 10 minutes to tell me about something I can see with my own eyes.

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So like... individual thoughts?

I fucking suck at Rhythm games so while I wish I could enjoy Rhythm Heaven, and it does look like it has cool ideas, it's a hard pass from me.

Orbiatals is a game I want to play, but I do not have anyone reliable to play it with, and as far as I know, there is no single player only mode.

I have, and never finished, the original Rayman Legends, I don't see why I would play a remake that gets rid of the awesome hand drawn style.

Big Walk just seems like streamer bait to me, the kind of game you make memes about but isn't actually good.

I guess One Piece cozy game shouldn't surprise me but yeah it feels so weird to me.

I still haven't bought Pokopia but this reeks of "We had this idea completed before the game shipped but we held it back to sell it as DLC"

I'm sorry, still don't care about Fire Emblem, but maybe i'll try and give the series another chance next year. But I'm definitely not starting with the newest one.

I feel like the world collectively forgot about Ninjala... it felt like a game that deseperately wanted to be the next Splatoon but just didn't have enough style, original ideas, or fun. I think I remember buying something I thought was going to be a story mode but I ended up not figuring out how to activate it?? If the new game is single player focused, it could be worth looking at.

The whole "Challenge event" thing seems cool but like, why the fuck is it limited time??? That's fucking stupid.

I still haven't played a Xenoblade game but I might actually take the plunge this year, but I was thinking about buying the Switch 1 versions.

I thought literally everyone hated the Sports Mates, why are they back? Nintendo sure does love to double down on shit when everyone tells them it fucking sucks, huh? Im sorry, I kind of checked out when they said Nintendo Switch Sports, so I don't remember much of what they said, just the overly long thumb wrestling demonstration. Apparently there was a lot of shit to unlock but you had to play the online to get it? If they bring that shit back no way am I looking at this game.

It's cool that they're making a new 2D Final Fantasy but the summoning of classic FF heroes makes it reek of "SPINOFF" like World of Final Fantasy, they should let these games stand on their own.

I don't get why they couldn't show off the gameplay footage of Dragon Quest Monsters in the actual Dragon Quest anniveresary presentation. I'm probably not picking this one up since I haven't even started Dark Prince. I don't know of DQM is for me, I've never finished a game.

I've already pre-ordered Splatoon Raiders but i'm starting to get cold feet, it really just looks like expanded Salmon Run when I was kind of hoping for more of an adventure game of some kind... guess i'll find out when the game comes out, cuz i'm probably not cancelling my pre-order.

I've moved my minecraft playing to PC, so I don't see myself returning to Minecraft on Switch 2, even if the update is free... then again, my mouse is really shitty, so maybe I'll give it some thought.

No opinion on Deltarune. Still haven't touched it. Loved Undertale. Fandom is a bit annoying. I was waiting for Deltarune to be "complete" before playing because I don't like games as episodic releases.

Legit excited for the Kingdom Hearts native ports but I feel like I would have been more excited like 3 or 4 months ago, when I was knees deep in Final Fantasy hype. Because now I don't see myself picking them up until they go on sale. As for KH4........ Sora does not look right with those more realistic proportions.

And then Ocarina of Time...... man I am so worried. They showed nothing but what they did show raises so many questions. How much voice acting will there be? Did you see what he was wearing? No boots and no cap, which makes sense if he's in bed, but I just have a bad feeling he's not going to have his iconic cap at all in this game, just because he didn't have it in BOTW. What are they going to change about this? What will the other characters look like? Will dungeon layouts be the same? So many questions. Please, please, please be good, please don't be a bad remake... ugh, I know people are going to say it's superior to the original no matter what because "muh N64 is clunky, nobody can play anything older than they are anymore, bluh bluh bluh bluh" fuck off.

If I didn't mention a game, it's because it just flew under my radar that bad and I could not care about it at all. Sorry, the Fromsoft pedigree means nothing to me, as the only game from them I've even played was 3D Dot Game Heroes, which they don't seem to give a shit about.

Like I said, not a good Direct for me. Literally all of the good stuff was games we knew about or old games, and the one big thing was leaked ahead of time and not even shown off properly.

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That Nintendo Direct was... incredibly disappointing.

Most of it was third party stuff, games we already knew about and were just being reminded they existed, and yeah, confirmation of the Ocarina of Time remake which they had absolutely nothing to show off except for a tapestry and a sleeping Link. They're changing the art style but I didn't get enough of a look to even know if I'm okay with it or not.

I should not have woken up early for this, what absolute ass. Literally the only thing that even got me to raise my eyebrows was the native Kingdom Hearts ports.

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Deep Cut kind of sucks, tbh.

I finally encountered them in the story ( I wasn't kidding when I said I haven't played it much yet ) and I'm getting Team Rocket-ish vibes from them.

I don't hate them but they haven't really done much for me yet.