Ghost in the Game Room

Pokemon. Legend of Zelda. Super Smash Bros. Fire Emblem. Basically, the home of my gaming thoughts. Main/personal blog is Robophantom Blog header image by chester wade on Unsplash

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Happy 9 year anniversary of this post

[strawberry-crocodile]

Pokemon has never had a generation where all three starter pokemon are mammals. Two generations- gens 1 and 3- have had zero mammals, and from gens 5-8 there've been two mammals to pick from, but none have had three mammals. I think this is an important part of the franchise's brand.

[strawberry-crocodile]

Back when gen 8 got leaked someone pointed out that you can generally tell a real GameFreak Pokedex from a fakemon dex by the amount of "ugly" pokemon and the number of invertebrates and inanimate objects, and I think there's a similar thing going on here- Pokemon genuinely makes an effort to make its monsters varied.

The last 15ish years have seen so much ink spilled on the Vanillish line, on gen 1 designs, etc etc, but I think it bears repeating how easy it is for a Mons game to stick to charismatic animals like mammals and birds and dinosaurs and pets. And pokemon does have that (we have, what, six cat lines? more if you count regional meowths) but it also makes sure to add, like. A crinoid. A bagworm. A bell. Creepy humanoid mushrooms, a sand castle, a big iceberg.

Something would be lost if every single pokemon was as cool as Haxorus or as cute as Snom or as furrybait as Goodra. Pokemon succeeds because it lets you be best friends with shit that's just weird.

[strawberry-crocodile]

"ohhh op is telling on herself for calling goodra furrybait" idk maybe you're telling on yourself for how you have no furry friends. do better.

[trixibebe]

Majima because of this post :D

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[majimemegoro]

reblog to spread some cheer

[hyliareborn]

pictures majima forces his crew to take of him so he can send them to kiryu

[parakeet]

my tomodachi life miis are in the process of making their own cylinder building. when i questioned this with michael (who i've deduced to be the leader) he says they want to make it big enough to come meet me 'for real'. don't like that. considering knocking it down and garbling the lingo to put them off. might split them into groups and put them on separate mini islands as well just to be safe but maybe that's overkill

[gamerphantom]

@sanestlunaticyouevermet

[adobe-outdesign]

I love how a consistent piece of Pokemon lore is that a Pokemon's first instinct when in pain or distress is to immediately go beast mode and try to kill anything within a 100 mile radius

[adobe-outdesign]

[lovekenney]

You know how it be

[reiburadori]

“Let’s Battle” by rubiarts (Jan 24, 2013)

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[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[supushan]

its the @aa-spring-swap! woo! here's my piece for @fuckj0shi, hope you enjoy :)

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

[quietwingsinthesky]

painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.

[quietwingsinthesky]

op approved tags. you’re the only person here who sees my vision

[vhalesa]

it's always time for some ziggy art :>

redraw from "With You and the Rain" (ame to kimi to)

[sylvioki]

Brothers

[connyhascontrol]

"I beat the game in 30 hours" okay but did you explore the map to find spots that look pretty? did you put your characters in silly little outfits? did you try the mini games? did you let the characters become friends? did you have fun? did you have fun playing your game???

[frogdetective]

[meanbossart]

It's all coming up Astarion.

[northirish]

I have never played a Resident Evil game in my life but I have seen Leon Kennedy's bare arse (and other parts) on my dash so often now for so long that I consider him an old friend at this point

[thisishowyoumakemovies]

"Ah, look who it is, Old Man Kennedy in another wacky situation. Good on you, ol' buddy." (I have also never played a Resident Evil)

[robowarrior-god]

Every time I see a new thing about Leon on my dash it feels like this