HOW MUCH LONGER NOW...?
THIS YEAR? OH OK

Official artwork of the Lightners Live minigame from Deltarune Chapter 3

DELTARUNE (CH 1-4 REPLAY)
Didn't replay chapters 1&2 right before 3&4 so this is my first time going through the whole thing in the same year.
God damn what a video game, even when played on a 50 dollar handheld that really doesn't like the hometown night filter. Already one of my favourite games.

(also T rated gun game vs babby Nintendo game is probably a part of it for the weirdos)

I do wonder why Pragmata is bringing up the weirdest discourse of "dad and daughter" game when Bananza dodged nearly all of that and I have to wonder if it having a photorealistic child is a part of it or if Twitter is just continuing to decline the longer I don't look at it

I feel like both extremes of bad takes come from "it's from Japan so it must be weird about children" but in entirely opposite ways

????

In Canada it's extra fucked up cause every game that's 60+ USD is basically 100 CAD, but anything that's like 50 USD is basically 50 CAD

I'm glad Sonic games stopped giving him a shiny ass forehead

Bum now on YouTube video by C_Apostrophe

I hate how replaying Chapter 4 has me completely unable to not hear "Everybody in this room has, been associated with White-yyy"

Also they put Fox McCloud in the sequel and he has more screentime than Rosalina lol

Mario fans confuse me sometimes "uh, yeah, of course Rawk Hawk didn't make it into the final movie, Paper Mario is a different universe" when the movies are explicitly also different continuity is just odd

Gerudo Colosseum (Shopkeeper) - Cadence of Hyrule (OST) YouTube video by ViviVGM

God I did not know how good this version was cause I never do arena mode with Freddie

Future World (Shopkeeper) (Chipzel) - Cadence of Hyrule (OST) YouTube video by ViviVGM

I'm also pretty sure it's not even coincidence cause like.

Art of King Boo from Luigi's Mansion 3

Frederick "Freddie" Merchantry from the Necrodancer series, specifically his appearance in Rift of the Necrodancer

Thinking about how these 2 canonically have the same singing voice

I mean, who cares, the Mario movies aren't the game universe anyways

This Mii is incredible. Horrendous.

"Father is partially homeless."
"Big oof"

Don't want people finding out I typed 5318008

Why did they do that.

Ska Cha Cha (Blazy Mix) | For Night Carnival - By: @TnhGameRemixes (Nu Groove Rush) YouTube video by Sonic Rush Rerun

Sonic Rush Rerun is shaping up so good I've nearly forgiven them for making a fake Sega Hardlight account on here last year, treating it as real with no indication for months and then posting a teaser there to give people heart attacks

I will say one thing about Living the Dream

I wish it's lighting engine was more consistent from the editor to the actual game cause some things look too dark outside the editor and some things look too bright

-Forces being put at 21 is mostly cause the game taking over the course of 9+ months really kinda cuts Generation's birthday plot short. Although I guess it makes Murder of Sonic work out just fine if you headcanon that the characters have the birthday of their first game.

-Most of this is vibes based, aside from double checking the vague Sonic Channel timeline. As such, I begrudgingly put 06 before Rush even though I like 06 being a weird Rush prequel with Sonic kinda recognizing Blaze from 06, but there's time travel shit so whatever. Metal Sonic excuse I guess.

Some slight things
-Sonic 3 is mainly chosen as the turning point of Sonic's age cause Jam lists him as 15-16
-Pocket Adventure, regardless of canon, will always be in my mind the final "classic game" so it's there mostly for clarity. Though with 4 being treated as such it doesn't really matter.

He's a lot better there considering there's actually good lighting in that game, but I'm still not a huge fan of the Vicarious Visions models.

A general Sonic timeline being mapped to how old I think Sonic is through each game. Not all games are here but you get the vibe I think. 15: Sonic 1, SegaSonic, CD, 2, Chaos 16: 3 & Knuckles, Triple Trouble, Chaotix, The Fighters, Mania/Plus, Superstars 17: Pocket Adventure (shows that the Adventure art change was gradual in universe), Sonic 4, Adventure 1, Adventure 2, Advance 1, Advance 2, Heroes 18: Shadow, Battle, Advance 3, Rush, 06, Riders 19: Rush Adventure, Secret Rings, Zero Gravity, Unleashed, Black Knight, Colours 20: Generations (his birthday's a plot point, even!), Free Riders, Lost World, Team Sonic Racing 21: Forces (6 month timeskip in the plot, just gonna assume it's at least close to Sonic's 21st), Frontiers, Murder of Sonic, Dream Team, CrossWorlds

Here's an estimation of how it works in my brain. Am I supposed to be thinking like this? Hell no. I could see the argument for there being more of a gap between Classic and Modern, and I struggle to imagine Sonic approaching 30 so it wouldn't all be this even forever, but it's for fun.

FUCK I didn't entirely backspace my sentence

Crash 4 Concept Art of a faithfully reverse engineered and updated Crash design to figure out where to take the redesign when they honestly could have and should have stopped there.

Crash 4 Concept Art of a faithfully reverse engineered and updated Coco design, being the only time her classic design has quite literally ever looked good.

Crash 4 has a bit of the Super Mario Odyssey Art Book problem where I don't think where I didn't really mind what we got in the end but then the artbook revealed we could have had it all

N Sane Crash is odd to me because there's times where he looks fucking fantastic like this art and then some of the art looks off and in game he looks fucked up most of the time.

4 Crash is a more consistent design but they needed to animate his face wackier WAY more and it misses the mark a little

Classic Sonic standing next to modern Tails in Sonic Forces. They're very similar heights, with Tails being a bit taller. The real answer to this is simply design philosophy differences but SHHHH it's fun and works out

Sonic 1 being Sonic when he was 15 and Generations being when modern Sonic turned 20 just feels about right for all the games inbetween

Plus a 5 year time gap is a fun way to explain why modern Tails is around classic Sonic's height, he's no longer 8.