Trivia and fictional logic are fundamental parts of the gaming landscape - it can be fascinating to learn more details on games and how they're made, while we may also fantasise over whether Bowser is really a bad guy. Either is an entertaining way to pass some time.
So we thought we'd share a couple of recent videos that have popped up on our YouTube subscription list, both related to Pokémon. In the first we have the Did You Know Gaming? channel looking at the development history of Pokémon Snap, a cult classic on Nintendo 64 and a popular reference point when current-day fans ask for a sequel. There's information on its origins as a 64DD title and the fact it wasn't even a 'mon game to start with, among other topics.
Second we have the latest creation from our own Alex over on the Nintendo Life channel, in which he considers Pokédex entries literally and explains how some 'mon are technically 'impossible'. There's that fictional logic we were talking about.
That's all of our Pokémon vids for today, enjoy!
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Resisting the urge to make a loooooovely "dangerous balls" joke about Electrode is truly hard, Alex!
I don'T get which new idea Junichi Masuda want for Pokemon Snap, at least we got Fatal Frame to take pictures on Wii U.
Personally I have always found the Vanillite line to be an impossibility. I can understand something like Trubbish because it would suggest it evolved alongside humans in order to camouflage itself. (Granted it would be a fairly quick evolutionary stop gap, since plastic bags haven't been around that long) But to camouflage yourself as a species' dessert would be against evolutionary biology. That's like pigs trying to hide by diguising themselves as bacon. Both silly and delicious.
Really? Is it that hard to make a sequel? Give the player a boat and diving suit, a car, and a plane. Let them travel a region like Kalos or Hoenn, and make it open world. They get access to new areas and vehicles (eventually a spaceship) by giving their pictures to professors. Players could eventually photograph all 720 or so, and they could share their pictures on miiverse. The models are already in OR and AS. What are you waiting for Nintendo!?
Youtube is being weird again...refreshes page There we go. >_>
Video? Sorry, if i want to watch something, i'll use my TV. Me want articles!
POKEMON SNAP ON VC FOR CHRISTMAS!
I really enjoyed pokemon snap when I was little. A sequel would be perfect on the Wii U but it's sadly not going to happen.
For a second I thought Alex was going to be in the Did You Know Gaming? video, sadly this isn't the case.
The stubbornness against a new Pokemon Snap all these years irritates me. Truly a missed opportunity with the Wii U and 3DS. Thankfully we got a $15 Pokedex!
They didn't mention one thing regarding Snap: The N64 cartridge version uses Jynx's original black-skinned design, but the Wii Virtual Console of the game uses Jynx's modern purple-skinned design. This makes sense, except they didn't change it all the way - they only changed her face purple - Jynx's hands are still black. Weird inconsistency.
The Pokedex is riddled with impossibilities and I heard a theory that I think is the best to apply here: the Pokedex is more or less written by children so it isn't necessarily the authority most people assume it is. "Alakazam is so smart, it's IQ must be like 5000!!!" "Raichu's charges are like 100,000 volts! That can knock out an Indian elephant I think!!!" Seriously, just have to accept the Pokedex exaggerates a lot.
I have a sheet of Perfect Mew photos (10,000 points!) printed out from the Blockbuster kiosk. I wonder if those are worth anything to anyone, heh.
Pokemon Snap 2, coming next year!
... I hope.
I'm not super scientific...but, I believe a black hole is only as strong as the source was. For instance, when a star dies, it can become a black hole, but it'a gravity pull doesn't change. If our sun died, we wouldn't get 'sucked up' into it.
Then, it possible for a black hole not to destroy everything, as opposed to what it said in the video. I don't know how a black hole "dies" though...so it may be after some time there'd be a ton of these little black holes everywhere...
@Yorumi A D&D game is the first idea I had after seeing the Wii U. A shame it never happened.
@mattesdude You failed to account for the fact that a black hole becomes more powerful the more matter it sucks up.
Did anyone else cringe each time they said "Po-kuh-mon" in the Snap video? It's a long A sound, people!
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