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@Chaotic_Neutral Ariel in the remake sounds really great. Too bad the CGI animals look hideous, and the environments are so dark you can barely see anything, which is a common problem with many modern films.

Also, I don't want to support the Disney live action remakes.
I may go see Elemental and I will definitely see Wish. It's to send a message to Disney that we want more animated originals instead of mediocre live action remakes.

@CMS_Glalie I really enjoyed it but I understand why some people like you would not like it.
That said, even if you didn't like it, it can definitely be agreed upon that this film is easily much better than The Lion King 2019 or any of the Frozen movies.

I pray that this would finally beat The Lion King 2019 as the highest grossing animated film of all time.
The Lion King 2019 is a really awful film and it does not deserve the title of highest grossing animated film of all time.

You can use a Gundam or a mini-Death Star to defeat a Lynel this time. And I'm happy.

So, basically like the "gacha elements" in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Even though that game has no microtransactions, the gacha elements just made everything more tedious in an already really long game.
At least the gacha machine here actually looks like a decent game mechanic and really useful. It may even inspire improvisation, since you're getting random goods, all useful in their own right.

Also, Breath of the Wild already had its own lootbox elements with the amiibo feature.
Except for that, you had to buy a figurine much more expensive than a typical lootbox, and every spin is free (aside from buying the amiibo itself).
You get different sorts of items depending on what figure you scanned, and said items are random. Or you can get exclusive stuff. You can only scan a figure once per day to avoid breaking the game. But you can scan as many figures as you want each day.
It's like lootboxes except your boxes are actual physical figurines, and you only pay for one "lootbox pass" and you are free to open a new lootbox each day.

Starkiller from The Force Unleashed is different, but his name is a reference to this early version of Luke Skywalker.
And The Force Awakens would reference this name again with the Starkiller Base.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Nintendo already established Universal/Toho as their partner now.
I just want the Metroid movie in live action done with practical effects. Maybe directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi in a style similar to Shin Kamen Rider. But made in English, of course.

@larryisaman I actually really liked that movie.
Out of the video game adaptations that Disney made (Need for Speed, Prince of Persia, the 1993 Mario movie, Uwe Boll's Far Cry), Need for Speed is the best one.

Prince of Persia could have been good or even great, had they not cast white actors. The 1993 Mario movie is a film I really enjoy, but it's not really a Mario movie. And the less said about Uwe Boll's Far Cry, the better.
I know Wreck-It Ralph is a video game movie, but it's not adapted from a pre-existing video game.

@roboshort In Asia (particularly China), Your Name. alone has eclipsed Godzilla's popularity, let alone the other Makoto Shinkai films.
But Godzilla still remains really popular, and in the West, Godzilla is still more popular than Makoto Shinkai's films.

Well, this is great considering that the Mario Movie is simultaneously a US film and a Japanese anime film.
Nintendo is Japanese and Toho coproduced this film.
Maybe they can even advertise the film as being "From the producers of Your Name. and Weathering With You" as those are two of Toho's most famous anime films.

If they really wanted a thinner font, then they should've used the GBA/DS font that was used for pretty much every FF game and Chrono Trigger on the GBA and DS.

For the N64, you can use the D-Pad and analogue stick at the same time for GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.
D-Pad for movement and the analogue stick for aiming. Just switch your right hand over to the buttons (or better yet, twist your thumb to the A or B button) should you need to open something.

I always love these updates with the Classic Tails plush photo.
Does anyone know where I can get this Classic Tails plush? Who is the manufacturer and what is the product name?

@JR150 I didn’t mean Tokyo Mirage Sessions (but those would be good too).
I meant SEGA’s anime studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha, which made Lupin III, Detective Conan (Case Closed), Sherlock Hound, and Sonic X.

@Gofixmeaplate Sony would probably only allow it if the mods are paid, if we're even lucky enough to get mods on PlayStation in the first place.
Nintendo would straight up not allow mods.
The only company allowing mods on consoles outright currently is Microsoft. And even then, most of them are paid mods.

@JR150 Honestly, I want the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, S.E.E.S., and the Investigation Team.
And also the Like a Dragon characters, and since SEGA owns TMS, Lupin III + Daisuke Jigen + Goemon Ishikawa, in the iconic Castle of Cagliostro car. As well as Fujiko Mine in her motorcycle, Inspector Zenigata in his police car, and Count Cagliostro in his autogyro.

@ComfyAko That would be great.
Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro), Studio Ponoc (Mary and the Witch's Flower, The Imaginary), and Studio Khara (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shin Japan Heroes Universe) are pretty much close with each other.
Studio Ponoc still uses software and collaborators from Studio Ghibli, while their first film was a coproduction with Studio Khara. And Studio Ghibli/Studio Khara worked together on a Nausicaa prequel short, while Hideaki Anno starred in The Wind Rises and Hayao Miyazaki cameoed in Shin Godzilla. Neon Genesis Evangelion was also coproduced by Studio Ghibli.
And Studio Khara is also pretty close with Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, BNA), as they both spawned from Gainax.

I would also love it if Studio Khara would make Fire Emblem, Metroid and Star Fox anime. While Studio Trigger makes Splatoon and F-Zero.

@MarioBrickLayer Most, if not all Universal's films since 2009 are coproductions with Japanese studio Toho (known for the Godzilla films, Akira Kurosawa's films, My Hero Academia and Makoto Shinkai's more recent films like Your Name. and Suzume).
And Toho also regularly coproduces Studio Ghibli films.
Maybe Toho could get Studio Ghibli for some other Nintendo films while Universal handles international distribution. Or maybe we can even get a Fire Emblem anime series from Toho Animation.

If it has to be a Universal-owned studio. I am hoping DreamWorks makes a Zelda movie as their big comeback to 2D animation in the style of The Prince of Egypt.

@arabiansanchez The Pikmin short films were made by the same studio that helped with Studio Ghibli on making Earwig and the Witch.

Kirby would work really well with Illumination.
Or maybe give it to Studio Ghibli and make it similar in style to Earwig and the Witch but with a much higher budget and production quality (Earwig was a low-budget TV movie and not a theatrical one). But the style looks great in concept with how it's basically combining the Ghibli style to Laika, Tim Burton, and Aardman styles.

For Zelda, Ghibli is definitely the one to make it. Either that or give it to DreamWorks and make it a Prince of Egypt-style 2D film.

@KorGonia There are also other similar cases.
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster only has Final Fantasy X on the cartridge while Final Fantasy X-2 is considered a DLC for the physical release.
It hurts even more since you can't play Final Fantasy X-2 without inserting the cartridge on the Switch unlike these other physical downloads.
At least the Asian releases still support English and have both games on the cartridge.

And at least the Resident Evil collections don't require you to insert the cartridges to play the other games.

@Discostew Maybe they restored it for the console versions.
I know some people were complaining that they removed the credits and the Developers' Room from FF4 but it didn't get as much traction as the Metroid Prime Remastered of Pac-Man World: Re-Pac fiascos.

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters also removed the original credits.
This actually ruins the FF5 title screen, since the names no longer appear and are just a single Square Enix logo. And it’s even worse in FF6, since the opening scene of the Magitek Armours marching to Narshe are just a super long scene with no credits, ruining the epic tone the scene was going for.
The worst has to be in FF4, where they removed the Developers’ Room to avoid crediting anyone.

Remasters should credit all the original staff, unless they want to remain uncredited in an Alan Smithee sort of way.

Too bad it has a late release in the Philippines where I live.
They had to make room for a Summer Metro Manila Film Festival where cinemas can only show locally-made films for two weeks. Strangely similar to a law in China.
Now, the only exception is with IMAX and 4DX cinemas, where they are free to show foreign films.

I think Zelda would be better with Illumination's sister studio DreamWorks.
I always thought Studio Ghibli is the only one worthy of making a Zelda movie, but Universal owns both Illumination and DreamWorks, and they also have a partnership with Toho co-producing most of their films.
Toho also co-produces most of Studio Ghibli's films. Maybe Universal and Ghibli can strike a deal via. Toho.

But DreamWorks is also good, especially if they do the Zelda movie in a 2D style (with some 3D special effects) similar to The Prince of Egypt.

If I had a nickel for every overpriced SEGA collection with Origins at the title, I would have two nickels.
Which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice.

@samuelvictor There are also some digital films where the original digital files are lost, so they used filmouts for the home video releases.
This happened most notably with The Prince of Egypt, but it’s not the only one.
28 Days Later and The Celebration (Festen) were shot on PAL DigiBeta, and the original files were lost, so they had to use a filmout for the Blu-ray releases. 28 Days Later does have some 16mm and 35mm scenes so it makes sense too.
The Rescuers Down Under, the very first pure digital feature film, is also lost, so they had to use a filmout even for the Blu-ray and Disney+ releases, when Disney was the one to popularise pure digital transfers with A Bug’s Life and Tarzan’s DVD releases.

Most early digital films not from Disney have their original files lost. Anastasia, Titan A.E., Balto, Antz, even films as late as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Rugrats Go Wild, only have the filmouts surviving.
Even a film as recent as 2007’s Evangelion:1.01 You Are (Not) Alone., had a filmout on the DVD release, but the remastered DVD/Blu-ray releases called Evangelion:1.11 You Are (Not) Alone. was a pure digital transfer.
The filmout process has also been used recently for some modern digital films for aesthetic purposes, such as Dune 2021 and The Batman.
Another film that had the film effects applied similar to Ghibli’s films and Knives Out was Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers 2022. Rian Johnson’s series Poker Face also had a similar effect.

35mm projection is also great for the rare films edited on film, like Christopher Nolan’s films and Quentin Tarantino’s films.

‪I love the voice cast.‬
‪But I think Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong was miscast, especially since he just uses the same voice.‬
‪To be honest, I would get videogamedunkey as Donkey Kong.‬

@samuelvictor Digital films get a film aesthetic to them when printed out to 35mm film.
I saw a fan preservation of a 35mm print of Revenge of the Sith (one of the very first 100% digital live action films) and it looks great. And the CGI blends better.
I also saw many other digital films printed out to 35mm in that cinema, and they looked great, with a new sense of soul that was lost with digital filmmaking.
There are even digitally-shot/animated films that have had artificial 35mm effects applied on them for digital prints, such as Studio Ghibli’s films and Knives Out. The rare 35mm prints do not have this artificial effect as the filmout process inherently makes an authentic one instead.

@RetroGames
I am still deciding on whether to watch this film in digital 3D or 35mm 2D.
Each have their pros and cons. But when I saw Avatar 1: Remastered in standard digital 3D, it was the exact same price as standard digital 2D. There is one 35mm cinema near where I used to live and one conveniently next to a train station, and it is much cheaper than digital cinemas. Plus the analogue film aesthetic is just gorgeous. But I lose that sweet 3D effect. And I want to keep both 3D and celluloid film alive.
I am still torn between these two options.

@Vil Yeah. Only exceptions are with DNR’d releases like Terminator 2 or the Pirates of the Caribbean films (only Dead Men Tell No Tales aka. Salazar’s Revenge looks great in 4K, the other ones look and sound much better on standard 1080p Blu-ray, except On Stranger Tides, which looks outright amazing in Blu-ray 3D).

When will you learn that your actions have consequences?

@TheBigBlue Back in the olden days, some games only had the bugfixes from buying an expansion pack (basically a DLC you had to buy as a separate physical release).
Hell, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was quite buggy on release, and the Sonic & Knuckles expansion cartridge fixed its bugs.

Even when games had downloadable patches back then, many people only knew these patches from the expansion packs when the Internet wasn't that widespread, and when downloading even a dozen megabytes took forever.

I hope that at least the bugfixes would be a free update. While the Game Gear games and playable Amy are DLC.

@Serpenterror The Game Gear also had stereo audio, while the Master System was mono-only.
Hoping for full RSDK remasters that are widescreen versions with more screen space than the Master System, but with the Game Gear’s strengths.

I also hope the Classic Mode gets replaced with emulations instead of 4:3 versions of the remasters.

@Bluerangervegeta Many of the biggest blockbusters still get 3D conversions done. All of the MCU movies have 3D releases in cinemas. And so are the recent Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar films. James Cameron had some of his films rereleased in 3D alongside Avatar: The Way of Water.

Universal still released

Paramount seems to be returning to 3D, with releasing Scream VI in 3D as well as rereleasing Top Gun and Titanic (a Paramount-Fox collab co-distributed with Disney) in 3D. (weirdly, they didn't release Top Gun: Maverick in 3D).
Almost every new DreamWorks and Illumination film gets a 3D release in cinemas as well.

Dune: Part One had a 3D conversion. And 3D remains popular in Europe and (to a lesser extent) Japan and China.

And animated films usually get 3D releases, since it's super easy to make 3D versions of CGI films with the original files.

If passive 3D really costs little, then TV manufacturers need to bring it back.
But I would love a combo of 4K 3D HDR HFR, as well as a new physical media format for it, to truly make the format shine. Especially to perfectly preserve Avatar: The Way of Water the way it was meant to be seen.

I really wish Avatar: The Way of Water will be the way to 3D's comeback.

I'm still hoping for the return of 3D TVs.
Hopefully, the giant success of Avatar: The Way of Water will be the start.
The Way of Water will lead us to the comeback of 3D.

Tails looks so adorable here.
Too bad I can't buy it because it's too expensive.
I just want Tails to be playable in Frontiers. And hopefully a patch for Origins that would allow to play as Sonic & Tails together in Sonic 1 like in the 2013 iOS remaster.
And also an amiibo of Tails.

@HopeNForever It will also release April 19 in the Philippines.

@Macadamia Viacom changed their name to ViacomCBS, and then to Paramount Global.

@PipeGuy64Bit Yeah. This is pretty much the kids' awards, what kids enjoyed the most.
I was definitely expecting Sonic to win, since Paramount made the Sonic movies and they own Nickelodeon (look at how SpongeBob has a near-unbroken streak of awards since 2003). The only other Paramount movie there was Top Gun: Maverick, which is a family film but not quite as kid-appealing as Sonic.

Weirdly, there have been some nominees and winners in the past that were R-rated films. But that was back then.
Don't expect something like Everything Everywhere All at Once (my personal favourite film of the year) to win, let alone get nominated, in the Kids' Choice Awards.

Don't expect even family-friendly indie/foreign/arthouse films like In the Mood for Love or Miracle in Cell No. 7 to get nominated, since kids haven't heard of those and only the mainstream films/shows.
Even something like the latest Studio Ghibli or Makoto Shinkai film won't get nominated in the awards. The nominees and winners are mostly chosen by kids.

The film will also be a co-production with Japanese companies Toho (Godzilla, Your Name., Weathering With You, My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen), Dentsu (Fairy Tail, Attack on Titan), and Fuji TV (Dragon Ball, One Piece).

Tetris Effect will be here any minute now.

Metroid Prime: An Alan Smithee Game

I'm glad this will be short, as every single film I have seen in cinemas before this (except for Sonic the Hedgehog 2) was either three hours long or approaching it.
I'm glad to see a much shorter film now.

That said, I wish there would be more extremely long animated epics.
The last animated film I have seen go past the 150-minute (2h30m) mark was Shin Evangelion:3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, at 155 minutes (2h35m).
To this day, there has never been an animated film that went past the three-hour mark.
The longest animated film of all time is the extended version of In This Corner of the World, at 169 minutes (2h49m) long.

@Roam85 Switch Pro/Switch 2/Super Switch needs stereoscopic 3D.
People loved the 3D effect of the 3DS. And with Avatar: The Way of Water's runaway success, it's safe to say that 3D is back.

@Clyde_Radcliffe @KayFiOS Hopefully, Apple would give this a limited theatrical release, just like they did with CODA and with some Billie Eilish concert.
CODA was actually very successful with its theatrical release, as that was the reason the film won Best Picture at the Oscars.

They also worked with GKIDS to give Wolfwalkers a limited theatrical run, but that was in the middle of the pandemic.
It still managed to get nominated for all the major animation awards, and even won an Annie Award for Best Indie Film.

Because Disney hogs all the Best Animated Feature awards for themselves, the Annie Awards had to give indie films their own time to shine with their own category.

I usually don't like mobile gaming, but I would say mobile phones are the best for public transport gaming.

I really want to play this. But I don't have a Nintendo Switch and I was expecting them to release it on PC as well.
Maybe down the line, recent Square Enix games not getting PC ports has been a rarity. Even PlayStation exclusives like FF7 Remake and Forspoken got PC ports eventually.

Hell, I would buy Theatrhythm Final Bar Line on PC even if it's an Epic Games Store exclusive.

This news article is giving me some flashbacks to the KyoAni arson.
I hope that will never happen again, to anyone.

Ironic that this would be in America.
The obesity rate in the US is startlingly high, and not to mention that people would say this is "fatphobic".