A While Ago I Did Presentation Clarifying Misconceptions Regarding Dedede's Character, Using Nothing

Protagonist delivers Megami Fortuna (女神 フォルトゥナ) and Wilder Nue (妖獣 ヌエ) to Mastema. However, Nue turns out to be less than willing to leave the party… ^^; Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey © Atlus Artwork © EerieAyres

I rate the textures of kirby chracters in base if i think they are edible or not

Kirby

Soft, baby like skin, very nice to the touch

Edible meter: 10/10, probably feels like a bubble gum

Meta knight

To many scars, still soft tho

Edible meter: 8/10, the scars prob make it feel weird but yet still very edible

King dedede

Feathers, to many of them, feels like a plushie tho

Edible meter: 2/10, the feathers have alot of the fault, nice to touch not to eat

Bandee

I hc that waddle dees have very short and thin fur, like pitbulls and such, yet still nice

Edible meter: 7/10, the fur will be kinda annoying but yet still very edible

Elfilin

Fur, to much of it, yuck

Edible meter: 2/10, it prolly feels like licking a cat, no

Galacta knight

Same shit as meta knight but worse

Edible meter: 5/10, they have too many scars, like too many, probably still very edible tho

Morpho

I literally can't even touch it, it's literally translucent, how am i-

Edible meter: ??/10, couldn't even touch it at all

Morpho night

Prolly feels smooth, like kirby, not scars at all somehow

Edible meter: 10/10, if it doesn't eat my soul first it might be a good dessert, it prolly taste like honey or nectar ar idk how butterflys taste like lol

Dark meta knight

Has even more scars than meta knight somehow, it really can't feel good

Edible meter: 1/10, bad texture, no

Dark matter

Don't put ur mouth close to those things-

Edible meter: -1/10, if it doesn't posses u it will kill you bc they are poisonous as hell fr

SMT Boardgame Kickstarter Smells Like Suspicious Fish

There's an SMT boardgame. Curb your enthusiasm, you shouldn't back it. And if you did, lower your pledge to like a buck until they clear things up, because as it stands it seems like an incredibly suspect product.

Checking through the Kickstarter comments and Japanese Tweets about the boardgame makes the entire thing seem poorly planned at best. I'll summarize as best I can;

The designer is incredibly infamous in the boardgame community

Naoki Matsunaga, a self-described "board game sommelier", is the designer. You'll find tweets lamenting that "the board game sommelier is involved". Why is he so hated? This thread goes into detail: co_boze on twitter. Part of it is they bashed Werewolf over one game they saw of it, another is they took on a kind of public-face role for boardgames appearing on late night TV shows to talk about them in ways that annoyed boardgamers. They seem to have designed a boardgame based on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" which ripped off Sid Sackson's 'I'm the Boss". But it's what co_boze talks about next that's really bizarre. The game was apparently banned from most board game cafes and playing spaces. Seminars where people could play the game were hosted, but the venues that hosted these seminars all closed down.

If you keep looking through comments, you start finding claims that his company does multi-level marketing (ie pyramid schemes). To be honest, I don't know if this is true. But even if it isn't, it is really not hard to find people who know of this guy and would really really really REALLY prefer he was not involved.

"Oh fuck, it's THIS guy" is not a reaction that inspires confidence

2. Questionable development and presentation issues.

A regular collaborator with Atlus recently tweeted "The use of AI in Atlus works or derivative works is stictly prohibited." He responded to a reply asking if this was about a board game.

The staff running the SMT BG Kickstarter later clarified the actual -game- wouldn't use AI graphics... but from the looks of it, the promotional materials do.

Dig that... generic metal pipe aesthetic. Nothing screams MegaTen like black plumbing to nowhere.

In totally unrelated news, a board game manufacturer recently tweeted that a Kickstarter used their name without permission, and they're not sure why.

Quote tweets on the post would suggest it was the SMT board game. The comment they are loosely referring to is this:

In a follow-up post, they do specify "The product figures will be made of PVC." and "We will be manufacturing the games in partnership with a factory in China that has a proven track record... " "Figure director Kimura Yuzuru has over 10 years of experience..." and other boring development stuff that I have no issue with. What I do have issue with is how they can say things like they're "considering" which manufacturer to use and namedropping other companies that they're unrelated with. (While I was typing this post, they posted an update that clarified the CMON issue and literally nothing else: here.)

The boardgame is being presented with machine translated English printed on the same cards as the Japanese. But the actual game will have a translator check everything.

they hire translators to localize all game content

Additionally, there was a week long radio silence on the Kickstarter. For reference, Kickstarters are normally very active with the project planners dropping updates, responding to feedback and clearing up any concerns.

Some of the concerns were "How does the game actually play?", a question that would be best answered by dropping a rulebook for people to look at, or better yet showing them an entire run of the game. The SMT BG Kickstarter has boldly chosen neither. Devs have commented the game is on Version 11 and plays well, which makes it strange that they can't share any of it with anyone else.

Actually, when you compare this to how most Kickstarters are run, it becomes very clear the SMT BG Kickstarter is, uh, kinda failing in all possible regards. The first Backer Goal is "Jack Frost Dice" at 2000 backers (not funds raised, BACKERS). Despite getting 300%(!!!) of the initial pledge needed, there are no bonuses or unlocks.

Mind, this lack of information comes after they already delayed the start to supposedly improve Backer Goals and other aspects.

There aren't a shortage of issues - it's ICREA's first boardgame (but not their first tango with SMT; they made the SMT30th Logo, for instance.) The timeline seems totally wack. The staff have been incredibly slow to respond. Cards with tiny font and two languages printed on them. Etc, etc. Maybe individually these issues wouldn't be too concerning. But all of them combined make the product seem incompetently run at best, and at worst an actual scam.

I'm hardly a big influencer in the SMT scene (my biggest contribution is when that fucking succubus gif gets 36k likes on Twitter every 5 months) but I haven't seen any English speaking sources discuss this in detail, when there really should be at least some noise about all of this. Still. if just one of you end up saving 600 bucks on what ends up being a trashfire carcrash project because of this post, then that'll have made the past 30 minutes of typing this shit worth it.

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (1986)

Holy shit Kamen Rider Accel game

‘Kinetica’! A PlayStation 2 game where your body is the bike! The game actually came with a little art book too! This is the American cover artwork.

in 12 years went from being forced to pose for a family photoshoot to just being happy to be there together

GALE AND THE GANG 💚💚💚

Makes you wonder why he choice miho as a kamen rider (making her the first official female rider because fuck tackle i guess) unless he somehow thought miho was some very sexy dude and give her a card deck.

Kinda gay for Shiro Kanzaki to start the Rider War and then proceed to pretty much only pick hot guys for it like OK dude

3 wild goofy goobers, clearly up to no good.

Reports say they are still at large for their ice cream related crimes.  

is probably one those details that are just here to look cool and nothing else, it doesn't make that vishnu "non-vishnu" and they can stay there

Asking you because I can't find anything about it myself. What are those two long objects strapped onto Vishnu's back, near his shoulders? Are they non-specific items that represent snakes or do they have an established identity?

I have no idea!

Have seriously been wondering about these for the longest time. If you know what these could be, drop me a line!