Glen-i

Well, it's Time format next week, so no need to ask.

Anyway, over 50 Nook Miles Tickets used today, I managed to find Alfonso! Except, he's not wearing the Mario Shirt anymore... Yet he still has "it'sa me" as his catchphrase... What's the point? Oh well, he's a croc, so I'm moving him in.

Best Racing Game Easy. Mario Kart has never been better. BTW, you should totally join the N-Europe League now and again!

So you're good now? BTW, just a heads up. From now until July 20th, there's a 2% chance to get a Shiny Wailord from Max Raids.

If there's one person I would recommend watching, it's Jay Foreman. Simply put, he mostly makes educational videos about seemingly mundane things, such as British politics (Called Politics Unboringed), maps (Map Men), and the construction history of London (Unfinished London). And yet it's some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen! He even manages to make his sponsored advert sections funny. He's got proper comedic talent. Here's one of my faves. He doesn't post nearly as often as I'd like. Mahogany, mahogany.

It's on a custom stage, so you can't upload it through the game itself.

@WackerJr, you as well? You can't have all three Zero Escape games! That's cheating!

The visuals proper glitched out there on Kalos Pokemon League.

I totally planned that Bayonetta custom stage finish! No-one can tell me otherwise!

Speak for yourself, I got there with a Mushroom once and still immediately died because I touched a Spike Block and couldn't keep up with the speed of the lift.

Oh right, if there's only 6 of us tonight, don't forget to add CPU's, @BowserBasher

On a side note, I think the trophy descriptions in the fourth Smash make them the best ones. The localisation team clearly had a lot of fun with those.

@Vileplume2000 beat me to @Dcubed's one, but how do you explain the big massive jump past the 4th coin to reach a one block high tunnel? Unless you actually expect someone to crouch jump into it and then spend a minute jumping through it to slowly edge their way past.

Next League Night: Tonight 8pm Room 1: @BowserBasher is host @Glen-i @BowserBasher @S.C.G @martinist @Jayesse @viceview51

Most Interesting Collectables @Goafer certainly has a great idea with his choice, but that's the obvious choice and it's not even the best implementation of "Gotta Catch 'em All!" No, that honour goes to Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon's Connection Orb! I wouldn't look too hard at that if you haven't played every PMD game, there's a few spoilers there. Simply put, the Connection Orb keeps track of all 779 Pokémon that you can recruit (That's all 720 Pokémon species as of the time this game came out, plus any Pokémon with multiple forms or gender differences). What makes the collection aspect here different to every other Pokémon game is that recruiting them is not random. Every single Pokémon is recruited by performing some sort of task. What's even more neat is that the lines you can see indicate some sort of connection between Pokémon, basically telling you that those Pokémon know each other in some way. This includes Pokémon from previous PMD entries! It's basically a graph showing every character in every single Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game to date as well as which Pokémon they know. For example, Emolga being connected to Virizion makes perfect sense if you've played Gates to Infinity. I can just imagine Chun Soft getting a meeting together with a big whiteboard and saying, "OK, we're going to figure out how every Pokémon in our spin-off universe relate to each other" Cue many arguments, maybe. Yes, it's basically "Everybody is Here" before Smash Ultimate did it.

OK! Tried them all now. @Dcubed and @Sméagol @Vileplume2000 @RedShell Yeah, I'm voting for @RedShell's Dash for the Cash.

Stamina Smash tonight at 9pm.

You can't complain, you were the one who asked!

Yeah, @Aneres11, I have 200,000+ as well. I think you might be the weird one here.

@drahkon, that's a cop-out, you gotta pick one. Best Story I bet you're all thinking "He's gonna pick PMD"? Well, you're wrong. Kinda. My choice is from the same developer though. Which is always funny. Yeah, have to disagree slightly with @Dcubed a bit. While 999 does have the "Story that could only be told on a DS" thing going for it. I think VLR has the more solid story all round. There are so many perfect moments of foreshadowing that changes completely once a twist happens. It's great to go back through the game again just to see them and then go "Oh yeah, of course!" Honestly, I can't say any of the Zero Escape trilogy can be a bad choice for this catagory. (Zero Time Dilemma has the most amazing twists, in case you're wondering) After playing these games, it's not surprising that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has such good stories. Probably won't get paragraphs of graphic details of how someone died in PMD though.

Yep, it is. Didn't even catch that at first. That's hilarious. Sonic Mania is better than Sonic 1 though, so I'll allow it.

The fact that it's EA testing this price point means I don't buy for one second that they'll hold back on the microtransactions because of it. It's EA.

OK then, here we go. Time to possibly learn more about me than you ever had before. - My real name is Glen O'Brien. Anyone who has read any of my articles here should already know that though. - I'm 30 years old. Born on January 15, 1990. That makes me the quintessential 90's kid. - I've lived in London for most of my life. Although I was forced to live in Portumna, Ireland for around 5 years of my teenager span because my dad moved there. I hated it, I was a city bloke living in the middle of nowhere, going to a school where I was frequently bullied because I was English and living with a stepmother who also hated me and would freak if she ever caught me playing a console. The irony of that was that she probably inadvertently ruined my education prospects by claiming she was trying to get me to focus on school more. Suffice to say, I don't really want to go back to Ireland ever again. - That username has been following me around for what must be well over 10 years at this point. It's the system name I gave to my DSi. - First game I played was Dcubed's copy of Super Mario World at the age of three. (Sponging off of him for 27 years!) Super Metroid was too scary. First console I owned was a Game Boy with Tetris and Dr. Mario. - Before joining the forums, I enjoyed a bit of small internet fame through Flipnote Hatena. As far as the European regions go, I was frequently amongst the top 10 creators there. Which is amazing, because I was painfully mediocre at drawing back then. I focused more on making my own comedy than on visual spectacle (Which pretty much all the other top 10's focused on), which I guess helped me to stand out. When it came to comedy Flipnotes, most people just recorded audio from popular YouTube videos and made animations to fit it. I didn't do this, I made up my own comedy to go with my own animations. That probably helped me climb those ranks. - Because Glen-i was the name on my DSi, that was my Flipnote username, I kept it because now and again, people still recognise me from it. That blue Kecleon that you see in my profile picture is also from my Flipnote days. I needed a mouthpiece for my voice in a lot of Flipnotes, so I went with a Kecleon (He's also named Glen, BTW) because chameleons are my favourite animal (And it's not too difficult to draw from the side). Flipnote only allows two colours at once, so that's why he's blue and black. - The one Flipnote that catapulted my exposure was an incredibly silly one where I provided lyrics to the main overworld theme from Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Pretty much had me providing the voice of Link, who was singing about stealing stuff (including the train he's driving and socks from your drawer) and how amazing he is, before getting unceremoniously blown up by one of those Demon Trains. I can't sing, so going back to it is painful listening, but people really liked it for some reason. Anyway, other songs I've put lyrics to and utterly butchered include Pleasant Path from Paper Mario, the World 4 map tune from Super Mario Bros. 3, Marowak Dojo from the second Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game and the theme tune from This Morning for some reason even I'm not certain of. - Anyway, last Flipnote tidbit, Nintendo did two contests where people had to make short animations based on the Mario and Zelda series. I'm the only person in the world to win both of them. Oh yeah! Smug Mode to the extreme! Not even most famous Flipnoter, Kéké, can't claim that. (French dude, slight friend of mine, astonishingly talented drawer) - Naturally, I started getting into drawing once Flipnote ended, I've gotten pretty decent at it now. It's my main non-gaming hobby. A few people have suggested that I take commissions, but I can't draw to deadlines. I feel like it would sap the enjoyment out of it. - I've got rubbish social skills. Introduce me to someone I've never met and I'll clam up. Socially awkward doesn't even begin to describe me. And boy, if they don't have the same kind of interests as me, it just gets worse. - A couple of things I've never done include drinking alcohol and gone on a date. I don't plan on ever drinking, seen way too many people get destroyed by the stuff. As for the dating game, I don't know, I've never been interested there. Maybe I'm asexual? Or maybe it'll change if I meet someone that I like that way. I'm not fussed about it really. I'm happy being single, more money for myself. - I was made homeless at one point, it wasn't as bad as some people's experience, but I have had to spend nights on the streets at some point. It's horrible and terrifying, I can't imagine being in a more permanent state of homelessness. - As some of you probably know, I volunteer at a community centre in Islington, letting local kids play my Switch with each other. It started when I got dragged there with my mum visiting a Christmas fair about 6 years ago. They had a Wii set up with some shovelware garbage to try and get kids occupied while their parents looked around. Boy, the staff member there supervising wasn't interested in the slightest. It was pretty sad. I lived nearby, so I jogged back home, grabbed my WiiU and my copy of Smash Bros, all my controllers and basically bulldozed my console to that room, booted up Smash and taught kids how to play. It was a massive hit! Naturally, kids saw this silly fighting game with Mario, Sonic, and Pikachu and were immediately interested (Loads of kids would pick those characters first). I was asked to come back for future fairs and after 3 more years, I was then asked to make it a weekly thing. Of course, Corona has made that impossible at the moment, but the community centre has said they want me to return once it becomes safe to do so. - I'm intolerant to peanuts, not a full blown allergy, but I get sick if the peanut is too overpowering. Which sucks, because I love Nutella. - I'm really fussy with food, my eating habits would make some of you cry. - I suffer from pretty bad insomnia at times. Medically confirmed 2 years ago. I have spent hours lying in bed doing absolutely nothing but try to sleep. I start feeling really tired, I go to bed and then I'm immediately wide awake. So yeah, if you ever see me playing Switch at stupid o'clock in the morning, then I'm probably having a bout of that. OK, nothing else comes to mind, so I'm going to leave it at that.

@will' there, choosing the correct Sonic game.

That's definitely the one that hit closest to home. I mean, I wasn't a huge fan of the Smash competitive community in the first place. Way too stubborn in what should be allowed in Smash Bros. (Did you know that Castle Siege, that Fire Emblem stage from Brawl is banned from competitive tournaments, even with hazards off, because it has a tiny ramp in the middle of the stage? They are the epitome of "No Fun Allowed") When I was hosting my weekly Smash sessions at the community centre before Corona hit, there was once this kid's older brother who suggested to me that I was teaching the kids to play Smash Bros. wrong because I allowed any stage, had items on, and let up to 8 people play at once. I told him in the politest way to get bent. Call me mad, but I don't think a group of 5 to 12 year olds would prefer to wait around for more than half an hour to play one 2 player match without items and on nothing but Battlefield. Yeah, getting a bit off-topic there, but with the amount of cases showing up from that particular community, I now have an even bigger case to dislike them.