Glen-i

That's fantastic, they frankly deserve that for two reasons. 1. The whole illegally downloading thing. 2. (And this is the better reason) Being idiotic enough to go online with said illegal copy before the game is even out! I mean, what did they expect was going to happen, you couldn't wait a week or two? What's wrong with you!?

Oh good, I'm not the only one! So many miliseconds wasted reading point!

I'm pretty sure just using Ply while facing the statue does the job. It's still a really strange occurrence. I can understand people getting stuck there. Thankfully, after Mercury Lighthouse, you never have to use healing Psynergy for anything other than healing again. Anyway! You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Paper Mario: Colour Splash I don't care, that's the correct spelling as far as I'm concerned! came out on the WiiU just over a month ago. According to Wikipedia, it's an action-adventure game. That's a murky description, as there are turn based RPG elements to it as well. It's also the first game to be made solely for me. Hmm? How do I know that? Well, no-one else wanted the damn thing! Yes, this game is the sequel to ridiculously hated 3DS title, Paper Mario: Sticker Star. People were tripping over themselves to hate this game when it was revealed. The poor thing definitely had an uphill battle on it's hands. But the question is, does the entire targeted audience like this game? Let's ask him! The story begins with a surprisingly dark opening. At the dead of night, Princess Peach visits Mario with a strange envelope. Which turns out to be a Toad that has lost all of it's colour, leaving just a Toad-shaped blank piece of paper. Creepy. So Peach and Mario follow the postmark to a place called Prism Island, which is completely deserted. And with random bits of scenery completely devoid of colour. It doesn't take long until the two find out what happened. It seems that Shy Guys are sucking the colour out of the scenery and Toads themselves with deadly, deadly straws! Uhhh, Mario. You gonna help? No? Just gonna stand there? OK, that's cool. You jerk. Thankfully, Mario and Peach come across a strange 3D paint bucket named Huey, who just happens to be able to imbue Mario's hammer with paint, allowing him to repaint the scenery and the Toads to their former colourful glory. As well as the colour suckage issue, the 6 Paint Stars have also gone missing, so it's up to Mario to find the Paint Stars, restore colour to Prism Island and find out who's behind all this. My money's on Bowser. Because it's just gotta be, right? OK, so the story is pretty damn simple, but there's a few surprises along the way. But the actual reason to pay attention is the dialogue. This game has some of the best writing I've seen in a game in a very long time. It's just bursting with funny. You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Whether it be lampshade hanging... You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Groan inducing puns... You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Ridiculous scenarios... You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Good old Pop-culture references... You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Or just some demolishing of the fourth wall... This game just has a smorgasbord of ways to make you smirk, or even laugh. It's a real high for the series, and makes the concept of talking to everyone very appealing. That said, this game has a few more jump scares than I expected, but they are the silly kind, so it's all good. The gameplay is very similar to Sticker Star. The game is split up into a variety of levels and the goal is to find the Mini Paint Star in order to unlock a path to the next level. Getting into contact with an enemy drops you into a battle. In order to attack, you must use cards that you find throughout the world, whether it be jumping, using your hammer, or other more special moves, the goal is to utterly destroy the enemy before they can get a hit in, because you're rewarded with coins for not taking any damage. It demands a lot of forward thinking, because taking damage is never a good thing, but use too many cards at once and you risk wasting them by overkilling the enemy. A lot of people will be turned off by it adopting the same structure as Sticker Star, the common complaint of "there's no EXP, so what's the point?" The point was so you can get more coins to get more powerful attacks, but whatever has been alleviated somewhat by the amount of paint you can hold going up when you win battles. Personally, I love the Sticker Star style of battle, so more of the similar is fine by me. Unfortunately, the bosses are way easier this time, due to the majority of them flat out telling you what Thing they're weak to. I can't help but feel this was due to the massive amount of whining about how boss battles were too "Cryptic" in Sticker Star. (Because figuring out that a Baseball Bat might be a good thing to use in a place that looks suspiciously like a Baseball Stadium was just too confusing to puzzle out) Despite that, I do prefer this over Sticker Star. In fact, I have a hard time figuring out whether I like Thousand-Year Door more. They're both definitely up there in my opinion. The graphics are, well, just look at the damn screenshots! This game is gorgeous! It really does feel like everything is made of paper! It's one of the best looking games I've seen on the WiiU, and the console is certainly not short of good looking games! You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse And the soundtrack is nothing short of sublime, there's a veritable ton of catchy music in this game. Jazz works so well in a game like this, and there are a whole bunch of tracks that are just great to listen to. That said, it's not all jazz... So all in all, I love this game. It's one hell of a swan song to the WiiU, (let's face it, Zelda doesn't count) it's got everything I could hope for in a sequel to Sticker Star. I mean, it's so good, it managed to win over a few people here. And that's gotta count for something, right?

Oh, it wasn't a joke? (Well, OK, it kinda was, but not in the way I was looking for) Last time someone mentioned "Advertising" it was for funnies. You guys are so inconsistent!

Well, simply put, it's not the same people who did the music in the Wii game. They got some guy who normally does music for TV shows, I believe. It really shows.

How in the world am I supposed to answer that? I... Just don't get it. How am I supposed to explain what I don't get if I don't get it in the first place. And now my head hurts.

Yeeeeaaahhh... About that... I wouldn't get your hopes up. Game's still decent and I hope you enjoy it.

OK, I know it's the number one no-no when it comes to comedy, but can someone explain this to me. Perhaps in a spoiler tag labelled "Glen is a durrbrain"

Yeah, I'm glad I bumped into her, she was a lot of fun to play with, helped that she's pretty good with loads of different weapons as well. I just stumbled across that armour and realised that I had way more than I needed to make it and max it. It's surprisingly boss with an Aerial setup. Brap!

Righto, @S\.C\.G, room's open now. I'll be playing to around 9:30 tonight.

Assuming you're not all retroed out, @S\.C\.G. You up for a brief Sunday hunt tonight? Maybe around 6-9pm? Going ahead and mentioning @RedShell because three's a crowd. And crowds are funnier.

Link please?

Right, so just to clarify @flameboy, there'll be 4 GP's? Making a total of 16 races, right? And you're hosting the room, so everyone needs to have you on their friends list? And will it be streamed through the current Twitch stream, I wanna let a few of my friends know, so they can maybe support with pointing and laughing. And one more thing... Will I have to change my Mii's name to accommodate the opening post, or have Apple commandeered it and made a version of me that looks pretty similar to the old one and takes away basic features that you'd think every Glen would have? On the plus side, it is really thin!

Yep, the Impossible Pack really does live up to it's name. I still haven't done it.

At this point, I'd rather you kept it in the spoiler tag. Ta!

Oh lord... Don't tell me. I'd rather live in ignorance for as long as possible.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is the sequel to the DS title New Super Mario Bros. Although it is the third New Super Mario Bros. game, which is weird... The game focused on coins and featured ways to get loads of coins. But come on, you knew that already... You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse Like the Miiverse post says, I wanted to shake this up with a Poverty Run, essentially going through the game while collecting as few coins as possible. In any other 2D Mario, this wouldn't be that much of an issue, but in this game, coins are everywhere, making things very interesting. You have to do some pretty elaborate maneuvers just to not pick up a coin. I did set some rules for myself though: - No secret exits - You can skip quite a few levels by taking secret exits. I just decided to go for a straight run to Bowser. - No flying with the Super Leaf - It would just trivialise a lot of the point of this challenge, floating down by holding jump is OK though. - Every Death has a penalty of 100 coins - Adds an actual punishment for losing a life. So how did I do? You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. View post in Miiverse 545 coins is quite a surprising amount. I have to say. I certainly do enjoy New Super Mario Bros. 2. And who doesn't like a self-imposed challenge?

I could argue that reaching out by focusing on the first entry could be just as bad. It feels a lot like regression. Oh yeah, It was something that annoyed me about X/Y. It's been a thing before Go. Go just exasperated it. I was just hoping that they were past it. But I guess I was stupid for thinking that.

@RedShell, I don't care how funny it is, perfectly symmetrical Super Horn violence is never the answer. Also, @BowserBasher, since when did you start rocking an inward drift bike?

Hey, I'm entitled to rant. Sure, it might not matter one bit and it won't make a damn bit of difference, but let me vent. More and more, I feel like I'm on the outside looking in when it comes to Pokemon, and considering it's my favourite series, it's not a particularly good feeling. I just thought it might have moved on from this constant chasing of the people who jumped ship after the first game, but Go pretty much stopped that hope dead. Pokemon is more than just some game that came out in the nineties, but these days, it's starting to feel like I'm the only one who realises that.

OK, @S\.C\.G. You up for some post-karting hunting tonight? I tried the Baki event quest with some random just now. You have to hunt a Hyper Gammoth in the arena. Oh yeah, and you have to do it naked! I'm pretty sure the only way to stand a chance is to go with a Bowgun or to use a Palico with the "World's Strongest" skill. Anyway, I went with Bowgun, didn't work out. EDIT: Room's open if you're joining in @S\.C\.G. RedShell and Ugh First Aid are here as well, so hopefully we can take on that Silver Rath.

It's very tempting at this point. I'm genuinely considering it, I've never done that before.

Yes I will be. Did @Dcubed donate a fiver on my behalf? I did ask him to.

Literally saw the Marowak one on the way to @Dcubed's! I instantly wanted to go on here to voice my disdain. But then, I stopped. And I had a conversation with my Inner Monologue. "Now come on, Glen. Be reasonable, they should advertise the new stuff, right? I bet there's some buses that show the new starters or something like that" "Why thank you, Inner Monologue. That makes a lot of sense. I was ready to go on N-Europe and look even more like a div than I already do." And then I noticed I got mentioned, so I went to this thread. You know what? Screw Inner Monologue. That guy knows jack! I'm going full on div! ARE THEY FUCKING SERIOUS!? It's official. I, a massive Pokenerd, am no longer the target audience for a Pokemon game! That's ridiculous. That is completely non-sensical and yet, it's completely true. That review quote really does say it all, doesn't it? It's like they're trying to not sell me the game. Right, before I was planning on using nothing but Gen 7 Pokemon in this playthrough, maybe use Alolan Marowak if it took my fancy. But now. Nothing but Gen 2-6 in this playthrough. I am taking a stand for the forgotten Pokemon, and no, that doesn't include that disgusting excuse for a Greninja. And if that means that I have to wait until Pokemon Bank gets updated because they don't show up in this game, (And at this point, I wouldn't put it past them) so be it. I'm also retiring the Charizard I use in my team until this pandering stops. Fuck Marowak. Fuck Charizard. Fuck your stupid Pallet swaps. Fuck Pokemon fucking Go and every single one of you who played it. This is all your fault and I hate you all! I swear, if they pull another "Battle Frontier tease" and only have the Battle Tree in the post-game, there will be hell to pay!

This has been on my mind for some time and what with Pokemon Sun/Moon leaking all over the place like a baby without a nappy, I thought now would be a good time to ask. Why does the majority of the internet actively seek spoilers when it comes to games? You only have to look at the likes of Youtube to see all sorts of videos titled with blatant spoilers in the run up to a game's release and shortly after a game is out. It's hardly a new phenomenon, it's been going on for a while now. So these kind of videos are clearly drawing in the views. But why do those viewers like ruining the sense of surprise a game may provide? What are your thoughts? Are you prone to spoiling a game before you've even played, and if so, why?