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Joe Mello
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You don't need me to tell you that Kamen Rider and battle royales go together.  I'm a little surprised that there wasn't some 199-scale that was actually a sentai battle royale (or even a straight up large-scale Sentai vs Rider--could you imagine?)
| Quote: | | Many of these rules exist for a reason, and while I think they can be bureaucratic, I understand why they're there. It's a measurement of protection against unscrupulous types: fake charities, hate organizations, that kind of thing. |
I think it's even simpler than that. Using someone else's work to make money without their permission is a pretty baseline description of how copyrights are violated. It doesn't matter what the money is for (and games played for charity certainly has its share of infamy here in 2025), it's not allowed. It's why doujin is still a gray area despite many companies being permissive.
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AiddonValentine
Joined: 07 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:28 pm |
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Mina the Hollower: Definitely has the Link's Awakening/Oracles vibes with the spritework, but due to it keep Shovel Knight's "get your currency back" mechanic it also has Bloodborne vibes with the Gothic flair. Same thing with the health system as you can't just down a vial, but you actually have to cause damage to an enemy to build its strength before you take it, almost like a variant on Bloodborne's rallying mechanic.
I went with the whip because, hey, might as well lean into the Castlevania vibes and smack people from afar.
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Silver Kirin
Joined: 09 Aug 2018
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 3:00 pm |
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- EVO '25: while I don't technically watch the EVO tournaments themselves, I do like to look forward to all of the fighting game news annoucements this time, at least to me, there weren't any particularly exciting news and most of them were already revealed earlier. I did read that apparently some developers at ArcSys said they are planning on supporting Marvel Tokōn for at least ten years, and also, Ken's ending in City of the Wolves again hinted at a possible new Capcom vs. SNK game.
- Power Rangers: I have to be honest, I have a soft spot for Power Rangers, while the original Might Morphin debuted the year I was born, I watched MMPR and Zeo on re-reruns and when In Space Premiered on Fox Kids Latin America back in '99 in watched every season up to S.P.D. I think Power Rangers was the first series that kind of introduced me to the concepts of continuity and crossovers (due to its crossovers with Masked Rider and Ninja Turtles: Next Mutation), I while do agree that Hasbro hasn't done an exactly great job since they acquired the franchise, that they rely too much on the original MMPR, and I don't exactly hate the fact that the franchise is an "adaptation" of a Japanese series, unlike other stuff like Robotech or 4Kids dubs, I think Power Rangers is sort of a different beast, and also, while they were dubs of old Super Sentai series in countries such as France and Brazil, I think Toei has never handled well the international distribution of their live-action tokusatsu shows like how Tsuburaya did with Ultraman, or how Toho distributed their giant monster movies. Still, I wonder if Fortnite will give Power Rangers a new boost in popularity, as it has done with other IPs.
| Quote: | | I struggle to imagine any kid in 2025 wanting to watch a show so deeply steeped in early '90s culture |
Don't know, I have some younger relatives who began watching the original MMPR just a couple of weeks ago when it was uploaded to Netflix again.
- Nintendo: Thank you for providing a more detailed explanation. I don't want to sound like a fanboy with no sense of judgment, but even though I haven't owned a Nintendo console in over 20 years, or any console for that matter, but I sometimes get the impression that Nintendo's actions brings out the worst in everyone when it happens, both for its more fervent defenders and detractors, but thankfully I no longer see as much clickbait content criticising Nintendo on YouTube.
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Nate148
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:52 pm |
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Fun fact the day Ken dropped the saudis did a ton of purges. I love gamewashing
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EmeraldSaucer
Joined: 31 Jan 2025
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:02 pm |
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| Nate148 wrote: | | Fun fact the day Ken dropped the saudis did a ton of purges. I love gamewashing |
I think the EWC LCQ for Tekken 8 happening right now is more relevant to the ongoing sportswashing than a DLC nobody cares all that much about
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StarFan13
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:00 am |
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| Quote: | | Hasbro currently owns the IP, and doesn't have a single idea what to do with it. Their most recent attempt at a new show, Power Rangers: Cosmic Fury, is looked upon as a decent attempt... but a combination of getting hosed by Netflix (only ten episodes?!) and questionable design decisions (yes, I'm still mad about the costumes) meant the show didn't quite do the numbers Hasbro wanted. |
yeah they didn't use the Kyuranger suits for the season (Cosmic Fury), it's too many rangers. | Quote: | | one commenter was rather aghast at the history of Saban's involvement with the franchise, while others idly wonder about the odds of, say, Dekaranger (Power Rangers SPD) getting involved. |
Fun Fact: SPD is set in the year we at now which is 2025.
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Nate148
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:39 am |
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| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | | Nate148 wrote: | | Fun fact the day Ken dropped the saudis did a ton of purges. I love gamewashing |
I think the EWC LCQ for Tekken 8 happening right now is more relevant to the ongoing sportswashing than a DLC nobody cares all that much about |
sure I just felt it funny that both those stories popped on the SAME DAY.
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Nagatoka_Morito
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:48 am |
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I can't help but cringe every time I see that Yuke's has bought a developer or IP ever since they acquired Wrestle Angels from Success some ten odd years back and never did anything with it.
Personal grudges aside, I hope this goes better for Aquaplus than their previous shift to a new parent did. The world could use some more Utawarerumono.
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PingSoni
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 8:03 am |
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I did not know about Little Kitty, and I have a black cat! (A short hair rescue with yellow eyes and fangs who weighs in at 12 lbs and is not plump, just large.) Thank you! I immediately purchased this game.
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Nate148
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 12:11 am |
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| Nagatoka_Morito wrote: | | I can't help but cringe every time I see that Yuke's has bought a developer or IP ever since they acquired Wrestle Angels from Success some ten odd years back and never did anything with it.
Personal grudges aside, I hope this goes better for Aquaplus than their previous shift to a new parent did. The world could use some more Utawarerumono. |
They did the 2nd ps2 game tryfirst was part of Yuke's that why they got the IP.
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Wyvern
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 9:15 am |
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At this point, I think the adaptation and rewrites are part of the charm of Power Rangers. I don't know if that charm is particularly marketable to a modern audience, but I wouldn't say it's quite as outdated as something like Robotech. At this point, the Rangers have built up a huge canon all their own and you could do a lot of build off of it. The Boom Studios' excellent Power Rangers comic series have provided a great example of how to do this.
At this point, I do think the western future of the franchise probably lays in just subtitling Super Sentai seasons for official release (like they'll be doing with Kamen Rider starting next month) But I'll always appreciate the charm of some of the wilder Sentai adaptations that Power Rangers gave us. Power Rangers RPM took one of the goofiest, most lighthearted seasons of Super Sentai and turned it into a dark, post-apocalyptic struggle for survival...and they made it work! Power Rangers Lost Galaxy took a fantasy series where the heroes interact with fairies and magic talking trees and are really into horsemanship, and they turned it into a scifi adventure set on a giant space station. I'll miss the crazy adaptational swings this franchise took; remixing a story like that is a creative process all in itself.
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