A Text Review of Mario Kart Double Dash

Everyone remembers how Nintendo showed off that “realistic” Zelda back at Spaceworld 2000, only to come back a year later with The Wind Waker and piss everyone off for a good while. They had a bad habit for a while there. No one remembers that the Wave Race shown at the same event looked like a silky smooth update to the original but came back as the not-quite-that Blue Storm. And later at E3 2001, they’d pull the same shit with Mario Kart for Nintendo GameCube too.

A Text Review of Mario Kart Super Circuit

After disappointing literally everyone with Mario Kart 64, it’s no surprise that Nintendo went back to what worked in the original with the next iteration on Game Boy Advance.

A Text Review of Mario Kart 64

Being… hmm, old-ish I guess, I thought the general opinion of Mario Kart 64 was pretty positive. Most often when the subject came up, it usually turns/devolves into a discussion about whether MK64 or Diddy Kong Racing was the better of the kart games on N64 (forgetting Mickey’s Speedway USA altogether - the curse of late releases strikes again!). Perhaps i’ll review DKR at some point too, because that is an interesting comparison. But nowadays, i’m seeing more and more opinions that shove MK64 at or near the bottom of best Mario Kart rankings. It’s arguable if that even means it’s a bad game, considering something has to be at the bottom, doesn’t it? But a lot of those opinions are rife with misunderstanding of the game, just like the original SMK. Perhaps it finally got old enough to be assessed by another generation of players. So once again I’m struck with a need to delve into it and deliver the correct verdict as only my opinionated ass can!

A Text Review of Super Mario Kart

What is a hardcore Mario Kart player? That was the question i found myself pondering as I watched yet another “Mario Kart World Sucks!” video on YouTube the other day. Skimming the comments i saw this pearler: “It’s because Nintendo doesn’t care about the die hard, passionate fans who grew up with these games. Nintendo’s biggest market right now are casuals and newbie gamers. That’s who they’re making games for now. Not You.”

Transformers Legacy eDgEloRd - AKA Tarn

 

Having previously described this guy as abusive in my yearly wrap up post of 2023, I've finally taken some time to tale some pictures of the guy.  In that yearly wrap up, I said

"OOoh, this is a tricky one.  I remember loving the look of him in pictures, and on the box and initially when I got the toy, but somewhere I came to the conclusion, he looks all right, but he just isn't very Transformer-y.  The lean robot mode does feel very comic book, but not quite Transformers.  The tank mode falls entirely into the horrible category of "Folded up robot, that makes a space tank" and while that is kinda Transformer-y, it's also lazy and disappointing.

I like Tarn for being something different, but also dislike it for the same reason.  It's weird, I'm not able to reconcile my feelings for him.  

What an abusive relationship we must have."

And I stand by that statement.  Now though, I would like to delve deeper into my thoughts.

SEGA Shop, Capcom Shop. Tets goes to these as well.

 On the same day that I went to the Transformers meets Japan popup shop, I decided to hit up the newly opened SEGA shop, as it also happens to be in Shibuya, hiding within the Parco building, which was just around the corner.

Incidentally, on the same floor was the also relatively newly opened Nintendo shop, a Capcom shop and a Godzilla shop.

Tourists were everywhere!

 

I have updated the Black Arachnia / Black Widow page with a cleaner translation.

Link is here:

Tets' Toys and Shenanigans: Legends 17 English comic Translation Black Widow / Arachnia LG17