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I admit I'm almost ashamed this one took so long to do. It shouldn't be a shock to hear that I have a lean towards animation over live action, while a strong part of it was my childhood, where most of the cartoons and animations I watched were really good (in my opinion at the time, time is cruel after all) and a lot of live action things I saw were Tween dramas my sister loved to watch that I still hate to this day, the other part in it is creativity. While it might seem like a bad excuse, I do think animation is truly limitless in its potential for creative ideas, taking away what little restraints there are in live action. To me, its a shame that some animation styles have all but died out, such as traditional/ traditional water colour (take a guess as to why. Here's a hint, they just had a big expo over the weekend) and Stop motion, or to use today's case as an example, Claymation. The only difference between the two being what was used. Stop motion being the overarching style, where instead of filming in seconds, filming is done with pictures to allow for the animators to re-position the objects in each frame when needed. Claymation is the same thing but whereas Stop motion can be with anything, Claymation focuses on the use clay for the main objects, such as people and animals, and in the realm of Claymation, two names stick out, and rightfully so. Wallace and Gromit... or Robot Chicken depending on who you are, but this is kid friendly so Wallace and Gromit!
And unlike last time, I'm reviewing this as someone who owns the game and the system.
Ports, many people hate them, many see them as a waste of development time. Me? Well it depends on the state of the port but overall, my stance on the matter is "They're done by backup teams with a small time frame, meant to help fill out a library. I would rather have ports of good games then shovel ware". After having this for close to two weeks, and playing with my fellow volunteers at the Tech Games Fest this year, I think it'll be good to tackle this, and give it an update seeing as when I last reviewed Mario Kart 8, I didn't experience most of the DLC. Also, your eyes don't decieve you, this is a review of a Mario Game on its own, though technically Mario Kart Wii got their first... also reviewed around the same time... should I just do Mario Karts around this time and make it a trend?
Fun fact, was going to do a Rescue Heroes joke until I saw that one of them was Blades.
Like seriously, all you're missing is a motor cycle and an Ambulance, though I think swapping Groove out for a bulldozer would be a good idea. Combiner Wars swapped him with a Swat truck after all
Two months in the making, all for the sake of a promotional video. To look at least a little professional. This also has a few teasers at upcoming plans. Can you spot them all?
Huge thanks to Marcus from Inkblot Creations for the audio visualizer and CJ for the new artwork. You can find Inkblot Creations at https://www.facebook.com/inkblotcreations/ and CJ's work at http://courtenayjane.tumblr.com/
CREDITS
Credits:
Content Creators: Liam “Blaster” Sanders, Marissa “keybug55”
Trailer Editing: Liam “Blaster” Sanders
Audio Visualizer: Marcus Mathews
Site Artwork: Courtenay Jane
XY&Z: Mark de Groot
Originally performed by: Rica Matsumoto
From: Pokémon XYZ
Link to his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBZna0xAhTY
A Brief Winter Trek
Composed by: C-Curt
Original composition by: Arata Iiyoshi, Atsuhiro Ishizuna
From: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team/ Blue Rescue Team
Link to song: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02994
1AM
Composed by: Manaka Tominaga, Shiho Fujii, Kazumi Totaka
From: Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the City
Sun & Moon Artwork Recreations: Kansoku
Link to artwork: http://imgur.com/a/HpLHc
Toa Nuva (Okoto) - Bionicle 2016: PANGOLIN-2
Link to artwork: http://pangolin-2.deviantart.com/art/Toa-Nuva-Okoto-Bionicle-2016-600756155
Footage credits:
Moana
Walt Disney Pictures
The A Team
20th Century Fox
Star vs the Forces of Evil
Disney Television Animation
Tiny Toon Adventures
Warner Bros. Animation
Night in the Woods
Infinite Fall
Kirby Triple Deluxe
HAL Laboratory
Transformers Combiner Wars: Bruticus vs. Sky Reign
Hasbro
BIONICLE 2016 Toa Okoto Commercial
LEGO
Blackest Night
DC Comics
Deadpool kills Deadpool
Marvel Comics
Pokémon Adventures
Shogakukan, Viz Media
Mediaholics Playlist: Big Blue
Mediaholics (for editing, song credits in video)
Mediaholics Playlist: Battle for Storm Hill
Mediaholics (for editing, song credits in video)
Mediaholics Podcast Episode 11: PrE3
Mediaholics
The Beginning of Adventure
Courtney Jane
Welcome to the Mystery Dungeons
Courtney Jane
Mediaholics Cinema: Jem and the Holograms
Mediaholics
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Nintendo
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
Nintendo
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Media Vision
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Sora Ltd
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Capcom
Thunderbirds are Go
ITV Studios
Transformers: The Movie
Sunbow Productions
Shantae ½ Genie Hero
WayForward Technologies
Kingdom Hearts 3
Square Enix
Pokémon Sun & Moon: The Series
OLM, Inc
Red vs. Blue
Rooster Teeth Productions
Digimon Tamers
Toei Animation
The Lego Movie
Village Roadshow Pictures
The Dark Knight Returns
Warner Premiere,
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Lucasfilm,
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Avatar: The Legend of Korra
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Sonic Unleashed
Sega
Freedom Planet
GalaxyTrail
Super Mario Galaxy
Nintendo
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Lucasfilm Ltd.
Pokémon Sun & Moon
Game freak
Combiner Wars
Hasbro, IDW Publishing
Ghostbusters
Delphi Films
Fire Emblem Awakening
Intelligent Systems
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky Beyond Darkness, and Time
Chunsoft
Transformers
di Bonaventura Pictures
Batman: The Killing Joke
DC Comics
Zootopia
Walt Disney Pictures
Portal 2
Valve Corporation
Digimon Adventure tri
Toei Animation
Animaniacs
Amblin Entertainment
Big Hero 6
Walt Disney Pictures
Black Panther
Marvel Studios
BIONICLE: Ignition
Lego, DC Comics
Hyrule Warriors
Omega Force
Sonic Mania
Headcannon, PagodaWest Games
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Dark Side of Dimensions
Studio Gallop
Ducktales
Disney Television Animation
Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Level-5, Capcom
LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2
TT Games
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nintendo
Pokémon XY: The Series
OLM, Inc
Gravity Falls
Disney Television Animation
Freedom Planet 2
GalaxyTrail
Superman: The Animated Series
Warner Bros. Animation
Minecraft
Mojang
LEGO Dimensions
Traveller’s Tales
The Avengers
Marvel Studios
Mario Kart 8
Nintendo
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
Game Freak
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Whereas Transformers Prime was a combination of Animated and
Bayformers, Robots in Disguise 2015, its direct sequel, was a combination of
Prime and Rescue Bots (next week). Doing this one early as I have been keeping
up with RID 2015, so unlike Rescue Bots, it’s the perfect thing to review while
I’m at the Tech Games Fest during this week. So with that out of the way…
Hollow
Knight started as a Kickstarter in 2016. The aspiring indie group Team Cherry
promoted a 2D platformer that takes place in a surreal world of insects. The
Kickstarter was very successful raising almost $60k AUD (almost 40k USD). Unfortunately
I was never there for the Kickstarter itself. I came across the game on Steam,
and I also heard of its popularity floating around the internet. I played the
game with my boyfriend, us being overachievers and finding ways to clear 100%
with our first run of the game.
And now to jump back to a post Bayformers era. The 2007 movie has just come out, a new cartoon comes with it. Compared to the 2007 movie, this is far more kid friendly, and panders a lot to old school fans. How well does it pull it off though? Also, I hope you like chins.
EDIT: It should be brought up that, during the time this was being aired (encase 2001 wasn't a give away) aspects of the show was censored upon western release due to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, leading to confusing plot threads later on in the series. I did not bring it up in the main review because... I never got up to that point as I couldn't bring myself to get up to that point.
Behold, the series right before when I started, Robots in Disguise (for the purposes of this I'll be referring to it as RiD 2001 as they reuse the name for another show which is getting a revisit this marathon along with several toylines and I already used my "no not that one" joke and I'd rather not reuse it yet), and this was a pretty big jump from Beast Machines and then the jump to Armada was just as big. But to give you the heads up now, the only reason the jump was big was because the pit that RiD 2001 is in. I've seen talk of this being a filler show between Beast Machines and Armada, and if that's true, it shows.
What do you do after an initial toyline, repaints of said toyline with new figures made around ridiculous gimmicks and then a line of animals to robots? Apparently you make vehicles with faces and give the animals to the Borg where they nerf transformers? Um... Okay then... Let's see where this goes.
