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[Duolingo OVA 90's]

"It's Welsh or I will appear at your house, and enter through the back door. I will continue to live there for the next few weeks, until your guard is dropped. I would have seen at this point that Welsh for you is no longer a priority, you've given up, you have failed me. And it will be a failure you never forget. I will come down in the midst of night, and the last words you'd hear before you are damned to hell is Mae'n gymraeg neu uffern." - Duolingo

[Queen Chara and King Asriel]

"Chara, why the FUCK is it raining Pringles?!"

SouSTAR responds:

I can't draw petals (TT)

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Ness]

No, my accuracy may be a bit off since I heard this long ago, but the main inspiration for the Giygas battle in Earthbound is when Shigesato Itoi saw a film called "The Military Policeman" or Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin, in a specific scene where he mistook a scene depicting a murder as depicting a rape, and it messed him up so bad even his parents noticed. The final boss in earthbound is meant to look like something that people cannot make sense of, the embodiment of evil, and an "alien abortion" (what that means, IDK). Also, I realize I'm going more Giygas trivia than Ness, so... Ness is Sans.

Jmanvelez responds:

No shade but as someone on reddit said: The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty story is the "did you know that Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally Doki Doki Panic in Japan?" of the EB fandom.

The source of inspiration is correct but it only as far as the dialogue in the final battle more than anything else. It is honestly a tired myth that the movie was key to the games edgy aspects and is often wrong (not even sure where u are getting the "alien abortion" thing from) because people tend to hyper focus on the shock value of that moment in a game that is mean to have an otherwise strong and genuine emotional core that really resides in everything before that point. I honestly recommend playing the game and reading more about it because it is rich with history and things much more interesting than the final battle.

[Pixel Sonic 2]

good art 👍, not much else to say.

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Kirby]

Despite Kirby and Smash Bros being made by Masahiro Sakurai, Kirby was not in the initial presentation of Smash bros. that title went to Mario, DK, Samus, and Fox. And the bias to Kirby can be seen in all games except smash melee where Kirby is trash. He is one of the best characters in the first game, one of the first you play as in subspace emissary, and is the last surviving character in world of light. also, smash 4 isn't a real smash game, it's dead to me.

Jmanvelez responds:

Your replies are becoming much less about trivia and much more... about how much you hate a thing lol

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Yoshi]

Concepts for Yoshi go as far back as the first Mario games, with Shigeru Miyamoto wanting to add a dinosaur that Mario rides in the first game, but being unable to due to budget and time. Not much else to say about Yoshi, other than the fact he is consistently one of the worst characters to play in smash bros in my opinion. Also, Yoshi is a necessity for speed running Super Mario Bros Wii, the only Mario bros game I've ever speed ran.

Jmanvelez responds:

Oh I got one: British game developer Argonaut Games (who worked on the original Star Fox on the SNES) initially pitched a standalone Yoshi 3d platforming game to Nintendo, but the idea was ultimately rejected. After parting ways Argonaut later retooled that project into what we now know as Croc: Legend of The Gobbos.

Also, Yoshi has gotten a lot better in Smash Bros. Ultimate, so take it back.

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Jigglypuff]

Jigglypuff was actually only added due to her similarity to Kirby, at least it terms of modeling. They just need to change a few textures, add ears, and change the move set. She was also added due to Pokémon's wide success and popularity in both Japan and the West, making her both easy to make under a time crunch, and still widely recognizable.

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Pikachu]

At the time of it's release, Pikachu was the newest character in the smash 64 roster, and is the only one with listed stat's in the data screen for smash bros character in 64. not even Jigglypuff has listed stats, it's just Pikachu.

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Fox McCloud]

Fox is debatably the first Nintendo character to star in a 3d game. And, Fox is arguably the only anthropomorphic fighter in the OG smash game. Pikachu and Jigglypuff don't really count, they're just animals, and Donkey Kong really only wears a tie, and other than the Mario movie and Mario kart, doesn't display human level intelligence. Also, there is no such thing as an IRL Yoshi.

[Super Smash Bros. 64 - Donkey Kong]

Donkey Kong was one of the original 4 smash characters shown off when the game was a concept, along side Mario, Samus, and Fox. He also almost gave Nintendo a law suit because of King Kong. And finally, he has the worst Wii remote sound in Smash Bros Brawl. This art is still amazing, and I can already tell when this finally shows all 12 characters, it's gonna be one of the best arts on Newgrounds, or at least of the 2020s.