ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Even with season 1 in isolation, the Death Star is still what ultimately kills him. It's the threat his whole story leads him towards. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I didn’t mind that too much since the Death Star is important to Cassian’s story, and is also very relevant to season 2. It’s foreshadowing that works entirely fine within the confines of the story being told. 2270 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026First and only Mario game with authentic waterboarding mechanics. 0240 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For the bow on top: fresh off the presses, here’s Palmer Luckey sitting directly across from Pete Hegseth, sandwiched between Newt Gingrich and Elon Musk. 020 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We’ll have to see. I do think there’s a decent chance we’ll see a free Switch 2 update around December, but the one Pikmin 3 just got wasn’t paired with a reprint (not yet at least). 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At this short notice it's more sellers gambling on these being prices people are willing to pay. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One of the funniest parts of having a collection of physical and retro games is when it suddenly just doubles in value overnight. About a week ago I got curious and found out my set of all four "Ocarina-like" Zelda games is now worth about $500 give-or-take. 020 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And then the third movie was terrified of trying to say anything other than “gosh weren’t those old movies great?”, so the resolution was just them blowing up Palpatine again but more gooder this time. No deeper lesson about how to permanently prevent this, just blow him up again. 170 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People always bring up how the Wii is as old (or at least about to be) as the NES was in 2006, but you can’t seriously say that the Wii is just as antiquated now as the NES was then. 040 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Running with the movies comparison, I see the 6th generation in a similar way as the late 60s/early 70s in Hollywood. It’s not like movies are suddenly “modern” after that point, but there’s a very clear threshold crossed into movies as we currently think of them. 050 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think that’s why so many people hesitate to call that generation “retro” by this point: games have been around so long that a retro/modern binary isn’t really enough anymore. Putting the PS3 in the same category as the NES feels like putting 80s movies in the same “era” as 30s movies. 180 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, a fighter that’s basically a representative for Miyazaki’s whole body of work isn’t the MOST ridiculous thing in the world. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Their PR was getting too good. Had to be corrected. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Even if he was the actual lead creative behind the Fast & Furious series, comparing F&F to Star Wars shouldn’t get you anything less than laughed out of the room. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Like, seriously. In certain communities people were unironically telling me they “didn’t understand” where people got the idea that games should get cheaper over time. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’s been so long that there’s a new generation of fans where price reductions are a foreign concept. I remember with the price controversies around Galaxy 1+2 and FireRed/LeafGreen there were a weird amount of people popping up saying we should be grateful they were below original MSRP at all. 110 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Like I’ve been saying, I think there’s enough reason to believe EPD 8 has two teams now, and Odyssey came out 9 years ago. At the absolute very least we know Bowser’s Fury got made while Bananza was years into development, so even if you restart the clock then it’s still been 5 years. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Also, repeating what I said before about the very-validated rumors. There’s two separate big leaks from around April (Nate the Hate and Malo) that said next year. If that’s wrong, then you have another case of rumors that were apparently completely legit except for the one same major detail. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I also just think that, no matter how much they want DK to be a bigger franchise, I can’t imagine 3D Mario being de-prioritized enough to be a late-gen release. Besides, Bowser’s Fury already showed us EPD 8 working on other projects at the same time as Bananza. 200 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/c... There’s definitely people missing from Bananza’s credits. Besides, that being debunked would basically mean those rumors were entirely correct except for one singular (pretty important) detail.reddit.comFrom the nintendo community on RedditExplore this post and more from the nintendo community 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Looks like these are exploration segments. What people were bring it up for is prolonged linear action segments where there’s just a persistent line. 020 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Well the first rumors we ever got about Bananza way back in 2021 said it was a new team FROM the Odyssey team, and otherwise well-validated rumors (as in consistently correct since April) have been saying 3D Mario next year. If parallel development gets confirmed, DK should be left alone. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This was it. It felt like we spent the entire generation waiting for “the big one” to finally land. That’s why Zelda being a phantom game for the entire lifespan stung so much, even if we knew it was getting all that time for a good reason. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I remember seeing it said that the Wii U had good games on it, but not many of them were really the games the console or their series’ “needed” in that moment. That’s what the Switch 1 succeeded at much more often. Basically the difference between a console having good games, and a good LIBRARY. 010 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If Pearl ain’t fuckin’, then she just doesn’t fuck. 190 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I always think about a very good take I’ve heard that no movie (or game in this case) is ever going to avoid flaws, so at the end of the day how “good” a movie is is just how much what’s wrong with it bothers you. It was said by Doug Walker of all fucking people. 021 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Sony saw the Nintendo Direct didn't blow people away, so they had to make sure they still looked comically worse in comparison. 020 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Best part is that Pikmin 4 S2E getting confirmed gives even more validation to the reports saying 3D Mario is coming next year. That means we're probably looking at Metroid, Pokemon, 3D Kirby, Xenoblade, AND 3D Mario all in 2027. Sweet Jeezus. 010 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I always wonder how much budget the S2Es generally get? Doesn't seem like it would be a ton of work to get 60fps in a releasable state (at least not with access to the source code), but it would require some actual under the hood work. Maybe they just weren't given the resources for that? 010 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel like I’d be able to get into it more if they had the model actually emoting properly. 180 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sakurai’s said himself that Ultimate is going to be a very tricky game to follow-up in a satisfying way. I think he’d want to go for a new angle because he’s talked like the next one would need a new angle. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026That’s what I was saying. The companies would never play ball, but for Sakurai himself I could see him getting the idea. Either way, my point is Sakurai especially would definitely want some kind of conceptual shakeup for Smash 6. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I just used it as shorthand for a Nintendo v Sony fighting game. “Vs.” games are enough of a tradition that I could see the idea crossing Sakurai’s mind. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sakurai’s said himself that Ultimate basically turned “upping the ante” for future Smash games a dead end, so especially if he’s the one making it I’m expecting some kind of big change-up or gimmick. 100 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s probably not Sakurai if it’s happening this soon, but if it was I could see him wanting to do “Super Smash Bros. vs. PlayStation All-Stars” or something like that. No way corporate would approve that of course, but that’s the kind of direction I could see him WANTING to go in. 110 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It means the Wii U version was the one they had as a kid. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Specifically, it’s doing the original treatment of Abe’s Exoddus they made back in the 90s. 010 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I see the 6th generation about the same way I see the Hollywood “new wave” in the late 60s-70s. Not like movies suddenly feel “modern” after that point, but a threshold was definitely crossed where the average movie started feeling much closer to modern stuff than they did 10 years before. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yeah, I think the real problem with defining what’s “retro” is that games have been around long enough for a retro/modern binary to not really fit anymore. 110 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Really committing to being the 10-year anniversary of 2016, isn’t it? 040 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Lorne Lanning did a commencement speech last year, and he basically-confirmed the next game’s being developed right now. 220 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026She was born on Argo while it was detached from Krypton. 110 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My favorite is how she was born on Argo instead of Krypton. Her losing her home twice was the whole point! Literally WHAT do you gain from changing that? 120 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Unfortunately it's one of those cases where basically every major departure from the source material makes it worse. 140 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yeah, had a typo writing “not really true”. It has a bunch of likes now though, so I can’t give up my fake brownie points. 000 0
ABoxofSpoons @aboxofspoons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026That article HAS to be some AI pipeline shit or something. It starts with the idea that Nintendo handhelds have usually had three Fire Emblem games (both really true), and manages to do a weird-ass game of telephone into titling the article like it being for Nintendo’s current platform is a shock. 2210 0
