Urbosa's Panties

On the 8th of September, 2020, Nintendo announced the prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild, which happens to be the sequel to the original Hyrule Warriors. It was called Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and it is set 100 years before Breath of The Wild. Maybe Hyrule Warriors will finally be considered part of the Official Zelda Timeline.

While Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity will finally answer the questions to the inquiry on how Calamity Ganon won in the first place, which will include how the four Champions who were supposed to take charge of the Divine Beasts met their demises at the hands of the Blight Ganons, a segment of the trailer where Urbosa does a perfect dodge to avoid a Yiga Blademaster's Windcleaver gave people who watched the trailer a glimpse of Urbosa's panties for the very first time. Sounds like Nintendo is slowly trying to create fanservice content that could potentially give their games a "Mature" rating.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity © Nintendo.

End of the Dual Screen Era

Fun fact: The DS in Nintendo DS stands for Dual Screen.

Many people speculated about 2020 being the year the Nintendo 3DS line gets discontinued. It turns out they were right because on the 17th of September, 2020, Nintendo announced that Nintendo 3DS production has officially ended, bringing the dual screen handheld era to an end. Online services for the Nintendo 3DS, however, will not go offline yet, aside from the 3DS eShop being no longer available in certain parts of the world.

Farewell, Nintendo 3DS family! Thanks for taking dual screen handhelds to 3-dimensional levels!

35 Years of Stomped Goombas

Today marks 35 years to the day Nintendo released Super Mario Bros in Japan. Super Mario Bros was often considered the most influential video game of the 1980s, and its legacy lives on to this day.

Super Mario Bros introduced players to a lot of Nintendo icons, such as Super Mushrooms, Goombas, Piranha Plants, and many, many more. Speaking of Goombas, Super Mario Bros was also the game that introduced us to Goomba stomping. Yes, these anthropomorphic shiitake mushrooms turned traitorous and became minor villains, but the reason for the villains' villainy could be justified by the possibility of the Toads harbouring a parasite that would be capable of killing off most of humanity if not for the Toads' incompetence or the villains' villainy.

Happy 35th Anniversary, Super Mario Bros! Nintendo would not be where they are today and video gaming would not have experienced a renaissance without you!

Super Mario Bros © Nintendo.

Annual Online Sale

It's the annual 9.9 Sale, and e-commerce sites Shopee and Lazada are giving out special offers. However, the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast are being left out of this annual special offer sale on their anniversary day. After all, who wants to celebrate milestone anniversaries of video game consoles that are no longer in production with a special offer sale?

Speaking of anniversaries, happy anniversary Sony PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast.

Rotten to the core

There is currently a conspiracy theory circulating around the web about both the Mushroom Kingdom and the Pokemon World being corrupt to the core, and that everything was rigged against Waluigi, Red and Ash Ketchum right from the start.

Waluigi's designer, Fumihide Aoki, is a Camelot employee and not a Nintendo one, unlike Wario's designer Hiroji Kiyotake, who also designed Metroid's Samus. This resulted in Waluigi being treated as an outsider who does not belong to either the Mario series or Wario series. Charles Martinet claims that Waluigi wallows in self-pity, because at one point in the Mario Party series, he actually had the worst luck of all the characters in the Mario Party games, not to forget that his only solo mission without Wario in Mario Tennis: Power Tour may have ended in failure, which explains why Waluigi is never seen without Wario in the Mario Tennis titles that came after Power Tour. This is why Waluigi feels that everybody is cheating, and that he needs to cheat in order to win.

If a comic once found on the now-defunct website of Dorkly was anything, the Pokemon World is also just as corrupt as, if not more corrupt than, the Mushroom Kingdom. The Dorkly comic in particular shows that the Red that defeated Blue was a Ditto, meaning Blue's defeat at the hands of Red did not count, and this was all the fault of Professor Oak's nepotism. Another theory claims that Red failed to foil Team Rocket. And there are suspicions that Ash's 22-year losing streak prior to his Alola Pokemon League victory was due to the Pokemon Leagues being corrupt to the core. Perhaps the reason for Team Flare's villainy has got to do with the Pokemon World being wicked and lacking any beauty whatsoever because it is rotten to the core, and they seek to destroy it. This could be bad because Sailor Galaxia dislikes anything that lacks beauty to the point that she destroyed entire worlds, and the Pokemon World could well be on her target list...

Digital Piracy's Demise

Even if digital piracy is a computer crime, it is with deep sadness that digital piracy sites KissAnime and KissManga have been closed down due to all of their content being removed for copyright violations, and the deleted data irrecoverable. Of course, if the real website got taken down, expect the impostors to also suffer the same fate, and all of the impostors have computer viruses.

In the wake of Japan's stricter copyright law enforcement, digital piracy sites will be expected to close their doors for good. The new Japanese copyright law, however, will still allow fair use or fair dealing, and will not go after fan fictions.

The demise of KissAnime, while a sad end of an era, will benefit legitimate services such as Crunchyroll, FUNimation and Netflix. In fact, there was a time when my brother used to visit KissAnime, and that was before he registered for a Netflix account. Nowadays, me, my brother and mother, as well as my aunt and two of my cousins, are watching Netflix. In other words, people will learn to move on in search of good shows, especially those that fuel nostalgia.

WarioWare's Anti-Mario Microgames

The WarioWare series is known for its zany microgames. In fact, the microgames were the reason two games in the series were listed in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition for having the most minigames in a single video game. It just so happens that WarioWare: Twisted! was listed in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition as having the most minigames in a single video game, but that title was finally given to WarioWare Gold as of 2019.

The majority of microgames in WarioWare Gold come from past titles, and have been given the remake treatment. Three titles from WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! and its multiplayer-focused GameCube port, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$, however, had anti-Mario themes, and were therefore not included in WarioWare Gold.

WarioWare Gold's Mario Bros microgame is based on the Arcade version of Mario Bros, but with a similar plot to WarioWare Inc's Wario Bros microgame, only this time it involves Mario being disrespectful to Luigi by having Mario get the coin before Luigi does.

Maybe the Nintendo Switch WarioWare title will finally have Waluigi get his turn in the spotlight, and hopefully, his set of microgames will not focus on self-pity.

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! © Nintendo.

Update: WarioWare: Get It Together! is going to be on the Nintendo Switch. However, Waluigi is not going to be in that game. Guess he will have to continue wallowing in self-pity over nothing going right for him...