Oh my god https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/89350458
Everyone on Starmen Dot Net in the early 00's was extremely bone-serious about that goddamn sword, that wasn't even as good as the Sand Lot Bat, for a character who wasn't even supposed to use physical attacks anyway.
EarthBound HD remake where, for copyright reasons, the Beach Boys "Deirdre" sample in the Cave of the Past music is replaced with a Mario Wonder talking flower voice saying "Dierdre"
What's the videogame equivalent of the novel's "great opening sentence", in terms of overhyped micro-element of the opening? I'm thinking it's the sound effect or transition when you pick "New Game" or finish character creation - like the Higurashi laugh or the EarthBound wow.
*thinks about how the Super Smash Bros. localisers couldn't localise PK Fire or PK Thunder the way they were in EarthBound because they didn't want to redo two of Ness's voice lines, but /could/ localise PSI Magnet because it didn't have a line* Ahh, fate is a fickle mistress