Ultimate Shades

the thing also is in addition to 80%% of 2000s Sonic discourse just being harassing children or weirdly bigoted, at least another 5% was like "man when is Sonic gonna stop having this awful rock music? Live and Learn is one of the worst songs in gaming"

just a failure from top to bottom

I'm staking my claim. Metroid Prime 4 release date will be in November. A Switch 1 and Switch 2 game for the holidays considering the Switch 2 Edition and Kirby Air Riders. Two very different demographics and genres. It makes sense.

Mephiles lunging forward, swiping through the tentacles of Shadow’s Doom Morph form with The Move That Kills Sonic.

MEPHILES THE DARK
#art #sonicthehedgehog

Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes, artwork from Travis Strikes Again, wearing classic Zelda 2 art on an all-over print T-shirt under his jacket

Sometimes I just think about this Zelda shirt from No More Heroes for no reason at all. It haunts me. I need this shirt to be real like I need air to breathe.

UltimateShades - Twitch Reacting to the State of Play June 2025 before heading out for my Switch 2!

Reacting to the State of Play June 2025 before heading out for my Switch 2! twitch.tv/UltimateShades #SmallStreamersConnect #smallstreamers #sony #stateofplay #reaction

if you have a base 500 GB ps4 CoD is now too big to update itself even if its your only installed game on the system

funniest game ever made

It is important to recognize that a homophobic bigot decided to take this man’s life. This talent is gone because of unjustified and irrational hatred.

Rest In Peace, Jonathan, and know your legacy is carried with love.

May the world change for the better, with peace for all.

A black sweatshirt that says Born To Catch em All! FORCED TO WORK with Pokemon silhouettes

I want this shirt

It's to remove the misinformation and focus on the issue at hand. It's to bring the focus away from one company and onto the entire industry as a whole, while reminding people that there's still hope, there's a reason to fight.

The response is usually that I'm defending it.

When I correct people that not every game on Switch 2 is a game key card, while providing how almost all companies have been leaving games digital for years, it's not supposed to be a 'gotcha'. It's supposed to shift the conversation in the right direction.

When you don't do your research and spread misinformation while genuinely trying to help spark conversation and make a change, you muddy your own objective. If you give people the chance to make the conversation about correcting you instead of the real issue, you've failed.

If you treat Nintendo as the literal devil people are gonna look deeper into why and have trouble taking the complaints seriously. Meanwhile companies like Ubisoft are going to get away with their business practices and conduct in the workplace by slipping under the radar.

It's a flawed strategy. 90$ games is just one example, but to keep the example going, if you convince enough people of it, they'll see other companies following suit with 80$ and think of it as a 'blessing'. Now you have people praising 80$ games. You've now lost the plot.

I don't really get the anti-Nintendo gameplan. I try to clarify misinformation and they call me a shill and latch onto their false narrative like a child. What is the point of pushing this 90$ game story when it's easily debunked? Why not stick to the clear fact that they're 80$?

I hope DK has legs, but I wouldn't be surprised either if it sells really well. A major DK win will be awesome.

The one I'm begging to sell is Metroid Prime 4. I need to see that game break 10mil, bad.

Watching Arven in Pokemon Violet crawl across the floor in disbelief cause his old af Mabosstiff played fetch for the first time is such a relatable thing I almost cried lmao.

I don't know why I bother though. Even if this post did take off and spark discussion I'd probably hate it all. I said I'd stop engaging in the discourse. But hearing 'Z-A's battle system is just reworked Arceus Boss Battles' is just so wild to me. Like it's so simple.

I get the critique over 1 city, but I feel like we've only scratched the surface on the kind of depth and detail they're gonna pack into this city. I really don't think any one area in the game is gonna be just glance-worthy. But we'll see I suppose.

Claiming Pokemon Legends Z-A's battle system isn't a huge leap is wild to me. Really late to the party? Sure, that's not really new for Pokemon. But seeing that Stealth Rock being used as a damage shield against an attacking Pokemon sent chills. I need this game yesterday bro.

I consider this a crowning achievement. There was a period of time there I thought I wouldn't even reach the end, let alone this trophy. Incredible game, deeply emotional experience. #drakengard #nier #drakenier #platinumtrophy

trouble 💖

I'm so mad at myself. I signed up for the Sonic Racing Crosswords Network Test and got accepted.
But somehow I signed up for the Southeast Asia Network Test 💀 They can't give me a new code either. The one time I get accepted to a network test and I can't even use it 🥲

Creative freedom is being stifled. I swear this is an actual thing happening.

If the next Sonic racing game/Mario Kart doesn't have hella crazy costumes bursting at the seams like the mobile games did, I think we need to investigate exactly what these mobile sectors are doing to the main game development teams to prevent them from delivering peak.

There will be a second week in March, so FF12 is within the realm of possibility I feel.

I've dubbed the week after next Ivalice Week for my stream. I took vacation off work, so I'll be vacationing from my regularly scheduled content to try to play the Ivalice games I haven't yet. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance mainly, but if I can get to FF12 I'll be ecstatic.

I never thought I would see this screen. It's over. Oh my god... #drakengard #drakengard3 #SquareEnix #yokotaro

People should probably learn the difference between “plot holes” and “things I didn’t like” or “things the franchise plans to explain in the future” or “things film makers didn’t think they needed to explicitly explain because they thought you had critical thinking skills”.

People are saying goodbye to 2024 #YearofShadow and...so much happened to me as a Sonic fan this year, it's crazy that it was also such a big year for the series as well. People are gonna bring up the YoS and the memories are gonna flood into me.

Silver next? Please?