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Tour Idea: Casino Tour 2021!
Background A fond memory of playing games with friends as a kid was Luigi’s Casino. We’d play those stupid chance games all the time and it was so fun. Looking back, I wanted to design a tour around Luigi in his casino costume, so I thought where else a casino was present in Mario games. Of course, I immediately came to Hotel Delfino and the Sunshine version of King Boo. This tour idea is a mishmash these two characters put together. (This tour idea series was inspired by u/WaffleyDootDoot. Please check him out, some of his ideas are great!) New Track Wii Moonview Highway: When choosing the new track, I had two themes in mind; night skies and bustling cities. This track is exactly both of those things and more! Not only do you get to swerve along the city roads, but you also get to take in the amazing views off the side of the highway. This course would also be the second from Mario Kart Wii, taking its place alongside Maple Treeway. New Drivers Luigi (Casino) (Medium, High-End): Luigi turns up in his casino outfit from the Super Mario 64 DS party games! He handles the riches of the casino, as well as acting as a gamemaster. His special item is the Coin Box. King Boo (Sunshine) (Large, High-End): King Boo arrives in his Mario Sunshine style! After hiding under the casino of Hotel Delfino for far too long, he’s more than ready to haunt the race. His special item is the Giant Banana. New Karts Casino Bruiser (High-End): A black and green chequered variant of the normal Bruiser, this ride is sure to match Luigi’s new costume as he goes from riches to races. Its boosted skill is Slipstream Plus. Pepper Pedaller (High-End): A variant of the Banana Master which features a supersize chili pepper. Despite his hatred for spicy food, it does match King Boo’s big, red tongue. Its boosted skill is Rocket Start Plus. Gold Bruiser (High-End): A gold version of the normal Bruiser, this kart is perfect for anyone who wants to express their interest in high fashion. Its boosted skill is Mini-Turbo Plus. New Gliders Spicy Glider (High-End): A red variant of the Tropical Glider; instead of bananas, this tree grows… chili peppers? Its boosted item is the Super Horn. Pipe Spotlights Pipe 1: Luigi (Casino), Casino Bruiser, Fireworks Parachute Pipe 2: King Boo (Sunshine), Pepper Pedaller, Spicy Glider Special Pipe Night Out Pipe: Peach (Vacation), Pauline (Party Time), Rosalina (Aurora), Daisy (Yukata) This pipe celebrates fashion and the lifestyles of those that visit night-time casinos. Peach, Pauline, Rosalina, and Daisy arrive wearing their best outfits! This pipe starts off with 30 items in it. None of the drivers are spotlights and you only pull a maximum of 3 High-End drivers. (UPDATE: Of course, Nintendo decided to go and reveal an amazing new Pauline alt as soon as I’m about to publish this.) Track Selection The 12 tracks of this tour idea feature starry skies and night-time cities as well as a couple of Boo related courses: New York Minute 3 Vancouver Velocity RMX Rainbow Road 1 SNES Ghost Valley 1 SNES Rainbow Road N64 Frappe Snowland DS Luigi’s Mansion DS Waluigi Pinball Wii Moonview Highway 3DS Shy Guy Bazaar 3DS Neo Bowser City 3DS Rosalina’s Ice World Tour Gifts/Gold Pass Normal Gifts: Ludwig, Bullet Blaster, Parachute Gold Pass Gifts: King Boo, Bull’s-Eye Banzai, Gold Bruiser, Plaid Ribbon Thank You Thank you for reading! This tour idea was super unique and some of the ideas took a while to perfect. Of course, my love for Mario Sunshine just had to seep in but there’s nothing wrong with some King Boo love (he needs more alts). I feel like if Nintendo were to do an idea like this, they could pull off something really interesting but it's once in a blue moon we get unique ideas like this. Thanks for reading and have a great day. :) Next Tour… With this hint, you should be able to take a bite at guessing what’s next. I wonder what ideas this plants into your mind…
Nintendo's missing franchises and their chances of coming to Switch (long read)
“I want X for Switch”, “when is X coming to the Switch”, “X is perfect for the Switch!” How often have you heard or said these sentences? Quite a lot, probably, especially about Nintendo franchises. Nintendo fans really like first-party games, and they’re always asking for their favorites to come back. Problem is, even though Nintendo owns dozens of franchises, there’s only a few that are guaranteed to show up during any given console, so fans of smaller franchises are left wondering when they’ll play them again. Well, today I’ll try to mostly answer these questions. I’ll take a look at several, Nintendo-owned franchises and try to figure out what are their chances of coming to Switch. I’ll be basing myself on this such as release schedule, success of previous entries, popular demand, market niche and internal interest at Nintendo. However, keep in mind two things. One: Nintendo owns a shit-ton of IPs, and I won’t cover them all. I’ll focus on the ones that have multiple entries, and even then, I might skip a few if I feel I have no meaningful insight. And two: No matter what I or anyone else says, the chances for any of these games to come back is NOT ZERO. Nintendo is unpredictable and they’ll sometimes bring something out of the blue when you least expect it. This year alone we saw the return of Brain Age (a franchise not seen since 2012), Clubhouse Games (a sequel to a game from 2005), and Famicom Detective Club, a franchise with two games from 1988/89, which then received a remake in 1998 and then nothing until twenty two years later. Granted, it’s another remake, but it is still a modern installment in a franchise twenty two years dormant. If Famicom Detective Club can come back in 2020, so can your favorite franchise. Now, let’s begin, in alphabetical order: Art Academy Starting off with a small one. Art Academy is a series of drawing games that started on the DS in 2010 and then released pretty consistently over the following years, with three entries on 3DS and two (well, one and a half) for the WiiU between 2010 and 2016. Already this feels like a franchise with a pretty consistent release schedule, even though it hasn’t been seen for four years now. I don’t think any of the games were blockbusters, per se, but they also don’t need to be. They’re small games, probably inexpensive to produce that seem to do consistently well enough to get new sequels. There are several obstacles that present themselves to the release of a new Art Academy, but I think all of them are easily overcome. For starters, AA is the type of casual game that thrived during the DS/Wii eras, a Touch Generations game. Since the Switch released, many have noted that Nintendo may want to distance themselves from that era due to the failure of the WiiU, and there may be some truth to that, but I feel like this is starting to change. Again, this year saw the return of both Brain Age and Clubhouse Games, both casual, Touch Generations DS games. I feel like, at the start of the Switch’s life cycle, Nintendo was indeed trying to focus on core gamers, but now that they have secured that core gamer audience, they may be more comfortable releasing more casual fare. Furthermore Art Academy is developed by Headstrong Games, a British developer that doesn’t seem to do much other than AA. However, in 2017, that team was absorbed into its parent studio, Kuju Games. This move, which happened the year after the last AA game released, may have something to do with the franchsie’s MIA status. But, Kuju games is still active, having released a game just last year, and I don’t see why they couldn’t take up the mantle. Finally, some speculated a few years ago that AA was dead due to the Switch not having a stylus but, OH WAIT, Brain Age fixed that too! All in all, even though Art Academy is hardly a hot franchise, there’s very little standing in the way of its return, and little reason to doubt that it will. Chances: Good Chibi-Robo! We may have started on a positive note, but here comes a downer. Chibi-Robo is probably not coming back anytime soon. This cute little robot debuted in his self-titled Game Cube game, developed by Skip Ltd. Like most games by the developer, it was quirky and fun, and not very popular, but had its fans, and Chibi-Robo must have endeared someone at Nintendo, because he kept showing up here and there. He got two DS sequels, though the second one was Japan-only, already a red flag. In 2013, he starred in a 3DS eshop game that was very different from the main games, more of an experimental spin-off, and was not well-received. But the real final nail came in 2015, with Chibi-Robo Zip Lash! The game was announced to be a 2D platformer, and many fans identified the change in genre (from a unique adventure game to one of the most over-saturated genres in Nintendo consoles) as a total sell-out, and they were totally correct! The developers basically admitted that they did it to try and get more players (red flag). Series producer Kensuke Tanabe then said that if the game didn’t sell well, it could be the end of the franchise (RED FLAG). And then, the unfortunate but inevitable happened. Zip Lash was a critical and commercial bomb, and neither the developer nor the franchise has been seen again. Aside from the inevitable Smash Bros mentions, Chibi-Robo has only been seen on that infamous flaming tweet from 2018 (I told you someone at Nintendo really likes them). To make matters worse, there are increasing signs that Skip Ltd may be going under So, a struggling franchise makes a desperate move to gain fans, a developer expresses concerns for its future if the game bombs, said game bombs and now the developer may be going out of business? It seems the writing is on the wall. Now, even if Skip goes under, that is not necessarily the end of Chibi. Nintendo would still retain the rights, as they did for Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk after developer Cing went under. As for whether or not Nintendo would want to give the franchise a second (third? Fourth?) chance, it doesn’t look good Chances: Very bad Custom Robo From one diminutive robot to another, the Custom Robo series is and robo-battle series that began on the N64. It was Japan only, as was its N64 and GBA sequels. Afterwards, Nintendo did try to expand it, releasing a GameCube game in NA, and a DS game in NA and Europe. However, despite the fact that players of these games will attest to how good these games are, they didn’t seem to do very well, and the franchise has not been seen since 2007. There was one statement of internal interest, when a developer in 2014 said that he heard demands both inside and outside the company for a new entry, but that there were no plans for one, and he was unsure when there would be. Six years on, it seems there still aren’t. In fact, the developer itself, Noise, is also strangely MIA. Though they are officially still active, with their website being updated for 2020, they have not worked on a game since 2015. Then, in 2018, many fans watched in horror the news that Nintendo let the trademark expire. Some have pointed out that this isn’t as bad as it seems, as it refers specifically to games on optical discs, which Nintendo doesn’t make anymore, but I don’t know enough about the subject to say for certain. Regardless, it’s evident that Nintendo still owns the franchise, as Custom Robo content appears in Smash Ultimate. On the other hand, one of the series creators, Kohji Kendoh, is still thinking about it. He is working for another developer, and released a suspiciously similar game called Synaptic Drive just this year, as well as talking about Custom Robo in social media. It seems like a Mighty no9/ Yooka-Laylee/Bloodstained situation, in which the owner of an Ip is not using it, so the creator releases a spiritual successor. Bottom line, there seems to be demand for Custom Robo. A developer saw it six years ago, and the creator is seeing it now. Whether or not thinks this demand is enough to revive the franchise, is tough to say, but doesn’t look great. Not as bad as Chibi-Robo, though Chances: Bad Daigasso! Band Brothers Here’s a franchise Americans never got. Daigasso! Band Brother is a rhythm game released for the DS in 2004 and stars Barbara the Bat, who has an uncharacteristically risqué design for Nintendo. The game was Japan-only but seems to have been successful, it received a sequel in 2009 (released in Europe, but not NA), and another in 2013 for the 3DS. Despite not having received new games since then, the series is far from inactive. Barbara the Bat in particular, like Chibi-Robo, seems to have fans inside Nintendo because she pops up everywhere. She had cameos in a few other DS games, she was an AT in Brawl and a spirit in Ultimate, she was a costume in Mario Maker, she appeared in a comic strip with WarioWare’s Ashley, and the series has a Twitter account that was super active all the way up to April of this year (more on that later). In 2017, that account even tweeted a comic strip of Barbara demanding a Switch. That was probably not a tease of anything, as it’s been 3 years and nothing, but stuff has happened with the franchise even more recently. Last year, in 2019, six years after the release of the 3DS game, there were 30 songs added to the game in celebration of the series 15th anniversary. So as late as last year, Nintendo was celebrating this franchise with an in-game event. Now, the servers for the game were shut down earlier this year (hence the end of the Twitter account), and the game was removed from the eshop (as it is basically pointless without the servers), but with recent news that the 3DS has ceased production, it’s pretty clear that the game’s end is a consequence of the 3DS’ end, and not a lack of players. So if the series is alive, but can’t be on the 3DS, it has to go somewhere, no? Bottom line: the games are successful, the series is active, and the character is popular. I don’t know if Barbara the Bat’s next tour will be an international one, but I’m confident it will happen Chances: Very Good Dillon’s Rolling Western DRW is a unique western-themed tower defense game released on the 3DS eshop in 2012. It received mixed reviews, but had a dedicated fanbase, and was successful enough to spawn two sequels, one in 2013, and a post-apocalyptic themed one in 2018. With a game having released just two years ago, its reasonable to say the series is not dormant, so the prospect of a new game is always likely. The developer, Vanpool, who mostly works on smaller scale stuff like this, is both still active and still working at Nintendo. So, really the only reason to believe the series wouldn’t continue would be if the latest game bombed really hard. It’s hard to say that it did, as sales figures are unavailable, but it was a 3DS game in 2018, probably didn’t set the charts on fire. But then again, unless Nintendo had some really unrealistically high expectations, I don’t think it could have bombed hard enough to kill the franchise that fast. There’s not much more to say. There aren’t any rumblings of a return, but also no reason to be pessimistic. Chance: Above Average Earthbound Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: There will not be a Mother 4 The Creator of the series, Shigesato Itoi, has said that he would not work on a fourth installment, as he feels the story is complete. Now, normally, Nintendo could just say “screw creative integrity, let’s make a fourth game anyway!” but Shigesato Itoi directly co-owns the series’ copyright so they actually can’t. So unless Itoi changes his mind, or he dies and Nintendo decides to ignore his wishes (neither scenario is completely outside the realm of possibility), Mother 4 is not happening. So, if new Mother content is made, it’d be either a remake, or Mother 3 localization. We all know demand for this last one is overwhelming, Nintendo themselves have acknowledged it multiple times, but it still hasn’t happened, and it doesn’t seem things have changed. A remake is possible, but don’t hold your breath for it. Despite the series’ popularity, I think all we’ll see of it is the first two games in NSO. Chances: Bad Excitebike This is a hard one to pinpoint. Excitebike is one of those classic NES games that Nintendo likes to reference all the time, like Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew and Duck Hunt. Unlike those, Excitebike actually received sequels and established a franchised. There was a great entry on the N64 and three entries on the Wii, but nothing more since. I can’t imagine the Wii entries were super successful, and there really hasn’t been any word from Nintendo about any interest in reviving the series, either from developers, or the fans. The developer of the Wii games, Monster Games, is still active, and still makes racing games and extreme sports games, but hasn’t worked with Nintendo in 5 years. Now, one point I see often, and that I’d like to address, is the idea that Nintendo doesn’t want multiple games from the same genre on the same console. I can’t agree. With the exception of the WiiU, every Nintendo home console since the SNES has had multiple Nintendo-published racing games released for it. WiiU didn’t but that console is an exception to many norms. I don’t see why Mario Kart, behemoth that it is, would stop any other racing game from being made, especially when they are so very different (although the fact that MK8 has an Excitebike track doesn’t inspire confidence). No, I don’t think Mario Kart is the problem, I think is just lack of interest. And though Excitebike is not a franchise Nintendo will ever truly forget, it’s not really revving up for a comeback either. It could happen, it could not Chances: Medium Fatal Frame This horror franchise wasn’t originally a Nintendo product, being released on the PS2 by Tecmo. However, since the fourth game, each title in the series has been published and copyrighted by Nintendo, and this seemingly applies to all future entries, as the series producer said the series’ future is up to Nintendo. So, how does that future look like? Well, the last game in the series, Maiden of Black Water, was a WiiU game, which means it didn’t sell well, but not as badly as you might think. From all I could find, which is admittedly not much, sales for the game seemed to be only slightly less than previous entries, a gap more than explainable by its console. So, if the series was getting sequels before, the WiiU game’s sales wouldn’t be the reason why there wouldn’t be more. And though Nintendo of America has had to take baby steps into accepting the franchise overseas, Nintendo of Japan seemed satisfied with it, releasing four games between 2008 and 2014. So sales aren’t an evident problem, what about the developer? That developer is Tecmo Koei, who is not only active and buddies with Nintendo, their current project is none other than Nintendo’s big holiday title. There’s obvious trust there. As for interest, there is a lot. From Koei Tecmo calling it a valuable IP, to the series producer stating multiple times, including this year, that he’d like to bring it to the Switch Now, this comment pretty much confirms that a new Fatal Frame is not in development as of now, but it has a chance of happening. And remember, the last game is on WiiU, and if we know anything about those, is that they like to come to Switch. And though I don’t see Nintendo breaking their necks to make a new entry, I don’t think they’d oppose it if Tecmo pitches it to them, especially if it’s just a port. Chances: Good Fossil Fighters This game is not Pokémon, or so its fans tell me. Fossil Fighters is a DS game from 2008 where you collect various species of dinosaur and battle with other ~Dinosaur Trainers~ Fossil Fighters in RPG battles. It didn’t receive great reviews, but was successful enough to get a sequel two years later, and another one on the 3DS in 2014. Three games in six years is a pretty good release schedule, and things were looking alright, until that 3DS game came. It was primarily developed by a different studio, and it showed. The game received abysmal reviews, and fan reception was similar. Sales weren’t awful, but not great either. Since then, the series has been completely quiet. The developer, Red Entertainment, is still active, but hasn’t worked with Nintendo since the 3DS game. As for interest, there hasn’t been a peep from Nintendo about this series at all. No interviews describing vague interest in bringing it bad, no acknowledgment of fan demand, no cameos in other games (aside from Smash, which doesn’t count, Smash has everything). Even fan demand doesn’t seem too high, most of what I’ve seen is a Change.org petition which has been up for a year and has not reached its 2500 signatures goal. It looks like this series could become a fossil itself. Someday some might dig it up and revive it to use in battle, but I’m not feeling it. Still not as bad as Chibi-Robo Chances: Bad F-Zero This is the reason you’re reading this. Oh, F-Zero. If fan demand alone was the deciding factor, F-Zero would be top priority. People want F-Zero, people beg for F-zero, people who have never played, beg for F-Zero. And Nintendo knows this, they’ve acknowledged it. They themselves haven’t forgotten it. Even putting Smash aside, there was an F-Zero minigame in Nintendo Land. There are F-Zero tracks in Mario Kart. They’ve done everything but make a new F-Zero game, but why the hell not? Well, it’s important to understand that the F-Zero series declined in sales throughout its life. The best-selling game is still the first, and though the following games were fantastic, they sold less and less, and yet, strangely enough, between 2003-2004, Nintendo released THREE F-Zero games. Around the same time, they also released an anime. There are several great articles and videos about what happened to F-Zero, but the best point I’ve seen is that Nintendo tried, in 2003, to really push F-Zero, but it didn’t work. So, with their attempt failed, they let the series sleep, and just never woke it up, even as fan demand increased. In 2015, Miyamoto commented on the series, and said that, though he heard the demand, he was unsure on what to do with the series, on how to make a new game. Many fans scoffed and said he’d just need to make a modern F-Zero and that’d be great, but I think internal concern runs deeper. Just doing F-Zero failed in 2003, so why would it work now? That said, I think there is hope. Fan demand is powerful, and more and more we see a new generation of Nintendo developers pushing the company forward. These younger developers are the ones behind new IP like Splatoon and ARMS, and great reinventions of existing ones like Odyssey and BotW. It’s possible that these same younger developers could hear the fan demand, and want to take on the series without the hesitation of their older peers. It’s been 16 years, but Kid Icarus was gone for 19, wasn’t it? Stranger things have happened Chances: I want to believe Golden Sun And here’s the other one. Few Nintendo fans are as vocal and dedicated to their dormant franchise as Golden Sun games. For those who don’t know, Golden Sun was a couple of excellent GBA RPGs released in 2001 and 2002, with a DS sequel in 2010. Such erratic release schedule would make predicting the series’ future difficult at the best of times, but the DS game was seen as a disappointment by many fans and sales were unimpressive. With ten years having passed with no new game, is the series done for? Well, let’s look at it. In 2012, one of the developers gave an interview in which he straight up said that, if there was fan demand for it, there would “naturally” be a fourth game. We know that developer interview doesn’t immediately guarantee a sequel, but this is also a much more positive statement than Custom Robo and F-Zero’s “We know there’s demand, but we don’t know what to do with it”. This is “If there’s demand, it will happen.” So, is there demand? You bet your ass there is. And it feels like it is growing. There was a high-profile hoax about a fourth game in 2017 (a similar hoax happened some time before the third game, by the way). The series received notably more content in Smash Ultimate than series of similar standing (quite possibly an acknowledgment of its popularity). And last year, Cory Balrog, director of 2018’s GOTY God of War, tweeted about all the franchises he would trade for a new Golden Sun. Nintendo could hardly have asked for a higher profile endorsement within the industry. So if fan demand is there, why hasn’t it happened yet? Well, it helps to look at the development history of the series. The first game took eighteen months to develop, considered a long time for a handheld game at the time. And though the eight years between the GBA and DS games may have you believe it took a long time to greenlight a sequel, that’s not the case. Signs point to internal discussion about a sequel to the GBA games as early as 2002, with developers quoted as saying that Nintendo was asking them to make a new one. One of the series producers also said that the series takes a long time to make because of its complexity. After the DS game failed to meet expectations, its understandable that Nintendo may not have been as enthusiastic for a new game as it was before, but it seems like, even if the series is alive and well, the long hiatus would not be uncharacteristic. In that same interview quoted before, the developer even said that a new game would take a long time. In fact, if GS4 had started development shortly after that interview, if it took as long as Dark Dawn, the game would be wrapping up production around now. Then there’s the developer, Camelot. Aside from Golden Sun, they pretty much only make Mario Tennis and Mario Golf. They release schedule is also super consistent, with a new game every other year, sometimes every year. We already got a Mario Tennis on Switch two years ago so, if not for COVID, their new game would probably have released this year. All things point, then, for the next Camelot game to hit the Switch next year. Smart money would be in Mario Golf, but maybe it is finally Golden Sun. Finally, I don’t think, as others do, that Xenoblade is the reason GS is not happening. Again, I don’t see evidence to support the idea that Nintendo doesn’t want to publish more than one game in the same genre. Both the GBA and DS had more than a dozen Nintendo-published RPGs, and the Wii and 3DS got RPGs even after Xenoblade released for them. I don’t see why Xenoblade would stop a Switch Golden Sun, especially when they are very different kinds of RPGs. GS is actually closer to Octopath Traveler, whose success was enough to impress SE, why wouldn’t Nintendo want a piece? Really, I think the biggest obstacle is that Nintendo might want to prioritize the safe investment of Mario sports games over Golden Sun, but the more I research, the more I feel like GS’s chances are higher now than they were at any point in the last ten years. I feel there’s hope this sun will rise again Chances: Above average Kid Icarus Sorry to keep you waiting. Kid Icarus was an OK NES game that had a forgotten Game Boy sequel and then nobody cared about it for 19 years until it was unexpectedly revived for the 3DS in 2012. This story is a testament to the fact that, just because its been a long time, it doesn’t mean it will never happen. But in order to know if it will happen again, let’s understand how it happened in the first place. It’s important to mention that reviving Kid Icarus was not the intent behind KI: Uprising, it was the idea of its director, Masahiro Sakurai. Nintendo had given him a project and Sakurai decided to use an established franchise for it. He briefly considered Star Fox, but decided to use Kid Icarus, for which he probably had a soft spot, considering he had added Pit to Brawl some years earlier. So, there wasn’t an exec at Nintendo who woke up one day and decided to bring Kid Icarus back, they gave the director a project, and, after some deliberation, he decided to use Kid Icarus for it. That director is currently busy developing Smash Bros DLC, but even after that’s over, he probably won’t revisit Kid Icarus. He has shot down the idea of him working on a sequel or a port. His words were: "For now, my thought is that perhaps we'll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years." Yikes. That’s pretty damning. Sure, Nintendo could get someone else to make the game, but if it was only Sakurai that was interested in the series in the first place, what is the hope of that? Well, that statement is not super accurate. Before Uprising, there was actually a Kid Icarus reboot in development for the Wii. It was cancelled, and thank God for it, as it was an awfully stupid gritty reboot, but it showed that there was interest in the franchise even before Uprising. Naturally, you’d expect interest to be bigger now than before. The fact that Uprising not only grew the series’ fanbase, but the that there are Kid Icarus characters in Smash Bros, means that the franchise has a permanent place in the interest in Nintendo fans. Smash in particular means that there are 18 million people who know Pit and Palutena and would turn their heads if a new game was announced. Furthermore, Nintendo’s new CEO is interested in bringing 3DS franchises to the Switch after the success of the Switch Lite, especially now that the 3DS is officially dead, so the opening is there for it. There is definitely demand for a new Kid Icarus game, but it is too sporadic a franchise to be certain, and if it were to happen, Nintendo would have to find someone new to do it. But, in the end, the series is definitely in a better place now than it was 10 years ago. Chances: Medium Legendary Starfy Legendary Starfy was a 2D platformer for the GBA that was apparently really successful, as it received four sequels in the span of five years. Not only that but, like Barbara and Chibi-Robo, Starfy himself was quite popular. He had cameos in Mario & Luigi and Super Princess Peach, music of the series was in Donkey Konga, he is a regular Assist Trophy in Smash and was a costume in Mario Maker. Though the series took until the last game to come to the West, there were plans to bring the first four games too, as well as consideration for expanding the series to the Wii. The series was widely advertised, with animated commercials and tons of merchandise, including plush dolls, CDs, pencils, birthday balloons, casino cards and two manga series. When asked if there were plans for a sixth game, the developer answered “Yes!”, no ifs, not buts, straight-up Yes. And then… nothing. The series just stopped. And the reason why is: I have no idea. Maybe if the last game bombed spectacularly, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Sure, Japanese sales declined with each entry, but not by that much. Maybe NA sales weren’t what Nintendo was hoping for, but surely not enough to kill such a steady franchise. The confusion only grows when we look at its developer, Tose. Now, this is interesting. You’ve probably played a Tose game without knowing. They have worked on over A THOUSAND GAMES, but they never receive credit. They merely assist with development in the shadows. As one exec puts it: "Our policy is not to have a vision. Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time we refuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." They are a ghost developer. Even its Wikipedia page admits that the list of games on it is purely speculative. There are probably hundreds more, that we don’t know about. The only exception is the Starfy series. That series was their vision. So why did they stop? Could they have decided that it was against their vision to make a game of their vision? We can only speculate. The fact that the series’ end was so unexpected, and its developer so mysterious, means that any speculation about it is a shot in the dark. All I can say is that there’s no particular reason to expect it. Chances: Not Good Nintendogs Here’s a big one. Nintendogs was one of the biggest successes of the casual era, on par with Brain Age and Wii Fit, but unlike those, it remained a multi-million seller during the 3DS/WiiU generation. And though Nintendo may have tried, at first, to distance the Switch from that era, the return of Brain Age and Clubhouse Games indicates that other casual games would follow, and Nintendogs would be a no-brainer. There is, however, one big problem: the Switch does not have a microphone. While Brain Age on the DS also used the microphone a lot, it was not essential to it. You could easily make Brain Age without it. But not Nintendogs. Issuing voice commands to your virtual pup is integral to the experience. No microphone means no Nintendogs. But with that said, Nintendo did go to the trouble of making a Switch stylus, seemingly just for Brain Age, so maybe they could make a microphone peripheral. Sure, a microphone would be more complex to make than a stylus, but not inconceivable. They did something like that with the Wii Speak. I’m sure for that nintendogs money, Nintendo would do it. Worst case scenario, Nintendo releases Nintendogs and forces you to use the NSO app’s voice chat to talk with your dog. You know they’d do it. There’s also the fact that another developer released a nintendogs clone for the Switch last year, but I don’t think Nintendo gives a shit. Chances: Good Nintendo Wars You may know this series better as “Advance Wars” and you may also know that it is fantastic. In fact, it is one of the highest rated Nintendo franchises on Metacritic, and had a pretty consistent release schedule between 1988 and 2008. All was looking pretty god. But unfortunately the series has been dormant since the last entry on DS. Part of it may be because the series, though originally Japan-only, was never all that popular in Japan. In fact, that last game only saw a limited release as a My Nintendo reward in the region. There is, however, still demand for the series, both externally and internally. Producers from both Nintendo and developer Intelligent Systems have expressed enthusiastic support for a new entry, although they’ve also expressed some uncertainty on what they’d do with it, similar to the Custom Robo and F-Zero responses. The developer for the series is Intelligent Systems, who do a ton of stuff and will be discussed multiple times in this post. They used to release multiple games a year, but have slowed down this past game to just one or two games a year, another possible reason why Advance Wars has been deprioritized, especially in comparison with that boogeyman of Advance Wars and Smash Bros fans alike: Fire Emblem. There is real concern that Nintendo might not want to make a new Advance Wars when they could just make the similar but more popular Fire Emblem instead. That said, IS has already released a Fire Emblem and Paper Mario for Switch, and though we definitely will get at least one more FE during the Switch’s life cycle, there’s enough years left for IS to release some other games, whether they be AW or one of the three other franchises we’ll discuss in the future. Problem is, of those franchises, AW might be the most difficult to produce, and the most risky, so it could probably be lower priority. When asked about the series last year, one IS producer gave a pretty evasive answer, so things aren’t looking too good, but they aren’t hopeless either. Chances: Medium Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents This rhythm series for the DS is widely beloved by those who played it, but its life cycle was pretty limited. One game in 2005, and Americanized version in 2006, and one sequel in 2007. Nothing more since The games were critically acclaimed, but not blockbuster hits. The series creator said back in 2016 that he would love to create a new game, but nothing else has been said about it. The game’s developer iNis, doesn’t appear to be super active either. All in all, there is very little pointing to a return Chances: Bad Pilotwings The biggest obstacle to seeing this series of arcadey flight sims on the Switch is that the series has a very specific purpose: it’s a tech demo. All three games were launch titles for their systems and explicitly meant to show off each system’s new tech. The original game was made to show off the SNES’ Mode 7, the N64 game was meant to show off the console’s polygonal graphics, and Resort was meant to showcase the 3DS’ stereoscopic 3D. With the Switch’s release far behind us, and its graphics not really needing a showcase, Pilotwings chances seem low. Granted, Pilotwings doesn’t need to be a tech demo, but it could be how Nintendo views it as. There is some fan demand for it, but not as much as F-Zero or Golden Sun, and no developer has commented on the possibility of a return. Pilotwings has always been moderately successful, but not enough to justify constant releases. The only glimmer of hope is the comment from Nintendo’s CEO about wanting to bring more 3DS franchises for the Switch, but it’s quite possible that he didn’t have Pilotwings in mind when he said that Chances: Bad Punch-Out!! Another series popular enough to get a Smash character but not popular enough for consistent sequels, Punch-Out is a beloved classic with a consistent fanbase, but with a very erratic release schedule. After the SNES game in 1994, the series lay dormant for 15 years until it was revived for the Wii in 2009 and then laid to rest again. One explanation is that the series was never really popular in Japan. Neither the NES or SNES games were even available as full releases in the country, being instead, distributed as prizes or rewards. And though the Wii game got a full retail release, it sold very poorly. It’s always been a game more for Americans, so it is understandable that the Japanese developers at Nintendo aren’t super enthusiastic about it. That said, it was Nintendo who pitched the reboot in the first place, so they may want to do it again someday. The developer for the Wii game was Next Level Games, who release a game every three or two years, and they also develop Mario Strikers and Luigi’s Mansion. Having already released LM3, it’s likely they’ll release another game for the Switch some time soon. That could be Punch-Out, but it is just as likely that it could be Mario Strikers, or something else entirely. Some think that the series use of flagrant national stereotypes would impede it from coming back in today’s political climate, but frankly, I don’t think that’s as definitive a problem. Worst case scenario, they simply make a new cast, just like Super Punch Out, but less racially insensitive. Another interesting development is that Mike Tyson has been talking about wanting a new Punch-Out this year. I don’t think Nintendo cares what he says, and they definitely don’t want to associate with him again, but it is a pretty high-profile person talking about the series, which is bound to raise interest. Whether that’s enough for Nintendo to consider a new game? I don’t think so. But regardless, Punch-Out is popular enough that the door is never truly closed for it. Chances: Not Good Pushmo This acclaimed puzzle game was released for the 3DS eshop in 2012 and was successful enough to get three sequels. Although it hasn’t been seen since 2015, there doesn’t seem to be anything impeding its return. The developer is our good friend Intelligent Systems, and, of the aforementioned IS franchises still to launch on the Switch, Pushmo, being a simple, but beloved, puzzle game, seems like the safest investment. It likely could be developed alongside another major game. There is demand for it, and considering Nintendo’s eshop efforts, Pushmo would fit in perfectly alongside Snipperclips and fellow 3DS eshop puzzle star Boxboy. All in all, there’s no reason not to expect Pushmo to come back. Chances: Good continued in comments
https://preview.redd.it/xlyburbgzvy51.png?width=697&format=png&auto=webp&s=266d2a6ea57de555366adb54dfb50deeaff823d5 Queens Enter after Tokyos Elimination Soshilina:well our tokyo is gone Joanna:im not gona lie i thought she will make it to the end Anita:same i mean her entrence was gag worthy Maja:so yall are saying i should go home tonight? Antoniette:well your talent show was maybe the weakest Maja:speak for your fucking self Antoniette:girl i am not trying to be in another drama so relax Maja:fucking bullshit*snatches off her wig* Jay L.Bird and Soshilina step to the back Jay:so i thought if we could have some our time alone togetter? Soshillina:sorry sis its not time for sex this is a competision and i was safelast week so i need to step it up*walks to the girls* Jay Sobs Anita:so lets congrats our winner Debbie Delight!!! Antoniette:you fucking deserve it Kit:not really,im sorry but im just pissed i was safe Nina:i was low sis so shut your ass up Kit:try me bitch! Nina Throws her hill at her face Kits nose starts to bleed Kit:bitch,what the heck*slaps Nina\* Nina and Kit starts to fight Debbie:guys guys relax!!!!! Bea:Nina relax*pushes them back* Bea:stop it yall are adults Nina:by her personality,shes not! Kit:fuck off bitch! Anita:well we know eachother for 3 weeks and there are coupels and fights! Lady:crazyyyyyyyyy NEXT DAY Queens enter the room Kit walks in with her red nose....WFFUIFUHFUE LOL Joanna:well ladies i cant wait for the next challange Maja:i cant wait to be in the bottom again Anita:you gona be fine girl! Maja CF:anita is to nice,i dont trust that bitch! Bea:well i hope we are doing comedyyyyyy OOP OOP OOP YALL GOT FOXY MAIL Queens scream of joy Foxy Mail:ladies vegas id full of lights,casinos and suprises and the most intresting part their performance! Antoniette:fuck talent show again,lol Nikky Fox comes in:HELLO HELLO HELLO MY SHOW GIRLS,Ladies this week is gona be full of energy,costumes and lights beacse we are having a Vegas RuSical ladies but first please welcome our vegas show girls Derick Berry and farrah moan,ladies derick will teach you moves and farrah will teach you how do you sexy on stage,ladies and on the runway this week yall are gona be my Vegas Show Girls GOOD LUCK AND DONT FOX IT UP! Nikky,farrah and derick leaved the room Anita CF:let me say i can lip sync and sing but write a song.....or even energetc dance..... Maja Sleeps on The Sofa Kit CF:im sweating over here and making my costume work when that bitch is over there sleeping! Joanne:girlllll you got to learn the lyrics and learn those dance moves Maja:bitch im a show girl let me sleep Anita:maja its better to learns those dance moves lady! Jay:girl ima win this challage! Soshilina:in your dreams boi THE NEXT DAY(PERFORMANCE AND THE RUNWAY DAY) Queens are doing their makeup They hear a loud BAM Anita:oh my god its my look! Nina:let me help Anita:great the look ripped Nina:sis yu helped my makeup,lets help your look Lady:or wear your backup Debbie:yeah your backup its actually better then the OG look for me Anita:ok then but its really not me tho......But i think its time for a little change! Nina:period girl ON THE STAGE Nikky fox is comming down the stage https://preview.redd.it/i06miackzvy51.png?width=340&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0a75e9152497455482e71cf06222ae4af3e29d6 Nikky Fox:welcome to Nikky foxs drag race Season 2,please welcome our 2 special 2 guest judges! Farrah Moan https://preview.redd.it/k3yp3qtkzvy51.png?width=279&format=png&auto=webp&s=92438b074ec51380b971575cd5adae46c8a1de34 Derick Barry https://preview.redd.it/hyw0kkflzvy51.png?width=205&format=png&auto=webp&s=0aaed01f6f8d7ea21f16f96644b767b5c003a586 Farrah:awwwww hi nikky Derick:its derick bitch,hiiii! Nikky:period,but this week my queens had to perform a Vegas rusical number and on the runway they had to be my Vegas show Girls! GOOD LUCK AND DONT FOX IT UP! *after the rusical\* Nikky fox:well its time for the runway the theme is....Vegas Show Girls Debbie Delight https://preview.redd.it/h737vbepzvy51.png?width=403&format=png&auto=webp&s=18c2e4390142875b034d7acc22f847ed2ca9943b Joanna Fidelia https://preview.redd.it/u4zq1qctzvy51.png?width=240&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1411d83c702ec149a43a1a6088892909fbc3f0d Bea Darling https://preview.redd.it/livfql5uzvy51.png?width=273&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9dcea6e68cdcbbbeb6e187ad1feb5ee016756ff Anita Drink https://preview.redd.it/sujb8akuzvy51.png?width=289&format=png&auto=webp&s=24e51894e4ede91b144b9bae660c6b0284f5f072 Jay L.Bird https://preview.redd.it/xrxghjyuzvy51.png?width=293&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfd565ff07c095cd90d98b745a252b1cbb77a83d Soshilina Evangelista https://preview.redd.it/qr1lzuhvzvy51.png?width=257&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc70fa2c3a85d5b209d9d8ed51ac8354054718fd Kit Anna https://preview.redd.it/llfepnewzvy51.png?width=255&format=png&auto=webp&s=e456f1358a65b03367d4e866fa31844ff8c2f55f Lady Hyacinth https://preview.redd.it/xkj8158xzvy51.png?width=228&format=png&auto=webp&s=216d647cea6062cdf6092a2f3705ce1b528caeb8 Nina Carlye https://preview.redd.it/fm914dkyzvy51.png?width=152&format=png&auto=webp&s=b878d8d892ecf5b21e020a4f56e943ea0c3ad31f Antoniette Avangaar https://preview.redd.it/7avwff3zzvy51.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=2122f5ff26af8dbee56fc2e580e580f1bde87cec Maja Blanca She didnt gave a look! Chille Nikky fox:ladies me,deric and farrah made some decisions! Farrah moan:ladies when incall your name please step forward.....Debbie Delight,Lady Hyacinth and Bea Darling ladies you are safe,you may go untuck back stage UNTUCK Lady Hyacinth CF:the whole competision i am safe like girl thats my third time i need to step my game up Bea Darling CF:i fell very ok that im safe this week,but i gues i would be happy if i was high Debbie CF:after i won last week i know im sronger then safe so....i need my second win! Bea:well where my drink at Lady:in untuck we dont have drinks we have popcorn and soda Bea:better then my tap water in my room Lady Laughs Lady:so who gona win? Bea:i swear if soshilina gets her second win,girl.....she was amazing and i hate that! Bea:gurl soshilina is killing it but maybe Kit has this win! Ladies talk CRITIQUES Derick:that means you represent tops and bottoms First up Anita drink Nikky fox:today your energy was very low and you didnt catch the moves! Farrah Moan:but this runway its my favorite today,i think you look sexy and glam and thats what i need from evryone! Derick:the Singing was on point to be real you have a voice of an angel,it was not a comedy rusical but you made it funny! Joanna Fidelia Nikky fox:today your energy was fucking fierce ,you knew evry word of your lyrics Farrah Moan:today you look fucking fierce,you are showing that body-ody-ody! Derick:the singing was not the best but ok you made it really intresting to watch Jay L.Bird Nikky Fox:your energy was very low this week and im very suprised about that Farrah Moan:you look fierce today,you represent the kings and you did it amazing Derick:the singing was very bad your voice was shaking like crazy and thats not it! Soshilina Evangelista Nikky Fox:today you were great,when the camera was not on you,you still performed the house down! Farrah Moan:today you look like a fucking fierce ass diva whos going to a crazy rich vegas party! Derick Barry:you were high energy your voice was like beyonce and thats on perioddddd Kit Anna Nikky Fox:today you did high kick into a split and i way living great job Farrah Moan:not my favorite runway today,but mama you still look like star Derick Barry:your voice its soooooo good you should be proud Nina Carlye Nikky Fox:im not gona lie,i didnt have an idea you wear such a good dancer beacuse you what....killed it! Farrah Moan:you look very good today beacuse this colour just looks so damn good on you! Derick Barry:You were very shaking when u sang but at the end you killed it! Antoniette Avangaar Nikky Fox:ima tell for evrything,runway,energy singing was meh..... Maja Blanca Nikky Fox:your dancing was ofc perfect but the energy once again was low Farrah Moan:you ddint had a look....girl its season 2! Derick Barry:I-your singing was so shaking that it was so awkward Nikky Fox:ladies i made some decisions.........Nina and Joanna great job today you ladies are safe Nikky fox:Kit Anna,........condragulations you are the winner of this weeks challange,thst means Soshilina you are safe Nikky Fox:ladies 2 of you are safe and those are.....Anita Drink and Antoniette Avangaar....you may step to the back of the stage Nikky Fox:that means Jay L.Bird and Maja Blanca im sorry my foxies but you are up for elimination! Nikky fox:my foxies you need to perform a lip sync by Spice Girls"Spice Up Your life" Jay starts by taking off his cape and he brings a little comedy,Maja starts by shaking her boobies and doing her chill dancing,Jay ddi an cartweel into a deathdroop,Maja does not know the words but she stilll fights and she ddi one again high kick into a split,Jay ends it with his sexy movements on the floor,Maja end it with a slowsplit Anita CF:this lip sync was a mess! Nikky Fox:ummm meh,but Jay L.Bird shantay you stay Maja:nikky girl you dont need to say nothing,All Stars here I come. Maja CF: I might be going home but I know myself that I did my best and better get ready cause All Stars is where I will win. Nikky:well amen!!!! Queens:amen!!!! NEXT WEEK!!!! Hiii next week we are having a roast so come with 3 roast jokes at least 1 of them needs to be of nikky foxand the last 2 can be whatever you want and on the runway i need your Blue and Yellow looks See yall PHOTO FASHION RUVIEW Kit anna-toot Soshilina-shoot Joanna Fidelia-toot Nina Carlye-toot Debbie Delight-soft toot Bea Darling-boot(sorry) Lady hyacinth-toot Antoniette Avangaar-boot Anita Drnk-Shoot Jay L.Bird-toot Maja Blanca-didnt get the look TOP TOOT OF THE WEEK-Soshilina and Anita Drink SPREADSHEETS-YALLS TRACK RECORD! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wt1bLr1j0Q_rUHRt6qGL7XxpxeRIcod_E09UG9HeiN0/edit?usp=sharing u/Sotoryfaeu/ShaankZu/sharris2475u/CelestialWizard07u/Morgan1307u/Soshiwoshiu/xtinamaniac
Persona 5's Plot is based on Steely Dan's 1972 Album, 'Can't Buy A Thrill'
Ok so, from reading the title, I know this must seem just totally batshit. But bear with me, I swear there's a connection here. All of the major Story Beats in Persona 5 can be linked to at least one song on Steely Dan's seminal 1972 album, Can't Buy A Thrill. So, where to begin - the beginning seems like a good enough place, both of the album and the story. Our protagonist's journey begins with his false imprisonment on an assault charge after protecting a woman from a powerful politician's drunken advances, and this beginning of the plot is echoed in the first verse of the first song on the album, 'Do It Again' - The lyrics go as follows: 'In the mornin' you go gunning for the man who stole your wate And you fire till he is done in but they catch you at the borde And the mourners are all singin' as they drag you by your feet/ But the hangman isn't hangin' and they put you on the street.' The 'morning' here refers to the figurative morning of the story, at its beginning. The man who stole your water is Shido - not in a literal sense, but rather that he has massively affected your life. The lyric 'you fire till he is done in but they catch you at the border' refers to the Protagonist's victory over Shido in the short-term, and subsequent imprisonment. The 'mourners' are the life that the Protagonist leaves behind after his assault charge, and his being 'put on the street' is in reference to how he is turned away and forced to live in Tokyo. Onto the next verse: When you know she's no high climber, then you find your only friend/ In a room with your two timer, and you're sure you're near the end/ Then you love a little wild one, and she brings you only sorrow/ All the time you know she's smilin', you'll be on your knees tomorrow' This could be interpreted to be about the early days at Shujin - The first line could be in reference to the cutscene where the protagonist and Ann first meet - that the protagonist knows she's 'no high climber' because of her kindness toward him, and then you 'find your only friend' immediately after in the form of Ryuji, who disregards all the rumours about you. 'In a room with your two timer' could, fittingly enough have multiple meanings - the 'two timer' could be Kamoshida, with his double identity between himself and his shadow, or it could be Ann, who is falsely perceived by the students to be 'two timing' Kamoshida. The 'wild one' mentioned in the next line could also be Ann, due to her costume and namesake, as Panther. Finally, the last line 'All the time you know she's smilin' references Ann's new hope after joining the Phantom thieves, and the lyric 'You'll be on your knees tomorrow' references Kamoshida's shadow after its defeat, as he sinks to his knees. So, what's next? Well, we will come back to this song later, but for now, the plot moves along to the next song on the album, 'Dirty Work', and how it references Madarame's Arc. The song begins 'Times are hard, you're afraid to pay the fee/ so you find yourself somebody, who can do the job for free' These introductory lyrics align closely with Madarame and Yusuke's story - the hard times Madarame falls upon are his art block, and he is 'afraid to pay the fee' of suffering for his lack of productivity, so he finds himself somebody 'who can do the job for free' - his many apprentices, whose artwork he steals. The chorus, in turn, exemplifies Yusuke's part of the story after his awakening: 'I'm a fool to do your dirty work, oh yeah/ I don't wanna do your dirty work, no more' Yusuke realises Madarame's complicity and no longer wishes to work under him. Indeed, the line in the second verse 'I foresee terrible trouble, and I stay here just the same' could show Yusuke's mindset - he subconsciously knows something is wrong, but continues to labour under Madarame. Next is Kaneshiro's Palace, and a few songs on the album go with this. However, I'd argue the two most poignant are 'Brooklyn Owes The Charmer Under Me' and 'Midnite Cruiser', both of which deal with similar themes. Brooklyn Owes..., specifically uses these themes of luxury, as with the themes of Kaneshiro's palace. Check out these lyrics: 'A race of angels bound to one anothe a dish of dollars laid out for all to see' The angels specifically here could reference the shadows, who are themselves bound, and the dish of dollars carries with it themes of luxury, as well as echoing Kaneshiro's desire to be seen as wealthy and powerful. However, his true nature is succinctly expressed in 'Midnite Cruiser', in the lyrics: 'Tell me where are you driving, Midnite Cruiser?/ Where is your bounty of fortune and fame/ I am another gentleman lose drive me to Harlem, or somewhere the same.' In this chorus, one can see a reflection of Kaneshiro's true nature - his desire for 'fortune and fame' and his status as a 'Gentleman loser' show that he has already tacitly accepted his failure, and in turn highlights the vanity of his efforts in the real world. Finally, in 'Brooklyn owes...', the lyric 'A case of aces done up loose for dealing' echoes the nature of Kaneshiro's treasure, the briefcase full of fake cash - the ace itself symbolically implies value, but the fact that there is a case thereof significantly diminishes this, and shows the phony nature of Kaneshiro's wealth. Next is Futaba, and with her palace, the song 'Fire In The Hole', which rather aptly summarises the nature of her tragedy. The first verse is as follows: ' I decline to walk the line They tell me that I'm lazy Worldly wise, I realize That everybody's crazy A woman's voice reminds me To serve and not to speak, am I myself or just another freak?' The consistent reference to a 'they' in these lines points to a feeling of alienation from the outside world, and the specific problems mentioned, of being lazy or crazy, could easily match up with one's perceptions of what they think the people around them think of their faults. All of this corresponds to Futaba hiding herself away in her room. The 'woman's voice' would be her hallucinations of Wakaba disparaging her, and the questioning of her own identity or if she's 'just another freak' denote her feelings of low self esteem. The next verse contains the lyrics 'My life is boiling ove it's happened once before/ I wish someone would open up the door' which pretty aptly summarise Futaba's situation - her increased feelings of stress ('life is boiling over') and her wish that someone would 'open up the door' showing a nascent desire to no longer sequester herself - this could be the catalyst for her demand of the Phantom Thieves to change her heart. Next is Okumura's palace, which I feel embodies best the song 'Only A Fool Would Say That'. Right from the outset, the disparaging title makes it clear that the person who would say this is prideful. Okumura's greed takes on a corporate façade of colourful advertising, but behind the curtain it is incredibly harmful. This song describes the downtrodden condition of the worker: 'The man in the street, dragging his feet/ don't wanna hear the bad news.' as well as how the narrator, who we already know is prideful, declares that only a fool would believe in better things: 'I heard it was you/ talkin' 'bout a world where all is free/ it just couldn't be/ and only a fool would say that' This shows the greed of taking advantage of the workers in this way, and the hypocrisy of Okumura in the diametrically opposed views of Okumura Foods that the public gets - the cheerful, outward facing façade, complete with space theming, and the horrific reality of being consistently beaten down and overworked, all the while being told that better things aren't possible. Next is Sae's palace, which corresponds to the final verse of 'Do It Again' - in this way we can see the recursive nature of the plot, taking us back to the beginning of the album and the story through the flashbacks to Sae. This recursive nature is emphasised by the line in the bridge: 'You go back, Jack, do it again/ wheel turnin' round and round' The final verse goes as follows: 'Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gambling man/ then you find you're back in Vegas with a handle in your hand/ Your black cards can make you money, so you hide them when you're able/ in the land of milk and honey, you must put them on the table' This verse is especially interesting to me - the casino theming is obvious, but it also denotes the Thieves' character arcs in a poignant manner. The first line deals with misconceptions, a theme for most characters in the story - each of them is misinterpreted or seen as something they're not, usually by the forces of the law or the establishment. However, this same alienation drives them to actually become the thieves that society has t out for the most - that they 'find (they're) back in Vegas' shows that they have taken in society's misconceptions and reclaimed them as their own. This makes sense in the context of the story, as the Phantom Thieves' full team has assembled, and they are striking back against the most distilled representation of the establishment thus far - Sae Niijima, a corrupt prosecutor who has been seen. up until this point, in a negative light. The hiding of the black cards represents striking back at an unjust system - if you cheat in a Casino, you're already winning against a heavily weighted house. It could also represent the deception of Akechi surrounding Joker, their ace in the hole - in the context of this line the cards would be hidden from the dealer, and as such this implies that Akechi is on the side of the house, the dealer, and the corrupt adults. The 'land of milk and honey' is what is promised for those who follow the rules, and shows Akechi's deception of the thieves - both parties end up putting their cards on the table, and it is only thanks to the Thieves' plotting that they end up beating the house, so to speak. Finally, Shido's Palace is best suited to the song 'Kings', unsurprisingly. The song itself details the American political climate during the Vietnam War, but also acts as an effective allegory for Shido's nationalistic political aspirations. The song is from the point of view of an apathetic citizenry, in keeping with the story, and shows the tyrannical nature of being ruled, as well as the suffering of everyday people, comparing these world leaders to the Kings of old, carrying out vast campaigns while their subjects suffered. Here is the chorus: We seen the last of Good King Richard/ Ring out the past, his name lives on, and on/ Roll out the bones, and raise up your pitche Raise your glass for Good King John'. The specific reference to Kings Richard and John is interesting, as they are two characters who are especially major contextually in the story of, you guessed it, Robin Hood. The same Robin Hood that Akechi's persona is based on. The song admits that: 'While he plundered far and wide/ all his starving children cried' - this could be in reference to Akechi's tragic upbringing, or more figuratively the fate of the nation when policy is abandoned for nationalistic glory seeking. This is further exemplified in the lines 'And though we sung his fame/ we went hungry just the same.' which reinforces this idea. The apathy of the citizenry also carries this over to the final major plot beat (excluding Royal's events, which I will leave out cause my arms are getting tired) - Yaldabaoth, and his control over the people. The overthrow of the king, both in the stealing of Shido's heart and the killing of Yaldabaoth, show the determination of the phantom thieves against the apathetic nature of the populace, and shows that the will to change society can accomplish much. Anyway, in conclusion, listen to more Steely Dan, and play more Persona.
Scheana begins with fan questions. Hundreds were submitted took her a day to get through them.
For Ariana: How is self-isolating and her depression going? She said she was doing okay, the only thing was she was getting more messages on social media and had to work on not feeling like she had to answer every one immediately. She was also a little worried that she would feel overwhelmed with the regular pace of her responsibilities.
Brock says he hopes everyone comes out more educated on all matters of being a good person.
Tom says that he will be aware of playing poker in casinos and how dirty the chips are. He then describes what is a Sandy Bag ™ full of hand sanitizer and disposable gloves. (Tom Sandoval always shows up with his own “Sandy Bag” full of essentials to everything he’s involved in, he should start a side hustle. I would definitely buy a curated list or box from Sandy for an event I was planning b/c my man thinks of EVERYTHING!!)
Tom: Are you going to start a new band? He says Schwartz is actually taking DJ lessons and he’s going to start taking DJ lessons.
Scheana mentions how busy both she and Brock are. Brock has a new line of resistance bands coming out and he’s been crushing it with home workout videos due to self isolation.
Tom says he would love to do music, it’s low on the list. Working on whiskey with Shwartz, stricks men’s concealer and the Tom and Tom Cameos to support the employees.
Tom: How do you feel about Kristen and Ariana being friends and was there a moment it happened. Ariana says it’s old news, Scheana says since Seans 3 is showing now it’s fresh on people’s minds. She also mentions her wedding planner going off on IG stories.
Tom says it felt gradual, and Ariana said a step forward was when the girls went to see Britney Spears for Brittany’s birthday and that was a really fun trip.
Tom finishes up saying he’s really cool with it. Scheana ends by saying she got flooded with so many people asking if they would have a threesome. She wasn’t going to ask but wanted them to know.
Does Ariana feel support from the cast re: Jax says and her depression and her sexuality. Stassi reached out, of course, Tom and Scheana. But it’s also a heavy topic if you don’t see everyone all the time. Is open to more convos about it now it’s aired once isolation is over.
FMK Stassi, Kristen, Katie: Ariana would Fuck Kristen, Marry Katie and kick Stassi out because she leaves the furthest away.
Scheana says she picked Stassi because Stassi would do the same thing, but maybe now it’s Kristen, which is sad. Ariana says Kristen’s been kicked out of a lot of places lately.
Scheana said she would marry Kristen because she cooks, she cleans, I bet she’d scratch my back every night, she’d snuggle me.
Tom agrees with Ariana.
Where do they stand with Jax and how do they feel about comments about her sexuality? Ariana says they can’t say too much, but she doesn’t feel like she’s lost anything and it’s kind of gross to comment on anyone’s sexuality.
Tom says he doesn’t even know where to begin with Jax and the shit that comes out of his mouth. Maybe one day science will study his brain and tell him why...Brock says they’re struggling with corona right now but we will give them Jac problems.
They touch on Jax being on WWHL and the punishment from God comments. All agree Andy doesn't want to open that can of worms.
Producer Jerry asks how many rooms furnished left to go. Ariana closet being renovated. Master and two others done. They really need a dining room table.
Tom: Who had the best costume at his extra party? Beau with his combover and Stassi killed it. Also anyone who dressed like him.
Ariana liked Scheana and Dayna.
Tom excitedly says, “Hey you guys want to see something? I want to show you something!” and skurries off to go get it.
Ariana says to Brock and Scheana, “Show and Tell every time someone comes over and you guys are like, virtually over.”
Tom comes back with a jacket his friend Melissa had made using his image from the Bon Jovi video.
Fave Cocktail from their book Trashy and Fancy: Ariana Trashy was Bloody Desperate and Toms Trashy that he and Tom do before filming Cameos is I Don’t Do Coke. They had done 73 Cameos. Each is 1-2 mins long.
Brock tells him to play it on the trumpet and Sandy delivers with a tiny trumpet and plays the VPR theme song.
Ariana: fave Britney Spears memories. All behind the videos, and going to her concert in a fancy boutique. Turquoise, flowy sleeves and low cut jeans.
Tom says they saw her for Scheana’s birthday and Ariana got so emotional and it made him emotional.
Tom: Best 3 item drink Quarantini? Muddle Citrus into Clear alcohol and add whatever other juice/soda you have. Cosmo: 4 lime wedges muddled into simple syrup, vodka and dash of cranberry. Best cosmo ever.
If Jax wanted the Tom’s to switch places, why not ask them himself? Tom breaks it down: “I mean look, Jax is a fucking PUSSY, okay That’s all I can say, dude. The guy literally talks relentless shit about me on Twitter and then he’ll come into to fucking Tom Tom and high five me like we’re boys. Like I don’t see it just because he’s not @ me when he talks shit. This is why I finally said something when he was talking shit about me. I was like dude, this is your fucking wedding episode and you’re taking all of this time to talk shit about it. If you don’t like me, don’t fucking mention me. I should be nothing. You should just NOT talk about me."
Sandy says if he was mad he wouldn’t keep talking about it. He would talk the band, how magical the wedding was. How awesome the road there was.
Scheana says maybe scientists one day will get it.
When Sandy talked to individual people about the pastor everyone had their own things to say about it that were opinionated.
When Tom brought it up, all of them were like, hmmm no, HOW DARE YOU TOM?
They all talked about it, they all agreed and knew it was fucked up and then they all stabbed him in the back and threw him under the bus.
OG cast doesn’t like somebody and tries to get them kicked off of the show or excluded out of situations.
Sandy doesn’t understand and said after Kristen broke up he worried about his safety and didn’t try to get her kicked off. He said the show was them being forced into places where they might not all be getting along and the OG cast forgets that.
He says if he didn’t bring up the pastor stuff or the things wouldn’t have happened with the wedding what exactly would they be talking about on the show.
Scheana says in the old episodes how different things were.
Scheana and Ariana aren’t in her wedding for example, and that's fine have whoever you want in it. But they were friends with her first and now she will pop off on them and never Katie and Stassi and ponders if they have a pact.
Sandy says publicist it was a decision for her to be friends with them and says they’re friends now.
Ariana says they are all friends now, and how Lala won’t pop off on Katie or Stassi.
If Ariana was to pop off on Katie or Stassi or Lala, she would have ten people jumping at her. If they come off at her, it’s just her alone.
Sandy says he wishes they would understand how it doesn’t help the show or them.
Ariana understands wanting to protect friends, but it shouldn’t be so black and white. She wishes there would be more conversations about talking about the grey areas but also not turning it into a gang up.
Sandy says also letting it stay between the two involved. You can say well, maybe I agree with them or maybe I don’t agree with whatever but it’s between them.
Sandy cites the fight with Stassi and Katie came up yelling at him and belittling him in front of fans and whatever. Then Kristen came up and say he was jealous and yell at me. And then Schwartz come up and yell at me. And then Stassi coming up to yell at me. And then finally Lala come up and yell at me.
Tom said he shouldn’t have sent the text message, but there was a lot of history and maybe they don’t understand it all.
Ariana says wait, so would you say it’s not about the text messages? Everyone laughs.
Sandy says Katie is the "Shakespeare of Rage Texts"
Scheana agreed, said her words were vicious but she used really great vocabulary, especially at 6am.
Ariana says Katie should start a business were she composes rage texts. Start a Cameo or something like that where all she would do is rage text people.
Any moments you regret? Sandy says sending the stress texts to Stassi. Sobbing to Kristen. riana said Season 2 trying to be a good friend to Tom, and been like Fuck Tom I don't give a fuck, and people took it like she had a crush on him. She said Tom wasn't being a good friend to her at that point, laughing.
Fave Quarantine thing to do: Ariana said cooking, gardening, and general nesting behavior. Sandy likes to listen to an old school record player and he likes to have a cocktail and listen there.
He likes to mentally brainstorm and plan cool things for his house. He wants to install a secret passageway behind the wall.
Tom said biggest regret was that the house didn't come with one, and Ariana said, but what if...?
He's also building ax throwing pit. Ariana says he is NOT installing that. Sandy said he will just throw them during the day so it's not loud.
Tom has a foldable ax table idea etc, and Brock is DOWN.
They chat about trying to party together for Scheana's birthday. Ariana says definitely a Zoom party.
Are Stassi and Lala really that condescending? Ariana remembers early on in the season Lala said Ariana thinks she's better than everyone. She remembered Lala actually saying to Billie Lee and James that she was better than James. And now she's saying Raquel needs to know her place. She thought it was a projection.
Criticisms of you from a person on the internet, because you haven't spoken in awhile.
Sandy jumps in and says they gang up, they're assholes and they bully people. Then they get eaten alive on social media. Then they get mad at the people they were bullies to or assholes to like it's their fault.
Sandy says then they start saying Oh you think you're better than us, you're so self righteous. And Sandy is like, no. Why don't you just try to be a better person and not knock others down. Be respectful. Have compassion. Just be a better person.
Ariana says they then try to double down on why you deserved to get yelled at. Instead of having some thought that maybe I was wrong. She cites Jax as then double down to justify.
They said at the wedding Jax was so appreciative and they all agree.
They all say we had a great time, we all loved it.
They mention events that were all fun.
Ariana says the 4 of them stayed there all night having the best time and this was after they filmed.
She says Stassi tries to be condescendingly funny and will reel it in if it harms people. She said she's never seen what happened with Lala before.
Ariana said she wasn't going to walk out on Raquel, and maybe as long as if she was just there it was helpful.
Ariana didn't know what the fuck she was saying, said Lala was speaking word soup.
A haunted mansion with a twist, it was touched by the shrouded king, an inter-dimensional being of darkness, now the mansion acts as a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite rooms, and phases through time and space, having been photographed before it was technically created.... Feel free to throw in as many horror references as physically possible.
Foyer
Parlor
Anteroom
Wardrobe
Balcony
Study
Master Bedroom
Nursery'
Graveyard
Boneyard
Bathroom
Washroom
Conservatory
Storage
Kitchen
Dining Room
Ballroom
Laundry Room
Butler's Room
Hidden Room
Fortune Teller's Room
Mirror Room
Projection Room
Billiards Room
Courtyard
Rec Room
Nana's Room
Tea Room
Astral Room
Observatory
Twins' Room
Safari Room
Ceramics Studio
Armory
Clockwork Room
Telephone Room
Art Studio
Sitting Room
Guest Room
Sealed Room
Well
Secret Altar
Pipe Room
Cold Storage
Breaker Room
Cellar
Ken_Nt
Sauna
Indoor pool
Broom closet
Keystoneway
Sewing room
Library
Boiler room
Surgery room
Greenhouse
Pantry
Morgue
Exercise room
Room just for a certain kind of pet (Google 'tarantula room')
Game room
Cell
Woodshop
Swimming pool
Panic room
Padded cell
Torture chamber
Alchemy lab
Doll room
Elevator
Darkroom (like for developing photographs)
Mail room
Mythgirl
The lotion room: Dozens if glass shelves hold hundreds bottles of lotion. Footsteps are muffled against the leather floor. The walls are made of living skin hidden behind thin wood panels which fold out of the way like shutters.
The crime scene: A manikin lies motionless inside of a chalk outline. The decor is that of a seedy motel. Flies buzz lazily, crawling in and out of the the sink’s plumbing. Upon inspection a few strands of hair are found in the drain. If you pull them they slide out, slimy and damp, attached to a piece of scalp.
The powder donut: a room with opulent furnishings. Overstuffed chairs and sofa’s welcome visitors. If sat upon, they release a white cloud. Poison? Mold? Anthrax? Powdered sugar? Mites? Only time will tell the effects.
Abandoned room: all the furniture is covered in sheets. If lifted, nothing but dust is found under the cover.
Throne Room
Child’s bedroom
Child’s playroom
Tinkerer’s workshop
Model train room (or world equivalent)
Wood working room
Warehouse storeroom
Dangerous material storage
Pastry kitchen (completely separate from normal kitchen)
Smoke room (for curing meat)
Walk-in closet full of fancy costumes
Emergency supply room (full of water, fire suppressant, weapons, gas masks, and similar. Think prepper)
Room of magically useless curiosities
Statue room (full of statue figures)
Portrait room (full of portraits)
Sculpture room (not figures, more artistic)
Room of stone where everything is made of marble
Golden room (painted or real you decide)
Peacock room (like the famous irl one, beautiful room that was decorated to match the gorgeous painting of peacocks that spans the entirety of the wall and ceiling
Phoenix room (see peacock room, but Phoenix themed.)
Mirrored room
Cozy sitting room (fireplace and hot coco with marshmallows at the ready)
Window room (each window shows a completely different view)
Room filled with sand
Bathroom with dead woman in bathtub (the shining)
Edit: more stuff
Junk room
Tower room
Room of illusion (everyone inside appears to grow either horns or wings, mess with your party as you choose)
Pentagram room
Laboratory
Medical wing
Furnace room
Crematorium
Mausoleum
Embalming room
Padded cell
Suspiciously Empty room
Tavern
Classy bar (like a five star hotel)
Maid’s quarters
Swimming pool
Inhabited swimming pool
Locker room
Movie/play theater
Backstage
Loft
Crawl space
Call center
Scroll room
Interior of Pyramid
Exterior of pyramid inside larger room
Mummy’s Tomb
Automaton room
Trash compactor
Control room
Incubator room
Apothecary
Pharmacy
Waiting room
Stables
Gymnasium
Weight room
Sewing room
Glass cube room (think cabin in the woods)
Rustic Cabin room
Basement
Earthquake room (you feel an earthquake with inside it, but the rest of the house in undisturbed)
Room full of Fragile vases
Room full of cut Flowers
Room with one bloody handprint in the center of the floor
Room with bed (bed has rumpled sheets and is warm to the touch)
Room full of cats
Room with axe stuck in door
Room with typewriter and desk, papers with gibberish written on them are scattered over the floor
Freezer
Room with walls that are made of tree bark. Red sap oozes from it when touched. Smells of pine and mold. Mushrooms grow in patches
Room full of moldy dead rats (perhaps an later temporal space of the live rat room, may seem eerily familiar if they have encountered the living rat room first)
Living rat room: Room of food barrels, when disturbed, rats pour fourth (perhaps an earlier temporal space of the dead rat room, may seem eerily familiar if they have encountered the dead rat room first)
Cheese room
SuperNes
Masonry workshop
Museum
Reliquary
Barracks
Stables
Menagerie
Worldofideas
Attic
Boiler Room
Catacombs
Coach House
Darkroom (photography)
Furnace room
Mad Science Laboratory
Music Room
Root Cellar
Safe Room / Panic Room
Sub Basement
Summoning Room
Torture Chamber
Walk in Closet
Vinvladro
Torture Room
Wine cellar with wine press and some bloody rags scattered around the press
Brewery
Golem Workshop
More of my own ideas 178: Dinosaur Containment Units 179: Submarine Bay 180: Western Bank 181: Underground Temple 182: Puppet Theater 183: Agency 184: 80's Room 185: Criminal Hideout 186: Comic Fan's Room 187: Wizarding World Room 188: Space Station 189: Pirate Ship 190: DnD Room 191: Escape Room 192: Slasher's Collection 193: Art Cabin 194: Antidote Lab 195: Motel Rooms 196: Board Game Room 197: Wax Museum 198: Casino 199: Gore Fountain 200: Murderous Little Girl's Room 201: King's Crypt 202: Lurker's Room 203: Skeleton Band Room 204: Spider's Nest 205: Witch's Kitchen 206: Ghoul Stairs 207: Mad Scientist's Collection 208: Library of Spells 209: Gothic Dining Room 210: Fog Room 211: Potion Shop 212: Bone Web 213: Redneck's Shed 214: Indoor Beach 215: Hellish Labyrinth 216: Wedding Chapel 217: Ballet Stage 218: Fun House 219: Castle Gallery 220: Moon Pavilion 221: Psycho Cinema 222: Suburban Garden 223: Racist Club 224: Bloody Playroom 225: VRcade 226: Tribal Arts 227: Robotics Room 228: Funerary Storage 229: Slasher's Wardrobe 230: Ski Lounge 231: Vampire's Crypt 232: Seaside Knick Knack Shop 233: Tree Farm 234: Mutant Bunker 235: Demonic Book-Building Workshop 236: Alien Nest 237: Medieval Gallery 238: Scarecrow Shed 239: Cabin Cellar 240: Room in Tarps 241: Dog's Room 242: Puppet Workshop 243: Candy Shop 244: Post-Apocalyptic Room 245: Christmas Hall 246: Fleece Room 247: Playground 248: Giant Cake 249: Cannery 250: Room Under Construction 251: Moth Light 252: Fiendish Kennels 253: Sheep Tents 254: Alien Court 255: Railway 256: Bunny Bridge 257: Funeral Home 258: Squatter's Warehouse 259: Algae Pond 260: Civil War Battlefield 261: Dollhouse 262: Vampire Party Hall 263: Daughter's Crypt 264: Doghouse 265: Writer's Room 266: Cloning Lab 267: Electrocution Chamber 268: Corpse Pit 269: Boarded Room 270: Snake Island 271: Fossil Cave 272: Arctic Crater 273: Surgical Theater 274: Chemical Silo 275: Psychic Test Center 276: Spider Den 277: Old Aviary 278: Black Magic Strip Club 279: Witch's Warehouse 280: Ancient Egyptian Tomb 281: Pumpkin House 282: Giant Snow Globe 283: Deer Cult 284: Giant's Home 285: Snake Pit 286: Reanimation Lab 287: Reptilian City 288: Drinking Lodge 289: Twin Girls' Room 290: Ancient Altar 291: Asylum Cell Block 292: Vomit Covered Room 293: Time Machine 294: Shaman's Tent 295: Locker Room with steroids in one of the lockers 296: Room of Shadows 297: Elder Brain 298: Giant Board Game 299: Dark Shed 300: Revolutionary Exhibit 301: Limacology Labs 302: Broken Stables 303: Gator Shack 304: Ant's Nest 305: Apehouse 306: Rich Cat Lover's Room 307: Insect House 308: Tengu Shrine 309: Rodents Room 310: Inside a Genie's Lamp 311: Insect Study 312: Reptile Room 313: Parasite Storeroom 314: Athena's Shrine 315: Frog Library 316: Ruined Date 317: Gladiatorial Arena 318: Simulated Haunted House 319: Gorilla House 320: Death Cult 321: A laboratory that looks as though people left in a hurry... 322: A medical room that seems as though someone died here. 323: Japanese VHS Enthusiast's Apartment 324: Prison of the Deformed 325: Room of Stretchers 326: Oni's Hut 327: Mongolian Tents 328: Room of Cloaks 329: Gothic Party 330: Pteradactyl Enclosure 331: Carnivorous Greenhouse 332: Rabid Kennels 333: Space Hangar 334: Hatchet Shed 335: Indoor Swamp 336: Room of Smoke 337: Old Man's Room 338: Murdered Child's Room 339: Weaboo's Room 340: Snuff Studio 341: Warlord's Tent 342: Gamer's Parlor 343: Tentacle Pools 344: Toll Bridge 345: Headhunter's Camp 346: Sugar Mill 347: "Vaginal Torture" Room 348: Dermatology Room 349: Volcanic Room 350: Nile Tomb 351: Farmer's Children's' Room 352: Infant's Play Room 353: Room of Flames 354: Innsmouth Pawn 355: Rabbit Room 356: Maternity Ward 357: Steampunk Workshop 358: Minotaur's Labyrinth 359: Goth Girl's Room 360: Serkhet's Shrine 361: Irish Washerwoman's Room 362: Wild West Shooting Gallery 363: Medusa's Garden 364: Room of Decapitated Heads 365: Toxic Barrel Storeroom 366: Alien Specimens Room 367: Fishing Shack 368: Sushi Farm 369: Shark Bay 370: Alien Plant Cave 371: Butchery 372: Exterminator's Room 373: Elliot's Room 374: Magic Theater 375: Pirate Ship 376: Surgical Bay 377: Viking Long Ship 378: Hag's Barn 379: Vampire Garden 380: Enchantress' Room 381: Mutant Bug Arena 382: Clown Toyshop 383: Underworld Gate 384: Arctic Labs 385: Padded Cell (Someone escaped from it) 386: Gym Supplies 387: Virginial Garden 388: College Library 389: Sex Room filled with Plushies for some unknown reason... 390: Weed Farm 391: Security Office 392: Horror Movie Studio 393: Gadgets Lab 394: Office Cubicles 395: Break Room 396: Superstitious Woman's Room 397: Sexy Nurse's Office 398: Rest Stop 399: Room of Old Dolls 400: Reveren's Room 401: Parental Room 402: Sex Dungeon 403: Escape Room 404: Hoard 405: A.I. Room 406: Technovault 407: Staffroom 408: Ritual Room 409: Hellish Stripclub 410: Criminal's Apartment 411: Military Kennels 412: Femme Fatale's Room 413: Brine Reef 414: Decrepit Police Office 415: Skeletal Ballroom 416: Murder Circus 417: Wolf Den 418: Sulfuric Pit 419: Tribal Room with Snakes 420: Zombie Outpost 421: Law Firm 422: Decrepit Building 423: Creepy Old Orphanage 424: Vampiric Enforcer's Room 425: Sorority Room 426: Leprechaun's Cave 427: Death Row 428: Ghost Finder's Lab 429: Sunken Ruins 430: Faith Chapel 431: Convent 432: Vampire Hunter's Armory 433: Tickling Chamber 434: Fishing Boat Dock 435: Terror Chamber 436: Room of Coffins 437: Agentry 438: Widow's Bedroom 439: Sleepy Hollow Gallery 440: Prisoner's Row 441: Occultic Library 442: Sunken Spire 443: Well of Souls 444: Tomb of the Pharoah's 445: Blood Chamber 446: Pit of the Giant Wolf 447: Victorian Tea Room 448: Gothic Museum 449: Satanic Church 450: Cedar Cabin 451: Halloween Shop 452: Magic Show 453: Skeletal Garage 454: Asylum Common Room 455: Lynching Yard 456: Occultic Garden 457: Dark Post Office 458: Black Wedding 459: Holy Portrait Hall 460: Rl'yeh Gate 461: Victorian Labs 462: Room of Globes 463: Hunter's Parlor 464: Retro TV Room 465: Hall of Miniatures 466: Persian Lounge 467: Photo Freak's Room 468: Maze of Screens 469: Pit of Sharp Objects 470: Pencilhead's Room 471: Puzzle Room 472: Key Cabinet 473: Room of Wooden Cubes 474: Room of Jackets 475: The Giant Cuckoo Clock 476: Rotary Room 477: Room of Lights 478: Swimmin' Hole 479: Typewriter Room 480: Smoking Parlor 481: Cigar Storeroom 482: Second Drawing Room 483: Murder Mystery Parlor 484: Golden Throne 485: Case-File Storeroom 486: Evidence Storage 487: Room of Pulleys 488: Slideshow Theater 489: Cassette Room 490: Room of Newspapers 491: House of Matches 492: Room covered in Duct Tape 493: Room of Plug-Ins 494: Static 495: Relaxation Chamber 496: Lake of Rust 497: Room of Passwords 498: Fishing Pond 499: Detective's Office 500: Pamphlet Office
I deeply appreciate the American culture: here's some stuff I wanna do if I ever get to visit the United States!
From K-1 until 7th grade I studied at an international school here in Brazil. About 70% of the students were foreign, usually children whose parents working at multinational companies were allocated to my city. I had friends and classmates from many different nationalities; Germans, Swiss, French, Japanese, Dutch… but for some reason I got along really well with Americans. In fact, most of my “best friends” during those years were from America (although that could be a coincidence?). Of course, there were kids from the US who were complete assholes, but those were the exceptions… but for me it always seemed easier in general to befriend American kids; I guess I felt some kind of identification with their culture and sense of humor. Also my first girlfriend was from Denver. I don’t know if this period of my life had any influence on the fact that I absolutely adore the American culture. The natural beauties, landscapes, wildlife, movies, mass media production, costumes, traditions, freedom, among many other things… I find it all so fascinating – and some of the greatest people I’ve ever met were from the US. I know it’s not a perfect place, and I’m not oblivious to its many many flaws. But which country doesn’t have’em? I’ve lived in Germany, and also spent a decent time visiting a few other countries; France, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, India, Sri Lanka, Czech Republic, Uruguay... …but it frustrates me SO MUCH that I never went to America! The one place I’d really like to visit, and the opportunity never showed up. So, I decided to compile a list of stuff I’d like to do/taste/try/experience when (if) I eventually get the chance to visit the US. I’m too old now (30yo) to do some of those things, but I’ll add’em to the list anyways. I’m also aware that a few items here are nothing more than movie clichés, but what the hell… Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Regarding New York… - I wanna try New York Pizza SO BAD - I want to spend a snowy Christmas eve in NY - Run in Central Park - I wanna get the chills when I see the Dakota (big Beatles and Polanski fan here) - Take a walk in Brooklyn Heights - See a ball game at the Yankees stadium - Visit the NY public library - Dodge vomit on the subway (already do this here… but without that NY glamour) - Whistle for a yellow cab being driven by an angry Pakistani - I wanna make fun of the idiots who spend new years eve at Times Square - I wanna spend new years eve at Times Square And more general stuff… - I want to have a thanksgiving dinner: complete with turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, lots of drinking and family fights. - Go TRICK OR TREATING! And later get drunk and go to a Halloween party. - I’d like to try all that sweet sweet industrial crap: Twizzlers, Pop tarts, Twinkies, Butterfinger, Reese’s… you get the idea - I also wanna try all those fast food places we don’t have here, even the crappy ones: Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Arby’s, Chipotle, Papa John’s, Popeyes, Chick-fil-A… White Castle (only know this one from Impractical Jokers lol) - I want to overeat breadsticks at Olive Garden. - Rent a car and drive through the Nevada desert, and Highway 12, and Route 66. - Watch the fireworks on 4th of July! - I want to correct people when they say "soccer"; it's football, goddammit. - Take a stroll across those beautiful suburbs, with beautiful houses with no fences, where everything seems so quiet and relaxing. - Try weed! And see how it compares to Amsterdam! From what I heard, the quality is way better, but there’s only one way to know for sure. - I wanna go to Aspen and learn how to ski! I only tried snowboarding once, and it was a disaster. I wanna get good at skiing. - Actually I’d love to travel all over Colorado. Don’t really know much about it, but it seems like a fascinating place, with great nature and wildlife. I also know a lot of nice people from Colorado. - I wanna spend a few days in Vegas! Watch Penn & Teller (love them), lose money at the casinos and get married. Is there anything else to do in Vegas? - Visit Yellowstone and Grand Canyon. Unless it's too crowded. Is Mt. Rushmore worth visiting? - I wanna go to prom! Invite a nice girl, slow dance to an 80s ballad on the cheesy-decorated gym and have my “first” kiss there. - I wanna go to a house party! The kind where there’s a beer keg with a bong, a band is playing on the living room, there’s beer pong going on and people are having sex upstairs. - I was gonna say “live in a frat house”, but I’m way past that “party every day” phase. I would like to live in a University campus though and live a student’s life for a while, since I never went to college here. - Visit Disneyland, and all the theme parks in the area! This has always been a lifelong dream, I have a huuuuge collection of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck's comics. - Celebrate St Patricks Day! - Eat a real apple pie! And donuts! And bagels! - Go hiking in Yosemite. Heard its awesome. - Rent an apartment in the West Village and have four friends who spend the day there, crack witty jokes at each other while vaguely keeping the details on what they actually do for a living. Well, that’s all I can think for now. I’m sure there’s plenty of other stuff to do, and if I can remember anything else, I might comment later. I hope that if I ever get the opportunity to visit the US, I get to do at least 10% of what’s described here. TBH this was just an unimportant rant; I see many Americans on Reddit hating on their own country without realizing they’re living humanity’s best moment, in a great country where they are able to voice their opinions freely, with the freedom to pursue whatever they want to do – to a certain extent, sure, but Anyway, suggestions for my potential trip are welcome! Thanks for reading!
Finn Bomber Rider, BB-HATE, Holdo deliberate look and Katherine Kennedy thought Canto Blight didnt feel like Star Wars- some backstory from BTS The Last Jedi Artbook!
I got The Last Jedi Artbook last year for my birthday. Read half of it and now just got around to reading the other half as anniversary for The Last Jedi. Very interesting. Here is a list of what I found most interesting and addresses certain issues constantly brought up. -For those that may not know Lucas original idea was Luke being a hermit and depressed. - Originally Finn was the bomber at the start of The Last Jedi with Rose's Sister and just survived but saw her sacrifice. Rose's sister when dying in Finn's hands would leave a blood print on his face/chest like what the First Order Trooper did at the start of Force Awakens. A deliberately intended by Rian Johnson mirror. So the black Gunner on the bomber we see at the start of TLJ was originally going to be Finn. The reason Rian Johnson changed is that he felt if Finn found out that Paige was her Sister then he would either be the jerk that didn't tell her he knew her sister, with her when she died or the whole movie would come to stop for a sister death scene which he felt got disrupt the flow. Thus it was then changed by Rian Johnson. Also, the Dreadnaught wasn't the original target-- in the early draft, it was a Star Destroyer that was Fuel Carrier. - The Vertical Bombers were based on B-Wings but also with Toys in mind. IT was also one of the artist's ideas not Rian Johnson - who thought it would be a cool toy if the bombs fell out vertically. I have seen this as a common complaint of not making sense. Well, it wasn't even Rian Johnson's idea. - Rian Johnson was very into a bomber movie and Vertical Warfare book so really wanted a bomber sequence. He showed every party involved with Star Wars movies of varying degree that explained what thematically and emotionally he was going for. So all of the Lucasfilm people knew EXACTLY what RJ was doing and gave the go ahead. - Katherine Kennedy when she first saw the Canto Blight artwork said it didn't feel like Star Wars, this then led to the artists redesigning elements and bringing out Ralph McQuarrie artwork to convince her (as well as tried to put Bespin influence into the setting) - Rogue One was essentially shot back to back with The Last Jedi is mentioned in the book. Also how they had to rush to get concept artists because the ones that been used on Force Awakens had been transferred to Rogue One and if they didn't get three concept artists they couldn't keep the schedule with TLJ. Essentially they needed new art team for The Last Jedi because all the Force Awakens Art team had been transferred to Rogue One-- or large chunks of them had been. - Phasma was designed in 5 days after Katherine Kennedy loved it but JJ Abrams saw no need for the design. JJ Abrams is quoted as saying that he didn't like it because Kylo Ren wasn't meant to be part of the Stormtroopers but leading them so wanted something else. They literally had no idea of what her character was just visuals. It consistent in both Artbooks that they dont hire writers and story crafters but artists who then with visuals drive story routes. Think they could do with more writers then artists though. - Rian Johnson wasn't sure about First Order Storm Troopers costumes, he didn't feel like they were threatening enough so he wanted a redesign/tweak. This led to artist increasing the brow and tweaking the stormtroopers armour- also changing the colour from a pale white into more grey-white but this essentially led to them completely destroying all Force Awaken Storm Trooper costumes - Rian Johnson was not interested in Kylo Ren's helmet being in the movie. The other artists thought it was cool and how so many kids were wearing it but Rian Johnson wanted to give all the possible space for Adam Driver to act his pants off because he felt that the story for Adam Driver was that important for the character so he wanted nothing hidden by the mask. Essentially he was adamantly wanting no hindrance for Adam Driver acting. - Snoke's Gold outfit was not Rian Johnson idea but another artist-- also the red backdrop for his throne room was designed on the theme of theatrical. Rian Johnson wanted Snoke to be more about theatre. Artists also used The Red Room from Twin Peaks and the red backdrop colour scheme came from an old Ralph McQuarrie artwork. This was artwork for The Return of the Jedi which is Vader, Luke and Palpatine meeting underneath Coruscant near its core so lava, hellfire all around them. So Snoke's Gold Outfit right down to his slippers was designed by Artists, not Rian Johnson. They even had a really tall actor sitting on the throne to maintain convincing eyeline as well as Andy Serkis. The Snoke actor got to wear hand made gown and slipper versions of Snoke's outfit. - DJ for those that don't know now is specifically stated as standing for Don't Join. It was inspired by an old punk band poster Rian Johnson saw and the prison he in was just a drunk tank connected to the Casino. He is also meant to be an alternative route for Finn. RJ says this was due to Finn in the Force Awakens was all about protecting whoever was in front of him but what DJ and Rose with Finn arc in TLJ were meant to bring to the front the notion for Finn of not just protecting who is in front, who you care for but having a cause of protection. - Canto Blight was meant to be no low life or criminals like Jabba The Hut or Mos Eisley. It just meant to be incredibly wealthy and rich - highest of the high cream crop of the universe. Kings, Queens and Warlords - The Code Breaker storyline was meant to be Rose and Finn helping him steal another object of a Warlord. He was undercover as a piano player and then when the mission fails he gets abducted by the authorities (physically, like they have a ship bringing him up in a tractor beam) and then Rose and Finn chucked in the drunk tank of the Casino. So the reason why the Codebreaker got cut is that his story was a dead end. - Rose was Blonde and White, so this idea that Rose was changed for SJW or PC isn't true. It means that Kelly Marie Tran proved herself in the auditions that they completely changed her character - Luke Exile was all about his Guilt over Kylo Ren/Ben and his failure, his last night encounter with Ben and Luke felt that as long as the Sith and Jedi exist you will always have a Darth Vader or Emperor so he wanted Sith and Jedi to die, as in their religion die out and he thought this would happen by his exile and becoming a hermit. This was directly from Johnson himself. So for me, Luke's exile made sense due to experience with trauma and depression but a lot of people say how Luke would never pull a sabre on Kylo/Ben but Johnson point was that very act was also a core part of his exiling. - All the Jedi Temple stuff with Rey, the architecture is all related to Hindu imagery and Taoism. In the artbook, they literally have the Yin and Yang mosaic formed with a sabre wielder. So Taoism was literally the core along with Ying and Yang imagery and message with the Jedi Temple Rey is in. - The Story Group, Dave Filoni, Brain Trusts of Lucasfilms, JJ Abrams all knew what Rian Johnson was doing with the story. Rian Johnson script was least edited out of all the Star Wars scripts with only different drafts with tweaks but the story and what he was doing with the story never changed because all parties and organs of Lucasfilms supported it. So Dave Filoni knew what was going on as did Hidalgo and Story group. - Rian Johnson had personal meeting with Rick Carter Co-Production along with lead artists for the TLJ who went through every aspect of his story, every aspect of the art and then Rian Johnson and other lead artists for TLJ went through with Pablo Hidalgo and Story Group the Star Wars library and complete archive, every decision Rian Johnson made with the story in TLJ went through EVERY part of the Lucasfilm inner circle and he read lots of the Lore and archives on the lore and artwork books, went through it all for ideas for his story. Because Lucasfilm essentially had a massive library and vault/archive of all things Star Wars. SO LET THIS BE CLEARLY STATED TLJ was not just his project, he DID not drive everything. So the people that say Rian Johnson Killed Star Wars are incorrectly attributing a multiple person process to one man. - Some of the Bombs dropped on First Order at the start had messages from the resistance on them including "Han says Hi" - Holdo was originally going to be in a Grey Military Outfit but Rian Johnson wanted her outfit to look more feminine and balletic. Deliberately being different to what you would expect from a military general-- so people that complain about how she looks- that look she has was deliberately done to break the expectations of what she would be (iron grey general butting heads with Poe) and he wanted her to deliberately stand out so much. - The Evil First Order BB-8 was designed to look more imperial and evil and the artists' nickname/name for it was BB-HATE - The Resistance Hanger was deliberately designed to be small and low, so it could contain the blast and was a better way to funnel the blast towards Poe by rounding off the walls - C3PO costume was redesigned so it took Anthony Daniels 8 minutes to get into whilst previously for Force Awakens it took much longer. This was partly due to Rian Johnson wanting to go back to a more classical look. - Poe watching the resistance be blown up was deliberately to frame it so he is watching everything fall apart all around him and he is losing everything in that moment. - Lots of the Sets in TLJ are multipurpose sets-- Snoke's Throne Room was also used as the set for Resistance base at the end - Character Arcs - Finn arc was him and Poe on Canto Blight but then Johnson felt it was boring, no tension between the two. So he wanted to bring in someone that could collide with Finn more. Someone that could challenge him and push him. Rose essentially then fills this role as (Johnson puts it) the angel of Finn's shoulder whilst DJ is the devil. Rose was designed to serve Finn's arc like how Holdo and Leia were to serve Poe's arc and how Kylo and Luke serve Rey's Arc. - Gareth Edwards when doing his Cameo made a joke that the battle on Crait looked like Rogue One (which the artists said to him- no it didn't [laughs] is in this segment so they were all having fun) - Artists Idea for the utter wreck of ships at the end in the battle of Crait for the Resistance essentially the artists say it was meant to be a ying-yang thing with the First Order who have these highly advanced and sleek and working tech against resistances completely garbage vehicles. So with all their designing they had this whole ying-yang approach - First Order Walkers in Crait were deliberately designed to have anti-tow cable because Rian Johnson wanted them to have developed walkers and tech that countered tow cables. So you have the old walkers and then these bigger walkers that were meant to be gorillas in armour. It was based on historical thinking of how Germans and Russians would build bigger tanks to fight each other. - Kylo Ren's fighter was based partly on his shuttle but meant to be an evolution of Tie Fighters - A giant walker or "aircraft carrier of walkers" that would be dropped on the planet which would then unleash smaller walkers and all these tie fighters was also considering in the end fight when it was still above a thin reflect lake (which then became a salt plain) - The mini death star cannon was inspired by huge historical guns designed by Germans etc. - The land going red on Crait was meant to be a PG-13 way of doing blood spilling in war, that the actual land starts to reflect the blood loss of the battle. The land actually bleeds for the dead basically-- in imagery. - All of them thought fans would adore the film because they wanted to do what they remembered as children with Star Wars, all that excitement and wonder but also wanted to set the stage for something new, a new world.
Good night, groupies! After tonight's performance one our contestants will be retiring from the stages for this season, but who will it be? Please welcome our judges! Sally Spellman, looking like the LSD you took for inspiration for your music! Miyu Moon, our resident kill our die romantic! With special guest judge Sulphur Bomme, who will help decide who gets the winner's mayo! This week, our contestants were tasked with creating posters for their debut concerts as musicians alongside music video looks based on their assigned genres! ...Veruschka
Although you did a great job this week, you didn't flop nor top the charts, you were radio friendly enough.
You're safe this week and still on the run for the crown.
The rest of you you represent the Highs and Lows of the week. Starting with...
Sally Spellman: You’ve managed to have the most eye catching poster in my opinion, it’s a very moody piece and the colors grab your attention in the best way possible, the perspective is a little wonky, especially since the text not completely lining up, my only issue is there no being acknowledgement of when the event is going to happen, no venue, no website, no date! Adding those little details that would have cemented this at a complete 10/10. Your outfit is lovely and I’m here for a bearded queen who actually integrates a beard into a look in a way that goes along with everything and not just for the gag of having a beard. The abstractness of the look is cool but I think everything is wacky and you have a very simple hat, so it should have definitely been more extra than what you’ve got there, I’ve seen some people rag on you about the wobbliness of your looks but I don’t think it’s something you’ve overdone at all, it in some way is part of your style because that’s how you presented your queen to begin with and you’ve proved you’re capable of doing different things but I wonder if you can serve us more rigid shapes for next week or whenever the opportunity comes. The colors in your look being the same palette as your poster but more muted was a really nice touch and I think it would look amazing on a music video. Miyu Moon: First off, this poster, WOW, it grabbed my attention immediately and absolutely makes me want to see this show. It is really minimal on the info, I think it could have used a little more info even if it was just a "Saturday night at 'that' Club" or something vague, just to give it a little more of a realistic poster feel. As it is now it could possibly be a movie or something, but that being said the saxophone and mic do kinda force me to assume a musical element so that does help send me in a direction. But overall, this poster still does what a poster should, it grabs my attention and it gives me a feeling and I want more. The angle is so dramatic, the fact that she's laying in such an askew way but looks so satisfied it really gives me some sense of wildness that I want to see live. I would typically associate the jazz age with some classier dress, so to see you so wildly nude and unhinged I'll have to assume this is some bootlegger party in an underground club and I want in. The outfit pairs perfectly with your poster, I can imagine that underneath this neon coloured zoot suit you're ready to turn into that stage poster version of yourself. I'm not sure how but I do agree that these colours lend to the feel of jazz, there's something so bright and brassy about the sound that you translated well into your look. Bagginess can often look really shapeless so you made a smart choice to show parts of yourself and still give us some sexy body to balance out the shapelessness of the suit coat. I also love all the tiny details with the stitching and sparkles and whatnot, they also help give shape to something that could otherwise just be a blob, so all the choices in your material use are really "right". And the blue lip is a perfect touch, just a little bit of cool tone to stand out from the warmness you've got going on. Really great look, I can imagine this in a video of you dancing and singing around very sultry and slowly revealing yourself to the camera until we reach your final, most sinful form. Sulphur Bomme: Hello Ripper! Overall I feel like this is a great hybrid genre of Jazz and incorporating your own Ripper Hole stylistic twist to it. I really think the colour scheme plays well into the Jazz theme, I thought of the Monsters Inc. title card and that has a jazz track to it so it really invoked that theme, not just in your poster but throughout your work. I think this is my favourite concept of the week, honestly. I love the production of perspective in this, You’re really showing off your artistic knowledge in a way that isn’t primarily focusing on fashion. It kinda puts you up as a really well rounded individual and it doesn’t make the poster feel like a flat, boring image. I think to push this it might’ve needed a bit of tailoring - I focused more so on the objects in frame rather than Ripper (who in this case is the main headlining act) so your colour choices would have benefitted from shifting the object tones to a colour that suits the background so they are still present, have an iconic focus, but not as much as Ripper who would have benefited from a more yellow or orange sort of hue. Your outfit I enjoy a lot because it matches your act quite well, super clear to me that you’re going to be performing your songs in some retro futurism minimalistic ideal that American homeowners aspire to be a part of , and you haven’t shied away from a lot of colour. Nitpick - I think when it comes to colour,try to be a bit cautious with the saturation, especially red hues because of it being such a rich physical colour for the eyes. I want you to start experimenting with maybe producing outfits that have less wavy intentions - I’ve noticed your go-to is to produce very wavy aesthetical linework in your pieces, either explicitly in form or implicitly with pattern, and I want to see if you can produce an outfit that demands a certain edge of control. I’m aware that you did produce a very angular look Week 2, but the fit was very tight to Ripper’s body, so it could be a good idea to sort of see if you can produce not even just an angular look, but look that has more control than complete waviness to it. I hope this helped! Up next is...
Sally Spellman: Your poster looks legit, the almost unintelligible band name, the graphicness of it and the gore make me think I could spot this somewhere and I’d think it’s a real event, in my opinion the placement of the information wasn’t the best and the font choice as well, a serif sort of font would have gone better with the mood of your poster and maybe I’m the only one who is going blind but I think having this pure white text against black and white scribbles make the text blend in a little but to be honest I’m just nitpicking because you did a stellar job this week. Your music video look is great, the red tattoos resembling body harm are a very nice touch and very on brand, I seriously have nothing to nitpick on every detail that I see is very flattering and you made the usual not fashionable heavy metal garbs look amazing and you didn’t rely on bondage or bdsm to do so, wouldn’t look out of place in a music video for this genre at all. Miyu Moon: There is absolutely no question when looking at this poster as to what sort of show I'm going to see, and that is exactly what we wanted. I love the tiny scribbly detail in the hair, that in itself almost lends more to a horror element than the entrails, in a Japanese graphic novel sort of way. The info is maybe a little lost in the hair though, it's certainly readable when you look closely but from afar it's kind of lost and could have benefitted from something helping the words stand out, be it an outline or colour or different placement, there's probably a lot of subtle changes but either way it's a subtle change. The poster looks interesting and exciting to an alt crowd for sure, and I think the info you put is the perfect amount of specificity and lets us know when, where, and what to expect, it really does its job. This music video look is awesome and I would absolutely wear it immediately. I really love the texture you've done inside the coat, it makes it look like you're wearing sheets of flesh and I mean... what's more brutal than wearing raw, bloody flesh? I like that the outfit itself is pretty simple in what garments there are; dress, jacket, boots, but the detail makes them really cohesive and as if they were perfectly made to go together in this music video. The body art also lends a nice level of detail to the look so it doesn't seem too simple. I can imagine the video being a view of the band rocking with Oriana up front and center belting it out in this look, the crazy face paint is perfectly attention grabbing for a lead singer. Sulphur Bomme: Hello Oriana! Both your poster and look have an amazing depth of posing and dynamicism to it. The selection of black, white and red really pull this poster in for me, as well as the choices you have made to fit your genre. From the font being that “are these trees or is this a metal band font” (thanks Memorie), the choice to pull the hair out from the background using shading and mark making, the subtlety of the inclusion of red, the guts spelling out “LIVE” - the information, everything here has really solidifed a strong conceptual poster as well as the act Oriana would produce. I think if you could improve this, perhaps the mark making you used to shade your crease for your eyes would’ve really made the form a lot stronger and pull it into a massively memorable moment for any graphic design challenge that has been done on MPAR. For your outfit, absolutely phenomenal. I think people should take notes from this on how to make their concepts dynamic, interesting and positioned to be powerful. This is a great example not only for this challenge, but also for lipsyncs I feel. Your branching out into fabric rendering, I’m noticing - your latex details are quite visually impactful here. A nitpick for this for me would probably be the inclusion of a little bit of glint or perhaps a tiny, tiny dark grey line that notifies us that there is a pupil or a scelera contact lens in Ori’s eye holes in both the poster and the outfit. That’s really all I can find wrong with it in my eyes. I hope you continue your detail exploration and your rendering skills. You have such a strong eye for fashion and it’s starting to be well matched by your choices of rendering fabrics and details. I hope this helps!! Up next is...
Sally Spellman: Your poster reads more like a children’s book illustration to me, it’s not ugly or bad but I guess the intent is lost on me, the way you used the space is a little weird because you have some dead space which I think you could have filled with more floral motifs, if this were a little more elongated and the stone were sitting on water you could use this change in colors to lay some additional information on top, the colors you chose for the fonts don’t really stand out! I know you went for an earthy vibe but even so there could have been ways to do it. Your music video look is pretty and I love it on its own but I don’t see much dragginess in it, wish you could have gone a different route with it since it feels a little derivative of Trixie to me and I think it would have been cool to see a take on brazilian folk music instead, you didn’t do a bad job at all Bianca but this didn’t meet the mark for me. I’m always rooting for you but it’s also come down to splitting hairs, hopefully you’re prepared to try your hardest next time! Miyu Moon: At first glance I thought this poster was like, a storybook cover. It's really cute and gentle but in terms of getting information across as a show poster I think it's a little all over the place and it's hard to find the right emphasis or flow of info on the poster. Even though you're there playing your banjo I find myself overlooking that and not assuming any musical element other than as an addition to the visual aesthetic. I think maybe it's partially the fact that there are so many colours and patterns going on that it's hard to really grab onto any specific chunk of text or area of the poster as being the important center of information. The info is all there, but it doesn't feel like the musical act itself is at the center of this poster so much as it's just a general ethereal flowery feel that's happening and that could really be anything. This outfit is super cute, but it's kind of drowning you in a sea of beige. I like the long ethereal hair, but then the outfit just seems really basic in comparison to the fairy-like feeling the hair and makeup are giving me. It's a nice outfit but I think it's just so soft and subtle that I wouldn't really be grabbed by this music video, if you were out strumming the harp in a field of flowers I feel like it would all just blend together. I would have liked to see you go more grand with your outfit and give something that could believably be an "iconic" music video look. Right now I feel like this look is just kind of a fan of the show, like a girl who came to get autographs from the singer after the show rather than the world touring singer herself. Sulphur Bomme: Hello Bianca! Your poster fits the genre quite well, colour scheming and the iconography, but it’s just really not hitting a level that I expected. Your referenced Trixie Mattel in your poster and I feel like that her EP cover for Moving Parts would’ve been a great reference point for your poster. Lana Del Rey too - just because the layout of your poster has this emptiness because of the spaces, and in comparison a lot of posters this week are much stronger because they’ve covered a lot of space. I think if you did something along the lines of an actual creek rather than this really oblique sort of background to your piece, it would’ve produced more of a punch - even if the background was trees or something just to have a bit more of that folksy impact, it would’ve worked a lot more. Your outfit is really strong, I absolutely adore the hair and the posing on this. Your artwork always has this fluidity to it that’s just absolutely breathtaking, and for challenges like this I think if you were to produce a fluid piece like you have with your look for your poster it would’ve worked so well especially for this genre. One nitpick would be if your boots were a little shorter and they had little scalloped socks coming out that would’ve really pushed a bit more of a folksy vibe to your outfit this week, and also if you don’t start wearing heels that make Bianca at least eligible to ride the Junior Rollercoasters at the fairground next week I will sue you. I hope that helped!! Up next is...
Sally Spellman: Your poster gives me salsa casino from the start and that’s everything you needed to do, the colors are nice and they’re fiery so on that regard there’s no complaints on my part, however I wish you had finessed this some more because there are parts that feel rushed (The chileans can’t dance text being the more clear example), nothing that puts you in a bad spot but I think it could have been even greater than it already is, hopefully Selecta will earn the gaviota de platino! Now onto this look, AZÚCAR! El yerberito moderno came through, people will think Salsa and jump to the red mini dress with frills conclusion but you absolutely slayed this by paying homage to Celia Cruz, it’s extra because salsa is extra, it’s dramatic, fiery and passionate just like this look, the two streaks of red hair resembling horns are absolutely genius, it has that camp feature but also you can see that when the video heats up she will take off the coat and still have a very cool look but actually look more modern without it! You absolutely aced this one. Miyu Moon: This poster is wild as hell and I love it, it would immediately make me want to read it and understand what sort of show is going on. It's got a great design element going on, it definitely looks like a real show poster and has all the info needed to make it believable and effective. It's definitely got an active, fiery feel to it with the dynamic posing and bright colour scheme. I like that it has a sort of retro printed look to it, even if it is "retro" in origina it's a look that still works well for posters up this day. Even if I don't know jack about salsa I know this show is going to be high energy and musical and dance based and that alone is really all you need to hook an audience. This look is big and demands attention and regardless of genre that is exactly what a music video look should do, this look would definitely be something people would see and remember. I like the fuostrich looking trim you added in there, definitely adds a sense of action and motion to such a big, bulky garment. I wouldn't think tight jeans would lend to salsa dancing but I suppose that's up for you to prove me wrong, because the little hip furnishings are super cute and I would love to see them in motion. The overall devil imagery is really well done, I love the little hair streaks because... well... you kow me. I will say that I wish your poster and music video outfit went together a little better, they have some colour in common but the devil imagery is so strong in the look and nonexistant in the poster so I wish they were just tied together a little more so it felt like they were all a part of the same era of a musician's career. Sulphur Bomme: Hello Selecta! I’m getting retro Old Hollywood painted poster vibes from your Salsa poster and your look - you’re perfect, you’re beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista, are you a model… I think one of the most visually striking things on your poster is the colour scheme and the restrictive scheme is such a strong palette too - blue red and orange is a really powerful triad scheme and you using a neutral like white played to your advantage here. The wear and tear of the poster works extremely well for this case, and I love the inclusion of Selecta in and out of drag. It’s really detailed, really informed and really strong! I hope that the artifacts on the white bar are intentional however, otherwise you could’ve gone with perhaps quickly analysing and erasing some of them out for a more clean look. That’s my only nitpick. Your costume is kinda fun in its own way. I love the reference point of Celia Cruz, I got that almost immediately (shocking, a white person with an understanding of culture, I know) and I just really enjoy this moment a lot. Some people may argue it’s very costumey, but your reference point is costumey so I understand that, and this challenge we’re not looking for explicit couture - you’re performing! Salsa divas are performers, and this is very valid form of drag, it’s very campy, it’s very different to what you’ve done, and it works really fucking well. I think if anything, I would’ve perhaps changed the hair to be a bit more beehive. But this week I feel like you’ve really produced something that isn’t causing an imbalance, it’s very strong referential material and you’ve sold a strong Salsa concept. Keep exploring how you’re exploring, and Season 4’s BTM2 might be a thing of the past with your Season 4 WIN. I hope that helped!! Up next is...
Sally Spellman: This is the other poster that looks legit, I’m not very worldly so I haven’t seen many concert posters in my lifetime but this one is pleasing to look at and that’s enough for me, the humor in it is great and the bitch got sponsors a plenty! One thing that I thought was a smart touch was the inclusion of a scan code because of course that would be a thing haha. Now your look itself feels like a rehash, I’ve seen this hood, I’ve seen these baby hairs, I’ve seen this cinched waist with a coat with long sleeves! Not ragging on you but I don’t want you to start repeating formulas just because they’ve worked before, I want to see different sides to Aura and I think it’s time to start experimenting with new elements, shapes and silhouettes. My one issue is that I wish you had gone for a shtick because admittedly it is hard to think of an EDM video where the musician stands out (Thinking of the likes of Avicii, David Guetta, Calvin Harris) so I wish you had gone for a shtick characteoutfit like Daft Punk or even Deadmau5. I appreciate your art and designs but I think it’s the time to flip the coin so we can see the other side, Aura! Miyu Moon: Wow, this poster looks super modern and definitely like an EDM show. I love the logo and colours, it's definitely got that vaporwave kinda thing going that is super popular in EDM nowadays as opposed to the straight up CMYK neons of rave yesteryear. There's a lot of info going on, almost too much, which is honestly kinda believable because I believe that a DJ would put all this stuff on a poster. I also like the little details like the QR code (I scanned it out of curiosity) and the sponsorship logos at the bottom, it pushes it to be very realistic. The outfit though, it's gorgeous and all but as a music video look it leaves me wondering a lot. It's just a bit non-specific as to waht feel we're going for here, there's something very high fashion haute-couture about it but also something EDM and I'm just not entirely feeling the connection between the two. The look is pretty but just as a music video look it's not giving me a lot of feeling or flow, like nothing is really standing out as an iconic element of this look or giving me really a sense of what the music or song could be like. The only thing really making this look feel any amount EDM appropriate is the neon lines in the coat, but then the outfit and the coat don't really connect besides maybe the pinkish tone in the coat and pants? There's just something very non-specific about this look and overall sort of stiff, it's not jumping out with any particular element. Sulphur Bomme: Hi Aura! Off the bat, I’ve been to Greece, Spain, even in the UK, and these posters - I’ve seen these fucking posters everywhere. This is a well crafted poster and your design fits so well in one of those cabanas that uses Live House Music as a selling point on an island somewhere. You’re really showing a side that I didn’t expect of you - and that’s your humour. This poster, while it’s not taking itself seriously, It’s very well put together, so your humour is kind of a silent killer that’s emerging really well with this. I love the inclusion of the logos, I think that’s what puts it head and shoulders above the other ones for me personally? But I think the main issue here that’s dragging you back is your look. Your massive coats and cinching seem to be a signature for you, but for this challenge it would’ve been amazing if you tapped into perhaps producing an outfit that screamed “NuEDM Drag Queen Lady DJ”. If you harken back to audition looks, a lot of people used black, white and neon colours and effortlessly pulled off these neon fantasies. I know that your reference poole was probably a lot short-handed by the lack of female DJs, but I feel like tapping into the likes of perhaps, Daft Punk (looking at how the two are like, robot-human augmentations) Ulala Space Channel 5 could’ve been another reference poole, Jet Set Radio - all these sort of references might’ve helped push a new silhouette and concept for you. For next week, try to think about production of silhouettes, and perhaps branching out and exploring a little bit whilst keeping it in your own little realm of Aura. I hope that helped! Up next is...
Sally Spellman: This poster I don’t like, I’ll be understanding of you being under a time crunch so I won’t blame you, this isn’t really giving me hip hop but rather a brochure that a jehovah's witness would give me, I know christianity is your gig but I think it didn’t help you for your poster, I wish the silhouette’s pose were different, more relaxed rather than “enlightened”. The look itself isn’t very exciting to me, it’s a hip hop look alright, very early 2000s Cee Lo Green sort of thing I think it was a good opportunity to experiment more with holy imagery rather than restricting it to just some bling, the lamb coat was a nice touch and let me say I think this lineless style is very cool! I think since it was supposed to be a music video look you could have gone larger than life with it, especially since you got hip hop! Miyu Moon: There is something really strange about this poster and I can't put my hand on it. Maybe it's the singular wing or the fact that it's all so dark and mysterious but it's just not jumping up and grabbing my attention. I can tell that it's a show of some sort, if not for the word "concert" in the title I would have no idea that it is music based at all and would probably just assume it's some sort of church group or a public talk or something. The blue and white colour scheme is definitely heavenly, but it's just kind of a big wash of cool tones and would probably blend into the background out in the world. Admittedly I find this outfit really charming, the big wooly jacket is so country. I like the way you combined the country boy element with the hip hop element, the heeled timbs are great and the jewelry is perfect. The outfit underneath however is pretty basic in its own, it's just a button down shirt and a pair of adidas track pants. I would have liked to see an outfit that looked more custom made and flashy in its intricacy, right now it looks kind of like somebody's dad made a costume for a music video in their backyard and not like an actual high budget musical artist. The idea behind this is right but I just think it needed to look a little more interesting without relying on just the coat or the chains, I feel like the elements of the outfit should still sell an image of country even if there isn't literal sheeps wool laid on top. Also, the poster and look really don't have much to do with each other, like this outfit is way more fun and interesting than the poster. I wouldn't think the person on the poster was this same person in the music video, so I wish your poster was more exciting to match this level of fun. Sulphur Bomme: Hello Arcangelo! I think the poster has elements that are strong but feel ultimately rushed in a sense of understanding that you were late yesterday. Which is understandable, but some of these elements would have really worked a lot more in tandem with time management. I don’t really get Christian Hip Hop from this at all if I’m completely honest. It’s giving me like, northern lights but make it viewable from these select locations. I think the inclusion of information and your stylistic intention to bring this back to Arcangelo is there, just that this poster is just not correlating towards Hip Hop, it’s more like a tourism brochure? If you referenced Christian Hip Hop there’s still a bit of grime and a bit of street style to it, and that would’ve made it more iconographic with Hip Hop. Boom Boxes, a Bible but it’s got a Gucci bookshield on it, who knows. Your outfit really just screams the dad at the communion who got into the Sunday School dress-up chest? That kinda fits with the Christian Hip-Hop theme. It just needs a lot more than you’ve presented I feel. This would’ve really benefited from an on-the-nose sort of patterned top and bottom, Gucci vibes of like, Calabasas Street Style but make it Jeffree Star Untouchable, a puffer jacket instead, more jewellery, wear the entire sales rack of Claire’s, it needed to be elevated to a level that could compete and stand out more on its own. And I’m sad because you could’ve really took a comedic route with this and really stuck it to the rest of the competitors, because you genuinely are a good humoured and strong at delivering jokes. I think next week would be a time to really harken back to the production of work say, from Disease Week and Seasons Week. Really have fun with Arcangelo, because when you have fun it’s so obvious that you enjoyed designing the look and you enjoyed the production of it. I hope this helped! The judges have made their decisions. Selecta you've got the sabor, you've got tumbao, AZÚCAR! You're safe. Oriana This week your death metal poster and look... gave us life, you're safe. Ripper Hole The jazzman jazzed all over the place, I'm testifying, condragulations you're the winner of this week's challenge. Bianca Biquini While we were expecting you to folk out, this week you folked up, I'm sorry my dear but you're up for elimination. Aura Your EDM poster was amazing but your music video look killed the radio star... Arcangelo Your hip hop presentation was more of a big flop... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Arcangelo, I'm sorry my dear but you're also up for elimination. That means Bianca Biquini and Arcangelo, you're both up for elimination The lipsync song for this week is Audio by LSD. The lipsync looks, and our next elimination, will be revealed in a few hours, at about 9:00am PST. We'll see you there!
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