Similarly I do not understand people going "ohh they're so zennn the vibes!!" when the vibes are so fucking rancid. Most dubs of that ilk are a sensory nightmare, noone shuts up, the music never lets up. While not 4kids, I avoided digimon as a franchise for so long BECAUSE the dub was so obnoxious

Digimon Rumble Arena 2
So fucking funnyy what if you made a smash clone where 3 of the characters unlock at random, the classic mode is the Shadow the Hedgehog math. There's fall damage and no recovery and overpowered boss characters... Good ideas in a kusoge shell

Buck Bumble
This was way more enjoyable than I expected what the hell. Its a little tough to get used to, but it feels unique when you wrap your head around it. Fun and fast, but just dickish enough to have friction. Also why does this have lives at all you don't even get all your HP back

only now decoding that this is why I find metroidvanias utter brain poison to try to play lmao

the felt pressure to just. already know everything is on a blind playthrough but also without using a guide. surely.

this is my obligatory chance to shoutout the japanese version of the first movie being cool as fuck because its written by a depressed alcoholic with next to no executive meddling because electric soldier porygon had just happened

with pokemon it's interesting where the localization process is so aggressive and successful that inspirations get easily abstracted away. A few yrs ago ppl were shocked they'd make a kamen rider reference pokemon when you have wobbuffet right there, potentially inspired by a JP comedian lol

*hug* you're really important to me, and I won't let you forget that

i should try it but it seems insanely evil. kids platformer where your health doesnt refill when you die and its a herculean effort to recover a single hitpoint

They also made an entire costume that just ignores keys i don't know what they were cooking with that one

Eh I feel like it could be justifiable as a way to encourage exploration because they're not always that close by. But I think the game would be better if you just didn't drop costumes so you could have 1 key 1 costume. Feels like itd be cleaner design

Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!: Okashi no Kuni no Happy Birthday!
The most boilerplate precure movie there ever was. Gotta stop watching these unless I know beforehand that it won't be this exact "invited to magical place that's actually a trap" plotline again. Also let Milk do things goddamn it

Heavenly Delusion
Interesting setting + plot setup of 2 separate but comparable stories happening simultaneously, and utterly gorgeous to boot. Kiruko is proof that you don't need directly 1:1 realistic depictions of gender to have an interesting gender fuckery character going on

Balan Wonderworld
This game is..fascinatingly messy. Its complete mismatch with target audiences, the lolcowification of Yuji Naka leading to rampant misinformation about the game, all for a very basic 3d platformer that is ALMOST THERE to being an easy vibes game but is just barely too frustrating