u/imnotwallaceshawn

If Supergirl had been a critical and financial success, nobody would be upset that Gunn made it the second movie.

If Batman Brave & The Bold came out tomorrow and was bad, everyone would complain it was rushed and nobody would be happy that it came out the year after Superman.

The ONLY thing anyone should care about is whether the movie is good.

If Clayface is good it won’t matter that “nobody cares about Clayface.” Because they will after seeing the movie.

If the Jimmy Olsen/Grodd show is good, it won’t matter that “nobody cares about Jimmy Olsen.” Because they will after seeing the show.

Also all of these complaints about them “not focusing on the big characters” are ignoring the big Zack Snyder shaped elephant in the room: all of the big characters were done very recently and had giant flops that nobody liked.

The Flash was a flop.

Wonder Woman 1984 was a flop.

Aquaman 2 was a flop.

Shazam 2 was a flop.

Black Adam was a flop.

Justice League itself… was a flop.

You can’t follow up a terrible Flash movie that bombed at the box office with another Flash movie a few years later. Same thing with Wonder Woman. Same thing with The Justice League itself.

If you want people to be excited for a Justice League movie after 2017’s disaster you need to make sure they’ve bought into the universe and characters first. Given that, it makes sense not to immediately announce a Justice League movie this early on.

Meanwhile Batman has the opposite problem. The Batman is a beloved critical darling and a huge hit created by an auteur with a very specific vision that doesn’t fit in a shared universe. Anything they do with Batman will draw comparisons so it makes sense to come at it sideways with villains first.

And then if you look at the big characters they ARE adapting it starts to make a lot of sense.

Superman you can do because Man of Steel was 12 years ago and Cavill’s Superman has been effectively out of the public consciousness since 2017 (Snydercut and weird Black Adam cameo aside).

Lanterns you can do because the Green Lantern movie was 15 years ago (and notice we got no Lantern content in the DCEU and that they’re doing a lower stakes show with the property instead of a movie… they’re clearly still gun-shy).

Supergirl, meanwhile, had a recent success with the CW show, so it’s not like she was a fully untested property.

Clayface, again, has the Batman connection and is such a low budget that it’s basically easy money.

Peacemaker retains the one remaining shining spot from the old universe and repositions him in the new universe.

Jimmy Olsen and Mr Terrific were both breakout characters from Superman 2025 and lend themselves to TV spin-offs (plus the Olsen show by introducing Grodd gives them a side-door in to introducing The Flash’s world without doing a movie, similar to Clayface and Batman).

The plan is solid, one misstep doesn’t destroy the entire plan, and I think everyone needs to chill and be patient.

We’ll get to Batman, we’ll get to Wonder Woman. I for one am happy Gunn and his team are willing to explore lesser known characters.

DK64 is a fun game, but it also famously has some very frustrating/janky parts.

I recently just finished 101%ing it again on NSO and it made me wonder what parts stand out to most people as the most frustrating parts of the game?

For me, it was the two Creepy Castle Beaver Bothers.

The bonus barrels are a weaker aspect of the game in general, but Beaver Bothers to me is the absolute worst of the Bonus Games, and having to do it on the hardest difficulty not once but TWICE in the SAME LEVEL? Brutal.

Also special honorable mention to the rabbit in Fungi Forest - I literally don’t know if it’s even POSSIBLE without cheating, but it’s less bad than the Beaver Botherses simply because once you learn how to cheat it it’s not too bad.

Anyway, what do ya’ll think?

Minor spoilers for First Light, but…

>!You see the Valhalla the first time you go into Q-Lab.!<

>!Then you see it again the next time, and Q says it’s not ready and he’ll let you drive it when he’s dead.!<

>!Then at the very end of the game, Q says “Go get the keys to the Valhalla, it’s your best bet.”!<

>!So you get the keys. You get into the car. You have a really fun set piece where you mow down a bunch of guys with machine guns and rockets from the car.!<

>!You know the villain’s on the run. The car starts ascending. “This is it!” You think. “This is the big chase scene they’ve been teasing all game!”!<

>!And then the villain totals it immediately! And you have to chase him… ON FOOT?!?!<

How dare you, IOI. How DARE YOU?!

Still love the game, but that was so rude! At least it looks like there’s a TACSim challenge coming…

Title basically, but I thought this might be worth pointing out. 2.9 Million views, that's higher than the Tomodachi Life Direct (2.4 Million), higher than ANY of the three Super Mario Galaxy Movie Directs (highest of which had 2 Million)... it's almost as high as the Mario Kart World Direct at 3.3 Million.

This obviously doesn't mean anything necessarily, but I think it shows that the new game is a big deal. People do care about Star Fox, they are interested in this. Whether or not this translates to sales is hard to say (the Kirby Air Riders Direct had 2.4 Million views which only translated to 1.76 Million units sold, which is low for the Kirby series but would be slightly above par for Star Fox), but I think it's a good sign.

We'll obviously see when the game launches next month, but if you care about this franchise and want any hope of seeing something that isn't just a retelling of the Lylat Wars again... this is a good sign.