RegH81

If you do manage to get into 1st, 2nd or 3rd in F-ZERO 99, don't expect hanging onto those positions to be a cakewalk. Not only is everyone behind you gunning for your spot, but the game spawns explosive CPU racers in front of you to hinder your progress. Sparks to access the Skyway are also very few and far between.

Skyway is GODLIKE on courses like Silence.

Me playing F-ZERO 99: Boy, I sure would love to go to Death Wind or Sand Ocean Majority votes for: Mute City I/Big Blue All these weak AF SCRUBS. If these clowns can't handle some wind and mild curves, they are gonna get DESTROYED on Pro courses.

Some of these F-ZERO 99 players need to be put on Fraud Watch. You got peeps that can't even make it to the main track where the real racing takes place without crashing out.

Thar Studio Series Ultra Magnus looks GODLIKE. Had my eye on him ever since he showed up for Pre-order on Amazon. Maybe I'll treat myself to him for Christmas. Hasbro is effin' up! My Target and Walmart never have the Buzzworthy Bumblebee Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime or the Rise of the Beasts Voyager Class Prime. Both those figures look sick AF and it pains me that he is never in stock. Same deal on Amazon and other online retailers I shop at.

Get in, losers, it's VGM Friday.

I legit was hyped for F-ZERO 99. Sure, it isn't a 3D new game but I'm glad Nintendo acknowledged the series in some capacity. I thought I'd fire it up for a few races, but I ended up sitting down with the game for a good two hours. Instead of playing until you're eliminated, you see how well you can do and get points based on your place and performance. And races are freaking insane. I've already seen videos of people placing first.

I really need to start reading IDW Sonic. Wave 3 of free Sonic Frontiers DLC looks like it is gonna go so HARD.

I was texting Nintendo customer service for about an hour last night. I had to format my microSD card, so I have a TON of games I gotta re-download. BUT. I can finally play Splatoon 3 online and the game doesn't crash. I got the occasional "The connection is unstable" due to Nintendo's awful online, but the game never crashed and I got to play the most online matches I've ever played in MONTHS.

I'm binging the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. I remember select episodes from the first season but beyond that, there isn't a whole lot else I can recall. I just started season 2 (season 1 was BALLER, bee tee dubs) and it introduced one of my favorite characters, Fugitoid!

I finally read the manga volumes I had of DB Super's Tournament of Power arc. After hearing for years about how stupidly powerful Jiren was, the dude did not disappoint. Dude is like the Metal Blades, Mega Man X Hadoken, and Goomba's Shoe rolled into one. Even Goku and Vegeta jumping Jiren wasn't enough to beat him. Oh and Kale going LSS Broly on Frieza? I could watch that tail whuppin' ALL. DAY.

VGM Friday

I'm 13 days late but whateves. This video hit me in the feels.

Much as I love the more high end figures from the Studio Series and Legacy lines, I really like the gimmicky, more child friendly Transformers. I found some one step EarthSpark figures, Bumblebee and Soundwave and it is just endlessly enjoyable to just transform them back and forth. They remind of Transformers you would find in Happy Meals back in the day. I guess it's the kid in me. The Rise of the Beasts Beast Alliance Battle Changer Optimus Prime is so freaking fun to transform back to truck and bot mode. He's also pretty detailed for a smaller figure. Yeah, he isn't much for articulation, but he's got the freaking sword attached to his hand and he has a simple, fun transformation. And I dig his armored truck design. Much as I love the trailerless Prime truck we usually get, I love it when Hasbro changes up the design.

Karai and Usagi are sweet additions to the cast of TMNT Shredder's Revenge. As gfun as Usagi is, I think I'm having more fun playing as Karai, which I was not expecting.

VGM Friday.

Meanwhile Nintendo has these massive games that hardly put a dent in storage space. What kind of wizardry are they cooking up to get these 5 and 15 GB game sizes?

Oh, I don't deny that the game honestly looks on the dull side. I just want a Transformers beat 'em up with some serious TLC put into it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em up, G.I. Joe beat 'em up. Where is our Transformers beat 'em up? Preferably by DotEmu.

I'm sad now.

I was hoping Super Mario Bros. Wonder would have online multiplayer but the ways you can interact with other plays despite not playing with them directly is really neat.

That Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct was simply WONDER-FULL!!!

I never got to play Double Dragon Advance so I'm looking forward to that Double Dragon Collection. I'm hoping it gets a physical release.

Vampire Survivors is soooooo freaking good. I knew if I waited, it would eventually come to the Switch. I had my best run yet a few nights ago. Nearly reached level 80 and the Switch was handling the chaos pretty well. I thought Gennaro was my favorite character but Mortaccio is a BEAST.