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well, they can now, at least, they were added as costumes for the custom mentor variants of goku and vegeta

honestly though we shouldn't have had to wait this long for something that's conceptually so simple, especially because all of the new costumes are extremely basic things that should have been options from the beginning, and we're STILL missing a lot of the costume variants the customizable characters have, like how krillin has his namek armor now, but kid gohan doesn't

in their defense, chibi-robo isn't exactly the most clear game when it comes to conveying to the player how to progress the story, mainly because the devs wanted the player to explore the house and figure out what to do on their own so that they can encounter all of the sidequests along the way, they struggled with chulip (a very similar game that shares a lot of the same DNA) when jon and arin played it for similar reasons

there's no way to skip the text outside of purposefully just not reading it, at least, and no way to make it display any faster, either, so it wouldn't be possible to blame the game for not telling them anything in the moments where it does

i'd still like to see them return to do the rest of punch-out wii at some point, i was holding out for that for a few years before accepting they'd never return to it, but i don't think the game is compatible with the show in its current state, both in the way games are handled and the format of the show necessitating longer episodes instead of the 10-15 minute segments we got when they were last playing, it's not a game that would work well for that at all

another comment mentioned this, but they tried playing it relatively early on during the jon era and scrapped the episodes because neither of them were having fun

arin didn't like the game and jon said he was gradually realizing why that was as they were playing, saying neither of them were being funny and it was just quiet and uncomfortable with obvious tension between the two of them, citing the intro and the waterfall climb as just being slow and annoying with nothing really happening

someone showed me a screenshot from one of those speedruns that shows yes, you do get both tickets in the postgame

my wager is something akin to a modernized version of dragon sim with roguelite elements, being able to recruit characters and boost/reduce your stats and earn items through events depending on where you choose to go

they said it's a "TV Anime Series" in the English subtitles, it's not just a one-off special episode

i regret to inform you that alice was fired years ago

you actually CAN get into his room

if you reset the game and reload your save file after viewing the judgment sequence on a pacifist playthrough and repeat it again, you can get different dialogue where sans suspects you know more than you're letting on and tells you a secret codeword to tell to him if you view the scene again, eventually resulting in sans giving you the key to his room, promising to reveal "the truth". the big reveal is that there's absolutely nothing of interest in sans's room, and he's just pranking you across time and space. but in reality, the actual thing unlocked from this is a key in sans's room that opens up the workshop behind their house, which contains a potential reference or two to deltarune

especially when you have people who have absolutely no interest in dragon ball beyond the ideas they made up about it in their heads being very insistent that abridged is the only true/acceptable/good/etc way to experience the series, and that it's the true dragon ball canon because they think very lowly of the original series

TFS themselves hate this idea, especially since abridged is based entirely on their love for the series, and like half of the jokes fall flat without prior knowledge of dragon ball, but people insist upon it anyway because "the series would be so much better if this joke was canon, so it is to me!"

people have also clung to the fact that abridged didn't create the joke originally, which no, they didn't, but the fact that kaiserneko even regrets how far they took the joke in retrospect and seeing how people have responded to it, it's apparent that it's very deeply tied to the joke and how much it's been spread as absolute fact

basically, the only real exceptional thing about him was that he survived as long as he did, but he is also a noted coward that would absolutely avoid any fights he knew he couldn't win, in a very non-saiyan fashion

even saying he was part of the team is being generous considering how vegeta just seemed glad to finally be rid of him

as one of the biggest raditz fans out there, this is something that's always bothered me, but at the same time, I've come to accept that it's far too late to really do anything about it at this point

besides the fact that raditz is incredibly weak and couldn't live up to the modern power standards of the series, he's also a pathetic excuse for a saiyan because of how much he goes against their core values (despite hyping himself up as a saiyan constantly), being an absolute coward who isn't above deception and running away from a fight, it'd be really hard to change these aspects about him as a character without just doing a complete 180 on the anti-goku that he was designed to be and turning him into someone else entirely

doesn't really help that fandom misconceptions (the strength of the saibamen compared to him, as an example) would also make it really hard to sell the idea of his return to a lot of people outside of nostalgia pandering towards an audience that couldn't care less about him, he has effectively just been made into a very large joke, with a few of the video games even suggesting bardock might actually hate him

even canonical opportunities to make something more out of him like dragon ball minus and the granolah arc flashbacks largely just ignored him entirely outside of where it was absolutely necessary, it's obvious they want nothing to do with this character anymore both in and out of universe

i mean, that's kind of how things always were, to be fair, the entire saiyan race weren't even in the top 10 of frieza's army

goku and vegeta have always been noted to be absolutely exceptional monsters, with both of them surpassing (almost) anything a saiyan had previously done in-universe in the same arc the saiyans were introduced as a concept, the series has never really done anything to make saiyans as a whole be super powerful outside of pure hype that is never backed up with what actually happens in the story

the last game they did, pirates carnival, even had content up to water 7 in it originally, if they didn't remove those from the localized version of the game we could have heard 4kids franky

it's because the edits themselves are much more well known and widespread than how the story was written around them (or ignores them almost entirely afterwards), and the misguided belief in general that 4kids never at any point EVER addresses death as a concept in any of their shows, despite being completely untrue

very few people these days have actually watched the 4kids dub in general so it's easy for these rumors to spread with no one disproving them

it was never a fusion monster in the original series anime, no

because 4kids consistently did paint edits of the cards in people's hands and fields though the card would sometimes appear as one in the english dub, because it was a fusion monster in the real TCG, but sometimes they forgot and it was still a normal monster

first thing i could think of was MGS, but MGS2 specifically

the lore implications of what would happen in-universe after raiden dies in MGS2 are already heavy, but then you have it hammered in by literally hearing rose's panicked gasp and final breath as she dies instantly after calling out for him on the mission failed screen, the patriots were not bluffing over their threats to get raiden to cooperate by holding her life hostage

the bigger issue of blue as it was originally presented was always that the existence of the form almost entirely invalidates the story of the movie and reduces the stakes even further with how safely and securely they're able to just stomp golden frieza as a total repeat of what happened on namek, it also just kind of ignores the whole ordeal of unlocking super saiyan god in the last movie by instantly introducing a new stronger and infinitely superior transformation the next time we see these characters. resurrection of F has an issue of constantly downplaying the idea that anything happening even matters with how any threat or consequential action is instantly negated, and blue was a part of this, especially with vegeta just stepping in completely fresh and just as powerful to beat down frieza after goku gets shot

doesn't help that the forms (and vegeta getting SSG, for that matter) were achieved offscreen and they were the first super saiyan forms to not really have any kind of grand reveal or buildup, it just happens, i used to dislike blue a lot for this reason because it felt like pure marketing bait, which it kind of was, just like the entire movie, but like everyone else who still cared about DB going into super I've gotten used to it by now

it's funny seeing people get angry about marcus and RE0 because "okay, this is too stupid", meanwhile it's what i love about this franchise and it's what i want more of