Time to overanalyse the #BowsersFury trailer! :D

(This is a thread!)

To start off, the giant Super Bell has cat accessories that neither existing variant of the bell has. Funny. It also makes a meow, unlike the regular Bells.
Semi-open world? Guess this adventure is very much like 64 or Odyssey.
The Goombas are a different colour to the Cat Goombas in the regular game. Likely because they act like regular Goombas, and so are "cat Goombas" rather than Goombas with the Super Bell transformation.
Junior has his Paintbrush from Sunshine, which is cool. But it has a Junior emblem, just like in official promo art for Super Nintendo World!
These flowers are paw-shaped!
Literally everything is cat-themed (obviously), but I'll still make note of them all. (Particularly enemies).
Conkdors.
Some weird "Cat Coin". Will it function like Green Stars/Star Coins? I dunno, but it has a special animation + sound when collecting.
An actual cat! This one is just a little bit bigger than Mario, if we estimate by the scaling with the flowers.
The "Big Bell" (as I will call it from now on) is emitting a smoke, it's not just covered in some spiky material - said material is "magic" of sorts. There's also coins in front of it, as if Mario (or someone else) has to make an offering to activate the Big Bell.
These towers look weird. Almost like UFOs rather than the towers, due to the black substance covering the top.
Boomerang Bros. Note that Mario ALSO has a Boomerang power-up, so it's not ALL cats. Neat.
More kitties! These ones are smaller and less realistic in their fur colours than the Calico one from a couple seconds before.
funny cat heiroglyphics. They show cats, the cat trees, and a sleeping Big Bell.
Plessie! And I'll also take this moment to say that this area really is open-world. We're quite a far away from that island in the background.
Plessie can now dive! Works as a boost thing, kinda like in Fortnite Battle Royale (sorry, but it's the best comparison I can think of right now).
Cat Stingby looks dumb. lol
We get a look at what is the "goal object" of Bowser's Fury, some sort of Cat Sun. Does it work like a Power Star/Power Moon/Shine Sprite in earlier games?
cat spike in da air tho 😳
Mario gets his Ground Pound to Higher Jump ability from Odyssey. I wonder if this will be added in the core game too, as we got the Dive in the first trailer.
Cat Biddybuds. Note we're in a snowy environment, so likely this whole side adventure has more than just the seaside.
I was right! This definitely looks like a colder area. Also a slight closeup of Junior.
Some weird spring item, looks a bit like something you'd see on a real-life cat tower/scratching post.
Cat Koopas in the distance, and what looks like an arena. Will we be getting cat-themed boss fights, too?
Junior's paintbrush starts off covered in black ink, then changes to rainbow paint. Did he accidentally cause all of this, or did he find the paintbrush in the "ink"?

(Gonna have to update the thread manually from now on.)
Some gameplay featuring Junior. Is he AI-controlled or can we play AS him?

also cat piranha plant gettin decapitated
Junior has to paint over these to activate them. Kinda like how paint does stuff in Sunshine. Neat!
Cat Pom Pom, who appears to be in the snowy arena. Hopefully we get more than just cat versions of existing bosses.
yup, they act like power moons. this is a good thing!
So "Fury Bowser" slowly awakens during the storyline. That's a cool touch.
the cats are cute AND THEN THERE'S BOWSER
HE LOOKS SO COOOOOOL
THE DUDE LITERALLY TURNS THE SKY BLACK WITH CLOUDS AND IT'S STORMING, ALL WHEN JUST WAKING UP
Is the side story in two parts, pre- and post- Bowser awakening? Also, this is cool.
The rocks that rain down resemble the Moon Rocks from Odyssey. Does Bowser's Fury take place after Odyssey? Is there lunar connections? Maybe.
angry cats
just this scene looks so fun to play in
these even glow when given "energy", just like the moon rocks from odyssey
cat cheep cheeps
another cool shot
The Big Bell causes Mario to do the promo art pose!
super saiyan mario. Gonna call him "Lion Mario" as the fiery fur gives a Lion-like look.
ANOTHER COOL SHOT!!!
to finish off, this artwork looks really cool!!

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Now that I have a little more time, I'd like to go into detail as to why this is such horseshit.

-39 Seconds- The implication that the PC release was of the quality standard they intended and that's extremely hard to believe. 1/many


-49 Seconds- Leadership Team is deeply sorry (not at fault), don't blame any specific teams (hold onto this one)

-1m42s- Describes a process of making the game look great on PC and then backsliding to "Old Gen" despite the game being announced before PS4/Xbox hardware was known.

-2m11s- Describes the old gen disk bandwith as "it is what it is" Considering the game got announced before those consoles even shipped, its absurd that the entire game was built so far beyond their possible constraints. Also, those consoles put out stuff like Tsushima late gen.

-2m19s- "-our testing did not show a big part of the issues
you experienced while playing the game" This is probably the worst part. Despite telling you not to blame any specific team, the test / QA team, somehow didn't discover the issues with the game.

You don't need to have worked in Dev or QA to know that the game was flying apart at every level (even on PC). The idea that the bug nightmare that ended up shipping seen for example here https://t.co/bgDkfQMVku went under the radar of a PROFESSIONAL QA TEAM is ridiculous.
Considering this year I don't have much in the way of game translation to discuss, publicly, I'd say this was a productive year for writing threads on largely neglected and forgotten Japanese games. So if you're looking to learn about some, here's what I wrote about in 2020!


2020 was another year where I talked a *lot* of shop about dating sim history. Much of it was actual dating sims, like in some threads below, but sometimes I went on adjacent tangents, like for the cool Kojipro-developed Tokimeki Memorial adventure games:


I also went down a whole new rabbit hole for Fuuraiki, an open-ended PS1/PS2 adventure game with a cult following about traveling around the island of Hokkaido that's set to real world photography. It's a unique tangent in galge well worth exploring:


I also took a quick jaunt into Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari, a spiritual predecessor to Fuuraiki that's about traveling around Tohoku against a backdrop of mahjong matches. It's a rough draft that would get much more refined later, but still worthwhile:


In terms of actual dating sims that I covered, the focus was mainly post-Amagami games released by Kadokawa such as Photo Kano. While I think these games have MANY flaws, they do offer key insight into the state of the genre during its decade-long decline:

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The first ever world map was sketched thousands of years ago by Indian saint
“Ramanujacharya” who simply translated the following verse from Mahabharat and gave the world its real face

In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


Meaning: "Just like a man sees his face in the mirror, so does the Earth appears in the Universe. In the first part you see leaves of the Peepal Tree, and in the next part you see a Rabbit."

Based on this shloka, Saint Ramanujacharya sketched out the map, but the world laughed