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Feb. 21st, 2015 05:05 amManaged not to play Paper Mario all day yesterday. Finished watching The Legend of Korra: Book 1: Air, and just got one more chapter left in Dewey. With two bags of recyclables sitting in my shed, tomorrow might just be a good day to make one trip to the library to return both items.
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Looking past food and at aesthetics in general, Jake helped me realize that what I actually enjoy is a balance of variety and consistency in any given thing. He compared it to the ponies in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I compared it to Baby-/Fresh-, In-Training-, and Rookie-level mons in the Digimon franchise upon returning to the trope discussion, and in a later convo, I explained how it applies to all the different items, blocks, and other objects in Super Mario World.
Really, the concept applies to all kinds of things. I brought it up regarding the Knights in Cult/MCC, along with some canon and non-canon characters their age, two paragraphs down in this old entry. It's the reason I liked the Pokemon, Angry Birds, and Mega Man series, as far as gameplay goes. It's the reason I appreciated Blood's Lucky Star darkfics (at least until the shit went down regarding Crap Unread). It's one thing I like about all the cute, childlike teenage girls in Lucky Star itself, along with those planned for my own fanfic Starbound. And even beyond video games and anime, it's something that particularly fascinated me about scratch-and-win cards two years ago. (Of course, I do welcome evolution and/or the occasional deviation.)
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At this point, I think I'm ready to just let go of Pickup Gourmet. The criteria was becoming much too vague for SolipSchism, who also declined to read yesterday's entry, and no one else is posting to the discussion anymore.
Should also note, that Jake told me that "gourmet" is meant to refer to high quality and refined taste. I admitted both to him and on the discussion, that I was thinking of Kirby Super Star's Gourmet Race, which contains all kinds of food in general, when I came up with the trope's original title.
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As far as Earthbound goes, Jake told me that the reason the game offers so much food in the first place, is to give players some kind of choice, since Ness is supposed to be a given player's avatar. Same reason why he and the other mains hardly ever talk, and why you get to name your characters.
Of course, walkthroughs and player's guides do tend to undermine all that. But, while I don't intend for any protagonists to be silent or renamable in Day of the Beehive (especially given the project's roots to a certain anime), the way food is utilized in Earthbound and Mother 3 is still interesting in its own right. Since the party will be traveling throughout the real world, I will make a point of presenting different foods common in a given area authentically (not going by Hollywood Cuisine or Americanized real-life restaurant menus). Culture Shock! Japan had some such information about the kinds of foods eaten in Japan.
Will also encourage anyone interested in the game project to come up with "quirky" foods, akin to what M3 had to offer. Some of those might include brand names in the names, such as Sukita (a brand of orange soda that Jake likes and asked me to include).
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Looking past food and at aesthetics in general, Jake helped me realize that what I actually enjoy is a balance of variety and consistency in any given thing. He compared it to the ponies in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I compared it to Baby-/Fresh-, In-Training-, and Rookie-level mons in the Digimon franchise upon returning to the trope discussion, and in a later convo, I explained how it applies to all the different items, blocks, and other objects in Super Mario World.
Really, the concept applies to all kinds of things. I brought it up regarding the Knights in Cult/MCC, along with some canon and non-canon characters their age, two paragraphs down in this old entry. It's the reason I liked the Pokemon, Angry Birds, and Mega Man series, as far as gameplay goes. It's the reason I appreciated Blood's Lucky Star darkfics (at least until the shit went down regarding Crap Unread). It's one thing I like about all the cute, childlike teenage girls in Lucky Star itself, along with those planned for my own fanfic Starbound. And even beyond video games and anime, it's something that particularly fascinated me about scratch-and-win cards two years ago. (Of course, I do welcome evolution and/or the occasional deviation.)
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At this point, I think I'm ready to just let go of Pickup Gourmet. The criteria was becoming much too vague for SolipSchism, who also declined to read yesterday's entry, and no one else is posting to the discussion anymore.
Should also note, that Jake told me that "gourmet" is meant to refer to high quality and refined taste. I admitted both to him and on the discussion, that I was thinking of Kirby Super Star's Gourmet Race, which contains all kinds of food in general, when I came up with the trope's original title.
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As far as Earthbound goes, Jake told me that the reason the game offers so much food in the first place, is to give players some kind of choice, since Ness is supposed to be a given player's avatar. Same reason why he and the other mains hardly ever talk, and why you get to name your characters.
Of course, walkthroughs and player's guides do tend to undermine all that. But, while I don't intend for any protagonists to be silent or renamable in Day of the Beehive (especially given the project's roots to a certain anime), the way food is utilized in Earthbound and Mother 3 is still interesting in its own right. Since the party will be traveling throughout the real world, I will make a point of presenting different foods common in a given area authentically (not going by Hollywood Cuisine or Americanized real-life restaurant menus). Culture Shock! Japan had some such information about the kinds of foods eaten in Japan.
Will also encourage anyone interested in the game project to come up with "quirky" foods, akin to what M3 had to offer. Some of those might include brand names in the names, such as Sukita (a brand of orange soda that Jake likes and asked me to include).