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But it's hard for fans to emotionally relate to a 15-foot tall robot....why am I suddenly reminded of that image of Bifrost talking about Iraq?
Mega Man, however, stays the sameHe moves further forward during the attack, presumably helping him to get more hits in. Similar to ProtoMan.
Their absence was the reason to ask that question. And indeed, that question WAS asked by fans, even having people come up with exactly that explosion to explain their idea. You're turning a blind eye to exactly everything that happened on forums such as this one, following the release of Z4.The question of whether or not they perished over the course of the series and whether or not they died in the ending of Z3 are not the same thing. More on that later.
The only reason we ever shot down that idea was a lack of effects in Vile's Incident, and a few vague ideas in the back of the developers minds.And Zero survived. Which happened in-game. His ride home was immobilized during the explosion.
Whatever rationale we apply, the basic facts that their absence does not deny presence, can not be denied.If Phantom were not present, that would make sense. But the fact that the artist differentiated between them says that they're there in different states. You can say there's no rationale, but when you're rationale is coming from the exact same image you're questioning, it is very hard to ignore. The "time of death" speculation is the only means to rationalize it, and that comes about simply due to hindsight.
We as fans should acknowledge exactly where that vagueness lies, and not cling so vehemently to our general distaste of the Guardians being killed in such a mundane manner.Obviously. But how is that any different than acknowledging general vagueness in Z1?
Except, Zero did, by omission of the Guardians and later by MMZOCW's accord.False. They said Operation Ragnarok, not Ragnarok the space station. Big difference.
This is for the Wii players who wants to make a flashy channel with their own ID tag, pictures and things.So get a Channel Forwarder for SNES 9X GX.
Hadangeki: B(charge),F+Attack ButtonThey FINALLY bring back the Z-Buster and you can't Double Charge Wave?! Ugh. That is one thing I will give Inti in how they handle Zero; it took them five damn games to do it, but it was the only time that move was properly placed in the player's hands (X3 gives you a choice: wave-less, or slowass buster).
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Hyper Zero Blaster: Attack Button (Hold button, shoot)
Years later, and Kirby Super Star and its DS remake STILL poop all over whatever we got with SSE. For it to try and be like KSS, SSE still fell short.Not being into Kirby games, the similarities between HAL's projects fly completely over my head.
The VC emulator doesn't support Super FX chip just yet. And there are other chips tested, like CX4 (X2 and X3) and those didn't work either. But the moment that Nintendo is able to put up the original Star Fox on VC, we can inject Star Fox 2 into it, and be able to play it on the Wii. ^^If you're going to hack, then why the hell would you go to the trouble of injecting ROMs into VC files when you could just use SNES 9X GX and enjoy SF2 this very second? Even when compatibility is expanded, no amount of VC tampering is going to match GX's control options (what do you know, you CAN play MMX with a Wii Remote).
This section also contains a "Series Data" page with short written to-the-point bios for the main plot characters. Nothing you won't find inside a instruction manual, sadly.
If Brawl hadn't messed with priority so much and SSE was about a fraction of its length, the game would have done better.SSE is just fine the way it is. Stickers, on the other hand, are a whole different beast. As pointless collectible fun they're fine. As power-ups, they suck. The attack boosts are so overly specific that they wind up being pointless anyway, they shouldn't have wasted the time.
Red Shells missing even though you see a direct hit.That's a simple matter of lag. Rather than slow down the game the CPU tries to anticipate what's going on, and inevitably sometimes makes a mistake. And Nintendo is no slouch in local networking, see Mario Party DS.
The difference is that Z1-2 is reinterpretation of game facts. Whereas Z4-ZX is reinterpretation of a context questionable image, and developers being unsure in interviews about what the hell is going on. Only the implications of the aforementioned context questionable image can be remotely considered as part of continuity.The absence of something from continuity is as much part of continuity as its presence. In that regard, it's not Z4-ZX but rather Z3-ZX, spanning three games rather than two. For no reason is anyone's mortality in question during Z3, and Z4's existence says that it needs no further expansion. That's why it's a retcon. You're saying that it's not, because in asking whether or not they survived there was no solid answer. The problem is, there was no reason to ask that question in the first place.
The issue I have here, is that you're viewing Z4-ZX as equal to Z1-2 in the scale of retroactive continuity. The Guardians' death is relatively minor compared to what how things changed upon Z2's release.I never said they were equal in scale, only that they are equally valid. There's a difference. Surely Elf Wars has a larger impact, but it doesn't make the Guardians' death any less retroactive.
Leviathan's uneven footIt's called a "step", which involves placing one's feet at uneven elevations, either for the sake of moving to different elevations where no grade is available, or simply because adequate foot space does not exist in a single elevation.
I just don't see how it can cause the whole ankle and foot to vanish as with Phantom.Save for the lack of gold trim, which is easily glazed over given how small/dark a space Phantom's feet occupy, nothing in the image says that Phantom's feet are vanishing. The effects could easily be supplementary.
Likewise, you can't have Zero shoot at enemies in a cutscene, but have him incapable of doing so in the actual game.Well, that's almost an excuse. But there is no reason, whatsoever, that the Z-Buster couldn't have been featured as part of Command Arts. Especially since it already includes an anti-air move anyway.
not that it wasn't already hurt by omitting the thing altogether.Trouble is, that was already done before, both in X4 and in Xtreme2. Inti oddly threw a curve-ball into the scenario by giving Zero a handheld Buster Shot ripped off of a Resistance Soldier, thus mandating that the Z-Buster is at some point canned for good. Because dropping it for no reason has been done before, at what point the Z-Buster is no longer to return is really a matter of when nobody's looking back, and nothing more.
EDIT: Oh by the way, Marino ALSO vanishes once the shootout begins.Not quite. Marino is at least seen running when the shoot-out begins. Massimo simply has the girl-guarding job.
Z1 Passy.Not consistently. Which begs the question of why Phantom is being differentiated from the others if they're all toast. The time of death shpiel is just speculation to rationalize it.
X does not appear in his projected robed form.He never does in any finished art; the only robed X artwork is concept. Meanwhile, save mugshots, X's in-game appearances are only as either a golden speck or the robed projection.
Thing is, developer intent is not in question here.I disagree wholeheartedly. If you're saying that the account of their death in Z3 does not change what was established in continuity, then you could just as easily say the same of Elf Wars and Z1's continuity. Nothing "in continuity" within Z1 is ignored, merely interpreted differently in light of what was revealed in the future. Saying that Z2 changed the series while ZX did not is a double standard.
In a similar but reverse scenario, before ZX there actually is no in-continuity statement of Zero's death in Z4.The difference is that Z4 had no sequel prior to ZX. From a story-telling standpoint, leaving one's fate uncertain or with false implications for a cliffhanger is quite common. However even ignoring the Physis art (which I am not content to do), Z3 left no such implications, and Z4 came and went saying nothing on the matter, indicating that no such expansion was needed. It is therefore established, even if passively, that Z3's ending is to be taken at face value. But once ZX was developed, that was no longer the case.
A good idea actually, remember TP and Brawl? Their hype was impossible to live up to and it showed with the backlash.Hype or no hype, the Brawl backlash was coming anyway. Yes, I *STILL* miss my Mewtwo, bastards.
I keep skeptical until the system is proven worthwhile to me. Example: The DSi is still not worth it.I want to argue with that but it's very hard to. Only reason I have a DSi is because my original phat cracked its top screen. Yeah, it's shinier, the options are far superior, and it is TECHNICALLY a superior system from a CPU/RAM standpoint, but it really is being treated as just another DS. The online store is crap and the extra horsepower hasn't yet yielded anything noticeable besides a slightly less horrendous web browser.
Also no more remakes. Just all virtual console support on the handheld and done.Considering what we got in SM64 DS I have to very strenuously disagree with that one. Besides the fact that Bowser's sub refuses to reappear, the entire thing is infinitely superior to SM64. However there is the question of what first-party N64 candidates one would want to see get such treatment. Let's be honest, the next most demanded titles after SM64 would be Zelda, which already saw Master Quest, and Smash, which should be given an actual new entry (MEWTWO!).
