Thank You For Making Such A Charming And Fun Game! I Had A Great Time!
Thank you for making such a charming and fun game! I had a great time!
Last week, Nintendo had an Indie World Showcase. It's like a Direct but primarily for indie games from developers all around the world. A lot of cool games were shown (Have a Nice Death, Pepper Grinder, and Oni, to name a few) but the one that really grabbed my attention was this weird looking game that was released on the same day. Once Upon a Jester. It's about these two friends, Sok and Jester, and their quest to win a chance to perform at the kingdom's Royal Theatrical Spectacle. This, however, is a ruse so they can steal the Royal Diamond! A game where two idiots perform improv theatre so they can steal a big jewel? Sign me up!
The game itself was really fun! The developers, Bonte Avond, recorded most of the dialogue in one take. It definitely shows. But this is by no means a criticism. In fact, the way the dialogue is recorded makes the improv in the game feel much more authentic. Plus it's really funny to see what they came up with. The gameplay is pretty simple, with the player needing to complete quicktime events during the performance to get a good score. The main goal with each performance is to get 5 bouquets from the audience, with a total of fifteen in each town you perform in. If can't get five in one performance, no worries. You can keep trying as long as you need. The plot isn't going anywhere. Also, since the developers are primarily musicians, the music slaps. As someone who spent all of high school and college doing theatre, I can't recommend this game enough.
This isn't so much a review as much me wanting to talk about this really charming game. If you have a Switch or Steam and an appreciation for theatre, then Once Upon a Jester may be for you.
Oh, also Corpse Husband has a cameo in the game. It's hilarious.
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Will's Anime Watchlist for Fall 2023
Now that we've kinda finalized our list, I can finally put this out.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Favorite of this list)
Undead Unluck (Other favorite of this list)
Tearmoon Empire
Shangri-La Frontier
My New Boss is Goofy
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent Season 2
Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2: The Shibuya Incident (continuing from the summer season)
Shows I'm gonna catch up on:
Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 (My wife and I watch the dub so we were waiting for that to wrap so we could binge)
The dub for Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War part 2
Dark Gathering
Insomniacs After School
And that's all for now! This season's looking pretty good! I've been anticpating both Frieren and Undead Unluck for a while now so I'm glad to see them both finally get anime adaptations.
Going live in a few minutes! Should be a fun time!
So I mentioned it a few times before but I stream sometimes. I used to stream pretty regularly up until this August. I started to feel burnt out and decided to take a hiatus. On Tuesday, the 29th, I will officially be coming out of hiatus. I will be playing Paper Mario (N64) on twitch.tv/stillwill76 at 7:30 pm (CT). Part of the reason for my burnout was trying to keep up with every new big game that came out that I was interested in, so I’ll be playing some older games on my channel for a bit. I don’t think I’ll post here everytime I’m about to stream but I will post when I start a new playthrough of something. I stream every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 pm (CT) so if you just sit back, relax and watch me be okay at video games be sure to tune in. I can promise it’ll a pretty chill time. :)
If you’re still taking responses for the Stupid Innocuous Bleach Faves, I love that Ichigo reads Shakespeare. Like, he doesn’t just have a casual interest. He went to college to study English Literature and became a translator. The man really likes Shakespeare. And that makes me wonder, what’s Ichigo’s favorite comedy? Favorite tragedy? Historical play? Sonnet? Do he and Orihime look for theaters putting on Shakespeare productions for date nights? (Yes, and they have a great time.) Who does he talk to about Shakespeare? I’d like to think at first he only talks to Chad about it because Chad is a great listener. Then he meets Rukia and gets her into it because she loves drama. After he gets closer with Orihime he starts recommending plays to read: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer to start. It makes me wonder what other authors he enjoys. Agatha Christie? Jane Austen? Mark Twain? Who knows? Anyway, I just love that Ichigo is a book nerd. Specifically a Shakespeare nerd.
Stupid Innocuous Best Fave
MAN I wish I knew more about Shakespeare so I could pick out all the plays and sonnets that would be Ichigo's faves! But I've only read the few plays you get through the US public school system (mine were Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, one of the King Henry plays, and a truly terrible high school production of Julius Caesar, which was also somehow both a sci-fi AU and a musical) and one quarter of Jacobean Shakespeare in undergrad. BUT I agree with everything you've listed here and all of these headcanons, and want to add one more.
Ichigo's favorite filmic adaptation of Shakespeare is The Merchant of Venice (2004), because Al Pacino, ICHIGO'S FAVORITE ACTOR, plays Shylock, and imho does it absolutely splendidly. He is just so good at speaking Shakespearean English and making it sound fluid and natural:
Granted, I haven't seen this movie in like 15 years, so ymmv, but I would 100% watch it again--both for Al Pacino and for Ichigo!
Went and saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie tonight. It was very cute and fun. Jack Black as Bowser is incredible. The plot was kinda ehh, but it was still a fun time and I really enjoyed it. Also just wanted an excuse to show off my Mario floral print shirt.
every time i see a clip or a fanart of ichigo and asauchi-hollow-zangetsu, I want to see a friendship montage of them riding bikes and singing karaoke and sharing a banana split. let them have a little fun. i am not sure if asauchi-hollow-zangetsu is even capable of opening his mouth and it would honestly be even funnier if he can't. chad and orihime can be there, too.
Anime Watchlist for Spring 2023
Forgot to make one of these for winter. Oh well.
Vinland Saga Season 2 (continuing from winter)
Mashle: Magic and Muscles
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
Dr. Stone: New World
Skip and Loafer
My Clueless First Friend
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village arc
MASHLE!!! APRIL!!! LET’S GOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This is one of the funniest series I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it enough. One of my favorite series running in Jump right now, though it is close to ending. Anyway, this trailer is great. Perfectly captures the series. Go read or watch Mashle. 🤩
Yeah, this looks right. It’s been a fun year.
Who I Am
Hello! I'm Will! I know I just did an introduction post a week ago but this will be slightly different. This post will have links! :D Anyway, I'm a huge weeb with ASD and ADHD who also streams on Twitch occasionally. What do I stream, you might ask? Whatever I want! Mainly games that I really like, such as Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon to name a few. Big Nintendo person in case you couldn't tell. I also really enjoy reading manga and watching anime. Some of my favorites include Bleach, One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Oddtaxi, Space Dandy, Chainsaw Man, Komi Can't Communicate, Laid-Back Camp and so much more! If you are curious about where I might talk about these things aside from here, then you're in luck! You can find links to all of my social media and my Twitch channel here at https://linktr.ee/stillwill76. I've been on a stream hiatus for a few months now but I'm gonna be coming back on the 29th of November. I'll post more about that soon. I said this before but I hope I can make some new friends here!
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Reads too much manga. Loves Bleach, One Piece, Pokémon, Kingdom Hearts, and more. Big Nintendo fan. He/him. ASD/ADHD. Ace/demi.
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