11/3/2022 0 Comments Smell ya later gramps![]() "You can try that on your own game when you get back home." Blue reaches over to press the start button on Red's controller. Someone at school said he found something weird you can do with the turbo T-1 power-up, and I wanted to…" "Can we play Porykart now, Blue? We haven't played that in a while. Red sighs and pauses the game before the announcer can count in the start of round two. ![]() A few more stretch-kicks send her crashing to the ground in a spray of red pixels the SNES produces a garbled screech that's supposed to sound like a dying fearow PLAYER ONE WINS dominates the screen and Morph Revenge II keeps its comfortable position as The Best Game. The fighter on the right flails her feathered arms uselessly, swiping and jumping at empty air, and for her trouble she receives a kick in her beak-face from clear across the stage. He hammers the controls, hoping that his frantic button-mashing will trigger her Morph Mode or at least scoot her more than a few steps down the battlefield. Then Red loses, and Blue wins, and all, for once, is right with the universe.Ĭhopstar might look a little better and Porykart might have more choices, but Red does not lose at those games and that means they are worse than Morph Revenge II. or El Rana, but he is always doomed to fumbling his combos while Blue pummels him from the other end of the screen. He can choose whichever morph he wants, Kitsunegari or Debonair or Amelia K. The television hums to life, the title screen slides down, characters are selected-Red tries someone different every time, Blue always picks Strider-and then, as sure as day follows night, as sure as Gramps has to go to the back doctor whenever he tries to lift something heavy by himself, Red loses. Other nine-year-olds might be drawn to Super Chopstar Planet's brighter graphics, or Porykart Netracer '95's multiplayer with more options and that one cool mode where you can blow up the other drivers, but when Red comes over it's always Morph Revenge II that gets the dust blown off its contacts. Morph Revenge II is Blue's favorite game. Thanks in advance for checking this out, and I hope you enjoy! The worst thing in here is some vague description of over-the-top, poorly-animated and obviously unrealistic video game violence, which is not so much relevant to the heart of the story as it is "Phoenix had more fun than was strictly necessary dreaming up a ridiculous Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat knockoff". ![]() I'm hoping that those changes haven't ended up muddying things instead! And any general notes to keep in mind for future projects are always welcome, of course. The premise and general structure are identical (so not much will have changed if you've read this before) I've just retooled some bits that were distracting from the actual point of the thing and made some other little tweaks here and there. That said, just because it's old doesn't mean I'm not looking for thoughts on it! While I feel I did a decent job with this piece and have always had a soft spot for it, parts of the first version bothered me for a long time, and I've only just recently gotten around to cleaning it up. #Smell ya later gramps how toRecently I've had some thoughts about how to retool the original idea, and while struggling in vain to sort out the idea and Actually Make Words, I was reminded of this sucker and figured I might as well toss it up here. Ultimately I decided against the flashbacks-and then decided against writing the fic in its original form at all-but I liked this bit, so I posted it as a standalone one-shot all those years ago. Back then I'd been planning to write a big ol' chapterfic about Blue that would've included several flashbacks, and this was intended to be one of them. This was originally written back in the dim and dusty year of 2013. ![]()
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