So Who TF Are We Exactly Playing in Pokemon Let's Go?

     The recent trailer for Pokemon Let's Go was released and at first it seems to be nothing big as you finally get to see the other Gym Leaders and the Elite Four and how their battles will be.

     However in the final part of the trailer, it is said that you'll will meet other characters. What other characters you say? Pre-Gold and Silver Jhoto Gym Leaders? Nope. As a total shock you get to meet and battle Red, Blue, and Green from the original games. This seems to be huge but as big and exciting this news may be it leaves a lot of confusion and leaves a big question: Who exactly are we playing in this remake?

     For those who don't know Pokemon Let's Go is an enhanced remake of Pokemon Yellow, which was a gen one game.With most remakes it implied that you are playing the same character as the original. At first you would figure that would be the case in Pokemon Let's Go, but yet here we are encountering not only the main character of the original game (Red), but we are fighting him and his rivals (Blue and Green). So, who are we exactly playing as if we're not playing?

     So, what gives? Recently Pokemon has been more sci-fi with us lately with the introduction of wormholes and possible alternate realities and universes. This was lightly touched upon in Omega Sapphire and Ruby where a NCP stated that there is a possibility that the remakes could all be set in an entire universe instead of them just being retellings. This was later brought to the fore front with Sun and Moon where wormholes played a crucial part in the game and elaborated even further in Ultra Sun and Moon where Giovanni actually went in some of these wormholes and alternate universes to start his new Rainbow Rocket empire. Are the characters we are playing in Pokemon Let's Go are alternate characters in that universe and had the original Red, Green, and Blue somehow been brought in that universe via a wormhole? If that is the case this could be the first time in the series where former main characters meet their alternate universe counterparts. Or this could be so weird non-canon post game battle frontier thing some they always do in a couple of games. What do you think?

The Bowsette Memes Are Proof We Need Another Super Princess Peach Game

     With the introduction of the Super Crown, a Power-up item in the Switch port of New Super Mario Bros. U which transforms Toadette into a peculiar yet mysterious Peach-like being known as Toadette, we were perplexed with what this could possibly mean and how exactly this could explain Princess Peach ruling a kingdom made up little mushroom people. While we were wondering if this would solve one of gaming's biggest mysteries we weren't ready for what would come next: Bowsette.

     The Bowsette meme started when someone on the internet, Twitter user @ayyk92, made a comic that had Bowser put on the Super Crown and change into a evil version of Peach which people named Bowette creating be a big wave of Bowsette memes. With the up rise and recent popularity of Bowette memes, one thing comes to mind, Super Princess Peach.

     If you don't remember Super Princess Peach, it was a platformer staring everyone's favorite pink clad mushroom monarch this time saving Mario, Luigi, and Toad from the evil clutches of Bowser. It was your standard Mario platformer, only with a bit of feminine flair as along the standard 2D Mario gameplay we all knew and love, by with Peach having a vibe meter which allows her to solve puzzles by being happy and fly, cry and run super fast, stomp angrily and pretty much be invincible, and heal herself by being calm. But like all really nice things, we get only one and we've never got a sequel which a lot of people want, mainly Peach fans.
     I know what you're saying. Why bring up Super Princess Peach when it has nothing to do with Bowsette memes? With the Bowsette memes and Peachette, they all have one thing in common. Both, do involve Princess Peach, but both also involved creatively playing around with Peach in a interesting unconventional way and in the end had amazing and interesting results. With Super Princess Peach, it flipped the script with Peach no longer being the damsel in distress and showed that Peach could handle her own in a Mario-esque game. With Bowsette, Peach is used as an avatar to get out of the role you usually see her in most Mario games. Hopefully Nintendo is paying attention and sees a good reason to give us another Princess Peach game, or at least give Peach her own franchise. They gave one to Luigi.

Peachette: There's Something About Princess Peach

   

      The Toad. The citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. If you could describe toads you could call them little fungi people. Basically hobbit folk with mushroom hats. Cute and adorable people that sound like they constantly smoked cigarettes for the 30 plus years we've been introduced to them in the first Super Mario Bros. game in 1985. If mushrooms that make you grow and flowers that turn you into a firestarter haven't boggled your mind over the years, what is really weird is that these mushroom munchkins have been ruled for years now by a human girl, Princess Peach. Or is she?

      One of the greatest mysteries of video games was how the monarch of the Mushroom Kingdom inhabited by fungi-humanoid people came be ruled by a human. With the recent Nintendo direct, we may have an answer to this enigma.

      Nintendo introduced us to New Super Mario U deluxe which will be coming out soon this year. What's new is that Toadette will be a new playable character. Along with Toadette being playable there is a new item called a Super Crown which gives Toadette an interesting power-up. She becomes Peachette, a character that closely resembles Princess Peach and even has her floating abilities like in Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 3D World.

      For years we've speculated that Princess Peach was just purely human. Is she a more human version or more evolved toad?
     There may have been some hints to Peach's toad heritage. In Super Mario RPG, Peach's grandmother was a toad. Other than that little is known about her parents. The only glimpses we see of her father was in the comics which could be non-canon and an official strategy guide for Super Mario Bros where she too is depicted being toadlike sporting a mushroom hat as well as a crown. But we can't really go with that as her official artwork is vastly different (Bowser looks different too).

     This all, however, could all just be mere coincidence and the Super Crown could just transform Toadette into a copy of Peach just like how the hats worked for in Super Mario 64 DS which Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario could transform into each other. Also, there's the fact that when Toadette, I mean Peachette, will turn back into her Toadette form if hit by an enemy meanwhile in games where Peach has been playable, Peach is shown to revert to a mini version of herself when hit just like Mario and Luigi. But this could mean that her toad evolution is more permanent. There seems to be a huge mystery around Peach and Peachette and hopefully we can all figure it out soon.

Where's Buffy in the New Buffy Reboot?

     Every generation a tv network decides to reboot a former tv show in order to get us to watch and try to get as much money and ratings from old fans as they could. Yes, you heard me or you may have been buried under a Hellmouth or have been a rat for a while, you may have not heard the news that we are getting a new Buffy reboot. The only tid bit we know about the new reboot is that Joss Whedon is involved and it will feel more like a sequel than a full on reboot. Oh, and that we will have a black actress as the lead. After everyone freaked out about the new lead being recast as the Buffy Summers we knew and grew up loving, showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen has clarified that we will be following the reboot with a new slayer, not a new Buffy.

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     So, since we are going to be introduced to a new slayer and not a new Buffy, or the old one, where exactly in this reboot/sequel is Buffy? Here are some possibilities.

She's Fronting Her Own Slayer Organization

     In season seven of the original series we were introduced to the ideal of potential slayers, women who were predestined to take up the powers of the slayers should the current slayer dies. Think about it like being on a supernatural evil fighting waiting list. In the end of season seven Buffy and Willow made it that there could be more than one slayer and every potential slayer will actually become a slayer. What to do know that there are thousands of slayers in the world? Make your own slayer task force. Later on in the comic books Buffy started her own organization just like the Watchers Council to recruit her own team of slayers to fight vampires around the world. If the reboot is following the comic books, the new series could be the new slayer fighting vampires and demons in the new organization. The new reboot could be not only the new slayer coming to terms about her powers and growing up, like Buffy did in the original, but also doing it with other slayers who are dealing with the same thing, unlike Buffy. If Sarah Michelle Gellar is signed on to reprise her role, she could act as a mentor.

Buffy is Dead

     Why the new focus on a new kick ass slayer? Simple because the old one died. Like Spike said, every Slayer has a death wish and death is the slayer's gift. It isn't shocking that all slayers eventually die and Buffy is no different. Yeah, she died twice but third time's the charm right? So the new series could have Buffy could go down as one of the great ones and the new slayer trying to live up to the mantle. Hard, right? But it could make some great drama and show how she is doing things a bit different than Buffy. They could also go all Halloween on us and recon things that happened in season seven and in the comics where there are not thousands of slayers running around and it is back to the chosen one format. But that would mean Faith is dead too. That's not five by five...

Buffy is M.I.A

     I know, very Supernatural where the Winchester Bros. spent the first couple of season looking for their father, but it could happen. Something happened to Buffy so it's time for someone to a new slayer to lead and take charge and to do all the main kickassery in Buffy's absence or find out what happened to Buffy. Hopefully the new show will know how to not stretch things out to far and reveal where in the world is Buffy Summers, you like what Supernatural does alot.

     Again, these are all speculations (for fun) and we may find out where is Buffy in this new reboot when new details emerge. I've made mine, but that doesn't mean you can't make yours and I would love to hear them. What are your thoughts?

Jobs Mario Needs

Yes boys and girls, it's true. Nintendo has recently announced that Mario is no longer a plumber. Since 1981 Mario's debut in Donkey Kong it's been unknown what was his occupation and how the hell could he afford a gorilla named Donkey Kong. It wasn't until the game Mario Bros that Mario and his brother Luigi were officially deemed as plumbers, a matter of fact the game is them dealing with creatures that got flushed down pipes. Over the years as Mario went on to save Princess Peach, he kinda taken his plumbing job in the back burner with it being referenced in a couple video games. Now that it seems that Mario has officially hung up his... plunger? What will he do now to earn coins for a living?

Game Show Host

Mario sure knows how to throw a party. With doing all the zany mini games in the Mario Party series that he and other Mario characters do, why don't he become a game show host? The mini games almost have a American Ninja Warrior or Double Dare feeling to it, why not ad trivial questions to it and have it become a full fledged show? His friends be chased by boulders, boos, and wack each other with hammers for coins. Why not for other fabulous prizes? Maybe a BRAND NEW CAR!

Racer

Mario Kart is easily hands down the most successful Mario spin-offs. Its popularity was huge enough for it to be treated as a it's own thing in Super smash Bros with  not only stages dedicated to the games but items as well. It's time for Mario to take off on the sudden high wave of popularity and shift gears and become a race car driver.

Bodyguard

Let's face it. The Toad guards are not doing their job right. Even getting kidnapped themselves. Peach needs to up her security.

Actor

I know we all remember the Super Mario Bros movie and how horrible it was (We can never forget tragedies. They haunt us forever.) Horrible cinematography? Could be. Bad script? Maybe. Bad acting? Dennis Hopper wasn't a great Koopa in it so probably, but it was definitely missing something: Mario! Maybe if Mario himself could've saved the film from being one of the worst video game movies ever. The first movie he was in didn't suck... that much.

Doctor

So Mario has been a doctor for a while in the Dr. Mario games. No longer being a plumber could mean him finally putting on the white jacket permanently. The Mushroom Kingdom needs a prescription that only Dr. Mario can fill out! Wait, Mario is an actual doctor, right? If not at least he can play one like a certain one on TV.

Fuck It! Enjoy Retirement

Fuck it. Life's too good to be fixing leaky pipes and toilets. You can just live the retired life. You've accumulated a ton of money from busting blocks and traveling to countless worlds saving Princess Peach over the past thirty plus years. Plus I'm sure Ninendo and Miyamoto-san can cut you a check or at least give you a piece of the Mario game sales, right? RIGHT? No? Oh. I wonder if lawyers take gold coins.