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What do we know about Joris le Sans-Pouvoir (Joris the Powerless)?

Aka, addressing the "cancelled Nintendo DS game"-shaped elephant in the room.

While this blog has gone deep into the show and character dissections, I think it would be remiss to proceed without addressing the elephant in the room — the game, the myth, the legend, the 2007-2009ish cancelled game Joris le Sans-Pouvoir.

There isn't a lot that is known about it, and all the data in this post comes from two developers.

The only videos of it we have available are uhhh......,

...Please say "Thanks Ronik!" for this video in particular.

I spent hours trying to convert these two SWF animation video files, — which demonstrate how the game was supposed to look, — to something actually viewable. There were many issues, with at least seven different programs.

I suffered for crepinjurgenology studies, but I did it.

Instead of recounting the story in my own words and omitting anything on accident, I will simply present to you, what the portfolios of two different developers say (these two pages are the source of all the images, gifs, and gameplay):

Joris Le sans-Pouvoir is the main character from a feature film Ankama due in 2013. It’s a new character IP situated in the DOFUS universe. I had the chance to work on a platform game prototype that was all about delving into of the character’s backstory. We wrote a lot of background and had a lot of fun designing and developping a cute and quirky platformer with a hint of metroidvania elements and a dash of Grow gameplay elements in-between levels. It also was a great opportunity to work with Jono Takeshi-san of Radiata Stories fame who worked with me on the art direction. (SOURCE)

Joris was the first Nintendo DS project developed at Ankama (in partnership with Magic Pockets). I began working on the project as narrative game designer, then took on the role of Lead Designer and Project Manager. Game design on this project involved boss fight, level design, minigame design, UI… I also designed an original collecting system where collectible items were used in a minigame inspired by the “Grow” series. The developpement has been put on hold to match the release of the animated movie with the same character (scheduled in 2013). (SOURCE)

Neither the movie nor the game, survived their development, due to circumstances. (shorthand for: I have no idea what happened, man. Maybe one day I'll write a post about the history of the movie, and truly open that can of worms, but god, not right now. I don't want to spend more time on this.)

Eventually, The Wakfu film turned into three OVAs instead, and the Dofus film changed its plot a bunch of times, and became Livre 1 : Julith.

...For some reason, in some version of it, Joris had a tail. Yeah, I don't know what that's about either. Cool clothes, though!

We don't know anything about its plot, and unlike cancelled projects Dofus Donjons and Welsh et Shedar (which was cancelled for years, until its recent resurrection), the lore of this game carries no relevancy in modern canon.

The name, Joris the Powerless, as well as the log-centric gameplay, both seem to reference the early concept that Joris had log-based powers, — and that without his "magic wand," he couldn't do much.

(Joris and his weird fucking "magic wand" were, in turn, borne out of the idea of a warrior who had a woman's voice. Which makes me chuckle.)

(The following quotes are machine-translated and may contain errors)

(SOURCE)

This is, by the way, the reason why I personally headcanon Joris to be really bad at huppermagic. So bad that he dropped out of the Huppermage Academy, and almost never uses magic in combat. It's a homage to his original idea.

(Yes, there is an actual reason why I headcanon Joris to be godawful at magic, besides just projecting my neurodivergencies onto him.)

I suppose that, even at this time, Joris was meant to be a store owner:

The gameplay loop involves going from boutique, to missions, and so on, while those two pieces of concept art involve the said boutique section, and show a female character saying «Pas mal, boss !».

In my opinion, it might be this character. Proto-Simone, perhaps?

Since the store seems to be the centerpiece, and the Grow-style minigames involved collectibles, I would assume that the plot involved Joris going around and finding artifacts for the store. That would also explain the concept art gifs of him adventuring.

(Though, the adventuring would probably just be the inciting incident/a vehicle for plot development. Nintendo DS games loved using the jobs characters did for that purpose.)

This is the extent of what I can surmise about the plot.

The developer portfolios also included these example documents, but the image quality is too bad for me to make sense of or upscale. I am including them here solely for some French people who are very good at reading blurry text. (If you learn anything, let me know, okay?)

Overall, my verdict is that this game's cancellation was both a blessing (Joris without Kerubim and Atcham is like tea without water and a cup. How am I meant to drink leaves? Are you stupid? Why are you giving me leaves with nothing?) and a curse (THEY CANCELLED A GAME ABOUT MY BLUE-COLORED YOINKY SPLOINKY (who has a THIN, GRABBABLE WAIST)????? FUCK!)

Hope this was a fun read!

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[sumi-ko-no-hito]

[blisscast]

Our Lord & Savior: Chatot! – Pokémon Mystery Dungeons: Explorers of Sky #2

Follow Team Journal’s adventures in the second episode of our dramatized retelling of Pokémon Mystery Dungeons: Explorers of Sky! It’s finally time to meet Our Lord and Saviour Chatot, along with the Wigglytuff guild!

🇮🇹 in arrivo

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/our-lord-savior-chatot-pokemon-mystery-dungeons-explorers-of-sky-2/

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Now Playing: Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

Ready to start my 2023 with something to spin my head off: Nomura's cheesecake

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

[yesterdaygaming]

Pokemon DS Games #2 10% off if buying more than 1 Free Ship! Ranger - 28 Shadows of Almia - 36 Guardian Sign - 39 Also have 2 Mystery Dungeon and Trozei in a previous post Thanks for looking! ✌️🎮 #pokemonds #dspokemon #ds #dsgames #nintendo #nintendods #pokemonranger #shadowsofalmia https://www.instagram.com/p/CgU58xau66-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[muraumbrella]

sumomo kumatanchi

[officialsamxie]

who else still plays this game

[elf0wl]

Lily!! She is my favorite villager. Her sweet presence just makes my day a little brighter in my town. 

[milkshards]

Winona is so strong and that makes me weak at the knees 🥴

[wolfiiburr]

“ i n  t h e  f i n a l “ - dark bowser

[raiskyv]

Angie Thompson is a cutie

[alexmarie-draws-stuff]

I loved the imagine games when I was little, admittedly looking back a lot are not very good at all but one of the ones I was reminded of recently and is good was Imagine Happy Cooking which is cooking mama with mini-games and plot.

I don’t really draw food so I hope you can tell what it all is.

[fallentamashii]

Omg I'm obsessed w IFR it's sooooooo good omg, just freed my first god too, aphrodite, yup the greek god of love to those who aren't familiar w the game it's based all around greek gods.

I guess that's a new game I can let @iplann know about and get into playing since they were looking for a new game 😏 and if they have a ps4 we can play together on it 👀

[blisscast]

[Pokémon Black ✅ and White ✅] More at my blog blisscast.wordpress.com, www.vintagepeople.it, and www.gamerevs.it, links in bio! 🆕 Journal Page 42 is up NOW! Link in bio. 🇮🇹 Disponibile anche in italiano. . Forgive me for my inactivity, life has been busy lately 👀. I'll resume my normal schedule as soon as possible. . We play as a teen who has to embark on the usual journey across the Unova region to become the champion, when suddenly a mysterious evil group, called Team Plasma, appears and demands everyone to free their own Pokémon. It must look hilarious to you that people would just free their own beloved creatures just because some odd guys in the town square say so, yet these evil masterminds have a point. Will the townsfolk listen to them? Will Pokémon games stop being RPGs and become walking simulators instead? Find it out on this week’s Journal page! . 🇮🇹 Giochiamo come un adolescente che deve intraprendere il solito viaggio attraverso la regione di Unima per diventare campione, quando improvvisamente appare un misterioso gruppo malvagio, chiamato Team Plasma, che pretende che tutti liberino i propri Pokémon. Vi sembrerà buffo che le persone siano disposte a liberare le loro amate creature solo perché lo dicono alcuni strani tizi nella piazza della città, eppure questi diabolici geni del male non hanno tutti i torti. Gli abitanti della città li ascolteranno? I giochi di Pokémon smetteranno di essere RPG e diventeranno invece simulatori di passeggio? Scopritelo sulla pagina di Journal di questa settimana! . #pokemonblackandwhite #pokemonblack #pokemonwhite #unova #gamergirl #gamergirls #pokemon #dslite #dsgames #nintendods #dsi #nintendodsi #sakuraaesthetic🍒 #ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpv6K5XoYAc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=