#helen wii

[peachesgarden]

i did the color wheel thingy but with cpu miis

[valentingaio]

Redrew this Chuck E Cheese cover with the Glamrocks

teehee :3

[jdshipoftheday]

dynamite p2 and p3 <333

JD Ship of the Day: Helen x Mary

Requested by Anonymous

[emirrart]

20,01,2023

Here it is! My final piece for the NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams Anniversary Zine!

You can pick up a copy right here: https://jodfanzine.bigcartel.com

[ws-wiki-hall-of-shame]

[marioluigifan134]

2 more female Miis of Wii Sports

Those being Ashley and Helen, 2 Standard Miis of Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii Party.

[keepfronting]

#nightsjourneyofdreams #nights #helen #nintendowii #wii #keepfronting https://www.instagram.com/p/CnNVNDHIwbR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thepixarau]

Woody: we’re the Pixars. We have absolutely no privacy whatsoever.

Héctor: we’re the Pixars. We have too many dishes and not enough cabinet space.

Remy: we’re the Pixars. We don’t get recognized in public nearly as much as you’d think.

McQueen: we’re the Pixars. We all failed our driver tests the first time.

Jessie: we’re the Pixars. We should not be allowed to do taxes.

Imelda: we’re the Pixars. We all take too long in the bathroom every morning.

Helen: we’re the Pixars. None of us know how to cook without burning the food.

Marlin: we’re the Pixars. Our washing machine’s been broken for a week.

Joy: we’re the Pixars. We’re like one big happy family..the kind that gets together every Christmas except no one ever leaves!

Merida: we’re the Pixars. We have zero fashion sense.

Flik: we’re the Pixars. We each have our own unassigned seat at the table! And if anyone takes it, it’s the end of the world.

Ember: we’re the Pixars. We break things way too easily.

Sulley: we’re the Pixars. We have a dozen cars parked in the driveway.

Sadness: we’re the Pixars. We will fight for literally no reason.

Dory: we’re the Pixars. We love getting letters from fans in the mail!

Ian: we’re the Pixars. We look like adults but technically speaking most of us would only be like 10 years old if we were normal people.

Bob: we’re the Pixars. Our walls are not soundproof.

Joe: we’re the Pixars. We own every single piece of merchandise from every one of our movies ever made.

Atta: we’re the Pixars. When one of us gets sick, it turns into a plague and the rest of us inevitably get sick as well.

Barley: we’re the Pixars. Instead of going to the gym we play Wii Sports.

Wade: we’re the Pixars. We like to criticize each other’s taste in music, for some reason.

Mater: we’re the Pixars. When one of us takes a dump we have to warn everybody not to use the bathroom for twenty minutes.

22: we’re the Pixars. Our game nights are a battle to the death!

Mike: ..we’re the Pixars. Everyone here is exaggerating. Our life is actually very normal.

[trans-kevin-juice]

two ydkj ocs!! because the amount of ocs i have are in the negatives— /hj

some headcannons for both of them under the cut!

Ronnie Livington Fun Facts, yayyyy 🎉🎉

-5’7

-is Bisexual with a Male Preference

-Likely not Cis

-loves getting into internet arguments

-casually doxxes people online for fun

-eerily lacks a sense of fear

-smells fucking awful

-wants to get a golden tooth. why? he think he’d look cool with one

-murdered his dad when he was 12

-his mom abandoned him when he was 5

-has beef with buzz lippman

-loves weed brownies, regularly brings them into work

-cookie hates him 💔

-was kidnapped by the quizkiller once, but managed to survive cuz the quizkiller couldn’t stand him

-can’t dress formally to save his life

-loves r&b and hip-hop music

fun fact about ronnie x cookie (who’s ship name could be rookie, which is hilarious): it is doomed yaoi

by the time ronnie hosts his own ydkj game and finally meets cookie and falls in love, cookie is already dating schmitty

ronnie still loves him and is way too stubborn to let his feelings go

he’s not mean to schmitty at all though!!

schmitty and cookie just think that ronnie is a freak (rightfully so)

sad ronnie fact: everyone forgets his birthday, so he’s not sad when no one tells him happy birthday

even at ydkj studios, people forget cus his birthday is 2 days before schmitty’s, so people are preparing for schmitty’s birthday instead of clebrsting ronnie’s

ronnie just buys himself a cake (probably with weed in it) and eats the whole thing by himself and considers it a birthday party

he’s such a loser 💔

Grace Livington fun facts, yayyy!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

-5’9

-Lesbian

-Trans Woman

-LOVES dressing formally

-big fan of Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator

-hates drugs and almost throws up at just the mention of them

-Had a gacha life phase when she was younger

-later becomes a jackbox host

-loves ydkj, but refuses to play the new ydkj cuz it has ronnie as the host

-has a big appetite

-plays wii fit plus everyday

-suprisingly good friends with cookie & schmitty, she basically considers them her dads

-wished that the quizkiller managed to actually kill ronnie when he kidnapped him

-used to have the fattest crush on Mavis & Helen

-has a back tattoo, but she covers it cuz ronnie is disgusted by it

-TERRIFIED of anything sharp, especially syringes

-probably smells like grapes and roses /pos

fun fact about Grace: she likes cookie & schmitty so much to the point where she basically treats them as her parents instead of Ronnie

her ass cannot STAND ronnie 💔

[dailyanimatronics]

[ID: a drawing of helen henny crouching with a tennis racket in her hands. her hair is in a high ponytail. she is on a tennis court and is smiling. her left side is highlighted in white. /end ID]

batter up or whatever they say in [chuck e cheese's sports games on the wii]

[therainbowtea]

Bite sized headcanons because I want to

-Jon is short as shit, yet Elias is shorter then him

-Melanie is also short and probably the same height as Jon

-Jon and Melanie are always trying to one-up each other

-Jon can't bowl for shit and Martin has to help him everytime

-Martin makes his tea with cream and sugar and Jon's with a tiny bit of sugar

-Tim wears contacts and has only once had to wear glasses to work (it surprised everyone)

-Michael and Helen are roommates and nothing can change that

-There's a TV and Wii in the archives that Tim brought

-After Sasha got replaced, all the plants in the archive died due to Not-Sasha not watering them

-Tim was the tallest of the archive team before Basira showed up

-Martin is shit at baking but Jon still enjoys it due to him having no taste buds

-On that topic, Jon will eat about anything and has very little taste buds

-Martin is the only one in the team who owns a car and is always the one who has to go out for stuff because of it

-Elias has a heart locket with Peter's face in it that he always wears (yes even when they're divorced)

-Elias makes the team do 'team exercises' a lot and they always end poorly

-Before everything happened, Jon had the worse eyesight out of everyone on the team

-Martin is the only one of the group who doesn't drink (only like once or twice a year he will)

[thedreamparadox]

What are your pros and cons of NiD and JoD?

NiD Pros:

Available on Steam and easy to play as a result (especially given that I've seen the game without a manual sell for $100! yikes!)

A-Life system adapts the music to (functionally) how much you accidentally paraloop Nightopians (the game functionally has three tracks for every stage except for Twin Seeds)

Nostalgia

Easy to learn, hard to master gameplay with the link system

Manages to tell a decently coherent story without any words entirely using cutscenes

There are actually hidden things you can find in the free roam sections and it is totally possible (though not easy) to bonk the Alarm Egg to roam more

Saturn version's debug mode turns off the Alarm Egg so you can wander around freely and just vibe (does not work on Steam, requires a Game Shark)

Completely banger soundtrack the entire game through

Pretty much the entire reason that controllers have thumbsticks now

Steam port also has Christmas NiGHTS

Trick ribbons!!!!! Make use of those shoulder buttons (warning: on a lower end pc this will lag your game to hell and back)

NiD Cons:

Completely unintuitive gameplay mechanic required to get the true ending (bonus time REQUIRED and if you don't make use of it your score suffers so much)

The English translation of the story changes and drops details and no one's ever fully translated the jpn manual (some day I will attempt to make progress on my very, very rudimentary attempts at this)

Minimalistic story can be really confusing (more of an issue for younger players who are less used to media that uses little to no spoken dialog aka me at age 7 with no idea what the hell was going on the entire time)

No explanation of gameplay you are dropped into a dreamscape and get mobbed immediately and it is just sheer confusion the whole time if you are going in blind

Steam port's seasonal features don't always work and a bunch of the features from the Christmas sampler (including Sonic Into Dreams) are missing entirely

You really do need the manual to understand a good chunk of what is going on beyond the plot that exists in the cut scenes

JoD Pros:

More accessible to new players, younger players, and people who have no idea how the original worked, or even that it existed. Infinitely more accessible to young gamers than the original

Great soundtrack (the Dream Gate theme is hands down my favorite track in the game)

Voice acting! Reala and Wizeman's put work into making their characters sound intimidating and NiGHTS voice actress exudes sass (within the occasionally clunky script)

The graphics are so good when it comes to the level design

Plot through line with relatable characters and understandable motivations for the kids

Dedicated on foot sections were a neat!

A+ boss design with my only real critiques being Girana's really confusing mustache and Reala's pink nails. Queen Bella for most effective Nightmaren design imo but that's the arachnophobia talking

Motion controls are totally optional and the thumbstick controls work great

On the Wii, which back in the day made it extremely easy for people to play due to how common the console was

Optional collectables have a cool bonus reward (aka being able to play as Claris and Elliot)

JoD Cons:

Owl (specifically his voice clip spam which gets so annoying so quickly)

I really don't enjoy the key chase missions and wish the game let you free roam outside of them more effectively

Bomamba's boss stage tilt table thing

Chamelean's unintuitive boss design

Reala's criminally underutlized in gameplay

Helen and Will not being able to put two and two together about NiGHTS and Reala being related for so long

Some extremely clunky dialog (ie "Go over and touch NiGHTS" which will be memed for all eternity by the fandom)

Character modeling and graphics are off on Owl's feathers and the kids' faces just don't look quite right in some scenes

Issues with plot and pacing (aka pretty much the primary motivating factor to my rewrite's creation in the first place)

The ambiguity of the game's timeline (aka is this a sequel, a prequel, or a soft reboot) but that's a completely personal gripe

My Dream. I LOVE the concept of it and loved playing the same levels repeatedly to try and shift the landscape but its inconsistency of what effected what got added, as well as Nightmaren drawn in by paraloops having to be manually taken out before they eat any Nightopians severely disincentivized paralooping in stages as an enemy removal tactic. That, and the stage never seemed to graduate beyond "grassy flat field" minus the occasional shallow water feature or hill

The ending's focus on the yellow Ideya just vibes so weird to me

Personas were kind of a weird inclusion that I wish the devs would have had a lot more time to utilize

Awakers are weird and I get the three count thing but the Alarm Egg was iconic. Annoying, yes, but iconic, I don't really get its removal.

Despite the wall of cons for JoD, both games are good for their own reasons!

[tomyo]

NiGHTS

So I forced my friend who previously beat this game to play it for me instead. Thanks Tonio.

I always played as Helen first to which the fish was horrible to fight. Ironically to learn how different two characters bosses are. The game is also surprisingly short with very little story bits or maybe that's just from coming off of KH3 not too long ago.

The gameplay is rough, in game graphics are a weird mix and the music is god tier. The funniest thing is that gets to me about the graphics is Helen looks horrible in the in game engine but will looks sort of better? If he were supposed to look like a Japanese boy it'd be fine but it's definitely likely he was supposed to be white. However the CG modelers rendered him with defining Japanese features in his cheeks and mouth that I couldn't get over, I jokingly kept calling him Kohei and his dad Yusuke. I promise this is mostly out of adoration for how artists will reference what they are familiar with which even on a professional level results in a blonde haired blue eyed Japanese boy.

The character designs also distinctly bring me back to the era where everyone was trying to be Square Enix. Sega had already been doing particularly well rendered CG scenes but the over designing of Helen especially hits home how games like Sonic 06, Twilight Princess and so on probably took on these traits to catch up with the popularity of final fantasy and Kingdom Hearts to some extent. Helen's playthrough unlocks the artbook and I'm a little sad I'm missing some pieces as the art is fun to look at in all its crunchy glory.

I didn't grow up with the original Nights but the second game definitely came out when I was Will and Helens age which is funny to say since I always perceived myself older than characters like them. Now that I'm an adult I definitely look to the very gender Nights who's playful and essentially a disappointment to their parents in more honor. My first experience with this series was the lovingly rendered key art plastered on Nintendo Power which was possibly also my first one. I remember being enchanted by the reflection in night's eyes. All the more funny to see how old the graphics feel even for the Wii era in comparison to that cover art. But I loved every moment of Nights being almost a fun loving big sibling and annoyed at the idea they should play their role for wiseman.

That being said and it could be because we played Will second, there is like, an air of sexism with Will and Helen. I read up that Nights had some intent for the original kids to represent the masculine womanhood and the feminine manhood and while the clothing they wear or the interests they have represented in their worlds being so gendered isn't as much my issue, the narrative value is. Helen gets the short end being that she is made bad for doubting Nights like Will did but where Will overheard Nights was a nightmaren and was comforted by the owl, Helen hears this from Reala who also paints Nights as on the nightmaren side. It felt a little off equating these two experiences as the same. Nights also only fights Reala in Will's dreams. And while they gave a recent reason for Helen struggling in Will's more straight forward dungeon, there was an ick that Helen was always the one to fall in gameplay to be saved by Will. Like I said I was the one actually playing either so my experience in that is a little limited but Tonio did point out that Will did things on his own in Bellbridge that Helen needed Will's help for. It seems to suggest Helen can't stand on her own and that just sucks.

Considering the in spiritual successor, Balan Wonder world, gave it's female lead no active factor like previous protags (a sport or physical hobby) in a game about theatrical performance, it seems to be a worsening issue. A full tangent on that but if you give the male lead the role of a dancer then why not make the girl a singer???? The other half of theatrical performance????? So weird.

[patchdotexe]

i own the nid pc port and i am still in the process of a-ranking all stages (and thus, getting all the endings and 100%) for it ajwkwjskwjsjwjwjs nid is hard!

i also physically own nights journey of dreams for the real physical wii but i installed dolphin for the sole purpose of playing njod with a gamepad (and hd textures… and a 60fps hack…) i've completely 100%-ed the game! all a-ranks, all dream drops, all endings… did you get stuck on one of helen's bosses? because all of helen's bosses were the ones that confused me at first ajwjsjsjsjd i had to look up a guide for each of them

if you do decide to give njod another go, i suggest emulating it, as emulation provides you with a lot of features that would make the game more accessible (slowing down the game, save states, rebinding buttons, etc)

outside of the gameplay i love the games' stories and aesthetics and symbolism and i could probably have a good day just picking random things from nights stages and flipping to the entries for it in my numerous dream symbolism books and going ":O"

THERE'S A PC PORT??? YOOO NICE <- somehow completely unaware of ports 70% of the time

--AH IT WAS FDUCKING . CHAMELAN. will's boss with the cards. we couldnt figure out how to find him and got frustrated and now im looking at the wiki and going "Ah. So It's Like That, Huh". i also remember consistently getting like, the lowest or second to lowest ranking each time lmao

ill keep emulating it in mind! most of the reason i was able to get through the final visions of klonoa wii was through savestates so i am eternally grateful for that invention. also we're overall better at videogames now so even though itll probably still be a challenge for us it should be Doable with accessibility stuff

I LOVE THE STORIES AND AESTHETICS SO MUCH we never got super deep into dream symbolism, surprisingly, despite ica's fascination with lucid dreaming and NiGHTS and klonoa and yume nikki and etc. but, god, everything about NiGHTS is so charming. games of all time. i dont think ica's artwork survived but im pretty sure it existed at some point

[monsterintheballroom]

Helen Mirren and Wii Fit Plus

have seen never that before