#power pros

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Snatcher (1988)

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Chōkūkan Night Pro Yakyū King by Genki

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 4 by Konami

Famista 64 by Namco

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Tfw the life size Shiori Fujisaki parody doll's mouth is sophisticated...

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Just $1 for eBaseball | Tuesday, 02.28.2023

I can't believe that I bought eBaseball Power Pros for just $1 on the PlayStation Store (PS4) just now. And right, in my opinion, I'm guessing this won't hold guys like me over until Super Bomberman R 2 comes out around mid-2023 this year. And you can also download and play it on the Nintendo eShop (Nintendo Switch) for the same price.

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YOU'RE TELLING ME THESE THREE ANIME GIRLS HAVE THE HIGHEST DEFENSE STAT OF ANY LEVEL 4 NORMAL MONSTER IN THE GAME?????

I know it's because it's based off of Noble Knight Brothers, but it's still so funny

[red-hared-hasty-horse-yugioh]

(card images recreated in DB’s custom card maker because I couldn’t find images of them in English)

Power Pro Lady Sisters

Level 6 WIND Winged-Beast Normal Monster (1950 ATK, 2100 DEF)

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎The three Power Pro girls are best friends! And their passion for baseball soars like a home run! ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Aoi Hayakawa was the first female player in the league. Her signature pitch is a submariner she calls The Marine Ball! ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Mizuki Tachibana is more of a tomboy than her senpai, best known for her Crescent Moon Pitch and her love for the pudding sold down at Pawado! ‎ ‎‎ ‎ Hijiri Rokudo is a catcher with a rare gift for baseball! She's been best friends with Mizuki since junior high and her favorite at Pawado is the Kintsuba!

Power Pro Knight Sisters

Level 4 LIGHT Warrior Normal Monster (1200 ATK, 2400 DEF)

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The stadium is now open, and our all-star ladies are ready to take you out to the ball game! It's the beginning of a new baseball legend! ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Presenting: The three navigators of the Power Pro world! That's Paa-chan on the left, bright, energetic, and (usually) dependable. On the right we've got Waa-chan, calm, earnest, and level-headed (usually...). And Namiki is in charge up front with little Chikuwa in her tote bag, helping us cheer everyone on!

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Today I want to talk about a pair of normal monsters. Over on Yugioh Masterduel, Konami is doing some strange crossover promotion with their baseball video game series, Power Pros. There is a mission that you complete by logging in three times during the promotion. One of those times just gives you a player icon to use, but the other two each give you a card. 

These cards are royal URs and are actual cards you can put in your deck and duel with. These cards are currently exclusive to Masterduel, which is kinda weird. They are both parodies of existing monsters, Harpie Lady Sisters and Noble Knight Brothers, but with their effects removed. An odd quirk of these cards is that they are effectively limited to one, not because they are on the limited list, but because you can only acquire one. 

Lady Sisters isn’t worth talking about further, but Knight Sisters is kinda interesting. This monster has the highest DEF of any LV4- monster that you can normal summon or set that does not have a negative effect. Not that anyone is randomly going to play a 2400 DEF monster in 2023, but its weird seeing an old record be broken like that. 

Here are the list of LV4- normal summonable monsters with 2400 or more DEF;

Noble Knight Brothers: 2400 DEF. Cannot attack unless you control exactly 3 Noble Knight monsters and no others.

Giant Kozaky: 2400 DEF. Destroys itself and inflicts burn damage to you if you do not control Kozaky. 

Boycotton: 2500 DEF. Makes you take the damage from its battles.

Steel Cavalry of Dinon: 2600 DEF. Halves ATK and DEF while battling a pendulum.

Big Shield Gardna: 2600 DEF. Changes to attack position after battling.

Destiny HERO - Defender: 2700 DEF. Your opponent draws an extra card during each of their standby phases.

This beat the previous record of 2200 DEF, set by: 

Adamancipator Crystal - Dragite

Adamancipator Crystal - Leonite

Adamancipator Crystal - Raptite

Anesthrokket Dragon

BM-4 Blast Spider

Emperor Sem

Gear Golem the Moving Fortress

Gogogo Aristera & Dexia

Gogogo Gigas

Mixeroid

The Lady in Wight

The Weather Painter Snow

Weirdly, that previous list contains only effect monsters. The previous record for normal monsters was 2100 DEF. You would think Konami would grant higher stats to monsters with no effects than monsters with positive effects, but until Power Pro Knight Sisters, that was not the case.

Over in the OCG, back in December, Guard Mantis came out, which is also a 2400 DEF that can be normal summoned or set with no negative effect. It may just be that 2400 DEF is becoming the new normal for big DEF monsters. 

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2/12/23 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews:

🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 a new life. 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Normal Lost Phone 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Planet of Mine 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Short Hike 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Sketchbook About Her Sun 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Snake's Tale Later in this post, we're going deep Nintendo news and capitalism:

The return of the Touch Generation

Freshly Announced Zelda's Pricey Rupeeland

The relative value of old games But first...

Game of the Week:

Without a doubt, this is the strongest week so far. There's a clear winner in this batch (as well as a clear loser), but the runners-up have been on my mind a lot over the last few days.

The above screenshot comes from the early moments of this week's best game, a new life. Although May, on the verge of admitting she has a crush on August, is referring to the vulnerability of emotional intimacy, I snapped this image because I wasn't sure yet where this story was going. Friends, the most embarrassing about this game might be that I myself out of giving it a 5/5 rating. My review's harshest criticism was that there weren't enough opportunities to connect to the characters and their tiny world. While I don't think changing scores is in the spirit of this project, having now had time to reflect, the story a new life. tells is bigger than its fictional narrative. A recommendation carries more weight when it's back up with details, but I'm asking you to take my word on this one. On that subject, this week's review of A Normal Lost Phone (currently the second-best reviewed game in the ranking) is largely about the frustration of recommending games that are best played cold. Look, I would love to talk freely about the content of these games, but if you've played them, you already know what I'm talking about, and if you haven't, please do. Finally, while I can't recommend A Sketchbook for Her Sun, I will be forever grateful to it for introducing me the Red Ribbon. I can't very well name an indie musician "Game of the Week," but it's been a Red Ribbon party in this house for several days already, and the party won't stop until somebody calls the cops.

Tears of the Wallet

The latest Nintendo infomercial was met with a mixed reception. Those who tune in for ultra-modern blockbusters from the biggest franchises were disappointed. (I guess I get that. As pumped as I am for a new Pikmin and a new Zelda, I'm already sold on both, so those trailers don't count, in some weird way.) As a fan of the kind of experimental, unmarketable B-games that have largely gone out of fashion in the last decade, this was a monumental advertisement. Samba de Amigo, Professor Layton, Fashion Dreamer (yes, this is a Style Savvy sequel), Ghost Trick, Fantasy Life, and the freaking GBC adaptation of Alone In the Dark: The New Nightmare??? I don't know why a multi-billion dollar put together a 45-minute commercial aimed specifically at me, but I'm not complaining.

I am complaining about the news that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will have a higher-than-expected MSRP. I rarely pay full price for games, but I've been scrimping and saving in anticipation of this one. Money is tight, and that extra $10 stinks. In more financially stable times, I paid $60 for Zelda's Wild Breath, though, and I felt like I got my money's worth. Then I paid, what was it? Another $20 for the mildly disappointing DLC? Remember the "Everyone is here!" trailer line for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate—the game that was called Ultimate because there's nowhere to go after you get everyone. I purchased the full DLC subscription, the contents of which were still unannounced, because you guys, everyone. And then they announced a second DLC pack, and dozens of costume microtransactions, and I said no, I have put enough money into this game. I Tears of the Kingdom is a bigger, better Breath of the Wild, I don't think charging a little more is unreasonable, just like I don't think it's unreasonable that LABO, Ring Fit Adventure, and Mario Kart: Home Circuit cost more than $60. Value and profit margin should be factors in pricing. (That goes the other way, too—more on that in this post's final topic.) If I'm paying a higher base price, though, I don't want to be asked for more money later. Go the the eShop and sort by price. Look how many games get away with charging $100 just because they tack "+ DLC bundle" to the end of their titles. It's sick, and we should be worried by anything and everything that conditions us to feel like maybe everything should be more expensive. No one is forcing big corporations (not just games; this is everywhere) to charge more for less. Video games are already too expensive for me, and I do not want them to get more expensive. I do not need them to get more expensive. Let games be small and freaky!

One, Two Remakes Stand Before You

Metroid Prime (Left) and Metroid Prime Remastered (Right). Official screenshots from Nintendo, hosted on ModyGames.

Metroid Prime is a masterpiece. This is not a unanimous opinion, but it's not a controversial statement, either. I don't know how many times I've replayed it, and it still fills me with the same sense of awe I felt twenty years ago. I've not played Metroid Prime Remastered, but by all accounts, it is even better. Some information about the remaster was leaked months ago, so its official announcement and release this week didn't come as a big surprise, and yet I was taken off guard by just how much work went into making it look modern. Now I'm looking back at Metroid Prime, a game that's always been beautiful in my eyes, and it's so...old. The remaster is priced at $40, which seems fair, given the apparent development effort behind it. (Super gross that Nintendo doesn't share my appreciation for hard work.) Fair, but more than I'm willing to spend on what is essentially a game I've already bought twice. (Hey, Metroid Prime Trilogy was only $20 on Wii U, and I didn't own Metroid Prime 2.) You know what I did buy this week?

WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS isn't a remake, per se. I can't point to one entry in the long-running Power Pros series and say, "See? They brought it back!" but that's only because they're all basically remakes. Although the series hasn't been a global concern for several console generation, Konami put out one or two of these every year in Japan from 1994-2016—not counting spin-offs, which came out at a comparable rate—before switching to an every-other-year schedule. They're all remakes. Clearly, releasing the same game over and over again with minor tweaks is a viable business strategy. Like, Konami has the game, and suckers are willing to buy it again each time they slap a new number on the title. It's the dream of every greedy publisher! And that's why I have to rave about the new Power Pros.

I don't care about baseball in the slightest. I've played an obscene amount of Bases Loaded on NES, and I'm always up for some Wii Sports baseball, but I can't think of one other baseball video game that's left any impression. WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS is no exception. It's more complicated and demanding than the cartoon characters imply, and attempting to manage a team's lineup makes my head spin. I'm not going to give up until I manage to get at least one run. Hopefully I'll get a feel for it and start having fun. For now, I stink, and I don't like it. Here's the thing, though: This game, the first Power Pros game released outside of Japan in years, the latest in a long-running line of shameless cash grabs costs...

$0.99

This isn't a sale. It's not an introductory price. And here's the part that sold me: It's the complete game. No DLC. When you've already produced a game, already sold it at a premium price, and already watched watched sales numbers plummet to zero/week, what do you, a game publisher, have left? What is the value of that intellectual property? What good are the code and the art assets when no one's buying? (Besides exploiting your fans with low-value junk?) You can sit on it, hording properties in the hopes that one day they can be rebooted, remastered, or resold in their original condition. You can sell the rights to other publishers. Forgo profits now to (possibly) profit later, or profit now and forgo the ability to (possibly) later. I never would have expected Konami to instead sell a game at an irresistibly low price, but it's absolutely the best move. So what if they only make a couple cents per sale? Low cost + high volume = cha-ching! And public goodwill. And a chance to reach people like me, who would never buy a new baseball game. How many new fans will pay full price for the next generation of Power Pro. Zelda sticker shock is getting headlines right now, and it should, but we should refocus the story, not on games getting more expensive, but on games being priced appropriately.

Let's also remember, this week, that some games are not appropriate for purchase at any price.

Friends don't let friends enable bigots.

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Elain Archeron

"Elain is now going to have dreams about pulling out the ivy and the ivy coming through the window to strangle her in the night, because let me tell you, that ivy didn't want to leave."

Art by @termesart on Instagram

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30th Anniversary: Power Pros | Monday, 03.11.24

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Power Pros, comment below on what your favorite game is in the series!

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What the fuck is Power Pros?

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WHY ARE THERE JUST STRAIGHT UP ANIME GIRLS FROM THE FUNNY LITTLE BASEBALL GAME???