Gotta Go Fast... away from that Sonic The Hedgehog 2019 film

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - It all happens so fast that it'll be over before we know it.

I really don't want to even embed this supposedly awful movie trailer (or fantastic trailer accurately representing a supposedly awful movie) onto my pristine and wonderful website. Unfortunately, it's “trending” and my staff thinks I gotta write about this today (or the opportunity will have long passed), so here is the trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog, coming to theatres you should (quickly) run away from this November:

Hopefully Paramount Pictures has their YouTube account deleted so you can't actually see it. Wait, I'm also being told by my staff that I need to upload some still screenshots from this trailer. Hopefully our image server is broken, because here we go:

The Connection Between Free Speech, Violence, and Echo Chambers

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Gotta get this off my mind, and I figured it'd make for good article material.

There was another tragedy the previous weekend. At least two, actually. One was a Saturday shooting at a Poway, California Chabad Jewish synagogue. The other was a Sunday shooting “near” a Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland during a cookout. As someone who attends a Chabad and has hosted a cookout, both of these are painful reminders of how dangerous the world is right now. Great empathy.

Of course, one has to ponder how society got to the point where this is a regular thing.

I've read the Poway shooter's manifesto. A lot of it is gibberish and awful reading material, so I won't hyperlink away from KoopaTV (fantastic reading material) to that garbage writing. I'm also not hyperlinking to it because he hopes people who read it will emulate him, and we don't want that. The guy very clearly hates Jewish people, spends a lot of time on the /pol/ imageboard (presumably 8chan's version), and is apparently inspired by a non-me Ludwig. (Some Beethoven dude.) He also dislikes President Donald John Trump. Scary stuff.

I just wanted to express the correlation between these heinous acts of violence and the relatively recent anti-free speech movement occurring both on and off the Internet. My fundamental thesis is that having more free and open discussions will reduce people's ideology-based murders. It won't go down to zero—some people are just bad people or thoughtless thugs—but I have a philosophy that only works if the majority of people are good or at least lawful neutral.

Scrambling to Find Meaning With Persona 5 Scramble

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Was Joker in for this?

For some time now after Joker from Persona 5 was announced as a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate playable fighter, there's been murmurs of a “Persona 5 S” that many assumed meant “Persona 5 Switch”. Then Joker was released, and Atlus, the Persona franchise's owner, was promising an announcement on “Persona 5 S” at the same time Nintendo would give their annual financial report. Makes perfect sense that a Persona 5 port would be announced for Nintendo Switch.

Instead, the S stands for Scramble, and the game is Persona 5 Scramble, a Warriors-style (an action genre where your character mashes combos against waves of enemies...the whole game. You may remember it from Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors) game developed by Koei Tecmo for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Here's the trailer (in Japanese):

A spin-off based on Persona 5 isn't a port of Persona 5, and it's leading many—including myself—to wonder why Joker was selected as a playable character in the first place. The mainline Persona series doesn't have a Nintendo presence. They're not trying to give it a Persona presence.

That doesn't mean that'll permanently be the case.

Nintendo's Results For Fiscal Year Ending March 2019

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Dreary outlook. But hey, the dividend went up. I'll take that.

Well, Nintendo's stock fell over four-and-a-half percent today due to conservative guidance, and them failing to meet their hardware plans. Between April 1 2018 and March 31 2019, they sold 16.95 million Nintendo Switch systems and 118.55 million software titles. I'll remind you their goal was 20 million systems and 100 million games, so they crushed the latter goal. No one's taking about that though. Just the hardware bit.

Investors are also upset there's no immediate announcement about a Nintendo Switch hardware revision, which has been discussed in the media as a basically-guaranteed rumour, though I haven't mentioned it on KoopaTV because I don't like giving credibility to rumours like that which can affect a stock price. And, of course, caution is on my side today.

Here's some updated sales figures Nintendo provided of the “bottom tier” of the top 10 (or former top 10):

Note: The Nintendo Labo Variety Kit has sold 1.09 million units, but the Nintendo Labo figure on the chart is for
all kits combined when Nintendo disclosed that a long time ago.
Also, for three years now, Ludwig has thought that March is 30 days long.

Pretty clear that ARMS is still ahead of the entire Nintendo Labo franchise, though Nintendo isn't going to give any specific numbers on either of those anymore.

They also aren't providing an explanation for something very strange in their financial data I picked up on.

Nintendo Labo... SMASH Kit?! Oh no!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Cardboard does have spirits. And they're dangerous.

Any hour now, Nintendo is going to publish their report covering their financial results between April 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. Then they'll start a new fiscal year. That's always a big deal in terms of news and interesting analysis, and you can bet it'll be the topic of a KoopaTV article in the very near future. But not tonight. Tonight, there's some bad news to report.

The Nintendo Labo has invaded Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in a way more pervasive than a mere Mii costume. There is an entire Spirits event dedicated to four new Spirits added to the game post-release that are “exclusive” to this event. Added...for free, because no one would ever pay DLC money for these.

There are four Spirits, and each gets six dedicated hours. Every. Day.

The event lasts for five days, while normal Spirit events only last three.

The sneaky Toy-Con Robot is present, as is the stealthy Toy-Con Car (the worst of the vehicle kit), and the recent and really evil Toy-Con VR Goggles.

I have no idea who Professor Riggs, Professor Plaise, or Professor Lerna are. I think they each have full names that are some kind of pun. Regardless, I wasn't aware that the “Nintendo Labo series” has characters in it, or that it has more original characters than Paper Mario: Sticker Star.

The presence of original characters doesn't make me like the Labo more or anything. These professors are just the latest example of how academia operates against the interests of the average person.

Personally, I'd prefer four free Spirit Battles featuring Rawk Hawk, Maya Fey, Franziska von Karma, and Godot. I even wrote out how each of those would work!


Ludwig hopes that the Labo ceases to infect Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and that maybe this whole thing is a joke. Boycotting the event won't do any good, since there was already a cardboard box Spirit. That's just matching the already-established Trojan tactics of the Labo.


It wasn't enough for the VR Goggles to become a Spirit. Now they're compatible with the game itself.
Ludwig got his one and only Spirit Battle thanks to the Toy-Con Car.

Look Forward to These Tokyo 2020 Olympics Videogames (Paralympics, too!)

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Analysis from your KoopaTV Olympics experts.

When it came to answering where Mario & Sonic were at for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games, KoopaTV was the top result on search engines for a long time and got thousands and thousands of hits. I believe that makes us the authoritative source on the Olympic Games videogames, coupled with our very comprehensive before-and-after coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

The future of those games seemed in great doubt when the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games franchise was removed from the Nintendo eShop before the PyeongChang games. 

While they're still missing from the eShop, we now know what's happening for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games:

1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by SEGA and Nintendo
2. Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game by SEGA
3. The Pegasus Dream Tour by JP Games, Inc

One of those is clearly unlike the others, so let's go through one-by-one and I'll let you know what I think.

Fake Dossier→No Collusion→Impeach Anyway; Dark Age of the Law?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Institutional breakdown.

The biggest FAKE NEWS of the decade is the fabrication that President Donald John Trump “colluded” with “the Russians” to pull off a miracle and ascend to the presidency of the United States. This was repeated as a matter of fact by Democrat politicians and the media, as well as bitter intelligence officials.

One of the corroborating factors for this lie was the “Steele dossier”, which was an unverified document paid for by candidate Donald Trump's main opponent, the Hillary Clinton campaign. It claimed, among other things, that the Russians had compromising and embarrassing information on candidate Donald Trump, and because of this, they are able to control all of his policy decisions or else they'd release this information. This dossier was submitted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) as the basis for why the government needed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) secret court warrant to spy on Trump campaign member and American citizen Carter Page, who was mentioned in the dossier. (Spying on American citizens is a big deal.)

The Mueller Report, by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, has just been released and ultimately couldn't establish a case for coordination/collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government... which makes even the New York Times wonder how this fake-filled Steele dossier got so much power to be used as the primary evidence in a spy warrant.

Thanks to the dossier, as well as a series of coincidental contacts between Trump campaign members and people from Russia, this investigation started in 2016... and has now ended in 2019, with the conclusion that no collusion happened. How do Democrats respond? Well, let's ask Democrat presidential nominee and KoopaTV-ignoring jerk, Elizabeth Warren:

Genius Prosecutor Reveals Crooked Attorney

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Ace Attorney stands to lose his reputation and media placements.

(LOS ANGELES, California) Mere hours ago at the Los Angeles District courthouse, Courtroom No. 7, there was a stunning outcome in the trial of Zak Gramarye (40), a member of the famous magician group Troupe Gramarye. Mr. Gramarye had been accused of murdering the sickly head of the Troupe, Magnifi Gramarye (67), in order to have the rights of his magic.

After noon local time, Zak Gramarye's defence attorney, Phoenix Wright (~26), had presented a critical piece of evidence implicating Zak's fellow troupe member, Valant Gramarye (37), for the murder—a missing page from Magnifi's diary. Upon presenting the evidence, the prosecutor in the case, young 17-year old fresh-out-of-law-school Klavier Gavin, asked for the trial to move to closed doors away from public viewing.

When the trial reconvened, the Judge was ready to call a verdict, but Zak Gramarye vanished from the courthouse and is still on the loose. Thus, no verdict was declared.

KoopaTV has exclusive insight into what transpired in that private setting. We won't reveal our methods and sources, but we will reveal the result and fallout.

Mysterious Prosecutor Godot; Now A Spirit Battle!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself...

Yesterday's release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Version 3.0 shows how seriously that development team is integrating downloadable content (DLC) into the game, with the first Challenger Pack being Joker and his Persona series. One of the things they've done is add several new Persona Spirits to the game, with a special DLC Spirit Board where you can do battles with these Spirits any time you want. (If you don't have the DLC you can still buy them from the Vault's store.)

At KoopaTV, we've been looking ahead to Challenger Pack 2 since the beginning of the month, since it features Phoenix Wright and our beloved Ace Attorney franchise. We've already done two Spirit Battles with Ace Attorney characters and now this is our third.

I'll be creating a Spirit Battle concept featuring the mysterious prosecutor Godot, the new and controversial prosecutor of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations.

Warning: This article may be a touch spoiler-y for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations, as well as for... the Bayonetta games? (But if you clicked the link in the preceding paragraph, that also kind of spoiled the former game, too.)

Spirit Details

Name

Godot

Series

Ace Attorney series

Class

Advanced

Spirit Type, Ability

Primary

Water Weakness

Three slots

Version 3.0 of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Released!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Featuring Joker, stage builder, video editing, and mobile app stupidity.

Tonight, the much-anticipated-since-February 2019 update to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch, Version 3.0, is released!

While it's not a Nintendo Direct, Nintendo released a 15-minute video last night about what's in Version 3.0 that might as well be a Direct. It has three million views right now, so you probably have seen it already, but I'll embed it anyway and talk about my thoughts:

The video spends most of the time to Joker being Challenger Pack 1, which you may remember from his trailer at The Game Awards 2018.

I'm going to gloss over Joker in this article and in my Super Smash Bros. Ultimate play in general. I never heard of this Ren Amamiya guy (Joker's real name) until the GameFAQs Character Battle X contest ran months before The Game Awards. I voted for Claire against him without even giving an explanation. She won. That's it.

The video goes in great detail about Joker, his Phantom Thieves friends, and his Persona, Arsene. None of them impress me and they're all annoying. His victory screen is cool I guess. I still don't know anything about Persona as a series and I don't really want to. None of the games except for a spin-off sub-series are on a Nintendo console anyway. Screw it. Plus...

Reggie Retires, Makes @Reggie Twitter

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Post-retirement suggestions and possibilities included.

As far as I can tell, now-former President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime (notably spelling his own name without an accent mark) is a masochist. He had a fantastic time working at Nintendo for over a decade with his only social media presence being an underused LinkedIn account.

Yesterday he retired, and that same day he makes a Twitter account (handle @Reggie—which must have existed beforehand but I guess he negotiated with Twitter to have it transferred to him) in order to start “enjoying” his retirement.

Pro-tip: Twitter—and much of social media in general—sucks. If it weren't for KoopaTV, I wouldn't have a Twitter account. (Follow @TheREALKoopaTV) It's a cesspool of negativity and/or virtue-signaling, and “viral” content. (Usually stolen from original content creators like me.) There's nothing to enjoy and no happiness to be found. Reggie is looking forward to misery and I hope he quits Twitter soon.

In the one day Reggie's Twitter has existed, it's following a similar path to another Twitter account that started making activity after its owner departed ways with their high-profile job...

Kamala "Komala" Harris and Tax Refund Stupidity

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Someone this stupid or misleading is the leading Democrat candidate for president? Gross.

Inexplicably to me, former California attorney general and current California senator Kamala Harris is one of the leaders in the Democratic presidential nominating contest for 2020. She's a disingenuous liar and completely unfit for office—but unlike the current guy in presidential office, she doesn't have good policy positions to make up for those faults.

Since today is Tax Day (April 15), here's a taxes-related example. All of the Democrats absolutely hate President Donald John Trump's signature tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Their lying narrative has been that it's somehow been a “tax scam” and actually resulted in an increase in your taxes. Eventually, lies are met with questions about proof, and so Kamala Harris's proof point is about the size of the tax refund you may or may not have gotten from the Internal Revenue Service:

Live link to the tweet is here.

“The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let's call the President's tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%.”

The scam here isn't in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, but in the Democrats portrayal of how “tax refunds” work. Let me explain it to you, and then characterise Kamala Harris. (Scroll down to... well, you'll know where to, if you just want the Kamala Harris part.)

The Nintendo Labo VR Kit In Comatose Cappy Capturing Cahoots

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Virtual Reality for kids is bad news.

Today, a horrible new evil was let out into Earth, coming to stores near you. I'm writing about the Nintendo Labo VR Kit, also known as Toy-Con 4. That's VR for Virtual Reality, a technology most known in the gaming world for giving people headaches after experiencing it.

But why do you get headaches? Forget whatever science tells you. I'm going to tell you the real reason, and how the Labo amplifies that. Having your kids near any kind of Labo is a bad idea for any mother (or father), but that's especially true for the Virtual Reality kit.

I've been writing from the beginning of my anti-Labo advocacy a year ago about a Labo-Cappy alliance, but I never went into much detail about how those two anti-Koopa forces complement one another. I'm finally going to cover that as well.

Enough teasing. Time to start with what exactly is in a Labo VR Kit. It actually comes in several flavours that are varying combinations of the Nintendo Switch software, and Toy-Cons of VR Goggles, a Blaster, a Camera, an Elephant, a Bird, and a Wind Pedal. That's summarised in picture form below:

Franziska von Karma: The Spirit Battle

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Franziska wants revenge and she wants to prove her perfection as a Spirit.

We at KoopaTV are excited to bring you the second in our weekly series of Ace Attorney-inspired Spirit Battle concepts. We're doing these because of Phoenix Wright being confirmed as the second Challenger Pack in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter Pass.

Today we showcase Franziska von Karma, daughter of legendary prosecutor Manfred von Karma, and a prosecuting prodigy that passed the bar exam at only 13 years young. She previously got overlooked by CAPCOM when it came to getting in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite. Along with being a prosecutor throughout the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (now purchasable on all major consoles and PC), she's been making a name for herself in Interpol.

Now she's really angry after Galeem took her Spirit.

Spirit Details

Name

Franziska von Karma

Series

Ace Attorney series

Class

Ace

Spirit Type, Ability

Support

Weapon Attack ↑

FAKE NEWS on Nintendo Directs... and Stage Builder?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Time for yet another lesson on how to not do journalism.

I personally dislike writing about rumours and fake information on KoopaTV. It goes against this site's “truth and levity” mantra. However, I'm happy to trash what some people may consider my competition, and I enjoy taking irresponsible media outlets to task. Today we have two topics, one more egregious than the other, but both relating to recent Nintendo-related “leaks.”

Nintendo Direct and FAKE NEWS Journalism

There is this mediocre website out there called Gaming INTEL that self-proclaims to be “an independent video gaming news website founded in 2016.” They focus in having “a wide range of inside sources including data miners, allowing us to publish exclusive leaks and rumours about unannounced game details.” and promise “the most accurate information with the deepest insight into the gaming industry.”

Put another way, they're just another FAKE NEWS website with mediocre material appealing to the lowest common denominator of Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Apex Legends fans. For whatever reason, some Nintendo fans browsing this crappy website saw an article about a “LEAK” from an “inside source” (pluralised as “sources” in the headline) with a track record of being “correct on several occasions in the past” that there would be a Nintendo Direct occurring tomorrow, April 11. As of publishing the night of April 10, Nintendo hasn't announced a Direct, and they typically announce them the day before at the latest. It's safe to say this inside source, or multiple sources, or whatever, is just a pile of FAKE NEWS.

No Need To HOLD IT In: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Released On All Consoles!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Plus, the pro-tip that I'll follow that CAPCOM doesn't want you to hear!

If you've been paying attention to KoopaTV since the start of April, you'll notice Ace Attorney references everywhere. We've always been an Ace Attorney fan site masquerading as a Super Mario one.

Phoenix Wright, the star of the amazing Ace Attorney series, being announced as a character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was one thing. If it was just that, that would warrant the whole month just being Ace Attorney references.

But today is the release date of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy on four modern platforms! The Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam. Awesome!

Surely that means that the CAPCOM Store is featuring the game. It ignored the Ace Attorney series at launch, but now that there's a new game, surely Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is in the New Releases section...

...Nope. Not there. You can buy the Steam version off Brands → Other Brands. Just not as a New Release.

Anyway, check out the launch trailer, and then my pro-tip. The trailer actually does things differently than all of the other Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy launch trailers over the years, like pairing the Fey member and detectives in one artwork shot: 
 

Spring Fest Splatfest: Hare vs. Tortoise: The Rematch! Who Wins?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Why slow and steady wins the race.

Preceding the finals of the Super Smash Bros. North America Open 2019 at PAX East, where Phoenix Wright was announced as an upcoming downloadable character, was the Splatoon 2-equivalent tournament, which also got a developer announcement.

Along with a new game update in Version 4.6.0 was the announcement of a new worldwide Splatfest, deemed the Spring Fest. They really are disrespecting the Southern Hemisphere in their “worldwide” Splatfest, where it's actually Autumn at this time. (Shout-out to our Oceania readers.)

Anyway, the Spring Fest is taking place from April 19 to April 21, coinciding with the hare-happy holiday of Easter. Biased? Well, as I'll write later in this article, there's a tortoise-friendly holiday at the same time.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. The Spring Fest's theme this time is...

“Who would win if the tortoise and the hare had a rematch?”

This references the Aesop Fable where an overconfident hare and a mild-mannered tortoise have a race. The hare almost gets to the end and then takes a nap right before the finish line. The tortoise then completes the race while the hare is asleep, and proceeds to win. The lesson is either one about the hare's overconfidence being its downfall/snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or how slow-and-steady wins the race/it's a marathon, not a sprint.

The question is not asking which of the hare or the tortoise you like more. And it's obviously not asking who would win the first time—the tortoise did. But it's asking what would happen in a rematch. Would the hare learn its lesson and not fall asleep right before? After all, the tortoise only won entirely because of the hare's stupidity/low-stamina (depending on your interpretation) not because it was a hard-worker or anything of the sort.

Then again, this is KoopaTV. In terms of animals, we have a pretty obvious bias. I'll examine this hare vs. tortoise situation in multiple, increasingly-controversial applications, and then give you my overall conclusion at the end.

UK's Competition & Markets Authority Launches Investigation Into Nintendo Switch Online

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - The investigation also covers PlayStation Network and Xbox Live.

Today, the United Kingdom's independent non-ministerial governmental department, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has announced they'll be investigating how the major console manufacturers—Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft—have constructed their online service contracts. Specifically, the automatic renewal terms and if those break consumer protection laws.

If you live in the United Kingdom and you're still alive, you can reach out to the CMA via this link. They're looking for your story.

With regards to Nintendo, I'm on record for believing the Nintendo Switch Online automatic renewal terms are absolutely “slimy and scummy”, especially with how you MUST provide your credit card or PayPal information to Nintendo even if you'd rather pay with your existing account balance. 

When I was writing that Nintendo Switch Online article, I was told by other staffers that this kind of automatic renewal is the norm in this industry, and I should accept it. Well, the United Kingdom government apparently agrees with my view.

Not that I enjoy government regulation here. The article where I decried Nintendo's practices (that extend to their console competitors) had market-based ways to make our displeasure known, without a government investigation. Still, those companies do have an obligation to follow the laws of the countries where they do business, so if they are breaking them, then, yes, something should be done about that.

It's important to note that the CMA, having just launched the investigation, hasn't made any conclusions yet. They're just fact-finding. There is a decent likelihood that the government will fail to find anything and then never prosecute a case, especially since all the major console manufacturers will have Phoenix Wright, the Ace Attorney, in their counsel as early as next week. 

Phoenix Wright's new clients: Nintendo Switch Online, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network.
All fighting the Competition & Markets Authority.

Nintendo in particular has a very special, and Smashing, agreement with Mr. Phoenix Wright, so he's going to work hard to defend them. 


Ludwig would like to see the companies voluntarily not have auto-renewal, because that's predatory and terrible. They can't convince customers that paid online is worth it normally so they have to be underhanded about it. Still, if the government is what's required, then... Anyway, this is KoopaTV's 1600th published article! So, what do you think about all of this?


And here is the part where Phoenix Wright joins their counsel.
...Phoenix Wright was disbarred later in the month.
For even more detail for how Nintendo deserves to have government regulatory agencies take action against them, see how auto-renewal for Nintendo Switch Online works in 2020.
Three years later? All three console companies have agreed to change how their subscriptions and auto-renewing works thanks to the CMA.

Maya Fey: From Spirit Medium to Spirit Battle!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - What the Maya Fey Spirit Battle would be like in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

To celebrate and express just how excited we are about Phoenix Wright being confirmed as the second Challenger Pack in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter Pass, each week between now and when Phoenix Wright is released in-game we will come up with a new idea for a Spirit Battle using a character from the Ace Attorney series!

To start this series off, we'll be making a Spirit Battle of the most famous Spirit Medium in Ace Attorney: Maya Fey, recently-declared Master of Kurain Village's Fey clan and practitioner of the Kurain Channeling Technique. The fact that Galeem has turned her into a Spirit is ironic. Or, he will, as of when Phoenix Wright becomes playable. Now, let's get on with the details of what kind of Spirit she'll be, and her fight...

Spirit Details

Name

Maya Fey

Series

Ace Attorney series

Class

Advanced

Spirit Type, Ability

Support

Transformation Duration ↑

Case Study on Nintendo's Events Promotion: North America Open 2019

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - You could replace Nintendo with any company competent in digital marketing, but this is KoopaTV...

The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open 2019 is over and it's been announced that the Southeast region will be playing against the world in a pre-E3 2019 event. (It was also announced that Phoenix Wright will be a playable character!) I mentioned before that Nintendo promoted it through all of their communication channels.

But what does that actually look like? Why is it effective? And could they have done much more?

Well, for me, it started with Nintendo's news press release, which was the basis for my KoopaTV article about the event to begin with. After that, it appeared on social media and YouTube, out to millions of subscribers and followers.

Smash—or splat—your way to victory in two new tournaments! Join online battles in #SmashBrosUltimate or #Splatoon2 for a shot at the Final Event! Jump into the action for yourself beginning 2/2! #NintendoNAO19https://t.co/itRSVsz5f9 pic.twitter.com/oA9YhsWPva

— Nintendo Versus (@NintendoVS) January 22, 2019

KoopaTV's March 2019 Review Newsletter

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Before we march off to April, let's review March.

Welcome to another edition of KoopaTV's review newsletters, where we go back and evaluate and discuss what happened in the previous month—sometimes there's new site updates in these, too. This newsletter is one of those times.

This newsletter we'll talk about the best articles of March, your best (and worst) comments of March, update you on Round 25 of the KoopaTV Loyalty Rewards Program, and give some reminders about site features.

Plus, another new social media platform!

Top Five Recommended KoopaTV Experiences of March 2019

March 2019 is one of those months where it's a big pain and undertaking to pick just five KoopaTV articles to highlight here. I've tried to do so without putting that much thought into the decision; otherwise this'd have to be published a whole day later. That means that everything on KoopaTV is worth experiencing.

Here they are in chronological order:

TAKE THAT! Phoenix Wright Revealed For Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter Pass DLC!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - This is so exciting! [Must-see update at the bottom of the page that changes the nature of this article]

This past weekend was the PAX East gaming convention. Nintendo was there in big fashion, hosting the finals of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open 2019. (See that link for more information, and the comments for how close I got to winning the qualifier rounds to attend the tournament.)

After promoting that through their communication channels (YouTube, e-mail, social media, press release), the tournament happened. The Southeast region won. And Nintendo ended the whole thing with a big announcement and trailer about the second character that will be appearing, after Joker, in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter Pass DLC:

Yes, the second Challenger Pack is CAPCOM's Phoenix Wright, the world-renowned (but based out of California) Ace Attorney! The audience erupted in applause. After all, people have been wanting Phoenix Wright since the Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot back in Super Smash Bros. 4. What can we learn from his trailer, which, like Joker's, doesn't have gameplay in it?