ROUND 3A: HAMBURGER MII (Musikmumie on YouTube) vs I WANT DIE (RTGame) vs SATORU IWATA (Nintendo)

From Nintendo Dream magazine

Todays rip: 17/01/2024

Because I Love You

Season 1 Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 6​.​66

Dedicated to Satoru Iwata

More than ever these recent days, I've been thinking a lot about the SiIvaGunner community - earlier this week with 2023! YEAR OF THE PORTAL RADIO! I unabashedly wrote more about that than the rip itself. Because I find it to be such an interesting fandom to be part of, due just to how...scattered, it feels, in a lot of ways. The main hub of discussion is the SiIvaGunner Fan Discord, which by the very nature of Discord servers themselves has a sort of, fleeting and temporary feel to it - its hard to get a feel of what's what around there when there's no real way to see "popular" posts or whatnot like on other social media. And even on Twitter, and the handful of people you'll find here on Tumblr like me, there's a big divide with SiIvaGunner fans, those who just like to keep up with the silly mashups, those invested in the lore, those far too invested in both like me, and so many other subfactions - it rarely feels like we're able to band together to form a unified voice.

But whenever we are, it tends to be within the one place we're all drawn to. The YouTube channel itself.

Throughout Season 1's wild lore progression with GiIvaSunner's termination, Chad Warden, Snow Halation, and The Reboot, it became clear to us in the audience that the best way to keep track of all that was happening and to share those news with others, was to simply do it in the comments of all the videos we were already watching. All the classic jokes, new jokes, sudden twists, and places with room to speculate on what it all could mean - no matter what a rip was about, there'd always be a community there, a crowd of people always awaiting what could be right around the corner. A crowd that, directly through the events of The Reboot, had now learned to actually respect one another, and to share their love of rips, music, and gaming with one another, unified as fans.

And its that knowledge of the community's growth, the way it manages to feel both bizarrely disconnected yet simultaneously unified, that makes Because I Love You hit all the harder than it already does. Because especially back then, we were all expecting SiIvaGunner to just play along as they always do, to keep making silly rips no matter the day, keep us in the community engaged in what's being made. Yet Because I Love You, neither in title nor contents holds no joke in sight - it's a beautiful, hand-played piano cover of the titular song, paying respects to the late Satoru Iwata who passed away a year prior to the video's upload. A community and channel otherwise known for its laughs, bits, and intricate lore, were suddenly faced with a piece of darkness from the real world - the lingering sorrow that followed Iwata's death.

Just a day after this post goes up, SiIvaGunner is set to appear at this year's MAGFest, represented by a bunch of its current team members. Members of the SiIvaGunner team are more recognized now than ever before, yet back during the days of following Season 1, it was quite easy to miss the fact that the channel was ran by a group of creatives to begin with - that it wasn't just an elaborate prank by some mysterious organization of employees, or just a shameless reposting page, or whatever other conspiracy floated around back in the day. For as much fun as SiIvaGunner likes to have, for all the absurdities and shitposts and takeovers - it is a channel ran by humans, humans who just like us, were brought together by a unified love for video games. A loss like Satoru Iwata's is one that was only truly felt by those who truly do love video games as an artform - to those who, for instance, have dedicated years of their life to following a channel all about celebrating all that the music of video games means to their players, old and new.

Because I Love You, much like Telling Fish Tales, is simply a beautiful reminder of all the human love, empathy, and community that exists within this silly channel. And even back in Season 1, the community knew to set their jokes and banter aside to pay their respects to Iwata, to all that he accomplished for the history of the medium, and for helping to rescue one of the most beloved, influential and downright legenary games of its time. All these years later, and as SiIvaGunner itself enters one more Season of running, I hope we can continue respecting and honoring those that craft the experiences we hold so dear.

United or scattered, those feelings remain.

Okay I’m gonna talk about it. Spoilers under the cut for the end of the Koltin side quest. If you want it to remain a surprise please just ignore this post.

Okay, so Koltin’s quest is all about eating the Bubbul Gems. He gives you rewards at first but then becomes convinced that he must eat ALL of them at once to achieve his dream of turning into a Satori.

However, when he finally does eat them all. He doesn’t turn into a Satori. He turns into a large Blupee. You know. Those rabbit like creature you’ve been getting the Bubbul Gems from. He goes hopping off into the night and the monster balloon stall becomes abandoned from then on.

When you tell his brother Kilton, he will be surprised and a little sad. The dialogue sounds an awful lot like someone being happy their relative is “in a better place” but also sad that they’re no long with them. It has a bittersweet feel to it and was one of the more shocking side quests I’ve encountered in the game.

I wonder how much of the dialogue is an analogue to how Satoru Iwata passed away from cancer. Like I said, a lot of the dialogue from Kilton is very sad but also happy for his brother having found something he wanted (Even if his want resulted in him being magically transformed into a type of monster and will never be able to be turned back). I can imagine that for someone struggling with an illness it can be very similar. Sad they’re gone but happy they’re no longer in pain.

I just have a lot of feelings about this side quest and I’ve not seen many people talk about it at all.

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Within the map of Breath of the Wild, there is an area called Satori Mountain. It can be spotted by a glowing aura in the distance and houses a spiritual horse called 'The Lord of the Mountain'.

This is a memorial built for the president of Nintendo during the game's development, Satori Iwata, who passed away due to cancer on the 11th of July, 2015.

game boys

In the tags put in your happiest memories with any of these games or ones i didn't mention

Something I drew in honour of the closing of the WiiU & 3DS eShops...

[To add context for those who don't know, this is "Satawa Itoru", a Luigi's Mansion OC I made in memory of Satoru Iwata, beloved Nintendo CEO who notably worked on these consoles]

🫡Thanks for the memories

I miss you.

Happy Birthday Mr. Iwata

October Challenge 2020

Day 30 – Species

Promptlist: #linktober2020 By: @joeldsiegel

Date of origin: 7th of January 2021 | Find me here!  🧡

EARTHBOUND has a lot to say about the interconnectedness of humanity and the triumph of love over hate—but that's a lot harder to sell than farting, burping, and vomiting. Here are my thoughts after finally playing it for the first time in my late 30s. Save it for an extended trip to the facilities; it's nearly 5000 words long.

In Loving Memory of the man who saved Pokemon, Master Iwata. 🎈 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/116437992