Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-43491575-20191126233459/@comment-39241343-20191128120853

ngl I'm not thrilled for the cats and HOBaRT, I see the appeal but nothing they've put out interests me despite HOBaRT's great sources, But I feel as if they tried really hard to make them liked, too hard.

They are original characters introduced for this tournament, I understand they need to give us a reason to be interested in them, but the cats got the longest reveal with original art and voice acting which just kept going on, and before the losers' bracket they get a new rip and two dual rips all back to back. Pitbull has gotten the same treatment right after, but at least he lost so it makes more sense. Wouldn't it have been better to give us rips for Adam instead, who actually lost to the cats and will be part of the losers? They could have saved the Jazz Cats' music for later.

HOBaRT doesn't have it so bad, in fact I think they didn't showcase his potential well with what we've got, and his reveal keeps is short and simple and it's one of the best reveal videos. And yet before the tournament even started they actually gave him a full song with lyrics about how great and sexy it is. That didn't work though, and I can't shake off the feeling that the results of his fight resulted in even more attention to the Jazz Cats, while ignoring characters who need more rips.

Look at Papyrus, he has 1 rip by himself that last 4 minutes tops and one dual rip with his opponent in the first round. Other contestants like Law and Disorder got the same treatment so it should be fair, but L&D's rip was a 6 minute banger that showed both member's style while Papyrus needed more than they've shown us to convince the fans he can stand by his own without the Undertale soundtrack. All the while, Zun gets things such as a 6 minute medley of an entire game and the cats keep pulling out songs, I feel they've really done Papyrus dirty, I voted for Law & Disorder because honestly they didn't give me much of a reason to vote Papyrus, and by the way he got demolished most seem to agree, so unless they put out something great before the voting starts he's going to get owned again.

I may be talking out of my ass, the team is putting a lot of effort into this and it shows, they are putting a lot of high quality rips and there's something for everyone to enjoy. But still, while there must be losers they need to try and make everyone capable of winning. They made the fans love Metal Ajit Pai, so I know they can do it.

Oops, forgot to mention: I think they're trying to solve the representation problem putting the playlist to the characters with pop-ups in the VS videos. I hope that helps somehow even if I don't like them aesthetically, but it's not perfect. For example, I can't tell anything about what Robotnik's YTPs will be like from the playlist, unless you count the dancing goblins as a YTP which I don't. There is one song with Pingas, but its not a YTP, or a YTPMV either as its only sound.