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Critics SLAM The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.01.26
01 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Today's gaming news stories include critics have harsh words about the Super Mario Galaxy movie, Mind's Eye's DLC will reveal how the game was sabotaged, and Stellar Blade's developer acquires Shinji Mikami's new studio. Of all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, April 1st, April Fool's Day, 2026.
I'm your host, Blessing, Addy Oye Jr. Joining me is the legend, Greg Miller. My last day at work. Oh, no. April Fool's! Oh, damn.
Chapter 2: What are critics saying about the Super Mario Galaxy movie?
I got you, Bless. I was like, damn, is this a spring break starting early? Yeah, yeah. Unexpectedly, on Thursday, I'm leaving. Yeah, damn. How are you doing, Greg? I'm good. How are you? Doing well. Did you get got yet by any April Fool's?
No, I don't think so. Because usually you start reading the headline. You're like, this is stupid. This is April Fool's. You know what I mean? I don't know. Do you care about it?
Do you find any enjoyment? I think since starting this job, no, because my job is to compile news. And so when I'm compiling news on April Fool's Day, it actually makes my job harder. One of the ones that did get me as I was putting together KHG was IGN's April Fool thing. Oh, I haven't seen it. What is it? It's pretty good, actually.
Because honestly, it's one of those ones that actually tricks you. It's not like...
you know the live action zelda thing where it's like if you know playstation announces project playmo yes next gen dual sense this one you know playstation's got a lot of bad ideas so that does make sense yeah and like i think this is like loosely based off of patents that had yeah and so as i'm reading it i'm like oh shit it's happening and then i get halfway through and i was like no this this can't be real and then i remembered no i can't do it they definitely got me on this one
Yeah, I don't know. I feel it's hard to tell sometimes. Is it just because of April Fools in general? Is it just not even a young person? Am I jaded by just wanting to do my job and the world being as bad as it is that I don't need bad April Fools Day jokes?
I think what it was was that... companies caught on to the fact that they could do April Fool's jokes. And with the internet and social media and all that stuff, more and more companies jumped in. And it's like, it's like when you have a meme, that's funny the first day. And then by day three, you start to see company accounts jumping in on the meme.
And it's like, okay, well now it's not funny anymore.
yeah it's that thing right where like and i don't i i can't i worked there many years after i i worked there for many years after and participated in the april fools but i also just feel like it peaked with the zelda trailer at ign when they did the live action zelda trailer and everybody thought it was real and it was like a huge deal and then ign always chased that high even when i was there and even that was like a little bit like all right what do we you know what i mean like
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Chapter 3: How will Mindseye's DLC reveal game sabotage evidence?
You know what I mean? It was a zero. I've never seen a zero before in my life. If anything, video game reviewers need to get meaner. Like, that's why I come out of this thing feeling like, you know what I mean?
You want to know, I think so much of that comes back to is that the difference in the product and what you're doing.
Sure.
Again, I've said this, I think, recently on Greg Waves. I'm sorry if I said it here. I had a conversation around the Oscars with Jen. I'm just like, can you imagine how nice it would be to be like, all right, well, this weekend we're going to play all the game of the years. Candidates. You know what I mean? You can sit there and legitimately watch all the Oscar films in a three-day period, right?
Yeah. Granted, that's a lot of movies, but again, it's doable. In a way, just these aren't. And so... my personal interpretation on this is somebody who granted professionally reviews video games, but you know, right. An amateur level, right. You know, I'm a capstone for college. I had already done my journalism degree.
My last class was working at the magazine insert in the newspaper and I reviewed movies there. Right. And so it was this idea of like, I feel like movies, and this is not an insult to their work at all, are so, for the writer to a degree, disposable. And if that's too negative, you get so many more at-bats. You know what I mean?
You could legitimately, if you were working as a full-time movie reviewer online or anywhere, right? Watch a movie that night, do the review during the day, watch a movie that night. You got five pieces in a week versus video game reviewing. That's probably, hopefully, if you're doing five days of gaming, maybe two games to play, depending how big they are, this, that, the other.
Where I think when you're invested in something so long, it's easier to be like... Well, I want to give credit for this. It wasn't the worst thing in the world. Yeah, I didn't like Crimson Desert's story, but the combat is there.
I found the fun by finding the open world, whereas you can go for 90 minutes and be like, I fucking hated this, and here's all the bile and hate I have for it that I'm going to put out, and I'm going to move on to the next thing and review something like that.
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Chapter 4: What does the acquisition of Shinji Mikami's studio mean for Stellar Blade?
That is a good April Fool's bit, but I also don't like it. To my library. Oh, shit.
Mind's eye. I'm ready. Whenever you're ready, Mark, I'm ready.
let's hop into some super chats you guys have a lot to say between this and the previous story so let's get in there silver j hawkins writes in and says i truly want to see this play out um as if they're completely totally fake and a joke or it turns into a self-report on the guy making the claim Yeah, I'm so fascinated by what the conversation is going to be in court.
When these inevitably get brought up of like, so what's up with these real names and these real people that you put into the game? You know, this is how it is. This is just how it is. It's like, oh, there can't be two Jessica Smiths. And it's like, well, you're suing one of them. But yeah, those are public documents, too. Public documents.
Shortchangedhero writes in and says, this is either pure drama or it's the most insanely smart strategy because it's going to spike in sales and in player count. But like will it because like maybe for me and Greg and for like a handful of people that are watching the show that are also similarly morbidly curious about what's going on.
But I don't I don't know if it's going to be enough to be like, yeah, we're going to risk legal trouble in order to sell some DLC.
I mean, like it's one of those. What do you got to lose? I think a lot. I mean, we don't know anything. We know Minds Eye did not launch well. I can't imagine it sold well. I can't imagine it made a lot of money. I can't imagine the studio and company are in good shape. So what's going to happen? We're going to put this out, at least get the goodwill of like, see, we were fucked over.
And then you get sued into oblivion and you file for bankruptcy. And the thing that was already on the ropes is dead.
And so like, does it end up just being a thing for like the business taking off? Because I guess I think about Mark Gerhard, the person of like your personal.
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Chapter 5: Why did the US patent office revoke Nintendo's character summoning patent?
Oh, okay. Went with that instead. Rice bowls are good, yeah. But I almost went with the burger. Sure, fair enough. Was never going to go with the ramen.
No. Yeah. You have to be in a mood. You got to be in a soup mood. I got to be ready to sweat. Yeah, yeah.
Let's bring in one from Foxy Steve, who says, just wanted to say that as a partially disabled man, working out can be demotivating, but bless your gym gains, encourage me to continue going. Thank you so much, Foxy Steve. I was going to say your story up today in the gym. I get very, not self-confident. I'm not great at posting selfies. I don't like posting myself. Sure. You know, I don't know.
I feel like I'm doing, I feel like I'm being corny when I do it or cringe. Okay, fair. But. I don't think you are. I'm trying to like get the confidence. Go for it. Thank you. I'm going to do it. Okay, good. Do it for me. Every day, do it and say, this is for Greg.
Really confuse your audience.
And then we got one from Corey. You got all these DMs like, your boss can't ask for selfies. I don't know. I didn't read that in the handbook. Corey C307 writes in and says, I don't get to watch y'all live very often due to my work schedule, but I'm off today. So here I am. Love you guys and keep up the great work. We love you. Thanks for hanging out. Thank you so much for hanging out, Corey.
Man, I packed a lunch now. I really want a really great sandwich. Or even a mid-sandwich, a very good sandwich. What about a really good soup and a bread bowl? A bread bowl, Greg? No, no. You know how, like... I'm not a fucking 75-year-old tourist at Pier 39. Clam out the mountain bread factory.
I got a bread bowl, clam chowder. You know how you order a grilled cheese and it comes with a tomato soup? What do we do with that tomato soup? I pour it on the ground. Spit in it. What? Get out of here. What? What's wrong?
I'm here for the grilled cheese, bro.
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