i think red guy suffers from psychosis, which causes him to hallucinate and have in-depth delusions. so really, he isn’t even dreaming: he’s seeing all of this in the waking world amongst other, more “normal” people, and roy (the only other recurring character that also appears in the waking world) is a friend or a loved one or even a therapist who’s trying to help him. red guy resisted help for 4 episodes. then, we don’t see him in episode 5; maybe he was hospitalized (not necessarily on the medication he needs or getting proper help, as we still see hints of him in episode 5 and that episode is still in the same style) and the sterile setting helped to suppress some of the hallucinations, but didn’t entirely get rid of them. in episode 6 red guy gets released from the hospital. we see him wake up at his job, and then go to when red guy sings the Creative song to a crowd while he’s outside of a delusion, hinting to the fact that he has psychosis to the audience, and the audience basically boos him off the stage. red guy was trying to normalize psychosis in that scene, and the crowd (society) thought he was a freak. then red guy sees roy in the audience and realizes that no one is going to understand him as long as he exhibits these signs of mental illness and knows he has the choice between continuing to be alienated by people that hate him for something he can’t naturally change or getting help to try to be as “normal” as possible. and so, at the end of the last episode, roy finally convinces red guy to get the meds + the help that he needs in order to achieve “normalcy”, and thus ends red guy’s seemingly detrimental and avoidant cycle with his mental illness… for now.
in short: i think the overall lesson of dhmis is the constant struggle between mental illness and conformity in a largely ableist society.
It’s pretty amazing to see how much more developed Nintendo’s characters have become, so I thought a good way to demonstrate this evolution would be to harken back to one of the GameCube’s most treasured titles, Super Smash Bros. Melee!
The decision to replace the late Nana and Popo with Lucas and Villager came from these two reasons:
1) Lucas was meant to debut in the Smash series in Melee (replacing Ness), but Ness returned due to the delay of Mother 3
2) Animal Crossing was first introduced on the GameCube
I figured Pichu was best left as an empty space.
Anyways, enjoy this edit! If you want to use it, I would greatly appreciate credit :)
EDIT 3/8/2016
Good news to those who wanted a high-definition version of this photo! This version can be found here: http://imgur.com/VESyNmP
(Sorry for the watermark, but it’s been going around without any credit and I’m a bit of a credit monster :( )
This man, this wonderful, wonderful man, gives 500% with every game he works on to make it the best experience he can. He messes up sometimes, everyone does, but he gives his all to try and make his games packed with content and please his fans.
This game is on the 3DS. If it was remade with only HD visuals and was put on the Switch, there would be people who wouldn’t even guess it was on 3DS given how much content is stuffed into Uprising. There’s a lot.
And say what you will about Brawl, but talk about ambitious. A full-fledged story mode with Nintendo’s characters interacting with one another through cutscenes, Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog in the game, a bunch of modes and achievements, online play, 258 songs (not including variations or sound effects), live orchestrated music (main theme with Latin lyrics sung by a mixed choir), save battle replays, Stage Builder, etc.
And this man continued to work on the Super Smash Bros. series despite his calcific tendinitis (extreme pain near his shoulder) which affected him whenever moving his arm and did so against his doctor’s instruction to rest.
Masahiro Sakurai does what he can to make fans happy.
Can you even imagine how difficult it was to bring back every character from all of the Super Smash Bros. games? Especially Snake?
He did that because he didn’t want people to be disappointed that they would lose a character like in previous installments. And has included some of the most fan-requested characters people have wanted for over 15 years like Ridley and King K. Rool.
Stop complaining your favorite character didn’t get in and leave Masahiro Sakurai alone. The fact that I’ve had make another post about this makes me disappointed in the fanbase and sad for Sakurai.
