"The programmer who made the mistake was soundly beaten"

@johnedwin Hopefully they'll wait till all the patches are done and these PS1 games are fucntioning fully again, but yes a physical is guarnateed in some form down the line. If not this year from THQNordic, then at the very least from Limited Run in 1-2 years; since under the forthcoming splintering of Embracer, Limited Run will become CDE Entertainment's direct responsibility.

Oh weird, it wasn't an army of Twitter bots clutching their pearls after all? People just built a strawman to put blame on? Do tell. Anyway, good. It's was never a huge thing, just silly.

"inadvertently"...? How do you "inadvertently" remove these by mistake, Aspyr, I must ask. Am I expecting it to be an honest mistake?

Yeesh...Aspyr really need to get themselves sorted out big time.

@Yojimbo GameStop has a handful of both Rise and Stories amiibo online right now fyi

I hope people will relax about this now, because it was never a big deal in the first place.

How does one "inadvertently" remove specific textures in a game's files and nothing else? Surely there should have been other examples of missing or changed textures.

@The_Dragons_Mouth I don’t normally pay attention to icons but that stood out to me as well. Especially given how colorful the game is.

Understanding the backstory of how this game came to be helped me better understand what this game is trying to accomplish. Now that I've read the review I could see myself definitely playing this. And don't see it in GameFly at the moment, so I'm not sure if a physical release will make it there. I'll put it on my wish list for now and just await of sale.

any news of a physical release?

Considering the ‘click’ of the joy con attaching was half of switch’s advertising strategy it will need a visceral sensation when it connects

My only real gripe with the game is that they need to seriously update the cover art for it on the home screen. It’s nothing but a greenish-yellow background with the title plastered on it.

@Keman I dunno where you're from. But a Steam Deck Oled costs around 500 bucks. Nearly everywhere.

@Olliemar28 I forgot to mention it, and i figured with the giger-esque art this was the place to do it: Happy Alien Day!

@Captain_Toad Refusing to call women “women” is crazy 💀

@smoreon Yeah I meant more of the model shaping/proportions. Textures are redone in remastered but take the same proportions which means less actual code changes.

@Ulysses Idk if you’ve seen the original TTYD but TTYD has so many more lighting/reflection/art style changes than Prime Remastered had, idk you may be a bit bias with saying that.
If TTYD remake with a lot of new stuff isn’t worth 60 dollars than how is the original with less features and less consistent graphics worth $120-150? This is like half the price of the original. This pretty much had as much work as a new mainline Paper Mario game. This is genuinely one of the best games of all time, so much I’d say it’s better than any Switch exclusive (but that’s just my own opinion). It’s worth the 60$ price.
TTYD will not have trouble selling. It’s reputation is really high, and it’s Mario brand. And it is a remake with a lot of new graphical changes. Not trying to say Metroid Prime was a bad remaster (it’s impressive and should be the remaster standard!) but saying it’s more impressive than the TTYD remake is just completely out of the question

I hope the next Switch cards are bigger than 16gb each, though. We can't keep having retail games take up boatloads of storage on-system or on-SD card.

An interesting depiction of Death. The God Kalunga is very polite and helpful.

@GrailUK I did, thank you, made me feel seen for a day 😌

Didn’t SBI make mention of Akira Toriyama at one point? Other then that I’m staying out of this.

@Spider-Kev No, I would cry if my switch went through the wash haha

I'm only interested in a set that features Pekoe. She's my favorite villager

@KingMike Oh I was a big fan of the larger carts back in the day, they had some strong advantages that get overlooked, not least durability but it did seem a nonsensical argument in this case unless you were firmly against the idea of a portable console.

Personally, I'm very happy with these small game cards if the only alternative is digital. I guess us Nintendo fans just have to be grateful for small mercies at this point, as much as things could be better.

If the price of these cards continues to fall come the next generation then just maybe we will see more games on the card, not less when it comes to third party ports.

The price of storage such as MicroSD cards continues to fall quite dramatically year on year, so it's far from an impossibility. What's more of an issue is the very nature of these companies and their desire for more and more profit and growth, at the cost of giving consumers a desirable and worthwhile product.

I think I will play in Kiswahili first! Staring at download progress bar

I’m pretty stoked that the game is dual audio. I’ve always like Kiswahili but since I don’t have a practical use for it I only know bits and pieces. I’m sorta hoping the game will spur me to pick the language back up.

@RBRTMNZ
The hypocrisy of calling anyone a bigot due to not liking SBI and even just bringing them up. I literally gave you a link that shows SBI are quite racist themselves, and you're telling me that if I don't assume anyone who mentions them is a bigot, that I don't understand context? Ridiculous.
You're making this a more intolerant and 'us vs them' thing than they are. If someone decides to boycott something, a game being set in Africa doesn't change that.
If you seriously think SBI just 'makes things more diverse' and anyone against what they stand for is a bigot, then I'd be happy to provide you with more evidence that they aren't the 'good people' you think they are. But if you haven't deduced that maybe, just maybe, there's a legitimate reason to not like the people at SBI or their work from the link I gave you, there's a good chance it's you who wants to remain ignorant and die on this hill despite any evidence to the contrary.
I'll say this again for good measure: automatically assuming someone is a bigot and treating them with scorn, not even because of their opinion, but even just mentioning a company was involved and people's right to know that, is the height of hypocrisy. You're not the good person you think are when you resort to hate so readily. And you'd know neither are SBI if you actually bothered to look into it.

@PikminMarioKirby I think you might be working with a different definition of "geometry". They literally remade the models and environments in MP- just look at any comparison screenshot, and the changes and enhancements will be obvious! (We are talking about the Switch version, right, not the Wii port?)

"Geometry" is simply any mesh/model: polygons grouped into shapes (e.g., Samus, a Space Pirate, the Tallon IV landing area, a tree, etc.). New models can be made without changing the layouts or the basic design of something.

@RappinRootbeer same here anything for a functioning controller, if its not too much to ask can we sell products that actually work please and thank you

@tobsesta99 I'm not here to spout Black/females/gay/LGBTQ+ people bad, Do not buy woke product, SBI DETECTED, beep boop beep! As one, that is tiring and it's everyone is free to buy whatever piece of media they wish as I said a bunch of comments earlier. Two, this is a place to talk video games, if we want to wax poetic about politics, there's always Twitter. Three, I'm also black, so yeah.

If you're going to continue playing this game of "Weed out of racists." then I'm stopping this conversation with you.

@Thumbsofsteel Because SBI lives rent free in some peoples’ heads just for existing 🤷

@Not_Soos No one is saying he didn’t get death threats. Even though what he did was terrible and harmful (not going into detail because I’m tired of talking about that whole fiasco) he didn’t deserve them. Nobody does.

My point is that 99% of the time death threats are sent by cishet conservative gamers to people of color and queer folk over games “hating straight white men” just because they have a trans character or something minor like that.

@Captain_Toad Oh no! Black people exist and Spider-Man 2 wants to shift focus on the newer Spider-Man!

Just admit you’re racist. Saying “blacks” and “females” instead of “black people” and “women” is a huge red flag dude

I love the town hall one, hopefully they’ll do the museum next with a little Brewster cafe built in.

@Captain_Toad I’d say you’re crazy for literally using a list used to engage in racist and queerphobic harassment. Sweet Baby lives in your head rent free I see?

They could be made out of human teeth for all I care as long as they fix the drift problem.

We have reported to the Hana Association of this situation. Expect actions maybe be taken against you as you are the only one remaining of this sector under Zwei Association jurisdiction as we are lacking sufficient personnel to resolve this problem.

Also does anybody know if the OST is available digitally?

@GrailUK
Switch and TVs have speakers next to the screen. Speakers are magnets...

Sweet baby Inc game, so not getting my money

@Tupin @GarlicGuzzler I'm not hating on this guy and this group because they want to bring out diversity. I'm hating on this because SBI is using the of smokescreen of diversity more than likely in bad faith.

@Polvasti Alan Wake 2: Changed race of Saga Anderson from the first game into black.
GOW:R: Race swapped Angrboda.
Playstation's Spiderman 2: Weakened Peter Parker and mary sued Miles morales to the point of possibly sidelining Peter in the third game. Peter said it himself in the final cutscenes.
SS:Kill the Justice League: Harley Quinn ignores her Arhamverse self (as so this entire game.) To do for example a naughty thing to Deadshot, have a love interest to Posion Ivy because that's the thing in the comics, and talk badly to batman.

Three examples are on the SBI detected list.

SS:KTJL is on the Steam one.

At launch they should have 3 skus ready to go!
1- Switch Successor (Standard-LCD screen)
2- Switch Successor (OLED version)
3- Switch Successor (Stationary/home only)

I'd get the home only version. My Switch has almost never left the dock!

That said, if they bring back StreetPass, I'm definitely getting a portable one.

Pretty sure there will be the following issues:

Just magnets: won't hold together for playing. They'll need a lock of some sort.

Magnets will interfere with Bluetooth, IR and control stick causing drift again. Maybe Drift is a feature?

@NoLife Having to download games happens because publishers don't want to pay more for a higher capacity ROM chip inside. It's not because of the cart size itself.
Castlevania 64 had on-cart saving in Japan but does not in the west because Konami didn't want to pay the extra dollar per copy or whatever for the EEPROM chip required. Both versions of the game use the same circuit board inside, it is just the EEPROM socket is empty on the western version and filled on the Japanese cart.
Just as N64 third parties cheapened out and made players pay for the memory cards to be able to save their game they should've been able to on the cartridge, Switch publisher cheap out and make players download data that should've been on the cart.

Hope the OLED screen rumor is true. Definitely helps games feel next-gen.

If I could finish and enjoy Banjo-Tooie back in the day, I can live with a smooth 30fps ‘downgrade’ to replay this bad boy with a lovely new coat of paint.

@L27
Game only or switch as well?
;p

@-wc-
Aladdin

@Jalex_64 What is funny though is that some later Famicom games (both from Nintendo and the few licensed third-parties authorized to make their own carts) ended up making larger form-factor carts (increased from being half the height of an NES cart, to being about 75% the height). So there was room to grow as more advanced carts were produced.
Those larger Famicom carts that Nintendo made (such as the Final Fantasy I+II combo cart) also ended being the only ones with screws that can as such be safely opened (the only videos I've seen about opening FC carts suggested there is a destruction risk to most carts), which is good to know if I ever get to learning soldering like I keep thinking I want to, to know my FF combo cart battery can sometime be replaced, whereas my FF3 cart's battery is surely RIP.

You couldn't post a picture?

@Jalex_64 I've seen my nephew's Pokemon Moon card sadly get destroyed from being chewed on by their rather tiny little dog.
Then it hit me how the bigger carts of old consoles had that one particular benefit.
I've had a couple of my Game Boy and GBA carts chewed by my old dog and they remained functional because of their plastic bulk. Just the outside casing of a Game Boy cart is probably as thick as an entire Switch or 3DS cart.

@Polvasti its just a shame that a body of work gets overshadowed by this. No matter where you stand on the matter.