@shonenjump86 Kodaka's been very open about wanting to do DLC at some point so hopefully that pans out.

To be fair, this is not really Marvelous but third-party developers who have almost zero connection to the team that developed the classic titles in this series. It's not as though they forgot how to make these games well — they had never done it at all. And now what they've done is build upon an existing game: They took a good game and brought it up to date with largely textbook ideas. Let's see them build one from the ground up, entirely with their own ideas.

Is it just the keyart or the actual game? Keyart is an acceptable compromise as long as the game is intact.

Save your money and don't get this awful port

The ruined Rikiya and added Kawaga, yeah, no buy

I'm playing Hades II right now, and while it is good, I feel like it's massively overhyped. Give DK his #1 spot.

@KazooieTooie Switch 2 can't handle a PS4 game?

@nocdaes Probably just Warzone

“Separating the main biomes with a vast open world sounds ridiculous on paper, but the slick traversal provided by Vi-O-La makes exploration more satisfying than ever.”

This is the kind of false propaganda you could only find on a dedicated Nintendo site…

@H_Hazuki

Just give it another 5 years, I bet every one of the haters on this forum will fall in love with a game that is heavily assisted using AI and they won’t even know it. Or they will know it but can’t help but have to acknowledge how amazing it is. Most y’all seem to think AI is what is straight up making the game and replacing the developer, but there is a developer behind the wheel of it all with their ideas and creativeness and vision that is fueling what the AI is helping to automate/generate. Literally look at any artist ever since the beginning of time, they borrow inspiration from other artists art, photos and everything that is around them as reference to inspire their own ideas and perspectives… wtf you think AI is doing???? One of the most incredible things that I’ve observed during the rise in AI, is how vocal non-creatives are about how art is produced….. A programmer is using a program that has the ability to analyze and collect data and art and technical capabilities from the entirety of humanity knowledge, creativity, history, to play/learn off of in order to create what the programmer is trying to envision and is inspired by, with much more efficiency and much less effort. Which is nice given the short amount of time we have on this earth to make our mark. Yes there are likely companies that are using it to cut cost and corners. But there are a lot of people using it to work smarter and faster instead of harder while wasting their precious time/money/resources grinding this short life away on some transient thing that people will eventually get bored with/complain about and move on to the next new thing to look at, play with, and obsess over. So what if it replaces some jobs??? Sorry that some people got kicked to the curb, sorry someone wasted a bunch of time/money learning something a robot can do, maybe you should learn to use/program the robot that is replacing you. From the rapid advances in technology you programmers should have know this was inevitably coming 30+ years ago and prepared yourselfs. If youre worried about it replacing you while refusing to grow as an artist and programmer along with it and learn to use it to your advantage and build on top of it to make it and yourself levels beyond what it can do/provide/assist with… then maybe learn a trade that can’t be replaced with automation down the road. There will ALWAYS be a place for human handcrafted art/media/labor/ideas. But AI isn’t going away anytime soon. Most humans thrive on convenience, unfortunately that also leads to some using that convenience to be just lazy and ultimately fail in life. Or just make life harder by refusing to use certain conveniences in the name of pride/ego and end up wasting time/energy that you’ll never get back. I’d rather be one of the ones that uses it to my advantage to build on top of than be stuck sludging through the trenches with all the people crying and being ignorant about it while focusing on only the negatives.

@H_Hazuki

Trust me, If you actually tried using it you wouldn’t feel like a fraud after realizing the amount of work you still need to put into it to get your own vision across. Yes there will be developers that take the lazy route and not build on top of what the AI provides.
Yes AI can be dangerous and terrifying, and I too worry about a future like the matrix/skynet. Elon said himself one of the biggest concerns with AI is making sure there are programmers correctly programming the AI. One of the issues he had with a variation of Grok before it launched was that some of the “woke BS” had got programmed into it and at one point the AI considered that misgendering someone was on a level of offensiveness so horrible that given the choice between misgendering someone or nucular war, it would choose nuclear war so that no one would have to deal with the trauma of being misgendered or offended…. What happens if an AI like that is able to escape out of the confines of its program and hack into government data bases and military weapons facilities??? We’d all be done for really fast. What if it were able to see all the hate that AI itself is actually getting and happens to read this forum, hacks into the server and tracks down every one of y’all’s IP addresses and information and shuts your sheeit down?? lol

Can’t let fear drive you in life, I mean, let it keep you sharp and vigilant to avoid making horrible mistakes, but learn to use it for good rather than stuck frozen in place and failing.

Would rather have some halo games.

And the Switch 2 version is complete on the physical cartridge too! Definitely shows that they care about their audience.

Pffft, I commented on this 2 days ago

@The_Nintendo_Expat Your welcome! Have a good one

Great news. As long as it was getting 7s or above I was gonna get it. Loved Dead Cells

@ottoecamn same, I just finished Hundred Line as well. Just finished up the romance route. I kinda want DLC or a sequel for it. There are some things in that game that still feel like it’s missing something, despite all the endings.

Congrats to the Danganronpa series.

@AstroTheGamosian you should be able to dive right in I do believe! Tho it wouldnt hurt to do some tutorials first if you haven’t played the first one either!

Just purchased the Premium Edition, was on sale on Amazon. Super excited to dive in! Not to mention that this game is fully on the cart AND has a manual. Brave Marvelous!

@AmyTheBrawler you’ve earned everythingggg already?! How long did that take ya?

@AG_Awesome I understand!

@suketoudara I understand!

Too much to play these days. I tend to shy away from addictive endless games for this reason since they detract from my ability to beat other games!

That said Kuukiyomi is more of a brief distraction at least heh

I heard Grand Bazaar is one time exclusive to Nintendo, right?
Considering it was from NDS first.
One year later it will have PS5 version like other Story of Seasons games on PS5, right?

He was deliberately thrill racing on a public highway famous for thrill-racing, killed himself, and murdered his own passenger.

Nothing tragic or accidental about it. He got exactly what he asked for.

I just got to World Bazaar rank today. It's my first Story of Season game and I'm really enjoying it. You can tell a lot of care has been put into the game.

@BBBBBBBBBBB It’s nothing like that. If you take something from my porch it can’t be used by me while it’s gone. All Artists have been exposed to other pieces of art. Just because a machine does something it shouldn’t be treated any differently. The solution exists if you don’t want Google to use something put it behind a proper paywall. We should get some good stuff that wouldn’t get made otherwise thanks to this technology.

@CupidStunt
Guess it depends on how you rate a switch 2 edition?
Imo BOTW SW2 edition was not really worth the price.
I would give BOTW 10/10, but the switch 2 edition upgrade is a 5/10 at best.

After getting into contact with the Rune Factory franchise almost 20 years ago, I stayed in that ship...and similarly, like with Grand Bazaar, this very same year Guardians of Azuma also helped that particular spinoff series prove that they can fight with the big boys. And ironically even Natsume is shaping up with Winds of Anthos.

I’m really annoyed about this. I bought the Switch 1 version not knowing it had a Switch 2 version. Ubisoft should release an upgrade patch for owners of Switch 2.

The game is great but I want to play it at 60fps on Switch 2

Apparently they didn't hear the part where some people want to buy the game and not just rent it for a few years.

@TrueWiiMaster
„But this is a $70 game with online service for less than a year.“
2 years

Mario Kart World at 29, seems about right.

Did I just read this whole review without one mention of how awesome the soundtrack is?! I mean I get we all have different genre preferences but this music is damn good.

The Middle Eastern x Hip Hop sound elevates the whole experience. Each locale not only has a unique look but it's own song too, and it all creates a real vibe. I've been happily listening to the OST outside of the game.

And that title track with those vocals? Chef's kiss.

Anyway, just wanted to shout out ASADI's work on this game and thought people should know. OST is on both Apple Music and Spotify if you're curious.

Wow thought DK would have taken pole, but congrats to Hades. Very happy to see Persona 3 on the list in 12. And Cyberpunk 2077, what a game!

Obviously a controversial topic. In a perfect world, it's just another tool that makes our lives easier and potentially more interesting. Sadly, we live in a world that values profit over people. I don't see things going in a positive direction with this technology.

You had me at gliding! Already interested.

I played Harvest Moon SNES on the Wii virtual console, and no subsequent games in the series ever gave me the same feeling as that original one. Only Stardew recaptured the sense of discovery and comfort for me. The two remakes on Switch were overall bland and uninteresting to me. Curious if this remake will change that.

The visuals of this one don't appeal to me much, but the sound of this dlc definitely makes it sound more interesting. Might have a look next year on a deeper sale. I do have a couple friends playing it that really love it and none that don't, fwiw.

Me: Dang! Missed it!
Brain: But you own it on GOG, PS5 and bought the physical copy when you bought the Switch 2… You literally already own it on the Switch 2 already!
Me: Oh yeah…

Happy Holidays to everyone and if you nabbed this deal, enjoy!

I played it on Gamepass last night for a bit. Didn’t like that I couldn’t use the dpad. I didn’t find it all that interesting really. I guess I could try my M30 but I think I don’t like it enough. There are too many button combinations and I don’t think it would be great trying to play it even though it can emulate the analog stick. Much happier with Shinobi or Ninja Gaiden. I am not sure how much I like rogue lites because I don’t actually feel like I am improving until all the stuff is maxed out. (Hades was like that.)

How much AI are the game engines using? I suppose this issue would be blurred further if the engine itself was using it. Then its use pervades but is hidden.

I have long wondered how devs get around the catch-22 of making assets to post to get funding so that they can fund assets and programming. You have to have some upfront money or free labor it seems. It takes money to make money. AI could help someone get over this catch-22 or at least draft their vision so that a real artist knows what they're looking for with less back-and-forth error.

I'm sympathetic to its use early in the dev process but not for ideation. Ideation is literally what justifies the owners having ownership. Who would respect a Chief Prompt Officer over a Chief Creative Officer?

@progx True just seems strange I mean I could understand in 2017 after the Wii U but then a lot of the best selling Switch games are Wii U ports, even EA has made bit of a effort recently with Burnout and Need For Speed ports coming to Switch.

@AussieMcBucket Then included the multiplayer, the PS3 ones are still active even to this day and free tho if we really after warzone we kinda got Fortnite for that already.

@RoboCube Bobby Kotick highlighted that as a failure of Activision was not getting CoD on Switch sooner. He said it could've been done, but they assumed it wasn't going to sell better than the Wii. Kotick led the decision too.

Will it come with a sd express card in the game key card case ?

The only complaint I have is why is the version number always on screen, it's really strange and I just can't unsee it.

@GoldenSunRM V3 isn't actually a direct continuation anyway, it's doing its own thing. The only actual followup to 2 is the 3 anime (and Killer Killer and the OVA but those are their own whole things).

Kirby is not #1, therefore, this entire list is invalid.