@tgt oh no that's kind of embarassing. thanks for not reaming me a new one

@Antray1984 I would be surprised if we didn't see some more restocks in future albeit smaller than this one, there are still certain characters missing in the lineup and it seems the demand for amiibo is still very much present. Nintendo would be fools to leave that money on the table.

Fake or not, it's a one way ticket to start drama again for the preservation crowd. The fingers will be pointed soon.

@FX102A I think they were in stock relatively recently, some of the ones restocked this time have literally never been back in stock since they sold out back when they were released in 2017

That is a very interesting thumbnail.

But we still get Skibidi Toilet, right?

The force is with you young Battlefront Classic Collection, but you aren't a complete game yet!

Glad to see NintendoLife at least acknowledge that it's within the realm of possibility that someone other than Nintendo has been issuing these takedowns, whereas every other outlet has covered the news in a reactionary manner. It's not clear what the situation is, but it's not impossible that a fraud masquerading as Nintendo has been issuing these takedowns given some background dating back to February, and Facepunch/Valve is none the wiser.

If nothing else, I hope my Hugh Neutron-dressed-as-Luigi player model survives...and that I archived my saved Nintendo related content properly in a way that will let me restore it on my end. Especially the Wuhu Island map I mess around on a lot whenever I do fool around in GMod. At the very least, though, it seems like the community is already working to get as much Nintendo content as possible offloaded onto third-party hosting sites, though I've seen some members express that they no longer really trust Facepunch because of their apparent handling of the situation. Hopefully they release some kind of followup statement tied to further investigation of the claims, because I'm sure Nintendo is going to remain silent either way.

@Shepdawg1 But it's fine either way though. Many game companies already prohibit the use of their assets in other games.

Unless Nintendo gave permission here, nothing to go crazy over. They are well within their rights to have the assets removed.

Before people go crazy, it is highly likely that Nintendo isn’t actually involved in these takedowns and it’s most likely a fraudster.

Edit: According to Facepunch (the developers for Garry’s Mod), the takedowns are from Nintendo.

K I'm a little late to the party but I've never played a single final fantasy game. My wife had played like fourteen or fifteen before we got married and said she enjoyed them but said the stories were odd.

From my fellow Nintendo friends. Any recommendations for a 1st one? I'm more keen to play a 2D rather than a 3D, just cuz I like me pixels over polygons.

Nice. Drop the price by 50% and I’ll get it.

@Sonicka Nope. You read right.

@LikelySatan, True they are. I was trying to find something good in Frontiers. That's all about all I could think of.

Physical Copy when?

As disgusting of them as this launch was, I’m glad they’re at least making an effort to fix it this time. Maybe it’ll eventually warrant an updated review?

I haven't played any of these games in the series, but I probably would have if I had of known that it was internally developed at Nintendo. I just found out that it's in GameFly, so I will give it a rent and see if I like it.

Not surprised. I guess that all but guarantees that we will get a rendition of Live and Learn late in the movie. I guess we'll have to wait until the release of the third movie before we know the fate of Jim Carrey playing Eggman for a 4th outing since he's trying to retire. It sounds like they want to continue this series on, but if Jim Carrey isn't doing the role, which helped make this series as good as it is, I don't know how well it'll be able to hold up. One thing at a time I suppose.

Not a fan of splatoon 3 then I take it?

... Better luck with SaGa Sapphire...?

This seems like this might be right up my alley but I need to do a little more research.

So glad I get to play and keep all these on my series x retro arch. Nintendo won't allow me to buy any nso games, and I ain't paying for a ***** subscription service, where, I only "rent" games

A trilogy of updates to make a 20 year old game work.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Aspyr, the incompetent?

Hopefully, that patch scrubs all the lame translations and makes it close to a one-to-one Japanese translation.

@BANJO "Spacestation Silicon Valley & Mystical Ninja Staring Goemon would be fantastic."

Now we're talking. And let's also throw in:
Hybrid Heaven
Penny Racers
Snowboard Kids

@XenoShaun I would not mind FF9 got some love. Such an interesting game.

He thought he was better than the ninjas but there's no place the ninjas couldn't find you.

I loved the arcade game so I'm not sure why people are hating on the port.

@Fangleman32 but those are recycled "boost" levels. So, I'll go ahead and hard disagree there.

Yeah, I'll probably get it on day one since I love the original two, but I honestly wish this was multi-plat or for PC. It looks okay enough on Switch, but a game like this would really shine with nicer hardware behind it.

SE milks FFVII because it still sells. I'm not interested in any of the spinoff series but this looks fun. Just for the novelty of it, and I do like old school NES graphics.

Why on earth would they not do Monkey Target?

@rjejr Yeah, every site is taking that gameindustry.biz article apart and spinning it like a meatball. Wargaming.com are the most brutal I've seen, but then again, why would Warhammer fans be level headed about anything? I'm just glad Embracer can finally go into damage control now so it's not just me and Clear River patching holes.

This is all well and good, but until they add Alice from Alice in Wonderland (1951), this game's roster will never truly live up to my lofty expectations. Although I will say, I'm not an Oswald fanatic and I even think he looks great here!

@bobby_steurer I will not stand for the censorship of Daisy, I tells ya!

Am I the only one that thinks $30 for an iPhone port (albeit with some extras) is asking a little much?

Anyone buy this on iPhone? Did it cost $30 over there?

I think I'd play the DS games over the very first two, and Other M might be too low, but otherwise, chances are, if I were to really get into this series like I recently did with Kirby, this would probably be my ranking.

@Zeebor15 Agree w/ all of that. 😁

It was nice to see the guy step up and take responsibility, you defended him more than he defended himself. 😉

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/04/embracer-ceo-admits-mistakes-were-made-i-could-take-a-lot-of-that-blame-myself

Long much Microsoft or Sony stock?

Can’t think of any other reason (other than blind contrarian cult which does not qualify as….pretty similar to those who despise anything Apple).

@HolyGeez03 Considering how many games they have ported it is surprising they didn't port the first 2 Ocean games before making this. Knowing Nintendo they'll port them later to Switch 2. 😂

@nocdaes I think I'll just leave this here as to why FF6 is better

https://youtu.be/CpI8xMfaOIk?si=TqoW8eqYZ3tccAaN

The sound effects and music hurt my ears. >.<

@Anti-Matter

i loved ffvii when it came out but ive definitely learned that i love ff4 and 6 the best in that particular series.

I never gave 8 a chance tbh because I am generally not that into anatomically realistic human looking characters in games. different strokes! ☺️✌️

Lazy port is a lazy port. No way a 2.5D game performs that badly on Switch

I have a bunch of this stuff from Japan. I like the model house stuff, especially the piplup in the icey bath tub. The actual range not yet announced for the West is a lot more borad than the above.

@Maxz Thank you so much! I will correct!

@Diogmites Kyoto Shimbun is the name of the newspaper that ran the report!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Shimbun

I’m good with Final Fantasy VII. It had everything i needed back when i played it, and i don’t need anything else from it.
Although i do wish they would have just remastered the original game in a way that it was more palatable to newer audiences, whatever that would entail.
This is a great article and interesting history on how this demake came about. Thank you to the author!

I’m on the fence with this one. I’ll just have to see how it does. I liked the wii games well enough.

I’ve got this one preordered. I liked the last one well enough on switch so hoping this one’s as good as that. I really do hope we get some pool and targets here tho.

Fanboys are being radicalized and it is a bigger issue than people even realize. No one should be that devoted or zealous of any video game.
I know a lot of people make light of 'toxic' internet communities, but that behavior expands beyond the internet and imbeds in people's thoughts.

Unfortunately, the developers decided to use Game Maker (a 2D game engine) for Slave Zero X, as that was the application their lead dev was most familiar with, instead of using something more suited to this style of game like Unity or Unreal.

That's likely why there are performance issues. It's the same on PC, the Steam Deck, for example, struggles to hold 60 FPS at certain points in the game, even with the max power settings. It's kind of unacceptable for a largely 2D game with 3D backgrounds.

They designed their own 3D methods to use in Game Maker, but it isn't optimized for it, and Game Maker also can only support 1 thread, so it doesn't make use of multiple CPU cores/threads, so it's hard to say which is the issue on the Switch.