Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioVillager92 Yeah, those kinds of players seem unfun and terrible. I don’t actually mind any of the songs in that game and I love them all, and I’ll play any song in an online match, even if the song level is higher and difficult. Usually I play the game on Expert difficulty, the second most hardest song level, but I am pretty comfortable with it and have gotten used to it. Plus, the game’s player base has had a ton of trouble with people intentionally disbanding matches, so I wouldn’t want to cause others lots of frustration. It’s super hard to connect to a game room in there without having someone disconnect and disbanding the group.

I have encountered some players like that, but most of the time the matches went pretty smoothly, especially when I played it in the second game. Though, there were times where I was the last player alive and tried to revive other players and then I get splatted and me and my team lost. The feeling I got from that never felt good…I played Splatoon 2 a lot more than 3, so the difficulty level got harder the more Salmon Run shifts I won and it was sometimes hard to stay alive and assist teammates with so much Salmonids causing a ton of madness on the map.

Yeah, it stunk a ton, winning the Tower Control match and then when me and my team were about to win, my internet chooses to disconnect me and makes it seem like I threw the match at the last minute, and I don’t even know how the match ended. It stunk even more when it disconnected me a second time. I think disconnecting from Anarchy/Ranked battles is worse than disconnecting from Turf Wars, given Ranked battles are more serious and you have to give it your all. In fact, I mostly played 2 and 3 for Ranked matches. My internet is better now, but it occasionally has issues, but significantly less.

I am better at playing those fighting games with platformer elements. Another one I thought was fun was Brawlhalla, which was kind of similar to Smash. Going back to Smash, my main was Banjo and Kazooie, and I did play Hero sometimes. I’m usually bad at playing the other characters besides those two, but I find that I am ok with most of the DLC fighters (though I find Kazuya harder to play) as well as most of the Fire Emblem and Mario characters, though I stink at using Robin and I find that he is super slow to use. Before, my main was Corrin, but I stopped playing as Corrin after I began to use Banjo a ton. I like playing as him a lot, plus I find that he and Kazooie are super charming in the game from how they are animated and how they act.

@Mana_Knight
Ahh. So that's what it was! Would be neat to get a hold of.

@Pastellioli
Imo, Crunchyroll has a good selection, but sucks overall.
I'm no artist, though I've tried a couple times.
I'll look at the thread later.
Interesting about the voices. Though, there are plenty more voice actors these days.
I don't remember [/spoiler]Chaos[spoiler] from Forces?
Sonic 3 exists on modern platforms in the Sonic Origins Collection. But some of the music is different from older releases because of licensing.
Sonic 4 was bad, straight up. Only 4 zones in either part.
Fans should not make money off content creators' IPs PERIOD. It's among the cardinal rules.
Yeah, Iirc, while the internet could get bad on my Wii U, it wasn't as bad as what's around now. And it could absolutely have been local internet quality going down too. Interestingly, this applies to video streaming services too. Had to update hulu, and it hasn't been the same since.
I don't even know all the studios Microsoft has bought and done stupid stuff with. It's a lot though. Lately, people have been upset with Sony, as Kadokawa approaching them to be bought gives them a potential stranglehold on the anime/light novel/manga industry. Rare would likely still be thriving under Nintendo.
I'm not especially good with wildlife in general, especially these days. Dunno how long it's been since I've seen an actual squirrel.
Yeah. The shapeshifting characters are awesome! The book 8 characters have this sort of Kurama Mode Naruto aesthetic to them, and it's great!
If I were to have a superpower though, rather than shapeshifting, it'd be transformation. I' wanna be whatever I want, with their abilities, along with the ability to transform again. And ofc, have a base form. I thought kitsune would be perfect for this, as some depictions have them transform rather than shapeshift.

@Pastellioli - I just sent a friend request via your Switch Code. I thought I already had you on there, but guess not.

@Mariotag Yeah, last time I used Crunchyroll was two months ago but I haven’t used it. Really bad ads ruined the experience. It definitely didn’t help when I watched it late at night and had to wait for the episodes to start, cuz then I would sometimes get sleepy and fall asleep when the ads ran for too long.

Love drawing a ton, I’ve been doing it more and sharing it, but I get the occasional art block and drawings can take me super long to do since I draw in ballpoint pen.

I remember they had Chaos in one of the cutscenes where all the villains defeat Sonicat the beginning of the game, but people pointed out you don’t actually encounter Chaos in the game later or fight him after that cutscene. I’ll check again just to make sure I’m not forgetting. Sometimes I can’t trust my memory a lot.

The voice cast in Bad Fur Day was really interesting and how they only had three people doing all the voices, but I wish I knew who the other voice actors/actresses in the Xbox remake voiced though. I’d assume it was the squirrels and teddy bears in the multiplayer mode, and the rest of the cast was credited as providing additional voices instead of having their roles specified. The only VA names I recognized from the remake’s credit list was another Rare employee and Fred Tatasciore, but I have no idea who they both voiced.

I’ll check that out! Thank you for reminding me. I actually forgot about that collection and the games included in it. I do remember the music changes to it though and the reactions to it.

Even though I like my Xbox a lot, I just think Microsoft stinks at managing companies and I wish they would try and refrain from purchasing more studios and just working with the ones they have and trying to improve them. I heard about the Sony Kadokawa thing and the fact that Kadokawa owns several anime and game studios like Spike Chunsoft and the possibilities that some game IPs Kadokawa has could stay PlayStation exclusive if the deal happens. I found out about it on an NL article because Kadokawa owns Acquire (the studio that developed Mario & Luigi: Brothership) and the chances that they won’t work on another Mario & Luigi game if the acquisition goes through. Kadokawa has acknowledged that they were talking to Sony about being acquired, but haven’t made a deal yet, but I’ve heard a lot of opinions against the deal. It would be bad if some of the multi-platform IPs Kadokawa owns via their game studios were to be exclusive. I honestly don’t like it when a multi-platform game IP becomes exclusive to a specific console.

Last time I saw a squirrel was a few weeks ago when I went walking. There was a little squirrel that climbed up a tree nearby and was standing on top of the branch. It was a surprise to see it, since usually I mostly see squirrels at the park instead.

I just love some of the fantastical elements of FEH a ton, and it find it a lot in the shapeshifting characters. I am also a fan of mythological creatures and animals, so I absolutely love that, especially thanks to Yo-kai Watch and their depictions of various characters from Japanese mythology. I also remembered that almost all of the new characters they introduced in Book 8 could shapeshift. Two of Ratatoskr’s sisters could shapeshift (I remember one of them transforming into a bird or eagle) and Ash from one of the previous Books transformed into a cow, which I remember reading that her shapeshift form was likely based on a cow character in Norse mythology. I should add I am also a fan of some of the Norse elements they used in FEH, and how they turned some of the Norse animal characters into humans, mostly talking about Ratatoskr. In mythology, the character she’s based on was an ordinary squirrel that ran up and down a world tree and delivered messages, and I like FEH’s take on the character a lot.

@Mana_Knight Thanks! I’ll try to get to it soon. I haven’t played my Switch as of late, but I’ll accept your request!

@Pastellioli Neat about the FEH stuff! Yeah, I have the book 8 flying unit. Didn't know all the mythology details though. As much as I like shapeshifting, I like the idea of transformation as a power more, just cause it has more possibilities.

Interesting on the Sonic Forces details.

I simply don't have the patience for drawing.

Microsoft really does need to work on improving the studios they own, instead of destroying them, or ignoring them because muh billion dollar profits.
Sony, idk how it'll affect either industry. Gaming will arguably lose a fair bit. But anime and source material could lose far more. Kadokawa apparently owns a significant chunk of the industry. Apparently, we have some group called Kakao to blame for this.

I haven't really gone outside much in a while, for reasons I mentioned in that thread you linked.

@Mariotag Yeah, I just like the Norse theme of FEH and the fact that several characters in it are based on various creatures and figures in Norse mythology and the game’s depictions of those characters, mostly with their designs and how the characters are incorporated into the story. I find that any kind of mythology is interesting, and I enjoy fantasy stories and characters a lot. Usually, Fire Emblem is medieval-themed, though FEH has a ton more fantastical elements combined with the medieval setting of the mainline games.

That’s understandable. I love drawing but it’s also frustrating at times too. I can understand why some don’t like it. It’s sometimes too time-consuming, and a lot of stuff doesn’t turn out how I want it too. Plus, it can sometimes be expensive to get into and finding the right materials that work. I’m better at traditional art than digital art.

I think Microsoft is the worst when it comes to managing studios out of all the main big gaming companies out there. I think that the FTC’s scrutiny and worried during the Activision acquisition was understandable, and maybe if Microsoft did have a better history managing and buying studios, then it could have gone smoother instead. I did hear about the Sony Kadokawa thing potentially affecting the anime/manga industry more than gaming, especially since Sony is kind of big in the anime industry, but no one knows if the acquisition is going to go through at all.

My main problem with art is I don't have the patience.
Microsoft likely is the worst at managing studios. They deserve the scrutiny.
Sony already owns the biggest anime streaming platform over here (Crunchyroll), as well as owned the late funimation. Kadokawa owns a large chunk of the industry, which would belong to Sony if it happens. I think it's likely the acquisition will happen, as Kadokawa approached Sony, seemingly out of desperation.

I used to not really like mythology. I personally hate the story of Medusa, and petrification in general.
Eventually though, I did come to enjoy fantasy in general. My current big likes are kitsune, dragons, and transformation.
Even classic FE had the manaketes to be fair.

@Mariotag Microsoft could have maybe had that deal go smoother had they actually managed studios well and didn’t just purchase so many. I think that big ZeniMax purchase that came with Bethesda and a ton of their subsidiaries was probably a factor in why the FTC scrutinized Microsoft a lot during the Activision Blizzard acquisition, but, even as an Xbox user, I think the FTC’s concerns made plenty of sense. I kept up with some of it, and I remember how they tried to make themselves look like underdogs at one point during that since Xboxes sell the worst out of the main three consoles. I think they likely said that so that the Activision acquisition could go by easier since the FTC was giving them trouble (plus Sony shared concerns over Activision games being exclusive) but the thing is, Microsoft is a well-known and successful billion-dollar company and has more than 20 game subsidiaries under their helm and I don’t know how that would make them an underdog.

I forgot that they own Crunchyroll and then acquired Funimation and its anime library before shutting the service down and putting Funimation’s licensed animes on Crunchyroll. I have seen more concerns over the anime industry more than the gaming industry, and given that they have Crunchyroll and the fact that Kadokawa is big, it makes sense. I do wonder what will happen if the acquisition does go through, and if Sony will do some things differently than expected.

I will say that I also like fantasy a bit more than mythology. I find some stories in mythology are interesting, especially Norse and Japanese myths, but I think that shows, films, and games that put their own unique spin or takes on mythological stories and characters make them interesting. It makes the stories feel a bit more fresher and creative. I like fantastical and magical animals in mythology the most, one notable example I can think of is the tanuki from Japanese mythology. I do find myself liking fantasy media the most. It’s just so interesting and really creative.

@Pastellioli Yeahhh, Sony screwed over Funimation people when they merged it with Crunchyroll. Far fewer dubs now. I'm concerned how it'll go too.
Fantasy is just awesome. One thing I'm hoping for for the future of gaming is this "Full Dive" tech you see in anime like SAO, Bofuri, and Shangri-La Frontier. It'd be amazing to, for example, have a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game where you are the Pokemon, in more senses than just perception. As SAO put it, to fly through the sky on your very own wings.
I personally prefer kitsune to tanuki.
Oh wow, I forgot about Sony's "concerns" that because Call of Duty made up soooo much of their profits, Microsoft purchasing Activision Blizzard would be a lopsided proposition or something. Yeah, Microsoft just sucks at managing studios. They are NOT the underdogs, nor are they likely to ever be. Also, I used to play Xbox a bunch. Kinda fell out of it.

How do you do spoiler tags??

@Potato-man

This is for formatting, and it includes a way on how to use spoiler tags: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/help/tips_for_formatting_...

To use spoiler tags, you have to put the word spoiler inside square brackets at the start of a text, and then place /spoiler in square brackets at the end of a text, and then a spoiler tag should show up and cover up the text. The forum I linked does a better job of showing that.

@Pastellioli Thank you! Very helpful!

@Potato-man Your welcome

@Mariotag I remember I used to follow anime news quite a bit on YouTube (despite not really watching much at the time) and then I watched a video where Crunchyroll announced the closure of Funimation and telling Funimation’s user base to swap to Crunchyroll. I really dislike it when a big company purchases a company to have it act as a subsidiary, but then closes that studio later on and the big company takes the IPs for themselves. It reminds me a bit of Disney purchasing 20th Century Fox and getting another animation studio from the purchase, Blue Sky, but then swiftly closing the studio and taking all their film series’ and IPs.

There’s just so much to like about fantasy, it’s one of the best genres ever. I am more of a fan of games that have fantasy themes and characters than ones that are sci-fi, and I also like imagining unique worlds and characters a bunch. I think that the freedom creators have when making fantasy worlds and characters is what makes me like it a ton, cuz since the worlds are fictional and not based on real life, they can make a lot of fun and interesting things in their creations. Speaking of fantasy, I also did like another Rare game called Kameo a lot, since that’s set in a fantasy world and the main character can shapeshift into various elemental animals and creatures. Though, I also like it when there is a modern setting that has fantasy elements put into it.

Yeah, and I remember Sony was also worried Microsoft would release inferior versions of CoD on PlayStation consoles so that Xbox would be more superior, but I don’t think that ever happened. Though, if only Microsoft managed studios better, then they would have had a better reputation in the gaming industry, and I still find it so nonsensical they think they are the underdogs when out of all the main three companies, they are the worst at managing game subsidiaries properly and helping them out when something is going wrong. I still do play Xbox, but I don’t think I’ve played it since September. I need to buy more games on there because I looked at my 2024 Year in Review and I pretty much played the same games over and over again.

@Pastellioli Wait, Disney purchased 20th Century Fox?? I'd heard Disney purchased Fox, but I guess never put much thought into what that meant. Yeah, it's messed up how big company purchases go these days.

I haven't touched Xbox in a while. Mostly been playing switch, and sometimes ps5. I don't really have many Xbox One games, never bothered with XSX, and my 360 is getting ooooold.
And yeah, inferior versions for Sony? Lol
Microsoft is a many billion dollar corporation. They should manage their studios better.

Understandable take on fantasy. There's plenty to like. Dunno that I've seen fantasy set in modern times in a while though, if at all. I'll need to check out Kameo. What's it for?

@Mariotag i used to play the Switch a ton, but I don’t really anymore. I seem to be missing out on a lot of good games. Last time I used it was to play Smash Ultimate and get some of the newer spirits to add to my nearly completed Spirit collection and play online, though a lot of my online Smash sessions were tough and unfun because the internet in that game is so atrocious. I used to play PlayStation alongside Nintendo consoles, but I stopped, plus we also traded our PlayStation 4. My dad has his own PS5, so he still plays PlayStation.

Me and my family used to have a 360, but traded it in for a Wii years ago. I’ve only had my Series S for nearly two years, so it’s very new, but I only really wanted an Xbox to play Rare’s games after I played and enjoyed the SNES DKC trilogy and Banjo-Kazooie on NSO, and by the time I got an Xbox, Rare didn’t have much of their legacy games on Switch and I didn’t want to wait for them to add the rest.

One example I can remember of a fantasy story set in modern times would be the Percy Jackson books, I read all of the 5 books and liked them, though there are a bunch of other spin-offs and other books set in the same universe as the Percy Jackson books. I found that it was a really good mix of fantasy and Greek mythology in a modern 2000s setting. There was a Disney+ show I watched for it when the first season was ongoing but I didn’t finish it. There are probably more examples of media that combines the modern world and fantasy elements, but I can’t quite remember.

Kameo was a pretty fun action-adventure game and I liked some of the beat ‘em’ up aspects to the combat, though there are some puzzles that you need to solve in the game to progress more, but the game offers hints when you get stuck on one. I really liked the colorful and lush environments of the game and I think they are super fitting for the game’s fantasy setting, and some of the places in the game looked beautiful. I also liked the fantasy creatures and characters, especially the animals that Kameo can shapeshift into and are fun to play as, as well as Kameo’s design.

The game’s plot wasn’t interesting or memorable though, and I thought that there was some repetition to the gameplay, and I liked playing as the elemental animals more than Kameo since she can take a lot of damage from enemies and can defeated easily (though I’m sure your supposed to play as the animals for most of the game) but it didn’t hinder my enjoyment of the game much. A lot of people thought it was a mediocre game, but I thought it was decent and good, and I liked the fantastical setting and aspects of it the most.

When you do play the game, remember to get these special fruits in the game to upgrade the abilities of the animals, because I made the bad decision of not collecting a lot of fruit and it made the final boss battle long and difficult to complete because the elemental animals were weaker and under leveled.

@Pastellioli Ahh. Smash Ultimate. The game in the series I played for just a bit, then never went back to. I'm still interested in playing it mind you, just have so much else I wanna play. The big downside of digital libraries right there, DRM aside. I never really traded consoles in. The few times I got rid of a console or handheld, it was to a family member or friend.
I do need to play more Rare Replay, there's just that pesky Halo 5 in the way.
I've actually read the original Percy Jackson books. As well as the first set of direct sequels, and part of the third set. So I'm aware of a lot of that. Never could get Disney Plus to work, so missing out on the TV show.
Kameo would probably interest me more in terms of design than gameplay then. There are other games that feature shapeshifting I could get into at least. I'll keep it in mind though.

@Mariotag loved Smash Ultimate a lot and it’s maybe my most favorite fighting game of all time. It’s super grand and I love the presentation of it, though I wonder what the next Smash will look like and if they’ll have to cut down the roster a bit. I still haven’t finished the Spirit collection since I haven’t encountered all of them and how I am missing some of the DLC fighters. I do hope you have fun with it when you get onto it!

I also don’t really trade consoles in, also because most of the consoles I have because of my progress and data on the games I have. I did have good memories with the PlayStation 4, but in the final years of using that, I only really used it to play Overwatch and then just lost interest. It was sad when the game data and profile info was wiped off when it was getting traded in, but I wasn’t really playing the PlayStation at that point, so I didn’t really mind it.

Loved those books a ton. I know there were these live-action films they released before the Disney+ show, but the films only got to adapting two of five books and the films were apparently not amazing. I’ll probably try to finish watching the show at one point. There are some shows and anime that I haven’t gotten onto watching or finishing.

Yeah, it had nice designs and the fantasy theme and characters are nice, it’s that the gameplay is sometimes repetitive and the elemental animal characters were more fun to play as than Kameo. I still thought it was decent and far from mediocre like most reviews said. Rare’s games definitely had a lot of interesting themes and settings, and I do wish that some of their other games did have a similar fantasy setting like Kameo.

EDIT: Also, I saw that they just updated FEH and added Book 9. I’m playing through it but since it’s new I’ll refrain from talking about what it is centered on.

@Pastellioli I..saw both PJO films... To be blunt, while decent action films, they were quite unfaithful, and the choices of actors was a mess. They actually killed off one dude who was supposed to be part of the entire saga, in the first movie, so when they released a second, he just randomly came back, only to die again. If that gives you an idea how the movies were anyway...

I ended up transferring all my ps4 data to ps5, so I was okay with selling my ps4. But that transfer took like, a solid month, during which nobody could really do anything online.

I'll need to look uo Kameo. And I just finished the first chapter of book 9. Haven't started chapter 2 yet.

Smash Ultimate would have been a dream when I had people to play with. These days though, I'm back to mostly playing on my lonesome. I'll admit, that was one thing Wii U did not inspire by having one special controller per console. Local multiplayer. We could smash Ult sometime?