Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Pastellioli Yeah, I forget if there's hints or not. I barely recall things from then.
And no spirits better be doable!

Yeah. It was very much a crossover, which didn't reach the heights of Hyrule Warriors. Regardless, I liked the highs that style of gameplay offered. Most of my time was on the "Adventure maps".

I mean, yeah. It's only natural. Also, I looked up Playstation's customer support line. The best number to call was praised for letting you talk to an actual human being 45% of the time, with 6% of customers having their issues resolved. (Here, not Australia) It's incredible.

So, Overwatch's big company made it worse? Checks out.

Yup. I can imagine Marvel Rivals being good. My only issue is my internet. 3Mbps sucks like you wouldn't believe, especially on uninsulated cables.

As someone with OCD, I relate heavily to that.

Shame your group became inactive, but at least the group requirements didn't burn you out! By the end, I had so many overpowered medals that could oneshot the story, it felt like nothing could oppose my setups. And yeah, KH4 appears to mostly take place in "The opposite of reality, or Unreality". Where we can find some significant characters, likely including Cloud and Sephiroth. Because it's been defined as the opposite of the reality from prior games, we may well see some different themed worlds we wouldn't otherwise. Dark Road's design genuinely sucks. At this point, your exp doubles as your currency for getting new cards, and any levelup, which you outright require to continue the story, takes hours of sitting there, watching Xehanort wipe out heartless. It's the single most boring thing I have ever played.

They really squandered a lot of opportunities with Smash Ultimate. That's one of my ultimate issues with it.

Yeah, so, had another few days where I was focused elsewhere, and seeing the times when you comment, I'm curious if you're a late night person like me, but in the US, or if you're in Eurpoe and the like. (Timezones rather than assumptions)

@Mariotag Yep, and honestly, now I kind of don’t want to do a second run of WOL from the unbalanced Spirit battles and how much of a letdown the mode was in retrospect. A handful of the battles in WOL were unbearable.

I recall more of Hyrule Warriors than FE Warriors. That definitely wasn’t a bad game, but if I had to choose between Hyrule Warriors and FE Warriors, I’d pick the former. I think there the crossover with all the Zelda characters managed to mesh together better, and I kind of don’t know why…

Wait, so their customer support line doesn’t always let you talk to an actual human? I kind of have issues with customer support lines that don’t do that and ones that rely on automated responses instead, since they aren’t always helpful and don’t fully resolve your issues. Not that I’ve had any particularly had experiences with that, but I recently had issues with a rhythm game I was playing (game kept freezing when I was going to play a song) and I had to text its automated customer support and it didn’t help at first, so I wrote my issue a bit more in depth to the developers and got a written response from them. Their message had more possible solutions to the issue I had, and it was more helpful than the solutions provided by the automated customer support line since actual people wrote that response to me.

Yeah. On top of that there is the bad battle bass system, and they did make all their heroes free to play again, but it’s mostly the bad internet and game servers that make me not want to play it. It disappointed me a lot, given I liked how the newer heroes like Kiriko and Juno played, but with how the servers acted last time i played…no, I really don’t want to go back to playing it since it’s been like that every time I played OW. Rivals is fun, but I do get having internet issues. Honestly, I think when I play games, it’s better for me to not play it at all with bad WiFi instead of attempting to play it with spotty WiFi that goes back and forth in quality and significantly affects my fun with the game.

I don’t really mind that the group went inactive. It did suck, but I played most of the game solo, plus the group didn’t really have anything going on besides a few members sending messages on the in-game chat. I remember KHUX had a mode where you played with other players online and worked together to defeat Heartless, which was fun. I did have some good medals (one I remember the most was a KH3 Riku medal) but the enemies got far more harder for me so I didn’t finish the game in time for the shutdown. Yeah, plus the world shown in the KH4 trailer looked really different from the ones in previous games. I remember it looking far more realistic.

All Dark Road’s gameplay is is just picking cards from a random deck, sometimes combining them and tapping and flicking to attack. But I think what also made the gameplay boring is the fact you don’t explore the world or run around locations like in KHUX and the other KH games. All you do is just tap or flick and then move on to the next world when you win. It’s crazy, because Xehanort is one of the most important and interesting characters in KH, so you’d expect the one game that centers on him would offer more in terms of gameplay on top of the story, but it doesn’t. There was even an option for the game to auto play Dark Road for you instead, but was there a point in them having that feature?

Yeah, I still love Ultimate but how WOL was handled with the Spirit battles, lack of interactions with the characters, and the wasted potential with the mishmashed map, on top of the fantastic cutscenes being underutilized, unbalanced Spirit battles, awful RNG on the Spirit board and the poor online play are my main issues with it. The Spirit aspect is great in concept but mostly stinks in execution, but the actual fighting gameplay and the fighters are still great.

I usually like staying up late since it’s the only time in the day I get time to myself, but I have been trying to go to bed earlier now. Two nights ago I stayed up till early in the morning and really regretted it, since the next day I was tired and yawning a lot.

@Pastellioli Understandable. I want to play it again, but am rather fearful. Kinda reminds me how I feel about KH3. Do I wanna find all that stuff again? Nope.

Hyrule Warriors simply meshed together better, as you said. It wasn't a bunch of characters from across the timeline being isekai'd, rather, you got to visit, and interfere with those pivotal points. The original characters played in nicely too, even ~~Anal~~, I mean ~~Hatsune Miku~~, I mean Lana. (That will not get old.) The only thing that really bothered me about HW was that some characters were noticeably more capable than others, and you really felt it when a less capable character got a mission. Sheik? Just put on her invincibility barrier and brutalize stuff. Agitha? Gets some of the hardest missions in the game, and is quite hard to learn and control. Also the later DLC maps are insane...but that's besides the point.

Yeah, I was looking at some article that listed statistics. I've yet to meet someone who got a bot, but apparently, it's a thing.

I still wanna play Kiriko. My problems with internet issues don't end at quality of play. Simply having a game downloaded will have it auto update worth days of nothing else functioning online much at all. I already suffer this with Genshin.

From the moment that one Kairi medal showed up, the powercreep was set in stone. Also, yeah. "Together". Damage carries over is all. I remember most of those being either I get wrecked in one hit, or my attacks constantly do 1 damage, with no hope of me or my opponent being knocked out, when the enemy has several billion HP. And yeah. The world looks a lot more realistic. In contrast to the franchise's "reality", the franchise's "unreality" looks a lot more like our reality, which has interesting implications. Btw, my group booted me, specifically choosing to have their vote when one person who notably supported me was not there. My charge was "being annoying".

Honestly, agreed. And the reason for auto-play would be for gaining levels. I really found Dark Road the single most boring game I've ever played. Even the likes of edutainment and cdi surpass it.

WoL was pretty much one of only two major single player focused features left, and that killed my motivation on the whole after a time. They squandered it. And I'd actually argue the characters are unbalanced, with older fighters largely being weaker.

I can relate. I used to be able to get away with staying up late, but now for some reason, it takes 12+ hours for me to feel like I've had enough sleep...

@Mariotag Plus, I think all the characters in Hyrule Warriors still have medieval European looks and designs with them all, so they blend in together despite coming from different games, whereas I thought some of the characters in FE Warriors kind of didn’t fit together, but it was mainly the Hoshido characters having feudal Japan-inspired designs and the rest having more medieval European designs. I don’t know, HW’s story and characters meshed far better, and although it’s still kind of a crossover, its story and missions were really fun to play.

That’s really crazy that there are statistics for that. I wonder, why don’t they just have both an automated chat bot but also have actual humans behind customer support you could message/email if the chat bot doesn’t have the right answers to whatever issue you have? Doesn’t make sense that they’d have some customer support phone number where you could randomly be matched with an actual employee of a bot instead of just having employees on the line.

Oh yeah, I do sometimes get troubles with game downloads with the internet. Sometimes the game can download or update too slow. It’s happening a lot with some games on my phone actually, but I think it’s a combination of sometimes bad internet and my phone being an older and slightly outdated model.

It is interesting to see the new world is more like real life, compared to the more fictional and cartoony look of the original worlds in the other games. It’ll be interesting to see what it means, and if the world’s realism actually means something. Also, you got booted because they thought you were “annoying?” That’s really stupid. I don’t know how they came to that conclusion, but I’m assuming in KHUX it was common for group leaders kicked players out for stupid and nonsensical reasons. I’m trying to remember, but didn’t being in a group in KHUX give all the players apart of it benefits when playing? If so, of course it would make certain players act like that. I can remember being kicked out of my first group one day, noticing it when I got to the town square after the loading screen and saw my keyblade wielder walking around the town alone, but I don’t know why I chose to join a hardcore group that wanted all its players to be as active as possible. Thankfully there were plenty of casual groups that didn’t mind if their players were inactive, and I found those ones were kinder. I stuck to the second more casual one until shutdown, but I wish I did pick another casual party that was more active. Party felt empty with how many of the players became inactive.

Yeah, it wasn’t fun. Maybe one of the most boring games I’ve played ever, and it’s just so not fun gameplay-wise. Pretty sure I only managed to complete 3-4 levels and then didn’t play it anymore. The gameplay completely took me out of it, and if it did have the same or similar gameplay like KHUX and let you walk around freely, then maybe I would have played more Dark Road because then I’d actually be having fun.

I am hoping that if the next Smash game has another adventure mode, that it actually feels like a story mode and avoids doing what WOL did, but I’m wondering if Spirits will come back or if they’ll be a one and done thing. WOL was so disappointing and wasted potential with its concepts and the massiveness of the map and story. I do get that…there have been complaints that the DLC characters are overpowered and can be spammy, but it feels funny with me saying that because I main two DLC characters, Hero and Banjo, the latter is notorious and hated by others for having a spammy moveset with two different projectiles and a move that makes him invincible for a few seconds and can be spammed five times in total while being pretty strong. I never really played as the older fighters besides Mario this one time, and I do think it was really hard to defeat other, more newer fighters. Pretty sure I lost playing as him that one time.

Yeah, I did used to have better sleep schedules in the past, but now I need to get back on that. I’ve been yawning more and getting far more tired lately, plus it’s going to do damage to my health if I don’t get enough sleep.

I'm going on vacation this June! I'll be flying to see my aunt, uncle, and cousins. I'm super excited! Probably won't go on Nintendo Life too much as a result, so I thought I'd let you all know. Tagging @Sunsy about this too.

@Pastellioli It really is one of life's greatest blessings. Sleeping is incredibly important for our health, and it's such a wonderful feeling to be sleeping on a bed. Yeah, I love listening to vintage jazz. The one I posted in that music thread was from the YouTube channel Relaxing Land. I do like listening to a decent variety of music, but I think jazz might be my favorite now, at least in terms of "real" music. I love game music as well, of course. A lot of Mario games have great music, to give an example.

That's strange about Union X. Just for seeing cutscenes and changing your avatar, huh? I would have been upset about it if I spent money on it too. I've not played a Kingdom Hearts game as of now. I wouldn't mind at least trying out the first game. I nearly wanted the collection on the Switch... but too bad it turned out to be a cloud-streaming game. Hopefully we'll see a native version on the Switch 2. (But please, no game key cards...)

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see icons based on GameCube games. Would love to have a render of Mario grabbing a star in Mario Party 5's box art. I think I saw that the Switch 2 will have a rewind feature for N64 games, as well as a CRT TV screen mode.

Ohhh, that's understandable, having a lot of things in New Leaf already. I don't have that feeling personally - when I start running out of steam in a game, I'd be all ready for a brand new entry. Though in this case... I'd need a Switch 2 first, then the games themselves (the next Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, etc.), and then I'm golden. I could see the next Animal Crossing coming out in a few years too.

Oh gotcha, it's its own thing pretty much. Didn't know they got inspired by Doraemon, I've heard of that show before, but I've not seen it. The yo-kai can talk, huh? That reminds me, I've seen Digimon when I was a kid years ago, and I remember that they talked too. Quite different from the Pokemon anime, lol, where they'd all just say their names, except Meowth who could speak in full sentences. Yeah, there are quite a few games I like replaying, I have a lot of old favorites, and I can be a bit indecisive on what I want to play next. I'm unsure about replaying any games on a massive scale though, like Breath of the Wild. Maybe when I get a Switch 2, I could toy around with the Zelda Notes feature, but I'm in no rush. I've already finished it and once again, it's a huge game. Same with Tears of the Kingdom.

Ah yeah, I'm reminded of Yooka-Laylee from that Rare discussion. That was made by some folks who worked at Rare, right? I'm sort of curious about Yooka-Replayee, isn't that supposed to be a remake/remaster or something, with some quality of life improvements? If it is, I'd like to try that out. I've not played the original game, just played Impossible Lair.

Wouldn't that be lovely. As somebody who loves platformers, that would be great to have the game have more platforming to balance out everything. Just the button-mashing(?) is my only concern. I'm sure it'll be a good game overall. It looks like it's made by the same folks that made Super Mario Odyssey, which is a game I loved. This is a game I do want to go in without spoilers for sure, same with Mario Kart World. Despite my concerns, this is the Switch 2 game I'm looking forward to the most. It would sting pretty hard if I found out something major about the game before playing it.

@Pastellioli yeah I heard that Sakurai wanted to "punish" people who leaked the cutscenes. So yeah, the game was made deliberately worse due to one creator's personal feud. It's a very very weird stuation. The situation with the DLC characters not getting Palutena's chatter just shows lack of polish.

Yeah, subspace emisarry is supposedly the best story mode with full... story. I don't even think that all characters should get screentime, just a few most iconic ones, like team leaders. Link, Mario, Pikachu, etc. And a couple of funny animations would do. But I think we will have to wait a bit for a new Smash game because they can't possibly top Ulti now. Their IPs they can cover, but all the others? The licensing must have been a nightmare. But we'll see. They did a crazy thing in Ulti, maybe they will go even bigger. I can't even begin to think how on Earth they would achieve that. On the other hand, if they go smaller, they will likely try to introduce some gimmick for the players not to feel like it's just "worse ultimate". But for now, nothing has been announced.

Ah, I played the gungeon, it's nice. I'd also like to try pikuniku. And the 90/00s games? I am right at home with them, I am currently starting my Nth Morrowind run.

Oh and that misunderstanding - why is it that the only people who don't have to apologize for anything feel the need to

But yeah now I am free, no more energy for fighting pointless wars

Hoping to get to replies this week, I've just been having too much fun playing Freedom Planet on PC. Haven't played it in years, have it on Wii U as well, back when the Wii U eShop was a thing.

@MarioVillager92 Cool, have fun when vacation time comes!

Today is Vesak Day.

@Sunsy Thanks! My flight will be on June 14th and I'll be staying over for a week. I'll be busy as a bee with prepping when it gets closer to that date, lol. It's been ages since I last played Freedom Planet... I'll have to dust off that game sometime since I do like the classic Sonic games.

@MarioVillager92 You're welcome. Sounds like a plan. Yeah, recently I wanted to play an indie game and I remember I had Freedom Planet on both Wii U and PC (friend gave me the PC one as a birthday gift 10 years ago using GOG's gift feature). I never beat it until last week, I beat Lilac's adventure and loved it even more. Story even had me in tears. Was playing the PC one since it was right there on my computer.

Freedom Planet spoiler: "Nobody... hurts... Milla!" That line alone hit hard. So satisfying to beat Brevon.

Edit: lol, I got a GOG ad with Freedom Planet on it... gg Nintendo Life.

@Pastellioli Hyrule Warriors was a big deal to me. I did eventually get burned out by the time I was up to the third edition of the game though. And yeah. Styles matter.

Well, Sony just doesn't seem to care? They don't make it easy to reach them!

Yeah. 3Mbps is a pain. I simply don't use steam, partly cause of that. I know full well if I open steam, half my library will want to update, and I can't start any of the games until I do so.

Yeah! It's an interesting take and evolution. And, idk why people do what they do. The discord was prominent even after the game shut down. Ppl do tend to find me annoying. So it makes some sense... But it was infuriating the way it happened.

Dark Road might actually be less fun than Superman 64. There. I said it.

Yup. I wholeheartedly agree. SSE was possibly the best Adventure Mode Smash has ever had. Like, props to Melee for having the first one, with an interesting early choice/easter egg influencing how it progressed, and props to Smash Run for being fun, until you realize there really is only the one map... WoL is just wasted. And yeah. The DLC characters, and even some newer ones have been OP since DLC started being a thing.

Tired is a thing. My pattern has been so far off I've not been able to reply till recent without sacrificing something. Hoping I actually sleep tonight!

Btw, what's your take on the "new" practices Nintendo has taken up? I'm fully aware they added that to the user agreement to combat piracy, but being real, that ain't gonna stop it. It'll just mean more emulators and less actual hardware, cause when you throw out the ultimate in accessibility, with your choice of quality and appealing entertainment, it is gonna be a thing. But saying they can brick your system just if they feel like you might've messed up? That's rather far imo. Knowing a certain friend had to abandon his PS cause of stupid stuff makes it known to me that things can and will go wrong.
I feel like Shuntaro Furukawa is the new incarnation of greed. Step aside Wario!

@Sunsy Then you have the sequel. Which I greatly enjoyed.
Though I feel I suck at it.

@Princess_Lilly So they were aware of cutscenes being leaked? I know Smash is kind of notorious for being leaked a bunch, notably Smash 4 but also Ultimate especially, albeit there were a lot of hoaxes for that one (one famous and hilarious one being “The Grinch Leak”). I don’t recall Sakurai having a sort of feud about it, which is strange because I read a LOT about Smash at one point when I played Ultimate a ton, one I can remember was when he acknowledged Smash fans wanting film and comic book characters in but said video game characters were the only ones eligible because they came from a game. And it did suck that they didn’t record any new lines for the DLC characters. I’m pretty sure the new characters in the base roster got conversations, so it’s weird the DLC characters got no unique interactions and had a generic one used each time. Not that it’s a big criticism, but it would have been cool if all the fighters had unique interactions for Palutena’s Guidance.

Yeah, if they tried to do each character, it would be a nightmare making sure they all have balanced screentime in cutscenes. Just having them interact with each other in cutscenes would have been cool, but there’s one instance of it and it doesn’t happen again, and it sucks given the roster is so big, so they did have potential to have the characters have plenty of interesting and fun moments with each other. I am wondering how they will follow up Ultimate, given it’s the biggest and grandest Smash game ever, and now everyone is expecting a 6th game to top Ultimate, or be on the same level of grandiose as it. I wonder if they will be able to work out licensing with the characters, but I’m kind of expecting them to go back to axing characters after Ultimate, but who knows what direction they’ll go for the next game? Everyone is kind of predicting that they’ll instead do a “Deluxe” port of Ultimate with all the DLC characters and content on while also having new fighters and a small bit of extra content on top of it so they don’t have to immediately move onto the next game and start from scratch, but I think it’ll be a while till they actually get any new Smash game out, given the long development cycle for the DLC and Sakurai working on Kirby Air Riders.

Yeah, Enter the Gungeon was hard and I did not finish it, but it was well made and really nice, though I don’t have it anymore or the PS4 I played it on. Since it’s been a while since I played it, I am kind of having a hard time playing The Crackpet Show, but I’m confident I can get better at it and finish it, but I haven’t been too active on the Xbox, so I don’t expect to finish it until maybe early June…I have been busy watching the actual Happy Tree Friends show, and I do love the characters and art style but it’s really violent, the only thing I really dislike about it.

Pikuniku is great! You should definitely try it out sometime. It’s not a masterpiece and it’s my anything crazy, but it’s a fun game you can complete in a few hours while still having fun from the humor, story and gameplay.

@Mariotag I still need that sequel. I only have the first Freedom Planet. Will probably buy the DRM-free version of it since I own a DRM-free copy of the original game. GOG doesn't have the second game, but the game's official website does have it DRM-free on itch.io, so I may grab it there.

Honestly, I forgot all about the sequel until I played the first game recently.

@Mariotag I have only really played three hack and slash games ever so I don’t really get burnt out by them, but I remember Hyrule Warriors had a 3DS port followed by a Switch port. I even think FE Warriors was on the 3DS too!

That sounds awful and annoying…

Yeah, I think sometimes when I boot my Xbox up some of my games begin to automatically update? But it’s mainly the Microsoft Store that updates for whatever reason, but it only lasts a few seconds. Not sure why it does that, but it can be annoying. Thankfully you’re now able to buy games via the Xbox app on your phone and it’ll be added to your library, and you can download it at anytime so I don’t have to deal with those issues I get on console. I did that a few weeks ago when I purchased The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition and it was far more quicker and easier on the phone. While I do think Microsoft still does have some problems with the Xbox that need fixing, I am happy they now let you buy games on your phone even when your far away.

I am glad my party didn’t require a Discord, didn’t even know some parties required one to play! At least the game had plenty of chill parties that weren’t hardcore and required their members to always be active or they’ll get the boot. Nah, you’re not annoying at all. Sounds like a stupid issue the party leaders had. If they are going to remove someone from the party, they should at least have a good reason to do it, and not just “oh that person is annoying so let’s kick them out.” Dark Road was so unfun. If it did have actually fun gameplay I would have kept KHUX after it shut down, but after they removed the fun gameplay from the main aspect of the game, I just deleted it, on top of the fact half of my progress was gone. I still can’t believe they wiped medals from the game completely instead of letting you have some sort of collection of gallery that lets you look at them.

I definitely would have liked to try Subspace Emissary. I never really played any of the past games besides some vague memories of playing Melee. I started to get more into Smash with Smash 4, and I absolutely enjoyed Ultimate, but the story mode and Spirits are my main issue, and I definitely believe you when you say Subspace was better than World of Light, also from the gameplay and cutscenes I’ve seen of it…definitely wasted potential with WOL, especially since they had a bigger roster there and it would have been a treat to see some of the new characters interact or get a few little fun animations. I honestly think if I get back to Smash at some point I should try to main the base characters instead of DLC…I used to main Corrin and Lucina, but I stopped using them after I bought the Hero and Banjo DLC.

I find myself getting sleepier earlier in the day, or a just a few hours before 9 PM or 10 PM, which is strange because usually I take naps throughout the day so I would have expected to be fully rested, but I’m not unfortunately. I sometimes am really uncomfortable when I sleep. I get bad back pains even though I sleep on my back and sometimes side. For a while I made the poor decision to sleep on my stomach, despite knowing that sleeping that way was going to hurt my back and spine. I regret it a lot.

Well, I do get that they want to prevent Switch piracy and not let their newer releases get pirated. I do definitely get that and I am fully against pirating modern Switch games since they can still be purchased and played, but I am hoping that they don’t brick consoles on accident, or for some stupid reason. I am wondering if mods will apply to that, because I feel like they would maybe consider modding certain games to be modifying the Switch? I’m sure that they do (or did) have punishments in place for that, one I remember was people modding their Switch so that they could use unauthorized profile pictures and a Splatoon YouTuber who showed off mods in Splatoon 2 got Nintendo’s attention and they completely banned him from playing online so he had to get a new Switch. I could understand the former since I read some people used inappropriate images as their profile pictures that way, but the latter didn’t even hack or do anything malicious, and just showed off a lot of harmless mods. Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see how they apply the emulator and game piracy practices to the Switch 2, it definitely seems like that they are going to do their best to crackdown on unauthorized consoles, content, and modding this time compared to when the OG Switch released.

@MarioVillager92 Hope you have a great vacation! Wishing you the best and hoping you’re safe and have fun!

I used to like sleeping a lot years ago. In fact, my family says that when I was younger, I loved sleeping everywhere and didn’t hesitate sleeping; if I felt sleepy, I went to sleep! But unfortunately I’ve been having issues with sleep lately. I have a bad tendency to stay up late and do fun stuff since nighttime is the time of day I have free time to myself, but now I have been trying to go back to bed since I’ve been sleepier throughout the day, but even when I do that and take small naps, I find myself still getting sleepy midway through the day, usually at 7 PM, hours before I sleep. But, I still appreciate sleep a lot, and I’ll keep doing my best to get enough of it!

Oh yeah, I have been trying to add more variety to my music tastes. Usually I limit myself to J-pop and Vocaloid, but I’ve been trying to listen to newer songs. I’ve found myself listening to 80s-90s music, as well as some rock. My favorite rock songs right now would have to be Paradise City by Guns ‘n’ Roses and The Carpal Tunnel of Love by Fallout Boy. I became interested in that last song because there’s a show I’ve been watching lately, and the music video for the song was directed by one of the show’s creators, albeit the music video and show are pretty violent. Yeah, game music is my favorite too, but I think the only ones I listened to lately are from Rare games. I usually like listening to the OST for Conker, and my favorite song from that game is Rock Solid. Last year I listened to that on a loop while I was cleaning and doing chores around the house, and it was fantastic!

Seeing them change it to just a cutscene viewer was disappointing give the progress I made in it. The only part of the game that still had gameplay after the shutdown was Dark Road, but the gameplay there was boring and unfun, so I deleted it afterward. I will admit that I haven’t really played some of the mainline KH games besides KH1 and KH2, but I can imagine how much it stung when they ported all the games to Switch only to announce they were cloud versions and were digital releases only. I definitely think that with the Switch 2 being stronger, it has the chance to get a native version instead. Hopefully that does happen!

I can’t wait to see what new icons they’ll have, especially after they revealed the console would have far more icons available at launch. I didn’t realize until now that they didn’t really have Fire Emblem profile pics, so it’s awesome they are including more games now. I don’t have the Expansion Pack anymore, but I definitely think the rewind feature for the N64 games is exciting. It’ll definitely be better than making multiple save states when going through a tricky part of a game and needed to go back and restart multiple times. I did that with Banjo when I got to Rusty Bucket Bay and it did save frustration but was annoying to constantly do.

I am not like that with all games, but I got so sad when I had to start from scratch in New Horizons lol, but that’s from me playing New Leaf for nearly a decade and getting used to it a bit too much. Thank goodness Switch 2 will have backwards compatibility so it won’t happen again.

Yeah, the show came off more like Doraemon to me while having a bit of similar ideas and concepts like Pokémon but not being a complete rip-off of it. The game and anime had a bit more story, the yo-kai could talk and had their own personalities, and the games and anime were focused on comedy and juvenile humor, and the original games and anime consistently centered on a specific group of characters for each entry instead of using new protagonists every time, that being Nate, his ghost yo-kai butler Whisper and a cat yo-kai named Jibanyan, but in YKW1 and YKW2 you could play as a girl named Katie instead, and in YKW3 you also played as another girl named Hailey instead. Though, the new game Holy Horror Mansion is going to focus on a new protagonist and characters, not to mention it’s going to stray away from the original ideas and concepts, even doing away with the Yo-kai Watch branding so it’ll be interesting to see what they’ll do for it. Yeah, I’m not sure what I’ll replay right now, also because I got a new game on my Xbox weeks ago and I’m focused on completing that maybe in June since it’s in a few more weeks. I could replay more Rare games but I’m not too in the mood to do it right now.

Yep, it was done by a different studio but the team behind it was the same ones who made the Banjo games before leaving Rare. I haven’t played Yooka-Laylee, but I heard the original version wasn’t too good. Yooka-Replaylee seems like it’ll iron out a lot of issues with the original game, so that makes it promising and interesting for me. Yeah, it’s a remake that’s supposed to improve the original game. Though, I think they also had a sequel to the original game in the works but they haven’t said anything on it for a while.

I definitely think DK Bananza will be fantastic. I can’t wait to see what reviews for it will be like. I’m confident it’ll be good, also since it seems like the Odyssey team is working on it and everyone enjoyed that one. I’m excited, also since it’s only two months away now! Hoping I hear good stuff about it when it releases

https://nichegamer.com/russia-announces-plan-to-ban-anime-fig...

I always knew Hatsune Miku was too big of a threat. How they plan to defeat her remains a mystery.

behold.
mother 3 coming soon.
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@Pastellioli Yeah. I normally don't play hack and slash, or beat em up, but HW was just too good. But then extra versions came..

Yeah. Seems to be too normal. I'm concerned about Nintendo now too. The new Terms of Service imply they can brick your switch if anything not legitimate is on it. This would include people who buy bootleg games unintentionally, simply looking to get a game used. I called customer service twice. First time was like, just be careful what you buy, cause if you screw up, the offending game will be tied to your account. Second time, I was paranoid, and the person on the phone listened as I checked every detail of the cart I could. Said the call could be used as reference if something happens anyway.

That does sound good. But in my case, I need to be cautious of when any download occurs. It isn't uncommon for a download or update to crash, and need to start over again after six hours waiting. Newer tech and services simply aren't as optimized. Amusingly, Netflix and Youtube are possibly the most optimized.

Honestly, the party I was in was both helpful and fun. There's still one person left from it I hear from occasionally. And to be fair, I was pretty annoying. I was like, I don't wanna cheat and just google it, I'd rather hints! And who knows what else I'd be spoiled on.. Eventually I gave in. Lucky Emblems were an awful experience to the point I genuinely preferred the massive checklists from the other games. Except maybe Birth By Sleep. I hate that those games can just be cut off like that! KHuX is very important to the overall story in multiple ways. To have it just vanish is insane. And yes, all my medals with artwork and soundtrack stuff are gone now. Dark Road was legitimately the single worst gaming experience I have ever had, up there with playing freezeframe perfect pit super mario world hacks, of which some of those videos ppl record of a single stage? Yeah. Those can actually take months to do.

Honestly, SSE has a decent bit in common with Kirby and the Amazing Mirror gameplay-wise imo. Interestingly enough, Master Hand is in that game too. But yeah. Smash 64 was very much basic, while at the same time, iconic. The Captain Falcon memes came from that one, from before Falcon Punch was nerfed heavily. Also, the inclusion of obscure characters was interesting.
Melee took everything from the original, and made it massive. Smash 64 was a budget game, Melee was not. Back then, the stages felt more creative to play too.
Then Brawl was teased, and hype went completely insane. I'm still looking for an old GameFAQs thread, or at least some record of it, from back then. "The Sakurai Who Stole Christmas". Genuinely interesting times. Brawl was incredible, but what was astonishing in that light was how the promotion for the game, and hype, were so over the top that no game could ever match up.
Then Smash 4 felt like a downgrade on both versions. And Ultimate has everyone, but at the expense of other creative things. Also, I still remember Corrin being busted in 4.

My sleep has been awful lately. As for discomfort, for me, that would be anxiety and sweat. And uh. I can only handle laying on my side.

Yeah. Anything not explicitly authorized is against ToS. It can easily be accidental, which ironically likely will burn enough consumers to have them turn to piracy.

Chaos with life lately, so I'm only just now finding reasonable opportunity to reply.

@Mariotag It was a fun Wii U game, and hack ‘n’ slash is definitely a genre I don’t mind playing. It reminds me, the Wii U had an awesome library of games despite how badly the console did. Of course the one for the Switch blows the Wii U game library out of the water, but the Wii U had some decent and amazing exclusives.

Oof, yeah if it does happen to people who unknowingly purchase bootlegs, that’s gonna suck! It seems like they are looking to punish people who do it both intentionally or unintentionally, which is awful. It is good you got clarification on how the thing is being implemented, but it seems like people will have to be extra careful with the games they buy and examine some of their game cartridges and keys closely to make sure they don’t have bootlegs that will ultimately brick their Switch.

Ah, usually I don’t experience crashes that mess with game downloads or updates, but having a game update for so long only for the download to become corrupt and then it restarting stinks. I usually prefer to download games that take up a small amount of space since the game will download either in only a few seconds or minutes, so I don’t have to worry about the progress or wait for the game. It’s so annoying whenever I redownload Overwatch 2 and I get told it won’t be ready for a few hours or even a day because of how big it is, but I think some games on the Xbox have really low download speeds. Though, what’s annoying is how on the Xbox and pretty much any game console, the game update/download is slowed or paused when you have a game playing.

I never really interacted with anyone in the group I was in, both the prior one that kicked me out for inactivity and the second one where most of the members didn’t really do anything together. But, I do definitely can see group members being extra helpful, since the main point of KHUX was also interacting with other players, helping each other and working together. Yeah, I am glad I do know a lot of the story so I can understand plot points and characters in KH4 and other future games, but it’s so weird they’d remove it, also since KHUX is supposed to be set wayyyyyy before all of the KH games and is therefore important to the lore. I I’m hoping they have answers soon for some of KHUX’s story, mainly where the main group’s members ended up (since Lauriam, Skuld, Ventus, Ephemer and Brain ended up in different worlds from what was shown in the ending but I don’t expect them to give answers to that soon unfortunately. I found out that they cancelled that Missing Link mobile game, and up until now I didn’t know what the game was about, so finding out it was supposed to be set in-between Union X and Dark Road and even featured some Union X characters was disappointing because it likely had some answers to some questions I had about KHUX’s story. But I think KH is better just sticking to console games instead of having mobile games that can be shut down and delisted at any moment, also since that would cause issues trying to understand and follow the story and lore of KH, because I’m sure there are some KH fans that haven’t played Union X and could have a hard time understanding the story and connecting with the characters because of it being a delisted game. Makes me wonder how they’ll deal with Missing Link’s story and whether or not they’ll fully scrap its storyline or attempt to incorporate it in KH4 and future games.

That’s what annoyed me, because KHUX had some awesome medals and it got wiped from existence after. I liked getting medals with viewable full artwork and different music that’d change the hub world music if you set it as your main, one I remember the most was a Neku medal with some awesome comic book-esque artwork and panels while having Twister as its song. If they had incorporated a gallery where you could view all medals from the game, I’d love it, but no, just remove medals entirely and undo the work you put into getting some of them. Still agree about Dark Road, I’ll say it again, most boring KH game I’ve ever played gameplay-wise.

I can believe all of what you said about Smash, makes me miss the times and days of gaming in the late 2000s to early 2010s, seeing the extreme hype for Ultimate was amazing too! I still remember when they dropped the first trailer and it misled viewers into thinking it was a new Splatoon game, until everything darkens and you see the burning Smash logo in the Inkling’s eye. Some of the leak hoaxes were hilarious, like The Grinch “leak” but the fanbase, I don’t know, kind of grew a bit more irritable and toxic when it came to character speculation and who was going to get in, which I think got worse after Byleth was revealed as the last character in Fighters Pass 1. Never had been in any arguments about that but some fans would argue a lot over the character choices and their preferred character not getting in. I still like Ultimate and it for sure has the best Smash roster yet, but it’s kind of lackluster in some aspects, mainly WOL, the execution of Spirits, and Spirit hunting. Corrin was busted in 4? I’m curious, what does that mean? I actually never had the Corrin DLC in 4 (or any of the DLC really) so I don’t know some of the differences between their Smash 4 version snd Ultimate version.

I can sleep fine but it’s my back that hurts so bad for whatever reason, even when I lay on a nice comfy bed I wake up with back pain. Maybe I need to place some pillows underneath so that can go away, but I also do feel sometimes hot even when it’s cool in the house, which is really uncomfortable when sleeping. I only really lay on my side if I have bad pain or feel unwell. I still really really regret sleeping on my stomach back then…

Yeah, I hope that the Terms of Service is properly implemented and not misused, having a console permanently unplayable and bricked because of something accidental would absolutely suck since you don’t even know when or even if they’ll let you play it again.

That’s fine. Just take your time responding, I have been a bit busy too, I find myself not being too active on here lately, also because I don’t really have anything to say. It’s also because I’ve been trying to watch some shows on YouTube, play my rhythm game and draw. It’s been a while since ive last drawn, and for the past 2-3 weeks I’ve been trying to make something but being super unhappy with what I’m making because I want it to look a certain way, but get really discouraged seeing other good looking artwork, but it was only yesterday I finally made something I’m happy with. Hopefully I don’t mess it up.