Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@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.

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

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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.

I adored the various Wii U games. Some of which still aren't ported from Wii U. Notably, I miss Virtual Console, and not having to pay a subscription for basic online.

The big problem I see is more than that. Nintendo's biggest audience is not the die-hard gamers who grew up with them. More like, the kids who want their first games. And of course, parents won't always be in the loop. It's literally begging for trouble to do something like that.

Yeah. Our internet is messed up. 3mbps for $150 a month, cables not insulated, exposed to the elements... It rains, the internet goes down, or out entirely. Any download these days takes a while. If in the MB range, or very low GB range, it's generally okay. But double digit gigs? It'll take ages. And during those ages, anything can happen.

It's honestly a little amusing seeing you asking questions about what happened to the characters, cause we've actually seen some of them from before the mobile game even started. Ventus was one of the three primary playable characters in Birth By Sleep. Game was effectively a tale to show a tragedy from about ten years before the first game. Ven also comes back in 3, alongside the reveal of Luxu, and all the original foretellers except Ava, with The Master of Masters playing a background role. Lauriam is very much Marluxia, with Strelitzia being his missing sister he has been seeking, alongside his missing memories. I saw somewhere that Brain was supposed to be a lead character in Missing Link, and that the first saga's villain, Xehanort, was supposedly mentored by the KHUX avatar character, so yeah. There's a lot of significance.

I never actually favorited medals. I didn't know they changed the ingame themes. Just that if you viewed them, you could get nice art and music. It really does feel wasted! Dark Road is not merely the most boring KH game. I've tried making progress. It's a lovely simulator of trying to play those frame by frame fan mods of SMW from ages ago over months. That is to say, so boring, it's agonizing.

Yeah, though the hype for Ultimate was nothing like Brawl's hype. The site might actually still be up for that one tbh. Every weekday, for just short of a year, Sakurai posted some relatively in depth updates on the game, ranging from characters, stages, music, moves, new special features, etc. It was insane on a level I have never seen before or since. Yes, the smash fanbase can get toxic. Any fanbase can.
As for Smash 4 DLC fighters, I never played them enough to know the full extent, but Corrin was apparently known for some stupid stun move that lasted a while, and was easy to land, while Bayo could just infinite combo anyone, anywhere.

The heat is a major problem for me honestly. It's hard for me to last in 70 degrees farenheit.

The ToS are going more and more towards "You might have paid for this, but by playing it, you acknowledge you do not own it in any way shape or form". Ppl have said the whole license thing was always there, but now the devs are getting greedy and cocky. They absolutely will use what power they have to take your stuff from you if you get on their bad side now.

I'm still catching up with stuff I fell behind on. 3 months behind on webtoon? Unacceptable! Re:Zero has two chapters before I'm caught up again? Not having it! Also, sleep issues and stuff. Stress has been a thing.

HAPPY 45th Birthday Pac-Man!!