Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

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@Mariotag Whoops! Didn’t see your reply! Sorry.

Oh yeah, there is definitely a big part of Nintendo’s audience who are also children, and I’ve heard people saying that they likely won’t be able to get a Switch 2 or any of the games at launch in a few more weeks because the pricing might not work for their parents. That could take a chunk of sales away. I still think the console will be a success in terms of sales, especially since I saw a lot of people unfortunately had trouble trying to pre-order one, but I think more sales won’t hit until a bit later, possibly if the console’s price will go down a bit at some point. I know I’m not going to have one until sometime later.

I do remember Ventus with Birth By Sleep, Lauriam being Marluxia before he became a Nobody, and what happened with the Player character, though I’ll say the fate for the latter was kind of disappointing, because I also read the mentor the Player is reincarnated as I think died? It has been a while since I last played a KH game, so of course I forgot a ton about some of the games…I mainly want to know what happened to Brain and Skuld, since they were completely new characters in KHUX and Brain being one of the main characters in Missing Link and that getting cancelled makes me curious about what role he was going to play in the story. Hopefully they find some way to repurpose it or tell it, because that was in development for a few years and it seems like they tried to make it work but couldn’t.

I did only have a few Virtual Console games, but I liked when they allowed you to buy retro games and let you own them. NSO’s game library of retro games is perfect, but I would have liked if they did make the games buyable, kind of like what Microsoft does with Game Pass where your allowed to play the game for “free” with a sub or just buy it once and own it.

It does a bit, with bigger games. I haven’t really heard of WiFi going down when it rains, because the one me and my family have stays up even when it rains. Last month it rained pretty bad but the internet stayed up, though I remember a few years ago, we had strong wind and rain, and it did affect the WiFi significantly that time. Usually when I had electronics plugged up and it was raining I usually got paranoid over the cords getting damaged and affected because of electric sources outside, but nothing ever happens.

Oh yeah, I especially loved medals being able to change the game’s music in the town. I really wish they didn’t fully remove them after the swap to an offline game. I see. I don’t know Dark Road’s story seemed interesting but the stuff and boring gameplay was a complete turn off. And the fact KHUX’s gameplay was removed while Dark Road’s was still left really annoyed me since I preferred playing Union X and it had better gameplay. And with the shutdown, I’m wondering if they had intended to tell more story, because whenever you were going to play the main campaign, I remember there was a little percentage bar that showed how much of the story you completed, but even when I got far into the story, I think it’d only say I completed maybe 9%-11% of it? Befote KHUX shut down, I recall being stuck in the Wreck-It Ralph world, which was nearing toward the end of the story and I’m sure it was before the game went back to being focused on the main story with Lauriam and the others, but the percentage showing my progress there was nowhere near 100%, which I think hints that they had more story to tell before the game was over.

I see, I think he did do a bit of the same for Ultimate but I don’t think it was quite often. It reminds me of when he used to share those daily Smash pictures for Ultimate for three years until Sora was released, and when he used to share random stuff like the games he was playing, though he said he had to stop because people overanalyzed and believed the games he played were hints toward who was going to get added. Smash speculation was hectic and kind of toxic from 2018-2021, especially with the “Everyone is Here” tagline with Ultimate that emphasized its large cast and content. I’m trying to remember, Corrin did have these moves that stunned enemies for a small amount of time…I think one of them was this ball you charged up and when it hit an enemy they’d be stunned for a few seconds, and Corrin had stab attacks that made the enemy stuck for a bit. I never played as Bayonetta, but I remember watching old professional Smash 4 videos years ago and everyone in the videos and comment sections were pointing out how she could perform infinite combos and getting annoyed, thiugh I don’t have much to say about that since I never mained her in Ultimate.

The heat has been awful, this week we had a heat wave…there have been a few days where it’s surprisingly cool and windy in the morning, but later on it starts burning throughout the day. When the new year starts each time, I dread May-June, especially when it starts nearing those months since I know it’s going to be an uncomfortable few months. I always like fall and especially winter because it’s cooler, but one thing I hate about fall is that I always seem to get sick around that time of year for some reason…

I just hope it doesn’t get misused. Funnily I saw a meme referencing the new Terms of Service, but it makes me really hopeful that some people don’t get messed up by the ToS when they make honest mistakes or unknowingly have a bootlegged game or something. I do think the game licensing stuff was there the whole time, just now they are going to enforce it more and have consequences in place that significantly affect your console, instead of just like banning you from online play, like what I mentioned with a Splatoon modder that one time.

I get having sleep issues, ive also had them too, but moreso waking up with back pain and still feeling sleepy when I wake up or nap.

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@MarioVillager92 I still stay up late sometimes, usually watching a show or trying to draw since it’s the only time of day I get free time and get to be alone, but I really need to stop doing that. That was also a bad habit I had when I was younger, though I don’t remember it significantly affecting my school work.

A few weeks ago my brother was playing Red Hot Chili Peppers in the car and I really liked it, I have listened to their songs before but only around 2-3 of them. Yes, I’ll admit that Welcome to the Jungle is the only Guns N’ Roses song I’ve heard, but it’s catchy, and the only songs I’ve heard from Fallout Boy is The Carpal Tunnel of Love and Immortals, I just think I need to listen to more new songs, but I’ll admit that I tend to be a bit picky and sometimes not know where to start. Yeah, game OST is awesome too, but it’s been a while since I last listened to it. I have been hearing a mixture of Michael Jackson songs and some Vocaloid lately. One I’ve been repeating is a song called Liar Dancer by Masarada, pretty catchy and I like the beat and tuning on that one.

Yeah, there are some games that I do agree seem very suited for Nintendo consoles, KH is one of them too! Yeah, I have played some of the KH games and the storyline is interesting, but people who have played a lot of the games say that the story gets kind of convoluted and confusing, though I remember KH3 included a recap video that goes over the story throughout the games to help.

I definitely still think NSO icons will still be usable too, I am glad to hear they updated the icons that aren’t on NSO, because I assumed that all the updated character icons and elements were going to be on NSO only…I didn’t realize for a while that Fire Emblem was excluded when it came to profile elements from the games. Yeah, Rusty Bucket Bay and Click Clock Wood are difficult, and I found the latter was hard mainly with the size of the level and it being split between four different seasons. The levels in Banjo do get a bit harder near the end, but they are far more easier than the levels and challenges in Tooie…I was going to replay that last year but remembering how hard the levels were made me not want to continue. I was able to 100% Kazooie, but Tooie I couldn’t because of how big they made it. Kazooie in my opinion struck the perfect balance between small but also big worlds, but Tooie was too big, so it was time consuming to 100% it. I’m missing a jigsaw because of this awful racing minigame they throw near the end.

Yeah, I get being worried about transferring game data over to the next console, also because it can get messed up somehow. And the game issues, I didn’t know they haven’t provided any new updates in a month? That isn’t good, I would have expected them to update it already since the Switch 2 is due in almost just a week. There have been rumors popping up that they are going to hold another Direct near the release of the console, so maybe if they do, they provide a new backwards compatibility update. I am glad most of the games they tested work, but I would love if they could somehow get all of them working. I think they confirmed all of their first-party games run, besides the Nintendo Labo.

You’re welcome, I really like Yo-kai Watch, though I unfortunately missed out on the third game and some of the spin-offs. I see, I haven’t played a Pokémon game in a few years, as well as an open-world game. Last one I played was Violet back in 2022 or 2023. My brother has played Legends Arceus and he liked it, though I haven’t. Is it a good game? I’m curious. I don’t mind! I ended up buying a shoot em’ up called The Crackpet Show: Happy Tree Friends Edition, and it’s based on an infamous and popular web show called Happy Tree Friends. The game was on sale and I was interested in the show’s art style and characters, also because I wanted to play a new genre that wasn’t platforming, rhythm, or fighting. I did watch the show, and I like the characters but I’m not a fan of the violence, though luckily the game is significantly less violent. I liked the game, but I only managed to complete one level because it’s so hard, but also because I found out last week the HDMI port on my Xbox is broken! The console still works but it means I can’t even see what I’m playing, though my brother plans on helping me get it fixed sometime this week.

I hope I hear good things about both of those too! MKW looks great, and I really found it interesting and hilarious some of the enemy characters and some minor characters are going to be playable, though I am wondering if some of the other major characters from previous games will eventually become playable since they seem to have removed a few of them, such as the crossover characters and DK characters besides Donkey Kong himself. I will admit it was disappointing to hear no new character news from the MKW Direct, but it makes me hopeful they’ll add more characters in some DLC or update of some sort. Being able to bounce/jump off of walls is a cool gimmick, and the costumes are a fun addition, but I wish the costumes weren’t considered separate characters, on top of it taking up space on the character select screen, but it’s just a minor issue. The new modes are also fun-looking, there being Free Roam and letting you look around the place instead of racing (kind of akin to the hub world in DKR where you could drive around the location) seems interesting. It definitely is shaping up to be one of the best and most biggest Mario Kart games ever, and I really think a lot of people will like it!

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@Pastellioli Yeah, I can stay up late sometimes as well, for pretty much the same reason. I tend to be busy during the daytime, lol. I tend to play my Switch sometime before I get tired.

Nice, I think I know somebody who likes Red Hot Chili Peppers, just not sure if I heard their songs. I probably did. It is a catchy song for sure, and it's cool as heck too, lol. Nirvana's another memorable band for me, my dad had the Nevermind album on CD way back when I was super young, and I have a ton of nostalgia for all of its songs, haha. I can be a little picky when it comes to music as well, lol, I have my preferred genres. Like rock, big band jazz, and even some oldies. I've actually listened to a good chunk of Michael Jackson's songs, like Bad - that one is a guilty pleasure for me. I've heard Thriller as well. Wasn't that the best-selling album of all time?

Yeah exactly. Plus KH's battles sort of looks like the 3D Zelda games' combat to me. It probably feels a bit different from that, but I'm just going by what I see. Yeah, there are a ton of entries that are all connected in terms of their storylines... I remember seeing that Chain of Memories takes place between Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 for example. They all span across multiple different platforms too, mainly Sony's home consoles and Nintendo's handhelds if I recall correctly.

That would be good to keep using NSO icons on Switch 2, I can't imagine they would take that away. Especially since they'll be having all the NSO classic games on the Switch 2 as well. (Thank you Nintendo for not restarting your retro game library all over again! They've had a bad habit of doing that...) I've had a difficult time getting into Banjo-Tooie for pretty much the same reasons you've mentioned. The massive levels were not doing me any favors because I get overwhelmed very easily. I didn't like the minigames, either. That handcar race in Glitter Gulch Mine was awful, because you have to spend the entire race button mashing, and it's ridiculously long. It seriously made my thumb tired. Heck, the button mashing minigames in Mario Party were better than this! I hated the target shooting in Witchyworld too, since it had clunky aiming. There's a race near the end of the game that's pretty bad, huh? I did want to like Banjo-Tooie, but after spending a good chunk of time with it, it just isn't one of my favorites.

I've not had a system transfer mess up on me, pretty much all of them I've had went smooth as butter. I think it's just a matter of having your Switch and Switch 2 near each other, and having them both plugged in so they don't run out of battery juice. There's a transfer option that lets you upload your data to a dedicated server, if you don't have a Switch 2 yet, but I ain't doing that since that would format the Switch at the end. And oopsie-Princess Daisy, I spoke a little too soon on the backwards compatibility! Nintendo updated the compatibility tests yesterday, here's where you can see it. You can see lists of games that have start-up issues or compatibility issues, too. Going through the lists myself, the only two games I have that were affected are Mega Man Legacy Collection (the one that has Mega Man 1 thru 6 on the NES) and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. They both have compatibility issues with the Switch 2.

I think Legends Arceus is a good game, I do intend to come back to it. I like the exploration aspect the best, where you'd go around and catch Pokemon to fill your Pokedex. This is the only Pokemon game I have on Switch, and I actually got it from a game voucher. That's cool. I remember Happy Tree Friends... it looks like a cute children's show, except it gets all violent! I do have a few shoot em ups as well, I have Galactic Attack for my Switch. (It was originally an arcade/Sega Saturn game.) It gets really challenging, but I do like it quite a lot. I like how you can lock onto enemies that are way below your ship and shoot homing lasers at them. The music and visuals are fantastic, too. Ouch, sorry to hear about your Xbox's HDMI port, hope it gets fixed.

Ah yeah I noticed that the guest characters aren't present. I like playing as Villager in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, because I also like Animal Crossing. Maybe I'll pick the snowman in Mario Kart World, only because I like snowmen in general, lol. If there's gonna be more Donkey Kong characters, I'd actually like to play as Dixie Kong. The new gameplay mechanics like driving on water and on walls look fun for sure. And yeah, the character select screen does look a bit problematic, but I guess we'll see how it is when the game releases. Though I definitely love the costumes... I feel they're a fun way to express yourself while you're playing online, as well. It does look like a really good game overall, honestly... hopefully it'll at least have a lot of great content, considering the game on its own isn't cheap.

@Sunsy Hi there, I just wanted to mention that one of my earlier posts that I wrote to you mentioned my previous profile picture, which was my Animal Crossing villager. Just felt like having Mario as my profile picture again. Apologies if that caused any confusion or whatever. Hope you're doing well.

Edit: Whoops, didn't see your post until now. Yeah, I'm liking Okami quite a lot actually. It plays sort of like Zelda, except you're a wolf and it's got this cool, ancient Japanese art style. I don't think getting nostalgic for anything more recent is weird. I've actually been considering replaying Super Mario Odyssey and I can see myself feeling nostalgic for it.

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@MarioVillager92 I’ve been trying to draw late at night, but I think I should do something simpler that doesn’t require me to use a lot of stuff. It’s fun playing games on the phone late at night, and weeks ago I was watching videos too. There’s feeling with doing fun stuff at night that I like a lot, probably because I get time to do what I like haha.

I love Michael Jackson’s songs, my dad played them a lot when I was younger so his music is iconic to me. I listened to some of his songs today, that being The Way You Make Me Feel and P.Y.T., and it’s nice listening to them alongside some other 80s-90s songs. There’s a feeling they give off that makes me so happy! And Bad is my most favorite song from him, I agree that it’s a guilty pleasure, because I repeated it a ton a few months ago and couldn’t get enough of it.

Yeah, the games are split between different consoles and some of them didn’t get ported over to PlayStation, so it requires owning multiple consoles to play all the games so you know the characters and the story, plus one of them is a mobile game you can’t even download or play anymore! Still sucks KHUX was closed, especially since future games are going to use more characters and elements from it and some people won’t experience the game’s story and characters. Hopefully they can find a way to explain the story more to players despite the game being closed.

NSO’s game library is getting better and it’s awesome that it’s returning to the next console and not starting from scratch. There is a debate between Banjo fans over whether Kazooie or Tooie are the best, and one criticism people give Tooie is that it has a darker and macabre theme compared to the first game, the size of the levels and mini games. I don’t mind the more macabre themes and jokes, and it’s something I would absolutely expect from a game series that is full of dry and sarcastic British humor and featuring characters that crack self-deprecating jokes a ton. But the levels are too big and not balanced, and it can take hours to complete a single level, not to mention they added, in my opinion, too many more collectibles despite reducing the total jigsaw count to 90 instead of 100, so I didn’t bother 100%ing it because of that. The ideas they had for the mini games was interesting, one being the GoldenEye 007 segments where Banjo wields Kazooie like a gun, but some of them were repetitive and hard later on as the game comes to an end, but the game’s overall difficulty is what makes me not like it as much as the first, because parts of the game feel so unfair and hard to pull off. Yeah, it’s a race against Canary Mary, and before I got to Tooie, everyone said the race was unfair, and it is! It’s INSANE how frustrating the developers made the race, and I can’t tell if they did it intentionally or not. She’s fast and if you lag behind her significantly, even for a few seconds, you lose. To win it requires using a turbo controller or lagging a bit behind her for most of the race before gaining speed right at the end, but I haven’t tried either of those and I’m not in interesting in playing it again. It’s not a bad sequel, but it’s hard for me to play again, kind of like Conker, though for that it’s more of the gameplay being clunky and poor level design.

I haven’t had to do system transfers a lot, and it’s good to hear that for you, system transfers have not gone terribly. I’m not getting a Switch 2 at launch but I also wouldn’t want to upload the data to a server while waiting. It’s a coincidence that they updated their backwards compatibility list, it’s good to hear they fixed some of the issues with a few games that had issues!

That’s good to hear, I like exploring in some games that are big and have a focus on that! Similarly Pokémon Violet is the only Pokémon game I have played on Switch, that one wasn’t bad and I did like what I played of it.

I’m new to Happy Tree Friends, I heard it was all over the internet back in the 2000s-2010s and it’s still popular despite them not really producing episodes for it anymore, but I only heard about it 5-6 years ago, and it wasn’t until last month I watched the show and read up on the characters after buying the game. I haven’t seen all the episodes but I love the characters and the humor (when it’s not violent and has minimal blood) actually made me laugh a bit. Something I also liked from the show was that it had an action spin-off called Ka-Pow! that centered on five characters from the show. All of them starred in their own episodes, and the people working on the show did a good job telling the characters’ stories in only 2-3 minutes and relying on visuals, animation, and writing to tell it instead of dialogue, like “show but don’t tell,” and in fact, the team working on the main show said they rely more on writing than dialogue because they want the jokes and moments to be funnier and creative. The W.A.R. Journal episode in Ka-Pow! is my favorite, since it gave a backstory for one of its characters, Flippy/Fliqpy, and explained the cause of his trauma, on top of the episode having some great action and pretty creative ways in which he fights off his enemies. Then in the main show, he got two episodes full of character development where he goes to therapy and tries to cure his trauma after he becomes aware he’s harming others. For a show that isn’t story-heavy and extremely comedic, I liked that they went ahead and tried to develop one of its characters and gave him depth so that he’d be a more interesting character, but Ka-Pow! never continued because of a failed Kickstarter, which sucked to read a lot…

Shoot em’ ups are fun but challenging, last one I played before The Crackpet Show was Enter the Gungeon on the PS4, and that was a great one but I unsurprisingly didn’t finish it. I had a ton of fun on the PS4. It sucks since I want to go ahead and try finishing The Crackpet Show, but it’s fine. If my Xbox was completely unusable I’d be upset, but since it’s just a broken HDMI port that will get fixed soon, I don’t mind too much, plus I have my fun as heck rhythm game on my phone.

I wonder if crossover characters will come back, but I think they might just focus solely on Mario characters this time instead, but I can still see them adding in extra characters via DLC. If I do get to play the game, I’ll for sure play DK, but I’d love if more DK characters were added in the mix too, so there’d be a lot of more variety with the already big cast in MKW. The new mechanics definitely add freshness and uniqueness with it, and I think them having a select screen like Smash where the costumes are selectable when you choose a character, that would work better and have it look less cluttered, but the costumes are well designed and very unique. Hopefully it does have enough content at launch since it looks like the biggest Mario Kart game, and I think everyone is expecting a lot from it, also from the $80 price tag.