Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@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

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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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@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.

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!!

@Sunsy Yeah. I still have my suitcases and luggage so it's just a matter of packing my belongings, pretty much. Thinking of bringing my Switch with me too... it'd be fun to play Super Mario Party Jamboree with my cousins. One of them likes playing Smash Bros. with me, as well. Nice job on finishing Lilac's adventure, I think that's who I played as in Freedom Planet. Not sure where exactly I left off, nor do I really know why I dropped it, so that's why I should come back to it sometime. Been playing through Okami lately.

@Pastellioli Thanks! Looking forward to my getaway.

Ah, sorry to hear about you having trouble sleeping. I still remember when I would stay up late during my teenage years, I'd play my PS2 at that time, lol. Though I have been keeping up with homework as well.

That's cool, I do like rock music as well. My dad is a huge fan of it, I've grown up with listening to Beatles songs to name one example. I actually listened to Rubber Soul not too long ago, it's a good album. I like listening to Abbey Road, as well. I've not heard too much of Guns 'n Roses' songs besides Welcome to the Jungle, and I don't think I've heard any of Fallout Boy's stuff. On the game music, that's cool, I like listening to a lot of music from Nintendo's own games. I love the music from Super Mario 3D World and would love to see its soundtrack put on Nintendo Music. Same with Bowser's Fury.

I definitely hope the Kingdom Hearts games get a native version on Switch 2, as well. I know the series started on a Sony console, but I feel they'd fit right in on a Nintendo console, honestly. Because of all the cute Disney stuff, lol. Hopefully I'll be able to get into at least the first game, I did hear the series' expanded storyline is pretty complex.

Ah yeah, I remember they're having Fire Emblem characters as the Switch 2's default profile icons. I wonder if I can still use the icons I made on NSO? Because I like those a lot more than the default ones. I think I prefer using rewind than save states too. I still remember Rusty Bucket Bay... that level is incredibly difficult, and thank goodness I didn't make it to there as a kid. Click Clock Wood was pretty hard for me too, because of its size and that it has all four seasons. Getting all 100 notes was pretty stressful for me, lol.

Yeah, it's nice the Switch 2 can play Switch games, though some games have their own issues with Switch 2. It kind of makes me worried about transferring my stuff over, honestly. I think there's only two games that I have that would have compatibility issues with Switch 2. Looks like Nintendo hasn't updated the game compatibility list yet, they last updated it last month.

All right gotcha, thanks for filling me in. Not entirely sure I'd be into it, but thanks regardless. Shifting gears a bit, I kind of fell out of Pokemon Legends Arceus a little while back. Which is a bit odd because I do like BotW and TotK, as well as exploring in the Xenoblade games. Maybe it's because I'm not huge into Pokemon? Maybe I'll come back to it at some point. That's cool, what new game did you get if you don't mind me asking?

All righty cool, I'll keep my eyes peeled for Yooka-Replayee. I hope I hear good stuff about Donkey Kong Bananza, as well as Mario Kart World. What are your thoughts on the latter game? I'm especially hoping that this one will be awesome. I've been a little worried about Nintendo going back to having 32 tracks like in some of the older games, but hopefully Knockout Tour and Free Roam will make up for that. Those new modes look fun, too. I'm not too huge into a bunch of minor characters being playable, but I'd love to get the costumes for my favorite characters.

@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.

@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!

After watching BIG HERO 6 from video reaction on YouTube, I was thinking to get BIG HERO 6 games that available on consoles and handhelds. I still haven't any of BIG HERO 6 games.
Well, BIG HERO 6 games only available on 3DS / NDS, Disney Infinity 3.0 and Kingdom Hearts 3.
The 3DS / NDS version are mediocre 2D platformer since it published by GameMill.
The Disney Infinity 3.0 version was quite good but only running on 30 fps.
The Kingdom 3 version is a big deal as it will look gorgeous on PS5 machine with Unreal Engine and smooth 60 fps.

I have ever watched BIG HERO 6 from Disney Channel long time ago for one time and when I rewatched again on YouTube to jog my memory, I still shocked to watch the death of Tadashi by big explosion and cried by the sacrifice of Baymax.
I mostly never like Western superheroes but BIG HERO 6 was exceptional for some reason since the franchise felt pretty Japaneseque from the place name, main character name, the villain nickname, etc.

im sitting here checking out my switch 2, how come no one is talking about this? am i the only person that has a few of them laying around already? im ready for switch 3.

@Pastellioli I am so sorry I just remembered I haven't replied to you! My bad

@Princess_Lilly No worries! It’s fine

I’m found my old copy of Stargazing Dog. And of course I went ahead and gave it a quick look.

Big mistake.

@Pastellioli It happens. Which is why I make a point of at least giving a minimalist reply when I've already seen the notif. (Cause, ?trauma? from perceived being ignored.)

Yeah. The preorders depended on who you ordered from. Notably, Gamestop's site was incapable of tolerating the load of ppl trying to make orders, and largely crashed, while in store was good. Wal-Mart's site was good as well afaik. And yeah. Accessibility...

Yeah. That's just a few of the characters. I saw a theory that Vanitas is basically the incarnation of darkness itself, with Ventus having been possessed to kill Strelitzia by Darkness, so now darkness has a body. Of course, we don't know how some others are gonna go, like Luxord with his "Trump Card", or Larxene. Ephemer at least got a line in KH3. We dunno about the others Ig.

Yeah. I got a lot of VC games. Would love that feature.

Eh. We have terrible DSL service. What can I say?

That percentage thing is interesting. I was heavily invested, right up until my burnout. So having nothing to show for it, on top of being unable to finish the game, really, REALLY sucks. Reminds me of Dragalia Lost. Dark Road sucked worse than Superman 64, but it prob did have good story. I can see someone getting Superman 64 to conquer a bad game, but it still has gameplay, unlike Dark Road. I miss my medals, and never made it to Wreck it Ralph.

Brawl's promotions were on another level imo. Screenshots aren't the same amount of effort as what he did for brawl. And yeah. Communities can get toxic. Imo, give any system or structure a chance, and it will naturally progress toward toxicity. And yeah. That's where the DLC and added characters got too strong.

I hate Summer. Too hot.

Yeah. Unfortunately, from my call to Nintendo support, it very much seemed they were going to dish out draconian punishments to anyone who dared infringe in the slightest. It's basically like, "hey, we don't care. It's your fault for buying a bootleg. Go pirate or something cause it's actually accessible".........Which doesn't logic at all. The ToS thing has been there at least since Gamecube era. But now they're going nuts.

Yeah. Sleep can be hard. I keep waking up!
I wanna find a way to talk out what happened with some, I'm guessing at this point, former friends, about what started a year and a half ago. Neither of them are willing to reply to me now though, and I'm still clueless what started it. How does bringing up old plans after being ghosted for four months when the other person says he's lonely creep him out?? Granted, it was public, but someone suggested to me he might've thought I wanted, erm, "relations"? with him? Idek. Nobody knows unless you speak up. Which I'm too pushy about.