Topic: ARMS

The demo dates are May 26 to 28 and June 2 to 4. They're full days, unlike Splatoon.

I'll play a lot in May, really a lot. In June unfortunately i have some things to do so i will focus more on May

My concern was the amount of characters. 10 is a good start but when I heard that was the final initial number, I couldn't help but want a few more. However, after hearing new characters (plural) are coming that means at least 2 more, so anywhere between 12-18 is fine by me.

@Haru17 No, it says on the ARMS official site that play sessions on each day will last for one hour. Just like in Splatoon.
arms.nintendo.com/#global-testpunch

Global Testpunch is now on the eshop. As for times, the 4 days for Europe in UK time are at 1am, 1pm, and 7pm.

Also there being 6 days in North America is only due to timezones, 1am in the UK is the evening of the previous day in North America.

pre download the Global Test now....

Just got the Testpunch. Super pumped for it. Hope to see you guys there.

Currently on the title screen of the Testpunch right now. My God, the music is glorious!
If you wait a while on the title screen without touching anything, you'll be shown a 30-second or so snippet of gameplay with various characters. And I must say, it looks very sharp and colorful. And its silky smooth too, since it runs at 60fps (except the part where the game shows some 4-player splitscreen action, when it dips to 30fps).
I really can't wait to play this game. I'll be waiting for May 26th.

Wow, can I just say this game lives up to the expectations of being Switch's first 100% 9th gen exclusive game? I'm just... floored with how good this game looks.

And please, please let it get an official art design book like Splatoon.

Well it is a fighting game. They're more known for multiplayer than single player

@Vee_Flames Ah, that sucks. I'll have to DDos NintendoEverything for misleading me with false info later.

@DarthNocturnal It's exactly as much of an online mode as Smash Bros. They even have a unique end boss.

I've got to say though, I'm really not sold on the graphics of this one. To go from Mario Kart 8 to this is just... perplexing. In all of the videos I've seen the environment looks hazy and white/grayer than it should. But more fundamentally than that, I'm not sure about some of the goofy character designs and the bright blues and yellows. The world looks much flatter and less glossy than Mario Kart — a theoretically more demanding game. And yellow is just a gross color. The only game that made that scheme look good is Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and that's because it was all set at night.

@Haru17 How dare you?! Yellow is the best colour!!!

Yellow is my favorite color.
I'm kind of wary of getting this game. The single player, at least based on how they described it, sounded very lackluster, and while I can appreciate the amount of supposed variation within the game, 10 characters still seems very small. It gives me SFV (Street Fighter V) PTSD.

@Eric258 For being loud and obnoxious. Yellow doesn't even exist — it's artificial, fake, plastic. I'm fine with yellow-white, tan, and amber because they're the color of midday sun, grain, and sunset. Yellow aka neon yellow is only an annoyance.

Everyone's so dramatic about Street Fighter V (and I say that as a pretty damn dramatic dude). I think 10 characters makes sense for ARMS. Unlike other fighting games they don't each have unique attack animations and combos, but rather are built around gimmicks and unique mechanics that develop the concept of moving in a 3D space with stretchy arms. So Twintelle's slow mo, Byte's SM Odyssey hat-style trampoline, and Helix's height-shifting are much much much harder to do in a game with 30 characters without some being filler. That said, Spring Man and Master Mummy have kinda generic, non-physical, stat-only powers. Healing in a competitive game is cool though, and MM's boulder-like weapon sets him apart.

http://gonintendo.com/stories/280449-arms-character-trailers

At the beginning of every character trailer they show a point on a map of urbanized southern coastline. Not sure if it links up. It's probably meant to be similar to the Tokyo area, but we'll see if it's hinting at any secrets.

@DarthNocturnal You can play all of ARMS' modes offline, just like Smash 4. I guess it doesn't have Subspace Emissary or whatever Melee's thing was called, but the Mario Kart team has always had the singleplayer and multiplayer be the same content.

NoA announced an art contest with some, well, art!

@Haru17 That's why Yellow is so great! It's bright, vibrant and grabs your attention. It's loud and proud! XD

But anyway it's great that they're doing an art contest. Splatoon hand so much awesome art and I can imagine Arms will be just the same.

I downloaded the demo already and listened to the music: it's AWESOME!! Now i will wait for the first day in hype! This game can really help launch more the Switch, especially with Splatoon right after it!

Yeah the music in this game is Soooo Goooooood! I'm excited to get it just to hear the fantastic soundtrack. I'm already jamming out to the demo's music! XD

I am already hyped for the game but I am loving the attention to detail in the character models. Nintendo has always been good for that (smash has way more detail than the panned out view requires) but wow these characters pop.