English Fire Emblem Engage trailer is live. And it's very good.
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@JaxonH My god, this game looks gorgeous. Maybe a contender for best-looking anime-styled game on the Switch? At least when it comes to character models and the pure vibrancy of everything.
@Buizel
It's the best looking Fire Emblem game to date. A notable step up from Three Houses. Which, Three Houses wasn't a bad looking game, but it wasn't great. The top down map views were excellent, but zoomed in and exploration in the monastery were eh.
But Engage just exudes style and brilliance. The art style is different than any game in the series before it- kind of has an element of Rennesaince flare. But it works. The animations are extremely fluid too, which helps tie everything together.
Gust wouldn't have been my first choice for designing Fire Emblem, but after seeing the end result, I gotta say... I'm impressed.
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HOLY S***
I know I shouldn't be surprised because it's Pokemon but still.... HOLY S***!
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I think it's the 2nd biggest launch of the year, 1st is MW2 (judging by a Push Square article) which further showcases Sony and Microsoft's constant battle over Microsoft trying to acquire Activision.
Can see why Nintendo felt comfortable with only Pokémon for the holiday release this year. When you have 114 million units in the wild and a brand as huge as Pokémon, it’s an easy win for them. But I still think a December release even a Zelda port would have been good.
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Assume worst case. Pokemon breaks records, Gamefreak learns absolutely nothing, and they continue with status quo indefinitely.
I really don't feel like that's much of a loss. But then again I'm not a big Pokemon fan, so.
Monster Hunter Rise Title Update 3 is out, btw! And. It's. Glorious.
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I'm a pretty big fan so that's probably why it bugs me. I also felt like Splatoon 3 was a bit of a cash in and skipped it also despite being super into Splatoon. So was also annoyed when it also broke records.... although at least Splatoon 3 wasn't broken, so there's that
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@FragRed I think December was going to be Advance Wars but Nintendo felt it was still unsuitable timing to release so they made do with DLC/updates being the December lineup meanwhile Advance Wars gets rescheduled for March (March 2023 is still in the same fiscal year as April 2022).
@JaxonH Pokémon sell records, no matter the quality of the game, gen 10 could be a trainwreck, but is gonna sell records, at this point, is brand loyalty/nostalgia and copium that is making Pokémon sell so well.
It’s interesting that so many people who were die hard defending Pokemon games in the past and now on the attack for it for the bugs and choppy performance. The biggest issue with the game for me is it’s just abit boring to play as rather than having a well crafted world to explore it’s just spaces with junk thrown into them which is being overlooked because of the bugs.
I’ve played it for a good bit now and it’s feels like I’m going into that blank space like when people spend hours and hours on social media/YouTube looking at any old rubbish but triggering the part of the brain that makes you think you’ve done something. I’m gonna give this game a rest for a bit to see if I ever gather the enthusiasm to play it again and give Bayonetta 3 a whirl. I hear there’s a blasphemous nudey witch in it which will make a nice change from the dog fighting simulator.
@jump While I'm not going to excuse the bugs (although I've personally not encountered any) and poor performance, I feel like I'm a mutant or something for completely ignoring these factors when playing the game. I dunno, but when I get invested in a game world these things just suddenly fall from my radar.
But I'm tempted to agree about the open world. I do still feel that drive to explore, and although I do make a few exciting discoveries now-and-then, I find myself spending an overwhelming amount of time wondering "is that all?". I think the cities are particularly egregious - they're more-or-less just copy-pasted shops with a bunch of NPCs that offer almost nothing of value. How does the largest city in Pokemon history have less to do in it (outside of the academy) than the average city from Red and Blue?
Also, is it just me coming off Persona 5, or are the battles really slow?
Still, much like Sonic Frontiers, I think this title is a step in the right direction and I'd much rather explore a somewhat barren open world of my own accord than have another painfully restricted tour of the region a la Pokemon Sun and Moon.
@Grumblevolcano I totally forgot Advance Wars was a thing, but surely March 2023 isn’t going to be any different to releasing it now? This war isn’t going to end any time soon so weird decision if true.
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@jump
IMO the Pokemon games on the DS were generally pretty great and I remember most of the criticism during that era was the continued use of sprites. Which didn't bother me. The 3DS ones had their issues but I think on the 3DS a bit of slowdown was more tolerable given it was a portable system. Sun/Moon in particular were pretty fresh takes super late in the 3DS' life, IMO they felt more limited by the platform than anything
I think the Switch era gets a bit murky. Sword and Shield were just ok. Not broken, not must have entries. Just ok. I enjoyed them but didn't feel compelled to dive into the post game or get the DLC. The Lets Go games I didn't get the appeal of but I'm sure were fine. The Diamond/Pearl remakes I haven't picked up but I'm sure are fine. Arceus has its issues but is enough of a gamble I don't think we can be too critical of it, and it was novel enough that I felt like I got my money's worth from it
But Scarlet and Violet? The Switch is capable enough and has been around long enough that there really isn't much of an excuse. They should have probably spent this year polishing Arceus rather than trying to rush out a "new generation" game
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@skywake I think one thing you missed is that SwSh literally didn't have post-games. Like, there was the gym quest (which was short, but still more fun than anything in the main game), a neutered battle tower, and that was it. The only game that had less post-game content than that were gen 1, as they stripped off all the post-game content to put it in the DLC.
Like yes, the DLC fixed those games greatly, but the fact that the DLC blew the base game out of the water isn't a good sign, and even the DLC couldn't fix the fact that the base game they were built on was rushed to death.
Regarding your other post, Splatoon 3 at least feels much better to play than Splatoon 2, despite lacking anything super major. I'm hoping by the end of it's cycle it'll have blown Splatoon 2 out of the water, it's still possible. I do think the game absolutely should have launched with at least 50% more maps though.
@Buizel i miss that when you go a town/city, a NPC would tell you the story of this town/city, it gave the region much more depth, now the NPC just said generic things related to battle.
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