Level-5's Long-Awaited Fantasy Life Sequel Seems To No Longer Be A Switch Exclusive

They should really go all platforms. Deca Police needs to be on Xbox, Ps5, switch, and preferably PC as well.

YAAY...! 😃
FANTASY LIFE I on PS5 !
I will get the PS5 version instead. 😄

Please consider no longer linking to X.

Nah. Got to play this on a handheld device tbh with you. Especially after experiencing the first game.

@Synecdoche
If X link is about gaming news, what's the harm in it? Don't be ridiculous.

That’s fine. I expect 90% of the sales to be on a Nintendo platform though.

@JokerCK it still produces traffic and therefore money to a person that wants to become the first trillionaire, who doesn’t seem to think about anyone else in the process.

@Friendly This is a site where news about Nintendo is shared. If the source is there, of course they will share it. Keep calm and relax.

The first link I’ve seen to BlueSky. This warms my heart ♥️

Great news! I'll be getting it on Switchi but more people get exposed to real games, the better

@Friendly True but realistically speaking, have boycotts ever done anything?

I wonder if this game will support cross play? If so I will get the PS5 version whilst the misses has the Switch version and we can play co op. If not I think il just get the PS5 version as it will look and perform better.

@VrginX @JokerCK How badly do you want to make fascist billionaires even richer? They don’t care about you, no matter how much they want you to think they do.

I will continue to speak up, as should we all. We need to combat fascism in EVERY way possible. That includes not enriching people who use that money to buy governments.

I frankly don’t care anymore what people think of my idealism. Being on the right side of history is more important to me. And yes this is a gaming website and yes this is not ‘on topic’ but I just want to make it clear that I appreciate the link to BlueSky while PushSquare still used the Twitter post.
My life has no more value unless I can use my tiny little voice. Because I know what a better world looks like and this is isn’t it.

Personally I prefer handheld gaming, so surely gotta stick for switch/switch 2. If it ends being available on pc I can dip it on steamdeck. Anyway waiting patiently for this one, I ended replaying the first one not long ago and made me want to play the sequel even more!

This is great news, especially for non-Nintendo system players.

Great article too. As a (totally unwanted) bonus, the comments section included political activism and a totally inaccurate fascism lesson. It reminded me as a teacher of the price people pay for being uneducated.

Still getting this on Switch. I will not betray my love for the first game with jumping ship to the PS4.

@Synecdoche

It's related to gaming news.

Nintendo Life shouldn't censor itself just because it offends someone's sensitivities.

@Princess_Lilly Boycotts massively hurt Starbucks and McDonalds recently and forced them to change a few things (though they're still far from perfect)...so yeah, they work.

As long as it's not on gamepass and the developer doesn't go bankrupt, I'm all for it

@Pat_trick @JokerCK What if X is owned by someone who openly did a salute that is heavily associated with a certain far-right party originating in Germany that rose to power in the 1920s and started a global scale conflict?

I think it's fair that people are asking to refrain from linking to that site and thereby supporting and promoting it as a place to gain information, which in turn again, supports and promotes it's current owner, which again supports and promotes his political views and continues to strengthen his power and influence and wealth and ability to push said views.

@Ogbert You mean the one he clearly didn't do if you watched the video?

I have no respect for him, but I'm not a fool who's manipulated into outrage by the media.

Leftist and Right wing media are turning everyone into extremists and rotting their brains.

Dialogue is good to have before jumping to conclusions.

I'll wait till the Switch 2 launches and they release a switch 2 version. I'm in no hurry with this one

Also, I still curious to see the Terraforming feature like ACNH in this Fantasy Life.
How big is my island and what kind of shaping features in the game.

I love exclusives, but having choices is also good. Would be cool, if there will be a Switch 2 version.

People often assume non-exclusive is a strictly positive thing, but for a studio with limited resources, it can be massively to the detriment of the end product. It's a lot easier to make a rock solid game on a single platform, than across many platforms. There are countless headaches that come from multiplatform development, and even having too do your due diligence and test on every platform by itself is a pain, let alone any platform-specific functionality. I'm more worried about performance now than I was before.

I remember back in 2012 when Ubisoft delayed Rayman for like a year and then went multiplatform and every Nintendo fan hated them for it. Funny how the perception of console exclusivity has changed over the years. Imagine going back in time and showing a Wii U owner these comments. They'd probably say "What is X and why are the comments getting deleted? Why doesn't Nintendo Life link to Twitter instead?" But THEN, they'd ask what happened to console wars.

@Ogbert Genuine question, which will probably be deleted by the mods in about 2 minutes, but I'm asking this in all sincerity: Why would a Nazi honor victims at a Holocaust memorial?

@Aloha Why would they release a Switch 2 version if the Switch 2 can play most Switch games? Quite pointless.

@Anti-Matter kinda curious - are you at all interested in the Switch 2, especially if they have greater support for 3rd party titles? Or will you likely just stick with ps5? Or too early to tell, like some of us?

The more the merrier, yes, but hopefully this won’t impact the quality of the game. Making titles multiplatform takes a lot of time and resources these days.

This feels like a game that is getting constant delays, perhaps this is why?

@Ogbert but did they hurt them bad? Didn't they jump back up when people got tired of boycotting and wanted to eat MacDonalds and drink bad coffee again? And were these boycotts rational to begin with? There was a really rational boycott targeted at companies that didn't move their operations away from Russia. There is no trace of that boycott anymore. They just come for a bit and disappear like fads. It's sad, but at the end of the day, they do nothing substancial judging by long term observations

Let's get back on topic. Seems like this might be the reason why Level 5 keeps delaying their games. Or at least one of the reasons.

Boo!
Let it stay Nintendo only!

Please consider continuing to link to X.

Excellent, will wait and hope for a PC release as well.

Happy to see it being available to more people! I really want to see their games succeed! I'm interested to see if this game will support cross-platform online multiplayer now. If so, my wife might opt in for the PlayStation version over a second copy of the Switch version.

@CammyUnofficial
I still have no idea about Switch 2 power specs, the cover art design and the cartridge color, but I was assuming the power specs of Switch 2 will be weaker than PS5.
Do I have interest with Switch 2 ?
Kinda yes, but I still pretty cautious to anticipate the worst case scenario after the things I keep discovered from upcoming 3rd party games on Switch that getting the worst performance and bad treatments.
And because of that, to make it easy for me to decide which version for 3rd party games I will pick, if I found Switch version can running on stable 60 fps for not so big GB games, I might consider Switch version first then PS4 / PS5 version next.
But if Switch version is worse than PS5 version (30 fps excuse, longer loading time, downgraded graphics, etc), I will immediately pick the PS5 version since my PS5 machine really need 99.99% 3rd party multi console games and I don't want to spend my money for half baked products.
I have both Switch and PS5 machines to play and take care about so I have assigned their game choice.

Btw, by getting Fantasy Life on PS5, it will be guarantee for smooth 60 fps on my TV.
It will be the ACNH style game on my PS5 machine.

It's not that surprising, the delay last year was so they could work on porting the game to other platforms. My guess is that whatever deal they had with Nintendo had already come to passed and Sony came along and pay them even more for a port. Also since the game had that live service appeal (Fantasy Life Online was just that an awful live service with garbage contents that only last for 2 years), it made sense why Sony is trying to get a piece of that Fantasy Life pie.

@Not_Soos I remember that time and I still never forgive UbiSoft for that. My trust in them was gone the moment they pull something like that, it's no surprise that they fall the way they did nowadays. Even if they go out of business at this moment or any moment, I wouldn't give a damn. I also hope they're gone by or after next gen. They deserve what's coming to them, the only people I feel sorry for are the devs that got screw because of this.

Banning X from this forum is a stupid move. X is social media. Get over it. News is news. If the source is reliable, it should be posted regardless where it's from.

@Spider-Kev Why though? Don’t you want these devs to reach as many people as possible? Someone who plays this on PS isn’t hurting anyone

@Princess_Lilly Ultimately up to you. You're right, people don't stick to them, but the McDonalds and Starbucks ones did last a while and did hit them where they hurt (their bank account) and did get them to change some things. Personally, these companies are so big and so powerful anything that sends a message like that, even for a bit, I think is worth doing. It's not going to work for all of them, but when it does, that's a result, even if small. And hopefully if they're hit like this enough, they'll be more cautious in future about doing shady things.

But I do get your point and it is valid.

@Pat_trick Please, do go outside and do the same salute in a crowded area if you think it's ok then.

Besides, even if not that salute, it's not exactly the only reason to not support this man.

@Not_Soos hey I didn't use that word! But spreading confusion, false information, misdirection etc, it's been a massive political tactic of late. By both parties let's be fair. It's all a mess. Good cover though innit?

@Ogbert He didn't do the salute. You can lie to yourself as much as you want.

There are hundreds of reasons to not support this man, but by this logic, you should be off Facebook, blue sky, and any social media since they're owned by horrible greedy people.

All of this still doesn't justify Nintendo Life caving to what you think it's correct.

Their website, their rules. If you're not a big fan, you have the option to not be here.

I've frequently disagreed with them and even have my posts deleted from time to time, but I'm not going to try to make them follow my rules.

I'm all for freedom of speech, different from Elon Musk. You trying to suppress information from an app because your views don't align with the owner of the company are ironically very similar to the way he acts.

@Pat_trick Not trying to supress information, just saying people have a right to express why they would like if it that app was not linked too/embedded in the future.

Also I'm not on those other things. I do have Instagram though, but I'm currently trying to find an alternative so I can keep following the artists I love. It's a process.

I'm afraid you are the one supressing freedom of speech right now though, or trying too it seems. I've not said anything about silencing this man. But freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence or responsibility. And as a consequence of his actions and the things he's said I don't want to support his products as much as possible, including asking sites I do wish to support to try and reduce their usage and in turn support of his products. I've every right to provide that feedback, you've every right to question it, I've every right to explain why and NL has every right to choose if they want to take it on board or not. If NL take it on board they're not caving they're making their own decision based on feedback. Feedback is important and the aim from me at least is to be constructive in it. If they don't do it that's fine I will try and find somewhere else who does. It's no skin off my nose but NL will at least have some idea as to why some people are leaving. It's much harsher to just leave and not say anything. And I'm not telling you to stop, nor anyone else. You are the one telling people to stop.

If anything I requested you go outside and do more talking by repeating his....let's call it a gesture to be more neutral. At least we both agree the man is terrible. On that we are united, which is good because division is what gives people like that power.

@Anti-Matter thanks for the answer. That's awesome you have an ACNH for ps5, i have seen how much you play and like AC

@CammyUnofficial he’ll stick with the PS5. Doubt he’s ever owned a single Nintendo product.

Myself on the other hand, I’m getting it on day one. My PS5 is my 4K UHD Blu-ray anymore since the Series X dropped the ball on it.

Also, Animal Crossing New Horizon isn’t on the PS5, it’s a Nintendo developed game and exclusive to the Switch.

@Ogbert Fair enough. I can see your point now and even though I don't entirely agree I completely understand.

I think your first reply had a lot of passionate rhetoric, which I can understand why, but it's very off putting to someone who doesn't share your views.

It read a bit exaggerated and oppressive.

But overall, I totally understand where you're coming from even though I see it differently.

This comment section gave me a good laugh. With all of the "unconstructive" and "discussing moderation" I nearly forgot what the actual article was about!

What was it? Oh yeah! I'm really excited for Fantasy Life, but I couldn't care less about a PlayStation port, personally. I haven't played a PlayStation game since the PS2, and I'm not really interested in changing that. I guess this article isn't quite as interesting as the unrelated politics of social media.

This thread went a tad off piste

@PinderSchloss
1: Because exclusives help sell consoles.
2: usually porting is not good
3: it'll still outsell on Nintendo than on P$
4: it delays a game
5: if it was the other way around, it wouldn't happen. They'd say buy a PlayStation if you want to play it

Look at the Rayman situation

Look back at the GameCube and Resident Evil 4

@Not_Soos From what I remember, the hate wasn't so much that Ubisoft made Rayman Legends multiplatform, but rather the fact they delayed the finished Wii U version so the other versions had parity on their launches, so to speak.
Even the developers were angry.

Of course this is Ubisoft we're talking about and they couldn't have been arsed to keep their "parity" nonsense and delay Assasins Creed III, i.e. they launched the non-Nintendo versions first and then the Wii U version a few weeks/a month later.

Anyway, in this instance, I'm not sure if going multiplatform is ideal, unless they've been working on the PS versions for a while. Remember this is the Level-5 that has announced a lot of games in recent years and hasn't released any. No, I'm not pressuring them to release something because I understand they've been through "changes" (for a lack of better word), but maybe they're working on more games than they can at the moment. Unless things changed and I missed it.

@Not_Soos keeping up appearances.

Also, one can direct ill feelings towards different people, not specifically jews, and still be considered a ‘nazi’.

@Friendly

But wouldn't deliberately doing a sieg heil completely undermine the idea of keeping up appearances, though? And if that was really the gesture he was trying to make, why would he deny it? They won the election, so he has the power. Wouldn't now be the time to drop the act and do whatever evil things he wants to do?

I see people criticizing Musk on his own platform constantly. If he was really a Fascist who believed in a totalitarian regime, wouldn't he crack down on dissenting voices and ban all those accounts?

If you look at someone like Hitler, he was very upfront about his hatred for other races well before he came into power. Mein Kampf was written in the 1920's, and he was very open about what he called the "Jewish problem" and what he intended to about it. The people knew what they were getting when they allowed someone like him to crawl his way to power, as there was no ambiguity about it. Why is Musk not wearing his racism on his sleeve like a badge of honor the way Hitler did? Is he just trolling everybody? Gaslighting? I guess that's theoretically possible, but how do you prove that?

My critique with modern Leftism is that many people seem to be convinced that everyone on the Right, or at least a good number of them, are secretly Nazis but are just too cowardly to come out and say it. This is nothing new, as the Right has been guilty of this same paranoia as well. Think back to the Cold War when progressive political activists were often feared to be Communist spies living among us and, in some cases, were even put in jail for it.

Just like it's superficial to judge someone based on the color of their skin, I think it's also superficial to judge someone based on whether or not their hand was at a 120 degree angle. I look at their actions, outspoken beliefs, and the substance behind the words they speak. I don't agree with everything Musk says, but I do have a level of respect for him and am not convinced he's a monster.

People say his father exploited Africans on emerald mines and cite this as evidence he's equally bad, but it's important to understand Elon hates his father, who beat him as a child and inflicted other traumas upon him that Elon refuses to talk about and gets very defensive when asked about. So I don't think it's fair when people judge him based on his father--a man he wants to be nothing like.

I'm open to being proven wrong though, if someone can give me substantial evidence as to why he is, indeed, a Nazi. I want to be on the right side of history as much as anyone.

I'm curious whether you're of the opinion that people with hostile views toward whites/males/Christians could also be classified as Nazis. I think discrimination against any group of people is equally bad, and whether one considers that group to have systemic power in society is irrelevant. That's what Nazi Germans thought about the Jews, after all: that they "control the banks, the college institutions, the arts, the press." Thinking that it's okay to target a group of people because you perceive they hold all the power is a dangerous slope to go down and a tactic that has been used time and time again to justify horrific atrocities. Power dynamics also change constantly, so today's oppressed can become tomorrow's oppressors and vice-versa. We've witnessed this pattern also.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

@Ogbert I apologize for putting words in your mouth. I often hear Nazism and fascism used synonymously by people on the Left. I still disagree that Musk is a fascist, but I can at least respect and appreciate when people are able to make a distinction between the two. I wasn't trying to stir any confusion and am sorry if that's how my reply came across.

Sounds good. I'll get it on PS5, it's gonna look and run better.

@Ogbert Here's something I want you to do, if what Elon did was meant to be the "salute" then how come back in 2017 when Emmanuel Macron did the same salute nobody call him a N@zi?

Is it because it wasn't the n@zi salute? is it because people understood his salute was meant to show his love to his people? Or is it simply because of your deeply rooted hatred towards Elon that you and many others are willing to find any excuse to hate on him even if it means not only lying to yourselves but to the general public where even when presented with proof of your lies you'd rather double down, move the goal posts or find any excuse possible just to keep further justifying your hatred towards this one individual?

I get many of you don't like him, I don't like him either, but to make claims like this and compare him to someone who has caused actual suffering and grief only devalues the name you are choosing to call him, it's immature behavior. Why not just be mature and move on like the rest of us have done? Complaining about him on a daily basis is only going to cause massive headaches to everyone around you and is certainly not good for your health. Instead we should be talking about the latest Fantasy Life and how great it's going to be instead of all this political talk, let's leave all that where it's meant to be and get back to talking about video games.

@Pat_trick and others,

Can we please refrain from discussing politics on an entertainment website? This entire comment section has derailed. This is not the type of conversation people are here for.

@8bit-Man Are you Nintendo Life's moderation?

It's up to them what can a can't be discussed here, and if they feel it's off topic they'll delete it.

Also we had cordially sorted the discussion and you called both of us out just digging that out again.

You're going off topic by telling other people to not go off topic.

Leave moderation to the moderators.

Going back to the topic, do you like Fantasy Life?

I played over 300 hours on my 3DS and couldn't be more excited about this one releasing.

@Pat_trick

Honestly, I forgot this article was even about Fantasy Life, lol. I always wanted to play it on 3DS but never did. I downloaded it ahead of the eShop closure but haven't gotten around to playing it. I still intend to, but I was miffed that right after purchasing it as well as other co-op games like Federation Force and Tri-Force Heroes before they were gone forever, Nintendo came out and said they were shutting down the online. I'll get around to playing it eventually and don't intend to pick up the sequel until after I've finished it, which I imagine will take a while.

I might get the sequel eventually, but I'm a little apprehensive about it, considering Level-5's recent blunders with multiple delays and making an AI trailer for Yo-Kai. They were out of the game for so long, I worry they might not be the same company they used to be. I'm also not crazy about the sequels art style.

To once again derail the comment section lol, I'm curious why you think Elon is an enemy of free speech. I see people criticize Elon constantly, every single day on his own platform, but he doesn't crack down on it. He's also had many of his own posts get flagged with community notes, and he boasts that this is an important feature that keeps even himself accountable from spreading misinformation. My personal view is that the Left has been suppressing free speech for some time, and that this election was a major victory in the fight against censorship of political adversaries.

The Trumo campaign, for instance, just announced that they will be opening the door to independent journalists including podcasters, content creators, et cetera to ask the administration questions that better represent the concerns of the average American citizen instead of just mainstream media. They haven't revoked those mainstream media outlets' access though and are actually reinstating access to several publications who were turned down from attending press interviews during the previous administration. I feel that is an objectively good thing, giving even more freedom to the press.

I am excited for a new Fantasy Life, I was never able to play with anyone on 3DS so I feel like I missed out on a bit of the experience there. I wonder if it's supported on Pretendo?

@Not_Soos I'll derail and then retail at the end XD

He's been in litigation several times for groups that have disagreed with him, he banned the word "cis" on X because he called it a slur, which fair game, but those are not the actions of a "free speech absolutist".

There are several examples of him supporting governments that practice censorship but he doesn't care because it favors him financially.

He's more accepting of criticism than certain groups, but he clearly censors and intimidate in certain cases. After doing some research I see him as a hypocrite. I advise you searching for his lawsuits and the governments he supports and reach your own conclusions. You might end up disagreeing with me which is totally fine.

Fantasy Life! I really liked the relaxing vibe of the originalz also the idea of having several different professions with different gameplay styles always appealed to me. Games that do that are super rare and only FFXIV comes to mind when I think about it.

I am cautiously optimistic about the game too, because as you said, Level 5 is not the same it was a decade ago.

I'm still hoping for a good game because Fantasy Life occupies a very specific niche that no other developer seems to be willing to fill.

Fingers crossed!

I wonder if it really will release in April 2025 this time. I hope so. It would suck if that is why it was delayed, but it's always good for more people to get to play good games.

@Deev Why not just get the Switch at that point? If you want it for the steamdeck so you can play it on the go then wouldn't the Switch make more sense?