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The first two games were great. They're brimming with so much of what I love about the world of MH but packed into super flashy and impactful turn based combat.

Stories 2 was a big jump in visuals from 1 and this one looks like it'll do the same. With even greater emphasis on the story. I'm super excited for it.

Enjoyed the base game, it's been a while but I may re-enter it again for the DLC.

Actually would really enjoy that. I love playing turn based games on portable consoles.

@Quarbit Yeah, I just don’t think I would ever actually use it tbh. Just being honest with myself lol.

Maybe if it was something integrated in the Switch’s system. That you can open up and play in a simultaneous window while waiting for something in your current game. Like how you would play mini games while waiting for matches in Splatoon 1.

But as a separate app I have to open, just seems too tedious, when I can just use my phone. Atleast for me personally.

I honestly feel this is a bit of a nothing burger. It would have been nice to have it as a free app for sure. Like not denying it would have added a bit of flavor but I absolutely don’t think I would use this more than a few minutes so can’t say I feel any investment in this.

Reminds me of how I felt about 1-2 Switch and how people said it should’ve been a pack-in title for Switch 1

Lines up with their pricing on other retailers, at 70 and 80 respectively

You know I disagree with some of the choices, but massive respect for putting Turnabout Serenade on this list. I don't even like the case much, but it takes some guts to put it at number two considering how often AA fans hate it

@JokerCK funnily enough I think that dog precedes Zacian

@OnlyItsMeReid Possibly, although I think it’s people looking back on the past with rose tinted glasses and being older nowadays. Iwata was a good man but people tend to glorify old Nintendo, as if they haven’t done incredibly scummy things back then and treat it as if it’s only recently that they’ve changed lol.

@AlphaElite I have my gripes with this game too (def not buying it), but this idea that Iwata’s era was notably better than current Nintendo is silly. Nintendo has been doing these type of practices for ages, and many gained prominence in Iwata’s time. Heck Amiibo and the practice of releasing bare bone games (Splatoon) with the promise of updates post launch were huge points in the time of the Wii U alone.

People jumping the gun way too hard to judge this game as being more like ‘DLC’ when it’s still so far away from launch.

@dimi it’ll be cheaper namely. 20 bucks I think is what they said it was going to be, so it’ll be a hefty chunk less than Pokemon games on the switch.

Tried this out on Steam. It’s not my cup of tea, it’s pacing is a bit too slow and demanding for my taste. With how frequent and oftenly unavoidable battles are. If I were more in to the competitive aspects of these types of games, I would imagine it’d gel more with me

@Specter_of-the_OLED Coromon’s also coming out the 31st. It’s pretty faithful to the Pokémon format but seems of good quality with its own story and tweaks to combat.

Honestly pretty excited for this game. Not sure how I feel about the overworld artstyle or the song lyrics, but it looks really fun so far.

@Thief Temtem was as much a Pokémon-clone as this game is tbf. This game is arguably less so since it’s not following the standard Gym format and narrative. I expect it’ll sell well though if the game’s demo is indicative of the final games quality.

Temtem sold well as well, although its popularity unsurprisingly died down post it’s first release. Do agree that it won’t affect Pokémon though. The franchise is far too large to concern itself with some indie games on Steam that will never sell anywhere close to a single of its mainline releases.

@Fiskern Based on their Steam page, it’s named after the old engine the devs used. Games been in development for like 7 years or something

@Dr_Lugae Tried the demos. It’s pretty fun. Has charming writing, with some really cute sprite work for the environments and creatures.

The demo ends a bit after the first main boss and when the story starts to become more prominent, but it showed promise. Cool and silly battles, decently (not overly) complex level design, varied puzzles. I’d say the low point is really the beginning before, since it’s a bit uninteresting.

Expected as much after the PC version was initially found out about. Capcom seems to commonly do timed exclusives such as the RE7 VR Timed Exclusivity, and after the absolutely fantastic sales World had on PC it’s not surprising they’d not want to miss out on it.

@TheSmashTheorist How is it a knockoff?

Not buying any new consoles. Too poor atm

@Rayquaza2510 No I mean even now. They had full visible nudity in the Last of Us 2, with a straight up sex scene. Seems weird

I don’t understand why Sony would censor theirs. They’ve had games straight up show on screen nudity. I don’t understand their policy

@doctorhino I wonder how much of an impact that has on it. I would imagine that the vast majority of people buying these things don't really know about it stopping being sold in a few months. The more casual audience likely doesn't keep up with any of this news. They probably just see a Mario collection on the shelf and buy it cause it's Mario.

Of course not. They’re buying Nintendo!!

I doubt Nintendo would call it the Nintendo Switch Pro. Sony already did that

@Razer how is it a Pokémon rip-off? Stories was nothing like Pokémon besides featuring a child who befriends monsters and being turn based (even then their combat was entirely different).

Wasn’t your original pawn some dude with a bowl haircut in the game?

The only times I felt them too easy to acquire is when they just give them away in events and such, and maybe some of the mon in USUM. I'd actually argue that most of the methods to acquire them should be improved and made less of a complete drag and grind fest. It's incredibly monotonous and uninteractive. Just spinning the rng wheel

Seems more in line with what I originally expected. Makes more sense to me that these restrictions and such aren't just the result of a single individual. Nintendo's a large and complex business

The second timeline sounds too overboard so far. I’m not going to act like RE has good writing or characters, they’re near consistently cliche and over the top action archetypes, but part of what makes the best games in the series work is their settings. As in more unique isolated environments that contrast with the standard world. Having it already be post apocalyptic is ringing some alarm bells. The RE movies already did that and it was a terrible. Although the movies were terrible regardless, the setting did those movies no favors

Not gonna happen. Pikachu’s too iconic and marketable to have it evolve into it’s less popular evolution.

@TG16_IS_BAE The joycons issues come mostly from Nintendo getting cheap with the material the analog sticks are made of. It breaks down too easily and messes with the controller. They didn't test them enough before releasing them, and I would imagine it's because they were rushing on getting the Switch out.

I'm almost certain that they haven't addressed it much because they plan on releasing a new model (similar to how DS I, DS Lite, etc were handled) that fixes that flaw and using that as a subtle way to push people to buy it.

@eaglebob345 I've heard people refer to them mostly as Creature Catching games the most. I do agree though, that it is lame that most of these games are just referred to as pokemon-clones. Although a lot of them are clones, some of them like Monster Hunter Stories are completely different

@Kalmaro I'm also somewhat looking forward to Kindred Fates. It's super early in development but it looks like it's taking an actually different approach for the Creature Catching genre.

Worried that it's a bit too ambitious for its own good however

@Octane I agree. A difficulty mode crafted by the developers will almost always be better than whatever restrictions the player can place on themselves. This for example is why Gamefreak's excuse that Pokemon's difficulty is up to the player is silly, because in the end the game (such as its AI, layout, etc...) is still designed to be easy, and no amount of gimping will change that.

I'm just explaining how Nintendo and companies closely connected to them seem to view it. It's also easier for them since they don't have to go through the trouble of creating well-designed difficulty options. Just to clarify, I'm ragging on Gamefreak here because they've directly confirmed in interviews that this is how they view difficulty is handled in their games so they're a prime example.

More reasonable and well crafted difficulty options will basically always be better and should be encouraged of course.

Seems like one of those games that was designed for phones first. The main problem with these types of games for me is that they're trying too hard to be copies/competition to Pokemon that it just makes them feel like boot-leg versions.

From the designs, worlds or art style they're just not distinct enough to give them an identity. Which is a shame because we could really use some more series in the monster catching genre.

@Agramonte RingFit made me try and exert myself 10x more than basically any hardcore game I've played

People are overreacting imo. Nintendo games are very rarely ever notably hard (which is what people usually mean when thinking of Hardcore). They focus on accessibility and making a game appealing to all ages, but many of their games offer a lot of room for experimentation and improvement if you want to look for it.

Pokemon for example, while not being made directly by Nintendo, is an easy series, but offers great depth and variety in its battle system that appeal to its more hardcore audience. This is generally the approach they take. Odyssey and BotW encourage similar approaches to movement and speedrunning for the really hardcore out there.

I like the concepts of these games a fair amount tbh. The idea of sitting in an office defenseless while a group of murderous machines try to get to you is pretty cool.

@Ralizah The towns look actually pretty nice tbh. The main issue of visuals for me is the Wild Area which actually does look pretty ugly imo, especially with the weather effects. It runs awful in online mode as well. Can you believe it crashed on me for the first time yesterday while I was online:

@PorllM A lot of these types of jokes online aren’t meant to be funny to all the viewers. Commonly it’s more so funny for the trolls who made it so they can laugh at all the attention they get from it. People on 4chan have organized several of these types of things. Although this seems like it was done by one troll mostly

Feels like a joke tbh. A news site started reporting on it back when it had only one person who signed it, and since then it hasn’t gotten even more than 200.

Basically nothing at all. You could accomplish this based on one or two simple trolls. I hope people don’t blow this out of proportion

Brave of Pokémon to remind us of the disaster that was the Unova League.

A majority of the Pokémon shown in this trailer have already been confirmed to be returning.

@Kalmaro I liked the animation and how expressive it was too, just felt that Ash’s design in particular was a bit off. I didn’t like how his eyes and mouth looked

@playstation_king Last time we heard about his age iirc, was in BW where they stated he was 10 years old.

I like this design for Ash more than the previous one. SM has great animation but Ash’s face was definitely one of my main gripes with him last series

Looks like Hidari’s art

It honestly looks kind of ugly.