AJWolfTill

More likely to me that it will be a sit down interview with a couple of his former colleagues than anything future facing. Will keep an eye out

Excellent! I've only ever played the first couple of hours of this but have been wanting to for decades. I always thought people were more down on this than the original so good to see so much love in the comments!

I would absolutely play this on a 3ds!
Fortunately seems very likely it will make its way to the next Nintendo Console given the recent persona releases on the switch and the fact it runs on the PS4 so I'll wait.

Learned about Oidashibeya from Aggretsuko of all things, the off kilter animated sitcom from the Sanrio company with Netflix.
Sucks for anyone going through that...
Selfishly hoping that the scrapped project was a port of something not on Nintendo platforms yet rather than a remake or continuation of Kid Icarus.

Have no recollection of this game but it looks like it good be a good time at the right price point

Love this series but I'm not keen on the Xenoblade combat system. Would rather they go more into action RPG or turn based.

@splinters
I love the GameCube, but the Wii U has a clearer new or revolutionary angle to it.
In fact, I suspect and hope that the dual screen aspect is the full realisation of the Wii Us potential (switch streams to the doc wirelessly) allowing for multi screen gaming and asymmetric multiplayer again! Woohoo!

@Axecon
Based purely on willpower and wishful thinking I feel they'll do a remake/remaster and make a judgement based on it's success.
Also just to establish the fact that this is me day dreaming not speculating on something realistic.

Hasn't really factored in the VA aspect... That's an interesting point. They did get Jennifer Hale to do Bayonetta 3 though and she is one of the loudest pro union VAs I can think of.

@Truegamer79
I use shopto for preorders. Always arrives on time and is usually competitively priced. Never had a problem.

Glad Grezzo got to make their own mainline Zelda game! Hoping against hope they make a 3D one in the vein of the N64 games soon!

This is a rare example of a series I would like to see taken away from it's originally creator so I hope it continues without him.

@Axecon
Despite the the narrative mess of the KH series and it's often fanfic vibes I dream of this Nintendo crossover too! I loved subspace emissary and every smash bros since has slightly disappointed me for lacking something of its ilk.

To expand on your hot take I think that this crossover should be a Kid Icarus Uprising semi sequel for several reasons:
1)The main cast of that game break the 4th wall multiple times to refer to other Nintendo franchises.
2) This is expanded enormously in Smash Bros itself with the whole Palutena's guidance mechanic.
3) Sakurai is one of the only people I trust to pull this off.
4) The machinations of gods disrupting mortal realms just fits with this concept.

@World
Just to temper expectations, there is no jump button, it is in no way a platformer. It's more the side quests, environmental puzzles and general vibes were way closer to Rare games I grew up on than I expected. Also helps that Grant Kirkhope is on soundtrack duty (along with Yoko Shimomura and Gareth Coker)

Hooray it's Kate the great!
Undecided on this. I love the AA series but I played the first one a decade ago and honestly found it underwhelming and tedious.
Very glad the sequel is a strong improvement and
that the duology is now readily accessible.

@World @Ruthchild
I in principle think Rabbids and their yellow mainstream descendents are a blight.
That said these games are great and Sparks of Hope at least is an easy recommendation. It has a surprising amount of N64 Rare DNA outside of combat and the combat does a a great job of making you really utilise everything at your disposal. The second game doesn't force you to use Rabbids either (I reached the final boss before the game made me use Rabbid Luigi) and they are in general so toned down from the first one that they honestly could just be toads or eccentric Banjo characters.
I still think these games would be better without Rabbids but I was one other by the personalities of Rabbid Peach and Rosalina seeing as the core Mario cast can be emotionally vanilla.

Nice to see the trend continued in Emio 😉

@HeeHo
You'd probably be fine. Each game has a shared core cast (the detective agency) but the cases don't overlap so you won't really be at a disadvantage.
In the demo a few minor side characters popped up from the older games but it felt more like a natural continuity of it being the same world than an advancement of stories.

We will get this at some point, played the first demo yesterday.
Enjoyed but either the demos or reviews are going to have to convince me it's worth the value proposition at full price. If it's only as long as one of the originals that might be a tough sell

Was always curious about these games but heard enough mixed responses to hold off on taking the plunge.
Hopefully this re[makemaster] ends up in a place where the game can shine unreservedly!!

Looks great. If it plays half as well as the Team Mimimi games, reviews well and avoids being horribly offensive about mental illness I'm in!

This show will inevitably be a mixed bag but I am 100% going to give it the benefit of the doubt as I love the idea.

Downloading now, will watch my wife play tonight.
The brute forcing conversation stuff and arbitrary tripple checking of things in the environment got frustrating in the remakes but we still enjoyed those a lot. Hopefully it's a little more elegant this time.

When's this dropping? No sign of it yet

@FineLerv
So that you don't finish them and have no reason to buy them? 😆

@Henmii
I was just about to comment on how weird it was we have seen about 5 seconds of footage of this game so far.
I'm not concerned but it would be nice to get a sense on what they have built on from the old games at least. I'm hoping the conversation progression is at least less obtuse.

@WaffleRaptor01
Don't get me wrong,
I entirely agree with you that BOTW was exactly what the series needed. Throwing away the preconceptions about what a Zelda game is and ushering in a new era for a series that was not innovating as much as it should. I adore TotK and put 200+ hours into it and was glad for the increased diversity of the dungeons and expanded narrative. If the main Zelda team never goes back I'd be ok with that (it would be nice if Grezzo did though).

The issue for me is that Zelda has always been my favourite game series and while the indie scene has definitely been able to produce satisfying iterations and advancements of 2d Zelda games (Death's Door & Hyper Light Drifter spring to mind for me) no one has filled the void of the 'formulaic' 3D Zelda games since Nintendo stopped making them.

That's why I had hopped this game was doing that as opposed to styling itself after the newest games

@ScalenePowers
I played Ds2 on the Wii U and enjoyed aspects of that, especially the Zelda style dungeons and OST.
Haven't played 1 or 3 yet but I may still try em.

Other than that (and Okami) I haven't found much in the 3d space that delivers.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits was delightful and definitely had Zelda in it's DNA but didn't have dungeons.

@ScalenePowers
Haha wow very similar minds going into this 🤣

Looks pretty, but not going to lie....
I hoped from the description it was going to scratch the old style 3d Zelda itch that Nintendo has left behind rather than the one they are satiating.

"is there enough momentum for Switch to catch DS and PS2 at the top of the hardware sales charts?"
Switch will for sure outsell the DS even it crawls past over the next 2 years.
Bigger question is whether it needs a price drop to achieve that

This is pretty funny.
The kind of game that will remain forever on my wishlist and never bought.

@HeadPirate
I'm going to concede my ignorance and thank you for enlightening me. Ziff Davis owns the company 'IGN entertainment'. This is a much bigger entity than the IGN website but includes it.
IGN Entertainment owns Humble Bundle which has/had a publishing arm Humble Games.

Euugh, you are right it's complicated XD

@LikelySatan @shyguy21
There is a disclaimer just above the comment section.

@HeadPirate
AHH ok, so I was curious if/how they were reporting on this story themselves if that was the case and the article actually explained my confusion in the disclaimer at the top. I trust Kat Bailey.
https://www.ign.com/articles/humble-games-announces-restructuring-of-operations-amid-layoffs

"
Disclosure: IGN Entertainment and publishing label Humble Games operate under separate divisions of the same parent company, Ziff Davis. Charity bundle platform Humble Bundle remains a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment.]
"
We were both kind of wrong and kind of right.
Humble Bundle is theirs, Humble Games is not.

@HeadPirate @RupeeClock @Ralizah

Am I missing something? People keep saying IGN own them but I'm pretty sure IGN is owned by Ziff Davis, just as Hookshot Media (parent company of Nintendolife) and HLTB and a bunch of other things are.
IGN is not doing any purchasing as far as I am aware
@RupeeClock they've always been very quick to highlight that in disclaimers whenever I have encountered it. But again... Nintendolife are in the same position

"strong themes, violence and suicide references"
Well, sure sounds like fatal frame to me.

I'd be happy if this was a new IP from the Fatal Frame alumni as well. The creator (Makoto Shibata) hasn't been attributed to any releases since 2019 according to his wiki...

FYI Nintendo have co-developed Fatal Frame games in the past

As a software developer I just want to add the controversial take to say there are absolutely ways to use AI without taking away from the human crafted experience. A lot of time consuming repetitive grunt work can be offloaded to AI to mean you get to the same place you were going faster.
Very different beast to farm out creative decisions to AI which I am against.

Never played any of these, unlikely to play most but boy that Mach Rider theme SLAPS

Haven't had this too often for games I played in the past but definitely struggle playing older games I didn't originally, particularly 16 bit RPGs.
I hooked up my N64 and replayed / 1st completed Jet Force Gemini recently which I was expecting to be more of a slog than it was.

I'd be a little nervous at revisiting DK 64 and Conkers Bad Fur Day.

I also think Mila's turnwheel may have broken older Fire Emblem games for me.

@-wc-
I do love the new ones as well but there is a desperate void of 3d dungeons in the vein of Zelda that almost nothing in the industry has successfully matched.

Okami did it well but that series is dormant, Darksiders 2 had very Zelda like dungeons but I don't know about the later one.
Nothing I've played in a long time has quite scratched that itch though.

2d Zelda seemingly has 100s of spiritual successors carrying the torch for it though.

@AvianBlue
I'm glad that they are making her play distinctive from link by not giving her a sword.
I was a little concerned that the whole puzzle/combat in this world would be via the rod but the fact that the D-pad item UI has empty slots in all the footage suggests to me that this is just the early signature tool and there will be others. I could be wrong and they just end up being for bottles or quest items.

Massive Uchikoshi fan here. Not as big on Kodaka tbh. Will buy this if Uchikoshi is heavily involved. Got to keep the lights on at Too Kyoo games!!

So i was initially outraged because I assumed they were taking down stuff sheet music arrangements that people had put up for free
If this is limited to paywalled arrangements it's not quite the overstep I first thought although I do sympathise with the individuals like purpleschala who are effected.
If they start going after free stuff like tabs on ultimate guitar I'm going to be devastated as I use these all the time...

Yaaay it's here!
I'm not going to evoke the gods of disappointment by expecting too much but am hoping for the Fire Emblem remake to show up at least!

@Pipulitoch haha good throwback! Although that became a Labo kit right?

Well I think it's fairly safe to say that if we DON'T see it this month in the direct, it's not coming to the Switch. So no news in this case will still be news.

Unless the Switch 2 is not out till November 25 which would be surprising in and of itself.

@RupeeClock
A bunch of conspiracy theories about things like demanding Spiderman 2 had more pride flags and pressuring developers to change their white characters to other ethnicities. It doesn't seem to matter that developers responsible for the changes and journalists have denied a lot of this stuff.

@InnerSound
Yeah I think there is a certain amount of desensitization to a lot of this stuff in the otaku crowd. To be fair I would find it hilarious if they made Senran Kagura Bulge with a gender swapped cast.

@Tobiaku
Sure, but those games are 100% targeting straight dudes and I doubt any women would ever view those games as inclusive or positive representation?

Be honest with yourself, if they added a bunch of straight white male characters to a game about punching people's clothes off wouldn't that trigger the same people you are talking about for different reasons?

@Tobiaku
So your point is that that the anti woke crowd are capable of embracing soft core lesbian pornography? XD

I know IP licenced Lego comes at a premium but this still seems £100 overpriced for the number of pieces...

What Nintendo franchise not yet represented by the Switch do you most want to see return.
Same Q 3rd party.
Which Nintendo game or series do you think best represents or is the poster child for the Switch
(For example I would say Pokémon for Gameboy, Mario Bros for Nes, Zelda for N64. I hope this makes sense)

Not going to lie, I originally mixed this up with the horror streaming platform "shudder" and got very confused.
This is still unexpected but not quite as left field as I first thought...

I would be well up for this. Focus on the puzzle solving aspect of the series and the use of magic to distinguish the gameplay from the Link led entries. Could even lead the way for the continued existence of puzzle heavy traditional Zelda dungeons without compromising the path they are on with the mainline series.
I really like the Totk/Botw Zelda but I would be surprised if they set this hypothetical game in the same direct continuity.

@Lizuka
I definitely feel a Metroid Horror movie could work. Samus and other bounty hunters get called in to investigate a research station that's gone dark or a distress signal by the Galactic Fed.
Kill off all or most the other BHs over the first two thirds of the film and then just focus on an intense game of cat and mouse with an evolved Metroid or Parasite X form.
As long as it is intense and rich in atmosphere and set design you don't need to have an overblown plot or huge cast of characters. The series is fairly derivative of Alien anyway so embrace that.