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Brilliant review Stuart. I was just wondering though, what does bijou or too-twee mean?

@twztid13 I think it's only labelled an RPG though. RPG is a term for a game that let's you roleplay any way you like. Meanwhile kingdom hearts only has one way to play. So is it really an RPG, or just a game with a lot of numbers?

@RazumikhinPG But Kingdom Hearts is identified as a jrpg despite the fact that it's more similar to hack and slash action games.

@AstroQuote Listen, there are people who can have different beliefs. Then there are people who are objectively wrong. If you kill people, you are objectively wrong. If you verbally or physically attack people for having different opinions, you are wrong. Even if your argument has some validity, and is technically correct, once you cross the threshold between conversation and attack, you have become wrong. Objectively. People don't like listening to harsh people who act in a rude manner. So clean up your act.

@AstroQuote Hey man, calm down. People can have different beliefs, doesn't mean anything is wrong with them. It's ok to have discussions and to disagree with them, but don't get aggressive and verbally attack them. That is just disgusting and plain wrong.

@Crono1973 Then it would be a case by case basis. For example, with that peach hentai game that was taken down the other day, that was perfectly understandable why it was taken down. I don't think anyone could reasonably argue why that game should stay up.
However there is not offensive material (that we know of) in this fangame. So would it not make more sense for Nintendo to copystrike people on a case by case basis rather than just do it to everyone? Fangames (of the inoffensive kind) have a more of a positive effect on their audiences in my opinion as they keep people as fans of the series for a longer period, and can serve as ways to satiate hype as they wait for the next big release.

@Crono1973 When was the last time you saw someone refuse to play a series of games just because he didn't like a fan game from the series? That doesn't seem logical to me

Although I understand that this is Nintendo's intellectual property and they can do whatever they like with it, I still fails to understand how a fangame which is a sequel to a game released 20 years ago will in anyway hurt their brand image or sales.

Edit: I don't think there's anything that will change my stance on somewhat original fan games based older games. I do think that their line of reasoning is more valid with fan remakes or remasters. However a lot of the time these projects exist as competition whether (whether we like it or not). Take for example Super Mario 3D All Stars. It's a fine enough collection, one that I'm going to pick up myself once I can afford to. However there's still a lot of problems with it. A lot of the games were only slightly touched up on, with games like Super Mario 64 (which I completed 100% this year, legally, through the wii u virtual console) having an awful camera system that reduced my enjoyment of the game by a considerable amount. Meanwhile you have fan made works online which rectify so much issues the game has, and makes the game feel like a more polished experience. I believe in this regard Nintendo deserves the lost sales, just because of their general laziness. With a more polished rerelease of theirs (see ocarina of time 3D) you see that people will prefer to go the legal route to get it just because it is the best way to play the game (unless they use emulators, or homebrew, in which case they likely weren't going to buy the game in the first place).
Edit 2: Also as @Stocksy has stated, what Nintendo are doing with fangames would be similar to J.K. Rowling deciding to copystrike all fanfiction based on the property, for fear that it may hurt future sales for the Harry Potter books or films, or ticket sales for future Fantastic Beasts films.

Putting that rapper to good use lol

@Roam85 I thought it was on the 3ds store

Are the 3D ones still on the 3DS though?

@status-204 Look at who just embarrassed their own self

@Snatcher Thank God! Now that Nintendo has retracted their statement, this surely means my Joycons have stopped drifting!

Edit: I went and checked. Sadly they have not.

Didn't Nintendo of Japan president Shuntaro Furakawa come out recently and say that he recognizes joycon drift is a problem? Or am I just remembering incorrectly?

13/15. Maybe I shouldn't have gotten the sales one wrong, but as for the other one who actually cares about Steve's height?

He looks like he doesn't belong there, and I absolutely love that.

I feel that if more people gave Minecraft a chance then they'd understand why it's so good.

@Tibob No only about half of it. Many fans have a problem with legends origins levels as well. The original had each level build off the previous level mechanically so it felt like there was a natural progression, while legends just throws them in randomly without the order that made them so good and well designed.

Origins on switch. Won't happen but it's nice to dream.

If this explanation is true I feel like it kind of removes some of the wonder of how Mario was created. Sometimes things are better left unexplained.

@gcunit It's a well known fact that all angsty teenage media takes place in Oregon (e.g. life is strange)

@Razer But there was two Monster Hunter games announced, this and a proper one...

@Ghostchip Hey man, you're getting too aggressive over this. I don't know about America, but in Europe, where I live, it has gone from 20 euro all the way down to 14 euro before. Not sure what trying to prove me wrong over something so petty and trivial will do for you, but hey if it makes you a better person then go for it.

@Ghostchip No I did but I said the price goes during sales. Sales are temporary in nature. Maybe there is no sale for the zelda dlc now, but there has been before. It was brought down from 20 dollars to 12 for a limited time. You should know that sales are usually not permanent.

@kalmaro @Ghostchip I mean if it happened once it can happen again. No guarantees but it's possible.

@Kalmaro Breath of the wild's dlc has gone down in price during sales, so this might as well

Now that I think about it, Galaxy 1 was the only one out of the two Galaxy games released on Nvidia in China. The reason Galaxy 2 probably isn't in All Stars is because they might've just ported the first game from Nvidia consoles to Switch without bothering to spend the extra time on the second one.

@Ktld878 No. It means nobody will be able to buy it after March. People who bought it before will be able to keep it.

Looks like they finally took Tom Nook's financial advice into account.

wHy is nIntEndO maKiNG mOre LeGOs thaN AcTual gAmez!?!

I find it funny that the poor player probably had no idea and thought he lost all his skill over a matter of days.

19 out of 21. What I learnt is that half of these are basically just windwaker link

Let's be honest... This game is coming to the West sooner or later

20 out of 21. Good game

I'm ashamed to have gotten one wrong, but to be fair it was a fire emblem character.

@BeefyDeedz I'm not white yet I never lose any sleep over white people voicing my race as long as the product is good

I see this cartoon emulating the aesthetic of old cartoons well, but has none of the witty writing that old looney tunes and Tom and Jerry did that made it massively popular among both children and grown ups.

@Bomberman64 I'd honestly prefer a remaster over a remake. The original art style has a certain cartoony charm to it that none of the future games managed to emulate in quite the same way

If only Nintendo spent as much effort on their online gaming infrastructure as they do taking down projects

In order to stand out, a magazine shouldn't waste as much reporting news we could immediately on the internet, it should spend its pages on unique, well written features. That's no guarantee of success however, I still cry daily over the corpse of the official Nintendo magazine

Fortnite is the next best thing to going to the cinema. You heard it here first boys.

@Moroboshi876 Exactly. A new paper mario releases every 4 years.

Isn't it great that this replaced Club Nintendo?

To be honest I'm not surprised they had trouble figuring out how to work remotely seeing as they still haven't figured out how to work with the internet at all on their systems.

@mesome713 Fairly certain you can favourite certain friends

@ShankyMcSpanky Sony has pulled out of E3 this year a while back anyways, so Corona or not you weren't getting that announcement

@Coach_A If it annoys you more then yes, I think they should

I'd say people are overreacting. The game, while most likely not consumer friendly, is designed as a money making project on the side rather than a replacement of the series on console. Nobody doubted that there would be a new Mario, Fire Emblem, or Animal Crossing game after their respective mobile games released. And before we say but this is Activision I think it is worth noting that they had milked the Call of Duty series on mobile, and that hasn't stopped their games from being releases

To be honest I like the xbox interface. Mostly because I just use it for streaming. All my games are bought on ps4.

Honestly both my joy con drift and Nintendo's poor internet structure are putting me off the console.