AlanShore

These aren't $70 games. I actually grew to hate my time in Prime 4, but maybe I've played more high quality modern titles on other platforms than the few Nintendo-only players that bought it and like it. There are just so many better games to play for so much cheaper, they made a bad call with their price hike.

He has a very impressive resume having been the producer on many of my favorite games of all time, Link's Awakening and Donkey Long Country to name a couple. It's a shame but not surprising that he wants to hang it up after the long tortured development of Prime 4 that ultimately didn't pay off, he's only 62 so I have to imagine he would have had a few more games in him otherwise.

@DreamJackal The more I play the more I doubt it's even 1440p.
@StarCollector Animations can stay locked to 30 frames while the refresh rate of everything else is increased to 60, it would fix the main reason people complain about 30 and yes it would take some coding but they ARE charging money after all.

There is still so much aliasing everywhere it's hard to believe this is really 4K, I play 5 feet away from a 65" LG OLED and I'm somewhat of a pixel peeper and boy is it hard to spot a difference from the Switch 1 version here. The mouse mode is a joke, having to swap back and forth from mouse mode to sticks instead of being able to use the cursor to make selections in the build menu is actually ridiculous and I'll never touch that feature again. The megaphone works maybe 10% of the time. I know people claim yOu dOnT nEeD sIxTy fRaMeS fOr A cOzY and I know it is likely tied to the logic animation and it would have taken work to redo that stuff but it really feels sluggish and archaic compared to modern cozy games, just walking horizontally through town is like viewing a slideshow that gives me motion sickness, considering they'll make millions off of this otherwise lazy update I think the effort would have been more than appreciated. I know it's only $5 but I feel scammed.

Yeahhh I can tell it will be a good game like LM1&2 but I may have to pass on Switch 2, this was a little rough performance-wise.

Playing it now and it's confirmed my worry that there's not enough here to keep me back. I'll get the couple new sets, do a few rooms at the hotel and be completely done with the game just like before. Too little too late, but maybe that's just me. At least I got to see it for myself before I jumped on the $5 upgrade right away without thinking twice about it.

USA too? I can't find it

I tried to roundhouse kick my Switch off of my cabinet and it wouldn't budge. That's a lot of stability, good job Nintendo.

There's going to need to be a LOT of new furniture if Animal Crossing hopes to spice anything up. Nothing they've shown could keep me interested if I'm still just using all of the same old furniture to decorate the new dream islands and hotel rooms. The LEGO stuff looks cool but that's one niche set, none of the hotel themed stuff they showed excites me and looks to be a very small collection. I don't know what they were thinking here honestly. Multiplayer with 12 people? Who asked for that? I'm in AC communities on every platform and can't imagine any posts asking to form a group half that big until some future game has an MMO-ish hub world or something. It just seems like they missed a big opportunity to be exciting.

Wait, what the actual heck? Seriously? What's happening to this place?? Where is everyone going? 😭 Goodbye sweet Felix, thank you for being a cool guy.

@ShadLink That was my whole point. We're okay with developers using tools to make things easier for them, that's not what upsets people about AI, we're upset by the theft.

Development tools have had automation features built-in from day 1. Many assets, animations, sounds in games are public domain or auto generated by Unity, Unreal, etc. Aoftware like Garage Band etc are full of sounds and instruments originally played by someone else if not entirely digital.
Use it as an algorithm to reduce your dirty work if you want, I get that, but the second you take the artistic integrity out of the soul of your game you're going to face backlash. It remains to be seen what percentage of gamers truly cherish the blood sweat and tears put into the experience by true artists but I think every soul on earth recognizes when the soul of something is absent and I don't believe AI will ever replicate the human soul. I'm hopeful that we'll all instinctovely reject whatever thoughtless AI slop the industry pumps out but then again, Scarlet and Violet sold quite well.

Outside of a few standout moments, most of the experience felt rushed or incomplete to me. If anything needs to change for a Prime 5 in my mind, it's the combat. The beams fly too slow to hit the desired target often enough to feel satisfying - even just hitting weak points that you're locked onto feels so inaccurate and clumsy. The beams need to shoot faster, fly faster, there needs to be a full-auto firing mode (my poor trigger fingers got so sick of spamming), and there should always be at least one or two melee options available to you. It's so not fun for me that running back through areas and having enemies respawn constantly was never anything but a nuisance, I never felt like I could just battle for the fun of it.
That's not everything though. The couple million fans will get mad at me for saying this but the series needs a complete overhaul if we want the games to have more appeal to a wider audience and sell enough copies for consistent releases like Nintendo's top performers. The desert wasn't the only fumble, compared to modern AAA games and even many recent indies, this whole experience felt like a 5/10 relic that only nostalgia chasers would be happy about. I want to see what Nintendo can really accomplish with a sci-fi puzzle-heavy adventure game. An open world could actually be really cool for Samus. You could find individual part upgrades to customize your suit and ship to your liking. It could be a lot like Star Wars Outlaws in terms of exploration, with temples and shrines thrown in. People aren't sick of open worlds and they never will be - they're sick of empty, pointless open worlds and this one was the emptiest most pointless one I've experienced maybe ever, and I've played Scarlet.

Got this and Dave the Diver for $30. Merry Christmas to me!

@Nintendontyouknow I jumped on it and I feel pretty lucky, I had no idea it was a mistake.

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@DennyCrane Did you notice any improvements?

It really is so attractive to look at on a 65" OLED. The best bit is the lighting and HDR. Polygons are cool and all but if we just port/create a ton of PS4 level games with beefed up lighting effects and HDR then that will be more than enough for me and I'm very picky about graphics. My only hope for the console is that they get VRR working on the dock and start prioritizing 40fps over 30, even if it takes a DLSS update from Nvidia.

@ozwally I think most people notice the screen taking an eternity to respond to button presses, it's just whether or not they have the patience or higher standards. I guarantee iwhen they fix it that you'll enjoy the game more, even if subconsciously.

@swedetrap I highly recommend taking a few minutes to get used to the gyro controls. It becomes second nature and is bested only by mouse controls (real PC mice I mean). Sticks are archaic.

@obijuankanoobie I don't think you can play the physical 3DS and Wii games on your Switch either? I guess I'm not sure your point anymore, I'm sorry.

This is a GORGEOUS demo, I'm not much of an RPG guy but for $40 it's going to be hard to pass seeing how much work they clearly put into bringing it over. The HDR is very well handled, the thousands of lights in the city pop out of my OLED like little Christmas lights. The textures on skin and clothes are the best I've seen on the S2 by a country mile and there aren't any low res blotchy shadow issues like in Outlaws and other 3rd party games. VERY impressed, and yeah 40fps would have been nice but I got over it pretty quick - maybe if we get docked VRR and a DLSS update they can upgrade the fps later.

@obijuankanoobie Brother you can still redownload any games you purchased on the Wii and DSi from like 20 years ago to this day with no signs of going away.

@eldersnake There's an element of objectivity with sales numbers, review scores and frequency of reference across the public sphere but yes I'm certainly not trying to discredit or deligitimize anyone who finds this to be their cup of tea - I just see a lot of lost potential with the series and I believe not only are Nintendo holding themselves back by not evolving it but they're hurting the fans because more of the same that only ever sells a handful of copies means more of the same waiting a quarter of a lifetime for the next entry.

@michellelynn0976 wow look at you go, what a mess. All over a game that will sell 3 million at best. Did you have a blast dropping little bombs to stop the mean tornado man? Did that innovation blow you away? And oh, look how cool it is to grab a little purple knob wItH yOuR MiNd and make it follow the path to unlock stuff, truly a breakthrough accomplishment, you're so right, good job big guy! I stopped playing halfway through the volcano temple because the boredom was driving me insane. I'm glad the puzzles are enough to meet your standards, my point stands.

@Otoemetry nah, Hollow Knight is my favorite game of all time, and I can list 30 other Metroidvanias off the top of my head that have catapulted the genre to new heights leaving this outdated game in the dust, as if Prime is even all that comparable anyways.

@ThatOneLevel I highly doubt that tbh. Hollow Knight sold more copies than Arceus which still seems like it will have outsold this game when the dust settles. Silksong had a stronger start than HK and has a lot of DLC planned. I guess we'll see.

This DLC costs more than Silksong lol

@michellelynn0976 which one of those words were meant to illicit innovative awe? This game is terribly mid and outdated. Scanning everything takes forever and isn't remotely fun, engaging or interesting. The enemey AI is so dumb and non-threatening, they're only ever challenging because they can easily avoid your 5mph projectiles with no full-auto so you just have to sit there spamming your trigger like a jackass. Constantly coming across locked off upgrades that require an upgrade you don't have yet is stressful design, considering how god awfully slow you traverse, the idea of having to go back later just to get a few more missiles or something is so tiresome. The "puzzles" are probably too easy for 5 year olds. The bosses just require jumping around until theres an opening and hoping your bullets hits while they're dancing around. Having no melee attack or counters feels odd. There's now no question in my mind why these games never sell more than 3 million copies, Retro are talented and I hope they either make the next entry 100x more modern or ditch the franchise for good.

I put every single one of these new releases for old hardware games on my 3DS and they make me so happy. It's cool to see one talked about here, I think the last time I saw NL mention one was the McDonald's game from a few years ago.