AlexSora89

You had me at Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti.

@Yosher @Ardisan
True story, both of you have showcased valid points. Mine is, the matchups we can create here will never be seen again. That's the problem - Smash Ultimate raised the bar too high for fighters to keep up. I bought both Fighter Passes, and I'm crossing all the fingers I have in hope we're not getting "Byleth'd" again. Yes, I actually am thinking of first party reps... but what's even left at this point, Golden Sun aside? Maybe a mechanically distinct Paper Mario and Paper Luigi duo to combine both RPG spinoff series into one character, I don't know. Third parties are actually what makes Smash the celebration of gaming, and there's so much that can be still brought to the table.

I also wish Sakurai could get a vacation, which is exactly why I'm hoping for Fighters Pass 2 to deliver. While I would buy a third Pass, it'd be just to repay Sakurai for all the hard work he does at this point. Not for the value on offer, because despite of the spike in value we got out of Terry's fifty tracks it all went pretty much downhill with Byleth.

ARMS, on the other hand, is a franchise that would normally "miss" its chance (as it happened with Splatoon with Smash 4), so I'm glad we won't have to wait another six years for it to happen. But if we were going to get, say, a Shy Guy, a character from Zelda or even a requested fighter like Bandanna Waddle Dee... well, I doubt I'd be among the hyped people recording their reactions.

"In case it had somehow slipped your mind, it has been revealed that the next fighter to enter the Smash scene will be from ARMS. Here's hoping we hear more about this upcoming character soon."

While nowhere near as hype-killing as Byleth was, it's still worrying that (yes, I know, Smash is supposed to be all about Nintendo, yadda yadda yadda) the first character we got is still a "safe" first-party rep. Yep, it's good to see Spring Man (or whoever it may be) make the jump to playability before a step between installments, but I'm afraid that now that FP2 has been sold, DLC won't go out with a bang, but a whimper. The fighters have been chosen by Nintendo, the same Nintendo that is knowingly going to advertise other games. Getting Crash/Sora/Scorpion/Master Chief/whatever into Smash is a really low priority right now.

And I hope I'm going to eat my words as soon as we finally get the June Smash presentation, because the words I want to eat up are also indirectly belittling Sakurai's hard work. I'm banking on the Mii costumes being one of the highlights of the stream, though.

@Heavyarms55
I can only thank goodness I still have my parents. There are people who have explored other options. I'm not defending criminal behaviour, mind you, but then again I doubt every criminal ended up being one by choice.

Sooooo... Gem Apple pack for Super Kirby Clash when exactly?

As @johnvboy said, the packet of Quavers totally stole my attention.
You know what happens when games with product placement make you want what's advertised?
This time the opposite happened. The Quavers pack made me want to boot up Push-Over again.

Nintendo did the right thing.
You need something as comfy as IPs to sit on.

@Damo
Nothing will ever beat Francesco Totti's rebuttal when his team (Roma, Rome) ended up scoring four goals. He motioned to an opponent the following: pointer finger to the nose ("shut up"), four fingers sticking up ("four"), and then moved the hand downwards like a fan ("go home").

As an Italian, I'll say that we're going to get a more respectful and accurate portrayal in videogames in a single soccer season than we have in the 31 years I've spent on this planet.

This just made my day. I'm a total sucker for classic cartoons, and I was glad to see Pokémon of all franchises capturing that exact feel so perfectly.
Only gripe I have with it is that, unless you're familiar with what Mimikyu is all about, the joke falls flat on its face. Otherwise, I'm all for it. If Pokémon wants to integrate slapstick humor, then by all means, it should be free to do so. However there are too many anime-inspired things in the Pokémon lore for its foray into zany western humor to actually hit.

I've oughta see if I can thin my wishlist a bit before biting into any of these discounts.

@invictus4000
There is much more at stake than games these days. Just thought I should state the obvious.

@RupeeClock
Les Gold would be proud.

"Because Nintendo won't".
Unless, of course, The Origami King gets its ship together.

It's starting to look like way less of the travesty it was building up to be and more like the masterpiece @johnvboy has been defending for so long. Too bad it takes thirty bucks for SwSh to feel like complete games, but we're getting there. Unless @Kalmaro begs to differ, of course.

@Bomberman64
At this rate, I think Nintendo should just go the Sonic Mania route.
"You like remaking games? Good, fine-tune that 5#17 and you've got yourself a nice job."

@Abeedo
True dat. Taking down projects takes time. Much time. And it would be better spent on, I dunno, literally anything else.
But as you know, toe-mah-to, toe-may-to. We say as much, other people will reply "Nintendo would improve the online if it wasn't for fan projects forcing the company to take action".

@EmmatheBest
Same team, right here! [raises hand]

I'll be that guy and state the simple solution.
If Nintendo is afraid this might steal their official remake its thunder... why not announce it already?
"Here's the real deal", bam. All (well, most I guess) attention the PC port got goes straight down the toilet.

I'm not just getting DK vibes. This is pure C64 platforming in general. Way to make me nostalgic!

Your move, Pokémon Company.

Involuntary bug or not, between this and the fact 2K isn't willing to hand out review codes I'm not so sure about that "2K <3 Nintendo Switch" that opened the last Direct Mini anymore.

@ThanosReXXX
The pixel art aestethic isn't the problem. The actual issue I had with the game was its lack of clarity during certain parts of it.

@Fantasia
I did review the game, if the language barrier doesn't scare you. It has its own faults, mostly a nasty habit to save the progress even after the game puts the player in unwinnable situations. However, Soul Searching is worth a shot for the music alone. Its usage of pixelated graphics is kinda meh given the top-down perspective, but once the existentialist sense of hopelessness the islanders feel starts to click, it suddenly becomes an awfully appropriate aestethic.
Also, eff those dragons you see in the trailer. Seriously.

Two of the Square Enix placeholders from yesterday list Switch as the only console.
We have two chances for the Kingdom Hearts recollections to come to Switch, given Nintendo platforms are the only ones without the compilations at this point.
Looking at you Square. Your move.

"Helluva Wii game, that one."

If we can filter the games both by price and by discount percentage, it'd be amazing.

"Is this even legal? What could we do to avoid incurring into Nintendo's wrath?"
"How about we rip off the PlayStation's D-pad instead"
"Brilliant"

Welp, there goes the only good Sonic property showing "Sonic Boom" as its title.

"Will you return to the Galar region?"

I'll say. Eleven days ago two things happened - one, we got the Paper Mario: The Origami King trailer, and two, it was my birthday. I've received Pokémon Shield as a birthday present (because of the lack of alternatives for the occasion), and given I've been a dexer - and still am - you might be curious about what a complainer could say after actually playing the game.

Long story short, my complaints were hardly ever about the game's own merits, which are admittedly good. But as far as the vanilla version of the game is concerned, then this game is basically the franchise's continuation rather than its evolution. The Wild Area was supposedly the game's first foray into MMO territory, but in reality it's not that much more than a glorified Festival Plaza. That said, the streamlining seen with wild versions of hard-to-get evolutions (wild Dusknoir, wild Rhyperior, wild Eeveelutions...) is a good thing, although the bureaucracy involved with the partial reversion towards single-use TMs kind of makes the whole thing moot.

Pokédex aside, the most glaring flaw about the game has to be the online. Nintendo and online never went hand in hand, but now that it's paid the Big N really needs to up its ante. I'm looking at the online co-op Max Raid Battles, where the best Raids are always locked, and the ones that aren't usually get filled before we can even figure out whose Pokémon the outline is.

Same goes with Mystery Trading, which functionality-wise is an atrocious downgrade from what we've grown to love about Wonder Trades. The trades now need confirmation, and the prompt can come straight away but it could also take tens of minutes before going "Trade Completed!". The list goes on.

The assumption Game Freak "lied" can be seen outside the whole Pokédex thing, because truth be told, there's literally nothing that could get me to say "well, now I see why they cut the Pokémon". Nope. Bite is still a flashy light effect, Double Kick is still a stamp, and the list goes on. I challenge anyone here to look at the Max Raid Battles' announcement without thinking we've been lied to - the video was edited, and carefully framed, to make it look like four players outside a Max Raid den were also the same ones taking part in the Raid. No, that was a lie. Players in the Wild Area cannot be interacted with, not outside a generic cooking gift (uh, thanks... I guess?), stickers do all the nasty work, and those four players in the trailer gather via stickers, not by interacting in the Wild Area.

Tl;dr: The game, as a JRPG, is kinda fine. As a Pokémon game, it just fares a bit better than what we, as fans, feared... which, let's admit it, is not exactly the greatest compliment we could say about the game. But it's okay, because the game's launch period is gone and we can talk bad about it without getting lynched.

@Pokefanmum82
I had to double-check before figuring out the two were two different beasts altogether. So there, apologies.

@zitpig
Thought so. My girlfriend was playing a bit of Let's Go last night. It was atrocious to witness. Imagine your character heading down, only to keep switching (heh) between walking and running because the stick is just broken that way.

@ShaiHulud
Eeyup. This site (and, by extention, most of its users) has (have) a bit of a history of wanting Nintendo to win each and every lawsuit in existence. Whichever is the one suing the other, Nintendo needs to come out on top no matter how anti-consumer the end result is.

@zitpig
Isn't always the left Joy-Con the one that causes most trouble?

@GoblinKing86
Just how does anyone get rich with a free Joy-Con repair?

The real kicker would have been if the player getting passionate about Smash was from team Sony. Y'know, just to see what Push Square could come up with.

A win for Nintendo, a loss for all users. I guess we're going to just spend 70 euros/bucks every two months.

And apologists here indicate they're all happy with that. Woo freaking hoo.

@Seananigans
Let me see... an anime girl... blushing... looking up... opening her mou--OH NO.

@ShaiHulud
I'll summarize why I'm proud to define myself as a fanboy by summing up a post of a user on Italian FB group "Nintendari Incalliti" (Nintendo Die-Hards):

"I've been playing my Switch tonight, and the power went out. I simply inserted my Joy-Cons into the Switch's rails and went on playing. The power has been out for roughly thirty seconds, and then I resumed playing in docked mode. Good luck explaining to other console players the sheer magic of that half-minute, though. Hashtag, Nintendo Difference."

@ShaiHulud
I reckon I indeed am a fanboy, so there's no offense in that. Those over at Push Square, however, are elitist fanboys. There's a difference. I've vouched for the Crash and Spyro games many times over on this website, in spite of me being a self-admitted Nintendo fanboy. And yet, Nintendo Life has a much lighter angle when it comes to games that will never come out on Nintendo platforms (barring one exception). Take the article about Panic Button wanting to port Horizon Zero Dawn: NL treated it humbly as an undeniable impossibility, while also praising Panic Button's ambition. Compare and contrast to the savagery of Push Square's coverage of the same topic, from the headline ("Let 'em dream") to the final snark ("They'll have to make do with Skyrim - helluva PlayStation 3 game, that one"). We don't call that site "the sass dimension" for nothin', ya know.

[EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot this one comment in particular. Not from a random user, but from an actual news editor. I'm discussing it here and not, well, there just because the three sites share the same profile infrastructure. Being banned on NintendoLife because of Push Square isn't among my interests.]

I have an empty tear jar and a popcorn bucket at the ready for whenever this article pops up over at Push Square. Not Pure Xbox, mind you, I'm specifically talking about Push Square.

Thirty-three percent?

@Not_Soos

Wish I could be the very best
but these figurines won't
imagine this being sung in
Origami Peach's font
my voice is a garbled mess
like a glitch gone haywire
good luck sleeping with success
your dreams will soon be dire

And I guess this is it until september, when the renewal of most subscriptions will prompt Nintendo to give us N64 games. At this rate, it'll be a wonder if half of Nintendo's retro consoles will make the cut by the time the Switch's successor is released.

Hell yeah, now dump it, bidder!

"Only fit for Oblivion"
The best ironic echo to Bethesda infamous "perfect fit for Switch" description for a F2P mobile port. Mad, mad, mad props.

@Emperor-Palpsy
Must be strangers to love. Don't know the rules, neither do we. A full commitment's not what's cooking up, must have been thinking of any other guy. I just want them to know how I'm feeling, gotta make 'em understand.

@playstation_king
It's the latter.

@Moistnado
I'm getting Street Fighter II Switch flashbacks

So this basically confirms it'll be one console per year.
Well, I can't complain with Super Smash Bros. 64's release this September, I guess. I mean, most users - like yours truly - most likely paid the service when it went live, and last year Nintendo wasn't even subtle about adding SNES right as people renewed their subscriptions so yeah, N64 this fall, methinks.

Also, the Mega Man Legacy Collections (standard and X) include NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2 games (and GBA and DS, if we count the Mega Man Zero/ZX Collection that is the only one in this comment I don't have yet). By adding the Castlevania and Mana compilations into the mix, we have more of a Virtual Console than what Nintendo Switch Online itself has provided us. Just sayin'.