Altaria_97

Glad co-op is making a return. Pikmin 3 was pretty fun with it. My only concern is it being built with Unreal Engine. It’s a great engine but Yoshi’s Crafted World ran at a pretty low resolution for a modern game (~600p if I remember correctly). Blown up on a TV it didn’t look so great without some aggressive sharpening.

Granted that title ran at 60fps and Pikmin will more than likely be a 30fps experience, so I’m sure it’ll look just fine. Just keeping my fingers crossed.

I guess I’ll be the optimist here. The game looks good. Physics looks good, the art style looks nice, and the areas you go to seem interesting.

Oh, I also enjoyed Yoshi’s New Island. Sue me, lol.

Glad it’s impressing. The trailer looked great and it seems like a logical next-step to Sonic Mania. I’m not even a big Sonic fan and I’m looking forward to the final game!

I redownloaded Unite last month after not playing since fall of 2021. I have to say… it was a lot of fun and I don’t remember why I stopped playing. Might jump into a few matches this weekend.

I will say, it seems like they’re even more aggressive with the micro transactions than before, tho.

That’s weird. I usually don’t care much anymore about separate downloads… but wouldn't the point of waiting over a year to release a physical copy of a game be to have all the content physically?

Got my copy last night. I didn’t have time to watch it completely but so I picked a couple scenes and it looks great on my tv. Gonna watch I have the time tonight or tomorrow.

I hope so but don’t think there will be.

I really like the purple/green combo. Maybe I'll trade in my neon yellow pair that I have for credit towards it. Strong maybe, though.

Pikmin 4 is a definite purchase. Disney Illusion Island is a maybe, it looks really fun but I’ll probably wait to see more gameplay and how it reviews. Sonic Origins Plus I’ll probably pick up physically but I’m deciding which platform I want it on lol.

Looks like a pretty fun game to me. I’ll grab it on my Series X once it drops in price. Maybe when it hits $30-$40.

Bruh 😂😂😂

How does that even happen lol.

We want you to fix the glitches!

Game Freak: What’s that? You want MORE glitches???

Dope. I grew up with Mario Advance 2 and it’s been such a long time since I played Mario World in general. Excited to play through it again on the big screen once I’m done Tears of the Kingdom and Metroid Prime.

Dope. Looking forward to moving over the two shinies I found and some of my other favorites. Now I can restart the game without feeling like I’m losing much.

Wouldn’t be another Pokémon article without people just writing paragraphs on how they hated these titles lol. The games have issues but the foundation is there and I had fun with them. To each their own.

But I will agree that these small random patches to solve the most minute of problems is kinda a slap in the face.

This “event” raid is absolutely useless. You can already catch the specific Pokémon in their respective games. If you must have a different Tera type, then use Tera shards.

They could have at least swapped the version exclusives.

This is a very dope top 10

As long as the Switch Pro or whatever it's called can achieve native 1080p/60fps for all games, I'll be satisfied. I don't think Nintendo will start a new console generation with how strong software sales still are. So I'm hoping for the sacred Pro to come out this holiday season or next Spring.

You sold me with the return of more traditional dungeons and a more involved story. BOTW was fun but underwhelmed me. This game seems like it may have addressed my issues so now I’m pumped to give it a go.

I wasn’t planning on getting it (at least not for some time) since Breath of the Wild wasn’t my cup of tea. But my brother pre-ordered it for my birthday so I guess I’m getting it this weekend lol.

Don’t know why they were so secretive about this. And man… I’m so happy to hear about it!

I did enjoy Breath of the Wild but I was one of the few that was disappointed by it overall. My main gripes were the lack of dungeons, small amount story, and largely slow pacing due to the widespread overworld.

Tears of the Kingdom looks to have a much more interesting story that isn’t just shrouded in uncovering small bits from the past. It also allegedly has proper dungeons. Here’s hoping the overworld is a lot more dense with content!

With how strong software sales are and the Switch still selling nearly 18m units, I don’t think they’re in a rush to go next-gen. They have to be profiting so much per system.

I know it’s beating a dead horse at this point but I think a Switch Pro (or whatever it’s called) is imminent sometime this holiday or early next year. That way you boost software sales without resetting software sales targets. But who knows.

Don’t care. I’d consider buying any of the rebooted trilogy games but those games will never come to switch at this point. Even just the a port of the 360 version of the first game would probably sell me.

Unless they make an original game from the ground-up, specifically for Switch hardware, then I’d agree. The only other options are a cloud version (which would be awful for a fast paced shooter where timing is everything) or a port of a 360/PS3 gen game… maybe a lower-texture One/PS4 game.

I’m just surprised they haven’t ported CoD 4 over with gyro-controls.

As much as I loved playing through Scarlet... I agree, it's painful to see these patches come out and address none of the real problems with the game.

It's crazy to think how much better the review scores would have been if they just got this game running at a consistent 30fps with a camera that doesn't clip through the ground.

Glad to hear it turned out so well. I'll pick it up sometime this Spring or Summer. Seems like a fun remake!

I haven’t been keeping up with indie games at all so I’m not expecting anything. That said, I appreciate smaller devs so I’ll give it a watch and maybe a game or two will peak my interest.

@blindsquarel Yup. Cool thing is he actually fully coded and developed the game with a buddy of his if I recall correctly. He didn’t just do the concept and design work. I have that game on my wishlist, actually!

Looks pretty fun. Reminds me of a more action-packed Hollow Knight with GBA visuals. I like Jirard, don’t watch his content all the time but when I do it’s usually a fun video. They’re too many games for me to get this day 1 but I’ll keep an eye on it.

I was interested in it before but not crazy excited as I never beat BOTW. After seeing that trailer… it has me super hyped and I’m probably gonna restart and finally beat BOTW.

Excellent trailer.

It’s definitely looking like one of the farming games of all-time.

I’m currently on a game purchasing freeze and I never actually beat Breath of the Wild. I hit like 35-40 hours and the game got repetitive to me but I had a ton of fun during the time.

Over the summer I’ll go back and properly beat it, even if I have to use a guide. I’ll get around to picking up Tears of the Kingdom sometime after that.

@Nanami_Ataraxia Damn, well said haha. Transferring your Pokémon is a cool feature but like you said, unless you’re grinding for insane amounts of hours in a GameBoy game then it’s not very practical or even that much more helpful.

The important thing is that the game is still a blast to play with or without the feature. And yeah, I was shocked how well the game looked on my 75” TV with the upscaled resolution through NSO. Everything looks sharp and the animations are just as solid as I remember. It’s a blast to play this again!

@Nanami_Ataraxia Your comment is very accurate. Most people online complain how easy Pokémon is. Here is a more difficult version and most people are reluctant to try it. You don’t get the freedom of the main series games but if you’re looking for a competitive battling challenge… well, here it is lol.

I used to play all the time with the rental Pokémon as a kid as only my older brothers had copies of Red and Blue. I was the youngest so I was stuck with the rentals and still had a blast.

Loaded up the NSO app for the first gym leader challenge and had a ton of fun with the rentals yet again. It’s fun to see which Pokémon have certain moves.

Yes, they should add Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow to the GB NSO app. And yes, they should add transfer pack support to this game if they do. But hey, it’s still a lot of fun without that functionality. Don’t knock it til you try it.

It’s ridiculous this keeps happening. It should be a no-brainer thing to do but somehow so many companies just don’t care to credit the original developers.

The first couple of years I exclusively used the Wii remote's motion controls for MKWii. Then when I switched to public school, I remember a couple friends showing me the more competitive nature of the game. I used the GameCube controller from then on, despite never playing in tournaments or using any "competitive" combos.

For MK8D, I've always used buttons. I'll use the joy-cons in handheld mode but always use the Pro controller in TV mode.

Hooray I finally got a perfect score lol

Just got back from vacation and I have Co-vid (for the first time, believe it or not). I'll be waiting a week or two until I know I don't have it, then I'll go to the theater with a friend or two.

I know it's not going to be anything incredible but I'm looking forward to it being a silly and fun time.

Everything’s seems good to me. My expectations were for it to be a decent but fun experience. I have covid at the moment but as soon as I get better I’m gonna go out and see it.

Advance Wars and Tears of the Kingdom but I’ll probably wait a bit to get them. That Zelda Pro controller is tempting me though!

That’s amazing. Shame he’s stuck on the mobile app, id love to race with him in MK8.

I’d have to look through all the years in detail and chart the games I played that came out from that year. Might actually be fun to do with a buddy.

@Bobb Seems to be because they used the community ranking average to order them, but they used their own “final verdict” section of the site’s review to describe the title.

It works a lot of the time but in this case… not so much haha.

Oddly enough, New Horizons came out at probably the worst time for me. The new job I had, piled with the pandemic, caused me to have major stress and mental health issues. Derealization made it so I couldn’t enjoy anything as everything felt unreal and fake. All this after waiting 7 years for the next main series game. Thankfully I’ve recovered from all that at this point but man, what a terrible period in my life.

That being said, the game was a huge happy place for many during a terrible time. It really was great and I think I’m going to restart the game sometime this Spring. I have access to the DLC too with the expansion pack!

Happy birthday to wizard who produces some of my favorite games.

My top 5:
1. Yoshi's Island
2. Singapore Speedway
3. DK Summit
4. Waluigi Stadium
5. Riverside Park

Sweet. Now we just need Zero Mission.

Gonna give it a go if there’s a demo. I remember trying the Bayonetta 2 demo back on the Wii U and liking it, but I was a senior in high school trying to save most of my money to pay for college. Maybe this’ll be the game that gets me into the series despite the gameplay differences.

I played and loved the game but they need to fix the performance and glitches. It's probably the best Pokemon game behind such a messy window of bugs and stutters.

Outside of that, the only other thing I really want is some post-game battles in the form of a Battle Tower or Battle Frontier. I was very disappointed to see them omitted. Now that I beat the main story and small post-game, all there is to do is shiny hunt and do Tera-raid battles. The DLC will probably fix this but it's a shame this is one of the few Pokemon games without a proper battle tower.