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I was thinking about picking this up until I read the comments. I will not support any developer who is both a willing participant and feckless supporter of PC censorship.

Kate is probably the worst reviewer on NL - an extraordinary feat, considering the competition.

@RandomAfricanGamer @nessisonett - Geeze, guys - why so serious? You guys don't appear to be all that skilled in the art of comedic hyperbole. Perhaps you're not from the US and therefore the nuance of our linguistic humor is not your forte? Evidently the comment moderator was less than keen on it. Probably will be with this comment, too.

@Bermanator That is incredibly effing stupid. I love Nintendo, but cancelling their solid grey controllers is just so... them. It's peak Nintendo!

I didn't even know it was there until I read this article. I can't say that I look at the home menu for long enough to care either way. Besides, life's kinda short, isn't it? And anyone unironically having a meltdown over it must be one those overly dramatic, everything offends me types that seem to plague the internet these days.

"Fenyx Rising" is a better title. Incidentally, "Gods and Monsters" sounds like a generic/off-brand name - not that it even matters! That the reviewer would actually unironically list the game's title as one of its cons is frankly embarrassing.

@Shadow_Dancer Did we play the same system and games??

"The CDi gamepad was almost exactly the same as the SNES controller, minus the shoulder buttons" 😂 Yeah, it's only missing the most important and influential aspect of that particular controller 😂 Like, in all seriousness, the CDi gamepad is literally almost nothing like an SNES controller. It doesn't even have a start and select button, giving it fewer buttons than the NES. If anything, it was more akin to a Genesis controller, but even that is something of a stretch.

I've played the Zelda games (the side scrolling ones anyway), and they are horrible. Not even taking into considecutscene, legendarily awful cutscenes, collision detection was just a totally frustrating nightmare.

I hilariously remember needing to stab things people and rupees interact with them/pick them up. It was just a matter of horrible game design. The aforementioned lack of buttons made it so that there was basically one action button and that in order to open up the in game subscreen menu to select an item to use, you had to crouch + use the action button, which was beyond frustrating.

The constantly running out of items (combined with rooms that would turn pitch black without lamp oil) made it even worse, bordering on unplayable.

To be fair, I never played the one with a top-down view and I've heard that one is quite a bit better, so...I won't judge that one.

@Bizaster I'm actually one of those crazy people made a YTP based on the CDi games 😂 Good times!

I HOPE HE MAKES LOTS OF SPAGHETTI

@Slowdive How is the "US under Trump" in any way a dictatorship? You clearly have no idea of what a real dictatorship is.

@Manjushri Juga is definitely a sheep. Imagine needing the news to tell you how you need to live your life.

As for the game, I'm super excited about visiting random islands. Nintendo's island seems somehow very underwhelming - I suppose that it could never live up to expectations, though.

Reading some of these comments, it seems like the order of this list has changed multiple times in one day. Are they dynamically changing in real time as people on this site are rating games?

Ah, yes. Today, the Wii U stands proudly alongside the Virtual Boy as being among the only two Nintendo systems I never owned.

@westman98 Mock it all you want, it's a legitimate concern.

Sega CD in 2020.

God damnit. I literally started a new game about 4 days ago (for the first time in two years) and I'm already pretty deep into it. I'm going to assume that I'll probably have to make a new save to experience the updates?

I didn't know they were still making games on the Wii.

Why can't they release gray joycons as singles? Am I missing something?

The composer of Super Mario Galaxy would be a good choice if Kondo isn't available.

"...a diverse cast of well-written characters, many of whom are gay, trans or struggling with their own sense of self-worth, identity or place in the world in some way or other."

Yeah, this reads like neo-progressive propaganda / woke virtue signaling I'll pass!

@Ventilator Hahahahahaha. The Wii U is the most complete Nintendo console to date, and the Switch and Wii are the company's worst? Ok. I can appreciate an elaborate trolling effort.

@Blooper987 It usually costs money to hire an extremely capable and competent legal team to represent you when you're fighting an immensely powerful company. Most are not going to work pro bono. Sad but true. $500 would not ever cut it. Period.

@Noid Imagine being so humorless.

The Rik Mayall ads are unironically some of the best ads I've ever seen for anything.

The character art makes me not want to buy it. Not that I would have anyway, probably. The retro stuff has gotten so played out. Although to its credit, it at least looks like an SNES game instead of another NES clone.

Last month, I stopped playing for a few weeks...but lately I got sucked back in and it's been daily for most of this month. I'm up to almost 600 hours of playtime. My island / town looks awesome.

Okay, as a diehard Rune Factory fan, I was extremely stoked - and still am - but once the hype settled and examined everything more closely, I found the appearance of the game (excluding the character graphics) fairly disappointing. In particular, the environmental assets appear as low detail, sparse, vaguely generic, and in many cases (minus the HD scan), look like they could have been rendered using GameCube or PS2 hardware.

In fact, although I haven't played the game in several years, on a whim, I decided to run a search of images from RF: Frontier (which btw was released on the Wii more than a decade ago) and sadly, despite being rendered in standard definition, I found myself shocked by how much better Frontier looked compared to RF5.

This apparent gulf in aesthetic quality clearly wasn't due to system power, as the Wii was markedly underpowered even at the time and, although the Switch lags in that area today, Nintendo's hybrid is 10-fold more powerful than the Wii. Rather, the differences in quality seem to lie entirely in the execution of each game's artistic vision. The level of care and tiny detail put into each of Frontier's village and varied dungeon environments elevated the game's artistry into something that transcended its system's severe limitations.

However, having thought about it more, I understand that Frontier wasn't truly a 3D game (it was more akin the Animal Crossing where the world has 3D assets but the camera is fixed straight ahead). As such, Frontier's fixed perspective probably aided in enhancing the game's finer details, so perhaps the fully 3D RF: Tides of Destiny would serve as a better comparison.

Even in that case, RF5 looks - at best - graphically on par with that game. To be clear, Tides of Destiny came out on PS3 and Wii almost 10 years ago. Compared to that game, RF5 - at least in its present state - looks largely bare bones and empty.

I do love the game's use of bright, oversaturated colors, but even that seems to be overdone. I will say that its character and enemy models look genuinely nice, but the environments look strangely low poly and blocky - even the fields - something which couldn't possibly take much to render - look overly grid-like, in a sterile sort of way. The oversized veggies look fun, but again, kind of strangely low-poly, and the general arrangement of said crops also seem rather chaotic (hopefully it was only showcase this way to demonstrate the range of veggies).

Hopefully the game is being delayed so as to fine tune the visuals and to implement higher quality textures and other environmental details. All of that having been said, I'll most likely love RF5 regardless of its graphics - graphics aren't THAT important to me - but I wanted to note its visual deficiencies as it makes me worry that other aspects might also have been half-assed.

The inability to invert camera controls in Sunshine probably means that - despite purchasing the game - I'll have to go even longer yet before fully playing it (I played it for maybe an hour back on the GC and that was about all I could take).

It still doesn't feel stable enough. Perhaps they will continue to address this issue in future updates.

How about less trying and more doing?

The review read like a 7/10. Seems kinda harsh, but maybe not.

A remake or very in depth remaster of Super Mario 64 would be SO awesome. I'd love an HD remaster of Galaxy as well, but if I could pick only one game to upscale, it would be Mario 64.

Why?

Because Nintendo has criminally ignored their Nintendo 64 titles. There's no excuse for their first party N64 games not being a part of their online subscription - or at the very least for sale on the eShop. Or just make the N64 Mini and get it over with. It sucks have all these fond memories of N64 with no ideal way to play them.

It's ridiculous.

So yeah, if only for that reason alone, I would certainly welcome a remastered version Mario 64.

But, I'm not holding my breath.

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Is it safe to say that this is the walking sim genre's GOTY? Maybe even GOAT? 😂

Cancelled them a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. The Witcher sucked and was the last nail in the coffin for me. Outside of Stranger Things, I was barely using it anyway. Plus their increasingly overt displays of left leaning propaganda / pro pedo politics started creeping me out, so...it was a pretty easy choice.

Well - what was the problem with the rating exactly? /needs more journalism

Yeah, this list is really half assed and bizarre. By far, the best versions of FF1 and 2 are on the GBA but we're only given the options for NES.

FF6 was far more iconic on the SNES and features better sound quality, yet we're only given the option for the GBA version.

Although I liked the DS remake of FFIV (with 3D graphics), purists might have preferred a top-down, 2D version of the game to cast their vote for.

Wow, that's nuts.

Rambling incoherently about trees? Sounds like he was prolly smoking more than just tobacco.

.......shots fired!!!!!!!!!
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Heavy flashbacks to Pilotwings

They have Martinet on as narrator, but neglected to list any of Nintendo games in their "Official Description" = FAIL

#Nintendoomed

I mean, I could literally give two f--- about what other people think of me. I play games because I enjoy playing them, so - a game feels too difficult and is no longer fun - I'm not so arrogant/insecure as to believe that I must subject myself to masochism. If in those instances an easier mode exists, I'll usually take it, with the mindset that should I improve, I know that I can always challenge myself more later.

This game is death by a thousand paper cuts.

Wow, it's crazy how influential this game must have been. Although probably not many have played it, the graphics and even the premise strongly remind of a very niche and obscure Nintendo DS RPG know as, "Contact". Like, there's no way that game wasn't at least partly inspired by this (as well as Earthbound).

The lack of going to a random island is extremely disappointing.

Quick question regarding the Fireworks Show:

Does anyone know if you can invite a friend over so that they can watch them with you?

(Let's just say there's a particular girl that I'd like to have over and that I'd like to surprise her with a special message - the sort of message would be even more special if she was to see it lighting up the starry sky. 😅 I dunno, I guess I would be kinda sad if it doesn't actually work that way!)

Slightly disappointed because after watching the video first, aside from the fireworks, I took the updates to mean different things than they actually do.

1. I figured with the dream island thing that maybe if you opted in to it, you could visit other player's islands entirely at random - as in total strangers. It would have been so fun to see someone's island that you never would have seen otherwise - and that other people could likewise see yours. All safely, without worrying about people damaging your stuff.

2. I thought the "Island Backup Restoration Service" was something that you could do where - before doing massive terraforming changes to you island, you could kind of create a save state that would let you undo it if it ended up being a total mistake - time would still pass in game, it would just revert your island back to where it was at the restore point.

I still really like the updates, but my assumption if what they would do was just off the mark a bit - which is totally on me!

Finally decided to get the Zelda: BOTW DLC, which - after years of not playing it - has given a new interest in starting a second playthrough. I'm enjoying it thus far. I'll also be playing Animal Crossing a bit, but that goes without saying.

On a separate and mostly unrelated note, is Dom the Editor dead? He hasn't written a review in months and he's evidently not playing any games this weekend.