1. Brawl - Has Nintendo Chronicle and Subspace Emissary 2. Ultimate - Doesn't have either, but does have Banjo-Kazooie 3. Smash 4 3DS - Doesn't have any of above, but also doesn't have Smash Tour 4. Smash 4 Wii U - Has Smash Tour, but does have the best trophies 5. Melee - Has trophies you can't get unless you buy other games 6. 64 - outclassed by every other game in every way, but it does still have Board the Platforms....
As someone who has put over 100 hours into Engage and played its DLC and over 400 hours into Three Houses and played its DLC I feel I can give my piece on it. Three Houses has the superior story, characters, music and world. Engage has the better gameplay and presentation. However, Three Houses gameplay is not bad, there are aspects to Three Houses gameplay I think are superior to that in Engage, but Engage mostly clears in the gameplay front. On the flip side though, Engage's story, characters and world are so basic and boring that I almost believe the DLC is better than the main game simply because I actually found myself caring about the plot.
and then when the Switch 2 is revealed and isn't a 4K beast with 24 days of battery life with a new Zelda, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing at launch and can also do your homework the share prices will strangely plummet.
Nintendo is the company that demanded Disney redo a scene in Wreck-it-Ralph so that Bowser was holding his tea correctly. I get the feeling they want their IPs to have a specific image and Mario holding assault rifles while hitting the griddy on Peter Griffin isn't it.
Is this a British slang thing? Because an inchworm is just a caterpillar that does pretty much what that pipe does so I'm a little confused as to the writer's repeated gags.
Man, you never realise how long your comment is until it posts. I was debating adding a paragraph for Chaos;Child and Robotics;Notes DaSH as well lol. Sorry for the Wall of Text!
@imgrowinglegs This is a fairly difficult question to answer as Steins;Gate is a bit of an outlier in the series. Its the only game in the series that doesn't rely on concepts from previous entries to get the full story. For example, while I would say if you liked Steins;Gate you would like Robotics;Notes, that game relies on concepts from Chaos;Head to fully understand whats going on and thus I would recommend playing Chaos;Head first. But Chaos;Head is wildly different from Steins;Gate and I can't safely say you'd enjoy it just from liking S;G
Chaos;Head NoAH is MUCH darker than S;G and is way heavier on the science aspect of the series while also being much less grounded in reality (the game is about making your delusions exist in reality after all). There is a strong chance you will hate the main character for most of the story, maybe the whole game. He is written to be a pathetic degenerate that can't do anything for himself, which I personally found annoying and he doesn't get real character development until the end. I also mentioned this in another comment, but the localization for Chaos;Head is pretty poor and I recommend getting this game on PC and installing a fanpatch made by Committee of Zero to get the full experience of the title. While you can read the other games in series without reading Chaos;Head, I would pretty much consider it required reading for most of the series to get the full experience. The main "gameplay mechanic" of Chaos;Head are delusion triggers, where periodically the MC will be able to play a usually humorous or disturbing scene in his head (or are they just in his head). Chaos;Head NoAH is around 50 hours long and has 9 routes. Unlike in S;G where you could get every ending as you played, you need to read the previous 8 to get to the true ending and can't get any of the other routes before completing the first one. I recommend using a guide to find all the endings, getting them requires choosing specific delusions throughout the game.
Robotics;Notes Elite is lighter in tone than Steins;Gate and its protagonist is more of a normal dude, albeit it a lazy and snarky one. Like Chaos;Head it also leans very hard into the science aspect of the series, this time its about robots and AR (augmented reality). I personally thought the story moved a little slow as the conspiracy stuff doesn't really come up to the forefront of the story until over halfway through but the character writing is some of the best in the series. There are also abundant references to events from Chaos;Head as well as parts in story that allude to the science concepts established in that game without explaining them, youre expected to just know which is why I recommend reading C;H first, but it is still readable without. If you liked Steins;Gate you'd most likely like Robotics;Notes. You WILL need a guide though. Unlike in S;G and C;H there are no true character routes. R;N is a linear story, they just took the middle chapters of the story and let you read them in any order. They way you access these is a tad obtuse. In S;G you responded to people in e-mails throughout the game and in R;N you respond to people on Twitter. How you respond to people determines which chapter you get to read next, so you might read Chapter 8 before your read Chapter 6. Those middle chapters are largely self-contained so its not too much of a problem, but they do occasionally make a reference to something that happened and you would have no idea.
@Lizuka That is very true. Do not play Steins;Gate 0 first, do not play Chaos;Child before Chaos;Head, do not play Robotics;Notes DaSH before Robotics;Notes Elite (although personally I would say don't play DaSH at all). Funnily enough, MDE is also a midquel to Steins;Gate and shouldn't be played first, albeit a very non-canon one.
@Kidfunkadelic83 I agree with Lizuka. For a first visual novel with a darker tone Danganronpa is a good place to start although I'd argue that only the first and third games are truly dark. Unlike your more kinetic visual novels, Danganronpa has actual gameplay. Games like Steins;Gate is 99% reading with the occasional prompt that decides which ending you get. That said, if you are fine that, Steins;Gate is a must play along with Steins;Gate 0, both are dark and gritty (you can skip My Darling's Embrace if you don't want cutesy).
For anyone looking for recs in the comment section, my personal favorite would be the Danganronpa trilogy (not S), the Steins;Gate games, Robotics;Notes Elite and Chaos;Child. AI: The Somnium Files was pretty good too although I didn't enjoy it as much as the others.
@Lizuka i wouldn't get Chaos;Head on switch personally. The localization is pretty poor. I got it on Steam with a fan patch that fixes a lot of the problems as well as added some cut content from the original release.
Im very curious to see where Anonymous;Code falls on the sliding scale of SciAdv titles. Will it be an amazing 10/10 like Steins;Gate or Chaos;Child, a solid 8/10 title like Chaos;Head, Robotics;Notes or Steins;Gate 0, or 5/10 trash like Robotics;Notes DaSH. I'll be picking this up on PC for ease of a potential CoZ patch.
Love BoTW, but I love the older style of Zelda's more. The progression and puzzles in those games just felt more rewarding to me personally. This style is fine, I plan on getting ToTK eventually, but this new Zelda is no longer a day one buy for me.
I have nothing against her or the cast of BoTW, but I did not think the game had good voice acting. ToTK is an improvement, but not much better from what I've heard. But VA is not why I play Zelda anyway so its kinda whatever.
The characters overall were a bit too one dimensional for me to love them like in Three Houses, but my personal favs were Yunaka, Chloe, Alcryst and Zelkov. Unless add the Fell Xenologue, then Zelestia, Gregory and Madeline are up there as well.
Im still surprised that, with the amount of publicity Roy gets among Fire Emblem and Smash Bros, that they haven't tried to release the game in the west.
Am I the only one that was underwhelmed by the trailer? There were some interesting new mechanics and enemies, but nothing for me to really sink my teeth into. Hopefully, they either show more or the new mechanics are interesting enough to hook me into exploring Hyrule again.
@Mando44646 I don't play fortnite, but I have always viewed it like this; You don't play as Geralt or Ryu or Naruto or whatever, you play as a dude cosplaying as them. Kinda like Mii Fighter outfits in Smash Bros. I do agree that these crossovers would be far more interesting if the source IP was utilized more.
Steins;Gate is a masterpiece. But if you're going to play it, play the original VN on Steam and skip Elite. It being fully animated is nice, but it cuts out content (like the entire first half of Faris' chapter) and it railroads you into one path instead of giving the player more agency (outside of the obvious end of chapter choices that give you different endings) Elite is still great. But the original VN is better imo.
The ? Block, NES, Bowser and Atari were all very well made sets (if a tad expensive, but that's par for the course with LEGO). Would definitely keep my eyes peeled for Zelda sets.
I'm a little surprised it's going with male Alear considering all the promotion the female version has been getting. Still, it is fantastic that they are doing this for Fire Emblem now, I wonder if it'll be a one-time thing or something they plan on releasing alongside them from now on. The series is almost perfect for the format.
@IronMan30 I can't talk about the newer ones, but Modern Warfare 2 (original) was actually anti-US military (The main villain of the game is a US General after all) and in Modern Warfare 1 the American squad gets nuked due to their "no man left behind" policy and failed repeatedly before that. I haven't played since MW3 though, so I don't know about the newer ones.
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Re: Best Super Smash Bros. Games Of All Time
I can't agree with this
1. Brawl - Has Nintendo Chronicle and Subspace Emissary
2. Ultimate - Doesn't have either, but does have Banjo-Kazooie
3. Smash 4 3DS - Doesn't have any of above, but also doesn't have Smash Tour
4. Smash 4 Wii U - Has Smash Tour, but does have the best trophies
5. Melee - Has trophies you can't get unless you buy other games
6. 64 - outclassed by every other game in every way, but it does still have Board the Platforms....
Re: Fire Emblem Engage Artist Celebrates First Anniversary With New Artwork
As someone who has put over 100 hours into Engage and played its DLC and over 400 hours into Three Houses and played its DLC I feel I can give my piece on it. Three Houses has the superior story, characters, music and world. Engage has the better gameplay and presentation. However, Three Houses gameplay is not bad, there are aspects to Three Houses gameplay I think are superior to that in Engage, but Engage mostly clears in the gameplay front. On the flip side though, Engage's story, characters and world are so basic and boring that I almost believe the DLC is better than the main game simply because I actually found myself caring about the plot.
Re: Microsoft: ActiBlizz Acquisition Gives Xbox A Chance To Be A "Good Publisher" On All Platforms
Mixing things up from being a bad publisher on a single platform! boom roasted
Re: Poll: How Often Do You Trade-In Your Switch Games?
I have never sold games and probably never will. Who knows if I'll want to play Sesame Street Sports on Game Boy again someday?
Re: Nintendo Switch Was The Console With The Most Game Releases In 2023
@Savage_Joe Yup
Re: Nintendo Switch Was The Console With The Most Game Releases In 2023
@Toastmaster Yup
Re: Nintendo Switch Was The Console With The Most Game Releases In 2023
Steam launched more than 14,000 games? Shame that 13,900 of them are asset flips or actual trash.
Re: Poll: How Much Internal Storage Would Be Reasonable For 'Switch 2'?
They're going to give you 8 MB and you're going to buy it anyway.
Re: Nintendo Shares Hit Record High, Apparently Thanks To 'Switch 2' Fever
and then when the Switch 2 is revealed and isn't a 4K beast with 24 days of battery life with a new Zelda, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing at launch and can also do your homework the share prices will strangely plummet.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Trace Memory
Trace Memory because its a better name imo.
Re: Feature: "We Were Aware Of The Fans' Wishes" - Rescuing The 3DS Games For Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Personal Opinion here: Dual Destinies justifies the whole package but the other two are welcome bonuses.
Re: Fortnite's Dev Really Wants A Crossover With Nintendo But Hasn't Had Any Luck
Nintendo is the company that demanded Disney redo a scene in Wreck-it-Ralph so that Bowser was holding his tea correctly. I get the feeling they want their IPs to have a specific image and Mario holding assault rifles while hitting the griddy on Peter Griffin isn't it.
Re: Eiji Aonuma Comments On The Possibility Of A Playable Zelda In The Future
It doesn't really matter much to me who the playable character is. Cool if it ever happens, not going to cry if it doesn't.
Re: Talking Point: What's Next For The Super Smash Bros. Series?
Super Smash Bros: Fire Emblem Edition. It's Smash Bros, but with only Fire Emblem characters. It's about time Nintendo catered exclusively to me.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Celebrating 5th Anniversary With New Spirits
New Spirits? I'll have to boot up the game again to re-re-re-recomplete my collection.
Re: Soapbox: 20 Years Later, Why Do We Still Not Have A New Sonic Battle?
Probably because it was very.....mid? I played back in the day and remember not thinking too highly of it. Kind of mindless.
Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Drops Out Of US "Top 20" Games Chart For First Time
Nintendoomed. Clearly they should go third party now.
Re: Random: Nintendo Shows Off Mario Riding The Inchworm Pipe
Is this a British slang thing? Because an inchworm is just a caterpillar that does pretty much what that pipe does so I'm a little confused as to the writer's repeated gags.
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
Man, you never realise how long your comment is until it posts. I was debating adding a paragraph for Chaos;Child and Robotics;Notes DaSH as well lol. Sorry for the Wall of Text!
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
@imgrowinglegs This is a fairly difficult question to answer as Steins;Gate is a bit of an outlier in the series. Its the only game in the series that doesn't rely on concepts from previous entries to get the full story. For example, while I would say if you liked Steins;Gate you would like Robotics;Notes, that game relies on concepts from Chaos;Head to fully understand whats going on and thus I would recommend playing Chaos;Head first. But Chaos;Head is wildly different from Steins;Gate and I can't safely say you'd enjoy it just from liking S;G
Chaos;Head NoAH is MUCH darker than S;G and is way heavier on the science aspect of the series while also being much less grounded in reality (the game is about making your delusions exist in reality after all). There is a strong chance you will hate the main character for most of the story, maybe the whole game. He is written to be a pathetic degenerate that can't do anything for himself, which I personally found annoying and he doesn't get real character development until the end. I also mentioned this in another comment, but the localization for Chaos;Head is pretty poor and I recommend getting this game on PC and installing a fanpatch made by Committee of Zero to get the full experience of the title. While you can read the other games in series without reading Chaos;Head, I would pretty much consider it required reading for most of the series to get the full experience. The main "gameplay mechanic" of Chaos;Head are delusion triggers, where periodically the MC will be able to play a usually humorous or disturbing scene in his head (or are they just in his head). Chaos;Head NoAH is around 50 hours long and has 9 routes. Unlike in S;G where you could get every ending as you played, you need to read the previous 8 to get to the true ending and can't get any of the other routes before completing the first one. I recommend using a guide to find all the endings, getting them requires choosing specific delusions throughout the game.
Robotics;Notes Elite is lighter in tone than Steins;Gate and its protagonist is more of a normal dude, albeit it a lazy and snarky one. Like Chaos;Head it also leans very hard into the science aspect of the series, this time its about robots and AR (augmented reality). I personally thought the story moved a little slow as the conspiracy stuff doesn't really come up to the forefront of the story until over halfway through but the character writing is some of the best in the series. There are also abundant references to events from Chaos;Head as well as parts in story that allude to the science concepts established in that game without explaining them, youre expected to just know which is why I recommend reading C;H first, but it is still readable without. If you liked Steins;Gate you'd most likely like Robotics;Notes. You WILL need a guide though. Unlike in S;G and C;H there are no true character routes. R;N is a linear story, they just took the middle chapters of the story and let you read them in any order. They way you access these is a tad obtuse. In S;G you responded to people in e-mails throughout the game and in R;N you respond to people on Twitter. How you respond to people determines which chapter you get to read next, so you might read Chapter 8 before your read Chapter 6. Those middle chapters are largely self-contained so its not too much of a problem, but they do occasionally make a reference to something that happened and you would have no idea.
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
@Lizuka That is very true. Do not play Steins;Gate 0 first, do not play Chaos;Child before Chaos;Head, do not play Robotics;Notes DaSH before Robotics;Notes Elite (although personally I would say don't play DaSH at all). Funnily enough, MDE is also a midquel to Steins;Gate and shouldn't be played first, albeit a very non-canon one.
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
@Kidfunkadelic83 I agree with Lizuka. For a first visual novel with a darker tone Danganronpa is a good place to start although I'd argue that only the first and third games are truly dark. Unlike your more kinetic visual novels, Danganronpa has actual gameplay. Games like Steins;Gate is 99% reading with the occasional prompt that decides which ending you get. That said, if you are fine that, Steins;Gate is a must play along with Steins;Gate 0, both are dark and gritty (you can skip My Darling's Embrace if you don't want cutesy).
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
For anyone looking for recs in the comment section, my personal favorite would be the Danganronpa trilogy (not S), the Steins;Gate games, Robotics;Notes Elite and Chaos;Child. AI: The Somnium Files was pretty good too although I didn't enjoy it as much as the others.
Re: Save Big On Danganronpa With Spike Chunsoft's Switch eShop Sale
@Lizuka i wouldn't get Chaos;Head on switch personally. The localization is pretty poor. I got it on Steam with a fan patch that fixes a lot of the problems as well as added some cut content from the original release.
Re: Review: ANONYMOUS;CODE - A Spellbinding Sci-Fi Visual Novel In A Flashy Package
Im very curious to see where Anonymous;Code falls on the sliding scale of SciAdv titles. Will it be an amazing 10/10 like Steins;Gate or Chaos;Child, a solid 8/10 title like Chaos;Head, Robotics;Notes or Steins;Gate 0, or 5/10 trash like Robotics;Notes DaSH. I'll be picking this up on PC for ease of a potential CoZ patch.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: The Legend Of Zelda
Do the other two include invaluable maps and strategic playing tips? Clear winner here.
Re: Poll: What's Your Game Of The Year Of 2023 So Far?
Metroid Prime Remastered honestly. Only 10/10 game from this year I played, including ToTK.
Re: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy Announced For Nintendo Switch
Does it include the DLC though? Turnabout Reclaimed and Turnabout Time Traveler are top tier cases
Re: Expect More Open-World Zelda Games Going Forwards, Suggests Eiji Aonuma
Love BoTW, but I love the older style of Zelda's more. The progression and puzzles in those games just felt more rewarding to me personally. This style is fine, I plan on getting ToTK eventually, but this new Zelda is no longer a day one buy for me.
Re: Zelda's English VA Officially Confirms Her Return In Tears Of The Kingdom
I have nothing against her or the cast of BoTW, but I did not think the game had good voice acting. ToTK is an improvement, but not much better from what I've heard. But VA is not why I play Zelda anyway so its kinda whatever.
Re: Alear Tops Fire Emblem Engage 'Popularity Poll' In Japan
The characters overall were a bit too one dimensional for me to love them like in Three Houses, but my personal favs were Yunaka, Chloe, Alcryst and Zelkov. Unless add the Fell Xenologue, then Zelestia, Gregory and Madeline are up there as well.
Re: GameStop Fires Employee For Leaking Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch
"You'll get no sympathy from me."
Re: Video: Super Mario Bros. Movie 'Princess Peach Training Course' Clip Released
This movie Peach and the game Peach have one thing in common from my perspective; I find neither compelling as a character.
Re: Random: Hideki Kamiya Thinks Bayonetta Origins Will Help People Make Babies
Will the previous Bayonetta games help me get a significant other first? Otherwise, we might be fighting a losing battle here.
Re: Resident Evil's Most Popular Character Revealed In Famitsu Reader Survey
I will never understand why Ada Wong is so popular. She's so boring. Oh wait, it's because she's hot isn't it.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess
@Scooby-Doo User name and profile pic checks out.
Re: Countdown: 3DS eShop Spotlight - Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Easily a top 5 3DS game and my personal favorite rhythm game ever!
Re: Microsoft's Commitment To Bring Call Of Duty To Nintendo Is Now Legally Binding
I honestly expect them to be all cloud editions and not worth getting. At least they are coming through for the people that prefer the option.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Metroid Prime Remastered
Even though I like the dynamic pose for Japan more, the NA version is too iconic for me personally to vote against.
Re: Switch Online's Game Boy Library Is Slightly Different In Japan
Im still surprised that, with the amount of publicity Roy gets among Fire Emblem and Smash Bros, that they haven't tried to release the game in the west.
Re: New Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer Shows A Flying Vehicle And Fresh Details
Am I the only one that was underwhelmed by the trailer? There were some interesting new mechanics and enemies, but nothing for me to really sink my teeth into. Hopefully, they either show more or the new mechanics are interesting enough to hook me into exploring Hyrule again.
Re: Metroid Prime Remastered Confirmed For Switch, Launching Digitally Today
Gotta control myself so I can get the physical release.
Re: Feature: Our Predictions For The February 2023 Nintendo Direct
@Violator Epic, I'll take em all
Re: Toss A V-Buck To Your Witcher, Geralt Of Rivia Slashes Onto Fortnite Today
@Mando44646 I don't play fortnite, but I have always viewed it like this; You don't play as Geralt or Ryu or Naruto or whatever, you play as a dude cosplaying as them. Kinda like Mii Fighter outfits in Smash Bros. I do agree that these crossovers would be far more interesting if the source IP was utilized more.
Re: Best Time Loop Games On Nintendo Switch
Steins;Gate is a masterpiece. But if you're going to play it, play the original VN on Steam and skip Elite. It being fully animated is nice, but it cuts out content (like the entire first half of Faris' chapter) and it railroads you into one path instead of giving the player more agency (outside of the obvious end of chapter choices that give you different endings) Elite is still great. But the original VN is better imo.
Re: Rumour: LEGO Zelda Set Supposedly In The Works After Deku Tree Spotted In Recent Survey
The ? Block, NES, Bowser and Atari were all very well made sets (if a tad expensive, but that's par for the course with LEGO). Would definitely keep my eyes peeled for Zelda sets.
Re: Surprise! Fire Emblem Engage Is Getting A Manga Series
I'm a little surprised it's going with male Alear considering all the promotion the female version has been getting. Still, it is fantastic that they are doing this for Fire Emblem now, I wonder if it'll be a one-time thing or something they plan on releasing alongside them from now on. The series is almost perfect for the format.
Re: Class-Action Lawsuit Claims Epic Games Knowingly Made Fortnite "Very, Very Addictive"
Maybe the ESRB will slap an addiction warning on the label for parents to continue to ignore.
Re: Microsoft Enters "10-Year Commitment To Bring Call Of Duty To Nintendo"
@IronMan30 I can't talk about the newer ones, but Modern Warfare 2 (original) was actually anti-US military (The main villain of the game is a US General after all) and in Modern Warfare 1 the American squad gets nuked due to their "no man left behind" policy and failed repeatedly before that. I haven't played since MW3 though, so I don't know about the newer ones.
Re: Mario Movie Posters Appear To Have Leaked Online, First Look At Peach & More
All looks like what I expected honestly. I like the look overall.