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@Sonicka You got the opposite impression of what I said. The Zelda is what's been derailed. Zelda is underwhelming because Monolithsoft is busy working on stuff that they want to make. I think the Xenoblade games are way higher quality than BoTW and BoTW:2 copy and pasted. I played BotW for 70 hours waiting for it to get good. I played XC2 & Torna for over 400 hours. I had not played any Xenoblade before that, and played nearly every Zelda. Zelda has become Youtube content creator fodder just like Metal Gear Solid(5). They couldn't be bothered to write an adventure, so they outsourced it to the player. They gave us a game engine, and told us to to make our own scenarios. That's fine for a new IP, but not Zelda. And if they want to go that heavy sandbox route, make it for PC so it can have a proper modding community like Cities Skylines or something.

@Sonicka I don't think they're holding back anything. I think they lied about this being a 6 year endeavor. I think Monolithsoft worked on it as a side project while they made what they actually wanted to make, Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

If anything, I thought these games got a lot more fanservice than they used to. I can't remember anything really blatant in either the Arland or Dusk Trilogies. I then played Atelier Lydie & Suelle, and their outfits are very risque. Then you move to Ryza, and all I see are big boobs and thick thighs. Like it's clear why Ryza is outselling the rest.

DS: Advance Wars: Dual Strike
PS3: Atelier Escha & Logy

Looks sick!! I'll have to keep my eye out for it.

@WanzerAce Three Houses was the only decent Fire Emblem. TinyMetal was a major disappointment. No navel or air units, weird fog of war mechanic, the loading times... no thanks. I'll take a cheap ripoff of Advance Wars if it's ripped off properly. This looks like it might be it.

@Solomon_Rambling I love Advance Wars, but I was upset that the new release is just Advance Wars 1+2, instead of 3 or 4, or just a new one. The reason is the first two only have the boring units and mechanics. I love Dual Strike and Days Of Ruins, because they have the more specialized units and more interesting mechanics like units getting more experienced as they gain kills. The unnecessary additions look fun to me. They have less obvious units here, and I appreciate that immensely. What I see here looks more interesting than Advance Wars 1+2 Bootcamp. They didn't need a remake, they needed a new entry.

@Mrkittyhead Basically there are 2 Trilogies and 2 Tetralogies(I had to google this word, it is 4 entries rather than 3). And 1 spin-off.

@Andee They're actually pretty short, around 30 hours. The first two trilogies are like Persona or Fire Emblem: Three Houses, in that they have heavy time-management mechanics though. You have to like that sort of thing. The difficulty is all over the place too.

@Nourldean Agree with Dusk Trilogy being the best. I only played one of the Mysterious Trilogy so far, it's kind of meh.

@W9e0e2e3e4pizza I was playing Escha & Logy this weekend on PS3. It's been in my backlog for 10 years. I also have Shallie, which I guess I'll play next.

I liked Detective Pikachu but didn't really like either Sonic movie. I was probably too hyped up by all the people claiming they were fantastic. I am optimistic for Mario though.

Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai DX and Splatoon. Both had sick music.

@smoreon What's wrong with the PS3 version?

@MrPKOmega I personally think Return To Dreamland is all-around just a better game than Star Allies. It has better world design and more variety in gameplay. This Deluxe version, upped the graphics greatly, and the other additions made a great game much better.

I want more creative spinoffs. Mainline Pokemon has become such a disappointment.

@Anti-Matter Every Atelier game has a female protagonist except for Atelier Escha & Logi. Every single one has a couple male side characters you can add to your party, that's as far as it goes.

@JohnnyMind It's definitely better than Star Allies, Robobot, and Triple Deluxe. If you like GBA or DS era Kirby, you'll like it.

@Vexx234 But if very few RPGs have a remarkable story, then you can't complain about Tales having a bad story as it is up to the standard. All of these games are Anime at their core. And I think Tales is no worse at Anime stories than any other. It's actually way above the average.

@Vexx234 But compared to what exactly? Final Fantasy is just as dumb if not dumber than Tales. Fire Emblem is mostly a joke. YS is nothing special. Pokemon is certainly not known for quality anything.

Like Sakurai, I am awful at Puyo, but this looks amazing. I've heard of it but never played it, so I might have to pick it up.

I had this accessory pack for my SP that added really nice ergonomic handles and stereo speakers. It was really awesome, and made it closer to a DS.

I love everything they've shown of this movie. I just hope it's at least as good as Detective Pikachu... I thought Sonic was awful.

@Wheatly People have been posting side-by-side graphics comparisons and it looks a lot nicer than just the straight Trilogy port they would have given us otherwise. I really want Prime 3 with button controls though.

I ain't paying $70. They can keep it. It looks like a carbon copy of Breath Of The Wild anyway, which was massively overrated. It took them six years to make the same game.

@Chapapa Sometimes we don't want to have to drag all of our stuff out when we want to play something, and sometimes it's not worth $90 to buy a semi-rare game I don't have. I'm already paying $20 a month for online, why not pay $50 to be able to play all my favorite N64 games without having to go into basement and drag out an N64. I have four consoles hooked up already.

I bought a 2nd copy of Advance Wars Dual Strike this week to play with my friend who has never played Advance Wars. It cost me $38, you're all welcome. Xenoblade Chronicles X and Twilight Princess HD should be just around the corner...

@Anti-Matter It took Gamefreak several entries to get the most out of the DS and 3DS. They won't be making proper PS3 level games until 2026, imo. The game after the game after Scarlet/Violet will probably look good enough for most of us. I'm not defending them, I'm just realistic about what Gamefreak is. I didn't even buy Scarlet/Violet because it looked worse than Arceus and SW/SH. A Pokemon game that's beautiful would need to be outsourced to good developers, kinda like Pokemon Stadium or Colosseum was.

@Arcata Someone answered me and said that Japan got it early, and the rest of the world are getting it in June. I'm looking forward to it because my Gamecube copy had a defect where it couldn't save beyond year 1.

When did Story Of Seasons come out? I hadn't seen it in the coming soon section of the eShop, and I'm obsessed with checking it. Or is just out in Japan?

@Jimmy_G_Buckets It is 2 digital games for $100, for games published by Nintendo. You have 1 year to use them. I bought it last time it was available and got Fire Emblem Three Houses and Dragon Quest Builders 2.

@StarPoint All things that should have been in the first one. I swear it was an unfinished game Nintendo quickly threw out along with the Switch to try to salvage the Wii U sales disaster.

@Tober It's one of the better mainline Kirby games, much better than Star Allies. I still have it so I'll only get it if it has a decent amount of added content.

@Shambo I thought Tiny Metal was a complete disappointment, no air units(maybe there was one helicopter), and no navel units whatsoever. The maps were kind of bad too.

@Turbo857 Because to me, a game should be somewhat worth replaying, and none of them are worth replaying. The only one I even finished was Path Of Radiance. I played them all, found them to be a waste of time, therefore I don't recommend them.

@Bret Well, the fact that Fire Emblem Heroes exists, kind of proves my point that it's very much just a gacha game about collecting attractive characters. It doesn't necessarily have to be super pandering, but it's clear with all the petting and what not, in the recent entries. The deal is I wouldn't care about any of this, if I thought the main gameplay was engaging. Permadeath is a drag, all the units aren't that unique from each other, and the AI is predictable. You could turn off permadeath, but then it's just super easy. I think Fire Emblem could be great, but it needs a lot of work. Giving any of these games a 9 is extremely generous, the very best of this series is only worth a 7. It's like Pokemon, every time they improve one aspect, they ruin two to three others.

@Bret The older ones were more gothic, yes, but everything post Radiant Dawn i.e. when it actually became popular, is full on waifu mobile gacha game. It is now far beyond Disgaea.

@Not_Soos I'm an otaku weeb, and I honestly don't recommend Fire Emblem at all. I have played every entry starting from Sacred Stones on GBA, and they are without hyperbole, all exactly the same game. Fire Emblem cannot and will never hold a candle to Advance Wars. Because of permadeath, every unit, though they have their own personality, are not important to the story in the least. If you don't like the main gameplay there is nothing to get invested in at all, because the characters don't matter, and the story is usually terrible, especially the newer ones. I'd get Three Houses cheap, and see if you can tolerate it. The AI aren't even interesting. You just throw a unit into their range, and they bum rush it. Fire Emblem exists only because anime boobs sell, not because it's a good strategy game. It's basically Disgaea, but easier to get into.

@Savage_Joe This is the part they found offensive. "we imagine that nobody discovered it for the first time through Mario Kart Tour, but if you did — hi!"

I was 9 when it came out, everyone aged 7-11 were obsessed with this game, and played it way more than the other big multiplayer games of the time. A big part of it is the checklist and city trial, the fact that vehicles were quirky and interesting to drive, and like Smash it had a lot of custom rules to screw with. Kirby Air Ride is a basically a mish-mash of Smash, Mario Kart, F-Zero, Mario Party, and Pilot Wings. The critics find it unfocused, the fans find it interesting.

@Browny My cousin said the same thing about Animal Crossing, and I think the same for Breath Of The Wild, and yet both are widely popular. Kirby Air Ride is my most played multiplayer game on Gamecube, far beyond Melee & Mario Kart. It was basically the only thing anyone I knew wanted to play. It might be a timing thing. What age were you when you played it? And what was everyone your age group playing? I'm not saying it's nostalgia based, just that it depends on whether you were with a crowd that made it an engaging game. Same with Mario Party. Mario Party can be super boring, but if you have a group that are all skilled at it, it can be cutthroat and intense on a whole other level.

@Ooyah I played Symphonia on PS3, a long time after it released and thought it was great. I played Zestiria when it came out and didn't like it. I'm kinda mixed on Hearts R, tbh. As for Vesperia, I liked it the most out of these. It's basically a mix of Symphonia and Hearts R, so maybe you'll like it. My favorite Tales are Graces F, Xillia, and Xillia 2 though.

@Dom_31 Air Ride probably requires an imagination to get full enjoyment out of since the game doesn't set goals for you, and just gives you a sandbox basically. You played it less than 2 hours, most people that love it have over 1,000 hours on it. It's not overrated, you just don't 'get it'. Like my cousin hated Animal Crossing with a flaming passion, saying how it's not even a game, and not understanding how anyone played it longer than an hour. And yet Animal Crossing fans have thousands of hours on it.

@Bret Just because YOU don't like Air Ride and Top Ride, doesn't mean 'nobody' does, or 'nobody' bothers to play it again after completing the checklist. I and many of my friends have beat the entire game like five times. The deal is all three game modes have their own niche, but City Trial is just one that resonates more broadly. Also Air Ride is basically also embedded within City Trial, since you can set that as a stadium event. The three game modes along with all their settings makes Kirby Air Ride, like Smash Bros., infinitely re-playable.

@EarthboundBenjy I don't like Zestiria, Berseria, or Arise, but love every single entry before them.

Tales Of Graces & Tales Of Xillia I+II. I need 'em so my PS3 can enter retirement.

The copy I had on GCN would always corrupt the data after the 1 year mark, so I never truly got to play it. That being said, I'm looking forward to it working.

@Expa0 It was never really a good series to begin with. There is something massively wrong with each installment. The only one I ever finished was the Gamecube one.

@NeonPizza What is "wall slamming"? Is this a euphemism for "bad driver"?

@Paraka The only two things Stardew Valley seems to be behind Harvest Moon 64 on, is having a house with multiple rooms, and the fact that it's 2D. I think Stardew is better in every other metric, but I find the whole Community Center thing too much of a bother, in what's essentially a self-paced game. It's far from my favorite farming game. Harvest Moon Magical Melody, Story Of Seasons Trio Of Towns, and Story Of Seasons Pioneers Of Olive Town are my most favorite.