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@LikelySatan I think of Zelda as a Metroidvania-type franchise(Zelda II literally was one) where you are continually getting upgrades and new abilities, that let you proceed further and further into the world. But rather than one giant area like Metroid, they had it broken up into dungeons as checkpoints. So the dungeons aren't really all that necessary. What is necessary is the continuous drip of upgrades and new abilities, letting you proceed further and further. It is now a sandbox game like Minecraft where every tool is already available and you just do... whatever. It is not an exploration game where you acquire things to proceed to new places. Zelda didn't really evolve, it switched genres, and for some of us, that's hard to deal with.

@YoshiF2 With A Link Between Worlds, I thought they had basically reached Zelda perfection, and then they gave us Breath Of The Wild, the anti-Zelda. It's not even that they ruined Zelda, it's that I truly don't even see how Breath Of The Wild is a good video game in general.

@Uncle_Franklin Breath was a very middling game. I didn't play it yet, but Tears Of The Kingdom has to be better.

What I've seen of it so far was unimpressive, so I'll be waiting for more information to come out. Breath Of The Wild was way too boring for me, so there needs to be some insane set-pieces, some focused gameplay segments, or unique equipment to look forward to.

@ManaOwls I was really hyped for Breath Of The Wild until I got 20 hours in and realized the entire game was just shrines and korok seeds, and Link never got any cool/fun equipment. I'm skeptical about Tears Of The Kingdom being much better, so I'm waiting for the reviews to come in. And I'm going to skip every review that gives it a 10, because they will gloss over every flaw, or change those flaws into essential features. I'm not going in blind again. I need to see something amazing before I buy, and the trailers didn't show that.

@Spider-Kev I reread his comments twice, I think he means Zelda I on NES, when we're all talking about BoTW & ToTK.

I think you mean improved. Everyone in my school had an Action Replay, specifically to make Pokemon a better/more interesting game.

@Nintendo-or-Noth Trend setter in what way? Every mechanic in this game is from a different game. Weapon durability from Far Cry 2 and some others, crafting from Minecraft, climbing and gliding from Assassin's Creed, building goofy vehicles out of big chunky parts in Banjo Nuts & Bolts. Now there's this vending machine from every smartphone game ever. The only really new mechanic is you can stick a mushroom to a shield, or stick a rock on a stick, lol... And they want $70.

I just cannot get excited for this game. Every detail they put out is a major eyeroll to me. I just don't get this new direction for Zelda. It's like this goofy combination of Assassin's Creed, Minecraft, Far Cry 2, and Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts. They really need a 2D Zelda, or some kind of spin-off, because this mainline Zelda is just getting too far into youtube clickbait territory.

I didn't even know this existed.

I always forget you can get gold points for physical cartridges.

@Primarina Afterimage

@Fizza It's a fantastic game, my second most-played racer on Switch after Mario Kart 8, and I have a lot of racing games on Switch. I think it's better than F-Zero GX, which I'm sure might start a war here.

@Kestrel If they would do something like that, I'd probably actually buy it. I didn't like that you get Link's entire kit at the beginning because in my opinion there was nothing to build up to. There wasn't much of a reward structure, so I wasn't invested in it.

I did the first two Divine Beasts, started the other two and decided the game was pretty boring.

@Anti-Matter It's like Fire Emblem but completely amazing. It's probably one of the best game series in existence. Sadly this is only a remake of 1 & 2, when 3 & 4 are way better. For the gameplay, you capture cities/factories/ports/airports, and get money from them on a per turn basis. You spend the money on units and repairs/fuel/ammo for units, and use those units to capture more places to give you more money. With the goal of capturing the enemy HQ.

@Porky People don't look at their options, they're just like give me Charizard, when Charmeleon probably has better type coverage or Charmander has better moves. They also get salty that they're not as good at Pokemon as they think they are. I want more Pokemon games like Stadium, because I love battling, but don't have the drive to screw around with EVs/IVs and breeding for hundreds of hours. EVs are nonsense, they should just give you points to assign to stats.

I love how the major complaint with people is that Pokemon Stadium is hard without the transfer pak. Oh no, it's a Pokemon game that actually requires thought and strategy. The Pokemon are actually pretty balanced. Weak Pokemon have the best moves, and strong Pokemon have the worst moves, so you have to actually like weigh your options. They should have just went for Stadium 2 though.

@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.