AstroTheGamosian

As a fan of the Starship Troopers franchise, I am definitely looking forward to this! Hopefully it will have Basil Poledouris' sweeping, epic score in this film. It was also cool that they got Casper Van Dien to reprise his role as Johnny Rico for this commercial. Hopefully he will also reprise the role in the game.

It would also be nice to see Neil Patrick Harris reprise his role as Carl Jenkins, Denise Richards reprise her role as Carmen Ibanez, Jake Busey reprise his role as Ace Levy, and Clancy Brown reprise his role as Sergeant (later Private) Zim. I doubt we'd get Michael Ironside to reprise his role as Colonel Jean Rasczak or Dina Meyer reprise her role as Dizzy Flores, given that their characters were killed off in the first film, although it would be nice if they could.

What would have been even cooler was if they could have also gotten Steve Downes (a.k.a., Master Chief John-117 from Halo) to voice a character in the game as well. That would have been the perfect trifecta of characters in power armor all in one game.

Gonna be picking up my copy tomorrow. But sadly, I might not be able to play it just yet. Where I work, we are currently into our busiest weeks of the year. Yesterday was an absolute cluster you-know-what. And it's going to be like that for the next couple of weeks, at the very least. I might have to hold off until the new year before I can finally sit down to play it.

Jennifer Hale never deserved the hate that she was subjected to. She was simply hired to replace the voice actress who refused to do the job.

Likewise, Jacob Takanashi never deserved the hate for replacing John Patneaude as the voice of Kinich in Genshin Impact. The fact that it was his fellow voice actors (one of them playing one of the main characters in the game) harassing him was especially egregious.

I don’t like the idea of replacing voice actors if they are refusing to work if they feel like they’re getting a bad deal from their employer, but I hate bullying and harassment even worse. No matter how justified you may feel, bullying and harassing someone is not okay. I say that as a former victim of bullying myself.

Ultimately, the original VAs for both games have likely killed their careers in the voice acting industry. I doubt anyone would want to work with them anymore due to the controversy that they caused.

Definitely North America this time. It looks the coolest. You also get an idea of what the gameplay will be like.

Although, the European design does remind me a bit of the science-fiction novels of old, so I am a bit partial to that design as well.

Japan does also look kind of cool, but we don't really see the main character's face. Rather, the only face we see is the big bad (who looks strikingly similar to a certain dictator who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945; according to the Wikipedia article, that is indeed him).

@Mana_Knight Personally, I thought it was the Medic from Team Fortress 2.

I know a certain Angry Video Game Nerd who would be happy to hear about this. One of his recurring complaints with some NES games was that they would have the jump button be the B button instead of the A button. Some even use the up button on the D-Pad to jump. Basically, he wanted the control scheme to be more like Super Mario Bros.

@SillyG Sometimes, satire is meant to hold a mirror up to society and call out humanity's flaws. But it's ultimately up to us to realize when we're being stupid and course-correct. Sadly, far too many of us fail to actually realize that, and thus we keep going down the path of idiocy. What's even sadder is that some people even take pride in that.

@benmalsky198 I don't really watch much TV or streaming anymore. My days are usually spent working for ten-hour shifts, so I have very little time to watch anything by the time I get home. I'm not kidding when I say that I am basically away from my house for almost twelve hours, if you factor in commuting.

What little time I do have left in the day is either spent playing a video game or watching YouTube; and even then, watching YouTube will sometimes end up keeping me from properly playing a video game: I mute the TV and just wander around in the game while listening to YouTube.

I do not mean any disrespect to the creators of this series. As I mentioned in my first comment, I am highly interested in watching it. I just simply didn't know that this was a thing until NintendoLife reported on it. That doesn't imply disrespect at all.

@Suketoudara But it's not like ALL of the live-action remakes of Disney films are bad. For example, I did finally get around to watching the live-action remake of Mulan recently, and I have to say, I did enjoy it. Unlike the original film, it wasn't a musical, and it had a lot more of the kinds of stunts that you would see in a martial arts film.

And I am always down to watching the 1996 live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians starring Jeff Daniels and Glenn Close (especially since Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams play Cruella de Vil's bumbling minions; a favorite scene of mine was when they were trying to jump over an electric fence, but accidentally fell onto it, electrocuting their "little guys," if you know what I mean).

But if you want a better modern adaptation of Pinocchio, check out the one by Guillermo del Toro, which you can find on Netflix. His version came out just weeks after the Disney film, and was vastly superior, despite not being very faithful to the source material (for example, the time period was set in the 1930s, during Benito Mussolini's rule of Italy, instead of taking place in the 19th Century like the original book did).

@Suketoudara Yeah, it came out in 2022. But as I said, it wasn't very good: it has a 27% aggregate rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic gave it a score of 38 out of 100. It was also nominated for multiple Razzies, and even won the category for Worst Remake, Rip-off, or Sequel.

Having seen a few scenes myself, I thought the CGI looked abysmal. For example, Pinocchio looked like he was ripped straight out of the Kingdom Hearts games, and instead of using real donkeys for the Pleasure Island scenes (as almost every other live-action adaptation of Pinocchio has), they used CGI, and they looked fake as all get-out.

So while that film is a bit of a black mark on Benjamin Evan Ainsworth's record, hopefully he will be able to redeem it with The Legend of Zelda and his take on Link. That is, of course, provided they don't make him like his 1980s cartoon counterpart (where he goes, "Excuuuuuuuse me, Princess").

I didn't even know there was a Season 1, much less a Season 2! Looks like there's another animated series to add to my watch list!

Preordered my copy a couple weeks ago. Planning on going into it blind, so I didn't do the demo. But I am hoping that, with the revival of this spinoff of Kirby, we will get a proper new F-Zero game; maybe one that's open world, in the style of GTA (albeit without the more seedy aspects of that franchise).

@Suketoudara Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, the actor for Link, is not entirely unknown. If you weren't aware, he was the voice of Pinocchio in Disney's (frankly abysmal) live-action remake of their beloved animated classic from a few years ago. But other than that, this will be his biggest film yet.

And he certainly has big shoes (or boots) to fill. Same with Bo Bragason. I'm not familiar with her work, but this might be her first big role. Hopefully this will be the film that leads to their breakout in the film industry, provided that it gets good reviews and is a box-office success.

@ThisGuy215 Personally, I think an animated film would be too short to cover something as extensive as The Legend of Zelda. An animated series would make more sense. But not one like the 1980s cartoon series; I mean one that actually tells a story over the course of the show, kind of like other fantasy anime (such as Slayers, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Rising of the Shield Hero, or That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime).

In fact, I am in the middle of writing a Legend of Zelda webnovel that I hope to have be adapted into a light novel, a manga, and finally an anime, should Nintendo be willing to allow me to publish it. And what gave me the inspiration for this was actually the DragonForce song "Power of the Triforce," since it sounds just like an anime intro (at least to my ears); I plan on using that as the intro to the anime. I even storyboarded the entire intro sequence in my head and came up with the main characters through that!

And no, it would not be Studio Ghibli making the anime, should it ever come to fruition. My first choice would be Ufotable, given that they have done excellent work with the action sequences in Demon Slayer, and are also in charge of the upcoming anime adaptation of Genshin Impact (a game that was initially compared to Breath of the Wild). However, I could also see A-1 Pictures handling it as well. Nothing against Ghibli, of course; they're a much-beloved studio. But I don't think they're the right choice for a Zelda film.

As it is, the closest we got to something like that from them was Tales from Earthsea, and that was... let's just say, mediocre at best. Furthermore, most of the great films from that studio came from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. Once he's done making movies for good and/or passes away, the studio will be hard-pressed to find someone who can match his creative genius; even more so once the old guard within the studio retires or passes away.

Again, I do like the outfits and the way they look. It definitely looks like something you could see from a medieval fantasy film. I was a bit concerned that the ears would look more like Vulcan ears (as elf ears had previously been portrayed), but they appear to look more like the elf ears we are accustomed to, such as the ones from, say, The Lord of the Rings. So as long as the writing is good, and the special effects look realistic enough, I think I can get behind this movie.

And as I said in the article where we first saw their appearances, my guess is they're going to go the route of the 1980s Zelda cartoon series, where Zelda and Link adventured and fought alongside one another, instead of Zelda being the damsel-in-distress for the majority of the story. And I am perfectly fine with that. I always did like the warrior princess archetype, so I am glad that they are going this route, if these production stills are anything to go by.

Looking good! My guess is they're going to go the 1980s Zelda cartoon route, where Zelda adventured and fought alongside Link, instead of being the damsel-in-distress all the time. We haven't seen that side of her often, and even when we do, it was usually for the final battle instead of the entire adventure; only Spirit Tracks can lay claim to the idea where she was there for the entire thing, assuming you don't count Echoes of Wisdom. And frankly, I like the idea of a warrior princess who fights alongside the hero, instead of her just being the goal at the end. Let's hope she'll stand amongst the greats, like Xena, Leia, and others!

We've got fairly decent Wi-Fi where I live, so I've never had much problems with the Internet (except when it conks out early in the morning, right when I'm trying to do my dailies in Genshin Impact).

Besides, we don't actually have Ethernet ports in my house; it all goes through the phone lines. Similar connection to an Ethernet port, but a lot smaller, and thus not Ethernet. And those connections are all in the basement, while my game consoles, including my Switch 2, are set up in my bedroom upstairs.

Assuming these clips are legit, they're looking good so far! Hopefully they will stay up long enough for me to show my girlfriend when I hang out with her tomorrow, although knowing Nintendo and how secretive they can be, I bet you anything they will issue a takedown notice sooner rather than later.

I'm personally hoping that they have a bit more of an in-depth story this time, and more fleshed-out characters. My big complaint with the previous Mario movie was that the story was a bit too rushed, especially when it came to Mario and Peach becoming friends (if not more). They could have added at least another fifteen minutes or so with the two of them overcoming some sort of tribulation, which cemented their bond. Plus, they should have explained why Bowser wanted to marry Peach; in not giving us that explanation, he felt a lot more two-dimensional than I would have preferred.

It's frankly why I prefer the live-action adaptation from 1993 over this one: it had better pacing, better character development, and better motivation for the characters, even President Koopa. Yeah, it wasn't very faithful to the source material, and is regarded as one of the worst movies of all time (to the point where Bob Hoskins regarded it as the worst role he ever took), but it's a guilty pleasure of mine, and I think it holds up better to the writer in me compared to the 2023 one. So I do hope that the sequel to the 2023 film has a better story and characterization.

And for those saying, "It's a kids movie; it ain't that deep, bruh," you forget, even the greatest kids films (especially the ones by Disney back in the day) still had well-developed storylines and characters. And if we look at the recent KPop Demon Hunters, it had the right blend of humor, heart, action, drama, storytelling, and character development, hence why it's one of the biggest films of 2025. There's no reason why this new Mario movie can't replicate that. The writers just have to be willing to do so.

Interesting that Brie Larson was cast as Rosalina. It might not be Samus Aran from Metroid (for those who don't remember, she's previously expressed an interest in playing the famous bounty hunter in a potential live-action film adaptation of the much-beloved video game franchise), but this is probably the next-best thing. Here's hoping that she will be considered for more Nintendo roles in the future!

Interesting that they've reuploaded this article several years later. I can even see my comment from 2021, noting how it had that distinctive style that the late and great Akira Toriyama-sensei was famous for.

I think the only game in the series that I wanted to try was Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. But that was mainly because I had developed a bit of a crush on Fleurette back when I saw artwork for her in Nintendo Power when they ran an article about the game. Never did get to play it, though, so I have no idea what her personality or character development were like.

I recognize a few voice actors here. Other than Patricia Summersett and Matt Mercer, I also recognize Cherami Leigh, Allegra Clark, and Brittany Cox (the latter two voice Beidou and Fischl in Genshin Impact, respectively; they join Cristina Vee, who voices Bennett and Xingqiu in Genshin, as well as Tulin in TOTK, plus Sean Chiplock, who voices Diluc in Genshin and Revali in BOTW and HWAOC).

I also recognize SungWon Cho (a.k.a., ProZD, and also Abby Saja from the smash hit film KPop Demon Hunters); I find it hilarious that he's voicing a Korok, of all things. He's so known for his deep, baritone voice, that to hear him sound like he inhaled a balloon full of helium comes as a bit of a shock. But I think it would have been funnier if they had used his natural voice for Calamo, to make it even more shocking and hilarious to the player that a Korok could have a deep voice. Here's hoping he will be in more Nintendo productions, and maybe even get a role in Genshin Impact one day! And if Abby Saja is still alive in KPop Demon Hunters, let's hope he gets more lines in the event that he returns for the recently-announced sequel!

@Yosher Granted, I haven't had much time to play games myself. The one game that I've been able to play with any consistency in the last few years is Genshin Impact. I did manage to get my hands on Stellar Blade for the PS5, but the rest has mainly been Nintendo as well.

Frankly, I'd love to become a Let's Player/streamer (preferably a VTuber), so that I can play games for a living, clear out my backlog of games at the same time, and still have time left over for other games that I want to play, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

@Yosher @breach187 This is where I would seriously consider becoming an indie developer instead of going corpo. If anything, some would argue that it's been the indie games in recent years that have been better than the big-budget AAA games from the major publishers, with more creativity, originality, and a better user experience. As it is, one of my favorite games in the last year, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, is considered to be an indie game.

I would love to tell my cousin, who went to college for game design years ago, that the market is now ripe for indie developers, but he has long since given up on those dreams of becoming a game developer. Fortunately, he does have a fulfilling job now as an at-home nurse, and does seem content with his life. Still, it could always be a side gig for him, something to do in his spare time. At least, that's the way I look at it.

Eh, I can take it or leave it, but if I'm being honest, I think the reason why we're getting so many remakes, remasters, and reboots lately (not just for video games, but also movies and TV shows) is because entertainment industry is in a rut. The shareholders that basically own the entertainment industry don't want to take a risk on new content, so they prefer to go with older content that is safer. We're even seeing this with some anime now, such as remakes of older anime like Ushio & Tora, Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, and even Neon Genesis Evangelion.

But if you ask me, the industry is ripe for new content, and people are clamoring for it. For example, films like Nimona and KPop Demon Hunters released on Netflix to critical acclaim. In the case of the former, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (but lost to Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron), and the latter has become a global smash hit. Meanwhile, people are getting tired of the remakes/reboots/etc., and it's showing in diminishing box-office returns. Maybe if the shareholders were a bit more willing to take risks on new projects instead of playing it safe all the time, the entertainment industry would be in a better place now.

@Pillowpants Personally, I was hoping for live action myself. It had been a dream of mine since I was a little kid, ever since I saw The Lord of the Rings.

But, if Nintendo allows me to publish that Legend of Zelda webnovel that I am working on, I hope to eventually adapt it into a light novel, a manga, and finally an anime (with DragonForce's "Power of the Triforce" being the main theme; which, oddly enough, was the song that gave me inspiration for this webnovel to begin with). So you may very well get your wish in seeing a new Legend of Zelda animated project.

@Simu001 I was actually just about to bring that up myself. For example, Final Fantasy III had a similar gameplay mechanic, and that game came out in 1990, almost six years before Pokémon Red and Green came out in Japan, and eight years before Pokémon Red and Blue released globally. There's also games like the 1983 game Archon: The Light and the Dark, the Shin Megami Tensei series (which began in 1987), and Dragon Quest V, which was released in 1992.

And then, even games released after Pokémon, such as Digimon, Medabots, and Yo-kai Watch also have similar gameplay mechanics to Pokémon, and not only did Nintendo not sue them for having a similar gameplay mechanic to Pokémon, they even allowed those games to be published on Nintendo's own consoles!

So, based on these facts alone, it is proven that the gameplay mechanic of summoning monsters and battling with them is neither new nor innovative, and thus lacks novelty. Therefore, the patent should be revoked post-haste. Furthermore, Nintendo should drop the lawsuit against Pocketpair and redirect their money towards making their own games bigger and better, giving gamers more of a reason to buy their games instead of playing games published by other companies.

@MatthewTaranto That's pretty neat to hear! And to think you went on to create the webcomic Brawl in the Family, which is another webcomic that I followed religiously when I discovered it. I was sad when it ended, but I do understand your reasoning: better to end it on a high note instead of dragging it out and letting the quality decline, thus letting it die a slow, painful death by having viewership gradually fizzle out.

A personal favorite strip of mine was "Mega Crush," when Mega Man had a crush on Samus, but he didn't know that Samus was actually a human underneath her Chozo Power Armor; he thought she was a robot the entire time, and freaked out when she took off her helmet. I also liked the one where you got married, brought your newlywed bride home, and she mentioned how excited she was for the Wii U.

And sometimes, I find myself singing the song that Kirby sang for his girlfriend, Jigglypuff ("Jig-alee-puff, you are my one love"). I thought it was cute, and a very clever way of adapting Jigglypuff's song. What can I say? I'm a romantic. It's probably why romance is a going to be a major plot and character element for the Legend of Zelda webnovel that I am writing (which I hope to turn into a light novel, a manga, and finally an anime).

One little thing I did want to mention really quick, however: it does seem like the strips for your comic themselves are not showing up on the website hosted by Keenspot anymore. Your blog posts are still there, but the strips themselves are missing. I don't know if it's a technical glitch on the website's end or if they were removed/taken down, but I did want to point it out if you weren't aware of the issue. Hopefully it can be fixed.

After all, more people need to see this gem of a comic, in my opinion, even though it hasn't had a new strip in over a decade (11 years and 1 month, to be exact; I was still in college at the time; man, how time flies!). If it's not possible on Keenspot, maybe try to find a different host, or build your own website to republish the strips, assuming you have the archives backed up.

I have to say, I absolutely love some of this fan art. The one where Zelda and Peach have to rescue Link and Mario, as well as the one with Samus, stick out to me particularly. The latter looks especially professional.

Outside of this article, I am also quite fond of some fanmade comics, such as The 3 Little Princesses by TheBourgyMan, the stuff by Nintendrawer (where we see Peach and Mario, as well as Daisy and Luigi, married and with children), the works of SaccharoKirby (who created a Splatoon AU which was sadly deleted off of DeviantArt when she deactivated her profile), and more.

And I don't know if they were fanmade and happened to be officially published or commissioned by Nintendo, but the various manga adaptations by Akira Himekawa are also some of my favorites. If I ever get to publish the Zelda light novel I am working on, I would not mind if they were the artist for the illustrations, plus the manga adaptation of said light novel, and finally the anime (because this is a multi-phase project that I cooked up, starting with a webnovel, before working my way to getting it turned into an anime; hopefully with Nintendo's permission, of course).

And outside of visual works, I am also in love with some fanmade arrangements of Nintendo music. One that sticks out for me is Sam Dillard, who published several music albums based on Metroid, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, and more, where the music sounds like it came from a movie (that's why he has the word "Cinematica" in the album titles). And I will not lie, the Zelda one made me emotional, it was that beautiful. Frankly, he needs to be the music composer for the upcoming Zelda film.

Definitely excited for this! The Shantae series is my favorite indie game franchise, because I love the world it set up, the quirky characters, the music, the gameplay, and more. I hope that Shantae will finally be able to meet her parents in this new entry.

And with how successful the series is now, I also hope they consider branching out into other media as well, such as movies TV shows, YouTube videos, etc. Heck, I even had an idea for a pilot episode that I would love to pitch to them!

@AussieMcBucket Another thing to award partial points towards is mirror matches. After all, since mirror matches don't add to your team's overall Clout score at all, that also ends up making your team more likely to lose the Splatfest as a whole. It's almost a wasted effort to play a match that won't mean anything at all for your Splatfest team overall. But by assigning partial points to the winner of a mirror match, it at least can count towards something in the grand scheme of things. That's one other thing I wish Nintendo would fix in any future Splatoon game.

@AussieMcBucket What sucks is when you mesh well with a team and end up on a winning streak, then the maps change, and then you find yourself with a completely different team, and they keep losing.

And I know it will likely never happen (in order to keep it kid-friendly), but it would be nice to have voice chat so you can coordinate with your team. I think team coordination is what really makes or breaks your path to victory, but the lack of that means you end up losing more than winning, because everyone is doing their own thing instead of implementing a cohesive strategy.

But yeah, having different game modes to contribute to your team's Splatfest score instead of just doing Turf Wars could shake up the monotony of it all. I really do hope that Nintendo considers that in the future.

@PlatinumSeraph And that's partly why I have given up on Splatfests. You think your team is doing well, but then the results come in and you find that your team got creamed. It really does take the fun out of it.

What ends up selling consoles? Exclusives. And in that regard, Nintendo dominates. Xbox and PlayStation have to carry their consoles with third-party titles, because they can't hold a candle to Nintendo when it comes to exclusives.

Even though the PS5 has sold significantly better than the Xbox Series X/S, it only has a dozen (at most) of AAA console exclusives; and even some of those are going multiplatform, such as Stellar Blade and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. By doing away with console exclusives, you give people less of an incentive to buy your console. At that point, it more or less comes down to brand loyalty; picking your poison, so to speak.

Even though Microsoft insists that they will continue developing new hardware, all of their actions in recent years point to the idea that they are exiting the console market and instead becoming a third-party publishing powerhouse. If it works for them, then so be it. But there's no reason to assert that console exclusivity is going to go the way of the dodo when it has worked so well for its rivals, especially Nintendo.

Well, congrats to Team Zombie. I sat out this one, because I've been busy with the latest version of Genshin Impact, and I'm frankly tired of Splatfests. They just stopped being fun for me, in all honesty. No matter how good you play, if your team loses more matches than they win, it really does stop being fun.

It does make me wish that there was more to Splatfests than just Turf Wars. Maybe have Tower Control (Escort mode), Splat Zones (King of the Hill mode), Rainmaker (Capture the Flag mode). Heck, what about a mode where you have to shoot ink at a ball to get it into the opposing team's goal, kind of like soccer (football for those of you outside the United States) or hockey? Really hoping Nintendo will consider these as potential additions to Splatfests in Splatoon 4, should it ever be made.

Halo and Hi-Fi Rush are the two Microsoft games that I really want to see come to the Switch 2. Once those games (plus Stellar Blade and Genshin Impact) finally come to the Switch 2, I'll be happy as a clam, because those were the third-party titles I wanted the most.

But I have to wonder if this means that Microsoft will be going the way of Sega and pulling out of the console market entirely, despite what they say about developing the next generation of the platform. After all, Halo is their flagship game franchise, being the game that put Xbox on the map. To put the game on rival platforms means that people have less incentive to buy an Xbox, the latest generation of which hasn't sold all that well, compared to the Xbox One and especially the Xbox 360.

Plus, with how many third-party developers and publishers that Microsoft has scooped up in recent years (Mojang, Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax Media, etc.), it just says to me that they are trying to become a publishing powerhouse in order to shore up their portfolio in the event that they do exit the console-making business.

The way I see it, DLC should be extra content to the main game, almost like dessert after a nice meal. It's not necessary to enjoy the game, but it is a nice little thing to add on. But Sakurai is under no obligation to create DLC for this game. He is free to make the game however he wants.

And this might be a hot take of mine, but I fail to see the need to make DLC for a racing game, even if it's other characters (looking at you, Inkling, Link, Villager and Isabelle from Mario Kart 8). The core experience doesn't change at all. I could see DLC for a shooter game, a fighting game, or an adventure game, but not so much a racing game.

This is good news to hear. Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game, and I always wondered why it never came to the original Swtich. If they could get Skyrim, which ran on the same game engine as Fallout 4, onto the original Switch, why not Fallout 4?

Either way, though, better late than never. Now we just need to get Genshin Impact and Hi-Fi Rush on the Switch 2, and that'll basically cross off my wishlist for third-party games to come to the platform!

If DS games ever do come to the Switch Online service, I would hope they add ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a game that was set to release here in North America, but never left Japan, likely due to low sales and the fact that it is one of the first games on the system to use a two-gigabit DS cartridge.

But it was once featured in an issue of Nintendo Power (when I saw that, I was so excited for the game), and apparently even had an ESRB rating. Nintendo of America was apparently even in the process of hiring English voice actors for the localization. But Nintendo ultimately put the kibosh on this release, much to my utter disappointment.

So I hope it will see the light of day here in the West someday, either on the Switch Online service or even as a remastered version for the Switch 2.

Provided that Nintendo hires professional voice actors, I am absolutely on board with full voice acting. While I do get their stance on how they want the on-screen avatar to be the insert for the player, speaking as a writer, I assert that it is equally acceptable to have all characters, even the playable ones, to have full voice acting. That way, we can connect with the characters on a deeper emotional level, understanding their thoughts, their desires, their insecurities, etc. This is not only applicable to Pokémon, but also other Nintendo games, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and more. They just need to hire professional voice actors to really drive it home.

@Mana_Knight Maybe not in an official capacity, but you can bet someone will do a fan translation and put it up on a site like MangaDex.

What’d be nice is if they opened a store in Chicago, which is near where I live. Make it happen, Nintendo!

If they were hacking Nintendo with the purpose of pointing out vulnerabilities in the company's security infrastructure and letting them know that they need to fix those vulnerabilities (a so-called "white hat hacker"), I could marginally forgive them. But hacking into Nintendo's (or anyone's) databases for the purpose of extortion? That's just unforgivable.

While Nintendo themselves have been in hot water lately for being overzealous in protecting their IP, assuming these claims are true, I hope that Nintendo will go after these criminals with the utmost vigor. Of course, the hackers might not be caught anyway, because they would most likely be using VPNs to mask their real location(s). Nintendo would have to commit significant resources to get around any such VPN to find the hackers.

Just getting started on Umamusume: Pretty Derby. Just won my first race with Gold Ship. But it might be a while before I can build Haru Urara to the point where she can win the Arima Kinen.

@Whirlwound Honestly, I think that's the only thing from the first Minecraft movie that is still kind of relevant right now (mainly because some online content creators use it as a meme when a Google Doc about another content creator who has done something problematic comes out, the so-called "Google Dockey" meme).

I couldn't tell you what else from the Minecraft movie remains relevant, or if the first film still catches peoples' attention after leaving theaters. I know it hasn't for me. Compare that to KPop Demon Hunters, which is still going strong, despite having been out for months, and is only getting more and more popular with each passing day, with "Golden" having just been certified Double Platinum, and the singers and voice actors making appearances on talk shows like The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon or other shows like Saturday Night Live.

So the question becomes, how can the makers of the next Minecraft movie keep the film relevant long after it leaves the theaters? The same will go for the upcoming Mario movie, as well as that of the upcoming Legend of Zelda movie.

But the real question is, will we get more... CHICKEN JOCKEY

@Misima Interesting. My first thought jumped to Skyrim as #1. It’s still an open-world experience like Breath of the Wild, but there’s so much more to do and explore. Plus, it has a more in-depth story, multiple questlines that are fully fleshed out, dozens of actual, proper dungeons, and a multitude of gameplay styles to suit your tastes.

But I guess the answer will always be subjective. For me, my Top 3 favorite games of all time are (in no particular order) Super Mario Galaxy, Skyrim, and Genshin Impact. In terms of my favorite Zelda game, definitely Twilight Princess. It’s a nice blend of the massive world of Breath of the Wild and the in-depth storyline of Ocarina of Time.

@Misima Okay, now you've got me curious. If RDR2 was the second-best game ever made, which was the first?

There's something about the NA box art that does it for me. It looks cool. In comparison, the JP box art looks like a crossover between Mega Man (as the robot in the foreground looks like one of the stage bosses from the series) and a generic dystopian sci-fi story (since the robot in the background looks like some sort of robotic cop).

Don't get me wrong, the JP box art also looks pretty, but the NA box art is more cool.