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@AndrosEGD that's the typical internet effect - loud minority dictates the tastes the majority should have, and majority then ends up buying the game and either not playing it or playing it but not liking and they are afraid to speak out.

HK is a very good example of this, because the game reached the status only a year or so after it got out, and mostly because of influencers and streamers who decided it was the game of the moment to play.

I personally thought that it was a solid metroidvania but it's pretty basic in what it does, there's no new ideas, no wow in the way they made things. It's not bad, but it's not amazing either and it didn't bring anything to the gemre. The advantage of Silksong being out is mostly that in a week we finally won't hear so much about it anymore, for me.

Some people really have no clue what "cult classic" means eh

Push Square isn't the original source for this news. Please re-read your Accuracy Rules and stop treating Push Square like it isn't trash.

Love to see that after a break of almost 2 months, coming back to NL feels like having missed only 1 week worth of news with 90% of their news here being for unsubstantial information or available in another article.
Making 5 news out of Bananza for each little details when everything can be condensed into one, now that's dedication!

It was probably the worst Direct I watched.

The game is boring, there's barely any feedback on attacks, the action is slow, the game stutters. It's kinda embarrassing for Square to even have put up the game out in this state. But hey, not really surprising form modern Square.

A cheap version of Ys, for when Ys was actually still good.

Rich from the staff, considering NL has been doing the comparison over and over again...

Another cheap ass remaster from Square Enix, with little effort but AI blurring upscaling that they'll sell for 70€

@Bunkerneath
They already did from FF1 to FF9 and of course many other games they claim to have "remastered" (Chrono Cross e.g.). Pixel-Remastee and ports of FF7 to 9 all have backgrounds that are all (badly) AI upscaled.

Personally I gave up on Square. How such a company who made us dream for so long can be so ***** nowadays baffles me. I had hopes some years ago as they tried (?) to push new IPs but that was a short burst of nothing in the end. RIP

@HammerKirby excuse me if I'm not going to trust this website, because the first game I looked up which I KNOW doesn't have the game on the cartridge (Switch) as I have the said cartridge, is shown to be playable out of the box (FF4 Pixel Remaster on Switch); but rather trust my experience with PS5 games. Granted I don't actually own all the PS5 games but I also doubt I somehow made it to the point where most of them are those with either an online connection or a one time online connection for activation is needed, and considering I play exclusively single player games

@darkswabber yeah but that would imply NL actually working when they could just do what they did here and steal the data from somewhere else without a single mention of it (at least they don't say their source is PushSquare 🤣)

@HammerKirby that's an actual lie. Most PS5 games require a download after the copy to play.

@nin10doom it's not. If anything, it's more honest because they'll have to write it on the box, which isn't the case rn, so you can avoid buying it if you don't want to support this practice

So basically, the same thing Sony and MS have been doing since the PS4 Pro?
I always find it funny when people call on Nintendo for a practice the concurrence has been doing for years, but never actually explicitly stated. At least Nintendo is honest about it...

Well done for your click bait NL (oh wait you said you don't do clickbait)

@Johnny44 I mean... the NL-staff doesn't put any effort in their actual journalist-jobs, why would they for an April's Fool?

That's not a news, it's a rumour. On top of that it's relied by Tom Warren, who's known to be wrong pretty much all the time about those kinds of stuff.
GG NL

Please NOT a remake à la FF7. No one wanted it for FF7, and definitely NO ONE wants it for FF9. It's one of the best PRECISELY because Nomura and Nojima didn't participate: it has soul, beauty, a clear message and is executed almost to perfection

For me it's a 4. I had high hopes for it considering I find XC2 to be a complete mess (80% of the story is useless and can be avoid by Pyra, writing is poor, combat system is bloated and characters are at most tolerable) and XC3 to not be much better (didn't think you could do worse writing than XC2 but Monolith keeps surprising me there); and I was promised something truly different. I do not agree with that. Except for the open world part (not even, XC always had big areas to make up), this feels and plays like a XC game, with a bloated gameplay and unlikeable characters. I have had fun with the mechas, and I see potential in the story and its theme.

@AgentGuapo not talking about the game itself but the new artwork for the box.

Nice surprise, but a shame they didn't take the opportunity to make a bundle instead... Atlus being Atlus I guess

Man, this artwork is equally as bad as that of DQ3. It's not like Toriyama left tens of illustrations that they could have used instead....

Kudos to the inappropriate comments about Ryza's physique in the tagline and the article itself.

@TheExile285 it's been unbearable since 2024 (even before?). But hey while they publish this they don't have to make anything actually worth reading.

Funny how most rumors about Switch 2 are articles from Jim, btw

Knowing Square Enix, nothing to get excited about. The best they can do is leave CT where it is because any attempt at remastering/remaking it will be a butchery, like... All their remasters/remake

That's great for them. I loved Ori, fantastic metroidvania, and I'm looking forward to the 1.0 of No Rest.

@TomSupreme don't bother. People not knowing what they are talking about.

@NintendoLife Inafune DID NOT design or create Mega Man. Akira Kitamura did. Inafune took the credit for it but isn't its creator nor its designer.

@JohnnyMind It can and has seemingly already happened. There are a few reports around complaining of LRG releases bricking Switches and damaging PS4's optic drives, with LRG admitting that the quality of their releases is overall bad on purpose because people buying their physical games (in particular retro ones) are unlikely to open the boxes and are just collecting. Their whole business model is based on that: it's cheaper to replace a game if someone has an issue with it than ensuring high quality to begin with.

@HugoGED because Capcom is a Japanese company and they take NDAs very seriously. Hazelight isn't and it's founder in particular is a big mouth, always has been. It's likely he doesn't actually know a lot but pretends to.

@YoshiAngemon -dark +emo

"Eternia, though. This is the best 2D Tales game".
That's just a lie. Anyone who played Rebirth will tell you it's the best 2D Tales of, and potentially the best Tales of ever.

I'd really like a version of Hearts based on the DS game, which was waaaaaaay better than that travesty of a PSVita remake we officially got. Or Rebirth and Destiny DC. Finally, I would also enjoy a remaster of Legendia. People claim it's the black sheep but that's actually one of the best Tales Of, and doesn't feel like the same game over and over again since Phantasia... Because I'm sorry but since it's creation, out of the 17 mothership games, only a handful are actually not a reskin of the other games (characters, themes, battle system, music...)

@Coalescence NL often uses machine translation instead of a proper translator. Kinda ironic considering they claim to be very much anti-AI

Wow so now you're relaying rumors about boxes... Well done, you guys are the best

@JohnnyMind @MeloMan

Some would say that if you played Final Fantasy X, then you played Symphonia, and they wouldn't be wrong. Symphonic was the first in Europe, but it's far from being the best. Graces is definitely a great entry, but I would also encourage Phantasia, and if we ever get it in English, Rebirth. The first Xilia is also a strong entry. But let's be honest, Tales Of always were mediocre JRPGs (except for Phantasia), and even the best ones are not on par with the worst of other series.

NL is probably the only website who pretended this was a big deal last week when everyone knows how stock market works... I mean. This and last week's article go against your editorial guidelines btw (alongside many other news failing your editorial, veracity and many other guidelines).

To say you don't actually care about them in the first place is a step I am obviously taking.

But yeah folks, this is how stock market works 🤷

It certainly damaged NintendoLife's credibility and professionalism

@Lizuka
I don't understand this comment. Leaking is a disaster for both the company (spending resource on marketing, potentially harming the brand and/or sales, etc...) and the consumer. There's a huge difference with spoil in general: the product is not out.
If you had a product you want to unveil, take people by surprise or just market in a certain way, I'm pretty sure you'd be furious about the leaks too.

The only upside I see is that you'll finally be doing your job for real. Otherwise it's just more of the same.

Oh and half the leaks were fake. Good job verifying your Infos, Team!

@Reztobi I wouldn't worry about that. PS just got their PS5 Pro and it's only started in the last year or so to go out of remasters and cross-gen titles to finally get the rumoured current gen exclusives after already 4y of operations (which is way too late btw, until very recently there was no reasons to get a PS5 other than being a fanboy with too much money on their hands). And of course work on the PS6 has started, they don't wait until the last moment for R&D...
With Sony executives planning for a 10y long run like the previous gen, I'd say Nintendo has a lot of room still. That is, if Sony doesn't play dirty like it always does and forbids studio from going to Nintendo.

I'm surprised Falcon considered a remake/remaster considering the game was received poorly; and considering it's known to be a rather bad fighting game overall.

I was rather confused by this. I played OFF some years ago when I was doing my own games on RM2k3, and I was sure Mortis Ghost died in an accident, but apparently he didn't xD

@JohnnyMind
I wouldn't call it horror, mostly very surrealist/akward. It's what Undertale tried to be but didn't manage to be. If anyone liked Undertale they will definitely like OFF (which is a deeper and more meaningful game with a lot of interesting thinking to do); though the other way is not guaranteed at all.

I don't know if I'd buy it again, but I'm glad the game will have the chance to gain the recognition it so rightfully deserves.