He’s more emblematic of my experience with the game than Samus is. Though even she could have managed a “thank you” for his help.
The little weighing up gesture he does coupled with the “so…win?” borderline haunted me while the game was fresh in my mind. Then, as the game winds down he gets to redeem himself by periodically reminding you to collect those fun fun crystals.
It’s telling enough that this article exists, he’s on course to being the most memorable thing about the game.
Konami are at least doing things to preserve and continue their legacy now.
Can’t blame a company for investing in something new too, even if it sounds generic.
My own personal hopes for them lie with M2, who have remade a Castlevania and built a new Salamander from scratch in the past few years. The natural progression seems like a new, stage based castlevania or, dare I dream, a Goemon collection with a remake handled by them too.
@JohnnyMind I think I read here somewhere that the director kept the story bare bones and non invasive as an intention, so maybe leap straight into the sequel?
Good on the devs for consistently refining things. I watched the SwitchUp review of this one and kept it in mind as a game with potential once it runs well. Maybe I’ll give it a go over Christmas. It’s price really went down over here too.
@axelhander you’ve escaped my point entirely. It’s lackluster animation and that’s it. Nothing to do with videogame logic and him being a robot.
The SNES and even NES achieved great animation with urgency and dynamism in his movement. 11 and this strikingly similar run cycle do Mega Man a disservice. It’s absolutely not first rate, which is what you’d want too, right?!
They’ve chuffed up his run cycle like in 11?! It looks like the comedic sprint from the Monster Hunter games. Ah well, there’s over a year left to fix it.
I love those establishing shots you get at the beginning of each stage like in 11 though. My hopes are still up.
Put it out in a sorry state to get people talking about it, then patch it while it’s in the limelight. Seems a good way to maximize interest in an umpteenth Skyrim port, no?
Bananza and to a lesser extent Mario Kart World made me feel like Nintendo came out of the gates intent on offering a contrasting experience to the original switch.
Then all these Switch 2 editions, yet more Mario Tennis and mid Yoshi game deja-vu have dampened my excitement a bit. It’s a great feeling system but I can’t help but miss the struggling Nintendo that birthed BotW, over this more calculated, corporate one.
I want a Zelda drastically reduced in scope that’s in touch with its western fantasy roots, not anime, Arms 2 turned into a Resi 4 crowd management styled beast and Wave race’s most immaculate of vibes to return.
I just want to see them throw caution to the wind and serve us genuine nostalgia, not the games of the last 5 years at a smoother frame rate. Are people really itching to play Mario Wonder again already? Surely our nostalgia cycles haven’t shrunk that much yet…
@axelhander this comment gets a big, chunky eye roll from me.
Metroid’s sense of isolation isn’t the only thing that’s diminished. It’s the strength of Samus as a character and you the player overcoming things by yourself, not alongside some goofy goober and space marines shepherding you through mid-00’s set pieces.
It’s a colossal detractor for people who, back in the day, couldn’t even find Kraid and were fine with it because the world felt so mysterious and cool. People don’t mind being stuck, but Nintendo have seemingly lost confidence in that approach and forgot the internet exists.
I don’t usually agree with passing judgement or getting in a cyber huff over something that’s not even in our hands yet, but meeting the generic cast in advance…and they actually named a character Duke?! It’s looking like something from the worst time for FPS, right before Doom turned it all around again.
The art and music of this game are remarkable. Devs usually neglect the sound aspect when going for that hazy CRT nostalgia but I can practically feel my childhood TV rumble when I hear the music in this game.
The biggest con of the review is likely a boon to some. I still don’t know what the benefit of ‘more tofu’ is but I’m looking forward to either finding out myself or googling it somewhere down the line.
Gameplay wise it’s neat, tidy, even generic, but it’s the vibes that elevate it.
@AlonditeFE Has anyone actually stopped to think that Dark Souls type experiences exist in anbundance and we don’t need another template entry? And that shifting the thrust of the game might actually make it a standout experience and invigorate the formula?
There are so many games and DLC from one dev alone and their replayability is why people are still revisiting them 15 years after release.
Let’s have one that’s a bit different. And, maybe, let’s not pass judgement until we have a running time of gameplay footage that amounts to more than 4% of those Air Rider directs.
@HingryHuppo hey man, even Kriss Akabusi needs to kick back in a Fiat Uno from time to time. I’m outdoorsy but I’d take the anime bike if it was just collecting dust in some lightning tower.
Do people ever stop to think that, sometimes, 60fps adds zero to or even detracts from an experience?
Shadow of the Colossus’s remaster on PS3 was apparently capable of being 60fps but the devs chose to lock it at 30 as an artistic choice, and they were bang on.
One of the very best - not a very charitable price considering how many physical editions it’s already seen, but I think it’s a price for the early birds paranoid about it dropping off the face of the earth.
Wait for a price drop - not exactly a game that needs to be played hot off the presses and Nicalis and it’s JP offshoot Pikii tend to have deep sales on their site.
Once picked up a fancy pants edition of Ikaruga for chump change.
NES themed? I’d want my keyboard to replicate the feeling of space battles in an Arwing for 500 smackers. Looking to my side and seeing a hologram of Fox whisk by - egging me on as I type my grumpy comments.
@WheresWaveRace I hadn’t watched the show in years, but look up ‘family guy purgatory’ on YouTube and you’ll arrive at my exact sentiments on The Touryst.
Thanks for making me chuckle on the way to work with that last sentence btw!
@WheresWaveRace ‘Expectations are set accordingly’ is just a different way of saying they’re lowered.
You’re the one assuming I only think AAA games can score highly, but the thing is: I like low key, easy breezy games - very much so. Just not this one, it’s missing something in its world that’s not so much to do with content, but atmosphere.
This game was like wandering through purgatory for me. But it’s one of those ‘nice wee games’ where expectations are lowered so it gets mad high review scores.
I’ll probably end up upgrading, double dipping for more of those purgy vibes.
Dying to play this. The argument that there’s not enough content is wild…it re-contexts every single level of the game into a supremely replayable, high score based roguelike.
I think it’s an incredible idea. MAYBE one that arrived a little too soon, but you can always play it outside of its release window.
The people complaining about the price AND that it’s not for them? Well, there’s a perfect base game that remains untouched for you.
People are complaining the desert area looks barren? Barren can be an artistic choice, and it can also offer a welcome contrast between the more claustrophobic exploration we’ve had in Metroid for 40 years.
Honestly I feel like barely a week goes by between each upcoming game being met with a haze of needless doubt. The trailer also offered plenty of classic looking Metroid, but it’s the rail shooter-ish segments that deserved the spotlight this time around.
@Thomystic It’s the distance light travels in a year and ‘light years ahead’ is a pretty common expression used to describe something vastly superior to it’s competitors.
This is the point for me where the ‘switch 2 edition’ tag changed from being attached to a scant few titles at launch, to something we’ll likely see for the console’s entire lifespan.
Are multiplayer, almost Mario Party style mini games worth a double dip if you’ve traded in your Switch copy?
Genuinely, genuinely a top 5 for me. A maturity in art direction and world building light years ahead of its time.
The remake of the original, however, messed its trousers on the first level. Taking the originals perfect matching of music, vast ocean and mysterious, sparse ruins and filling it with unwanted current gen levels of detail and scenery. Completely blew it.
I’m an optimist and hope they can stick the landing here…
There’s too much happening already. It’s wild - and the amount of people saying otherwise or that it’s poor are making me lose my already vague understanding of humans.
Bananza alone…are people seeing this *****? It was honestly spellbinding for me - at points I thought it might be the best game I’d ever played - and I’ve been waggling joysticks for nigh on 40 years.
I can barely manage to trickle through the new Kirby game in the scant solo time I have and there’s still Metroid blinkin Prime 4 coming out…oh and Elden Ring.
What a year it’s becoming… genuinely don’t get how people are not seeing it.
Anyway, it’s a dud, pure and simple. You can glance at 5 seconds of footage and see it’s missing speed, dynamic movement, personality and rocket powered cars.
I think adding Miis is a bit out of the equation when considering the subject too.
I’ll just go ahead and echo sentiments that it’s entirely ridiculous to set your expectations based on over the shoulder cam footage, and add that From Software have released games with entire biomes that bring consoles to a standstill, and that they are also some of the best games of all time.
Sweet Fancy Moses what a game Burnout 2 was…Sega and Namco foundations honed to perfection. 3 stripped out the nostalgia but still gave us one last classic course oriented banger before mainstream racing went open world forever.
Something tells me that this isn’t just going to be a Kart style racer. No gameplay footage yet, 45 minute Direct, we already had Mario Kart this year.
Color me mildly jazzed. They’ll absolutely shadow drop the original too. I’d bet my last remaining gonad.
Not wanting to be the guy who says I live in Japan so I know better…but scalping, rudeness, shamelessness and littering ALL exist and occur here daily.
Some of Mac’s other recent Happy Sets have had similar consequences and I think it’s fair to say native people will more readily call out foreigners on social media than fellow Japanese. Of course I agree with them, it’s all of the above to do such things, but posting about it has the knock on effect of damaging relations with foreigners and some of us here are working very hard to be model foreign citizens.
This scores less favorably than some really bare bones comps…Taito Milestones 3 springs to mind.
Harsh to knock a game with ‘origins’ in the title for not including the back end of the series. How many games do M2 have to meticulously restore to get a 9? An entire new game goes a bit beyond their usual workload, too.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not sat fuming in my chair or anything but maybe give them a bit of slack? They’re a real treasure.
@TerribleTerabytes it’s Doctors Without Borders, dude…
Nintendo raining on the parade of an earnest, wholesome charity event isn’t a good look however people try and swing it. The issue is not just that permission wasn’t asked, it’s that further permission has been denied.
I’ve got a copy of Hitman just kind of sitting there, the pull of Bananza forever outweighing the urge to stop and download it. Not only is it doing massive damage to consumer trust, it’s a bit of a faff too.
One thing that pisses me off about it, is that Nintendo have given the option of key cards to publishers and then not used it themselves. Which speaks volumes to how damaging they really think it is.
Oh well. Hopefully it’s just to get publishers releasing early in the lifespan, and one of those three withdrawn direct games was Elden Ring changing to an on the card release.
I loved Odyssey, but i didn’t really care for all the matrimonial vibes and salary workers in the streets of New Donk. It sounds so trivial but art direction misfires are a big thing when you’re dealing with worlds steeped in nostalgia.
The confidence and boldness of the level design lead us to Bananza, though, and I was sat playing it this morning adamant I have a new favourite game of all time. I’m just bowled over by the little touches and inspired design from moment to moment - that a game with such a singular, violent mechanic feels so broad and radiates love and kindness. I’m on a second loop through of all the levels and I’m only just noticing how incredible the music is. Genuinely in awe.
I barely thought of Odyssey at all to be honest, it made me think more of N64 Rare titles. And how collectibles and NPCs were always pulling you in new directions. So nostalgic but also Nintendo at their boldest. Can’t fathom how they’re going to top it…
Katamari games at their best are like unalloyed sunshine poured directly into your soul. A perfect blend of unforgettable sights and sounds and janitorial gameplay. The levels set in different time periods is a nice move… second Where’s Wally book vibes.
Having paid 20,000円 more for my Switch 2 to have English, it sure would be nice to see some Japanese publishers become mindful of Japan’s 2 available console types and include English language options as standard.
Otherwise I’ll wind up taking this bitterness to the grave.
Capitalized because we’re 220 comments below surface and it’s not likely to be covered here or on YouTube.
If my memory serves (and it often doesn’t) the Switch’s 60fps mode was locked behind a cheat code, and it very rarely hit 60.
I returned to it with this knowledge in hand and it runs like an absolute peach. The gyro aiming is snappy and silky smooth too and it just perfectly serves what an absolute love letter to early FPS this game is.
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Re: Poll: So, Now The Dust Has Settled, How Did You Find Myles MacKenzie?
He’s more emblematic of my experience with the game than Samus is. Though even she could have managed a “thank you” for his help.
The little weighing up gesture he does coupled with the “so…win?” borderline haunted me while the game was fresh in my mind. Then, as the game winds down he gets to redeem himself by periodically reminding you to collect those fun fun crystals.
It’s telling enough that this article exists, he’s on course to being the most memorable thing about the game.
Re: Konami Appears To Have A New Switch Game In The Works
Konami are at least doing things to preserve and continue their legacy now.
Can’t blame a company for investing in something new too, even if it sounds generic.
My own personal hopes for them lie with M2, who have remade a Castlevania and built a new Salamander from scratch in the past few years. The natural progression seems like a new, stage based castlevania or, dare I dream, a Goemon collection with a remake handled by them too.
Re: Another Switch 2 Game Has Been Updated This Week, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@JohnnyMind Johnny, you are a leading light in internet etiquette and positivity, and you deserve the best in life.
Happy Christmas fella.
Re: Another Switch 2 Game Has Been Updated This Week, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@JohnnyMind I think I read here somewhere that the director kept the story bare bones and non invasive as an intention, so maybe leap straight into the sequel?
Good on the devs for consistently refining things. I watched the SwitchUp review of this one and kept it in mind as a game with potential once it runs well. Maybe I’ll give it a go over Christmas. It’s price really went down over here too.
Re: Mega Man Returns In 2027 With A "Brand-New Entry" For Switch And Switch 2
@axelhander you’ve escaped my point entirely. It’s lackluster animation and that’s it. Nothing to do with videogame logic and him being a robot.
The SNES and even NES achieved great animation with urgency and dynamism in his movement. 11 and this strikingly similar run cycle do Mega Man a disservice. It’s absolutely not first rate, which is what you’d want too, right?!
Re: Mega Man Returns In 2027 With A "Brand-New Entry" For Switch And Switch 2
@axelhander people lean forward when they run, it’s still a fundamental of the game fluffed at this point
Re: Mega Man Returns In 2027 With A "Brand-New Entry" For Switch And Switch 2
They’ve chuffed up his run cycle like in 11?! It looks like the comedic sprint from the Monster Hunter games. Ah well, there’s over a year left to fix it.
I love those establishing shots you get at the beginning of each stage like in 11 though. My hopes are still up.
Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (Switch 2) - Just Hugely Disappointing
Put it out in a sorry state to get people talking about it, then patch it while it’s in the limelight. Seems a good way to maximize interest in an umpteenth Skyrim port, no?
Re: Talking Point: Six Months Since Launch, How Would You Rate Switch 2?
Bananza and to a lesser extent Mario Kart World made me feel like Nintendo came out of the gates intent on offering a contrasting experience to the original switch.
Then all these Switch 2 editions, yet more Mario Tennis and mid Yoshi game deja-vu have dampened my excitement a bit. It’s a great feeling system but I can’t help but miss the struggling Nintendo that birthed BotW, over this more calculated, corporate one.
I want a Zelda drastically reduced in scope that’s in touch with its western fantasy roots, not anime, Arms 2 turned into a Resi 4 crowd management styled beast and Wave race’s most immaculate of vibes to return.
I just want to see them throw caution to the wind and serve us genuine nostalgia, not the games of the last 5 years at a smoother frame rate. Are people really itching to play Mario Wonder again already? Surely our nostalgia cycles haven’t shrunk that much yet…
Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Meet The Team
@axelhander this comment gets a big, chunky eye roll from me.
Metroid’s sense of isolation isn’t the only thing that’s diminished. It’s the strength of Samus as a character and you the player overcoming things by yourself, not alongside some goofy goober and space marines shepherding you through mid-00’s set pieces.
It’s a colossal detractor for people who, back in the day, couldn’t even find Kraid and were fine with it because the world felt so mysterious and cool. People don’t mind being stuck, but Nintendo have seemingly lost confidence in that approach and forgot the internet exists.
I don’t usually agree with passing judgement or getting in a cyber huff over something that’s not even in our hands yet, but meeting the generic cast in advance…and they actually named a character Duke?! It’s looking like something from the worst time for FPS, right before Doom turned it all around again.
Re: Mini Review: Morsels (Switch) - A Punishing, Obscure, But Thoroughly Entertaining Roguelite Dungeon Crawler
The art and music of this game are remarkable. Devs usually neglect the sound aspect when going for that hazy CRT nostalgia but I can practically feel my childhood TV rumble when I hear the music in this game.
The biggest con of the review is likely a boon to some. I still don’t know what the benefit of ‘more tofu’ is but I’m looking forward to either finding out myself or googling it somewhere down the line.
Gameplay wise it’s neat, tidy, even generic, but it’s the vibes that elevate it.
Re: 'The Duskbloods' Could Be FromSoftware's Most Ambitious Game Yet, According To Leak
@AlonditeFE Has anyone actually stopped to think that Dark Souls type experiences exist in anbundance and we don’t need another template entry? And that shifting the thrust of the game might actually make it a standout experience and invigorate the formula?
There are so many games and DLC from one dev alone and their replayability is why people are still revisiting them 15 years after release.
Let’s have one that’s a bit different. And, maybe, let’s not pass judgement until we have a running time of gameplay footage that amounts to more than 4% of those Air Rider directs.
Re: 'The Duskbloods' Could Be FromSoftware's Most Ambitious Game Yet, According To Leak
Loving all the negativity so far - it’s like the very gist of the article doesn’t exist.
Miyazaki has a good track record with the old video games and if the leak is to be trusted it should at the very least shift expectations a little.
Why not relish all the fantastic games coming out in the coming weeks and then have something to get excited about in ‘26? Oh right…because it’s PvP
Re: Nintendo Debuts Two Metroid Prime 4 Ads As Eight-Year Wait Nears Its End
@HingryHuppo hey man, even Kriss Akabusi needs to kick back in a Fiat Uno from time to time. I’m outdoorsy but I’d take the anime bike if it was just collecting dust in some lightning tower.
Re: Switch Port Specialist Panic Button Reveals It Helped Upgrade Multiple First-Party Games For Switch 2
This both fills me with hope that it’s an ongoing sentiment to update old games for free and despair that it’s over now that the cats out of the bag.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Nintendo's Cheapest Switch 2 Edition Yet
Do people ever stop to think that, sometimes, 60fps adds zero to or even detracts from an experience?
Shadow of the Colossus’s remaster on PS3 was apparently capable of being 60fps but the devs chose to lock it at 30 as an artistic choice, and they were bang on.
Re: The Binding Of Isaac Is Heading To Switch 2 With A Full Physical Release
One of the very best - not a very charitable price considering how many physical editions it’s already seen, but I think it’s a price for the early birds paranoid about it dropping off the face of the earth.
Wait for a price drop - not exactly a game that needs to be played hot off the presses and Nicalis and it’s JP offshoot Pikii tend to have deep sales on their site.
Once picked up a fancy pants edition of Ikaruga for chump change.
Re: 8BitDo Announces 'NES40 Collection' Of Peripherals, And They're Up For Pre-Order Later Today
NES themed? I’d want my keyboard to replicate the feeling of space battles in an Arwing for 500 smackers. Looking to my side and seeing a hologram of Fox whisk by - egging me on as I type my grumpy comments.
Re: Nintendo Is Opening Its Fourth Store In Japan This Year
@shadowii I live in Osaka, been in Japan 10 years.
I found my best friend here and we have a beautiful son. I like it fine.
Re: Stray Children Is A "Bittersweet Fairytale RPG" From The Makers Of Moon
A brand new Katamari, Earthion physical release AND a game by the people who made MOON? What an October, what a year.
Re: The Touryst: Deluxe Hits Switch 2 Next Week At 4K / 60fps
@WheresWaveRace I hadn’t watched the show in years, but look up ‘family guy purgatory’ on YouTube and you’ll arrive at my exact sentiments on The Touryst.
Thanks for making me chuckle on the way to work with that last sentence btw!
Re: The Touryst: Deluxe Hits Switch 2 Next Week At 4K / 60fps
@WheresWaveRace ‘Expectations are set accordingly’ is just a different way of saying they’re lowered.
You’re the one assuming I only think AAA games can score highly, but the thing is: I like low key, easy breezy games - very much so. Just not this one, it’s missing something in its world that’s not so much to do with content, but atmosphere.
Re: The Touryst: Deluxe Hits Switch 2 Next Week At 4K / 60fps
This game was like wandering through purgatory for me. But it’s one of those ‘nice wee games’ where expectations are lowered so it gets mad high review scores.
I’ll probably end up upgrading, double dipping for more of those purgy vibes.
Re: Review: Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island & Emerald Rush (Switch 2) - DLC That's Ripe With Fun, But Could've Been More
Dying to play this. The argument that there’s not enough content is wild…it re-contexts every single level of the game into a supremely replayable, high score based roguelike.
I think it’s an incredible idea. MAYBE one that arrived a little too soon, but you can always play it outside of its release window.
The people complaining about the price AND that it’s not for them? Well, there’s a perfect base game that remains untouched for you.
Re: Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Is Getting A Sweet 'Switch 2 Edition' Upgrade This November
Fall Guys, Human Fall Flat, Overcooked and now uh, Lollipop Chainsaw.
Not the Switch 2 Edition Paradise we envisioned, but the one we deserved…
Re: Opinion: Metroid Prime 4 Reminds Me Of Gears 5, And It's Making Me Nervous
People are complaining the desert area looks barren? Barren can be an artistic choice, and it can also offer a welcome contrast between the more claustrophobic exploration we’ve had in Metroid for 40 years.
Honestly I feel like barely a week goes by between each upcoming game being met with a haze of needless doubt. The trailer also offered plenty of classic looking Metroid, but it’s the rail shooter-ish segments that deserved the spotlight this time around.
Have some faith.
Re: Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Resurfaces, Will Be Playable At TGS 2025
@Thomystic
It’s the distance light travels in a year and ‘light years ahead’ is a pretty common expression used to describe something vastly superior to it’s competitors.
Cheers though Professor Waddle Dee…
Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
This is the point for me where the ‘switch 2 edition’ tag changed from being attached to a scant few titles at launch, to something we’ll likely see for the console’s entire lifespan.
Are multiplayer, almost Mario Party style mini games worth a double dip if you’ve traded in your Switch copy?
Absolutely no thanks.
Re: Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Resurfaces, Will Be Playable At TGS 2025
Genuinely, genuinely a top 5 for me. A maturity in art direction and world building light years ahead of its time.
The remake of the original, however, messed its trousers on the first level. Taking the originals perfect matching of music, vast ocean and mysterious, sparse ruins and filling it with unwanted current gen levels of detail and scenery. Completely blew it.
I’m an optimist and hope they can stick the landing here…
Re: Poll: Three Months In, How Would You Rate Switch 2's Library So Far?
There’s too much happening already. It’s wild - and the amount of people saying otherwise or that it’s poor are making me lose my already vague understanding of humans.
Bananza alone…are people seeing this *****? It was honestly spellbinding for me - at points I thought it might be the best game I’d ever played - and I’ve been waggling joysticks for nigh on 40 years.
I can barely manage to trickle through the new Kirby game in the scant solo time I have and there’s still Metroid blinkin Prime 4 coming out…oh and Elden Ring.
What a year it’s becoming… genuinely don’t get how people are not seeing it.
Re: Talking Point: Would Drag x Drive Be Better With Miis Or Non-Mouse Control Options?
@JakobU Woke?…Not one little bit.
Anyway, it’s a dud, pure and simple. You can glance at 5 seconds of footage and see it’s missing speed, dynamic movement, personality and rocket powered cars.
I think adding Miis is a bit out of the equation when considering the subject too.
Re: System Shock 2 Has Been Updated On Switch, Here Are The Patch Notes
Honestly, there’s just too much great stuff to play this year. I’d forgotten this already…
Even if you limit your diet to a few select Nintendo releases, boomer shooters, shoot-em-ups and a indie darling or two like me…what a year.
I’d need a drastic upturn in my career just to afford all the shmups on the horizon this year, never mind finding the time to play them.
Re: First Footage Of Elden Ring Running On Switch 2 Appears Online
I’ll just go ahead and echo sentiments that it’s entirely ridiculous to set your expectations based on over the shoulder cam footage, and add that From Software have released games with entire biomes that bring consoles to a standstill, and that they are also some of the best games of all time.
Re: Revived Publisher Acclaim Is Teasing Something For Next Week
Sweet Fancy Moses what a game Burnout 2 was…Sega and Namco foundations honed to perfection. 3 stripped out the nostalgia but still gave us one last classic course oriented banger before mainstream racing went open world forever.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct Revealed for Tomorrow, 19th August 2025
Something tells me that this isn’t just going to be a Kart style racer. No gameplay footage yet, 45 minute Direct, we already had Mario Kart this year.
Color me mildly jazzed. They’ll absolutely shadow drop the original too. I’d bet my last remaining gonad.
Re: McDonald's Japan Pulls Happy Meal Pokémon Cards Early, And Fans Blame Scalpers
@Milk_
Not wanting to be the guy who says I live in Japan so I know better…but scalping, rudeness, shamelessness and littering ALL exist and occur here daily.
Some of Mac’s other recent Happy Sets have had similar consequences and I think it’s fair to say native people will more readily call out foreigners on social media than fellow Japanese. Of course I agree with them, it’s all of the above to do such things, but posting about it has the knock on effect of damaging relations with foreigners and some of us here are working very hard to be model foreign citizens.
All over Pokémon cards too. Sweet Jesus.
Re: Review: Gradius Origins (Switch) - An Almost-Perfect Package For Shoot 'Em Up Fans
This scores less favorably than some really bare bones comps…Taito Milestones 3 springs to mind.
Harsh to knock a game with ‘origins’ in the title for not including the back end of the series. How many games do M2 have to meticulously restore to get a 9? An entire new game goes a bit beyond their usual workload, too.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not sat fuming in my chair or anything but maybe give them a bit of slack? They’re a real treasure.
Re: Nightdive Studios Reveal "Definitive" Re-Release Of 'Heretic + Hexen' On Switch
An M2 Shot Triggers and Nightdive release on the same weekend. Fans of immaculate game preservation are eating good.
Re: Futuristic Deep Sea Adventure 'Glaciered', Swims Onto Switch 2 This Winter
This looked brilliant. Brought Panzer Dragoon to mind but also seems really unique and counter to all the current trends in art style and gameplay.
Pinned every last one of my hopes on this being good.
Re: Nintendo Won't Let Charity Speedrunning Event Use Its Games Without Permission, Because Of Course
@TerribleTerabytes it’s Doctors Without Borders, dude…
Nintendo raining on the parade of an earnest, wholesome charity event isn’t a good look however people try and swing it. The issue is not just that permission wasn’t asked, it’s that further permission has been denied.
Full blown corporate coldness.
Re: Nintendo Won't Let Charity Speedrunning Event Use Its Games Without Permission, Because Of Course
@Uncle_Franklin Is anybody here thinking that?
Re: Nintendo Sends Out Second Game-Key Card & Physical Game Survey
I’ve got a copy of Hitman just kind of sitting there, the pull of Bananza forever outweighing the urge to stop and download it. Not only is it doing massive damage to consumer trust, it’s a bit of a faff too.
One thing that pisses me off about it, is that Nintendo have given the option of key cards to publishers and then not used it themselves. Which speaks volumes to how damaging they really think it is.
Oh well. Hopefully it’s just to get publishers releasing early in the lifespan, and one of those three withdrawn direct games was Elden Ring changing to an on the card release.
Re: Opinion: Can We Stop Comparing Donkey Kong Bananza's Tactile Thrills To Odyssey Now?
I loved Odyssey, but i didn’t really care for all the matrimonial vibes and salary workers in the streets of New Donk. It sounds so trivial but art direction misfires are a big thing when you’re dealing with worlds steeped in nostalgia.
The confidence and boldness of the level design lead us to Bananza, though, and I was sat playing it this morning adamant I have a new favourite game of all time. I’m just bowled over by the little touches and inspired design from moment to moment - that a game with such a singular, violent mechanic feels so broad and radiates love and kindness. I’m on a second loop through of all the levels and I’m only just noticing how incredible the music is. Genuinely in awe.
I barely thought of Odyssey at all to be honest, it made me think more of N64 Rare titles. And how collectibles and NPCs were always pulling you in new directions. So nostalgic but also Nintendo at their boldest. Can’t fathom how they’re going to top it…
EDIT: Nice article!
Re: Square Enix Is Bringing A Brand New HD-2D RPG To Switch 2 Next Year
Title prediction for the next HD2D release:
Chronicles of Ian: A eunuch’s plight.
Re: A Brand New Katamari Game Is Coming To Switch
Underrated announcement.
Katamari games at their best are like unalloyed sunshine poured directly into your soul. A perfect blend of unforgettable sights and sounds and janitorial gameplay. The levels set in different time periods is a nice move… second Where’s Wally book vibes.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Partner Direct Predictions - What Do You Expect To See?
I’d quite like a wee announcement for some switch 2 updates. Nier Automata and its slightly compromised port pals all deserve a Switch 2 glow up.
Game wise I’ll take all the obvious rumors, I’m honestly too enamored with Bananza to give a real hoot.
Re: Japanese Charts: Donkey Kong Bananza Sells A Bunch, But Can't Beat Mario Kart
They’re not so bananas for DK over here. Most people would still plump for Mario Kart, gibbon the choice.
Re: Tony Hawk Reiterates Decisions Behind Song Choices In Pro Skater 3 + 4
@SillyG
My personal take on long story short for this article is…
Tony Hawk: Nice Lad.
Returning to the same location with a new soundtrack in hand is pretty emblematic of skateboarding as a whole actually. Good on him.
Re: Ys X: Proud Nordics Reportedly Includes 120fps Performance Mode On Switch 2
Having paid 20,000円 more for my Switch 2 to have English, it sure would be nice to see some Japanese publishers become mindful of Japan’s 2 available console types and include English language options as standard.
Otherwise I’ll wind up taking this bitterness to the grave.
Re: Feature: 33 Games With 'Secret' Performance Bumps You Should Revisit On Switch 2
ION FURY
Capitalized because we’re 220 comments below surface and it’s not likely to be covered here or on YouTube.
If my memory serves (and it often doesn’t) the Switch’s 60fps mode was locked behind a cheat code, and it very rarely hit 60.
I returned to it with this knowledge in hand and it runs like an absolute peach. The gyro aiming is snappy and silky smooth too and it just perfectly serves what an absolute love letter to early FPS this game is.
Belter.