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Short and difficult listed as a con….

Interesting.

Imagine enjoying a shooter less because there’s no lore….

Wild.

Now here’s a game that deserved a little direct spotlight. These guys are the unsung indie heroes of pixel art and immaculately pitched retro challenge.

If there’s one game with a timeless aesthetic that I don’t want spoiling with crossover art from very much of the moment indies, it’s Balatro.

A soulless company that perpetuates scalping can’t even get a ROM to run on it’s attempt at game dev.

Not exactly shocking.

This is basically it for Nintendo.

See ya Switch 2.

It’s pretty charming though. I might just give it a whizz before it’s fixed up.

The poster boy of Good Because It’s A Quid Games.

When actually you could get Inside at it’s regular 90% off price and have a 10,000% better time.

Many have said it already but Jesus Pole-vaulting Christ steer clear of the lot.

It’s not a Nintendo game, it’s a game by those other guys what did Layers of Fear because it looks like a game by those other guys what did Layers of Fear and not a Nintendo game.

Nintendo would never make this kind of game and they wouldn’t employ this type of art direction, ever.

@jimmytodgers Siren was amazing. Completely overshadowed by genre heavyweights but the non-linear timeline changing your perceptions of characters was genius. Collecting the 100 archive items to fill out the story was another incredible touch. What a game.

Emio just looks like full on generic indie horror so far. Not on my radar at all.

Guardian Heroes for the love of Pete.

Rez was mentioned so let’s hear some for Lumines Supernova. Really underrated entry.

Well. I judge my purchases case by case too.

This is a hard pass from me.

If we’re talking just slotting one franchise into a Zelda shaped hole there can only be one answer.

W A R I O L A N D

Were it to happen, it would trump all other uses of the Zelda template merely by existing.

Oh and it would be called Garlic Breath of the Wild.

Thanks and goodnight.

Why not make a slender ‘inner’ joy con with just a scroll wheel on it. You’d just slide it onto the console, then slide the regular con on, sandwiching it like a plastic ham?

Call it the Scroll con, joy joy con con or scron con?

Switch game in running on Switch shocker!

This will absolutely launch on Swii 2 too, though.

And it looked incredible too.

Who’s been really crying out for this? Get Punch Out Wii ported ya crumb bums!

Probably the best second loop of any Nintendo game ever.

This was one of the first games where I kind of walked in on myself and thought “Jesus, what the hell am I playing? What on earth would my relatives think if they saw me playing this?”

Pushsquare, there. Citing the game’s beautiful focus on sublime razor edge combat as the game’s main weakness.

Will absolutely dive into this someday.

I played the original SMT5 before finally jumping into persona 5, and it left me cold by comparison.

A beautiful, rarified beast of an RPG with gameplay at the forefront. Knife edge battles where scouring every corner of the map gives you the goods to manipulate and game the system to survive. Like a demon, yeah?

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Sorry, unrelated, but comments get removed for foreign languages?

What’s that all about?

Fun fact: There’s comparatively little surprise and magic in triple A gaming now because it’s all leaked for social media clout or article clicks.

Goodnight!

@rainbowtick Cool post, bro.

If we’re talking about ‘trash’ developers or publishers I think we should take a quick glance at the eshop and those titles that release and rerelease at 90% discounts week in week out.

The game in question here is a passion project made with comparatively tiny resources and a handful of people. It’s also been made with technical limitations of both Switch and the software it was developed on. Can’t believe that people have pitted it against Overwatch in here.

@Max_the_German I have fond memories of playing it at around 10-20 fps

@scully1888 bet you don’t.

This is 3000 yen in Japan btw. Wild.

I want this more now I can’t have it.

HI!

I’m just going to sidestep the bulk of what’s being discussed here and say that this is one of the very best JRPGs I’ve ever played. An absolutely beautiful procession of knife edge boss fights, mechanics and environments that are there to be manipulated in satisfying ways and the abscess battle theme completely rips.

I played Persona 5 after and it didn’t capture me anywhere near as much.

One of Switch’s lesser sung belters for sure

I have it on good authority from an insider that their shares will go up again once Switch 2 is announced, then down again once the next Pokemon game recycles battle animations.

Keep it hush hush though yeah?

Brilliant game.

It’s obviously hard to move on from something you’ve worked on and then seen it become less yours over time.

At the same time I personally feel that games lose a bit of their soul when they crossover with other franchises…Dead Cells has done it plenty so maybe that’s a sign it’s time wrap things up?

Move on and make your next work even better than the last!

Indie games have flourished so much since this caliber of game could get a special mention on a high traffic site.

Mutant Mudds on Switch sits better amongst all those 1 quid 90% off platformers with Microsoft paint art direction. Would be nice if there was more digging for something more deserving of the spotlight.

10/10 for that subheading

Not feeling true love of the term ‘hidden gem’ in this article. Some almost lukewarm write-ups for a lane of gaming you can get real evocative and passionate on

Was this review updated at all? No mention of how pulling off a 1080 works in comparison to the tailor made N64 controls.

Best snowboarding game ever, was always disappointed at the genre’s shift towards SSX style fireworks. Though that game ripped too tbf

@Andee beautifully put

Zelda and timeline is such a tragic pairing of words.

It’s a legend: A single story that gets retold and reworked through time. There are constants such as the triforce, alternate worlds and big bad pigs, but different people would tell it a different way

That said, Nintendo have more or less confirmed the timeline despite directors etc dunking on it by littering TOTK with Link’s various legendary beanies.

@JagGentlemann yeah man

Copies filling the shelves in my local game shop today. Just a tweet to maximize sales from people that don’t have enough free time to find the place stocking it.

The depths in TOTK. Pure Dark Souls 2 vibes.

It literally 100% looks like a Thunderbird in cosplay.

I’m so sorry for this unhelpful contribution.

Where’s my Mario Kart timeline, and when an how does it sync up with F-Zero and Zelda?

What a thing to say.

Next on The News: McDonald’s CEO Jerry Hamburglar says they’re evolving into a food company.

No contest for me, the illustrator and expert.

Europe’s is like 50% featureless moon.

@RobynAlecksys It was a joke

I’m placing the full weight of my blame on Pratt.

I’m all in on this one.

Even though the inclusion of an ‘intricate narrative’ is a betrayal on levels we’ve never before seen.

Mad props to people mentioning the phys verj diffs. I’d have skipped this if I hadn’t read the comments.

Honestly my heart sinks whenever I see these total knobheads are publishing.

6 repairs a year for either 200 yen a month or 2000 per year is a really weird, maybe easily exploitable system. My OG switch is busted in about 6 ways so is that 200 yen?

They probably got a LOT of drifty joycons too.

@TromaDogg I don’t think any creator working now is relying on end game credits as the one source of acknowledgement for their hard work. A game as big as Metroid Prime has easily hundreds of hours of hugely positive retrospectives, documentaries and reviews on YouTube alone. If I worked on the game, I’d be satisfied with that.

@Clyde_Radcliffe

Groovy, Clyde.

Let’s have a half hour sequence that everyone will absolutely skip, rather than a succinct acknowledgment people might actually read.