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I find this very surprising. I didn’t find these guys to be annoying at all, whereas the talking flowers (in English, at least) became as aggressively obnoxious to me as nails on a blackboard after like two levels.

Using the pro controller for sidescrollers is gross.

The only thing I’d ding it on is soundtrack. It’s just a slight disappointment. Oh, and the English flower voice actor is intensely annoying to me. Other than that, it’s a 10 for me.

@Bret Yep, that is the main reason I ended up muting them after a while.

I mean, if it were like $5 no one would care. It's just massively overpriced.

@5th313ment Welcome to the 2020's, western video games have been captured. It is just highly ironic for a series like Borderlands to go from what it originally was to essentially a work of religious devotion to ideology that diametrically opposes what it originally was. But oh well, we must support the current thing!

@Rykdrew Uhhh... why are you talking about Rayman? Literally no one cares.

Switch is probably the first system where most of my games on the system have been digital. It wouldn't really affect me to not have the ability to play physical games.

That said, I'm not sure if I would want a digital only Switch 2. I wouldn't rule it out. But if it's significantly cheaper, I'd say it's a good thing, because it would definitely help more people get their hands on one.

@Bizzyb We’ll see if it makes that two month deadline.

@Bizzyb I understand that, but having worked in development, I know that it is extremely rare for a delay to be announced a week before launch. Usually that can only mean the platform holder didn’t want to certify or strongly suggested delaying.

Weird to see a delay this close to the planned release date. Wonder if it didn’t clear Nintendo’s certification process or something.

@Cia I hope Nintendo continues to resist, but frankly Microsoft could easily push for a hostile route to taking them over. This email proves that they might try it.

@Znake Mario games have literally always been geared towards kids and general audience. That’s the whole point of the franchise.

@beartown You haven’t played it and you’re already calling it boring. Okay.

@ATHFjman18 I’d hate to live in a world where Clint Eastwood is the benchmark for retirement age. Also the “ambassador” thing is clearly a vanity position they created for him as a gratuity. But knowing Nintendo, you can put any hopes for “more details” to rest, they won’t be telling us anything. Charles might, but as far as I know, he hasn’t yet.

@ATHFjman18 The dude is almost 70 years old. How long do you think HE wants to do the voice?

@Glrd No offense, but that would be a really dumb reason to never buy a Mario game again.

@RareFan I've been playing the series since the first game. Overall, this one is really good. It is slightly easy, but the Dandori challenges and night missions add some needed difficulty.

My only real criticisms are that there's way too much text/chatter from the other characters, and the music is an extreme letdown compared to the rest of the series, to the point that the game feels like it's missing a little bit of its soul.

Other than that, the gameplay itself is an improvement. It feels good to play, almost addicting, and lacks a lot of the janky frustration of the previous games.

@Nintendencies This is the digital equivalent of going to a Mexican restaurant and announcing to everyone that you're not interested in Mexican food but you hope they enjoy their tacos and enchiladas.

Buying all those studios probably sounded really cool back when you could borrow money for basically free, huh? Overexpansion is never good. But doing it just before record inflation, recession, and interest rate hikes take a dump on the business world is a poison pill. Feel bad for the studios getting shut down.

I already get frustrated with getting hammered every three seconds in regular kart racers. Finding a balance so that people don't feel like item use is oppressive when there's 60 people on the track? Sounds like a difficult task.

@Vivianeat I honestly think they did it because they just thought it would be cool/fun. It was meant to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the series, for one. They were trying to give people something sort of special to mark the occasion. It's not some devious ploy to trick you into buying every game in the series, the vast majority of which came out BEFORE the timeline was made and which are no longer available to buy from Nintendo anyway.

But if they did come up with it to drive sales, I say more power to them. It's way more creative/unique than typical marketing, which usually consists of little more than commercials, web ads, and tweets.

I love the people who get like genuinely mad at the existence of "the timeline" and think that it's not worthy of being labeled "official" because it doesn't mesh with their own idea of a backstory or preference that there be NO backstory. Given how the games are 100% fictional and Nintendo are the ones that came up with them, they're entitled to add yet more fictional elements to the other fiction they've already come up with and call it a timeline. It's all just made up for the fun of it. If it's not fun to you, just ignore it.

And yeah I know that doesn't really need to be said, but the negative reaction some people have to the timeline suggests that some people might actually need to hear that.

Obviously somewhat goat looking. I actually think Rauru looks a lot like the forest spirit from Princess Mononoke. Not in his body, but in the face/ears. Given that there's a ton of other obvious references to that movie in BotW and TotK, I feel like that had to be a bit of a reference point.

@spiderman0616 Amen.

@SonOfDracula Dude I don’t even know what the hell you’re talking about anymore. Let’s stop replying to each other now.

First of all, are we sure he still lives with his parents? Is it possible that he and Luigi were just visiting for dinner and their parents just kept their childhood bedroom in the condition it's always been in?

Also, it takes several years of training and internship to become a licensed plumber. There's no way a teenager has his own plumbing business, complete with a van and an advertising budget and everything.

@SonOfDracula You're taking this too seriously. I'm just playing around. We're talking about Mario.

@SonOfDracula Am I supposed to care about what you have or haven't heard in your life, or...?

Wait, why does anyone give a sh*t about critics? We all know this movie is made for people who love video games. Movie critics are decidedly not that. They're like the most Karen/boomer segment of the population you can find.

Honestly, if you think Nintendo spent six years on this game just to give you nothing more than a glorified DLC pack to BotW, you're not thinking straight.

@SonOfDracula Wow, you're probably the only person on here that doesn't own a Switch.

Okay but why does DK look like a decommissioned animatronic that's been disintegrating in a storage closet for 30 years?

Eh, bad move not putting Woolly World at #2. It's a no-brainer. It's a god-tier platformer. And the music and art direction are like 300% better than they need to be. GBA Yoshi's Island should just be treated like an addendum to Yoshi's Island, because that's what it is. Frankly, I never really feel like ports and reissues should be treated as their own thing in these types of lists.

@EarthboundBenjy Completely disagree with SFZ being "plain bad." It's not very original, basically just SF64 all over again, and the graphics were nothing to write home about, but the game was extremely fun once you figured out the control scheme. Far from being the awful game people popularly say it it.

Damn, that would have been awesome! Instead they used all those years to do.......... literally nothing.

Darn, how will we ever live without the...(checks notes)... Ace Attorney Court Bot? Truly this is a watershed moment in human history, the loss of a twitter gimmick account.

@boxyguy @Would_you_kindly He's trying to make it profitable. As it stands, the company has only made a quarterly profit twice in its entire history. None of these armchair CEO's would have the slightest clue how to handle a company that's losing literally billions of dollars every single year. These things don't run on hopes and aspirations.

Not to me. But then, I still kind of feel like Wii U just came out like a year ago. Once I hit the age of 30, time just kind of started melting together into one big unrecognizable lump.

I’m still just so relieved that this movie actually looks good. The world is perfect and the animation and modeling are beautiful. The tone is as good as can be expected in modern animation. I’m really looking forward to it, and that’s a much better place to be than where I was a few months back, when we hadn’t seen anything about this movie and my darkest fears for it were still possible.

This is a great wave. 3DS Rainbow Road is a strong contender for best Mario Kart course, in my opinion. Can’t wait to finally play it on the big screen!

@MrPKOmega Do we really have to get this same comment with every single wave they release? We get the point but it’s not going to change and most people don’t care.

@Outlander999 Yeah I mean like I said, your reasoning is still based on an arbitrary preference, not because it’s functionally better or worse. It’s just the common placement on most controllers now so people are used to it, but I’ve yet to see an actual reason or compelling argument for it. What difference does it make if one stick is higher or lower, other than it’ll affect what is now muscle memory for most people?

So brave. So very brave.

I actually hate that most controllers have the right stick below the buttons. I wish they were all like the gamepad. I mean why is it okay to have the left stick at the top of the controller but not the right one? It’s completely arbitrary.

I also love the ergonomics of the gamepad. It’s huge and clunky, but it doesn’t leave my hands cramped like the Switch does in handheld mode.

@Crono1973 For real though, it was great! I’m glad Nintendo’s found so much success with Switch because I want this company I’ve loved since the 80’s to be healthy, but I feel as though it’s lacked a bit of playfulness and magic. Or maybe it’s just me lacking those things now.

I still love my Wii U, and maybe it's just age and life numbing my emotions over time but I have never been able to conjure up the same feeling of excitement and attachment with the Switch as I felt for the Wii U. Basically I'm just never in sync with what everyone else is into lol.

Man, I loved Nintendo Land. Still do, actually! So many great memories playing that with family/friends. Mini/party-game GOAT.

@Pillowpants Yeah, the files seem to be broken or the site is having traffic issues or something.

@Dog They haven't even played it, so I wouldn't pay much mind to their opinion on it.