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Honestly, I think it looks really good! Or as good as it can when you consider we only saw like one minute of footage. And visually it looks great, ESPECIALLY considering the fact that it's an illumination production and could have gone very wrong.

I also think Mario's design really works. It's different, but when has there ever been one consistent Mario design over the last 40 years? They made him look like Mario but with much more personality and expressiveness, which he needed for a movie. And I think it's more accurate than Sonic's movie version, even the redesigned version that everyone loved. All in all, I'm very relieved.

I think it's fine. And I think that some of the "weirdness" people are sensing might just be due to the angle/perspective. The test will be to see it in motion. It has to have Mario's characteristic expressions.

Mario's missing cake is the only thing wrong with it imo.

Definitely in the "relieved" camp. Because it all looks basically accurate to official Nintendo designs.

@sneaky_sasquatch Preference? Ability? Things like that.

@PtM There are many, many more people out there who own Switch than there are that own Steam Deck.

@Ryu_Niiyama Very well put, on all points. People are just really caught up in the popular mantra right now that all corporations are evil, and they’ll do or ignore anything necessary to prove it.

@strollin_stu Correct. They are not your friends. They're your employer, and as is the case in virtually every job on the planet, they tell you up front what you can and can't do and that if you violate your employment contract they will fire you. Who's actually struggling to understand this concept besides people that have never had a job?

@dartmonkey Were they a contractor or weren't they? Because your own article uses the term contractor. So which was wrong, the article or the headline?

"For a game that caused many to question the validity of its own existence"

lol I think "many" is a stretch. Also, why would I care to see Xbox do well in Japan? Am I the only one here who doesn't give a crap about that?

Imagine making an obscenely obvious breach of your contract which even a child could understand why it's wrong, getting fired for it, making up a conspiracy theory as an alternative explanation because you don't want to admit that you blew it, and then having people write articles defending you. Must feel good to get away with stuff.

@Unapologetic You're totally right! Nobody should ever question anything. They should just take everyone's claims as 100% fact, so long as they confirm their personal feelings on the matter.

@Serpenterror Don't hold your breath.

I refuse to believe that Hey! Pikmin wasn’t what Miyamoto was talking about when he said Pikmin 4 was almost done. I think this is a completely different game than he was referring to.

I’ll buy it and probably play through a good deal of it, but god am I sick of rogue-anything.

Okay, so the "finished/ready to release" Pikmin 4 that Miyamoto was talking about years ago really was Hey! Pikmin.

@Mortenb What…?

@iLikeUrAttitude It’s literally just targeting modded versions of the game, because the blatantly obvious implication is that mods can be used to cheat, as everyone knows.

And given how prevalent and obnoxious cheating has been in the previous two games, a zero-tolerance policy on these people is the only acceptable/workable option. The system that’s designed to catch modded games isn’t going to discern if someone’s “just tinkering around for fun” or weigh whether or not they deserve to get banned for it. If you want to have fun, don’t do it in a way that can ruin everyone else’s fun.

@boxyguy People get tired of a Negative Nancy. If that's your entire identity, people will eventually figure that out and move on.

@Rika_Yoshitake That's how this site operates nowadays. It's really just a husk of its former self.

@DK-Fan That is literally his entire shtick. If it weren't for the puppet gimmick, no one would even know he exists. He'd be ignored like he should be.

Obviously I'm glad this shiz is finally coming out, but they're going to need to REALLY pick up the pace if they're going to meet their declared release timeline of end of 2023 for all the waves.

@WoomyNNYes The thing has sold like 50 million copies, which makes it the best selling title on Switch by a long shot, so yeah I'd say it's a flagship. That said, it sold that well WITHOUT anything new being added to it, so clearly they feel no rush to tack more onto it. As stupid as that is.

I love stuff like this, would look great in my game room, but seriously how do people bring themselves to spend so much money on these things? Could I afford to pay for it? Yes. WOULD I pay for it? No.

"The technology of the CD-I wasn’t meant for such interactive gaming" and that's ultimately the biggest problem with the games on the platform... "but we overcame that obstacle" yeah, no lol.

Good, he deserves more attention than he's gotten. Really overlooked player.

@RareFan Calling Nintendo "slow" for not emulating what virtually everyone else does is like calling those other studios "forgetful" for not making games that appeal to traditional gamers who don't give a sh*t about things like cutscenes, voice acting, and online multiplayer.

It's not an issue of ability, it's an issue of choice. Studios choose to do or not do certain things based on their own internal culture and who they want to appeal to. They don't all have to be the same, and I thank god that they're not, because we certainly have more than enough games that come from the non-Nintendo development dogma.

Sweet! Would have been super fun to work on the production of these films.

I mean, what else would they prefer to work on? If I were a Retro dev I'd have been stoked. One, it's a change of pace from their other games. Two, it stands out on a resume/portfolio. But also it's a freaking Mario Kart game, what developer wouldn't want the opportunity to make official Mario Kart tracks??

@ClamDown I like how just being an ignorant edgelord is now being called "critical thinking" lol

@kobashi100 For sure.

@Ryu_Niiyama Glad to see there's someone else here with common sense! There's a lot of very young, very naive people on this site who think their own personal ideals should be the law of the land, and arguing with them is like trying to reason with a brick wall by ramming your head against it. It's frustrating.

And honestly, at this point I don't understand how anyone still takes the likes of ign and kotaku seriously. They're both essentially activist rags by now.

@johnedwin I will be massively surprised if a new Switch comes out next year, unless it's yet another version of the current model.

What are the signs that Switch has passed its peak? It's sold what, 21 million units per year and Nintendo forecasts another 21 million this year. And that's amid a component shortage that's causing demand to outstrip supply. Games are coming out and selling in droves for the system. I think we're still in the peak.

@Expa0 Excellent choice, the game is sublime.

lol what? Sales haven't slowed, supply is just bottlenecked. 23 million units in a year is not slow.

@CharlieGirl I'm glad you feel that way but up until the point that Reggie left, he was constantly getting sh** from people for being a "phony/disingenuous corporate drone" and both he and Iwata were regularly accused of being dishonest, out of touch, and driving Nintendo into the ground. I personally liked them both, but a lot of people had nothing but nasty things to say about them.

Make it more Nintendo and make it free or dirt cheap, that really should be the only approach they take to making this thing.

@Bret "Yup, every notable riot is totally linked to leftists."

Right, because that's totally what I said.

@PBandSmelly The person killed was not an innocent bystander. Why are people saying that?? Seriously, read the actual news articles. Don't just rely on the comments here for your source of information, because that's not a credible source.

@ATaco It happened in a shopping center, so there's no chance there's not multiple video captures of it. Security cameras, traffic cams, shoppers using their cellphones, something.

I'm usually anti-cop but I really hate when people jump to conclusions on pretty much anything just because they picked a side a long time ago. With many parties involved, including the police, it's going to take a while for the investigation to conclude. If it turns out they really did just shoot a bunch of people in cold blood like people apparently really want to be the case, then the cops should face punishment.

@Bret No, that's not how it works. The absence of information in the days following something like this is not a free pass for you to write in your own story elements just so you can make a point. A sane person waits until the full story comes out and THEN makes conclusions on it.

If the information isn't forthcoming within a reasonable amount of time, then you can freak out all you want. But for now, you're literally just guessing what happened so you have a side to take.

@Ralizah Hey, at least we have persistent waves of leftist riots to balance it out somewhat! Not all violence and insanity and destruction is bad.

@Bret Are you really not capable of making an argument that doesn't rely entirely on assumptions about the topic and the people discussing it? There's no information on what led to the shooting. Read the articles that are out there, not just the user comments on sites like this one. How is "we need to know more about this story" such a controversial concept to some people?

Also, as someone who literally has two cousins who have been shot and killed by police, I refuse to be told by pretty much anyone here how to think or feel about stories like this. Literally all I give a crap about is objectivity.

@Deviant-Dork This site does reviews of video games where the entire objective is to shoot/kill people, so your kids aren't going to be spared from this concept just because it's a video game website.

@link3710 Where are you getting that from?