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I remember when I first played Ni No Kuni a few years back. I finished the game and had the grand realization that I would never be able to play a Pokémon game again because I had just played a game that scratched the same itch but was better in virtually every single way. Ni No Kuni is incredible and I genuinely believe it what the Pokémon series could have become in terms of storytelling, art direction, and gameplay if GameFreak hadn't decided to make the same game over and over for the past 25 years.

At the end of the day, you really do vote with your wallet. For example, I want to buy TLoU:P1, but I don't support selling it for $70, so I'm waiting until it's $40. Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening Remake was great, so I bought it. Let's Go Pikachu looked like a cute but pointless upgrade from a franchise that refuses to get with the times, so I didn't buy it. Honestly, I'm surprised by how many people I see in these comment sections that buy games simply because they were made by Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft. It's like, you know you have your agency, right?

It looks like a lemur and an aye-aye got it on and it just discovered My Chemical Romance.

What I would give for this game to come to other platforms than the Switch.

Okay, yeah, I'll vouch for Super Mario 3D World. I NEARLY 100%-ed that game... until I hit that last level. The game beat me. I realized after dying between 70–100 times that my hands did not have the speed and dexterity needed to beat that level. Maybe when I was younger, but I just couldn't do it.

@BenAV I would agree with you on this, but this game runs perfectly on PC and all other consoles. It only struggles on Switch.

It makes me sad that more and more games are getting lower game review scores on Switch simply because the Switch's hardware can't seem to keep up with modern game releases.

I'll be completely honest, I think I like the pixel art version more than the original art direction.

@Tyranexx Is that a euphemism?

That ouija board killed me. 🤣🤣🤣

@N00BiSH Yeah, at least take me to dinner first.

If it keeps being a problem then they should probably get that checked.

I hope that these games bring people joy. As for myself, Pokemon games stopped being fun for me about 20 years ago, so you all have fun with these new games.

I think what gets me isn't that people enjoy Pokemon games; it's when Pokemon fans, including game reviewers, argue online that the games are still 9/10 or 10/10 experiences. They're not. They're not even close. By today's standards of what is possible in terms of gameplay, visuals, storytelling, and art direction, they are a decade or two behind the curve. At their absolute best, modern Pokemon games are still only around a 5/10. We live in a world with Dragon Quest 11 and Persona 5. Modern Pokemon can't hold a candle to these games.

Love what you're going to love, but maybe take the rose-colored glasses off.

Sonic has, in fact, not skipped leg day.

@Fizza Oh, if you want to see a really terrifying rubber duck design, go look up the Clicker rubber duck they made for The Last of Us series.

The hat comes off. Genius.

Even in 2D, it looks so empty.

18+... does that mean that Bowser is anatomically correct?

Just because he's one of the best game designers to have ever lived doesn't mean that he's always right.

In all honesty, these kinds of descriptions that video game news outlets use (I'm looking at you IGN) drive me crazy. I think it's helpful to classify media types into genres, but now I think it's going way too far. I love Zelda, but I've started avoiding games that get the title "Zelda-like" unless it gets really great reviews, but even then, I don't usually bother.

If someone had told me that A Plague's Tale: Innocence was a French-style The Last of Us-like body-horror skill tree-crafting action-adventure, I don't think I would have ever played it. Instead, what I did hear was, "This game's story is crazy and dope as hell." That's why I played it and that's why I loved it.

Even though we will never see a LoZ game that looks like this, I would play it in a heartbeat.

@Qwertyninty I think that HD rumble isn't a waste, but that Nintendo is wasting its potential. Case in point, the PS5 controller is insane but that's only because Sony continues to support its features.

To be completely honest, I forgot that this game even exists... it sounds like maybe the sequel shouldn't.

I am flabbergasted by Nintendo's inability to adapt to the modern era of gaming. I don't know why they think this is helping their brand; it's only hurting it. It's like they're the best in the biz when it comes to making games, but they're bottom tier in just about every other category compared to other game devs.

@Azuris I absolutely agree. I started with 1/2 Genie Hero and it was a great way to hop into the franchise. If I had started with Risky's Revenge or the first Shantae then I might not have played other games in the series.

@anoyonmus @Rainz I've played part of Shantae, and I've finished Risky's Revenge and 1/2 Genie Hero, so I'm not an expert. I started with 1/2 Genie Hero and I didn't feel lost in the slightest. The story isn't hard to follow if you haven't played the others and the mechanics are very modernized compared to the others. You can skip the first game altogether; it didn't age very well. Risky's Revenge is good, but it also didn't age all that well. I've had Pirate's Curse in my backlog for forever, but I really need to play through it.

So, basically, what I'm trying to say is hop in wherever. They're fun games that are definitely worth your time.

The Pokémon Company DESPERATELY need to use a different game engine. Art direction is one thing, but these games never cease to amaze me as to how 💩-y they look.

I guess I like sad games that you you cry because I've played over half of these. Haha!

How? How is GTA:V still, STILL(!!!!) in the top 10? This never ceases to blow my mind.

Breath of the Wild got me through the worst breakup of my life. When I broke up with my girlfriend, I shut myself in my room and couldn't get out of bed. I wasn't eating. I was a complete mess for the first few days. BOTW allowed me to escape and it genuinely saved me during that time of my life.

The Last of Us 1 & 2 got me through the beginning of the pandemic. It was becoming too easy to become numb during those first 6 months and The Last of Us helped me to hold on to empathy and to keep feeling when I wanted to go numb.

This is the aspect of Nintendo's games that, all things considered, are falling dismally behind industry standard. Sony's and Microsoft's focus on accessibility in their games are leaps and bounds ahead of Nintendo. I'm a web designer, and if I treated the accessibility of my clients' websites like Nintendo treats their games then OSHA would sue my a** off.

The fact that a paraplegic person could still experience The Last of Us: Part 2 by disabling all gameplay, essentially turning the game into a movie is mind-blowing to me. Freak, you can even disable all colors in the game except the good guys are blue, enemies are red, and items are yellow; it's incredible. The new Forza game allows you to enable a windowed view of a person signing all spoken words. Nintendo needs to severely up their game.

@ChromaticDracula Dude, you NEED to play Assault. Boot it up on Dolphin and prepare to have your mind blown. It's not as charming as SF 64, but it a lot of ways it's an even better game.

Did a bunch of furries come out of the woodwork to vote Star Fox Adventure above Star Fox Assault? Adventure kind of sucks, honestly. Assault is a fantastic hidden gem. I played this game to death as a teenager. I think there are some things Assault does that's even better than Star Fox 64. And that soundtrack. Ooooooo, that soundtrack. Effing best music in the entire series. I was playing Assault through Dolphin a couple of weeks ago and it still holds up insanely well.

Are you only allowed to pay for the Lego set with 1 dollar bills?

18+... that's uhh... new...?
There's just... so many things I could say that I can't say.

The stupid amount of fan-service, the ridiculously long tutorials, and the overall pacing of these games are the reasons that this franchise just isn't for me. I have almost no tolerance for fan-service because it makes me so uncomfortable. Xenoblade is no exception.

@Dualmask I am one of these people. I own a 3DS, but I never bought a WiiU. The 3DS version of Smash was surprisingly robust and fleshed out. A friend of mine and I would play against each other on our 3DSs and we never noticed any input lag or dropped frames... I can't even say that about Smash Ultimate multiplayer.

This list is fascinating. It really puts in perspective just how badly the WiiU flopped.

Are the screenshots included in one of the DLC tiers?

This killed me. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man, what I'd give to shake the hand of the designer that thought of this.

These all look good but feel a little samey to me except for No Place for Bravery and Turbo Overkill (which is such a stupid name hahaha!). Both of those games are making their way right onto my wishlist. Blind Fate reminds me of Katana Zero, but I don't know if it will be quite on that level.

Me: Reads list
My web Browser: "25 ZIP files download complete"

Wow. These are stunning. This is a fandom at its best.

I'm sorry, but the voice acting for the monster thing at 0:42 absolutely killed me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh man, I'm dead.

This looks like this might have been a better time if it wasn't taking itself so seriously.

@Lizuka "Not like logo design matters much anyway"

Hooooooooooold up. I'm going to need to stop you right there. Logos are one of the single most important aspects of a company and brand. The logo drives product design, the culture of a company, and gives people a symbol to what they love. Can you imagine if Nike didn't have the swoosh or if McDonald's didn't have the M? Heck, Nintendo's logo is so strong that it can be displayed with every product they create without feeling out of place or breaking their image. A good logo is essential. A bad logo literally changes the face of a company and will influence its products for the foreseeable future.

You have every right to not care about logos, but holy crap, I'm sorry, no. Logos are important.

For all intents and purposes, this isn't a "bad" logo. It's functional. I'll work better in black and white compared to the old logo and it's much more legible... but that's about it. What it gained in functionality it lost in personality. That's not a win. To me, that's a step down from what it was.

It's good to know you can literally set a record for being a dumba**.🍑

The Procession To Calvary is on sale right now on Steam for $6. I bought it without batting an eye.

Anyone that is satisfied with the offerings for NSO is not allowed to complain about Sony's new PS Plus tiers.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I agree. There are even some games that are coded so heavily around being 30 or 60 fps that any changes to that frame rate would completely break the game, like Okami. These two games are probably in the same boat.