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Exactly my thoughts sadly (except I don't like the visuals so much). I enjoyed the Danganronpa games and so bought this on launch, only to realise my mistake as soon as everyone left the death game part and the gameplay slowed to a crawl. If only I'd had this review to warn me then... Sigh.

I'd take this Twitter account with a pincer salt.

I'm here for any and all Ace Attorney news, 'news', or any other kind of article - especially when it's written by Kate, who is obviously very passionate about the series in addition to being one of the most entertaining gaming journos I've read.

For everyone saying how sad they are that they can't experience the game again, it's still very much worth replaying, especially if you leave it a long time between playthroughs. That's what I did last year, having not touched it since launch. Obviously not the same experience, probably not quite as magical; but going through it again, seeing how THAT twist is subtly seeded throughout, wondering how they could possibly tie up all the loose ends and being amazed again... that was still intact for me. The replay cemented this as one of my top five games of all time - up there with Thousand-Year Door incidentally.

"We did accidentally lick a dog once."

Story please.

I personally can't believe it's taken until the second one of these for people to scream 'IT'S NOT FUNNY' and throw their toys around. I love these - a real throwback to the magazines of yesteryear, when making the reader laugh took equal billing with reporting the news. Humour's subjective, and they won't all land with me or with anyone. I'm just glad they're happening. Bravo @kategray !

I’ve laughed at NL content more in the time since Kate joined than I have the remaining time I’ve been on here, meaning no offence to your fellows. Actual out-loud giggle at that ‘small print translation’.

I’d love to play as an axolotl and the muppet chef, but as someone who’s already bought both games and all the DLC, a 15% discount feels laughable and tokenistic.

Great purchase for anyone who’s not got either though! Great and very frustrating purchase.

It’s such a shame. I was delighted when this got announced, having never played it on other platforms before its untimely culling. It looked great and was spoken of highly. I was all the way up for it.

Then UbiSoft’s sexual assault-supporting culture crawled out of the woodwork, and its CEO failed to apologise in a meaningful way, take any proper action, or resign. It’s a hard pass and a sigh on this one, sadly.

A quick reminder (since Nintendo Life only wanted to report on Yves’ non-apology apology) that UbiSoft is a company whose culture allowed for sexual abusers to survive and thrive, and whose CEO has failed to apologise in a meaningful way, take any proper action, or resign.

It’s a 7/10. You can probably wait for this one to come out second-hand.

People made such a fuss about ‘Dexit’ that I was convinced that for those who don’t care about the National Dex storm-in-a-Sinistea these games would still be top-notch. However they did feel rushed and low-effort in places, and due to the low stakes of the DLC that felt even worse. I’d say my disappointment has increased over time, sadly.

Still, looking back at older gens., Game Freak have tended to screw the Yamper a little with the first game in every console generation, and improve on the subsequent one. I have higher hopes for the next Switch Pokémon instalments.

@Kalmaro 'Missed-ery', surely?

@basilpesto While I know it was gut-wrenching for you to be made redundant recently, I hope it’s some small consolation that this review was one of the best I’ve read in ages. A properly entertaining drubbing. Oh my NGC and my NGamer of long ago...

Bad (alleged) leadership at UbiSoft? Surely not!

@Terra Thanks for the tips boss, sounds a bit like a mix between Overcooked and... er, something like Cat Quest 2? We enjoyed both of those so we might go for it. Ta!

@Terra I'm looking for a new couch co-op offering, so... er... all of those cons don't apply to me! How does the game feel in comparison to Overcooked when you can actually play it? There's not much about that here - 'quite enjoyable' is vague, and Overcooked got pretty hectic too...

Amazon is shady
Pre-ordering isn’t a great idea
Limited availability of games leads to anti-customer moves
Water is wet
The Pope is Catholic

I could go on.

It’s a start. It was also intentionally generic, put out before UbiForward so that it would get pushed down by tweets about UbiForward itself, and their excuse for not including in UbiForward proper was ridiculous; so it’s not a very good start. Much more to be done here, and it doesn’t help that this is the first sites like this one have reported on it at all.

@oatmaster No no no, it’s definitely a witch hunt. Haven’t you seen Lotus’ response and how persecuted and reluctant it looks? /s

Prompt effective response. Great to see.

Me in the earlier news piece: ‘My concern is that the main character looks a little... lightweight.’

Mitch: ‘Kiara has a sort of unresponsive heaviness to her’.

So I was almost right! If you squint. And include under ‘almost right’ 'the complete opposite’.

Some comments disparaging the pixel art style here (and, er, criticising roguelikes? I don’t like them either, but this seems like an odd place to beat that particular drum given that this game, y’know, isn’t). While I’m not the biggest fan, I also appreciate that indie developers have to pick and choose where to exercise their more limited budgets. Hopefully less spent on art = more spent on gameplay and level design? Might be a worthwhile trade-off.

My concern is that the main character looks a little... lightweight. Despite it using an art style similar to Celeste, Madeline felt great to control and had a real weight to her, and I can’t see the same in the trailer. I’m curious about that review.

Can't wait to try out those captu- I mean costumes. Yes, costumes. Cough.

(Come on though - the soundtrack especially sounds like it's been lifted straight from Mario Odyssey! And possibly other places before that.)

Not sure if adorable, slightly uncomfortable allegory for racism/immigration, or both.

@RupeeClock That should include everyone to be fair.

There's also a bit where a light on the gun switches between blue and red. And a protagonist being, apparently, talked at by a robot. This might well be very good, but it has instant familiarities to Portal in the same way that Genshin Impact has instant familiarities to Breath of the Wild.

In what will no doubt be the most popular comment in the section, I liked Dexit. There are too many of the bloody things wandering around now. I’m by no means a big Gen. One fanboy (3’s my favourite, 7 second), but having almost a thousand monsters makes any attempt at balancing battling impossible, power creep inevitable and finishing a Pokédex ridiculous unless you bought the previous games on a console you may not own. 400 was a reasonable number, in the knowledge that future games would see the return of some of the other oldies.

There were other problems with Sword and Shield, but I don’t suppose updates will patch in voice acting and decent dungeon design, will they? No, instead we’ll get everyone’s favourite Pokémon Nidorino back. Hooraaaaaay.

(Please note my favourite monster, how it didn’t make it into Sword/Shield, and how I don’t care.)

Good to see Nintendo Life using Hong Kong liberation icon Mei as their cover picture for this story.

Screw Blizzard.

Looking at Twitter (urgh), this is going to be one hell of a balancing act... Thanks for penning this Alex, it can’t have been easy. Personally I worry that people, and feedback, are going to be so focussed around Dexit (which could be considered pretty reasonable considering how many of the bloody things there are now) that they look over other technical and structural issues with the series that arguably should have been fixed in the transition to Big Boy Machines. Ho hum.

Thanks again for writing this, Alex; and good luck with the comments section...

@CTmatic On the contrary, people like you and me are the people who can control these real-world things. We’re the people who give Blizzard et al. the only thing they care about: money. Not only that, we can spread messages to boycott them, inform our less informed friends, and work towards making it socially unacceptable to purchase Blizzard products. That’s the way one person making a decision becomes ten people becomes something that Blizzard has to start caring about.

I’m not going to tell you or anyone else to push out of your comfort zone to make a stand - I’m hardly one to moralise, Nintendo works with Tencent and I buy Nintendo goods. I’m just saying that we’re exactly the sort of people who can make a difference. If we choose not to then that’s on us.

@NEStalgia I don’t think you meant ‘virility’ there...

UNTITLED GOOSE GAME: BETTER THAN THE BLUE PILL

So... not many people willing to consider the whole ‘quality over quantity’ thing then? This entertained me more than several full price games. There are entire 60h JRPGs I’ve regretted buying more than this, had fewer moments of genuine fun in than this.

Value for money is definitely a thing, but this is GotY material at (almost) any price. Those citing length alone as a reason for not buying are missing out on an experience that is definitely worth £4 an hour.

HONK HONK

File this one under ‘trying too hard to be edgy’ based on the trailer. ‘We can use the F word lots, do you accept us now?’

Please don’t display said new Pokémon in the article thumbnail for those who don’t want almost every monster revealed before getting the game thank you.

@Damo A big thank you for not putting the new Pokémon names or designs in the thumbnail. TPC always seems determined to spoil every aspect of their new games prior to release: thank you for helping me avoid that here. Please continue to do so going forward, some of us really do appreciate it!

Don’t call N64 Magazine ‘a magazine’! For those in the know it was the magazine. 59 issues of utter gold.

For crying out loud chaps. All you need to put on the front page is, ‘Major Bandai Namco Remaster Leaked For Switch’. This is spoiling E3 up the wazoo and, while I agree that as a news site you should report on it, the way you’ve presented it on your front page was entirely unnecessary. 😠

It’s not only the repeated song, although that’s a big offender. It’s also the instrumentation. There are copious uses of slightly out-of-tune recorder that really grate on the ears. A couple of levels use what sound like the main theme played on clown horns, ignoring the fact that clown horns sound like somebody tried and failed to make flatulence musical. And I actually had to mute the game whenever I played the costume gachapon machines.

I liked Yoshi’s Crafted World overall! I think it’s a good game with great moments. But the soundtrack is bobbins.

All aboard the Federation Force 2 hype train! CHOO CHOOOOOOO

The one benefit of Nintendo’s historically lousy ‘big third-party’ support is that we often haven’t been exposed to all the dross that support comes with. Now we are!

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

@YANDMAN Just you wait until you get to Rouxls Kaard’s puzzles. Phew! Some real doozies there. They were so hard I almost ended up pulling my hair out. Needed to refer to at least three walkthroughs to solve them.

Does anyone remember Data Design Interactive? In the Wii era they released a whole bunch of 3D platformers in quick succession, all of them using the same engine reskinned and none of them very good. Not even Ninjabread Man.

KEMCO are Data Design Interactive but with JRPGs.

@janfritz YEAH BUT WHERE ARE MY GOKU AND SHREK??? HE SHOULD BE ON TWO DRIPS ONE FOR HIM AND ONE FOR PLAYABLE WALUIGI

@TheFanatic From tax fraud to actual fraud!

As a 29-year-old kid who played the demo., I can confirm that only kids will enjoy this game. The title screen on its own had me grinning from ear-to-ear, and the level was (slow and easy but) full of charm, more so even than Woolly World. It turned me from a sceptic into a day-one buyer.

If, on the other hand, you’ve lost touch with your inner child and are dead inside, then I agree that you should play something with more war atrocities in.

‘Despite untapped potential’

‘Untapped’

Nice.

@nintendobynature ‘Boo’ is the correct response to that joke!

Be careful - it'll give you an awfully painful service charge.

...I'm very sorry.

Dr. Mario’s Wii Fit x Nintendogs (feat. the Vitality Sensor).

@DannyBoi I think the default setting auto-updates the save with the game. So the cloud goes, ‘I see you’ve got rid of everything from your save file, I’ll just take... that...’ Not strictly a deletion, just an update you (really really) don’t want!

That said I’m by no means an expert, I’ve not used the cloud saves to date. I’d check the Twitter comments left by the lady in the article above, who did have a cloud backup and still lost it all.