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@Arkay lol what Charlie is one of the best commenters on this hell site

@beltmenot That's the rub, really. Sure, a traumatic experience may affect the types of media you choose to consume, and that's completely fine and doesn't affect anyone.

Trauma does not make you click on every article and type out long posts about how you won't be playing an E10-rated platformer simply because it has cameos of characters from M-rated games you haven't even played. That's a pure choice from Anti-Matter that rubs a ton of people the wrong way. It even comes with a tone of superiority at times, as if we're all wrong for partaking in the "evil stuffs" present in these games, and it's up to him to guide us to the correct and pure path.

I just scrolled down to Lab Coat. Now, I'm not super familiar with the inner mechanics of the game or anything, but it looks to these casual eyes that she was buffed?!

I've had this garbage DVD for a loooong time. Didn't realize it was such a rarity!

Man, Randy Pitchford and the Beatles? Not the first time he's been connected to something from the past. Google Randy Pitchford Medieval Times for more info.

I don't understand you people. This art style is pure polish, and we've never seen these characters look so expressive before. I honestly feel that this is the best looking Mario game I've ever seen. Cartoony does not equal bad, folks.

I clicked this because of the doggy. Ad needed more doggy.

@OorWullie The Joycon buttons are THE way to play Tetris if you ask me. I've been so happy playing Tetris on that setup. No misinputs due to control pad shenanigans, and mashable unlike a control stick.

@Tyranexx The Pokemon fandom will never accept such a reasonable explanation. There has to be something dark and crazy going on!

@Sonicka The longest Pokemon Presents so far was 27 minutes in 2021. It had 20 minutes on console games.

The 155 million number was reported at the start of FY 2012. It was 150 million in FY 2011. The PS2 was taken off shelves in January 2013. It's really not that hard to conceive of 5 million more selling in its final year.

@hd94 They don't have many filler arcs any more, haven't for a long time. Since the timeskip (October 2011), they've only had 21 filler episodes out of 569 total. I'd rather watch filler arcs than the ridiculous pacing they've been doing instead. They drag everything to a ridiculous length, filling every episode with several minute long recaps, shot after shot of people running, yelling, swords clashing, lengthy reaction shots, reused animation... to the point that every single episode is bursting with filler instead of just some of them.

I'm really excited for Wit Piece. Forcing a 17 page weekly manga to be adapted into a 22 minute animation weekly is nonsense, especially recently for One Piece as Oda is on a schedule where he only releases 2-3 chapters and then takes a week break. Recently each episode only adapts ~12 pages of manga. That's just awful.

LET ME OVERHAUL THE EXP SYSTEM, GAME FREAK. You've been screwing it up for a decade!

@PikminMarioKirby TPC yes, Game Freak no.

@PikminMarioKirby Yes, Nintendo allows their games to be delayed, because they aren't tied to endless other products like cards, mobile apps, and anime. The Pokemon merchandising machine is what drives these rushed releases, not Game Freak. Nintendo leaving time for a flagship release like Mario doesn't at all disprove this.

Nintendo contracts Game Freak to make games on a deadline. No core Pokemon game has been delayed since Diamond and Pearl in 2005 for this reason. There's too much riding on the release of the games to delay them now, but they haven't been given any more time than back in the pixel days to develop the games. That's why ever since the games went 3D, we've gotten fewer new pokemon than ever in each game, including regional variants instead of new ideas, and very little to do in the postgame.

@PikminMarioKirby Nintendo and TPC rush Game Freak. Game Freak doesn't push out rushed, incomplete games because they want to, they do it because they're contracted to get the games out in time to support the merch and cards that were developed alongside them.

GRAAAAAAAAHHHHH I'm so pumped up for this, I've watched the trailer several times and can't get enough of these charming character models and animations!!

@Tasuki There's something so Nintendo Fan about getting a brand new Zelda game, where we FINALLY get to play as Zelda which fans have been wanting for as long as I can remember, and the reaction being "I WANT A PORT OF THIS OTHER ONE"

@SillyG Either way, they've never broken step with bringing older games forward. Maybe it's my B/W fan bias talking but I think the fanbase would riot if B/W remakes got "skipped" in favor of porting X/Y.

@cartunecartune Nope, because Nintendo's website lists it as a 1 player game. https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Mario-Luigi-Brothership-2590264.html#gameDetails

@SillyG X/Y??? Not a chance, at least not yet. You're going to have to wait for the Black and White remakes first.

@ZZalapski Not at all. I went in expecting the last gasp of a dying console. Instead it blew last year's direct out of the water.

@WaveBoy I have no idea how you can look at this and think it looks soulless. I seriously think it looks better than most other first party Nintendo games on the Switch have looked, absolutely including Odyssey. The character animation is leaps and bounds above anything else Nintendo has done with the Mario series. I wish the movie had been animated in this style.

@WaveBoy You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Go back and look at a gamecube game.

@Not_Soos I'm sure it confuses many. Probably including folks who are getting replies to comments they left four years ago.

@Not_Soos The article's four years old. It's been reposted for the game's 30th anniversary.

The tables are such an improvement it makes me wonder what took so long

@Teksetter I've never even heard of a Lupin game, I just think he's one of the greatest characters to ever be animated <3

@russell-marlow Countless games throughout the history of gaming have been advertised in ways that don't represent gameplay. The first Smash Bros game didn't have live adults in mascot outfits beating each other with hammers, did you accuse that of "false advertising"? Surely you didn't accuse Sonic Mania of the same when it debuted its animated intro, so why do it for this? Were you disappointed when the original Legend of Zelda didn't actually suck you into the TV?

Plus the trailer shows gameplay, and the in game art is far from "lazy". Looks at least equivalent to Celeste, one of the most beloved games on the Switch.

@Teksetter based Lupin enjoyer

God damn, full price?! That's wild. I'll wait for a sale, if I get this at all. I did play it on 3DS, but don't think I finished. Actually, I don't think I've ever finished any of the three Luigi's Mansion games despite dipping my toes into each one... Hm.

@Yodalovesu You either weren't paying attention or you've forgotten.

@Arkay Emulation isn't illegal.

@Tyranexx If they opened a Nintendo Store in Chicago I'd 1) go there and 2) go broke

@Tyranexx I'm in the Chicago burbs, so it'd be Des Moines for me too if I thought this'd be worth it.

@Tyranexx Where are you coming from that Des Moines is both closest and a day away, north mainland Michigan?

@N00BiSH Noting that he's listed as a supervisor for TTYD, rather than the producer credit he has for all the other titles. Who knows what the heck the actual difference is, but they both read like very influential roles to me.

Interestingly, there's no credit for him in the remake, just a special thanks. Supervisor is Ryota Kawade, and several other producers are listed.

@AnnoyingFrenzy it's been a week since this came out. So... years. Or probably never. There's a reason this got a remake and PM64 didn't.

I definitely did this with some friends when it was 48 and even that felt like a marathon, especially when we had pretty much solidified our positions with one of us (not me lol) consistently taking more firsts than the rest, same as what happened here. Kudos to you for sticking it out for the long run! I don't envy you for suffering through all those Tour tracks.

I wonder how Tallarico is going to spin this one.

Edit: never mind, @Henchdog already wrote it perfectly. Good work lmao

@boxyguy Seriously! I don't understand why people can't just let silly, fun things happen. Like of course there's nothing significant about this in the grand scheme of things, but why does there have to be?! It's essentially just a celebration of the 3DS and all the good times it gave us. Is that such a crime?

@rjejr This was a huge disappointment. Gamesindustry.biz is one of the few gaming news sites I check, and to hear that IGN immediately canned two of their, what, six writers?? It's a huge shame.

@ZZalapski You mean "despite Nintendo and TPC pushing Game Freak to release fully 3D games on the same schedule they were making 2D pixel based ones so they can keep releasing new merchandise, cards, and anime".

@Perpetual_Change Main reason for that is because we didn't have these newfangled backlit screens back then. Colors were harder to see unless they were this vivid.

@Folkloner Man, just let the people do their silly thing. It doesn't affect you in any way and they're obviously finding it fun or they wouldn't keep posting about it.

@Koda1000 There's a lot that are variations of the same song. Like every town theme has Morning, Daytime, Evening, and Night versions.