Coalescence

Metroid x Extreme G is not what I was expecting, but I am absolutely sold on Prime 4 now. Super glad it's not more of the exact same gameplay which had gotten stale by 3. Hopefully they tapped some of those Monolith resources to build out some giant worlds to tear through.

Best news of the Direct for me, no joke. My childhood VB finally fell to the decayed ribbon glue and I haven't gotten around to finding someone to do the fix. Red Viper on the 3DS works fine and is great with the shader update, but there's just no substitute for playing games like Teleroboxer and 3D Tetris without the eyepiece. It'd be the best if they also release a dual dpad VB controller or at least if someone makes a right joycon with a dpad.

More of this please. Fake/mimic things used to be a staple of games. It's like companies decided altogether that was too mean and I'm not there for that. Being f-ed with and having communal anger with other players is part of the fun.

Chat is going to have no idea what to spam now that silksong is out

YouTube outrage p**n right here. This is their attempt to patent. If it even gets through which it probably will not, there's obviously a massive line of precedent in games that have been doing this beforehand. Big companies with big legal arms always attempt everything they can, it's what they are hired to do. Legal stuff isn't for the easily riled and hot headed but people who are both are definitely the paydirt for outrage farmers.

Lmao. Monkey paw wish for people who didn't like Square doing game key cards. I'm sure this is somehow Nintendo's fault still.

Two things are true. The game like most games would benefit from difficulty and accessibility options - and it's surely better than issuing patches to tweak and change what people have already experienced.

And maybe if the game wasn't hyped up as a has to be perfect instant GOTY, there wouldn't be so many people who may not have even played Hollow Knight hitting this wall.

The common greatness in gamers. The notion that your yum is entirely yucked because other people aren't playing & experiencing games the right way. It doesn't even have to be a pile of options to select from. Nintendo figured out a perfect way to have games simply & non-invasively to give players a quick leg-up if they hit a wall. It would be awesome if more devs took that cue.

Whew, the difficulty gatekeeping is coming out full force with this. What is it about Hollow Knight that brings out the absolute best in gamers.

Sure hope whatever meager boost they got from the bad publicity and ever so slight head start was worth this. I mean, of all companies to try and jump in front of to sip on their Kool aid...

lol the comment section today is a speedrun on old the bingo card. Totally cool if your stance is to hate big bad Nintendo but man you people need to squeeze some original thoughts out. Maybe try something like video games are a human right.

Same old story though, some idiot doesn't do the smart thing which is to wait until the next generation to start up your operations and definitely don't take direct payments. That wouldn't be profitable, but we don't like to talk about that because it would go against the shield of games preservation or whatever.

It's all perception. Nintendo holds their high price point with the claim that they sell a premium evergreen product, and they never do deep price cuts except in extreme circumstances because it would go against the image they sell. Other companies like this shoot low and appeal to the compulsion and lean on word of mouth. Either way is a gamble. That's the fun of selling a product.

Especially because price it whatever you want, people are still going to put it through some obtuse subjective grinder of analysis, and present that as existing on an objective factually proven scale for what games should cost. 2D? Must be worth $30, tops. Crap like that.

Based on the fragility of some of the comments, heaven help you lot if you dare to give this less than a 10.

@ImpromptuR You nailed it. Vampire Survivors syndrome. Which of course came out later, but that game is probably the most blatant instance of it. A fairly good game getting the appearance of being the best ever because everyone has played it which was largely driven by the low price point. Add to that people who suck up cheap games are more likely to be younger which means they're experiencing it at a more formative age and will build nostalgia quicker and deeper than others.

Adventure of Samsara. They picked the right launch day. This is what I really want out of that genre.

They might have my money for specifically going against the trend and order to just follow the flavor of the month, especially since I'm definitely not getting Silksong. I always preferred the chunkier movement of early Metroid than the ultra nimble hyperactive glass cannon of modern games in the genre (including Metroid). Most of the cons are what I like. Actual risk in fights instead of what most games do, which is the unlimited rollback to a couple minutes ago. I liked that when Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV did it 15 years ago and it was fresh, now it just feels like a grind.

@w1p3out yeah they blow chunks and I'll always take the opportunity to talk that up, but Yuzo is a hell of a guy and the game is killer. I'm not above giving money to some crappy people if I get to enjoy something a lot.

lol the pearl clutching that gaming companies treated their products like products and not irreplaceable treasures to be perfectly preserved in limestone vaults. That's the reality, champs. We love something the creating companies often regard as disposable toys & faceless products. That beloved experience from our childhood to them is only as useful as its ability to make money and storage becomes a premium when it comes to cutting costs. This is nothing new.

Classic rental game here, absolute blast in small bursts and definitely Descent for the N64. Looking forward to playing this again.

I'm good. I'd just as soon stick with the classics than see modern Squeenix manhandling and milking them. Especially with them having the gall to call this the definitive FFT. We all know these usually stand for Definitively the Least Amount of Effort spent to make money on an old game.

If it's like HK as it appears to be, the price is right. That was definitely a $15-20 game.

I love my Vita and still use it regularly, but Sony had their chance. The 3DS had a very weak launch, was underpowered on hardware, and was still trying to gain momentum when the Vita launched. They could have knocked Nintendo down, maybe not as hard as with the PS1, but at least made portable consoles a two sided field. But after the 3DS eventually took hold and now so many years of Switch dominance, they don't have a chance in hell unless they're planning to fight the long fight of clawing their way in with sustained support and solid exclusives, but even then, that's maybe an insurmountable climb. There's any number of portables with more power and more bells and whistles, but they can't dent Nintendo's stride because the brand power, third party support, and install base are all off the charts and only getting stronger.

Looks like Nintendo really nailed the timing on this. Xbox has nothing really on the horizon, Playstation is in that near late gen lull by still going but ultimately starting the wind down. Other console owners and especially those who never bought a Switch are ripe to buy into something new and shiny and people have been clamoring for a Switch upgrade. And when MS and Sony circle back around, the Switch 2 will have their strong foothold in place already. It's looking to play out like the opposite of what happened when the Dreamcast was straddling console generations.

@Koda1000 That's how calculating change works. (Sales this year - sales last year) / sales last year. If they sold 175 this year and 100 last year it would be (175 - 100) / 100 = 0.75, indicting a 75% increase year-over-year.

Mouse support for Picross is cool but after trying it I went right back to controller. Probably because that's how I've always played it, but the mouse felt way too tedious to use.

Most of the people who bought Mario Kart World probably sold it. Most of the sales are probably parents buying it for their spoiled kids. Most of the sales are just incel man babies with unlimited income anyway. My friend doesn't have a Switch 2 so I suspect these sales aren't real. Next month there's going to be a huge crash because I did the math and that's when all the bootlickers will have gotten theirs.

The salt flows so freely whenever Nintendo does well.

Way more interested in this game than Silksong. Annoying fans shouting in every comment box have really given a perception that the entire gaming world is going to shut down to play Silksong and that's far and away from the truth.

This was the game that got me to buy a DS, having clocked more hours on the GBA with Castlevania than anything. I've been replaying it recently on the Wii U (injection since they missed that huge opportunity to do it officially) and it's alright, though definitely a step down from its predecessor in a lot of ways. Soundtrack is killer and I actually like the touch screen seal. The Castlevania III-style bonus mode though is top notch and is possibly my favorite extra of any title in the series.

Ridiculous. No game that isn't a Mario, Zelda, or Final Fantasy should hold this much perceived sway.

They're in touch except when you ask a very small vocal subset who will never come to grips with their being a very small subset.

He got it right they anticipated the dip after the pandemic. Nintendo's toy company roots aid them best in not oversaturating the market. They have the resources to have made five more 2D Metroids or pumped every IP they own at least once but they keep it all even handed and don't overextend.

I hope they bring back Mario 35 as Mario 40 and include some other games in the series. That game was so much fun. Some form of Galaxy 2 returning would be awesome, that game is still a stunner. And long as I'm dreaming 3D Land Deluxe.

Of course, they're not actual physical media. Funny Nintendo gets all the heat for this. Nintendo isn't making anyone do key cards nor have they phased out physical carts. These publishers can still do physical carts. If key cards go away, those companies are just going to do digital only or code in a box as they had been and would be if key cards weren't an option. Key cards probably will go away, and all the whinging can shift back to code in a box.

Not that I care much either way. Modern games are preserved six ways from Sunday yet people act like they're teetering on extinction. Switch games are ripped the moment they release and archived all over. And every third gamer is also bent on making their own Noah's Ark with physical copies. The damage is already done on the older stuff.

There should be a term for this sort of sympathy chasing, where a company or indie game developer so blatantly pokes the Nintendo Legal Dept. hornet nest to get attention and support from kneejerk r/F-Nintendo types.

All that for another drop of Hollow Knight

Hard to get excited about the logo and name alone when the original Acclaim was cut up into pieces after they filed for bankruptcy over 20 years ago, and this is where a group of investors launched a new company using the Acclaim trademark.

Does anyone remember when they were planning to buy advertising space on tombstones for a new Shadowman? They got a bit crazy in those final years.

That's some really good failing to read the room right there.

Really looking forward to the next direct having a peaceful absence of whining in the chat. At least, one less topic of whining. Happy for all the fans finally getting it though. I'll pass; Hollow Knight was entirely okay and I don't need any more of that considering the runtime, but the soundtrack will always be solid.

That sure looks like Hollow Knight with a different character.

Whoa, you mean Team Cherry was capable of announcing things themselves, and weren't solely relying on Nintendo Directs? Well that's just weird.

The price is fairly decent, the trinkets aren't ridiculous, and there's not some garish LRG logo on the box. Kudos, LRG, on a job...done.

At this point it would be unbelievably easy to mess with Silkies. You know you're too far into your fandom when even Geoff Keighly is lining up to dunk.

What's NL going to do if the game who shall not be named reaches #1? Just not publish the chart at all?

I can't believe they released Donkey Kong Bananza in the same year as Mario Kart World. They both have Donkey Kong and Pauline it's like the same game.

Lol. Reminds me of the Plagiarismo Di Plagiarismo bit from the Simpsons.

Gamers still incapable of holding more than a binary opinion of Nintendo. Luckily, the company is pretty adept at not trying to please the crowds who are absolutely unpleasable.

Good on them. Gaming competitions were 1000% inaccessible when I was a kid, like some far off dream for only the most well off and connected people. Of course it's an inroad to getting new kids hooked on the product too, but more than one thing is true at once.

So they bragged about having a head start on Switch 2 accessories, and then fumbled their designs. I don't know if there's a more pure uncut L.

People saying they thought this was only a Western thing are showing the weird myopic fantasizing of Japan is alive and well. Jerks exist in every region, race, culture, orientation, and any other grouping of humans in existence.

I'm really hoping the exclusion of Rebirth means there's a ReBirth collection coming with Contra and Castlevania, because those games are way too good to be locked away on wiiware. But it seems a good handful of games are doomed to be just that.

If they do that's cool, the Nintendo music app is a nice supplement, but I long ago took things into my own hands in using my own streaming server for Nintendo music. Not bloody likely they'll add something like Bucky O'Hare anyway.

Love this article because Metroid II is one of my favorite games of all time largely because it does such a good job of making you feel insignificant. The music helps too which is more focused on the environment than the hero, not really underscoring the mood of the journey outside of a couple pieces. It's also just neat that the sound engineer did the soundtrack, and he creatively uses sfx as beats in the music. The remake is fine, but there's really nothing like the original for that feeling of dread and determination - even Dread itself.

What, a toy company is existing to make money? Why, I never. I thought we were best buds and were going to have the best sleepovers.