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@AlanaHagues I think you got some information in the article incorrect, part 1 is releasing June 23rd and part 2 is July 24th, so part 2 is releasing 1 month later.

Really excited for this one! Loved the demo so I'm happy to see the full game seems to deliver a great experience too. I've been re-playing a new route in Three Houses to prepare myself for the release.

This was my GoTY in 2020, definitely recommend to any visual novel fans. It's true story is a little confusing at first but it's satisfying when it all comes together.

@PJOReilly Yeah it's always nice to have that option for sure. I think I'll still stick with the English voices since I love to just sit back and listen. The voice acting was still mostly fine, there were just some lines that broke the immersion a bit, but I don't think it was enough to completely turn it off.

On another note one thing I really liked was being able to see character profiles during dialogue by pressing X. The game does a very good job at helping you remember the different characters and their roles/origin through the story alone (usually it takes me hours to digest a games world and its chatacters, but i caught on by chapter 2 in this game), but it's still a really nice feature to have to help solidify the information to memory.

After playing the demo I totally agree with the voice acting critique, the delivery of some of the lines feels way off. But I'm still happy we got voice acting for such a text heavy game. The demo took a little while for me to warm up to the game but I ended up really loving it, can't wait until I get my copy!

@Juga I think people should go into the game with a different mindset. Based on the demo it's more of a visual novel with SRPG stages scattered within. If you can manage to get yourself immersed in the world's politics and go in with that expectation it can be quite fun.

Glad this series seems to be picking up steam and refining it's own formula. Will definitely get around to playing this after I finish Ryza 2.

Time to pick up all the rest of the eShop exclusives on my list. We saw signs that this would be happening sometime soon so it's not completely out of the blue, but still sad. Hopefully a lot of eShop exclusives get ported over to newer consoles eventually.

I nearly spit out my drink when I saw 48 tracks.

This might be the first Kickstarter project I back. I love the gameboy Zelda games and I also absolutely adore Shovel Knight, so I trust Yacht Club Games will do a good job with this one.

I'm assuming the recent controversy with Activision Blizzard contributed to their willingness to sell. But I guess not many companies wouldn't sell for a figure that big.

Microsoft kind of needs to make big moves like this if they want to stay afloat in the market. Nintendo and Sony have consistently had better console sales (except for the Wii U), so Microsoft needed to get a better reason to own their console (or Game Pass on PC at least). Between Game Pass, Bethesda, and Activision Blizzard they're really showing they're trying to solidify their place in the gaming market.

It was a smart move by them, but hopefully it doesn't get too extreme.

Just tried this game out last night, it's a lot of fun! I do wish some of the early progression was a bit faster, but the game does reward you with faster progression the more loops you manage to do in a single expedition. Maybe if there was a few more options of cards early on it would make the early game feel more varied.

@SuperZeldaFun Except it was review bombed. The vast majority of the people on Metacritic who gave the game a 0 were because of the region lock drama, and had nothing to do with the quality of the game. Just check to see how many of those 0 scores actually wrote a review. There's a reason why the critics gave the game glowing praise (has between 84-86% depending on the console version), and the game was widely loved by fans too. Obviously there are people out there who didn't like it, and that's valid, but the user score on metacritic was clearly review bombed and that's not something people should go by when they make their decision to purchase.

Very happy with this! Loved this game, the amount of fun ideas packed into it rivals even some of the best Mario games imo. If you have a partner, kid or friend to play this with I'd highly recommend. Hopefully more people try out It Takes Two because of this, totally deserves the attention.

This is an extremely addicting fighting game and very friendly to newcomers to the fighting genre. Definitely recommend picking this up if you're even slightly interested.

@JustMonika No there's just one ending. Each of the 13 characters has their own individual story and you'll be switching back and forth between them, but there's still one definitive ending once you've completed all the characters' stories.

Within the chapters of the characters stories there are different routes you'll have go back and take to progress, but I wouldn't really consider them endings.

@Krull For the RTS section game has 7 tutorial stages and about 30 regular stages. Each can be beaten within a few minutes so you'll definitely be spending the majority of your time in the visual novel section. If you take into account the dialogue before the battles and time for upgrading/building sentinels, I'd say it's roughly 5 hours of RTS gameplay and 25 hours of visual novel gameplay.

@kducky11 Thanks, I heard about this one a few months ago and was interested but it completely fell off my radar. Will have to look back into it.

Loved Fantasy Life on the 3DS so I'll probably give this one a shot, but ultimately it's probably going to make me want to go back to the 3DS version more than anything. I'll see how much entertainment I can get out of this one as free to play.

Awesome news! This was easily my GotY in 2020, such an interesting way of telling a story. Loved the English VA cast too. Highly recommend to any visual novel fans.

Tingle's Greatest Adventures in Space Murders is something I never knew I needed until now.

Probably my new favourite article on Nintendolife, thanks for this one, Kate!

I've never cared much for Diamond/Pearl, even the originals, but it does have my favourite soundtrack in the series. If nothing else I'm excited to listen to the remastered music.

@Joeynator3000 Your pikmin will sometimes be carrying fruit after you've been walking for a while which you can just tap to collect. I just check in the evenings or after a big walk to see what they got. You can also send them on expeditions and they'll gather fruit and planters, but you can do that while sitting at home.

@Joeynator3000 There are sprouts at landmarks that can grow into big flowers if you walk around them. I don't think you need to interact with them in any way, you just need to use some petals before you start your walk to leave trail of flowers behind you. I don't think big flowers actually do anything though.

I think there's also mushrooms you can come across which you can send your pikmin to attack and get fruit, but I haven't come across one yet. At least I don't think I have, since I just leave the app closed on my walks.

@BlueOcean Yeah like Octane said you don't really need to open the app often at all. It's a much more hands-off experience than Pokemon GO. It really is just a fancy pedometer like the review says. You'll get a notification at the end of every day saying how many steps you took that day, and once in a while a notification that you grew a new pikmin, but that's about it.

Reminds me a bit of some Scribblenauts creations, piecing unconventional shapes and objects together to create a bigger picture. Love the creativity!

@RadioShadow They would never use something like this as a placeholder. It's for sure the official box art.

In fact, we DID used to have a placeholder image that was just the game's logo on a white background.

@BloodyMurder The $60 game comes with Danganronpa 1-3 (none of which have microtransactions btw) plus this Ultimate Summer Camp game as a sort of "bonus game" in the collection. It's just one feature in one of the 4 games in the collection, and as they stated it's possible to obtain everything without microtransactions anyway. So no, people will not be paying $60 for a slot machine.

@Aurumonado Pretty sure the price did drop in Canada, but not by much. It's $380 now from what I can tell.

The Gamecube is still my favourite console. It has a lot of my favourite games of all time, or at least my favourite games in the respective series. Chibi-Robo, Pikmin 1/2, Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, Baten Katios, Harvest Moon AWL, Paper Mario TTYD, Metroid Prime 1/2, Luigi's Mansion, Tales of Symphona, some of the best Mario Party games, and so many more stellar titles.The Switch has come close, but hasn't quite taken the top spot for me yet.

It's sort of expected a game like this will have mixed reviews, it's really not for everyone. I've spent 2 hours playing the demo games so I'm pretty hyped for the full thing.

To the people who say they don't feel the need for representation, that's fine and I'm glad for you. But there are plenty of people who do find it important and that's what this article is about. There are many reasons why people would find representation important, but from my experience it's generally about:

1. People who have felt completely isolated from society and are happy to play something or be a part of something where they feel like they can belong. Maybe they were disowned by their family, maybe their friends deserted them, maybe they've been bullied, or their co-workers are teating them as if they aren't human. It can be many reasons, and we're still at a place in this world where this behavior isn't uncommon.

2. People just want to experience relationships in a way that reflects themselves. Some people don't feel the need to see relationships in media that match their sexual orientation, and that's fine. But what's so wrong with people who want to see relationships that reflect theirs, that have possibly gone through similar struggles? LGBT+ people exist in real life, so naturally it shouldn't be unheard of to see them in media. And yes, straight couples are still depicted MUCH more often, which is totally fine, but for some reason people seem to forget that. Possibly because when they see a straight couple they don't bat an eye or think twice, but as soon as they see a single gay couple it sticks out in their mind and becomes an "agenda" or "pandering".

Maybe someday we can get to the point where people in group 1 won't feel like they need that place to belong anymore, but unfortunately we live in a world where it's still needed. That's the whole point of things like Pride parades, to both make people feel accepted for who they are when they feel like no one else in their life will, and to help normalize being LGBT+ so eventually society won't be uncomfortable when they see LGBT+ people.

And I say this as someone who personally doesn't feel like I need to see representation, but that's because I've been lucky and have people in my life that accept me for being gay, and I don't really care much for seeing relationships in video games in general. But other people do, and those are the people who this article is for.

@khululy I can tell you personally that it's not a choice. I can choose to marry a woman, sure, but I can't ever chose to be sexually attracted to one. It's just physically impossible for me. If you're someone where it is a choice, then you're bisexual or somewhere on the spectrum.

This one looks really charming, definitely want to try it out! Will probably pick it up after I'm done with NEO TWEWY. That'll also give time for Kate to put out their review

@MS7000 Yeah that's exactly why I always pronounced it as "Figh" as well, because of Greek letters like Phi and Pi.

@montrayjak The pre-orders are left open, but the 2021 batch is sold out. Any orders placed now will only ship out in 2022.

Got this one in the mail yesterday with Skyward Sword. There are a lot of other games that month that I want to play first, but I'll get to this one eventually, and hopefully by then there are a few balance updates. It seems like the game has a really solid foundation and just a few tweaks would make it so much better.

@UmbreonsPapa There's also the Diablo III Loot Goblin amiibo.

That sling bag looks really nice, will definitely try to pick up a premium edition. It's actually something I could use, unlike a lot of other collectors edition items.

Still waiting on that 1.0.5 patch to come to the west before I jump back into this game.

@KateGray It looks like Nintendo deleted and re-uploaded the trailer so the video embedded in the article is currently broken.

Very excited this series is coming to the Switch! Normally I can only play visual novels once but I've played the class trials from all 3 games countless times. They're just so entertaining. Will definitely buy this collection again on Switch. Already own them on PS4 and mobile but I'll gladly triple dip for this series.

@RupeeClock Both the standard and collector's editions are still readily available on Amazon US. This is one game that I thought would skyrocket in price due to the unexpected popularity, but I haven't seen any stock issues.

@NinjaWaddleDee I enjoyed Replicant and got all the endings, but I do agree Automata is much better and the multiple endings feel less repetitive.

@Yorumi (referring to your comment about Genshin being unplayable on mobile) It depends on what mobile device you're using, I find the game runs better on my Galaxy S10+ than my PS4. I sometimes play it on my phone for a couple hours at a time and I don't have problems with crashing or overheating. I'm not running on the minimum settings either.

@bozz Personally I enjoyed this one more than the first. The story doesn't have as much heart in it, but the combat is much more bearable.

Absolutely love the Baten Kaitos series, especially Origins. Really hope we see the series return in the future, even if it's just a remaster/port.

I'm kinda surprised all of the Battle Network games ranked so low. I figured maybe one of them would reach at least near the top 10, but they're all in the lower half.

Nice! Been waiting for pre-orders to finally open for this one. I've been holding off in getting it until the physical version came out, excited to try it!

Looks kinda purple-ish in the photos, like the classic Gamecube colour. Maybe that's just what my brain wants to see.

I enjoyed my time with the game, but I don't think I was a huge fan of the mix of genres. Metroidvania games are all about freedom to move around and explore, but throwing in turn based battles means you're constantly being halted while trying to explore. It just made the flow of the game feel a bit off imo. I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if it was real-time combat instead of turn based, and this is coming from someone who loves turn based RPGs. That being said, the game is still fun and I appreciated the depth of the combat system.

I hope people new to the series with the Switch port weren't too burnt by it. The original was a great game, it was just specifically made for the DS so the port didn't translate the gameplay too well.