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The game looks amazing, but I cannot stand timed days where every day goes by in minutes. It makes me feel stressed out, and that is exactly what I don't need in a "cozy" game.

But glad the game exists. I am sure a lot of people have a lot of fun with it.

How very Poltergeist. Or the Conjuring...

But not very Nintendo.

The US art is great but that FONT!! YUUGGHHH.

Japan's is better. The lil dude looks just as awesome, cuter compared to US, but equally great, and the rest of the box is just better allround.

@dskatter Fair enough, but in my defence... you were a bit too snarky. I am a very sensitive boy.

@Teksette Except it's probably not even developed to solve all human problems. Maybe some companies have that intent, but most of them created it to solve having to pay people.

I enjoy using AI for certain things, but it's mostly a speedier search engine and idea generator for me. I don't use it to steal labour for my own monetary gain.

@ShieldHero I will admit, I am GUESSING they make money off of it, but why else would a company exist but make money, especially in the tech business.

For the record, I don't have strong feelings against AI. I understand and enjoy its uses, but to be fair, I do see more negatives than positives at the moment.

@dskatter Feel free to be snarky with me, but read along and see I am far from the only one feeling this way. It's obviously good they listen, but it devaluates the cartridge. I can certainly name a game where I wished the dev HAD listened to feedback, but that wasn't a cartridge game.

@Andee Same. With this game, I bought it for my kid, she loves it, so it's not that big of a deal, but I guess I am glad I didn't start it myself yet. I just don't like this practice.

@ShieldHero OpenAI is making money off of it though. That's the point.

@Bobobiwan When I first saw a movie on Blu Ray on high def, it was the ugliest thing I ever saw. Sure, you could see every pore and every pimple on the main character's face, and there you have it.

Ultra sharp graphics are not necessarily better looking. Maybe the S2 graphichs have an ever so slight wash over them? I prefer that.

I lost touch with RE after 4, played 5 a brief bit, but I feel like they veered into a direction I do not like. I liked the very hard sci fi angle from the first few, and it feels like they went more into a mix of fantasy thrown in, which I already felt in RE4 and didn't particularly like there.

But!! I never played anything beyond a small bit of 5, so correct me if I am wrong, please.

@Polvasti I appreciate the listening, but... one day all we have left is the cartridge, with no way to re-download any post-release updates, and that is sad.

Sure, by then there will be rom sites, and probably definitive editions on newer platforms, but it just doesn't feel right, the way things are organised these days.

Bug fixes are all fine and dandy, but I so wish developers would stop adding new features to already published games. Either take longer dev time, or save it for a sequel or something.

@JohnnyMind I honestly hope you are an immortal, because your backlog requires several lifetimes.

Happy that you enjoy so many games though!

@charliecarrot No worries, I was joking. I k ow what you mean, but as a linguist it made me chuckle.

@charliecarrot Hahaha, "I can't wait but I can wait."

But I understand the sentiment!! Hope you will enjoy it come Friday.

@Olliemar28 Never knew you had a staff page. Fun stuff.

To Zion, good luck on your future endeavours!!

Japan, for the reason that it does indeed look like an animé video, but I like that!

My son bought me the first one for PS4. Very sweet of him. Game looked beautiful, sure, but it wasn't for me. The original wasn't my favourite FF to begin with, I hated all the swearing and cussing, which they decided to up even further in this one.

Maybe if that wasn't present, I may have loved it. Even then, I think the feeling the original gave me topped the remake.

I also never played any of the other games, AC, BC, CC, etc.

Reminds me of that really weird cat game from a while back, that was full of AI, uncanny cat's eyes, and which never materialized.

This... is sort of that.

I went to check the cutscenes from the PSP version, and while they are lovely, I am actually not as sad as I had expected to be that they were cut. They are reslly nice, but theu also kind of not gel with the game's graphics as much as I had thought.

Anyways, this will NOT be a day one for me. I have been burned too often now. Bought Unicorn Overlord the minute I saw another copy in the wild after they were completely sold out EVERYWHERE, only to find them deeply discounted a few weeks later. Won't make that mistake again.

My favourite Zelda game, together with Link to the Past, though I view them as very seperate entities. Link's Adventure is more epic saga, Link to the Past is more fairytale.

@GamerGrandpa Yeah, the Netherlands did its own thing, I guess... especially back then. Nowadays we get easy access to everythimg with Netflix, Prime, you name it, and digital tv gives us a few international channels too, but back then we didn't have that many channels, so we got whatever was probably the cheapest or most promising programs to air. We did have Cartoon Network in the 90s, surprisingly enough.

@Anti-Matter Thanks, in that case I won't play it.

These games should be laid back. This type of time management gives me a huge amount of unneeded "stress". Obviously not real stress, but not the laid-back feeling I am looking for when playing a game like this.

@GoproGO I had to look it up. Spongebob began airing in my country in 2002, but not yet on a Nickelodeon channel. So while I may have had the chance to see the logo in the cartoon, it wouldn't be shown full screen. So I wouldn't have known Spongebob to be a Nickelodeon affair. Same with Rugrats, which was definitely aired in our country mid-90s, but not on a dedicated channel, instead on our BBC-equivalent channels.

The Nickelodeon channel has a very confusing timeline here, with digital channels and timeslots galore.

Best I could find was that I personally would have only gotten into easy contact with it around 2015. Before that it was either on small timeslots on niche channels, or not even available to me through my provider of coice.

I am sure I would've heard the name by then though, as I was online a lot, so I guess I would've known the name and its associated brands through online exposure, but definitely not as a mainstay in our household.

I like the look of this game a lot. Important question though, for those who've played it;

Is there a day-timer? Like, does it take my character half an hour just to walk to the door? Another half an hour to pull some weeds out of the ground? I severely dislike such a mechanic.

Seeing as the name Nickelodeon only became a thing in my country well into the new millenium, it surprises me they were around during the 16-days.

My eldest is pushing me too. I just don't have the time. I simply don't. Maybe soon.

Game Freak saw Palworld and thought "Yes!!"

@Ulysses Do the Ivalice worlds differ? I would one hundred percent say they are not in the same world. I am sure there are people who will disagree and place them in different eras of the same world, but stylistically they are just so far removed from one another. Any hints of them being related are fortunately locked behind optional sidequests that I simply don't pursue.

So everyone can safely disagree with me and you should just accept whatever lore you feel most comfortable with. I personally loathe what is now referred to as isekai stories, people being whisked away to a completely different world, so I choose to regard the GBA game as non-canon to this one, and any optional paths, DLC or else that introduce different worlds to this game, I will simply not pursue, to keep the experience a pure one for myself.

I am sure if you ask 10 people who worked on this very game, they will give you at least 3 completely different answers to the question, so... Just choose what you like.

@OmnitronVariant Bad choice of words. What I meant to say was blatantly ripping off. Not the same as stealing, I know. My apologies. I'll amend my original statement.

Well, I wasn't on the side of Palworld, because they were blatantly ripping off stuff, but if true, this is taking things into a completely idiotic opposite kneejerk reaction from Nintendo.

Edited: Originally I said "blatantly stealing stuff", which is blatantly untrue.

@FlyingDunsparce You raise an excellent point. If one good game is in there and would have been sold seperately, score it as the rest being bonus. Unless the rest being there increases the price of the product, then it might be lower as well...

Anyways, I see others have continued the discussion in a lot of ways and right now I don't have the time to read all, but from the small parts I am reading, I seem to agree with most people here.

Anyways, I am unfortunately too busy to get into it, as much as I enjoy this kind of banter.

@FlyingDunsparce I feel like the score woud have been a 2 or 3 if the presentation wasn't good. So it sounds like a fair assessment. It's obviously the games being reviewed, and they gave some points for at least the presentation.

Had to watch a trailer to remember I played it. Vaguely remember it, but it looks like I probably rnjoyed it back in the day.

Both art is poor. I like the face but not the way the title looks on the US one, and the title is better on the EU one but othernthan that extremely bland.

So I will have to go US.

@seinfeldfanatic Everyone, dude. It's not like it's secret information what platforms the game releases on.

So you don't have to tell SE to F themselves based on platform availability. You can, however, be annoyed by the S2 game key cart or the fact that the bigger platforms have a higher cap on town buildings.

And before you go "says who?", it's in the other OT 0 article on this site, and undoubtedly elsewhere, if you just do a quick search on the internet.

@seinfeldfanatic No, also on S1, PS5, XB and others. They simply played the S2 version.

The difference in town size is a rather sad fact. Obviously we don't know enough of what the game will be to know whether double the buildings will mean double the fun or not, but still... Kinda sad.

I don't have the latest gen consoles, and I had my eyes set on the Switch 1 version, if I was going to buy it. Now, with this news, I may decide to forego it. OT1 was my absolute fave game of this past generation (even if I never managed to fully finish it), and OT2 was wonderful too. I liked 1 better, but still, it's a series that I really enjoyed, and I LOVE town building, but now I might decide to not even bother.

Not that I have any time for videogames these days anyways...

So I guess Nintendo still thinks the West only wants gory shooters and leave the JRPGs for the East, huh?

Are we back in the 90s? (Though that doesn't sound like a bad prospect)

A younger James Bond... as opposed to... what? The now 100 year old James Bond, since he was an adult in '60s and is still going strong...

No, I personally decided to subscribe to the theory that James Bond a Time Lord, except he doesn't have a time traveler device...

And nobody can convince me otherwise.

Voting on "Would I buy this going purely for box art?", which I did a lot back in the SNES days (including this game) and it has to be Europe. It is mysterious and screams that you will be in for a treat!

And people comment on how the EU art doesn't convey the game's vibe, and I will disagree. The only thing is the farmer feels like a silhouette of an older man. And sure, the game is more animé, but the box art doesn't detract from the vibe.

Sure, the others have the animé characters, but the farmland graphics are so boring.

Loved this game. Good memories.

@Picola-Wicola This is exactly the reason why I won't play this. 10 minutes just to get to the front door, an hour just to walk to the shed. It makes no sense and it makes me stressed.

Should I ever build a similar game (I won't, but... you know...) you can just select when you want to head into the next part of a day. Morning - Midday - Evening, take your sweet time on each.

In motion, this one actually doesn't even look that bad. Not that I'll get into it, but it doesn't look like it will be a bad game.

@Hoshiko If you were a kid right now, the sense of wonder wouldn't be there. Had this been released as is in the 90s, sure, it would have blown our collective minds. But these days? They don't care for graphics. My kids are only playing Roblox, even though I have a pretty extensive library of games. They don't care. Roblox is easier. Ugly as can be, but easier.

Been on my wishlist for a million years, but I also haven't played a single videogame in about as long... where do people find time these days? Feels like I blink and a week's gone by. Sad face.

Burnout 1 2 3 would be awesome. I also second Extreme G, loved that game.

@Regelion1 What? I think you greatly misinterpreted my statement, because I wasn't saying the game is bad, just that the person I responded to can like games others deem bad and dislike games others deem good. I didn't mean Starfield is a bad game, but if it was, people are still allowed to like it.

I probably could have worded it a little better, but that is what I meant.

@the_beaver Well, you are entitled to love objectively bad games and hate objectively good ones... so if you like it, that's perfectly valid. If you don't, same.

Still angry they never released another Mythologies game.

Not necessarily a He-Man fan, but this looks fun!!

@OorWullie Ooh a Thundercats game like this would be even better!!! Let's hope they will do one of those too.

Oops I chose KWAY when I meant to choose KWAH. Or maybe not.

I don't even care. I call it both.