Dark_Isatari

@MoldyPasta yes! I feel like all this talk about difficulty really belies the fact that the difficulty is part of the appeal

Why won’t this team take money?? Two of the greatest games of all time and they simply won’t charge for their work 😂

Finally in the final stretch of Silksong — what an incredible game! Really fulfilled all expectations built up over the years of development. Hope they add more lore-rich dlc before wrapping it up.

@DennyCrane I couldn’t put NES games too high personally but I agree that AoL is a fun time that gets a bad rap

I would like to nominate Link's Awakening (any version) for the best game to start the series with. It is one of the easier games with a mix of puzzles, exploration, combat; has memorable characters but not too many to keep track of, great memorable story, and it's fairly short. A perfect entry point imo.

What a stacked year! Expedition 33 was fun, fresh, and cinematic.
Silksong has been a dream come true for me, so that’d be my choice but I haven’t played most of the others.
Based on the comments here I’m interested in giving Absolum a look.

ALBW needs it more for accessibility reasons. With LA I was really disappointed they didn't do anything to expand the world or story. I was really hoping for some kind of surprise like another back of the island opening up behind the mountains. But nothing.
These remakes are better when they expand the original imo. Not just recoat it and add some item.

I'm still waiting for something I must play but can't get on my OG Switch.

It's definitely my all-time favorite! I didn't help the numbers much though — still playing the launch model and never bought a different edition! Though I did get a lot of Joycon and games.

@Turbo857 I think the timing is the more significant factor. TotK coming late in the Switch's life and not being as chronologically ground-breaking in its freedom (being able to climb anything and go anywhere was astounding when BotW came out). The price difference may be a factor but I'd be surprised if it's a big one.

I'm curious about the sales numbers for Switch 2 editions of the Switch 1 list, in the event that it would change the numbers significantly. It's probably 99% upgrade packs though.

Fun series; I feel it’s never quite topped Pirate’s Curse. Half-Genie Hero is my second-favorite but it’s a little disappointing that it departed from the freer exploration. Seven Sirens was a real “vania” game but a little shallow imo, though I haven’t tried it after the rebalance.
I have hopes that this new one will top them all.

I’m a die-hard Zelda fan but Musou gameplay just feels mind-numbing to me, and I’ve been really disappointed with the direction they’ve been taking lore and narrative in the past decade.
I’m not at 0%, but I don’t expect to get it.

I think it would be a huge improvement if they added more specialized solo battles that force you to use all different cards. Like if you could only use cards from a certain region, or something like that. The battle missions often have things like "use only this type" or "use a deck without trainer cards" but they could do a lot more with it. I also think they could do solo boss battles where you have to knock out 6 pokemon like in the games. Because solo battles can be paused any time (unlike the online) it could work and ultimately it's fun to use more things than just your regular standbys.

@Yoshi3 I agree with your points, especially about wonderpick becoming almost useless.
However I am approaching 1250 pack points for the Dialga / Palkia decks thanks to several months of stubbornly picking from that in hopes of getting (or buying) the Cyrus or Cynthia 2-star cards. I got Cyrus by luck so if I don't pull Cynthia the same way I'll spend my pack points there.

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIILK SSSSSSSSOOOOOOOONNNNNNG!
Dancing with First Sinner last night until my thumbs were sore.

I'm with Rui about Switch 2. I hope it doesn't turn into another WiiU kind of situation for me (though obviously it's sold better). If they bring over WW and TP I'll probably make the leap.

Also with Captain Juan about the weekend polls! I'm always happy to see composite data!

I don’t have much interest in NES games but I do like to revisit the first two Zeldas now and then! Adventure of Link is probably my favorite NES games of all. Mario 3 is still a good time too. I don’t think I’m much interested in revisiting any others.

I've been way too busy to play any the past two weeks, so I hope to get in a little Silksong this weekend!

While I am excited to try Final Fantasy Tactics soon, it’s still all Silksong for now. I’m about 30 hours in so it’s going to be a while yet. Wonderful game.

A bit surprised about this, but good for Nintendo.
I wonder if it will keep up? Personally I'm still waiting for the "must have" to move me on from my beloved OG Switch, which still has lots to keep me happily occupied.

@Serpenterror you should try Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis if you haven’t. I enjoy it more than the original T.O., personally.

My answer is only going to be Silksong for the foreseeable future, but I am excited about Final Fantasy Tactics coming this week

I’ll be excited for this whenever I get a switch 2. Switch one doesn’t have the same effect

@SpaceboyScreams lol good call on the condescending tone.
While they're at it could they please stop showing a trailer and then immediately showing it again while a developer describes everything?

Bowser always seemed less interesting and more “corporate” than Reggie. Hopefully this new woman can express a little more personality.

I fell for the hype on DQIII and spent 60USD on a pretty version of a 30-year old game.. won’t be suckered in this time.
V and XI were fantastic though.

If i sign up for NSO some day I guess I would try out Wario Land...? I already have the Labo VR so I think that problem would be solved. But I don't subscribe.

I didn’t wait 6 years for Silksong just to be finished with it quickly!

@raymond23 I respect that you can recognize what is and isn’t for you without trying to mandate that to others. I feel that way about Metroid Prime and Mario games.

It’s difficult but rarely in an unfair kind of way. I think everyone needs to chill out on their complaints because I don’t want Team Cherry feeling like they failed to deliver.
No one entitled to reach the end of a game and challenge is rewarding (though would be more so if the bosses dropped money or something).

I agree. I’m only >10 hours in but the challenge is part of the fun. I feel faster and stronger than HollowKnight but also things can turn against me suddenly, and I’ve lost my rosaries a few times already.
I lived Hollow Knight and Silksong is turning out to be everything I’d hoped for.

Got a late start of Hollow Knight: Silksong but it’s everything I hoped for!

I will buy a Switch 2 when there’s an exclusive mainline Zelda or Hollow Knight for it 😅 unless my Launch Switch bites the dust for some reason.

@antdickens nice to hear what these surveys are actually for!
I answered everything and my game news only comes from NL and YouTube.

@eldersnake Adelaide, I think

@AllBLK This game starts at a discount — $20 is a steal.
You'd spend 3x that for a Metroid game which, while fun, are less beautiful, way less content, and (for me) much less fun.
To be clear I'm not denying your right to your own tastes! But if you enjoy the genre at all Hollow Knight is the pinnacle.

Looks fun and great Japanese practice but I don’t understand Chinese so maybe if they bring the Japanese version too

Too cheap honestly

Replaying the Shantae Series (Risky Revolution was ok, not great) before the 7-year wait for Silksong is over!!

I do not like the layered maps feature.

A lot of reviews complain about “tedious dialogue” that drags on too long (thinking of Golden Sun too) but I think this is overblown in game review culture. If you aren’t in to the story of a game, aren’t you missing a major aspect of the game’s appeal? Like “level design, mechanics & gameplay, combat, puzzles, story, etc?”
I kind of think these criticisms are just a genre preference, or else a result of reviewers being on a time limit.

If that Scarlet Letter story is true it is absurd. Who thinks that is a “female only” book? The author was male. Are there people out there who think you should play / read / make works in which the protagonist is as much like yourself as possible?

Well said, well said.
My only complaint was why they needed a big livestream to work everyone up into “Nintendo Direct” mindset just to say “September 4 everyone. Goodbye,”

But i know it’ll be a great game like its predecessor.

Hahaha I can’t believe they didn’t even say anything

Call me old-fashioned but wasn’t B always run/attack?? At least in the 2D days it was.

Ruffy and the Riverside is turning out to be a nice little romp; sort of reminds me of Banjo-Kazooie without the combat.
I also started a replay of the excellent and quick Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
It’s nice to have an RPG break once in a while.

@nuff64 I also would love to hear whether there was any particular reaction from the older guy.

Quickly worked my way through a nice little MetVan Islets this week, so next on my agenda is Ruffy and the Riverside if it holds my interest. Otherwise I think I might actually spring for the expanded NSO to play the N64 and GBA Zelda games. I also hope to get my wife to finish Carto as soon as I can. My backlog is rich (and grew in the recent summer sale) but I feel like I’m making some progress.

Played for about 10 minutes, very bored, uninstalled. Probably good for young children.

FINALLY beat the main quest of Tactics Ogre: Reborn after 220hrs spread across roughly two years. It was definitely on and off for me but I enjoyed the end game with a host of charm-users. I might jump into the other timelines and post-game but I might put that off too.

Going through a cute little puzzler called Carto with the wife, and I’m keen to try out Islets as well.

But importantly I haven’t touched any Zelda games since completing EoW…

I’m kind of sad to hear this since he is the most dominant figure for the longest period of time in SSBM and going out like this doesn’t help the sport continue but well well.
@abakadabra I think that’s a good insight. Participants may feel some level of pressure to “act drunk” for the content/performance side of things and behave even worse than they normally would have.
@Lizuka I can only assume there is some correlation to the obsessive competitiveness it takes to make it in esports and a lack of respect for others’ boundaries and feelings.

I don’t care for these single-game directs. It worked for TotK because of the long anticipation and radical mechanics introduced, but ever since, i think it can just be included it in part of a full direct.