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I prefer Angel Island and Icecap, but Marble Garden is good — so many giant rings to find! I always get to enjoy super form there.
Considering S&K as part of Sonic 3 I also prefer all of those zones except the desert.
Man S3&K still has yet to be topped for best Sonic game imo. The Super Emeralds plot line is so cool, and the boss feels less out of nowhere than other sonic games.

@marandahir
Well I am an interpreter and I love Golden Sun so let me know if there’s any contribution I could make / where.

Color me intrigued

@marandahir what’s this translation project about?

The best Shantae game imo

I have always loved these and felt like this one expands well on everything the first had to offer! The battle system is better than most turn-based games but still, it’s just turn-based. I never related to the “verbose” complaints, but maybe when I replay it now after many years I’ll be less entertained by it.

@Daniel36 I probably was the target demographic when I picked it up at age 14, but I feel like the plot is pretty gripping, the battles are fun (though the encounter rate does get a little high) , and the world is quite interesting.
I hear people complain about the long conversations but I never minded it. We’ll see how I feel when I give these a replay after I wrap up TotK.

If I sell one, there’s probably some reason I don’t want to own that one anymore, like it irritated me or in the case of AC:NH, was too addictive without being fun.

I’d love to play ogre battle again, but honestly I’m not paying for the expansion pass for just retro games.

I love this pair and appreciate NL showing it love. I hope it will generate enough interest to revive the series, but that’s probably not very plausible.
If you haven’t played them, I’d say that the combat is more engaging than most turn-based games imo, and the dungeon/overworld puzzles are the best I’ve seen in any rpg!

@Yoshif3 that is a great comparison, though I would say the Symphonia sequel is worse XD

@Yoshif3 you may have gotten dozens of responses already but my opinion on Dark Dawn is that it fails as a sequel because it doesn’t feel like it takes place in the same world as the previous games, and commits the sin of undercutting the victory of last game by “oh actually there are side effects”
Not to mention there are very few returning characters and those who do appear don’t feel very consequential or continuous from before.
That said I do like the new party members pretty well.
Over all it felt more like an inferior reimagining than a proper sequel.

@Ryu_Niiyama I don’t think anyone’s painting anything as worse than it was.
One bit of context that affects what you are saying about the nature of business pitches is that Itoi and Miyamoto were already well-acquainted at this time, and in fact Miyamoto looked up to Itoi when he was new to the industry.

Content creators and media have been going on about this for years, but I don’t think the average consumer sees the switch as old or behind. If the games are fun and the functionality is cool, people are interested.
Personally, I do find it disturbing to hear the fan running now…

This is the only farming sim I’ve played and I remember it fondly, but it sounds like it’s best left in the past. Very funny review! 5/10 sounds generous.

Can’t wait to try Cocoon, MarioRPG, and Metroid Prime!
Unfortunately I’m too busy with TotK to get to any of those quiiiiiute yet.
Pikmin 4 was good too, even though I was personally a bit letdown after 3 deluxe.

Considering the kid intentionally shared the images with friends — friends who knew about 4chan no less — I'm guessing this was more like a teenager. Bet it was a wakeup call that his actions could have such drastic consequences.

@Citrus_Architect @Not_Soos
I think it often comes down to a kind of tribal mentality that sacrificing the infidel is the only way to keep ourselves pure. Mercy is seen as endorsement while punitiveness is seen as moral character.

@UltimateOtaku91 that is excellent context. Thank you!

@Crono1973 if the reason SoS included him is because of his charitable donations then yes, you are right. But I thought it was more because of his support for their game, which is not the less true because of his crimes.

Hm…
I have no scruples about Jirard being punished for his fraudulence, and I do think he deserves to lose his YT career, but I assume whatever he did for this game and its creators is no less true because of his sins.
Thus SoS removing him like that strikes me as pretty ungrateful. I think it’s ok to have the perspective “we’re grateful for what he did for us personally and sorry to learn that he was morally bankrupt in other arenas.” I feel like there’s some nuance to be had in that even bad people have some good in them, and even good people have some bad. If they really had a friendship with him as he asserted, a true friend wouldn’t disown you until after pushing you to admit and make up for your wrong behavior first.
Again, I am no defender of The Completionist.. just not in favor of rewriting history to pretend life was more ideal than reality.

I’m in the homestretch with TotK now!
… so should finish by Valentines..?

I’ve loved zelda for over 20 years, but this kind of thinking is narrow-minded, and the worst thing about Nintendo to me.
How restrictive would the gameplay be if they just made the story match up? They’ve already made it abundantly clear that the story isn’t a major focus for the development, and it’s not like they’d be limited in location or characters..

Wait.. Psaro? My interest is now piqued

Still one of the best combat systems in the series! I beat it twice back in the arcane days; rewind feature is a lifesaver 😂

I can’t name a single Atari property. Maybe they should focus on making something relevant.

I never think of using my switch for anything other than games.

Man it’s hard to choose just two! I do agree with the Lullaby as top spot though. Makes me think of that final scene with Zelda up in the clouds.

I do think the best two warp songs are your bottom two though. And the forest one is also really handy because you can use it to get to a fairy fountain and tunnels leading to Kokiri Forest, Zora’s Domain, and Goron Village; making it a very multifaceted warp.

I agree that it is a fun, well-designed dungeon, but it was a struggle for me to find where to go at times.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that one key in the bottom of the central pillar room place. That one did me in before and they clearly made it easier in the 3DS version

Can't believe no one said the Lon Lon Ranch! That place was so idyllic to me.
Also Kokiri Forest, and the area on the peak of Death Mountain. Also there are some odd little cutaways in Hyrule Field and areas of random walls to sit on.

Edit: Oh! And the pot room in next to the Castle Town Drawbridge!

I remember this for the wrong reason.
It was my first Zelda game to be released since I moved to Japan! And… for some reason that was the one and only time that a Zelda game was released a month earlier in the west than in Japan.. I had to wait until 12/26! 😩

The shovel one.. necrodancer?
Don’t care about among us though

@BongoBongo for your birthday I’ll make you a BongoBongo quiz.
“How many bosses must you defeat until bongo bongo?” “Who was bongo bongo before becoming a dungeon boss?” “Who gives Link his seventh full heart container?”

@Spider-Kev I’m thinking it’s the ax-wielding ones from AoL. Also you’re forgetting LA comes before OoT as well (but there aren’t any lizalfos in it).

@Grackler exactly the same here!

Aw man I forgot about the Scarecrow’s Song and didn’t realize Lizalfos already had appeared. I guess in AoL, though normally the enemy names are wacky in that one.

I think delay often indicates a lack of clear vision for the project.
On the other hand, Majora's Mask is a famous example of a "rushed" game with a tight deadline that is well-regarded.

I’ve always been curious about this game but I’m afraid it’ll be too “of its time” to play now that the genre has evolved so much.

Steve Buscemi as Link, Asian actors for everyone else.

I’ll be happy to be proven wrong about it.. it’s hard to imagine it turning out well…

I'm loving the current Zelda format! But I still want the classic style too. What happened to the "overhead view" games?

I've completed 105 shrines, 78 roots, 8 tears, 3 sages, 455 koroks. Still a whole lot of sidequests to work on, and my house needs some renovation too.

Not in to this version of the character, not in to micro games

I do tend to enjoy Sonic side scrolling better than Mario, but the Mario brand is at all-time heights and growing higher, while Sonic is more trying to get a foothold.
As far as movies he had a good head start.

@Kyloctopus I just wish they’d distinguish them a bit more. I can’t keep track of which is which except for Ludwig and Wendy

I’m voting for Mipha & Sidon, but props to the Wright Bros reference I totally missed in WW!

Mario is not my thing, but if there’s a good sale and I get through my backlog then sure.

It Takes Two with my wife, TotK by myself

For me, X was a return to the series after skipping the DS era. I was disappointed at how easy it was, uninterested in the story, and realized that I had outgrown the series.
Never went back, though I may give Arceus a crack some time..?
When gen 9 was revealed I felt tempted but remembering my experience keeps me from setting myself up again.

I enjoyed Brigandine: Legend of Runersia and Tactics Ogre: Reborn , personally, but I haven’t played most of the games featured here.