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As a completely pitiable persona fan I have really been enjoying this, even more than Q. This fixes the major problems with the first - the dungeons (so far, I’m almost done with the third) haven’t had any really annoying puzzles or gimmicks and the battle system is way better balanced - there’s no required Naoto here. There’s also a way to level up unused party members so you’re not totally screwed by leaving someone behind.

And of course it’s got all of the character interactions and fanservice you could want. Really good stuff.

With this and Judge Eyes coming out in the same week, June is going to be a top-tier month.

Yeah, the team mechanics and dialogue wouldn’t have worked with different franchises. Hopefully next time it’ll be that, but for this game it’s fine.

So far, my opinion is that the racing isn’t as solid as Transformed or MK8 but the single player content has been great, and I actually really like the team gimmick. There’s even dialogue for characters on random mixed teams, like Sonic and Shadow, but no way to actually choose a team...

It’s an unbelievable value if paired with discounted eShop cards, and still a pretty good value otherwise (reckoning by US dollars). One set of vouchers pays off your yearly sub, plus gets $5 back. If you buy cards that get discounted to $42.50 every now and then, then you can end up paying about $85 for two brand new launch titles if you so choose. I’d like to see a retail deal beat that!

Presumably there will be a couple new pre-purchases added after E3, but it’s stupid that it ends so early in the US. I’ll probably end up buying a few sets though - I can easily think of six upcoming Nintendo-published titles that I’ll want, so it’ll be worth it.

Man that’s insane. I loved Rusty and always wanted a follow up. Glad to see it mentioned again lol

My hope is that the existence of Let’s Go means that the “real” games can be aimed at more serious players. The lack of any real reason to train powerful teams - outside of the same copy paste battle tower that’s been around longer than my youngest brother (who can drive) - is really a killer towards getting engrossed in the game. B2W2 was great as the medal system rewarded and recorded all kinds of different goals, while the earlier games with Frontiers gave different approaches to battles. Ever since XY that element has been gone, and with a simpler game out I’m hoping that maybe SS will break the trend.

First time in my life that I’ve ever bought movie tickets early, for the “day before” showing as well! Tomorrow evening can’t come soon enough. Heck, I’m exploring downtown St Louis and working on the new Pokémon GO movie-themed challenges right now lol.

The only other good video game movie, that I’ve seen, is Ace Attorney. But as much as I love the franchise, I can’t imagine it would make any sense to someone who hadn’t already played the games. Glad to see that this is its own animal.

Yuji Naka and Ohshima getting in on this is one of the best parts of the whole story. I hadn’t seen that drawing from the latter, it’s certainly not so bad.

I have no intention to ever buy this again, but maybe it’s a sign that the series will continue.

Man I need to just pick this up. I know that it’s supposed to have a second “chapter” of some sort coming - is this the free dlc mentioned in the article?

There must be some sort of contract keeping the main game on PS5. I cannot fathom why they would allow Joker in Smash (and why Nintendo would allow it) and then bring this over but not P5R. I will admit that it would be a huge reveal and maybe Nintendo wants to announce it on their terms, but I doubt it.

I’m no businessman, but I can’t imagine that it would hurt them financially to bring the game over to the console that’s about to overtake PS4. I should stop griping though since I have a PS4 and can access the games anyway lol.

So glad it’s not a stage play.

Can’t wait. This and Boxboy will help me get through working this week of night shifts.

Holy crap, never thought I’d see the day. I loved RCR. I doubt this’ll have the same charm but I think it’ll make up for it in other ways. Day one for me!

Cuphead and Joker this week, Boxboy and Steamworld Quest next week. It’s a good time for Nintendo fans.

I’m so glad that there’s P3/4 music. Especially that new Persona 4 mix, can’t wait to hear it. This is everything I hoped for and more.

Now we just need Phoenix Wright put in...

Man I just don’t know. Good to know the load times aren’t so bad. I see some negative reviews but I wonder if those are from people who don’t “get” the genre. Like how Hyrule Warriors got middling reviews but I put hundreds of hours in between U and 3DS, or how Pokémon Explorers of Sky has a middling metacritic but IMO is the best Pokémon spinoff out there by a long shot.

I guess I’ll wait for a few more reviews from players. The main things holding me back are the fact that there’s so many tech issues and the fact that the real deal (for me), Rune Factory, is coming out. It’d be a different story if it wasn’t confirmed yet.

Holy crap this is EXACTLY what I said I hoped would happen. Never thought it actually would though. This will be great.

Need to watch some gameplay on this one. If not for the Rune Factory games that are coming then I’d likely be all over it, but now I need to see how it could compare. I can definitely wait a few months for the real deal to come.

GamingIntel is a load of bunk, but unfortunately I do agree that this is a likely week (unfortunately because of it happens then it’ll give credence to them).

It’s been two months since the last one and two months until E3, they could announce all of the pre E3 release dates (Cadence of Hyrule and Mario Maker 2 are the main ones), and obviously it could have Reggie saying his last words for Nintendo.

I kinda hope he opens up a Twitter account or something. He seems like a pretty funny and down to earth guy, and since he doesn’t have to worry about his status in a company i bet he could make some pretty good commentary and jokes on world events. Well, surely he’ll just want a nice long break from the spotlight, too.

Watch it be GB games next, no Color or GB player additions.

Lol, but really, I think it’s fair to say that SNES is in the works because of the data mine a couple months ago. I personally don’t see it coming until September in a pitiful effort to reel in re-subscriptions, but I hope it’ll be an E3 surprise.

Super pumped for punch-out!! but they really are running out to games, and a lot of the good third parties are either licensed or on other collections. Hopefully SNES comes soon.

My favorite time of the year, no lie. All the hype and build up is always fun, even if the actual event isn't too hot (personally I haven't been a big fan of any of them recently - 2017's only saving grace was the Mario Odyssey trailer and 2018 was half patch notes, half stuff we already knew)

Hoping this year is the big one. Every year leading up to E3 I always do a reread of the entire Archie Mega Man comics line for some reason, it just so happens that yesterday I did the math to find out when I would start it again. Can't wait.

The 3DS quests are in?!? Amazing!!! Can’t freaking wait to see DQIX again. Man this is going to be amazing and I just finished on PS4 a month ago. Can’t wait.

I thought it was great, I’ll admit the music wasn’t fantastic and there weren’t as many upgrades as I’d have liked but it was a great romp through and through. It’s implied a 3rd game will be coming too, i will buy them all.

Will 10000% be rebuying this game. I bought an actual coffee mug shaped like Cuphead that I use all the time. Playing again on Switch will be a blast especially with the new features.

Just King of Cards and Steamworld Quest would be more than enough, but I really want to see what the Golf Story devs are up to.

This game has been in development for so long. I’ll be surprised if it ever comes out, but it’ll be a day one for me (unless the long long long dev cycle is because it’s a mess)

@nhSnork it’s crazy how I’m finding more kindered souls on 4chan than anywhere else, most people seem pretty uninterested lol. I’m been wanting this for so long, and when Hashimoto opened up Hakama I knew it might finally be time. Can not wait!

Undoubtably the first Direct that I’d rate 10/10. It had a strong start with Mario Maker 2 which will release around E3 and make June an exciting month. We had some strong 3rd party reveals including two Dragon Quest games, plus lots of demos and even a free Tetris game. Then at the end there was a “one more thing” followed up by “the REAL one more thing”.

And more importantly, RUNE FACTORY IS BACK!!!!

This was my ultimate NEVER EVER, even more so than TWEWY 2. I wish I taped my reaction so we could all have a good laugh, I was freaking out. Never would have thought today would be the day.

In my opinion Pokemon’s been a constant stream of disappointment since XY lol. I know I haven’t lost the magic because I loved B2W2 that came out just a year prior.

I just hope Gen 8 goes back to focusing on actual new Pokémon instead of gimmicks, decent side/post content (contests, movies, battle frontier, etc), routes that are interesting to explore, and providing a big adventure without all the constant interruptions. BW were the peak storytelling for me - it was there and it was enjoyable, but ultimately it was just a fleshed out story unlike the railroad that SM were.

And also I hope we get more intesting spin-offs. I enjoy GO, especially when the weather’s nice, but it’s not worth losing Mystery Dungeon for. Feels like all we ever get now are free-to-play crap games.

Very good idea and one of the few franchisss that I think is legitimately better off on mobile than Nintendo hardware. WarioWare is another one, as I think they could do more interesting stuff with basic mobile phone features than with Switch features.

The January Direct would have been nothing but release dates for games we already knew about and a reveal that MP4 was delayed, going by the stuff they’ve tweeted out lately. I can see why they didn’t go the Direct route this time.

Hopefully this month will be the one though.

Lots of folks revealing they have no business sense here today. The first film is going to be a smash hit, I don’t see how that’s even debatable. For starters, it’s Pokemon, so it’s inherently going to do well. But they also seem to be pretty well invested in the franchise with Pokémon from every generation and all kinds of little references just in the first trailer.

It’s easy to say that they’re being arrogant with this, but look from another perspective: since the movie will be a hit, shouldn’t they be planning a sequel to come out ASAP to capitalize on that? It makes no sense to sit around and wait a few years before putting out the next movie when they could pump them out and make tons of money.

I have confidence that this will be a good movie. Probably not the best I’ve ever seen but what little we know is promising. I just have to find a way to justify going to the theatre on opening night to watch a Pokémon movie...

Didn’t buy on PS4 due to the lack of English voice acting and then waited for a sale that never seemed to come. I guess I’ll go ahead and buy since it has all the DLC included.

It’s surreal having this finally come out, I remember reading about it 6 or 7 years ago when it was for 3DS.

But I’m also excited to see what Hakama has planned after this. Rune Factory 5 pls

There’s no doubt that this is an incredible game, I seriously enjoyed it as much as I do SMW (which has the nostalgia factor going for it).

But I’ve already played it, definitely not rebuying for $60, especially not when Vesperia comes out the same day! (Granted I’ve played that too, but it’s been far longer and I’ve never touched the PS3 version).

Yeah the challenge mode gets downright brutal after awhile. It’s just hard to take this seriously, how difficult could just making a new one have been?

The best possible scenario for Atlus and fans has always been a Switch/PS4 release (PC and Xbox too I guess but that’s far less realistic) so hopefully that’s how this goes. That said we don’t even know what this is yet so there’s no point getting too excited or disappointed now.

Although I stopped playing FEH seriously awhile ago, I haven’t even touched it since DL came out. I’ll play again when Book 3 comes out I guess but that’s probably it.

All I care about is Kirby lol. Hopefully they’ll soon confirm whether or not SNES/GB games will eventually come. Riding off the Smash hype to introduce players to their favorite characters origin games has got to be a money-maker.

Sounds good to me, I haven’t played through Subspace once since my first play through back in 2008. This mode seems far more fun.

This was seriously the tipping point for me rebuying a PS4 (if it was a matter of when rather than if). I don’t even like Metroid but this game is fantastic. Can’t wait to play again, hope the DLC comes soon.

I just can’t wait to play Sonic Adventure 1&2 again, especially with portable Chao. Surely 1 will be part of the initial line-up whenever the day comes.

It’s already been brought up but Joe’s a total con - pirating the games and blowing off real leaks are just part of the fun.

That being said it’s also pitiful how you blow off people who dislike the game as “haters” - there’s a lot to dislike. The graphics are incredibly disappointing for 2018 standards and the game can’t even hold a decent frame rate. The post game is a joke and doesn’t even have the freaking battle tower that’s been in every game in some form or fashion since Crystal. There’s no real new areas added to Kanto other than Go Park, the enemy trainer’s teams are small and pathetic, the battle system has been way tuned down, online play with randoms is all but gone - what is there to love?

I poured hundreds and hundreds of hours across the DS games but I only put maybe 70-80 in XY and the bare minimum to finish the SM Pokédex. Didn’t even buy USUM. It’d be one thing if Let’s Go was a one-off exception to the norm but the series has gone downhill since XY. I hate seeing one of my favorite series go downhill like this but I’m not going to waste money supporting what it’s become.

That Pikachu looks horrific in the image but fantastic in the movie. Can’t wait to see which others appear.

@Kurusu My man. You even have a 10/10 profile picture.

Personally, I’ve played every day since launch and have dropped only $8 on it. It’s a very well made game with full voice acting for the story and non-voiced side stories for literally every single obtainable character and dragon. They’ve constantly have events going on that really use the co-op well and are great about fixing the games issues and way overcompensating fans. Now, are they just trying to butter us up to get us to open our wallets? Maybe. But CyGames apparently has a really good reputation and Nintendo has their brand name to protect too.

As an aside, the Halloween event that was mostly single-player focused? I could only beat the hardest stage with a 3-star character. None of my 4-stars worked because of their weapon types but the 3-star kicked ass. Just goes to show how everyunit can be useful rather than needing the best of the best.

Can’t wait. I passed on PS4 due to the dub issues but at this point I may as well just get it and see the end. Plus having all the DLC will be great.

The destined battle between The Grinch and Minecraft Steve finally reaches its conclusion.