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Re: Pokémon XD: Gale Of Darkness Comes To Switch 2 GameCube NSO In March

Dom_31

I legitimately don't understand why they can't just give us a date. It's a month away, SURELY they know when it's available.

I'm also slightly worried it might not support Home, that is THE thing I'd be interested in, actually getting to play the game with the pokemon I want because the roster in XD is notoriously awful.

Re: Poll: Will You Be Getting Pokémon FireRed Or LeafGreen On Switch?

Dom_31

At half the price I would've considered it, especially because I'm 100% expecting a shadow drop for the gamecube games on pokemon day, if there's some connectivity there - via home or otherwise - that'd be an amazing way to replay the console games.

As it is, way too expensive for mediocre GBA RPGs

Re: Video: Capcom Releases New Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Trailer

Dom_31

The demo being the way it is, and having beaten everything up to feral Dino Mike Tyson, has me pretty excited for stories 3...

After 2 being incredibly bland I was convinced I'd just skip these games going forward but it seems they actually managed to make the gameplay WAY more engaging this time and just the little Story in the demo and trailers is already infinitely more interesting than whatever was going on with the previous one.

Re: Digimon Story Time Stranger Switch Version Includes Free Switch 2 Update

Dom_31

I'm still kind of salty that they positioned this as this big step forward and it's just another PS2 jrpg with two (2) pretty areas (that become ugly as hell with the time gimmick)

Collecting digimon is always fun but the game and story is about as average as it gets, which isn't a bad thing, mind. But I expected a lot more.

Re: Zelda's Next Lego Set Might Have Been Leaked, Here's A First Look

Dom_31

They're really putting no effort or love into any of these. 120€ for a figurine that's gonna be small as hell, looking at Link and Zelda/the minifigures and...half a tower.

Zelda fans are officially the Star Wars fans of the videogame side of Lego. But we knew that since the Deku tree set, which was even worse than this because it's overpriced AND ugly.

Re: UK Charts: Kirby Air Riders Narrowly Misses Out On A Top Ten Spot

Dom_31

Yeah, expected. It's an incredibly niche game within a...somewhat niche franchise. I know Kirby's popular but I also DON'T know many Kirby fans who liked Air Ride (or the recent online demos of Riders)

I know it can't be true but those demographics always felt like the circles BARELY overlapped for some odd reason.

Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Was The Best-Selling Nintendo Game In October (US)

Dom_31

The more I play it the more I'm actually thinking it might be the best Pokémon game since HGSS... At least for me. Gen 5 is close behind those, the sequels have a dumb amount of content but never truly grabbed me, personally.

It's basically the same general gameplay loop as Arceus but the battle mechanics actually elevate it, imho. They're not on the level of vgc battling, of course, but I like that there can be a certain amount of strategy to them in pvp and if you don't just waltz into every encounter with overleveled meta picks. And that breaks up the catching in a way that Arceus utterly failed for me. That game got HELLA boring after the fourth or fifth locale and as small as the city is, it was much more engaging to explore as I went through the game. Still chasing that shiny tepig, still playing pvp, I think I'm looking forward to the dlc.

It's entirety possible that my expectations were in a very different place because I managed to buy ZA for 30€ thanks to discounts and gift cards I forgot I had and knowing the game's laughable budget from those leaks a while ago; but it's a legitimately good, maybe even great, game in my book.

All that to say...i think this deserves doing well a lot more than previous efforts. Hope they take more from this into the next title than they tend to.

Re: Poll: What Do You Make Of Link And Zelda's Live-Action Looks?

Dom_31

I don't know the actors so I don't want to comment on the two, and I knew I probably wouldn't like this movie anyway, but the costumes are pretty...meh.

Knee-jerk reaction was that they're as comically awful as the Netflix one piece trash fire but they're not even in that same ballpark. They're "not bad" but this is also a pretty big production, I assume, and that just doesn't cut it for that kind of movie. I bet they wanted to play it safe for the initial movie, though, which I won't blame them for, knowing how some breeds of fans can act towards creators and actors in these cases.