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@Misima Woolly World is definitely in that same ballpark.

It just looks incredibly boring.. Not every game has to appeal to me, personally, obviously. But this doesn't seem to be any more than a...pseudo Sandbox for VERY young children.

I really think Woolly World was the anomaly in this series...it's been downhill since the excellent original game, imho.

These are still the after effects of game dev exploding during covid. They hired way too many people, stretched themselves way too thin and failed to adjust management - or maybe failed to adjust to the bigger scale of their projects/having to manage all those additional people - and gaming as a whole is only now beginning to get "back to normal". The truth was always that 2020 was the anomaly, not an indicator of the future of game dev.

Then you throw in the idiocy of publicly traded publishers that have to present profits year on year because shareholders are completely f***ing out of touch with how the real world works and the insane push for gaas in the wake of the time during covid when more people played more videogames and it's not surprising whatsoever that these (relatively) small studios get the s*** ends of all the sticks long-term.

And all this was BEFORE we got into the insanity that is happening around the world atm.

It really sucks, I hope I don't come off as condescending or like I'm trying to say IG are at fault of this, they're not. And I really hope the studio and the people let go find success in the future regardless of this awful hand they're dealt.

@Chlocean I actually prefer ni no kuni 2 to the first one in just about every way but missing the little creatures.

I'm not talking about that tho. There was a mobile game that was called cross world or something similar.

I don't know why we still expect level-5 to deliver with their pitiful output over the past... Decade or so and the constant yapping about AI and crypto s*** (people also seem to have forgotten about the last ni no kuni literally being the worst kind of cashgrab ON TOP Of being some weird blockchain and nft thing)

Insane because I can't imagine people having that much fun with it if they don't get the references. The movie is random as hell in a pretty bad way, pretty much just fanservice for the sake of it, imho.

Who tf voted for Spidops and are you okay?

They're all terrible.. 😅

How many omnimon variants can they cram into it, digimon fans?

@gcunit I don't think pokopia is threatened by any new animal Crossing that takes after the games we had so far.

It's legitimately just better AC in almost every single way but having actual friendship mechanics and the variety of furniture and decoration items.

Short answer, xenoblade.

Long answer Xenoblade 1- 3 lol

I don't think I remember (m)any other big titles that had such a large drop-off in quality between TV and handheld mode, some of that s*** bordered on unplayable.

Leak enjoyers, are we waiting for more mega stones or was Garchomp Z the final one?

Everything I read about that union in particular makes me feel kind of vindictive about Capcom seemingly not willing to work with them.

I still don't understand what the target demographic here is.

These trailers are HARD toddler-coded, not gonna lie. They need to show more or just say it's baby's first platformer. I love Yoshi's Island, Woolly World and have some nostalgia for Story.

But this looks boring AF and the only appeal rn is the artstyle.

18+ because you have to drink to stomach the price for...that.

Pokopia seems to be sold out in a bunch of places in Germany, too.

Kind of feels like they got as blindsided by the GLOWING reviews as everyone else lol
It wasn't on my radar at all, but seeing how well it's received by...seemingly everyone, and after watching a little bit of gameplay it went onto my wishlist for now. Doubt it'll be discounted, because Pokémon/Nintendo, but I'll wait a couple months, I think.

@mattesdude yeah, I reserved it for pickup on Friday and when I managed to get to the store on Saturday morning there were zero copies on the shelves themselves.

At least for ps5. Switch section still had a handful.

The Xbox shelves were almost full 💀

@Erigen well, to be fair, there IS a giant woman and grace has an outfit that's modeled after THE giant resident evil woman 🤡

Pokemon Y being the other highest rated pokemon game says EVERYTHING you need to know about metacritic.
Awful generation, gen 1 and 2 are only worse because they're crusty and jank as hell. Besides those games X and Y are easily the worst entries.

@PepperMintRex probably not. Capcom don't really do surprise announcements during these showcases. They always announce exactly what's getting covered and people set themselves up for disappointment without fail.

We're really trying to act like this isn't a POS, huh?

@SlowPokemon oof, reading.

Thanks for pointing it out tho. Not gonna be a deal breaker, the game's still solid on its own, but it's a huge shame.

@AussieMcBucket sure, but they have Gen 3 games on switch now. Granted, I think with the information that the home transfer for those are one-way the hopes for XD and Colosseum are already pretty...dead lol

Not that I'd buy the Gen 3 games for how much they're asking.

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.

It actually looks good, visually.
I'm a little shocked, but maybe they really did get the message after how awful ScaVi looked.

I'm 100% expecting this to cost 50+ € and at that price it'd be an INSANE ripoff LMFAO

@Spider-Kev they weren't on the virtual console at all, I think the gameboy games cost 15 or so, though.

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

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.

20€ per pop for a straight port with zero additional features - besides the home functionality - is actually insane.

But Nintendo fans will eat it up.

Oh wow... Jr's voice is absolutely awful

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.

Seems like first impressions were on the money. This is gonna be lame as hell and probably pretty overpriced for what it ultimately is.

I can't see this becoming a hit, sales-wise, not gonna lie.

LMFAO, Ban the losers who voted for 1/10, joyless chuds.

This is easily - and 100% will stay - among the absolute best on the system.

@StarCollector if you haven't yet, play the demo. You can transfer your progress, too.

Played the demo and without looking at the versions side by it felt exactly like the ps4/the original version of the game.
THIS is an impressive, and important, port.

Not s*** like what Witcher 3 was on switch 1.

That's... What?

I don't think that's how it works, y'all.

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.

Time to kick out two suckers for Mineru and Tulin

Eevee is by far the best one both design and value wise and even then it's overpriced as f***

Why is Blastoise more pose-able than Charizard? LMFAO

@Yoshi3 this one's not gonna be good anyway, like almost any of their other efforts.

There's absolutely nothing legendary about Gamefreak lmao

The only "legendary" story about pokemon dev is when Iwata saved their a**es

The fact that they have the nerve to meme about putting skyrim on yet another system and then f*** it up like this is hilarious to me.

Wtf would CHOOSE to listen to this train wreck of a soundtrack?

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.

Every time I see the north American snes I have to mention how f***ugly the button colors are.

Who decided to go with that?

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.

@coolioam what @CaleBoi25 said.

These costumes are alright. Nothing too crazy, but not exactly inspired/interesting.

I loathe the look of the Netflix one piece series, it's ugly as hell. That's why I'm saying the Zelda pictures aren't anywhere near that particular POS

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.