Wish this was done with the English VA too. The voice they got for Ganondorf in Tears was poor and it seems to be the same in the Ocarina Remake. It was a really generic anime villain voice.

Is there voice acting for other languages like French or German? I might switch to one of those if possible I know a little bit of those unlike Japanese and I can avoid the Californian English dub.

@Terramax I've not played it but believe it has a lot of influence from South East Asia/ Indonesia which is unique for a farming setting.

There is a big focus on the ocean, exploring it and cleaning it and even meeting (possibly dating) mermaids!

Genuinely surprised 'fuller body' wasn't just bigger bust and thighs she actually gets a soft tummy. Thats very cute!

@Bingbabingbabingooo For Royal Albert Hall It doesn't matter if you got there at 8:30 or 11:59 the queue position gets assigned randomly at 12.

It put me at 13000 in the queue which doesn't seem great haha

Can someone explain, Nintendo passed on the costs of the tariffs to customers but then also got the tariff costs refunded that they made the customers pay so aren’t they quids in?

So British accents for an English dub is weird but if they hired the same 10 American VA's that voice in nearly every other game it would be okay?

I think a lot of this is because it's been normalised to hear American voices over Japanese games.

For what it's worth I think the English dub was good, quite refreshing after all the games that go for that 'American-anime" voice that doesn't sound natural at all.

So basically you won't be able to move Gen 5 Pokemon to the Gen 6/7 games on the 3ds and those Gen 6/7 Pokemon won't be able to go to the Gen 8/9 games on the Switch games

You can however still move Pokemon from Gen 3 to Gen 4 and then to Gen 5 because these games did not rely on online systems that need to be kept on by Nintendo/Pokemon Company. You can catch a Pokemon in Ruby on your Game Boy Advance and move it up to Pokemon Black 2 on your DS for as long as the hardware and cartridges function.

Another fail for 'always online' services! The power of science is staggering!

War Elephants and Chariots are great additions.

The story building up to just fighting another Demon Lord has me worried the story is leaning more towards Engage than Three Houses.

I wasn't impressed by the characters/writing of the demo and the Fairy was giving me Paimon from Genshin vibes which is not a good thing for me.

Personally wish it was just kept to gaming characters (yes I know all these IP's have had video games at some point so technically they are gaming characters but you know what I mean)

I wish the pool of American voice actors was bigger, feels like I hear the same small group of voice actors in every game especially any Asian import games it's like they have a stranglehold on the market.

It was to Xenoblade Chronicles credit that the English localisation went for British voice actors just because it was a breath of fresh air.

So it's meant to be a high skill, competitive kart racer focused on multiplayer? I'll pass even if I was in for that I don't have much confidence the player numbers won't dry out within a few months and you're left with whatever paltry single player offerings they bothered to put in.

Are there any romance routes/endings? Assuming no as I don't think the previous two did but you never know.

I was tempted by this game I heard the action/general gameplay was excellent but the writing and story opinion varied between bland/bad and just OK and I need some enjoyable characters to get me through a game.

@anoyonmus Yes love the Wright games I've played Visual Novels I've just never played Steins Gate in any of its forms and I understand it's quite a big one so was wondering if this was a good dipping point, sorry if that wasn't clear

@GoproGO Oh I love Zero Escape one of my all time favourites (well the first two) I've been chasing VN's to try and hit that itch ever since. (Somnium Files was dissapointing)

I love a good VN but never tried this series, would this be a good starting point?

I was a bit underwhelmed by this Ganondorf but I did play in English and Matthew Mercer doing his Matthew Mercer villian voice did nothing for me. Ganondorf deserves something more unique. Final battle was still great though.

Wind Waker Ganondorf is still the best one.

I love these games and I can't fully explain why. The 2nd one in paticular I was entranced by its version of Hong Kong. Are we getting 1+2 on switch?

If you asked me half way through I'd say 9 but having finished it and stewed on it a bit I'm more like 8-7 it's very good but its not threatening the top Resi games.

The latter half felt weaker and the two gameplay sides felt weird next to each other I think I'd rather have them alternate between survivial horror and more action horror games rather than try and have both in the same game.

It's not even been out a week yet so there is still lots of hype I think we will get more thoughtful views once the dust settles.

Makes you appriciate modern pokemon games? I think it reminds you how much has been stripped out. Caves and other dungeons are practically all gone, Scarlet and Violet din't even have a Victory Road. EXP sources don't flow from every crevice to the point its difficult NOT to be overlevelled all the time.

Sure I don't miss having to teach HM moves but the modern games feel so lacking in any kind of friction its difficult to stay awake.

Hopefully the rest of Gen 3 and later gens can be given a similar rerelease Gen 5 is probably my favourite gen and I hope they never remake it not after what they did to Diamond and Pearl, just make the originals avaliable.

It looks better but I do wonder what I will be doing in this open world other than catching pokemon. I miss dungeons, both mandatory and optional ones that had some challenge to explore.

Great starters but I expect at least two of them to turn into men...

Nothing against anthro animal characters but I like my Pocket Monsters to be well monsters.

One thing I enjoy about Zelda is how they reimagine elements between titles, Moblins have been in many games but unlike a Mario enemy like a Goomba they have taken many forms. Redeads are clay-like creatures with masks in Ocarina, weird moth creatures in Tears and simply terrifying in Wind Waker!

I hope the popularity of Breath of the Wild won't mean they will feel the need to stick close to that game in design and apperance. I want the new one to feel completley fresh.

The worst part of the 'Faithful remakes' claim was they still had forced EXP share on, which actually significantly boosts your EXP not just share it with no way to turn it off and was never in the original games. The hardest part of the game is not to be overlevelled.

So they even failed on the faithful remake claim.

yeah I'm stuck wondering if I'll get my moneys worth out of it. I dont care for online with random people and I'm worried ill probably end up bouncing around some tracks on single player, doing some city trials and then get bored. I could see it being great fun with some friends but I think this is way too hectic for my partner to play with me.

< _ < Yay!

Although I assume no voice acting?

No disrespect to anyone but the pool of American English voice acting seems very small and stale. If you play any amount of Asian import games you start hearing the same voices over and over.

I can switch to a new game and immedeatly clock the same voices from the last game I played often delivering a similar if not exact same performance because I guess a lot of these VA's get type cast.

One of the best desicions Xenoblade Chronicles did was use a different British cast for their voice over and it was such a breath of fresh air that made it stand out to me. Final Fantasy Tactics also has an outstanding english VA.

I expect I'll be hearing many of these yet again when Fire Emblem comes out next year.

I want to say yes but it would likely mean for the English dub we'd get the same 10 American voice actors who appear to star in every Asian import video game.

It's not even that they are bad but if you play a lot of games from the Far East you hear them all the time. Ah yes here's the 'Smooth confident woman' voice actor and then the guy who always voices middle aged men.

Xenoblade Chronicles using British voice actors was such a breath of fresh air and gave the game some of its own identity. New blood is desperately needed in English VA.

@Jeronan Plenty of competitive games exist that don't offer any unique rewards, people play them because they find them fun. I don't think it's nessecary to lock content behind them if anything it's an admission that some people won't be interested in it so they need to dangle some carrots.

I think locking the Kalos starters behind a limited ranked battle event was too much. Mega evolution is a core part of this game and this pratically torpedoes any chance of using the Mega's of Greninja, Delphox and Chesnaught in a normal playthrough.

If you get grinding now you might be able to get Mega Greninja and use him in single player but if you wanted to use Mega Chesnaught then shelve the game for a few months and wait I guess.

They could have put cosmetics behind the ranked play like a special outfit or a shiny pokemon and that would have probably gone under most people's radar but might have been nice for the people who actually want to play the PvP.

I'm holding off Crossworlds as much as I love the series there doesn't seem to be much meat on the singleplayer side from what I can see, I'm not interested in PvP or Nicktoon crossovers.

Now if a certain character comes out I may reconsider... (although with no voice actor that would be rubbish.)

@Supadav03 You could have Game Freak make Pokemon for supercomputers and it would not create nice looking games, the frame rate might at least be decent though.

Its a combination of tight deadlines and a core development team that was used to making relatively simple sprite based games now trying to make open 3d worlds without getting the relevant expertise in for that change.

Probably should have had another studio make the big 3d games and Game freak could focus on more traditional pokemon adventures, kind of like how we had top down Zelda coexist with the third person games.

@SpaceboyScreams Yeah pokemon coasts on its brand no doubt about that

I was intrerested in this game but the ridiculous Kalos starter mega stone aquisition and the DLC announcement has put such a sour taste in my mouth.

The only thing keeping me in now is that my girlfriend loves Pokemon and playing through them togeather has become a tradition.

@kmtrain83 You probably already know but there is no combat and a bigger focus on farming and building a succesful business.

Also don't expect the same kind of narrative. There's no big save the world type plot with places to explore. Its much more slice of life and village drama (which has its charm, I do love a petty inter-village rivalry)

The art style of Story of Seasons isn't quite doing it for me though. The characters have to look nice to me which is why Stardew Valley has never had my interest despite being a maniac of this genre.

The anime and a lot of the dub material is very USA focused, other English speaking parts of the world pronounce things differently anyway so I never took much stock in how the anime said it, to-may-to to-mah-to

Why did they not go for a hand drawn style like that Disney Illusion Island or Rayman Legends? Ill admit I've never been a fan of that 3D classic Sonic model since it's debut in Generations

A city environment could be great, there is plenty of variety and some games have done incredible things with an urban setting like Yakuza/Like a Dragon.

What's more worrying is so far Luminose City looks very samey. It's based off Paris I'm sure there is more variety in Paris than the same typical Parisian street in different colours.

I'm interested in Lego Party, we love Jamboree but the mini game selection is way too small, it says it has a lot of mini games but a good portion are siloed off into the 'Bowser Kaboom Sqaud' and the other thing we don't bother with.

I hope the Lego boards are all based off the big themes. They've got a Ninjago board but I hope there is a Castle, Pirates, Space, City in there too!

The thing I'm most interested about this is that hopefully all the competitive PVP stuff can just all go to this game and the main series can just focus on being single player/co-op adventures without also having to worry about multiplayer metas and balance.

Far from a gurantee that Game Freak can make a good game but still maybe they can experiment more with Gen 10 if they arn't worried about PvP.

I played Galaxy on the Switch and throughly enjoyed it. For people who played Galaxy 2 are there any possible reasons the sequel would be difficult to port like it needed more precise motion controls or something?

I enjoyed the first one despite some issues with the writing having a really jarring clash of tone but the narrative or gameplay still doesn't match up to the first two Zero Escapes.

I gave the second one a chance and it was actually worse, felt like they doubled down on everything I din't enjoy about the first one. Lots of weirdly placed slapstick humour and bad action scenes.

This one looks to be more of the same, lots of reused assets (my partner thought the trailer was a re-release of Nirvana for Switch 2 lol) and a focus on one of my least liked characters from the first one (Iris)

I gave this series a chance due to the Zero Escape pedigree and I would still say the 1st game is good but I'm done. I'd love to see someone try to pick up the Zero Escape crown as they are some of my favourite games of all time.

I'd rather have Pokemon set in a tighter, smaller world with more detail than a large world but bland and barren. Game Freak clearly doesn't have the resources or time for massive 3d open worlds and I don't think they will budge on either of those limitors.

Power Stone being its arcade version makes this a pass, as much as I love the games I'm not playing an inferior version. I loved unlocking all the weapons.

Ill just keep waiting for Power Stone 3 then... along with Toy Commander 2... and Skies of Arcadia... sigh

@YunoboCo Nintendo has some issue with Toadsworth, he was going to appear in the Mario Movie but Nintendo requested he not be included so he was replaced with the generic 'Toad General' we see.

No idea what he did wrong but they still don't seem to like unique Toad's for some reason...

@cmlobue For a mega series like Pokemon it would take ahwhile for the poor quality to affect sales I think. It can coast off brand strength for a bit. It would take a few bad games before it sinks in to average customers.

Anyway Cassette Beasts is very good.

Remakes peaked with Heartgold And Soulsilver, that was the last one to not only include everything from the originals (including Crystal) but add its own features to make it the definitive way to play Johto.

Gen 3 remakes were good but fall down in some areas.

And then Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl... 'Faithful remakes' as they said whenever asked why nothing from Platinum was included (still got that forced EXP share though!)

There's Sonic Prime skins (characters?) coming. I wonder if anything from the comics could show up...

@Zeebor15
They still have Creative Assembly in the UK that makes the Total War games as well as Alien Isolation and that canned Hyenas game.

@FRBA94 I won't argue she's pretty bland at the moment but old Amy was bland but also obnoxious. Bowser is obsessed with Peach but he's the bad guy. Amy was supposed to be one of the good guys and apparently one of Sonic's friends yet she acted like a creep.

Amy really din't have much going beyond the obsession. Recently they have brought in tarot cards and the fortune telling side which she's always had but they never used.

I would like to see her get a redesign though, her apperance hasn't changed since Sonic Adventure and its one of the weaker designs imo.