Druidsbrook

I don't think its that simple. I guess I'm one of Fire emblems 'New' fans that played Awakening on 3ds first and I think the big difference between Engage and Three Houses was the world building, narrative and presentation.

Three Houses wanted to tell quite a serious story with a fairly belivable setting with a fleshed out history and characters. There was plenty of moral grey area and different motives.

Engage was a far more simple Shiny pure good guys vs the dark/purple bad guys with a world convinently shaped in a circle for our protagonist to walk around in a loop through the story.

I think Engage got credit for its more interesting battle maps and mechanics but I don't think new or old fans were defending the story or character design.

I'm not sure why but I find the 3ds much more comfortable in my hands than the switch. I pretty much exclusivly play switch on the big screen it just feels a bit off in handheld. I'm not sure if thats a common thing or I just got used to the dual screens?

I'd love to see Wario in more Mario media it seems they have really pushed him away he could have been a great character in 3d World or Wonder.

I like the Wario Ware games but that seems to be the only place he really shows up now outside of the sports titles.

@Ryu_Niiyama
This seems directed at critics of the switch games such as myself so I will say I loved everything from Gen 1-5 Gen 6-7 I did not like as much but still enjoyed a lot.

Its only with the switch games my enjoyment took a total nosedive so I don't think fans are as unappeasable as you think. They just really stripped out most of what I loved about the series recently.

@Unit_DTH They could have released Scarlet and Violet on the PS5 & Xbox Series X and they would still be buggy messes with some of the worst 3d environments I've seen. The fps would just be more stable.

I'm just glad we seem to have dodged Gen 5 remakes. I think the series peaked with Gen 5 and I'd hate to see them get the awful BrilliantDiamond/Shining Pearl treatment they deserve better.

I enjoyed BotW but I watched my partner play TotK and din't look like it was for me. The Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts/Gmod stuff just doesn't interest me at all.

The dungeons looked better but still a far cry from the other 3d Zeldas.

I can appriciate the technical achievement but if this is Zelda now I'm afraid Ganon is going to remain undefeated from me.

I recently asked my landlord if I could have a pet as I had lived in the flat for over 5 years and not trashed the place so I thought I could be trusted.

They said no so I'm getting the giant Altaria plush to make myself feel better haha.

I'm just confused, they could have taken them out when they were remastering the game, why did they not pick it up then?

This was pretty good, great monster designs and they went with the animated sprite look that Pokemon Black and White had which was my favourite.

For me though it got totally overshadowed by Cassette Beasts which honestly doesn't deserve the title pokemon clone because of how much it twisted the monster collecting forumula.

Its why I love the non-humanoid characters like Pirahna plant or humanoid characters with cartoony/exaggerated proportions. Its great to see what moves they come out with.

The semi realistic/anime type humanoid fighters that tend to come from the RPG/Fighting games have their place too of course but the DLC's leaned a bit too much in their favour for me personally.

As others have said it's a UK based poll and Lara-mania was huge here and went into the mainstream and would be hard to miss for anyone who lived through that time.

In the US Mario consistently polled as the more popular character than Sonic but in the UK Sonic came out on top. I doubt thats the case anymore but it does show how even in English speaking regions there are differences.

The story being generic is a fairly big downer for me. If I read the review correctly the plot relies heavily on people being mind controlled to create conflict and I'm pretty tired of that trope.

Gonna hold off on this and see how Dragons Dogma 2 reviews and consider that.

Its hard to believe considering Sonic their flagship mascot hasn't been triple A since probably Sonic Unleashed. I think Sega set expectations too high for the smaller budgets and time constraints they put on their games.

Yakuza (Like a Dragon) seems to be the exception to this since while I don't play them they seem to put out good quality games.

Maybe avoid hiring the Balan Wonderworld/Hey! Pikmin developer to make your flagship mascot game. Even if the director worked on Sonic a long time a go.

Sonic Dream Team on the other hand was good just a shame it's on Apple Arcade exclusive for the moment.

If it turned out the game blatantly took monster designs from an artists deviant art account or something without permission then that would be under the belt.

But from a mega corp? Nah they don't need defending.

No idea on the quality of this game but we need to stop calling this genre 'Pokemon Clones' just like how we stopped calling First Person Shooters 'Doom Clones'.

There is so much potential in the monster battling format that we are unlikely to see from Pokemon given it's downward spiral of quality.

Given its Pokemon that's a tiny sample size

I don't know anything about this paticular situation but its another reminder not to include a homage to real people in your game especially living ones.

It doesn't matter if you watched hundreds of hours of them playing games or 'real-talk' streams you don't know these people they are showing you a single presentable side, just one of many masks we wear.

Its a very similar line to what the Pokemon seniors have said: Open worlds are superior any desire for the older methods must be nostalgia. Which is a frustrating view.

By removing player restrictions you actually make more restrictions in what the game can do narratively and mechanically. If pure open gameplay is so superior why do we still have genres like Metroidvanias which deliberately restrict the player until new powers open the map bit by bit?

I think any brand that melds to that pop culture monstrosity cheapens itself a little.

I guess there isn't a suitable model to add Wario which is a shame. Was great to see Daisy playable but it would be really nice to see Wario in this or 3D world seeing as Wario Land is on hibernation.

They might not want to considering the ways they could show up the recent games haha.

I do love the original protagonist. That cocky look and overall 'chunkier' design. Ethan is fine but look a bit souless.

I will say Heartgold/Soulsilver remain the best remakes by a long shot. It really felt like they put everything they could into it rather than meet bare minimum expectations.

Thank you for acknowledging the lack of body types for your character in the review summary it's nice they let you change height but that seems to be it. I'd love to see a fashion game that lets you dress characters of different shapes. Right now the only option is The Sims 4 which is pretty good in that regard but thats not even a fashion game!