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how very in character of him

Mario Kart was in a similar situation as Smash Bros, with the most recent game basically representing a maximalistic culmination of what the franchise has been known for. So yeah it was due time for a refresh.

And I suspect we can expect Smash Bros to try something new as well, whenever the next entry to that series comes around.

He goes way back before the 3DS- he was well known in the DSi’s Petit Computer sphere back then too.

There’s even a raid shadow legends rip off on the eShop

@KidSparta I feel like they could provide a very simple buff to the evolved forms:

Provide a new exclusive move or ability for the evolved forms when they start out as a baby.

It’s basically what they’re for in them games, after all.

Did people really want to play the true unchanged story of the great calamity? I mean, we already knew they all die in the canon version. That’d be no fun. It would basically end right after the real war starts and then all the champions die and the princess becomes a pokeball.

Without the little robot there to amplify the sheikah slate, and start the war off early, there’d be no reason to even have that many battles and no way to use the runes and towers. So it’d be what? Like four chapters of wandering around recruiting champions, with a sudden downer ending right as the calamity starts.

With the war of imprisonment we at least know they did win. With it basically being an alternative version to Ocarina of Time with goat people; so they actually do have stuff to work with this time.

@JumpingJackson they introduced it as “a story 100 years before Breath of the Wild”. But they never used the word “canon” when referring to that one.

If you wanted to be particular about it, I suppose saying “a story” instead of “the story” gave them enough wiggle room.

Here they’re being unusually direct.

@Polvasti many Zelda fans get very touchy whenever any spinoff title is considered (even remotely potentially) canon by other people. It’s like, offensive to some.

I do agree with you though, and even the first Hyrule Warriors was clearly made so it fit in the child timeline without messing outside of it (originally). It only started adding characters from the other branches in Legends, after establishing Phantom Ganon as capable of bending dimensions with Cia’s magic (whereas Cia limited herself to opening portals to different points in time).

@GoldenSunRM that’d be tragic

So I approve

@Olmectron it’s completely possible for them to focus on Zelda without Link, as a continuation of their efforts to make Zelda a frontline character in her own adventures.

Either way, they’re also perfectly capable of making Rauru himself, or a mysterious Zonai warrior based on the costume Link can unlock in TotK, the “Link” of the story (in terms of gameplay).

And yes, the game being canon doesn’t forbid them from adding fun extra characters and scenarios that don’t affect the main plot.

Are they expecting us to cancel our subscriptions by then…? 🤔

Well, Meganium Feraligatr and Emboar have good chances of getting them, I’d say.

I would not be surprised if instead of new regional forms, they got megas.

@Thirteen1355 you can modify the exp yield and other settings in these remasters, you can even make it so battles give out no exp at all.

The update also added the classic soundtracks to the mobile versions of the games, and fixed the final achievement not showing up.

“You said it was the holy grail of sonic merch, this is worthless!”

“No, no, I said just ‘the grail’”

Yup, looks like the 3DS games alright.

They should’ve made Marowak in a lighter more pastel tone

@Bolt_Strike the lite fits quite comfortably in my pockets.

@Kilroy I find both sounds to be very different and can’t really “hear” it.

Perhaps it’s just my native tongue not being English.

@Otoemetry is it even possible for the human mouth to pronounce “Christmas” while keeping the h? Seriously I’m trying right now.

Fun, this will make it a lot easier to snap it in half during gamer rage moments.

That looks like it’s just a point where different geometry pieces meet, with a bottom added.

The gloom might simply be a default setting.

@Patendo @Otoemetry but why have the h there if it’s not gonna affect the sound of the c 🧐

Looks like the blue sky post is gone.

This one was easy!

Haha it looks great to be honest

@StewdaMegaManNerd @8bit-Man Anyone in Latin America would be immediately aware that the “super” in the name refers to the type of business. It’s like saying Restaurant or Cinema: a common name for a specific type of business.

This is a supermarket (a “super”) named “Mario”. Had the Mario in question opened a restaurant instead, it would be “Restaurante Mario”, for example.

Now if they had a literal Super Mario of the Bro variety painted on the wall or in the logo, then they’d have a point. But as things are, Nintendo truly only embarrassed themselves with this one.

Yay more plastic, less shelf space.

Innovation.

@Anti-Matter not sure how much they’ll be changing from the originals, but it would make sense if they did that.

The wording on the blurb appears to imply so:

Play as a boy or a girl, woo bachelors and bachelorettes

But take it with a grain of salt since these could be simple remasters.

@MasterGraveheart ah, no, they haven’t really done that since the PS2/GC era.

@PinderSchloss on the Natsume HM end, Winds of Anthos is a pretty good open world take on the genre, and while I haven’t played the latest mobile game I’ve heard it’s also really good, so I wish it was on switch too.

@MasterGraveheart I don’t think there’s any post-split HM games with timers or anything like that, beyond the usual “crop/item is only available in certain season” as with all farming games.

The Lost Valley had an infamous example though, where an early quest will request a crop you can only obtain in spring (the game has you restoring the seasons, so chances are you’ll only be able to enjoy very few days of spring on your first year, if any). Ultimately though, it’s not an important or necessary quest, but back then it had all of us scrambling trying to get the crop.

Oh my Harvest Goddess…

I was actually like one of five people who really liked the 3DS games, and this re-release might actually fix several of the technical and design issues these games have… so I’m quite happy with this!

I’ve been wanting to play the original game again for a while now

It’s honestly not even that major of a redesign.

He just learned how to relax his eyebrows.

Beacon Bay? I know it’s MySims, but a remake of The Sims 3 DS with proper good graphics would be kind of nice!

It was the one and only handheld Sims game of the era that actually played like a real Sims game, and it had some cool ideas and features. But the characters were just so ridiculously ugly, switching them with MySims characters alone would be a huge improvement.

@JohnnyMind if it makes it any better, Soma has a mode where the monsters can’t kill you (they do still chase you for effect though), so you can enjoy the story.

Aaah! I love this one!

Glad to see it’s finally getting a switch port.

Even the dog person is angry kirbified

Where’s the IGN watermark

It was on sale last weekend.

They really need to give us the ability to blacklist developers so their games don’t show up while browsing the eShop.

Voxel animal crossing competitor….?

Sounds a little… Overdone… which is weird because I don’t think I have ever seen a game exactly like that but it already sounds like a tired concept.

I never got around to playing this one, but I think I might get the complete edition once it comes out. Nice to hear it will have a discount.

Got lucky with the Mario titles one. But yay 19/19!

Edit: huh I refreshed the page my score was gone 🙃 ah it’s back there again, justice at last!

Me, who has never ever used the augmented reality or scanned a location once: “good job, team”.

Oh no that’s sad to hear, I love the game on evercade.

Hopefully they will be able to find a new and better partner to work with on the gba release.

It’s been getting daily patches on mobile. So it’s nice to see the Switch is joining in with the patching fun.

Now imagine having to put it back in

Both look like fake game boxes made to be used as items in a different game.

Since neither tells me what the game would be like or anything…. Based on looks alone I prefer the Japanese one.

It was a pleasant surprise to see the game update earlier today 😀

The new farm layout is pretty cool, I like it.

About time.

Wish it was on an already existing app like Apple Music though. But I’ll use it a lot.