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Amiibo Festival is not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's bad, but it's bad in a boring "I'd rather play Mario Party instead" way, not an egregious "This game is broken and has no charm whatsoever" way like Chasing Dead on Wii U is.

I said 9. It's a great expansion on Age of Calamity which itself was a great expansion on the original game. Whoever gave it a 1 or 2 needs to their heads examined; not liking the game or finding legitimate faults with it is fine, but a rating of 1 or 2 would imply that the game is fundamentally broken.

I voted Europe. The actual art is the same as Japan, but I like that it included the in-game sprites. To be honest, I prefer the art in the US version, but it's just disingenuous to de-Dragonball a game that was made to be a Dragonball game.

@Anti-Matter It's worth noting that not all PS5 games are truly fully on disc. Some absolutely are, but many games require an update download in order to be playable and function. Whether 0% of the game is on physical media or 95% is, if any download is required in order to play, then it's all effectively the same.

@Don For the most part, I agree with you in remasters, but there are some that really deserve it. I think giving Mario Galaxy the HD treatment was worthwhile; it was such a beautiful game - it and its sequel - in 480i that it deserved a bump to 2160p in my opinion. Super Mario RPG definitely deserved a remake, and they did a brilliant job with. I'd love to seem them remaster Eternal Darkness, and I'd love to see the original Legend of Zelda remade in a modern style.

I don't know if I'd say "a dream come true" just yet, but it's definitely fantastic. As for those mentioning game key cards, that's not relevant; the write-up is about game selection, not preservation of physical support. Unless you're going to tell me that digital-only games aren't actually video games, that's a pointless argument to make.

Heck yeah. I love Mystery Gifts that give otherwise unobtainable Pokemon. Mythicals SHOULD be super rare to obtain. That's the whole point. If anything, I think GameFreak has been a little too loose recently with some of the mythicals.

Good. Streaming unreleased games unless you got an early review code is so blatantly illegal it's stupid, and to brag about it? Dude is lucky the court didn't impose a much higher fine.

@vio That's less a LRG issue and more what the IP owner is willing to put in one collection.

Fortunately for my wallet, I only see three or four on that list I'm interested in. Solid upcoming lineup thought.

@John_Deacon I've had it switch between day and night as I was in the process of throwing a Poke Ball. The Pokemon just completely despawned (it was a Staryu in I think area 2, so it only appears at night)

Let's be honest, I'd steal the Louver 3DSs too if I had the chance. What a gloriously quirky piece of Nintendo history.

@MTMike87 I recommend Persona 3

I'm so stoked. I can't really afford, but that's why God invented credit cards. lmao

The only thing better about the Japanese version is that "Dark Echoes" is a cooler subtitle than "Echoes"

I personally like console exclusives - they make consoles feel unique whereas Xbox and Playstation, by and large, feel super samey these days. That said, I'd absolutely buy Halo on Switch 2 if it happened.

So I see her point. From a purely pro-consumer standpoint, exclusivity is inherently negative. But I like having each console feel unique. Part of what makes the 90s my favorite era of gaming is how distinct each console felt. Saturn, N64, 3DO, Jaguar, PS1 - none of those consoles felt quite like the others. Outside of Nintendo, that's not really the case with consoles since 2013.

Pray for our brothers in Europe. They have clearly lost the way.

omg thank you for posting this. I was having the hardest time figuring out where the safe spot was for that area-wide attack in Zygarde's complete form. My Pokemon hold strong, but I kept dying lol

Jesus Christ, my inability not to buy everything Nintendo makes is going to bankrupt me

I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm disappointed with the lack of new Pokemon or regional forms, but the new mega evolutions are cool, and the storyline is a lot of fun. I'd definitely put it at the very bottom of main series games, but I'm still having a blast. GameFreak may be lazy and/or incompetent with making Pokemon games look better than a Wii U title, but they're undeniably fun to play. I gave it an 8.

The Ally X is absolutely worth the money, but that depends on one's having the money in the first place. It may be worth the money, but that's a third of my monthly income; I can't afford that.

@MatoFilipovic like cedarhyped said, it's lazy and/or incompetent developers. Most of the Switch 2 games I've played - Cyberpunk, Trails in the Sky, Yakuza 0, and most of the first party titles - have all run pretty smoothly. The only Switch 2 game I've played that had performance issues that I noticed was Shadow Labyrinth...which is also Bandai Namco. The problem is Bandai, not Switch 2.

I'm a collector with a spending problem lmao

@OmnitronVariant No, I don't have to take that into account. I don't rate games on Game Pass higher than their PS5 counterparts just because I don't have to pay anything on top of my subscription to play them. Why would I apply that standard to Nintendo if I don't apply it to other studios' games?

Play stupid games, get stupid prizes. FAFO at its finest.

@OmnitronVariant A review evaluates a game, not market conditions. Games's scores don't jump on Metacritic when they're on sale. Selling Ride to Hell Retribution for $0.50 won't make it a good game.

These are the greatest 3D platformers ever made imo. I'd have liked to see a specific Switch 2 version that leveraged the increased horsepower for some ray tracing goodness, and the gyro controls will never be as accurate or responsive as the Wiimote, so I voted 9 instead of 10, but they're still basically masterpieces.

Judging from the votes, most seem to realize this, but in case anyone is so salty that they forget, price doesn't factor into review scores, just the game itself. If I were factoring in the price, I'd drop my 9 to a 7.

I, for one, welcome their decision not to indulge cross-gen nonsense.

I strongly recommend this for any Trek fans. I played on Series X, and it's a great adventure for Trek fans.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news to folks, but there aren't enough people who care about physical media for any kind of boycott to matter in the slightest. The vast majority of gamers get some if not all of their games digitally and would happily trade a lower price for digital-only availability. Businesses will follow what the majority of consumers want. Some games need to be GKCs due to technical data transfer limitations, some need to be due to file sizes in excess of the Switch 2 card's capacity, and some choose to because of the cost of the game cards. The first two reasons there are completely reasonable if that truly is the case, and even for the third one, they're making a compromise they don't have to make.

You don't have a right to get games physically, and publishers don't have an obligation to offer you games physically. Anyone can see that the medium, as a whole, is moving more and more to digital. The fact that there's any kind of physical option that can be resold on the second hand market, even if it's one that's useless for the purposes of offline installation or preservation, is more than they were required to offer. Comparisons of game publishers' offering game key cards to kidnappers' allowing brief glimpses of the sun are pure strawman arguments.

And no, holding this opinion does not make one "feeble-minded." >_>

@NFrealinkling They shouldn't be able to render a physical object you legally bought and paid for useless. Online services are just that - a service - and is paid for regularly like any other bill, so that's different. But and internet provider shouldn't be able to render my entire desktop PC unusable if I get caught having found a way to use their service without paying for it.

Hopefully she'll be a good fit for the position. I do, however, miss the days of eccentric "brand ambassador" type Nintendo CEOs, though.

@Sonicka Glad to hear another voice of reason here. I don't like game key cards, but people around here act like it violates the Geneva Conventions. The Switch 2 card reader can't match M.2 read speeds, and cartridges are lot more expensive than UHD Bluray discs. It sucks, but it's a reality.

@NFrealinkling The big issue isn't banning use of online services but bricking in the console entirely

@ear_wig Thanks for the summary. I'm usually less bothered by minor performance issues than most gamers, but I'm usually more bothered by controls that just feel "off" than most, so it's hard to say how I'll feel about it.

I'll be putting all of my gold and hourglasses and shop points into this to hunt those past pack chase cards lol

@ear_wig I have it on Switch 2, but I haven't played it yet. What are the performance issues? Is it the usually 30 fps vs 60 fps or is it a more serious sub-30 fps issue?

I think the points he makes are very fair. I do think that it would have been better to have the data on the cartridge but require a full install like PS5 and XSX games usually do, but this type of argument is why, while I don't like the game key cards, I'm not part of the hyperbolic outrage that tends to infest these comment sections.

I'll throw it on my wishlist in hopes it will go on sale some day, but even as much as I loved the base game and as stalwart a Nintendo fanatic as I am, I just can't bring myself to spend $20 on DLC for a game only two months old when the only real draw is a roguelike mode (as I do not like roguelikes).

Looks rad. I'll probably give this one a buy.

I can't tell much difference between the two. Good thing I buy darn near everything Nintendo makes regardless of value or improvement lmao

Oh look, another Schedule 1 clone

@Pillowpants Teamwork makes the dream work, to quote my first boss after college.

@Pillowpants Dang, beat me to it lol

@Bunkerneath Virtually no game is complete if we're disallowing patches. What "complete on cart" really means these days is that the game is completely playable without updates. It may still have bugs - even games before digital updates were possible had bugs - but if it's playable sans update, it's as complete as anything is these days.

It's great to see them making fixes so promptly.

@Tom-Massey
Loving your thoughtful and well-reasoned responses here. It's a breath of fresh air in a comment section that can often turn toxic the moment someone mentions the letters L, R, and G.

My predictions (the last two of which are admittedly far fetched, I know) are:

Metroid Prime 4 release date
Resident Evil ports
FF7 release date
Elden Ring release date
Clair Obscur port
Mario 3D All Stars (but now including Galaxy 2)
New Fire Emblem

I love bad 90s games, but the ones I like are "so bad, it's good" games. Bubsy is just...bad.