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I predict that it will rain later this month.

Perfect, I think with those two in this collection now pretty much has everything from the classic MK era. As long as the emulation is good I can see this being pretty much a must have.

The racing seems fine, I do like that it has a smaller amount of racers per race and I did like how the race tracks looked from the short preview, the gimmicky racing machines seem kind of fun. but I don't really see how city trial would be fun beyond maybe doing it once or twice.

Didn't really sell it for me as of now but I haven't entirely written it off either.

I guess the direct overall is like a 4/10 if you really want me to throw some arbitrary number at it.

I will probably be watching this, this is one of those games which they're gonna need to sell for me before I'm actually interested.

@topsekret
Symphony of War: the Nephilim Saga would be my recommendation for an average SRPG enjoyer, it has you commanding squads of units meaning that the combat has some Ogre Battle DNA to it but I think the basic strategy gameplay still does feel like Fire Emblem. It's not amazing or anything, but I liked it.

If you live and breathe Fire Emblem as I do then I would also recommend checking out Vestaria Saga, a low budget game by the original Fire Emblem creator. It is kind of a pain in the ass at some points but it also has maps with ton of depth and events tied to them that it makes Fire Emblem blush in comparison and the localization team made a fantastic job bringing out the personality from the dialogue, it is definitely not one for casual enjoyers though, the game is tough, some parts being almost like puzzles, just figuring out how to get through, the game has a feature that lets you save every 5 turns so it's not AS bad as you might think even if you do end up failing.

I mean I love Pokemon and all but has the series ever really been "hardcore" by design exactly.

It's one of those series where you kind of have to make up your own rules and limitations if you're on the look out to making it challenging.

I guess there's competive play which of course by it's very nature is more hardcore but I didn't really take this game leaning into that direction.

The first Dark Deity was hot garbage and from what I hear this is just more of the same, hard pass. There are way better places to get your faux-Fire Emblem fancies if that is what you are in the lookout for.

I finished my Shin Megami Tensei 4 run earlier this week and I was kind of left without really knowing what I wanted to play next, I tried out Fear & Hunger first just to sate my sick curiosity on what the heck this game even is, now I understand better, the warning at the start of the game isn't there just for show and the game definitely ended up being a bit too "hardcore" for me in more than just one way.

Then I decided to dig out Chrono Trigger for some nostalgia and made it all the way through the early game to the End of Time but that just wasn't meant to be I guess as for reasons that are unknown to me my save at the end of time had not gone through (I even have video proof that I did in fact save) and was sent way back to the very beginning of the 2300AD portion, that kinda killed it for me sadly, some other time.

So instead I actually put the Switch 2 to some use and started a replay of Pokemon Violet, it's an actual miracle to see this game run at a stable, decent frame rate, it still looks rancid sure, but it runs and in spite of the game's shortcomings I think on a very casual braindead sort of way the game is actually pretty fun to play through, I wish the battle messages and whatnot were better optimized still as the battles just run so slow in this game for some reason. But I'm having fun nonetheless just 'sploring the world and collecting weird Pokemon, building a team and trying to come up with a dumb nickname for each one, I already beat a single challenge from each of the game's three main story missions.

I donno if the game really meant anything for me in particular really it was a game among other games, I thought the normal ending scenario was pretty rad and the soundtrack was good. If the game didn't become this massive thing I probably wouldn't really remember it that well any more.

It's so weird to me to see the EV allocations and junk on an actual official Pokemon game, though I do very much appreciate the efforts to make the competive scene more accessible.

It looks like Mario Odyssey so I almost certainly would not like it + the new DK still looks weird to me.

I like how the game looks and I don't mind the pixelated booty, but the swearing comes across as unnecessarily edgy and the trailer just comes across as incredibly artsy fartsy and pretentious to me.

The best game ever made know as Rimworld got a substantial update and some new DLC yesterday, so that's what I am playing for a little bit.

Totally deserved. I just cannot fathom the though process behind the update change, why are players not allowed to have fun the way they want? Nintendo unfortunately is so far up their own you know what that instead of taking the critisism, that maybe the generic in-between tracks aren't so great, which is why the people take the one opportunity they had to maybe not play them every single race and now that's just gone, everyone is only allowed to have fun the way Nintendo wants them to.

I'm much more annoyed by the fact that Sakurai is working on the kirby racing the game which is almost certainly gonna mean the next Smash isn't coming out in forever. It's a shame, the kirby racer was probably the lamest possible thing he could have gone for.

It's been tough since I was always a Wario guy but I just cannot stand the new voice so I've been looking for a new go to.

Birdo has always been someone I've been picking now and then in the games where she's in and is probably my most used character in the new Mario Kart, Chargin' Chuck is fun, I don't want to call it cute because that makes me feel like an absolute dumass but I do like the Train conductor costume on Toadette and she was the character I happened to get my first (and so far only) online race 1st place victory with.

Those are probably the ones I'm leaning towards the most but I've been swapping around a lot using many of the random minions and even some of the older characters, I do like the costumes a lot and I do feel they do breathe a lot of new life on the older cast.

Kind of a shame they had to drop Kamek so quick when they finally gave him a playable role in one of the later MK8 DLCs, he would be one of my most used for sure if he was still here.

No, I would be fine trying it out if I ever got an opportunity to borrow it or something but I'm not spending a cent on that. I have not seen the recent direct and have no real interest to but between the goofy DK redesing, the game looking largely similar to Mario Odyssey (which I didn't exactly love) and the terraform punching as a mechanic coming across as lame to me I'm not into it.

My boy Wario was done so dirty in my opinion, I don't mind the other plumbers too much but Wario just makes me sad.

In my opinion they really just consider getting a different VA for all the Mario/Wario brothers, just because Martinet could do all of them does not necessarily mean that if someone could do a great Wario impression that their Mario would be up to snuff.

It looks nice but there is no incentive to explore, game really needed an adventure mode or something, anything, as it is the open world in itself is pretty pointless in everything but the visual sense and knockout is a cool mode, it works there I guess.

But the online races in particular are strictly worse because so much focus is put on the inbetween tracks and you get to race in the actual set-piece tracks far less.

I'm "doing my part" I guess and trying out some demos from Steam next fest, it's surprisingly fun to just make a grab bag for yourself and just try out random stuff, I just played a game called House of Necrosis which was like Resident Evil 1 if it was a mystery dungeon game instead, it's pretty unapologetic when its premise and main character (who might as well be called Vill Jalentine) are practically lifted from RE1 but the gameplay itself it very cool, the PS1 style visuals and very old school UI really made it for me and the mystery dungeoning had just the right amount of challenge and randomness factor to it. This one was a big winner in my books.

I'm also playing Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, beat Chapter 1 of the game earlier this week, it took a while for me into get into it but I've been enjoying it.

It's like a 6, I like how the game looks, I like the soundtrack, the driving feels good, I like that there's a lot of new characters and even the old ones get a new lease in life through the costumes.

I don't think the open world really adds to the game as is, the game really needed some manner of adventure mode or something, anything to go with it. The inbetween tracks are largely just kind of forgettable and you don't get to race enough on the real tracks (There's that one circular Koopa beach track which has you complete 1 lap in about 10 seconds, it's so pointless.) the item game has a tendency to devolve into such chaos that you barely get to race, it's like that Smash Bros Wii U board game minigame in Mario Kart form. It's weird cause MK8 felt like it was too little chaos and then this one leans more on the opposite end.

As it is I probably play it for a few matches now and then casually.

I've only seen 1 laps worth of most of most of them sadly, I guess the rainbow road was striking at least in terms of the visuals even if it partly felt more like an experience rather than a race.

I really wish they'd at least add an option to just race in the tracks in a classic style and none of this traveling between tracks nonsense.

Companies have always been trying to sell pieces of plastic even since the olden days, nothing new there.

A worthy foe appears.

Man, talk about a downgrade, they couldn't have gone for a cheaper more generic look if they tried.

Fanservice or not, I just love this specific type of anime aesthetic.

I came in expecting angry Kirby and you left me hanging like this.

I guess japan, I like a bit more.

I've been playing Dragon Quest 4 (DS) as my main playthrough, a top tier JRPG and far and away the best entry of the series if you were to ask me. I'm up to the point where I'm doing the main portion of the story and have collected all the party members, I'm starting the most confounding part of the game which is all about finding key items to progress, there's not very much direction at this point and it's all about exploring.

I'm also playing Rimworld, a colony sim storytelling deal, which has on some levels become one of my all time favorite games. I'm doing a tough challenge run, by starting with a single person without even a strip of clothing on a tropical swamp where the elements are decidedly against you, I've had one death through heatstroke and couple deaths because my base was raided by my worst enemy, a guy with a knife. I think I'm on my 4th attempt now and I'm finally making some actual progress, I have 3 colonists and I'm gearing up to start adding some electricity on my base which will let me add things like freezers and electric lights to make life a little bit easier, though I'm still very much just a single unfortunate event away from death.

I'm not a fan, the focus should be on the racing I think, the title screen doesn't really do anything to convey that.

They're commited to the bit.

Does there really need to be crafting in the first place?

No, I use Discord.

I much prefer lighter colors that don't burn my eyes (so orange in this case), thank god most sites these days at least have a dedicated dark mode.

Horny and mechs seem to quite often mix for some reason.

I mean the option to just remove all encounters is pretty damn broken, you can just go in and clean all dungeons off treasure for free for example.

@Zuljaras
I mean if you got so much money that you'd never need to worry about it then why not use it to make life better for yourself? Of course enabling scalpers in itself is bad but it's not their job to make the world a better place.

The console wars are back! You must choose a side.

@Sylamp
I mean sure I guess IF it was coming I wouldn't care any which way, but as far as I'm aware there has not been word of such things.

Hell mode in itself sounds like the lamest and laziest possible way to add difficulty in the game.

How about adding the Genma Onimusha content instead of that nonsense, no? Restoring the old soundtrack as an option would also be appreciated.

Great game, if a bit on the easy side. Good recommend for anyone that'd be interested in getting to the series.

I'm glad I get to play as that one annoying enemy from Mario Sunshine that likes to throw you around.

The game looks quite good and does have me excited but I was excited for MK8 as well and in the end that one ended up being pretty weak so whether or not it will actually end up a winner remains to be seen.

I wish there was just clean gameplay of the game available without some dingus always talking over it.

It feels like it's been roughly 20 years since there was a new Mario Kart.

Just like the Switch tutorial thing, they really should just have had this as a pack-in title showcase, I don't really see anyway this'd be much fun after like half an hour of playing.

The dual driver thing does give the game its own identity for sure but just in general I'm glad it's a feature that did not stick around, I do like how utterly chaotic the game is and how you flip and fly around when you get hit and the other driver has to hang in to their dear life, that is fun.

Unfortunately more than any other entry I think the low amount of race tracks hurt it, 16 tracks really did not cut it anymore. I think it had an unfortunately high amount of not-so great tracks too.

If you only play Nintendo systems then for sure, it's a damn good first line up of games with lots of variety.

I'm curious about the extent of the backwards compability, like if I transfer all my digital stuff from the Switch 1 to Switch 2 can I expect for everything to work and what if something doesn't? Am I just out of luck and I've just lost any and all access to a game?

The distributor over where I live already added 100e to the suggested price for seemingly no good reason so the base package is already 550 euros over where I live, it sucks.

Mario Kart for sure, Metroid Prime 4 also since I'm not playing that one on the OG Switch when I know there is a better version. Bravely Default remaster granted that it has not been released on other platforms by the time I do get the Switch 2, I'm also quite interested in replaying Breath of the Wild on the system, maybe the bootleg F-Zero game as well by the same devs that made the other game on the Switch 1 at its release. Maybe the Pokemon game, I'm also definitely not getting that one on the Switch 1 when I know there's a better version.

There's a couple things I guess, I was thinking I may get the system by the time Metroid Prime 4 releases but at the same time the increased game prices and the cost of the system itself is just insane, like the $500 suggested price of the Mario Kart Bundle seems to translate to roughly 600 euros over where I live, it's brutal, especially in this economy.

Don't worry, I'm sure they have plans for a $199 official nintendo mouse add-on.

But yeah, knowing how the joy-con is shaped I can imagine it making for a pretty poor mouse.

Yes, who is this even supposed to appeal to really?