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@Chibi_Manny I definitely recommend it. I do not enjoy Fortnite, but Lego Fortnite is extremely fun.

For those who don't understand, Lego Fortnite is not Fortnite. It is a survival/crafting/co-op game that largely focuses on you building and developing a settlement and recruiting NPC's to be your villagers. It exists as a game mode within Fortnite's dashboard/hub/whatever, but is it's own thing.

You build inside of a large procedurally generated world and can share that world with other players if you invite them. If you want those players to be able to access and effect your world even when you aren't playing you can make them a "keyholder" in which case it functions like a dedicated server for just you and the keyholders.

It is essentially a Lego themed Valheim/Animal Crossing.

I don't allow Fortnite in my house (my house is just me and my cat though, so it is no big loss).

@Tasuki Arkham Knight confirms Origins is canon. It is absolutely part of the Arkham series, as is Blackgate.

No thanks, that would offer absolutely nothing to a potential game unless there is some sort of couch co-op component and they need two characters to make the story work (though they've proven with the fantastic Four Swords and Triforce Heroes games that we don't even need that). She was controllable in Spirit Tracks also, so this isn't even a new or novel thing.

No Origins? No thanks. It's that simple.

They should spin-off the physics/construction/sandbox thing into it's own separate franchise. I'd love a top-down Zelda again with dungeons and challenging puzzles. Since the developers don't care about a "timeline" than neither do I, just give us a fun experience. The story and "lore" are inconsequential. It's that simple.

The game runs great, I have been playing for a week. Love my team and have already dominated some randoms in online battle. Between this and Scarlet/Violet, mo-game fans have been a lucky bunch.

@abbyhitter I don't know, why do you sound like a cynical jacka**? These things are just a mystery I guess.

Amazing games, can't wait. I've been an absolute Poke-freak since Day 1 and these games are everything I wanted as a kid: a fun open world teeming with adventure. The more DLC the better in my book. If you haven't finished the first round of DLC by now, what are you even doing? Get your game on!!

@k8sMum Whatever will you do? You'll get some taste hopefully.

((crosses arms and smiles smugly)) It's that simple.

((sashays out of the room and onto her next gaming adventure))

@k8sMum Your opinion is a joke. And I'm laughing at it. It's that simple.

This is fun artwork. I find it annoying that people pretend that there hasn't been an extensive amount of Mario RPG games made since however (that are beautifully made). No, they are not developed by Square, but they are directly influenced by what came before and it isn't exactly something we're being starved of. It's that simple.

I bounced off of this game pretty quickly, and I'm pretty much the target demographic for this kind of thing. It was just boring and ultimately didn't feel satisfying in any particular aspect (I found the Nintendo Life review to be way off). This update will not be bringing me back and the positivity towards this title from this site feels disingenuous.

I'd give it an 8.5/10. Not everything is made for everybody, and this was clearly intended for us real gamers. It's that simple.

I've found it quite boring. It's a 7.

It's interesting and impressive for one person, but the fetishization of Ocarina of Time and this faux "ghibli" descriptor (that is rendered meaningless by its overuse), is off-putting.

15/15, but that didn't surprise me considering how well I know the in's and out's of this game.

@Anti-Matter
As long as consumers continue to support microtransactions they have no reason to stop. It would be bad business. Bold as many words as you want, you still haven't answered my question because you can't.

@Anti-Matter It isn't a bad practice for the business, so again... why would they stop?

@Anti-Matter You didn't answer my question: If people are willing to pay, why would they stop?

Academia is dead, and this is a fun new low. Considering the cost of post secondary education (and the life long debt that comes with it), lets leave the video games at home. This is the kind of thing you could do for a day in high school science.

@Anti-Matter If people are willing to pay, why would they stop?

Always happy to hear about a delay. Get it right rather than pushing out a broken game.

Sure, why not. Just keep it under two hours. The "story" within the Zelda games has always been paper-thin and just present enough to somewhat string together a bunch of puzzle and combat mechanics. That simplicity is part of the beauty of the franchise.

To try and turn this into an epic, lore-driven drama (using the term lore is a stretch in the case of Zelda) would be silly, and that simply isn't Zelda. Keep it short, keep it fun, and keep it weird.

I'm glad Charles Martinet is gone, it was time for new blood.

I played this over a year ago and it was a bit of a snore. I say that as a person who is deeply committed to the time-wasting/life-sim genre.

There doesn't need to be anymore. New properties, please and thanks.

Big nope, won't be purchasing.

Everything about this looks like a very middling remake. Some of the environments just look straight up ugly. I won't be purchasing this.

This better be a localization of the Dragon Quest Monsters 2 remake, but for Switch. Real gamers will know, and anything else is pointless.

I'm glad Zelda wasn't playable in this game like so many people predicted. She was far more interesting here used as part of the narrative rather than the boring "girl boss" thing that is very much going out of vogue. Great survey!

I preordered! I already beat the game on Steamdeck, but I'm excited for a Switch version. Fantastic game and always great fun to return to Rowling's wonderful world.

Scarlet and Violet are killing it.

It is 10/10 easily. In a world of broken triple A games and middlingly redundant indie titles, this game shows Nintendo has more creativity, inventiveness, and magic in their little finger than any other studio has in their entire body. Death and ruin to anyone who thinks otherwise.

Its almost like people's knee-jerk reaction to entirely inoffensive and harmless things is kind of stupid and a sign of the artificial social media pressure to share how you feel about EVERYTHING, no matter how innocuous.

@Raw_Dawg Farm Together is absolutely garbage, some games are garbage.

@Raw_Dawg Farm Together is garbage, this may not be the game for you if you're into that type of thing.

This game is not good, and it doesn't help how utterly bland the characters look.

@Daniel36 All farming games have a day timer because of night and day mechanics. It doesn't matter how many days it takes to do something, you're never punished for not optimizing every second.

Winds of Anthos is fantastic, its definitely a hidden gem that has been overlooked by all gaming outlets. Which is fair since the Harvest Moon series devolved into shovelware for almost a decade after the split with Natsume. Winds of Anthos feels like a masterpiece they secretly/accidentally cooked up. I anticipate a lot of "Harvest Moon: WoA Is Overlooked Masterpiece" articles eventually.

A day lasts about 20 minutes, give or take how much time you spend in the menus.

I was pretty into this game when it launched, but I bounced off of it once Harvest Moon: Winds of Anthos was released and turned out to be an absolute sleeper gem of a game that revolutionized the farm/life sim genre. I might return to Fae Farm one day, but there's no real rush. It was a little uninspired.

I already played through this (twice) on my Steamdeck, but I'm definitely going to pick up a Switch copy. The game is fantastic and I'm extremely happy it was a success.

This looks amazing, I can't wait.

That isn't a "downside", that is literally the feature that makes the game unique from the 25+ years of Pokemon games. If you don't want to go outside or interact with other people, literally play ANY of the other Pokemon games.