I can't lie, I'm definitely excited for this. Is it expensive for the plastic replica? Yes. Is there no like "absolute 10/10 omg this is gonna make me go crazy" games? No. But be honest guys you haven't cared enough to want to try and give these games a fair shot anyways. I've gained a greater appreciation for the library overtime thanks to Jeremy Parrish's Works series and just the fact that these games are cool oddities that I feel like are worth giving a fair chance, even with the additional purchase of the cardboard model even.
Cool little pallette mode but man it made me think they were gonna do a 3D mode for the actual lenses they're releasing. Either which way still gotta play Antonblast eventually. Really enjoyed the demo when I tried it out
It's strange SE is trying to milk out people trying to buy physical but want Switch 2 enhancements when FF Tactics has a free upgrade. I gotta imagine the Switch one versions of their cross gen titles must have much more superior graphics and performance, but Tactics just feels silly for them to exclude probably because there is no real advantages they did to make them want to charge for it.
@N00BiSH Agreed. How can you get mad at the little guy, he's basically perfect looking obviously if it's expensive that sucks, but not the end of the world
I'll be honest I really loved the Direct. I mean obviously there were some eh things related to the stuff that was announced, but I just kinda move on. Galaxy games being expensive? Have them on Wii already. Paid DLC for a lot of titles? Doesn't matter if I feel like the game itself is good on its own imo, especially if a game is already pretty big. No new major announcements? That's just a lie Fire Emblem is a major title even if I haven't fully gotten into the series yet and was really the only realistic answer for a new major entry in a series that could be releasing now from Nintendo's main studios. No 2D Virtual Boy option? That one is honestly a little disappointing but I just appreciate Nintendo brought it back at all and in the silliest but best way possible. People just gotta stop expecting Jesus Christ to return with each Direct because you'll always disappoint yourself. I'm glad with what we got and gave it a 9
@Toastmaster I mean maybe but it didn't feel incomplete without it. It could of been something they thought of later in development that became something a lot more fleshed out to become DLC.
Can't believe they actually did it. And in the most extra funny way possible. I will have to try and get that full stand because my goodness that would be so cool
Ooof, this not looking great. Just from the screenshots it looks like a lot of the textures and lighting are super undercooked. Makes it look super low budget, especially in comparison to to the first remake which I thought at least looked pretty good in most parts. It just feels like MegaPixel studios just forgot they had their deals with Sega and are now having to rush them out. I at least hope it looks better in motion or gets graphical tweaks, but I'm not holding my breath. Super unfortunate
The people here don't seem to be actually thinking with their brain and just going "GUUUHHHHH SILKSONG REAL GOOD GAME SO DEVS NOT WANTING TO MAKE BETTER GAMES!!!" Brother, these devs want to make their games really good, these are also small developers just like Team Cherry. You are literally missing the point made by Unbeatable's director here and reinforcing what he said that they can charge it that much because they already had all the money from the original, and were poised for success anyways, but everyone now putting all games on the same scale when they didn't have the resources or time to do so. You gotta have a little bit of empathy for the smaller devs that are trying to compete with this, because you can't get more games like Silksong of you don't support the indie devs that don't currently have that luxury.
Idk what people are saying about this line-up being one of Nintendo's worst line ups for launch. People forget (sometimes I do too) that the Switch 1 was much more desolate in terms of games being released with the only things we've had being BotW, MK8DX, ARMS, 1-2 Switch, and Snipperclips up to that point within the same time of Switch 1, not to mention that we were still slow to get games coming as well since Nintendo was still reeling from the Wii U. I think in this time frame we've gotten a pretty similar line-up if not slightly better for Switch 2, everything just doesn't feel as exciting when we are building up momentum more after we saw how much of a roll Nintendo and 3rd parties went after the Switch got going, and us not just having excitement over a new idea of a console and just being out of the Wii U era. But overall decent start, we've gotten some really good 3rd party ports, but I think it would be nice to see some more exclusive titles coming (in terms of devs not having Switch 1 versions which kinda hampers excitement as well lol)
Clap Handz is so spiteful they are 100% trying to middle finger Sony with doing this specifically now. Very cool that it got the upgrade along with it being toggles and not causing issues for Switch 1 players
Would make sense if they're doing a PS4 version to do a Switch 2 version. Probably would help guarantee the Switch 2 version turns out great like with Street Fighter 6.
Small batch, but this just gives me a good excuse for me to tell people to play Melty Blood like Majin Obama would want me to. Goes on sale for like $15-$20 a lot and you can play as everyone's favorite cat Neco Arc. What's not to love
@OwenGamer22 I think this is different in more that it's an early access option for those on PC and not like the game releases and it's single player is bare. TFH was a bit different in the fact it was a fighting game, and thus their main game was more so the actual combat systems rather than the single player mode, but I still get sad either which way with how the game got screwed over. That game is awesome to play online
I definitely feel like the $20 increase for physical across the board was done for the Switch 2 version to subsidize the cost of the cartridge while keeping it in line with the other versions. I think this definitely will show if people are willing to put their money where their mouth is and buy a physical version of a Switch 2 game for $20 more of it's all there, because man if people don't then you better not be complaining if companies do more key-cards
Would make since considering Scott Pilgrim Takes Off putting more spotlight on the Ex's. Lucas and Roxy are good picks too since they add a lot of visual variety to the game and most likely playstyles.
Damn that's insane Itsuno was able to nab Bengus from Capcom. Dude has been like, one of their main illustrator for their fighters for years since the mid 90's.
Really cool that they seem to be doing a full cartridge release without even a price increase. I never got around to playing the original Yooka-Laylee, despite many sales it's gone on, but I guess I probably waited a good amount of time then for this remake. Definitely will be on the lookout for this physically if I get the chance.
If you told me 8 years ago while playing the Slime-San demo that this dev was going to be making a brand new, full scale 3D Bubsy game, I wouldn't of believed you.
I was too busy thinking that Bubsy might actually be in Sonic Forces for some reason
@Yodalovesu I believe so. Mario Kart World was around 24 gigs at launch so I assume they must have something big in it. Obviously cartoony and unrealistic styles can still be super big in size depending on how detailed it can get with things like animations, since games like Crash 4 were around that size and also look beautiful (PS4 possibly even being twice the size lol). The maps themselves do also look super beautiful but I know that this size is weird just because Nintendo are gods of compression, so that's why I'm thinking Sakurai has something even more for us later, not to mention the full $70 price tag
Man this game obviously must have even more big stuff if this is 25 gigs. Just as big if not even bigger than Mario Kart must mean Sakurai is the goat of giving us so much information yet having even more on the way
Bro why did they save this and only this for the Championship this would of made the Direct better or just have everything get announced at the Championship
Lumines Arise I feel would have to be coming to Switch 2 at some point. I know the series has lots of legacy with PlayStation, but lets face it with the current environment with what's successful on PS5 it kinda needs a Switch 2 version. I do also hope that Enhance's other most recent title Humanity comes over because that can run on a PS4 so it would have to work well on Switch 2, plus mouse mode for it would be very cool to have since it's a VR title that uses motion pointing for gameplay
@Druidsbrook They probably couldn't in a reasonable budget even if Sega wanted to because Ubisoft made the UbiArt engine just for Rayman Origins and Legends so that way 2D art can be used with as little work as possible. Not to mention they much more so used rigging for their 2D characters rather than hand drawn animation, obviously not saying that it doesn't look amazing, but it isn't exactly fully hand drawn.
Man what was Sega thinking bro 😔 this looks so good and it wasn't even sprite art. Just the way the shading is done on the models and background looks so good and clean I can definitely tell they took what they did for this prototype and reused it's stylings for Penny's Big Breakaway.
Honestly idk why people are saying Wilds is doing awful. The game already sold at least half of World's sales in one month and people expect it to just keep selling multiple millions for month after month, when I think that more so everyone that wanted Wilds super badly bought it on launch, and that everyone else that would want it are just waiting for sales and being slow with game purchases since World definitely got to where it is from said sales and just the current climate of the average game buyer requiring them to be more picky and slow with the games they get
Very interested to see what pops up here, because I actually buy a lot of 3rd party titles on Switch. Now I'm just wondering what Nintendo's gonna have for their first party titles, because I feel like now Metroid Prime 4 is coming as a holiday title and Kirby Air Riders is getting delayed lol
Glad to see that this is getting a new physical! It honestly kinda sucks whenever I hear a game is a numbered LRG game because I know I probably won't be able to get it at all. At least with every other company I can buy it later if they don't sell out immediately. I think that's why I get so annoyed at LRG. Well hey at least this is here now
This feels like such a weird game to not be 60fps on Switch, or at least a consistent frame rate. I'm wondering how devs are optimizing their games at this point or what Ragebound has going on to not make it 60, because I have no idea how this isn't in Switch
Very surprised at how high it is. I personally never need a pro controller like this since I actually quite like the Joy-Cons but I do know some only swear by it
Saw some gameplay of it and it's pure busted in just the right ways for a game by 8ing. Game is way too expensive at $60 for such little content on top of a season pass, but I will definitely consider picking it up on a sale because it's awesome HxH did get a genuine fighting game and not a mindless anime arena fighter
Nice that it is a full cartridge. It seems like many devs do want to still do full games with Nintendo, I think that just the price they cost to produce is just the main hurdle for devs. Hopefully that cost can go down so that way we can get cheaper physicals as well
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Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Checking Out Switch Online's Virtual Boy Service?
I can't lie, I'm definitely excited for this. Is it expensive for the plastic replica? Yes. Is there no like "absolute 10/10 omg this is gonna make me go crazy" games? No. But be honest guys you haven't cared enough to want to try and give these games a fair shot anyways. I've gained a greater appreciation for the library overtime thanks to Jeremy Parrish's Works series and just the fact that these games are cool oddities that I feel like are worth giving a fair chance, even with the additional purchase of the cardboard model even.
Re: Antonblast Appears To Be Jumping On The Virtual Boy Bandwagon
Cool little pallette mode but man it made me think they were gonna do a 3D mode for the actual lenses they're releasing. Either which way still gotta play Antonblast eventually. Really enjoyed the demo when I tried it out
Re: No Switch 2 "Upgrade Path" For Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Planned
It's strange SE is trying to milk out people trying to buy physical but want Switch 2 enhancements when FF Tactics has a free upgrade. I gotta imagine the Switch one versions of their cross gen titles must have much more superior graphics and performance, but Tactics just feels silly for them to exclude probably because there is no real advantages they did to make them want to charge for it.
Re: Nintendo Releasing Physical 'Talking Flower' From Mario Wonder Next Spring
@N00BiSH Agreed. How can you get mad at the little guy, he's basically perfect looking obviously if it's expensive that sucks, but not the end of the world
Re: New Kirby amiibo Will Apparently Be Nintendo's "Most Expensive amiibo Ever"
Nintendo why do you do this to me 😠well I guess then I only need to worry about getting a Susie amiibo then once she does
Re: Nintendo Direct September 2025: Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
I'll be honest I really loved the Direct. I mean obviously there were some eh things related to the stuff that was announced, but I just kinda move on. Galaxy games being expensive? Have them on Wii already. Paid DLC for a lot of titles? Doesn't matter if I feel like the game itself is good on its own imo, especially if a game is already pretty big. No new major announcements? That's just a lie Fire Emblem is a major title even if I haven't fully gotten into the series yet and was really the only realistic answer for a new major entry in a series that could be releasing now from Nintendo's main studios. No 2D Virtual Boy option? That one is honestly a little disappointing but I just appreciate Nintendo brought it back at all and in the silliest but best way possible. People just gotta stop expecting Jesus Christ to return with each Direct because you'll always disappoint yourself. I'm glad with what we got and gave it a 9
Re: Surprise! Donkey Kong Bananza Is Getting DLC, And It's Out Today
@Toastmaster I mean maybe but it didn't feel incomplete without it. It could of been something they thought of later in development that became something a lot more fleshed out to become DLC.
Re: Resident Evil Requiem Has Been Officially Confirmed For Switch 2
Nice that they're getting out day and date. Very much glad Capcom is committed to the Switch super hard rn
Re: Surprise! Donkey Kong Bananza Is Getting DLC, And It's Out Today
Can't believe DK got DLC so quickly considering Odyssey never got it. Looks pretty fun in all honesty
Re: Mario Tennis Fever Hits Switch 2 Next February
Bro they might actually do it. They might make a Mario Tennis on the same level as Power Tennis finally. Couldn't be happier
Re: Virtual Boy Is Being Added To Nintendo Switch Online
Can't believe they actually did it. And in the most extra funny way possible. I will have to try and get that full stand because my goodness that would be so cool
Re: Mario Galaxy amiibo Are On The Way, Plus Two New Kirby Ones With Swappable Bases
Nintendo why do you want me so poor right now ðŸ˜
Re: Star Ocean: First Departure R Limited Run Physical Switch Release Announced
Oh no now the actual Square Enix games are doing Limited Run versions ðŸ˜
Re: Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Resurfaces, Will Be Playable At TGS 2025
Ooof, this not looking great. Just from the screenshots it looks like a lot of the textures and lighting are super undercooked. Makes it look super low budget, especially in comparison to to the first remake which I thought at least looked pretty good in most parts. It just feels like MegaPixel studios just forgot they had their deals with Sega and are now having to rush them out. I at least hope it looks better in motion or gets graphical tweaks, but I'm not holding my breath. Super unfortunate
Re: "I Can't Afford To Give It Away For Free" - Silksong's Low Price Is Causing Devs To Re-Evaluate Their Own Games
The people here don't seem to be actually thinking with their brain and just going "GUUUHHHHH SILKSONG REAL GOOD GAME SO DEVS NOT WANTING TO MAKE BETTER GAMES!!!" Brother, these devs want to make their games really good, these are also small developers just like Team Cherry. You are literally missing the point made by Unbeatable's director here and reinforcing what he said that they can charge it that much because they already had all the money from the original, and were poised for success anyways, but everyone now putting all games on the same scale when they didn't have the resources or time to do so. You gotta have a little bit of empathy for the smaller devs that are trying to compete with this, because you can't get more games like Silksong of you don't support the indie devs that don't currently have that luxury.
Re: Poll: Three Months In, How Would You Rate Switch 2's Library So Far?
Idk what people are saying about this line-up being one of Nintendo's worst line ups for launch. People forget (sometimes I do too) that the Switch 1 was much more desolate in terms of games being released with the only things we've had being BotW, MK8DX, ARMS, 1-2 Switch, and Snipperclips up to that point within the same time of Switch 1, not to mention that we were still slow to get games coming as well since Nintendo was still reeling from the Wii U. I think in this time frame we've gotten a pretty similar line-up if not slightly better for Switch 2, everything just doesn't feel as exciting when we are building up momentum more after we saw how much of a roll Nintendo and 3rd parties went after the Switch got going, and us not just having excitement over a new idea of a console and just being out of the Wii U era. But overall decent start, we've gotten some really good 3rd party ports, but I think it would be nice to see some more exclusive titles coming (in terms of devs not having Switch 1 versions which kinda hampers excitement as well lol)
Re: Everybody's Golf Spiritual Successor 'Easy Come Easy Golf' Gets Surprise 60fps Update
Clap Handz is so spiteful they are 100% trying to middle finger Sony with doing this specifically now. Very cool that it got the upgrade along with it being toggles and not causing issues for Switch 1 players
Re: Rumour: Resident Evil Requiem Could Be Heading To The Switch 2
Would make sense if they're doing a PS4 version to do a Switch 2 version. Probably would help guarantee the Switch 2 version turns out great like with Street Fighter 6.
Re: More Switch Games Have Received Switch 2 Compatibility Fixes
Small batch, but this just gives me a good excuse for me to tell people to play Melty Blood like Majin Obama would want me to. Goes on sale for like $15-$20 a lot and you can play as everyone's favorite cat Neco Arc. What's not to love
Re: Reminder: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 'Open Network Test' For Switch Is Now Live
@shoeses Game is actually $60 on Switch 1, so unless you're looking for the Switch 2 performance boost it's even cheaper
Re: Sonic "Love Letter" Rollin' Rascal Announced For Switch 2
@OwenGamer22 I think this is different in more that it's an early access option for those on PC and not like the game releases and it's single player is bare. TFH was a bit different in the fact it was a fighting game, and thus their main game was more so the actual combat systems rather than the single player mode, but I still get sad either which way with how the game got screwed over. That game is awesome to play online
Re: Yooka-Replaylee Gets A Launch Date On Switch 2, Full Physical Release Confirmed
I definitely feel like the $20 increase for physical across the board was done for the Switch 2 version to subsidize the cost of the cartridge while keeping it in line with the other versions. I think this definitely will show if people are willing to put their money where their mouth is and buy a physical version of a Switch 2 game for $20 more of it's all there, because man if people don't then you better not be complaining if companies do more key-cards
Re: Evil Exes Join The Fight In The Latest 'Scott Pilgrim EX' Trailer
Would make since considering Scott Pilgrim Takes Off putting more spotlight on the Ex's. Lucas and Roxy are good picks too since they add a lot of visual variety to the game and most likely playstyles.
Re: Hideaki Itsuno Hires 'Devil May Cry' And 'Street Fighter' Legends For New Studio
Damn that's insane Itsuno was able to nab Bengus from Capcom. Dude has been like, one of their main illustrator for their fighters for years since the mid 90's.
Re: Yooka-Replayee Appears To Be Getting A Proper Physical Release For Switch 2
Really cool that they seem to be doing a full cartridge release without even a price increase. I never got around to playing the original Yooka-Laylee, despite many sales it's gone on, but I guess I probably waited a good amount of time then for this remake. Definitely will be on the lookout for this physically if I get the chance.
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Finally Has A Release Date
Finally, we can stop having people invading live chats at every gaming presentation
Re: Atari Announces Bubsy 4D From 'Demon Turf' Developer Fabraz
If you told me 8 years ago while playing the Slime-San demo that this dev was going to be making a brand new, full scale 3D Bubsy game, I wouldn't of believed you.
I was too busy thinking that Bubsy might actually be in Sonic Forces for some reason
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct: Every Announcement - How Would You Rate It?
I am a massive Kirby Fan Boy and I got Susie. I am legally required to give it a 10/10
Re: Official Box Art For Kirby Air Riders Revealed, Price And File Size Confirmed
@Yodalovesu I believe so. Mario Kart World was around 24 gigs at launch so I assume they must have something big in it. Obviously cartoony and unrealistic styles can still be super big in size depending on how detailed it can get with things like animations, since games like Crash 4 were around that size and also look beautiful (PS4 possibly even being twice the size lol). The maps themselves do also look super beautiful but I know that this size is weird just because Nintendo are gods of compression, so that's why I'm thinking Sakurai has something even more for us later, not to mention the full $70 price tag
Re: Official Box Art For Kirby Air Riders Revealed, Price And File Size Confirmed
Man this game obviously must have even more big stuff if this is 25 gigs. Just as big if not even bigger than Mario Kart must mean Sakurai is the goat of giving us so much information yet having even more on the way
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct Revealed for Tomorrow, 19th August 2025
THIS DIRECT WAS MADE JUST FOR ME I AM ALL IN
Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Unveils New Multiplayer Battle Mode For Up Four Trainers
Bro why did they save this and only this for the Championship this would of made the Direct better or just have everything get announced at the Championship
Re: Feature: 32 Games We're Dying To See On Switch 2
Lumines Arise I feel would have to be coming to Switch 2 at some point. I know the series has lots of legacy with PlayStation, but lets face it with the current environment with what's successful on PS5 it kinda needs a Switch 2 version. I do also hope that Enhance's other most recent title Humanity comes over because that can run on a PS4 so it would have to work well on Switch 2, plus mouse mode for it would be very cool to have since it's a VR title that uses motion pointing for gameplay
Re: Sonic Mania 2 Prototype Artwork Revealed By Christian Whitehead
@Druidsbrook They probably couldn't in a reasonable budget even if Sega wanted to because Ubisoft made the UbiArt engine just for Rayman Origins and Legends so that way 2D art can be used with as little work as possible. Not to mention they much more so used rigging for their 2D characters rather than hand drawn animation, obviously not saying that it doesn't look amazing, but it isn't exactly fully hand drawn.
Re: Sonic Mania 2 Prototype Artwork Revealed By Christian Whitehead
Man what was Sega thinking bro 😔 this looks so good and it wasn't even sprite art. Just the way the shading is done on the models and background looks so good and clean I can definitely tell they took what they did for this prototype and reused it's stylings for Penny's Big Breakaway.
Re: Pokémon Scalpers Set Their Sights On World Championships Merch
We are in peak grifter times for Pokemon.
Re: Capcom 'Platinum Titles' Sales Update - Monster Hunter, Resident Evil And More
Honestly idk why people are saying Wilds is doing awful. The game already sold at least half of World's sales in one month and people expect it to just keep selling multiple millions for month after month, when I think that more so everyone that wanted Wilds super badly bought it on launch, and that everyone else that would want it are just waiting for sales and being slow with game purchases since World definitely got to where it is from said sales and just the current climate of the average game buyer requiring them to be more picky and slow with the games they get
Re: UK Charts: Mafia: The Old Country Whacks Mario Kart World Down A Peg
Who's ready for Mario Kart to be at the top next week and Mafia to go down to like 7th
Re: Plants Vs Zombies: Replanted Coming To Switch 1 & 2 This October
MY GOAT IS FINALLY BACK
Re: Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase Announced For Tomorrow, 31st July 2025
Very interested to see what pops up here, because I actually buy a lot of 3rd party titles on Switch. Now I'm just wondering what Nintendo's gonna have for their first party titles, because I feel like now Metroid Prime 4 is coming as a holiday title and Kirby Air Riders is getting delayed lol
Re: Mario Kart World Has Been Updated To Version 1.2.0, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Wow everything did happen and then some. And people said this game was done for a few weeks ago and then Nintendo updated it. What a surprise
Re: Animal Well Is Getting A Gorgeous New Physical From Lost In Cult
Glad to see that this is getting a new physical! It honestly kinda sucks whenever I hear a game is a numbered LRG game because I know I probably won't be able to get it at all. At least with every other company I can buy it later if they don't sell out immediately. I think that's why I get so annoyed at LRG. Well hey at least this is here now
Re: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Will "Average" 30fps On Switch
This feels like such a weird game to not be 60fps on Switch, or at least a consistent frame rate. I'm wondering how devs are optimizing their games at this point or what Ragebound has going on to not make it 60, because I have no idea how this isn't in Switch
Re: Random: Don't Worry Folks, Nintendo Says Mario And Peach Are Just "Good Friends"
Re: Around 1 In 3 Switch 2 Owners Bought New Pro Controller Despite High Price Point (US)
Very surprised at how high it is. I personally never need a pro controller like this since I actually quite like the Joy-Cons but I do know some only swear by it
Re: Another Code Director's Gorgeous Interactive Adventure Comes To Switch 2 Next Week
Only $6? Means it will probably be pretty light but if it has a good hour long or so story I would say that's more than worth it
Re: 'Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact' Brings 3v3 Anime Fighting To Switch Today
Saw some gameplay of it and it's pure busted in just the right ways for a game by 8ing. Game is way too expensive at $60 for such little content on top of a season pass, but I will definitely consider picking it up on a sale because it's awesome HxH did get a genuine fighting game and not a mindless anime arena fighter
Re: Sonic Racing: Crossworlds On Switch 2 Will Feature The Full Base Game On Cartridge
Nice that it is a full cartridge. It seems like many devs do want to still do full games with Nintendo, I think that just the price they cost to produce is just the main hurdle for devs. Hopefully that cost can go down so that way we can get cheaper physicals as well
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 20.2.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
WOOOOOOOOO YEAH MORE STABILITY BABY
Re: Rumour: A Nintendo Direct Is Set To Take Place Later This Month, It's Claimed
BREAKING: SOMEONE SAYS THERE WILL BE DIRECT THIS MONTH LIKE SOMEONE SAID THERE WOULD BE THE PREVIOUS MONTG