Frenean

Yeaaah, I love good retro indies but this just looks off to me.

@MongolRaider I second this, you can find videos to help you get through the Catacombs at the beginning of the game and snag up the Gravelord Sword and the Serpent ring that'll give you extra souls per kill. Those two items are incredibly useful to have from the start.

You had one job, Virtuos. I still had a great time with my first Switch playthrough but we really just want two things fixed and you've addressd neither of them.

The only parts of the VGA I care about are the game announcements, as I feel that the video game awards only serves to let these big AAA publishers stroke their own ego. It was great to see Breath of the Wild get game of the year last year (it deserved it), but there's no way a money grubbing soulless game like Black Ops 4 deserves any awards.

Also I agree that Celeste deserves GOTY, and I don't care if it gets it at these awards. It's GOTY in my book.

I think I'm going to go for a double decker and buy both this and Heavy Burger tomorrow.

@Kurrenai

r/woosh

Dang, this looks pretty good! I don't think I'll be throwing money down for the campaign seeing as it already hit its goal and I just pledged to Hazelnut Bastille, but I'm definitely looking forward to this game's release and I'll buy it then. This year has been stellar for indies on the Switch and honestly I think I'm mostly going to buy indies with only a few AAA purchases a year from now on. At least until the AAA industry gets its head out of its bum and stops making soulless cash grabs.

@tetrapod

I can't play any of my purchased PS/2/3 games on the PS4, I only have the option to rebuy the select few that they decide to re-release so I don't really know what your point is with the Sony bit.

@Dayton311

no u

Best game best game 10/10

Honestly this leaves me optimistic for the Mario movie. I never would have thought in a million years that we'd get a decent looking live action Pokemon movie, yet here we are. I don't think these Nintendo movies are going to win any awards, but they could be serviceable and entertaining.

@ItsOKToBeOK

I think Devito would have been great, imagine his voice coming from a cute little Pikachu. I'd have laughed my ass off. xD

Still looks great though, Ryan Reynolds is charming in everything he does!

Huge Pokemon fan, and I have to say that it looks pretty funny. Ryan Reynolds was a weird choice though, I'd have preferred a gruff sounding detective from Brooklyn or something. Or Danny Devito/Joe Pesci.

@tudsworth

Yeah, with your last point I totally agree and hope all major console companies go the Switch route in the future. I haven't owned a PlayStation since the PS2 because I got into PC gaming and only continued purchasing Nintendo consoles because I'm such a huge fan of their first party titles. However if the PS5 ripped off the Switch and was a hybrid I'd totally buy one. I just don't have a reason to purchase a PlayStation/Xbox when they're trying so hard to be a PC. Consoles to me need a cool gimmick to set them apart, and my Nintendo bias aside, the Switch has the coolest gimmick of any console I've ever owned.

@SpaceboyScreams

Your loss! It absolutely destroys Smash 4 just for having actual worthwhile singleplayer content, and don't even get me started on Brawl's snail-paced gameplay and stupid tripping mechanic. Smash 5 has more content than any game in the franchise and it looks more worth the full MSRP than any other game this year.

Eh, I could only see myself purchasing it again if they added some kind of singleplayer component. I enjoyed it enough on PC with my girl, but I don't want to have my Switch tied down by any online-only games.

That sucks for people who were waiting, but it's one of my favorite games of all time and I definitely recommend buying it digitally if you have to.

@SmaggTheSmug

If people still blindly pull things off of shelf without researching them, I don't know what to say. It literally takes five seconds to pull out your phone and watch gameplay on YouTube or read a quick review.

@GrailUK
100% agree!

The music and presentation look good, but I don't know how I feel about those tight, small maps. Will have to wait and see on this one.

@neogyo

I just have beef with him saying that this game can't be a 9 even though he's never played it, and then comparing it to Diablo. They are two very different experiences and Rogue Legacy shouldn't be stuck at an 8 or lower just because a different reviewer gave Diablo a score. It's honestly very silly, especially when no two people have to base games off the same grading scale. This is all subjective and Jaxon needs to realize that.

Have you played this game? Or are you telling me that your judgement of it not being a 9/10 is coming out of your butt? A 10/10 game is not a perfect game, no game is. At the end of the day it comes down to taste. I'm not really going to get into this further with you, the fact that you use subjective terms like "better" and "good" after using the word objective to describe a game shows me that you don't really have a basic grasp of the English language. At the end of the day, Diablo 3 and Rogue Legacy were reviewed by two different people, reviews that are subjective in nature. What you may deem a 9/10 I could consider a 7/10 and vice versa. Rogue Legacy is sitting pretty at an 85% on Metacritic, so it's generally agreed upon that this is a great game. I don't really know why you don't consider this game a 9/10 other than you not having played it and judging it based off of a gameplay video. At that point it just seems like it's not your type of game, and that's fine.

@Freelance

You're joking, right? It has a 41 on Metacritic. It's a bad game. Most people here read or watch multiple reviews for games and I haven't seen a single positive one for this yet. No one's missing out on anything by passing on this travesty.

@JaxonH

You're letting subjectivity cloud your argument with the last point. Rogue Legacy is a different type of game than every single one you've listed. Furthermore, I've played this game, and it definitely deserves a 9/10. It's one of the most polished roguelites out there. Tight controls, great art style and soundtrack, challenging but fair, everything about it is well made and I can't really think of any complaints. Instead of judging this game on its own merits you're comparing it to out of genre AA and AAA games and deeming it an inferior product with no real reasons except that it's indie and those games aren't. (By the way I've played most of those games and they're all great) Higher quality graphics and voice acting also do not make a game automatically better than other games. The art style in Rogue Legacy is intentional and it does it well.

Also, you bring up bigger publishers being able to afford voice acting as if having more money to develop your games means you're putting more love into your games than those without. That's like comparing A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild and automatically deeming Breath of the Wild better because it has more technically impressive graphics and voice acting

A game should be reviewed on its own merits and the only time it needs to be compared to another game to judge its quality is if they're both of the same genre.

@JaxonH

Well I'll never agree that AAA games automatically deserve a point or two higher on the scale than an indie game just because they're more technically impressive and have a bigger budget. Love Diablo 3, but I'd rather play a game like Stardew Valley any day of the week. I'm honestly glad indie games get the recognition that they deserve, these small time developers work so hard and put so much love into these games, not because they have to please their shareholders but because they're passionate about making these games, oftentimes while working a day job just to make ends meat.

I guess it's because I'm getting older and have seen the videogame industry get worse and worse over time, but these amazing indies are refreshing and keep me optimistic for the future. Meanwhile look at Activision Blizzard. Diablo 3 was critically acclaimed and loved by fans, so the obvious course of action is to make a bigger, better sequel right? Nope. Activision Blizzard sees it more profitable to get a Chinese mobile game developer to help them lazily put together Diablo Immortal, a more simplified phone game that no one asked for but will inevitably help them rake in the cash with micro transactions. These big companies are out of touch with gamers while indie games are made by gamers.

@JaxonH

You guys focus too much on numbers. It isn't because Diablo isn't an indie, it's because these two games were reviewed by different people. I love Diablo 3 but I have to admit that the text is too small in handheld mode.

I really wish NintendoLife would drop the scoring system anyway so people will focus more on the actual review.

I try to be a productive contributor to society and then my Switch gets another great game like this. Thanks Obama.

@NotTelevision

Cobalt specifically chose XC2 so he can continue to push his anti-Switch agenda. I wouldn't even bother arguing with him or Agramonte.

Yuck, it's cool that she plays Bayonetta but hard to take anyone who hashtags gamer girl seriously.

Beyonetta 1&2 are my all time favorite 3D action games though.

@Eef

Thanks! By the way have you played Taiko Drum Master on Switch yet? Are the Joy Cons pretty responsive with this game?

Playing Stardew Valley, going to finish up Dark Souls, and then on to ValkChron 1 after. Can't wait for Battle Princess Madelyn. To that Dikkel guy above me (have him ignored now), indie games/small publisher games are absolutely on the same level as AAA, or even higher because at least they aren't trying to greedily throw microtransactions all up in their games. Stardew Valley is a great example of this, a game I'm nearing 80 hours in and still have tons to do. This game was $15 bucks.

This idea that indies can't be as important as AAA games is baffling to me, most of my favorite games in the past ten years are indie games.

This game looks whack. No thanks.

That's cool for the people who use it, but I always have my phone on me so it was never really an issue.

@JasmineDragon

I mean, even if you and I don't play online, they're definitely missing a key feature. My fiance's brother plays Civ with his friends online on Steam sometimes. 2K is a bad publisher but I'm still getting the game.

That's alright, I have the game on Steam but I mostly play against computers.

@Swaz

How did the Joy Cons ruin Mario Party? The minigames were very simple, motion control actually made them more fun than they would have been without it. The Joy Cons work well, I don't know how many pots you've smoken but you need to lay off the doobies compadre

While the gameplay was fun, the art style and characters were my favorite bits of this game. It's definitely a must play and one of my favorite indies on Switch.

Oh man this looks great. Still haven't beaten Dead Cells yet, but I'll definitely be buying this after Rogue Legacy.

@BLD

If you're going to assume that these boss characters are only going to have the same one move they do as an assist trophy or stage hazard, you have that right. That's crazy to me, though. Why not just make all of the assist trophies bosses?

@Nintendo_Thumb

What @BLD said, you're going to want to pay attention to net code with fighting games. Hopefully this Smash will finally get it right aha

@BLD

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/9671tj/now_that_we_have_rathalos_and_dracula_as_bosses/

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76891351

https://smashboards.com/threads/what-bosses-do-you-wan

If you want me to actually go to the direct videos and find the exact time stamps where they say that these two are bosses I will. I find it a bit disingenuous that you're trying to lead people to believe we don't have new bosses in this new adventure mode.

@Nintendo_Thumb

Fighting games don't typically have dedicated servers. MOST games don't typically have dedicated servers, especially on console. This expectation that Nintendo should have them when most PS4/Xbox games charge you $60 for their peer to peer connection is ridiculous. (Most Xbox One first party games have them, but not the biggest multiplatform titles)

@BLD

Oh okay, so you complain about Directs but don't pay attention to them. Gotcha. It's literally stated in the Directs that Rathalos is an assist trophy AND a boss, he even has his own boss stage. Same with Dracula. You spend more time being negative than you do actually paying attention to what you complain about.

@FNL

The Sakurai hate is even more unsettling. I never would have thought that we'd see Bayonetta, Ridley, or King K. Rool in Smash. Yet here we are. The dude works his ass off and if, just because a rumor spread all over YouTube and Twitter didn't come true, you're not going to buy a game that is so chock full of fanservice and content that it boggles the mind, you really need to get your priorities straight. Like @Syrek24 said, these entitled children are the worst.

@BLD

Really? You didn't notice Rathalos or Count Dracula being bosses? Pretty sure they weren't recycled from Brawl.

@BLD

Spirits and World of Light are two separate things, and the latter has cutscenes, a world map, a skill tree, boss battles, and puzzles/etc. on the world map. That's an Adventure mode if you ask me.

@BLD

We got an Adventure mode which is the biggest mode that people wanted. If you're disappointed that we didn't get more characters, you definitely did set your expectations too high. Sakurai said from the beginning not to expect too many brand new characters because the intent was to just make this the ultimate Smash, the one with all previous characters and modes. We got way more new characters, maps, and modes than I initially expected.

Edit: I don't know why I even replied to you based off of your comment history. You big smelly willy.

@NF6429

I really don't think you understand how this matchmaking works. You choose the settings you want, and it matches you with players who have the same settings. Maybe once in a blue moon it won't be able to find people with the same settings, but the chances here aren't 50/50, more like 95/5.

@NF6429

They aren't chosen by chance, though. You literally have the option to set the time limit, how many lives you want to play with, all of that. You have MORE options, not less. You can even 1v1 without it being competitive.

@FNL

I won't lie and say that I wouldn't have preferred Banjo, but let's give Sakurai credit. He has already given us a lot of characters that fans wanted (Chrom, Ridley, K. Rool, Bayonetta) and I think it's unfair to think he's doing this to spite fans. This is absolutely a packed roster and there's something for everyone here, Sakurai doesn't have to listen to EVERYTHING the fans tell him. He created the game he wanted, and he definitely went out of his way to give fans what they want already. Your d level sword wielding anime guy quip made me giggle haha