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@ZimmerRemmiz you realize the Pokémon company made 90% of the code of Radical Red and the modders just made some aesthetic changes and added some difficulty. If you're going to call a game a cheap cash in don't use the game that stole the majority of its content from the company you're calling out as the example

The games are great and the price tag is fine. Glad they actually patched out the Legendary Beast glitch. 8/10.

I'll never understand the die hard fanbase of HeartGold and SoulSilver. The games are good, yeah, but I would rank ORAS and FRLG above them for remakes. They're so slow moving (Diamond and Pearls base being the core reason), there's so much grinding on low level Pokemon if you want to use a team of six, the Pokemon diversity in the main game is lackluster.... again, they're good games but playing them always feels like a chore.

@TheXReturns my low point was coming across a youtube video where the thumbnail was a Pokemons stats for a quiz show. And i looked at it for 2 seconds and went "oh those are Wailords stats".

I coulda gone to med school

25/25 in under a minute..... All this tells me is I need to start making room in my brain for other topics...

Chandelure was the only one here that I voted for - so haunted chandelier it is!

(Also you guys spelled Tyranitar wrong)

I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised at the fact that these games finally look like they had enough time in the oven AND they still have another full year in said oven??

Also Tropius being the first Pokemon the showed - banana dinosaur supremacy!!

@CaleBoi25 with some of these comments it's hard to tell legitimate anger over these games from people trying to joke/enjoy the conversation, so apologies if I came across as harsh! This game release has just made me lose a little faith in humanity haha

@CaleBoi25 last I checked, the colours red and green haven't changed since 1996. Don't know why you think the colours are wrong. Also these games are gonna be 23 this year. If you're gonna voice an opinion at least get your facts straight

The amount of people upset over how other people spend their money on a luxury product that has no impact on their lives is hilarious. If $20 is expensive to you, video games should not be your priority. To the overwhelming majority of the general public (who this is aimed towards, not terminally online individuals) this is pocket change.

Flamigo and it's not even a competition. I saw this thing and thought "that's just a flamingo" but realized its name is flamingo+amigo and thought that was awesome - then I put one on my team and realized it is absolutely broken for how early you get it in game. The only Pokemon other than Aegislash the last 10-15 years to make it into my favourites.

@Fighting_Game_Loser you can just skip the livestream and just watch the trailers after. The mobile info doesn't take up space in the presentation for main series games or anything.

I'm expecting a shadowdrop or relase date for Colosseum/XD. All I want is the Gen 10 game to run properly and be fun. These are the first games since Black and White to have 4 years of development so hoping they used that extra year to polish the game up!

Also new Mystery Dungeon would be cool

Kalos and Alola started my trend of "liking" some Pokemon from newer gens but never having one to call my favourite (until Flamigo)

So I went with a Pokemon I "like" and have a personal attachment to, Mudsdale. I did use one on my first Moon playthrough (Stamina during main story fights is broken by the way) but it became a favourite in the next generation. I was in the Wild Area in Shield, and I swerved on my bike to avoid a Growlithe charging at me and ran into a random encounter in the grass. Bam, shiny Mudbray. This was while I was doing my first playthrough of the game so no shiny charm or anything yet. One of my only 2 pre-easy (Lets Go and ScarVi) shinies along with a random Rhyhorn in X that I still have.

We're really at the age of "if it's not free I hate this company" now eh?? Look at the price of these games physically anywhere. I'll gladly pay the $30 CAD if it means I finally get to own this remake and can play it on official hardware, it's the only remake I was never able to get a copy of as a kid.

It's Aegislash and it's not even close

Making me pick between Chandelure and Zebstrika was a crime. But I'll have to edge it out to Chandelure.

@KayFiOS was there a patch in the last 5 or 6 months that patched it out? I was able to still do the first slot/shield jump duplication glitch in September and it worked fine

Goes back and forth between Porygon-Z and Yanmega. But i gotta go with the digital duck

@kingmike same here, Tropius won me over the second I stepped into the super long grass in Sapphire.

(Game Freak im begging you. A stat increase or ability change or Mega or SOMETHING. Make it usable i am on my knees)

The episode where Ash rides a Ponyta to win a race was my favourite episode as a kid and that evolution into Rapidash with the music escalating (while the animation makes Ash evolve with it but we ignore that) to beat Dodrio in the end made me a really big fan of Rapidash and it just kinda stuck. Rapidash's Pokedex number, 78, ended up becoming my favourite number (because as a kid I thought I needed one and here I am, 34 years old explaining the significance of why 78 of all numbers to other adults haha)

That 30 years old title is making my knees hurt. I remember going to Zellers (any other Canadians out there) with my dad and my brother, I got Blue version with the teal Game Boy Colour and my brother got Red with the reddish pink Game boy. I remember going through the mansion on Cinnabar Island getting losts for hours with that game boy light illuminating the screen under the covers as my mom came in and yelled at us to go to bed. 28ish years later (if I'm remembering the North American release date) and the game and Game Boy still work.... somehow!

@Dev-N you can actually hold the L button during dialogue and it plays twice as fast!

The only change I was hoping they'd make would be to skip Isabelle at the start of loading your game. It's just mashing the A button for 30 seconds every time I go to play, I wish we could tell her we don't want her advice every day

Number one was Tears of the Kingdom at 208 hours. I didn't "finish" the game (missed some shrines, didn't explore the depths) in my first playthrough, amassed about 90 hours the first time. When the Switch 2 edition dropped I challenged myself to 100% the game (other than Korok seeds because no) in a new save file and 208 hours later it's done! (Thank Hylia for item duplication glitch for the armour upgrades ohmylanta)

I myself have hypermobile elbows (i can bend/twist them backwards so they look broken) and just seeing all the comments calling out the model for her fingers is something you can't explain to the uneducated unless they see it in motion. These people have never met an "imperfect" human being in their lives.

At least a million were purchased by me. Just hit 105 hours in the new game. Octopath Traveler 2 was probably my favourite video game experience since Breath of the Wild. Can't wait for the hopefully inevitable Octopath 3

Glad to see Octopath up there. I'm 70 hours into the game already and dont wanna stop playing

Come on Nintendo I just wanna be terrified running through that Aztec Mayhem level after the "Get Out" again!

Just gonna add another tally to the "Where's Ddidy Kong Racing" crew. Also if they do release it, we NEED it on the music app. Crescent Island will be played at my funeral.

Octopath Traveler 0 pre-ordered and I have Friday booked off work to play it all day. Developer said the story alone is 100 hours and I am READY

@Thomystic as a Canadian, I'm legitimately perplexed. Every other sport has female teams... does the world not think we have female hockey teams?? You guys know we have women's football and lacrosse too right?? (This isn't a knock at you yourself I just never thought the notion of female hockey teams was an unknown haha)

That aside, give whatever hoser chose the music a raise.

Also

@KayFiOS so you want them to build a second park that's fully accessible and cheaper to visit?

@KayFiOS i can only see out of one eye and I would absolutely never expect a company to dampen the experience for every able-sighted (is that a term haha) person to accommodate for me. I don't stand outside theaters offering 3D movies with a picket sign saying people shouldn't be allowed to see those movies because I can't. I don't want white knights defending my disability I want people to be able to have a good time.

@ArcanineLink can us Canadians join in on this cause? Just give us that extra U in some words, Nintendo.

I'm actually in the camp that think Zelda looks great. Zelda was always allowed to be more stylized between incarnations than Link so she never had a true canon look. Link however... will take some getting used to. I can't pinpoint if it's the actors face or the hair they gave him something just looks uncannny.

"Ok time to have a productive work day and not get dist- Demo out today?!?! To the dumpster, work laptop"

How is Donkey Kong Country Returns HD already getting a half price off, meanwhile I've been waiting years for Tropical Freeze to go on sale??

@AStupidID an announcement that they acquired Grezzo followed by "we're remaking/remastering Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask for the Switch 2" is now on my mind, dangit.

People saying ZA is worse than games like Gold and Silver have never played Gold and Silver. Terrible regional dex, absolutely no memorable characters other than maybe Silver, no story outside of the 30 minutes of grinding level 13 Team Rocket grunts, and the most grindy Pokemon games to date (the remakes are not excused for this either).

I grew up in the days of playing Pokemon Blue under my desk at school and pulling out the link cable at recess to trade with people - and as someone who's played every mainline game since - Pokemon has never been "amazing". I would say Black and White and Black 2 and White 2 are what I'd consider the "best" Pokemon games, and I think that's the level we need to judge them on. Pokemon will never be Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey or Xenoblade Chronicles. If you keep expecting that you're setting yourself up for disappointment. People complain the graphics aren't up to par with Zelda. Well duh. The fanbase wants all Pokemon walking around in the overworld constantly regenerating so that it's "immersive" and will not at all take up massive amount of processing power that will cause the game to need to scale back on assets and/or make the game lag to function properly. Why do you think Breath of the Wild has the Blood Moon? Because the map can't handle consistently regenerating models every 30 seconds. And that game had what, 15 unique enemy models? And you guys want 1000 uniquely animated models walking around and constantly regenerating once you knock them out/leave the area? Sure Breath of the Wild is a beauty to explore - but there's barely anything on screen with you at the same time ever.

Breath of the Wild is my favourite game of all time and this is not a knock at that game, but if they had enemies constantly taking up processing power in the background the game would not have run remotely as well as it did and sacrifices would have had to have been made.

Honestly i give kudos to Game Freak for even trying to appease to the open world fans' demands even though they probably know it's not for the best of the franchise. I'd love it if we went back to Unova with a remake similiar to BDSP (ASTERISK HERE that it's actually made in house and has the HGSS/ORAS treatment instead) and keeps the encounters out of the overworld.

Long unexpected post later but short form is - Pokemon has never been this amazing, graphical, story driven juggernaut of a masterpiece that fans seem to think it used to be. Take the nostalgia goggles off. I love it to death, but I would never consider more than 3 or 4 mainline games as above and beyond expectations.

Yes yes we get it Shadows exists....

.....now Nintendo where is my Fortunes Weave information I need it!

@TheExile285 I mean it hasn't been released yet so don't count it out, it's still possible it just wasn't included in these notes. (This is my copium for a potential Three Houses update leaking through)

Whoever rates this as absymal is just hating to hate, go outside people.

New Battle system needs to be a mainstay going forward, much more fun than turn based combat. The interactivity of Pokemon with the enviroment is great (hiding in trees, jumping out at you from water)

For whatever reason, Game Freak made it their MISSION to make the sewer area look amazing. Like the wall and floor textures with the specular mapping what the heck?? Why is that the best looking part of the game? (So far, haven't beaten it yet) Genuinely impressed.

I gave it an 8 only because the rooftops seem a little empty and the implementation of the Rotom phone... "glide" or whatever it's called is terrible. There also needs to be a way to reach further rooftops, I spent far too long thinking I could reach the rooftops across the street and falling. My only other gripe is having an Aegislash on my team means i have to wait every time I send it out for it to switch to blade form to attack.

Side note the rival music SLAPS

Baby Rosalina with Pikmin? Intrigued indeed.

@Vortexeo that game was a masterpiece and top 3 Switch games for me next to Breath of the Wild and Three Houses. Please report back somehow after with your reactions to some of the story lines and the battles and the MUSIC. Partitio's theme is my alarm clock/ringtone music, the soundtrack is phenomenal. Enjoy!!

Recently restarted Smash Ultimate on the Switch 2 a few days ago, trying to 100% the Spirits now... and I forgot how awful farming Spirit Board was when trying to get the last 10 or so spirits left. Arcanine's Spirit was removed from the game I won't believe it hasn't shown up yet and is still coded in after buying 5 billion shuffle items.

"We're broadcasting a second direct, unfortunately."

@N00BiSH after yesterday's direct I've learned the gaming audience can't be satisfied with literally anything anymore. I could watch Sakurai's directs for days, the man is a personable and entertaining gem.

@kmtrain83 these kids would have never survived growing up during the N64 and Gamecube era.

I feel like I didn't watch the same direct as most of the comment sections.

• New Mario sports game, new Yoshi, new Pokemon game, most importantly new Fire Emblem related to Three Houses
• Release date for one of the most awaited games this past decade with a new trailer
• OPTIONAL (yes you have the choice to not get it) extra content for Donkey Kong, Mario Wonder and Pokemon
• Upscaled versions of 2 of the most beloved games of all time
• Teaser for the new Mario movie (which by the way we will get more trailers soon, teaser trailers are not new)
• And a bunch of 3rd party content for people who don't own a PC or Playstation or XBox.

I'm not saying it was a phenomenal direct but this direct had something for everybody. I don't know what they could've shown other than Smash Bros or a new Zelda to make it "better". What else did people want??? I gave it a 9/10.

Also in case people didn't know: Donkey Kong Bananza was developed by the Odyssey team and it released 2 months ago. We weren't getting a new 3D Mario announcement today.

@Broosh upgrades to multiple Game of the Year nominated games for people who maybe never had a Switch, new Mario Kart, new 3D platform juggernaut by the Mario Odyssey team, new Metroid, new Fire Emblem, new Pokemon, a massive amount of 3rd party games... all announced or released within 3 months of the console launch... but yes I can see how there's nothing to play or get hyped over.

I feel like people saying these games are way too expensive to buy again don't realize they aren't the target audience. 40 bucks for Mario Galaxy for someone who's never played it before while getting enhanced graphics and I'm presuming smoother framerate is gonna be an amazing experience for a first time player. Plus it's a good way for people who either A) didn't get a chance to get the All Stars Bundle or B) wanted the bundle but held off because they don't like 64 or Sunshine and only wanted Galaxy, to now get this.

If you already have the game on Switch or Wii - cool don't buy this then. Simple as that.

@MSTRDM that's what I thought and she's clearly older. But the setting seems a little older which is why I was torn. However it could just be a new area outside of Fodlan (Almyra?) where this is their attire and architecture.

Either way- is it 2026 yet I need to know when this comes out so I can book the week off work.

"Oh ok new Fire Emblem. Cool I'm hoping it's better than Engage, I wonder w- wait was that a Heroes Relic? WAIT IS THAT ANOTHER ONE? SOTHIS?!?!"

Is this a sequel or a prequel?! I need ANSWERS

@ParrakerriRush dang I didn't know there were Pokemon that objectively do and don't deserve megas, you'll have to point out this list to me so I know exactly what Pokemon I should be upset at for getting megas later.

Bring on the fountain pen squid!