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I can't help but start every Tales game I can, but I usually get burnt out midway through, I don't know if it's the combat that gets a bit boring. Tales of Vesperia was the last one I dropped after the end of act 2.
Is this one more engaging?

HAHAHA I'm dead with this article, the ShEO was everything!
It's so essential to talk about LGBTQIA+ rights and representations in such a natural, fun way. Being feminine does NOT mean being sexual.
Props to Nintendolife for this article ❤️

@Potimarron I see what you mean, as a Brazilian, I can fully understand the need for such award. It's a very old structural problem, and having worked in a consultancy project in which we had to map hierarchy, gender and race over time for big companies, it becomes very evident.

Its also nice to note this award has categories for best game by South American, Southern Asian, New Zeland developers for this very same reason, give them visibility they would not get otherwise, regardless of how good their games are!

@Jack_Goetz I think they just got a nomination for "Gameplay design", but it's competing against Hades 2 and Silksong, shouldn't have a chance against those.
But I feel you, I've been hooked for weeks lol

@Potimarron they are, but, historically, have had less opportunities in many fields, gaming being one of them.
Awards like this gives exposition and merit to people who have been snubbed many times before.

Hades 2 is so incredible, they've managed to improve on absolutely everything, and the first game was already amazing.
Didn't play E33 yet, but it's the one other game that, for my taste, might be a competition for Hades 2

After playing Hades 2 to death, I picked up the genre again, and on my way to finding new games, tried
metal gear tactics - sucker for SRPG but didn't find the genres were mashed well enough
rogue legacy 2 - how does this game gets high praise, it looks and plays like a browser flash game, no charm at all, hated it lol

Finally arrived at Ball x Pitt, and this game is FANTASTIC. I'm hooked, can't reccomend it enough!

I mean, the budget for the game is allegedly U$13M (not including marketing), so game is a massive success regardless

@kmtrain83 with Zeus boons, that's feasible 😜

Agree with my mates here, it's my GOTY so far, they've outdone the first in every single way, and it was already a spetecular game.
Is it to early to ask for Hades 3 or something like, Anubis? Lol

@sketchturner not so low addiction tendencies then... hahaha jk

I can't get over how bad MS managed Rare, and most of its studios honestly. Which makes this guy a hero, for putting up with it for this long

@sketchturner I agree with @JackieCMarlow , not sure what their reasons might be, but I'll try to explain mine:
I believe there are games which are very engaging (stardew valley), vast (BotW), grindy (pokemon, for competitive play) for intance, and can absolutely have people over-extending their play time, but it's less common cause the dopamine hits are less intense, more spread out, or the time investment is more of a job (for grinding) than for pleasure.
The "addictive" (and I'll insist on using it here, even though I agree with @hisownsidekick for the most part) term is usually more related to games that have extremely high dopamine hits, that involves repetition and the "just one more time" feeling. These can be hurtful, and I find roguelites to be some kinda middle ground, cause they are still limited in scope.
The real addiction comes on live service online games (LoL, Overwatch), it works pretty much like a drug/gambling addiction, and the updates and new features make it never ending.

You're probably someone with very low tendencies to addiction, but as someone who's been there before, I try to stay away from those lol

@GrailUK well, the franchise is doing well cause it's really not aimed at the mature audience. My nephew really don't mind graphics, and I have a blast playing pokemom with him.
We've outgrown franchises, bands, cartoons, no need to spoil the fun for the new generations

@ShieldHero you've got your answer, but i second that, Zero Mission is an absolute blast, def a great starting point to the series.
The only reccomendation I'd give is, even though Fusion is really well done, it def doesn't have the traditional metroid flow of discovering and going anywhere, it's by far the most linear in the series. Great game, though, but try playing it after zero mission or super metroid!

@Jedrus_Lilac hahahahaha I love FE with all my heart, but I'm right there with you on that, had the exact same experience

Love this article! I'm a fellow "job system" addict, and have fond memories of many games for that aspect alone.
I'll tell you one thing, though: I have not, and will never have, a memory where the mage isn't the most op character in my party. Such heresy, Alana!

I don't mind the visuals, pokemon from the beginning wasn't any thing to write home about. I really wish they could find a charming artstyle though, it would make the games more appealing, but it's not like they are not fun because of that.

The battles look so fun, hope they are fluid and challenging (not just super long).

I'm so pumped for this game, I'm not into roguelites, and still, the first is one of my favorite games ever.
I love when a developer makes some magic and get you into a different genre of what you're used to!

Shut the front door, adventure mode is all I need in a new Mario Tennis game. Reminds me of the amazing gba games! This direct was a KILLER

A new fire emblem and I'm GOOD

It sounds that for Octopath 0, they are focusing on features that were implemented in the mobile Octopath game (a kinda town builder and 8 members party fights), I wonder if it'll be something akin of FE Engage, which was nice, but less ambitious/smaller scale than 3H.
The city building done right could be an absolute blast though, Ni No Kuni 2 had that aspect and it was a joy.

In a time when reviewers are critized for not giving 0 or 10 for games players love or hate, I love to see a good reviewer standing their ground on their opinion, and being respected for that like here at NintendoLife!
Great read!

I'm a sucker for TRPGs and the first Dark Deity was already pretty good, gonna pick it up right after finishing Overlord Unicorn, which has been sooooooo good

Well, I see a couple of fellow Fire Emblem fans that didn't like the first, I'd like to say that I'm a Fire Emblem fan that actually thought it was great lol

It has a very nice class system, a balanced gameplay, and a number of well designed maps (with a few exceptions). The story isn't the best, but I mean, it's not like it's constantly great in FE as well.

Out of the Fire Emblem clones, I'd say it's one of the best

@JHDK when the Switch 1 came out, I used to play while watching TV shows and movies, but it didn't work for me.
I wanted to empty my backlog in both medias, but it's an impossible task, too much being released all the time, plus work, sports, dating, social events, the gaming and TV shows took so much time from everything else, and i was doing them both at the same time lol
I started selecting just what I REALLY had an interest on, playing only docked, and man, it changed my life, and my enjoyment of videogames/movies lol and the fact I'm not trying to empty a huge backlog, brought me peace not to fill my backlog for the next 5 years, which resulted in creating free time for the rest of my activities.
But each to their own, if it works for you, go for it!

I love what the game represents, how creative it is and had an amazing time back then.
But just recently replayed it on NSO, and it might be an unpopular opinion, but besides the beautiful artstyle and RPG mechanics, I don't think it holds up that well.
The writing got much more inspired in subsequent entries (in TTYD and specially Origami King), the flow of the game isn't well paced (there is a lot of backtracking and progression feels glacial at points), and the characters have new designs but aren't nearly as charming as I remembered them to be.
I'd hope a new entry would make a better use of development resources

I'm currently playing Chained Echoes and it's OUTSTANDING! What a masterpiece, really, every location, character, sidequest, the progression system, it's honestly top 10 RPGs of all time, and it was developed by one guy.
I can't get over this fact, especially considering we have less enjoyable RPGs developed for years by whole studios.
I'm yet to play Sea of Stars, but if it's anything as good as, we are truly living the return of the golden age of RPGs

Tomorrow the Chained Echoes DLC is supposed to be released, and that's all I need, but a little Hades 2 wouldn't hurt

I'm currently playing Pokemon Conquest, and I can't tell if I like it or not lol
The mechanics are extremely simple, the management aspect can be quite a chore, but it's been fun at the same time. Not sure I'll finish it though, I feel like I'm burning out pretty quickly due to the repetitiveness of training.
I'll try this PMD for the DS next, I played the first for the gba when it came out, and it was ok, I'm hoping this one is much better!

@JohnnyMind Agree with you on that, it was a great direct, with a very diverse public in mind. Great ports, awesome new games and I also see am attempt of trying to broaden the Switch audience with the sports games announcements and Chronos.
I'm more interested in Persona, Octopath Traveller and Elliot, but all in all, a solid 9 in my book!

@Yel333 hahaha I think it was a terrible editing of the trailer to place the narrator and the fairy giving the exact same basic information within 2 sec, it sounded like a comedy sketch lol

The art style is a little samey in all of these games, but I'm such a sucker for pixel art style that I don't mind Square pumping this games out all the time lol it's looks SOOOOO good!

@Truegamer79 you only needed to pick scorpion and <+<+light punch all the way! (Who am I kidding, it only worked against my noob friends)

@rjejr that's been pretty much every single game that has DLC for the past 15 years. U$60 for the base game, U$30 for dlc

Growing up with those terrible adaptations from the 90s, I actually thought the newest was pretty well done for some brainless fun.
This trailer set the bar way higher for the second, kinda hyped even lol

@BigRed40 couldn't agree more, they are doing their job and are great at it, but the urge to focus on the negative (even when they are pretty negligible) regarding games these days is pretty unbearable. The amount of games getting hate months before release, for the smallest things, is absurd. It takes away so much of the creative process that fueled the industry for so long

I mean, we've had a direct with specific realease dates for the next (average) 3 months, followed by absolute silence until the last game releases, then another direct for the next 3 months for 7 years now.
Since DK is being released this week, I could believe there is another one coming.
And I love this strategy of announcing games a few months from the release date, apart from MP4. Sony and MS have been terrible creating hype years before release, in a very spaced schedule

@Scarmucci I'm gobsmacked by this attach rate, that's insane

These numbers are magnificent, I'm hoping for the Switch 2 to be as successful as the first, with great games coming on a steady rate. Next month DK is gonna smash the charts, for sure

@Keman quit being dramatic and let the man do his thing, there are hundreds of other comments for you to go through.
Instead of adding anything to the community, you're spreading hate, not even related to the article.

Glad to hear Xcom 2 runs better, I'm such a huge tactical RPG fan, don't care about graphics at all, but the performance of this game completely ruined the experience for me. I know it doesn't affect the gameplay, but EVERY single action you take, looks like a slow slide show. It was the only game in the entire Switch existence I couldn't stand the performance.
That's coming from someone who was able to enjoy the pokemon games with no problem at all

Everything in this game is an absolute a masterpiece ❤️ (but the sailing, tedious as hell)

Jimmy Fallon just became the first person ever to be bamboozled by the squid in Mario Kart

The artwork looks SO GOOD! Hopefully it will turn out as amazing as Legend Arceus did, it's my all time favorite pokemon game

Are you serious, are we considering "wish list performance" a success metric now, enough to help justify lay offs?

@Coversnail you're so right, the negativity is coming no matter what lol
But out of the classic ones, CT is what is left for me, I absolutely loved it as a child! Give it to me in any type or form!

I think SRPGs have become my favorite genre in the last few years, and the switch has so many of them.
Having that said, I recently got Xcom 2 in a sale, and it's the first game on switch I couldn't play due to bad framerates and how annoying small loadings for every single action in the game were. I'm saying that being someone that didn't even mind the recent pokemon bad performances, and actually had a great time with them. But this game is completely unplayable on Switch.

@Dazman the mental gymnastics done here is a little too much.
His "opinion" of the connection between art (videogames, music, clothing, paintings) and politics, which is a fact and can be studied since the beginning of times is neither "true or false"; you assume a hypothesis about the people not wanting specific agendas as the reason for them to shut down? Lol that's such a stretch
Remember 1up, destructoid, gamespy, gametrailers and many others also failed before

@GreyFenyx hades is one of my all time faves, but couldn't play much of dead cells since the progression, for me, fell way too slow. How does this compares to both of these?

After 2 amazing games on Switch, Fire Emblem is my top choice hands down

@roy130390 i got Dark Souls for switch, played it for like, 2h and never gave it a try again. You just reignted my will to give it another shot!