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@VoidofLight plus the villager is very customizable what are they gonna do? A whole potato head situation where you can swap out facial features and hair?

I don’t really know what anyone expected from the character choices... these are the 2 most logical options I see no difference between this and Pikachu and Eevee being the first Pokémon releases. They’re the 2 most recognizable mascots. An argument could be made for KK Slider but Isabelle garnered a lot of fandom from New Leaf. When the game released on the same day as Doom Eternal all the fan art was Isabelle and Doom Slayer.
I can get the disappoint ent with regards to the actual “build-a-bear” process but it’s all online currently so....

I go back and forth between insect glaive and hunting horn depending on how I’m feeling. It could just be me but the insect glaive in Rise feels slower or clunkier vs World. I only really played World and that has a bit of a different feel all over.
Edit: auto correct does not like the word glaive. (One got changed to glance the other changes to flavor)

@EriXz I like how the tweet even in saying there’s nothing interesting still hints at the switch pro saying it may be to pave the way for a new Switch SDK

@DocRompler yeah this is the problem. They made it so literally the only current legal way to play this game is this thing they only made available for 6 months. I bought it because I never played Sunshine and barely played Galaxy but I honestly waited until I had the chance to get it used. Maybe it doesn’t matter but I felt a little better about it.

@OorWullie part of the struggle with the camera is we’re now using a stick to control it when on the N64 it was just directional buttons. So the stick isn’t acting like a stick it’s replicating button presses. I know they didn’t update the games at all but at the very least updating the camera controls would’ve been really nice touch.

There’s a lot of talk in the comments about the Suez Canal situation but Analogue said nothing about that and there’s a massive global chip shortage that’s literally affecting every electronic device’s production this year.

@Franklin yeah I feel like Harry Potter didn’t take off (recent author controversy aside because the game was out for like a year before that) Pikmin is gonna have a hard road.

@fR0z3nS0u1 with all the deaths in the trailer it’s definitely either rogue-like or souls-like.

@OldManHermit yeah Castlevania Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate and the Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate game have basically destroyed the concept of 2.5D in my mind. I don’t mind depth to backgrounds like the 3Dish effect from Shovel Knight or Ori and the Blind Forest or Hollow Knight but when you have a Metroidvania that relies on a sprawling map and revisiting places you can’t have the map look 2D but also go “around corners”. This game may or may not be a Metroidvania I’m just giving my opinion on the 2.5D games I played which involved that genre.

@Beatrice yeah I don’t know if it’s the same artist but they love those thunder thighs I guess.

I’ve been wondering about this. His music was a great companion to classes over Zoom.

@DarthFoxMcCloud what happened with Indivisible? I’ve heard good things about the game but I didn’t follow it from Kickstarter just since it’s official release?

@Milenko there’s a bunch of games that let you use your PC save file cross platform. Witcher 3 and Hades are the first to jump to my mind right now.

@Jakiboy yeah that’s kinda my problem with this... like they not only aged them but made them realistic humans. I need to see the before picture because the before is certainly not normal Mario.

It’s mind blowing to me that they silently released a mobile port of Symphony of the Night but still haven’t put it on the Switch where it could make fat stacks of money for them.
My dream is for them to release a “modern” Castlevania collection. They did that anniversary one, and that to me is a collection of all the Castlevania games I couldn’t get into. But please give me Symphony of the Night, give me all the ones from the Game Boy Advance/DS. I love “Metroidvania” and they feel SO good on the Switch to me.

@hakjie11 I think that’s just what media/the big companies want you to think. I’ve seen enough memes about how little people care about the 4K upgrades because they’re TVs are still old to think that not having 4K is a minority.

@Zuljaras https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/642/493/136.gif

I just want to throw my recommendation for a grip case: the Skull & Co case is extremely comfortable with 3 different shaped grips and it fits into the dock which was the HUGE factor for me buying it.

@aaronsullivan yeah playing with hands separated I’m was one of my biggest draws with the Wii I remember playing Twilight Princess for hours with one arm draped across the back of my chair and the other in a somewhat “normal” gaming position it was great.

@Creature “ Drumming on a real digi drum kit to eye of the tiger is one of the highlights of my gaming life.”
This.

@Casperfour yeah I feel like they make odd choices to showcase. Like this wasn’t the last Rock Band nor the best.
They did it a few weeks ago where some other weird sequel ish game had an anniversary and I just thought “...but who cares?”

Ooh those are interesting results so far. The largest majority is 90/10 favoring docked. I can’t really say 100% which I do more of I lean docked though so 60/40 sounded good.

@Zoda_Fett this.
Fantasy Life was a fun cute little distraction. It’s not the greatest ARPG in the world but it’s got a lot of charm.

@Not_Soos to your point, in the early 90s every FPS was called a Doom clone now its an entire genre with SUBgenres.

Not only does Power Paintbrush sound lame but the font on those words doesn’t match as well as the font on Canvas Curse so it looks like a bad photoshop fake leak.

@DrivingturtIe I see it too...

@N8tiveT3ch https://youtu.be/ZBJqnZy4qks

@N8tiveT3ch words cannot express how much I miss the Wii Shop music

@Morgan19 the A B above are there to mimic the original Famicom controller because this was the special edition Famicom model but all of the Game Boy Micros had a large lower case a b on the buttons but not on the face of the console. So this was just keeping the aesthetic of those buttons consistent or maybe just to use the same exact parts across all models.

So I had this weird idea about a possible Switch Pro that I thought would be cool... but then I realized I just backed into wanting them to remake the Wii U which is probably a bad idea.
My train of thought was: if they made a console only unit I’d probably buy a Switch Lite because I’d miss the portability and the Lite is actually a really nice unit. But then maybe there could be some sort of functionality that would make a Lite and a Pro more symbiotic (so I wouldn’t have to have 2 separate Animal Crossing islands) like maybe you could stream from the Pro to the Lite. Aka the Wii U... again...
To be fair to my theory one of the biggest gripes about the Wii U I heard a lot was “but why can’t I just take the tablet controller with me out of the house?” This would be exactly that.

@Strumpan @jwfurness ohhhh so it would be pressure sensitive. Interesting. Like I said I didn’t get to play that game much because I never got around to buying it back in the day so I had literally no idea.

@frabbit out of curiosity why would FLUDD work differently on Switch than it did on GameCube? The Switch has more buttons than the GC controller.
I didn’t play much of Sunshine so this announcement is super exciting for me.

@okimoki do your plugs not fall under this statement?
“ The device also comes with additional adapters inside the box that allow it to be used in different regions.”
I mean no sass, I know very little about the plugs in other countries, but the article does address that it comes with different interchangeable prongs.

@PlayedNSlayed reading that manual pre gameplay was like 20% of the enjoyment of games to me back then. And all the official artwork that I’d sit and try to recreate when I wasn’t playing.

My first perfect quiz

Okay there are a lot of Johto Pokémon up there but there’s also Lapras Mewtwo Slowpoke Sandshrew the new starters. I’m not saying it’s a bad assumption but there is a sentence in the article that says “every single plush is from
the Johto region except for Pikachu”

@sonicbooming I don’t discourage using FAQs but I will say the game is very open in its options to how you play. I didn’t even realize this until I was comparing where I was in the game with a friend and we had roughly similar percentages of completion but our paths were drastically different. He hadn’t gotten the Tram Ticket and while I had spent a lot of my time filling out the map down on those levels he had an entirely different are done that I assumed I couldn’t access.
Don’t know if that made sense but it’s less linear than most Metroidvanias and that’s incredible to me.
Also the controls are some of THE tightest controls in any game and in fact ruined some other games for me when I went to play them again. Namely it’s hard to play Rogue Legacy, another fantastic game that’s kind of similar, because it feels floaty and unresponsive by comparison.

I got 12/15 mostly by process of elimination knowing the art of the other games in the list. The only ones I 100% knew were Kwirk for GameBoy that I used to have and completely forgot about its existence and also Crystalis for GBA which is a game I have been in love with basically all my life. A greatly under-appreciated action RPG in my opinion.

Quackshot was such a good game. I was JUST thinking about it and how unique the whole plunger gun mechanic was.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I think the point was that they didn’t get the Disney license and the hope is we can see them make something similar without the need for a license.

@progx I don’t see it so much as click bait. The main point of the headline was that the release date was announced and that is addressed in the first paragraph.

I feel like there’s a lot of misunderstanding with this game. It is not a sequel it’s a spin-off/follow up. That may sound like splitting hairs but some seem upset at this being a bold direction to take the sequel. This is not that. This is just them messing around making another game in the series like how Shovel Knight is making Shovel Knight Dig. Shovel Knight Dig is not a sequel to Shovel Knight. All of the wording in Devolver’s descriptions, and even in this review, specifically do not classify this game as a sequel. Rant over.
Haven’t played it yet but I’ve been waiting for this on Switch since it released on Apple Arcade because I’d rather have the controller. 7/10 feels like what I would expect out of this so sounds good.

My standard screen name and any variation of that was off limits in Pokémon Go because crack is in it so I don’t find this too surprising.