@Yosher Genuinely feels like the reviewers never understand LEGO the brand and their prices - I get they are Nintendo focused, but they should do their research in these types of things, it's a fairly reasonably priced set
@nocdaes Stitch has that cute mascot selling point, plus they're making a live action Lilo and Stitch film next year - also they've made 2 different lilo and stitch series after the american one, stitch the anime that ran from 2008 - 2015 and a Chinese stitch tv show in 2017
@Hero-of-WiiU A year later and i'm still pissed lmao - not even my non-gaming friends want to play it - it could have been something so so so much better - Nintendo need to do better, they've even stopped online support less than a year in with the last costume set releasing this month
@WiltonRoots They're releasing the last costume set, couldn't even kept it running more than a year - after owning the game my non-gaming friends want to play Wii Sport over switch sports, what a flop!
@Member_the_game I only buy steelbooks of certain franchises I enjoy - but I think streaming services removing content from their platforms without notice makes people wary - i'll be for sure picking up the steelbook of this as part of my collection of Nintendo memorabilia, but i'd never purchase the standard blu-ray. It does still shock me that DVDs are still in print but they're still one of the most common disc media that people still buy even though its content is 480p
@Vil I've found Minecraft on switch before the update ran like total doo doo already - can imagine everytime they add more to the game, the worse its going to get
@NeonPizza Do you not break-drift on 200? - I've never had an issue with hitting walls in 200cc and i've got very good TT times too so it's not a skill issue my end
I agree with a few points, Sky-High Sundae to me was also a bit naff after being excited, the blind jump just isn't really that fun and its a bit too short and basic for my liking, the tracks as a whole do look better and I like that they updated the cars to move in Coconut Mall - some good tracks here, very minor visual issues aside from the 2D crowd on Sydney Sprint - still another 8 tracks to cause chaos on - love more MK content!
@WiltonRoots You'd think with a game so simple they'd at least put the effort in to add more modes/games, even still it has less control and functionality from a game from 2006, and that was pretty bare bones - they're assuming the general consumers are dumber than those of 2006 - its a bad trend and a bit of a joke to think people will just stand around swinging at quick time events for fun
@lighteningbolt79 I mean, can we even call this game a game, they've removed the charm, modes and other stuff from its previous games and now most games are quick time events hidden behind a swing instead of a button - there was more freedom in a tech demo from 2006 fgs
@Highlar 100% They've removed the ability to just swing about your remote, the game has literally boiled down to a swinging motion and timing, its literally quick time events hidden behind a motion instead of a button - its awful 0 zero substance, barely a game at this point
Incredibly disappointing, they had SO much to build from the Wii Sport Resort game and they go backwards, Locking costumes behind NSO, less sports, 3 sports that play almost identical, the 3 sports that are almost identical feel WORSE than the 2006 base game, no freedom to move your racket about, just swing and hit, no training modes, no extra modes... why on earth do we need to wait til fall for GOLF a staple of both games, and its not like its very exciting waiting for golf when the latest first party sports game that dropped, was (which was another LACKLUSTER game) Mario Golf Super Rush... Rumours of basketball and dodge-ball, but given how little support Mario Party Superstars and Super Mario Party got...i don't expect an iota of effort from big N.
Lastly, its been nearly 20 years, why on earth don't we have the freedom to walk around the court in tennis and all the other sports - what a pathetic attempt of a game and shameful of Nintendo to try and ride off the popularity of a once great iconic series...and that's not even to mention the lack of focus on Miis
Honestly, don't waste your hard earned cash on this product, Nintendo don't deserve to profit from this
@Lordplops I agree, but even then, Philips Hue is fairly expensive when you start getting into the ecosystem - however for anyone reading this, I have a bunch of hue products and they're excellent quality!
I love when "expensive brand collabs with generic brand" and you get everyone disgusted at prices of products they have sold at that price for years as if they're going to get a deal because its sonic the hedgehog lol
@SuperZeldaFun I'm guessing you're a newer who fan, but the Doctor should be asexual and the show should be able science fiction and not a bunch of soppy romcom aspects like the show decided to bring in, in 2005 - its a show about a timelord saving planets, not who the doctor wants to screw lol
Can tell there is a bunch of NuWho fans in this page - the doctor should be asexual like in the classic series, none of this campy romcom stuff brought in with the American/British movie/2005 revival
Guys, leave @Anti-Matter alone, hes always posting rubbish takes in these comments, hes just trying to peeve people off and cause arguments - not worth the fuss
For the people that maybe haven't clocked this yet or experienced this in real life...OLED screens are pretty much only noticeable in person - you certainly aren't going to notice it on a tiny smart phone or a LCD monitor lol - just go to your local TV store and compare OLED tv's to the LCD ones, if you can't notice the obvious differences, then this console isn't for you
I've really enjoyed the game for what it is - I prefer the normal boring golf mode over speed golf - plus given speed golf is limited to 2 players per switch its not something I can really play as when friends come over its always 2 - 3 people.
The new characters are pretty good and their special moves are pretty great for screwing over pals and traversing the course, tend to find that most of the time you miss obstacles with their specials except if you slap bang hit a tree!
The new courses are super tough, the high trees on both new courses really seem to affect you more so here than the "tall" trees of the launch courses as most of the time you could just clear them regardless, now you have a solid chance of hitting the tops of the trees and falling to a complete halt which helps with the difficulty.
Another thing noticed is how the big catus, bushes and plants seems to affect your ball way more than it did on the original vanilla courses, again adding to the difficulty
The greens for both new courses are pretty difficult in their own right, i'm fairly certain the ice stage has more ball slow down physics than the others, meaning it feels the same as if it was to be raining on other courses but the green itself tends to be fairly flat, the dessert course has a much more hilly terrain across the fairway and on the greens making it harder to get them long bombs.
Another thing noticed was the 2 new courses have their own music much like new donk city, but since it isn't just jump up superstar playing these new beats are very fitting and I dig the ice courses music!
All in all, a much better and substantial update over the first, welcome addition of the CPU difficulty - now if only we could get some mini games thrown in as an update and the ability to turn on and off rain and other course obstacles...and give us Birdo!
@Abes3 Some cheap £100 android devices don't have gyroscopes in them, meaning that it is totally impossible for people with those kind of devices to evolve inkay - think its the Galaxy A series that doesn't have a gyroscope so they're not even old phones lol
@Snatcher Of course its worth it, lego has a much higher resell value than gold itself - people will be willing to pay 2x the price to get their hands on this set in 10 years - a worthy investment if you ask me
Gee 2 year celebration where they will hang new items in front of vulnerable/gullible players to spend money on the heavily embedded gatcha mechanics, amazing
@Patendo LEGO profit margin per set is 25%, so for a £159.99 set, they're making a £40 profit, so if they were to make no money on this set they would have to still price it at £119 to break even
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Re: Review: LEGO Animal Crossing - K.K.'s Concert At The Plaza - A Pleasing But Pricey Set
@Yosher Genuinely feels like the reviewers never understand LEGO the brand and their prices - I get they are Nintendo focused, but they should do their research in these types of things, it's a fairly reasonably priced set
Re: Minnie Mouse Joins Disney Speedstorm As A Bonus Racer In Season 3
@nocdaes Stitch has that cute mascot selling point, plus they're making a live action Lilo and Stitch film next year - also they've made 2 different lilo and stitch series after the american one, stitch the anime that ran from 2008 - 2015 and a Chinese stitch tv show in 2017
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@Hero-of-WiiU A year later and i'm still pissed lmao - not even my non-gaming friends want to play it - it could have been something so so so much better - Nintendo need to do better, they've even stopped online support less than a year in with the last costume set releasing this month
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@WiltonRoots They're releasing the last costume set, couldn't even kept it running more than a year - after owning the game my non-gaming friends want to play Wii Sport over switch sports, what a flop!
Re: Random: Fan Recreates Bowser's Mario Movie Song, 'Peaches', In WarioWare DIY
Top tier content 10/10
Re: Uh Oh, It Looks Like The Mario Movie Blu-ray Steelbook Release Date Leaked
@Member_the_game I only buy steelbooks of certain franchises I enjoy - but I think streaming services removing content from their platforms without notice makes people wary - i'll be for sure picking up the steelbook of this as part of my collection of Nintendo memorabilia, but i'd never purchase the standard blu-ray. It does still shock me that DVDs are still in print but they're still one of the most common disc media that people still buy even though its content is 480p
Re: Wii Sports Could Be Inducted Into The Video Game Hall Of Fame
100% Deserved
Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Version 2.3.0) Character & Vehicle Performance Balance Changes Revealed
Rosa Cat Cruiser in bound
Re: Minecraft's Latest Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Vil I've found Minecraft on switch before the update ran like total doo doo already - can imagine everytime they add more to the game, the worse its going to get
Re: UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Knocks Call Of Duty Down A Peg To Take Bronze
@NeonPizza Do you not break-drift on 200? - I've never had an issue with hitting walls in 200cc and i've got very good TT times too so it's not a skill issue my end
Re: Mattel Announces A Big, Buildable Pikachu, And It Has Moveable Legs
@Mioaionios If it was LEGO it would actually be a quality product, Mega Construx is SUCH bad quality
Re: Pac-Man World: Re-Pac Frame Rate, Resolution, And File Size For Switch Seemingly Revealed
@sixrings Your boot, sir
Re: Poll: What’s Your Favourite New Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC Track In Wave 2?
@BASEDSAKRI Snow Land first?! I see, a person of culture is among us!
Re: Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 2 - Harmless Fun, But More "B-Side Filler"
@MajinSoul Sky-High Sundae is ALL anti gravity - still I think they should have added more anti grav sections in other tracks
Re: Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 2 - Harmless Fun, But More "B-Side Filler"
I agree with a few points, Sky-High Sundae to me was also a bit naff after being excited, the blind jump just isn't really that fun and its a bit too short and basic for my liking, the tracks as a whole do look better and I like that they updated the cars to move in Coconut Mall - some good tracks here, very minor visual issues aside from the 2D crowd on Sydney Sprint - still another 8 tracks to cause chaos on - love more MK content!
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
@RobotReptile £50?? Its £36.99 almost everywhere in the UK?
Re: New Sonic Frontiers Gameplay Lets The Blue Blur Show Off His Combat Skills
Has potential!
Re: Reggie Had To Fight For Wii Sports As A Pack-In, And Miyamoto Wasn't Happy
1-2 Switch and or Switch Sports would have been great pack in titles too - shame Reggie couldn't work his magic there
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@Battoot and then everybody clapped
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@WiltonRoots You'd think with a game so simple they'd at least put the effort in to add more modes/games, even still it has less control and functionality from a game from 2006, and that was pretty bare bones - they're assuming the general consumers are dumber than those of 2006 - its a bad trend and a bit of a joke to think people will just stand around swinging at quick time events for fun
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@lighteningbolt79 I mean, can we even call this game a game, they've removed the charm, modes and other stuff from its previous games and now most games are quick time events hidden behind a swing instead of a button - there was more freedom in a tech demo from 2006 fgs
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
@Highlar 100% They've removed the ability to just swing about your remote, the game has literally boiled down to a swinging motion and timing, its literally quick time events hidden behind a motion instead of a button - its awful 0 zero substance, barely a game at this point
Re: PSA: Nintendo Switch Sports Local Multiplayer Won't Work On Switch Lite Or In Tabletop Mode
This game is a f***ing mess, absolute disgrace to a once great series, could have fooled me that it was made by Nintendo
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Sports - Familiar Fun With Friends, But Little More
Incredibly disappointing, they had SO much to build from the Wii Sport Resort game and they go backwards, Locking costumes behind NSO, less sports, 3 sports that play almost identical, the 3 sports that are almost identical feel WORSE than the 2006 base game, no freedom to move your racket about, just swing and hit, no training modes, no extra modes... why on earth do we need to wait til fall for GOLF a staple of both games, and its not like its very exciting waiting for golf when the latest first party sports game that dropped, was (which was another LACKLUSTER game) Mario Golf Super Rush... Rumours of basketball and dodge-ball, but given how little support Mario Party Superstars and Super Mario Party got...i don't expect an iota of effort from big N.
Lastly, its been nearly 20 years, why on earth don't we have the freedom to walk around the court in tennis and all the other sports - what a pathetic attempt of a game and shameful of Nintendo to try and ride off the popularity of a once great iconic series...and that's not even to mention the lack of focus on Miis
Honestly, don't waste your hard earned cash on this product, Nintendo don't deserve to profit from this
Re: Light Your Gaming Room In Style With Nanoleaf's New Sonic The Hedgehog Kit
@Lordplops I have an Ambilight TV too - they're awesome
Re: Light Your Gaming Room In Style With Nanoleaf's New Sonic The Hedgehog Kit
@Lordplops I agree, but even then, Philips Hue is fairly expensive when you start getting into the ecosystem - however for anyone reading this, I have a bunch of hue products and they're excellent quality!
Re: Light Your Gaming Room In Style With Nanoleaf's New Sonic The Hedgehog Kit
I love when "expensive brand collabs with generic brand" and you get everyone disgusted at prices of products they have sold at that price for years as if they're going to get a deal because its sonic the hedgehog lol
Re: New Song "Speed Life" Released For Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Movie
Its certainly no Speed Me Up by Wiz Khalifa....maybe we will get an English version
Re: Pokémon GO Adding Gen 7 Alola Pokémon From 1st March
@Greatluigi Doubt they will, they'll probably do Z-Moves after most of gen 6 has dropped - they've been drip feeding content for a while now
Re: Review: Doctor Who: The Edge Of Reality - A Fair Adventure With Serious Performance Issues
@SuperZeldaFun I'm guessing you're a newer who fan, but the Doctor should be asexual and the show should be able science fiction and not a bunch of soppy romcom aspects like the show decided to bring in, in 2005 - its a show about a timelord saving planets, not who the doctor wants to screw lol
Re: Review: Doctor Who: The Edge Of Reality - A Fair Adventure With Serious Performance Issues
Can tell there is a bunch of NuWho fans in this page - the doctor should be asexual like in the classic series, none of this campy romcom stuff brought in with the American/British movie/2005 revival
Re: Playtonic's Original Yooka-Laylee Game Is Getting A Follow-Up Title
The first game absolutely sucked - hopefully with the success of the 2D game - they can make a good 3D game, not holding out hope though
Re: Best Pokémon Games Of All Time
This list seems to be based on user reviews - not an actual list by thought of a NL employee...
Re: Review: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl - A Middling Pair Of Remakes
Guys, leave @Anti-Matter alone, hes always posting rubbish takes in these comments, hes just trying to peeve people off and cause arguments - not worth the fuss
Re: Hardware Review: Game & Watch: The Legend Of Zelda - A Link To Link's Past
@RedRaven723 Got mine around 11am!
Re: Review: Mario Party Superstars - A Party Most Hearty
@Paulo Its just the N64 boards because they're the only good Mario Parties
Re: Video: Comparing The OLED, Switch, And Switch Lite Screens
For the people that maybe haven't clocked this yet or experienced this in real life...OLED screens are pretty much only noticeable in person - you certainly aren't going to notice it on a tiny smart phone or a LCD monitor lol - just go to your local TV store and compare OLED tv's to the LCD ones, if you can't notice the obvious differences, then this console isn't for you
Re: UK Charts: Sonic Colors Ultimate Debuts In Third Place, Selling Best On Switch
@TimGibsonPBS Hotwheels Unleashed is excellent - hope you enjoy it over SCU!
Re: Apple Made More Profit From Games In 2019 Than Nintendo, Sony And Microsoft Combined
Its gross, and that is saying something considering some of the gross practices the big 3 do currently!
Re: Feature: Our Verdict On Mario Golf: Super Rush's 3.0 Update, Including New Characters And Courses
I've really enjoyed the game for what it is - I prefer the normal boring golf mode over speed golf - plus given speed golf is limited to 2 players per switch its not something I can really play as when friends come over its always 2 - 3 people.
The new characters are pretty good and their special moves are pretty great for screwing over pals and traversing the course, tend to find that most of the time you miss obstacles with their specials except if you slap bang hit a tree!
The new courses are super tough, the high trees on both new courses really seem to affect you more so here than the "tall" trees of the launch courses as most of the time you could just clear them regardless, now you have a solid chance of hitting the tops of the trees and falling to a complete halt which helps with the difficulty.
Another thing noticed is how the big catus, bushes and plants seems to affect your ball way more than it did on the original vanilla courses, again adding to the difficulty
The greens for both new courses are pretty difficult in their own right, i'm fairly certain the ice stage has more ball slow down physics than the others, meaning it feels the same as if it was to be raining on other courses but the green itself tends to be fairly flat, the dessert course has a much more hilly terrain across the fairway and on the greens making it harder to get them long bombs.
Another thing noticed was the 2 new courses have their own music much like new donk city, but since it isn't just jump up superstar playing these new beats are very fitting and I dig the ice courses music!
All in all, a much better and substantial update over the first, welcome addition of the CPU difficulty - now if only we could get some mini games thrown in as an update and the ability to turn on and off rain and other course obstacles...and give us Birdo!
Re: Feature: Our Verdict On Mario Golf: Super Rush's 3.0 Update, Including New Characters And Courses
@obeythed1734 and the ability to turn on or off rain!!
Re: Round Up: Here's Everything That Was Revealed In Nintendo Direct September 2021
@nhSnork Chocobo GP is actually a sequel to a PS1 Chocobo racing game - so they already tackled this genre 20 years ago
Re: Pokémon GO Will Receive A Fix For Players Unable To Evolve Inkay
@Abes3 Some cheap £100 android devices don't have gyroscopes in them, meaning that it is totally impossible for people with those kind of devices to evolve inkay - think its the Galaxy A series that doesn't have a gyroscope so they're not even old phones lol
Re: There's A Hidden Secret Inside The LEGO Super Mario Question Block Set
@UglyCasanova Damn, you just described the collectibles market - nothing can get past you!!
Re: There's A Hidden Secret Inside The LEGO Super Mario Question Block Set
@Snatcher Of course its worth it, lego has a much higher resell value than gold itself - people will be willing to pay 2x the price to get their hands on this set in 10 years - a worthy investment if you ask me
Re: Mario Kart Tour Teases New Event Ahead Of Its 2nd Year Anniversary Next Week
Gee 2 year celebration where they will hang new items in front of vulnerable/gullible players to spend money on the heavily embedded gatcha mechanics, amazing
Re: Mario Kart Tour Teases New Event Ahead Of Its 2nd Year Anniversary Next Week
@Ajnin Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and MK Wii CTGP lol
Re: Random: Plant Your Plants In These Animal Crossing Plant Pots
@Snow-Dust LOOK GUYS HE MADE A TOTALLY ORIGINAL CEASE AND DESIST COMMENT, HAHAHA SO FUNNY GUYS
Re: Review: NBA 2K22 - Loading Aside, This Baller's Got It Where It Counts
@rmswriter why would you support that kind of gaming in the first place?
Side note, micro-transactions and releasing the same game year after year with little to no changes has completely destroyed the gaming industry
Re: Super Mario 64 LEGO '?' Block Revealed, Out In October
@Patendo LEGO profit margin per set is 25%, so for a £159.99 set, they're making a £40 profit, so if they were to make no money on this set they would have to still price it at £119 to break even