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@Cross_eyed_oni,

That may or may not be the case. One of them is super greedy, maybe both. If Nintendo is to blame, then they just had to use Botw2 as their holiday game since I am pretty sure that game is long finished. They could have saved this Pokemon game for holiday 2023. But yeah: Zelda sells big, but Pokemon sells bigger.

Lovely game! Challenging, good looking, good sounding, some light puzzling with fun combat, moody and funny, pretty long too. And the part after the endboss is very moody and mysterious.

I really hope they make a sequel, the secret ending teases it in my opinion.

Good! Hopefully this is a wake-up call for Gamefreak (and Nintendo), because I feel they are knocking Pokemon games out quicker and quicker and they get shoddier all the time. At some point they will look like shoddy beta versions (they already do to a certain extent)!

The second trailer looked pretty good, but now that I have seen a review on youtube...it looks terrible! Very weak textures and trees, slowed down characters in the distance (because of frame-rate), etc, etc. It looks worse then Arceus and the reviewer also said the performance is worse then the performance on Arceus. Also, some very terrible new Pokemon species from what I have seen. And no more free-catching mechanic from Arceus?!

That all feels like a step backwards, and the game just looks highly unfinished to me. Might still be fun, but should have been sooo much better. Switch CAN do open-worlds if developers take their time (Botw for example). But its always Rush, Rush at Gamefreak...

Hello lovely people! Its Alex Olney with his song Celestial...

Lol, anyway: Celestial was pretty cool, as was the videoclip. And that comes from someone who isn't the biggest Sheeran fan (minus a few songs).

How the mighty have fallen...

Happy birthday Miyamoto san! He still looks pretty good at 70, energetic.

I might have liked it as open-world: Maybe we had to wait this long because it was supposed to be open-world, but they scrapped the idea. I wonder what was the biggest hurdle for them: The performance on Switch or the pacing. Maybe Bayo 4 on future hardware will be open-world? Or maybe it wouldn't be fun that way?

Anyway, Bayo 3 is supposed to be really good, so that's all that counts (I have yet to properly play it though).

@Astral-Grain

Yeah, that's super annoying. Speaking of file-sizes: Sometimes it seems to be the other way around. I remember seeing a game on Steam that needed much more space to download on Steam then on the Switch. And I mean MUCH more!

@Astral-Grain

Yeah, this person just gave a 5 because it wasn't his/her thing. As I said before in another topic, its a bit like the old Prince of Persia. Personally I like the world and the mood more then the gameplay.

Anyway, bought it. Yes, its a European version. However, it requires a 12 gb download, wich I didn't know. I suspect only the prologue to be on the cart (I played a very tiny portion without downloading, the cart feels very light).

If I knew this in advance I would just have waited untill the download-version was discounted (You need 11,2 gb for that). What's the use of buying physical if most of the game needs to be downloaded?

Very harsh score. And not a single mention about the performance.

@Slowdive

That's great to hear!

@progx

Well, that's good for you. I sadly always experience some trouble.

Doesn't europe get the retail-version? If not, then I just have to hunt down a American copy someday.

Lovely game. Fun to play, good looking, good sounding, nice controls. Nothing wrong with this in my opinion.

@progx

Is that true? Well, then it does a poor job. Not only are all the Unreal games struggling in handheld-mode (that's my experience anyway), but they also have this blurry Vasiline-smear (Yoshi's crafted world was made in Unreal and even that looked a bit blurry) in handheld-mode.

@Astral-Grain

One of the charms of the Oddworld series was always the butt-ugly characters: They are literally rough people living in the dirt or awful villains. One of the complains with Soulstorm was that they made the characters look to shiny and friendly, but I still think it has its rickety charm. Another complain was that the game became to serious and lost most of its humor, apart from the sound-effects.

Personally the look of the games and the idea behind the games and the message, I found that much more interesting then the super-frustrating old Prince of Persia style gameplay.

Looks pretty good, even the "exodus" scenes (all those Mudokins running, climbing etc). I feared they would scrap those scenes, but they are needed for immersion.

However, the game might run poorly. Microids and THQ Nordic games always struggle. And if it is a unreal-engine game it WILL struggle on Switch. That's the first thing Nintendo should do with Switch 2: Making it 100% compatable with Unreal. 99% of modern games seem to be made in Unreal.

A very nice and modest response.

Played this recently, loved every second of it. Amazing game. And the weird thing is, back in the day I tried the first Pikmin two times and didn't like it. I don't know why. Anyway, downloaded Pikmin 1 and 2 on Wii u. I want to try out the second one soon.

And Pikmin 3 looks really nice, so I can only imagine how good Pikmin 4 will look. Looking forward to it!

Beautiful woman, divine voice. I won't boycot the game, but I am sure with such a voice there must be a lot of work for her. I wish her the best! As for the new voice-actor: She IS entitled to call herself Bayonetta, no matter what the old actor says.

Kamiya sounds as awful as ever!

I have it now, but it may be on the backlog for now. Anyway, nice review and nice score. I really hope we will also see the original Nier on Switch someday.

As I said in the other topic: Very impressed by it!

Serves them right! You can't ignore the original team.

Cool, the Italians call it super Mario bros 2 film apparently. Its the second animated movie (after the anime), but its actually the third movie (life-action Mario says hello).

Mario sounded good, but it was not enough to give a proper opinion. Bowser was the star: I think he also spoke the most during the trailer. The toad also sounded nice, but again just a small snippet.

Yeah, a little bit. But now that we saw Mario in motion, he doesn't look bad. In fact he looks quite good.

Fix it felix was of course based on Mario (Jumpman) from the game Donkey Kong.

This looks amazing, gave me quite some goosebums! Mario's voice doesn't sound awful either. And this was more then just a super-short teaser. Finally we have a impression.

A bit getting used to I think. During the footage of Bayonetta 3 she sounded a bit softer, less menacing. But that could be me.

Nice poster! So there's finally a teaser coming up. Its still a teaser, but I hope it still gives a impression.

Its not a complete fail, but I do agree somethings a little bit off.

By the way: Mario movie 2023...possible next Mario game 2023...Nintendo's first movie tie-in?

Never heard of this series, but this looks actually prety good.

So its even more popular then Pokemon now in Japan?! Probably because the game is based for a big part on Japanese street-cred (fashion, music, etc).

Crying. But now that I have read the article: Also tearing, a world torn apart. The floating islands are basically tears, but maybe you are also collecting tears. But its mostly crying about a lost kingdom, or the kingdom itself in mourning. Clever title!

Seems like he really made it in Japan! Good for him. I imagine not many western people having a column in famitsu?

Looks pretty good! Luckily I will be finished just in time with Three houses (playing it at the moment, I am at chapter 21, dlc will be played later).

Another one for the backlog I think. Haven't even finished the first one.

That's great news!

Fi-na-lly!! Lol, they showed a pocket-watch...they know they are late. Well, better late then never!

Not a fan of the slightly updated artstyle (bold outlines) but its not for me anyway. I played it on the Wii.

Nice title and nice box-art. May is still a long way of though...but its better then holiday 2023!

rip Square-Enix.

A strong Botw2 trailer, name and release-date. Strong Metroid Prime 4 trailer.

Demo was pretty fun. Yes this will be downloaded by me someday.

I didn't know there was a third one! I have 1 and 2 on Switch. Halfway on number one, pretty fun (I can't play it for too long though since it gets me dizzy for some reason). Hopefully they also bring number 3!

Lol, the downloads heads-up is rubbish for years now on this site. I personally always get the discounts heads-up from a site called "budgetgaming.nl". Its probably a bit tricky to use if you don't understand dutch, but they always list ALL discounts!

@Bomberman64,

Good point! Maybe people feared more increases in the future, thus immediately buying the device (normally you wait for a discount, but everything has changed sadly).

It will rise again with Pokemon. On the other hand: Everyone who wants a Switch already has a Switch and people flock to the newest devices. I still don't think Nintendo will do the promised 7 year lifespan, by then the sales have totally dried up. I still think the succesor will be next year (with botw2). Lol, you can't change my feeling (its just a feeling, don't get worked up)!

I think Nintendo is done for the year. The only thing left might be a Direct centered around Bayonetta 3, or that presentation may be entirely in the hands of Platinum. We still don't know that much about the game, we still need some proper gameplay-footage.

@locky-mavo,

You could at least give the first episode or the first 2 episodes a try. I know I will! I personally loved the Lord of the rings trilogy, but was a bit dissapointed with the Hobbit trilogy. From what I have seen the orcs seem to be people with make-up again instead of cgi, so that's a good sign.