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Re: These Are The Most Loved (And Most Hated) Pokémon, According To A New Study

HeroponRiki

Link fluency uses AI to determine whether a conversation is negative or positive, which could lead to a lot of problems. For instance Snorlax being one of the lowest is probably due to him being associated frequently with words like "fat" and "slow" which are not necessarily used in a derogatory way towards him but are rather fundamental traits of the pokemon.

Re: Talking Point: Everyone Has A Bad Game They Love, So What's Yours?

HeroponRiki

Mario Party Advance was one of my favorite childhood games and I still think it holds up better than people give it credit for.

Arc Rise Fantasia is the perfect combination of "so bad it's good" story and voice acting with unironically good gameplay.

The recently released Retrograde Arena is a gem even if I'm the only one that can see it.

I've also had a lot of fun playing Ninja Shodown with friends and was shocked when I discovered it reviewed poorly.

Re: Review: Layers Of Fear 2 - A Decent Premise, But A Disappointing Sequel

HeroponRiki

I do think it's an underwhelming follow up to how excellent Layers of Fear was. The main problem is that it mainly uses the same tricks as the original (many of which were also repeated in Observer, no less) so the formula is starting to get a bit stale. That being said, 5/10 seems a bit harsh. I think this game would be closer to around a 7.5/10 for newcomers, downgraded to a 7/10 if you've played Observer and the original Layers of Fear since it will mean you've seen it all before.

Re: Pillars Of Eternity Will Get No More Patches On Switch, Despite Unresolved Issues

HeroponRiki

To those commenting that NintendoLife's review didn't talk about the serious bugs enough, I want to point out that I've encountered similar issues with Civilization 6 on the Switch and Book of Unwritten Tales 2 for the Wii U also having serious game-breaking bugs that weren't brought up in the reviews on this site. I think some reviewers might cut corners. They don't really have the proper time to fully play every game they are supposed to and will write up a review based on a few hours of play and consensus from other reviews that are out for previously released versions of the game without the same issues as the port.

Re: It's Official, Funimation Is Releasing Its Anime App On Switch This Week

HeroponRiki

People here are complaining about the PS4 app being terrible but the website is equally awful. Fullscreen doesn't even work unless you have multiple monitors, because it always detects your mouse being on the screen and never gets rid of the UI.

It's a very, very low bar but if this lets me watch the new Higurashi in fullscreen I guess it's worth it.

Re: Re-Release Of N64 Classic Glover Appears To Be Taking Shape, Kickstarter Teased

HeroponRiki

When I was a kid my family would go to this big New Year's Eve party every year with a wealthy family from our church. They had a Nintendo 64 there (all I had at the time was a SNES) and I remember being really disappointed because the only games they had were Glover and Mario Golf. Like, the N64 was the coolest thing in the world to me at the time, and it would have been super exciting going there every year if I could have played Super Smash Bros or Super Mario 64, but nah it was always just "here's Glover!" and I tried playing it and it was confusing and weird and I hated it, and I'm only now realizing that I have an irrational amount of bottled up hatred towards this game.

Re: Mercenaries Blaze: Dawn Of The Twin Dragons Brings More Tactical RPG Action To Switch This Month

HeroponRiki

This series is kind of hard to recommend because it's just the most average of average games, and there are several tactical RPGs on the Switch I'd recommend over it: Fire Emblem, Disgaea, Brigandine: Legend of Runersia, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Mario + Rabbids...

That being said, average is not bad, and if you're a desperate tactics fan that has exhausted all of your other options, I guess the Mercenaries series is there.

Re: Feature: Best Nintendo Wii Games

HeroponRiki

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon is sitting at 8.2 right, just barely missing out on being in this list. If you enjoyed the game, go to the page and rate it so we can get it on here. I mean, nobody REALLY cares about Mario Super Sluggers, right?

Re: Random: Some 3D All-Stars Players Aren't Happy About The Visible Debug Cubes In Super Mario Sunshine

HeroponRiki

How do we know they didn't leave them in on purpose because it makes the level easier to play since you can see the path?

This being my first time playing Sunshine, I didn't think anything of it. It's very common for Mario games to use dotted lines like that to mark the path a platform will take, so I thought it was intentional. It's nothing to get worked up over, whether intentional or not.