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@rjejr Splatoon 2 will be five years old in May, not three.

@Lizuka I agree with this view. I get in hindsight that the raunchy behavior Date showed was supposed to be hinting at something, but there really were much better ways that could've been shown.

The secretary ending is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game though. I was dying when I found that.

@blindsquarel Saving changes could be a give or take, I'll give you that. But the Bombers Notebook opening and playing the whole animation every single time you talked to someone was infuriating, really no different than the rupee pickup complaints from Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. It's just an unnecessary break in the action. Also dear God the Bomber kids chasing after Link to give unneeded hints and then interrupting cutscenes in Clocktown. Like WHY does that need to be a thing.

Deku mask form lost the ability to fast hop between lillypads by spinning which completely breaks the flow of the forest. And also makes it incredibly difficult to leave the maze race under the Deku Palace.

The bosses may not have been super difficult in the original, but the remake makes them worse.

I'm not saying the remake is a bad game by any means, but the original is definitely the best way to play it still. For every thing that was improved in the remake something else that didn't need to be changed was negatively impacted.

@KimBread Changes to certain mechanics just don't feel very good. I don't want to go through and list them all, but movement mechanics for the Zora, Deku, and Goron were all changed to be slower.

Boss fights are also redone for "clarity" but this also removes some of the more open ended aspects of boss fights. Odolwa for instance could be attacked and damaged in a few different patterns in the original. In the remake you HAVE to use the Deku flower in the room to fly up on the air and drop Deku Nuts to stun him.

There are more things, changes to the bombers notebook the save system, and some of the visual changes for instance but the first two parts are the big ones.

@Mattock1987 Agreed. Thankfully Nintendo is pretty good about getting review copies out in time for journalists to post impressions before the games actually release.

Cannot believe it took y'all so long to review this. One of the best games of 2021.

@Browny It's been five years now. That's much longer than the gap between the first and second games and long time for any game series.

@OorWullie Looked like it was Joy Con only. When I turned it on, the game immediately asked me to place the right Joy Con on a flat surface.

Motion on TV actually works really well. I found it to be very comfortable.

@Jango-Forest Motion controls ARE an option if you are playing on the TV. Just need to turn them on in the settings. I tried them for the first time last night and they work pretty well.

@SwitchForce And they're keeping us updated. We'll get the game eventually.

YESSSSSSSS. I've been hoping this would make it over. Glad I didn't crack and pick it up on PS4.

@CovidBarbie So what reviews have you found untrustworthy? The only game you mention getting burned by is one which received a low score from NL.

Gen five is the best and that's really the only correct answer.

@Aurumonado Well one of them is Yasuo. Who is basically the Charizard of League of Legends. Can't NOT slap him in the game somewhere, even if canonically he's got nothing to do with Bilgewater. (This all applies to Ahri as well. But with boobs.)

Braum is just there for some good himbo representation.

@Zuljaras All of those are likely more accurate assessments of why flawed games release than "lazy dev."

@anynamereally Nevermind that it's currently sitting at an 86 on Metacritic...

@Ventilator I think you might have responded to the wrong comment originally. Cause the first comment I posted in here was about FIFA.

For what it's worth, I'd also prefer to be an early adopter. Waiting a year or two to save a few bucks isn't worth it for something I want.

@jancotianno FIFA got a 2/10 on Switch for being the literal same game it has been for the last five years. EA has been charging at minimum 40USD for a roster swap of a 360 game. That's why it got the score it has. It's why there are only two reviews from major publications listed on Metacritic. It's why last year's version has a Metacritic average of 33.

Metroid is by all accounts really freaking good. You might not like how Dread looks but others think it's clean and stylish, Eurogamer went as far as to call it one of the best looking games on Switch. And (no offense to NL) I trust their reviews more than the ones written here. Also a short length is not necessarily a bad thing. A short but well paced game is better than one with unneeded padding.

@Ventilator I'll be totally straight, I'm not actually sure what you're getting at here.

@jancotianno Did...did you...read the Fifa review? Because while it may look and play well, there are very valid reasons to give it a 2/10.

I own KH3 and it struggles on my Pro so I can accept that being a cloud version but the two collections be cloud as well is gutting for me.

@BloodNinja It wasn't a new game. It's literally a remake of a nearly thirty year old game.

@BloodNinja They're calling attention to Fusion because it was the last original 2D game. And obviously Dread is pulling a lot from that game.

Pretty sure your copy of Samus Returns had a "new" sticker on it because it was an unopened copy.

@BloodNinja They've said it's the first new game in fifteen years. No one is discounting Samus Returns but it's a remake, not an actual new game.

@BloodNinja Do you have a link to posts about these bugs? Because I just scrolled through Steam user reviews and haven't seen a word of such.

@the_beaver I haven't seen a single Lost In Random review anywhere which I find concerning. Eurogamer posted their Eastward review this morning though and we're quite fond of it which is all I needed to see.

Amazed Art of Rally is above Spelunky, or really on any top list, after they bungled the release so badly.

Also the fact that you guys missed Dreamscaper this month is almost criminal.

@TheFrenchiestFry The PS4 version actually holds 30 pretty well. It does dip here and there very slightly but it's mostly good. X1 version did struggle a little more though.

I'm wondering if this is going to be similar to Aliens on Switch; another cross generation game that did surprisingly well because the devs were able to take advantage of more modern tools and techniques.

There is a ten hour loop of the Song of Healing from Majora's Mask I default to if I need something soothing.

@anzzjam I've debated a handful of times responding to his comments which are demonstrably wrong. Just decided it wasn't worth it.

@Fiyaball it's only as high/low as the number of people who order.

@Znake So you would ask that they hold the release back on all platforms because of an issue with Nintendo's validation process? Because that then messes up their relationship with those platforms and fans. They apologized, kept fans updated, and then offered a decent discount for a few days when they got it working. Pretty class way to manage it honestly.

@TheFrenchiestFry Reminiscent of SAO but about ten thousand times better than that. Unfortunate that in the time since the last .hack game, nothing in the genre has topped it.

@Znake And again, you are continuing to assume this was an active decision made by Dotemu to delay the DLC. This has nothing to do with inappropriate actions and not being respectful and everything to do with a technical or software issue. The DLC was intended to release on Switch at the same time as other platforms. Dotemu has an excellent relationship with Nintendo and its community, going as far as revealing games for Switch before other platforms. Also, please feel free to remove the condescending attitude.

@BloodNinja I mean yeah, if you don't know what you're looking at, of course it doesn't look impressive. So go play BoTW so you can be impressed.

@Znake Your determination to have Dotemu burned at the stake for this is admirable. A mistake was made, the DLC was delayed a little bit but now it's here. Dotemu has no evil scheme to extort people and no vendetta or bias against Switch owners.

@Giancarlothomaz Dunno. But there has been no comment from Atlus or Sony on the matter and no proof of money changing hands.

@Giancarlothomaz There isn't any known, written contract or agreement that mainline Persona games are Sony exclusive. It just seems to be how Atlus wants to do things.

@XenoShaun I don't think EA actually DOES much in terms of mucking about with their indies line of games. It really does seem to be just funding and advertising. So if there were any EA games to feel okay about buying, it'd be these ones.

@Ear_wiG I actually already had it open when I popped into this discussion!

@Ear_wiG DOOM Eternal leans into platforming in the same way that the Prime games lean into shooting. Like Prime definitely has FPS gameplay, but it's pretty clearly not the main draw.

Metroid Prime feels like an FPS in the loosest sense of the term. Like if we were to make a scale of like "how much of an FPS are you," it'd hang out fairly close to the bottom, somewhere near Mirror's Edge.

@BloodNinja "It’s 100% a first person shooter, it uses the same perspective and you shoot things. It also has some slower paced exploration."

I think this is where you've got it backwards. It's 100% a slower paced exploration game that happens to have some first person shooting involved. And yeah it's all kind of semantic, but the Prime games are pretty far from (to use your examples) Crysis and DOOM.

@HamatoYoshi Super Crush KO is quite good.

@The_Pixel_King This is the correct order of actions.

@Entrr_username @HammerKirby @Abeedo Skyward Sword is running at 60fps but it's also visually the exact same game as the Wii version. Sonic is getting a whole bunch of visual upgrades. It's not laziness, it's just different priorities in design.

@Ralizah I'd love you forever if you were to @ me if you see it go up. I just checked BestBuy and didn't see it.

@Whitestrider Apologies. Sarcasm doesn't always translate well and I misinterpreted.

I think LRG still has rough estimates for the arrival dates. I know the NSCollectors subreddit has a weekly (or maybe monthly) post showing when all of the boutique indie publishers will be shipping and Scott Pilgrim special editions are listed on there.

@Whitestrider Clearly I was just using personal experience as an example of the world still being screwed up. But apparently you aren't interested in having an actual discussion.

@Whitestrider From personal experience (I work in a gallery and we frame many of our artists work in house) I have had several phone calls with suppliers to order wood, mat board, and even picture hooks and the rep has straight up said they have no idea when things may come back in stock. It really sucks but it's no one's fault per say.

@Whitestrider Many manufacturers are still at limited capacity due to Covid. There is only so much that can be done. You'll get your product eventually but the world is still pretty messed up right now.