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I really hope they don't add her in an update months later. There's no conceivable reason why we should have to wait extra time to play as our favorite characters. So I hope she's just unlockable in game.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
No? She acts nothing like Peach and has a completely different personality--she's loud, crass, and in your face. If anything, Rosalina is just Peach in a blue dress because those two act practically the same--calm, quiet, and reserved. Whether you like Daisy or not, she's a Mario spin-off regular and removing her would be like removing Amy from a Sonic game. If Waluigi was missing, the internet would have a collective meltdown just like when he was missing from Mario Kart 7 and Smash Ultimate. The double standards are ridiculous. Everyone should be able to play as their favorite characters. Period.

Nope. Don't care anymore. When they put Joker in Smash I thought Persona ports would happen, when they put P5 Strikers on Switch, I thought it would happen because it's literally a direct continuation of P5's story, and when they put out surveys last year and the year before, I thought it would happen.

Instead, we get P4 Arena which is another direct sequel to a game that isn't available on Switch (P4).

With the Switch being the only system I have, I've simply lost all interest in Persona and I haven't even played it. They've done a poor job of getting Switch owners invested in the series, and there's too many other games coming out that have my interest (Mario Strikers Battle League, FE Warriors Three Hopes, Xenoblade 3, and possibly Splatoon 3 as well), so I simply don't have time to worry about games like Persona and whether or not they'll come to Switch. I loved SMT V, but this is just tiring at this point.

Millick Meadows seems to be the Gaur Plains/Primordia/Gormott of this game. Can't wait to hear its area theme!

@smithpa01
The reason why it got delayed was so that the devs could release it when they turn on crossplay between Switch/Xbox/PS4/PC. If anything, it's only gonna get more players once it finally hits Switch.

It needs to go F2P to garner more interest at this point. The only reason why it got so big in the first place was because it was free for PS+ owners. IDC if they add MTX to the game because the game can still be experienced in full despite being free.

Switch owners have been waiting since last year for this game, so it's on them to get us interested again.

Son of a gun, what a joke. Now his lies may actually cause problems for characters like Fei Long, Liu Kang, and Marshall Law when there weren't any to begin with.

I think it'll run well on Switch if they downgrade it enough and limit the max units. It's a very simplistic game with not many assets so it should be fine.

I'm worried for Marshall Law now. He and Paul Pheonix are iconic Tekken characters and partners so this would be sad if Namco had to remove Law for good.

@westman98
Um, okay? If you like her, that's fine. I simply don't. Daisy is better in my opinion.

@sanderev
How so? In Mario Sports games, everyone has their own unique stats. Daisy never has the same stats as Peach in these games. I'm talking in terms of personality. Peach and Rosalina are both quiet and reserved whereas Daisy is loud and confident.

I hope Daisy is in this game. I don't like Rosalina. I find her way too similar to Peach, so I hope that she hasn't replaced my favorite loud, tomboy princess.

As a person who spent 700+ hours in Splatoon 2 (but eventually got bored of it), this is nice to know since the Tri-Slosher was my favorite. But so far, I'm not really all that excited yet since what we've been shown so far is more of the same. Here's hoping they show off some new modes and gameplay mechanics soon.

@Snatcher @VoidofLight
It's not a bad thing in the slightest because Xenoblade 2 has sold 2 million copies and is currently the best selling Xenoblade game (and best selling "Xeno" game as a whole).

While it's not perfect, characters like Jin, Zeke, Nia, and Malos made this game for me. I genuinely cried when I went back to rewatch the cutscenes. Pyra and Mythra also brought out my feels near the very end for spoiler reasons.

This headline is just here to stir things among people who don't wanna admit that Lanz and Taion are hotties lmao.

This comment section is why the series continues to sell millions. People will buy it just to see beautiful men and women while constantly denying it on social media. Come for the anime people, stay for the emotional storytelling.

@Not_Soos
To be fair, we'd need some seriously advanced technology to keep Wario's thicc body from clipping through things. I doubt even the PS5 could handle his perfect form!

I can't contain my excitement for this game. It looks like it'll be combining the best attributes of 1 (story direction), X (world design), and 2 (expressive character models) into one perfect package. This really is the culmination of years of work and I'm so happy to see this IP continue.

@Arkay
>"This game wasn't serious enough"
>"I didn't play past the first few hours"

That's the problem. You didn't play past the first few hours and are judging the entire game based on that alone. I recommend at least watching the cutscenes on Youtube because XC2 gets very dark--darker than XC1 at some points as the story goes on. You can't judge the whole story off of the opening alone.

As I said, Nia and Jin have really dark and troubled backgrounds but you wouldn't know that since you didn't play past a certain point. The game is plenty serious.

@Arkay
2 had loads of death, betrayal, and the consumption of human organs. Jin's backstory was really tragic as was Nia's. That wasn't serious enough for you?

@Varkster
SMT 4 sold 600k in TWO YEARS to be precise.

SMT 5 has sold 1 million copies in under six months.

Nearly doubled the sales of its predecessor in a quarter of the time. I don't think people realize how impressive this is.

@Airzeh
Heck, even racing through the Sahara or somewhere like the pyramids in Egypt would be great. Given the amount of desert courses in the series, I'm kind of shocked they don't have a Cairo map that takes us through the city and into the pyramids right next to it.

Though to be fair, aren't Asian people considered "POC"? (Which are the primary people who work at Nintendo--a Japanese company.)

@MisterLizard
To each their own I guess. I loved spending time in the Dining Hall.

@Tao
I like the mechanic because you have to prioritize what characters like to eat, leading to a wide variety of food choices you'll be picking from since every character has their own likes and dislikes. The dialogue when they sit down to eat often helps add to their characterization especially if you put together two characters with special dialogue.

So yes. It's more than just pressing two buttons.

Glad to see eating is still a thing here--loved that mechanic in Three Houses. Though from the look of the screenshot, it seems that we're playing as the guy with the purple hair. I wonder what significance he has to the story and lore of Fodlan.

@UltimateOtaku91
Yeah while Xenoblade isn't a big hitter like Zelda or Pokemon, the fact that it's coming out close to the holidays like Xenoblade 2 did (December 1, 2017) shows just how far it's come as a franchise. It went from being relatively unknown a decade ago and now it's selling millions per entry.

But yeah, Zelda being pushed back gives them extra time for those that like that game. I'm just concerned about Splat 3 offering enough new stuff to justify buying it when I've already played Splat 2 to death (and got bored of it).

@UltimateOtaku91
The new Pokemon gen is out at the end of this year. That's the holiday 2022 game.

@VoidofLight
It's funny because that's what a lot of people said about 2. A lot of people were calling Splatoon 2, "Splatoon 1.5" and saying that it just felt like an expansion to the original plopped on Switch.

With this releasing on the same console as 2 though, it needs to do a good job of making itself different from 2 as people simply won't buy it if it's not worth it. Nobody wants "Splatoon 2.5" on the exact same system as 2, but we'll have to wait and see if that's how it turns out.

@Varkster
I think it was a "WTF?" sort of thing from his perspective since he probably had no clue why the character would say this. In the original Xenoblade, Shulk actually says, "Alright I'm feeling it."

"I'm really feeling it!" is a line he specifically gave for Smash so he probably didn't get it right away since Shulk was added to Smash 4 about 8 years ago now and those lines were reused for Ultimate.

Regardless, it's super cool that he played along and gave us that reference. Xenoblade sure has come a long way from being unknown outside of Japan.

Xenoblade was completely unknown outside of Japan in 2010 but is so popular now that it has multiple sequels and is being referenced by official Star Wars media in 2022. Let that sink in.

@IronMan30
It is. That's Shulk's actual voice actor who was given that exact line for that exact reason. https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_Chronicles/comments/tws4fs/comment/i3h3fwa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Am I the only one that doesn't mind the new characters over the Miis? People claim they look like "soulles Xbox avatars" but they really remind me of a hybrid between Inklings and Animal Crossing villagers. Plus, the customization options for clothes give them much more visual variety than the Miis.

I dunno. I get why everyone misses them, but the era of Miis and their reign is over due to the Wii U's failure. They're still usable in game at least. But I for one, welcome the Sportsmates.

@vio
Paladins has crashing issues.
I have Apex Legends, but this is a BR game.
I do have Overwatch but like Paladins, it's a hero shooter.
I've heard Warface is rather low-quality.

I'm looking for a more grounded, high-quality, team-based TDM style shooter which is something that only COD can satisfy.

Still waiting for them to give us the Pac-Man World trilogy...

This better include all of the DLC they released for it. If so, I'm def interested. Say what you want about Activision as a company, but COD is still the king of FPS gameplay for the most part and lacking a game like this on the Switch is super glaring. Outside of Overwatch, there really isn't any other team-based military FPS game on this system so I'd be willing to play this. I played COD4, BO1 and MW3 on Wii and BO2 and Ghosts on Wii U. Had fun with all of them.

@Jmjfrank
To be fair, Toad Circuit is no different from how it was in Mario Kart 7. It serves as the "tutorial" track as the first course of the Mushroom Cup in that game similarly to GCN's Luigi Circuit, DS' Figure-8 Circuit, Wii's Luigi Circuit, and 8's Mario Kart Stadium.

Imo it's a track that serves its role as a more casual, down-to-earth, "driving" level that the game somewhat needs since 80% of the tracks are insanity.

@Anti-Matter
To be fair, this is the first 8 of 48 new tracks. 40 more are on the way and I'm sure some of them will use anti-grav since that's what's featured on the pass' promotional material here:

https://assets.nintendo.com/image/upload/c_fill,dpr_1.0,f_auto,q_auto,w_600/b_transparent/v1/ncom/en_US/dlc/switch-dlc/mario-kart-8-deluxe-dlc/bundles/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass/image

@Bizzyb
Right? It's basically the Smash DLC but for Mario Kart.

@Silly_G
To be honest, I think they're doing this as a way to give the MK team more time to make a brand new game for the next console. If you look at it that way, it's not that bad. Plus, these tracks could easily appear in the next game's launch roster which is how the series has always been anyway.

They brought all of this onto themselves. Don't release money-hungry business models in a retail-priced game next time. The sad part is that a lot of people say that it's actually fun to play, but ultimately, no one is gonna wanna play something with such an awful set of monetary mechanics surrounding it.

Should've been good at launch. No one will be playing when the game is suddenly good in 4-5 years--assuming it even survives for that long.

@NinjaWaddleDee
Unfortunately, characters don't make much of a difference in a kart racer as they'll play the exact same. Diddy Kong would be another Bowser Jr., and Funky Kong would be another Donkey Kong--they would all have the exact same stats so there's little point. As much as I would like to have them, you can see why they're focusing primarily on tracks and not characters. Tracks are what adds value to this type of game because that's new gameplay whereas characters don't offer new gameplay.

As I said before. Game is trash and deserves the criticism. Shame because it could've been great.

@m0i
Jmaster49

Hope you have fun with me out there!

@PBandSmelly
You won't have to worry for much longer. Bobby Kotick and the people who were being abusive within the company are being kicked out once the merge is complete. You can now enjoy Blizzard games morally again.

@PapaTauren
You're not the only one. It literally feels like any generic mobile title with F2P screens everywhere except you have to pay 50 dollars just to get in. Fortnite has more respect for itself and its players than this.

So long as they start improving how they handle things from now on, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Overwatch is my most-played game on Switch with about 2300 hours logged. I want to see this game improve because it's fun and I love playing it with my friends.

@anoyonmus
At the very least, it's F2P. You'd think they'd have partnered up and just make a Kingdom Hearts racer instead...

@RupeeClock
Ah, I looked and have updated my post accordingly.

Even still, it's a very slippery slope. Who's to say that someone else won't adopt this idea in the future now? And as you said, people who don't spend extra are now pressured even greater...on a FIFTY DOLLAR GAME.

@Yosher
If it was simply a F2P game, then I'd be perfectly fine with this. But the fact that they have the gall to charge 50 dollars up front and then dare to ask for more money afterwards is borderline criminal when other products on the Switch (Mario Kart, CTR) offer a better experience.

@Degenerate_Mii
If you want to spend money on this game, go ahead. I'm simply informing everyone of the awful nature that this game holds in store. A nearly-full priced game with paid currency and free currency that EXPIRES is inexcusable by any standards.

https://twitter.com/TangoBun/status/1501898430284656643?s=20&t=uUYzRrJR9Vx8YzCUMlLYWQ
https://twitter.com/Terotrous/status/1501825712767922177?s=20&t=uUYzRrJR9Vx8YzCUMlLYWQ

Stay away from this game, everyone. It's a nearly full-priced title with F2P nonsense like Battle Passes and currency. What's more, is that the currency you get for free expires after a certain period of time, forcing you to use it within a certain amount of time or it disappears forever--literally stealing time from you. Something no other game on the market does. I'm fine with in-game purchases if a game is free--but Mario Kart Tour this isn't.

I know NL gave it a positive review, but now that the game is out and these awful mechanics have been uncovered, I don't think you should bother with this. Get the MK8DX DLC instead--it's a whole game's worth of tracks for half the price of this atrocity.

Really excited for this. I love MLP FIM and liked Fighting Is Magic, so it's nice to see the game that it inspired come to the Switch if this is true.

I'm still kinda salty that the characters featured in the original ad are nowhere to be found in the game. Princess Charm was a great idea that was wasted on a short ad. Besides that, a mashup of different video game characters/styles (FPS soldier guy, orc guy, sci-fi chick, and pixel princess) would've been sick.