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I will buy it, but not for me. For the target audience, my 7 year old niece.

They say you can't please everyone, and right now all of those people are complaining about this on Twitter.

They added stuff to a subscription service you probably already have, for no extra cost. Appreciate something.

@axelhander Sounds like someone just learned a new word and wants to shoehorn it into every sentence. Are you really that weirded out that some people don't like staring at art of half-naked children?

Between this, Jagged Alliance, and Lamplighter's League, I'm starting to think game developers forgot how to make tactics games. Looks like I'll be sticking to Into the Breach for a while.

On your next playthrough, get autobuild with a flying craft of some type (air bike is fine) before you try the fire temple and it turns into a walk in the park.

Well well well, would you look at that.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/embracer-open-to-divesting-studios-confirms-more-closures-on-the-horizon

This is what happens when a bunch of suits in a boardroom take the decisions away from those of us on the ground and start steering the company toward "unchecked growth and profitability." The quality, the consistency, the very SOUL of the product dies in darkness and you're left with lukewarm onion soup. Then when the company inevitably pays the price for poor quality, they'll blame the people who pulled 60-hour weeks to meet their ridiculous deadlines with no support and start another round of layoffs while they keep their million dollar bonuses. The real Myth(force) here is that anyone in C-suite is capable of doing anything other than giving empty pep talks and wearing expensive clothes.

This is not shovelware, it's a long-running highly respected series with some truly amazing gameplay....if you play it on PC. I honestly don't know why they would even attempt to port this series to Switch. The mods really make this game fun, and the graphics/physics are top notch to keep it engrossing for hours. Clearly you're not going to get either of those from this aging hardware. In the real version, you generally don't even hire AI farmhands until you have too many fields to tend yourself. It's all about being hands-on, even doing manual contract work for other farmers.

Woof that looks like hot garbage. I get maybe some people will be in to this and more power to you, but that art style would be enough to keep me away if it were free.

Nostalgiacore. When you like a thing because it reminds you of something else you liked 30 years ago. Remember how games used to have really bad controls and graphics? Well this one does too, but it's okay because we did it on purpose!

This console is still capable of running good games. It deserves better than this.

GameStop has a lot of pre-owned copies for a lot less than $50. I just picked this up for $10. Never played a game from this series but I knew about it and couldn't pass up that price.

Great time to grab Neon White if you haven't already.

I think the arc of No Man's Sky might have convinced developers to gut their QA teams and just promise patches down the line. Lot of games started coming out "early access" which is just fancy speak for "unfinished but you pay us anyway and then do work for free." Now they've become so brazen they don't even bother trying to hide it. The difference is NMS actually has a devoted dev who did everything to make it right, whereas these other games will only get support as long as the profit margins are wide enough.

So far only two of the games have survived on my Switch for more than ten minutes. Graviter is kinda fun but there are about 300 identical flash games available for free. Star Horizon was the best in terms of production value, but is ultimately a very poor Starfox 64 clone with janky controls. If they thought this would be a great advertisement for their brand, they've wildly missed the mark. I have to think the only point to this is to boost their eShop visibility in the hopes that some poor sucker might actually pay for one of these non-games.

Just being on this list means your game is better than about 98% of the stuff on the eShop. At least 7 people actually played your game and thought it worthy of a review. I hope the devs keep this in mind and take the criticism in stride. I have a feeling at least part of Xel's poor rating was based on expectations that were too high

This feels right up my alley. Loved Into the Breach, and the roguelike element is a plus too. I'd much rather have to start over with new upgrades than permanently lose a character I've spent hours developing. Hope the price is right.

@Anachronism
Thanks, hopefully that's the case although it does not bode well for them that they repeated the same mistake they had a year to fix.

Has anyone actually been able to redeem a Pirates key? I'm going on 8 hours now with no communication from them. I'm starting to believe this is nothing more than a scam to get people to pay for something they didn't want just to get other games they don't want.

It has now been five hours since I signed up for their newsletter and no key for Pirates. I emailed them with a screenshot of the confirmation about an hour ago and no response. Looks like I'm going to miss out on this due to poor email management. Disappointed to say the least.

After Into the Breach, I have a really hard time going back to RNG-based tactics games. The name itself is an oxymoron, there's not much tactical thought to rolling a dice and hoping for the best. The game is 20 years old so I can't fault it, but if you're putting it up against all the other games released since then I absolutely think a 5 is fair.

Seeing so many people love this game, I decided to try to find out why I hated the combat so much and I think I found the answer. It FEELS like it should be an action RPG, but if you go in expecting that you're going to be disappointed. A better way to look at it is as a classic turn-based JRPG with an ATB system. Positioning is usually just for show (with a few exceptions) so that "button mashing" is just you turbo spamming a button so that when your turn arrives you're selecting "attack" as fast as possible. It still doesn't feel great but it's a lot better than hoping for DMC combos and being disappointed.

The combat is painfully boring and repetitive, essentially just button mashing until your skill(s) come off cool-down. The art design is great and I stopped caring about the muddy textures but every aspect of this game - dungeons, farming, social - feels more like a minigame than a cohesive part of the universe. Had this been an indie developer I'd be impressed with the big swings, but being a Square game I'm incredibly disappointed at how half-baked everything seems. Even the dialogue is stilted and unnatural, found myself rolling my eyes a lot. There are some good things about this game but nowhere near enough to justify $60.

This was so cool, I did not know any of these except the hidden chest. I'm so glad my favorite games journalist works for my favorite outfit. I get to learn phrases like "Nominative determinism."

AI already took over drug, antibody, and protein discovery and nobody cares. But let a computer paint something and suddenly it's a problem? This is just people suddenly realizing how special they aren't.

It's a video game based on a B-list franchise for little kids. I will never understand why YAs think everything they hold dear should grow with them. There's a new generation of little kids, let them enjoy the thing. Develop some new adult tastes if you don't like it.

This game is excellent. The level designs are extremely well done and it really does incentivise you to play each of them multiple times. Failure never feels unfair and it takes seconds to get back in the action for one more try. The social aspect is actually rewarding too, you can unlock new levels by increasing your bond with each other neon. It isn't punishingly difficult but definitely requires your full attention. I love it, well worth the purchase price.

I've been waiting for this review for so long now, super excited to see the game came out so well. Will add this to the (long) list of things to buy eventually.

Episode 254 of "The Besties" podcast has a good explainer of why, from a journalist's standpoint, the event had already taken a hard downturn years prior to cancellation and many outlets were just flat out considering not wasting the money to attend. Im not sure bringing it back would ever be a good idea without some major changes at this point.

I usually hate articles that are just "Look at these 50 Twitter posts I saw! Journalism!" But I do appreciate there was some actual research and background with this one. Gives it much needed context. Little guy is pretty darn cute.

I'm still torn on this. The concept seems unique and fun, but the worlds just look so sparse and lifeless. Maybe that won't matter when you're running full speed through them but the videos kinda look like upscaled PS3. I'll have to wait and see.

Beautiful art on this one. Looks maybe a bit like a re-skinned Ori but those games are great too. Going on the wish list.

Remember, you played Wii sports almost 20 years ago. You were 20 years younger and dumber. You probably had friends that came over to play. This game is great fun in its own right but you're not going to recapture the memory of being a teenager playing games with friends by being a 30-something playing online with strangers. Rating this game lower because it didn't live up to your nostalgia isn't really fair.

I can almost guarantee the only people truly upset by this are parents. As usual. Their kids don't care, nobody else cares. And yet, here's a group of parents screaming to the sky about their precious perfect child being exposed to no-no words when we all know damn well they hear much worse at school from other kids. Most adults can get over tiny inconveniences and move on with their lives, I don't know why people lose that ability when they have children.

Little confused as to the addition of Tingle's Ruppee Disaster in this list, since your own rules state "no Japan only" and yet sales figures are only available for Japan. Similarly, new Kirby not being included but Arceus going up there is a bit misleading. You don't really have sales numbers for Arceus yet either if we're being honest.

That being said I'm blown away that the best selling Kirby game is a Gameboy title. I was sure it would be an SNES game, but apparently I was wrong. Great list!

I'm glad this studio was able to hit their goals, but with approximately 492,097 16-bit retro Jrpgs on the Switch market Im a little confused as to why they keep coming out with more.

Three absolute bangers, I did not expect to wake up and see this. Nintendo just planned my weekend for me.

If they had just billed it as an "action-adventure roguelike platformer" and skinned it to literally anything except Mario, this could be top of the Switch charts.

Y'all know Deviant Art is a free website, yeah? No idea why people pay for these games.

Nice twist on the "damsel in distress" trope. Mansel in mistress? I'll see myself out.

Have been crossing my fingers for months hoping the Switch version wasn't a mess. I guess I should have trusted my instinct.

That's really unfortunate, I liked this game alot and was ready to buy it again. If you have a PC, definitely recommend this one. My laptop is a complete potato and it still runs fine, sunk most of 2020 into this game.

By the time I was done playing and decided to "beat" it, the final two fights were little more than a cinematic to wrap up a little plot. It was sure cool to see a huge Gannon out in the field, but it wasn't exactly a sense of accomplishment. I think I really "beat" it when climbing and fighting Lionels became easy. The rest was just plot.

I just can't see buying this on Switch. I stream it on Discord since many of my friends live in other places and that's the best way to get a full room. If you could stream on Twitch then maybe it would make sense, but without the ability to stream I just can't see playing it that often.

I'm sure there's some kind of hardware that would let me stream Switch games but why buy something extra when it's already built into another platform?

I remember the first game pretty fondly. I got sucked into it and after a while I started looking at the real world the way I looked at the game world. "Okay I can climb that fence and then hop over to that wall and then use that rope to..." etc. I'm sure it doesnt hold up as well in 2022 but I'm glad these ports at least aren't Cyberpunk-level disappointments.

Me watching the trailer: "This doesn't seem that bad, what's the big de..."
Trailer gets to "Punish the Princess."
Me:"Oooohhh okay I get it, Jesus."

It isn't that different than every English language movie set in ancient Rome. Plus, I'm okay accepting all the swordplay in a universe that has laser guns. Why would the accents be a sticking point?

That's an awful fancy way to say "doll."