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@Andy_Witmyer If you choose to skip games because they choose to acknowledge that other people play too, not just you, have at it. Nobody is going to sympathize with somebody complaining that people look different.

Well, nobody worthwhile.

Here's what I don't understand about what @Abeedo and the majority of people here don't understand. When you own IP, you alone get to determine how it is used. Full stop. If some use of it doesn't harm you, it doesn't matter. If some use of it doesn't profit, it doesn't matter. Fair use situations like legitimate reporting and satire aside, the owner of IP has full and exclusive control of it, and they need not justify how they choose to do so.

Moreover, it takes all of two moments to find reasons why standard apologist arguments fail. "Will consumers really be confused?" Yes. One major problem Nintendo had in marketing the Wii U was how many people thought it was just a peripheral for the Wii and didn't realize it was an entirely new console. "Why is Nintendo bothering? It's such an old game." When they took down AM2R they were developing Samus Returns for 3DS. "Will it really cost them any sales?" In the case of AM2R again, search comment threads at this very site. You'll find plenty of people showing the same proud disdain for Nintendo you get from its fans that you're seeing in this very thread right now proclaiming that they decided to just get AM2R instead, because it was free, to stick it to Nintendo, for a number of reasons, all resulting in lost sales.

So if you don't understand? That's entirely on you. Nintendo is not responsible for educating you, and they certainly aren't required to offer their IP to you.

@Agramonte Thanks for the financial advice. I will give it the due consideration that your earlier financial advice tells me it warrants.

@Moonlessky Development is too difficult for anybody to be lazy, but don't let that stop you from having a hot take.

I swear it boggles my mind how much Nintendo fans hate Nintendo.

I loved Shattered Memories--until I got lost and discovered during the chase sequences so often that all horror was lost and replaced by tedium. It sort of became Shattered Atmosphere after that.

@Zeldafan79 But video game development takes too long for anything but the most slapdash Steam asset flip to appear for sale before the game being copied does. If we get a wave of cyberpunk games in 2022 then maybe your claim will be true, but there's no way this wasn't independently conceived.

@RainbowGazelle The concept of good doesn't really apply, because that's not why you play them. They're JRPG comfort food. They're what you play when all you want is to evoke nostalgia for the 16 bit games you used to play and still love, but don't want to expend much energy, don't feel like playing Final Fantasy for the 30th time, and certainly don't feel like tracking down a CRT to connect your SNES to. If you love those games so much that you find outmoded game design endearing and don't question the need to grind, just instinctively doing it instead, you'll enjoy these games, and all it will cost you is a few bucks and a few hours. They're not very good, but for a certain type of fan that doesn't stop them from being great.

Do I get to institute mandatory 100 hour work weeks during crunch? If not, no buy.

I bought the Prinny games physically; about a half dozen of the games seem interesting, but given the 100s of Switch games I already own (that's an exaggeration, but the number rounds to 200 so it's technically true) they're don't stand out as much as games did when my backlog was smaller, so I'll be passing for now. At least the install base is large enough that there's still plenty of audience for them to find.

As a general rule I am a fan of [six letter word] Knight, so I will certainly check this out.

I'm just going to assume that this thread is already loaded with comments from [redacted] who don't understand the difference between censorship and localization and that more are on the way. Not in the mood to be ignored, insulted, or preached to by the ignorant today.

@Agramonte What's sad is that you apparently believe that your interests are some sort of litmus test for worth. They're not.

@Big_Fudge Those people know the difference between the world burning and cheating at a [redacted] video game. They're not settling for the latter.

WRT Animal Crossing Musou: Yes, NintendoLife, you are.

@NinChocolate Nintendo doesn't tout anything. People wishing to spin an anti-Nintendo narrative tout that they tout such things. It's similar to how people wishing to spin an anti-Nintendo narrative will take a topic and immediately segue into an unrelated topic.

I'm not surprised you did both. Nobody hates Nintendo like its fans.

@WiltonRoots Mea culpa.

I'll get Quell eventually because I like that kind of puzzle game, but otherwise just 35 (as all the cool kids are calling it) for me, and isn't my wallet thankful that a week with games that aren't for me has come.

@Speedbird100 My guess too. And my hope, honestly, along with Travis and Shantae and anybody but Waluigi.

@HotGoomba That is 64 Marios too many. And as I did that calculation I realized what a remarkable coincidence that was.

Normal Nintendo fan: [speculates on who is coming to Smash]

Nintendo fan like @Agramonte: [tells us he's going to play games on a different system for the 437th day in a row]

@impurekind If you honestly believe that 99% of claims are utter garbage, then my days of not taking you seriously are coming to a middle.

@COVIDberry Be disgusted all you want; I'm not concerned with the opinion of someone who gets offended that victims might be believed.

@MrGawain That sentiment would be all well and good if it weren't so often used to protect abusers by absurdly insisting upon legal thresholds for all judgment, whether legal or not. This is a comment thread of people who can have no consequence for Mr. Ancel; we are allowed to conclude where there might be fire.

The word is "pantsu".

I'll do my best to get them, but won't sweat it if I can't.

Good for her for getting the gig, but does a game that never stays in stock really need an ambassador?

Embracelet for me. Lost Ember looks good but I'm not a fan of the $30 price point for 5 hour games; I understand going from $20 to $25 as production values improve across the board, but 20% more on top of that is a bit much. And I'll look for reviews of Selfy Collection because Style Savvy is a wildly underrated game that I'm still waiting for on the Switch, but I'll be honest, I'm not too hopeful I'll find anything other than shovelware.

I've been a supporter of Travis, Shantae, and anybody but Waluigi for Smash since before they announced Joker, so I'm still hopeful.

@asmi8803 In my experience people who assert that people should care for each other as often as you have really mean that other people should do things for them as often as they want. Sometimes being told no is a sign that the question is unreasonable, not the answer.

@GrahamRanson I get listening to a full album instead of what is essentially a radio station, just not via an inferior sonic medium.

I don't get the modern fascination with vinyl--there's a reason both LPs and cassettes died off once CDs hit--but to each their own, I guess.

@JaxonH Not sure I'd want a Mary Magdalene amiibo...

Since I don't own any of those systems, nor support piracy in any form (except for a handful that I totally feel are slightly less unjustifiable) I won't be forgetting about the Switch version any time soon. Remembering will require FedEx to not eff up my delivery, so I'm not hopeful, but that's a different issue.

@Agramonte You have made a number of excellent points that I am excited to ponder.

@Eddy9000 Well, I was letting NintendoLife know that they're undermining their own credibility, doing a large disservice to games they underreview by costing them sales and audience, and even doing a disservice to games they review well by contributing to their dismissal in a crying wolf sort of way, but sure, we'll go with I'm a grump.

Well, since I just finished Summer in Mara, which is nowhere close to the 3 this outlet awarded it, to name just the latest example, I have exactly zero faith in the accuracy of this score, so I'll stick with my general disinterest in roguelikes, roguelites, roguelooks, roguelifes, roguelochs, and whatever other subgenres people insist on recognizing nowadays.

@Agramonte All of 2020 is a sign of Nintendo continuing their policy of not abusing their developers in the form of crunch. But by all means have an ignorance-laden hot take so you can tell yourself that you've shown all of these fans how cool you are.

@RPGamer So are there any games that you /do/ like? Also I don't believe that you're sorry for insulting this game.

@Tourtus And you ought to consider the implications of what you're saying before giving @TheFrenchiestFry or anybody else advice on how to comment. Do you really think Ancel would say, yeah, Beyond Good and Evil 2 was struggling before and now without his involvement is guaranteed to die so sorry everyone? Even if it were true? My first instinct was that it was essentially canceled, I read the entire article all the way through, and that little bit of attempted reassurance at the end did nothing to contradict that instinct but confirmed only that Ancient isn't burning bridges as he departs, and nothing about the games themselves.

@Wexter It certainly feels that way, doesn't it? In Japan, at least, some--not much, but some--of the momentum the PS5 picked up yesterday will be lost now that they know it won't let them play Monster Hunter on the train.

Not the most interesting Final Fantasy news of the day...

@Tommy-and-Timmy Monetization techniques and touchscreen gameplay design are completely separate issues, and anybody confusing the two is certain to draw faulty conclusions about mobile gaming.

@NEStalgia Always good to be reminded that bigotry is acceptable when the target is a rich white western nation. Puts me in the mood for limes and sauerkraut.

@scully1888 The entirety of the article is mockery, and please don't insult your readers' intelligence by claiming otherwise. The purpose of bringing this game to their attention when they are not only obviously not the target audience but unlikely to even encounter it, let alone buy it, can only be to put low quality on display to achieve a reaction. It's like making sure that your buddy sees the ugly woman at the bar and then claiming innocence of whatever follows.

To paraphrase my earlier analysis, it's a click move.

@LilMuku You must be in your 20s. That'll change.

@Twinsen It's currently downloading.

@Judgedean I doubt the Captain is too concerned about the opinions of someone whose forensics skills involve repeating the same attempted insult.

Always down for a good arcade racer, and I'm certainly always down for new gameplay mechanics, so I'm definitely giving this a go.

@Anguspuss Surprised it took three comments before somebody mentioned SJW boogeymen.

@Blooper987 The 2000s is modern. Not current, perhaps, but definitely modern.