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That's disappointing for a game already disappointing me with it's art style and story. The three houses trio look awful lol

"Summon your favorite fe heroes in this $60 game! Except that one, and this one and her too. You gotta pay more on top of the $60"

@Arawn93 except that's exactly what people were saying about p5 lol

That's not what I'm saying tho, I'm talking about the money they took from ninty to make it timed exclusive which I think was to delay the PC version only as that's what was in the leaks

This game had no business being exclusive in the 1st place. They would've made the bank they took from ninty to make it timed exclusive and then some if they had just made it multiplat from the start like it shouldve been

Breath of the wilds like the last thing I thought of when I saw this

As much as I loved playing through this game, the gameplay for most of the game carried it hard while the last 2 to 3 chapters were carried hard by the story. The start was fantastic, one of the best set ups to a grand adventure I've ever had the pleasure of playing and seeing unfold. But then it's followed by this trope-y rescue arc filled with bad dialogue made even worse by the abysmal voice acting, and lame tactics to one up some of the strongest characters in the story because it's a game so the lowly protagonist still has to win somehow. Who is possibly one of the least likeable jrpg protagonists. And it kinda just keeps going that way, melodrama with characters you barely even met and have no attachment to that would've been enhanced if the torna prologue was explored properly without having to pay for dlc instead of having almost a full chapter dedicated to comically evil nopons and powering up poppi. Despite that the cast of characters still managed to mostly shine, and the villains were pretty great. I liked that they were actually shown trying to accomplish their goals and weren't generic evil organization that insults each other because they're evil even tho they're working together like moebius in xb3

The gameplay through most of that though was just amazing. The locations aside from the awful pixelated blur due to hardware, were gorgeous, diverse and fun to explore. They were full of stuff to find and thats not even mentioning towns which were also like mini dungeons full of hidden pathways and secrets. The landscapes had actual secret areas that were stunning, with superb music playing in the background unlike in XB3. Combat felt more engaging in xb2 with the orbs and chaining them up for massive damage and being able to cancel autos even if it wasn't intended. And while the gacha system is literally worse than an actual gacha game, the blades themselves were cool in that they had their own unique quests, animations and movesets

I'd get into those final chapters where the story finally became good. But I don't want to make an even bigger mountain of text. Tldr happy anniversary XB2, you managed to give me hundreds of wonderful hours

@Arawn93 no they don't like ed sheeran

Nope, the anime never had nicknames if I recall. And Pokemon would cry out syllables of their species names too. And in the games, I don't believe they ever had different names unless you got one from those npc trades I think?. Not even in spin offs like the mystery dungeon games so I just took to calling them their species name like everything else

I've never been good at nicknames anyway so I'm good lol

I'm conflicted about the worst game in one of my favorite series getting nominated for goty lmao

I know the logic behind solving the case wasnt exactly logical but I'm sad Turnabout Big Top didn't even get an honorable mention. It's absolutely been one of my most favorite cases so far. At least, Reunion and Turnabout did make the honorable mention

A lot of the murderers have just been comically evil (not that that's necessarily a bad thing for a series like this) so when these 2 cases introduced mysteries and villains that were just steeped in tragedy, they hit really hard

Those 2 cases alone shot up the 2nd game as my favorite so far. Really hoping the 3ds games have at least 1 case like those 2

Did everything except find all the korok seeds. Im extremely curious how they're gonna handle what looks like the exact same Hyrule cause even if I didn't find all of them, I found a good chunk and the thought of doing the same 8 or 10 mini puzzles x900 all over again doesn't sound fun. Add better quests with better rewards, place optional dungeons, that don't all look and play the same, around the world to discover and have it lead to some awesome (permanent) weapon or some cool armor or something

Haven't played it but I'm 100% certain it'll be more than a 4/10

Of course they're not. One has a bunch of randomly placed rails and platforms all over the place, the other is a barren wasteland

Eventually yea but too many other games to play right now. I hope it turns out to be better than 2 and at least as good as 1

Either an Odyssey 2 with more intricacy to it than
just stomp this hump on the ground for free moon x100 of these types of little puzzles spread throughout the worlds. Way more variety in bosses, those bunnies were the lamest ever. And more challenging platforming levels cause the last level on the dark side of the moon wasn't anywhere near enough nor challenging

Or a new 3d Mario with said improvements. But really the dream wish would be a sequel to Sunshine. That game deserved and still deserves it

As far as I'm concerned there's only one game in this series. So get that man back so we can finally have a Luigi's Mansion sequel

You are asking the impossible picking just one lol.
I know you said you'd pick the 1st one if multiple choices so I'll just go with Engage the Enemy from Xenoblade but I love Where We Used To Be from Xenoblade 2 just as much

So many utterly fantastic songs in those 2 games tho it's so hard to just pick one from them nevermind having to pick from all of nintys 1st party. FE and Zelda also have great soundtracks

How'd you manage to make 10 articles about this movie in like a day

Was really hoping this wouldn't be a port of the censored psp/ps3 version. A damn shame there'll still be no way to experience the 1st game in it's entirety in the west yet

It just looks like a standard illumination movie with a Mario skin on it. That's not a bad thing but unless you love all things illumination or just these tropey 3d movies from your usual dreamworks, pixar, etc. in general, I fail to see how this looks amazing. Definitely the kind of movie you watch with friends and family just cause it's dumb fun from your usual 3d animation studios

Mario still looks uncanny to me with the weirdly rendered head and being a little more expressive than video games ever allowed him to be

Assuming he'd use his Persona style of music, it wouldn't work with Zelda at all. But I'd still rather listen to something like Life Will Change while exploring Hyrule than to hear the awful or rather non existent music that is BotW's ost

Look how they massacred my boy

And yet when they release a Chocobo GP or publish a Balan Wonderworld, people immediately go to paint them as a shell of their former self and how they'll probably go under

They've always been great and that still hasn't changed as far as I can tell. Every company has their duds. But certainly, this stretch of constant releases is pretty insane for any one company. Especially since the vast majority of them look great

How'd this response come about? Did they pester them again with port begging? Cause there's only so many ways they can say they don't think the switch is the right platform for their series before they start making hilariously dumb responses like these

@strollin_stu Doubt itd be bad from a gameplay perspective. Ive never played one with gameplay I actively dislike at least, but I can definitely see the story turning out to be laughable going by the trailer

@strollin_stu lmao I mean yea. And as a result we got three houses which I found to be a big improvement over fates. I guess they just decided to drop the ball this time around over improving further

Terrible character designs, what seems to be integrating past MCs into the story which really only works as gameplay or dlc otherwise you get god awful fan service stories like the FE Warriors stories, and some pretty laughable dialogue?

Sounds like this one's gonna rival FE Fates as one of the worst FEs in terms of story

I liked it if only because it gave me lots of multiplats to look forward to on PS5 lmao. Now if Sony's state of play can deliver at least one more cool announcement, I'm a happy camper for today

In terms of ninty exclusives, I don't like Fire Emblems new art style but I love fire emblem so I feel obligated to play it anyway. Still not much to think about with Zelda when they showed absolutely nothing at all so yea...

If there's one thing to compliment about this game, it's the massive improvement in box art from BotWs NA box art at least

This one was a pleasant surprise. I know curtain call released a little early into XIVs life but I hope it better represents it's music. XIVs music is phenomenal and the 3ds game poorly showed it imo

Lol how'd they managed to show us less than the 1st teaser. I still want to see what exactly they're gonna do different in Hyrule a place I've already explored every nook and canny

I don't know why they got rid of yusuke kozaki, his art is gorgeous and worked extremely well with fire emblem. Since then the art just keeps getting worse

I'd love a new fire emblem right about now. But if the leaked images of the supposed next fe turn out to be true then I don't know how I'd feel about the new art style

Every time I see a clip or screenshot of X, it makes me wanna play it that much more. Out of all the wii u games to port, why can't it be this one...

I really hope the last 2 cases in Trials and Tribulations turn the game around. I've been stuck on case 3 cause none of the cases have been doing it for me. I heard this was one of the best games in the series but personally I liked 2 a lot more particularly cause case 3 in that game genuinely hits like a truck

I'm pretty sure it was the 1st game but I was young so I didn't exactly make a lot of progress in that confusing over world lol. But I loved it anyway and it ended up one of my favorite series of all time and still is. I'm hoping they fix everything that made BotW so disappointing with the sequel as that's seemingly the only Zelda to look forward to within the next decade

@Ralizah maybe so, for some reason the war between keves and agnus just isn't clicking with me like the one in xb1 did. And that's especially disappointing because the worlds of 1 and 2 at war just sounds so good on paper. I'd say 3's conflict feels a little more artificial at the start because they just throw you into it without anything to go on other than the mcs tired of it. It wouldve been nice to have a little more world building cause I feel completely oblivious rn despite knowing some things from the other 2 games, but maybe it'll be like xb2 where it throws explanations left and right towards the end. But I'm still enjoying trekking along for the most part. The characters are getting a little more interesting than their designs let on. I'm invested enough where I absolutely do want to see where this story goes from here. But I think the beginning is a lot weaker overall than both 1 and 2

@Beaucine I have no doubt the story will eventually unveil the mystery surrounding moebius as it goes on. But there's a certain level of mystery a story should have at the beginning where you're kept in the dark from some things to reveal as twists later and still have enough for the you and the characters to have a little understanding of what their goal is and the antagonists why they're pushing back. XB3, I think keeps you way too much in the dark to where the characters' journey can feel sort of aimless. And 3 chapters in still feels like it's not moving closer to the truth. And with 1 and 2... idk they just had perfect starts lol. The way both of those games thrust their fairly regular MCs into their journeys with a clear goal just hit a lot harder and made sense, while still keeping it vague enough to keep the mystery going

@Beaucine I'm not sure if you've played 1 before but it does that villain being self aware thing a whole lot better thru metal face and part of why i think it's not done well in 3 is because, at least 3 chapters in, there's no real explanation given to neither the characters in game nor the players on why they're doing what they're doing despite one of them just randomly showing up to casually tell the group yea we're enemies and attacks them. I'd try to go a little more in depth but I don't know how without spoiling and I'm not even done with the game myself so things could change later on

@Ralizah metal face does cackle yea lol, but he serves an entirely different purpose to the story than these consuls that just show up to display their cockiness and quickly lose right after so far. He is a primary antagonist but in general it's the mechons as a whole that are the antagonists during the beginning

And they're a complete mystery, just these mechanical creatures that terrorize humans and thats pretty much all the players and the characters know about them. They're treated more a force of nature than an actual group of antagonists with a clear goal, in the beginning at least. Through metal face constantly attacking them, it reveals a lot more about the mechons which are genuine shocks to the characters. And he doesn't do it by babbling on like that 1st consul did where he explains they're enemies but doesn't actually explain anything other than that. He does it by acting smug about killing you know who. Showing that mechons can be sentient. He does it by bragging about their death in front of shulk. Showing that some mechons can talk. Ultimately he's a fantastic 1st villain meant to guide the players and characters towards the real objective and his sadistic, bad for the sake of it, nature compliments that unraveling mystery really well

Which is more than I can say for any of the consuls that have appeared thus far. But again, I'm still at ch.3. This only really applies to what I think is the beginning of the story despite being. Maybe the story will pick up soon and the villains actually do something other than literally cackle, say a few generic evil lines and then die/lose right after. Legit I have not seen them do anything else except for that 1st consul guy

Im only at chapter 3 still but considering there's apparently only 7 chapters that's almost about half way, and so far the story has made little to no progress. I don't understand how anyone can prefer a story where the villains just seem to be generic cackling baddies that are bad for the sake of it. Maybe they become more interesting towards the end but XB1 and 2 introduced great villains right from the start

I've only done a few as they're barely starting to open up but they seem pretty standard to me. Hero quests are like the blade quests in 2 where the specified character gets a little sub story and the standard quests are your usual quests which can range from fetching this, kill that but with a little bit of story attached to give you more incentive to do it and sometimes even lead to hidden areas

Not that it's a bad thing, I always enjoyed doing the side quests even in XB1 if only to give me an excuse to go out and take in the views and listen to the amazing ost. And there was just a weird sense of satisfaction seeing your affinity chart in 1 being filled to the brim with lines lol

Xenoblade 3. I'm barely into chapter 3 or at least it feels like it, it's a good game definitely has that Xenoblade-y feel when you're out exploring. But it's easily the weakest game in the series. At least so far anyway. But the start to this story is so generic with it's "war is bad" theme and so aimless as it tries to find any reason it can to bring the two parts of the main group together without explaining anything that's actually going on. Both 1 and 2 gave you the basic gist of whats going on while still keep some mysteries for later reveals perfectly. And the villains, dear lord, did they choose to go with the most cookie cutter villains yet. The main cast is already the most generic yet but would they really throw you some generic villains to fight on top too?

The music is by far my biggest gripe. It's a Xenoblade game, they're supposed to come with a phenomenal soundtrack. What happened? Apart from that, the landscapes aren't anywhere near 2's beautiful titans and don't seem to even hold a candle to 1's. Combat is extremely slow even slower than 1, and the orbs system in 2 was way more fun than the revamped chain attack system. There's a bunch more but honestly I'd be lying if I said I wasn't still enjoying most of my time with it, which is only about 20 hrs so I'm expecting it to get much better later on. So yea looking forward to playing more this weekend lmao

Finally dusted off the switch since who knows how long it's been since I used it. Gonna be playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Still can't believe they ok'd all of these characters designs but I still managed to thoroughly enjoy xb2 despite how awful rex was so I'm sure I'll get thru 3 just fine. Looking forward to see how it all concludes

Skellige did have way too many in comparison to the rest of the world but i still had such a great time going through it especially the quests which is what Witcher 3 is obviously known for excelling in

As for botw, its definitely more empty with a lot less meaningful stuff to do. And the people going botw has you finding things more organically, lol. You'd have to be entranced by the completely redundant and often useless mechanics like "oh you can make winds by burning grass!" "holding a flame sword in the cold makes your temp go down", to not see that exploring by spotting obvious out of the ordinary things like a group of trees in between masses of empty lands, a rock on top of a hill, etc. becomes extremely repetitive itself no different than going through a checklist. Especially when the reward for even doing any of that is utterly meaningless which is one of botw's biggest problems. BotW is literally "See that mountain of there? You can climb it, but there's absolutely nothing there." The "journey" itself wasn't anything rewarding that's for sure and definitely gets repetitive but the reward itself wastes my time too? Geez... But maybe this isn't the place to ramble about how massively overrated botw is lol

@Joker1234 good for you mate. Game itself looks fine to me too. Doesn't change how hilarious the characters look this time around lol

Mayhaps this is an alternate dimension where the characters have horrible fashion sense and wear ugly make up in which case, go back. Please go back

I don't think I want another look at the characters. They're really ugly this time especially the orange scarf dude lol. Its a shame some of those 7th party member heroes have some decent designs but you can only choose 1

The weakest engage the enemy track yet but still sounds really good. And I imagine it'll sound even better with the set pieces it'll be used with. Looking forward to that. Seeing uraya like that hurts tho

Gust and improved graphics? Lmao

@Itachi2099 they will. Trust the Direct plan

@Itachi2099 who are you (and everyone else that might have such a silly mindset) kidding, you know you're gonna lap them up the moment they're announced

Looks good but pretty repetitive tbh. So long as the music is just as good. But too bad you'll still have to run around the whole 100+ hours as those awful character designs