A tedious, boring, repetitive grind? So it IS just like Monster Hunter after all! Seriously, MH is a terrible franchise for all the same reasons that this game here only gets a 6/10, yet every "new" MH gets praised to no end.
@Shiryu I highly doubt that Exe made these games and then looked for a publisher. It is way more likely that Kemco requested Exe to make auch a game...how else do you explain the literally dozens of extremely similar games all being published by Kemco?
@Dom You know, it really is ironic: You kept emphasizing how you would favor personal analysis of the weekly Japanese sales charts over the (how you would call them) "cold" bare facts. Yet, these weekly download news are the epitomy of soullessness as you honestly just repeat and quote PR babbling. It is extremely hard to stick with these texts as they are so blatantly promotional. What once had been my favorite news of the week is now barely acceptable. I mean, just look at the Fe text: A new kind of platformer? Because it doesn't tell you its story? That is just stupid.
@warp3d And they didn't mention the fact it was raining on the day development for these games started! Nobody cares. It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the games. Take your politics out of gaming. Thank you.
Is this review a joke? The abundance of typos and bad grammar are basically to be expected by now, but the length is just ridiculous. What I take away is: It apes Windjammer and nobody knows whether the community will stick around. Honestly: Nobody would need a review for that.
"at least we now know which studio is bringing Samus back to the FPS party."
The MP Series are no FPS games. They are action-adventures that just happen to be displayed in first person. God, this site is sickening me more and more by the day.
@BAN You complete miss both FatAlbert11's point and the numbers. MHW isn't merely selling more than those old Switch games this week. It has nearly surpassed all of those games' life time sales! Within a mere two weeks.
@Tingel Better things to do with €19? Yeah, I guess you could buy an English learning book instead of complaining about this game not being in German. Also, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The game is already more than a year old and after a slow start, appreciation for the game just slowly started to rise, steadily growing from there. This is no recently hyped shovelware. It's a genuinely great game...but seeing your post, I'd say it just goes straight over your head.
@rosemo Probably also because it wasn't rated particularly highly back then. If memory serves, only nlife reviewed it and they only gave it a 5. And since it was just another TD game, nobody took notice.
@OorWullie Touch controls? You do realize that this is no endless runner or auto runner, right? It's a platformer. Why would anybody want to play this with touch controls?
@FinalFrog Because if it doesn't, you can simply keep playing a level, rack up points, die, continue, rack up more points infinitely. One can max out the score without any skill, just by patience, thus entirely ruining the whole system. High scores lose all meaning then.
@Lroy PvZ started on PC from where it only got ported to mobile. So if you consider this a "mobile game" then so would e.g. all those Mega Drive games on mobile be "mobile games".
The guy that wrote this review has apparently never played Geometry Wars Galaxies. Pretty much all he applauds for being "new" and "innovative" had already been done there...
I don't get it. This guy appears to have a decent vocabulary. So why can't he be arsed to proof-read his articles at least once? As always, there are tons of stupid typos in this one. At least there is still an editor to proof-read it. Oh, snap.
Jon Cousins needs to be taught the difference between "its" and "it's".
Seriously, just read any of his reviews and you will find this a lot. Among other easily avoidable mistakes.
@Hotfusion Actually, your first comment is rather hard to read, whereas the article is perfectly fine. The headline mentions "Switch demand", not "demand for the Switch console". As such it refers to anything Switch related that Nintendo produces, which also includes software.
@Razer What are you even trying to tell me? Your post consists of three separate points without rhyme or rhythm and I fail to see any "rose tinted glasses" in my post that merely stated that Amazon needs to die. I'd be wearing rose tinted glasses if I'd be gushing about how great something used to be. Instead, I am criticizing a company. Also, (to quote you) "think": You are trying to argue that necessarily a bigger company has to come and kill it off? No, we just need to stop buying there. That is all it takes. Also, "think": You are arguing that in the beginning only bigger shops existed before the smaller indie shops came around? But you just said only bigger shops can follow up on smaller shops. Already killing off your own argumentation within seconds. Also, "think": There were bigger shops before indie shops? So. What is your point? They are/were still better than amazon. So what is your point considering I am criticizing amazon? Also, "think": Amazon fills a need for people? So do other things. Colonizing filled a need for people. Killing fills a need for some people. Sure, these are over-the-top examples, but the point remains: Just because something improves one person's life, it doesn't warrant its bad effects. People buying on amazon are just selfish. Also, if you need to buy online, it doesn't have to be at amazon. This isn't a discussion "online vs brick and mortar". It's a discussion "amazon vs non-amazon".
@Yas From your reply I'd assume you to be quite a lot younger than I am. Your point is merely that amazon makes your life more comfortable? Wow. Amazon is an evil company exploiting both book publishing houses and their own employees. So I gladly buy my stuff on a trip to the city, never buying from them. There is more to this world than you saving a few minutes at other people's cost.
No link to the stikbold review?
And why put the Kirby demo simply under the "3DS shop" label instead of a dedicated separate "demo" label as this site has done for years?
@Eigotaku Thanks. Your reply shows me that not only did you not respect your readers by at least attempting to write a proper review, but also you not respecting my constructive criticism.
By the way: Happy New Year is written in capital letters.
@Eigotaku
"winning his damsels heart" Damsel's
"If a team mate is knocked out, you are able to bring them back" A team mate, but bring THEM back? Bad grammar.
"come in to play" Come INTO play. Your neighbor can come IN TO play.
"more advanced moves such a catching" Such as.
"in the games multiplayer modes" Game's.
"its best to snap the Joy-Con off" It's.
"whomever you're team mate is" Even two mistakes in one! It's WHOEVER here, not whomever, and it's YOUR.
"a la bomb karts" It's à la.
"trying to deplete your opponents beach ball" Opponent's or opponents'.
"allows you to lib rivals crates" Rival crates or the rival's crates or the rivals' crates. You've got three possibilities, yet go for a wrong one.
"but its perfectly possible" It's.
"It's accessible yet deceptively deep twin stick-based mechanics" And now ITS. Are you doing this on purpose?
"Striking a great balance between cooperative and competitive play styles, It's combination of charming presentation and witty retro humour are sure" What the? Why is there a comma right in the sentence? And why is the I in It's capital? And why is it ITS instead of IT'S again?! You're finishing off the review with three mistakes combined into one.
Why doesn't anybody proofread these things?
@impurekind If anything, Nintendo showed foresight by not including such. Why would Nintendo significantly raise the production cost of every single unit for a feature that only a fraction of buyers would make use of? Doesn't make any sense at all. Implementing a cartridge slot has nothing to do with a good business decision. It is just about you wanting something for yourself.
Honestly? The review mentioning Zuma (and not even the original Magnetica), but not Luxor? This game is a straight clone of Luxor. Not of Zuma. What do reviewers these days even know?
@daveisbored Thank you for the review. It's rare to see one on here that goes into such detail covering the differences between different versions of a game. Something usually severely lacking here at NLife.
"These fights entertain with plenty of hoping between planes"
So...what are you hoping for? Or maybe you meant hopping? I'm seriously fed up with how every single review on this site as of late is full of mistakes auch as this.
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Re: Review: Mercenary Kings Reloaded (Switch eShop)
A tedious, boring, repetitive grind?
So it IS just like Monster Hunter after all!
Seriously, MH is a terrible franchise for all the same reasons that this game here only gets a 6/10, yet every "new" MH gets praised to no end.
Re: Review: Dragon Sinker (Switch eShop)
@Shiryu I highly doubt that Exe made these games and then looked for a publisher. It is way more likely that Kemco requested Exe to make auch a game...how else do you explain the literally dozens of extremely similar games all being published by Kemco?
Re: Review: Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame (Switch)
@gcunit That's true. You can't rewind in online matches...because there are NO online matches in this game. XD
Re: Review: Lost Sphear (Switch eShop)
@BlackenedHalo Screenshots on Nlife are randomized. There is no way to know what Screenshot you referred to.
Re: Review: Old Man's Journey (Switch eShop)
@JimmySpades It's already been on PC...
Re: Nintendo Download: 15th February (Europe)
@Dom You know, it really is ironic: You kept emphasizing how you would favor personal analysis of the weekly Japanese sales charts over the (how you would call them) "cold" bare facts.
Yet, these weekly download news are the epitomy of soullessness as you honestly just repeat and quote PR babbling. It is extremely hard to stick with these texts as they are so blatantly promotional. What once had been my favorite news of the week is now barely acceptable. I mean, just look at the Fe text: A new kind of platformer? Because it doesn't tell you its story? That is just stupid.
Re: Review: Earth Wars (Switch eShop)
@warp3d And they didn't mention the fact it was raining on the day development for these games started! Nobody cares. It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the games. Take your politics out of gaming. Thank you.
Re: Review: Earth Wars (Switch eShop)
@BulbasaurusRex The review read more like a4 or 5. I have no clue where you felt it sounded overly positive.
Re: Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut Will Slash Its Way Onto The Switch eShop Next Month
That tagline hasn't attracted Anti-Matter yet? Just imagine gifting this game to him...
Re: Review: Disc Jam (Switch eShop)
Is this review a joke? The abundance of typos and bad grammar are basically to be expected by now, but the length is just ridiculous. What I take away is: It apes Windjammer and nobody knows whether the community will stick around. Honestly: Nobody would need a review for that.
Re: Sounds Like Bandai Namco Really Is Working on Metroid Prime 4
"at least we now know which studio is bringing Samus back to the FPS party."
The MP Series are no FPS games. They are action-adventures that just happen to be displayed in first person. God, this site is sickening me more and more by the day.
Re: Indie Dev tinyBuild Is Announcing Six New Switch Games In Live A Stream Tomorrow
reads the title of the news
What's "live a stream"?
Seriously. This has been getting out of hands...for weeks already.
Re: This Week's Japan Charts Show Nintendo With Eight Games In The Top 10
@BAN You complete miss both FatAlbert11's point and the numbers. MHW isn't merely selling more than those old Switch games this week. It has nearly surpassed all of those games' life time sales! Within a mere two weeks.
Re: Review: Night In The Woods (Switch eShop)
@Tingel Better things to do with €19? Yeah, I guess you could buy an English learning book instead of complaining about this game not being in German.
Also, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. The game is already more than a year old and after a slow start, appreciation for the game just slowly started to rise, steadily growing from there. This is no recently hyped shovelware. It's a genuinely great game...but seeing your post, I'd say it just goes straight over your head.
Re: Review: Dandara (Switch eShop)
@SLIGEACH_EIRE What? Please tell me a single issue of this game that a simple patch could possibly fix.
Re: Review: SteamWorld Dig (Switch eShop)
@rosemo Probably also because it wasn't rated particularly highly back then. If memory serves, only nlife reviewed it and they only gave it a 5. And since it was just another TD game, nobody took notice.
Re: Review: SteamWorld Dig (Switch eShop)
@rosemo Beat me to it. ^^
I was going to mention the same thing. Nobody seems to remember that game.
Re: Review: Her Majesty's SPIFFING (Switch eShop)
@derrin You are spot on.
Re: Review: 10 Second Run Returns (Switch eShop)
@OorWullie Touch controls? You do realize that this is no endless runner or auto runner, right? It's a platformer. Why would anybody want to play this with touch controls?
Re: Review: Strikers 1945 II (Switch eShop)
@BigKing I wholeheartedly agree. In the vast cosmos of shmups this had never been anything special
Re: Review: Strikers 1945 II (Switch eShop)
@FinalFrog Because if it doesn't, you can simply keep playing a level, rack up points, die, continue, rack up more points infinitely. One can max out the score without any skill, just by patience, thus entirely ruining the whole system. High scores lose all meaning then.
Re: Review: Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast (Switch eShop)
@Lroy PvZ started on PC from where it only got ported to mobile. So if you consider this a "mobile game" then so would e.g. all those Mega Drive games on mobile be "mobile games".
Re: Review: Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast (Switch eShop)
@Bondi_Surfer I quote "they GET". This clearly implies that they don't start off that badly. Hence a sub-par score. Not that hard to understand.
Re: Review: Tachyon Project (Switch eShop)
The guy that wrote this review has apparently never played Geometry Wars Galaxies. Pretty much all he applauds for being "new" and "innovative" had already been done there...
Re: Review: Celeste (Switch eShop)
"barley visible ledges" Yummy.
I don't get it. This guy appears to have a decent vocabulary. So why can't he be arsed to proof-read his articles at least once? As always, there are tons of stupid typos in this one. At least there is still an editor to proof-read it. Oh, snap.
Re: Review: Baseball Riot (Switch eShop)
Jon Cousins needs to be taught the difference between "its" and "it's".
Seriously, just read any of his reviews and you will find this a lot. Among other easily avoidable mistakes.
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th January (Europe)
@gaga64 It's been on retail shelves ever since November.
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th January (Europe)
@OorWullie Oh Boy. Complaining about typos, but calling them "typo's"?
Re: South Park: Fractured But Whole Coming to Switch on 13th March, says Aussie retail listing
Why is this labeled as news rather than rumour? You do know that this site has such a tag, right?
Re: Nintendo Download: 11th January (Europe)
"Nintendo, €59.99 / £49.99 for pre-orders until 15.03.2018, 23:59 local time Regular price €59.99 / £49.99)"
That doesn't seem right
Re: Zelda, Mario Kart And Xenoblade Selling Like Hot Cakes In Japan As Nintendo Struggles To Meet Switch Demand
@Hotfusion Actually, your first comment is rather hard to read, whereas the article is perfectly fine. The headline mentions "Switch demand", not "demand for the Switch console". As such it refers to anything Switch related that Nintendo produces, which also includes software.
Re: Feature: Rare's Local Game Shop Faces An Uncertain Future, Like Many Indie Retailers
@Razer What are you even trying to tell me? Your post consists of three separate points without rhyme or rhythm and I fail to see any "rose tinted glasses" in my post that merely stated that Amazon needs to die. I'd be wearing rose tinted glasses if I'd be gushing about how great something used to be. Instead, I am criticizing a company. Also, (to quote you) "think": You are trying to argue that necessarily a bigger company has to come and kill it off? No, we just need to stop buying there. That is all it takes. Also, "think": You are arguing that in the beginning only bigger shops existed before the smaller indie shops came around? But you just said only bigger shops can follow up on smaller shops. Already killing off your own argumentation within seconds. Also, "think": There were bigger shops before indie shops? So. What is your point? They are/were still better than amazon. So what is your point considering I am criticizing amazon? Also, "think": Amazon fills a need for people? So do other things. Colonizing filled a need for people. Killing fills a need for some people. Sure, these are over-the-top examples, but the point remains: Just because something improves one person's life, it doesn't warrant its bad effects. People buying on amazon are just selfish. Also, if you need to buy online, it doesn't have to be at amazon. This isn't a discussion "online vs brick and mortar". It's a discussion "amazon vs non-amazon".
@Yas From your reply I'd assume you to be quite a lot younger than I am. Your point is merely that amazon makes your life more comfortable? Wow. Amazon is an evil company exploiting both book publishing houses and their own employees. So I gladly buy my stuff on a trip to the city, never buying from them. There is more to this world than you saving a few minutes at other people's cost.
Re: Feature: Rare's Local Game Shop Faces An Uncertain Future, Like Many Indie Retailers
@JHDK Amazon is the one that needs to die.
Re: Review: The Last Blade (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@TurboTEF Oh, ok, I see. I wasn't aware of that.
Re: Nintendo Download: 4th January (North America)
No link to the stikbold review?
And why put the Kirby demo simply under the "3DS shop" label instead of a dedicated separate "demo" label as this site has done for years?
Re: Soapbox: Let 2018 Be The Year The Third-Party Exclusive Takes Over On Nintendo Switch
"Unique USP"? USP means "unique selling point", so it's a "unique unique selling point"?
Also: " the desire to capatilise on"
Capitalize?
Re: Review: The Last Blade (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@Anti-Matter Oh, ok. I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Re: Review: The Last Blade (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@Anti-Matter Again: What is the difference from bleeding in boxing, which you seem to not mind?
Re: Review: The Last Blade (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@TurboTEF Last Blade is on Steam.
Re: Review: The Last Blade (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@Anti-Matter Boxing also leads to bleeding and serious injuries, so what gives?
Re: Review: Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe (Switch eShop)
@Eigotaku Thanks. Your reply shows me that not only did you not respect your readers by at least attempting to write a proper review, but also you not respecting my constructive criticism.
By the way: Happy New Year is written in capital letters.
@Dom: Thanks for your reply.
Re: Review: Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe (Switch eShop)
@Eigotaku
"winning his damsels heart" Damsel's
"If a team mate is knocked out, you are able to bring them back" A team mate, but bring THEM back? Bad grammar.
"come in to play" Come INTO play. Your neighbor can come IN TO play.
"more advanced moves such a catching" Such as.
"in the games multiplayer modes" Game's.
"its best to snap the Joy-Con off" It's.
"whomever you're team mate is" Even two mistakes in one! It's WHOEVER here, not whomever, and it's YOUR.
"a la bomb karts" It's à la.
"trying to deplete your opponents beach ball" Opponent's or opponents'.
"allows you to lib rivals crates" Rival crates or the rival's crates or the rivals' crates. You've got three possibilities, yet go for a wrong one.
"but its perfectly possible" It's.
"It's accessible yet deceptively deep twin stick-based mechanics" And now ITS. Are you doing this on purpose?
"Striking a great balance between cooperative and competitive play styles, It's combination of charming presentation and witty retro humour are sure" What the? Why is there a comma right in the sentence? And why is the I in It's capital? And why is it ITS instead of IT'S again?! You're finishing off the review with three mistakes combined into one.
Why doesn't anybody proofread these things?
Re: Retro-Bit Announces R-Type Returns For Super Nintendo
@Twitch1 What? Don't you dig "R-Typepe[sic] Returns"?
Also, this is just about the first time I see anybody calling Super R-Type "excellent".
Re: Retro-Bit Announces R-Type Returns For Super Nintendo
@impurekind If anything, Nintendo showed foresight by not including such. Why would Nintendo significantly raise the production cost of every single unit for a feature that only a fraction of buyers would make use of? Doesn't make any sense at all.
Implementing a cartridge slot has nothing to do with a good business decision. It is just about you wanting something for yourself.
Re: Review: Gorogoa (Switch eShop)
@retro_player_22 What Multiplayer are you talking about?
Re: Review: Sparkle Unleashed (Switch eShop)
Honestly? The review mentioning Zuma (and not even the original Magnetica), but not Luxor? This game is a straight clone of Luxor. Not of Zuma.
What do reviewers these days even know?
Re: Review: Mom Hid My Game! (Switch eShop)
@iLikeUrAttitude Only it doesn't suck. Learn to read, man.
Re: Review: Arcade Archives VS. Super Mario Bros. (Switch eShop)
@daveisbored Thank you for the review. It's rare to see one on here that goes into such detail covering the differences between different versions of a game. Something usually severely lacking here at NLife.
Re: Review: Bloody Zombies (Switch eShop)
@Mommar Turtles in Time better than SoR2? Not even close.
Re: Review: Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
"These fights entertain with plenty of hoping between planes"
So...what are you hoping for? Or maybe you meant hopping?
I'm seriously fed up with how every single review on this site as of late is full of mistakes auch as this.