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I will be stunned if anything Mario Maker-related occurs. But hey, I'm just a scorned Mario Maker lover, so take my pessimism with that grain of salt in mind.

It's 11/10 annoying that the consensus for literally the second major exclusive release on a console is "yeah, it's great, but performance isn't there at times." We're several years too soon for this nonsense. I bought a Switch 2 because I was tired of every review of Switch 1 games saying this.

Review bombing only exists because it is the only leverage that paid customers have over companies. The other leverage is a boycott, but you can't really do that once you've purchased the product. I don't think shaming unsatisfied customers for using their only tool is reasonable. If there was something else available for them, that'd be one thing, but there isn't, so we live with the situation we have.

Not to be a downer, but I don't see Melee ever coming to the virtual console. I think Nintendo (and Sakurai) are happy leaving it to rest in its place in history.

@Ramouz Did the 90% setting already, thanks! Will give it a few partial cycles down before it starts collecting dust on the shelf. I appreciate the advice!

@Ramouz Advice on what a generally-docked user should do early on? Should I intentionally spend some time in handheld and drain the charge a few times? Thanks.

@speed_loafer I think if I was laid off I would be insulted to hear "...no way reflect the individuals' performance..."

If I'm not a bad worker, I'm mad about losing my job. Period. At least if I lose it for being bad I can do something about that next time.

I understand that it's just PR-speak nonsense that is simply trying to not give the laid-off workers any bad reputation moving forward, but the bottom line is that I'd be mad hearing it. That said, not ruining my future prospects is the least my now-former employer can do for me. So it's a necessary evil that I'd hate but would also expect as a "courtesy."

@KJW90 Idk why but this cracked me up so much. Thank you for that.

"Zero" chance? Nah. "F-Zero" chance.

Wait, no farming sims??? I thought they were mandatory for Indie Worlds. 😂

Ender Magnolia?!? Put that on the list of "sequels/prequels I never expected to see." But I'm stoked!

Never played the original Epic Mickey, so will be interested in this for the right price. I'm a sucker for Platformers.

Super Monkey Ball is always a good time, and having a full-on new game might make me be willing to get back into the series. Again, for the right price.

Another Crab's Treasure looks wonderful. I'm not sure Switch is the route I'll go, but I think there's a high chance I end up with this one in my collection at some point.

Penny's Big Breakaway is another fabulous-looking game. 100% getting this one.

Pepper Grinder is one I've had on my Steam Wishlist for many months. Happy to see the wait is almost over! Looks neat.

Tales of Kenzera was announced at The Game Awards, right? Thought it looked awesome then. Not really much of a showcase today, but I am very much interested.

So, all in all, 7 games of interest for me is not shabby at all for any Direct. That said, only 3 of those were "breaking news" titles, so that does dampen the impact a bit. Regardless, it's nice to know I have Switch as an option for the others I already was interested in.

@Arawn93 And yet Budweiser spends millions on Super Bowl ads when everyone already knows who they are, too. You can never have too much publicity and good exposure.

@Arawn93 If you consider exposure of how fun your game is to be worthless, then yeah, Nintendo gets nothing. But that just doesn't make sense. Of course it's worth something.

Hydrocity is #1 easily, and Marble Garden is something I'd be fine never playing again. But I clicked the article just to comment about how wrong the article was, so I guess you ultimately win, author.

On the one hand, certain designs are pretty blatant rip offs.

On the other hand, Game Freak themselves ran out of good unique ideas for new creatures YEARS ago, so why would we not expect there to be some level of design overlap?

Why did they have to take my beloved Eastward and change it into a farming sim? 😭

@Not_Soos The money is NOT all accounted for by any means, and (separately) he explicitly lied about "all" of it going directly to charity and not being used to run the events, and then he turned around and used some of the money to offset event costs.

Also, people like the ones you mentioned tend to be attention-seeking and pity-seeking dramatics. "I know, if I publicize going to the hospital, people will feel bad for me and my life will be good again!" It's a very common manipulation tactic. I should know, as someone who struggles with being manipulative. This is the exact type of nonsense I would pull if I was desperate enough.

If people don't feel guilt and remorse, they have no motivation to change. It sucks that people have to carry those things even once they are changed for the better (if they change), but that's just the way humans are wired. Them being able to walk away without any baggage would be ultimately a disservice to the victims who will always have baggage because of what happened to them.

@DiamondCore No, it makes him seem like an insincere tool who doesn't actually give a crap, just like every scripted celebrity "apology" that no one believes.

His only chance was to give a raw, unfiltered apology where he owned up to everything. Him opting for this route shows who he is. It in NO way makes him look better.

@Crono1973 No, the problem was that his response video was complete insincere trash that was written by his defense attorneys and read from a teleprompter.

@LikelySatan Yeah, it's a shame when immoral criminals have to carry around a guilty conscience as a result of their own actions. 🙄

@Thirteen1355 10 people got the joke. You were not one of them.

"Christopher Judge spoke for around minutes in his own acceptance speech."

I mean, it's already her legend. How much more can we really give her?

@Duffman92 And yet even when I do that, somehow people still aren't interested in me. 😭

@NoLife It really is dreadful, huh? It looks like a placeholder.

Very underwhelming overall. 2/10. Most of them I wouldn't play even if they were free.

Strange color choices.

I own an 8BitDo controller (Pro 2), and I love everything about it EXCEPT that it won't wake my Switch, which can be super annoying but is a very momentary grievance. I don't see any reason why I would be rushing out to get another controller, though. I'm not looking to replace what I have, and I can't really think of anything they'd come up with that would change my mind on that. So while I'm sure this is a fantastic product, I don't see any chance of me getting it. I'm not willing to buy an entirely new controller just to avoid the lack of wake functionality with the one I have.

@Drac_Mazoku In this case, their channel has been around for so long that I think they are assuming that if Nintendo was going to intervene, it would've happened by now.

But your logic is sound in a general sense.

Highly amused by half the comments being "ZOMG AMAZING" and the other half being "This rubbish shouldn't even be allowed to be made on the same planet on which Studio Ghibli operates, what a disgrace. Disgusting art, I nearly vomited it is so bad."

I, for one, will be watching on Nov. 21.

I'd never heard of the Impossible Levels pack in NSMB2 until a YTer played through them, and they looked absolutely brutal. So I'm going to go with that.

But the hardest Mario games for me are SMB and SMB:TLL simply because the momentum and acceleration are so infuriatingly horrible. That and damage takes you down to small Mario even if you have a Fire Flower. That alone makes them much less forgiving than the newer games.

Wow, 10 comments and not one complaining about how many Metroidvanias there are nowadays yet. That might be a Nintendo Life record.

I love this.

Not the takedown, but the idea.

@roy130390 Right? It's not like people played Celeste and said "a brutal 2D platformer, just like those Mario games we all know and love."

Super Mombo Quest is lovely. It gets my seal of approval.

So much for "playtesters are getting destroyed" and "difficulty will be on par with SMB3."

@Fizza I want a Keith Silverstein mod for Wonder.

@NatiaAdamo We don't speak of that. 😅

Honestly bummed it isn't the guy who does the voices for Il Dottore and Po, but hey, Genshin is still #reppin

In other news, it has been 1,368 days since Genshin Impact was officially revealed to be coming to the Switch, and while that seems bad on the surface, that's not too bad when you consider that it has been 69,420 days since we got Silksong news.

@Dazman Not every game needs to be something trying to teach you a lesson. The point of gaming is to have fun.

I read on Reddit that Unity has never turned a profit in all of its years of existence. To me, that tells me that taking a commission on every sale of a game that is made using its engine is probably the only way for them to ever actually make money, and I can't blame them for adapting their pricing in order to actually make money.

But every "sale" is very different than every "install," even if only first installs are counted. Add on the lack of transparency in the counting methodology and the ludicrous retroactivity of the policy change, and they took a reasonable idea and made it completely bonkers.

I'm surprised to see very little talk of litigation in the comment thread here. Reddit was filled with talk of it and it seems like that's the most likely outcome here. Nintendo, Disney, Microsoft, and more are all affected by this and won't play nice. I don't see Unity "out-lawyering" that all-star lineup of litigants.

As for player response, boycotting games that devs choose to keep available for sale is nonsensical. Why would you NOT buying a game help a dev in any way? If they have it for sale, that means they believe they are better off if you buy it. So support them by buying it.

lol @ reading comment #5 and then comment #6 immediately after.

I dunno. The whole situation is weird. He says he wants to voice the characters forever. Then suddenly he's not employed to do that anymore. And then the voices in the first post-Martinet game are basically the same. So obviously they don't want a new creative direction. What's the deal then? Just weird.

From the EXCESSIVE hitlag that makes it a stuttery mess, to the horrible generic "edgy" metal trailer music, to the "why?" basketball, to the unnecessary spotlighting of pointless pissing, this was about as repulsive of a trailer as I've seen in a long time.

Huge Hollow Knight guy.
Huge Metroidvania guy.
Huge action platformer guy.

Hated everything about this.

I consider platformers to be my favorite genre, but I really could not get into Rayman Legends. I abandoned it and have never had an itch to pick it back up.

@James1010uk https://gamerant.com/super-mario-bros-wonder-difficulty-tough-insider/

Might get what you (and many others) and looking for.

Some may say "yeah but it's just a rumor." However, I think the fact that there are built-in "easy mode" characters may indicate that the game's standard difficulty necessitated "easy mode" in the first place.

I guess we'll see in a couple of months!

I can't wait to tell my children of my tales of Symphonia. Looks fun!

Marketing art looked great. In-game art very much not my style. Pass.

@Commandervide0 Comparisons paint a vibrant picture much more efficiently than trying to start from scratch.

If you tell me "Kaze and the Wild Masks" is like "Donkey Kong Country," that tells me a lot of information with just two titles and two additional words. What's the problem?

@whitemage Marble Mania was legit. One of the few games my wife and I both enjoy.

When I heard the voice, my immediate impression was that they got a bunch of fresh voice lines and his voice has changed some, or they got a new person altogether. So maybe it's still him, but the sound is definitely different.

I was hopeful when I saw "3D World" that it meant 4 player couch co-op. That's what has given me the overwhelming majority of my 3D World mileage. Hopefully there will be a new title someday that offers that.