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Hell, even if prices continue to climb (historically in gaming, base prices have been stagnant for literally decades and I predict bases of $70 will be very slow to creep further in), there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING stopping consumers from waiting for sales to buy games. It's the people who can't wait to buy at full price that encourage this behavior, so no one to blame but yourselves if you are the ones doing it.

And if everyone waits, that means more and more content will have inflated pricing through DLC and MTX, like it has been since DLC and MTX were first introduced so many years ago.

@Stocksy I'm not the one claiming to know the future. Could you link to where Phil Spencer or someone else from MS is disputing what I said? I'll gladly retract it. Tell me to behave, but you tell us to stop being ridiculous, lmao.

Looks like Madden 22 also has the MSRP at $70

@BloodNinja Admittedly, I was slightly misled. Some of the $70 tags have added bonuses, but 2K specifically has their standard edition on Xbox Series X at $70.

@Nico07 Please don't single out Sony with the $70 price tag, several different companies not even affiliated with Sony price their games at $70 as well.

@Stocksy Not only has MS not said these series will be exclusive, but they've also proven through actions that some of what they make reach other systems. Stop with the fear mongering and misinformation.

@Bolt_Strike Then explain games like Among Us, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Bloodstained, SteamWorld series, Fall Guys, just to name a small few. Quite a few many indies are doing just fine.

@Rainz Oh no, whatever will people do with their f2p games that are a dime a dozen if Zynga has their games secured on... mobile? Websites? Lol.

@Bolt_Strike I don't know. It's not like there will never be more indies to pop up or employees of a company leaving to go elsewhere. The devs at DICE who made Battlefield 2042 are mostly not the same devs who made the previous Battlefields, so the brand recognition isn't even there from game to game on many occasions. And where did those old devs go? Either to make a different game for the parent company or left to create their own studio. Look at Rare as well. All of this is cyclical.

@Burning_Spear There was a time when AAA multiplatform games largely didn't exist and when they did, each version was significantly different, moreso than what we're seeing today with Switch ports. No one batted an eye then and accepted that they wouldn't be able to play all the games they wanted. Now? The internet pushed the 'I want everything on everything all the time' mentality and that's just not how business works, nor life in general for that matter.

We're in a capitalist society where competition breeds better products through creativity. I think we're fine where we are.

@BloodNinja @Dpishere Microsoft's Gamepass is extremely popular and Sony is trying to come up with a way to revitalize PS Now. Nintendo has also dipped their toes in the water. There's an audience for both markets, some players will use both, some will only do one or the other, but neither one will destroy the other. Too many people on both sides to let that happen.

Damn, that price is astronomical, even taking into account the many ways it can be used. I'm curious what a 2K version of that would cost because at that screen size, 4K isn't doing you many favors vs 2K. Plus, as others have said, you can buy much, much cheaper equipment to rotate your PC monitor and some TVs can even be set up this way as well.

Demon's Tilt! Fantastic fantasy pinball.
@noobish_hat I'm not the author, but nothing to write home about.

202 mil on Normal
219 mil on EX
7,894,800 on Hardcore

@PenultimateOtaku77 It's a common misconception that seasons should be capitalized. After all, days of the week and months of the year are, so it's easy to assume that seasons would be as well. Still, this author has been writing for a long time, probably should've known that.

@kurtasbestos 100% agree! I had to stop playing OG Diablo II if I wanted to continue college, lol.

@kurtasbestos Welcome to the World of Backloggery, where you will never finish your backlog and learn to be content with never being content.

Interested in Cake Invaders and Calturin

@Baker1000 Exactly. Don't criticize then not show the proper way or even prove why it's wrong. Also, it's TikTok, what is WRONG with you, NintendoLife? Don't go back to your pre-Thomas Whitehead days...

I enjoyed Sunshine's platforming, can't entirely say I'd prefer this. Cool to have options though.

@Patendo Google or maybe click the video's Youtube link and look there. Sites like NL are not allowed to link to such things.

I wonder how easily Nintendo could go after them for infringement

Lmao, even the protagonist's art in the banner image is almost exactly like Link in Minish Cap...

https://pngset.com/images/link-the-minish-cap-art-legend-of-zelda-graphics-person-transparent-png-750365.png

Got my interest!

@Mariotag All the screenshots show nothing but English and it's coming to the West in March, so I would imagine it's a full localisation.

@OorWullie Thanks, I'll check it out.

@EarthboundBenjy I'm sure it does more than well enough in Japan, yeah. Strictly on a gameplay level, PPT is fun as hell and Fusion mode is pretty wild. As someone who hasn't played Puyo Puyo until PPT, it's pretty difficult to get in the mindset of planning out drops, but the chaos makes it great.

Trigger Witch and Cake Invaders look fun.

@EarthboundBenjy I wouldn't call Puyo Puyo extremely safe. One of the reasons I don't play PPT and Champions more (and haven't bought PPT2) is because of the heavy use of Japanese anime voice lines with no options to turn off voices. At least I didn't see options when I bought the games on release. PPT2 also released to people saying "this should've been DLC and priced less".

@dew12333 Found the person who has no idea the tremendous amount of effort it takes to create a (good) videogame!

A mod that adds multiplayer to an already existing game vs creating an entire game from scratch with your own ideas, art, sounds, AI, everything... It would be the equivalent of going to the store to buy spices to an already cooked meal and adding said spices vs planting the herbs and other plants needed for the ingredients, caring for them and waiting for them to grow mature enough to bare all the ingredients you need, then going to a butcher to slaughter the meat yourself, get the right cut of meat, then finally cook all of it together so that you can have your own meal that you created yourself without anyone else's help.

One task requires a set of skills in a single line of work for likely dozens of hours while the other requires several more sets of skills in several vastly different lines of work for a combined total of thousands of hours.

• Sword: check
• EXP: check

Radiant Silvergun would like their credit, please. Lol.

As someone who buys a lot of shmups, but only plays a few of them due to a huge backlog (I buy to support), are the older Cresta games worth playing? The new one is intriguing.

@jarvismp Friendly reminder that the Switch has a button remapping feature in the OS settings and thanks for the review!

Janky framerate and looks like janky controls, if the YT video I just watched is a good indicator. Hard pass and honestly, using two very generic keywords as the title of your game is really just asking Google and everyone else to practically never show people your game unless they search for it in quotes and remove "Mario" from the query, lol. Pretty basic marketing knowledge that went over the dev's head(s).

@TheRealMW It's not "incredibly unrealistic" at all. There are tons of games out there across multiple genres that offer side modes that resemble almost nothing of the main mode, yet those are welcome by fans who continue to buy those games. Why do musuo games have to be so stubborn with the presentation? All that's accomplishing is alienating people who want options (and ultimately lose out on maximum sales). I've even read people on social media say the main attractions for them are the boss battles, not the thousands of braindead husks that you can kill (whom I agree with).

@Arawn93 As someone who has avoided nearly all musuo games aside from DW4 (my intro to the series) and AoC, there's nothing more I would appreciate than a mode that cuts down on the meaningless enemies by 90% and make the remaining minor enemies' threat levels (and xp) appropriately higher. That would definitely help improve stability! And simultaneously make me more interested in the games as they're a bit more believable as well.

Did the game ever get a 60 FPS update like the other Warriors games on Switch or is it still a janky mess?

@Moistnado OM is a very divisive game. I'm well aware some people love it, but I'm in the boat of "it pretends to be a Metroid, but fails to realize what actually makes a Metroid game good." It's a decent action game, but Metroid is not straight up action; it's so much more than that. God awful puzzles that a 4 year old could figure out, probably the most linear Metroid in the series that inexplicably prevented exploration (Fusion made sense), notoriously awful controls, Adam, Samus's character assassination, fake final boss felt like they cut content from the game, true final boss made no sense, you can't fight the unfreezable Metroids and last but not least, the QTEs.

Metacritic scores it a 79 and users 67, so NL's 9/10 shows how divisive it is. Even if OM was just an original IP with no history, I'm not sure I'd score it more than a 6 (5 being average).

@Chozo https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/rumour-metroid-prime-switch-remaster-is-wrapped-up-according-to-industry-insider

You may have seen this already and if so, disregard. I want nothing more than more Samus on Switch (except Other M and FF).

@dartmonkey The first Sin & Punishment used to be Japan-only until it was released overseas (at least North America) as a VC title.

Mario Strikers is another series that should come to the Switch!

Ordered Deathsmiles physical from Playasia, waiting for it to arrive.

Thank you for this interview!

I feel kind of bad because I completely forgot about the anime, somehow. The DS game has randomly cropped back up in my mind throughout the past thirteen years, mostly through the OST, and having finished NEO (but not the postgame yet), the new OST is doing the same thing, lol. Both games are fantastic and NEO exceeded my expectations, which were already high.

Make a third game happen, Square Enix!

I'd be down for a third game, but not yet. Not for several years. Not saying we should have to wait 13 years again, though. Maybe because I'm older and busier, but I'm not over this game yet. There are still things that need to be wrapped up anyway. Dread won my personal GOTY vote, but NTWEWY is high up there.

@Dimitris670 The covid bits didn't seem bad to me at all (then again, I grew up long before woke was a thing), but what are the other 4 lines? I beat the game, but haven't 100%'d the postgame yet.

@Warioware Absolutely it does depend on the severity of symptoms and exactly what symptoms a person has. No, I don't think there is a way to hone what you said positively if it means that's all you'll be doing for the OCD hunger. But if you can find a different activity that still quenches your "must turn all tins" thirst and you can manage to change your mind from "must turn tins" to "must draw tins" because maybe you also have an interest in art, so you learn how to draw and make unique artwork out of it, potentially redirecting the urge to something that might earn you money.

Granted, I'll be the first to say that what I just said is much easier said than done. I just always try to look at things in a positive light.

I'm certainly on the milder side, but to answer your question, I have to organize things in a very particular way (different for each case) and if someone moves it or I'm not in control of the organization, I hate it and want it changed. Resident Evil 4 item management is a good example.

@StefanN Let's say your OCD only has you cleaning and organizing everything under the sun. I say "only" as opposed to someone who feels the need to stay in bed for the first hour they're awake, then take a half hour long shower, no matter how clean they already are, then eat the exact same cereal every morning in the exact same number of spoonful servings and so on. 'Only cleaning' would be the milder case.

That person would then realize how keen they are at finding details, so they would then try to turn that into a job, like becoming an inventory specialist of some kind, which is a skill that not everyone can do. That's what I meant. Basically, lean into your problem to turn it into a positive, don't lean away from it so that it just keeps bothering you. Obviously, it's much more difficult to do this in extreme cases, but the mind is a wonderful tool that you can use for anything.

@Warioware Because for some people, that's truly all it is. Others have had problems, but learned to deal with them while turning the disorder into something positive. I can tell you with first hand experience that is the case. Your first comment just came off as "OCD is automatically bad and people shouldn't make light of it" when it isn't bad for everyone. That's all I was saying. No ire involved.

I'll grab Deathsmiles some time after Christmas once I know if I'm getting any eShop cards. The balance isn't that much of an issue because I'm too casual with shmups to care that much about perfecting runs.

@Warioware You do realize that there are varying levels of OCD, right? That it isn't just a "you have it and your life can't be normal or you never have OCD with anything"? I'm truly sorry you have it with such major issues, but not everyone who has OCD does. It is absolutely possible to control it and have "casual" symptoms while also never having parts of your life ruined by it.

One to keep an eye on.

Mobile, f2p (bad connotation), Zynga, gameplay looks like casual trash, trailer talked too much. Next game?

Had to stop the video, dude wouldn't stay quiet, but watching Link was hilarious.

Guess this means we probably won't see any DLC or modern metroidvania features, like a randomizer mode. Time to wait for the modding community to figure that out!

@locky-mavo Factor 5 went under not because they left Nintendo (Lair had its QoL issues yes, but overall was a good game, especially after being patched), but because after Lair, they had a cancelled project (not their decision) that, because it was cancelled, destroyed their bottom line. If you want to say leaving Nintendo created that scenario, that's fine. Maybe Nintendo didn't like the pitch of Lair while Sony did since they published it. There were also issues with people not getting paid, though I think that was directly related to their finances in the end. If that cancelled game made it to store shelves, I think they would've been okay. There's a video on Youtube about their collapse somewhere, I'm fairly certain that's what happened.

What do you mean by OG Rare? They were bought by Microsoft.