KingBowser86

YI Fans: "Yoshi's Island DS and Yoshi's New Island aren't good!"
Me: "SMW2:YI isn't good, either."
YI Fans: "WHAT?! HOW DARE YOU?!"

I'm going to go on a limb and say that the people that liked SMW2:YI gave/give not one FUZZY about completion and/or exploration. If you powered through SMW2:YI like one would SMB1-SMW (because they didn't track in-depth completion stats), I imagine that it is a fun romp that throws many interesting twists.

But, if you feel like exploring in-depth or completing the game 100%, it's absolutely a molasses-paced slog. Exploration is only rewarded somewhat for the absolute tedium required to get back on the level's main path (and that's assuming that you weren't punished with a Point of No Return). Completionists? Boned. 100%. I did it, it's very doable on account of Items, but you'll be thoroughly vexed when the game throws countless niche gameplay mechanics at you that are both frustratingly vague AND consistently demanding. Without items, making even one mistake costs you the 100 grade.

Called it - they want to port EVERYTHING from the Wii U over.

@Onkel_Laser That's why I don't like the "Hard" moniker. Oh sure, it might have been accurate in something like in early Kirby where, yeah, it was still very possible but incredibly stressful. And even Sakurai had the wisdom to call that "Extra" Mode. Kirby's Dream Course has an "Extra" Mode, and, yep, sure enough, I will never ever touch that mode unless I'm sent to Mars or something. So, I'm glad it's labeled "Extra" as if to imply "Optional." Not "Hard" which carries a connotation of a good chance of clear possibility, leading to false-elitism noise like we're seeing with the fools being replied to in the most recent few comments.

Here's a tip, ya nutters — talk about your achievements in something that isn't a child's entertainment product. If you're even capable of such.

@sketchturner Unfortunately, it's not the same motivation for everyone, which is why I whole-heartedly encourage Normal and Impossible / Legendary / etc. Modes at a minimum in games of certain genres where appropriate (e.g. sports games or platformers like Kirby, Mario, Sonic, etc. have no inherent need for such).

@GrailUK This.
Likewise, if I'm playing a game and watching someone powerful do amazing things fluidly in cutscenes, but then sputters to do anything in gameplay (see: Devil May Cry, Doom, etc.), that's equally immersion breaking and poor design.

Difficulty has a place but it needs to be as well-crafted as the rest of the game. Smash 4's No Lives Lost achievement (given that there are instantly spawning items which can easily kill you without warning) and Cave Story's Running Hell falling blocks room on Hard will forever damage those games.

Can't say that I blame them. Just not a good time for it all. Personally, I'm surprised that it wasn't adjusted for the American market to be more about shopping and food and a wider net of IP's that could accommodate larger crowds with accessible rides.
Not being coy about the food thing, either. I want to go to a Kirby Café so badly.

Happy 50th, Sakurai! Man, dude doesn't look a day over E T E R N A L

Inner child likes the interactivity but also thinks the designs are strange, and both child (after the N64 when I started buying my own stuff) and adult self are disgusted by the price. Tone deaf in a time where people are struggling to make ends meet, really.

hmmm yes the capsule here is made of capsule

I only say that "I want" a port of Star Fox Zero because it seems like Nintendo's just porting everything from Wii U. That, and, if SFZ were heavily reformulated back into something more classic, that'd be worth a dip and much appreciated for Star Fox (as opposed to getting nothing).

@Slowdive THIS. I absolutely hope they do a Playset like this, because not doing it just goes BEYOND missed opportunity.

If I had sat there and thought about Animal Crossing instead of trying to blow through them all, I'd have gotten all of them, lol

I'd have given Mike's the NES box art skateboard design or something on the top disc design. Donny's wins this one for the fitting purple and the manhole cover, from a color choice perspective. I can't choose between Leo or Don myself, because:

@Kalmaro @NintendoByNature Credit considerable points to Donatello's intelligence and resourcefulness for the team actually surviving the first Technodrome raid in the '90's TV show when Leonardo just went straight in.

@BirdBoy16 I mean, new content being added really depends upon the scope, or if it makes sense. Like Smash, should it be free or paid? Lots of gray area.

upends tea table
Because TTYD and SPM started adding grimdark nonsense to Mario! And ya haven't stopped — there are still Game Overs written by edgy 12 year olds in Origami King! Yes, the first game could get overly saccharine at times, but that doesn't mean "go to the other extreme"!
End Tanabe's and Kudo's whining by giving Paper Mario to someone else to do. Sick of seeing whining nonsense like this. "Oh, boo hoo, we're getting punished because we made mistakes and mediocre games, please feel sorry for us!" UGH.

Give PM to a studio that'll take proper care of characters and balancing. But, of course, give them the needed room to add age and other characteristics to Mario characters just as PM1 did. Don't worry about things like Rawk Hawk or giant portal trees and all — Mario RPG's clearly aren't canon to the mainline, anyway.

@BirdBoy16 Personally, that works only for new content in the scope of games like Splatoon, Smash, and Super Mario Odyssey. Updating content keeps those games fresher a little longer since the single player campaigns are over relatively quickly.

But then when you get into games like Super Mario Maker and Animal Crossing where the point is to be endlessly creative and content from the previous game is suddenly missing, it doesn't leave you with much confidence in the initial purchase. I haven't even touched SMM2 despite having NSO AND the World Maker update because so many basic enemies and blocks from SMM1 are missing.

@Arkay Oh for sure, I'd have been mad about that too, and I didn't even buy the game.

@itslukec See, I can't even tell if that's sarcasm or not, that's how much games in general get complained about. And how little I know about the franchise.
Thankfully, Status-204's post answered my question - most of this was in New Leaf from the start. The larger features that had previously been release-day standard going missing can't be dismissed.
Unless it had the potential to break the in-game economy on account of NSO Save Backup scumming and was held off on for testing, it's completely excusable (even if players found lots of other ways to make Loadsamoney).

@Arkay While I don't follow AC closely, it might have still helped to have these things in what's essentially a "life sim" for first impressions for newer players.

...unless, of course, it somehow turns out that newer audiences are more pleased by gradual release of content as long the Day One content is not less than the prior entry, then, okay I guess?

For Nintendo, it's very clear that Quality Over Quantity is the correct philosophy. Obviously, we'd like a balance with a greater frequency of quality games. In that timeline, we could have received an improved Star Fox Zero port that plays like classic installments and were just now coming down from a new F-Zero or Mother 4.
But I would still gladly take a break in between games to not have to bear what the Wii U/late 3DS wrought.

"Accolades Trailer"

Translation:
"The Marketing For Which We Provided Game Copies"
or
"The 'Yep, It's Definitely Mediocre or Bad if We're Having to Make One of These' Trailer"

@HorridCrow No, it's not moving in the direction that YOU want it to, so you're claiming it isn't. Pokémon GO absolutely impacted the franchise by bringing it to the attention of pretty much the entire world. Its success spawned the Let's Go spinoffs AND putting Raid Battles into Sword/Shield, something you seem to have conveniently forgotten despite your "doesn't affect" claim. And that's just directly. Indirectly, Pokémon GO's revenue has increased merchandising events (as we've seen via articles here and elsewhere over the past few years, compared to pre-GO) and encouraged GF/Nintendo/everyone that was on the fence before or did not want to, to take on this sickening lootbox system.
"Denial isn't just a river in Egypt."

@HorridCrow And on top of the barebones animations as well as any other technical issues like the first GoFest or outside issues like breaking UK law, the combat is still mindless compared to the mainline series that made it popular in the first place.

@HorridCrow No, that's straight up revenue and profit numbers. Read some financials, sometime.

@HorridCrow Because that money could be put to better content. This gambling/MLM scheme is creating a "quality trap" for the franchise. Or hell, the money could be put to better humanitarian use, same goes for sports and other areas.

EDIT: "The money enabled you to get New Pokémon Snap!" First of all, that's not the point, because there's no way this game costs this much money to upkeep. And secondly, we may have gotten that game a lot sooner had DLC and third versions and such not been encouraged — with consumer money flowing in favor of merchandise and spinoffs. Furthermore, what happens when Pokémon GO "doesn't pull in the money that it used to"? What happens to the franchise, then? Best case scenario, it might go back to said spinoffs and merchandising. Worst case scenario, it gets called an "unworthy investment" and disappears.

If I were a Microsoft and Sony fan, I'd say they did fine.
Can't say the same for Nintendo. Starting to think that they had a huge Mario production ready to go in "Physical E3" form.

@Samuel-Flutter True as that is, CD-i is the stuff of nightmares to a buying public. Also memes.

https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_games_by_year_(US)

Going by the games list for recent years, I'm going to say 2016. 2015 was miserable too, but we did get SMM/Splatoon. 2016 has just nothing redeemable in it.
If you think 2009 was bad, look at 1994. I think that's my pick.

There have been plenty of live-action fan films — can't say any of them hit the mark. It'll be difficult just to get whoever plays Rock to look the part.

@Kabloop This. From big decisions like not having a human in SF2 (SO JARRING) to small choices like using Toadies instead of Flying Snifits or Fly Guys, this is just evidence that the decision-making process during the SNES days was a finely-honed machine.

THE GOOSE
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
IS COOKED

But seriously, looks like great fun — I'll be looking for reviews and feedback to see if this is a "Worth a Rental" game or for keeping.

Whoops! Announced already! I'd better get on that Mean Bean Machine cocktail, then!

@jump Art style aside (which can go a lot of directions depending upon what fix is applied), I think it's the fact that they look like generic protagonists straight out of a Dragon Quest Builders game. And the hat-person's design is just too absurd to be excited for or shareable in real-life, let alone a design that a player would feel comfortable with in the "tour guide" trope. At least Lubba had a vague, in-the-trenches aura of leadership about him.

@Crimson_Ridley That surely would have been a better name! Although a certain mouse would bring the hammer down on that. 🤣

@Balladeer This feels like one giant platformer love letter. Floating orbs of water and costumes ala Mario Galaxy, doors per Rare's 3D platformers, globe-trotting train and a white top-hat character ala Odyssey, area-themed "warped/evil" arena bosses ala 3D Mario or A Hat in Time, Sonic-styled inhabitants and merch critters, NiGHTS-styled human MC's, what looks like some Billy Hatcher foundations for the physics of movement and basic character interactions...

And yet, I don't feel anything from the main 3 cast members. No interest. Are they unrelatable, too strangely-designed, bland, uninspired? I don't know which, and I can't tell which, because there's nothing hooking me into trying this out. Like a book with great and accessible writing throughout, but the otherwise colorful cover and first page of text are as generic as one can make it.

Jump up, Superstar, hopefully this time they raised their bar...!

Oh, I remember playing the "red sock" moment in Teddy '21! So emotional, considering that the graphics had been largely black, white, and grayscale up to that point.

No Rosalina Dang.
No Yoshi JonTron: "Excuse me, whaaaaaat"

Well well, isn't that kinda classy. Seems like it'd look better as a table lamp or full-size lamp. But if it's imitating a street, hanging, or floating lamp, then yeah, this is fine.

"Tenth anniversary"

@TriforceBun I'm looking forward to buying New Pokémon Snap at $50. That's the sole reason that I haven't pre-ordered it, yet.

"Don't you regret not supporting the developers?" I have plenty of amiibo and am forced to buy $20 DLC more often than not — I won't lose any sleep over $10 off of my initial purchase.

If all of the planned DLC were free.

"That envelope means Atelier is in Smash!"
It's front-and-center part of the story, that means absolutely jack. Cool your jets, 4chan. And quit making fake leaks with 2B and Reimu — put some effort into the believability.

Such great art. I wonder what a mashup of this and the Sonic Riders style would do?

Ohhhhhhh, that explains a lot. My hunch on them chopping up the E3 Direct might not be far off after all...

Also, is it possible that they're just cutting up the E3 Direct into multiple parts? Because these could easily be mashed together to make the exact same Direct format as last year's.

Once I heard that it was about 2nd/3rd Party Titles and was 10 minutes long, it met my expectations.

But to be fair, for anyone who's not a die-hard Nintendo fan, they wouldn't have read that fine print, so I do understand their frustrations.

@SSJW Yeah yeah, more complicated explanation, less likely the scenario. Outrage Marketing or people lying in general is not anywhere near that razor, you Sweet Summer Child. Get to the point.

And before you make your next post, re-read my first one — I didn't say that I believed that it was Outrage Marketing (that company doesn't have enough clout to pull it off, I don't think), just wouldn't be surprised to find out that my assumption is correct followed by nipping a hypothetical reply in the bud.

@SSJW You can say that all you want, doesn't change the fact that we're lied to all the time. Buying medium-to-large ticket items, getting support on health insurance, '08-'09, the wars on drugs and oil, the current round of Smash child-misconduct controversy, Covid (both the lack of handling of the disaster preparedness and the massive errors that are being discovered in how the number of cases are reported), etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_advertising
Not to mention it's a known and well-documented media tactic.

So you might want to back off of those Gaslighting-sounding posts.

Was anyone actually going to play this lame concept? I assume that this is just more "outrage marketing" for when "the team miraculously perseveres" and releases the game.
"It's not outrage marketing." Okay, well, when you live in a society of idiots, everything's a con and a fake, and you're foolish to assume that anything is genuine at face value.

@bluesdance Feels like it! 11 years have already passed?! Uuuuugh.