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Bit too generous with most of these lol

@Joekun Yeah Three Houses went overboard with the social sim part of the game, a normal playthrough sees you spending more time in the monastery than in actual battles.
Engage has a monastery equivalent but it's streamlined a lot. If you have NSO or an emulator I recommend giving one of the GBA titles a shot. They're much shorter than the switch FEs and it's because every chapter wastes no time getting you from battle to battle.

Games for all of them. Most of the enemy/NPC character designs (barring Spike wtf happened there) are mostly faithful to the games. But I do agree with @N00BiSH it looks like they all went through a "Nintendo hire this man" filter, and I think all the main characters look especially off.

Fox's Zero render is unflattering, I think a better comparison is his Smash Ultimate design.

"We can confirm Decapolice will be out within the century, further details will be shared at a later date".

I played this last year when it came out. Heads up for anyone interested, this game is quite short and the gameplay is very simple. I'd say it's more of an audio/visual experience than it is an actual game, and it does deliver on that front.
But for the price you ain't getting much, so I recommend waiting for a sale.

@Summer235 You heard right, the remakes for 2 and 3 are entirely different games that only share the same setting and base plot of the originals. They don't look or play the same in any capacity, story/character writing is heavily altered (for the worse imo), and yeah they did slice out some pretty unique mechanics that make OG RE2 & 3 all the more timeless.

Idk why Capcom is so finicky with porting old Resident Evils specifically, because they don't seem to have a problem throwing a bunch of other old franchises into collections. It could do with RE being their most valuable IP as opposed to Mega Man or Ace Attorney which are modest sellers at best.

I remember reading that someone (I believe an employee at GOG?) reached out to Capcom about porting the older titles and they were baffled why anyone would want to play them now that they have remakes. Capcom considers these replacements for the originals.
It could just be that the original releases don't share continuity with the newer game's gobbledegook story, but the "remake and replace" mentality is shared across other companies too.

Probably just gonna be collecting roms for future play. I have this big ass list for a backlog that I plan to start playing in release order and I'd like to make sure I actually have a way to play them now rather than later.
1000 games and I'm only at 1998, it'll take a while.
I want to get one of those Thor dual screens to play the handheld games on. Gonna put a front-end on it and make it look like a 3DS, it's gonna be perfection👌

Huge if true. Hopefully they veer away from chasing Star Fox 64's shadow and do something new.

No option for Quint and Keith, no respect

The first one

Human villain top spot goes to Wesker obviously. Followed by Saddler and Salazar.
Monster top spot goes to Nemesis (again obviously), and beyond that I'd say Dr. Salvador given how a version of him has appeared in nearly every game since. Quite an impact.

Finish my first run in Requiem and maybe start going through of all the other modern RE games again to get a better sense of where they fall together for me.
I'm close to the end and I think Requiem is... okay. It doesn't do anything particularly interesting with any of its mechanics or settings but there are fun moments all throughout. It's better than Village and perhaps RE7 but it's been too long since I've played it to say.

Anyways this will keep me busy while I wait for Crimson Desert to get restocked.

Don't you EVER invoke Senran Kagura's name without showing me a new game AGAIN!!

Great for post-game grinding if you're going for 100%. Granted I would've preferred the grind just not be in the game

I get what he means. Some changes do have to be made in localization if you want to preserve the tone and intentionality of the original work in another language. But I'm also not sure if Horii-san is aware that it's not uncommon for localizers to just add their own invented bs into a script.

Dragon Quest is a great example. While I found the localizations charming when I was younger (and of course I'm sure the localizers do too), I think they too often implement their funny little accents and jokes at the expense of the story's tone and characterization.
Take DQVII, which hits you with plenty of somber / contemplative moments throughout... but newer releases of the game have those moments delivered through walking stereotypes that make the dialogue hard to take seriously. It's like the writers are more interested in reminding me every sentence that the person I'm talking to is German than they are actually telling me the story. It sucks.

Luckily the severity of these corny accents vary on the game, but it shouldn't be happening at all. There's a difference between hiring European voice actors to better match the series' predominantly European-inspired settings... and making them sound like clowns.

Ah, SAG-AFTRA. That is a name I haven't heard in some time...
These are the guys who got into a social media ***** storm last year trying to monopolize the western VA scene for Mihoyo's games (a very large Chinese company with a roster of consistently updating mobile games).
Frankly the whole situation made them and some of their members come off as very unprofessional, and I believe the whole AI replacement angle is a trojan horse for securing more exclusive contracts. I could definitely see why a company- especially one based on the other side of the world- wouldn't want anything to do with these guys in particular.

Also, Diskin here failed to mention that as a member of SAG-AFTRA he literally couldn't accept a non-union contract even if he wanted to. It's not up to him, so I don't know why he's pretending this is a choice he made on principle.

It's a neat concept and has a lot of potential for puzzle-crafting. But Good Feel's games are always so braindead that I wouldn't expect much from them.
Guess I'll keep an eye out post release and see what it's like

Just give me the option to change the voices to Mario babble and I wouldn't care. I don't want to hear flowers, or Pauline, or any Mario character speak full english, it's weird.
Same thing happened with Monster Hunter and now the characters never shut up

I'll just put another 100 hours in Builders 2

Aw man, I was already going to get the Dedede one, now the Sword Kirby is calling my name too. There goes a crisp $100

Tomodachi Life btfo'd by Pragmata and Mouse P.I. new release dates

Denshaattack getting a release date is good news. Ratatan too, pretty sure that one got delayed off the face of the earth last year.

Everything else don't really care.

I think Grace's first two segments are awful, and Leon's segments have been awkward due to how short they are. But I've been enjoying the game ever since Grace got full reign of the care center.

I haven't had much opportunity to play so I'm not very far in. Can't really say one way or the other how I'll like it.

Doesn't look amazing but it's the best Pokemon has looked in the switch era. I hope the performance doesn't ***** the bed like it did in S/V, given this game seems to have a bunch of densely forested areas and underwater segments.

Other people in the comments have already mentioned it but yeah it seems like it's just impossible to complete the National Dex in this version of the game, so having access to the event Pokemon doesn't really hit as hard.
Are they going to port over Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald and make them compatible?
And is Gale of Darkness going to be able to connect with these games on NSO? Is Coliseum even on there for that matter?

Kinda baffling but I guess not that surprising from bare minimum Nintendo.

Pour one out for all the Richards and Gaylords of the world 😔

Not being ugly is a good start. Surprised it's coming out next year, I figured Nintendo would expedite this to 2026

New 3DS for me. I've had the same New 3DS XL since they released in 2015 and it's probably my favorite system between the GameCube and PS3 (depends on what day you ask), but I do think the XL is too big and a bit cumbersome to carry around.
The New 2DS XL is sleek as hell and it would be my pick if it didn't axe the 3D tech.

Vita was also an S-tier system. Golden age of handhelds come and gone.

You literally could not imagine a stupider plot. And this is from the same series that brought you RE6 and RE Village lmao

Ladies and gentlemen... The first good Pokémon game on the Switch

@Vyacheslav333 Thanks for making me aware about that patch my good man

Kinda just looked like crap

Gen 4 is another strong one.

When I was a kid I thought my game was special because I used a wall clip hack to explore the island next to full moon island and found Darkrai.
That floored me, and has become one of my fondest memories with this franchise...
Also cause Darkrai is edgy and cool.

There's an overwhelming amount of great gen 3 designs. I'm going with Electrike / Manectric because one always ends on my team when I replay Emerald.

Grovyle is also a strong contender. I have war flashbacks of May's Grovyle under the cycling bridge as a kid who exclusively leveled his starter and no one else... Also Explorers of Sky.

Then Gardevoir. Hand to heart I swear to God I like Gardevoir because of Red Rescue Team and no ulterior reasons. That's all! PLEASE BELIEVE ME!!!

I thought Umbreon was the coolest Pokémon as a kid thanks to Coliseum. I also thought the Shadow the Hedgehog opening movie was the most badass thing I'd ever seen, and showed it to all my friends and family to mixed reception.

Silver and bronze goes to Ampharos and Heracross.

Blastoise is my guy. I'm also partial to Primeape and Victrebel

Gonna try and finish Dragon Quest VII, but I still have ways to go turning Ruff / Gabo into a platinum slime and Maribel into a magical peacock.

Also might bite on Mewgenics, it looks exactly like my kinda crackhead game

Not exactly Bowser, Wario, and Waluigi committing a terrorist attack on Peach Stadium, but it's charming in its own right.

The original is like an 8 or a 9. Masterpiece level video game. Reimagined is definitely going to take a hit on my scale though for all it removes.
3DS version potentially does too due to some glaring flaws exclusive to it, but idk where either of them fall yet.

Can I just get a game where I go into dungeons and find cool new items, solve puzzles and fight monsters. Relegate the story to a single cohesive timeline of events... and even then maybe just have most of it be through side quests via townspeople...

I wanna get out of the sandbox man

No exactly putting their best foot forward with this lineup. Rhapsody is a charming little RPG, but you can already get that on the Switch paired with La Pucelle Tactics

Got Reimagined coming in the mail sometime next week. Might pick up Lovish after I beat the original DQVII or Endfield

Most of these games are fine in their own right, I'm just never going to play them on the Switch. I come to these expecting new announcements, not a bunch of old ass ports I can pick up on any other platform for $20 or less.

Tokyo Scramble looks okay, a bit unpolished in the trailer. Same with Kyoto Xanadu, I've only ever heard that Tokyo Xanadu is alright so it's not something that left me feeling one way or the other.

I haven't played the first Paranormasight, so it and the sequel could potentially be up my alley, and the biggest announcement for me was the expansion for Relink... But again, I played that game in 2024, and I'm not buying it again for the Switch.

Everything else was actual white noise to me. No, I'm not going to spend $50-60 to play 7 out of the 50+ Bomberman games. No, I'm not going to play the worst version of the worst Fallout game.
I could be alone on that, but it seems like this one left a lot of people disappointed more than usual. And I imagine it's for the same reasons I was.

Japan only, guess I'm still emulating

Good excuse to jump back into the game and replay the story on that super hard difficulty. Also haven't played with any of the post release content so this will be a meaty update for me.

Relink is pretty good btw. Easy recommend for people looking for a fun Monster Hunter like to fill the void Wilds left.
It's not a perfect replacement though, keep that in mind

Also for no specific reason, I'd like to formally express my support for boob windows in any form they take 👍

How did they manage to disappoint me when I had no expectations.

At least Elliot has a release date I guess

Something new. Ace Attorney 7 would be nice. Rayman (not happening), preferably 3D Rayman (definitely not happening). Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You comes to the west (almost certainly never happening). Gimme a release date on Professor Layton and confirm that Decapolice is still alive (might happen)

...Dead or Alive (probably better off not happening, modern Team Ninja won't do it justice)

@Kiz3000 Rewatched it just to double check. I will say that I appreciate them prioritizing performance and for what it is it doesn't look terrible. But it is a noticeable downgrade, and I imagine most people - myself included - will be playing it on other platforms.
That's kind of the thing with these AAA hyper-graphics games. If you're in the market for these then you probably already have a high end PC or a PS5. Nintendo-only gamers kinda just take whatever they can get in that regard.
Personally I'd prefer these third party companies make Nintendo exclusive software built for the hardware rather than make compromised versions of their main projects. Stuff like RE Revelations and Monster Hunters Rise to name some recent examples

So, uh... when is Nintendo gonna put games on this Nintendo Switch 2 thing, huh?

Hopefully we get some surprises and not just a checklist of ports everyone's already played. No, I'm not playing Resident Evil with vasoline smeared all over the screen or Elden Ring at 20fps, thanks.