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Can't even imagine how overwhelmingly lame SMT would have been if the old Nintendo had gotten it. I'm thinking Devil Children but far worse.

I don't think the guy had any interest in responding to your oddball, forced fanservice question. The reply reads entirely like "uh, sure, whatever you feel like believing mate". So it's actually hilarious to me that you shoehorned it into the article's title for clicks anyway.

That's really cool. I didn't expect them to actually localize the original game on top of the remake. I might get this after all.

Aonuma: "You probably saw me appear onscreen and expected a Tears of the Kingdom showcase. Unfortunately, we have nothing to show at this time. Yes, we're doing the exact same bait-and-switch again. Here's a Link's Awakening Game&Watch."

That's a hilariously dire release schedule.

Nintendo being unnecessarily garbage to fans, what an absolute surprise.

@McBurn Because as sad as it is to say, making a fuss on social media actually often expedites the solutions to people's problems in a way that wouldn't happen otherwise.

People get up in arms about something, the company in question's PR department seeks to damage control, reparations occur. If this person went through the 'normal' routes so solve their issue, the quiet routes, absolutely nothing would happen for months, if ever.

Nintendo love being absolute garbage where there is zero need or reason to be. It's like they need to take a s*** on their fanbase at least twice a year or they'll go bankrupt.

"Just put those thighs front and center, the rest doesn't matter."

Yoko Taro's interview answers are always fun.

Clearly they're talking about a Majima spin-off.

Meanwhile the other VA was attacking this one even while trying to appeal to her audience under false pretext. The difference between a person with class and a bottom feeder.

Sorry, but any sympathy I could have felt for her situation vanished when she went on to attack the new VA for no reason.

Please don't stream this 6 year old game you guys, someone could, uhhh, open a videogame stream by mistake and get spoiled??

Much like Zero Punctuation, I go to Dunkey's channel for a laugh or two - certainly not for actual reviews or any kind of serious take. He's just another highly opinionated Internet guy who happens to be funny, so the image he has of himself as some champion for "good games" feels very much inflated to me.

Not really expecting much from this initiative.

Wow. Someone who's working on a movie, vouching for said movie? That's new.

@huyi A razor sharp deduction. Hope we can count on your sagacity in future articles Mr. Holmes.

The only thing I care to see by now is a Fire Emblem remake and after a hundred no-shows in a row I have no reason to think it'll be in there.

Sad that potential re-re-releases of games are what passes for a 'hype' Nintendo rumor these days.

Funny how you all now keep Grubb's name out of the headlines so that people will still click.

Probably the first characters who didn't end up looking like horrible bootleg figurines in their transition to Fortnite-style. Easy to imagine the heavy input from Shueisha there.

With that description, I'd absolutely call it a remake.

A remake doesn't need to reinvent the wheel to be called such, just to rebuild the old one with improvements. New story beats are usually welcome but not necessary.

I do find it funny that even the people making the games struggle to draw the line between these two terms. To be fair it gets pretty blurry with some projects.

Fingers crossed for the whole venture to crash and burn, as has been the case for NFTs in general lately.

What a strange mix. Sabimaru looks hella lost in the middle of all this, probably wondering who he's gotta kill to get back to his wife.

@drewber2635 They're Jump+ characters. Jump is the traditional physical magazine whereas Jump+ series are released in digital form only (before being compiled into volumes, of course). So they'll all be from rather new stories because Jump+ hasn't existed for very long.

Just another terrible Miyamoto take to add to his sizeable pile.

The surprise for me here is learning it's still being supported currently.

Played and completed this on Steam years ago, it was fine. Any difference or extra content in this 'new version'?

Considering Square has been on a roll of terrible products and awful practices lately, this is all extremely easy to believe.

@Ryu_Niiyama You're just out of the loop. It does read exactly like how a parody account would open before stating something silly or outrageous, not to mention Miyamoto in particular has been the subject of plenty of those parodies over the years. Sure, for someone reading it at face value it's just a standard introduction - but for anyone who's been 'around the block' for any amount of time, it rings familiar in other ways.

I didn't know of the meme (or even the message itself) until I saw this article, and I immediately understood why it struck people's funny bone.

I believe ****onami is available, I say go for it.

This all sounds rather trivial when you know that a company bloody called Sky has won or gotten settlements on multiple lawsuits against other companies or products that included the word "sky" - such as Skykick or, you guessed it, No Man's Sky. Or when a certain terrible YouTube channel tried to trademark the word "React" and the only reason that didn't go through was intense community backlash.

Copyright law is an absolute shcheisse-show.

It would have been cool to get Makio, Suma and Hinatsuru instead of yet another three versions of the protagonists. Oh well, Tengen and Gyutaro will be fun.

Day 1 system. By 2020 it had Joy-Con drift to hell and back, even the Pro Controller has some. I've barely even bothered with the console since - I sure as hell am not buying new soon-to-be-faulty controllers.

A requisite to rethink a position is to first think about it.

+infinite respect.

@UglyCasanova There is, and it's great work. But apparently for this site, the fan patch is something to "fall back on" rather than the actual achievement it is, made by talented people who weren't even getting paid.

And frankly, anyone who actually cared about playing the game (as opposed to bandwagoning) has already played it via the patch.

I'm not bothered either way, as I'll be playing exclusively with the original audio.

Not particularly excited.

BotW2, I guess, but my interest in it has decreased considerably over time. I'm actually looking forward to playing Advance Wars 1+2 more than BotW2, but as far as seeing new footage/information goes, the latter makes more sense than a duology of remakes.

I'd like to see a new Fire Emblem - preferably a remake, but a brand new entry would be alright too. In fact the slim possibility of new FE content is just about the only reason I'm tuning in.

'Surprisingly difficult' in Pokemon terms probably means you can manage to lose if you spam Tackle every turn.

We tried to convince a regular dude to eat horse dung.

Somehow that was even more eyeroll-worthy than I anticipated.

"While this might worry some"

Nobody who's sane, surely. All he's saying is to move on to other things because there's nothing from him in the immediate future.

Early Access titles making it to consoles before completion sets a worrying precedent. Is this the first game to do so for the Switch?

Inscryption is a wonderful game.

The distinction's always been pointless. Made by a thousand or by one, enormous budget or shoestring, in the end all it matters product-wise is whether the game is good. The less all these games get artificially split up, the better.

"As we got further into development, we came to realise that we could challenge what games can be. And by making a game about dementia, we actively challenged the traditional power fantasy that games usually deliver.

Sunita is an Indian woman in her 50s, with dementia, rather than the hyper-masculine, all action hero games usually present."

Feels like many people who do narrative-oriented games can't help but be disdainful, reductive and dismissive of everything else out there when presenting their own game. Read from others like the director of Journey, or even bloody David "28 Stab Wounds" Cage and you'll get the exact same type of drivel. For devs trying to "do something different" they're all very much cut from the same tired, holier than thou cloth.

Heads up, folks: games that tell more intimate, personal, mellow stories have been around for a long time, and they're not exactly few and far between if you bother to actually look. You're not reinventing the wheel, nor are you doing your PR any favors by pretending so. You just come across as both ignorant about the works of other like-minded creators out there, and pointlessly hostile towards the different-minded ones.

The killer app gets killer-er.

ShinMegamiTensei/10

"In the case of The Game Awards, the 'awards' are a ruse to attract everyone's attention, companies and consumers alike"

Pretty sure it's the announcement side of things that attracts consumers. The average gamer doesn't really care what game wins what award, but they want to see the next thing from that one franchise they like or whatever.

Similarly, while companies may profit from the extra publicity of a win, don't kid yourselves: showing off their next products to millions of people is the main allure.

Movie trailers are exactly what a videogame show needs.