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Oh wow, thank goodness Mr Dev's here to drop those truth bombs. I would have never seen the hilariously blatant FOMO ploy otherwise.

Really, for whom is this news? Fanboys in extreme denial?

"Please continue to fall for our FOMO attempts"

Symphonia is my all-time favorite game, so that's nice to hear.

"None, please" would be my option.

@Narrator1 Is that your childish view of what a company is? Two dudes? Hilarious.

After shutting down fan-organized tournaments for stupid reasons, it's only karma that Nintendo get kicked out of official tournaments as well.

My interest in Nintendo has hit near rock bottom over the past year. At this point my Switch is just there, lying dormant, until I get to play SMTV and BotW2 in 2023 or so.

So yeah, that's a grand two games I want to play on the system that I can't get elsewhere, we don't have release dates for them or anything but teasers, and one isn't even first party.
(And I guess MP4 is a thing, but I might be too old and feeble to hold a controller by the time that's done)

This is my roundabout way of saying that most of Nintendo's IPs are, indeed, stale and boring. You couldn't pay me to play another Mario or Kirby just to name a couple, and Pokemon's been on my ***** list for over a decade.

"save states"

So no actual perseverance.

Higher than the chance of games coming out, that's for sure.

Can't blame people for outright believing that at this point. It is crazy enough that I'd fact check it first, but I wouldn't have even been surprised had it turned out to be true.

Weird and pointless, but you do you. Your gaming experience, your rules. Certainly didn't make for an interesting article, though.

Yet another place where the company's mindless fanatics will pointlessly harass an account manager for a Direct, as if it made any sense.

Sounds like he did it.

Just an update, huh?

I'm not surprised that crunch doesn't seem to factor much in his opinion of the company, considering Sakurai crunches himself into oblivion.

Why use a header that has Ichiban front and center when there's not going to be even a mention of the Yakuza series?

Have your ill-earned click I guess.

The experience described in this review is pretty much what I expected from this game - which is sad, because Super Meat Boy is my favorite platformer ever.

It'll probably be a while before I try it out myself, because autorunners and procedurals are both very high on the not-my-cup-of-tea list.

Nothing screams 'rampant capitalism' quite like a mega-corporation rallying kids against another mega-corporation.

"Geno's Mii Fighter costume made a return to the Smash Bros. series this week, and although it's a bit of a letdown for some - as we've already said this weekend, it's arguably better than nothing."

Is it? Not a Geno fan myself, but I'd rather Lloyd not be featured at all than reappear with his terrible Mii Costume.

@Ryu_Niiyama A better question would be why the ring was in reach, since that's an actual (choking) hazard for a child. Messing up a device is a small problem in comparison.

I expected something far, faaar worse when I clicked on that video. Is there some extra context I'm missing here that makes the joke actually racist? Because all I'm seeing is some dumb wordplay.

I'd rather they not associate the Metroid franchise with the company who likens their money-hungry lawsuit to the fight for civil rights.

The level seems to be extremely long. I saw what I assume was his most recent segmented run and stopped watching at 6:00 (video was like 14 minutes long). And while all parts of what I saw are beyond technically impressive, some are veeery dull to watch even just one time, so I can't imagine going through them for thousands of hours.

The level starts off with a Panga-like bang and I wish it were much shorter but a lot more consistently like that. But hey, it's his level, so whatever floats his boat. Hope he'll get the clear eventually.

This is amazing, actually. The CD-i emulators are a massive pain to set up properly, so this might be my one actual option to play these. Greatly appreciated.

"Dubbed "Operation Midnight Shipping", the plan was concocted by Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi and his right-hand man Hiroshi Imanishi after the former got wind that the Yakuza were planning to steal shipments of the Super Famicom before they reached stores."

So this is what Majima was up to shortly after the events of Yakuza 0.

I believe you mean "Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Localization Might Include A Popular Zelda CD-i Reference". Big difference there.

Morshu's great, though.

@Jojarett87 Thanks for crying harder as instructed, console fanboys with six years of mental age are more obedient than I figured.

@Jojarett87 Cry harder, beggar.

Yakuza is an excellent franchise, so anything a member of that team could contribute elsewhere would most likely be a plus.

I can't stress enough just how unbelievably ugly I find this whole artstyle whenever I see it.

Samus Returns was a great game, so this would be a great (enhanced?) port for people who never tried it.

I'll buy a PS5 eventually, but not now. No point to when both the system and its games are at their most expensive, there's not much to choose from and I've got a lot of stuff to play in my recently purchased PS4.

Wishful thinking, if you ask me. Vaccines take years to put in the market for the general public and there's good reasons for that.

"(...) because online play was only made available to paying Patreon supporters, yuzu goes from being a freely-distributed piece of code to a paid service – which would place it firmly in the sights of Nintendo's legal team."

They could just make the feature available for everyone if that was the fear. I doubt they couldn't afford the increased server capacity when they're earning (just checked) upwards of 13,000€ a month in Patreon subscriptions.

"Receiving a full visual overhaul, local multiplayer, expanded difficulty choices, rebalanced weapons system and more, it begs the question: why Nintendo didn’t use this version for the Switch?"

... Because it's the first game's 30th Anniversary, not the eleventh's?

If the point was simply to present Marth's story, Mystery of the Emblem would have been the best choice, but that's not what they're doing here.

I'm only offended about those 3D models looking like *****.

I'm sure every reader here was worried out of their mind about having to buy a second hard drive to store an NES game, so this should put them at ease.

@Thirteen1355 Being a whiny manchild for years about a game not being localized is pretty damn pathetic, yes. Especially when there's an absolutely fantastic fan translation for said game.

Anyone who still hasn't played Mother 3 yet endlessly begs for a localization (particularly in totally unrelated news) has no real interest in the game. And if someone has played it and still can't get over the fact it will never be oficially translated, then that's even worse.

And for the record, I dislike most of Nintendo's practices. Doesn't make you bandwagon nutjobs any less absurd.

"I don’t really understand (...)"

Yup. That's Pachter alright.

This fanbase is truly the worst.

@TheFrenchiestFry
Cry harder about Min Min, manchild. If you haven't stopped after three months you clearly never will.

Sounds like the rapper's logic retired before the purchase.

@dugan
It's a gacha system where you roll for new characters, who are rated according to rarity (five stars, four stars and so on).

It remains to be seen how generous or restrictive they'll be with the freely obtainable premium currency needed to roll for characters, or how unlikely you'll be to get anything good with free attempts.

Good thing is, though, that as far as I can tell you don't need those extra characters at all to progress through the story, explore and so on. It's at least worth a try, I guess.

It really works very differently, if you bother to actually watch any video showcasing combat or other activities.

Not sure if it'll be any good, but calling it a clone is just part of the noxious culture of pitting everything against the one popular thing that came before - just like this site does with Pokemon and any new RPG that involves monster taming.

disgusted groans

I'll probably try it out on PS4, although I'm a tad skeptical in spite of the positive reviews I've watched from the beta.

"We have almost complete creative control. Oh, also we have to pass a strict IP check which won't allow us to create new characters whatsoever, but no biggie"

Is Tanabe okay in the head?

Inherited his design philosophy from Miyamoto... Yup, the IP is doomed for anyone who wants something akin to the older games. Kind of relieved I never got into it, but I feel bad for my friends who are fans.

Ah, of course. Recruit your legion of eight-year-olds boycotting the online stores so that you won't have to spend much in legal action to work out a problem you created yourself.

Interesting to note that these hacked trees are often sold on eBay, so all those buyers are gonna wake up to an upsetting surprise.