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This never means anything and they already announced a new Tomodachi Life anyway so whatever.

The whole concept of being able to patent game mechanics is completely absurd.

Been a long while since I've played it, they hadn't even added the Phantom, Noisemaker, and Tracker last time I did. Honestly the huge expansion of the number of roles makes me kind of reluctant to get back into it, know you can turn this stuff off but feels like for just diving into random lobbies it just runs the risk of overcomplicating things.

I'll never, ever understand the, "Artistic vision!" nonsense with things like this. Yeah, sure, a painting can only really be done one way unless you produce multiple of them. Video games aren't paintings. Literally nothing is compromised about the core intended experience of a game by also having a, "But this option does half as much damage," mode or something. The original vision can remain completely unaltered, you're just making it so more people can enjoy the work. It's not like you have to pass some kind of arbitrary skill check to watch a TV show or read a book even if you aren't necessarily picking up on all of the subtleties of it.

Every single game should have difficulty options. All of them, without exception.

Every single game should have difficulty options. Difficulty should never keep you from enjoying something, not everyone wants to beat their head against a wall all day. No game has ever been made worse by being more accessible.

Never been able to develop much of a taste for Golden Sun as a game but it's always had a killer soundtrack.

@EarthboundBenjy I mean just like every other GBA game ever, I wouldn't really think anything of it.

@UltimateOtaku91 Not super far in but so far my take on it's been that it's pretty fun but I can see why some people have described it as a bit meandering. Been combing through the Ministry of Science route and it's been enjoyable but there has been some notable downtime in places and it does feel like it can sometimes take a little too long to get to its point. Also the translation's mostly pretty good but there is some odd grammar in spots.

And also I have the Switch version and it seems to be running fine but apparently the Steam version is currently a total mess that barely functions so worth keeping that in mind.

All in all I'd probably recommend it but so far it feels very distinctly, "Might be better than or around the same level as Rain Code, weaker than Danganronpa and Hundred Line," and I think its super charming art style is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Though being fair I don't think it's helping that I watched Akudama Drive for the first time like two days before it came out so I might be a little Kodaka-ed out at the moment comparatively. Good show incidentally.

Shuten Order's my top priority, maybe some Grand Bazaar around it.

I really need to start up a backup file or two to grab some spares. Game's so slow to start I kind of just don't want to have to sit through how belabored its intro is.

Shuten Order for me.

None of them really on my radar, but a, "Close enough," is that I bought Grand Bazaar today and am waiting for Shuten Order to come out. Silksong's not at all on my radar, never played the first one and don't particularly want to.

Think it looks like a fun concept but yeah, the Kickstarter being off to such a sluggish start isn't a great sign.

This was one of the blurred box arts in that video a month or so back, might bode well for DK64, Smash Bros., and Glover.

Be nice if this makes its way to the US, mine's due for renewal next month.

I desperately want Switch ports of Awakening and Fates and have for a long time.

You could also do Echoes I guess, don't care as much, never developed a taste for it.

Tried it out and yeah, I like this a lot more than I do MKW, might go ahead and end up picking it up.

I could see them doing a 3D All-Stars 2 that has Galaxy 2, 64 DS, and 3D Land, along with reissuing the first one. Latter would particularly make sense for the fact that they bothered to patch it multiple times recently when they really could've not bothered.

I also wouldn't be shocked to get an NSMB Wii remaster at some point, but I don't think it'll be this year. The fact Wonder hasn't had a Switch 2 patch while so much other stuff did is a big red flag that there's something in the works there.

@Tibob It's happened before, and Nate has a very solid track record. Also not the first leaker who's claimed September 12th as a possible date.

Really hope we actually get a good one soon. Feels like all year long I've been begging for Nintendo to announce something I'm actually hyped for it and it kind of just has at no point actually happened.

I do wonder why Harvest Moon games of this time period liked to flip the art for overseas, Back to Nature and GBC 2 also did that for some reason.

The European one's just so weirdly moody that I've always loved it.

Been kind of on-and-off juggling Ocarina of Time, the original Mario RPG, and the Silent Hill 2 remake, probably will focus in on one of those. Kind of mostly just killing time for Shuten Order.

@fenlix Feel like this site can be overly harsh on visual novel kind of stuff sometimes. One that always comes to mind for me is how they gave Raging Loop a pretty low score and never include it on any of their recommended lists when personally I think it's fantastic.

I figured it'd be like a third of that length.

Either way, I'm there for it.

I might pick up another set just in case, but kind of reluctant to since I've got one I picked up back in January I still have yet to find a use for as it is (originally intended to use it on Xenoblade X, then decided I wasn't super interested). Might just see what gets announced between now and when they stop selling them.

I've wondered about picking the game up and if I do it'll be physical not because I especially care about the key card thing and more just because I don't necessarily trust that I'd like it and thus wouldn't mind the option to sell it and get some of the money back.

I can only even tell the difference between 30 and 60 seeing them side-by-side, so long as it's stable I don't care.

Really never been at all interested.

I understand it with stuff like SpongeBob, but it's dumb for someone like Joker who you can just recycle voice clips for or Hatsune Miku who's literally a vocal synthesizer. Not having unique interactions is one thing but you can at least have them grunt and stuff.

Really the only Nintendo adaptation I could ever see myself being interested in that I think might ever have a chance of happening is a Fire Emblem show. I can't really picture a scenario where a Mario or Zelda or Kirby or Splatoon movie is at all something I enjoy, just don't think they'd ever translate well.

Probably will give the network test a shot. Feel like kind of due for a new racing game to sink my time into and didn't care for MK World and not interested in Kirby, so hope this scratches that itch.

Really I think at this point any sort of all-star spinoff companies driving straight into trying to create big budget projects have to be taken with a grain of salt, given by now it's a tired cliche that these things happen and either get stuck in an endless development rut for years or rush out some slop that destroys their reputations be it due to not being able to manage the business end of things or not having anyone to keep their previously kept in check impulses within reason.

Definitely not unheard of for things to pan out well and for them to deliver - Hundred Line pretty much is what I'm describing and there's no shot any game this year is going to pass it for me - but it's definitely not what I would be expecting the end result to be just off the people they've hired just given consistent trends in the industry.

I'll probably pick it up on sale. These games always drop in price pretty quickly and I have yet to really get around to making the time for the A Wonderful Life remake anyway.

I really hope the next remake is Magical Melody. Or at least put it on NSO.

I honestly had no idea this game existed.

That said I think I lean toward the North American one. Japan has its appeal, but the former better communicates the concept of the series I think.

I've played a bit of Xenoblade 2 on the Switch 2, need to get back to it. It definitely benefits from the increased load times making the pop-in a lot less existent, but the bigger screen does really draw attention to how rough the game looks in spots. Would love to see it get an upgrade at some point.

As for X I kind of meant to pick it up at a point then when it came out decided I just wasn't as interested in it as in the rest of the series. Might end up dropping my sitting voucher on it if nothing else to use it on ends up coming out before the year's up but not really dying to, its concept and aesthetic just don't appeal to me as much as the others.

Given the history of free-to-play games that have collaborated with Persona 5, uh, maybe don't get too attached to Overwatch. Game may be cursed.

Shouldn't have any trouble getting the full Tera Shard distribution for the other two as well, even with the steep drop from the last one still did over double the mark for it. At least they learned from the absurd, "Catch 100 million Pokemon," thing that fell flat on its face in Gen 7.

Only things on my radar for the rest of the year at the moment are Shuten Order and Mortal Kombat and I kind of just spent a bunch of money I didn't plan on spending on some other things, so going to be pretty limited on buying games for a bit.

I'm sure it'll end up on NSO eventually, I'm content with that.

Glad it finally has a release date both so people who are interested can finally play it and so I can finally stop seeing it constantly brought up in unrelated contexts.

I might pick it up at some point but it won't be at launch, already have the game on PS5 and not really one I'm dying to have handheld so probably wait until it's pretty cheap.

Was surprising it took a hard turn into wacky there at the end, but after a few times now of doing the found footage horror thing straight no harm in just going goofy with it for once.

@AG_Awesome At least in Trilogy's case they've fixed some glitches and the load times, so wouldn't be too shocking if they do some optimizations for other games in this set as well.

@jfp It includes the GBA version of Deadly Alliance, not the console one.

I imagine the last game will be either Gold or Nitro. Can't see any chance of it being Shaolin Monks because it makes no sense to include that but not the rest of the PS2-era games; more likely it'd be grouped with those in a separate collection or as DLC.

Only PS2 era game I can see them putting in (disregarding the already confirmed GBA ones) is Unchained and that's just because PSP is easier to emulate than PS2.

@Dom_31 One World's reactions were kind of mixed and Winds of Anthos was generally pretty well-liked. The general consensus seems to be that each one improves on the last, just they kind of started in the gutter so took awhile to get to a state of decent.

Winds of Anthos was received pretty well, so hopefully this can build off of that. Even if it isn't the true Story of Seasons the more solid options in the genre that there are to pick from the better.

I'll never understand why Nintendo controllers put Y on the side and X on the top. It just feels completely backwards with the whole X and Y axis thing.