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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.

@eldersnake Yeah, I kind of agree the more I look at them, the characters clash with the more realistic environments in a way they don't with the more simplified ones.

There are plenty of Pokemon I just choose to ignore the official pronunciation for because they sound dumb. Always going to say Ar-see-us, Ruh-kwah-zuh, and Kee-oh-gree.

I checked out Ninjala when it came out but very quickly was kind of hit with a wave of, "But nah though," by how obscene its pricing is. Feels like there's a lot to like about it but just not for me.

Mostly Iwakura Aria but I'll probably also do another run of the Silent Hill 2 remake. Been also on and off playing the original Super Mario RPG.

@Narrator1 Furfrou's actually been shown off to be in this game ever since the first announcement trailer, though remains to be seen how the haircuts work.

Actually every Pokemon not previously in a Switch game has been shown to be in this one, though still decent odds might not be able to transfer every Pokemon into a Switch game since the only one Alolan Rattata is in is LGPE.

@tho_mi Yeah, Hundred Line is the big reason I'm day one on this one. I was pretty iffy about it going in, after disliking World's End Club and being pretty, "Eh, it's fine," on Rain Code, but that game put me firmly in, "I'll follow Kodaka to the ends of the earth," territory.

Really looking forward to the game, and I like that it looks wholly unlike anything else Kodaka's really done, though I do feel like even if it turns out amazingly it's kind of doomed to forever live in Hundred Line's shadow coming out so close to it.

I might end up shelling out for either ARMS or the Age of Calamity DLC, not sure. Kind of things I consider every time they're on sale but have yet to take the plunge on, though isn't helping that I ended up getting Iwakura Aria so not super looking to buy more games right now.

Though ARMS is so routinely easy to find cheaper physically that I might just end up going that route on that one.

@FishyS I've also been sitting on a voucher expiring in January I'm kind of just waiting for a use for. Probably going to end up dropping it on Xenoblade X, Mario Tennis, ARMS, or Bayonetta 2.

Been really conscious of how long it's been since there's been a new game, but really not feeling this one. Last Pokemon game I skipped was Gen 3 but between me not really particularly liking PLA, how little they've actually been showing of this thing, and the apparent lack of actually adding new Pokemon I think it's very unlikely I'll bother with this one. Maybe if my roommate ends up going for it but even then not sure I'd actually bother to invest the time into it.

I rented the original back in the day and didn't care for it so not super interested myself but hope it delivers for people who have been looking forward to it.

Bit surprising given there've been rumors of an Abyss port for awhile and it's a pretty obvious omission, would've figured it would be next.

I ended up picking up Iwakura Aria, probably last thing I'll get until Shuten Order.

@Elitepatriot At least in NA at the moment the game is on sale.

I'd kind of rather just have 7 instead.

@N00BiSH Largely the same structure - alternating between Popo and Nana, have the hammer replace the pickaxe, base the various enemies more off Ice Climber ones and add more new things along that vibe, have the condor in place of Wingo, that kind of thing - but going more snow / mountain-themed with the levels. Wouldn't really bare any resemblance to the original Ice Climber granted but the pieces are there for it to be a Kid Icarus Uprising-style reinvention of a largely forgotten game, and while the lack of jumping might be out of place I can kind of justify it under the logic the jumping in Ice Climber is some of the worst I've ever seen in a game anyway.

I missed the windows for the demo so if I do it'll be after it's been out for a bit and there's a consensus on it being good.

It's a very, "Yeah, this is a fun way to kill some time," game. Not going to blow you away but it's a pleasant little way to keep yourself distracted.

Though my hot take is that - with the knowledge it was originally going to be a Zelda game - it should've actually been a reinvention of Ice Climber.

Japan's okay, but the international one gives much more of a taste of the wide array of cast diversity which is one of the key appeals of these games.

@Bobb Doesn't seem like that is even a particularly unique phenomenon, there's Persona 4 fanart in the data for Persona 5 for some reason.

See also how in the original release of Ultimate the Masked Man's Spirit was a fan edit from DeviantArt instead of the actual original sprite.

Seems a little odd they also redesigned Lugia but better safe than sorry and think both of these look better than what they replaced anyway.

As someone who's opinion on fishing minigames is, "Before you put one in your game take a step back, ask if you should, and realize the answer is no literally 100% of the time," this'd be a hard pass for me.

The wood block thing is neat but this app seems like it'd have novelty for about eight seconds.

Pass for me, got the game as a gift and thought it was okay but not okay enough I want to spend any of my own money on it. Kind of just not a game that does it for me.

I wish they'd put it up on the eShop, been feeling the gap since SV so I kind of want to be convinced to get this one but really not at all sold on it so far.

PQube's shown up in these things before so I'll hope we finally get word on the Death Match Love Comedy translation that was announced nine months ago and there hasn't been a word about since.

@McBurn Still completely pathetic and disgusting to do. Something being legally justifiable doesn't mean it is morally.

Yeah, at least personally not sure I really see the point in a remake of a game that had pretty middling word of mouth to begin with less than a decade later, especially since at least personally I actually think the original looks better than what they're doing with this one.

Might pick up ARMS and / or the Age of Calamity DLC, both have been kind of, "Ehhhh, maybe," for me for awhile and there's nothing else on the horizon I'm super interested in until Shuten Order.

Might pick up Grand Bazaar and Shantae on sale, not anything on my radar at launch. Didn't like Forgotten Land enough to want to spend more money on it.