LuXifer

All I want from my gaming sites are news, rumors, previews and reviews.

Moral grandstanding and social-political commentary has made me shy away from most gaming news sites over the years.

Yeah, nah. Grand Bazaar will be infinity better then these posers wearing Harvest Moon as a skin-suite.

I'm not always in the mood for cozy games, but when I am I want an actual quality experience.

Making me choose between Fire Emblem and Xenoblade is cruel. 😋

The price is....ok I guess. But then again we do get taken for a ride here in Norway.

But not even considering getting one until I see where the general price of games land.

If they had hall-effect sticks they'd have that info up-front and center. Improving on crappy sticks won't move the needle much.

Edit:
I stand corrected, you love to see it. 😃

Looks as comfortable and ergonomic as a plank to hold. 💢🤚⚡️

Gave away my OG Switch to my niece but getting this as soon as I get my hands on a Switch 2. 😃

Are they new sd cards backward compatible with the non-express ones? Would be great of they supported both and gave us 2 sd-card slots. One for cheap storage and another for demanding games...and an easy way to transfer files between them.

I don't mind having the flood gates open for everyone. But as you say - let us easily block/ignore devs/publishers/keywords.

And for the love of all that is unholy - have more genre tags and let us combine tags for search results. If I'm in the mood for a sci-fi mecha sRPG I don't want to wade through the eShops whole "strategy" section. 😬

@FantasiaWHT What you say are true and factual and I agree 100%. What I meant was that if Nintendo thinks that any of the code for the emulator was made by reverse engineering and reusing snippets of their own code, or even other similarities that would make Nintendo feel slighted. Then they would have enough reason, or at at least enough for their lawyers to write up a cease & desist.

Emulators are in practise legal, both to make and distribute. But the moment Nintendo can prove that the distributor makes even a single cent of what they perceive as their property, either directly or indirectly, they're out of luck.

There's no doubt that Nintendo wants all news of current-system emulators squashed as they prepare for their next generation hardware. Even if it means strong-arming, threatening and bribing the emulation community into submission. I get it, I really do. But this tactic will probably not work for very long as more and more forks of the emulators will probably pop up.

This makes my digital library very happy! 🥳

Hope they patch in the ability to enlarge text sizes sooner rather then later.🤞

That's some high praise for sure, definitely picking this up one up on the Switch 2. 🥳

I'm not buying any more Switch games until Nintendo confirms that the Switch 2 is for a fact backward compatible. So I voted "As soon as possible"

I'm all for it, remove everything that can be interpreted as sexy or hot. Make everyone gender-less potatoe people and cover them 100% up from top to bottom. 👍

We need to make a list of every persons kink and what they find attractive and force developers to remove, cover or uglify said things. Give large trigger warnings if it must occur (after being vetted by a committee of course). Make gaming safe again! ✊️

(I'm sorry for the use of hand-emojis, I know a percentage of the population finds hands sexy...oof I'll try to better myself in the future).

On a more serious note - Can't wait to play this one, it's been an embarrassing blindspot in my Xenoblade experience. The wait is almost over. 😃

Hell yeah! Been waiting for this for ages can't wait! 🥳

Sounds good to me, would love for the Mario RPG franchise to get a bit more involved without losing it's DNA.

After the recent Pokémon memes I've seen, this dosen't seem like such a tranquil and wholesome town anymore. 😅

Everyone knows that when Nintendo asks you to do something, you do it. Unless you want the Nintendo-ninjas to visit you family. 😵

I'm sure the wife would be extremely impressed* by some motion-sync'd Final Fantasy battle and victory music in bed.

*no, no she would not. 😅

Those are some lofty words for sure. But can't blame him for being creatively ecstatic after escaping the soulless Ubislop mines.

Wish them all the luck and looking forward to see what they cook up.

TBH, the only thing that stops me from getting the Zelda Lite is the lack of good hall-effect sticks. I've had enough stick-drift problems as is.

OLED seems awfully nice and all, but with the amount of tactics and somewhat static image games I play I'm still a bit worried about burn-in. Not sure if the technology has gotten better at avoiding that?

But still, no denying that it's an awesome "Ultimate Edition" of a Lite. 😃

Looks like a fun and atmospheric experience.

@Ryu_Niiyama Let's hope they've either learnt more about optimization or hired some capable help for this next one. Seems to ba a recurring thing in open world projects from small/new devs.

The most attractive edition of the Lite by far.

I tried My Time at Sandrock on the Switch some time ago and it didn't run very smoothly. So them skipping the OG is a good thing IMO.

Not my kind of game, but hope they meet the expectations of the fans.

Monolith is great studio, hope they port Chronicles X one of these days. Happy birthday, may you be successful for another 25 years. 🥳

Companies are just doing their part in making sure I keep on saving money and work on my huge backlog of amazing games. 👍

This looks so lovingly crafted, got to admire that pixel art. I'm so getting this.

I much prefer the NA version. Symmetric, informative and good design.

EU is very informative and has more eye-catching colors/contrast, but much too busy and chaotic for my taste.

JP version works if you already know who the character is, if not it just gives off "Man-in-a-tophat-the-game" vibes.

I love mecha and I love tactics, this franchise is made for me. Glad to see them continue to support the release.

I second the excitement for Front Mission 3, can't wait. 😃

@DripDropCop146 Hehe, always nice to get some reports from the multiverse.

Sad to hear Sega messed up in yet another timeline, I guess some things are constant no matter what. 😁

Great read, appreciate it.

To this day I still wonder how the gaming industry would look if Sony and Nintendo came to an agreement and actually made the Nintendo PlayStation console. 🤔

Yeah, the Switch has been squeezed to an inch of its life by now.

Yeah, there must've been some hardcore development/financial drama at Level 5 for all of these delays upon delays to make any sense.

Looks boring and safe, but as long as it has BC and someone releases some comfy/ergonomic joycons with an actual d-pad I don't really care.

@Kidfunkadelic83 At it's core it's just a souped up Harvest Moon/Story of Season game yes. It takes the best (mostly) aspects of these titles and packs it into one mega farming/time-management/social game.

Got some aspect of production optimization and light dungeon fighting. It's a chill game if that's what you're after.

As much as I love Dwarf Fortess for it's ever evolving and expanding game development. There comes a point where the scope of a game like Stardew Valley goes from being content rich to start getting bloated.

Don't get me wrong, Eric is a based developer and most of the content has been amazing. But I'm also excited for what he can cook up with that Chocolatier game now that he has the money and manpower to flex his creativity. 😃

It's a great tool for people who wants to tell a story in games, you can make slices of a game and get a feel for the flow of your story mixed with gameplay.

It can help hopeful future gamedevs to use rudimental animations and basic environmental storytelling and not to rely on walls of text.

And if your story is amazing you might even make an awesome game. 🥳

Already played it, but glad it's getting ported. Here's hoping for more ports in the future. 🥳

Looks ugly as sin, I love it! I'll definitely pick this one up, love me some tactical games.

Pokémon Gen 1-3 is my jam, got an Anbernic retro console packed full of rom hacks. Since there aren't any interest in making official 2D pixel games I'm just happy there are talented hackers stepping up and making amazing experiences. 🥳

Just finished the demo. A nice slice of gameplay. Apart from the weapon system it seemed a bit simplistic. But it does lay the foundations for some nice combos and strategies. Somewhat hand-holdy, but I did spot that you can customise quest- and map-markers in the options menu.

Sadly the amount of breasts was over-promised. 😋 So that shouldn't deter most people, unless a bit of cleavage is a no-go. Not a thirsty game as far as I can see.

I was hoping for better ergonomics and an actual d-pad, apart from that I would be ok with the specs and this design.

Bought the original back in the day for the artstyle/tone, was let down by the gameplay.

If only Atlus could include a localized remaster of SMT I & II. I'd prefer the PS1 ports but any official release on modern hardware would be amazing!

@Porky
Yeah that's the impression I got as well. Seen a few AWBW tournaments on YouTube, fun seeing people try to outsmart each other.

I'm admittedly not a Advanced Wars fan, but the art style seemed a little plasticy and cheap to me. And a lot of fans seemed disappointed that they didn't lean more into the big multiplayer scene. But I guess budgets are a thing.

Lorule, whitout a doubt. You can tell a lot of thought and creativity went into naming that world. 😋

Apart from that I'd say Termina, as it's from one of my favourite Zelda games.

Fun write-up. 👏