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There are definitely a couple of good "Pokemon clones" available right now which is good. And while none of them managed to give me as much enjoyment as the mainline Pokemon games the increasing competition in the genre is much appreciated.

@Axecon COD existing is exactly why I find the Splatoon situation so weird. For years we have had people complaining about new COD games (much of the mock coming from Nintendo fans no doubt) but when it comes to Splatoon it is suddenly okay to release sequels that barely qualify as games that can stand on their own. I can't help but feel like there is a lot of Nintendo bias at play here.

Either way, I hope the people getting it will enjoy it but I have had my fill of Splatoon with the first two games. Nothing screams "I must play this over the other 2 games" from what I have seen apart from the fact that you are finally able to skip the annoying announcement section upon booting up the game (which is something that shouldn't have taken 3 games to implement to begin with ...)

Double Dash and it is still my favourite to this day

I am shocked ... not. If it weren't for The Office I would have canceled my Netflix sub a while ago. Maybe it is time to shell out for some DVDs ...

I agree with him 100%

The only story that isn't terrible is the one in BW/BW2

They admittedly put a bit more efforts into the visuals this time but overall the tracks still scream "Mario Kart Tour" to me and that style just clashes too much with the gorgeous artstyle of MK8. Also, there are still no anti-grivity features in any of the tracks which is just lazy. It's been so long since we got a new MK game and seeing these half-hearted tracks just isn't going to cut it for me.

Ah yes, Baby Park. Remember the frustrating feeling of getting hit by a Blue Shell at the last lap and then going from first place to something like 5th place right at the end of the race? Baby Park is exactly that only that the frustration lasts for 7 laps. I understand that Mario Kart is also a party racer but I personally enjoy the competitive aspects of the series and being rewarded for learning the controls, items and maps. Baby Park being almost completely reliant on RNG just isn't fun to me.

The questionable development cycle coupled with the lack of reviews makes me very hesitant to dive into this one. Then there is Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to get aswell once I make some dent into my backlog ... there's just too many games to play for me right now unfortunately

Interesting considering I never liked the design of Blaziken. Like, I freaking love Swampert and Sceptile but Blaziken always dragged down the overall quality of the Gen 3 starters for me

I used to play this with my sister all day back in the day. I just played up to the elite four and it is as addicting as I remember it to be.

I love me some rythm games and adding fanservice on top of it is a nice bonus. Need to hear some of the available music first though since that is the most important aspect of a rythm game to me. The price seems kind of high aswell.
I'll keep an eye out for it. Also, the Nice! Totally Relaxed! mode is funny

Getting back into Rise with the expansion reminded me just how impressive the game is on a technical level. Capcom deserves all the sales for their efforts.

I still don't get the appeal of V-Tubers but it's great for those who are fans of both, Sonic and the V-Tuber, I suppose

Hhm, I might finally be able to finish a run with these new options now

"In November, over 1300 Activision Blizzard signed a petition demanding Kotick's resignation". Activision Blizzard ... employees? Fans? There seems to be a word missing in this sentence.

@AmplifyMJ I just think many of these bullet points are weird and feel very forced. "Having played them before" in the review of re-release of games and "fanservice might not be for everyone" in the review of a fanservice games and "arcade soccer might not be for everyone" in an arcade soccer game review are just very very weird. If the reviewer can't come up with a "real" negative then they shouldn't be forced to come up with one anyway.

Seems to be heavily "inspired" by Hollow Knight ^^. Either way, I love Okami and they definitely nailed the aesthic of it so I will keep an eye out for it

I like Nintendo for constantly trying to think outside of the box with their consoles but for once I think simply going with a "Switch 2" with full backwards compatibility would be for the best

Mostly Switch Sports and Rune Factory 5 for me like the last weeks. I also bought Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+ 2 during the sale and playing it has given me quite the rush of Nostalgia.

Funny considering the first game is largely to blame for the uprise of lootboxes with its raving fanboys that justified them as "offering only cosmetics".

Gen 8 is right up there with Gen 2 and Gen 5 among my favourite generations. Definitely felt like a return to form for me after the rather lackluster 3DS games

Really digging that artwork. I still have to get around to actually playing River City Girls though

Please be Dragon's Dogma 2. The first game desperately needs a sequel

@LexKitteh Ikr, that was like the best title screen song ever. I'll never understand why they changed it

Lucent Nargacuga?! This brings back so many happy hunting memories of MH3U, can't wait!

Switch Sports, Rune Factory 5 and Mario Strikers Battle League Football for me this weekend

I've been enjoying my weekly Switch Sports sessions on the weekend whenever a new item set gets released. Fun game!

Gen 8 had some of the best designs in the franchise so I never understood the hate he got. Anyway, with Turner leaving and Masuda moving away from GF to TPC there seem to be some major changes happening within GameFreak. The impact will probably be noticable in whatever comes next after Violet/Scarlet.

Lechonk is already destined to be a part of my playthrough team

I am grinding out the rest of the missing items in Switch Sports. I will also make some more progress in Rune Factory 5.

My nephew and niece will be delighted I am sure

@DiggleDog Ah that makes sense, thanks for the information.

This looks a lot better to me than SF5. Something about the character models in SF5 looked super ugly to me.

Is it too late to cancel my preorder?

Probably for the best for him. I'd imagine it's hard to create masterpieces like FF9 working for modern SquareEnix and their focus on GaaS and mobile games.

Nice to see that this is fixed so I won't have any issues when I'll get around to playing it. Just finished TLoZ OoT and MM on NSO without any issues whatsoever. With savestates and the Pro Controller, NSO is the definitive way of playing N64 games for me

I can only hope this flops hard.

This game was definitely one of the worst gaming purchases I have done in recent years. Barebones in terms of content yet full of microtransactions. It's hilarious to see them dialing back the grind associated with the microtransactions with every new patch.

It's way better than the 3DS and WiiU eshop. The only thing missing is a basket which for some reason is available for DLC but not for the games themselves...

Most complaints can easily be solved by using DekuDeals which I highly recommend everyone to make frequent use of.

Complaining about extra content and updates heavily seems like a "you" issue to me. Dead Cells is a singleplayer game that is meant to be played over and over again. It doesn't matter if you "can't catch up" to people who have been playing longer than you. The same goes for MMOs. They NEED updates or else they can't retain a playerbase. If you are that worried about being left behind, many MMOs offer level skips/content skips to get you up to speed.
The only time I can see constant updates being an issue are the GaaS games with rotating shop items and battle passes like Gran Turismo 7 as was already mentioned or Chocobo GP. While that model sucks even more for new players, it is bad for every player - new or old.

I have not played all of them but from the ones I have played I'd rank them like this:
Hyrule Warriors > Age of Calamity > Fire Emblem Warriors.
Hyrule Warriors was already a blast on WiiU but with the changes and additions from the 3DS version they made the game even better.

Getting lots of Xenoblade Chronicles X vibes from these screenshots and I love it!

While I personally am not vision impaired, I think a "colorblind" mode should be in every modern gaming release.
I also think Animal Crossing New Horizons having some bugs that can only be located via audio cues is very questionable. Deaf people pretty much cannot catch all bugs unless they want to dig up their entire island in the respective months.

Also, gotta agree with previous posters that this article is weird. "A very refreshing take on the Pokémon series" doesn't really have anything to do with accessibility. The article may have been in good faith but doesn't really deliver on what it sets out to do.

@cyrus_zuo Yeah, I also like the game for what it is. Plus the online performance may actually be Nintendo's best efforts so far. I had a few issues of "could not connect to other consoles" so far but other than that the online is flawless even when playing football with 7 other players. Kinda puts titles like Smash Bros Ultimate to shame when it comes to online performance.

This game actually delivers exactly what I expected from it: a relatively shallow/barebones collection of sports games that I won't be playing for multiple hours at a time but rather will be playing from time to time for the years to come. In that sense it reminds me of Clubhouse 51, a game that I really enjoy playing for a few minutes from time to time.

That said, I gotta echo what many others have already said: stop with the drip feeding approach already. Yes, it worked well with Splatoon on WiiU but that was a very different situation. Ever since then they seem to make this their go to design approach when releasing games with online play (Tennis Aces, Golf Super Rush, New Horizons, Splatoon 2, Switch Sports, ...) but this just leads to games feeling barebones at launch. Nintendo games used to be one of the few games worth picking up at launch without feeling like you are getting screwed over for being an early adopter. This is slowly starting to change, at least when it comes to their online games ...

That box art looks great and actually serves as an incentive to go physical for me. I'll still wait for reviews though, the messy development cycle makes me wary.

Finally! I've been waiting for this expansion for quite a while now

This looks really good

I have never been interested in Kirby games but I hope the people getting it are going to enjoy it.

I really like the new group feature and I especially like the ability to have games in multiple groups. This will make local multiplayer sessions a lot more comfortable in the future. Between this and the recent addition of missions/profile icons I am pretty content