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@Olrun In Japan are also cafés and pubs based on many other mangas/ animes, mascots and games. Dragon Quest even has its own island theme park for example and Monster Hunter has a section in Universal Japan before Mario did. It does not really mean that Nintendo is more than its games for that matter.

A 35 euro DLC for a buggy 60 euro game is a way to win back disenchanted fans? If that does not sound ridiculous, I am not sure what does. We all know that the DLC is for the people who will buy anything with the name Pokémon slapped on it regardless and not the disenchanted fans or people who are money conscious.

@Samalik Ah ok, so Platinum only has a license to use it, while Nintendo still owns it. Thanks for the info. Grasshopper may be in the same situation as Platinum with killer7 then.

@fenlix Grasshopper did release the PC remaster of Killer 7 in 2018 without capcom as a publisher. It was released with NIS America Inc. as the publisher, so Grasshopper may own more rights at the moment. Maybe it is like the Wonderful 101 with Platinum that was first owned by Nintendo but not anymore.

@Chaotic_Neutral Suda51 and Grasshopper are not involved in the Lollipop chainsaw remake.

I hope there will be more information about Hotel Barcelona, the game he is working on with Swery.

I haven't really been following Pokémon news recently, but I honestly thought that Home support has already been part of the game for a while now. The more I read about the games the more rushed they seem to be.

@Xansies Without the glaring problems it likely will be the best Pokémon since black and white, true. Still that also is not exactly that high of an achievement in my opinion. Most other RPGs evolved far more than Pokémon has done in that time-span. Even without all those giant performance issues are most of the shops just basic menus and mainly consist of a sandwich shop or clothes shop. I am not sure what I would rate the game myself, since I did not play it but I also saw enough footage of it to know that it won't be worth my time.

Still my point mainly was that it should not be rated a 7 with all its issues when they judge Sonic Frontiers and this far more harshly (and far more other games if they are niche or are originally a franchise from a competitor). Sonic Frontiers surely does not deserve the 4, if Scarlet and Violet are a 7.

@KaiserGX Yep same, I also come a lot less often to this site nowadays. I like having the news about upcoming games and stuff on one place, but there so many of those random articles in between for some time now.

You certainly are also right about the reviewer not seeming to know what kind of game they are actually reviewing. Some reviews seem more like personal preferences than actual reviews. I still remember that Silver Case review getting a 3, because the reviewer did not like the art-style and considered the characters unlikeable.

@Zeroo If that is your response, then it will not be worth giving any more comments to be honest. Nintendo Life certainly is the best review site for you if you got Nintendo bias.

@Zeroo Pokémon Scarlet and Violet getting a 7 while both Sonic Frontiers and this getting 4s says enough to me.

The reviews of this site seem to be more and more clickbait. Nintendo Life often seems to have the lowest scores if it is a bit niche and not published by Nintendo and often the highest if it is.

@Gerudo_Guy So if the original article had more than 1 author and just change the set to a mention of a team while you fully name the editors it is fine. It only matters if it was a singular author to you. I gotcha.

@Gerudo_Guy Well the old names also are now replaced with a general team credit right? If the first authors were part of that mentioned team then it pretty much is the same is it not?

@Gerudo_Guy The original statement also mentioned adding “This article was originally brought to you by the “Nintendolife team” " or did you miss that part?

@Gerudo_Guy I am not sure if you know what a remaster is. It is building on the fundation of the old code, just like editing an atricle. Almost all of the original work is the base of a remaster. So why is the one plagiarism and the other not?

@XenoShaun I know it was originally a PS Vita game, but this article compares the framerate to the ps4 version. Which makes sense that the Switch compares a bit worse to.
I don't really see how 1080p and largely 60fps, with moments of 30 fps is a screw up. I don't think the vita version ran better than that.

@ModdedInkling Can you really call the PS4 weaker hardware compared to the Switch?

I don't see how any of those cons are really cons? The dual protagonists sounds more like a very personal opinion and Dragon Quest always was kid-friendly. The harder draconian mode in XI was even released as an extra in the localisation. I wonder why Pokémon never got those kind of cons and still got high ratings considering scarlet and violet are only 1 point lower, but that shows the bias of the reviews on this site in general.

I honestly did not expect more Rise ports after the PC version, but the more the merrier. I have no problem with more consoles having the option to get it.

@Savage_Joe Project X Zone released years after Monolith soft was bought by Nintendo, so his remark still stands.

@FirstEmperor I don't really see anyone shaming you in the first place. The sheeple remark of SonOfDracula seemed more like a general statement about a group of fans who just buy anything that they yearly churn out and deny all of the flaws of the series. It was not about every costumer. If you consider that a personal attack then that is more on you.

I myself would like the series to improve, but I expect this won't happen with the current numbers. For that example with Mario Kart you know for sure there will eventually come a next instalment that will more than likely be as good or maybe even better than the previous one. For Pokémon you know that they will release 1 or even more games a year with likely as much or even less quality or in a very special case "a step in the right direction". I also don't think that anyone on both sides really thinks it can fail. Even when it sells less than normal it outsells almost every franchise on the system.
Since the series is also the biggest multimedia franchise of the world it will have more fans and exposure in general so you will also see more "whining" about it.

I occasionally comment about it, but that is more often as a response. However I got past the point to really care that much. Most Pokémon games are below my standards, so I skip them. I hope they will improve enough to get a game near the levels of Dragon Quest XI S or other RPGs, but I don't expect that in the near future.

@FirstEmperor I mean literally in its literal sense and thank you for correcting my spelling. I am dyslexic and not a native English speaker so I appreciate the thought.
Are you also able to elaborate on that "no"?

@FirstEmperor So you are trying to validate your own opinnion by mocking and laughing at people who consider your opinnion bad? Isn't that literally doing the same thing as the group you try to crticize?

@Hero-of-WiiU I really want to know how the game would have reviewed if it did not have the Pokémon name attached to it. However both scenarios are ones we will never find out.

@Jeronan I also played CP2077 on day one myself on the PC. I also enjoyed it and did not have that many issues myself. Only some bugs here and there. Really liked the feel and world of the game. I heard most problems were on last gen systems. I also consider the outcry that CD Project Red got a bit overboard. However it did help improving the game and the view on it. Right now most people consider it a good finished game as far as I know which is deserved.
Hope the same outcry will come to Pokémon, but I sadly doubt it.

This basically shows what is wrong with the industry. Marketing has far more effect than quality nowadays. People can't seem to think for themselves anymore.

I hope many of those will be unhappy customers like Cyberpunk 2077 to make a change, but I doubt it since most of them are little kids or have the mentality as such.

I wonder if they will judge Pokémon as hard on a technical level as this game when that gets reviewed, but I doubt it. If Nintendo made the game then the reviews always seem to be far more positive.

@Yosher They did add the paypal option in the Netherlands very recently (if the location on your profile is correct). You do need to have your paypal account verified with a credit card or IBAN though.

@Kienda I don't think those 450 million are profits and even high for actually the income of the games. Every Bayonetta struggled to get even 2 million sales. If we consider those 2 million per game are full priced for $60 I doubt that they can get to 450 million dollar for profits alone. With this I don't even take the sales and discounts of the games in consideration.

@KnightAnon Yep I also noticed it, tried to log in at the time but got an error. The site went back down right after so was just too late.

@LinkVsGanon I am Dutch and have checked the Dutch store yesterday for about half a day regularly. The site was down for sure. I expect the English version is what most editions are anyway. In Europe are many languages not translated since in general most play the English version. The store is likely managed in general for Europe anyway.

@Yakamo74 Not just UK, it is the whole of Europe.

It is incomprehensible how the company with the best selling console has a webshop that is down for at least half a day because it has a pre-order for goodies of a sort of niche JRPG.

And the site is down again! It showed a pre-order for me for a second but it gave a bunch of errors while logging in.

As someone who loves Splatoon I never understood the time-gated content. The maps and ranked modes still seem to rotate every 2 hours. I think there should just be some vote system like Mario Kart 8 or any other game. I also don't understand why turf-war is the only unranked mode outside of private battles. Every mode should have a unranked option if you ask me.

@sanderev Most subscription / expansion based games also have a F2P model don't they? Pretty sure FF 14 has a rather generous free trial. World of Warcraft has their first 20(? I think) levels for free, Runescape has a part of the map for free while having the whole map and more skills available with the subscription etc. The subscription and expansion model pretty much was the first profitable F2P model that started it all.

I think Pokémon will probably be the best for the model. Making some kind of massive MMORPG like FF 14 and such. Actually building on top of what already exists instead of your yearly rushed games that all throw their own gimmicks in it.

@demacho Since there is no actual confirmation on Shiver's gender it is the truth isn't it? Many here already seem to assume that Shiver is non-binary without confirmation. It is funny because it is true.

@PBandSmelly Does that not imply that you consider the male or female gender as some kind of spectrum which reinforces gender stereotypes?

Since there is no real confirmation other than there not being any gender referenced yet does this not mean that some of the fanbase are assuming Shiver's gender?

I am fine with the changes and will likely get it day 1 since Splatoon is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises. However I was hoping for some more new modes. The tricolor turf war looks very fun, but if it will only be playable during splat fests it seems like wasted potential. Once there will be no splat fests anymore then the mode will almost be unplayable. I also miss the night stages in 2 which they should have added to random matches after the splat fests ended. The card game does not do much for me. I don't play Splatoon for the minigames.

The Metal Raths aren't really from World. They debutten in Monster Hunter G on the PS2 and have been in many games after that.

@Dilly-Mick The cities and other stuff look pretty good. I may give it a try if more information about the regular open world is known. I hope the series will become near most other recent RPGs in quality. Right now I will just wait.

@ArceusSupremacy In the trailers so far including this one it mainly showed open fields with some pokémon walking around. If we look at the last few pokémon games I doubt the world will be that fun to explore.

@ArceusSupremacy So far the open world still looked rather empty. I don't really care about games with open worlds that are just empty fields with nothing to explore. If there are no real points of interest or secrets in then they would just be a waste of time.

Looks better than I expected it to be. I am still concerned about the world though. Hope it will not just be some open fields to explore and actually have many points of interest and secrets to discover.
Am not the biggest fan of the crystal Pokémon yet. Would like that they actually stay with a certain gimmick that they flesh out in the upcoming games instead of a new one each time.

I hope to see more of the overworld and that it will be worth it and fun to explore. From the last trailer it looked rather dull and empty. Hope it will be improved. At this moment looks Sonic Frontiers more promising so far in my opinnion. I hope I will be pleasantly surprised otherwise I will likely skip it.

@Silly_G The original Monster Hunter Rise is the same price second hand as the base game of Sword/Shield here, so I would say that they keep the same value. Maybe later in time that will change, but that is just conjecture. I guess the only difference at the moment is the combi pack being full on the cartridge for Pokémon, but I don't consider that 30 euro extra myself in this age where games get many bug fixes and updates after release as downloads regardless.

I actually went for the Steam version of Sunbreak myself since I prefer my download games on PC if I got the chance so I get your point. The Switch certainly does not have the best Online structure, even though most games for it depend on it.

@Silly_G Capcom also released a combi pack of the base game with the dlc for a more standard price of 60-70 euro (depends on where you buy it of course). Not sure what the price is in Australia since I don't live there. They did the same with World Iceborn which also had its own release in combination with it just being dlc for older players.
Edit: Also it is far less expensive than the combi pack for Pokémon Sword + DLC here which costs 90 euro.

@KindofaBigDeal Well you just gave a source. The editor of that Spanish Gaming Magazine is a source, not a leaker. They get the intel often under oath, since they are meant to write about the directs. This one hinted on some of the intel he got during a live stream he did about a plague tale, No Mans Sky and FromSoftware titles (so not even about a direct). It was probably in the spur of the moment during the stream that he slipped his info. Hope it won't give him big consequences since it is not that long before the direct itself.