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450 would have been fine, but 469€ are over $500 for the base version. I'm good with my Switch 1, thanks.

The absolute last thing I want to do in my games is look at people.

I think a manual of some sort will do just fine.

Sakurai fans had meltdowns over chairs.

I should start posting emojis under other people's speculations, might be fun.

@Princess_Lilly
It's not that they were trying to hide it or act like nothing ever happened. Quite the opposite, if shoehorning WW2 and the Holocaust into every single class when I went to school is any indicator. Really, it was everywhere. Fiction, nonfiction, the entire range from good to terrible beating you over the head with it so much it made you want to sue someone for assault. To this day I refuse to read anything even mildly WW2-flavored that isn't explicitly autobiographical because it was THAT bad at times. (That was in the early 2000s though, when people were actually serious about never letting it happen again; current politics make me wonder.)

I'm not how much of this still applies since I tend to stay away from most fiction, but it's simply that these depictions were (are?) allowed in art nd education, and at least back then, video games were considered neither. No idea about the reasons for separate releases in 2019, but it could be the violence. For some reason, Germany is really allergic to video game blood being red.

@Princess_Lilly
What can be depicted in video games can get a little wild sometimes. Even one of the Wolfenstein games from a few years ago had a separate German version, though both that and the international version were available on our eShop.

The Nazi chapter was cut from the Germna version of the original so the game was impossible to finish. Hopefully we get the full game this time.

Famously, people in the West understand the concept of baseball players better than that of checks notes an ordinary child (which seems to be a very Japanese concept)

I sold my pink Gameboy Pocket as a teen after I got a GBC and I regret it to this day. Never again.

Isn't it common for retailers to list announced products with placeholder dates and prices? Sure, people are excited for this one in particular, but it's certainly not something that only started happening "now."

@TommyTendo There is/was a mobile game that's been around for a while.

Anyway, I was willing to give Level-5 the benefit of the doubt because Fantasy Life was my favorite 3DS game, but with them screwing over Switch players with the early access thing, the apparently increased price, and especially no physical version, I'm out. They never inspired much confidence the way they're operating and I don't feel like supporting this anymore when they so clearly don't care.

I only got an OLED Switch because the battery on my old one lasted about five minutes and I liked the design of the Zelda one, but now that I have it, I'm not downgrading unless the price is low enough that I can justify buying the same console twice for no other reason.

"and there's no way of knowing who wants what without sending a private message via another app of your choosing"

And that's why playground trading was infinitely superior even twenty years ago.

I don't think "getting anywhere fast" was ever my priority when playing a game like this. Looks like it has a lot more to do than ACNH which, if I'm honest, was a pretty big letdown after New Leaf.

Articles like this make collecting sound like one of the most miserable hobbies in the world.

@Waveboy
I get that they're probably doing it to keep the price low for a console that isn't established yet, but unfortunately I'm playing quite a lot in handheld mode and my OLED spoiled me. And I'm not one of the people who can afford to make buying consoles twice a regular habit (I only have an OLED because I really loved the design of the TOTK one and my old V1's battery barely lasted an hour playing Animal Crossing)

I like the look, but if it doesn't have an OLED screen, I'll wait. I'm not going back.

How come they all supposedly have this "more specific information" but never talk about what it is?

@Coalescence
Jib Jig is there though?

Standing around and clicking through dialogue boxes stretches the definition of "gameplay" a little

"Someone from, let's say" is a credible source these days?

What's wrong with Sam?

There are what, five of them? That's not much. 3D games one the other hand have been overdone to hell and back since they were first conceived. If something needs to take a break, it's those.

Now give me a Terranigma remake please.

I'm either looking at the wrong game, or there's nothing in there that's even remotely on the same level as games like Moero Chronicle (USK/PEGI 16) and there are quite a few physical PEGI 18 titles out there that feature full frontal nudity and more (that still have 16 versions availble on the eShop). I doubt we've gone full censorship in such a short amount of time that this gets flagged for whatever there even is to censor while the many games about touching and undressing characters are perfectly fine.

"If you only have a view of the front of a church, the AI can take what it knows from thousands of scanned churches on a global scale and essentially 'complete' the model."

So you get hypothetical average churches everywhere? I have three of those within walking distance in my town and even those look nothing alike.

Would have been better if the incentive to use different echoes came from the game itself, but being able to use different solutions usually meant there was one "best" echo for everything. And maybe they should havd cut down on the bloat that is completely useless echoes. What do we need four different jar designs for? I was sure there would at least be a side quest involving those, but no.

@LXP8
Nope, it's not the arrows, it's one of the bomb bag upgrades that's unavailable in the EU version for some reason.

I liked both of them and if I ever get back to my series playthrough I'll 100% them again. I'm much more bothered by the European version missing an upgrade and one of the fusions being bugged.

What was supposed to be confusing about it? Big handheld device that you could take places and also put in a thing to connect it to a TV. Seemed straightforward enough to me?

@fenlix
Yeah, what was up with that? I've seen the same sentiment on other sites too. Now that I've played a bit, it's definitely the kind of game I want to play as blind as possible, but like, in a normal experiencing the game for myself way, not the "whatever you do, don't look up a single thing about this game!!" way seemingly everyone has been pushing.

I can't say for sure if I have battery issues or if it was just the specific games I played in handheld since the update (more likely, the second round of ACNH was fine) but I definitely had issues with extremely slow download speeds the past week.

I am so using this bed icon.

They're really bringing everything back. Now I'm almost starting to hope we might get Wild Arms at some point too.

Really? I have heard of the Beatles.

Can they maybe not announce new games before they finish a few of the old ones?

Leave my Slosher alone.

It's nice that we can get on the float now, I never even got into 100x battles in most Splatfests. But my favorite part is the scales in capsules. Getting to a boss in the random queue is a pain.

Gotta keep my old copy around for nostalgia purposes, but the more Suikoden games, the better. Hopefully these are successful enough to port the rest of the series as well.

And here I thought Level 5 finally got their act together after the atrocious localization times of the 3DS era. Sigh.

Between this and the Suikoden remasters, it's kind of funny both my unrealistic pipe dreams got announced in the same year only to get delayed for who knows how long...

@fenlix
It's probably not too bad though, it's USK 16 in Germany and our ratings are usually very strict when it comes to violence.

So you have to own the pack first and send it to them? I don't think that's going to help with picking which ones to purchase, or am I missing something?

And I don't know about other countries, but back when I still bought cards, stores didn't give you free access to the packs. If that's still the case, portable scanners wouldn't help much either.

And the whole idea sounds absurd anyway. Not to mention screwing regular buyers over, but who cares about that when there's money to be made.

I tried to order it the first time (and never got notified of the restock despite being on the mailing list) and now I don't even care enough to look up what "select retailers" might have it in my country.

Also, right after the eShop sale?

I don't "move on" I'll get the new one at some point if I like it and use it alongside all my old consoles depending on what game(s) I feel like playing.

What is it with child characters who are old enough to attend some kind of school talking like babies?

Release order.

Not signing up for anything that wants my phone number without a very good reason.

The title of this article didn't even remotely prepare me for the turn it took at the Make-a-Wish segment.

"But such design is premised on the notion of gameplay being compelling enough for you to want to do it all again."
That is my main issue with this type of game, even if it's compelling, I still hate being set back and having to repeat the things I already did.

I thought that would be my biggest problem, but.

"In Overmorrow’s second half, brief physical contact with obstacles like black holes, jellyfish, or falling into lava after making the wrong control input over a narrow dungeon path costs you an entire day."
What.

I never got any hits anywhere except one ir two when I specifically hung out at the train station for a few hours. If they do this again and lock game content behind it, hacking the damn thing is the first thing I'm going to do.

It's only 1/5 of the Lego tree and I'll definitely get more out of five games for that money.