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Re: Feature: Every Pokémon Game Narrative, Ranked From Best To Worst

Manah

It doesn't even matter if the story in SWSH is good or bad, because you don't get to be part of it. Every time something moderately interesting happens, you get a bunch of NPCs swooping in and telling you to just continue your challenge. Makes me wonder if the people responsible for this know what "protagonist" means.

XY just felt like they were making a gen 1 remake and halfway through the game someone remembered that games have stories, then they slapped on a half-baked exposition textbox with a giant old man model and called it a day.

Re: Nintendo Switch Online Missions And Rewards: August 2022 - Animal Crossing, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Manah

@BooJoh
I could keep up pretty well with just the site missions and Mario Run, as long as we got AC and one other game every month and a special game every other. Now we'll likely have two special months in a row thanks to Splatoon, and next year we'll lose the 30 weekly points from logging into the eShop... and I really can't dedicate more phone space and time to the bigger games. I can only hope they'll slow down again eventually.

At least the Splatoon demo should count as another 100 point mission.

Re: Review: Gal*Gun: Double Peace - One To Avoid Playing On Public Transport

Manah

@Tom-Massey
Sounds like it was initially refused a rating (which isn't quite the same as being banned) but as of now, it's available on the eShop, rated USK18. I'm not sure if anything has been altered/censored, the shop on the console lists a much later June 2019 release, but the rating is higher than the standard USK16 for this type of game.

https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Nintendo-Switch/Gal-Gun-2-1350585.html

Re: Random: No, Your Wii Isn't Going To Self-Destruct

Manah

There's being uninformed about the finer details of gaming and there's low comprehension of how technology works, but please don't tell me anyone genuinely believed a device will "burst into flames" and "melt" and "shoot parts across the room" 😟

Re: Poll: Do You Think Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Have Eye Issues?

Manah

The boy has got to be the most boring trainer design I've ever seen, and now the girl got dragged into that too. Hopefully both will get good and varied customization options this time around.

As for the cat, I don't understand the obsession with perfect symmetry and likely never will.

Re: 'Missions And Rewards' Added To Nintendo Switch Online

Manah

I just hope they'll circle back in like the badges on 3DS. Not sure if it's possible to earn enough points to keep up with weekly changes and several hundred Animal Crossing characters (and just wait until they get to Pokemon...)

It's not like platinum points are needed for anything else, the missions barely take any effort, and judging by the AC icons there's a decent chance to get access to avatars of less popular chatacters if you happen to have more obscure favorites. Seems like the only real problem with it is that it isn't the other things people want?

Re: Amazingly, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Is Nintendo's Only UK Christmas Number 1 Since 1984

Manah

It might have been a joke, but I just started playing Ocarina of Time for the first time and the "overworld" (really just a hub room) is the single most annoying overworld I've ever encountered. It makes me actively avoid traveling between places and exploring, which is kind of the opposite of what I want to feel in a Zelda game (usually I go wherever I can as soon as I can, and take note of intetesting places, here I'm just like "eh, I'll come back later when I have all the tools")

Without the novelty of being the first 3D Zelda with a generous helping of nostalgia, I really don't see the hype.

Re: Feature: Psychologists Talk Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 And Keeping Fun Ahead Of FOMO

Manah

Every time I read and article like this, or that people can't do mothing for ten minutes without getting seriously nervous or thatmore specific thing about how people with glucose monitors getting too stressed out should "only" check every 15 minutes, my brain just nopes out. I'm not even that old. But apparently I'm mentally lagging behind so much that I never even entered that mindset and thus can't comprehend it at all. It's just sad that people have to be (re)taught to figuratively breathe.