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Yoshi's. Woolly. World.

@Bluelink45 not really a shadow drop* if they announce a game today and it comes out in 6 months.

*not a shadow drop in the slightest

I didn't have issues with downloads not starting, but is the Switch supposed to download games so bloody slowly? With a wired connection, I get 900-920mbps down on PC. Switch with a wired connection I'm not even getting 10% that speed.

@AdolBannings-Laylee what about the first game? 'Cos I played through that (for the umpteenth time) recently and it's still a banger, in my opinion.

The only Ys game I've ever played is a demo of Ys X: Nordics and I didn't like it at all, so I'll abstain from the vote. 🤣

Because Nintendo has a big wheel in their HQ. Whenever it's time to either start work on some batsh*t thing or announce it, Miyamoto spins the wheel and whatever weird thing it lands on, that's what they do.

Sonic says: "Be hip. Get a f**king grip." 👍

GameSpot's criticism of Shadow's campaign being geared towards veteran fans seems... odd? The game's called Sonic Generations and is a celebration of/pulling from past Sonic games. Of course it's geared towards veteran fans.

Who would've guessed Nintendo was getting into erotic visual novels?

@HammerGalladeBro the US thinks America is only the US.

We'd love to be able to scan a Captain Falcon for the F-Zero theme

Or get Falcon Punched out of bed if you hit snooze one too many times.

I like the idea of this being somebody's first The Legend of Zelda game; they play as Zelda, they have a good time... then they go back to older games or play the next one and they're given control of Link and are like, "who's this p***k?!".

The Sonic Central presentation turned out to be a whole load of nothing then. It was disappointing even by Sonic standards.

@Elbow it's everything you want from a Sonic Mania 2... but all the music was ripped straight from Sonic the Hedgehog 4.

Hello. We're proud to reveal that we pulled our heads out of our arses and got the people who made Sonic Mania to make another one.

The amount of people everywhere confusing patent infringement with copyright is alarming.

Now I'm no big city lawyer

(everyone gasps)

But it seems to me that this lawsuit goes deeper than the surface level "Palworld looks just like Pokémon" story that has been at the forefront of pretty much all Palworld coverage since the game was announced. If that was Nintendo's case, then surely

1. It would've gone after every creature collecting game under the sun. Palworld, Cassette Beasts, Nexomon, Coromon, TemTem, etc.
2. It wouldn't have taken this long for Nintendo to pursue legal action against PocketPair.

Patent infringement, to me anyway, implies that there's something else going on. Maybe it's the actual stealing and modification of Pokémon in-game assets? Maybe it goes even deeper; maybe there's code that was lifted from Pokémon games?

Again, I'm no game developer and I'm no lawyer, but I don't believe that Nintendo would've taken this long to file a lawsuit against PocketPair for the kind of surface level stuff that people are assuming.

ASS?!?! WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?

He's not wrong. I would much rather play a game that takes at most 15 hours to finish. I'll have to really be into a game to put more time than that into it.

Yeah, I know, opinions and all that. But I just saw how low they scored Earthworm Jim 2 on Mega Drive and now I feel sick.

@wiiware

Because braid is no longer available on the steam store 😅

I just checked and you're right! What an absolute arsehole move.

I feel like if you wanted to play Braid, on Steam anyway, you would just... buy Braid? I never understood why this game was getting an anniversary edition in the first place. The original is still perfectly playable and still gorgeous to look at. Why would I buy the Anniversary Edition over the original, which is cheaper and still fine?

Did somebody at Nintendo R&D just wake up from a coma?

Surely anybody who seriously cares about games running at or above 60fps wouldn't be playing games on Switch in the first place?

Damn, I saw this and rushed over to the UK store, and the one that I wanted (Joker) was out of stock.

"Avengers level events" 🤣 Look, I like those Sonic movies, but come on.

@Ogbert I brought the situation to NL's attention some time ago; the mismanagement, the almost complete lack of communication, the lot. They don't seem bothered 🤷

@Ogbert the entire development cycle of this game really has been a rollercoaster ride of mismanagement and scumbaggery, hasn't it? It might seem harsh to say, considering the current situation regarding layoffs in the games industry, but Atooi - and most of all, "Jools" - don't deserve to see any success from this game. May it crash and burn.

What about the Pokémon Sleep World Championships?

This one was my favourite.

"Hopes to avoid Nintendo's wrath"? They're bloody inviting it with a name like that.

I didn't see the first one yet. I will get around to it one day.

"My family comes first".

Or, "I'm jumping off the tracks before the Nintendo Litigation Express™ arrives".

Damn, they missed The Game Awards. Maybe next year, HERO GAME.

@PJOReilly

we were also very good at mimicking the mating call of a Gallimimus, but perhaps that's a story for another time

Um, no. That's a story for now. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we need to hear the call.

Sorry, but how is a framerate that fluctuates between 30 and 50fps "stable" exactly?

Spoilers related to the game's story could be circulating on YouTube, social media and elsewhere in the coming days.

He goes fast.

Well if Famitsu says it's good... 🙄

Also @dartmonkey can we add the word "allegedly" to the headline of this article? And the byline. And several times throughout the article itself?

It seems apt, given Jools' track record.

I've been waiting for this article to drop (backers were emailed a Kickstarter update about the release date an hour early) just so I can come say:

Jools is a joke and shouldn't be supported.

@dartmonkey you've got Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 release year on N64 as 2022. Not sure that's wholly accurate 🤣

"Can't imagine it will be altered too much for the Switch" ?

Have you not played a multi-platform game on Switch before? 🤔

@Timbledon or...

Surprise! Character Pass 3 announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.... and it's five Fire Emblem characters and Waluigi. The internet would be so conflicted!

@Olliemar28 Sonic fans have high standards.

As a Sonic fan I can safely say that, no, we do not 🤣

@LilyGoMEOW Sumo did Team Sonic Racing.

@Jhena TSR is the best of the Sonic racing games and I will die on that hill.

I backed the Kickstarter for this, so naturally I'll be trying it. I played the demo on PC a few months back and had fun with it.

@Christoble I backed that Kickstarter. Jools' almost complete lack of updates in the past 5 years has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. He'll go completely radio silent for months on end and then pop up all of a sudden with "look guys, here's one of the sprites from the game, isn't it cool?"

Like someone said, f**king crook.

Compare that to Adam Kareem's Kickstarter for Protodroid Delta (another project I backed) and it's like night and day. Yes the game's been delayed a few times but he's been consistently coming out with monthly updates, going into the nitty gritty of the game's development, and if he goes a month or two without an update, he's back with some massive super update telling us how the game's coming along. It's a shame that he seems to be completely burned out and has given the impression he won't make another game after this, because he's clearly worked hard and I would 100% back another project of his.

Edit:

In fact, @Olliemar28 I think any future articles/stories on Atooi's games should make readers aware of Jools' antics on Kickstarter. They should be informed in regards to who they're giving their money to.

@theModestMouse get out.

"Here are some screens so you can see what this entry has on offer (spoiler: it's more Picross):"

@JimNorman please put the spoiler warning at the start of the article next time.

@Snatcher I aim to disappoint 🤣