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@Dinglehopper @Bunkerneath @Ara Google "kodama". It's a Mononoke kodama head without a body. You should also see other kodama pics that show the inspiration for the koroks. This "Nintendo invented everything" mentality is bizarre. They didn't even create things like Birdo or Shy Guys, let alone ancient Japanese spirits.

Looks cool. Has a kind of Dirty Pair feel to it.

@Fizza Well even on the first game, he cross examines a parrot.

@Sonos Well no one will accuse anything ever of being a classic; you only accuse things of wrongdoings, not of qualities. But anyway, I think of all genres, VNs have to be the games that suffer at all from being designed for mobile. I mean, not at all, in fact.

Nice, a headline that sounds like something my adblocker would normally block. "Kardashian fans can't believe this one simple trick worked for Kylie!"

@Ryan_Again It's not actually standalone. The story ties into the previous two games eventually. That said, in no way is it like, say, starting with Mass Effect 3 or Final Fantasy X-2. Maybe more like playing Crisis Core without having played FFVII.

With the lack of various features compared to the official Pro controllers, the price seems way too high. You could get a Dualsense with just a bit more money.

What would be really nice is a list of where to find collectibles. I've got certain items on cards that I've had for days and still haven't found them. Blue Screws are one such item, something like that.

@defhed Take your meds, please.

I've been playing for a few days and am now partway through chapter 3. I love it but the weakest part is how plain the world is. None of the charm of 1 and 2. No atmosphere or character. It's not fun to navigate, each area is basically a massive room with enemies in, that funnnels you eventually to the next area.

Hopefully it gets better as it goes on because XC2 in particular had a really enchanting and memorable world.

@IronMan30 Well in the video they say it's actually 540p upscaled (sometimes less) to 1080p. Of course, NL skipped that out. I've been playing it for a few days and while it is a great technical achievement on the Switch, it does have a fuzzy look.

@RupeeClock Damn it, beaten again! Why can't I go faster?

Honestly, the scalpers are doing kids a favour - if they get all the cards, there's less reason for the kids to get addicted to the trash McDonalds crap out (and then fewer 10-year-olds that are heavier than a beer-loving 40-year-old man.)

Sage is an anagram of Sega... 🤔

@sakuraprisma Did you play Three Houses? Even though the story diverges early on in Three Hopes, it really helps to know the original events and characters.

To be fair, of the three platforms SFV could've been on, (PC, PS and XB) it was on two. Given that XB barely sells outside the US, and does particularly badly in Japan, it didn't make much of a difference.

@gcunit Yeah, I'm not sure why JRPG US dubs haven't really improved since the early 2000s. Even titans of the genre have wooden and unconvincing acting, like FFXV, though that's a lot better than this game's acting. Thank god for Japanese language support.

@Abeedo Well that's quite natural given that it has the same demographic as Peppa Pig. Its demographic is 'kodomo', literally 'child', which is specifically primary school aka elementary school. It's okay to put on in the background while you play one of the games, though.

@OrtadragoonX it's more like $7 or so. But he's making that up for some reason. Electricity bills have a daily basic charge even if you use nothing. For me it's 20p, that's fairly standard. So that means even if you used zero electricity your bill would be about £6 a month.

I live alone and an careful with what I use and just gaming on the PS5 for a few hours would more than double that. Then you've got your fridge, kettle, microwave, lights, shower, hot water, etc. You'd have to sit in the dark with nothing on, never cook (if elec powered), shower, have hot running water (if elec powered), never game or watch TV, no washing machine... for it to be anywhere near £6 a month.

For reference, the average UK electricity bill is £58 a month. That's $72.75. Bear in mind people don't tend to have air conditioning or use tumble dryers here, and they're two major costs. Also does heating tend to be gas or elec based in the US? Here most use gas powered things for heating.

@VoidofLight And when the same people call a videogame a video.

@NatiaAdamo Well, he's called Eggman because he's shaped like an egg. He's not called Crazy 'Tacheman.

@anoyonmus It's not down to the engine. It's Unreal 4 which is the same engine as countless games,but for some examples: Dragon Quest XI, Kingdom Hearts 3, Wasteland 3 and Pokémon BDSP. It's just an intentional reuse of the art style.

@invictus4000 "The word 'pandemic' is now too scary for the woksters."
What do Chinese chefs have to do with this?

You're right. It's not about being lazy, it's about being mediocre and untalented. Also, can you stop shilling for a massive company that churns out phone-tier products, please? You're meant to be a journalism site not a branch of Nintendo's advertising department.

@Calllack Well there's nothing stopping you playing any Switch game on PC. Have you seen how nice BotW looks on an emulator? Plus, the framerate doesn't tank to about 15fps by the Deku Tree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwuiGTNoEJA

The N64 emulation seems to be broken. Nintendo failing to do even the most basic thing... Quite a tradition by now.

https://clips.twitch.tv/LivelyBlatantWallabyMrDestructoid-h7v7IzNg-t5rJLCS

https://webm.red/X5rc

@dux He said they're still working on the voice in the video where he does a quick impression of Mario.

Slight correction, but the original game didn't release on the 3DS, it was a remake of the original and a variation of PSP remake. The versions we got in the west are actually called "Corpse Party: Blood Covered" in Japan while the original game simply called "Corpse Party" was on the PC-98 way back in 1996 - so this game really has some staying power.

I don't think the article writer understands what an emulator is. It's not a crazy hack that magically ports games over, it's basically the original hardware being, well, emulated on another device. Yes, when the emulator is in early development stages you can get incompatibility but typically games work on it like they do on the original hardware.

It was the same with the Wii, even more so since it was basically just a GameCube so Dolphin could emulate it too.

Some great memories and emotions thanks to him.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1OxBdlFdE

@UltimateOtaku91 And KH 2.8 as well. Nintendo have only had 3 IIRC, and one of them was completely remade for PlayStation too (Chain of Memories).

There's also Recoded too but that was originally for phones so if rereleases don't count, as Link of Hyrule said, then that shouldn't count either.

@UltimateOtaku91 Several KH games were only on Nintendo platforms at the time, like GBA, DS and 3DS. Most were remade for the collections, like Dream Drop Distance, but the DS one is still only on there.

@Clyde_Radcliffe @Lony85 But he's not a Nintendo employee so Sony aren't a rival manufacturer. HAL aren't part of Nintendo and now he has his own company called Sora. It's like saying FromSoft's Miyazaki shouldn't talk about the Switch because he made Demon's Souls and Bloodborne.

I use this custom theme. It's pretty cute. The images change depending on what section you're viewing, like settings, view all games, etc.

The fact you can't hack it and therefore can't overclock it to get better performance, or install mods for games like BotW, means the improvement to the screen isn't worth it. Also, AFAIK, it's OLED but not HDR which means it could display more colours but isn't being sent more colours. It's like a 1080p display for a thing that can only do 720p.

So isn't this parade just an advert for a shop? Funny how it's presented as some prestigious event but it's basically the equivalent of people in Gregg's t-shirts walking down the road holding sausage roll shaped balloons.

>"It was previously available on Steam, where it currently holds a 'Very Position' rating."
Did you write this article on your phone? 😅

I love my Switch but this seems like an odd article. You might as well write one titled "Remember when Nintendo fans thought the Wii U would succeed?" Nintendo's console sales went down each generation from the NES onwards, reaching an embarrassingly low point with the GC. Then they had a turnabout with the Wii, managing to pull out of a sales nosedive before hitting the ground, before following up with another massive flop. It's really not surprising that anyone had doubts about what they did next.

It seems the core thing is combining audiences, thus sales figures, of their handheld markets and home console markets. Clearly they're two separate things if you look at sales figures for the GC and GBA, the latter outselling the former by tens of millions. Combine them together, though...

@Expa0 Surprisingly, it's actually a really old idea that's been worked on for nearly 200 years. You've probably heard of and seen Tesla coils, they were a basic version of it but they just openly beamed electricity through the air in potentially fatal ways. Wireless energy was also shown at the World Fair in 1930s. During World War 2, scientists worked on doing it with microwaves. It's just that it's only recently that it's become practical for personal use.

If you're not bothered by the pokeball, you can get the game, steelbook and a sticker sheet for around £42 from other online retailers such as Simply Games, The Game Collection and Shopto.

It also runs at what reels like 20fps. As soon as I started playing it hit me, and the area was pretty basic with no other characters in. It feels like the Switch version is a bit of an afterthought. Looking at the PC recommended specs, they're modest but still perhaps beyond what the Switch has to offer and it seems like the devs didn't optimise it well for the platform (see also: the text size issue you mentioned).

It's the fastest selling Tales game of all time; it's sold a million in less than a week. For reference, that's more than the lifetime sales of the original release of Symphonia. Playing it myself at the moment and loving it. Recently unlocked the fishing minigame which is addictive as hell.

@Scapetti You can get it for £42 anyway if you go to the right sites, like Simply Games in this case. Okay, well £42.85...

https://www.simplygames.com/p/metroid-dread-nintendo-switch

You really never have to pay RRP for any games if you just shop around.

Edit: Another good site, though in this case it's 10p more expensive than Simply Games.

https://www.thegamecollection.net/metroid-dread-with-free-keyring-and-a2-poster-switch?sqr=Metroid%20&

I also recommend Shopto. They have the same price for Metroid Dread as Simply Games.

https://www.shopto.net/en/swme38-metroid-dread-p1145051/

@Joriss They're cheap little mobile phone games with an RPG Maker feel. They're okay if you've played literally every other "proper" JRPG. I'd play them ages ago when I had an iPhone 4S (yeah, that long ago) and was going through a mobile phone gaming phase. Back when there was hope that mobile gaming would actually be good and not just billions of freemium gacha turds.

@AlexanderDaniels It might not be ideal but you can get extension cables for wired headphones. I have one because my PC is at the bottom of my bed and doesn't have any speakers. I watch films or YouTube while in bed on it.

Here's an example
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zerist-Braided-Premium-Auxiliary-Smartphones/dp/B07RLN26W7/

@AlexanderDaniels I feel like you might have left some detail out of that post because, well, why not just plug headphones into the Switch itself?

It's called Bluetooth after the old Nordic king Harald Bluetooth. The logo is actually his initials in Old Norse runes.

@RandomNerds They'll never do that. Nintendo operate by cutting as many corners as possible to minimise costs, then overcharge for what they do have. If you hack your Switch you can have themes and UI changes. Random guys on the internet can make this modification while Nintendo pretend it's complex.

Today I bought wired headphones for my Switch since my Bluetooth ones didn't work. Crazy timing.