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Yeah, I cannot afford that. I was a huge Nintendo fan growing up, but I think I'll have to stick to Steam + PC for now. Way too expensive. It sucks if this is the tarrifs' fault.

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YESSSSSSSs!!! I absolutely LOVE this game!! So excited to introduce my girlfriend to it. <3

I think it's well-designed and cool, but it's wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too scary for me and is one of my least favorite areas, ha ha. I wish there was accessibility settings to turn off the spiders that come from the foreground.

@GuyProsciutto So you won't consider any media with objectively good art talent just because it features an aesthetic choice you judge for unrelated reasons?

While New Horizon's customization is great, the villagers are even more robotic than ever before. The villagers are the charm of the series that keep people playing. The setting also doesn't help; the tropical island vacation doesn't feel as "real" or human as a small town in the woods where you talk to animal friends. I'm hoping the next animal crossing game keeps a fair amount of the customization from new leaf but puts the focus back on the villagers.

Must not watch...must not watch...GOSH I'm so excited for this game!!!

@durrdevil I wouldn't put indie games down like that. At least indie games try to be artistic with their budget. Indie games are fantastic!

@Gamer_Zeus The value of a game isn't determined by sales. Art deserve to exist and has intrinsic value regardless of whether it is consumed.

Even if you do only care about sales, having multiple niche series on your console does attract people. The sum of multiple niche franchises is not niche.

It's great! I'm glad it's doing so well!! That's impressive especially since ticket sales are down right now.

Everyone's discussing XC2 here, so I'll give my thoughts as well. XC2 had a smaller dev staff because many at Monolith were working hard on BOTW, and it shows a bit. The Merc Group system is very tedious and contstantly interrupts gameplay; if it could have been automated, that would have been great. Tiger Tiger is super unnecessary; why not salvaging via Rex be the way to get parts for an artificial, robotic blade? That makes so much more sense and would cut down on the amount of systems.

But my main critique of XC2 is the character designs. They're so embarrassing, to the point that if I tell someone about how much I love Xenoblade, I try to avoid any screenshots with female blades in them.

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XC2's narrative is good, but XC1's is better, imo. The character motives are clear and poignant in XC1. I haven't finished Torna (I need to get back to it), but Jin's motive makes no sense. His love of his life died, so he decides he wants to kill everyone else in the whole world? I mean, I guess that makes sense, but it's not that interesting nor believable. It's been done before; lol, I'm reminded of Super Paper Mario right now with Count Bleck.

Malos is also pretty weak. He's evil just because Amalthos is evil, and a driver and a blade are connected that way? It works, but it's not very relatable to us as viewers, as this evil-driver-affects-blade's-personality isn't something that happens in our own lives. Well, I guess people do have bad influences, so that is relatable there. But Malos wasn't influenced to be evil; he straight up just awoke evil because Amalthos is such such a bad person. In the real world, I think people have a bit more chance to do good. When Malos dies, I found his words very touching, as he realized he may have had a chance to do good, too.

Amalthos is a good villan, and I hate him so so so so so much, which is what a good villan can do. That said, he does once again suffer from the Count Bleck problem. "Something bad happens to me, therefore I must ruin the whole world!"... people are more nuanced than that. Many people hate the world because life's given them *****, but few would actually destroy the world for this reason. It would have been much more believeable if Amalthos just hated the speicifc country that destroyed his family, rather than just hating everyone. But I could be wrong.

On another note, I don't see the reason why Pyra exists. It doesn't really add anything to Mythra's character. I guess you could see it as a metaphor of wanting to hide behind another persona after so much trauma, but Pyra's a complete person, so that analogy doesn't exactly hold. A minor nitpick, though, as I love that both Pyra and Mythra exist, and Chapter 3's ending is sooooo epic!
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And that's the thing: these are all nitpicks in the sense that they are stuff I notice looking back. When playing XC2, it was an amazing ride with great gameplay and tons of twists. And even post-playing, I still love characters like Nia soooo much, as well as Morag and even Rex. But as a complete package, XC1 more effectively conveys a moving, well-designed story, and it's also the more polished game to boot, especially with definitive version.

But both games, while playing, are insanely fun, as is XCX. I recommend all three!

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Xenoblade X would be soooooo good on Switch! I lost my original save file (accidentally reformatted my external hard-drive...) which had 300 hours, so I've been itching to reexplore Mira with some quality of life improvements!

YES!!! Now I can fully happily buy the Switch version. So excited to buy this game as I've been watching its progress since 2013! Thank you Gears for Breakfast!

@Ooccoo_Jr A Hat in Time proved that a modern 64/Sunshine can work, and Odyssey reminds me much of Banjo-Kazooie. Yooka-Laylee's issues were from a tight deadline, budget probably, and not updating the collectathon platformer model enough, even though the collectathon genre can indeed work.

Anyways, It's awesome though how amazing Impossible Lair is!

@Late I love how you inserted a sneaky reference to him.

Yes! I have 1984 style dystopias so I'm very glad chaos won. I lost a good half of my battles, but my 100x win for chaos made up for all my losses!

Nintendo: Hmm... what should we name our titular princess...

watches American game-show

Ah Ha!

No but really, according to Wikipedia, Zelda is named after Zelda Fitzgerald, which is what the game show players were guessing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda#Inspiration

You have to KILL your horse to do this? :,( Then again, with the Master Cycle Zero, who needs a horse... >: D JK.

My question is what will happen to this kid's YouTube channel when he grows up? Will he try to reclaim it as a teen and do something different? Or will his parents continue to target it as a kid toy review channel?

This is so sad...I don't really know to say that everyone who knew him personally or watched his videos will miss him. Mental health really is the most important thing.

So excited for this! I've never played these games.

I'm glad they're listening, but they really should have gotten it right the first time. Did they want to waste their own time and money? Warner Bros. spent a year making sure Pikachu's design was perfect so that they wouldn't have to change it later and redo tons of work.

Not much of a Pokemon fan besides loving Pikachu, and I really enjoyed this movie! The writing could be a bit better—Lucy's integration feels a bit off and some of Detective Pikachu's funniest lines from the trailers are quietly rushed—but the CG and story is just a good time. If you don't like Pokemon at all though I could see you not liking this movie, though you would at least find it better than anything Illumination has produced... Poor Mario movie.

Time travel! It is teleportation anyways since the Earth is constantly moving, ha ha.

I loved the first, and so I can't wait for the second!

Love Scorbunny, dislike Sobble since he looks so sad, Grookey is cool but would be nice if he didn't look so plastic-y.

The perspective and depth perception just feels a little off to me.

The article's title is a bit too click-baiting/radical compared to the modest thoughts of what Furukawa actually said. He said that if the company needed to leave the console business, they would, because Nintendo is flexible. That isn't to say they will cleave the home console business, as the article title suggests is imminent, just that Nintendo could if they wanted to.

If Nintendo actually goes in this mobile direction, us fans will be very upset. Already not a huge fan of this new president.

When will Mario Maker be ported to the Switch? I would be so hyped for that!

@Octane The 1 is a +1 coin that doesn't count towards the average.

Ceave Gaming is a fantastic channel. He pushes Mario Maker to its limits by creating RPGs in it and more, all while showing off good game design! Plus he does occasional different video topics like this. I highly recommend it if that's your thing!

@StephanDLW No they are pretty good, at least on PC.

This is going to get meta, but what annoys me is not the game itself, nor the supposedly terrible fandom, nor supposed people who complain about the fandom either. What bothers me is that every internet section about Undertale has to have the preface of "the game is good, just not the fandom". Conversations about Undertale can never be about just the game anymore, and that makes me sad.

@Xaessya That's your opinion. It's my favorite Kirby game. Such great level design, art style, and creative areas.

@OorWullie Meanwhile anyone who has played Octopath Traveler knows how dark it can get. I'm not that far but Primrose's chapter 2... so good!

If it's anything like the Zelda concert, I would love to see it!

(Strike-through implied): Please make a Xenoblade concert someday, even though I know it will never happen...

@Heavyarms55 It's to make the game harder, not easier.

I play 100% docked for some games (Xenoblade, Zelda, Odyssey) but then mostly handheld for other games (Sonic Mania, Snake Pass). It really depends on the game! I definitely play docked the vast majority of the time.

Honestly who really cares what Reggie says when asked questions like this. You know it's going to PR speech because he doesn't control what Nintendo of Japan does. His job is to be able to respond in a clam manner, and he does a good job at it, but his comments aren't really important.

@thesilverbrick For those that don't have it. It's the same game with two colors instead of one, new prompts if the old ones have gotten stale for you, and a make-your-own prompts option. Oh and there is still no erase! I bought it on steam as I didn't have the original Drawful.

@MH4 I'm not sure what to compare it to as I don't play too many puzzle games, but I will say it is highly addictive. Your goal is to chain as many adjacent Sushi of the same color as possible to then send at your opponent, but the longer the current chain is, the faster the conveyor belts shuffle the sushi around. The game features a full story mode with anime-styled cut-scenes, an RPG-styled leveling and party system, as well as online! I still think it should have been in the $40-$30 range, but depending on when it releases I will pick it up!
Edit: It comes out June 8th!

@MH4 I played it at PAX and I would say it NEEDS a demo. That demo at PAX sold me on the game instantly!

Labo just seems too overpriced for what you get, and I think its sales will reflect that. It also doesn't have too much longevity in my opinion. Like, take the piano. You build it, and I guess you learn about how infrared cameras work? If you want to learn about music, there are much better keyboards out there. If you want to learn about robots, I think lego robot kits are better. The cool part is that the kid can say "I built that mini piano!", but it still doesn't seem too appealing. I hope the Switch stays strong regardless.

@Tyranexx Yeah; right after I stopped playing XCX at 300 hours about six months after its launch I played through the original (though I kept switching to other games like BOTW, making my playthrough take a while), and then it was not much longer until XC2 came out, which I am now playing through! RPG's do take a while, but I will say that XC2 is tempting me the most to do a 2nd playthrough due to how many quality of life features they have been adding via updates and the New Game Plus only content. I ended up enjoying XC1 more than XCX as I preferred its combat and story, but XCX is still fantastic in my book for its side quests, character development, music, great world/atmosphere, and amazing exploration!

@Tyranexx Yeah, the ending implies a future sequel, which is weird since they were not going for a story-based game yet we are left with a cliffhanger. I think the side quests in X are great if you enjoy side quests usually, and I think you should at least do Elma's last affinity mission (which to me is the game's real ending, as it is post-game only). After I beat the game I got 100% in all the side quests, and then went on to play the original. Now I am playing XC2 and am having a blast!

@Tyranexx Good luck! Remember to be good at ground combat too!

Xenoblade 2 on my own (only halfway through at 110 hours!) and Kirby Star Allies with my sister!

@Kimyonaakuma It's only $10 on steam, so a sale wouldn't make it that much cheaper.