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@Lilligant562 Your analogy is the flawed one. A non-chef can still have an opinion on flavor. And even judge it as bad. Non-film makers can say films are bad. Non-musicians can say a song is bad. Non-game designers can say a game is bad.

To be fair, Metroid Endings change depending on speed/percentage. We'll have to find out just how interesting or not the actual end is.

@Teksette Galactic Storm is nothing like Annihilation.

I wouldn't say "fortunately" however, Conquest isn't nearly as good and Phyla Vell isn't interesting at all.

@rvcolem1 I would go as far as say that both of those games did not have combat that was up to par, either.

@Teksette If you only got the first Annihilation you still won't know. She was in Annihilation Conquest, the second one. Also, outside of Annihilus/Bugs, this really has nothing to do with that run at all.

Lotta crying going on in these comments.

@Jumwa I'm in my mid-forties and was able to pull it off. My bigger problem is that modern game designers don't know how to layout maps and their quick travel points so they're convenient for late game content. It's a chore getting back through parts of that map.

Nintendo really should have designed the Switch 2 with two card slots.

Too bad the actual gameplay doesn't match the excitement here.

I want my Silver Centaurian Figma.

@Toastmaster
What did Halo innovate?

Halo is the result of collective wish-fullfillment. There wasn't anything fun to play on that new XBox so people convinced themselves Halo was a classic when it was mediocre at best. This happened a lot with Genesis-only kids too.

@metaphysician
I stand by the roster not making sense.

Halo isn't as good as everybody likes to tell themselves it is.

@metaphysician Except Phyla-vell and Beta Ray Bill were not part of Annihilation. Phyla was in the sequel. The Guardians in this comic series were completely unlike the MCU versions, which were based on the re-boot series that came afterward. They killed off Starlord and Drax in this series.

Basically, nothing about this makes sense. None of it took place on Earth and most of the roster was fighting each other on Earth during Civil War.

Gonna be honest, I actually thought the NES games that were converted to 3D on the 3DS were the best ways to play them. The simple graphics allowed a great foreground/background look that really made the old games look fresh but retain the 80's charm.

How, being both a fan of pinball and weird ish, have I never seen anything from this series before?

@LikelySatan "The Genre?" The one I've been playing since the 80's? They keep doing the wrong thing, their combo systems are not terribly deep, and are basically the same pattern again and again. And if they're aiming to appeal to long-time fans their chosen art design goes against everything a long time SoR, TMNT or Marvel fan would want. The level designs are at their best when they go the member-berry route and mimic a 35 year old game and they don't come up with new stuff. They're okay, they animate better and control better than the older games, but none of them are genius works by any stretch of the imagination.

The demo is unimpressive. All of these modern beat-em-ups are getting significant overpraise IMO.

I saw a pre-order for these up at one of the import sites the other week but there were no pictures and I didn't know what it was. I wonder how they'll scale with the Figma TotK Link?

@foursider What does this have to do with anything?

I could not suffer through this rando QTE nonsense. I don't care how good the story might be.

@SirLink "Nintendo Gamers" you say? Anyone who started with the NES is perfectly fine with unforgiving.

It looks like a 10 year old game.

I was so unimpressed with the beginning of the game I deleted it.

I don't understand why the Hollow Knight games are rated how they are.

I wanted to support this because it's on cart but I just did not like the controls in the demo.

@Axecon I don't like game-key cards but let's not pretend Nintendo is the main culporate here. Sony and MS started this crap.

Such a strange console, plenty of things to play but nothing to actually buy.

Put it on the cartridge and I'll play it...

@Aurumonado
And I rewarded all three companies for doing it.

If only the upcoming Marvel game tried to retain the comic look as thoroughly as He-Man is here. Bigger sprites like here too.

"I've already seen some comparisons online to Monster Hunter in the approach that Marvelous is taking, you can see it in the combat trailers and other things that they've released so far, but in practice...wow...yeah, it really does feel quite like a big robot take on Capcom's series in its more modern form."

This killed all interest.

I find Salamander 3's level design highly lack-luster.

"sticking on Street Fighter 2 to see how many hadouken fails I get"

This is not a good test of the d-pad. Lots of d-pads will miss downward motions when rotating from forward to back and skip from down forward to down back. There are some kicking techniques with Ken in Street Fighter 6 that work much better regarding d-pad accuracy.

Metal Slug: Contra.

I am absolutely sick of every person who requires a timeline for all of their games.

Metroid might be the only one to sort of have a timeline... but the rest of the games are just an new avenue to have fun.

@Rooty That was my major complaint with Dread is the completely nonsense spread with no thought to quick travel later.

The game is fun but the map is clunky and difficult to use.

@Whirlwound NFTs?

I mean, in the free answer for the developers at the end I told them I'll never buy a Game Key Card and won't buy this game.

It's a game all about nostalgia. September 29th would be smart marketing for another "Mortal Monday."

Least beneficial to the developer...

"...retro titles like Streets of Rage 2 and Contra."

Test it with a fighting game or don't bother.

Forcing the game key card. You made up my mind then... not buying it.

R-Type Final 2 is no longer a 30FPS sluggish mess.

I'm not interested in this game at all but I bought the S2 version simply because they put the game on the cartridge.

I would have given it a 4.

If Nintendo were smart they'd have a team working purely on engines so the rest of the teams can focus on completing games instead. They seem to be all in on openworld EVERYTHING so it would make sense to do this.

@Stwert They're not usually "pushing" hardware. They're lazy and they need overpowered hardware to work around their in-efficient code. Same on PC. There has been lots of analysis done the past 10-15 years on how games are not looking better, and are often times looking worse, despite huge leaps in computation power.

When I was looking for new cases for my Switch 2 I saw theirs and where the zipper was and knew instantly it was going to damage my system.

I bought a screen protector off of Amazon a week before the release.