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It's a bit baffling that Goblin Sword isn't on this list.

"the OLED's screen is quite a lot bigger"

It is? Still looks pretty comparable and not worth the price...

Is $19 USD for the eShop and $39 USD for physical right? ie, "Should" it be $19 and physical is overpriced? Or is $39 more accurate and the eshop is discounted because there's no packaging/etc.?

@CharlieGirl And some people have different definitions of style. It goes both ways.

I'd rather have options so everyone can choose.

I'm not familiar with Zavvi, but...

@CharlieGirl - "why are companies with the Pokemon license bent on selling the blandest, most utilitarian clothing possible?"

...I actually like them for that exact reason. With the exception of the shoes, all of these would fit in perfectly with my usual clothes and allow me to represent something I like without going overboard or look too cartoony. They're great because they're subdued.

Way too much bloom or post-processing, everything looks overly soft now. Also REALLY don't like the Octopath-style DOF effect on the maps.

Looks fun, gives me Fantasy Life vibes.

I assume the blank-faced kitty in the logo is meant to represent the "customise your protagonist" angle, but that's a really weird design choice. I wish they would've just thrown on a couple dots/circles to infer eyes, while still leaving the rest white and outlined; it would've gotten the same idea across without making me stop to think about how strange it looks. =D

>> and tells a series of brief text-based updates on your party’s travels on the high seas with other players.

Given the phrase "with other players", does that mean this functionality requires being connected online? Or can you still send your party out solo?

Like D3, will it also have a tiny unreadable UI in handheld, without any way to upscale it?

The items aren't rare at all, it's just a crappy clickbait title... And clearly it worked, because we're all here commenting about it. =D

Did anyone else see the tweeted image and think "Well that's just a line graph showing declining numbers!"

@Giygas_95 More like 3016.

Unless the UI has some scaling options, that's going to be hell in handheld. Even looking at these screenshots makes my eyes go crossed, let alone imagining what it'll look like on the Switch screen proper. =x

In the realm of "Huh, that's weird..." What's the reason for having B/A above the buttons and b/a on the buttons? I'm wondering both for the capitalization difference and the fact that they're duplicated right next to each other in the first place.

Not having the original SNES 3/6 makes this entire poll moot.

...or just don't have them break in the first place. Problem solved.

@dougphisig Because it's not about the cartridge in this case, it's a box sitting on the shelf tempting traditional shoppers--parents/grandparents/whatevers--to buy it. Regardless of what's in it, if there's no box, retailers lose that sale to people who aren't digital-market savvy.

I still remember EECFG to this day.

Yeah, weird title format... All I could think of was Super Street: Fighter.

I don't understand why this "only" got a 9.

The joys/cons bullets at the end of the review are new, yeah? That's a nice bite-size touch.

Too bad it didn't come out a year ago like it was supposed to... First it was scheduled for summer 2018, then holidays 2018, then spring 2019, then (vaguely) summer 2019, and now finally a release date, with little to no updates or explanations from 8bitdo during that time. Meh.

https://www.reddit.com/r/8bitdo/comments/a2t355/what_happened_to_the_sn30_pro_controllers/

This sort of thing is like someone picking up War and Peace, jumping to the last page, and proclaiming they now how the world record for finishing it in three seconds. Silly and pointless.

@HADAA @graysoncharles Ahh, I see what you're saying now. But, that's only true if all of the top three winners had been disqualified.

From the results page, it looks like only the grand prize winner has been DQed from the top three--with the other DQ being one of the lower-down runner-ups. If that's true (which is how it currently appears on the results page, with 2nd and 3rd still being in the clear) I do believe the "shift the other winners up" suggestion is how UNIQLO should've handled things.

@HADAA Not sure we're talking about the same thing. At least, I don't understand how what you replied with applies to my thought.

What I meant was, I wonder why they're not just shifting all the winning entries up one prize level to compensate for the now-missing DQed entries. ie, The current second place entry becomes Grand Prize, third place becomes Second Place, etc.

The thought being that if the DQed grand prize entry was never entered, for example, the current second place entry would've theoretically won instead. So why not just approach it that way and still compensate the honest winners is what I was wondering out loud, instead of failing to award a grand prize at all.

Absolutely agree that the users in question were right in being disqualified, but I have to wonder why other winners aren't being bumped up to fill the empty spots.

As it stands, I see this as UNIQLO getting deeply-discounted art and publicity for $3,500+ instead of the $13,500+ it should've cost them. If that's accurate, it feels like an extremely slimy move on their part to weasel out of what's owed to other (honest) competitors.

"Two year after launch"

"Set in the new Galor region"
"...in a brand new region called the Galar region..."

"...these pods can store two Switch games inside..."

What's the point?

Another game that'll have a teeny-tiny illegible UI in handheld. Yay.

The acronym should actually be VSDOFM, for "vaseline-smeared depth-of-field mess".

My excitement for this one sorta bottomed out months ago when the devs kept blaming Nintendo's strict QA process for delays instead of owning up to the fact that more work was needed to be done. "Obscure bugs" or not, Nintendo is/was right to keep pushing back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tangledeep/comments/9ed921/does_anyone_know_when_the_switch_release_is/

> It’s not perfect, and there are some noticeable technical sacrifices to justify its existence on Switch, but it’s no less essential

I enjoy my Switch, but after getting a PS4 (my first) on Black Friday this year, I'm starting to cringe when I hear lines like that in reviews, due to their inescapable frequency.

If I ask myself, would I rather play a watered-down/less-"powerful" version of a game on the go a couple years later (often at a significantly higher cost) or the original games at full-power on a big TV (and often deeply discounted), I'm realizing more and more that it's the latter.

Unless we're talking Switch-exclusives, I guess for me there's only so far "But it's portable!" can be used to validate the Switch's increasingly sloppy-seconds library.

@Nintendoblows ........it's on the Switch?

I've never been able to see anything besides a slightly-shifted Fantastic 4 logo in it.

Well I guess they technically hit "in 2018", even if it is eight months later than planned.

I always get Memorrha after a Taco Bell lunch.

> Protecting the screen when closed

Except for the giant vertical cutout on the bottom half that leaves the entire middle portion of the screen exposed...

You know?

@DanteSolablood Meltan looking nearly identical from the front or the back is exactly my point. In both video thumbnails from the article, the Meltan in the bottom-right looks like it's sticking a red penis out, which seems like something they would've noticed when designing it.

What with the eye-shine and cord 'tail' really being the only indications of Meltan facing forward or backward--and thus how from behind it looks like it can be facing forward--I'm actually surprised no one at TPC/Gamefreak questioned how it looks like it has a stringy red penis dangling from its crotch.

This article's picture is in the dictionary next to "Arbitrary".

Fun detail: going clockwise around, the blue/red/yellow/green arrangements of the joycons is the same as arrangement of the buttons on an SNES controller.

> With Firewatch also on the horizon...

The neverending horizon, it seems like. Has there been any word from the devs on a new release date, since "spring 2018" obviously isn't happening?

> It’s not often that you see a preview for a four-year-old game

...except in the case of every other Switch game being released. Ba-dum-ching!

@PLAYwithGregg It has nothing to do with trying to be cool or sh*tting on people. It has everything to do with an author on a gaming news site posting a review that isn't a review.

I personally use NL as my main source of Nintendo news, and expect certain levels of ACTUAL useful information. But if NL only had half-assed 'reviews' like this one, I don't think anyone would ever bother coming here. That's the issue: if a review is posted, make sure it's an actual review and not (by the author's own admission) just a surface-level overview.

How is this a review?

The only information here is who made it, a brief one-line mention about how it combines genres, the art style, bugs, and then the score.

That's just an overview, not a review. Where's information about the actual gameplay? The story? Mechanics? Activities? Quests? Systems and UI? Whether there's any combat? There's literally no information here for those looking to learn about the game apart from how badly this "reviewer" says it performs.

That photo is disgusting.

> there’s a refreshing level of modern polish to the world ... Objects in the background and foreground blur in and out of focus as you grow nearer to them

What you call "modern polish", I call "post-processing gone overboard". I'm still disappointed the devs never introduced a way to disable that after their response to the demo.

> and ticked the battle royale box so hard with Fortnite it's gone right through the paper and snapped the pen for good measure.

...that was a bit much.