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What would be more helpful would be a bonus mode in which players could complete difficult waves of random spirits in order to earn specific ones they're missing. It'd help them stand up to the RNG gods.

Not at all a fan of this pattern of removing people from credits because of cancel culture. Performance is art, and to deny his claim to his own performance sets a dangerous precedent. I don't care what the performer has done, it's still their performance and they deserve to be credited for it.

These sudden shutdowns are why I'm hesitant to spend money in Nintendo's freemium ventures. I was one of the few people who actually enjoyed Miitomo, but that one barely lasted two years.

Not sure why they would give us this "one more time" nonsense except to build hype for a future update. Personally, I think the "limit" should be tied to time, not a hard number. Say, upload two courses per day with no max. I really don't buy that there would ever be enough levels for the server costs to take any sizable bite out of the game's earnings.

Good. It always feels cruddy to know you're playing the baby-proofed American version of something. I know what Kill La Kill is. If I end up playing this game, I want it to be Kill La Kill in its purest form.

Very good way to do this, lowering the price permenantly and allowing previous owners to buy an upgrade rather than a whole new game. I hope more games on the eshop follow suit.

It'd be nice to be able to sync saves like the PS4 does so people with multiple systems in use can at any time pick one up and be on the most recent file. Without that I can't imagine many people double dipping for a slightly more nifty handheld that can't be shared.

So far this feels more like a typical freemium candy crush game with a Nintendo skin than an actual Nintendo game.

It looks kinda cute, but Natsume is pretty much dead to me at this point. I might pick it up when it inevitably goes on heavy discount, but until then I think I'll just keep finding new reasons to love Stardew Valley.

Just what we need, Tencent entering the market. Looking forward to freemium titles flooding the market with fomo events.

Glad to hear they're taking their time with it.

This is stupidly complicated. I've yet to play this game on couch multiplayer but if I were to, I would expect the process to be sit down, search some stupid term, hand joy con and play. Downloading the courses one by one just seems silly, especially given how many crap ones there are to skip.

Not satisfying at all. This is a rushed game. There is nothing impossible about this. Game Freak is not a small Indie studio, nor Nintendo a low-budget publisher.

Dammit, another FE DLC festival. Just once I'd like an FE game to be complete without that big fat DLC asterisk on day one.

@WoolooSweater That wasn't the case with Animal Crossing. That game got praise for its delay because they were upfront about it and said staff would need the time.

They also mentioned a little while before the games were known as SWSH that it "might" be ready for 2019, but "might" be 2020. Make no mistake, this is the result of Nintendo pushing for a rushed holiday release.

It's a shame Game Freak don't seem to have this mindset.

I should certainly hope they support amiibo after they sold us all those figures and cards. Animal Crossing has been the main source of amiibo for years now.

I'll probably only get into this if it's the first Nintendo mobile game that can be played offline. Doctor Mario is very much a bus game for me.

I'd be happy to have an amateur developers tab in the eshop for stuff like this, but I kind of understand not wanting to keep the floodgates totally open. The Switch has a huge clutter problem with shovelware and I'm not eager to see it get quite as bad as the app store.

How is a streaming-enabled dock not a thing? Shouldn't they want as many twitch streams of Nintendo games going as possible by now? They've supposedly finally figured out that the internet helps get people interested.

Good. Pocket Camp has become a lootbox-infested festival of FOMO. At this stage I would rather we just cut it loose from the franchise.

Still not satisfied with this. It makes the years of pokemon bank, ranch and other collection tools seem pointless. I've got a few decade old pokemon who I always take with me to the next region and it's not going to feel like pokemon if they have to be stopped at the border.

I still wish they would just update this gimmicky little controller to work like a joycon across games by default. You can already use the super broken NES controllers to play pretty much any game with a few missing buttons, so I don't see why the Poke Ball Plus should be useless outside of one casual romp. It'd be kind of hilarious to try playing some of these games with the super limited controls of the pokeball.

@NotTelevision A big part of why is that Pokemon Bank (which is a premium service people have subbed to for years) and similar transfer tools promote people to catch pokemon and bring them with them on their journeys. For example, I have an Infernape who's been by my side for more than half of my life. The reward for beating the gyms has always been that you could finally bring your friends over to the region and have fresh adventures with them. Now that's taken away and because people can't bring their teams over, the hardcore scene is going to remain with USUM.

@Wanjia Removing a person's credit from their art basically takes away what little claim they ever had to it. It's always despicable to remove anybody's credit from a project without them explicitly asking for it to be removed.

I've heard this one is better than one would expect being a game grumps goofy dating sim thing. Probably gonna grab it when it goes on sale and give it a go.

I really wish they would set up some sort of recycled splatfest thing to keep these going perpetually. Even though the servers stay on this still feels like they're just packing it in.

Bad month for Switch Online members.

Hoping this and the multiplayer will be patched in. Mario Maker 2's hype train is losing steam quickly with all these silly mistakes.

This kinda shoots the whole "push-the-online" thing in the foot. Why have online multiplayer at all if you can't include friends? Given that the online multiplayer has been such a big selling point til now, there are probably going to be some people wanting their pre-order refunds.

This looks really solid so far. Looking forward to seeing how it works.

This is super weird. I just hope they don't try to push it by giving it some exclusive pokemon or something. Let it be its own weird little thing with maybe a few small perks in Go.

So, the people who spent money on the game then? Pretty lame to just close up shop instead of say, disabling purchase of loot boxes and continuing to run the game. If I'd paid cash already to develop my profile in one of these games I would be peeved.

Were it an option to buy the same 400gb micro SD card with or without the Nintendo theming I would probably get the theme. It might be cool enough to at least catch my eye on Amazon.

That said, not gonna pay a premium on a smaller card to get a star on it.

Given the conclusion here, 5/10 seems really generous.

I'm not about to praise a company for delivering a complete product. Microtransactions and day-1 DLC are generally stuff I look down on either way.

Cool idea, I would be worried about input lag though. This is one of those items I would need to read a lot of reviews for before I purchase.

No review copies. If that's not a red flag I don't know what is.

I'm a bit less eager to get into these knowing that the US is so flimsy about it. I like the idea of it, but only if I can use the vouchers for future releases. Right now I have most of the games I really want, but Mario Maker 2, FE, AC etc I would totally have time for.

It's interesting they say "introducing" the deal and don't cover any of the "limited time" stuff, even though the website says they'll be for sale until late July. It makes me think they're probably testing the waters and we might see these things become available year-round.

I was holding out for a reveal like this. Pre-ordered it today.

Really hoping this doesn't mean paid DLC, as it'd split the community.

I would certainly expect it to be. Didn't buy that ball just for Lets Go.

He gave Snake his butt back.

@AugustusOxy You say that like it's some sort of a great bargain. These servers don't cost twenty bucks a head to run for a year, nor are they even fast enough to have people play regular games like Smash online. As of right now most Nintendo players are paying for something that used to be free and it's worse than it's been before. Nintendo is right to be looking for ways to make it a better value for the consumer.

Just because Microsoft and then Sony started charging for online doesn't mean a person is entitled to pick up a game on the shelf that says "online play" and then be peeved when they find out that it's twenty bucks a year and barely works.

I feel like parroting back the "Zelda swings his sword" thing had to be an attempt to be polite and not draw attention to the mistake.

Lame. Still no SNES stuff. It'd make a lot more sense to have one game for each retro system each month. This just feels like a slow trickle of stuff that's kind of cool to try for a moment, but nobody is going to really sink their switch time into now.

Oh dear. Given their history with the treatment of their own employees, I doubt they'll treat the team with too much care.

Still waiting here in Canada. Hopefully we get it before the event ends.

I'm fine with it being the focus, but it is a bit disappointing. People have been hyping this up for years now as the first real home-console Pokemon title. I'm hoping "focusing on handheld" doesn't mean they don't try to make the most of the hardware and push the series forward.