MrGawain

It’s a perfectly fine, well made game with a smattering of charm.

Like all musou games, and there are a lot, how much treacle tart can you inhale?

I’d love a Suikoden 3 and 5 collection instead Konami.

Not if it includes 4 however.

I’m using them parallel. If a game doesn’t have a Switch 2 bump then I’ll play it on the S1. Lots of room on the memory card still!

The reason Sonic started appearing on Nintendo consoles was because Sega weren’t making enough money from their own consoles.

The reason Halo started appearing on other consoles was because…

Keep the budgets down and the sales up and there is no reason to change a winning formula.

Could you use a D-Pad to play Okami, Bayonetta or W101?

@poyo_pie

It’s the advert/store image for this game. I’m guessing it’s still an M rated game.

As far as I’m aware Mortal Kombat has never had a cover image that shows all the gory, eyeball popping fun in the game. Usually it’s just a render of that dragon logo.

It’s Nintendo’s house. If you want to go round there and play, you dress nicely, don’t curse, and say please and thank you.

Exclusive software sells new hardware. Nintendo had DK, MKW, Kirby Air Riders and Hyrule Warriors (the other games were playable on Switch 1). Not an an awful lineup, but no BOTW or Mario Odyssey to really make it really desirable.

I already know I didn’t play as much as last year, because there wasn’t as much to play. Add an extra month in and that won’t make it look so bad.

In reality, what are you really buying when you acquire a games studio? The IP is already owned by WB, there are no contracts for big marketable stars, the studios are just office space and tech aren’t really any different to another triple A studio. The people who work there that are the real talent who the product special can get up and leave when their contracts expire, and those that don’t bring a cost of wages, healthcare and pensions with them. All in a medium that Netflix really doesn’t understand, and has been shown to very expensive to produce and not necessarily profitable in the current market.

You can’t blame them for wanting to avoid video games when they are doing pretty well selling TV.

I'm still uncertain if MP4 in 120fps will cause motion sickness like Prime 1 did. I'd like to play it, but I'm not willing to just throw fifty quid at something that could make me throw up over my controller.

Still waiting to see if it causes motion sickness like the past games have. I’m hoping 120fps might solve the problem an I can play it, but I’m not willing to throw away fifty quid before fan comments or a demo shows they solved the problem.

I think keeping up with who are the hot streamers/influencers/youtubers has passed me by.

I would grumble if the price was £59.99, but to enrage me even more is that extra 4 pee.

Looks good but I can wait for a sale.

Seeing how much Bandai Namco's teams have supported several of Nintendo's first party productions, this seems like a sensible acquisition, especially in a time where more manpower is needed on more detailed games.

Plus I think I read Bandai Namco was attempting to scale their games development back? A win/win for both sides.

@AmplifyMJ

I’m more tempted than when it was £57, guessing it’s a pretty solid game.

Amazon and Smyths have dropped Pokemon down to £45 and Hyrule Warriors to £50 today.

“Hi, are you delivering a lorry of money from Ubisoft? If you could just pour it down that bottomless pit marked ‘Good And Evil 2. Great.”

I keep being asked what game I would like for Christmas. Air Riders isn’t my sort of thing, Pokemon seems to be a bit underwhelming, Hyrule Warriors is ANOTHER warriors game, Inazuma Eleven looks fun but seems expensive for a Download game with few Switch reviews yet, and I’d love to play Metroid Prime 4 but First Person games make me projectile vomit. So many games but nothing I’m sure of.

Probably will submit to Pokemon. It’s not a great year to be honest.

I must admit I’m more interested in this than Nintendo’s offerings this year, but I’m in no hurry seeing how quickly games get put on sale these days.

Well I’ve seen two blonde people with pointy ears in a field, pretty much can figure out the plot and quality of the entire film- no need to see it now.

I refuse to believe there was ever a bad game on the Wii U.

Ever.

Lalalala not listening.

The first Mario movie was a good kids film. I think this one needs a little more in the way of story to appeal to all ages.

The whole State of Direct last night was an attempt to appeal to Japanese fans. They were trying to get people excited that several games announced for Switch were coming to the PS5 as well. The whole format of the Direct was very ‘Nintendo comfy’.

Sony probably figured out they’ve left money on the table in Japan by ignoring it so far. I wonder if the stories of the PS5 ‘only being halfway through its life’ and will continue to be supported was the start of trying to get a more casual and family based customer to buy into the machine. They’re going to need a lot more stuff like Astrobot to fix the game they caused in the first five years.

I really liked the DS games- good RPG elements with a Suikoden character collecting style gimmick, and clever use of the stylus for the football.

Really can’t figure out how they can make the game fun without that stylus gameplay however.

Apparently everything is an XBox, but I question if core Nintendo fans really care about Halo and Gears?

Rare Replay yes, maybe even Fable, but there is definitely a chasm between the style of fun family stuff with Mario to shooting aliens in the face.

Will it stop Mario running around in circles in Galaxy 2?

Problems with this poll:

A. It has non Nintendo produced games on it. WWF Smackdown doesn’t not exist in the same world as Super Mario World.
2. The Faceoff seems to have a bias to show Advanced Wars and Kirby and The Forgotten Land three times as much as anything else.
E: the only time you see Xenoblade and Fire Emblem they’re in competition with each other.

Instead I suggest a quicker list: Best Nintendo games ever are the 1st party Wii U library games and then all the Zelda’s except Adventure of Link. Sorted.

Just watching the robot floor cleaner in Bluewater Shopping Centre do a half assed job, break down every half an hour and occasionally knock a shopper over has shown me how good AI is at simple tasks. What could possibly go wrong?

There are 3 tiers of viable customers for Nintendo to aim for:

-Core Nintendo fans.

-Core Gaming fans.

-The Casual market.

Early on Nintendo has succeeded in selling the Switch 2 to the core Nintendo fans. What will be harder is pushing that reach to Core Gamers who now have other flashier handheld options like the Steamdeck and the Xbox Thingy. Good games will go a big way to doing that.

To sell a much pricier Switch 2 to the casual market may be harder, especially multiple systems to families like the Switch 1 did.

I’d like to get a game for Christmas, but I’m sitting on the fence between Pokémon (Is it same of the same?), Hyrule Warriors (More same of the same), or MP4 (Will it cause motion nausea?). I’ll wait until they all release to make up my mind.

Next year there is lots, but only FE and Splatoon interest me at the moment.

To be fair the average gamer had become disinterested or unaware of Resident Evil for a run of games. The move from the Police/corporation story to the horror movie monster imagery has definitely become noticeable in popular culture. I think Japanese games tend to get clogged down in backstory, and characters like Lady Dimitrescu have added a bit more fun and variety.

And that’s coming from someone that’s never played a RE game.

All I see here in the UK is Switch 2 games getting price reductions, or new games being released at £50. Maybe Nintendo has figured out there is a cost line that people won’t/can’t cross?

In my opinion when games are exclusive, there is an element of commitment to quality, with time and money being spent to make sure God Of War or Mario Odyssey is a near perfect experience. The game is optimised for the platform it’s designed for.

Third party is more about hitting deadlines, and trying to force games onto platforms that aren’t capable of running them. I expect all of Microsoft’s developers to start cutting corners to start slapping their games on other systems.

The other end of 2025 games all come with Caveats. Pokemon was if it was repetitive, MP4 will be if it causes motion sickness, Kirby if it’s worth it for single player.

You can say Hyrule Warriors is a known quantity. Smash endless monsters whilst pretending the playable characters are really that different. I’ve played 3 of these Warriors games on Nintendo now, and aside from arguments about canon, they have all been pretty by the numbers.

I think I will wait until everything is out and reviewed until I decide my Christmas game. Maybe nothing this year?

I’m sure there is lots of simple, repetitive jobs that AI would be ideal to implement for, but they have to realise just because a technology is nifty, doesn’t mean it will fit in your product.

I mean Catapults are awesome, but no one’s ever thought about incorporating the technology into hospital beds.

I guess it’s great others companies are supporting the Switch, but if I was looking for those graphic intensive, heavy cutscene, multiplayer, grey, violent, dudebro games I would have bought an Xbox in the first place.

Originally announced as Ares 9 years ago.

Or 2.25 World Cups.

Stagflation: where things cost more from manufacturers, but aren’t selling so retailers have to charge and earn less.

Not anything to do with male deer and air compressors.

I get there trying to keep engagement, but I’m not entirely sure why they would release this one week after the Galaxy collection and one week before Pokemon. In all likelihood we are 3-4 years away from another Pikmin game.

Nintendo being Nintendo!

I think they're showing what you can create using Sora 2 AI.

Until we get a £30 baby amiibo we can’t speculate.

I bought the 3D collection 5 years ago and enjoyed it, so I really don’t see the need to buy Galaxy 1 again for a smoother moustache on Mario.

I’m a lot more picky in what I buy day one these days, and I get the feeling I don’t really need to keep up with the Zeitgeist by purchasing a 15 year old Mario Galaxy 2 the day it rereleases.

I tend to think these awards aren’t for gaming as a whole, they’re done to reinforce a certain taste in gaming that prefers gritty cinematic storytelling.

Guessing Ghost Of Yotei wins because it’s that game that adults can pretend is art and not just time wasting stabbing bad guys.

@h3s I find the Ai summaries at the top of search results tend to be incorrect or downright lies 50% of the time. This spreads misinformation not just for you the user, but for everyone else. AI is also collating information so you don’t go to the websites that have made an effort to gather the information to save on giving them ad revenue. If those websites go away we will be left with untrustworthy AI as the font of all knowledge.

All AI has done is devalue everything. Internet Search Engines, Copyright Law, Art, Photographic Evidence, Job Security, Morality, and the Truth.

And yet our goverments are happy to sign away our rights thinking that businesses will use it responsibly for the good of mankind.

Of course price matters in a review. If it didn’t we would get ‘10 out of 10, must experience in your life otherwise you will be ignorant and unfulfilled. Costs a million pounds.’

A review is there to tell you if this thing is worth your money, and if there are better ways to spend it than on a 15 year old game. Personally I think they’re getting money for old rope.

The problem is developers want to make bigger, faster, prettier, more expensive games than we don't own physically, but a large percentage of the Nintendo audience doesn't want that.

A lot of people just want a bit of fun to distract them every so often like they played as a kid that they don't need a second mortgage for.

There is something magical about the gameplay of Bayonetta 1 & 2. When you get it, it’s a graceful ballet of destruction.

Controlling Viola makes you feel like you’re wearing concrete clogs in swamp. Plus she’s very whiny and doesn’t fit the previous games’ feel.

In general gaming (not just Nintendo) is more expensive, less exciting, more demanding of rights of the customer and less trustworthy with less guarantees.

I’ve already decided I won’t be buying another PlayStation again after a disappointing PS5, if Nintendo don’t improve the Switch 2 situation with a better deal for the customer I may give up on gaming altogether after this Gen, and I get the feeling it’s not just me.