Munchlax

The best Xenoblade.

In less than 20 posts, this comment section has gone from “I disagree” to “It is a known fact that this man hates TRPGs and so should not be allowed to review them!”.

According to Wikipedia, SWSH sold 6 million in the first week. 10 million is insane.
It has already outsold Mario Maker 2, Monster Hunter Rise, Xenoblade 1, 2 and 3 combined, Mario Tennis, Golf and Strikers combined, The Legend Of Zelda Link’s Awakening, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Party Superstars, and more.

Currently at 78 on metacritic. Better than BDSP (73) worse than Let’s Go (79), SwSH (80) and Arceus (83). Honestly though, with scores that close together it doesn’t mean much. Pretty much every review reads like “Fun but the performance is terrible”.
So basically, 7.8/10, too much frame drop.

That's not 247, that's 245!

I was going to vote for the Sandship, but I think its missing from the poll!
My favourite not on this list is Eagle's Tower.

Cervantes, Fire Emblem Awakening
“...They are impressive, though, aren't they? My whiskers? Ha ha! I've not shaved since my very first battle. And have I ever lost? No! Not even once! Ergo, my moustache makes me invincible. It's science, my boy, science!”

This will be one of the games of all time.

I have to agree with Alana, Xenoblade Chronicles X is an incredibly underrated game, and my personal favourite in the series.

I want to buy the retro games I want individually a reasonable price, not a £35 a year rental for 30 games I don't want just to play the couple I do.

King Dragon sends his regards.

I grew up in the NDCube era (my first was DS though, which is one of my favourites). 9's boards are awful, but honestly has a strong mini game selection. 10 is just 9 but worse. Super is better, but pretty mediocre overall. Superstars is probably my favourite.
The only 3DS entry I played was Island Tour, which, whilst not great, is still better than some people make it out to be.

They spelt Megaman really wrong on the JP cover.

Isn’t the title a reference to Nester’s Funky Bowling on the Virtual Boy?

Mor Ardain: Roaming The Wastes (Day)- Xenoblade Chronicles 2

I’ve been playing Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin lately. It has a season rotation, and I think most levels look the best in Autumn. Unfortunately, it’s the one that you get to see the least of, due to how much time the rice cutting and hulling takes.

@Personauser93 It’s less about the game’s existence being “justified”, but the consumer’s personal purchase. It can be “justified” to one person, but not another. If you want people to play your game, you need to adequately justify the price point or time investment. For example, for big Splatoon fans and series newcomers, 3 did enough to justify the purchase. For more casual fans, it didn’t. It think few people were saying the game had no right to exist, but it was still a hard sell to many.
A big new mode or lower price point would have resulted in Splatoon selling even more, as more people could justify the purchase. Fans of the game would probably have liked it even more. However, Nintendo probably made more profit as it is, as the additional sales would probably not make up the development budget, but we should be approaching this from the view of the player not the developer. We should be asking for the best value possible, and should be able to express dissatisfaction if we do not feel that a product lives up the the asking price. All games are judged like this, and always have been. It’s just that peoples’ standards for this vary- e.g. if Splatoon 3 had no new maps, it would save Nintendo even more development costs, but sales would be further decreased, because the number of consumers who can justify the purchase would also be less. As a result, perceived value of the games existence would also be less.

@personauser93
The consumer has to want the product though. Sometimes more of the same is fine, and sometimes it isn’t.

Isn’t this trailer just a reupload of the one from this article?https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/09/persona-5-royal-switch-special-edition-will-take-your-heart-pre-orders-open

I’ve decided to go in as blind as possible from this point, but I’m unsure as to how I’ll visit this site without seeing the new Pokémon in the thumbnails.

My favourite Pokémon game is USUM. Apparently that’s controversial.
Also, Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS.

We are truly stuck in the endless now.

I know that GameFreak says “it’s based on this real world phenomenon, separate from regional forms”, but it honestly feels like an excuse to pad out the Pokédex with clones. Now that these designs can be considered their own Pokémon, I’m worried that they will be leaned into more heavily to save resources whilst maintaining the ability to say “100+ new Pokémon!” in the marketing.

£160 from Cex 😩
(Filler text)

My first Zelda was Ocarina of Time 3D- I felt that it was the perfect introduction.
My first 2D Zelda was A Link To The Past- and I hated it. I was convinced that I didn’t like 2D Zelda until I tried Link’s Awakening and released that it was just ALTTP I didn’t like.

Miyamoto’s just proven that “nearing completion” means “in 8 years”.

I think it looks fun.

Normally, I would have tried it by now, but I bought Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin a day before the direct, and I can only focus on one farm sim at a time.

@Slowdive @KryptoniteKrunch Of course TPCI would say this when asked publicly about the incident, it doesn’t mean they didn’t say other things to their in-house advertising team behind closed doors at the time.
It likely was just miscommunication, but Merrick’s tweet doesn’t really prove anything.

Sakurai challenged Toby to a rematch, and this was the wager.

Quality was high, but lacked breadth, and Zelda and Pikmin could have really used more footage.
Luckily, I like JRPGs and farming simulators.

Both of these were in the datamined list, but look better than I was expecting them to.

I hope Nintendo selects come back. It might remind people that games like Tokyo Mirage and Famicom Detective Club exist.

@KateGray You should make a Klawf article tomorrow for Crab news Thursday!

I liked Sun/Moon prerelease, I liked the slow drip feed of new Pokémon.

Okay, so there’s combat, light platforming, and crafting but… to what end? I still do not understand what the basic gameplay cycle is supposed to be.

Still only 1 Jojolion rep

DS, but 7 was the first I actually liked. You’re still all old.

An actual release date for Dragon Quest 3

The sequel to Layton x Wright: Kirigiri x Edgeworth

Mario Galaxy is the last game in the original Mario timeline. Galaxy 2 is the first game in a new timeline.

I think all gens are objectively good, but each has a unique style, and the different styles will appeal to different people. My favourite is Sinnoh, but that’s probably because it’s my native region.
Sinnoh > Unova > Galar > Alola > Kalos > Hoenn > Kanto > Johto > Hisui

Nintendo series involving the apocalypse on real world Earth:
Splatoon
Pikmin
Kirby
Xenoblade, both core series and X
Any more I’m not thinking of?

Maybe people wouldn’t be so desperate for her to be NB if there actually was some representation in Nintendo media.

Remember that Splatoon 2 hasn't been updated in 3 years. Couldn't all of this have just been added to 2, spread out over that time period. In a post-Fortnite world, full price online games really need to justify sequels. I'm happy for the hardcore Splatoon audience, but as a casual fan, this feels too similar to the game I already have to be worth paying £40 for.

Total Munchlax cards: 9
Total Pikachu cards: 196

You’re all old.

I think cloud games can be ok if there’s no chance of getting it to run natively; it’s better than nothing.

Isn’t Juniper from Xenoblade 3 probably also non-binary?

Third option: Windwaker HD JP/EU