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@Max_the_German Actress is exclusively female, but actor is a gender neutral term that can refer to men and women.

@Jhena
As some from the real life version of Turffield and going to uni in the real life Circhester, I think SWSH is definitely more British than the average Pokémon game- I was about to say that I don’t remember there being a desert in the midlands, but judging by the recent weather countrywide, I think that they actually might have been ahead of the curve. It was nice to see that the script was in British English, including the slang and idioms, but it did occasionally come off as trying to hard.

As sequel content goes it’s fine, but they could have been updating Splatoon 2 for 3 years instead to achieve the exact same effect.

@VancouverVelocityFan
Try manual updating by pressing plus on the Home Screen, then selecting “update via internet”.

@Screen
I’m afraid I don’t understand the question.

@Ulysses @Zverik He’s a man.

@ChandlerKeith19
There’s a competitive meta game called “little cup” that uses similar builds and strategies, but with unevolved Pokémon only. Also, I’m not seeing the teams need to be optimised, just that they should have some kind of synergy or a unique strategy to make bosses more challenging and interesting.

@Screen
Of course you can- build enemy teams more like competitive, and improve the AI. Not necessarily hard, but absolutely harder.

@Screen
I want level scaling though. I want to be able to do gyms in any order, and for the gym leaders to be hard because of improved team design, not because they’re 30 levels higher. Taking on the strong gyms first will just mean you steamroll the low level ones afterwards too. IMO, a better solution is to have level scaling, and a way to level down your Pokémon (presumably resetting EVs in the process).

I want to put Fidough in an oven and eat him.

I love how the game has fictional swear words and idioms, because I enjoy seeing non-brits online trying to work out which are made up and which are just British.

I agree with Arlo. (Also how many of the complainers watched the video, he never said that it was going to be bad, just that is 1.5 months from release and doesn’t have a major hook yet).

@Snatcher
Its not universally hated, but it’s divisive. It’s got high highs and low lows. The combat is fun but takes ages to open up. The environments are great, but progression is greatly slowed by an over abundance of skill checks. There are some great characters and story moments, but most of the large cast doesn’t get fleshed out and it takes 30 hours for anything interesting to happen. The blade system adds a lot of customisability, but also locks new skills behind Gacha mechanics. The music is great but you can’t hear it over the characters constantly screaming. A deep Philosophical story is undercut be what I can only describe as totally unfitting “anime cringe”. It is very much a game of two halves, and your mileage with it will vary depending on whether or not the highs outweigh the lows for you.

@Anachronism
Just like our dreams, they’ve gotta be free,
So, anyway, let’s move on…

It is if they’re not adding new game modes.

Thinking about the 4 year delay, I think it’s best to recall the famous Miyamoto quote: “A delayed game is eventually Cyberpunk 2077, but a rushed game is Super Mario Sunshine, which I produced”.

It’s fun, but also the only Mario game I’ve clipped through the floor in.

Inklings canonically eat Salmonids, which are known to be sapient.

@Hero-of-WiiU
It was in the quick fire real, because I’m pretty sure that Koei Tecmo publishes it in Japan.

I still don’t understand what the gameplay is.

Kirby fits better than all of these, it’s already a power trip game based around real time melee/brawler combat with OP characters.

@Cia Its completely optional help so you don’t spend hours wandering aimlessly if you get lost. If you don’t like it, just don’t use it.

Unfortunately, I don’t think any character will ever beat Reyn.

Does Primordia have a sequel called Noctilum?

Why is everybody assuming that this replaces a general direct? There is literally zero evidence for that? Plus, this could be clearing time for other announcements in a general direct.

Now rank the best crab games 🦀🦀🦀

Phantom Hourglass 3D remake in Windwaker HD engine.

@Not_Soos
I don’t think that the problems most people have with the environments in Sonic are to do with the aesthetics being ugly, more that 1) the realistic natural environments and the cartoon hedgehog seem jarring when put together and 2) the topography doesn’t seem appropriate for a platformer.

Website confirms non-linearity and free exploration.
Like the designs, not sure about leaning into memes with the naming of Smoliv and Lechonk.

I don’t get how playforming can take place in a world designed like that. Will it just be isolated linear platforming challenges interspersed through an empty open space?

Typing that last comment, I have learnt that “Balan Wonderworld” is now suggested in my predictive text for some reason? Conflicting feelings.

This will probably start the new Pokémon drip feed like in Gen 7/8.

@CharlieGirl
*trading and battling requires Link cable

I never understood why Hulk is enormous and She-Hulk is just a normal lady except green.

As someone from the West, I cannot vote for either because Kirby does not look sufficiently angry.

Insert Project M joke that I’m not clever enough to think of.

Crab news Wednesday

Switch DS. 2 screened portable that comes with a second monitor to plug into your tv.

Same Pokémon as usual. What about people who want to wear a Klefki or Alolan Grimer? They exist. Probably.

Nice article, but the Alola mom moved there from Kanto, so she would know what gyms were already.

Did you know that Sonic Prime’s logo went through 53 different iterations?

Being able to change characters on the fly is big, you can do more complex strategies if you're less ai reliant.
@SteamEngenius Were you doing all of the side quests? The level curve in the game is based on the assumption that you are doing at least half of them. I completed 66-75% of side quest I came across and don't recall having to traditonally grind at all until an infamous level spike 95% of the way through

I want Bugsnax mechanics integrated into Pokémon. I was disappointed by how little variation in Pokémon behaviour there was in PLA, so I like the idea of different Pokemon having different “puzzles” and conditions required to catch them.

@Joeynator3000 Maybe not the art style, but I can kind of see a resemblance in the environment designs.

Some people in this thread seem to think that this is Gavin’s personal list, when this is a ranking of Average User Score.

“One thing that is brand new to the Xenoblade series, however, is Class change.“ The avatar from X could actually change class, but it always bugged me that no other characters could, so this seems like an imporovement.

Never liked the NA versions of A Link To the Past/Link’s Awakening/Ocarina of Time. Even if iconic, they’re just kind of boring, and blend into each other.

@RubyCarbuncle Not everybody has those consoles though.

A fantastic game for its time, but one I was never able to finish. The overworld is great, but the dungeons are just really boring to me- you can tell it was their first attempt.
Loved A Link Between Worlds though.