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@kalosn "indirect lighting/global illumination was clearly not present at all on the game."

Does it need any of that? Would they enhance the artistic qualities of the game in any meaningful way?

Sorry, frame rate snobs.

"Resetti Returns"

that is all I needed to hear

@Fighting_Game_Loser honestly I'd prefer this.

Yeesh, I know it's a month of spooky but don't jumpscare me like that Nintendo

Is LRG just holding Wayforward hostage at this point?

The guys responsible for making sure every track has a contextually relevant in-game screenshot better pick up the pace

@SteveDaSteve the 3DS port was just a small sampling of Gooigi. 3 is the full Gooigi experience.

As a passive observer who's only completed game is Sun, I do think Pokémon is in need of a proper shake up to keep things fresh in this era, in the vein of say, Mario Wonder or Bananza. Find new ways to experiment with mechanics instead of just doing more of the same.

@Truegamer79 no one appreciates good sound design anymore.

Nicalis still exists?

This is interesting and I can't wait to see how they've been updated, but I wanna say, Chunky really was kinda redundant wasn't he? DK64 went and made him out to be "the super strong" Kong even though by all accounts that should've been DK's schtick. Glad Bananza rectified that by actually focusing on DK's physical prowess. Dude can pick up a boulder with way more ease.

@Yoshi3 now more than ever I'm convinced Rare is just going to silently croak under the pressure of Microsoft's ridiculously stubborn foot. Which is uh, depressing to say the least.

@Serpenterror I don't think it's fair to even compare the two. Sega still gave enough of a damn to create the best games they could with the best creatives possible and continue to keep making games even now. They've made their mistakes but they never completely gave up, which I respect. Microsoft on the other hand squandered every opportunity they had and flushed their gaming endeavors down the sewer after complaining about how nothing was working even though it's their fault for meandering so much.

EDIT: Seems I misread your comment a little. m'bad.

"Have you downloaded this update yet?"

No, I haven't! Heck I don't even have the game! I'll go buy it on the eShop right this second!

"Crash Bandicoot is getting an animated series--"

OH???

"--from the team behind Sonic Prime."

_oh.

@ThatZeldaNerd If I could make it 11 years without a new Donkey Kong game, then you can surely make it 8 years without a new 3D Mario. I believe in you.

@BigNate outside of a few themes, almost all of Wii and 2's music can be heard in NSMBU.

@The21zonz Right? They don't sound as compressed as they did on DS.

And with that, all of the NSMB game OSTs have been added to Nintendo Music.

@andykara2003 yeah, it's a real curse

@andykara2003 you want a better source of information, you go to something like the Mario Wiki, which actually lists how many times certain characters have reappeared in future Mario titles, including the Broodals, who have only made one significant appearance and otherwise haven't appeared anywhere else.

@andykara2003 it certainly is a pointless conversation if you think AI chatbots and LLMs are a reliable source of information

and by pointless, I mean really stupid

@andykara2003 not really, no. Most characters in mainline Marios are usually one and dones, with some exceptions. Unless it's a direct sequel to Odyssey(unlikely), they won't be bringing back the Broodals.

@andykara2003 they haven't used the Broodals in at games beyond Odyssey so I dunno why you expect them to return

@Babybahamut

@ThatZeldaNerd you can wait.

In terms of raw impact, no other Mario game has hit me as hard as this one did. From the gameplay to the presentation to even how the story plays out - Odyssey is(imo anyway) a perfect home run on all those fronts. Still love this game. There's truly no "other".

@Novuscourvous yeah these days I just space out and dissociate when I'm on the can

@AussieMcBucket that'll show 'em

@Yoshi3 @YoshiTails yeah I don't think Nintendo buying Rare would really fix anything at this point.

These days I can't think of a game that doesn't have a day one patch. Kinda sucks but at this point it's not worth making a fuss over imo.

Psychonauts 2 please and thank you

@ShadLink no, elaborate. leave nothing

Nice to hear in this day and age. Sometimes a game doesn't need more.

@xmkbest "Looking at the gameplay footage can cause sensory overload – so much is happening so quickly that it's impossible for me to keep up and it's just one big chaos."

I feel like you could say this about... any kart racer or any racing game? Watching a game and playing a game can be two very different experiences.

@YunoboCo we don't know that yet.

@KoopaTheGamer of course I don't mean it literally, mind you.

Sakurai wasn't kidding. This game is wild.

You'd have to be aggressively - pathetically - cynical to dismiss the effort put into this Direct and the game it's promoting. The way this was presented was all killer, no filler.

People tried to say it'd be Crossworlds, but it really does seem like Air Riders is gonna dethrone MKWorld as the best mascot racer of 2025. Rightfully so - Sakurai and the Bamco team really went and packed this game to the gills, and there's at least like six different things that made me go "WOAH." For example:

• The returning and refined Top Ride mode
• Returning courses from the OG Air Ride
• The lovely and playful main menus
• Shogo Sakai and Noriyuki Iwadare on the music
• The wide variety of accessibility and cosmetic options
• Forgoing DLC in favor of just being a solid standalone package

Air Riders feels like Sakurai's true finale to Kirby. A wonderful celebration of not just the games he made, but to the entire franchise beyond him. If this were his final game ever, I'd be okay with that. It's more than fitting that he'd put 110% into this given it's the series that started his career.

I'd honestly pay $70 for this. $80, even.

11/10. Good stuff.

@Cloudman so we're getting mad about things Nintendo's been doing since 2015 now. Okay then.

@Max_the_German "I‘ve got the feeling there are no secrets about this game anymore."

Except yes there are. More information does not inherently equal "nothing is secret"

@OldManHermit it still looks great on modern displays.

@Zeebor15

Good choice. It's not as if the cutscenes in Prime were in a dire need to be restaged.

@Olliemar28 really? Didn't know about that.

Yeah, no. It's more likely we'll see double package port of 2 & 3 than we will a remaster. I'm still convinced Prime 1 was remastered mainly to test how well the Switch could handle something like Prime 4 in terms of visuals.

@CaleBoi25 it's an unconventional racing game with a high skill ceiling. That's the draw(for me at least).

@Dark-Luigi insane right? With the OG Air Ride, it felt like there was more focus on City Trial then with any of the other modes. The main racing was alright but that's all it was. Now it feels like there's more of an effort to make the racing just as fun and engaging as City Trial.

I'm now more convinced that as a racing game this is going to blow MKWorld outta the water for me.

@Scapetti Well Luigi had to save Mario before he could go on his vacation.