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I mean, it could be a stretch but at the same time, it does feel like something Nintendo would do.

Doesn't it seem suspicious that this appears around the same time the "Google Theory" for Smash Bros Ultimate popped up?

So is it confirmed you can choose who to play as in a level? Or is it dependent on who the maker of the level chooses?

@Tandy255 Honestly, I don't think that's needed, while it would be nice to have them carry over, we'd soon fill the servers with brand new levels. Plus I'm expecting this game to sell even better than the first as it's being placed on a platform with thousands more active players. Not to mention it can be played on the go so people will even be able to make levels while they're out.

@Tandy255 The only evidence that points to this not being the case is the fact that when you choose the 3D World format, the courses are all wiped clean if you have anything on it.
If the 3D World truly does have everything the other formats have, I don't think they would make it so it does that.

I probably am reading into this too much but 1 concern I have is just how much content the 3D World style has.
I dunno why but judging from what we saw, it looked to me like that style has so much more that the other 4 styles will end up being overshadowed and will be ignored by the community due to them being "inferior versions".
I really want to be wrong on that but that's the impression I got when I saw the direct.

Decided to check out the Battlefield Model in Blender just to get a closer view and sure enough, it does look like Rayman.
No idea if this is some sort of hint or just a reference but given how much I'd love to see Rayman, I really hope it's pointing to something.

@ShinyUmbreon Oh hey, nice to know I'm not the only autistic person here.

@ShinyUmbreon I know you meant well but if I may offer some advice; Calling people "idiots" isn't a good way to calm them down, all that's going to do is make them even more willing to carry on.
As for your original comment, again I know you meant well but the tone you took was like a Parent telling a couple of kids to knock it off. While I admit I heavily disagree on a lot of what Yorumi says, himself and TAndvig sure as hell don't act like children so to take such an approach is again only going to add more fuel to the flame.
There's a difference between know what to do and knowing how to go about it.

@TAndvig Dude, take my advice, put this 1 on your ignore list. I've given plenty of rebuttals to some of the crap he's come up with and yet all he's done is carried on saying the same thing despite me providing arguments against it.
Hearing you say "You just purposefully ignored everything I said" comes as absolutely no surprise to me.
Also, from what I can read on your side, it seems you've already been hit with the "You insulted me" card, another lazy tactic he likes to employ.
Honestly, I wish he'd leave this site, he's obviously just here to drum up drama.

@Realness Well see, that's the thing, this is an indie game so of course it's not going to "Dethrone the King".
Indie games never attempt to match the big leagues because they know they will be stomped big time. As awesome as Shovel Knight is, do you really think he has what it takes to take down Super Mario? Of course not, that's borderline insanity.
Just because Meow Motors is clearly trying to be a kart racer does not mean it's automatically trying to best Mario Kart, it's an indie games hence why it's prices are a lot lower than your standard Triple AAA games.

@Realness I really wish this mentality would go away. Just because a video game ends up being similar to another doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. It's called genres dude, there's always going to be games that are similar, doesn't mean developers should throw in the towel and give up.
In fact, I say they should do the opposite, if they've got something to measure up to, it can actually drive (no pun intended) them to try harder.
Look at Shovel Knight, that game took a lot from other platformers and yet that game is fudging awesome, you didn't see Yacht Club Games throw in the towel because it "ended up being too similar to Super Mario" now did you? Neither should companies like this.

Except for the price, went on Amazon and they had the PS4 version for £29.99 while for some reason the NS Version was £34.99.
Honestly, after Xenon Racer, I'm only buying Nintendo Switch exclusive games, not taking that risk again.

So long, Gay Bowser!

@Shambo Geez Dude, if you're getting so upset at being called "Bro" then you really are too sensitive.
And this roster isn't "small", 25 characters is actually pretty good by today's standards, you want small? Look at vanilla Street Fighter V and Pokken Tournament, now that's a small roster.
And that's another thing, this game was made from the ground up so all it's content is fresh and new, do you even realize how much work has to go into making just 1 character? Sometimes it can take almost a year to make just 1 character and considering how detailed each fighter is in Netherealm's Games, getting 25 at the beginning is actually very commendable.
And that's another thing, fighting games aren't just the roster, there's plenty other things to account for as well such as stages, the story, game modes, and so on. If you're only focusing on the roster, that's your problem.
Oh also, I don't know where you're getting 70 Euros from, most places I've seen are asking 60 Euros or less.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Netherealm Studios have never forced micro-transactions on you, Injustice 2 had it but at no point was it forced, you could still unlock the content normally.

I mean, this is a given isn't it? Mainline Pokemon Games (And no I don't count Pokemon Let's Go) have always been a Core-Handheld experience.

@Shambo That's the part people like you don't seem to get.
The base game IS the finished product, any DLC that comes after is just extras on top.
If they charged standard price for what you deem to be the "Finished game", they would lose a ton of money as then they would be putting more into the product and wouldn't get much of it back.
If we rewind back to 1990's when Mortal Kombat 1 came out but DLC had already become a thing, you would have been paying for the base game for the same price and any DLC on top of that would have costed you extra.
It's basic finance, bro.

@Shambo You do realize all the DLC made by Netherealm is made AFTER the main game is finished, right? Netherealm has always done it this way, even as far back as Mortal Kombat 9 and Injustice 1. It's not like the garbage Capcom love to pull.

People really need to back up here and hold off their judgement.
Believe me, I've played Netherealm's Injustice games in the past and they never have disappointed me in terms of content. I will openly admit I purchased Injustice 2 Ultimate edition for £80 and I didn't regret it a bit because the amount of content I got for that was amazing. There was a good story, tons of customization, loads of characters complete with plenty of pre-battle quotes, some even character specific, and the amount of game modes was awesome.
And that's before counting any of the DLC.
Also, before anyone comes at me saying "Well ur just a MK fanboy", actually I don't like Mortal Kombat, while I won't deny they are well made games, the blood and gore just is not for me. I gave Mortal Kombat 9 a shot and while I did think it was a well made game, it just wasn't suited to my tastes.

@Tantani After the grinch leak incident, I don't even listen to those anymore.
Only way you can get me to believe leaks now is if another Roy and Ryu incident happens.

@panthro Oh I see, sorry.

@Tantani Sorry what? Did I miss something?

@panthro Fair enough, when you're a grown up, free time can be hard to come by.
Personally, if I was you, I'd go with Crash.

@panthro Why not both?

@Grumblevolcano You say that like it's a bad thing

Sorry 3DClouds but it's too late, you immediately lost me the minute you thought it was okay to advertise this game on the eShop with the presentation of the Playstation 4/Xbox One version.
If you had just not done that and advertised the Nintendo Switch version properly, I would have happily returned my copy and then purchased the Playstation 4 version as then the mistake would have been on me but no, you decided to take this route and for that, I refuse to give you a penny of my hard earned cash.

If anything has proven Nintendo isn't so hand-holding these days, it's the Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion. Seriously, that mode will kick your ass!

I read the article and I'm still confused as fudge, the images you are sharing look nothing like the pose Sabrina is making.
Not to mention said pose is something I've seen all the time with people feeling sad, how do you even come to the conclusion this is a reference to a meme?

As much as I love the game, Smash Bros Ultimate's online needs work. The issue of running into matches that I don't care for is still present and I also feel Squad Strike should have online functionality.
The worst part is to me, the easiest fix to the online is to just add in a decline option. When the game finds an opponent, it selects either your rules or your opponents but then it should present said rules to both players and if you're not okay with them, you have the option to decline it.

If Stage Builder is returning, I really hope it sees improvements. I wasn't happy with past stage builders as they didn't feel very user-friendly and overall just didn't feel really flushed out.

@Yorumi Okay, first off, that's definitely not all we hear about. If you want a clear cut history of everything we know about the man, watch Did You Know Gaming's episode on his History leading up to Smash Bros Ultimate.
Secondly, Sakurai is a big name within Nintendo so of course anything he declares to the world will naturally be magnified. Why do you think he gets so many interviews? People want to hear his story and what he has to go through.
Finally, that still doesn't make it so he "broadcasts it to the world". Like I said before; He's just answering questions, it's not like he's taking to the Internet and boasting to the world just how much struggling he has to do to give us Smash Bros. And I sure as hell don't believe he wants us to worship him and revere him as some sort of martyr, as you claim he does.

@Yorumi I would hardly call this a "Poor me" statement. The interviewer asked the question and Sakurai gave an answer. If it was a "poor me" situation he would be going out of his way to letting everyone know how hard he's worked but no, much like a lot of these "poor me" situations, they are just questions from interviewers.

I'm sorry but I don't know what they are thinking with the models for the characters. The Environments look amazing! In fact Mewtwo himself looks amazing, but my goodness do the human characters look really bad.

@MLGILA01 Looks like someone missed my correction comment.

I mean, come on, isn't this a given? We've only ever had 1 Pokemon Direct a year and they've always used it to show off the next big Pokemon Games. Plus, we already knew 2019 was gonna be the year for the next big Pokemon game.
Not to mention tomorrow is the 23rd Pokémon Anniversary for most of the world so of course it'll be Generation 8.

@whanvee Oh crud, I typed 13th by mistake, I mean't 23rd.
My bad.

It will be generation 8, tomorrow is the 13th Anniversary of Pokemon after all.

@JamesJose7 If you really care about the characters you're playing as, start with BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend on the Playstation 3, it has a remaster of the original story and has it's own story to boot. Then you have BlazBlue Chronophantasma which is the sequel and then finally this 1. To be fair though, BlazBlue Central Fiction does have short story recap at the beginning of it's story but I'm not too sure if it will suffice for a newcomer.
I will warn you though; The story is presented like a visual novel with some fights sprinkled out and it can get very confusing.

@TheFox "and at least half of its characters were brought in from other franchises"
I mean, isn't that a given? The game was made to be a crossover so of course it's going to have more than just BlazBlue. And of course the story isn't "true to the series", it's a spin-off.
That said, I do agree with you on the content, they could have done more.

@gloom BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle is essentially a spin-off that takes the base engine from actual BlazBlue Games and modifies it.
It also, of course, is made to be a crossover game that takes a lot of the franchises that Arc System Works owns and throws them into the mix. It also threw in 4 characters from the RWBY series.
Personally, I say this 1 is the superior game, the character roster has every single playable character from the BlazBlue series and the issue with BlazBlue CTB is they had to strip away a lot of the movesets for the characters due to making room for the Tag-Team mechanics.

And people wonder why everyone dissects the hell out of Nintendo, it's because of things like this!

@shoeses Technically, if we are going by that logic, Toon Link should be the echo since Young Link was here first.
And you can't say "Toon Link plays too differently" because then you're entire argument falls apart and Young Link sure as hell doesn't play like regular Link.

Awesome! I'm gonna buy them all!

@Decapre We already have a million Goku's, not to mention this 1 will most likely have Mastered Ultra Instinct Goku and Gogeta.
Leave it for Season 3, if it happens.

I am playing....music on my PC!

The big question I have is how customizable is the online? Can we do Squad Smash? Can we do Tournaments? Can we use amiibos?

Honestly, I'm more than satisfied, it's been almost 18 months since this game was released and the support they've given it is amazing.
All this does it make me excited for what Splatoon 3 will bring.

I mean, is it really surprising? Nintendo always tries to keep things E for Everyone so do you really think they would actually put genitalia in stuff like this?

@Mando44646 Is Geno straight up confirmed as a spirit? A lot of people love to point to that shot of him in the Battle Arena but that could just be an avatar logo and not a spirit.

@Yorumi "It's dismissive and arrogant really."

That's pretty rich coming from you of all people.