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@nightopia Those 20 year old games are hardly the most recent entries. But here's my point, which was NOT that Hollow Knight is better than ALL Castlevania and Metroid games. Castlevania and Metroid's greatest "Metroidvania" games are largely behind them and the two franchises that lend their names to the genre are no longer great examples of that genre. Maybe there's hope for Prime 4...if it ever releases. In the meantime, Hollow Knight is top notch design, and the best metroidvania to be released in at least a decade.

Hollow Knight is much better than the most recent Metroids and Vanias. It really is top notch design.

If it doesn't rhyme with Sguys of Shmarcadia I probably don't care. I'd settle for a Dreamcast collection with SoA on it.

@PineappleLake Yes! That and the whole mystery landscape puzzle were the parts I was missing in New Snap. My favorite evolution was bonking charmeleon into the lava pit to get charizard. I love New Snap, but it's more of a passive safari. Things feel more interactive in Snap 64.

What an interesting idea. I don't think there were enough Pokemon in gen 1 to really make it worthwhile. Especially considering it makes good sense to find water pokemon in water and rocky pokemon in caves (for example), which would really cut down on the variation. But still, the idea that most players have a somewhat unique experience from one another would have been interesting. And it really would have forced you to find friends who play to trade with to complete the pokedex - can't just buy both and do it yourself.

Man, losing FIFA hit them hard huh? /s

Naming a genre after an example of the genre is just awful. Especially since the Metroids and the Vanias are now arguably not the best examples of their own kind of exploration game. And how many people who now regularly use the word roguelike even know Rogue was a game? And of those who do know how many have even played it? Can we really describe these games as LIKE Rogue?

They'll just stop making it for Switch entirely. They wanted to ditch Switch way sooner but the pressure from FIFA to put the license on all platforms was too great. That's why Switch gets a half-baked legacy edition lazily shoved out the door. On the other hand, when the FIFA license lands somewhere else maybe we'll see an actually good game.

@JeanPaul That's what I thought too! Going to be honest, I'm slightly disappointed that it's not.

Me, seeing the cover image: Persona 5?!
Me, realizing it's Digimon: Oh, that hasn't been cancelled?

Not surprising. They already said this when they decided the last gen wasn't going to have them all. Gotta catch 'em some.

The first one was disappointingly easy, to the point where I never felt like I had to actually engage with the (somewhat intriguing) mechanics of combat. The boss fight difficulty felt like it should have been the everyday fight difficulty. And the trash fights were pretty much 1-2 turn kills every time, usually before the monsters could even act. Is there actually a bit of challenge in this one?

One more and the horsemen shall ride again!

Was just thinking on Monday it was about time for a Direct. And then BAM, there it is. Good timing.

It's finally an adventure again. Maybe even more so than ever before. I never thought I'd see them take a risk like this, but it's really paying off. I hope it continues to sell like mad.

There's not really any exploration in Dread? Fun action game, but basically a hallway. Weird that we still call them Metroidvanias when the Metroids and the Vanias aren't really great examples of the genre anymore. I guess there's still hope that Prime 4 will be a strong showing.

I'm torn on this. On the one hand it's dumb from a PR perspective because they're not exactly selling this music anyway and it's basically free marketing and goodwill from fans to leave it alone. On the other hand, due to the way copyright law sometimes works, failure to defend a copyright claim can harm your chances of defending a more legitimate breach in court in the future. They need a better strategy than their current one.

This is just cucco.

I'll believe it when it's in my hands.

Subtitle missed opportunity: Bulbasorry.

Bulbasaur loser is good too though.

It should be illegal to use the word Arcadia in a game title without Skies of in front of it. Heart skipped a beat skimming along until I saw the full title. Foiled again!

Clicked on this half expecting the article to just say "Lol, No." This game is AT BEST ho-hum. The design feels dated, but I suspect that even if it had released in the heyday of this kind of game it would have been unremarkably average. I also suspect if it didn't have big names behind it, everyone would have collectively shrugged at its release and we never would have heard anything about it.

I played the demo but I felt like it was just too easy. Like my characters were at the recommended levels, barely took any damage, and had no trouble killing monsters in one turn almost every time. Did this change in the actual release? Because it was very off-putting. I felt like there was a neat system in there, but no reason not to just spam the correct super effective attack every time to win.

@BloodNinja Yes, sorry, online text isn't clear I was just joking around. I knew what you meant, it was just funny to think about it as if you didn't.

@BloodNinja This comment is very funny to me considering that Dark Souls is on the list.

Is Dark Souls really a souls-LIKE? Isn't it just...souls? Asking for a friend...

@KateGray Don't get me wrong, I never care if it's real or not. 99% of the time it's funny enough that they deserve a cookie even if they've never touched a bot. But it's awesome that you write your own. You're not by any chance planning to use them for evil are you?

"We forced a bot to..." is the kind of clickbait I absolutely cannot resist. I love it so much. The way it connects Tingle with Murder here is astute, and possibly prophetic.

I mean, the game's okay I guess? Weird one to go physical.

Oh this is encouraging news, maybe they'll actually do it right this time!

WA HAH HAH HAH!

@Ralizah This review from NLife is more fair I think. "It wasn't a good game in 2015, and it's no better today." That quote from the cons list of the Push Square review tells me everything I need to know. Bad review from someone who just doesn't like the game? Color me surprised.

@alasdair91 Cut them some slack. They've only been at it for 25 years and it's not like it's the highest grossing media franchise of all time.

Wait, doesn't it WANT to be shunned by humans? I mean it's always changing form to hide its identity. Now it's going to be all dead about being shunned? A bit high maintenance if you ask me.

Why is any of this my business? This is between the workers and their employer. Bad workplaces bleed good employees, and when all that's left is talent that can't get a job elsewhere the company's quality declines and it risks going under. Why do you think all those EA studios end up closing?

This Switch model is half-baked and should have been pie instead. Caketendo is DOOMED! Going to need to see a teardown video. Has Digital Foundry compared the performance to a pie yet? Pies are obviously superior. If it doesn't do pie it's a waste of time.

Nice to see they're doing SOMETHING.

Really solid direct with good variety. Felt like there was something for everyone in there.

This is...weird. How do you even compare some of these?

Take my money, take my plans, send 'em off to Arcadia's land.

I don't know what RPG, but SEGA should give the Skies to me.

Gamers buy games and pile them up and never play them. Big companies buy developers and pile up their IPs and never release more games for them. Isn't nature amazing?

This would be nice I guess, but all I really need from Wii-U's catalogue is Windwaker and Twilight Princess.

Let's Go still looks graphically better than this to me. Honestly, Let's Go was pretty close to perfect if they'd just added the ability to battle wild Pokemon, throw a pokeball with a button press, and leave the original trainer's teams the same. Basically it just needed a classic mode. If they'd done that and just continued the series remakes as Let's Go games I'd have loved to see Gen 2, 3 and 4 remade in that style.

They could be running multiple concurrent series and hitting all the different kinds of players that want Pokemon games. Like an open world? Legends series. Older players looking for classic or tougher Pokemon? Let's Go. Younger players new to the series? Whatever the latest gen game is. For compatibility of trading and such they could even just say games in the same series are compatible with each other and Pokemon Home. Then use Home as the central hub for all things Pokemon. Or you know...keep throwing things at the wall and see what sticks or whatever.

Anyway, looking forward to picking up BDSP soon. It'll be nice to revisit Sinnoh.

Played the demo and the art style bothers me so much. No idea why. Not for me.

In the poll, doesn't look very good & I'm not interested in MOBA games are the same thing to me.

@Gwynbleidd NLife reported on this last year. The average salary was 86K I think, and the average term of service was about 14 years. The average pay doesn't tell us much since it includes all employees from all levels, but that kind of average longevity is impressive and speaks to people usually not wanting to leave. Nintendo's CEO salaries are quite modest considering that some western CEOs are making hundreds of times the average of their employees.

@RushDawg Oh right, sorry, what I meant was we're getting remasters of P3 and P4, but they're full price straight ports of the original. It'll cost extra for the FES and Golden versions. Am I ATLUSing correctly now?

It'a a...Persona Pachinko Machine!

It astounds me how many of you have egos big enough to believe the OLED was a bad idea simply because it doesn't meet your personal needs. The market for this isn't upgraders. It's not a pro model and was never meant to be. Of course it's a bad deal to buy this when you already have a Switch. It's not for you, it's for people that don't have a Switch. Judging by how the Lite did, the OLED will grow the Switch install base and seems like a good move for Nintendo. And why is anyone surprised that Nintendo isn't putting out a super powerful machine for tech enthusiasts? They have literally never done this. Their entire company philosophy is built around "Lateral thinking with withered technology." People hyped themselves up on rumors for a product that was never real and then were disappointed when it turned out to not be real. Smh.

@Bolt_Strike First, Nintendolife's poll is moot to my point because their readership skews towards the enthusiast crowd anyway. What's true of people around here is not necessarily true of the general population of Switch purchasers. Second, the numbers you've cited from Nintendo were from October 2017, when the Switch was less than 1 year old and had roughly 10 million systems sold. There are now about 78 million Switches in the wild, about 14 million of which are Switch lites which are handheld only. I don't think the stats you shared are relevant anymore, but even using those numbers from 2017 handheld play was preferred and that's how many outlets like Eurogamer reported those numbers when they were fresh. I think that gap has only widened over time.