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@tee-cup I'm hopeful that Nintendo doesn't decide to double down on AC Icons, by giving us new ones after March, outside of things like frames and backgrounds. Like new poses, different outfits, or something crazy like a new game ala Smash Bros. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure Smash has too many licensing issues for Icons, and I don't know what other game they have that would have that many characters for the icons.

@TowaHerschel7 After the 3DS days of being able to skip an entire lap, saving 5-6 seconds isn't as much as I was expecting, lol. Thanks for the reply, I haven't been able to play the DLC since the first wave dropped.

@tee-cup I have a complete collection too, required me to play Mario Run daily for enough coins to be sure I never run out though, lol.

If they continue to use the Animal Crossing villagers as monthly rewards, then we'll have survived a full year their craziness, and won't need to make sure we have 500-600 coins for the monthly AC update.

@Pikman They've been available since March or so of this year.

@Otoemetry Turns out Kirby did have rewards from 5pm Pacific Time until 12am Pacific on December 22nd. My personal guess is that it was already the 23rd in whatever part of the world the Nintendo Everything reporter published, and it got carried over to NL too.

Edit: I was wrong about when Kirby stops, it runs until 4:59PM Pacific Time, today, December 23rd.

"Fixed issue where, when playing in London Loop, player is carried in by Lakitu after falling off of course and they were not returned to the appropriate location."

Does anyone know if this was a helpful glitch, as in it would carry you further ahead in the map, or a harmful one, as in you'd be placed much further behind where you went off course?

@KnightsTemplar It should be easy, and it should be done, but Nintendo hasn't done it, and that's why I compared it to Wii VC and WiiWare. Transferring those purchases should have been easy, but it wasn't. Nintendo is a bit terrible at carrying things forward from one console to the next. You expected a Wind Waker HD port, it would be easy money for Nintendo, an evergreen title that would continue to sell. Except Nintendo apparently doesn't want your money.

@Serpenterror They expected as much because of practices on PS3 and 360, and didn't realize Nintendo was Nintendo.

I held on to my consoles for multiple reasons, but I didn't understand people expecting it to work either.

@KnightsTemplar Sorry for your loss on those features. Reminds me of people who sold/traded in their Wiis and were expecting the ability to redownload their WiiWare and Wii VC games on Wii U. Nintendo never makes those things easy, and the consumer who lacks a Ph.D in Nintendo always suffers.

@stuntz0rZ There has been no announcement or published date for the shutdown of the 3DS online play. The only thing changing as of right now is the complete removal of eShop Purchases, but even then, you can redownload any game you have purchased after that.

@AlexanderDaniels According to Nintendo's website, the game is 16.1GB, but unboxing videos do not show the any text on the box saying you need to download the rest of the game. Maybe there's a day 1 update though.

@Clyde_Radcliffe The shortcut exploits got patched about a decade ago, they were just included in the NL patch notes now (with a date) for comparison, and to point out how long it had been. I actively played the game at the time, and when it was patched, saw players still shoot themselves off course only to find they didn't get carried by Lakitu through most of the next lap.

@FatWormBlowsASparky If you can't for a certain, Nintendo wouldn't approve... reason, it's safe nowadays. Might want to update some files first though, because while things are good now, with your mystery reasons, I don't want to turn a 3DS into a paperweight.

Third generation? So, 2D Classic Games, and every 3D game from Adventure to Forces is the 2nd Generation of Sonic games?

I feel like the third generation of Sonic was the Boost Era, Unleashed, Colors, Generations, and Forces.

This has been a thing since Awakening. Awakening did have early DLC, because the game was already out in Japan, and the DLC came after the release. Enough fans must have bought the 50 dollars worth of DLC for the 3DS games per entry, and spent enough money on the Season Passes for 3 Houses that a day one DLC just makes financial sense for Nintendo.

@Snatcher If you are playing with public lobbies, sensibility will vary as kids love this game still.

@Jackpaza0508 Do it, it's wonderful, and I say that as someone who watched the show when it originally aired, catching the first and last episodes live, and rewatched the show a year ago. It is insanely well written for a children's show and withstands the test of time.

@sanderev Since nothing in the article title said "Switch", would you prefer NintendoLife not use the words Wind Waker and pictures of Toon/Cat-Eye Link in articles until a Wind Waker Switch port is announced?

@BlueCoolYoshi Apparently, Insider Trading is far more common in Japan and the Japanese Government has made continual efforts to try and crack down on insider trading. Naka being arrested is because they are trying to make an example of higher profile individuals

@HeadPirate Just wondering if there was any reason you are using WST and SWT interchangeably, unless I'm missing something.

@StarPoint It's hard to say what will happen next, as there are reports that 80% of Panda's sponsored players and employees have left the organization after Panda's first message came across as generally tone deaf. Alan being removed as CEO but is still the owner of the company was the second message.

Edit: The CEO has stated in their personal statement that he is trying to sell his shares in the company as owner, so that's a good sign at least.

@Trmn8r I received it in the past from them, check your promotions folder in your email.

A bit disappointed to see that they've already given away the first three games in the past. I know I didn't buy any of them, but they're all in my library already.

@Kiyata You're welcome, it is a change in the formula, but that's not a bad thing. When I was younger, I cared more about battling Pokemon than I do now, the battles are fun for me, but my focus is more on catching Pokemon and completing the regional PokeDex now and having a fun experience while I do so. The game still manages to scratch my battling itch. You'd probably enjoy Arceus' change to the battle mechanics too, having the ability to make moves do more damage in exchange for being slower, or the opposite, a faster move that is weaker. These battle styles can be changed on the fly and applied to your moves in battle. This did not make it's way over to Gen 9 though.

@Pokemaniacal Would have just assumed you're a Pokemaniac from your username, and hopefully someone with Poke in your username on a Nintendo site would be a Pokefan. However, your username also describes your maniacal idea too. Probably should throw in permadeath rules as well, since your dragons would likely die of bloodloss.

@Kiyata You may love the Let's Go Mechanic, where you press R and can send Pokemon out straight into simple overworld battles where they mow down the other Pokemon in the field. If you see one you want to catch or actually do battle with, you can call the Pokemon back and press ZR to throw your Pokemon out from it's Pokeball at the Pokemon to engage in a traditional Pokemon Battle.

What they have done in the game is given you the freedom to choose to play how you want. If you want to fight, all 8 Gym Battles, plenty of overworld trainers, and multiple "evil" Team battles are available. It is just your choice in how you get to them, meaning you might find the Lv. 50 gym before the Lv. 10 Gym, but considering the stronger Pokemon in the overworld sort of gatekeeping you, you'd likely know to turn back until later in the game when you can actually fight them.

The game is a technical mess, but honestly, I've been having a lot of fun in Local or Online Multiplayer with friends, exploring the world together instead of alone. There is still plenty of battling to be done. If you can look beyond the technical issues, and laugh at them along the way, and see what Game Freak was going for (it becomes apparent in the first few hours of gameplay) there is fun to be had, but the game does not live up to the technical standards that it should.

@Anti-Matter It stands for Random Number Generator, and the funny thing is, none of them are truly random. Some of them are better at generating "randomness" than others, ones that are harder to solve. The one in Scarlet and Violet has the same results every time, meaning it is stuck and not giving random numbers, it is giving the same numbers each time, and those numbers are used to determine if your attack will hit or not.

@locky-mavo SteamGridDB is just an image hosting site. Most of the images are uploaded for Steam's Library, whether that be ones you buy on Steam or add to the library manually. They are big on community efforts to archive the box art of games, and then have a lot of fan art or high quality custom art covers for games.

There are not ROMs or ISOs available on this site at all, Nintendo's choosing to go after some covers of Switch games instead of the multiple consoles worth of images.

@AnnoyingFrenzy Everyone complained because Backwards Long Jumps had become a part of Mario 64's history, and one of the more famous exploits in gaming. If this gets patched out in a week or month, most people will forget.

Right now, I'm currently more excited for Pokemon because it's almost out, but if you had asked me a week or two ago, I would have said Tears of the Kingdom, and if you ask me probably 2 weeks from now, my answer will go back to Tears of the Kingdom. Just excited to see the new stuff and read about the changes made under the hood.

@Snatcher One of the reasons people like physical copies is because after the Switch is discontinued, after the eShop is inevitably shut down (which would be sooner than most of us expected with Nintendo's recent actions) a physical cartridge can still be put in a used Switch and played. They are upset that they don't have the complete game physically on the cart, making their physical purchase incomplete compared to a download.

@benmalsky198 I was replying to button mashing being viewed as negatively as a whole, not how attacks are handled in Frontiers, which I haven't played enough of to form a solid opinion yet. Another reason why people may not enjoy mashing A is that the game doesn't provide enough "oomph" behind the repetitive attack, whether that be visual flair in the animation, or the damage dealt. Sonic himself being fast would probably lead to more speedy, less powerful attacks at the start of the game, and by the end of it with the skill tree, you would have stronger attacks that require less repeated inputs.

@Olliemar28 I think there's a slight mistake in Paragraph 5, saying Team Sonic instead of Sonic Team.

@benmalsky198 Button mashing in a negative context usually refers to not knowing what you are doing, but hitting all of the buttons and it working out, compared to repeatedly hitting A because you know your punch will eventually win, even if it would be faster to use different attacks or strings.

@Nintendo4Sonic Glad you got the code, and sorry to hear you are disappointed in the game. I have only put an hour into it yet, and am still forming my impressions.

I play Mario Run once daily for about 4 or 5 minutes, but I only play it for the Platinum Coins so I can maintain a complete NSO Icon Collection. Seems to be the least amount of effort needed for Platinum Coins from the mobile games compared to Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem.

@Nintendo4Sonic Codes were sent out today, check your email if you were waiting on one and already signed up for the newsletter.

@Nintendo4Sonic They haven't distributed the code yet, just make sure you're signed up to the Frontiers Newsletter, and read the email they send you after signing up, there is another step you have to take. The second tweet said that the Soap Shoes won't have any of the tutorial area nonsense for you to worry about, same with the later Monster Hunter collaboration. They will work just fine when they distribute the shoes, at least, that is the current plan. Whether or not it goes smoothly is harder to guess.

@Anti-Matter Sonic games have had glitches since the first game in the series, Sonic 1 didn't even make it to the title screen before a coding bug appeared. A screen wasn't supposed to be black, and as a result, the black text was effectively invisible. Ever since Sonic 06, Sonic games being bad and buggy hasn't been controversial, it has been something that SEGA has shown they are willing to ship time and time again. One would think they would never want to repeat the brand damage that caused, but they showed they were fine to do so again multiple times in the series history, Rise of Lyric, and Forces not being at Generations level of quality following the success of Mania months prior, Colors Ultimate shipping with several issues, same with Origins, retroactively impacting the perception of Colors and the original 16 Bit games.

More people are put off by a "bad" Sonic game, thinking it's business as usual, your theory about a continual controversies strategies plan just does not make sense. Content creators will buy bad Sonic games for the views they can get by people wanting to see them suffer in a bad game. Most people, unless they buy every Sonic game released, do not buy bad games at launch. They buy them eventually on sale, and then parents continue to buy Sonic games for their kids on Nintendo platforms. The simple truth is that Sega of Japan is bad at making business decisions, and this goes back to the 1990s. They have an established history of doing things their way instead of what would be the most profitable decision. That philosophy is what lead them to drop out of the console market back in 2001 in the first place. They took risks that did not pay off. They rush games out the door to be there for the important fiscal calendar dates. They've been somewhat willing to delay games over the last few years, but then their games still release in a poor state. Either they needed to delay them again, or hire more staff for last minute cleanup. Origins, Colors Ultimate, both of those games should have been easy, no controversies, helping the Sonic brand, games to tide over fans until Frontiers launched. Instead, they made Sonic more associated with a less than stellar product. And the sad part? History says that they'll make at most 1-2 more Sonic games before there is another PR disaster on their hands.

Seeing the comments about the SNES sales figures is amusing, knowing why they are "low". Sega was fighting hard for Nintendo's market share in the west, and Hudson was fighting with the TurboGraphix-16 in the east. Nintendo's lower sales figures were directly due to their competition giving it their all that generation.

It will be very interesting to see where lifetime unit sales end up on the Switch when the dust is finally settled and Nintendo is well underway into their next generation.

Pretty sure we'll see a Game Gear Micro Part 2 before we see another Mini Console.

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Nice to see the Rad Red back in form. Possibly the best 6 minutes of November 2022 so far.

Sega has been doing these promotional comics and shorts since 2017 for their Sonic games. Wonder how people would react to the Sonic Forces prequel comics now, since those had 4 installments, and explained how Infinite met Eggman, why Silver came to the past, why Knuckles was leading the resistance, etc. If there is any similarities between the two comics, I suspect both won't be necessary for the main story, but fun nonetheless.

@ Piyo Skyrim running poorly is par for the course. It's a feature, not a bug.

@Joeynator3000 In a fitting twist of irony, Nintendo accidentally claimed their own videos and issued enough takedown notices to shut their own channel down.

@larryisaman @anoyonmus I've been corrected, they aimed for 60fps. I confused that fact with 1 and 2 running at 720p docked, instead of say 1080p like it could on PC.

@anoyonmus It's been forever since I looked into it, but off the top of my head, Bayonetta 1 and 2 on Switch aimed for 30, and usually hit it, but there were frame drops from time to time, and some sections that didn't hit 30.

Considering the state of frame rates on the Switch lately, I'd say it is probably like the first two games in that it targets 30, but doesn't always hit it.

@CMS_Glalie They've been around long enough that they aren't a troll account, just very opinionated and know what they want, even if that goes against the crowd.

@RubyCarbuncle Ghost would break the typings they've always done for Eevee though. With the exception of Dragon, there is an Eeveelution for every Pokemon type that was originally delegated to only deal damage through Special in Gen 1, and Special Attack in Gens 2-3. I know the physical special split is long gone, but I'd wager on a Dragon Eevee before a Ghost Eevee.

@Anachronism While I am surprised at that too, announcements like this are easy to track. It's the smaller items that have Sonic plastered onto them that are harder to track.

@Anachronism The real issue with that is with how popular Sonic was in the 90s, and the licensing deals made around the world from Sega of Japan, Sega of America, and Sega of Europe. There are bound to be ones never documented or recorded. Trying to look up Sonic shirts from 3-4 years ago is difficult, let alone a shirt from 1991.

@contractcooker I'm not about to dive down the rabbit hole that is their comment history, but at one point they said they were from a country where English wasn't the primary language. Looking at their comments through the lens of a slight language barrier makes their comments passable.