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Placing Awakening so high on the list and Three Houses so low is definitely a choice. Some would arguee Three Houses do not have interesting gameplay. Fair enough, most of the maps are simple, even though the DLC helped greatly.

However, Awakening is even worst in that front, all strategic component are reduced to ashe thanks to the pair ability, which makes any unit into a freaking monster. And contrary to Three Houses, it does not have interesting characters, lore or story, and its replay value is significantely lower too.

One of the best J-RPG I ever played, I recommand it to everyone that never touched it.

Did not touch the Switch 2 version, but I have great memories of this game, mainly the combat system which is deeply strategic, each boss forcing you to experiment and change your team composition to overcome it.

The ending is not the greatest, but the rest makes up for it completely.

@Dr_Awkward Well... did you publish any game so you can finally openly criticize video games in general... ? Did you wait to manufacture your own car before you can form a judgment on the ones you bought ? Did you wait to build your own house before you could say if the ones you can visit are great or not ?

And yes, 7 years in isolation, without any feedback from anyone, leads you to some sort of bubble where you are more and more distant from your original fanbase.

And that's a game I will never touch again after finishing it (unlike the first Hollow Knight). It was such a chore, it felt just like work at the end of act 3.

If Hollow Knight was Dark souls 1, this game definitely feels like Dark Souls 2, i.e. a game where the developers did not understand what made the first game great and added extra BS just for the sake of making things more difficult (more enemies at the same time, more damages taken from enemies, convoluted progression system...).

It's one of those games where it makes zero difference if it's """"fully"""" on card or not, as the game has already like 20 DLC released. I would have prefered Persona 3 to be fully on card.

How exciting, a future where every human is replaced by AI.

Please buy Rare. Please buy Rare. Please buy Rare.

Well I did not except it.

That's a really cool feature !

I wanted to get back into the game, this will be a great reason to start a new island on Switch 2 !

Annnnnnnnd I don't want anything Microsoft related on my Switch 2.

I don't hate DLCs, as long as it's not cut content, but I really respect Sakurai's decision of not making any if he thinks he has already put everything he wanted.

Outstanding. I trust Sakurai when he says he, and his team, put everything they had in this game. It shows.

Love the small jab at 90% of the gaming industry : "I put everything I wanted from the start. The game is complete."

Sakurai is really the man. Can't wait for more infos !

So stocked to play it tomorrow !

There's 100% sure a Switch 2 version coming

Can't wait to play it !

What an incredible port honestly.

@theconstellationiris Or miles better, like Cyberpunk and SW Outlaws that are barely playable on Steam Deck, but look really good on Switch 2.

I can't wait to not play it !

Switch 2 is an incredible gaming hardware, it deserves to win. Bananza is my personal GOTY but I doubt it will win, some game gathered up way more hype.

No idea why this game could not run on Switch 1. It honestly looks barely better than P5.

Atlus is not the best when it comes to optimization

The funniest thing I've seen about Silksong is the Joseph Anderson stream's compilation about it.

"ARI, WAKE UP, I HAVE A NEW TRAP IDEA"
"Oh my god, we really hate our player, 3 more years of development !"

Silksong : breath
Everyone : OH MY GOD BEST GAME EVER

A lot of people are reacting to this game like it's their first videogame ever. Oh my god, Hornet makes sounds when she moves ? There is HD rumbles ? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing ? You can JUMP ? Woaaaaaaaah.

I have no idea what sets apart Silksong's sound design from other games. I'm pretty sure no one knows either, but the hype is just really strong with this one uh.

An incredible game, and one hell of a port on Switch 2.

Unfortunately, I wont get it, as I'm too scared to play this type of game. Heck, I was too scared to play Metroid Dread (played 20 minutes of it, was too scared, gave up). But I applaud Capcom for porting 2 recent Resident evil games, and release this new entry day one on Switch 2 ! I hope every major publisher does this in the future.

@Glitchling78 You are no true soul. Go back crawling in Gross Moto with the likes of you, pilgrim, you are not worthy of the citadel... !

Just kidding, but the Hollow Knight's community almost speak like the pilgrims in this game when you criticize the difficulty. Good for you you can ease up the pain and have fun !

I'm getting incredibly tired with this game and the whole discussion around it.

It's a good game. It's a great product. That's it. Not gonna change the industry.

Truth is, people praise this game because of its content-price ratio, and that alone. Not because it presents interesting game design elements. And it does not. It's a classic metroidvania, with ton of contents. Most of its boss are just huge HP tanks, or swarm of enemies, or both at the same time. Most of the areas present a simple gimmick, quite often "how to make our player annoyed". Three consecutive poison swamps areas. Really... original. Most of the quests are MMORPG inspired, like "ohhhhhh, how about you give this to Bernie, at the other side of the map, uh ?", or "collect 15 burnt flesh, ohhhh, exciting, what a fresh idea !".

Buuuuut it's 20 bucks so people feel good about their purchase, and feel like their money was well spent, and that somehow they are fighting "greedy corporations", as if none of us had already a massive backlog of games to play, more than enough until the end of times. Quantity really is the most important thing in this industry uh...

Sugimori has a point though. Physical carts wont hold forever either. We already see NES and N64 cartridges not function anymore, because the components inside are starting to deteriorate

Damn it Square Enix, why ? There is like no valid reason to not give the option to people, except to make them pay twice

@The_Nintendo_Pedant It's not costing them that much money to do them. It's a marketing strategy that has massive benefits, and it gets fans excited before release.

Silksong. I still have to 100% it. It's a great game, but some aspects (how much HPs boss generally have, which make their fights long and tedious) are definitely making the experience worse, for no other reason than, in my humble opinion, artificially increase the game length. But that's only my 2 cents.

Donkey Kong Bananza for the new DLC announced ! I'm not sure it's worth the price tbh, but it's a great nostalgia trip, and it's always fun to smash stuff

The anti Team Cherry lmao. Sakurai really is the man. Frequent little updates on Nintendo Today. Two freaking Nintendo Direct, in the span of a few months

Let's see what he has in store !!

I found it excellent, but I'm extremely biased, as I really wanted a new Fire Emblem game, and guess what hehehe

Plus, a DLC for DK, which makes me really happy, I wanted more and more for this game, and it's really fun this far ! DK's island is such a nostalgia trip !

Metroid Prime 4 finally got a release date, we can finally countdown the days !

And Kirby Air Riders is gonna have a new direct lmao, I laughed a little bit when I heard it, oh Sakurai never change

My newly most anticipated game for Switch 2 (sorry Metroid Prime 4 !).

Three Houses is easily in my top 3 games on the original Switch and this one seems to be a direct follow-up (in some way).

I can't wait !!

Looks really good, I will buy it later today

I'm so happy this game got a DLC when Odyssey never had this chance

It looks so incredibly cute I think my heart could burst just by looking at it

Nintendo sure love putting their characters on bikes in their open world games

Pokémon, Zelda, now Metroid !

It's such a minor thing in the midst of all the BS this game throws at you. I almost forgot this one bench.

Wait until they reach this one boss at the end of act 2. But of course, I'm sure the people that yell "git gud" everytime someone criticizes this game's difficulty enjoyed every minute of it. What's not to love ? Such a well designed boss with clever mechanics, am I right ?

I wish the devs would add an even harder difficulty with only one hit point and no bench. For the TRUE Hollow Knight players. Fun ! So each time they fight a boss and die, they can climb their way through the entire map, because if we learned anything with Silksong, it's that apparently, long runbacks are peak videogame design 😉

What I want to see :

• A release date for Metroid Prime 4, at long last
• A new 3D Mario
• A new Fire Emblem, a true one this time please, not this weird stuff we got with Engage.
• DLC for Mario Kart World, please ! Some new content, new stuffs to do !
• Switch 2 editions of Paper Mario TTYD and Paper Mario Origami King, two fantastic games
• Switch 2 edition of Pikmin 4
• Elden Ring's release date
• FF VII R's release date
• Some big new port for Switch 2
• Clair Obscur's port for Switch 2
• Some new third party announcement for Switch 2

YES. FINALLY.

Nate the hate doubters are yet again proven wrong.

Come on, end our suffering already 🥺

@Azileron I wonder what's the artistic vision behind Bilewater, give everyone a preview of the life of a damned in hell, condamned to eternal suffering 🤣 ?

Honestly, this game's difficulty is comparable to Dark Souls 2 : devs of this game did not understand what made the first game great, and they just went "ohhhhhh you like difficult games uh, what about 50 enemies at the same time without adequate moveset to deal with them, 5 minutes runbacks and random Kaizo Mario stuff ?". Sure, you can make a game as difficult as you want, but at some point, it just turns out into a joke game like Kaizo Mario. What's the frontier between a troll game and a real game ? Isn't it the fact that it's accessible to a good fraction of players ?

"Is Silksong too difficult ?"

I mean, is the hardest metroidvania ever made, difficult 🤣 ? The stuff this game throws at you in the end game is absolute insanity.

Too difficult though ? For most people indeed it is. It's definitely not possible for some people to 100% it.

Is it a problem ? I mean, nothing really is a problem when it comes to video games, it's just some side activity we do for fun. But it would be nice if more people had access to the game, through an easy mode for example. More health, less damage taken, that sort of stuff...

@Max_the_German Well I wish I could have preordered it, like said in my previous comment.

And yes, a lot of people bought the game without playing the first one, out of general hype, but since no reviews were released at the time, they could not be completely informed in their purchase.

It is completely on Team Cherry because they had the option to give the game early to reviewers.

@Max_the_German It would have been nice then to provide early copies to game journalists, so they can inform people on the difficulty, and they can choose to NOT buy the game thanks to those reviews.

Team Cherry no preorders + no early copies to journalists was BS as its finest.

It would be very much appreciated if everything in this game did not do 2 damages. It's crazy how when certain boss finally do 1 damage on most of their attacks (Widow and Phantom), their fight becomes, much, much, MUCH, funnier and exciting. Also, they do not summon random enemies.

Could they also add a feature allowing you to just respawn in front of every boss (Elden Ring did it) ? Doing 30s to 1m runbacks is not fun. It never has. It never will. It's just a waste of time, and it diminishes the enjoyment out of certain bosses (last judge cough cough, and yes I timed it, it takes 1 minute between the bench and the boss arena, so if you die 20 or 30 times, it's 30 minutes of your life wasted on meaningless content... and it's not even the worst runback in the game !)

@rvcolem1 The game is complete. Nothing will be released for it anymore, and the Switch 2 version contains everything.

@cedarhyped I highly doubt it, I think it just comes down to the nature of the map itself. There is a clear direction you are supposed to go, whereas the first Hollow Knight just let you meander in its world

Silksong. I have nearly 10 hours on the game now. I really like it so far, but it feels weirdly linear ? I don't know why, never got this feeling with the first one.
Overall though, this is more Hollow Knight, which is great !