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Good lord. Reading this comment section makes me realize Miyamoto was 100% right. Video games are not art. They are products, and should be only viewed as such, because people will only look at this weird "game length-price" ratio, or will do youtube videos where they shoot in the water, marvel at the physic, and compare it to some random games that does it better and say "see, this game has better physic, greedy devs, how could they not give their game for free !"

It's a great start. I don't have time to play everything I have, and there's even more to come. I still have to finish Cyberpunk, Kirby, now Silksong, I might buy Star Wars Outlaws, Persona 3 Reload comes out next month, Kirby Air Riders and Metroid Prime 4 after that...

I greatly enjoyed MK World, and still play it with my family. Bananza was an incredible experience, and so was discovering Splatoon 3, and rediscovering Zelda TOTK in 60fps.

There is no shortage of great games on this console, and it's only gonna speed up, so everyone has something to play at all time.

Team Cherry could charge their game for 10 cents, they would still make a profit.

They are a team of 3 people, selling millions and millions of copies.

That's a thing people seem to not understand. No, AAA devs are "not gonna take notice", nor most developers, because their expanses are hundred of time higher than those of Team Cherry.

@Axecon This is not an official Ubisoft statement. It's just someone that worked on the game. What's the point for him to lie about it exactly ?

@jojobar It... is ? Is has been tested again and again. Just search "switch 2 cartridge loading speed" and you will see some comparison with games installed on system memory and games on cartridge. It's way faster on system memory or microsd express.

And that's not an official press release from Ubisoft. It's just someone who worked on the port. What's the point for him to lie about it ? Makes no sense.

@Sebos But in what way are they pushing the cost on customers ? Game key cards and digital downloads are not more expansive, it's quite the opposite in fact

I really like it so far. The visuals are amazing, and Christopher Larkin's score is, as always, top notch.

Not a fan of the diagonal move though, and they are starting to make a pretty big use of it 🤣

@Dhaladog Welp if they don't do preorders like Team Cherry, the next time they release a game like a 3D Mario.

If they do preorders, never, because there is no reason for the store to crash.

@Athropos No idea why they are against preorders when they litteraly did not give any press website a code before release.

That's the whole point of not preordering : to know if the game is actually good or not thanks to other people 🤣

@Powerballad Same here, it's gonna take quite some time, even more than usual because of the massive number of people downloading it at the same time

I'm downloading it right now. Good luck everyone else, I hope it wont take you long.

Now with my crappy internet connexion, it's gonna take quite some time urgh

@Powerballad Less impressive when you consider every other game on the market can actually be preordered, to prevent stuff like this

Annnnnnnnnd the eShop is down.

Who would have thought uh ? If only a certain team just released it a few days ago, so people could download it in advance, you know, like every other dev 🙄

Finally, the switch 2 version is actually improved

I hope the gaming industry never takes inspiration from Team Cherry on "how to communicate about your upcoming game"

Can we finally buy it on the eshop though ? Or do we have to wait for september 4th ?

@Zeroo I know, but I was mostly angry at yet another case of "Team Cherry decided to not communicate at all"

But yeah, 20 bucks is a great deal for what I suppose is gonna be a much bigger game than the first Hollow Knight.

Three Houses is still the crown jewel of Fire Embem's soundtrack, but this one comes close. Great addition.

I did not play this one since a loooooong time, but last time I did, it was really fun

Rayman Legends is still one of the best 2D plateformer ever made, alongside Tropical Freeze. I hope they finally do this franchise justice and make new great games for it.

@TKundNobody Nate has been extremely reliable on this subject.

It's definitely happening on september 12th if he says so.

Like I said in a previous article, it's mind boggling that Team Cherry refuses to communicate on such a simple information and that we have to rely on leaks and speculations, as always. Like... why ? Why not just release a tweet saying "hey, it's 20 bucks", and be done ?

But hey, that follows their track record of not saying anything for 6 years...

Like with the new Sonic racing game, I hate how paid DLC announced before release has been completely normalized.

@Zeroo Show me the official announcement. I saw the leaks, but at this point, and after 6 damn years of radio silence, maybe Team Cherry could actually communicate on something themselves ?

Team Cherry still has not announced any price for Silksong. I wonder why they like to do this, not announce anything until the very last minute.

@Kraven BG3 is a beautiful game, but what a buggy mess, still to this day.

That's my only complaint with this one. I have found myself more often than not, frustrated because one companion refused to join the rest because of a small cliff (while they could climb it, as I did while taking control of them)... or when certain character are stuck on dialogues choices, even though they should clearly, by that point in the story, have new ones unlocked. Or their entire bodies dissapear in camp, but they are still technically there, and you cannot talk to them unless you restart the game. Or the inventory that kinda refuse to track correctly when you transfer an item to another character (and gosh, it's so cluttered by the end). And the way certain one-target spells just refuse to lock on an enemy, unless you click on this one pixel.

Lots and lots of stuff like this that keep breaking the experience every 30 minutes. I wish they invested a little bit more in "bug fixing", and less in photo modes and stuff like this.

And I aint buying it, because Sony has not produced any interesting game in 10 years, outside of Astrobot, and it's likely not to change, because people buy their consoles anyway.

@Medic_alert Exactly. It says litteraly nothing about key game cards and how they compare to full physical releases.

I wish I could play this game, but I could not even play Metroid Dread for more than 5 minutes as I was too scared. So I think their game is a big no no for me, forever and ever.

Every horror game developper should add a mode where enemies become cute giant puppies, there is no jumpscare, and the world figured electricity and lightbulbs so you see everything in front of you.

It's the only way I could experience most of these games.

Playstation and Xbox are non existent.

You love to see it.

I don't have time, and I already 100% completed it a few years ago. I wish I could though ! But Cyberpunk and Kirby are gonna be my 2 primary focus between Silksong's release !

I'm so into Cyberpunk atm that I read "Wake the f*** up Samurai" in the subtitle, which is perfectly fitting for a Kirby news 😅

Nice addition, I hope they continue to add more !

The double standards in this industry is mind boggling.

Call of Duty can pull up a 1984 style BS where they analyze your playstyle and the weapons you don't have to pair you up with players that do have them, just to sell you those weapons while watching the kill cam (with the press of a button !).
IGN gave it a 9/10.

But Kirby getting a DLC for 20 bucks is too much. 7/10.

🙄

Really looking forward to it ! I'm getting my Switch 2 copy tomorrow

But gaaaaaaah, I still have to finish Cyberpunk, and Silksong is next week ! Oh boy, I'm gonna be busy

Grow Home was really good, glad it's not under Ubisoft's umbrella anymore.

I wish it happened with a lot of Microsoft's IPs too. They are not doing anything with them anyway...

Geez, I wonder if the people that see anti-consumer practice in everything Nintendo does are gonna bat en eye on this one 🙄

Judging by the comment section : nope.
The game is not out yet but we already have paid DLC.

@AmplifyMJ The first few days are the most important ones for a videogame. If it sells poorly on release, it wont get any traction and thus will sell even more poorly afterward, with some notable exceptions.

Yup, it's a stupid decision by Nintendo.

There's nothing much to analyze here. It's plain old stupid to not give dev kits left and right for your newly released console.

I mean, does Star Crossed World have specific musics to begin with ? For all we know, it could re-use every previous level's music

I'm really glad to hear it as I never played it, so I might give this one a try too ! End of the year is gonna be a busy one for Switch 2 : this, Kirby Forgotten Land, Persona 3, Silksong, Kirby Air Riders... I wont have enough time to play them all, as I'm still pretty busy with Cyberpunk 2077 🤣

I might finally buy it, if it runs well on Switch 2 !

@Maxz A lot of writers have a blog where they keep their community updated on their progress, or just share random stuff (fan arts, thoughts, next event they are participating to...)

That's extremely common place. Even GRR Martin does it.

I'm gonna add this to my previous comment : Silksong was initially a DLC funded through kickstarter. Sure, it's extremely nice it turned out to be a full game, but it justifies even less Team Cherry's communication practice : you had people that paid to see this content see the light of day, so frequent updates, even just to say the team is still ALIVE, should have been provided. That's standard practice for a kickstarter campaign, and in a way Silksong was a by-product of the original KS campaign

Also, reminder that until recently, you could see people on NL say that Silksong is just vaporware and will never come out. That's how radio silence they were.

Welp, I'm glad it's finally here, but I will never change my mind on this : it was a bad idea to not say anything in 6 years, and it would not have been that time consuming to give some news once or twice a year. No one is gonna convince me that writing one article every few months on their website, sharing details on a few enemies, maybe some lore, whatever man, it does not have to be a freaking novel, but something, could take more than 2 hours.

So the whole "we did not want to use development time to communicate, therefore we litteraly did not communicate at all with our fanbase" seems pretty BS to me. If you don't want to communicate with your fanbase, just say it, but don't use poor excuses like this one.

It feels so surreal. 6 years later, we finally have a release date, and it's so darn close.

I'm excited to play the game, 100% it, and replay it to death like I did with the first one.

Well Team Cherry if you read this, know that it was the wrong strat to not say anything for like 6 years or so.

Does it take that much time to publish some sort of update on your website, show some concept arts and call it a day ?

Well Elden Ring is not the best optimized game to begin with.

It reminds me of SF6 with this mode that runs at 30 fps. It also does on other plateforms. The developers are just lazy.

Honestly, if Cyberpunk can run this well on Switch 2, there is no excuse for the rest

Looks suuuuuuuuper cool

RELEASE DATE FINALLY 🤡

Why -zuh ? The thing litteraly ends with -za

It should be pronounced Ray-Kwah-ZA

For Sakurai's soothing voice alone, it will be worth watching 😎

The man really delivers. He said we would have news soon, and guess what ? We do !