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Re: New Survival Game 'Pickmon' Is Just Asking To Be Sued Into Oblivion

Orbphan

People can defend Palworld all they like, but the worst part about that game isn't its contents, but the effect it's having on the game industry

You're not going to see many new, original, exciting twists on existing formulas any more. You're getting composited slop like this. Ripoffs of ripoffs instead of loving tributes. That's what you support when you cynically buy Palworld because nintendobad.

Re: Pokopia Joins A 3DS Entry As The Highest-Rated Pokémon Game On Metacritic

Orbphan

All review scores tend to be very... zeitgeist-y. X+Y were mediocre games, but that time was a GREAT time to be playing Pokemon. At my high school, most people with 3DSes carried them around. There were a lot of local battles and trades, and Streetpass encouraged it. I wonder if the community building it clearly had potential for influenced the score.

Re: Nintendo's Investors Are Reportedly "Spooked" As Stock Slides

Orbphan

I'm the biggest Kirby fan out there and I can tell you this... Kirby and Donkey Kong (a character with extremely overestimated popularity and relevance) are not enough to truly make the system explode. Metroid Prime 4 is already even less of a footnote than those two. Switch 2 needs its 3D Mario yesterday.

Re: Disappointed In The Switch 2's Joy-Con Colours? Dbrand Has You Covered

Orbphan

"Too much color is childish/black is mature" is a breathtakingly insane take to me, to be blunt. The Switch 2's accents are TOO understated to me, and colored buttons would have done a lot for them. I would like bolder options from Nintendo. Given the mixed audience of the Switch 2, it can be done. They don't even have to be like solid block color Switch 1 neon joycons, because they can have secondary accents. Green base plastic/red accents would go hard.

Re: "If Mario Starts To Show Up On PlayStation, That's The Apocalypse, Right?" - Ex-PlayStation Boss Thinks Console Exclusives Are Still Important

Orbphan

Anyone who seriously wants all games on all consoles is pro-gaming homogenization and kind of my enemy. Nintendo is the only company to have avoided most of the pitfalls of the new era, while Sony and Microsoft hopped on all of those "fresh" new trends lately and alienated their market when they didn't pan out. Xbox is essentially a dead brand being merged with the PC to salvage it, at the ultimate cost: the obliteration of any and all unique identity.

Re: Images Of Yoshi From 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Have Leaked Online

Orbphan

This design is... okay, except the fact that the eyes are all wrong. Well, "wrong"? Presumably, in the next movie, Mario will be the one raising Yoshi instead of the other way around. If that's the case, the infantile look sort of works. I just inherently associate Yoshis with maturity/responsibility because of Yoshi's Island, which works very well with the relaxed heavy eyelids of the usual design.

Though, it will be a major missed opportunity if we never get a flashback scene that references Yoshi's Island.

Re: Nintendo Direct For Kirby Air Riders Announced For Thursday, 23rd October

Orbphan

There's a lot of weirdly misplaced grouchy negativity in the comments, when the blunt truth is clear to me. Sakurai and the developers of Kirby Air Riders REALLY care about and are confident about what they have to offer. I'm also pretty sure that MP4 isn't being shown off because it's currently underbaked and confidence in it has yet to surface.

Re: Team Cherry Explains Hollow Knight: Silksong's "Steep Difficulty"

Orbphan

Take a shot for every game that would be better if it didn't insist on chaining itself to strict soulslike-like mechanics. Silksong isn't a bad game in its current state by any means, it's amazing, the problem is that the devs are starting to show the sin of pride. My prediction is that they will, in fact, fold and offer other difficulty settings, including an easier mode. But they will feature an even HARDER mode most prominently.