Cyberpunk runs well on Switch 2, and I’m constantly impressed with how good this game looks on what is essentially a powerful tablet. I have a VRR-enabled TV, and I’m floored with how good the picture quality is. I usually always buy my third party/indie games on Steam Deck or PS5, but I’m glad I made an exception for CP. Genuinely a great example of what the system is capable of.
Yeah, replying to a 6 year old comment was pretty odd. Not all Mario games are created equal, sure, but the first 3 Crash games are janky. Crash just doesn’t feel as good to maneuver as Mario does imo, and as aesthetically boring as the NSMB series is, I’d still much rather play one of those games than a Crash game. My favorite Crash game is actually CTR. I don’t have a lot of love for Mario 64, so I’m not going to argue about which one is better. 64 reviewed much better than Crash did, though.
There’s no Nintendo elitism in thinking that the Mario series as a whole is better than Crash Bandicoot. Metacritic scores for the mainline games and the fact that one franchise is basically dead and the other isn’t is testament to that. If you’re not okay with people preferring a Nintendo franchise over one that you enjoy more, maybe a Nintendo fan site isn’t your thing.
As much as I’m loving Baldur’s Gate 3 (and I’m REALLY loving that game, was my game of the year), I have no doubt Wonder will put more smiles on my face than anything else I play this year. Just when I think my Switch is going to collect dust for the rest of the year after TotK, they announce this and completely blow me away. No matter how deep and rich BG3 is, fun will always trump everything for me when it comes to videogames. Nintendo reminds me why gaming has been such a big part of my life by transporting me back to my childhood, when games were magical. Easy GOTY, and that’s just from watching the trailer. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Right, but the other games you listed are all classics and considered some of the best games in their respective genres (maybe not Sonic anymore…), where’s the gap between this game and Smash is incredibly wide. To each their own though, I didn’t hate playing the first one on PlayStation but I definitely did eventually just break out Smash after about three hours of it.
Yeesh, can’t say I’m excited for this one. The first was fun but felt unpolished, and a campaign and voice acting should have been there from the get go. This releasing not even two full years after first also makes me think that it won’t get the post-launch support and updates you see from other games like this. Also, I can almost understand getting this game on another platform but why would any Switch owner play this over Smash?
@Link-Hero I didn't claim it was better, but it was definitely more entertaining and at least they had some kind of vision. The guys at illumination took Mario and said "You know that I Need A Hero song from Shrek 2 20 years ago? Let's do that but worse!" So uninspired. At least it looked nice.
That's pretty sad. I love Mario, probably my second favorite videogame franchise, but that movie was straight dog water. I'd rather watch the live action Mario movie, it was a bad adaption but at least it was entertaining. Frozen is quite good even if people think it's overrated.
Completely agree with this, goes double for me. Also, I think Nintendolife and I are on the same page politically, and that still doesn’t stop my comments from getting deleted because, as HeadPirate says, my comments can be overly combative.
No you’re cool, you’ve been super respectful and I’m glad we had this discussion. When I comment in places like this, even if I’m responding to one person, I have a tendency to go off the rails a bit and kind of address everything and everyone else at once. That’s my bad and something I need to work on. Nothing against you though, I wish more folks were as level-headed as you.
You've got it, I'll rein it in moving forward! Thank you for your work here, you folks run a great site and I'm sorry that I'm probably one of the regular hot heads in the comment sections.
I think without context the fact that you're beating up Christians would be bigoted, but in the context of the game I think they're taking a stance against the Christians that are saying "God will sort it out" and it "it was their time to go, God has a plan for them". My father in law's own family was saying that to my wife when he died from COVID. If God's plan was for a man to die at 55 years old alone in a hospital room, so he couldn't be there at his own daughter's wedding or see his granddaughter be born, then that's a cruel God I want nothing to do with. It could have been prevented, but thanks to his and his coworkers dismissal of COVID and their faith that God will protect them, he died.
I appreciate the response. I get a little hot headed about this sort of thing because my father in law died from COVID. He was a longshoreman here in LA and he didn't see COVID as a big deal and often mocked masks and people who wore them. It didn't help that a lot of his coworkers felt the same way and there was a big COVID outbreak at his job. 7 people died. (There are 316,000 employees at Long Beach port) I'm mad at him. My wife still cries about it over two years later. We now have a six month old daughter who will never meet her grandfathers (my own dad died when I was 13).
When you get folks dismissing the pandemic and saying things like "there are no such thing as facts", it's hard not to get frustrated because this kind of thinking is detrimental to a functioning, well-oiled society. Dismissing the findings and advice of experts in their field because "authority", and then go looking for alternative "facts" from people with questionable repute is harmful. When the hard right folks here in my country are banning books, taking rights away from women that their own grandmothers had, etc. it's very difficult for me just to be okay with the whole "let's agree to disagree" mentality. We need to do better.
I agree with most of your comment, but will say that bigotry and taking a stance against bigotry are not equal. For instance I see a big problem with being homophobic and hateful and justifying it with a religion, but I see no problem with mocking/insulting someone who is hateful because of their religion. Sometimes you just can't agree to disagree, you have to call it out.
If you're religious or conservative or whatever, that's cool. That alone is not the problem, it's that you push your way of life on others and vote for policies and laws to do so. There are plenty of Christians I know who are actually really chill and keep it to themselves and with their families, and I respect that. You want to live the way Jesus did, that's great but all too often I see it being used as a tool to oppress others and that I'm not okay with.
Tell me, who here has stopped you from expressing your thoughts? The moderators haven’t taken down all of yours or my comments except the ones that became a bit too heated, I’m not demanding that you delete your comments. I’ve engaged with you in civil discussion while also giving you my own thoughts. As far as anyone else on any social media platform, you guys really do need to realize what free speech means. It means that you aren’t going to go to jail for saying what you want. It does not mean you are free from consequence, or that you’re free to say what you what on social media platforms and the business running said platform has to host your bigotry. On that note, you guys can’t even stay consistent with the whole free speech thing. Repubs were crying about how Twitter was ran before, but now Musky is their poster child. Spamming the N word? Have at it, free speech! Make a Elon Musk parody account, be a journalist reporting negatively on Musk’s business dealings? Heaven forbid! Banned! You guys are walking contradictions.
As much as a certain political party loves shilling for companies and protecting them, you guys get really mad when said companies acknowledge that hate speech is bad for business and kick you off their platform, which you agreed to them being able to do when you accepted their terms of service. Cancel culture is a made up bogeyman you guys created because you’d rather play victim than own up to the nastiness you put out into the world. You want to be the bad guy, take accountability for it.
You don’t hate these folks, but you don’t ever want to be reminded that they actually exist. You don’t want to see them. You probably vote for legislation that strips away their rights (gay marriage, adoption, etc.). Y’know, you can sit here and preach all day long, but to them and anyone who doesn’t believe in your Christian god, it comes off as hate. You’re brandishing something they don’t believe in as a weapon against their existence and then throwing little meaningless BS prayers their way to hope they right their wrongs.
For you to call anyone brainwashed because they don’t subscribe to your religious indoctrination and have a word or two to say against it is peak irony. Again, this discussion has been pretty civil. Calling you out is not the same thing as censoring or silencing you.
That’s fair, I’m not really into games that have gratuitous sex/violence/etc., but all things considered the LGBTQ stuff was so light here I didn’t even give it a second thought honestly.
@Thaswizz I apologize if I went in on Christians too much here, I honestly have no issue with them by default (again, wife is one). It’s only when guys like Atlantean makes a show of it that it becomes an issue.
A few seconds of a guy in his underwear walking out of a bedroom, good heavens! If there had been a woman in the bed, you wouldn’t have had a problem with it. No sex act is shown, it’s just implied. It was so brief I forgot about it until I saw you comment on it.
…What? Look, I get that it’s your opinion and you want to keep it civil, but the lack of self awareness here is pretty insane. The LGBTQ stuff is so minuscule I completely forgot about it until I read your comment, and it’s a made up church with a made up religion anyway. The skills and characters issue you have both aren’t new to the genre, I bench less useful characters all the time in JRPGs and the skills are like equipping Materia in FF7, you can’t use them all at once. The idea is to equip the skills and characters that are useful for certain encounters, this game actually requires strategy unlike a good amount of JRPGs where you just grind as much as you want to power through any kind of battle that requires half a thought . That being said, on normal difficulty you don’t really need to utilize the crystal mechanic but it’s there for people who enjoy min-maxing. Even then, those are fair reasons to not think the game is perfect even if they’re subjective. Having bigoted beliefs isn’t. If you can’t stomach watching/playing something with two people of the same sex being together because of your picky choosy bogus morality, I‘ll assume you don’t consume media where people are murdered, doing drugs, or having sex out of wedlock right? Funny, I’m straight and I don’t worry about what consuming media with LGBTQ stuff will do to my own moral code (not that anything is wrong with it in the first place). I guess I’m just that confident with my sexuality. You on the other hand…
I’ve played a ton of JRPGs throughout the years, beating every mainline FF game except 15, the majority of mainline DQ games, and most of the one-off SNES JRPGs (Chrono Trigger, Terranigma). That’s why Chained Echoes stands out, I have far less patience for grinding EXP so I can do enough numbers to win most battles. Because most of the character progression is locked behind bosses is why the combat is so good, it’s extremely balanced and most of the JRPGs I grew up with just aren’t in some places. If filler and fluff makes a good JRPG for you, that’s fine, but it’s pretty much the reason I can’t go back to a lot of the older games.
My GOTY, it surpassed Elden Ring for me. No filler (something ER is guilty of), the combat is fantastic, good world building, lots of customization, mechs, good end game and optional content, and the soundtrack SLAPS. I can’t believe this game was made by one guy.
Yup, as a guy who has been playing since Gen 1 and would consider Pokémon their favorite videogame franchise (or at least tied with Zelda), I'm back on board. There's some ambition here, which is more than I could say about Sword and Shield. As for people complaining about the graphics, it's an open world Switch game. Don't know what else needs to be said.
Well deserved, I haven’t enjoyed a competitive shooter like this since well before the original’s launch. Hectic, colorful, skill-based goodness that keeps you on the tips of your toes throughout each match. Not to mention the absurd amount of charm. Nintendo takes genres and perfects the best aspect of any good videogame, pure fun.
I love being able to zoom out and see most of the map and just drag and drop everything around. Pretty much everything you do in this game feels so much smoother than Animal Crossing. Hopefully Nintendo takes notes from this for the next game.
By the way, I always defended the breakable tools in New Horizons, but after playing Dreamlight I cannot for the life of me see why. That was so annoying!
You’re assuming that’s going to be the same for this game, but Gameloft has said that there will be no time skipper or gameplay monetized in the future. Purely cosmetics and character expansions, which IMO is perfectly reasonable. Also, that’d defeat the point of eating cooked meals to get more energy.
I’ll definitely get it on Switch when the game goes free to play (don’t want to buy a founder’s pack twice), and I’m sure it runs well enough for what it is, I’m just surprised @calbeau is mad that the Switch version is the worst version of the game because of course it is.
Not sure how you can say things like “making people pay to beta test your game” and expect to be taken seriously. No one is being made to beta test anything, if not for this early access the game would still be coming out next year and still be free to play. As for Gameloft’s “practices”, blaming them because the Switch is the least powerful platform by far to play this game on is a little silly. They’ve already released a patch for some of the issues on Switch, but as a person who loves my Switch I know I’m going to get the most compromised version of any multi platform game I buy for it. My end-game farm on Stardew Valley absolutely chugs when I harvest crops, I can only imagine how bad the frame rate is going to be for this game when you have a built up valley.
Also I have a Game Pass so I didn’t have to drop a dollar on this game. I chose to.
I just don’t understand why you’re acting like them doing this is such a terrible thing for the videogame industry. They aren’t the first, and in a way I get it because there have been a lot of free early access games that have died before having a chance at getting good through negative word of mouth and people quitting. This paid early access means that the game will still eventually be free to play, but gives people who are really interested in the game a chance to commit early despite technical issues. If you aren’t going to buy a Founder’s pack, you’re only missing out on some exclusive cosmetics and furniture and because of the type of game it is, it isn’t like you’re getting some kind of pay to win advantage.
I bought the ultimate edition on PS5 to eventually play with my daughter (I knew Switch would have the most technical issues at launch and I’ll just wait to play it there when they introduce cross play), and I’m absolutely loving this game. Animal Crossing is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises and honestly I think I like this better already.
Definitely the worst, but the worst 3D Mario is still better than most other 3D platformers. I don’t even know how you can debate this, it’s the least polished/most rushed 3D Mario with the most inconsistent quality in level design. I have very fond memories of playing it on the Gamecube, but 3D All Stars really forced me to take off my nostalgia goggles and look at Sunshine as an adult with a critical eye. It controls better than 64, but that’s really the only advantage it has over that game. Galaxy 1, 2, and Odyssey are much better games. More polished and much better level design which is crucial to any good 3D platformer.
All that said, I’m more of a 2D Mario fan. Guess I’m just old.
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Ah, Panam as the thumbnail. A man of culture!
Cyberpunk runs well on Switch 2, and I’m constantly impressed with how good this game looks on what is essentially a powerful tablet. I have a VRR-enabled TV, and I’m floored with how good the picture quality is. I usually always buy my third party/indie games on Steam Deck or PS5, but I’m glad I made an exception for CP. Genuinely a great example of what the system is capable of.
Re: Review: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Switch)
@TeddyBearSolid
Yeah, replying to a 6 year old comment was pretty odd. Not all Mario games are created equal, sure, but the first 3 Crash games are janky. Crash just doesn’t feel as good to maneuver as Mario does imo, and as aesthetically boring as the NSMB series is, I’d still much rather play one of those games than a Crash game. My favorite Crash game is actually CTR. I don’t have a lot of love for Mario 64, so I’m not going to argue about which one is better. 64 reviewed much better than Crash did, though.
There’s no Nintendo elitism in thinking that the Mario series as a whole is better than Crash Bandicoot. Metacritic scores for the mainline games and the fact that one franchise is basically dead and the other isn’t is testament to that. If you’re not okay with people preferring a Nintendo franchise over one that you enjoy more, maybe a Nintendo fan site isn’t your thing.
Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Showcases Trio Of Brand New Power-Ups
As much as I’m loving Baldur’s Gate 3 (and I’m REALLY loving that game, was my game of the year), I have no doubt Wonder will put more smiles on my face than anything else I play this year. Just when I think my Switch is going to collect dust for the rest of the year after TotK, they announce this and completely blow me away. No matter how deep and rich BG3 is, fun will always trump everything for me when it comes to videogames. Nintendo reminds me why gaming has been such a big part of my life by transporting me back to my childhood, when games were magical. Easy GOTY, and that’s just from watching the trailer. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.
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@Captain_Toad
Right, but the other games you listed are all classics and considered some of the best games in their respective genres (maybe not Sonic anymore…), where’s the gap between this game and Smash is incredibly wide. To each their own though, I didn’t hate playing the first one on PlayStation but I definitely did eventually just break out Smash after about three hours of it.
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Yeesh, can’t say I’m excited for this one. The first was fun but felt unpolished, and a campaign and voice acting should have been there from the get go. This releasing not even two full years after first also makes me think that it won’t get the post-launch support and updates you see from other games like this. Also, I can almost understand getting this game on another platform but why would any Switch owner play this over Smash?
Re: Mario Movie Surpasses Disney's Animated Hit Frozen At The Box Office
@Link-Hero I didn't claim it was better, but it was definitely more entertaining and at least they had some kind of vision. The guys at illumination took Mario and said "You know that I Need A Hero song from Shrek 2 20 years ago? Let's do that but worse!" So uninspired. At least it looked nice.
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That's pretty sad. I love Mario, probably my second favorite videogame franchise, but that movie was straight dog water. I'd rather watch the live action Mario movie, it was a bad adaption but at least it was entertaining. Frozen is quite good even if people think it's overrated.
Re: Mini Review: Pulling No Punches - A Surprising, Satirical Beat 'Em Up That Lives Up To Its Name
@HeadPirate
Completely agree with this, goes double for me. Also, I think Nintendolife and I are on the same page politically, and that still doesn’t stop my comments from getting deleted because, as HeadPirate says, my comments can be overly combative.
Re: Mini Review: Pulling No Punches - A Surprising, Satirical Beat 'Em Up That Lives Up To Its Name
@mr12calvin
Might I ask what narrative it is you speak of?
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@BoilerBroJoe
No you’re cool, you’ve been super respectful and I’m glad we had this discussion. When I comment in places like this, even if I’m responding to one person, I have a tendency to go off the rails a bit and kind of address everything and everyone else at once. That’s my bad and something I need to work on. Nothing against you though, I wish more folks were as level-headed as you.
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@DreamlandGem
You've got it, I'll rein it in moving forward! Thank you for your work here, you folks run a great site and I'm sorry that I'm probably one of the regular hot heads in the comment sections.
Re: Mini Review: Pulling No Punches - A Surprising, Satirical Beat 'Em Up That Lives Up To Its Name
@BoilerBroJoe
I think without context the fact that you're beating up Christians would be bigoted, but in the context of the game I think they're taking a stance against the Christians that are saying "God will sort it out" and it "it was their time to go, God has a plan for them". My father in law's own family was saying that to my wife when he died from COVID. If God's plan was for a man to die at 55 years old alone in a hospital room, so he couldn't be there at his own daughter's wedding or see his granddaughter be born, then that's a cruel God I want nothing to do with. It could have been prevented, but thanks to his and his coworkers dismissal of COVID and their faith that God will protect them, he died.
Re: Mini Review: Pulling No Punches - A Surprising, Satirical Beat 'Em Up That Lives Up To Its Name
@DreamlandGem
I appreciate the response. I get a little hot headed about this sort of thing because my father in law died from COVID. He was a longshoreman here in LA and he didn't see COVID as a big deal and often mocked masks and people who wore them. It didn't help that a lot of his coworkers felt the same way and there was a big COVID outbreak at his job. 7 people died. (There are 316,000 employees at Long Beach port) I'm mad at him. My wife still cries about it over two years later. We now have a six month old daughter who will never meet her grandfathers (my own dad died when I was 13).
When you get folks dismissing the pandemic and saying things like "there are no such thing as facts", it's hard not to get frustrated because this kind of thinking is detrimental to a functioning, well-oiled society. Dismissing the findings and advice of experts in their field because "authority", and then go looking for alternative "facts" from people with questionable repute is harmful. When the hard right folks here in my country are banning books, taking rights away from women that their own grandmothers had, etc. it's very difficult for me just to be okay with the whole "let's agree to disagree" mentality. We need to do better.
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I agree with most of your comment, but will say that bigotry and taking a stance against bigotry are not equal. For instance I see a big problem with being homophobic and hateful and justifying it with a religion, but I see no problem with mocking/insulting someone who is hateful because of their religion. Sometimes you just can't agree to disagree, you have to call it out.
If you're religious or conservative or whatever, that's cool. That alone is not the problem, it's that you push your way of life on others and vote for policies and laws to do so. There are plenty of Christians I know who are actually really chill and keep it to themselves and with their families, and I respect that. You want to live the way Jesus did, that's great but all too often I see it being used as a tool to oppress others and that I'm not okay with.
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Everything about this game sounds right up my alley except for the fact that it's a beat em up, which I've played way too many of recently.
Re: Best Of 2022: Mecha And Memories - How 16-Bit Nostalgia Influenced SNES-Style JRPG 'Chained Echoes'
@AtlanteanMan
Tell me, who here has stopped you from expressing your thoughts? The moderators haven’t taken down all of yours or my comments except the ones that became a bit too heated, I’m not demanding that you delete your comments. I’ve engaged with you in civil discussion while also giving you my own thoughts. As far as anyone else on any social media platform, you guys really do need to realize what free speech means. It means that you aren’t going to go to jail for saying what you want. It does not mean you are free from consequence, or that you’re free to say what you what on social media platforms and the business running said platform has to host your bigotry. On that note, you guys can’t even stay consistent with the whole free speech thing. Repubs were crying about how Twitter was ran before, but now Musky is their poster child. Spamming the N word? Have at it, free speech! Make a Elon Musk parody account, be a journalist reporting negatively on Musk’s business dealings? Heaven forbid! Banned! You guys are walking contradictions.
As much as a certain political party loves shilling for companies and protecting them, you guys get really mad when said companies acknowledge that hate speech is bad for business and kick you off their platform, which you agreed to them being able to do when you accepted their terms of service. Cancel culture is a made up bogeyman you guys created because you’d rather play victim than own up to the nastiness you put out into the world. You want to be the bad guy, take accountability for it.
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@AtlanteanMan
You don’t hate these folks, but you don’t ever want to be reminded that they actually exist. You don’t want to see them. You probably vote for legislation that strips away their rights (gay marriage, adoption, etc.). Y’know, you can sit here and preach all day long, but to them and anyone who doesn’t believe in your Christian god, it comes off as hate. You’re brandishing something they don’t believe in as a weapon against their existence and then throwing little meaningless BS prayers their way to hope they right their wrongs.
For you to call anyone brainwashed because they don’t subscribe to your religious indoctrination and have a word or two to say against it is peak irony. Again, this discussion has been pretty civil. Calling you out is not the same thing as censoring or silencing you.
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@Thaswizz
That’s fair, I’m not really into games that have gratuitous sex/violence/etc., but all things considered the LGBTQ stuff was so light here I didn’t even give it a second thought honestly.
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@Thaswizz I apologize if I went in on Christians too much here, I honestly have no issue with them by default (again, wife is one). It’s only when guys like Atlantean makes a show of it that it becomes an issue.
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@AtlanteanMan
A few seconds of a guy in his underwear walking out of a bedroom, good heavens! If there had been a woman in the bed, you wouldn’t have had a problem with it. No sex act is shown, it’s just implied. It was so brief I forgot about it until I saw you comment on it.
Re: Best Of 2022: Mecha And Memories - How 16-Bit Nostalgia Influenced SNES-Style JRPG 'Chained Echoes'
@Thaswizz
Can’t wait for a sequel, hopefully he’ll hire a couple more people so it doesn’t take another seven years!
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…What? Look, I get that it’s your opinion and you want to keep it civil, but the lack of self awareness here is pretty insane. The LGBTQ stuff is so minuscule I completely forgot about it until I read your comment, and it’s a made up church with a made up religion anyway. The skills and characters issue you have both aren’t new to the genre, I bench less useful characters all the time in JRPGs and the skills are like equipping Materia in FF7, you can’t use them all at once. The idea is to equip the skills and characters that are useful for certain encounters, this game actually requires strategy unlike a good amount of JRPGs where you just grind as much as you want to power through any kind of battle that requires half a thought . That being said, on normal difficulty you don’t really need to utilize the crystal mechanic but it’s there for people who enjoy min-maxing. Even then, those are fair reasons to not think the game is perfect even if they’re subjective. Having bigoted beliefs isn’t. If you can’t stomach watching/playing something with two people of the same sex being together because of your picky choosy bogus morality, I‘ll assume you don’t consume media where people are murdered, doing drugs, or having sex out of wedlock right? Funny, I’m straight and I don’t worry about what consuming media with LGBTQ stuff will do to my own moral code (not that anything is wrong with it in the first place). I guess I’m just that confident with my sexuality. You on the other hand…
Re: Soapbox: This SNES-Style RPG Is The Biggest And Best Surprise Of 2022
@jojobar
I’ve played a ton of JRPGs throughout the years, beating every mainline FF game except 15, the majority of mainline DQ games, and most of the one-off SNES JRPGs (Chrono Trigger, Terranigma). That’s why Chained Echoes stands out, I have far less patience for grinding EXP so I can do enough numbers to win most battles. Because most of the character progression is locked behind bosses is why the combat is so good, it’s extremely balanced and most of the JRPGs I grew up with just aren’t in some places. If filler and fluff makes a good JRPG for you, that’s fine, but it’s pretty much the reason I can’t go back to a lot of the older games.
Re: Soapbox: This SNES-Style RPG Is The Biggest And Best Surprise Of 2022
My GOTY, it surpassed Elden Ring for me. No filler (something ER is guilty of), the combat is fantastic, good world building, lots of customization, mechs, good end game and optional content, and the soundtrack SLAPS. I can’t believe this game was made by one guy.
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@Indielink
As Wally said, XC2 A and 3 are blurry and the resolution is pretty bad. 3 looks better than 2 in handheld, but it still looks rough.
Re: Lengthy Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Unloads Heaps Of New Information
Yup, as a guy who has been playing since Gen 1 and would consider Pokémon their favorite videogame franchise (or at least tied with Zelda), I'm back on board. There's some ambition here, which is more than I could say about Sword and Shield. As for people complaining about the graphics, it's an open world Switch game. Don't know what else needs to be said.
Re: Feature: With Sales Outpacing Pokémon, Why Is Splatoon So Popular In Japan?
Well deserved, I haven’t enjoyed a competitive shooter like this since well before the original’s launch. Hectic, colorful, skill-based goodness that keeps you on the tips of your toes throughout each match. Not to mention the absurd amount of charm. Nintendo takes genres and perfects the best aspect of any good videogame, pure fun.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 17th)
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Dreamlight Valley, and I’ll probably start playing Yakuza Like a Dragon!
Re: Ion Fury Follow-Up Phantom Fury Announced For Nintendo Switch
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Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Zimon
I love being able to zoom out and see most of the map and just drag and drop everything around. Pretty much everything you do in this game feels so much smoother than Animal Crossing. Hopefully Nintendo takes notes from this for the next game.
By the way, I always defended the breakable tools in New Horizons, but after playing Dreamlight I cannot for the life of me see why. That was so annoying!
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@sanderev
You’re assuming that’s going to be the same for this game, but Gameloft has said that there will be no time skipper or gameplay monetized in the future. Purely cosmetics and character expansions, which IMO is perfectly reasonable. Also, that’d defeat the point of eating cooked meals to get more energy.
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@sanderev
Can you explain the “future money grabs” in the game beyond simple cosmetics? Because that’s all they’re going to implement.
By the way, been playing the game and I love it. Honestly like the progression and everything better than Animal Crossing.
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Multiple Fixes On Switch, More To Come
@calbeau I mean you’re being passive aggressive with everyone with your little comments but okay, you aren’t mad lol
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Multiple Fixes On Switch, More To Come
@steventonysmith
I’ll definitely get it on Switch when the game goes free to play (don’t want to buy a founder’s pack twice), and I’m sure it runs well enough for what it is, I’m just surprised @calbeau is mad that the Switch version is the worst version of the game because of course it is.
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Multiple Fixes On Switch, More To Come
@calbeau
Not sure how you can say things like “making people pay to beta test your game” and expect to be taken seriously. No one is being made to beta test anything, if not for this early access the game would still be coming out next year and still be free to play. As for Gameloft’s “practices”, blaming them because the Switch is the least powerful platform by far to play this game on is a little silly. They’ve already released a patch for some of the issues on Switch, but as a person who loves my Switch I know I’m going to get the most compromised version of any multi platform game I buy for it. My end-game farm on Stardew Valley absolutely chugs when I harvest crops, I can only imagine how bad the frame rate is going to be for this game when you have a built up valley.
Also I have a Game Pass so I didn’t have to drop a dollar on this game. I chose to.
Re: Disney Dreamlight Valley Receives Multiple Fixes On Switch, More To Come
@calbeau
I just don’t understand why you’re acting like them doing this is such a terrible thing for the videogame industry. They aren’t the first, and in a way I get it because there have been a lot of free early access games that have died before having a chance at getting good through negative word of mouth and people quitting. This paid early access means that the game will still eventually be free to play, but gives people who are really interested in the game a chance to commit early despite technical issues. If you aren’t going to buy a Founder’s pack, you’re only missing out on some exclusive cosmetics and furniture and because of the type of game it is, it isn’t like you’re getting some kind of pay to win advantage.
I bought the ultimate edition on PS5 to eventually play with my daughter (I knew Switch would have the most technical issues at launch and I’ll just wait to play it there when they introduce cross play), and I’m absolutely loving this game. Animal Crossing is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises and honestly I think I like this better already.
Re: Soapbox: 20 Years Later, Super Mario Sunshine Is Still The Best 3D Mario
Definitely the worst, but the worst 3D Mario is still better than most other 3D platformers. I don’t even know how you can debate this, it’s the least polished/most rushed 3D Mario with the most inconsistent quality in level design. I have very fond memories of playing it on the Gamecube, but 3D All Stars really forced me to take off my nostalgia goggles and look at Sunshine as an adult with a critical eye. It controls better than 64, but that’s really the only advantage it has over that game. Galaxy 1, 2, and Odyssey are much better games. More polished and much better level design which is crucial to any good 3D platformer.
All that said, I’m more of a 2D Mario fan. Guess I’m just old.