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This is one of the worst character models I've ever seen from this company. Just as they announced that they're going to use a lot of A.I.
Coincidence?

Why don't people want to hear that this is A.I.? Almost nobody is talking about this and people are finding all these other reasons this lazy company can do highly detailed graphics all of a sudden.
It worries me that considering A.I. hasn't become a natural reflex yet. It's not all bad, but it is if we start defending companies for 'probably' not using it, when they clearly did. It has that overpolished look. You don't go from PS2 graphics without art direction to this without at least some AI.
They couldn't even be bothered to determine a simple colour palette, and now we have pores and individual eyelashes? Wake up people.

@Questionable_Duck Sorry to break the dream but they didn't 'save' money to do good graphics all of a sudden. This is full of AI and that's the only reason it looks better.

@LazyDaisy @Qwertyninty They just used new 'tools' to hide their lack of talent now.

All these games look the same now. It's generic Mononoke Souls.
But where did this company get its production value all of a sudden? It's really sad that they need AI to do good graphics.

If only Nintendo would have given me the working joy-cons I payed for in the first place. They lost a lifelong 'consumer' that day.

I think that trailer was supposed to be funny : (

40 years of great adventures with the worst soundtracks imaginable.

I tried it after years of resistance and hating the fact that FF went online.
Then I disliked it even more than I thought I would.
This should always have been a spin-off series.

Sounds like the perfect time for a reboot!

Why on earth would anyone be 'sad' that Bowser is leaving?? What did he do to deserve that? Being named Bowser?

I will be keeping a close eye on her decisions and I wish her well.
Nintendo is probably going to use her friendly appearance to their benefit.

His speech at the game awards was one of the most insincere things in an event full of fakeness. He made me dispise the business side of Nintendo even more than I already did under Reggie.
Best of luck to his successor. I hope she understands that they're losing people (whilst gaining many new ones).

@Automated_Unit_4937 Don't be ridiculous : )
His hair is perfect the way he wants it!

Thanks for all those lovely reviews.
And I trust your opinion enough to give Age of Imprisonment a chance, even if I'm over this version of Hyrule.

I long for the day I won't see Cloud's face everywhere I scroll.

Aah, the perfect time for Dragon Quest 4-5-6 remastered.
I'm sure Xenogears & Xenosaga also have some kind of anniversary soon...

Well, I didn't expect to see sweaty content on NintendoLife.

I do think we’re not ready for AI and that it will do much more bad than good. This technology could potentially revolutionise health care and fix many of our problems. The issue is that we’re also still monkeys with nuclear weapons, bashing each other’s heads in every day because we can’t all have everything.

Please consider this:
Before, any artist used references taken from magazines, books, etc. If you needed to draw someone doing jiu-jitsu, there's no way any artist would have drawn that without a reference.
But these images are all copyrighted works by other photographers.
Now copyright law says you can use something as long as it's completely transformed, and this illustrations of jiu-jitsu fighters will always fall under that.

But if you ask A.I. to generate you a reference of a fighter, you're actually doing less stealing than when you're tracing that image from the newspaper. It won't look like anyone else's work, and the illustrator in question will have to do just as much work to transform it.

Bottom line:
brainstorming, references = ok
Using generated images as they are and making a profit = not ok

I was so into the first one, but they've become a bit monotonous. I'd like to see a new title use a more colourful palette. This Final Fantasy 6 inspired muddiness was fine. But imagine a more futuristic setting and Secret of Mana colours.

If a series has success now, it often gets stuck inside a safe frame. Just like Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty and Pokemon.

Would you look at that...
Patch notes that contain actual info!

May 2026 bring very few pictures of Cloud

Glad for anyone who enjoys this but I'm really full of FF7. We haven't stopped hearing about this game since it came out. It's been an endless loop of FF7 - Advent Children - Crisis Core - Remakes and remasters, Cloud in Kingdom Hearts. Cloud, Cloud. Cloud! Cloud!!!

I Guess Tidus and Squall and Zidane should have had bigger swords

@MARl0 I think most people still prioritise being able to play these at all. I know there were a lot of issues and I do hope SE got that message. But the ugly fonts and screen tearing didn't ruin the experience of replaying these after about 25 years.

That's great to hear. I'm one of the people who'd like to see them remaster their entire back catalogue.
Starting with Xenogears which we've never gotten in Europe.
Dragon Quest 4-5-6 are also long overdue.

I hope anyone who buys this realises how privileged they are.

At this point it's better not to give patch notes at all.

@World I think it was more the atmosphere than the gameplay that made it a success. I remember thinking I had never seen anything like it before, and it seemed to open up a lot of new possibilities for what a 3D platformer could be.

Overlooked? I always thought it was considered one of the greatest 3D platformers ever made.

The best cel shaders in the industry

@AstroTheGamosian Yeah, I'm just a nitpicker who also tells people that not every 3D animation is Pixar and not every field + blue sky is Ghibli

I wish those hand painted objects had hand painted shadows, not these random lines with some gaussian blur slapped on : )

The backgrounds are beautiful and they should remove the blur from those as well. Depth should come from less detail, not this haze which only makes it feel less organic. At most the backgrounds could use a bit of a layer mask with some cooler tones to give it more atmospheric perspective.

Well that chatty NPC told me everything I needed to know about the game.
This desperately wants to be 'cool', but also 'family friendly'. That's why it's never going to be either one of those.

I'd say Don Bluth was a bigger inspiration.
Looks great but a bit uneven. This deserves some more polish!

They're both gorgeous but I chose Japan for the colours

This review did NOT sound like it was going to say 'not bad' at the end
Does the Pokemon series also get extra points on this site, just because Nintendo releases it?

Jason Momoa, self proclaimed 'lifelong obsessed Street Fighter fan'.
Calls Ryu 'Raai-U'

Not keeping my hopes op. This teaser is pretty underwhelming.

I'm always thrilled for more Tomb Raider, but why does her face look like Female_Realistic_Base_Mesh.fbx ??

@DennisReynolds A finished game doesn't have NPC's that look like they're on tranq

It explains a lot that they're calling this 'selfish'. It's something they do 'for the fans', not to tell good stories.

They could also just make a main game that looks finished, before thinking about DLC

But if hundreds of thousands of people are going to buy your boring ugly game anyway, might as well scam them for another 30, I guess

@RiasGremory Switch 2 is more comparable to the ps4's base model. Far off from ps4 pro, let alone ps5.
This is why we get alll these lousy ports. People overestimate the console. We should just see Switch 1 & 2 as the handheld consoles they are.

Every returning character in RE has felt like fan service and none of them felt necessary. I don't enjoy RE for the character development of Leon.

I seem to be alone though. People really do get excited for these cameos. To me they just look like the most nineties characters imaginable and they don't fit in a hyperrealistic 2026 game. And it makes games feel less like they can stand on their own.

I really want goofy Lara back : (

@tseliot It also looks like the ultimate 'My girlfriend lets me keep this' trophy

This franchise could really make me want to get a Switch 2. But I'm sure Nintendo's market analysts disagree.

They just need to make the lore a bit richer and go all Splatoon with this.

@CaleBoi25 lol

I'm really happy for anyone who can find joy in a system update

Overpriced future waste, made by poor people. Lest we forget about capitalism.

What is this, 15FPS?
And would it be too much to ask to have synched audio in their trailer?