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@Gavintendo They always need to leave something for us to want. It’s a common business tactic and it’s repulsive.

Japan has that warm and cosy vibe. But it’s still a party.

Ours looks like a casino and there are few things I despise more than casinos.

Oh yes, Nintendo, give me more reasons to boycott your next console.

I also don’t get the whole:
“Human rights!”
“But he’s a gamer so he must be a nice guy!”

This one I understand. Modding a Switch to play recent games for free should be illegal and they have every right to sue. 3DS or WiiU in their current states, not so much.

It would be great if they focused on cases like this, that cause actual harm to developers and publishers.

It would be weird to have a direct without a console announcement at this point.
Nobody can pretend like it doesn’t exist anymore.

As for Switch games, the only thing I want is a Xenoblade X remaster that fixes some of its issues. I really, really want to play that game without a corny rapper in every battle. Or that woman in the home base who sounds like she’s had too much caffeine and has to use the restroom.

@the_beaver You’re right that at least it’s not a 10 like TotK. I didn’t need to play the game to understand that they took a regular Zelda game but every time you’d otherwise press a button to swing your sword, the flow has to be interrupted. I understand that it’s good, but I don’t understand all this blind adoration every time a 1st party Nintendo game comes out. As if everything they touch is somehow perfect, when it clearly isn’t.

So remind me again how this game deserved a 9/10 with frame rate issues and THIS travesty??
This is the first thing I was afraid of when I heard about the concept and it’s really inexcusable for me. I watched a friend play 15 minutes and it was already driving me crazy. Not playing 20+ hours of this flow killing mechanic. Where is the fun in this?

How to fix this? Stop making Zelda games revolve around gimmicks!!

I get it now. Someone had an idea for a Game Boy style pixelated building. But the architects had to turn those ideas into technical plans for a contractor to turn into a functioning building, and something got lost along the way.

Real translation: Victims of indoctrination panic when they see a human body because generation after generation has been taught to feel guilty about their bodily functions.

The problem is that we let these people win all the time.

I’ve seen prisons that look more inviting.

That’s a darn good pitch!

I couldn’t care less about Mario and the Rabbids in those games, but the gameplay got me into strategy RPG’s where a lot had failed before. So I’m definitely hoping some of those strategic elements will still be in there somewhere.

@garfreek It just needs a few tweaks but it’s one of my all time favourite jrpg’s. The story is just really good.

@Bonggon5 “limited frame of reference”

@garfreek But Lost Odyssey is one of my favourite Final Fantasy games!

I grew up with every Roberta Williams Sierra game I could get my hands on, so I love this atmosphere

Imagine how the internet would explode if SE announced Final Fantasy XVII directed by him and with some songs by Uematsu. Turn based battles of course.

Having to quit a project like that must be a tough blow on it own, but I can’t imagine what he must be going through when this is the reason.

May there be a Bloodstained 3 that he can work on again!

Imagine that. A game with GREEN grass, a BLUE sky and it’s not called ‘Ghibli inspired’
Thanks for this : )

They put ‘Studio Ghibli inspired’ in their own trailer??
They need to put some more effort into crafting the environments if they’re going to make that claim 😳

@Lady_rosalina Please hide such spoilers better 🤦‍♂️

The space after ‘spoilers’ makes the text stand out even more and it’s so short that you automatically read it at a glance.

But.. silent Link also has dialogue options sometimes. This proves that the ‘blank slate’ thing is just a marketing story and it only has one real reason: saving money on voice acting. They can make the same amount of money by paying less people. That would be the Nintendo thing to do.

The demonisation of human bodies by organised religion has turned this into a society of prudes.

@NiallMitch14 Don’t count on it. Link’s awakening still runs like crap

They’re really trying hard to give me no reason to buy this whatsoever

@Poodlestargenerica I’d love to see that too, but I think Nintendo is too concerned about its family-friendly reputation

It would be great to see Zelda games experiment with branching storylines and multiple endings. Some things could be procedurally generated, according to the specific path you choose to take.
If they’re looking for a new direction after the BotW universe, this might be a way. AI generated, but closely following predetermined (humanly written) plot points and adjusting them to the situation.
Similar to how you could ‘do it your way’ with a handful of special powers in BotW/TotK, stories could adapt to your actions in an organic way.

Also: No Hyrule for a while. I want another island setting. Why haven’t we seen an entire game set on a single huge sky island?

And yes, sci-fi and a speaking Link.
Time to stop using that lazy ‘blank slate’ excuse that has always really been a budget and storage space choice.

hides from the tomatoes

You got to hand it to Level-5, they do great looking cel shading!

I’d like to see them move on to 3D games. They could still base it on a grid system. It worked fine for the 3D environments in Trials of Mana.
With a choice between turn based, strategic, or action RPG’s. There’s many conventions in those games that are already copy/paste.
The combat of Ys: VIII, Hyrule Warriors, and the Mana games isn’t all that different, with a few tweaks. It should be possible to make a user friendly framework around that as well.

This is the one game I wanted a demo for. I’m open to be surprised, but not for any money.

If this is the real design and we’re getting more joy-con drift, I’m going to ignore this console’s existence entirely.

I don’t even know why this needed a review, it’s not like anyone except privileged people will be able to buy this. They’re not asking this price because plastic is expensive. But because they know they can.
The least you could have done is mentioned this ridiculous price as a con.

The face of Nintendo’s moral downfall probably knows very well how the industry works, I’ll give him that.

One of the great art director / character designers

Game director/writer not so much.

This confirms that the Oracle remakes didn’t happen because of market expansion.

@CriticalGames I’d honestly consider disregarding the first game’s title and renaming this so it seems more than just a gimmick. It looks like a fully fleshed out world and the title doesn’t suggest that.
Can’t you see this as a spin-off? Like a Persona to your Megami Tensei?
The first game isn’t available on Switch, so you don’t get much brand recognition from that group anyway.

Regardless of the name, I’ll be playing this though

Second Zelda game in a row that I haven’t been looking forward to.
This feels so much like it was conceived as content for a specific target audience, and it’s not me.

It’s like they took Zelda games and deleted everything that made them exciting.

You can be sure they will increase their price as much as they can, now that they can call it the ‘industry standard’ like true capitalists.

@Max_the_German No, they’re using all of this to promote the game. It’s not supposed to have spoilers. Many people go into these, expecting promo material. Not the full game and no locations left to discover.

@ThatZeldaNerd They want to keep it superficial

Could they also show the locations for all heart containers and the end credits, now they’re at it?

@Krull As a native Dutch speaker I didn’t understand a single word : )

This game has one of my favourite boss battle tunes ever written

A.I. In voice acting should only be used to enhance real actor’s abilities, like giving them perfect foreign accents etc. Cillian Murphy’s Dutch in Oppenheimer could certainly have used some A.I..

Woah would you look at that target audience

Paper bag masks are so overdone in horror and this looks like an especially unimaginative version

@Red_211 This game gets pretty weird, so I think it shows you what to expect : )

I voted Japan for its weirdness.
A bit more contrast would have been better though.

How is ‘colourful graphics’ a plus when they just took all of Link’s Awakening assets and changed a few pixels?

Poor man doesn’t realise he’s being used. I see no reason why he couldn’t keep voicing Mario games.

Probably going to be banished to the underworld for this, but I never liked the guy. He’s the first one at Nintendo who started addressing us as ‘consumers’ all the time, instead of ‘players’.