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I like the low-poly look of those guns.

It's such a persistent malfunction on such a highly priced and popular piece of consumer electronics.
I'm rather dismayed they keep getting away with it.

Looks great!
Loving the cheeky call to action in "KINDLY BUY IT NOW!", mimmicking the rhythm of the title. :v

Geez, that's too bad.
These guys also made Momonga Pinball, which was just incredibly cute.

I have a network situation where my work WiFi isn't supported by the Switch because of the security profile. Which seems unnecessary, but in genereal the Switch is handling network really ell compared to earlier Nintendo systems. ^^

Beefy update!
Xbox and PlayStation releases are rumored to be inbound as well, following all the good reviews.

I remember Infogrames fondly.
It felt weird to me when it was completely rebranded as Atari, as that name meant something completely different to me.

This is just Theme Hospital, but you're building a school!

I've been dreaming of this game since I was 12!

I could play Jupiter's picross puzzles as the only thing I did for the rest of my life.

Glowing review, awesome!
And I agree with many in the comments that the game being slightly on the shorter side isn't a big issue.
Rather get to compete it and look back on it fondly, with the option to give it one more spin, than have it hanging half-finished over your head for years.

Gato Roboto is the only oine of these I've played, so I might have to pick up a few more adventures. :v

That's exceedingly nice of Jools! :v

Cheeky how both the font and composition of the title art leans this close to The Witness. But there is of course a hole in the market there. And this does sound like my kind of game, even if I prefer them a bit harder. :v

@XenoShaun
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. ^^

@Ruthchild
That would be a fair assumption -but- Toriyama is personally credited with designing the lead characters for the DQ main games, and I'm fairly sure he was known for enjoying the work on the series very much.

"We don't need the FIFA brand." ... And they didn't.

If Rick Moranis isn't in it, I'm not interested.

That's an exhausted man we hear at the end there. :v
And that completion percentage... 0.01% Unreal!

It does sound really nice. ^^
But... where is Hayley Westenra's angelic voice, which was instrumental in launching the IP back in 2007?

Funny seeing this article right above one, where the subheader goes "Freedom Planet 2! Botany Manor! The Gap!"
But I suppose it takes on to know one. :v

I can always stomach one more cute metroidvania.

I didn't even stop to consider the first Wario Land a Mario game, though I suppose it is by technicality of name. :v

And, it's a terrific game.
If Mario should end up seeing himself beaten in his own game series, he shouldn't have to sweat bullets over it. ^^

Boooh, where's my stability?

He beat it himself to upload it, and people have already downloaded and catalogued all the levels for play after Nintendo's official servers shut down, but it's still exciting to see if anyone makes it. That person would become a legend. :v

Nice with updates, as I still play this. Though what really has needed revision ever since it showed up are the unlock criteria for the the player icons pertaining to the Team Play.
No-one (at least I'd wager so) has managed to win ten games while playing for a team with ten or fewer players. Simply because the system assigns so many CPUs to teams that you are only ever less than 10 on the rare occasion that a lot of human players are present, AND your team color was picked by very few. And then you gotta win from that position as well. Ten times.

@HotGoomba
Rude. Roger Dead is still alive, and the logo is iconic.

Simulating a piece of hardware in software is by itself rarely considered illegal.

Advertising its use and charging money for doing it, while said hardware is still the flagship of Japan's most valuable company?
Walking headfirst into trouble.

Let's have Vicarious Vision and Treyarch spin out as well. :v

Is it really a "delay" when it wasn't ever announced?

They can afford to wait, so that's what we're probably going to see them do.

Coo is the most superb for me to this date!

Completely insane numbers!

Going to be hard to top this one, yeah.
Making it past 100 million is only for the few.

@dribLS
Several of people's bizarre prototypes made sometimes in less than a week can be bought fo 2 or 3 dollars on Switch, but I know what you mean. From these guys we'd expect a full game.

Very cute little thing. :v

...hightlight nicely how hard it is to make good 3D platforming challenges. ^_^;;

I had hoped they would make it to the FFV and FFVI remakes during the DS-era. :x

The ones we got for III and IV were amazing.

What I really want to see return is rewritable memory for save data.

They paid 70 billion for the privilege of firing that many people. ^^

Aye, I suppose so.
Let's not forget MS already publishes one of the consistent bestseller across all platforms.

I own WAY more games than I'll play. Physically, and especially digitally.
For many, it would make no difference if I just had subscription access, and suddenly didn't have it anymore.

For the ones I'm actually playing though, it makes no sense to me that I'd have to keep paying every month, even when I WASN'T playing.

It's not that I really care about "owning" digital copies. Because I don't. I can't resell them. It's just that I don't want to have to think about not having access to my games if I stopped paying.

And if anyone at Ubi wants to talk about what "needs" to happen, then I'd suggest they start making interesting games again, and stop greenlighting projects they're going to cancel anyway.

@Pat_trick
I know a lot of people are more forgiving of the movie than I am, so maybe it wasn't all for naught, but as you say, I've ended up seeing the whole process as just another example of greed. Where some execs were straight up scared that their investsments wouldn't be returned, and had to react to secure the cash flow, rather than anybody wanting to make the best possible Sonic movie.

People said Nintendo would be stupid not to use the Wii name for the successor. But that turned out to be a HUGE mistake.

So let's be very mindful of that when we suggest that the follow-up to Switch would use the same name.

Nintendo might want to be deliberate about changing it.

@Pat_trick
While I do agree that it was good they changed it, what wasn't so good was that the rest of the film still was as poorly made as Ugly Sonic had implied, and that a lot of money ended up being spent pushing the release schedule, with made CG-people being overworked.
The story of them accepting the feedback meant nobody critiqued the still somewhat incorrect Sonic design, that they went iwth in the end, or the terrible story nearly as hard as could (and maybe SHOULD) have been the case.

Ugly Sonic ended up marketing the film really well though, because everyone felt they had made a difference by ridiculing it. ^^

Very Vanillaware, and VERY cute looking.

Still saying he join forces with Yuji Naka.
Gogogo!

I do hope they have more up their sleeve.
I'm not buying another system cut from the same cloth, but with more power.

I like the Switch very much, but it also does represent a step back in a couple of areas I consider crucial, so if they really were to just serve more of the same, I'd probably sit one out.

Lucky that I've already been "aggressive in ignoring" the output of Square-Enix for over a decade.

In the fifteen hours I've played of the game, I've interacted more with this guy than any other character. He's there every 300 meters you ride.

I... honestly don't know if I like that, or if I find it too eccentric and nonsensical.

Gyro-aiming with the occasional need for re-centering is okay.
The real issue is that NOT A SINGLE game with FPS controls on Switch features auto-turn. NOT ONE.

Auto-turn was how the Wiimote got by for FPS without having an analog stick on it. If you pointed off the screen, most games would start turning your character, without need of input from a stick.

This option is sorely lacking in each and every FPS on Switch.
To me, they are downright unplayable without it. It was what made those games fun an accessible to me again. I do not appreciate using dual analog for the genre, and I likely never will.

I played this on my phone but found it too limiting.
It's cute, but the design is very restrictive, and the gameplay ends up being a bit more process and work than exploration and play.