I really REALLY like this game. Beat it, but thinking of playing through again constantly. Beat the first third three times over until that third time I got the controls down. Learn to move around during combat. Swing and run, swing and run. This game gave me better skills in general that commute to things like Smash Bros and Metroid, but even helped me learn what it means to want to beat a boss.
Nintendo wants money. It'll be Ocarina of Time. Guaranteed. Maybe followed by MM. Set for a 2024-2025 release date. Those games fly off the shelf, take a handfull of bills, hold em up, slap 'em down, your head's like a record going gong-ga-gong!
If this game was in some off-brand franchise, people would remember it fondly and say the characters should be in Smash. A bad Zelda game is still better than most other stuff, and that said, I very much enjoyed it. Thing is, I'm not buying it again. I already bought it twice.
@Muddy_4_Ever I wasn't hyped. I bought it on the virtue of the series and was disappointed by the level design, the music, and the lack of a core feature shown in an early trailer. I never played Wolly World, but its not hard to imagine from friends' reactions that it was a superior title. Now, with Kingdom Hearts 3 I was super-hyped, and have never been so disappointed. Except by Last Jedi. The trailer for that movie was a million dollar empty promise.
I was disappointed by possibilities. There are plenty of Nintendo IPs gathering dust which still have meat on their bones. Even some of their IPs have sub-IPs. Nintendo could be hiring devs like Playtonic, EldenPixels, Tarsier, Pixeljunk, Team Cherry, House House etc that proved they can build a campfire, but instead of stoking the industry coals, we get no-personality Mario (one of Nintendo's most exciting IPs) Golf (a game so boring that the point of the game is to have played less of it). If you've heard of these studios already, you know how many people haven't, and you do know how many people would buy a 1st Party IP game, and would buy more fresh IP studio titles (BigN's 3rd party support) the next time around. I was all for the re-releases at first, but now I'm jaded as a gamer who bought these games before, sometimes twice. This direct didn't offer me much Nintendo, just a lot of Nontendo.
I love Dodgeball. I did not get that from the trailer. The trailer just d!@#ed around with a cartoon for like 2 minutes. Bad ad campaign. I wish they'd have said it was about dodgeball.
I'd Buy WindWaker for $60. Hands down. I'd buy Twilight Princess for $60 if I can use it to give more than 3 hearts to the $@#÷%=× WolfLink Amibo I bought for BotW. $15 and there's no way to upgrade him with BotW? Are you $@#÷%=× kidding me Nintendo?
Mario will be surrounded by talking characters, but he usually has so little to say. Mario will sound like he has for twenty years. Mariokart, Mario 3D World, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Smash Bros. It'll be Martinet, or a pro copycat like Alan Tudyk.
@Broforce You're wrong. I worked a public school gig for a few years. Special needs kids. You know who loves video games? Special needs kids. Know how you get them to shut up and work? Ipad time. Teachers made that happen. Out ranked my. Special Ed kids do nothing but youtube. So, I get stuck in a room with a kid watching Luigis Mansion 3 before I even beat the game, the week I bought it, the week it came out. These leakers just want clicks, and they'll steal from anyone to get what they want. They're thieves, you know.
@nessisonett You know, you're not wrong. They tend to be more accurate now. I go there most for band discographies and to be asked for money that I don't care to spare.
(Edit) My mind has been changed. Credit should be given. Credit comes at no expense, just as the fansites' information comes at no expense.
One time I tried to add intel on Disney's Recess and som sot mod banned me from Wikipedia. I read later that their mods are infamous.
@ivory_soul China likes butt stuff. Their covid tests. Their cinemas reject much from the west, but never those kids movies with poops and farts. They import trash. They made poop into food for export. Or boy eggs. Their leader is called pooh bear. Poo bear? And he's great, the concentration camps. Great guy. And TIKTOK is chinese, leaks people's info to the chinese. So, no, I'm not being random. China likes poops, pee, and farts apparently. Also, a lot of new diseases come "ffffsshwwwt" straight outa China.
What about "Fisti-Fluffs" and its supposed 'early 2021' release date? January and February are the only two months that count as early in my book. If it's a March date, they should have said 'winter' not 'early'.
The grid based gameplay of the first reminded me of Mario RPG, so I want Rabbid Geno in there, as an homage to rabbid Geno fans would be funny. I also want a Rocket Grenade launcher called "Super Mario RPG"
Never heard of RESPAWN or NOWWA. Never played these games. I've heard of APEX. ...I mean, you wouldn't need them both in Smash Bros, would you--unless they were echo fighters? This is like Cobb performed Inception by putting an illustration of "hunter" from RESPAWN into a mind-vault of the designers at NOWWA. Reminds me of what Disney and Dreamworks taught us about corporate espionage. Or how Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera is just the riff from Pink Floyd's Echoes in a fancier package. Occam's razor says this was a ripoff. APEX has a great character illustration team apparently, but yeah, this looks like a ripoff.
I know half of us hate WAH, but Strikers was THE moveset Waluigi should bring to Smash. Also, Luigi's Masion 3 looked astonishing. Honestly, Illumination will have to be on the ball to beat the animation, charm, and detail in LM3 when they make their Mario movie.
Can't wait. I hope this comes out soon. Why else promote it? I remember a magazine article on Bioshock Infinite a year before it came out. I don't recall if it was the cover story, but why do a story so far out?
@Toy_Link Same. That's why I estimate half way up would be Toad's face. Now, suppose they aren't rods. Just a performer's forearms. Then I'd be totally wrong.
I'm sure they thought of this, but wouldn't the performer's sorry gonad--be right behind toad's face? Suppose someone hits him in the face, or sort or head-butts him during a hug. Seems...problematic.
@rjejr Did you ever see "Konrad" on vhs? Here's the studio's logo and theme that way overstays its welcome. Konrad was up there with 'Return to Witch Mountain' for me as a kid. And 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People.' Konrad was about a kid made in a factory.
@rjejr Just watched the trailer for the Neptune Factor. "Wherever you've been, this is where you've never been before." This trailer IS like the Black Hole trailer underwater.
Geno is the first non-mario brother you play as in a game with the Mario name. His name is also an Italian stereotypical name, like Mario's. He's the last Smashbro. Or WAH is.
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Re: Backlog Club: July - If You Haven't Played Hollow Knight Yet, Here's Your Chance
I really REALLY like this game. Beat it, but thinking of playing through again constantly. Beat the first third three times over until that third time I got the controls down. Learn to move around during combat. Swing and run, swing and run. This game gave me better skills in general that commute to things like Smash Bros and Metroid, but even helped me learn what it means to want to beat a boss.
Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Now Has 5 Million Players Across The Galaxy
@Bizzyb Thanks for the intel. Will definitely try try again.
Re: Reggie: Nintendo's Transition From Switch Will Be A "Significant Challenge"
I predict the FLIPSWITCH console you can use your phone with wifi as a contoller and or personal screen with a cheap app.
You heard it here first. lol
Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Now Has 5 Million Players Across The Galaxy
Have they fixed the crashes in episode 1 yet? Haven't played this since week one b/c game is broken. 5M players with more patience than I.
Re: LEGO Reveals Super Mario Character Packs - Series 5, Arriving This August
The Nabbit looks cool, but I wish they'd just gone with minifigs with weird-shaped heads like Mickey and the Muppets did.
Re: Bandai Namco Appears To Be Remastering A '3D Action Game' For Nintendo
Nintendo wants money. It'll be Ocarina of Time. Guaranteed. Maybe followed by MM. Set for a 2024-2025 release date. Those games fly off the shelf, take a handfull of bills, hold em up, slap 'em down, your head's like a record going gong-ga-gong!
Re: Random: The New LEGO Star Wars Game Has A Cool Xenoblade Easter Egg
This game has crashed twice for me today. The Episode 1 level.
Re: Now Parents Are Getting Their Kids To Sue Nintendo Over Joy-Con Drift
Fixing mine with the cardboard-square trick. Screw driver's in the post.
Re: Nintendo Adds Super Mario World And Super Punch-Out!! Switch Online Special Versions
What about the GBA SMW with Luigi (who looks like Luigi, jumps higher, and slides? SP that into it!
Re: Blue Fire's Getting A Switch Physical Release This June
@bobzbulder Even if not, it's stuck in my head now.
Re: Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu May Have Written His Last Full Soundtrack
I hope he finds long-term healing. He's added value to so many lives with his wonderful work.
Re: Hot Wheels Unleashed Speeds Onto Nintendo Switch This September
I clicked on a 5❤ and it turned to an 8❤. Guys, I think I'm the chosen one.
Re: Gallery: Sakurai Shares Some New Screenshots Of The Next Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighters
Isn't one of the spirits a guy from Punchout in a gold speedo with a rose in his mouth?
Can we get a couple bathing suit outfits?
I'm asking for me.
Re: Nintendo Gives Us A Look At The Switch Box Art For Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
If this game was in some off-brand franchise, people would remember it fondly and say the characters should be in Smash. A bad Zelda game is still better than most other stuff, and that said, I very much enjoyed it. Thing is, I'm not buying it again. I already bought it twice.
Re: Rare's Cancelled N64 Project Dinosaur Planet Originally Starred The "Cute Tiger" From Diddy Kong Racing
Timber. Yeah, I remember him. Always sounded to me like he said his name was 'kimba' or something. He was a favorite pick at my friend's house.
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Confirmed For 2021 Switch Release
I'm very glad this is going to be on Switch. I wish games to a "less powerful system" came out first, though.
Re: Soapbox: The Modern Games Industry Has A Hype Problem, And It Needs To Stop
@Muddy_4_Ever I wasn't hyped. I bought it on the virtue of the series and was disappointed by the level design, the music, and the lack of a core feature shown in an early trailer. I never played Wolly World, but its not hard to imagine from friends' reactions that it was a superior title. Now, with Kingdom Hearts 3 I was super-hyped, and have never been so disappointed. Except by Last Jedi. The trailer for that movie was a million dollar empty promise.
Re: Nintendo Might Have Revealed A New Mario Golf: Super Rush Character Ahead Of Schedule
I thought from the sub-headline we were getting King Toadstool.
Re: Poll: What Did You Think Of The February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Then?
I was disappointed by possibilities. There are plenty of Nintendo IPs gathering dust which still have meat on their bones. Even some of their IPs have sub-IPs. Nintendo could be hiring devs like Playtonic, EldenPixels, Tarsier, Pixeljunk, Team Cherry, House House etc that proved they can build a campfire, but instead of stoking the industry coals, we get no-personality Mario (one of Nintendo's most exciting IPs) Golf (a game so boring that the point of the game is to have played less of it). If you've heard of these studios already, you know how many people haven't, and you do know how many people would buy a 1st Party IP game, and would buy more fresh IP studio titles (BigN's 3rd party support) the next time around. I was all for the re-releases at first, but now I'm jaded as a gamer who bought these games before, sometimes twice. This direct didn't offer me much Nintendo, just a lot of Nontendo.
Re: Introducing Knockout City, A New Dodgeball Game From The Developer Of Mario Kart Live
I love Dodgeball. I did not get that from the trailer. The trailer just d!@#ed around with a cartoon for like 2 minutes. Bad ad campaign. I wish they'd have said it was about dodgeball.
Re: Rumour: Zelda's 35th Anniversary Will See The Return Of Wind Waker And Twilight Princess
I'd Buy WindWaker for $60. Hands down. I'd buy Twilight Princess for $60 if I can use it to give more than 3 hearts to the $@#÷%=× WolfLink Amibo I bought for BotW. $15 and there's no way to upgrade him with BotW? Are you $@#÷%=× kidding me Nintendo?
Re: Charles Martinet Would Love To Voice Mario In Upcoming Illumination Movie
Mario will be surrounded by talking characters, but he usually has so little to say. Mario will sound like he has for twenty years. Mariokart, Mario 3D World, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Smash Bros. It'll be Martinet, or a pro copycat like Alan Tudyk.
Re: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Leaked Online A Week Before Launch
@Broforce You're wrong. I worked a public school gig for a few years. Special needs kids. You know who loves video games? Special needs kids. Know how you get them to shut up and work? Ipad time. Teachers made that happen. Out ranked my. Special Ed kids do nothing but youtube. So, I get stuck in a room with a kid watching Luigis Mansion 3 before I even beat the game, the week I bought it, the week it came out. These leakers just want clicks, and they'll steal from anyone to get what they want. They're thieves, you know.
Re: Video: Someone Finally Managed To Hit Every Smash Bros. Melee Credit
You have to give him a little credit.
Re: Legendary Developer Tim Schafer Thanks Fan Wikis, Saying He Uses Them To Remember Facts About His Own Games
@nessisonett You know, you're not wrong. They tend to be more accurate now. I go there most for band discographies and to be asked for money that I don't care to spare.
Re: Legendary Developer Tim Schafer Thanks Fan Wikis, Saying He Uses Them To Remember Facts About His Own Games
(Edit) My mind has been changed. Credit should be given. Credit comes at no expense, just as the fansites' information comes at no expense.
One time I tried to add intel on Disney's Recess and som sot mod banned me from Wikipedia. I read later that their mods are infamous.
Re: Random: People Are Making Really Awful Fart Remixes Of Mario Music On TikTok
@ivory_soul China likes butt stuff. Their covid tests. Their cinemas reject much from the west, but never those kids movies with poops and farts. They import trash. They made poop into food for export. Or boy eggs. Their leader is called pooh bear. Poo bear? And he's great, the concentration camps. Great guy. And TIKTOK is chinese, leaks people's info to the chinese. So, no, I'm not being random. China likes poops, pee, and farts apparently. Also, a lot of new diseases come "ffffsshwwwt" straight outa China.
Re: Random: People Are Making Really Awful Fart Remixes Of Mario Music On TikTok
Chy-na. Not clicking on this stuff. More butt stuff from an app? Of course it's from China.
Re: Video: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Treated To Two New Commercials
Soon after these 10 days will we get to know what's coming out after New Pokémon Snap in April?
Re: Video: 15 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In February
What about "Fisti-Fluffs" and its supposed 'early 2021' release date? January and February are the only two months that count as early in my book. If it's a March date, they should have said 'winter' not 'early'.
Re: Official Rabbids Username Tweak Fuels Speculation Over A Mario + Rabbids Sequel
The grid based gameplay of the first reminded me of Mario RPG, so I want Rabbid Geno in there, as an homage to rabbid Geno fans would be funny. I also want a Rocket Grenade launcher called
"Super Mario RPG"
Re: Smash Bros. Ultimate's Next Event Brings Us "Energetic Yellow Spirits" On January 29th
@NathanTheAsian It wasn't Coldplay this time, was it?
Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Will Feature Around 300 Playable Characters
This looks cool. Hope we get a release date soon. Suspense isn't marketable imo.
Re: It's A Real Shame This "Lemon Yellow" Game Boy Advance Was Never Released
@Bizaster I came here to say that, too.
"Oh yeeaahh your skin and bones turn iiinnn to somethin beautiful..."
Re: Gallery: Nintendo Shares Even More Stunning Screenshots Of Bowser's Fury
@nessisonett He's going to need a super mushroom.
Re: Indie Studio NOWWA Accuses Apex Legends Of "Ripping Off" One Of Its Characters
Never heard of RESPAWN or NOWWA. Never played these games. I've heard of APEX.
...I mean, you wouldn't need them both in Smash Bros, would you--unless they were echo fighters?
This is like Cobb performed Inception by putting an illustration of "hunter" from RESPAWN into a mind-vault of the designers at NOWWA.
Reminds me of what Disney and Dreamworks taught us about corporate espionage. Or how Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera is just the riff from Pink Floyd's Echoes in a fancier package.
Occam's razor says this was a ripoff. APEX has a great character illustration team apparently, but yeah, this looks like a ripoff.
Re: Smash Bros. Ultimate Hosting Facial Hair Spirit Event Later This Week
Featuring every character with eyebrows.
Re: Random: Let's Look At All The Things That Are Cats In Bowser's Fury
Super Mario Obesity?
Watch out for all the ground-pounding action when Fat Mario rolls onto the scene by collecting the Super Ponch-room.
Re: Gallery: Super Mario 3D World's Bowser's Fury Mode Looks Stunning In New Screenshots
Is this the scariest Bowser we've ever seen?
"GigaBowser has entered the chat."
Re: Nintendo Is Buying Luigi's Mansion Studio Next Level Games
I know half of us hate WAH, but Strikers was THE moveset Waluigi should bring to Smash. Also, Luigi's Masion 3 looked astonishing. Honestly, Illumination will have to be on the ball to beat the animation, charm, and detail in LM3 when they make their Mario movie.
Re: Random: Edge Magazine Is Teasing A "World Exclusive"
Can't wait. I hope this comes out soon. Why else promote it? I remember a magazine article on Bioshock Infinite a year before it came out. I don't recall if it was the cover story, but why do a story so far out?
Re: Super Nintendo World New Commercial And Yoshi's Adventure Ride Revealed
There's some nightmare audio.
Re: Random: Everyone Loves Super Nintendo World's 'Chonky' Toad
@Toy_Link Same. That's why I estimate half way up would be Toad's face. Now, suppose they aren't rods. Just a performer's forearms. Then I'd be totally wrong.
Re: Random: Everyone Loves Super Nintendo World's 'Chonky' Toad
I'm sure they thought of this, but wouldn't the performer's sorry gonad--be right behind toad's face? Suppose someone hits him in the face, or sort or head-butts him during a hug. Seems...problematic.
Re: $2 Puzzle Game Kolumno Will Help You Pass The Time On Christmas Eve
@rjejr Zack and Cody were in yogurt at the grocery store I worked at. Konrad came out in the 80's. Like when I was 3.
Re: Zelda Fan Recreates Breath Of The Wild Map In Minecraft
For those about to block
We salute you
Re: $2 Puzzle Game Kolumno Will Help You Pass The Time On Christmas Eve
@rjejr Did you ever see "Konrad" on vhs? Here's the studio's logo and theme that way overstays its welcome. Konrad was up there with 'Return to Witch Mountain' for me as a kid. And 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People.' Konrad was about a kid made in a factory.
Re: $2 Puzzle Game Kolumno Will Help You Pass The Time On Christmas Eve
@rjejr Just watched the trailer for the Neptune Factor. "Wherever you've been, this is where you've never been before." This trailer IS like the Black Hole trailer underwater.
Re: Random: Sakurai's Nod To Super Mario RPG In His Latest Smash Ultimate Photo
Geno is the first non-mario brother you play as in a game with the Mario name. His name is also an Italian stereotypical name, like Mario's. He's the last Smashbro. Or WAH is.
Re: Random: Think You've Got What It Takes To Become A Pokémon Consultant? Then Tencent Might Choose You!
@Riptidre China's government is who's racist. That govenment puts other ethnicities in concentration camps.