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So Nintendo wants to regress their character designs, then do Mario next as his Jumpman design. I'm sure it'll win people over like the new DK look because it's classic.

https://imgur.com/a/classic-jumpman-OLKPEXN

This has been known for a good while through the eshop listing.

@Smithicus Nintendo acknowledged Mario Kart Tour as a main series title in their infographic during the MK8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, making it Mario Kart 9. People don't have to like it, but it's the fundamental truth.

You probably don't remember or weren't scrolling through fourms back 15 - 20 years ago, but there was an ongoing debate over whether or not Mario Kart Super Circuit and DS are mainline entries because an artificial reason given that they were on handheld; similarly to the Mario Party handheld entries. Then came along Mario Kart 3DS bestowed with a number as its subtitle then the debate was over & forgotten. The Mario Kart Tour mainline entry discourse has the same energy.

So Nintendolife staff missed the memo where Nintendo classifies Mario Kart Tour as its own entry therefore would make this Mario Kart 10.

Is there a control option to move DK with the D-Pad? What I couldn't stand with the 3DS version was if you wanted to use D-Pad for movement, the controls for ABYX and LR would swap. There was no middle ground. I absolutely cannot play a 2D platform with a control strick. Give me the option to play with the D-Pad with my prefered buttons!

@Zaruboggan It's more like Daddy Nintendo is witholding our presents long past Christmas day.

Reeks of localizer meddling once again that plagues the Trail series going by that in-game dialogue shot of Estelle. I never understand the stick joke they keep using in English.

I'd rather these two be included in the recent Tetris Forever release simply so I don't have to retain a NSO membership or when the service eventually discontinues on the Switch and I can remain playing them! Oh well, no better time than the present to play these I suppose.

Are we able to continue earning Platinum coins through this Animal Crossing app?

@KoopaTheGamer Whether you think people will return to the games or not is besides the point. I personally like to go back & replay the stages in the single campaign after some time for a refresher, maybe improve my clear times, and the DLC ones in Splatoon 2/3 have good replayability (Side Order most noteworthy)

Can you agree that locking a glorified music player to online connectivity is bad design? Splatoon 1 and 2 at least had theirs accessible in the City allowing to be played offline.

They need to enable the jukebox outside of the training lobby so it can be played without having to be connected to the internet. Eventually, the online server will close and so will the ability to listen to the tunes unless the jukebox gets added in the city somewhere.

F2Players are a minority, clearly.

Though unorthodox, you can find the better deal that is joinning someones Family Plan for an 1/8 of the price, roughly $10-12, for the Expansion Plan and in the single digits for the Basic Plan for a year. My go-to is the NintendoSwitchOnline sub Reddit in search of those offering slots.

"the West arguably gets the better game cartridge - featuring some actual detail rather instead of a logo and blank canvas"

You're not a fan of the game's logo in the Switch's menu too I take it. SE has been doing this for the west since the DS cartridges. At least they're consistent.

One of the neat touches by AlphaDream many took for granted until it was gone. Sure, the game isn't unplayable with this omission, but it's a strange choice given that we associate Luigi with the B button for almost everything since the very first game and it made sense.

Someone please clarify: Sonic Generations ran 60fps and this newest revision runs 30fps on a system equal more so to PS3, is that right?

@Druidsbrook At that point, you're wanting a totally different character. Leave Amy alone.

We need to push back against this trend. So sick of outrage culture & cancel culture destroying everyone’s sense of humor. It needs to be stopped by a counter culture movement in the opposite direction.

@Zeebor15 Why the hostility? Joke or not, 33 months since the first game been available on NSO. 33 months! Players questioning Nintendo's slugish momentum in implementing the sequel to appear before now is understandable; even considering there's more work needed with getting another company like Rare/Microsoft for their cooperation. Ultimately, Nintendo is the ones who decide WHEN these titles launch on their service. They've been sitting on Tooie since BK's debut so they can strech their NSO releases so thin. At this rate, Nintendo won't release their own heavily requested titles on NSO like Smash 64, DK 64 before Switch 2 debut.

I'd like the gift of buying a physical copy without the ugly NSO advert on the boxart 🫠.

Just as I had with Tears of The Kingdom, I will keep Echoes of Wisdom update-free beyond the day one patch. As long as it's not game-breaking and you gotta actively pursue these glitches to encounter them, I see no necessity in updating these single player adventures.

It's pretty much what we all knew. Nice to hear them admit it. I wish they'd just have stood up and said "No." They use the excuse of "Well, we don't want to lose an audience base." But most 6 year olds wouldn't play DQ anyways. Those who would parent's probably would actively get it.

@MatthewTaranto I would be inclined to believe you were it not for the addition of them rewriting Roxanne's name to 'Sellma' in DQIX and subsequent spinoffs she appears in running a service like Ruida. I contest the naming of these characters reference more than the puns that align with their service and their names reference Marges sisters from the Simpsons. That's butchery either way; it's not the job of the translater to completely alter naming of the creators vision so they can 'cleverly' make puns that never existed in the original. If they wanna name chatacters with puns in mind referencing their duties and other variants, go create it theirselves. Don't take someone elses work, rewrite it, and credit it as your handiwork. Which these localizers do as failed writers.

@ItsATM Downplaying it is all the more reason why it was unnecessary to change. "Little changes" add up. If it was all inconsequential, then none of it would need to change in the first place.

Let me ask you, How do you translate Ruida's Tavern to Patty's Place? The GBC version is more faithful having the NPC and her store be named Ruida and apparently the Patty name choice is referencing the Simpsons character. That's the tip of the iceberg, and knowing SE's ethnics department telling the devs what to alter to meet 'global standards' ala sensitive snowflakes that is far 'n between, there will be a plethora of changes to the dialogue on top of rewriting character and locale names to reference pop culture like the aforementioned, Patty's Place.

Doesn't need a remake/remaster treatment. Take notes of what Konami have been doing with their Collections and port them in one package. Seems like a no-brainer.

@kevinm360 According to the Amazon listing for the game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 will only be available in Japanese. My theory is Konami will be including Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel and since it's a modified version of the the aforementioned, they probably see no need to translate it.

Apparently it's been confirmed only the GB/Color/Advanced games will be featured which they do have 12 GBA games alone to make up more than 10 games to be included as they stated. It is a shame because would love to see Forgotten Memories, Duelist of the Roses, and Falsebound Kingdom in one convenient package.

...The physical boxart won't have that hideous red bar reading 3 months of individual membership on all preorder copies in the US, will they?

@LuXifer I forgot multiplayer until you brought it up. It is almost near non-existent with how they handled the online. They degressed to DS/Wii online multiplayer levels where you can only play with those registered as friends; no random online matchmaking. Still to this day I haven't been able to find players to set up a game with after scouring fourms and threads. So much of an obstacle for a niche game. Advanced Wars By Web (a free unofficial site based off the original games with online matchmaking) is the preferred option passionate players would play over AW Reboot Camp.

A shame they've not patched the game once to solve game crashing bugs and unintended interactions with the units. Minor gripe of mine was they altered the dialogue to make it more 'politically correct' as well and what was replaced didn't have as much impact as it did in the originals.

@the_beaver It's extends more than a singular character altercations (adding more clothing on females seen here and coloring in the lips on the troll enemy). Removal of Male & Female labelings in favor for Type A & B nonsense, and this is also mostly just visual stuff we know of right now. Localization will most certainly stray from being faithful-- that's a guarantee for modern Dragon Quest games, but character and locales name rewrites to reference pop culture. How do you translate Ruida's Tavern to Patty's Place otherwise? The GBC version is more faithful having her be named Ruida and apparently the Patty name choice is referencing the Simpsons character. You're not playing the writers vision of the game, rather, you're playing a vision of some wannabe writer who couldn't make it big on their own having to tamper others work so they can call it theirs.

@Kisame83 It's over a multitude of pointless changes we know so far, but sure, go off!

@MidnightDragonDX I'll wait for it to go on bargin bin sale or buy it second hand I guess.

@MidnightDragonDX Have a look again, because the shorts are visible on her in-game sprite. The brown pixels on her hips. Though, it appears her shirt isn't in the in-game sprite (for now perhaps)

https://imgur.com/a/H34Tn2i

Is this getting a physical release?

The spats censorship on Warrior female is absolutely insane. Does not mesh well at all.

The selection is going to consist of all their handheld Gameboy and Gameboy Advance entries. I adore Duelist of the Roses, but I'm setting my expectations low for this compilation. Would of been nice if they revealed the number of titles and systems that are involved initially for speculation sake.

I'm waiting to find out how hard this collection has been censored.

Note that it's not a matter of "if". I have no benefit of the doubt to give Capcom in 2024 especially since they listed broad censorship on their website for the upcoming Capcom Fighting Collection 2. Capcom absolutely censored this too somehow and I'm waiting to learn how bad it is.

It's a tragedy that Wario and Yoshi aren't on the cover. Contender for worst Mario Party boxart, anyone?

Has the reviewer downloaded the game onto the internal memory or the micro sd card? Is their Switch modded? Are they playing on V1 Switch rather than an OLED? These are questions I seen asked by Pokemon Scarlet/Violet enthusiasts to explain why others have been encountering similar crashes. It's your faulty system, not the game. (I jest)

The online is mostly barren from my experience. Maybe find matches with 3 others tops and the rest are filled with bots. If my vs level has an impact on what players can join my games, I think they should do away with that in an update.

What's this, the remake isn't going to have the same OST as the original? Where is this confirmed?

Surprising that Nintendo supported them for as long as they did. Especially since they have a track record of washing their hands of their servers as soon as their next big thing is out.

Collections of old games shouldn't need patch work, should be complete at the time of release.

I know it was a shameless plugin for Princess Peach Showtime, but the incident accord months before the game was out, just to be clear. In addition, 17 hours is roughly triple the amount of hours the game can be beaten.

Third version most definitely. DLC is not cheaper overall compared to a third version. To buy a full priced game with DLC that cost 50% more, you have to pay... 50% more. Because guess what, if you bought the original game, and you bought a third version, both at full price, you can sell the original version and get your money back. Then you've actually only paid one full priced game for one finished product instead of 150% of one full priced game for NOT actually a finished product.

@Toastmaster Never say never.

@PoeTheLizard These kind of disclaimers have been added before and still had content removed despite saying otherwise.

@Princess_Lilly Stop feigning ignorance, I explained to you yesterday. And if it was such a non issue, Nintendo would had no trouble greenlighting a translation by now.

@Troubbble You need to understand that localizers will never produce a faithful localization. Their job is literally to vandalize foreign work of art. What you mean to say is, a faithful translation.

Buy an Xbox only for it to get the Red Ring of Death shortly after some play time, essentially becoming a paperweight? I think not!

@demacho Nintendo will not throw a bone to its stubborn fans clinging onto unsupported hardware out of the goodness of their heart so they can, say, play limited-licensed software infinitely at no cost, that's the precedent I meant. Heck, they didn't even bother to discount their own games on the 3DS and WiiU digital store of the last weeks or months, or a year for that matter as a last 'hoorah' to its customer base.

Nintendo Badge Arcade matches close to the precedent, besides. After April, we won't be able to access the hub to remove or add badges obtained because it has a mid start-up online check when you boot up the game. Lastly, I refer you to Nintendo's Account User Agreement, section Purchase and Subscription Terms. I've grown weary of this talk, later.

You can play Mother 3 with superior fan translation, free of localization cringe and censorship now. No reason to wait for censored inferior version.