Princess_Lilly

Double Dash my beloved

I saw the trailer and something is... missing.

It doesn't have that cozy feeling of the interiors in the original, and all the fluffiness is kinda, not there. I'm not making any sense but you have to feel these changes

@LavaTwilight Morrowind doesn't need any more polish, you can boot it and marvel at this world as is. People who never had any experience with RPGs could start it now and would be in total awe. It just needs to be released on modern platorms.

The fields in 1:17 look so fluffy, they remind me of Oblivion

@hypercoyote I think both are correct

shikata is a "means/way"

https://jisho.org/search/shikatanai

https://jisho.org/search/shikata%20ga%20nai

WANT

@hypercoyote I'll get it even if I had to go to Japan myself lol (unless you are talking about translation, in which case, as people in movies say all the time - shikatanai)

You missed the biggest release of January! <shakes fist furiously> (Phantom Brave 2), but it's kinda hard to recommend when everyone knows everything about that one anyway.

So I cast my vote on something smaller, but still VERY interesting. I hope it gets featured, I don't even need the "credit" I just want people to know it, the designers made it with love and it shows. (Kemono Heroes)

"my second playthrough has resulted in far fewer casualties"

You would never guess this quote is about a game with cute colofrul vegetable creatures

@Metazoxan it also makes more sense when you understand Japanese mythology, too. Many pokemon are based on mythical creatures, like a 9 tailed fox, or Baku (a dream eating tapir). The Typhlo story is based on such fables and reads like one of them. Apparently it's like some story of a Mujina/badger (and Typhlosion is supposed to be a Mujina). Can't verify though as I heaven't read anything similar, I specialize in Kitsune/Nekomata more.

@blindsquirrel yeah he lost my vote when someone kindly informed me about that one. Long time no see btw.

@nhSnork I think it would be very bad if they shared some personal data, secrets etc. But in this case, they revealed some lore of the games decades after their release.

@Gatorclops wait wasn't it about the leak for the lore, with Arceus actually being called Eos and Typlosion lore?

He brought us the lore of the ancients, the good, the bad, and the ugly of it all. A formidable scribe of the otherwise to-be lost media.

May he keep uncovering the past of franchises, like the Indiana Jones of gaming. Lost media is such an interesting topic

edit: got informed he also leaked some private info, he lost my vote.

Got out of stock immediately out of launch

This is what I like to see, faith in humanity restored a bit

I will get it of course, should the opportunity arise

@larrythumbs playing the game and learning Japanese could be pretty fun and beneficial. Just bear in mind searching for Kanji can take some time, I know it from Crime Crackers

Minimalistic approach in Japanese ver would work if it wasn't so... repetetive? The shadows on petals show that it's probably the same flower copypasted and placed at random. Unless Im seeing things

@BulkSlash that shows its age, the best age for a VG

Do you know why the summer flowers don't make it to winter?

Because they take FALL damage

<tilting head in search for the door>

Welp, that's some statement.

But hey, another cryptic message to needlessly overanalyze, I'll take it.

He's interested in the next move of Sony, perchance?

@darkswabber My thoughts exactly. On one hand, 10 years ago I wouldn't even believe that a big company could overlook something so important twice in a row. On the other hand, it's 2025 AD, I've seen stranger things

Good thing they are not artificailly limiting the console official Nintendo only, as a next part of the gajin tax

New techniques are much needed in the kart games department, it was all drift boost for a very long time. Let's hope it makes the game more demanding and rewarding, to keep it interesting!

The Movie was great, this is a bit not in my tastes, but who knows. Vapmire Survivors sucked me in and I thought exactly the same about it.

I hope so.

I also hope they only fixed leveling and left everything else as it is

@Sylamp if it doesn't have the jank of the original, it's not an Elder Scrolls game. Have you heard of the high elves?

What's with the fugly character design for protagonists these days, what a peculiar trend

Utterly disgusting. Never stay loyal to those who will inevitably betray you

@Bizzyb true. IP is easy to circumvent, shipping address too (apparently, someone mentioned it to me up here) but combined, they might not be worth the effort to cheat. I wouldn't like to shop in a store which saves my credit card info (even though I don't even use such payments), so that would be my only issue with it.

@Donutman I'm not saying people like you should not have an option. I'm saying companies should not use such underhanded tactics as selling two versions of console, one with inflated price and one without a core component. That way they present their product as more valuable by comparison.

I'm saying you should have been able to buy PS5 priced like PS5D

@64supermario haha nice! I grew up with PS1, PS2 etc. they were crazy expensive back in a day, so I don't even imagine buying x units of the same console for everyone, but times changed. This time for the better.

2 units per customer max? The main issue would be identifying duplicate accounts, but a possible solution (not a perfect one but the only one I thought of just now after 9-7) would be to check the addresses. If 2 or more accounts want the product to be shipped to a single address, just cancel the transaction, but do not tell the scalper until the release date.

It reads like a 10.
Original voices - check.
Visuals not messed up - check.

Digital edition consoles have no place in the perfect world we are striving towards

@TheBlueCatMenace I'm afraid Sony gave up on catching up to Nintendo long ago

@Ooccoo_Jr to be honest, it's hard to say what value S2 is right now. We don't know whether the joycons are durable, and we don't know whether the keycard atrocities will be used instead of physical

@Olliemar28 word up. Given the erratic nature of this idea, the only thing I am certain about is that whatever the price is to be paid, we will be the ones to pay.

@Spider-Kev oh, yeah, that's totally true. I mean there were slimes and those centaur things too, yiga etc. but even then they were more or less similar in combat and visually.

I liked the Guardians, they were really iconic. Their erratic movement, those devastating lasers, they were something to fear alright.

Exploring a game world is such an enticing, powerful experience. It's like a intimate insight into one's mind, their fears and hopes, taken form. I have explored countless worlds and for me, lore and consistency is what makes the whole experience the most enjoyable.

What I mean isnt even the amount of things to do in a game. It's seeing how the game's mechanics, biology, energy sources, works as a believable, if not realistic, ecosystem. Genshin Impact provides an enormous amount of experiences like that. Creatures that have worked out a symbiotic relationship with ancient machinery, the landscape dictating what critters and flora can be found there, even positioning of buildings matter.

The lore, as in a story, is also very important. Even the simplest "someone dug too deep and now monsters ate everyone" can be written so well, I end up endulging every time.

@Spider-Kev I would respectfully disagree. While most encounters look like they are not worth much in terms of loot, I really liked how an enormous amount of carefully crafted, yet very simple puzzles have been incorporated into the world. Even enemy encounters seem more diverse when you can steal equipment in one camp, then use a balloon to bomb-drop explosives on another, it just makes the experience. Did you find the combat and puzzles dull, or was it lack of architecture and NPCs/stories behind them?

Europe / Japan for showing the female protagonist (Mery)

Survival Kids was a fantastic game, I would like to check out the sequel, as weird as it is

Also, Bravely.

But let's be honest its kind of a slow launch when most things are just ports, why do we even need another ToTk this game came out so recently

Sad news. Beautiful works of art that would fit better in a more gentle, more sensible era.

@kkslider5552000 @silver-crescent CCP/Tencent ruins everything they touch

The pricing on the console is absolutely not enough, so additional paid membership is completely understandable

@ManaOwls the absolute state of our universum in 2020s

@Bigmanfan what is, the restaurant metaphor? This is where it leads. Whenever you buy something from a big company know one thing - if they could offer you less for the same price (or the same thing for a higher price), knowing you would still buy it, they would 100% do it.

Say no more fam!

Not many games where you can "mash 'Y' and shove your sister’s soul back into her body"

Giving us only the bare minimum to keep going must stop.

@Kiivi me too, but only because they get heavily discounted and do not possess enough artistic value for me to care enough its preservation

@Bigmanfan I do not think it is cringe. It's about deciding what is good for us. Imagine going to a restaurant which serves you barely edible food knowing that most people will still buy it. Will you be satisfied with such service?

Luigi Mansion + Rouge Squadron + Crazy Taxi? That was a crazy lineup. Wii U was really solid too.

@MrHaggi Not if you go sightseeing and vacationing. If you are brave enough for holiday in Germany

What? You want to circumvent the Non - Japanese tax? You ungrateful Gajins

Toby just confirmed that Deltarune is Undertale Parallel Story

@Orpheus79V True, but will those controllers have all the gimmicks of joycons? Not likely in my opinion. I've been using PowerA joycons for Switch 1 for a very long time now, but they are uselss in fitness games for instance.

And let's face it, for this much cash, the least they could do was make absolutely sure that all the basic issues are fixed. Nintendo doesn't mean quality anymore

No Hall sticks? Great, a final nail to the coffin! Yes, Switch 2 is now officially future proof. There is absolutely no future for it.

Kirby.

Other games - 0 Kirby on cover
Kirby - 1 Kirby on cover

Mario Kart World looks nice too

Th only ones that are interesting to me (Silksong and Deltarune) will be on Switch 1 anyway, so here's that.

But Ridge Racer and Kirby Air Riders are a must have if I get S2 someday

One weird thing is "Survival Kids" did they even do research before naming it exactly like a completely different game?!

@datamonkey yes, all I said is that it proved to be risky in this case because Nintendo didn't do well with the presentation and it almost looks like it wants to flatline the whole project. Nobody could have predicted that

@KoopaTheGamer I mean, I think so too, but I REALLY hope this is the straw that will break the camel's back.

@Ryu_Niiyama yes I know, but seeing how eagerly they jumped into that pool, nobody predicted what was going to happen. That's what I meant

@KoopaTheGamer well, it's just that the reception of Switch 2 launch direct was... what it was. Nobody could have expected it though.

She is cute. She is cute.

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