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Okay, so Top Gun Maverick, which is another "love letter" type of movie just like this one, had some Top Critics who gave it good scores say:

"The sequel is still rah-rah about American imperialism, but who cares? ... you won’t find more blazing action anywhere. "

"Top Gun: Maverick is not a dislikable movie, by any means... But it's also a little depressing, because of where it says movies are going, what it says about the lack of creativity making its way on screen." (Yet still gave it a fresh rating)

"It is a thin, over-strenuous and sometimes very enjoyable movie."
"The flight scenes are the major draw, I suppose, and the aerial encounters are dazzlingly choreographed even if the planes are so loud you can’t hear the pilots’ dialogue. That said, you don’t watch a film like this for the script."

Yet they gave it a good score! (which it deserves)

But all the "Top" 🙄 Critics for the Mario movie, which is a family-oriented one, couldn't give it some slack.

@Diogmites Just curious, what was the stuff in the movie that made you hate it?
Was it the very basic plot and the lack of obligatory,
"awww" character development scenes?

Or you're simply not just a fan of "love letter" type of movies because it doesn't check off everything that a movie 'needs' to have?

This movie definitely has the best visuals among the rest of the 3D animated ones but I wish that they'd get Studio Ghibli for the first Zelda movie. It'll be a breath of fresh air!

Not a fan of the super deformed style they used here and the seemingly locked isometric view.

I might still get this though but I look forward to a DQ IX remaster with local multiplayer in tact.

So this is just another current Switch variant.
Been wanting to buy a Switch but I'm wondering whether if I should just wait for the Pro rumors to come true.

If I were a scalper I wouldn't bother hoarding this.

Glad this game's changing a few people's mind about turn-based strategy games.

Can't wait for XCOM 3 and of course, this as well!

@TheWingedAvenger Players have very limited interaction with each other in racing games — all you do is drive around, speed up or down. Not a wide range of decision-making.

Try a different genre. First person shooters maybe (though I'm not a fan).

All my friends who play Counter Strike never play against AI because all of them agree that the feeling of winning against a real person is quite different than winning against computers.

I played DQ X mostly alone, but it's quite a different feeling when someone I don't know who doesn't speak my language offer to help me despite the language barrier. The sense of adventuring is on a different level because I know that the player-controlled characters in the party that invited me can make genuine mistakes and also great decisions during battle.

I never get that same feeling when being accompanied by AI party members that accompany me for story driven purposes no matter how fleshed out they're characters are.

I'm not saying though that all NPCs should be controlled by real people to make it more fun.

The offline DQs are great. DQ X simply offers a different experience for those who are looking for it. The only mistake I think they made is putting "X" in it instead of turning it into a spin off.

@TheWingedAvenger "If your friend isn't sitting in the same room as you, then you might as well be playing offline."

Does that mean if your friend moves abroad and asks to play Super Mario 3D World with you, you might as well play solo because you can't tell if you're actually playing with him/her?

@TheWingedAvenger I don't get your logic.

A friend's sister is still a person you can cooperate with. Whether be it with your friend or a random person, it's still a different experience than playing offline.

Clearly you haven't dabbled in online games because you seem to think that playing and cooperating with people you don't know feels the same as playing with an AI.

You're not playing offline if you're playing with another live person from the other side of the world. Not unless that friend's sister is a robot.

If I go by your logic — you might as well play a couch co-op game solo if your friend's sister decided to stand in for your friend for a just a few moments, and that it automatically disqualifies the experience from being couch co-op, despite the fact that you're actually playing with a real person.

To expand on that, I won't be surprised if you think you're talking to someone here "offline" because I'm not your friend and that there's no way for you to prove that I'm not an AI replying to your comment.

If that's the case, you might as well also say "I don't understand why people talk online."

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They'll change the combat system but commands are staying.

I hope they can come up with an interesting and much more cinematic round-based battles.

I prefer the classic round-based over the FFX-ish turn-based system they used in DQX — makes me use my brain more by planning the entire party's moves and watching the results play out are much more thrilling.

@TheWingedAvenger If you don't understand why people play online games, you probably haven't tried playing local, couch co-op games or maybe can't comprehend such concept of playing the same videogame at the same time with someone else.

@TheWingedAvenger

"Playing online doesn't mean you're playing with other people."

Wait, what?

I most certainly played WITH my friend online. He manually controlled his character and we talked while doing a quest so that definitely counts as "playing with other people."

@Ghost_of_Hasashi They should've released this as an MMORPG spin-off instead of adding it to the main series and attaching "X" to the title.

I tried the game for roughly a month and the multiplayer aspect is pretty interesting and fun — it's pretty much like DQ IX but the player turns have a limited time to choose a command before they miss their turn (think online billiards or chess). The time is long enough to let you find what you need in the menu but having to plan ahead on what to do on your next turn makes it exciting for me.

I do hope they port it to mobile (without IAPs) with local multiplayer just like DQ IX.

@TheWingedAvenger Cause it lets them play with much more players compared to couch co-op?

@Friendly Same. I'm getting the feeling that they're planning to make it mobile friendly.

If this game turns out to be successful enough for Capcom to consider a sequel, I really hope they'd adapt Divinity: Original Sin's character movement/positioning and style a new rock-paper-scissors mechanic to work with it.

@Andy_Witmyer A Studio Ghibli-ish take would be nice.

Super Nintendo Switch please.

@Paulo You might appreciate Crash 4 more if you play the first 3 games first.

@TsukiDeity The family-oriented trailer for this game reminds me a lot of the NES box art back then (though its weird seeing both players seem to be playing at the same time).

For me, this is what defines a Mario game — a fun family game.

My interest in the single player Marios died by the time Galaxy 2 came and I haven't touched Odyssey.
If only they could've added at least the classic take-turns multiplayer or came up with a fun tag-team multiplayer mechanics.

And I find the classic Mario mechanics translated to 3D in 3D Land/World/Bowser's Fury much more fun than the mechanics the 1P Marios have.

@John_Deacon I think it definitely deserves a sequel.

I found the first two/three single-player Marios intriguing at first but my interest died by the time Galaxy 2 came — I missed the classic Mario gameplay mechanics: non-timed power ups, shrinking, multiplayer, etc.

3D Land/World is a dream come true.

@WiltonRoots While they work on the sequel to the single-player Mario series, they better also start working on the sequel for the Classic-Mario-in-3D series too.

@Toads-Friend I hope there'd be a sequel sooner or later.
A return to the dreamland Subcon to face Wart and his minions again would be great!

And just like the classic game:

• No Timers
• All about picking up stuff and throwing it
• Conjuring Red Doors to temporarily enter the alternate reality Subspace.
• Phanto chasing the player carrying the key will be hilarious
• Hatching rideable Yoshis from eggs hidden in the ground.
• Mini Boss battles at the end of each level

@1UP_MARIO While they also continue creating "3D" Marios as a separate series.
*3D as in, classic Mario gameplay in 3D.

@Yosher Hopefully, we'd get to hatch him from eggs hidden in ? Blocks in sequel.

I hope there'd be a sequel sooner or later.
A return to the dreamland Subcon to face Wart again would be great!
And just like the classic game:

• No Timers
• All about picking up stuff and throwing it
• Conjuring Red Doors to temporarily enter the alternate reality Subspace.
• Mini Boss battles at the end of each level

@Yanina Imagine the next Switch with backward compatibility for all previous Nintendo consoles and hand-helds — of course they won't do that.
Sigh!

They'll simply port or remaster old stuff.

@johnvboy The mechanics, physics, etc. are that of 3D Land/World's though.

Anyway, I was kinda hoping they'd add the classic take turns or tag team multiplayer for the open world Mario titles so we wouldn't have to swap controllers whenever the current player dies.

@Marios-love-child There are only two of this 3D-style classic Mario games though.

@Bon_Kurei Bowser's Fury isn't worth it?

I'm hoping that this will have 4-player co-op.

But seeing it's more of an open world, I hope it'd at least have the classic Take Turns multiplayer (When Mario is KOd, Luigi or whoever Player 2 chooses is summoned while Player 1 gets to control Bowser Jr. Instead).

Or maybe 4-player simultaneous co-op just like the main game but not couch co-op (individual Switch owners).

But then the rest have been turned to cats.... :-/

This game feels like this would've been a natural evolution of the classic 2D Mario gameplay to 3D.

64 and Sunshine, intrigued me but I was no longer impressed by Galaxy because I started missing the fun multiplayer aspect, shrinking mechanic, fancy power ups, etc. of the classic.

@RareFan a game that not a lot of people were able to play so it's pretty much a brand new game for them!

I wonder if the AI racers avoid or follow those arrows...

@WaveWitch Sony should help revive Twisted Metal! And I think AR Remote control versions would be an interesting way to do it.

@idork99 Hopefully, they made the tech this game uses in a way that they could easily add expansions and new features.
Say for example Piranha Plant Sign boards that come to life in the game or anything that helps the AI racers interact with the real-world obstacles you place.

@idork99 Just curious, has anyone tried scanning a copy of those arrow sign boards and printing more of it and see if the game also recognizes it?

Also, do the AI racers avoid hitting those arrow signs? If they do, it could be a good way to make the AI recognize real-world obstacles by attaching the signs to it.

Hopefully this will be a good enough sign for them to expand this toy/game — more karts

and markers that you can stick on the obstacles you place so that the AI opponents could also interact with it.

And better yet, make an off-road/outdoor version of this!

If this sells really well, they should make this a full on toy series — they should make monster truck/ off-road versions of this.

Also, Mario Kart 9 better make a nod to this by making a living room themed track that makes you feel like you're playing with RC toys zipping past giant pots, books, etc. with pets as bosses.

@idork99 The wear and tear though. It'd be hard to find good replacement wheels that doesn't affect the handling.

Mario Kart 9 should definitely have a house interior themed track as a nod to this side game.

Imagine racers looking like RC toys zipping past pots, books, underneath couches, etc.with pets as obstacles.

Twisted Metal: Small Brawl was fun that way.

@Ludovsky Have you played with Mario Kart RC toys before? This is just an expensive version of one that let's you play with the video game's battle mechanics instead of just zooming randomly like how you would a typical RC car.

If you think that this is more of a video game instead of a toy that interacts with a game, then I understand your disappoinment with the tracks being flat.

@MarioLover92 I think that's the idea — instead of just another typical Mario Kart-themed RC toy, why not add AR to it?
The previous Mario Kart RCs looked fun enough to play with but having one that actually lets you play with most of the actual video game mechanics would be a whole lot better.

@KryptoniteKrunch If the graphics and artstyle is the reason why you're considering to try it out, be warned though that MH isn't your typical hack-and-slash game — this series' combat has an emphasis on timing, character placement, and direction the player is facing before you pull of an attack.

A lot of casual players never understood that it is by design and ended up thinking/feeling that the combat is clunky when in fact, even the monsters are under the same movement/attack "restrictions."

Getting good at it though feels really rearding compared to other hack-and-slash games that simply let you attack to your heart's content from the get-go.

I immediately realized the pun first time I saw the title.

@arabiansanchez I don't know why some people think it's Mario Kart 9 or something instead of considering it as a spin-off.