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It looks better than Pokémon games released on the Switch.

I would also blame idiots who buy sh*tty games just because they are on sales at a really cheap price. 1€ games always suck

Can you also write an article about an imminent "Switch 2 Pro", another about Switch 3 delayed to 2033. I might be an insider, so you have to believe me!... I'm not, but I'm tired of those useless articles about so called delays of unannounced products.

Last month, I bought a new android sheikah slate (which are called tablet in our boring world) for 2/3 of the price of this overpriced useless piece of plastic. Also I'd rather upgrade my switch for an oled, or buy litteraly anything else but this.

It really sucks when a developer tries to scam people into buying their game using the name of a famous IP. Just like harvest moon and story of season. Because of this, I'd never support them.

@Savage_Joe Both fanbase rely so much on nostalgia, they ended up a bit brain damaged, but in a different way.

What I read: "More power means less optimisation for us, so more money made for much less spent on quality when we copy paste our games every year."

Rumour aside, this one is never coming to the current Switch. Hopefully it won't be cross gen and fully use some more powerful hardware.

I wonder if it's the publishers pulling the plug when they stop believing in a project, or the studio underestimating the scale of their game. Hopefully this layoff trend will stop sooner than later.

@Snatcher Every film has to be live action, the same way most games are open world, GaaS, or souls clones

I guess cloning is still unethical. It would be a nice suggestion otherwise. A whole army of young Miyamoto would wreck most competitors.

@JimNorman These are onigiri, not sushi.

Hopefully their single player games will keep performing like this forever, so they never think about joining the stupid GaaS trend.

The lore around Zelda games has always been an afterthought. I'm pretty sure they create that lore just to justify unexplained stuff after players question it.

It's just insane how Nintendo games are beloved on the Switch. I know it's almost a given for a Nintendo console, but there isn't any overly popular mediocre games on this list.

2023 will probably be TotK anyway.
And I'm glad DQ11 made it on this list.

It would only take one massive Pokémon release boycotting for GameFreaks to care enough to fix some of the problems. But that's never going to happen, so the quality will keep dropping until they care so little they'll just ship blank cartridges.

It would still be live if they called it "Lonk's done with his nap" and changed a few things in the game. But they just want to use that Nintendo game. Oh well... What's the next Nintendo DMCA story?

This reminds me of a certain Hideo Kojima. Although it doesn't seem to be as messy.

About Platinum, their game quality has been so inconsistent, it will take a while before we know if him leaving will affect the company

To no surprise of mine, TotK makes up for almost half of my playtime on Switch (I also have a PS5). That was one hell of a game and the most fun I've had playing in years.

This sucks. Hopefully Embracer will have the decency to sell them the TimeSplitters IP for cheap is they were to open a new studio.

That long and sad agony is finally over. I just wished it went out with a bang, so it wouldn't be remembered for the last few bad years.

They used to differentiate 2D and 3D Zelda and they coexisted perfectly. Why ditch the old all of a sudden just because they don't have 2 different consoles? They still throw up remakes on a regular basis, but can't think of a simpler, more cosy Zelda formula? Why not make a Link between world-esque sequel to ocarina, twilight princess or Wind waker?

@Sisilly_G Thanks for the answer. I didn't think about the roaster and football fans wanting to play with their favourite player, since I'm not a football fan (or any other sport).

What about gameplay? Is it really different from one game to another, or does it feel more like minor improvements?

Why do people buy the same game year after year just because the number on the title was changed? Is FIFA/EA FC that different from one year to the next (this is a real question, I don't know the difference and they all look identical to me)?

I don't see in which universe Nintendo would want to be associated with Fortnite, or any overly popular games like CoD, FIFA, etc.

@Rooty Unheard of, or notoriously bad, like the CD-i games.

@Key19 A game with a playable Zelda would obviously be called "The legend of Link" to keep people confused.

Oh boy I can't wait for the spinoff "The legend of Demise" in which the protagonist is Groose.

Considering it took them 25 years to make an official timeline, they'll probably take another 15 years to create games/spin-offs that link (no pun intended) BOTW and totk to the rest of the timeline. The upcoming film might even be a part of it.

@Purgatorium What a great idea! Picture this: the sequel could be developed by the Dynasty warriors team and have a name like "Age of calamity". Also it would ignore everything that happens in BotW and have an ending that has nothing to do with the events mentioned in BotW with a last boss that looks like vegeta in DBZ. The story would be written by an 8 year old who has never played a Zelda in his life.

I loved the old ones, but children of mana and sword of mana were extremely bland and generic. I can't say I'm looking forward to a new entry unless they make something truly special, not just another one.

@arabiansanchez Lookup Gamespot's advanced combat videos for TOTK and BOTW on YouTube. They use some glitches in active combat. It's rather impressive and the explanations are well detailed

@arabiansanchez They do. Some insane glitches have been discovered by a community of players sharing every little glitch they found, understanding them, and combining them into something crazy.

@the_beaver This and many categories for video game awards are completely broken or make no sense. For example, you'll find games from giant publishers in the indie section.

@XiaoShao It was always called TRPG, for tactical, until square enix decided to call a game SRPG and people assumed it was the official name for the genre.

The same way some people now call souls clones "soulsborne". Or shmups instead of shoot'em ups. It doesn't make any sense, but reporters set these trends by repeating it over and over as if it was the official name.

In the future, try not to let tone deaf people rank songs.

In a hundred years, they might finally look like games released on a more powerful console than the 3DS.

Triforce heroes, because it's a bad game. Doesn't matter if someone defiles it's corpse.

They need to make sure the design is good because it'll be used in the next Zelda or Luigi's mansion as a key item.

I spent so much time on top racer 2 as a kid (we had a super Famicom). I'm sure it plays like crap with today's standards, so there is no way I'll ruin my nostalgia by playing it again. I'll just treasure these memories.

I just finished it on PS5. It starts great but I got bored to death by that stale open world. For once, I can't imagine it being good on Switch since the visuals are a big part of the game. And cheapening the physical version sure is an insult

The first paragraph made me question my sanity, my ability to read English and whether of not I traveled to another universe overnight.

I have always hated limited editions, especially in our sh*tty times of scalping. But considering the super steep price for a random collection (4 games not even having a page on NL), I doubt it would ship much more than they produced.

It's a good thing Nintendo's HQ is in Japan. I'd easily imagine Doug Bowser being corrupted into selling Nintendo to Microsoft if it was an American company.

No idea who this guy is. But it's a much better choice than Chris Pratt for sure

'The "Festival of Sesaons" concert tour'
What's a sesaon? Is it a sort of... Typo?

It bothered me quite a bit not to see any trace of the sheikah.

They should have at least left the shrines inaccessible and towers deactivated or partially destroyed and create a stack of broken guardians near Purah's lab.

I wouldn't trust an editor that changes the T&C on a whim and expect to get away with it because they have the biggest market shares. I really hope Unreal Engine (or anyone else) comes on top because of Unity's scum behaviour

I'm glad people stopped talking about a hypothetical and stupidly named "Switch Pro". But I'm already getting tired of hearing about that Switch 2

Does that mean Microsoft has the 3rd best selling console out of only 2?

Microsoft has been in denial about its competition for far too long.

The game looked great on that tiny 3DS screen. HD remasters are like nostalgia goggles, they make the game look the way you remember it.

If they get hit hard enough, they might come back on the announcement and say it doesn't concern free2play games, but only paid games at the time of purchase and use someone in communication as a scapegoat.