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'Like an elf' is about the level of fidelity to the source material I expect from every aspect of the production of this film.

So this where we are in the world. Getting mad at companies for denying us the privilege of doing their promotion for them. Nothing remotely dystopian about that, at all.

Of course it won't come to the Switch 2. There's no option to toggle blue shells on in the thing.

Kirby just looks cuter with his mouth shut. NA/EU wins this.

Far, far too much Balatro. And I went back to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the first time in months only to be immediately floored by the game's borderline incomprehensible control system and battle mechanics. Who in their right mind at Monolith Soft thought single-time tutorial screens was a good idea?

@SurprisedRobinChu It's because they'll lose a not-insignificant chunk of customers for the new Pokemon games if they give out the old ones. Gamefreak have made enough missteps of late in some people's eyes that they probably don't want to be giving the fanbase reason to give up entirely on the current gen.

People acting like all these obscure additions to the service are some sort of blessing from the Nintendo gods and not, in fact, simply incredibly cheap licenses to get hold of for mostly shovelware is wild. No shade on Survival Kids, but GB Gradius may be the single worst way to play Gradius and nobody's thought about Sword of Hope in literal decades. Also Star Stacker instead of Kirby's Pinball Land is peak trolling.

All this and then it'll turn out they're going to re-release Sim City instead.

Which would be A-Okay with me since that game was fire. And occasionally on fire, thanks to Bowserzilla.

'From the popular action game 'Metroid: Other M'' Feels like a stretch.

In the (possible) words of the great man himself,

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I've already been down the Cookie Clicker rabbit hole once in this lifetime. Never again. In fact I might even sell my Switch just to make sure I can't fall prey to its eldritch tendrils once more D:

The idiom is 'hats off' not 'hat's off'.

Let's hope Lex Luthor doesn't steal any cakes, this time.

Anyone who hasn't already picked most of these games up in one of the never-ending conveyer belt of 'collections' over the past few years is unlikely to be persuaded now by the addition of Jedi Power Battles, methinks.

On the final case of the first of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles games but I've run into one of those roadblocks where my logic and the game's logic are clearly running on divergent tracks since I haven't the foggiest how to proceed. No doubt I'll have to resort to brute forcing my way through by just trying everything and hopefully have it wrapped up by this time next week. It's been a wild(ly uneven) ride, but these games are just so charming it's hard to get too worked up by the sheer improbability of some of the happenings. The music is gorgeous too.

I love Banjo, but I love old Banjo. And that was a quarter of a century ago now. Yes they could theoretically try and replicate it for the modern gaming landscape but why? For the subset of fans who are going to be both nostalgic enough to want to buy it and forgiving enough to look past the fact it's not 'proper' Banjo? Or for new players who are going to need to be for the most part persuaded to come on board by a massively expensive advertising campaign? Grant isn't wrong when he says money is the issue here.

The Titanfall franchise really can't catch a break, can it?

@OorWullie Doshin the Giant in pieces right now.

Baldi. Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time.

I guess it's better than nothing, but these honestly look pretty low-effort. Fortunately that isn't going to detract from the fact that the game is still tremendous.

Oh, might as well take the chance while I'm here to shout out the one person who can unequivocally be said to like Monty Mole, FredTheMontyMole from Youtube. He makes right good medleys of Nintendo music so he does, but he'd probably be heartbroken to see this news.

What I'm taking away from this is that Bowser Jr. is a selfish brat.

Wait that's not news :I

@garfreek Pretty sure when I played it years back I ignored the bonus xp dungeons and got through just fine, and I am by no means a strategy game master. Just be reassured you'll have options if you do find yourself struggling.

@batmanbud2 Well I know what I'll be downloading tonight, at least.

Wait, that sounded wrong.

Yes it is a tad on the easy side for a Fire Emblem, but I'm more than willing to overlook that if it means getting a chance to spend some time again with the best Emblem character of them all, L'Arachel.

Well if this doesn't finally kill off the amiibo brand I guess nothing will. It's still crazy to me these things have lasted as long as they have, but fair play to Nintendo for managing to maintain a level of quality that's a least nicer to look at than Funko.

Hooray. Now I can listen to the music without having to look at all those dreadful haircuts!

@andyg1412 Nintendo published it. They're the ones who released it. They're responsible for putting it 'out' into the world.

These are jobs that don't exist any more given the company's fundamentally changed its direction. Of course you'd hope they'll be generous with severance money and that they've at least tried to accommodate people in other roles if they want to stay with the company but it just isn't going to be feasible in all instances. Lay offs aren't always about kicking people to the curb after you've had your pound of flesh off them, and it'd be ridiculous to force companies to keep people on the books who simply aren't going to do actively useful work for them going forward. If nothing else it'd irritate everyone else putting the hours in while some employees are paid to functionally do nothing. What are they honestly supposed to do here?

Edit: I guess they could always promote a shedload of new CEOs. That might actually be the answer.

F-Zero GX. Awesome but soul-crushingly difficult. Possibly the hardest thing Nintendo has put out since the eighties?

EU/Japan is undoubtedly the better composition, but it looks a little too much like a Saturday morning cartoon tie-in to really capture the melancholy spirit of the series like NA does.

Came close to finishing Dragon Age:The Veilguard yesterday so I'll try and end that this weekend. The game's been fun but almost painfully formulaic for roughly eighty percent of its runtime, though the developers do appear to have pulled out all the stops to craft a spectacular (if tearjerky) climax. Outside that I don't know. I work weekends and I'm tired. Maybe I'll play a bit of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as well. Maybe.

Streets of Rage is the game I've always said I'd take with me to a desert island if I could only play one game for the rest of time, so I guess that's me sorted for the next eternity, then.

Knowing I'll be able to drag my joycons painfully across my jeans fills me with determination.

Go away you tiresome person. Or at the very least learn what 'camping out' actually means before you go shouting it from the rooftops.

Of course they'll do paid DLC. And they'll use it to sell people Switch Online passes again. And lots of people will get angry and complain. And thus the cycle will begin again.

Luigi's Mansion lays claim to one of gaming's greatest main themes and a pretty fine credits track to boot. One of Nintendo's most unique soundtracks to be sure.

Mario Kart World is just that much more emblematic of the galaxy of possibilities a new console launch should evoke. Maybe on another occasion it'd look a little too crowded, but as the herald of the Switch 2 age it really deserves the crown.

I dipped out of the WII U era of Nintendo precisely because of the price tag associated with it, only returning once the Switch had built up enough of a library to offer a breadth of gaming experiences at what I percieved as good value for money. This was supplemented with the Switch voucher program allowing me to pick up first party Nintendo titles I was into. I can't imagine Nintendo won't implement a similar updated program for the Switch 2, and the software library looks on course to be every bit as strong as the Switch in terms of third party support. Somehow I think we'll all survive this outrage.

Played some Great Ace Attorney Chronicles this morning and I've been hitting Dragon Age: The Veilguard all week so I imagine I'll be putting some more hours into that. The story and characters are fantastic but the decision to basically redo Dragon Age 2, the mediocre middle child of the franchise, is certainly as they say 'a choice'. Might sneak a dash of Pokemon Snap in on the periphery but that'll only drive me closer to making the terrible financial choice to track down a copy of New Pokemon Snap I imagine :I

Alas, this is inevitably destined to land in the great bargain bin in the sky along with all the other gimmick-dependant games that have come and gone over the years. Very few people are going to want to learn an entirely new method of control for a simple sports game, and those that do aren't going to be doing it for long once cramp sets in. Coupled with the terrible aesthetic choice for the graphics this series will be DOA at any price over 10 bucks.

This is great news for people who live in entirely white voids with interrogation-level lighting, at least.

I can't remember any company offering to upgrade my old DVDs of films to Blu-Ray for free, so it makes sense there'd be a price attached to getting your old-gen games updated. Even in the instances where films were sold as DVD/Blu-Ray combined during those years where people were still adopting the technology they'd routinely bump the price by ten or twenty percent otherwise all anyone would ever do is buy the old stuff and upgrade it for free.

This is bad news, there's no doubt about it. But whenever these sort of things happen I do have to think back to the early nineties when I first got into gaming and big first party games from Nintendo and Sega back then were pretty routinely priced around the fifty quid mark. It sucks, but while the company's on top they really don't have any impetus to engage in the deep price cutting that's become the norm elsewhere to try and recoup costs on failing properties. They are really going to have to deliver on quality this gen to keep the audience however.

It's a good film, but it's no Casablanca.

The problem with a Star Fox film is it'd almost inevitably be a retelling of the same old Star Fox story fans of the franchise have already seen at least three times at this point. A Star Fox: Origins series however? That could have legs. Even if the Star Fox team themselves don't :/

I can't imagine ever wanting to play Harvest Moon games back-to-back regardless of quality, but whoever their target audience is I hope it sells well.

A touching tribute to a character who died on the way back to her home planet.

Aww yeah it's on like Donkey Kong.

('94)

Sega did what Nintendidn't, I guess.