Ryan_Again

That looks incredible. Rather tasteful as these things go. As 3H is the only good FE game it’s good they’re still supporting it.

The USA art looks like immitation knock-off art. You can tell it’s not done by an official Disney artist. Like Mickey’s nose is all wrong.

Yes, MAKE JAPAN GREAT AGAIN!

I know those Capcom artists are super talented, but the Japanese / EU covers just look like fan fiction.

She'd work! I'm just glad it's true to the games. These days it's like you're not allowed to cast certain ethnicities... *ahem*whitepeople. I just hope they don't turn her into a Marry Sue "girl boss". I think ToTK's Zelda was so incredible. Not for being more manly than the men, but for her sacrifice and dedication — very moving!

Yeah, this reeks of a Marketing Meeting bullet point: “Yeah, and we’ll give them daily updates with a new App!” Sounds great on paper.

May God bless us.

Everyone complaining about not having enough money reinforces why Nintendo is doing what it does. They want money for their families, bills, and hobbies too. Value is perceived, so if you really want Mario Kart World then I guess you’ll have to not buy so much Indie crap that just goes into your “backlog” anyways.

That was surprisingly not helpful. I was hoping for the author to kinda give it to me straight. Like are some probes better than others? What is an efficient set up? I’ve tried to link probe sites together and it didn’t work(?) so I was hoping for explanation on that. I did get the good tip that storage probes are good long term. Cheers.

Wow, I remember the comedian one from when I was in Elementary School. We already knew Zelda was rad, and we had fun messing on the commercial by shouting "ZELDA?!?" That dude was so animated with his gestures, it works for me.

I’d like it if you got points for every lap and they add up for a win (even if the final lap is the most valuable). Sometimes it feels like the first 2 or 3 laps don’t even matter, and it just gets crazy at the end.

I’m personally glad for it. I like my porn and games separate.

Sakurai broke his game with the later DLC characters and doesn’t take the time to fix it.

I wish you’d shown their pictures. I can’t really remember them by name…

The NA cover is over-the-top in a good way. Those look like tough dudes that bang chicks. The JP cover looks like sensitive Emo-boys.

I thought Steve was black…

Eunie is definitely the best. She’s so funny and cool.

Great game! Dmitri was really a tragic hero. Best story of the 3 protagonists, I thought.

@Not_Soos Exactly, I never liked any of that creepy stuff. The only 3D Zelda art designs for NPCs I’ve ever really liked would be BotW and TotK. Everything else is kinda hideous (except for a few exceptions).

Hell, no. I'm so glad they left behind all the weird character designs and creepy semi-pedo feel to so many of the characters. It used to be the only attractive or interesting characters were Link and Zelda, now everyone is cool-looking and not creepy. I much prefer the BotW and TothK art design.

Three Houses had a really great story, with excellent lore, and fun characters. Engage just had such terrible art design.

By the way, "笑み男" can also be read as "Emio" (えみお).
(笑 e み mi 男 o) So I guess they are saying "Who is the smiling man?"

I feel like both of these are pretty bad.

I feel like Games Journalists always miss the mark on this issue. I'm a big FE3H fan, and it was the goofy weeby art style that turned me off Engage. Three Houses had excellent themes, story, and lore with a less "anime geek" art style (less, anyways...) but the lame tone of Engage was clearly not popular. The social sim is just a bullet point on the game box.

Really glad to see so many based comments here. San Fran and Cali were so beautiful back in the day. But you get what you vote for!

I guess… but it’s kinda fractal, isn’t it? I mean pro baseball players and race car drivers, etc, are looking to shave a fraction of a percent, because that can be the difference between the win-lose binary.

I recall Extreme-G being pretty fun.

Unicorn Overlord, babay!

I'd love this treatment for Xenogears. I guessit's just a cult classic, but it has a fantastic story behind it. I love this idea of a husband and wife team at Squaresoft working together on a very mature and deep RPG (that changed my life, and many others)

@PikaPhantom Wow, your response was really balanced. Thank you for being so reasonable.
Rest in Peace, Toriyama-san, ne. 🙏

I’ve looked into the localization issue, and I think they did a great job. Basically adding a lot of personality and fun “olde-timey” language, which I love. They localizers should be commended not chided.

Demo was so good, this is a must-buy!

Yuck. Looks like “poison for society” to me. Just IMO.

Octopath Traveler was freaking great. Good replay ability too, although most routes are kinda depressing.

Metroid Dread is waaaay too highly ranked in my opinion. It’s good, I guess. But there are much better, i didn’t even bother finishing it.

I’ll always love the Simpsons

@Chapapa yeah, the weird “sacrifice” video looks kinda fake (probably is, but sometimes where there is smoke there may be fire). Instead search for “cern gotthard tunnel ceremony” that all official and creepy imo. Check it out.

CERN is so creepy. Check out their weird satanic rituals. Weird.

I bought the new Xenoblade 3 ammibo, and now my wife is pissed. 🤣

Wow, both of those are terrible. I remember seeing these when I was younger and being totally disinterested. Rayman is such a boring character design and stupid name.

I’m surprised the stage editor wasn’t mentioned. I don’t use it much. But it’s gold for content creators and my kids love making playgrounds in the editor.

I love the classic Eastman-Laird art style. I remember being a kid thinking the graphic novels were so “mature” 🤣. They kind were (swears and gore). But they were just a more ironic kind of silly.

What is 1/3rd of their staff anyways, like 3 people?

XBC3’s DLC was up there for me.

Inflation is caused when the central bank cartels print money to feed socialist causes and devalue actual time and work.

@Anachronism Your criticism hits the bullseye for weakness in Open World games. Even the best ones can feel watered down at times. I’ll admit TotK also left me feeling that with the hidden Yiga clan hideouts. Each one has a seed of gameplay potential that ultimately feels super shallow in execution, even when you try to meet it for what it offers. I think the trick is to make-up your own reasons for doing some things. “Head canon” is important for open worlds, IMO.