@Polvasti I don't think there was much work on Advance Wars 1 + 2, because the A.I. is exactly the same. The programming was already made, and it is exactly the same.
The only thing they made were 3d models for the vehicles and characters, but they are extremely simple and unimpressive. I can model each 3D vehicle in about 4 hours using Adobe Substance 3D. It's really simple. And there are few objects too.
So, they made a cartoon opening, which is cheap to do.
And finally, a few dubbing lines, which must have cost less than $5000.
Nintendo spent little on a product that sold for $60, and Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped. And on any forum you participate in, you'll see that people would buy the game if it sold for $30-$40.
In other words, the remake was poorly done, and there was no perception of value on the part of the consumer to justify the $60 price.
It's like Nintendo Life says: you need to understand that this game is extremely easy (100% in 6 hours) because it's aimed at children.
I'm not a child, I have experience with games, I don't need this game to have a Celeste level of difficulty (I did 100% Celeste on Steam, A, B and C-side), but, to BE FUN, for me, it needs to be, at least the difficulty level of Rayman Legends and Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze.
We, who have played everything, have a lot of skill with games.
So, it's not enough for the game to be colorful and cute, with beautiful graphics, but to be 100% exhausted in just 6 hours, without any effort. This is NOT FUN.
This is why Mario Wonder is an easy pass for me.
The message that Nintendo sends is: if you have played Mario in the past, and therefore have skill with platform games, YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY ANY NEW MARIO GAME! I understood the message and, therefore, I will not spend money on Mario games.
Nintendo needs to put a FUN hard-mode in Mario games.
I´m playing Crash Bandicoot Trilogy right now on Nintendo Switch and I´m having a blast. Harder than Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze, but SO MUCH FUN.
Winning a game that's too easy doesn't give you a feeling of achievement. But, winning a game with a challenge makes you vibrate with each victory.
If I were on an island, with only very easy games to play, I would bury the video game in the sand and enjoy the sea.
This game will flop for the same reason that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped: $60 price tag.
(Many may argue that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped because of the Delay, but when you go to Reddit and read hundreds of comments saying that they would buy the game, INCLUDING ME, if it were $30-$40, instead of $60, you can understand consumer perception of value.
Companies want the $60, but consumers don't. The consumer is powerful in this relationship).
Sonic is a franchise that I play and play, but I never really find fun.
So I give up.
I've found this feeling of playing and not having fun with other franchises, like Zelda, all the 3D Marios....
It doesn't click with me at all.
Despite this, I have more than 20 Sonic games. One of them isn't even on Nintendolife's list:
Sonic Wacky Worlds: Creative Studio (the Mario Paint competitor)
I have all the Sonics from Guilty Gear and Master System (including Sonic Drift 1 and 2), I have Sonic 1, 2, Spinball, Wacky Worlds (Mega Drive), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 (Dreamcast), Sonic Unleashed (x360) and Sonic Mania, Sonic Adventures (Steam ).
I Have Sonic all star racing (x360 and steam), Sonic all star racing transformed (x360 and steam), Team Sonic racing (steam)
Except the racing games, I confess that the only Sonics I played with any desire were:
Sonic 2 (Mega Drive)
Sonic 1 (Game Gear)
Sonic Adventure 2 (I got 180 badges, and it was very, very difficult) SonicCD
I intend to give Sonic Superstars a chance. One day.
I've never played Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles.
My TOP 3 Sonic (no racing games included): 1. Sonic 2 (Mega Drive) 2. Sonic Adventures 2 (Dreamcast) 3. Sonic CD (Sega CD)
@LikelySatan Yes, you can play Rayman Legends on a smartphone via Game Pass.
However, this game does not exist natively for smartphones.
Rayman for smartphones is very different from Rayman Legends.
But even so, let's suppose it can be emulated on a smartphone. Wow, interesting, so more people can play!
Still, Rayman Legends runs much better on the Nintendo Switch. Being able to be played on a smartphone doesn't affect how good it is to play this game on the Nintendo Switch.
Mario Wonder can be emulated on a Steam deck, in the same way, in 4K. But anyway...
Changing the subject, you like Darkstalkers, I assume. Want to play Darkstalkers online? I promise to give you a good challenge. I've been participating in Darkstalkers championships since the 90s....and I play with Jon Talbain
@LikelySatan In fact, what matters is that you have fun with what you like, and share the reasons why you like or don't like games you play. With your glasses for your experiences.
Just like me and everyone else.
No one is defining reality, because everyone's reality is always valid.
And the debate is good.
I understand many people's frustration in wanting a 2D Mario, however, as soon as it is released, the game comes with the same problems that made you have zero fun in previous versions.
@LikelySatan Yes you can. And you can play the excelent and more challenge, complete game, Rayman Legends! Or the perfect challenge game...Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze. For me, both better than 2d Marios.
There are people playing (again and again) the old Super Mario World (SNES) than New Mario Bros U Deluxe..and, probably, Wonder.
So...they can play Rayman Legends if they never....I recommend!
@LikelySatan Whether the game is old or not doesn't matter, since it is being sold for the current video game and is a gaming option competing for the player's available hours.
@NeonPizza You said absolutely everything. I agree 100%. Nintendo destroyed what motivated me to play Mario in the past. There is no longer that fun as before for reasons like this. For me, it became unplayable. Fortunately, Donkey Kong still sticks to its origins!
They are for marketing proposals. Someone from the Nintendo staff was instructed to delete the video, so the press was notified about the fact, and instructed to write articles like these, to generate "content", "mystery", and encourage YouTubers and streamers to play with their audience to stimulate debate. Typical artificial strategy to generate conversations on the school playground. I think the strategy for younger people is interesting, however. Older people no longer fall for this kind of nonsense.
@Pyoro No, I´m not.
I'm comparing the feeling of playing an elaborate game, in its respective category, having a complete and challenging experience that allows you to be a more skilled player, and its respective sequels being much simpler and easier games.
@Nintendo_Thumb What I loved most about Super Mario World was being able to find items, well hidden in a scenario, and use them, without knowing what effect it had. To later discover that that item activated a platform on another stage of the map, which allows me to access another secret part. And when you reach this secret part, there will be another item, which, when jumped on, would activate a passage in another stage, to be discovered.
It's as if the secrets were setting up the scenarios, completing them, making them 100% explorable, and without you knowing it! So you never knew if there was "something else to be discovered", which would complete another scenario....and this made you play more and more...looking for something you didn't even know what it was...and many I often found it!
The sense of discovery, and the desire to explore each stage to the fullest, to discover that, yes, there were RELEVANT secrets. Secrets that would lead you to a key that would ultimately open other stages.
It was incredible to look for something unknown, something that surprised you, and that wasn't obvious.
That was genius. Very fun and challenging.
Nowadays, all you have to do is collect coins and "buy the secret". This is boring, dull, obvious, no surprises, no challenge, no effort.
I finished New Super Mario, at the time, getting all 3 gold medals, on my first try, in practically every scenario.
There were 4 or 5 scenarios where I didn't get them on the first try. I remember how easy it was and how boring that game was for me, on NDS.
What happens is that you grow up playing the same game, and you become good, much more skilled. So you wait for new challenges, but these challenges don't come. And the next game always seems boring, with irrelevant challenges, and it feels like you're wasting time playing that game rather than having fun.
Then, worse, you pretend and force yourself to find it fun, because you paid a dear price for the low amount of content and fun you found in it. So instead of "trying" to like the game, I come to the conclusion that... if I need to try hard to like it, it's just that it's not good enough for me.
Nowadays, I dismiss it very easily LOL. I am not loyal to any brand or franchise.
I'll even confess here. I participate in tournaments, sometimes international, of Guilty Gear. Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus + R is the supreme 10/10.......so, not long ago, they made the "crowd's favorite", Guilty Gear Strive.
I can't say how bad this game is, and for the same reasons that I think all the 2d Marios that came after Super Mario World are.
Guilty Gear Streive is VERY SIMPLE. Everything is simple. Too simple! And this may be good for some, but for those who have played all the versions that came before it, and have had thousands of hours of training to play well, and have adapted to hundreds of details in a complete game like the Accent Core version, playing Guilty Gear Strive makes you sleepy! Even though it is graphically beautiful.
It's a subjective feeling, a personal experience. And I completely understand the opinions of those who see the current 2d Marios as inferior to those on the SNES. Because I don't think it's a romance about childhood memories. I think those games really have a more elaborate structure, and many people got used to that. Today everything seems too simple and boring.
For me, there is a direct relationship between fun and challenge. I'm not talking about Dark Souls. I'm talking about enough of a challenge that I'm happy to overcome it and continue playing.
Being too easy makes all the game's content useless, unnecessary, boring...graphic games without purpose.
If I'm supposed to do random nonsense in the game, just to watch, without any purpose or challenge, I'd rather not play games. I'd rather do something else. There are many leisure options in life.
The perfect 2D Mario challenge should have a New Game+ similar to that of SLAY THE SPIRE (ascencions).
Each time you finish SLAY THE SPIRE, you gain +1 ascencion (and can reach up to 20).
You can choose to play without ascencion or on any ascencion you have unlocked.
Ascencion 1 = stronger enemies appear more frequently
Ascencion 2 = ascencion 1 + stronger common enemies
Ascencion 3 = ascencion 2 with fewer help items
Ascencion 4 = ascencion 3 + much stronger bosses
And so on.....until 20.
Imagine a 2d Mario with difficulty scaled as you finish the game, and being able to choose whether you want to play with new challenges or simply play the same super easy game as always.
You, the player choose.
Many will feel inexplicably sorry for Nintendo, saying "but this would take a lot of work for Nintendo to do this".
But you are buying a $60 product in an extremely simple game!
Rayman Legends has more content and is cheap. Super productions with 9-figure budgets sell for $60.
Slay the Spire, in my country, is sold for $4 and the producers took the trouble to do this.
Nintendo is very lazy.
It wraps its products in beautiful packaging, sets a high price and you buy it, but when you open the package, the content is not enough in 90% of its products. (in relation to competitors' products, which have not so good packaging). Obviously an analogy.
Fortunately, I'm immune to all of this.
Nintendo is extremely conservative. MANY Nintendo branded games are already uninteresting to me. I hardly play any of them anymore.
From Nintendo myself, I still like Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Warioware.........I think these are the only ones that still really interest me.......the others...I observe, I try play somewhere, and I usually don't buy it.
But I'm older, I've played everything, so little surprises me.
Perfect Comment:
"I can understand everyones point of view on this. I don't think people asking for a bit a challenge is asking for dark souls levels of hard.
Rather, challenging enough so your mind stays engaged. The brain likes engagement. It's quite easy for your brain to shutdown and become disinterested. To the point where you're thinking about everything else except whats in front of you.
I've read some of these comments here and think people are misunderstanding those asking for a bit of difficulty. They aren't saying make this game so hard only a niche audience can get through it. Just don't make the game so easy that you aren't even trying." - By Vexx234
@nathatruc Wow, so the Nintendo Wii store is GARBAGE.
Because several games that are no longer sold on Steam and that I purchased in the past, such as Mortal Kombat 9 Ultimate, F1-2021, Dirt Rally 3 and Rocket League, I can download endlessly.
If in a Nintendo infrastructure, you can no longer download an old digital game, it's entirely Nintendo's fault. Because on all other systems, you can download again, and again, no matter how old the game is.
I watched a good part of the game, I skipped some boring parts of the video, but I ended up watching all the content the game has to offer.
This game should be called, spiritually, Super Mario: Star Allies.
Kirby Star Allies suffered from a serious problem: stages that were very similar to each other and very generic, uninspired, without a characteristic that made them unique.
Super Mario Wonder seems to have the same problems, very short and very generic stages with little to offer. Most stages are finished in less than 1 minute.
They are very similar stages, and only the background changes. The arrangement of the blocks is similar, and, at the very least, they don't make the stage unique or unforgettable. Just like Kirby Star Allies.
We know that the reviews will be super favorable as always, and full of exaggerations. So I'm not hurting the game's sales with my humble opinion.
I continue to find Rayman Legends' stages much more unique, bigger, more detailed, with many more secrets to discover, and much, much better done. And it's an old game.
Mario Wonder looks like a mobile game. My impressions, and the usual mario defenders will disagree, as they will always, no matter what, defend the brand.
But it doesn't change my opinion. I will never buy this game.
I'm an experienced player. But children will like it, as it is an easy game, and even small 30-second challenges, which count as a stage, and Nintendo shows as a 5-star challenge, are super simple and easy. Children will like it. Even more so today's children, who are so sensitive to frustration and can never, ever lose.
BLAZING BEAKS (plays like Enter the Gungeon, Rogue like)
CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATASTROPHE (a really great AcSys fighting game. Better than Granblue, Melty Blood Type Lumina and DNF Duels....this game deserves more! I play it on Steam and Switch)
Rayman Legends seems to have MUCH more quality and variety than Super Mario Wonder.
In Super Mario Wonder I see ( on these videos, a lot of stages ) that you just need to walk forward and jump and you will pass the stage. And, along the way, seems to have a few relevant things to do (to complete the stage).
In Rayman Legends you have more than 800 characters to save, super hidden among more than 120 completely unique stages (80 - Legends + 40 Origins), with a more complex and elaborate design and much more challenges already in stage-1 .
Furthermore, in Rayman Legends, to do 100% of a stage, you need to collect more than 600 items from the stage. There are many more details.
In Rayman Legends you can also (as Super Mario Wonder) play with 4 players simultaneously, there are several game modes, and you can also compete online, including daily, weekly and monthly challenges, and a series of statistics, like an eternal championship between friends and strangers.
I didn't like the videos about Super Mario Wonder. It looks very generic next to Rayman Legends. And on top of that, it will cost $60, while Rayman Legends, a game with so much content, costs much less.
Each new version of Steam Deck = you will be able to play all your games, from all generations, with higher resolution and quality.
Every new Nintendo = Nintendo wants you to buy the SAME games, with a little extra nonsense here and there, AGAIN, AGAIN and AGAIN.
Steam Deck is the best option.
I have both.
Observation.
Buying games on Steam is heaven. In addition to having 95% of all games available on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5 and Xbox, as well as exclusive games, the games are MUCH CHEAPER.
They can be played on all current and future systems.
I play my games on Steam:
on my PC
on any TV in my house (as long as the PC is turned on)
On my IPAD Pro (as long as the PC is turned on)
On the Steam Deck, everywhere I go.
And for all future PC, iPad, TV, Steam Deck, I will be able to play my entire historical game collection, with superior quality and paying less.
Nintendo must be starting to pay journalists to put it into the heads of opinion-forming gamers that backwards compatibility is not important.
The end of this story is quite obvious.
Nintendo wants to sell everyone the SAME GAMES, with a little extra nonsense here and there, at full price, AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN, forever.
For me, I end my console buying cycle this generation.
Yes, I'm throwing in the towel.
I have 32 consoles stored here. I had practically all the consoles.
But honestly, I don't want to have consoles anymore.
STEAM won for me.
I have 2 very expensive computers and the Steam Deck. And on Steam, I have and buy games from all generations. It's the greatest backwards compatibility in history, with a historical list of achievements, statistics, all packaged in a modern and beautiful way... with a lot of added value.
This year I bought:
Steam: 58 games
Switch: 6 games (and cheap games, not $60 Nintendo games....I think there is no new Nintendo game i bought this year)
I put much more money on Valve than Nintendo.
I put more money on Microsoft and Game Pass than Nintendo.
From now on, I only intend to invest in Steam and Game Pass.
The only way I can buy a Switch 2 is with backwards compatibility.
If Nintendo starts charging for every game I have on the Switch to be backwards compatible on the Switch 2, or anything that charges $$$ for games I already have, I'm out... and honestly, I'll be out and happy.
@JalapenoSpiceLife If you haven't read what I wrote, I repeat: it doesn't have to be Dark Souls, but it needs to have a sufficient level of challenge to be fun (as Rayman Legends does masterfully).
This Mario Wonders is looking very generic. Clearly to complete the stages, just walk forward and jump....without any challenge. Then, in the middle of the way, there are a lot of unnecessary things to do, to see unnecessary graphic animations, with no relation to "winning the stage".
I miss Super Mario World. EVERYTHING there was to do within a stage in that game was related to finishing the stage. It wasn't this meaningless party of silly things to do for nothing and without any purpose. Mario games were smarter back in the day. But it also makes sense, because that old generation was also smarter.
I don´t like any Mario (adventure) games anymore. Very easy games. Not fun at all. It doesn't have to be Dark Souls, it just needs to have the minimum challenge that still makes it fun for me.
A lot of unnecessary and generic gimmicks to hide that you just need to walk forward and press the jump button, while watching a movie on Netflix, looking at the Switch screen every now and then.
@LadyCharlie But, if employees are idle, why keep 900 unnecessary people hired, charity? Even governments that employ too many public servants overwhelm the public sector.
Solution for you: open your own company.
This was the solution for me. I complained just like you. So I opened my company, understood the other side of the coin, won, and now I'm close to retiring at 42, because if I stop working, I'll still have income for the rest of my life. I'm passing the company on to the best of the employees, and I'm sure he will fire at least 10 people....
and...I don't care about the story. I skip all dialogue in all games. I played Fire Emblem skipping all the dialogue. I have no idea about the story and I don't care. I just like the Chess battles, and nothing else.
@fox_mattcloud $19 indie games have given me more fun than $60 Nintendo games like Metroid Dread, New Mario Bros U Deluxe, Pokken Tournament, Arms,Yoshi’s crafted world, Zelda Link’ s awakening, Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, Kirby Star Allies..…and so on…
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Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1
@Polvasti I don't think there was much work on Advance Wars 1 + 2, because the A.I. is exactly the same. The programming was already made, and it is exactly the same.
The only thing they made were 3d models for the vehicles and characters, but they are extremely simple and unimpressive. I can model each 3D vehicle in about 4 hours using Adobe Substance 3D. It's really simple. And there are few objects too.
So, they made a cartoon opening, which is cheap to do.
And finally, a few dubbing lines, which must have cost less than $5000.
Nintendo spent little on a product that sold for $60, and Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped. And on any forum you participate in, you'll see that people would buy the game if it sold for $30-$40.
In other words, the remake was poorly done, and there was no perception of value on the part of the consumer to justify the $60 price.
Re: Round Table: Let's Talk Mario Wonder - Surprises, Badges, Difficulty, New Characters
It's like Nintendo Life says: you need to understand that this game is extremely easy (100% in 6 hours) because it's aimed at children.
I'm not a child, I have experience with games, I don't need this game to have a Celeste level of difficulty (I did 100% Celeste on Steam, A, B and C-side), but, to BE FUN, for me, it needs to be, at least the difficulty level of Rayman Legends and Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze.
We, who have played everything, have a lot of skill with games.
So, it's not enough for the game to be colorful and cute, with beautiful graphics, but to be 100% exhausted in just 6 hours, without any effort. This is NOT FUN.
This is why Mario Wonder is an easy pass for me.
The message that Nintendo sends is: if you have played Mario in the past, and therefore have skill with platform games, YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY ANY NEW MARIO GAME! I understood the message and, therefore, I will not spend money on Mario games.
Nintendo needs to put a FUN hard-mode in Mario games.
I´m playing Crash Bandicoot Trilogy right now on Nintendo Switch and I´m having a blast. Harder than Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze, but SO MUCH FUN.
Winning a game that's too easy doesn't give you a feeling of achievement. But, winning a game with a challenge makes you vibrate with each victory.
If I were on an island, with only very easy games to play, I would bury the video game in the sand and enjoy the sea.
Re: UK Charts: Mario Wonder And Sonic Superstars Start Strong, But Neither Can Out-Swing Spidey
Spider man games = 40 hours content + a lot of difficult settings = replay value ($60)
Mario Wonder = 6 hours for 100%, too easy game and no difficult settings = poor replay value ($60)
Spider man has more fun hours for the same $60
It's understandable.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1
This game will flop for the same reason that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped: $60 price tag.
(Many may argue that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped because of the Delay, but when you go to Reddit and read hundreds of comments saying that they would buy the game, INCLUDING ME, if it were $30-$40, instead of $60, you can understand consumer perception of value.
Companies want the $60, but consumers don't. The consumer is powerful in this relationship).
Re: Mini Review: Just Dance 2024 Edition - Just More, Now With Added Miley
We love:
Dance Central 3 was the most complex and perfect game.
Dance Dance Revolution is pure fun. Pump it Up is only for experts, so it´s impossible for a newbie to like it. But i love it.
And, Just Dance is the most casual....we love it in parties. But, we have the Just Dance Unlimited...so we don´t need to buy another retail version.
Easy pass.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 21st)
Steam
Switch
Re: Best Sonic Games Of All Time
Sonic is a franchise that I play and play, but I never really find fun.
So I give up.
I've found this feeling of playing and not having fun with other franchises, like Zelda, all the 3D Marios....
It doesn't click with me at all.
Despite this, I have more than 20 Sonic games. One of them isn't even on Nintendolife's list:
Sonic Wacky Worlds: Creative Studio (the Mario Paint competitor)
I have all the Sonics from Guilty Gear and Master System (including Sonic Drift 1 and 2), I have Sonic 1, 2, Spinball, Wacky Worlds (Mega Drive), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 (Dreamcast), Sonic Unleashed (x360) and Sonic Mania, Sonic Adventures (Steam ).
I Have Sonic all star racing (x360 and steam), Sonic all star racing transformed (x360 and steam), Team Sonic racing (steam)
Except the racing games, I confess that the only Sonics I played with any desire were:
SonicCD
I intend to give Sonic Superstars a chance. One day.
I've never played Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles.
My TOP 3 Sonic (no racing games included):
1. Sonic 2 (Mega Drive)
2. Sonic Adventures 2 (Dreamcast)
3. Sonic CD (Sega CD)
Re: Must-Play Tactical RPG Wargroove 2 Receives Another Switch Update
@heisnbrg There is no DLC for Wargroove 2.
Re: Must-Play Tactical RPG Wargroove 2 Receives Another Switch Update
@heisnbrg "No, because I still not get the reason to pay full price for a game if I have to wait for the full game:"
So...you´ll never buy any Pokemon game, any Mario Sport game, Zelda TOTK (is on 1.2.1 patch)....
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@LikelySatan Yes, you can play Rayman Legends on a smartphone via Game Pass.
However, this game does not exist natively for smartphones.
Rayman for smartphones is very different from Rayman Legends.
But even so, let's suppose it can be emulated on a smartphone. Wow, interesting, so more people can play!
Still, Rayman Legends runs much better on the Nintendo Switch. Being able to be played on a smartphone doesn't affect how good it is to play this game on the Nintendo Switch.
Mario Wonder can be emulated on a Steam deck, in the same way, in 4K. But anyway...
Changing the subject, you like Darkstalkers, I assume. Want to play Darkstalkers online? I promise to give you a good challenge. I've been participating in Darkstalkers championships since the 90s....and I play with Jon Talbain
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@LikelySatan In fact, what matters is that you have fun with what you like, and share the reasons why you like or don't like games you play. With your glasses for your experiences.
Just like me and everyone else.
No one is defining reality, because everyone's reality is always valid.
And the debate is good.
I understand many people's frustration in wanting a 2D Mario, however, as soon as it is released, the game comes with the same problems that made you have zero fun in previous versions.
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@LikelySatan Yes you can. And you can play the excelent and more challenge, complete game, Rayman Legends! Or the perfect challenge game...Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze. For me, both better than 2d Marios.
There are people playing (again and again) the old Super Mario World (SNES) than New Mario Bros U Deluxe..and, probably, Wonder.
So...they can play Rayman Legends if they never....I recommend!
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@LikelySatan Whether the game is old or not doesn't matter, since it is being sold for the current video game and is a gaming option competing for the player's available hours.
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@NeonPizza You said absolutely everything. I agree 100%. Nintendo destroyed what motivated me to play Mario in the past. There is no longer that fun as before for reasons like this. For me, it became unplayable. Fortunately, Donkey Kong still sticks to its origins!
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Re: Atlus Reveals Persona 5 Tactica's Replay Features, New Game+, Quests And More
Persona + XCOM? I´ll buy!
This kind of game fits perfect on Nintendo Switch.
Re: Video: WarioWare: Move It! Gets A Three Minute Overview Trailer
Day-1 here!
Love Warioware and I loved this last video.
Re: The Original Switch Reveal Trailer Has Been Removed From Nintendo's YouTube Channel
They are for marketing proposals. Someone from the Nintendo staff was instructed to delete the video, so the press was notified about the fact, and instructed to write articles like these, to generate "content", "mystery", and encourage YouTubers and streamers to play with their audience to stimulate debate. Typical artificial strategy to generate conversations on the school playground. I think the strategy for younger people is interesting, however. Older people no longer fall for this kind of nonsense.
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@Pyoro No, I´m not.
I'm comparing the feeling of playing an elaborate game, in its respective category, having a complete and challenging experience that allows you to be a more skilled player, and its respective sequels being much simpler and easier games.
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@Nintendo_Thumb What I loved most about Super Mario World was being able to find items, well hidden in a scenario, and use them, without knowing what effect it had. To later discover that that item activated a platform on another stage of the map, which allows me to access another secret part. And when you reach this secret part, there will be another item, which, when jumped on, would activate a passage in another stage, to be discovered.
It's as if the secrets were setting up the scenarios, completing them, making them 100% explorable, and without you knowing it! So you never knew if there was "something else to be discovered", which would complete another scenario....and this made you play more and more...looking for something you didn't even know what it was...and many I often found it!
The sense of discovery, and the desire to explore each stage to the fullest, to discover that, yes, there were RELEVANT secrets. Secrets that would lead you to a key that would ultimately open other stages.
It was incredible to look for something unknown, something that surprised you, and that wasn't obvious.
That was genius. Very fun and challenging.
Nowadays, all you have to do is collect coins and "buy the secret". This is boring, dull, obvious, no surprises, no challenge, no effort.
I finished New Super Mario, at the time, getting all 3 gold medals, on my first try, in practically every scenario.
There were 4 or 5 scenarios where I didn't get them on the first try. I remember how easy it was and how boring that game was for me, on NDS.
What happens is that you grow up playing the same game, and you become good, much more skilled. So you wait for new challenges, but these challenges don't come. And the next game always seems boring, with irrelevant challenges, and it feels like you're wasting time playing that game rather than having fun.
Then, worse, you pretend and force yourself to find it fun, because you paid a dear price for the low amount of content and fun you found in it. So instead of "trying" to like the game, I come to the conclusion that... if I need to try hard to like it, it's just that it's not good enough for me.
Nowadays, I dismiss it very easily LOL. I am not loyal to any brand or franchise.
I'll even confess here. I participate in tournaments, sometimes international, of Guilty Gear. Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus + R is the supreme 10/10.......so, not long ago, they made the "crowd's favorite", Guilty Gear Strive.
I can't say how bad this game is, and for the same reasons that I think all the 2d Marios that came after Super Mario World are.
Guilty Gear Streive is VERY SIMPLE. Everything is simple. Too simple! And this may be good for some, but for those who have played all the versions that came before it, and have had thousands of hours of training to play well, and have adapted to hundreds of details in a complete game like the Accent Core version, playing Guilty Gear Strive makes you sleepy! Even though it is graphically beautiful.
It's a subjective feeling, a personal experience. And I completely understand the opinions of those who see the current 2d Marios as inferior to those on the SNES. Because I don't think it's a romance about childhood memories. I think those games really have a more elaborate structure, and many people got used to that. Today everything seems too simple and boring.
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
@Quarbit You can put objects in other positions, faster enemies in places to difficult jumps, spikes, bombs...elements well placed for this purpose...
Re: Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder - The Best 2D Mario Since The Super NES
For me, there is a direct relationship between fun and challenge. I'm not talking about Dark Souls. I'm talking about enough of a challenge that I'm happy to overcome it and continue playing.
Being too easy makes all the game's content useless, unnecessary, boring...graphic games without purpose.
If I'm supposed to do random nonsense in the game, just to watch, without any purpose or challenge, I'd rather not play games. I'd rather do something else. There are many leisure options in life.
The perfect 2D Mario challenge should have a New Game+ similar to that of SLAY THE SPIRE (ascencions).
Each time you finish SLAY THE SPIRE, you gain +1 ascencion (and can reach up to 20).
You can choose to play without ascencion or on any ascencion you have unlocked.
Ascencion 1 = stronger enemies appear more frequently
Ascencion 2 = ascencion 1 + stronger common enemies
Ascencion 3 = ascencion 2 with fewer help items
Ascencion 4 = ascencion 3 + much stronger bosses
And so on.....until 20.
Imagine a 2d Mario with difficulty scaled as you finish the game, and being able to choose whether you want to play with new challenges or simply play the same super easy game as always.
You, the player choose.
Many will feel inexplicably sorry for Nintendo, saying "but this would take a lot of work for Nintendo to do this".
But you are buying a $60 product in an extremely simple game!
Rayman Legends has more content and is cheap. Super productions with 9-figure budgets sell for $60.
Slay the Spire, in my country, is sold for $4 and the producers took the trouble to do this.
Nintendo is very lazy.
It wraps its products in beautiful packaging, sets a high price and you buy it, but when you open the package, the content is not enough in 90% of its products. (in relation to competitors' products, which have not so good packaging). Obviously an analogy.
Fortunately, I'm immune to all of this.
Nintendo is extremely conservative. MANY Nintendo branded games are already uninteresting to me. I hardly play any of them anymore.
From Nintendo myself, I still like Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Warioware.........I think these are the only ones that still really interest me.......the others...I observe, I try play somewhere, and I usually don't buy it.
But I'm older, I've played everything, so little surprises me.
Perfect Comment:
"I can understand everyones point of view on this. I don't think people asking for a bit a challenge is asking for dark souls levels of hard.
Rather, challenging enough so your mind stays engaged. The brain likes engagement. It's quite easy for your brain to shutdown and become disinterested. To the point where you're thinking about everything else except whats in front of you.
I've read some of these comments here and think people are misunderstanding those asking for a bit of difficulty. They aren't saying make this game so hard only a niche audience can get through it. Just don't make the game so easy that you aren't even trying." - By Vexx234
Re: Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 Taps Out Of Prior Release Date As Devs Announce Minor Delay
@nathatruc Wow, so the Nintendo Wii store is GARBAGE.
Because several games that are no longer sold on Steam and that I purchased in the past, such as Mortal Kombat 9 Ultimate, F1-2021, Dirt Rally 3 and Rocket League, I can download endlessly.
If in a Nintendo infrastructure, you can no longer download an old digital game, it's entirely Nintendo's fault. Because on all other systems, you can download again, and again, no matter how old the game is.
Re: UK Charts: Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Hops Into Top Ten As EA Sports FC Keeps A Clean Sheet
Nice to see the first Pokemon in 39 only!
Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week's Release
I watched a good part of the game, I skipped some boring parts of the video, but I ended up watching all the content the game has to offer.
This game should be called, spiritually, Super Mario: Star Allies.
Kirby Star Allies suffered from a serious problem: stages that were very similar to each other and very generic, uninspired, without a characteristic that made them unique.
Super Mario Wonder seems to have the same problems, very short and very generic stages with little to offer. Most stages are finished in less than 1 minute.
They are very similar stages, and only the background changes. The arrangement of the blocks is similar, and, at the very least, they don't make the stage unique or unforgettable. Just like Kirby Star Allies.
We know that the reviews will be super favorable as always, and full of exaggerations. So I'm not hurting the game's sales with my humble opinion.
I continue to find Rayman Legends' stages much more unique, bigger, more detailed, with many more secrets to discover, and much, much better done. And it's an old game.
Mario Wonder looks like a mobile game. My impressions, and the usual mario defenders will disagree, as they will always, no matter what, defend the brand.
But it doesn't change my opinion. I will never buy this game.
I'm an experienced player. But children will like it, as it is an easy game, and even small 30-second challenges, which count as a stage, and Nintendo shows as a 5-star challenge, are super simple and easy. Children will like it. Even more so today's children, who are so sensitive to frustration and can never, ever lose.
Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week's Release
So...Super Mario Wonder on Steam Deck?
Re: It's Over, Microsoft Has Officially Acquired Activision Blizzard
Soon I´ll be playing Guitar Hero on my Samsung TV Game Pass Ultimate. Big yes!
From now on, every time the media reviews Activision games, we know that the rating is 2 points below reality. So just add 2 more points.
For example, if a website gives a rating of 7, we know it is a 9.
The 7 is just this anti-xbox mechanism, which doesn't mean anything...
Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Version 2.0.2 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
If this game was xbox exclusive, everyone would be making fun of how bad this game is.
But, as it's not a game exclusive to another console, it's still possible to read some kind words for it.
Re: Windjammers 2 Free DLC Update Brings Crossplay, New Characters, And More
I have this game on Steam and Switch and i love this game!
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy A Digital-Only 'Switch 2'?
Yes, I only buy digital games.
But it needs backwards compatibility, otherwise this becomes an irrelevant issue.
Re: Community: Played A Great Switch Game We Missed? We Want To Know!
2 great games: no Nintendolife review.
Re: Hands On: Super Mario Bros. Wonder's Brilliant Badges And Dark Souls-Style Online Functionality
Rayman Legends seems to have MUCH more quality and variety than Super Mario Wonder.
In Super Mario Wonder I see ( on these videos, a lot of stages ) that you just need to walk forward and jump and you will pass the stage. And, along the way, seems to have a few relevant things to do (to complete the stage).
In Rayman Legends you have more than 800 characters to save, super hidden among more than 120 completely unique stages (80 - Legends + 40 Origins), with a more complex and elaborate design and much more challenges already in stage-1 .
Furthermore, in Rayman Legends, to do 100% of a stage, you need to collect more than 600 items from the stage. There are many more details.
In Rayman Legends you can also (as Super Mario Wonder) play with 4 players simultaneously, there are several game modes, and you can also compete online, including daily, weekly and monthly challenges, and a series of statistics, like an eternal championship between friends and strangers.
I didn't like the videos about Super Mario Wonder. It looks very generic next to Rayman Legends. And on top of that, it will cost $60, while Rayman Legends, a game with so much content, costs much less.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 7th)
@TotalHenshin Do you wanna play Shadowverse Champion´s Battle online?
This is one of the best card games ever!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 7th)
Steam
Switch
Re: Mario Producer: Sonic's Same Week Release Is "An Interesting Coincidence"
@Dr_Lugae I did not understand.
I don´t like Mario Bros adventure games. Too easy and boring game for my taste.
I prefer Rayman Legends.
But I don´t buy a new Sonic game in years...I´ll go with Sonic this time.
Re: Mario Producer: Sonic's Same Week Release Is "An Interesting Coincidence"
I won´t buy Mario Wonder, only Sonic Superstars (for steam, of course)!
Re: Soapbox: 'Switch 2' Doesn't Really Need Backwards Compatibility
Each new version of Steam Deck = you will be able to play all your games, from all generations, with higher resolution and quality.
Every new Nintendo = Nintendo wants you to buy the SAME games, with a little extra nonsense here and there, AGAIN, AGAIN and AGAIN.
Steam Deck is the best option.
I have both.
Observation.
Buying games on Steam is heaven. In addition to having 95% of all games available on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5 and Xbox, as well as exclusive games, the games are MUCH CHEAPER.
They can be played on all current and future systems.
I play my games on Steam:
And for all future PC, iPad, TV, Steam Deck, I will be able to play my entire historical game collection, with superior quality and paying less.
Re: Round Up: The Previews Are In For WarioWare: Move It!
Love love love Warioware Get it Together!
Let see Warioware Move it!
Maybe the first Nintendo game I´ll buy this year.
Re: Soapbox: 'Switch 2' Doesn't Really Need Backwards Compatibility
Nintendo must be starting to pay journalists to put it into the heads of opinion-forming gamers that backwards compatibility is not important.
The end of this story is quite obvious.
Nintendo wants to sell everyone the SAME GAMES, with a little extra nonsense here and there, at full price, AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN, forever.
For me, I end my console buying cycle this generation.
Yes, I'm throwing in the towel.
I have 32 consoles stored here. I had practically all the consoles.
But honestly, I don't want to have consoles anymore.
STEAM won for me.
I have 2 very expensive computers and the Steam Deck. And on Steam, I have and buy games from all generations. It's the greatest backwards compatibility in history, with a historical list of achievements, statistics, all packaged in a modern and beautiful way... with a lot of added value.
This year I bought:
Steam: 58 games
Switch: 6 games (and cheap games, not $60 Nintendo games....I think there is no new Nintendo game i bought this year)
I put much more money on Valve than Nintendo.
I put more money on Microsoft and Game Pass than Nintendo.
From now on, I only intend to invest in Steam and Game Pass.
The only way I can buy a Switch 2 is with backwards compatibility.
If Nintendo starts charging for every game I have on the Switch to be backwards compatible on the Switch 2, or anything that charges $$$ for games I already have, I'm out... and honestly, I'll be out and happy.
Re: Soapbox: What Do You Do When Nintendo Ticks Off Your ENTIRE Most-Wanted List?
My wishlist is simple:
1. A Nintendo "Magic the Gathering" card game.......it´d be EPIC!
2. Advance Wars 3 + 4 (with more general quality than 1 + 2)
3. A Nintendo "Slay the Spire" or "Monster Train" rogue like.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 30th)
Steam:
Switch
Re: Soapbox: My Most-Played Game Of 2023 Isn't On Switch, But It Must Be On The Cards
I prefer SHADOWVERSE than Marvel Snap.
And YES...we have SHADOWVERSE on Nintendo Switch.
Maybe my #1 game on Nintendo Switch.
Re: Video: We've Played Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Here's 8 Minutes Of Gameplay
@JalapenoSpiceLife If you haven't read what I wrote, I repeat: it doesn't have to be Dark Souls, but it needs to have a sufficient level of challenge to be fun (as Rayman Legends does masterfully).
This Mario Wonders is looking very generic. Clearly to complete the stages, just walk forward and jump....without any challenge. Then, in the middle of the way, there are a lot of unnecessary things to do, to see unnecessary graphic animations, with no relation to "winning the stage".
I miss Super Mario World. EVERYTHING there was to do within a stage in that game was related to finishing the stage. It wasn't this meaningless party of silly things to do for nothing and without any purpose. Mario games were smarter back in the day. But it also makes sense, because that old generation was also smarter.
Re: Video: We've Played Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Here's 8 Minutes Of Gameplay
I don´t like any Mario (adventure) games anymore. Very easy games. Not fun at all. It doesn't have to be Dark Souls, it just needs to have the minimum challenge that still makes it fun for me.
A lot of unnecessary and generic gimmicks to hide that you just need to walk forward and press the jump button, while watching a movie on Netflix, looking at the Switch screen every now and then.
all for $60
It’s a $19 max game for me
Re: Epic Games Is Reportedly Laying Off Nearly 900 Employees
@LadyCharlie But, if employees are idle, why keep 900 unnecessary people hired, charity? Even governments that employ too many public servants overwhelm the public sector.
Solution for you: open your own company.
This was the solution for me. I complained just like you. So I opened my company, understood the other side of the coin, won, and now I'm close to retiring at 42, because if I stop working, I'll still have income for the rest of my life. I'm passing the company on to the best of the employees, and I'm sure he will fire at least 10 people....
Re: Vampire Survivors Lands New Stage, Character And Weapon In Upcoming 'Whiteout' Update
I have more playtime playing Vampire Survivors than all Nintendo games, except Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Re: Review: Wargroove 2 - A Must-Play Tactical RPG And A Worthy Successor To Advance Wars
@Kidfunkadelic83 You have a lot of difficult settings in Wargroove 1!
Re: Review: Wargroove 2 - A Must-Play Tactical RPG And A Worthy Successor To Advance Wars
Wargrooove >>> Advance Wars
The pupil surpassed the master by far.
Now...Wargroove 2.
I´M READY!
and...I don't care about the story. I skip all dialogue in all games. I played Fire Emblem skipping all the dialogue. I have no idea about the story and I don't care. I just like the Chess battles, and nothing else.
Re: Where To Pre-Order Princess Peach: Showtime! On Switch
@fox_mattcloud $19 indie games have given me more fun than $60 Nintendo games like Metroid Dread, New Mario Bros U Deluxe, Pokken Tournament, Arms,Yoshi’s crafted world, Zelda Link’ s awakening, Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, Kirby Star Allies..…and so on…
Re: Where To Pre-Order Princess Peach: Showtime! On Switch
Not $60 good for me. Easy pass
Looks like a $19 indie game.