Reminder that Miyamoto also said that he's Bowser Jr's mom (ok, meta cheeky, I'll give you that) and then also had a period where he said Mario is no longer a plumber before walking that back (likely from pressure from Nintendo themselves)

For a guy who wanted to be a mangaka before joining Nintendo, I don't think he even knows what to do with his characters anymore, narratively speaking.

The cape is new. Could certainly help this version of Link stand out from the rest of the series

Oh hey, it's the weekend already?!

Still not haven't made much progress in Mary Skelter 2. So I am still on that. Will get back on that. I wanna do a full overview on that. What I will say, however, so far, I like the characters a lot, and the nightmare mechanic can be panic inducing.

Blue Archive currently has a Joint Firing Drill that's rather easy. So I'm melting everyone.

Nekopara: Sekai Connect just released too. It's basically a gacha management game. As someone who's read the VNs from Extra to Vol.3, it's such a nostalgia trip seeing the slice of life antics of the Minaduki cats again. Still have to finish Volume 4 and get to Nekopara After to finish the whole VN series. Will have to make time and patience for that. Azuki is still my favorite (tomboy loli ftw!!! 😭😭😭) but gacha newcomer Saffron..... the words that come out of her really gets your blood pressure going with how rotten her mouth is 👺👺👺 (I love her SO MUCH 😭).

Finally, gonna be jumping back in for a certain iconic Hatsune Miku clone, grinding out gacha tickets in StarWard. It's basically a serious 2v2 arena fighter on the same vein as Pokken Tournament or Gundam Extreme Versus. It recently got F2P console versions and the community has since gotten bigger since. No Switch 2 versions yet, but I do hope that's on the cards.
New character just dropped and it's none other than Black★Rock Shooter herself! And her rival, Dead Master, is also on the way too! Anyways, game is one of those that require duplicates to make your characters stronger, so that's kinda annoying. And collab characters barely get an alternate way to get stronger other than duplicates. So I'm gonna be working on this game for the next 2 months on my PC... At least it's fun.....

@Rainbowfire Diana's behaviors seem to be doing most of the pulling when it comes to cuteness

The Wii U had lots of potential that wasn't fully realized.
I even had a concept in my head where you play monster hunter and used 2 save files at the same time for local dropin-dropout multiplayer

@Rainbowfire Wasn't Midna suppose to be creepy?

They already signed a 10 year deal with CoD on Switch, so if they plan on going full exclusive, they're gonna be in big trouble.

Ya know, as of late, there's a lot of ratings leaks. Ya think we got a main Direct coming in 2 weeks? seems like it

@MisterSmith yes

Played the demo on steam. this is the kind of craziness I look for in an action game.
The visuals look fine, but the nonsense you can pull off "just because" while you have the most "SEGA Arcade" music blaring at everything you do while the insanity unfolds.... I just keep getting callbacks to the Sonic Rush games! I love it!

Personally i would rather wait for a Switch physical release. more pick up and play and no storage concerns.

If they ever wanna do collabs with other "train" themed games, Maitetsu is there for the cuteness and Blue Archive's shuppogakis are there for the insanity. In fact, I think the shuppogakis would be the strongest fit for the game's energy considering the whole, ya know...

Not that I care too much but to satiate my curiosity. does it also have a KB+M mode or a Joy+Mouse mode?

ya know, yeah, maybe I should care more considering my sister can't stop playing this and wants to rank with me

@Vyacheslav333 Lackluster characters? I'm sorry, are we talking about the same company?!

"physical" it reads...

Currently going through the Mary Skelter trilogy. Thank goodness the second game, which is apparently a prequel, contained the first as a bonus. Will get back on my thoughts, but I will say, Hameln-chan is a cute and funny meathead of a otaku dork. 😭😭😭

I'd be angry, but I'm still more ticked by the overall direction Strive went in to care...

Pixiv already on the job

+sees context+
ok fair enough

At least it's still coming to SW2

...Other than the translation still being stuck to dubbed localization (ew) causing lots of missed language that you can deliberately hear but not see in text, I do have some lesser gripes. Like, why isn't Compa-chan or IF-chan playable? I want my chunni cellphone addict!!! Why is it that when Nepgear should be alone I can still use other characters and ruin the immersion? Why does Shanghai Alice not look like a loli even though ZUN explicitly makes all characters in Touhou canonically lolis (as admitted in his shared emails)? Kinda weird that the team took a character who is an expy for Hakurei Reimu and made her about as tall and figured as the texas cheerleader-built Goddess. (it's Vert fyi.) Why is there no sprint button in combat-less free roam sections? It does seem like they fixed that one in the next game but I was kinda feeling dragged on in a certain iconic landmark of the series.

Overall, I would recommend this game to a newcomer, assuming you know what you're getting into. Unless you're going through a really heavy depression, it's not gonna be a game to change your life...but it's fun...and cute...and funny...and heartfelt in just enough ways. And yes, you can still see the striped NePantsu if you know how. 👀

Also Blue Archive as usual. Gonna have to figure out how to do the Grand Assault against Hieronymus. My stock team isn't cutting it, so it's likely i need to rebuild. There's new story content coming up assuming it's not already out, so I gotta read that as well. New somewhat anticipated event is coming up soon too, so looking forward to that read.

Also gonna be trying to properly finish TriggerHeart Exelica's story. 1CC true ends. I just have to.

Just finished Neptunia Sister v Sister, along with the true ending on first playthrough (because why end on a lie)?
It's a solid semi-casual Action RPG, or rather, RPG with action game elements. Thing about the gameplay is that you have to go into it expecting an RPG first, not an action game. I saw someone on youtube complain that the combat isn't as fluid at NieR Automata and I was going, "yeah, that's the point, it's a more tactical game, pick your strikes." Basically a Tales of Namco game, as I probably said last week. I love myself some straight action games, but it's nice to play something slower.

Personally I love that they did away with copypaste dungeons. The environments themselves can leave something to be desired, what with the same woods and caves again and again, but at least they are mostly original layouts!!!! I kinda also noticed that they were using static procedural generation for the level design. You do get some rooms that are reused, but at least I can dismiss that up to passable asset reuse. It's not the smartest reuse, but it gets the job done. It does have a problem with getting lost because there are no landmarks in the dungeons. But for a very overdue revamp, it's a solid first step. Maybe GameMaker R;Evolution might fix that. Just set your map settings to "fixed" and be prepared to look at it alot while Nep mentions how "This is an RPG so it absolutely must have a map!!!"

Moving on, this is also a game that has a slightly more serious story compared to the Neptunia usual. It does get the emotions going in the same way a kids anime might, with some shocking moments for sure, but the character writing is what people really come to Neptunia for and I must say...
NEPGEAR IS SO CUTE!!!!! EVERYONE MUST BE LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO HUG YOUR LOCAL NEPGEAR!!! Her interactions with Neptune and just everyone are funny with her being the straight-gal but the best moments with her are when she wants to care for Neptune, even when she's outright spoiling her or just gushing for how much she loves her sister and looks up to her like the little sister she is (even though she acts like the bigger sister more than the real big sister). She's such an endearing character, so sincere and earnest to match NepNep's rapid fire wit and laziness and just general narrative breaking fookery. Honestly, entertainment wise, I think these two might be the best sisters in all of gaming. Like Sonic and Tails but with 10x the love....

@batmanbud2 I dunno man, I'm not a fan of games artificially getting more expensive

Gonna wait for reviews. Last film seemed to have some hollywood-isnms that you typically see in kids films.

Since Galaxy has a good story, I wanna hear if they did the sincerity justice, though with Fox Mccloud suddenly being in the film, I feel like they are starting to jump the shark

Blue Archive. This week's DPS joint firing drill is having swimsuit mika murder everyone. ( ≧ᗜ≦) Doubly so if you have Swimsuit nagisa. Also found out that you can still use Chiaki if you buff her alot and also have normal Hanako or Magical Girl Reisa do some healing on the support robot.

Also been playing Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters as I said I would last week. It's fun, kinda like a Tales of Namco game. Story isn't as funny as other Nep games due to Nepgear being such a straight girl, but as usual with moe' protagonists like her, her positive energy is enough to wanna make you hug her for how caring she is. Currently I am almost halfway through it, and honestly, I am wondering when the hell am I gonna get IF-chan on the team again. For some reason, I have a soft spot for her chunni antics, even if she is the tsukkomi of the cast who is on the receiving end. Also it's bloody hilarious at how they jab the big 3 of gaming. they even had the MariCar lawsuit in as a way to jab how violent Nintendo can get. it got to the point where Blanc even blew up the whole track! (I love Neptunia) ( ≧ᗜ≦)

That being said, i do feel like the script does have some issues, like honorifics being obscured or slang that might get dated. Sometimes they don't translate the line 1:1 when they absolutely could have. There's even an instance where Uni, transformed as Black Sister, was referring to Neptune as "Nep-sama", which wasn't in the translation. IF really needs to start doing that language separation that Like a Dragon and Ninja Gaiden 4 did where they create a raw translation script for those who want a pure translation and a dub script for those who can't be bothered reading in a visual novel. (lol, jab jab)

@Coolmusic I hope they overhaul Dante's levels in the potential switch version.

Better be a game card and not a key card.

Also DMC Collection 2 when? Hopefully that contains DmC:DE. Yeah the story sucks but the combat seems to have been overhauled.

@Serpenterror Port rot? Apparently every version of the game gets worse and worse because it was so closely tied to the hardware of the dreamcast, unlike a lot of other games.

@JohnnyMind That's something ya gotta get use to with VF. it's as fundamental of a fighter as it gets. That might change with VF6 being done by the RGG studio

@Vyacheslav333 Don't I recall that they've been tweaking and rebalancing that game for every re-release?

Might try it if it has enough meat on its bones.
I'm not too into the "free to start" model. I'd rather have a game that I can F2P

@Woodyshoe They didn't do this with Sonic Crossworlds. Still wanna get that for myself.

New physical release with all old updates printed on the card would be nice. Also if they could fix the balance of the true ending, that would be cool too. Those parry bosses with supersonic were a pain in the arse because of how bad the parry implications were in the game.

@Nep-Nep-Freak Considering I ususally play in Japanese, I'm not too concerned. As long as what is said still strongly matches the japanese script.

Although removing B@stard sword was kinda silly. That's an actual name of a sword

Blue Archive a usual. Trying to beat Yesod on Insane but really struggling with my team composition. It's one of those fights where you need to use 2 teams to make up for the drastic change in focus between the two phases. Though, I do think I have an ace in the works tonight, since I asked a fellow sensei if he could let me borrow one of their students.

Also been playing TriggerHeart Exelia Enhanced as my toilet game (lol). Came in the mail from limited run this month so I've been playing and enjoying how different of a shmup it is. Been trying my best to get a 1CC on each girl's story modes, since that's the only way to get the true ending for each. Playing on easy does help, but I do wish storymode could be played on a Flipgrip... Btw, the designs feel rather similar to a certain group of gamer goddesses I know.... I wonder if Compile Heart took inspiration from Exelica...

Speaking of them, I currently have Neptunia: Sister v Sister coming up. I realize I need an chill RPG to reset my brain, so I after the new announcement of Neptunia Unleashed for Switch 2, I got into the mood to continue the "main" line story, or I guess this is more of a canon side story.

Also been trying to jump back into Stella Sora. Haven't played much at launch, but there's a certain track from the game that just can't leave my brain....

The bright atmosphere that resembles BA certainly helps and the characters do show promise in actually being good instead of shallow puppets that co-opt otaku subculture cough -Genshin- cough cough. I just hope the main story doesn't suffer from the chinese gacha curse of having bad or overconvoluted storytelling that forgets that we're here for the characters... again....

@ottoecamn To put it bluntly, it's basically a prototype Like a Dragon game. first 2 games were a novelty but do show some rust. The 3rd game carried that rust instead of polishing, but this new version is expected to clean up the massive glaring mistakes of the original release
Just don't go in expecting the sidequests Kiryu and co go through. It's a kung fu movie, through and through

does this negatively affect games with touch compatibility? Is it still possible to use the touch screen?

I want Senran Kagura to make a proper come back and finish their heisei story!!!! 😭😭😭

Still surprised that they haven't tried collabing with their own IPs.
Also does this mean that all of the previous collabs are also on the card?

@MirrorFate2 You don't seem to know the full context. SAGAFTRA, his union, partnered with GenAI outlets.

The whole "protection" part is just a scam

If he refuses to work and Capcom wants to remain ethical, then they could just hire a Vtuber or something. Hololive is right there

the demo was definitely interesting. Not quite something I have played before. definitely gets the left and right brain having a tennis match with each other

@Orbphan Too late, already part of it 😭😭😭

Knowing that SAG AFTRA is the one behind this, good riddance I suppose.

the MiHoYo fandom ripped the bandaid off of what actually was happening behind that. Lots of mafia tactic shitte that wants to extract more money rather than protect their workers

One one hand, preventing low quality work on the platform is good.
on the other hand, that might mean they are also gatekeeping long standing devs like Compile Heart from the storefront, which is leading to the censorship...

@Drago201 Oh? What was ruined this time?

@Nep-Nep-Freak Last i saw, it's censored. Nothing pink, mind you, but some brutal scenes were replaced with the western censorship to look less intense

i don't know what is up with devs replacing their cultural originals with bastardized western versions as of late...

@Drake From what i heard, the lingerie in the JP Wii U release was actually licenced designs. Whether it was censorship or not to skip re-licencing them for the western release is entirely up to you.

I suppose this would explain why they didn't make a return in the Switch release, and instead got replaced with other stuff

@SplatRay001 because the japanese don't quite call it that. They call it search action (探索型アクション, Tansaku-Gata Akushon) in japan

The fact that this collection won't include operation shooting star is pretty baffling...

Capcom mocaps are a hidden treasure of the gaming industry. So exaggerated and stylized, that they can become fun to watch on their own.
Helps that their games usually follow suit on that stylism

Been giving Viewtiful Joe a try for the first time and MAN is it fun. The first level is pretty damn hard though. but more managable on level 2.

Pro tip, emphasize the VFX meter booster and the dive kick as soon as you get to the move shop. You'll thank me later

But what if I'm a guy with whose actual name is Dick? Like Dick tracy of something?

"Game key card"....

As long as i get Gravity Rush collection on Switch. Would even be a good match considering the OG was a Vita game

Maybe Soul Sacrafice Delta too