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@Kingy I'm not gonna say it's impossible. Mobile games have come a long way. At some point they might even make a mobile port of this game. (but of course I want physical)

@GoldenSunRM there barely have been any games released after Ryza other than Ryza. Sophie was a sequel and she's still a cutting board, as is other members of the cast, Marie was virtually unchanged but that's to be expected from a remake.
Yumie is the first new face in the series in a few years.

Ryza benefited a lot from the pandemic at the time, people seem to keep forgetting that. Having a cozy RPG was ripe for the era

@Kingy it's a spin off. The original is still going (JP-only).

The mobile game had SMB3 style maps, so you know this isn't a port of the mobile game

@TheSaneInsanity Cynical, are we?

Also, are you even familiar with Atelier? Edgy is the last thing people call this series!

@GoldenSunRM If they realized that, they wouldn't have made a sequel to Sophie post-Ryza

I mean, of course the developer would want to make their own game tournament legal in their own eSports league

Question is, will the community accept it

@dartmonkey Apologies if that came off as rude, but I felt it was something to keep an eye on, especially for niche franchises that thrive off of that loyalty. that's all

Who's dumb idea was it to make food that expires into a collectable?!?!? And not the fake, cute kind?

That's not gonna last a summer, I can tell you that...

@Sindayl it is. @NintendoLife failed to mention that. Should probably start checking official shops for that info

@mikegamer I think you did

@mikegamer did you tag wrong?

@darkswabber Rarely do we get a japanese game artistically designed with english in mind as part of its arts. I can only name Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and the OG RE games

Like a Dragon is not one of those franchises. It's a japanese crime drama, hardcore in its own culture.

As the saying goes "gamers will optimize the fun out of their own game". The same could also be said about most dubs in relation to arts for teens and adults. Doesn't exactly help that a franchise like this has a reputation of being "JAPAN AF".

@mikegamer *Can't read subtitles in a game that's mostly a visual novel when gameplay takes a back seat

Where's the GameCube ambiance though?

Why don't they just bake the switch 2 patch into the Switch 1 version of the physical release?

the charging grip is the most outragious to me. Why not just release a generic shell of it for the back buttons?

If only that bittering agent actually worked.

Sure it might make babies spit it out, but my mom's dog ended up chewing on it anyways, piercing the chip.

Had to buy a whole new copy of Nelke

@HugoGED kids probably did it first

@Olliemar28 Might be time to start doing your own tests then, or at least a handful of games you KNOW had issues

@maulinks But they abandoned the name, then came back to it for a re-release, but are gonna abandon it again?

Just pull a Final Fantasy 1-6 and make up your mind already!

I vouch for Like a Dragon

@thedicemaster But nintendo are also the ones who opened the floodgates to that being possible as a so-called norm. so they also share blame

@Skunkfish The game keys are definitely anti-consumer moves. proprietary ownership is pro consumer

If it works with Pokken Tournament and Alice Gear Aegis, then I won't have to buy a second copy for multiplayer.

Pokken was built for 2 screen multiplayer, so it's a must

Nintendo marketing their "gamer games" for the PC?

@Bigmanfan Some people are from internet poor countries where it takes 2 weeks to download a game

Fun fact, this is the original OP that never made its way over to the west.

@HHappyGoose88 People are refusing GenAI for a reason.

GenAI is built on the basis of theft.
The internet and cars are built on the basis of physics, chemestry and social sciences.

@thehat360 That's money you'll never get back

Polygamy Ho!!!! XD

All hail the interdimensional harem king!

@darkswabber On top of that, procedural generation uses noticable chunks to combine assets, whereas GenAI tries to be microscopic and pretend what was made was entirely original (when it really wasn't when taking a look at the meta data)

@Coalescence Do note that "Seal of Quality" was more about how it wouldn't break your system than being a good game

friendly reminder that nintendo also owns an Super Mario porn parody. An american one, so you know it was gonna be crap too if released.

So by american metrics, it was tasteful.

@OTBC87 The problem here is that games are subjective in terms of pricing at business discretion. So to say "games need to increase their prices" is arguable against from the consumer's point of view. This isn't like a mandatory commodity like food or shelter, which could threaten regulations if things get too expensive. This is something people have made for entertainment's sake and can be priced in any shape or fashion because "the company says so". And clearly the audience isn't taking it very well compared to more approachable methods of getting a copy into your house

in other words, it's a load of bull

@OTBC87 All this mentality is trying to do is justify the excessive spending rich people make on their own projects.

Expedition 33 just came out and it already retains seemingly AAA quality at a fraction of the development cost and price. If memory serves me right, it only costed $50M to make and made back almost all of its development budget at around $50 retail.

Yes, the model is not working out for conventional AAA. That's a sign that they need to stop spending so recklessly and make games with smaller budgets. and now they are trying to pass their poor financial management onto the consumer. But somehow the consumer is entitled?

Instead of calling people entitled, maybe try taking a deeper look at what is currently poisoning the big boy industry.

I wonder if they will ever add this feature to the Joycons

@N00BiSH They work best with high end action games, games that don't have rebindable control schemes or just giving more options.

Say you are playing a Modern Doom game, you can put a jump button on one of the paddles so you are never NOT moving, aiming and shooting and weapon swapping at the same time
In games like devil may cry they let you go nuts with move preparation.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy
"digital is selling more"

Yeah, because of mobile apps and live service games being counted in digital sales.
How many times do i have to repeat that???

@The-Chosen-one Blue Archive here we come!!!

And yet they can't release a switch 1 version with a switch 2 patch automatically installed?

ffs. Marvelous is already doing something like this!!!

@mariomaster96 So in otherwords you don't exist and this is a bot account.

(don't look at me)

@calbeau I dunno about that. if the script was originally written in french, that's probably the better option to switch to because you hear a closer representation of the artist intent.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy
It's just the way it is, physical sales are getting lower and lower each year and will soon most likely will be gone forever.

This is the narrative I just stabbed as a half truth. Did you not real that part? Much of gaming is done more on phones. Phones don't have physical outlets because they weren't designed to be like PCs or consoles.

It's like, because the casual mobile audience who doesn't buy consoles is not caring where their money is going, the more mainstream gaming scene who does want these options has to suffer. That's a really poor read of the room.

Nintendo hasn't been casual only in years. All you have to do is look at their library. We are not in the Wii or Wii U era anymore. They put a lot of adventure and RPG games out that have appeal to the core gamer, which again, is the more mainstream audience that clamors for physical games. And to prove that the market is still strong for it, Clair Obscura: Exposition 33 just recently sold out of it's physical release rather quickly.

I will repeat, the core gamer has a different language from the casual gamer who is currently more into Monopoly Go these days

@DonkeyKongBigBoy It doesn't mean anything as far as core gaming is concerned. It just means the numbers are sewered in a certain, more casual audience direction.

it just creates a biased narrative that nobody wants physical anymore, when that is far from the honest truth. Casual gamers are playing more on their mobile phones than anything. But that doesn't justify Nintendo's legitimacy of this key card nonsense because people who don't buy or can't afford Nintendo systems gravitate towards F2P games.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy
A recent report from BBC indicated that in 2022, 89.5% of UK game sales were digital downloads, with only 10.5% being physical copies.
The problem with these metrics is that they also include digital app purchases, even on mobile. So the numbers are automatically skewed towards candy crush, Fortnite and gacha games. Even the DLC you download is also part of this number.

@Lightsiyd Not mine. (I style differently) But it is a pretty iconic combo in the DMC community, so much so, that when Punishing Grey Raven showcased their crossover with DMC, they did the combo on livestream

I'm pretty sure the guy probably played on a higher difficulty or something, because enemies get rearranged to keep things fresh and take less damage on SoS difficulty

As long as they don't do the "mythical modern audience" thing to the original like what they've been doing with their other games....

@Lightsiyd Really nice. Was clumsy towards the beginning, but you were really learning fast how to style. it was weirdly nostalgic but in fast forward 😅. Wait til you unlock all moves though...

@mandlecreed already happened

@Zyph Ninja Gaiden 4 is looking pretty good though

@Princess_Lilly oh those are so huggable 😭😭😭

@TheBigK Considering how many scenes in the game DON'T have voice work?
You might as well keep the JP