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@SpaceboyScreams Physical sales in general have notably declined in general. Using it as the metric of audience satisfaction is a bit flawed.

@SalvorHardin I'm referring to the broader indie scene. I have seen Lunistice and Penny's Big Breakaway described as "Sega Saturn Inspired 3D Platformers" by their fans despite not really resembling any title actually on the Saturn.

But you are correct that this game seems pretty aware of how it's presenting itself.

Excited for this, but I do find it humorous how "Saturn" is often being associated with retro-styled fast-paced platformers in the indie sphere.

When it came to 3D, the Saturn was pretty sluggish.

It's not going to be a skill that directly translates to game directing, but Kazuya Takahashi is one of my favorite artists in the industry. Interesting to know he works at Nintendo now.

I find it really weird that people assume this game is a prequel when all the shenanigans that happened in the Mario World could present over a billion other possibilities the story could use to make Pauline a kid before coming to the conclusion that Nintendo wants to entirely retcon the 1981 DK game.

I'm going to imagine, given Square Enix stating they were stepping away from exclusives last year, that this was a contract locked down before that point in time. No brainier recommendation once it hits Steam, but agreed this is something that could have easily been on the Switch 1.

The Game-Key card is both a complaint at Square Enix and Nintendo. The issue obviously isn't that the game is too big, but that it's too small. Nintendo needs to offer Cartridge sizes below 64gb is games significantly smaller than that are going to use them.

On the game itself, I think the visuals are fine? This is pretty much how I expected and wanted the multiplatform version to look, if this does eventually get ported to PC and presented to a wider audience like Octopath and BD2 before it I would prefer it to be pretty faithful to the game I initially liked and not bogged down with filters or poor choices in creative changes. My only complaint with this release was pushing the ability to turn off encounters to Chapter 2.

@Truegamer79 Mario World and OG Link's Awakening trageted 60 fps. It was the standard at the time.

I would agree with some "Politics" is being used too broadly.

The issue is unprofessional handling of divisive topics in ways that encouraged the continuation of that divide, intentionally or not it doesn't matter, that's how it has been continuously interpreted.

You can lament that the topics surrounding LGTBQ are still divisive, but many game journalists did nothing to help with that and if anything contributed to the radicalization against their positions.

@GinMiguel There are no officially revealed total worldwide sales data for Team Sonic Racing. I would imagine if they were that high, SEGA would have stated something as those figures outsells every 3D Sonic game.

If the Treehouse streams and hours of demo footage didn't exist, I would say this direct is fine. I understand the value of having all this info in a single place.

However I believe most people interested in getting a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World at launch would have already been actively looking into the game before this direct and those who are casually interested but waiting for more Switch 2 titles won't even get the game months or years after launch. And most notably, those who aren't sold on this game likely still won't be after this direct.

So I'm kind of left with "Who is this direct for?"

I've played it. I think it's fun. I think the game is currently at a crossroads with it's customization elements being undermined by the chaotic items. If they want more depth they need to ton down the chaos, if they want chaos the depth feels like wasted potential. Of course, they can have their cake and eat it too with some simple lobby options not unlike Smash 3DS/WiiU.

The original Generations sold 1.8 Million after the 2011 Holiday season. With Black Friday, Christmas, and the inevitable push this game will get after the movie, I could see this game comfortably surpassing that.

The "Ring Shop" and the existence of premium currency regardless tells me this game will likely be extremely grindy like Sonic Dash.

Holiday season seems locked in, and Switch 2 announcement will probably be next year.
I don't expect any more major game announcements until the Switch 2.

@DwaynesGames Digital Sales are also significantly larger in this era of games too. No hard numbers, but noticably more than the 3DS days and even noticably more compared to five years ago when Link's Awakening released.

@johnedwin Echoes of Wisdom is tracking higher than Link's Awakening Remake, which on it's own is currently the best selling 2D Zelda.

That's the key phrase, 2D Zelda, they're popular in their own right but effectively niche compared to the open world titles.

KH3 should have been the conclusion, but spent more time setting up future plot points and rushed concluding the ones people were buying the game to see concluded.

Granted, with how convoluted the story was up to that point, the audience that cared about the overarching plot was pretty niche in retrospect.

@SmartNickname It appears to be made in Daybreak's engine and using it's battle system.
If that's the case, it's both.

The PC version was my goty last year. Assuming the Switch version's performance is fine I give it a high recommendation.

Played the steam release as well as the rest of the series. High recommendation.

One of the things I found refreshing about the original release of Generations after the franchise been so self deprecating and irony-poisoned throughout the 2010s was the sincerity to it's source materials regardless of perceived quality. Sonic 2006 sucked, but instead of making jokes about it and forgetting it, they worked with what they got and took the most iconic elements of crisis city and created a new level and an entirely new Silver boss fight out of it. I'm glad that mindset still seems to be there for Shadow Generations.

The game is great, but is a glorified demo. It's refereed as a "Pilot Episode" on it's store page and as "Episode 1" internally. There's only three levels and one of them is a tutorial.

Again, it's really good, but it does leave a satisfying conclusion on it's own. Wish the devs luck on future episodes.

TotK has more content, but so does watered-down soda. It's not an objective measure of game quality.

Honestly don't understand why there should be shame in not selling quite as much as a soccer game and a highly anticipated multi-platform RPG.

@Bobb Except Pokemon is infamous for sticking with hardware for as long as they possibly can. Emerald's International Release, Black2/White2, and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon were all released on consoles after that console's successor released. I think "Fourth time in a row" is a more reasonable assumption than "First Pokemon launch title ever", when it seems very likely the Pokemon Company's priorities are very different from Nintendo.

It seems like a massive stretch that people are taking this as a psedu announcement for a console not even formally confirmed by Nintendo with a code name.

The problem with this is that Sonic has a fractured fanbase with dozens of sectors with very different opinions on what's considered a good Sonic game and what Sonic should even be.

Bring up Mario 64 within any Mario discussion and most will agree it's a good game. Some will say it's aged, others will say it's still the best game ever made, but overall the reception will be positive. Even if you don't like the game or even think it is a bad game, it's still very likely it introduced multiple elements to the Mario franchise you do like.

Bring up Sonic Adventure within any Sonic discussion and you will get every opinion possible on it. Some people will say Sonic has or never will work in 3D, other people say it did a better job at translating Sonic into 3D than Mario 64 did for it's own franchise, some people enjoy the extended cast while others want to see Big the Cat rot in hell.

There is admitably a couple of Mario games that will bring comparable reactions, namely Sunshine, but the problem is that's the case with almost EVERY Sonic game. From Advance, to Rush, to even '06 and Mania. Each Sonic fan has their ideal Sonic game and it's going to look wildly different from another's.

This problem doesn't end with the games, the extended media exacerbates this issue. I have seen people who are very vocal about liking or disliking SatAM, Archie, Fleetway, IDW, X, Boom and Prime. Each piece of extended media has it's own take on the world and characters of Sonic, and each fan has very different preferences on what the Sonic games should be the most similar to.

The commercial of Frontiers at least shows SEGA is in better touch with it's fans that it was about a decade ago, but the fanbase being so fractured does put a ceiling on how popular Sonic can reasonably be at any given time. It's not impossible for SEGA to make everyone a fan of a specific incarnation of Sonic, but they are unlikely to make everyone a fan of the same Sonic.

I guess if SEGA doesn't want me to play it, then I won't be playing it.

100%-ed Everything except the Final-Final level, which I'm still trying to beat.

Has been a fantastic game.

The new final boss is Sticker Star-tier levels of being unnecessarily cryptic. I'll take the original knock-off Ikaruga boss fight over this any day

@nhSnork The whole series is Science Fantasy. The Cold Steel games even have mecha battles.

@Shepdawg1 This. Hacking was more lenient in earlier generations because it took an unrealistically proportional amount of time to get a competitively viable party.

If the current methods of obtaining a viable party is still too much, might as well just play on Showdown.

Most of the mobile stuff could be twitter posts and the Scarlet/Violet DLC could have just been a standalone trailer.

I personally expected as much from this showcase, so I'm not too disappointed, but the expected quality shouldn't be that low to begin with.

People weren't tired of 2D Mario, they were tired of how 2D Mario became stagnated.

I don't need the next 2D Mario to reinvent gaming or anything, a new art style and more energetic level design helps a lot.

Using the phone as a controller and the Jackbox inspiration are good ideas, but the game just doesn't seem fun.

It looks neat, but seeing Arzest confirmed to be the devs at the vendor showcases isn't giving me much confidence.

@Wexter "Classic" mode in the Untold games are not the original DS games. It's pretty much a different EO altogether with similar flavorings to the original.

Think how New Super Mario Bros has a lot of the same level themes as Mario 3, but isn't actually Mario 3.

If it gets a port, it'll be its own separate thing. It's not something you can just "mod in" the original DS release.

Expecting Untold content in the DS versions of the game is like expecting FF7 Remake content in the PS1 version of that game.

The Untold games border on reimagining as opposed to remakes. Skill changes have classes performing entirely different roles, the entire dungeon layout is entirely changed, and enemy skills and foe patterns change. They are practically new games altogether, and I hold the opinion it's not all objectively better than the original.

"A lot of people will look at a game that has similarities and say, ‘that’s a Pokémon clone'. But you don’t get that with Metroidvania games"

Agree with this. Pokemon fans act like Game Freak has a ownership over the monster-collecting genre when Pokemon wasn't even the first game to do that.

What Nintendo is doing is awful, but let's not ignore how terrible Youtube is as a middleman in this situation.

Their policies are based on "Guilty until proven innocent". I think Youtube itself has a lot to blame because they are a terrible middleman in these situations. They only hear one side of the argument, this being the big corporation that is Nintendo, and is willing to throw their content creators under the bus to satisfy their demands.

Even though I doubt Nintendo's and Youtube's relationship would hardly be damaged if they simply ignore or even compromise their requests. But Youtube isn't going to do that when they save so much money through automation.

@AstroTheGamosian Multiple Sega v Bleem cases in the 90s came to the conclusion that Emulation on its own is legal.

There's also other Nintendo emulators on Steam Nintendo has done nothing to do to remove, because legally they have no foothold to do so.

Actually looks like a major step forward. Maybe Natsume is on track to making something decent with this trademark. Or even, dare I say it, something good.

@thiagoauler The game isn't going to flop regardless of the few commenters claiming they won't buy it.

But even if it did, no one is at fault for not buying a video game. Any choice to not buy a piece of art or entertainment is a valid one. I expect that basic understanding of personal finance from any adult.

@thiagoauler The devs already gotten paid and bonuses based on performance are nearly non-existent in the industry. Profits are going straight to the retails, executives, and investors.

If Nintendo wants to introduce variable pricing for games like they do in other regions to charge more than $60 on a title, then they have no excuse for also charging $60 for games priced less in those same regions.

As weird as it is to say it, I was turned off by this game as soon as I noticed it has a Double Jump.

I've noticed it a ton in indie 3D platformers and don't understand why. Especially when Mario has never performed a double jump in a platforming-centric game. A double jump works great in a game that has the player do a ton of stuff that's not platforming, like Ratchet and Clank or Sly Cooper, but in a platforming-centric game, it's an absurdly powerful technique that can suck all the commitment and satisfaction out of platforming. Every platforming challenge is handled with the same technique.

There are a few games that get it right like Crash 4. But with the frequency I see this ability in games, the presence of the double jump comes off more as a level design crutch than an interesting ability to design a game around.

Can't wait for the next console generation where in the next port of Symphonia they add loading times before initiating combat and Lloyd has an entire limb missing.

I miss some of the skits they used to do, especially with the Robot Chicken and Muppet collab they had for E3 2014 and 2015.

@Bizzyb Oh for the love of... Just because people critised your asinine conspiracy theory that a Switch successor would release in May doesn't mean those same people aren't aware of the current issues of the aging tech.

There's a very clear line between wanting and predicting. No need to shove additional labels such as "they just got a switch" because you are struggling to understand that.

Nuzlocks became popular because it's an easy set of rules to understand.

This is honestly a mess of arbitrary rules that doesn't really even make the game harder, it just takes longer to grind.

@Bizzyb I'm not a part of the business side of the industry any more than you likely are, but I'm trying to rely on existing patterns over stating baseless claims such as:

-The company is going to fall out of relevancy only three months after the release of its most anticipated sequel.

-Claiming the delay was only for a successor, not explaining why Nintendo would change Tears of the Kingdom's release date to match a new console's release when console release dates tend to be planned further in advance than game release dates.

The latter was done for BOTW, but in your own words, the Wii U was dead by the Switch's announcement. This is not the same status quo.

This isn't even considering other things, such as releasing a console 1 month before E3 is probably an atrocious idea when E3 has historically been the place to announce new titles that will launch with a console.

Your own Headcannon is not very consistent.