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A reminder that Joker is from a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off of a novel series.

It just comes off a vague now.
Like, if I was playing this for the first time I wouldn't fully understand Bernadetta's Father intent with tieing her to a chair.

'Submissive' and 'Quite' were the biggest keywords in the sentence, you read it and see the negative intent of her father's action.

Now the text just translates to 'To be a good wife, tie yourself to a chair.'

Giving the game setting and visuals to make it something resembling... a game. It actually looks neat.

Don't think it's for me though. But I'm interested in how it performs.

Given the game's performance on the Switch leaves a bit to be desired, it kind of needs this.

It's a great game though, glad more people can play it.

3 on 3 ATB Pokemon is a great idea on paper, but the hyper-casual approach of the game's battle system doesn't reveal any of it's potential.

Really curious to see what kind of talent people over there have.
They might end up making games to appeal to the Chinese market, similar to how Retro makes games to appeal to western audiences.

@RupeeClock None of those characters are owned by Archie, actually, but by Sega of America.
They were originally created for the show, not the comic.
Archie or Ken Penders owns the characters they created for the comic.

Why buy this when there's going to be a Friends of Mineral town remake...

From the actual developers.

This is... troublesome if it is the correct translation. As others have stated, this is probably worse than actually porting the models, with the case of Gyarados, you can see that would mean they even replicated the low-poly whiskers.

My biggest problem is that this isn't something I recall any prior dev stating they have issues with. There are several 3DS ports/multiplats on the Switch such as Monster Hunter XX, Hyrule Warriors (All 3 versions use the same models), Captain Toad, and Alliance Alive. None of these devs mentioned anything about recreating all the 3D assets from scratch... which you would think might have popped up in an interview at least once between a dozen games?

Or any port ever, for that matter, unless it's a case like Kingdom Hearts where all the original files were lost.

As someone with a couple of years of 3D experience, seeing so many people making uneducated and false assumptions about 3D Models/Animations make my head hurt.

If I see phrases like 'coding animations' or 'cel-shaded models' I might go back into depression.

If anyone is really unsure about how processes like these work, don't make assumptions. Skim through tutorials on commercial 3D software, or play around with an open source software like Blender to get a better understanding of how the technology works.

If you have no interest in the technology to begin with, that's fine, just don't contribute to that side of the argument if you don't actually know what you are talking about.

@Octorok385 There are plenty of things that can be done in-engine to alter visuals that do not involve even touching the models themselves. Cell shading just is a rendering technique, not something inherent to the models themselves.

In fact, the majority of the graphical differences between Gen 6/7 and 8 is the fresnel rim lighting, shaders, changes in rendering style, and resolution. Remove that and you have pretty much the same models and textures.

This implies that they have proven to be incompetent by failing to future-proof the Pokemon models like they have intended to do since XY... which considering how versatile 3D models are between engines I can't wrap my head around.

And proceded to create models and animations to be exactly the same as they were on the 3DS.

Honestly claiming they are lying is better for their image if the above really is the case.

@Kalmaro In this game it goes both ways for this kind of game though. While roughly 100 characters with varied playstyles is great for an action game like this one

it also means that there are less than 100 enemy types to fill the dungeons, streets, and alleyways. Which is really limiting for a JRPG.

I still really like the game though. Anyone interested in knowing more about it can read my (rather a length) posts on the YW4 thread in the forums on this site.

@Preposterous You shouldn't feel lost.
The recent movie is related, but is basically retold in the game itself. Not unlike how the first movie shares YW2's story.

4th movie is the prequel to this game though, and I recommend people at least watch that before playing. Either through a possible upcoming dub or... other means.

I've been playing it. YW4 is great.
Sales do look disappointing though. I wonder how much they were expecting.

@Nintendrone
As a huge fan of the franchise, even I can see this is a LOT more than 'a bit less'.
It's one-fifth of the sales of YW3 opened with.

Missed opportunity to canonically has a Metroid x Castlevania event called Metroidvania.

Because I just realized they could do that.

@Yorumi There's a possibility that porting the models over to the Switch is harder than using them on the 3DS, but that's all the more reason to make sure SwSh has all the Pokemon.

If they get it done now, either through a post-game update or otherwise... then they don't need to do it again. At least for the rest of the Switch's lifespan.

@Ralek85 It's not so much about the quantity as much as that the fanbase recognizes that each Pokemon has its fans.

Millions of people only play Pokemon JUST for the Pokemon. They want to go on an adventure with their preferred team of Pokemon. If it was for deep battle mechanics I'm pretty sure everyone would have jump ship to SMT or Digimon over a decade ago.

@Ralek85 No one is advocating for a crunch. That's a very warped perspective on the situation.
If they had to delay the game or were clear about a post-game update, people would be fine with it. And this is to take into consideration that a development team of a franchise worth more the MCU should have the budget to outsource this sort of thing.

@WoolooSweater If it's only a few Pokemon being cut, there would have been no reason to cut anything to begin with.

I would have been fine with the cut, but I was already spectacle of the game's quality since it was first announced. From a presentation standpoint, this is only a LITTLE better than playing Sun/Moon in HD on an emulator and a couple of patches.

I was already making fun of the animation and textures before the dex cut was even a thing.

The 'open world' situation is also taken out of proportion. The Wild Area is a neat idea, but from a progression, standpoint looks more like a glorified Hyrule Field in pre-BOTW Zela. Semi-open world at best.

Just throwing this in for comparison, but Yokai Watch 4 just released in Japan, it launched with only 109 monsters (compared to the 600+ in Yokai Watch 3) Some people did take issue with that, but the overall responses of the game are still between mix-to-positive. Why? Because the game greatly improves on the visuals and animation compared to the 3DS games, and also has an entirely new Action Battle System built from the ground up. What's more, Level-5 confirmed that they'll bring back Yokai in future updates.

I'd be down with Rare Replay on Switch.
Just throwing that out there.

While it doesn't seem like Portrait ghosts are coming back as a concept, it does seem like we're getting something in a similar vein with the Gladiator ghost and that other lady ghost.

This looks so much better than the Secret of Mana remake.
You can finally dodge attacks. I repeat: DODGE ATTACKS. It'll play like an actual ARPG now.

Sheering sheep is beneficial to the sheep. Overgrown wool can cover their eyes and blind them, cause them to suffer from heat exhaustion in the summer, get caught or tangled in the wild, and even prevent them from using the bathroom.

To be fair, the wool grows so long because humans breed them this way over the course of thousands of years... but even then it was still beneficial for the sheep. They are natural prey, and shepherds protected them from predators when they are under their care.

Pretty sure that's worth a bi-yearly haircut.

This is news about a PS3/Vita port on the PS4 that currently has no plans for a Switch release...
Why is it being reported on a Nintendo news site?

-Portable versions of 3 and 4 did very well.
-Switch basically absorbed the Vita market, and also outsold the PS4.
Don't know what's keeping them.

So if the first game was not-Banjo, this one will be not-Donkey Kong Country.
Not big on the first game, but I'm interested to see how this one turns out.

Forgot this was announced, but I'm glad they made the right choice.
Today's market needs less rushed games.

For a free update, it's a neat gimmick.
Hopefully, Nintendo does something cool from the ground up with VR.

Mostly expecting spinoff material here, if anything.
S&S stuff is clearly saved for June 5th.

Played for a couple of hours. I like the course designs and team mechanics, but the lack of content and constant reuse of stage themes hold it back.

It's good but feels a bit low-budget, however, it's too mechanically competent to be anything worse than average.

@Vicki_S This is just Japan, they have never favored the Xbox due to culture differences.

But why tho?
Doesn't matter how much content the game has, the core mechanics are unbalanced and broken, the characters are bland and one-dimensional, and the game is simply not fun.

Stop it Natsume. Just about every Harvest Moon fan knows the actual franchise is Story of Seasons now.

Keep in mind that the director has a higher authority over a film's story than the writer themselves. There have been cases where movies and games stories have gone to crap because of the director or producer's meddling.

Only two weeks.
Probably is more related to unexpected competition (Mario Maker 2) or issues with production than the game itself.

For anyone interested, there's an indie game called 'Rolled Out' set to release later this year for PC that's basically... it's basically just this.

I don't think it's surprising Sega nostalgia is stronger in the west because their strongest era was almost entirely orchestrated by Sega of America.

@FragRed Not on the 3DS or any of the other console titles, no.
If you have GB-like assets though, you could do so on any PC RPG maker.

Problem is some of my favorite Game Gear games are also on the Master System... and normally play better on that.
This is still cool though.

Glad to see Game Freak is still doing a good job with 2D stylized visuals.

I partially disagree with Kodama. The game is one of the best on the Dreamcast, but it bogged down but a handful of issues I think it really deserves to have fixed. Otherwise I kind of fear it will fall further into obscurity than it already is.

Faster paced battles and adjustment to encounter rates would be great in a new release. Expanded story scenes and character arcs alongside it would also be great.

Oh well... I guess Sega has other RPGs they rather use now that they own Atlus.

@Ludovsky I know you are setting this up to be a big task, but that didn't stop smaller studios from doing the same exact thing with Digimon: Cyber Stealth, Persona 5 and Yokai Watch 4, which all features hundreds of collectible monsters.

They could also reuse animations from Battle Revolution. That's nearly 500 Pokemon done for them already.

Why are we holding Pokemon to this lower standard?

Going to sound negative but...
Sounds like they know their battle animations are vastly inferior to the Genius Sonority games over a decade ago, so they are claiming it's not going to be in the same category of standards.

And it didn't need a major price drop to do it.

Never felt so let down yet so excited at the same time.

@Noid Because it actually brings something unique to the table with Skill Tress and Skill Resources.
Besides, there are also people who prefer Crash Team Racing or Sonic and Sega: All-Stars Racing over Mario Kart.
We can have more than one game series per genre at a time.

Battles look more like Dragon Quest Monsters or SMT.
Interested.

He's also be following some Nintendo Youtubers on the Twitter.
Fan of fans. Kinda cool.

@Ralizah Well, you're in luck. This one is an ARPG not unlike Ni No Kuni.