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@Novuscourvous Ehh, agree to disagree. It keeps the action interesting while also not being visually overwhelming, in my opinion.

@riggah Woo-wee, that is one of the spiciest takes I’ve ever seen on the Spiderverse movies. I can’t even get angry at that. Mad respect, friend.

But I will disagree on the quality of Sony Animation. They have some real stinkers (The Emoji Movie, anyone?), but they’ve been hitting it out of the park recently. The Spiderverse movies, KPop Demon Hunters, Wish Dragon, Mitchells vs. The Machines, GOAT. The animation itself is good. It’s more about who they get to write and direct their films.

Imagine if Sony Animation made an animated Metroid movie in a similar style as the Spiderverse movies. Maybe not full comic book style, but with the skipped animation frames technique they pioneered. That could be so good.

There’s nothing baffling about the critical reception at all. Objectively speaking, the movie is devoid of just about everything that makes traditional movies good. The only things it can stand on are its animation quality and spectacle. The critical reception is entirely understandable.

But it doesn’t matter. The movie did what it needed to do: make money while appealing to kids and families. As a Nintendo fan, I loved it. As a movie enjoyer, it’s shallow and surface level. I don’t hate it. But I wouldn’t call it compelling.

Right about now, it’s time to rock with the biggety-Buck Bumble!

As much as the Wii U was a dumpster fire and being a Nintendo fan at that time was dark, it was an interesting concept and did have some really killer games. Granted, the only reasons I have to go back to it anymore are Nintendoland and Yoshi’s Woolly World (I would die if they ported this), but it still has some good stuff.

As for Xbox, it’s a shame. Microsoft has squandered the brand so badly. The Kinect set them down a bad path to losing to the PS3, their botched Xbox One reveal, Game Pass sucking up all exclusives on Xbox, the Series X just not delivering anything interesting or new other than more horsepower, and their absolute lack of wanting to do anything with the hordes of IP they’re sitting on. Microsoft could make Xbox amazing, but the direction they took it was so poorly planned. Will they recover it with Helix? I doubt it.

While I 100% agree with The Independent’s criticism that this movie and many others like it these days aren’t engaging children and invoking curiosity, that’s not a problem specific to this movie only. It’s most of animation in general (especially Illumination). There are standouts like Puss In Boots: The Last Wish and the Spiderverse movies that do try to challenge their audience, but most animated movies are treated like filler nowadays, and it hurts. Animation can do so many incredible things, but when it becomes corporate, it feels so soulless.

I do still plan on going to see this movie on Friday, but I don’t expect it to blow me away at all other than visually.

Anorith, Iron Boulder, and Venipede get my votes for extra love.

It’s not that I’m upset that you all covered Fox appearing in the movie. I don’t consider something to technically be a spoiler if it’s officially revealed by the creative team themselves. It’s that you plastered the news right in the headline instead of doing something like “A Very Unexpected Character makes an appearance in the Mario Galaxy Movie”. With Fox’s name in the headline, I see the notice pop up in my notifications, so I can’t hide from it even if I want to. That’s how I would’ve covered it. I get it. The goal of a headline is to be as attention-catching as possible to ensure a click. It’s just annoying that this thing that would’ve been more fun to not know about was somewhat forced upon me.

Good thing Nintendo has a little more integrity than what this firm wanted. Imagine having to pay 99 cents for something like Link being able to swing his sword again…

That’s a lot of design iterations for a button that nobody uses…

As soon as I saw the headline, I knew exactly which transformation they were referring to. But yeah, it’s fun, so it doesn’t matter to me.

Good! I played the S2 demo and was very impressed with the effort they’re putting into this version. The game itself was also very fun. I’ll be picking it up at launch.

Nah, let the flower talk on! I find it wildly charming.

@solarwolf07 Oh, don’t be like that. Palworld being a monster catcher (it’s more of a survival game anyways) was never the issue. If that was the real issue at hand, there wouldn’t be other monster-catching games on the Switch as we speak. The issue was that a lot of the pals in the game appeared to be heavily inspired by existing Pokémon, to the point that you can look at some of them and think “Hey, that looks familiar.” From what I understand, Pokémon and Nintendo couldn’t sue over copyright grounds with the creature designs, so they went with the patent route of gameplay mechanics instead (I don’t necessarily agree with this approach, but that’s not important right now).

This new game, however, clearly doesn’t care. They’ve straight up stolen character and gameplay ideas from Pokémon, Palworld, and even The Legend of Zelda. This makes Palworld look subtle by comparison. Not a chance this game gets a Switch release, if even a general one.

Luis Guzman and Donald Glover? If only I could make a good Community joke here. All I got is:

Troy is Yoshi in a mooooovie!

So in essence, it didn’t perform as well at sales because demand was too high. Sounds like only a temporary problem. They’ll produce it in higher quantities more and it’ll do pretty well for them.

Honestly, that’s a good thing, in my book. I’ve been sick of all the mobile game spinoffs from Pokémon for the past decade, so seeing a fully-fledged spinoff doing well hopefully sends the message to TPC that these are the kinds of games we want to tide us over until new mainline content is ready (this is especially important seeing how we’re not getting Winds and Waves for at least another year, if not a year and a half, and they are actually giving the mainline stuff time to simmer).

@Yosher No…we really don’t know. Is it because it’s a GKC release? Is it because you can’t afford it/justify the purchase right now? Is it because it’s not your kind of game?

I’ve put about five hours into it so far. I’m not a cozy game person, so I don’t know how long it’ll keep my interest, but I might like to try and complete the PokeDex and Habitat Dex.

“Lead in performance”

I interpret this as “This thing’s gonna be crazy expensive for no good reason because ALL gamers love chasing the highest specs.”

…even though, historically speaking, console users generally don’t do that.

Of course Charizard’s gonna win. Nostalgia’s one heck of a drug.

As for me, I’ll be over here with the best boi Ampharos.

Oh neat. That was always a frustrating quirk of trying to catch Raikou and Entei.

No problem whatsoever. I’ve seen the official art of all of these Pokémon so many times that I recognized all of them instantly.

Yeah, it’s Greninja. Cliche, I know. But, Auroras is a close second. It’s so majestic!

I still think the most comfortable way to play these games is to lay on your back and prop the system on your face. It’s not perfect and it’ll dig into your face, but it’s much more comfortable than hunching into the system itself, imo.

Where’s the option for “I’m gonna be buying the physical because I’m a collector and want to support Xenoblade, but I already 100% completed the survey map on Switch 1 and am not itching to replay it again for a bit?”

Depends on the day. Sometimes it’s Lucario. Sometimes it’s Gallade.

This is one of the instances where I’m glad I sprung for a day one purchase. I’ll be very surprised if S2 doesn’t get a price hike.

My best boi Ampharos! Not only is it my favorite Gen II Pokémon, it’s my favorite Pokémon overall!

It’s Pikachu. I know. I’m basic. I don’t care.

I prefer Silksong solely because it feels faster. Being able to dodge and dash as part of your standard moveset is a nice addition and gives the game more flow.

I’m not really interested in the game either way, but it sounds like they’re at least trying to work something out.

I’ll wait for a sale before I bite. I like to collect first-party releases, but I doubt I’ll like this one that much.

This is honestly super cool. I doubt Nintendo would go as far as give us unfinished demos like their Mario Land VB demo, but the fact that they’re digging up unreleased games is huge. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get Bound High on there as well.

I’m very torn on this. SMB Wonder is my all-time favorite 2D Mario now, but I just don’t think the S2 edition is providing substantial new single player content. Not to mention, I know I won’t get enough out of the multiplayer content they add. So I’m really not super interested in this one. I guess I’ll wait for reviews to see what they say, but I’m not anticipating buying it.

I did buy that talking flower, though.

@Uncle_Franklin With the power of 4D, you can now SMELL Bubsy...I hear he smells like Taco Bell...

@MTMike87 Try the demo on Steam. It plays very well. I’m unironically excited for this one, and I have no appreciation for any of the previous Bubsy games.

@Uncle_Franklin I wouldn’t worry. This one’s good. The demo plays very well.

I mean…it’s the greatest game ever, but what?! It was selling in the nosebleeds only two days ago. Do I even want to know what Metacritic is doing to it right now?

Not even reportedly. A GameStop near me had the same deal and is now completely dead.

And of course the CEO still has potential to make bank. Why wouldn’t they?

Who the heck is this Mike Odyssey person? They’re going around claiming there’s a Direct on Feb 20th AND that both of the games in these trademark renewals could be receiving ports or remakes. Insanity if I’ve ever heard it. There is literally no good reason to port Ultra Smash (on top of the fact that we’re getting Mario Tennis Fever in February), and I think Nintendo would rather we forgot about Tri Force Heroes (I personally liked it, but I can see why people didn’t).

And trademark renewals have NEVER once indicated anything (so much so to the point that I question why NL even bothers to report on it). Then again, I am leaving this comment on this article, sooooo…

Ironically, he’s my favorite of the NPCs. I will not tolerate Myles slander in my life.

Cool for people who are into Splatoon, but I really wish Nintendo would just not focus so much on Switch 2 Editions of old games. They’re not exciting most of the time. The only one that really was (in my opinion) was Kirby and the Forgotten Land because the content they added felt pretty beefy and significant on top of the improvements to the original. We’ll see how they justify this and Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s upgrades, but I’m not expecting much.

Maybe they had to censor it to put it on the store itself? I don’t have parental controls enabled, but maybe Nintendo wanted it so kids didn’t see the original art if they could easily access it.

Either way, I’d be surprised if the actual content itself ends up censored. This may just be my impression, but I don’t think Nintendo’s been too concerned recently about what’s in a final game itself as long as it’s sold.

You had better buy your son that Switch 2, my dude. He friggin’ earned it!

I can’t remember any particular Christmas as a kid where I adamantly wanted something to the point that I dropped hints every moment I could. But I do remember getting my beloved Game Boy Color for Christmas. It was the Special Edition bundle that came with Pokémon Yellow. I played that Game Boy so much, and I still have it in working order to this day. Another sweet Christmas memory was Christmas of 2000 where I got Pokémon Gold. I very clearly remember the strong feelings of joy I had when I opened it up.

Would it be better if it was an actual game card? Yes.

Do I care? No, not really.

Being able to download the data is a nice option. I was forced to take my Switch Lite with me somewhere and couldn’t download Hollow Knight on since it wasn’t the primary or linked system. The option to turn off Redownload Software would’ve been nice at launch, too, but whatever.

I also imagine this will stop CFW usage on Switch 1 for a while.

FINALLY! A decent way to see Play Activity that doesn’t involve that forsaken Parental Controls app. Shame they still do the whole “Over X hours” bucket nonsense rather than show the actual time spent. Hopefully they change that, but for now, nice to have an app version of the store.

I really don’t think anyone is in doubt that Mario will be around for a long time.

@Coffeeglitch Don’t lump my boi Clippy in with these soulless machines! Clippy at least was charming and had personality with his animations, in spite of his constant annoying notifications.