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@MisterStu You're absolutely spot on. These so-called critics, always careful not to upset the ones who grant them such privileges, are really ruining this hobby for a lot of people.

I honestly don’t see the point of listening to Captain Obvious telling me how great these games are, while staying silent - or worse, downplaying - the much more blatant issue of pricing.

LOL seriously, what for?

@Mommar people like me who started with a NES got pretty old now and don't feel like playing an unforgiving game unless its amazingness makes you forget about it. Glad this is the case of Silksong.

Looks great, the end of February feels like a way too long wait now.

I'm "unsure" how anyone could feel "unsure" about this game.

@Airsqueeble If it lives up to its promises then yes. Otherwise I agree with @somnambulance, the real battle will be between Silksong and Expedition 33 (yes, I'm bummed that we can't have the latter on Switch 2).

It must be because I'm not of the right age anymore for this kind of stuff, but I didn't feel the need to watch the Mario movie and indeed I didn't watch it.
In the same way I don't feel the need to watch the next one and I probably won't. I might do an exception if I have a chance to watch it for free, but I'm surely not going to spend a cent on it.

In my opinion, these modern movies based on games just feel like advertisement that you have to pay for and that's being pushed down your throat. On the contrary, the original Super Mario movie of the 90's was so bad that it looked cool, probably because at least back then it was still considered "pop culture", while modern ones do not represent anything.

Sorry but at this point I'm just interested in videogames and great movies, and my experience tells me that you can't have both at the same time.

lol timeline messed up at the second game with this character. It's a record.

I don't know if it's cute or not, but I love the style. The way the edges are emphasized with a thicker line makes the characters stand out from the background and gives it a comics-like look. The scenes are never fully lit, which creates an atmosphere of mystery, but you can still tell where the action is going on screen thanks to the lights pointing precisely at the right points. Despite this, the transition from dark to light is decidedly smooth.

The fact that the game takes place in an environment populated by insects seems to tell players: "This world exists, it's real and everywhere, but you can't see it because you're not looking closely enough. But don't be fooled, because it's a harsh and merciless world. So you'd better become skilled enough to master it, or it will be your downfall."

Not interested/Not interested/Not interested.
Those are the right and most honest answers.

Who has the time to play a really difficult game? The same people who spend the very same amount of time boringly searching for scattered items in an overly easy open-world game, when they don't randomly smash stuff around. Same time, different players, but Silksong's success seem to show that, when it comes to gaming, regular players outnumber casual players (those who spend 70 bucks on two 15-year-old games). And they're definitely the ones who spend more often, because they can.
Now, Nintendo seems to be willing to drop the first group in favor of the second, but I'm not so sure it's a good idea.

It looks like there's no way my backlog can shrink lol
This year has been full of new great releases that I just had to play right away, and this game is going to be next once I beat Silksong.

Well guys, I'm sorry but Nintendo can't afford to keep paying you: they got so broke that they have to sell high value products, especially DLCs and remasters, for bargain prices. They earn so little from games that there's no way they could afford to make movies people can't wait to watch or build theme parks for a handful of people, all things of great interest.

Hollow Knight Silksong. The trial and error-based progression makes it very hard but it's really what I'm enjoying the most about it together with its art style: it forces you to think, there's no way you can beat a boss until you understand how he fights, and it also reminds me of older titles with the same features.

It is not a "bad" game, but it's still pretty much always the same, regardless the fps. I guess I'll never understand why some people keep buying it every year.

@Garo lol I agree, that's probably the most annoying detail of this amazing game.

All amazing games, but the fun I had with Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario Land 2 and Super Mario 3D Land is still unsurpassed, and I played them all.
Odyssey is the most beautiful.

@Ashfordwasp don't worry, just wait for a while and you'll be able to get a Switch 2 SuperEnhanced DLC for 20 bucks more.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant yeah, back in those days it wasn't rare to get some real bargains even at the shop nearby your home.

It looks like making most of two of the best works of Iwata's era is the best Nintendo can do today.
I started to doubt that Nintendo would still be capable of creating something similar nowadays. But judging by some comments, they've undoubtedly become way better at squeezing money from fans.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant exactly. They make very few of them because the main buyers are a niche of die-hard fans. If they made more of them and put them on the shelves, they'd stay there forever and their price would eventually plummet, as shops would want to get rid of them at the end.

@Lofoten the fact that a product is too expensive is not a secondary detail when you buy something. When you see a product, you assign it a value and decide whether its price exceeds it (and this has nothing to do with whether you can afford it or not). If it does, then it's perfectly fine to judge it negatively.
The fact is that in this case people are rightfully feeling ripped off.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant because NSO ones would stay there forever, and they know it.

I definitely do NOT want to buy a piece of plastic for 80 bucks to be able to play games (coming with a paid subscription!!!) even a pirate would refuse to share and that were made for the cr*ppiest console Nintendo has ever created.

It looks like DK & Pauline amiibo was my first and last amiibo.

These newest DLCs are all pretty disappointing in terms of new contents.
This DLC for DK Bananza doesn't add anything valuable to the game, just like the Star-Cross World doesn't add any "great" contents to Kirby and the Forgotten Land (although I had WAY more fun with Kirby's game than with DK Bananza), just like the DLCs for BotW and TotK don't add any valuable contents to the respective games (which are the top of fun IMO).

Despite this, all of them but this DLC have been sold with the promise of enhancing the gaming experience on the Switch 2, which can't possibly apply to this DK Island & Emerald Rush as the original game was already for Switch 2 only. This makes it even more a ripoff than the others.

Now, dear people who believe that anything Nintendo makes is great and worth good money by default, I can't and don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but I just want to remind you that whenever you criticize someone who is disgusted by the latest pretty obvious ripoff strategies, you, deep down, know what the truth really is.

@NintendoWife for that price it should come with a whole set of cookware.

Well, make us pay 200 bucks for it then, even 500 maybe, but 490 on sale. From many comments, I'd get that many people don't get the difference between not being able to afford something and not willing to be ripped off.

This game is addictive, there aren't many games I'd give 10/10, but this is one of them.

Ah well, if it's enhanced for Switch 2 then it must be worth 70 bucks... not.

@Wewewi that's a really good point, actually all the latest releases contained this kind of "surprise".

I want the version that reminds me what a dork I have to be to spend money on something like this.

I wonder why this people even gets interviewed at all. I want to see interesting products, not excuses. If a product is feasible then make it and maybe I'll buy it, otherwise don't.

I was going to preorder it despite the fact that I already have Galaxy on SM All Stars 3D, but I changed my mind when I read about the price. As we say here, Nintendo really peed outside the toilet this time.

These are some expensive pieces of plastic, I have to say, but I'm sure that if I save the money that Nintendo expects me to spend for a year, I could buy a really good 3D printer with which I could make all the pieces of plastic I like for decades.

@SynapticFlow well, let's not forget that they managed to slip a bike in BotW too lol

Full digital for me. I already find it annoying that Switch and Switch 2 have just one slot, and I hate having to swap cards over and over, let alone if I have to insert a card and keep the slot busy to play a game that's completely in the internal storage.

@RainbowGazelle mmhmm exactly lol

@breach187 easy win, it's the only announcement related to Mario that is worth mentioning.

I wasn't expecting much, apart from the release of MP4 planned for December, as I had predicted. Nonetheless, I was surprised to see this game including open areas, it's going to be very interesting to see how they did it.
Yoshi's return is also very welcome (but why is it in this poll?), and I'm hyped to see FFVII remake getting finally ready.

Now the negative part.
While I'm very excited to see SM Galaxy 2 finally ported to Switch (as it should have already been for the SM3D All Stars collection), bundling it with SM Galaxy for the physical edition is just a lazy move to milk more money off the fans, especially because the latter had already been released on the very same console. Not to mention the crazy price.

Also, I had the feeling that DK Bananza was released too early, and now I'm confirmed, since they can't have possibly developed a DLC (shipping today!) in less than 2 months. They had it ready when they released the main game, and now asking 20 bucks more for it is just disgusting.

Finally, no DLC planned for MKW, but we still get a totally new racing game. Nonsense.

I'm not overly happy with the way they are handling DK Bananza, which I felt like it was released way too early, as I have already written several times.
Now, there's no way they developed a DLC in less than 2 months, I'm sure they had it ready when they released the main game. And now game + DLC come at the modest price of 90 bucks.
Hopefully, at least this DLC has less random and senseless smashing and more adventure fun.

Well, this mix of 3D metroidvania and open areas made me curious and want to try it before criticising.
As expected, it's going to be released a few days before Christmas, smart move by Nintendo.

@Gatorclops it's nice to see there's always someone ready to tell you that you don't realize something whenever you criticize prices that are out of this world, as if criticizing were illegal. How do you keep yourselves in exercise?

Great, great news. This trilogy is absolutely worth getting, and I'm not even a JRPG fan.

Dear Nintendo, keep making us pay for your uninteresting movies and unasked for theme parks, until we don't anymore. If that's what you want...

Comfort zones are dangerous😈

@UltimateOtaku91 I'd be happy in either case. Anyway, even if a Galaxy 3 game was announced now, I doubt it would be released before late 2026/early 2027.

To be honest, since my backlog is becoming ginormous, I'm not "hoping" to see anything new, apart from a release date for MP4, but a new Mario game or some updates or DLCs to existing Mario games or a new port/remaster (not a new NSO entry please) would still be very very nice.

@Aloha after several years of experience, I've come to the conclusion that the money spent on hobbies will simply never be recovered, there's no point in deluding yourself. If you can even slightly mitigate your losses, consider yourself lucky, but the effort required to do so is often not worth it. I've fallen for it many times, but every time it's the same.
This is why I consider buying a game-key card with the hope of reselling it simply madness. My advice is to buy a game if you like it, without any other reason.

Anyway, I can understand if you want to gift it to some friend after you've done with it, but if I want to make a gift, I'd rather buy it new.

It's not too difficult, but it's still very difficult, and I think I should have played the previous game first.
I think I got way too used to the very low difficulty levels usually set by Nintendo.
Anyway, it's a great game, its fame is well deserved.

lol now their prices make sense.