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@VIIIAxel Square was busy marketing Balan Wonderworld instead.

They should have delayed American Man until 4th of July.

@PtM Yes, companies whose CEOs are proclaiming social justice outwardly all the time while covering ongoing harassment internally. Same thing, just on a larger scale.

@PtM Let me put it this way: a normal non-racist or non-sexist person doesn't need to constantly advertise about how not-bigoted they are. Kind of like men without confidence in their masculinity tend to act overly "masculine" to make up for it and end up just being a-holes.

Remember: the more a company claims to be woke and progressive, the more toxic it is as a work environment. People don't like "woke" stuff not because they dislike representation but because it's a symptom of inner rot.

This game makes one thing clear: giant pauldron and miniskirt combo should make a comeback in fantasy.

Well, "loli" is not a word I expected on NintendoLife. Or anywhere near Nintendo. It's usually used in a very different context.

@Handy_Man What do you mean? They seem to appear at least every third episode and Meowth even got to gigantamax.

Yeah, it's pretty good, it's nice that Ash and Goh show different approaches and the format which basically makes it about all the Pokemon generations rather than being focused on a single region like before.
Team Rocket having random pokemon also allows the writers to shove as many of the little buggers into the show as they want.
My only complaint is no Hop, but I guess Goh kind of takes over his role.

Now that's a creative use of hardware!

@jamesthemagi Additional content for a classic, legendary game usually looks like hubris. And when it's bad it sours the experience.
Although that's not as bad as removing original content because it's "problematic" or other such nonsense. The only improvements should be to graphics, sound and UI (Monkey Island remakes are pretty good examples of how one should go about remaking classics).

I would prefer if they just made it legally available to more platforms, even a straight SNES or PSX port. And not the mobile version. I don't trust remakes and remasters anymore.

I don't care for Game awards, but man, that's a lot of copium. Almost "Cowboy Bebop isn't supposed to be good" levels.

Here's a novel idea: instead of owning some random NFTs how about we get clear ownership of the games themselves?

Not sure I like it, I kinda liked the theory that Voltorbs only started appearing when Pokeballs were first mass produced. But he's cute and Electric/Grass is pretty unique.

@Vexx234 Most likely for two reasons 1. Video game stories have always been mediocre or a copy of the already told movie ones, with the main appeal being that you get to be the hero (even with Ripley replaced by Samus). 2. Those games that do have great stories would take more than your regular movie runtime to tell. A multiple episode show would work better.

If there was like a 2 week trial every month for a major game it may be worth it. They missed their opportunity to do a free time with Animal Crossing at launch; I imagine since this would also include the DLC a lot of people would have bought the game.

I have encountered the chunk spawning one while boating. Thankfully it didn't result in falling through the world.

Have they at least fixed the issues with the previously released titles? The NES and SNES services are full of great games and I'm not playing those either.

@RudeAnimat0r They were popular enough for Rayne to be one of the first (if not the first) video game characters to get a Playboy centerfold.
Sexy vampire lady tearing through Nazis is very much 2000s aesthetic.

Ok, I will shed some light on the Asterix controversy. Originally it was a sci fi comic series about modern day sailors (and part time astronauts) called "Kajtek I Koko" and that version predates Asterix. However the medieval Slav spinoff that became more popular debuted after Asterix and the author may have been lying about not knowing the French series. At any rate the comic is still much less popular than the Gauls' adventures.
The Netflix series is pretty rough, has good ideas but shows lack of experience. As for the world itself, it really is similar to Asterix, but with more magic (no strength potions, but witches, dragons, magic weapons and shapeshifters) and a consistent cast of villains.

I am a bit glad they delayed Advance Wars, gives me more time to finish other games first. And also maybe they will not mess up this remake (as recent history of remakes is spotty).

I am just waiting for Blood Bowl.

Fun fact: supposedly this series (the anime to be specific) is the reason why in Japan dark elves are usually brown rather than pitch black like in D&D. The series is based in a D&D campaign, but the animators ran into all sorts of issues with straight up black elves so they made them more natural dark skinned instead. And it caught on.

No indie crossover is complete until Shovel Knight rears his horned head.
Either him or Meat Boy.

@Zenszulu It could also be "children think butts are funny".

I had the first thing happen to me. Using the rescue service worked as a work-around.
And I also thought multiple visits to Brewster for Nook Miles was intentional.

Oh wow, when even a site as clearly biased towards Nintendo as NL gives it a 6/10... Glad I didn't pre-order this one.

I think this series could benefit from an episodic like business model, something like Jazz Jackrabbit games back in the day. Since each Toree game seems to be more of a level pack then just make it one.

Things like this is why I considered the PC version. Good thing I decided not to buy it though since PC players were cut off from even playing the damn thing, mods or no.

@GrailUK It had to do with ESRB and American culture. There you can do everything but sex and get away with an M rating, but as soon as there's sex you get the dreaded AO rating that many stores refuse to carry. As I understand one is 17 and the other either 18 or 21.

@Chibi_Manny It's mainly remembered because it caused controversy back in the day. That was before mainstream games dared to have erotic scenes unless they were entirely pornographic.

@GrailUK IIRC press up and down while two mostly clothed PS2 era humanoids are making awkward grinding animations. Basically you got to see what was going on when in the final version it was just an outside view of the house and some noises.

@darkswabber He changed his name to Anita Sarkeesian. Though she's not relevant nowadays either thankfully.

"Florida Men and Women Ruin Beloved Games by Introducing Bugs, Typos"

Aww, I was hoping for condescension towards customers, throwing a few "entitled" and similar epithets here and there, and here they are being reasonable.

No Woolloo, Rowlet or Voltorb? What a sham!

Nothing like a "definitive edition" with less content than the original.
Also from what I understand it's a slightly polished version of the mobile ports. They pulled a Chrono Trigger with these!

@Stocksy How about "incompetent"?

More like "pretend big corporations don't embarass themselves regularly". YouTube stopped caring about creators a long time ago and those huge dislike to like ratios are usually accrued by video game trailers, movie trailers or those creepy videos about the pandemic being "a great opportunity" for "a great reset" created by people who probably have butt-wiping robots and think everyone has those too.

@Mauzuri They could look a bit better, but for me the big bad thing is no voice acting. Even Zelda started talking with the Switch, and yet Pokemon is still text only. Especially awkward when fighting Piers, who is supposed to be singing throughout the battle.
I'd even take Simlish as long as there's sound coming from their mouths.

I like that they're using Arceus to meddle with the formula a bit. That way they can do that without the baggage of being a mainline entry.

@KillerBOB The textures aren't better. How come people in remasters in 2021 seem to have less detailed models than on PS2? Where's Rosenberg's or Reese's wrinkles? Why did Denise's bandana become an amorphous blob? Why is one of the Latin guys missing his bandana?

Now I am waiting to see if the skull on Phil Cassidy's shirt won't have a confederate flat normal map... Like with that number 7/9 jersey.
I heard someone saying that it looks like they wrote a remaster AI and just let it do the work, with no input from humans.

Funny how the article calls this design wacky or original. Chuchel wouldn't stand out in an old Slavic cartoon! I liked his previous design better (it looked more like a sentient speck of dust), but I can see why they changed it.

Is anyone actually surprised by this? Isn't the whole point of Pokemon selling the same game multiple times?

Let's be honest though: the remakes and remaster are lazy. That's why they're given to interns or inexperienced studios, because they're (in theory) easy to do. For the most part no design aside from audio-visual one is required. Maybe some little change or small amount of content here and there but the hardest parts are already done. And yet so many times the inexperienced or out of touch devs still manage to mess it up. With the Pokemon remakes apparently mandatory exp share breaks the game balance.

Also as a former QA let me tell you: a lot of devs absolutely are lazy.

@ObeseChihuahua2 Or the store/delivery company part. Nintendo doesn't have direct control over every retailer.

I ran into a silly bug when encountering Brewster. He walked and clipped into me, trapping us both in place. Thankfully the rescue service worked as a workaround.

It's okay, she's a 1000-year-old demon!