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@Cashews yeah, my thinking exactly, the game is getting a lot of love but it literally looks like one of the countless shovelware mobile games that release nowadays

hmmm, i do want to play this, but graphically i didnt expect it to look like one of those mobile games where the promotion for it pops up on the side of a webpage...

Not sure tbh, was hoping for a different vibe from BotW a bit, but i t feels exactly the same, just with a crafting/survival mechanic that i am not sure i will be that into. a little bit nervous.

Remaster is solid, and fun games to play. Great way to play the OG, although i would say Klonoa 2 is more fun to play in terms of gameplay. Klonoa 1 has the better story though, which is surprisingly moving.

@EarthboundBenjy I have played a lot of Klonoa and Kirby, i wouldn't say it is massively like Kirby. The similarity is that yes, you use the enemies as a means of progression, but with Klonoa this just means grabbing them with the windring using them to leap off. It is a simple mechanic that can become surprisingly challenging (like in the bonus level that unlocks in the original). A colorful world like Kirby as well. but quite a different vibe overall.

just a heads up for those that epilpsey like me, dont watch this.

Ten Dates, Fashion Police Squad, Power Wash Simulator.....

Maybe i am just an old fashioned traditionalist, but i feel like trash shovelware being the top choices in any list indicates something is not quite right with the gaming scene. I personally wish Nintendo would cultivate what they allow to release on their system, because there is such a barrage of trash comes through the eshop on a weekly basis, that 'Ten Dates' is considered a good title.

@Ralizah Yeah, so SotN is a MetroidZelda, or a Metroid inspired game. Kind of weird that SotN used a Metroid based system and then got to have a million games use 'vania' in terms of a genre. Its like, 'well SotN done the Metroid system so well and merged it with the Castlevania system, that it gets equal standing in terms of a genre inspired game type'. Its really not even close to equal, it just utilised the Metroid model to great effect.

the point stands that the term VANIA in all 'metroidvanias' is absurd in the extreme. the progress based on backtraking and getting items you couldnt previously get to progress in 2D format was popularised most by Super Metroid (not where it started though), and the Zelda franchise in general. With the GBA era Castlevania adopted the 'Metroid' mechanic for progress. There is really no need to have the term vania, unless it is supposed to convey 2-d side scrolling gothic theme action gameplay. The Metorid mechanic never, ever belonged to or originated with any Castlevania title.

@SonOfDracula i kinda agree. Blazing Chrome wasn't that great, and the level designs were kind of a mess. Odallus i thought a mini-masterpiece however

they made an Avatar game thats coming soon. ugh. bold move but prob guaranteed financial loss right there.

Surprised they didnt make a new Rayman. They got pretty big leverage out of Legends...

@MsJubilee it takes a fair bit of skill to programme good AI software

@DiggleDog yeah, i done the same. I was sceptical going in to Sonic Frontiers, and there is a hecka lot of jank in there, but it does have appeal at the same time. i have a love-hate thing going on with it so far, but i keep going back.

would have honestly just preferred to see the original 3 get a light remaster (in the spirit of the Shadow Man remaster) and brought to switch

@Melchiahdim best way to play it tbh, they dont make em like that anymore, and it is def worth playing. took me 35 odd hours to get the clear, so it is def got plenty of content. They done an amazing job with it.

absolute scandal you dont have Shadow Man Remastered in here Nintendo Life. That is one heck of a remaster. another Capcom fighting collection over the sheer effort that went into the Shadow Man master as a massive labor of love, restoring lost content and everything? You just went for the easy and lazy option here

man, i gotta stop wasting money on this junk

@ImmaWario i just assumed this was the same Developers that made a short hike, and the made this using the exact same assets upon completing that title. It is not just similar aesthetically, it looks like the exact same world.

Big F to that Helen woman that screwed up her permanent gig as the voice actress to Bayo

i wonder if Elden Ring will bounce back in after winning GOTY

@JohnnyC "Its been out more than a month. " My man, Mario Kart 8 has been on the scene for years and it is hot on its heels. Amazing how quick some major titles drop out of the top 10 though, and others literally stay in for years.

i hadnt played any Pokemon games since the OG Gameboy titles, so tried a couple on Switch. I played 'Eevee' and Legends. Unbelievably bad games. Not even good RPG's. Just pure fanboy OCD Pokemon collectathon type stuff. Graphically extremely lazy, boring. I cannot believe these games sell so well. I dont get it.

I always feel with Sonic games (especially the 3D titles), it is more a fact that people desire to like these games from a kind of good-will toward the Sonic franchise, then they are actually good. Something about flying at hyper fast speeds is inherently incompatible with a 3D platforming world in an engaging and meaningful way. Even 2D Sonic titles are over-rated, and although had a great vibe, were never on the level of Mario titles. Sad to see this is another mis-direction of the franchise.

@Mince Indeed. 1 point added on for being a Square Enix game - so realistically a 5

@Rykdrew the point seems to be that getting the clear on a 1cc run will take 60-70 hours. sounds about right. so you are right, it takes a long time to clear the game

how come i am in Europe and i have been on the shop almost everyday and never been unable to get in once? Really, i dont get this.

not a bad rendition tbh. nemesis is easy to screw up it seems. this is pretty good

physical on Switch has really sold out. hoping new copies are distributed/produced

@ModdedInkling i kinda like them, and i like what they did with the BotW set up. But after you have played a few more warrior titles, the formula gets familiar very quick, and it is difficult not to get fatigue with these games.

FIFA 22 is there because it was in the sale with a pretty big price reduction

I dunno man. almost all boss fights. the plane shooter levels were my favourite, was hoping for maybe 2 or 3 of those levels. boss fights are nice, but mostly they are better when broken up with different level styles. Would have been nice to have just one run'n'gun level.

i collect Crash merch, and looking back at the early PS1 stuff, they progressively gave him a more moronic cretin look that is just too much at this point. like, dial it down a bit, we know Crash is kinda like that, always was, but it is just ott at this point.

well, if they are doing a mini now, that means the major direct has so much content for Nintendo IP's they have to do that seperate. BotW2, Mario Odyssey 2, Metroid Prime 4 and Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch Edition here we come......

@MidySeaCloud Or what?

theres gotta be something coming. and theoretically we are only about 9 months out from BotW2 release. There has to be a trailer. There is no way a direct is not happening within the next few weeks.

@Expa0 indeed. Nintendo should have licenses AM2R. the mercurysteams are OK, but they are not proper Metroid's.

it is trite and tedious by now, but i am recently getting bothered by the term Metroidvania. This has been gone over plenty, but it is really absurd that the 'vania' part is in there. Castlevanias didnt start doing the whole metroid backtracking item finding thing until the GBA castlevanias, where it basically implemented the Metroid model. it is just that the name works. Really it should be a Metroid-Zelda combo - but 'Zeldatroid', or 'Metelda' doesnt work too well....

This one feels like a no-brainer though. I bet it is called Switch 2, and is full backward compatible, and is essentially a more powerful robust system. If they launch it with full GameCube catalogue on the online, and maybe Wii, with strong lauch titles, i cant see how it would fail.

Breath of the Wild 2 (new footage) and Metroid 4 (some footage) and this will be the greatest direct in a long time.

so i read through this, and the takeaway is that 'wholesome' is a purely subjective term without any objective, fixed or absolute basis. So wholesome, as a result, doesnt really mean anything at all. Well, it does, but what it means to one person, is just 'that persons opinion', and the next person can have an entirely different understanding of wholesome. So there is no shared ground or common/shared meaning the term denotes. That is all well and good, but then that means that the term is kinda meaningless (has no absolute and shared reference), which from what i read they might be happy with anyway.

the main character just feels so badly designed, and it loses what legit OoT vibe it could have had. But this must have been made by the same people that made 'Fatum Betula' with that cat thing. that was actually a really great little game

yeah, sure, will update without question. 'G-Darius for the consumer' should be interesting, since that was the PS1 release of the game. Nice they went the extra mile with this, because they didn't really need to do that.

Dont want to be critical just for the sake of it, but why does it feel like a massive tech demo? This Sonic really needs to have good combat to make the world relatable in some way. As it is i feel like this world would become tedious after around 2 hours. And where is Sonic's Sheikah slate?

@Damo fair enough man, i know you are doing your best. just it feels its getting a little control freak with the comment sections sometimes. But anyway, honestly speaking, i am hyped for this game totally, and really, really hope it comes to Switch soon.

@Damo useless? maybe it was useless to you. But you know, sometimes light hearted comments that are kind of made in jest just lighten up things a little you know. Not everything has to be deadly serious and 'constructive' like we are enthusiastic corporate employees trying to score points with how 'constructive' our comments are. Maybe not everything revolves around your perspective, you know. Plus, it is certainly a bit odd that we are getting a semi-review of a game that may or may not come to Switch, when there are plenty of titles that get zero attention but deserve it.

In terms of the device itself, this isn't even a competition. Steam Deck can run Elden Ring pretty damn fluid. The thing here is that (obviously) Nintendo has a whole gaming world of its own making. People are gonna wanna play BotW2 really, really badly. Cant do that on Steam.

@OorWullie sine mora was horrific

if you are used to playing the PS2, this is basically unplayable on 3DS. it is horrific. Get an old PS2 and play the OG. 1000 times better.

WATA is not primarily for 'game preservation' to begin with. anyone can put a game into a strong plastic case or loader, and it will be protected forever. But of course they grade games and this creates a hierarchy of quality and state for any given title. The games collectables industry is probably more booming than any other collectables industry in the world, bar perhaps the fine art market itself. The crazy inflation on prices is contingent upon an economy that paradoxically, is in very bad state. in fact the whole of western civilisation is in a state of rapid economic collapse. Fiat cash is understood as being a kind of illusion (worthless), so people who have money are flying into whatever commodities and valuables they can. The video game scene is one of the major places for that right now (along with trading cards), and so companies like WATA are naturally making a killing (and playing the market a bit along with it).