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@MrHonest God Bless

@MrHonest Not my fault people this day in time aren't raised right.

YAY! $40 for a Switch port of a 10 year old Wii U game! What a great deal!

@MrHonest Read the Bible. If you did, you'd know that everyone is welcome to come to Christ, but only those who turn from sin are accepted. Where's the mods at on this guy?

@MrHonest Again, ladies and gentlemen, present facts and it causes people to bash you any way they can. That's how parents raise their kids this day in time. Anyone, feel free to go back and read it if you think otherwise.

Side Note: It's interesting when someone tries to judge a Christian, yet doesn't even know the Bible. I'm waiting: Please tell me what I said was a sin? Lol I even went back and read it. I can't help it causes you to be triggered. Not my fault your feelings are tied to a plastic video game machine.

@MrHonest Mock my religion, huh? I guess that's what parents raise their kids to do this day in time when get backed into a corner where they can no longer back up whatever lie or agenda they are trying to push. But hey, since everyone's jumping on the bandwagon bashing Christians, why should you be any different, right?

See here, everyone: This is how the world is. When you simply tell them something they don't don't like, they will bash your belief system any way they can, especially if you're a Christian. And the mods won't do anything to him, unless he was bashing a Muslim or bashing a democrat. That's just how it is.

By the way, I couldn't care less to be honest concerning Xbox and Nintendo. All I stated was indeed factual. You're the one too butthurt to admit otherwise lol.

@MrHonest MCC? The game that stayed full price for a month, to be dropped to $40 and everyone who bought it at full would get ODST free? The game that was gradually fixed into the masterpiece it is today (IGN re-rated it a 9.5 recently)? How is, say, Super Mario Party? The game everyone hounded for being too bare bone. Please all tell us how Nintendo updated that for the better over the years. Or, what about Luigi's Mansion 3. Does it have inverted controls yet?

Need I go on? And, as I said, Halo Infinite is better than any game Nintendo has ever pumped out online. It currently is one of (probably thee) greatest shooter I've ever played online.

Lol. Look at Gears 2. XB updated it for 4K, 60 FPS for free, along with nearly all their first party 360 titles a week ago. If Nintendo did it, it would be $60 flat. You Nintendo fans are nearly like a brick wall: You have the most ridiculous opinion. Go ahead, please defend how their online service, being now only 10 bucks less than XBL if you get the 64 expansion, is of just much worth as XBL.

You do you "you" dude, like only Nintendo fans do. I was one of you before the Switch, and I got blasted for it by other people. Now I see how ignorant and utterly ridiculous I sounded now that I have mind that isn't controlled by a company that doesnt care if I lived or died.

@MrHonest Is this a joke? Halo Infinite is a free game... While we are at it, what about Mario Kart Tour? Lol I've heard people actually have to spend money to unlock Mario on there. You Nintendo fans have tunnel vision. Xbox doesn't remaster a game and slap a $60 pricetag on it. They literally update it and give it for free.

By the way, I can tell you for a fact, Halo Infinite is better than anything Nintendo has popped out in years.

I'm sure I'll get blasted by all the Nintendo fans who believe Nintendo can do no wrong here for saying this, but I often wish now that they would have. Xbox actually gives a rip about it's fanbase. If this would have actually happened, we would have 4K 60-120 FPS versions of all first party games from the NES - GCN on GamePass, meaning better performance for a better deal and much better bang for our buck than Nintendo offers. Not only that, we would have actual modern online features for Nintendo games and proper online implementation. Finally, instead of full price ports, Xbox just updates the game for free, and we'd get new Nintendo titles on GP day one. Yes, I for one wish they would purchased them. Nintendo died the day Iwata did for me.

@Snatcher Fair deal. And yes. From what I've read, many of the reviewers were sometimes even 10 levels above the highest level Pokemon of whatever gym leader they were at. I can tell you right now that's an issue I never had with the originals.

@Snatcher I'm saying the graphics accompany the gameplay. The EXP share, even by review sites who actually gave the game favorable scores, hit it for not having the option to turn it off. I'm saying the graphics are par for the course, as the game is generally massively easier than the originals.

@Jeronan Everything else? If it's the exact same, as you mentioned, then why does it have a $60 price tag on it? Nintendo took a game, put little work into giving it the graphics of a early 2000s free children's RPG cell phone game, and made it full price.

And I stand by what I said. The originals are superior. They had native voice chat, the ability to trade ALL Pokemon in the game (even Mew) on the GTS, featured a casino that was cut, costed $30, and featured graphics that didn't cater to children only.

Diamond and Pearl had great moment, and the encounters with Team Galactic are some of my favorite in the entire series. I don't want to see them tarnished by terrible design choices.

Have you ever watched Dragon Ball Z? Imagine taking Majin Vegeta's atonement against Buu, and redesigning it in, as you said "chibi style". It would completely take everything away from it that made it special, and stoop it down to level that only little kids and butthurt fans who can't admit otherwise would like.

There's a group of Pokemon fans that will defend them no matter what. I used to, but they (as with Nintendo as well) have changed. A side note: Diamond and Pearl wasn't exactly a hard game, but it wasn't easy either. If the games graphics didn't already solidify it as a baby Pokemon game, then the difficultu with the EXP share did.

I hope it's better than the first one. I loved the Impossible Layer, but the first YL felt like an unfinished semi-openworld beta.

@NovaCam I know many people who believe that HG/SS were the last great Pokemon games, and the best ones ever made for that matter. Yes, it is generally viewed as the best Pokemon DS game. Mine, personally, was B/W2.

@luckiernut Then you missed out. The originals on DS were leaps and bounds superior. This is like the Pokemon Let's Go version of this game: It's designed for kindergarteners to beat the Elite 4 and complete disregards the original core fans.

This may be greatest review for me this website has ever given due to the fact that the reviewer pointed out a factor that no other reviewer had the balls to mention (probably were paid off): The art style. It is an absolute shame how Nintendo remakes an original $30 DS game, slaps an art style on it that is used in the cheapest of JavaScript internet baby games and far inferior to the art of the original, and gives it a $60 price tag.

Changing the art style does not always work out. While I was dead set against the art chosen in Link's Awakening on Switch, it worked decently well due to matching the dreamworld element. However, I never saw Diamond and Pearl as a kiddy game, and its tone just felt catered toward the core audience rather than children. Epic moments with epic characters now look cheap. Imagine if Disney recreated A Goofy Movie and gave it the art style of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: All the epic moments would be lost due to everything catering to the appeal of a toddler.

Pokemon has been gradually catering towards toddlers since Pokemon Go's success, and this game strongly inforces it by holding your hand with the forced always-on EXP share. I cannot imagine anyone defending a 2021 Pokemon game that literally took out overworld roaming Pokemon: This is also a trend that Game freak has been following in laziness. It's hard to believe that this is the same company that jame packed Black and White 2 to the brim with content. I suppose it's par for the course, as their parent company Nintendo has become a lazy, money hungry corporation that gives little attention to it's fans in-trade for cheap cash grabs that sell like hotcakes.

Anyone out there who owned the originals and wants to go back: Download a DS emulator on your phone and get the ROM. If you didn't own it, buy a cheap DS and a used copy, because this, like the N64 titles on Switch, is the absolute worst way to experience what are some of the best Pokemon titles ever made.

Doug Bowser has literally 0 input on this. Do you guys not remember when Reggie addressed that he heard everyone on wanting GameCube games for Switch Online? Or when he said he was thinking of a way to give Switch owners who purchased ports from Wii U a discount of some kind? Yeah, it never happened, because he had 0 say in it. The money-hungry Japanese HQ is calling the shots, and they couldn't care less how buggy or bad the N64 online is, as long as it's churning money. None, and I repeat, none of the problems on it will ever be addressed. Mark this post and screenshot it if you don't believe it.

For those who had no other way to play this game and got it on Switch: I feel for you. For those who had other consoles and went with the Switch version, don't complain. It's like this with nearly every Switch port. Look at Crash Team Racing, or Ritual of the Night. Both games ran much worse on Switch

@NIN10DOXD Where's the admin at now?

"Keeping it safe". The story of Nintendo every day since Iwata passed.

Yeah... The originals look much better, and definitely not "must-have".

I liked him before he became all political

I still think they should just hold off until Nintendo has hardware that can atleast match Xbox One with 4K. That way, the game can atleast isn't held back

@Bizzyb I'll be honest: I never thought the SNES/NES made up for the price. They literally were adding 2-3 games every three months, and chances are those were another variation of tennis or a puzzle game. I've quit holding my breath with Nintendo. They have changed.

@cleveland124 No you can't remap them.

@Doktor-Mandrake Amen dude, and here's the deal no one wants to talk about: When you start pricing on a comparable level to the competition, you should offer similar bells and whistles that the competition offers. I was listening to a guy on YouTube state this service for what they are asking people to pay should have had the majority of all Nintendo first party 64 games at launch.

I own all three systems: The PS5, XBSX, and Switch, and I've been a fan of Nintendo since I was 5 and played my dad's NES for the first time. But this generation, I primarily now play Xbox. They still have that deal, and they actually often offer a 3 month deal for $1 a month. I pay $15 a month for Ultimate, which gets me XBL and GamePass, and I have a blast with it.

Nintendo is charging XBL/PS+ ($50/$60 yearly, yet with monthly options) levels of pricing with their expansion, so yes: People should compare and see what gives you the biggest bang for your buck. I cannot fathom the fact that I am being asked to pay $50 for an online infrastructure that doesn't even feature messaging not inviting friends to a native chat room on the console. It's just embarrassing, but they don't care.

Here's what won't be on the way: Conker's, any 007 game, any Star Wars game, and pretty much any other 3rd party title. I also doubt Pokemon Stadium will be there, since Nintendo has never made an effort to add in before. Half of those slots will probably go to 3-4 tennis and golf games, judging how Nintendo handled SNES/NES.

@Shiiva I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but I'll be honest: They probably won't ever fix it, especially if a lot of people choose to get the service. When Luigi's Mansion 3 released, there was (absurdly) no option to invert the stick, which left the community to hope for an update for a basic feature that should be in any modern game. It never came, because the game still sold like hotcakes. I suspect the same thing will occur for Nintendo's 64 games. They will never update them because Nintendo only cares about money now. They aren't the same company they were when Iwata was in. That's not an opinion; It's a fact. An example is the pricing of ports (not remakes, ports). All of the GameCube ports to Wii were half-price, but the Wii U ports to Switch are full. Just an example.

The only plus side to this is if you have never bought any of the N64 titles before. If that is the case, and the Switch is your only optio to ever get to play these games, then yes, that is the only plus.

Other than that, everything about the service is garbage. You are asked to pay an absurd amount of money for games that came out 25 years ago. On top of that, there is absolutely no other bells and whistles. If you count online play, then there. I have tried it with SNES, and despite having good online (as well as the person I played with), it still lags, and there is no match-making options available. Add that with the fact that there is no customization for the games, the performance is worse than the 64, Wii, and Wii U on nearly every level, and the fact that you're only gonna get 1-3 games every 3 months based on Nintendo's track record with NES/SNES, and you have the biggest rip-off in gaming history. I haven't even touched on the fact that service adds no other basic online features, many of which Wii had for free (messaging, the ability to back up all games via SD, native voice chat), nor the fact that you're locked out of you VC purchases behind a $50 paywall for worse versions.

I have no clue how anyone, and I mean ANYONE can defend this. It's corporate greed, and imagine if Sony released a service that was $50 a year to only access PS1 games that had all these issues I mentioned above: People would be bashing them left and right.

And just like the cases with fans wishing Luigi's Mansion 3 would get inverted controls, Switch to get modern features such an achievement system or even basic ones such as a messaging system, and the pricing of Wii U ports to be cheaper for those who got them on Wii U, Nintendo will never update this service. You'll be paying $50 a year for the worst possible way to experience 64 games, and the problems will never be addressed because people will buy it no matter what, and Nintendo cares only about money and not about what the fans want.

I encourage anyone who has bought these games in the past to emulate them. It's sad when my son's $40 Kindle can play OoT better than the device owned by the company that developed it.

I am normally the kind to give the editor benefit of the doubt on articles like this, but in this case... there is absolutely nothing he can say to convince me that limiting the number of Pokemon transferable in game can benefit the franchise. Nothing. Anyone who says otherwise has either only played the game the past 3-5 years (which case would make sense, as there would be no sentimental value there), or would defend Game Freak regardless of what they do. Anyone knows the magic of Pokemon has always been the ability to transfer the Pokemon you had all your life to the new generation. I always look at my Pokemon Bank as a time machine. The fact that I can't use all of them anymore is detrimental. It's ridiculous for anyone to defend that, especially taking into account how the 3DS, which is atleast a good 10x less powerful than Switch, could easily handle over 800+ Pokemon in the game. The Switch isn't even using new models, just upscaled ones from Sun/Moon... So any arguments of this move benefiting anyone who ever played Pokemon is only good for an April Fool's joke at best.