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@StephanDLW Im no professional when it comes to game sales but isnt Banjo Kazooie very obscure in Japan too?

I like how they try to attempt to cover such an insidious practice with the celebration of the 2nd anniversary.

Mai is going to be the next Ridley for the fans. From too big to too sexualised.

Sounds like he’s covering his ass just in case he cheats or is caught cheating one day, he can fall back to this.

As much as I don’t like Brie and her feminazi behaviour, I think it is safe that she is a huge Nintendo fan. She did dress up as Samus for Halloween, tweeted the post to the game and actually knows who Doug Bowser is.

@Xansies Gen 2 was pretty bad but Typhlosion and Meganium was just simple, not... this. I thought people liked Blaziken, I remember seeing my sweet my flip turning in swampert, ewww.

Gen 6 has the superior Greninja, I just don’t like Delphox being female in appearance when 75% of the gender is male.

Wow, I’ve never seen such ugly final evolutions. Hopefully Scorbunny final evolution doesn’t perfect the triforce of ugliness.

EDIT: Scorbunny’s final evolution looks like those really bad Pokémon OC fan arts... looks like the budget for Pokémon design team have also been cut judging by these designs.

There’s effort put into this but the jumps, dash, walk and everything is waaaaaaaay too similar. I don’t think there’s anything wrong if you’re not stealing any assets but it’s just too bad that they made a project that have little to no creative input at all. With talents such as this, I’m sure they could’ve introduced something innovative to the run N gun genre.

@1UP_MARIO I’ll give it another try but so far Dragalia Lost eats up most of my mobile time, yesterday I was looking at the pricing for Dr Mario and decided to go for a pull and I got Rosalina so I’ll be playing that game again. We’ll have to see where Mario Kart can squeeze in.

@1UP_MARIO It’s not about good or not good when it comes to a franchise like Mario, it is about do you like the character or not and I simply like the character enough to want it.

@fafonio I mean I’m not level 12 yet where the third tier (level 10 atm) on the shop opens so I would assume that’s where the platinum characters appear. If that’s the case then I feel a bit more motivated to play the game again. Also knowing that you can actually buy Platinum characters makes this game slightly more generous now, I mean the rubies handouts are still cheap but at least it isn’t FEH greedy level.

@1UP_MARIO I wanted Pauline but I didn’t get her and it was opening week so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I stopped playing Mario Kart Tour after the first cup ended because when I logged in, they didn’t have login bonuses which I thought was super cheap of them.

It’s easier said than done about not summoning. I just checked and there is Halloween Rosalina which I would love to get because Rosalina is awesome but hey, game hasn’t even been out for 2 months yet so you can’t possibly have the 100 summons yet and this is assuming you come in high ranking for every cup. I got first on my first cup but then I couldn’t even touch top 5 when I got up to tier 4 so hey, no rubies for me.

No Kirby merchandise even though they love Kirby over there?

Also I get that Metroid isn’t famous at Japan but can we all press F for respect to our favourite bounty hunter...

@1UP_MARIO
50 rubies is equivalent to 11 summons, you’ll. Have to play a bit over 2 months just to get 100 pulls, that is hardly generous.

If I remember correctly, FEH gave you around 200-300 (We’ll meet half way so 250) orbs per month and it is around 20 orbs to do a full summon so within a month, you get 120 summons + Summon tickets that gives you free Summon + free Summon on a new banner.

Dragalia Lost gives so many summon that I’ve practically lost count at this point but from my account, I’ve been saving for about 2 months now and I can do about 400 summons and there were like a 10 days in a row where we get to summon 10 free daily and even on weekends too where we got 10 free daily on 2 banners so that was four 10 free Summon on the weekend separate from the 10 days in a row.

This is not counting that FEH and Dragalia’s gacha only have the premium stuff like FEH with the units and Dragalia with the adventurers and dragons (used to have prints as well but they removed it from the gacha and made it you can buy it with in-game currency which is SUPER generous).

Mario is littered with craps like the kart and the glider which unless you are trying to win the pvp content, you wouldn’t really care too much. I would say that one good thing about Mario Kart’s Tour’s gacha is that it will guarantee you get the featured things if you pull 100 times which I have to admit it is pretty generous but the slow rate you get your premium currency and the amount of times you need to pull X character to max them out to full power is absurd. FEH requires 11 copies max of the same unit to max them while Dragalia only need you to pull once for the Adventurer and you can max them already but the dragons need 5 copies total but as I said before, you get an item in game that can help them get to max power. I’ve been playing since February and I have 5 dragons to max powers just from those items alone. Assuming the platinum characters only need 1 copy (can’t find this information anywhere) for each level, you’ll need 6 copies total to have them at full skill level which is better than FEH But nowhere near Dragalia.

Also comparing to other Nintendo Mobile Games. I haven’t played Animal Crossing since launch but even I remember the leaf tickets were pretty generous in that game that I was able to get KK’s chair and Tom Nook’s chair. Dr Mario uses both gold coins and diamonds to unlock characters and supports which is pretty nice that they let you use regular currency to summon. I haven’t played Pokémon Masters but I heard that thing is greedy beyond control.

Overall, Mario Kart Tour’s only good point regarding the paid model/gacha is that the gacha will guarantee what you want after 100 summons and the platinum are all clones/alts except Pauline (so you can get your favourite who is usually ranked gold with coins from the shop if they are featured on that day), but everything else is just not good.

@fafonio Yea... no, out of all the Nintendo mobile games, this is probably the worst when comes to gacha. FEH is bad but at least you get a steady income of orbs. Mario Kart Tour doesn’t (you don’t get much from daily log ins and that is IF there are daily log ins from time), you can only earn like probably up to 5 red gem (equivalent to ONE Summon) after passing a few cups and to make matters worse, you have a chance to pick up Metal Mario or Musician Mario instead of Pauline and the like, yea no thank you. On the opening week, I think I only had made like a total of 10 summons and that’s when I grinded away to collect as many gem as possible which is super cheap ass on their part especially when it was the opening week.

If you think Mario Kart Tour is generous (which is not), wait til you play Dragalia Lost. That game is probably the most generous gacha game I’ve ever played. Premium currency for summoning for just about anything from completing missions, logging in and even when they have maintenance, reducing summoning cost from 500 premium currency to 200 per Summon, Summon Tickets Which comes in single and tenfold given as rewards, free Single or free tenfold summoning on banner for a set amount of days while the banner is on showcase and best of all, items that are handed out super generously that fully upgrade your gacha unit to max power (equivalent to FEH’s merge or Mario Kart’s character level).

Good, Disney is a shell of its former self. Now they are trying so hard to pander to the feminists.

@ShadJV Is it really greedy though? I mean right now we view it as a given since we have it packed in but Wii Sport is a retail game that was initially sold separately in Japan so it makes sense that Iwata’s mindset is to continue selling them separately. I hardly find selling a working retail game separately as greedy, if you say Wii Sports came in an episodic format where you have to pay $20 on top for each sports then that would be greedy.

@Xaessya Umm, it’s just to bundle or not to bundle Wii Sports with the Wii. Nothing dark about that...

Imitation is the best form of Flattery.

New character on the way! Kimono Mario! Metal Kimono Mario! And finally, last but not least, Matcha Metal Kimono Mario!!! WOWOWOW, such a strong line up joining the amazing array of cast that already exist like Mario, Baby Mario, Metal Mario and the ever so innovative Musician Mario!

@YANDMAN I got it on the wii u and after a stage or 2, I just couldn’t continue anymore.

Rodea felt like a miss to me, I can’t say I’m excited for whatever this new project is.

stop trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen.

What kind of legal fees cost approximately 4mil? This doesn’t make sense at all!

Am I the only who felt like they obtained aids when they called a Varia Suit a Power Suit.

I love Platinum and Clover Studio games but say if I wasn’t interested, I’d still get the game just for Kamiya’s comments alone.

Man, the sales are going to tank just from receiving this award, RIP.

I love me some Shantae, this is a day one buy easily.

@Woomy_NNYes haha now I can imagine this Magikarp to just be vibrating on the table like when someone calls your phone and it is on vibration.

No video? I feel a massive betrayal at the moment.

I don’t really care about inspiration but this looks like they actually stole assets from BOTW. The grass, trees and spit roast looks too similar.

I’m not too sure about the criminal laws in Japan but good luck trying to press charges for something like that in Australia. If the book gets translated, it is up to the company to pursue this matter civilly since there is nothing criminal about translating something.

Also good luck trying to get your country police to deal with any international criminal offences, only at the most severe scenario will they apply for a warrant to make an international arrest.

So unless Japan’s law is drastically different, I see that post either to be misinformed or a feeble attempt at scaring people.

Once a upon a time, a bathesda bug is considered endearing.

FINALLY AUSTRALIA GETS SOMETHING NICE!

Pre-ordered one copy myself.

@TrainerX493 I found out he is the one behind Pokémon Adventure Red Chapter hack and is still working on that one. He said he also worked on a green chapter but it’s canceled now.

@TrainerX493 let me just ask him which one he made, I’ll probably be able to “leak” his latest update as well. As far as I’m aware, he’s been doing Pokémon hacks since 2012 I think.

I’ll get back to you once I got the answer.

Reading this articles reminds me that my brother is still making Pokémon ROM hack games. I never paid much attention to his hacks though but now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure he’s the one behind the Pokémon hack Adventure Green and Yellow (or titled something else? He definitely made a Green hack since he’s obsessed with that character). All I remember is he was showing off this Pikachu that you have to chase down in this small forest like maze and I just palmed him off cause I was too busy at that moment.

I’m surprised they got lazy on the Animation when it is actually the easiest part. Rigging and skinning is a true nightmare for me. Doing the many different types of texture is a pain too. Creating the model is fun but man, you need a lot of time to make a good looking one. With animations, just set key frames and let 3DS max fill in the movements in between.

@Daidman on Steam since 2013.

@mikegamer Bitter that there is no FF9-2

@Ralek85 first paragraph, are we talking about FF7 or FF8 here? Cause FF8 is definitely a remaster, it even says in the total of this article. In order for anything to be a remake, it needs to be built from the ground up like NES FF > GBA FF > PSP FF and so all music, graphics, environment, text etc are all different. No matter how you look at FF8, it is at most a glorified port, I hardly call it a remaster.

Now I just read your second paragraph and you are definitely taking about FF7, sorry but you’re in an FF8 article. So yes, FF7 is a remake but not FF8.

In terms of what’s getting me hyped, I feel ya on Ghostwire Tokyo, there is no gameplay footage yet sadly but the concept is nice so far. My other hyped game is Doom Eternal.

@-Juice- Played it twice on the original PlayStation, it was by far the worst FF game (mainly due to Junction). From what I can see, it’s been re-released on PSN, Steam, Xbox, on PC etc.

From what I can see on Steam right now, it is readily available for anyone to play since 2013.

The main issue is Square Enix always port/Remaster/Remix/remake their older games. Final Fantasy 1 and 2 has been ported and remade to death (what was the latest one? The mobile versions?), FF3 has a remake on the DS, FF4 has a remaster on GBA and remake on DS, 7 and 9 has been ported to everywhere, 10 has an international version and recently had the HD thing going on. KH1 and 2 have remix version, international version and also 1.5 and 2.5 or something. The world ends with Yoy have a mobile version and also extra content on switch (give me a goddam sequel to this game). Dark stalkers does not have a new game but Square was planning to make one and forced fans to buy the old games to “see if there is an audience for the game”. This conference has so many remasters. There is so many more examples but I think you get what I’m saying at this point.

It’s going to be very hard to outdo Pokémon. They also need something that really stand out and as much as I like Gamefreak, their game’s art direction just looks very generic except Giga Wrecker.

Looking back at his collection, his sonic drawing looks just like the movie one.

@fugl Everything is considered poor delivery and will be down voted when it’s a jab at Nintendo on this website, so don’t be too hard on yourself on your poor observations.

@fugl It was a joke, calm down.

“and new genres can be easily created.”
No, renaming First-Person-Shooter to First-Person-Adventure and Open World to Open Air does not make it a new genre creation.

When Mighty No.9 who failed at being a megaman clone got a 6 from NL, I doubt this game who had more success in the copy could possibly be a 3.

Seems like they thought Link was Zelda too.