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Still shocked we ever got to the point where we'd even need an article like this in the first place. Whose bright idea was it to ditch conventional temples in the first place? Did they think BotW and TotK would be TOO good with them included?

I just hope the cheek physics are on point

@jetsetradion romhacks don't make money and you often have to patch them over the original game file yourself so it's not like procuring the romhack aids you in any way in getting an illegal copy of the game, you can patch your own legit copy. Modding communities are some of the most passionate gamers in the world that consistently make amazing content that reinvigorates people's love of old games and Nintendo at worst will just send a takedown request if they find you're profitting off of their assets or something but that's pretty rare. This isn't like AMSR or similar examples where people completely remade a popular Nintendo game from scratch using many patented assets and potentially stole thunder from Nintendo's own upcoming remake, and even then it was just taken down because that's all Nintendo can do, it's not illegal until you ignore the request. This is all in good fun, celebrating the creative side of the community, and shouldn't be waved away by people who take things too seriously "just because". Nintendo has a very frightening legal team and like a trillion dollars, they don't need you to protect them.

@Quiet2down maybe because 130 artists actually did something newsworthy to celebrate it while the Pokemon Company didn't? It's not that huge a game anyways (in terms of being a groundbreaking Pokemon achievement) and not that huge a deal regardless, just a cool thing. Romhacks aren't illegal.

I appreciate the idea and I know this is just for fun so I'm not going to be critical but now that I realize how cool of an idea this is I hope someone does it again but with more carefully selected artists. I'm gonna throw it on my 3DS just to have it anyways. I love the Weedle, I'd play a whole game in that style.

The furrybait protagonist and blatant letter collecting thievery turned me off from ever trying this, as much as I love David Wise I feel weird about him associating himself with something trying a little too hard to copy masterpieces he was involved in but also Nintendo ain't making em anymore and the dude needs to feed himself.

Still no leak :c y'all got me excited

@Aiwen Key word for MM being "proportionately", and we all know about TLOU2's controversies so let's not pretend that's not an outlier. Nobody even talks about TotK anymore, BotW content was popping off even a year after release all over social media meanwhile TotK didn't get GOTY over a tabletop rpg. It's a fun but tired sequel, reusing the same map was a bad mistake and releasing it on old hardware didn't help either. You can wave these things away but it clearly underwhelmed, or a bigger percentage of the people who bought the last game would have bought this one. I personally like it fine, I'm not trying to drag it, but it felt too safe.

I'm so stoked. New real temples for the first time in, what, 11 years since Link Between Worlds? And such a strong focus on puzzle solving even between temples it seems. This should scratch the itch that TotK failed to do in a couple ways for me. And it's friggin C U T E

P.S. please let there be a way for us to echo peoples' furniture to decorate our own house with.

These graphics are IN-SANEly polished and adorable. I loved Links Awakening but this just keeps looking like a next generation version of that. Part of me really wants to wait and see if the Super Switch gives this some kind of bump in resolution, framerate, maybe even HDR or RTX before I jump in but I know I don't have that kind of patience.

Eternamax Eternatus for 4TB

DKC3 is such a vibe. Each entry was a unique work of art and equally special in their own way, I can't imagine ordering them from most to least favorite, it really just depends on what mood I'm in. The PNW campground aesthetic slaps.

I'd also like to know if this bumps the review up to a 9. I don't even own joycons anymore but this game has had my interest for a while, I'd jump on it if this update is enough to fix one of the main issues noted in the review.

I think even Nintendo is perplexed by this

@Bigmanfan That might be some of it but 10 million is such a huge gap. I can't think of another series where that happens to a major sequel unless it really poops the bed. Many Pokemon fans are casuals but those games sell a consistent number. If a Pokemon game sold a whopping 10 million less than the last mainline entry they might actually start listening to the fans, but that ain't gonna happen.

@Ralizah Wow that's some mega cope for explaining a 10 million difference in sales. What's another series where every direct sequel sells 30% less than its predecessor? lol

When people are new to the Switch they'e probably looking to buy the recent hot ticket item. I doubt many people are buying a Switch this late in its lifespan just for the 7 year old classics.

This just confirms that TotK is likely seen by the general audience as somewhat of an insubstantial DLC compared to BotW. That's a huge gap in sales that will never close, the time between titles is no excuse since BotW continues to outsell it. If a CoD or any other major franchise sold 10 million fewer copies than the prior release there would be a lot of meetings going on to figure out why. I wonder what they're thinking their approach will be for the next game now. 20 million is no slouch but 30+ is insane and with a 6+ year gap between them I doubt they wanted it to only feel like DLC to people, you know they wanted to catch lightning in a bottle again.

@HeadPirate You talk too much. The point is obvious: people are protesting a modern industry practice they believe is destroying the hobby they love by doing the only thing they can: not playing it and hoping the company sees their protest and changes course. It's the same exact thing you're doing by protesting their comments, and equally futile, although I'm not sure what good you actually see coming from your efforts whereas at least their time spent is admirable. I'm sorry you see everything as pointless but the odds of anything existing at all are pretty tiny, take the W and go try to enjoy some fresh air.

Whomst? Probably one of those "hacks" where the company needs money so they sell your data themselves.

Not an interesting or cool idea at all. There's nothing interesting about him besides the fact that he's a cartooshly bad guy that sometimes turns into a demon pig. His entire purpose is to be defeated. You'd have to change too much to make him an appealing protagonist, at which point you'd have been better off just making a new character. He's one of my mains in Smash, that's good enough for me.

Definitely agree it should have had its mouth open, it's a huge part of its charm.

It would be really cool if they found a way to fit a bigger screen over the bezels. We've still yet to see the late stage final evolution of the Switch ala Game Boy Color, Game Boy Micro, DSi and New 3DS. I imagine it will be something like a Switch Lite with a smaller bezel, OLED screen, TV out, and something software related that makes it stand out (all past gen 'final stages' besides the Micro had this). I passed on the OLED because I felt burned by the 3DS XL when the New XL came out so I hope that something is coming and that it's good, although if the Super Switch is backwards compatible then I won't care too much.

@larryisaman we've seen enough to know how it will control. Whatever else we'll see will be its gimmick. This was what they decided to show us after 7 years, this was their chance to wow millions of people. I'm glad you're wowed but I highly doubt it will be enough to hook the masses. I'm excited for it as a fan but I'm disappointed that it seems we might have to wait a while for Prime 5 because they played it "safe" yet again.

@roy130390 I'm not saying being radically different alone is enough to sell more copies lol it has to catch the attention of a wider audience. I know this fanbase is passionate/rabid but y'all are tiny as hell and sticking to your guns is killing your franchise.

@larryisaman Yeah you and the other checks notes less than 2 million people that buy Metroid games on average (two have broken 2 million, none have broken 3 million except Dread and only barely). Fans probably want the series to get more frequent love from Nintendo which would require sales in the 10s of millions like their other big hitters which isn't remotely possible with checks trailer more of the exact same.

I didn't need it to revolutionize anything but they could have at least brought it up to modern standards a bit in terms of movement. The walking and shooting still looks as slow and floaty as the already sluggish feeling original trilogy. There's still little to no enemy knockback or reaction when they're shot. Again I don't need modern ragdoll physics or something like Dead Space but an enemy simply flashing or acting dizzy when they're hit by an energy blast as the only means of knowing you hit your mark is so unrewarding. It's not necessarily how it looked visually that disappointed me it's just that I wasn't itching to be the one controlling Samus from the footage even though I know I'll enjoy the exploration aspect as usual. The series has never sold very well and this was their chance to change that but I don't think they have. I'm worried kids used to modern shooters won't see anything to jump over to and it will take Nintendo another 20 years to try again.

@B_Lindz I think that was its OoT moment tbh

@Eel The blatantly obvious recent trend of of every tech/blog site trying to get people to think Twitter is failing, in a push to make Twitter fail, only came about after big bad Elon's purchase and 90% of the time they try to blame it on his "incompetence" even if this blog only said "in case X dies someday". It's just funny to me is all, the power these people think they have to sway public opinion against people they hate, like JK Rowling and the like.

So wait, is Nintendo implementing screenshot sharing to Bluesky then or what's the point of this besides pushing passive agressive Elon hate?

@MARl0 you should consider playing through it again but hopefully much faster this time around. Like most Metroidvanias the first time is always a bit of a slog because constantly backtracking to figure out where you go next isn't exactly exciting.

I've put about 300 hours onto my 3DS this year. Still my favorite console. I hope modders keep it alive for decades.

Looks a little too spooky for me but I hope everyone else has a great time with this one.

Manufacturing hype.

If a game doesn't have literally thousands of pieces of customizable furniture and blissful hourly music then I don't want to hear comparisons to Animal Crossing. I keep getting gypped with games that claim to be AC-like yet have like 5 sets of furniture and a few paintings.

I can only hope the 3DS gets this kind of love someday. I mean I guess it kind of it since I'll be playing these on my 3DS.

Thinking Nintendo can ever actually hope to stop piracy is adorably naive.

@RupeeClock Yuzu will live on and thrive, even if it changes its name a dozen times and even if it's only ever uploaded to torrent trackers. All that work that was already done is easily accessible and nobody can make it disappear even if places like Discord or Github won't personally allow it. Telegram groups alone will keep it alive.

Bring on Pretendo 🕺🏽💃🤸‍♂

@ikki5 People still buy vinyl too even though very few modern vinyls actually produce better audio quality than a high quality stream. There's both a nostalgic novelty to it and a satisfaction as a collector but if you're looking for practically, idk.

lol at everyone pretending they don't know why people care about sales numbers. You all play games, you have a competitive nature in you, you totally get it. If you're a Nintendo fanboy you want Nintendo to be able to say they have the best selling console of all time, just like I want my favorite athletes to have the most trophies, because winning kicks ass.

@BTB20 It's a long list, top item being the culture we're all sick of hearing about in other companies by now; my girlfriend and I quit when nothing was done about something that was happening to her, blatantly, on full display for weeks, and we weren't even the first people to report it. The sanitation was horrific, there were weird stains and very bad smells everywhere from the carpet to the chairs as if a janitor hadn't been in the area for years. The 3DS units we had to work with were disgusting and falling apart and the keyboards were even worse. It was such a sad little office and they put up mangled old posters of Mario characters that were probably an attempt to make you feel cool about working there but ultimately just made the atmosphere more of a joke, I sat next to two crumpled halves of a Toad poster put together crudely with a crooked strip of tape. Management would play their political podcasts on high volume while everyone worked and if you asked them to turn it down they had all sorts of idiotic responses like "work your way up to management and you can play whatever you'd like" or "you should be paying attention to this". They shut and locked the doors the second the clock hit 8am and anyone who was literally even a second late for any reason missed the whole day and got a strike, three of which would get you fired, and other penalties included "referencing other games or series that you're not working on" even if you said something like "nice Zelda shirt" to someone in the break room which would result in getting called into a meeting with a manager and having a 15 minute conversation about how you're putting their security in jeapordy.
It was cool during lunch walking over to the main Nintendo building's cafeteria next door but the contrast in quality made going back to your cubicle all the more sad. The nicer building had big statues, happy employees, clean everything. It was like we didn't belong there.
I could go on.

I tested the Animal Crossing: Welcome Amiibo update for them years ago and it was such an unprofessional ***** show I'm surprised there haven't been lawsuits by now.

@gabrigoes So am I. You don't want me directing the movie either.

@westman98 Does that include Madame Web? That tells us a whole lot actually.

I have no idea how a no-name like him got such a massive franchise to tackle. I hate to sound negative but The Maze Runner series gives me 0 hope that he knows how to handle a large fantasy epic, then you learn that the writers are responsible for such hits like Morbius and you've got yourself a massive disappointment waiting to happen.

USUM were an insult. The Sw/Sh DLC was abhorrent. The SarVi base game was the worst game I've ever played in my life, I'd rather cut off my thumbs than purchase the DLC that fixed nothing. This is not the discussion we should be having right now, we should be talking about how we can rescue the beloved series from incompetent developers hellbent on destroying all of the good will they built for 20 years. I say give the keys to the Legends team, quadruple their budget and double their development time. Nintendo should let them borrow some of the devs from Splatoon/Animal Crossing for the graphics and animations.

@Lightsiyd What's grindy about Elden Ring?

I wish these were more like Polly Pockets than Legos. I appreciate the honor of collaborating with a huge brand but Animal Crossing is so cute and Legos are so ugly, it's not a good combo.