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Honestly it's not THAT terrible considering a few middle schoolers developed it in their free time with a budget of $80, people need to take that sort of thing into account.

Thank goodness I nabbed it in time although I'm sure it's easy enough to spot elsewhere. It's really a very cool way to experience a classic (that I've purchased countless time before).

To think we could have gotten Legends Arceus DLC instead. Game Freak are an embarrassment.

@TheImperfectInsider You would think, but no, they've done much worse. Always good for a chuckle.

One more lump of coal from Game Freak for all you naughty boys and girls.

@Ooccoo_Jr Yeah but they'd have to end up being the biggest liars in gaming history to make it conceivably possible to run on a mobile chipset. Way less RTX, way less population density, way less everything we saw in a trailer by the company that's never exaggerated in any of their impressive trailers in the past. A trailer that shows us that even the mammoth consoles at home will only be able to run these at 30fps. Anything can happen but yeah, let's get real up in this chat y'all.

@Athropos How many times have we seen Rockstar release a trailer that wasn't made from clips from the in game engine? None. Not GTA4 or 5, not Red Dead Redemption 2. The trailer has several clues that it's running real time as well.

@mariomaster96 how about a game that utilizes every inch of those expensive hunking consoles' power that need to be plugged in and ventilated to run could not adequately be scaled to any current mobile chipset. Does that sound less speculative?

@Ooccoo_Jr Yeah that's kinda what they do man. They can look at the footage and discern what kind of hardware can run the combination of resolution, framerate, graphical effects, population density, etc and then deduce the obvious that no, of course Rockstar has no plans or interest in funding the same game twice just to get it running on Nintendo's next gen chipset that's been all but confirmed through several leaks over the last two years.

@JokerCK: Yeahh except we know. We've known. And even if we had no idea, there doesn't exist a mobile chip today that could push anything close to this.

@Axelay71 DF are close with most companies that have all leaked the same chipset and/or had access to meeting showing off BotW in 4K, Matrix demo, etc. that all ran exactly how the leaked chipset would run. Could Nintendo surprise us all, yeah maybe, but also probably not.

I'd buy it if it was an actual GBC rom.

It won't be long before people will have to learn how to homebrew if they want to play new indie games being developed for the 3DS. I think we'll see some cool stuff too, heck someone is actually making a Mario Galaxy port for the DS so just think what people will do on this lovely hardware.

@CharlieZee Yer mam should slap the lot of ye

@blindsquirrel it might be but we're talking about the Switch here

@ottoecamn How is changing her clothes considered censorship if it's the same in all regions? That's like being mad at a stripper for wearing clothes to the mall. Make it your head cannon that Maya found Jesus or it's cold out or something and try not to be so openly perverted.

Tears came so close to being great for me. After the excitement of building cool stuff dies down you quickly realize there aren't enough events or puzzles or battles that rely on it, it's more of an inconsequential albeit fun seasoning rather than a cleverly utilized mechanic outside a few moments in the "temples" and 30 or 40 shrines. The car and boat courses were insulting, literally just driving over a few lights. I wanted my inventions to really be challenged. The story was good but once again the scattershot memories killed a lot of the potential impact. I don't have as many complaints about the sky islands as a lot of people but I really feel the complaints about the depths, despite spending a hundred hours down there, the Yiga compounds were too simple, the scenery was too repetitive, the gloom was annoying and the rewards being mostly the same as what you get From Amiibo cards were very disappointing. There was a LOT in the game but once the hype and mystique died down and you could really observe it for what it is rather than what it could be it just felt like a lot of missed potential.
BG3 deserves this one hands down.

I started this game up on my 3DS a couple weeks ago and was immediately struck by how much I miss classic temples. The last two games do so much right but it doesn't amount to the old magic for me without good temples, and anyone who thinks the new "temples" stack up with the old ones is lying to themselves.

Mel Gibson would be a perfect Dorf in the movie I think, if you've seen his crazy laugh you know what I mean.

A free game is a nice gesture as a gift or an apology to save face for a bad decision, think the Ambassador certificate for those who bought the 3DS at launch, difference being that people who bought it at launch weren't promised something they never received; they were just stuck with their purchase that was, according to Nintendo, $70 overpriced, but it was still worth the initial cost to those who bought it for that price. They can feel ripped off, but the initial promise of what they were getting for the advertised price was fulfilled, so it's a case of too bad so sad for them.
In this scenario, part of the cost of the initial purchase included the guarantee of content to come. You can't simply replace that promise with something that the consumer hadn't initially invested in, as the worth of the "free" games being offered is subjuective. The consumer could potentially view everything on offer as worthless, thus the promise of the value of the initial product is still broken and the consumer is still ripped off. If I am promised 3 courses at a restaurant, am only given one course, but am charged for all 3 with an apologetic coupon to a neighboring restaurant with food I have no interest in, I have every right to seek justice against them.
A refund is the only fair option here.

Man I actually really dislike this game and I have to wonder if not being number 1 is due to lack of people streaming/hyping it on Twitch, TikTok etc because after the first couple days we all saw how patronizing the lack of difficulty and constant bombardment of dialog was and it lost any potential cool points. Yeah it's shiny and silly but the random Wonderseed gimmick is all flash and no substance, no real sense of accomplishment for completing them, it's the video game equivalent of Telletubbies where these odd colorful critters are convincing your toddlers that they're being entertained by giggling and saying "again, again!" as if putting them in a trance instead of actually making them think or learn. The idea of putting the real meat at the end of the game in the special levels instead of working up to that way sooner shot them in the foot and will keep a lot of people from replaying it or even bothering to ever get to the end at all.

@lacaras4 All it has to be is more Hollow Knight.

It started strong but after the 40 or so best shrines the magic started fading quick. The temples sucked, there weren't enough bosses or new enemies, there was hardly anything to do with building vehicles in terms of challenges or races or battles, it was just a sandbox that felt a little too familiar and tried putting way too much mediocre stuff in one large area instead of a few dozen great things in a smaller area. Elden Ring surpasses the sense of wonder without any of those issues.

Even after the new Smash Bros comes out there's no way I'm selling my modded Switch with 500+ Ultimate mods. It'll just be my Smash machine.

@ottoecamn They've adapted licenses stories several times, how is that coping? You think they wouldn't have been tremendously honored to be given the task, that the style wouldn't have been perfect, and that they wouldn't have absolutely nailed it?

Written by the Jurassic World trilogy guy and produced by Morbius guy. What could go wrong...? 🤔🤨🥺😭

Got a few in but now I'll need a shower and a nap before I finish it.

This isn't the first time this site has thrown the name Ghibli around like a cheap yo-yo. Of course I'm sure many studios strive to achieve that similarity but you don't have to repeat it just because it's in the tagline they wrote for themselves, use it when you actually mean it so I can get excited instead of rolling my eyes and probably scrolling past the next article that tries this trick.

@luckyseven what nice thing has been taken away by antics like this? Do you suddenly not get to buy the game now? Are you worried Nintendo will stop releasing more games in fear that someone else might do a silly? What a goofy comment.

Why is this website's community so uptight lol some dude was just being silly with one of his hobbies in his free time and Nintendo's Army rushes to the frontlines with gold like:
"Modders can be annoying sometimes. What is the point of this? Wow, how edgy, the flowers swear."
And multiple just like it with many likes, as if none of you have ever laughed at South Park, Rick and Morty or Family Guy who often rely on similar antics for humor. It's like I stumbled upon a group of sour Catholic grammas.

I knew they'd miss the potential when it was announced but I never dreamt it would be this ugly. Nothing is recognizable. The trees, flowers, fruits, anything. It's like a bad fever dream of the actual games.

lol did I hit the nail too hard on the head? How much more constructive was I supposed to be? That wasn't even impolite.

@FatBeverly Never been better? Jeeeeze that's a perspective I wish I could share. There's a reason the recent games don't even place in the top 10 of basically any recent list on any site.

@Jeronan I didn't think Pokemon could sink any lower that Sw/Sh until SarVi came out. There's not a single forgivable aspect of the modern game design outside of the Pokemon designs themselves (Creatures Inc still has it IMO)

@martynstuff Oh they'll all still have unlimited reasons

@Dr_Lugae That's delusional. The problems with this game are endless and the poor performance (which absolutely exists) is the least of my concerns personally. You're free to like a turd but don't fool yourself.

@Mauzuri Passionate fans voicing concern in an attempt to get the developers attention and hopefully make the next game better shouldn't offend you since the end result will either be their failure or their success. And so far it's working because these games have still sold 3 million less than Sword and Shield.

HELL no. What a joke.

They really fumbled the ball with Red Faction. I remember having a blast with destructable environments way back on the 360, imagine how far they could have taken the concept since then yet unless I'm mistaken they just never tried. Sales must not have been nearly as good as it deserved.

@AstroTheGamosian Not everyone is a fan of the stereotypical anime aesthetic though, Ghibli is way more charming and unique and accessible. There would need to be SOME combat in the movie yeah but not so much that it's worth picking a studio based solely on that aspect.

Sorry but Ghibli or bust

@Rettam_itnA It's certainly a cool game for what it is and I have over 200 hours but yeah, it's lacking too much to ever be an objective masterpiece. Lots of cool ideas, few executed perfectly, few fleshed out enough to feel worth their inclusion or the six year wait between games.

@Orpheus79V The Switch is designed to run at lower speeds than the chip is designed to for the sake of excessive precaution, but removing the throttle (more technically accurate than an actual overclock) is proven perfectly fine if you follow the modding community guidelines (and most stock OC software won't allow you to go beyond guidelines without further modifications anyways). Yeah battery life takes a little hit but if you're playing docked this is obviously no concern and I'm still getting several hours on the road anyways.

It could be 8K 120 fps with RTX, HDR and 12 different motion blur settings; you're still gonna get transported miles away from your objective if you get killed by a snake 90% of the way through a gun battle that you had to ride a carriage for 30 minutes to get to, and people are still going to randomly start firing at you in town and you can't defend yourself if you've got an objective or you'll "fail". Silly outdated bs game.

A guy in town randomly started shooting at me. I defended myself and failed a mission. This kind of quackery happened several more times over a couple hours until I turned the game off. Really not my cup of tea, as in I find the system antiquated af

If they could slap a couple PSP-style sliders on these I'd be all over it.

They could have doubled development time for ScarVi and it wouldn't have fixed anything, the problem is purely their incompetence. These games STILL haven't outsold Sword/Shield, their first big open world Pokemon game should have crushed those numbers in the first 3 months and they know that and their investors know that and you know they're looking at that but do they have the balls to do anything serious about it? I don't think anything will improve until certain leadership is voted out which may take another big failure or two.

@Arawn93 Easier said than done now that the games are complete *****. I love competitive play and USED to love legit training but now I'd rather put my Switch in the microwave than play this game outside of battles with friends for any length of time.

Someday, 40 years from now, there will be a third remake for Prime that had better have two good hours worth of credits naming every person that ever had anything to do with every little detail, so much as the maintenance of the lawn across the street from the house of the guy who motivated the wife of one of the texture artists in one of the previous remakes.
I wish games had no credits because I hate sitting through them and I know none of you whiners ever read them or remember any names.

It better be another face expression matching gym challenge, or a spin-off game based on that minigame. Best part of the game hands down although the slope race and olive maze are a close second and third.

Imagine just sitting in the sand minding your own business

@Lightsiyd Crank your saturation. I found it stunning in countless areas.