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@Guitar_bard this was one of my favorites on the NES. Map music is still in my head and offers something familiar but different to Zelda. Enjoy

Personally loved Salmon Run.

Got Hoa physical (NA) and definitely worth it. It’s somewhat short but it’s a fun ass puzzle platformer with sweet visuals. And. I love supporting smaller devs.

I was super excited for this one and couldn’t never play for very long. 4/10 seems low but at the same time I rarely enjoyed the moment to moment. Sooo.

I am definitely getting this.

I’ve played table too a bunch on planes and trains, both multi and solo!

Definitely day one

My favorite is the absolute tome of a manual for Donkey Konga in the US that had English, Spanish, French. For a game that was prettttty simple to play.

I play mostly docked and then whenever I’m on public transportation (slightly less these days) I use handheld. So if it weren’t for covid I’d do both quite a bit.

@GilbertXI I played the crap out of this and while I think it’s a pretty average game too, it has sold over 10million...

Not the point of the article but 40% isn’t a majority, it’s a plurality. But whatever.

Also. Indie games are great on Switch just pre ordered Kentucky Route Zero and Obra Dinn physical copies.

Definitely would snag the physical.

It’s probably both of those issues. They probably had a crummy beta. They wouldn’t be the first company to have a bad beta which is why they do it. And then with coronavirus it’s too difficult to fix it all remotely in a timely fashion. They are human lest we forget.

DQXI. Getting to the end here.

Switcher3. 50 hours in and having troubles stopping

So happy with the third party support on Switch. Definitely getting this.

@Kirgo I'm with ya. I can't imagine this thread is a bunch of programmers.

They went out of their way to bring this to Switch, but they're just that bit lazy not to include crossplay?

Bioshock for me this weekend

@Nanaki I’m in the same boat!

@MJInnocent haha to be fair I looooved my 3DS. Lived in China for a few years and that was my only gaming device. Have myself a good 25-30 games for it. And to be honest I gasp like the 3D

@Spudtendo Pretty stoked about Cuphead to be honest since Switch is the only platform I have (3DS I suppose too).

Already preordered it.

@Mountain_Man both

The story mode is exactly like Advance Wars would be. (Obviously not exactly)

There’s a challenge mode separate though where they give you maps specifically designed for the mode that you have to clear in one turn

@Aerona aren’t plants...both?? Like stamin and pistil??

I actually want to play through Zelda II so this is pretty cool. Except I have an NES copy so it’s not crazy convenient or anything.

Blaster Master is also a dynamite game. Love it.

But realllllly? I have a Famicom copy of Joy Mech Fight and it requires virtually no translating. They could’ve easily released it untranslated or done some not that hard special Western release.

Love love love the Big N. But honestly. Sometimes I face palm too many times...

And work my way through Dark Souls a bit.

I love RCT. One of my favorite games all time and literally spent hundreds of hours on it.

1) This looks stripped down from the original.

2) Year age or so when the Atari CEO released a video about the game he basically told us it’s all about money and we need to buy to support him. I’ve never seen a video where someone seemed slimier. (Can’t find it now)

Not buying.

Guess I’m the only one then. You can argue with these people. (Worst part about the game is how hard it is to google the word “ARMS” and get what you want.)

Sales were positive:
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/was_arms_a_failure

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ARMS/comments/83fucw/why_do_people_think_this_game_failed/#ampf=undefined

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

People use motion:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204207-arms/75491357

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ARMS/comments/6hnp6g/pro_controllerjoycon_grip_vs_motion_controls/

@SirRandall an original IP, with limited marketing sandwiched between MK8 and Splatoon 2 in an increasingly niche genre that is currently a top 10 game for sales on the system? Probably a decent success.

Use a pro controller if you want. There are players at the top who use motion because it offers something standard sticks can’t. That kinda means it’s not a gimmick.

I mean if you compare anything to one of the best in its category of course it won’t seem great. I’m a decent soccer player but Messi is much better. Sakurai has a lot of money but Gates is richer. Not an airtight argument.

I think people have a pretty unfair idea of this game.

It didn’t fail. It sold 2 million copies.

They didn’t cheat and withhold DLC. It was all free.

They drip feed content. 15 years ago it would take hours and hours of mindless effort sometimes to unlock characters and stages. Now they do it online. But it’s the same effect. They want players to experience the game in a certain way/order and so things reveal themselves to the player in a certain way/order.

It’s not reallly a party game. It’s a fighting game.

It’s core gameplay isn’t finicky/gimmicky. It’s tight. If anything it’s just slow.

Is it perfect? no. But it’s oodles of fun and won a ton of actual awards for character design and tons of love for originality.

Just beat Celeste and now I’m getting after Dark Souls!

(With a smattering of toying with the new Splatoon goodies.)

I used to get Nintendo Power from the grocery store after my ma would pick me up after school. Perhaps not every month, but over more than a few years I collected quite a few, perhaps 50 or so. Gotta say I loved my NP and I used to bring them around with me everywhere reading.

Just like the days of a fully finished video game coming out to the public and that was THAT, so is a finished product in print. Both zines and games alike can change at the fancy of the interwebs...

@PorllM gotcha in any case, lots of selecting the wrong option

@PorllM it’s not really a “new” Nintendo layout since they invented the four button layout 28 years ago...

But I get the point. It’s definitely odd to get used to a different layout, myself included. Playing PS4 games for the first time means I mess up menu selection a lot.

Yo-Kai is a gem in my eye. Only played the original but I feel it’s narrative, world building, and charm are wonderful. It surprised me how hard it was to put down.

Sure it’s not perfect but it’s a hell of a lot of fun whether you’re 5, 15 or 50 years old. Level 5 have always created worlds that pull you in and make you care.

@Heavyarms55 have you tried it? Just curious. I totally thought it’d be stupid. How could having a bucket on your had with plastic in your hands be immersive.

But it sucks you in. It really does.

Mario + Rabbids and Deathly Flipped for me!!

I am in complete disagreement with literally everyone so far.

This is incredible. I could beat this game in under 15 minutes by the time I was 8 or 9 and I’m not even great at video games. This requires immense skill. This is absolutely amazing...

I don’t speedrun cause I don’t think I’m good enough at any one game to do so

it’s not the value of the screws themselves, it’s that it’s a first edition. those are worth more in virtually any medium

@Octane it’s a remarkably unregulated place. Red tape to start a business is nilch. Environment and safety regulations are improving but scarce. Briberies are all too common for police to turn a blind eye. Knock off products are all too common and the courts protect local over transnational branding (look at Best Buy or New Balance there) it over regulates religion and politics. Not so much business.

It’s in that light this knockoff makes sense.

(Source: all firsthand)

I love Ever Oasis. However two gripes with the review.

1) it’s not exactly “seamless” moving between the two genres. Yes they play into one another, but you literally have to warp from the outside world, wait for a load screen and switch your frame of mind to management mode. Rattle off a litany of tasks, and then go back to battling. (More in this in two seconds.)

2) I think that this late in the year you should have to finish a game and play some of the postgame in order to understand it fully. This isn’t Dark Souls or Ghosts n Goblins. It’s a RPG made to be accessible to a younger audience and at 30 hours there’s not much more time left in completing the main story.

My take: I do think the mechanic of having to physically leave the dungeon to go back to the Oasis is brilliant game design. Because you get engrossed in the dungeons, you wouldn’t want to go back to the oasis and start farming, naturally. Of course you want to finish the dungeon.

However being ripped from a puzzle element so you can gather the right skills immediately reminds you of what you need to do in town. Literally the guy you have to ask to trade members has the option to perform management tasks. And once you start, that system becomes compelling.

In fact I think the length of game is the best part. It ends just when this mechanic would get wearisome. Some of the puzzles start to require 2 or 3 skills in the late game, increasingly the probability that, sure enough, you don’t have these skills and have to go back to the oasis. (Every few minutes you’re ripping through spacetime)

If they wanted to develop the puzzle side of the dungeons further, the management side would have to give and vice versa. Right when the puzzles necessitate changing the underlying game mechanics you get to the end game.

It’s amazing game design. 8.5/10. Loved this game.

Since it's an odyssey and they've already used real life inspiration — New Donk City is basically NY and the Sand Kingdom is basically...Mexico? — then they could continue that.

**They could use international game developers.** This would have twofold purpose. One, it could give a sense of authenticity to each realm. Two, it would expand the footprint of Nintendo and the Switch, and it could give a toolkit right in the hands of developers.

They are already working to get into China, so imagine if they help Tencent move toward these types of AAA games, as opposed to only MOBA-style mobile games.

Imagine if game developers from Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, China, India, etc. which all have sizable English-speaking communities got involved directly with Nintendo. It would help them understand Switch and would give exposure to various game developers.

For the consumer? We could scale the Pyramids, go on a safari or swim in the Great Barrier Reef. Imagine Australia's coast with Cheap Cheaps or Mario leading an expedition in the Serengeti.

A trippy, nonsensical world. Just getting all sorts of wormholes and time warps and bizarre colorations. LSD World is what I’m saying.

@TheGameSquid that’s the point. It wasn’t assumed it would be released in the West but it wasn’t confirmed.

@MrDarkmark you can still easily bring it back into mainland China. I bought one in Macau and just walked it over the border it’s just not marketed really or sold in stores. You can also find it readily on Taobao.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE fantastic 😂