@Astral-Grain Nothing too big in my case, one of my roommates just got the game and it’s their first AC game, so I started over so we could play through together.
@SuperMariCrow I think I read some people say 3 stars is where a lot of new stuff kicks in, so so if that's the case, she's close! Though I'm at 1 star since starting over and had a few new apps/app upgrades show up for Nook Miles.
@Jokerwolf Time traveling is a legitimate way to play if you want- I did it when I was working second shift- but I’d still say the majority of people are most likely playing in real time.
All of the ‘Dex entries for the Mega forms from S/M/US/UM are pretty horrifying/depressing to think about. Most of them were about how the energy either leaves them acting purely on the instinct to destroy everything around them or causes their bodies to melt and leaves them in constant pain.
Actually, even the regular entries got kind of like that... one of them said that Primape can get so angry that it just dies and that that’s the only time it looks peaceful.
When I've got money again, I'm definitely going to pick this up. This will be a good replacement for off-weekends for D&D, I think. I'll have a lot of fun making up dumb stories and worlds in my head as I play. It reminds me of being a kid again. =^w^=
I wish some more personality variance would be added within the pre-established types, and I wish a proper nightclub would be added (purely because I loved that location in New Leaf, lol), but I’m overall happy with the state of things. I don’t think the way things were handled was favorable at all, but as someone whose current job is being a go-between for customer service and production, I know there’s a ton of stuff that can go wrong from start to finish and slow stuff down... Most of which the end-customer never gets to learn about. D:
Seems there’s a countdown timer on the main screen. Considering that and the name, it’s probably some weird ARG type thing. Wish it had also released in the US, I’m curious now.
1.0.2 is supposed to fix a lot of these issues. It’s already out on steam, but the Switch version is still waiting on approval from Nintendo, it seems...
This is less than I paid for the original HHD and I loved that game, so I’m pretty happy with this announcement. And that it’s actually part of the main game this time so I can bring stuff I buy back to my main island is even better.
The problem isn’t even the EXP share (though I would like the option to turn it off), it’s that the games aren’t balanced around the ability to level up everyone at once. I get the focus is not younger players, but that’s not an excuse for making a game that nearly plays itself. Kids deserve good games, too. There’s no reason that you should be able to one-shot a gym leader’s ace Pokémon because your own Pokémon are 5 levels than everything around you without even having to grind. There’s no sense of accomplishment if you don’t even have to try. That’s why everyone remembers Whitney and the Mt. Silver Red battle. And as remakes, I’ve got reason to doubt they’re going to be rebalancing them entirely as opposed to just porting everything over. Maybe they will surprise us, but...
I’d even settle for the ability to just make a self-imposed challenge because that’s normally what I do in Pokémon, but an inability to turn the EXP share on/off makes that much harder to do.
If the areas are well-populated with stuff to do and things to look at, I don’t mind. It’s the way Atelier games barring Atelier Firis have done it. I don’t really want to feel railroaded, though. Or, I’d at least like the illusion of not being railroaded. Just block things off by terrain-scaling HM-equivalents that I can use again later in the game, don’t have people standing in the road as a literal roadblock, lol.
This series also got a Tamagotchi crossover recently. Seems it’s doing quite well, which makes me happy. I don’t need this game, but... it’s so adorable, I really, really want it lol. And with an actual English option it would be easy to play... Not like the time I imported a bunch of Mamegoma DS games and had to stumble my way through, lol.
Made it to year 3. Maxed out my skills. I don’t necessarily regret it, but I don’t think I’m going to go back and play it again. I also don’t think I’ll be pre-ordering the next SoS game, and won’t be buying until I get a chance to see what it’s like. I’ve been playing HM/SoS since the GameCube, and it’ll be the first time it years that’s happened. ...It’s a strange and kind of sad feeling.
Natsume continues to build on the same formula each time. More crops, more mutations to find, more ways to find them. It’s progress, if incredibly slow. You always have an idea of what you’re in for going in. And they continue to put out adjustment patches based on fan feedback.
I guess I just expect... better from Marvelous than Natsume? At least Natsume are making their games in-house as far as I’m aware. And contracting out doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but this particular choice seems questionable at best considering the company Marvelous chose was previously known for producing licensed One Piece and Assassination Classroom games and seems to have been rushed at that.
Maybe I’m still upset at feeling like I paid to beta test this game when I’ve never really felt like that with one of Marvelous’ games in the past. I don’t know. ._.
@tech7 I think Sophie won out on some polls as a really popular character/game, and they wanted to pander a bit since it’s the 25th anniversary this year iirc. Plus it’s also probably buying them time so they can work longer on Ryza 3. Though I’m hoping a precedent isn’t being set with Lulua/Sophie 2, as I’d rather move onto a new trilogy/series than see a Ryza 4 tbh...
Also doubt we’ll be seeing Firis unless we get some Rorona+ Overtime-style shenanigans, since this seems to take place between Sophie and Firis chronologically.
@Kimyonaakuma Even with the slightly watered-down synthesis in Ryza, you won’t find games with better crafting systems.
I preferred Lydie & Suelle to Sophie, but Mysterious has my favorite crafting system and my second-favorite combat, so I’m really happy to see a return. I’m also hoping this means a Dusk 4 is coming in the future... I’d really like to know what happened after Atelier Shallie.
I’m glad to get to play as Ares and have the option of dating either the male or female candidates. I had plans to go after Ryker, but getting to play as Ares while doing it is even better. Also it leaves my options open if I befriend the female candidates as well and discover I like one of them more personality-wise. D:
@Broosh Any stylus that can be used on the switch is compatible, they just won’t have the pressure sensitivity option or the button (though I found both of those features to be more trouble than they were worth most of the time, and just ended up using a regular stylus for the most part).
@FantasiaWHT Ryza is a good place to start, though not necessarily indicative of what you’ll get if you play the predecessors. Combat is easy even on harder difficulties, alchemy has been streamlined, and there’s only one ending, among other changes. The first also has a lack of individual character events compared to other games.
I think Escha&Logy is seen as a fan favorite, though do note that it’s the second game in the Dusk Trilogy. You’ll get spoilers for the True Ending of the first game in the trilogy (though the games aren’t story heavy at all, and each one barring Ryza1&2 are technically standalone stories and follow different protagonists). It’s got in-game time limits, but they’re very relaxed. If you’ve ever played any kind of time/resource management game, you can more than handle this.
@TSR3 He’s cute and cuddly and beats up demons, black holes, and elder gods. Kirby final/secret bosses have a long history of mood-whiplash... Plus, I find the lore unnecessarily, legitimately interesting. They didn’t have to do this for a game like Kirby, but they did and I appreciate the effort and attention to detail.
After everything that happened in Star Allies, I’m interested to see what more this can add to the Kirby lore.
If this is a return to Dreamland, with all the tie backs to the original game at the end of Soul Melter EX mode, perhaps we’ll be getting a follow up to what happens after the special alternate boss battle?
Games like Ruff Times are far more impactful in their messaging, if anyone’s interested in playing a game that’s like if PETA has any sense of subtlety or dignity. Or even that old flash game Can Your Pet, lol.
It’s not... Awful. But... Some decisions are strange. Like when “upgrading” the town. Nothing really changes. Nothing changes visually, you can’t visit the “shops” people open other than the salon... People in town talk about stuff changing, but you don’t really get to experience any of it. Which is... not fun, when it’s the main story of the game and when the previous 3DS game Trio of Towns handled it so much better. When people opened or upgraded stores, or when visual changes happened like upgrading statues, you actually got to see it and benefit from it afterwards.
I’m not sure why Marvelous’s pushed this off on a separate company, or why they’d choose 3 Rings who previously made... 3DS One Piece games. It feels like they were rushed, or that they weren’t able to fully implement everything they wanted. For example, it feels like this game was supposed to be more fully 3D than it turned out in the end. That might not be the case, of course, but everything is fully textured, front, sides, and back. That seems like a lot of effort to go through just for taking pictures of animals on your farm. The houses have pictures and stuff that are hard (impossible?) to see from the overhead angle without pulling out the camera tool. And with the new dynamic camera, when you talk to someone and it zooms in, it doesn’t just bring up their model with the text box the way Natsume’s game does. It shows you what’s going on around them, from whichever angle you talk to them at. I dunno. Last I read, Marvelous is still planning on working with them for future games. I wish they’d made all this more clear to the non-Japanese audiences, but maybe they didn’t want a repeat of what happened over Twitter when the game first released in Japan. Just seems a touch deceitful, though.
I played long enough to max the skills (it gets really grindy after hitting level 8 for some of them) and I think I was around Year 3 when I stopped. I think that’s enough time to give it a chance. I just can’t help but feel like it’s still got less content and less engaging content than both its 3DS predecessor and rivals like Stardew Valley. I don’t regret the money or time I spent, it’s not like I didn’t have fun or that I hated it, but I’m also not sure that it’s going to be something I return to replay over again. I also don’t know about the opinions of casual players, but I think this game releasing in the state it did and the way the DLC has been handled have damaged Marvelous’s reputation within the HM/SoS community. I know I’m actually hesitating to preorder whatever game they put out next, and I’ve been playing since GC and preordering since the DS without ever having felt like this. I think the situation surrounding the game as a whole has just made me tired.
@MetalMan Eh, just depends on how it’s handled. Phones are capable of emulating up to at least PS2/Wii era games now.
And even if you aren’t taking advantage of that power, there’s still plenty of room for creativity (A Dark Room, The Room, Sky: Children of the Light, Another Lost Phone)...
@KiraMoonvalley There’s stuff I could nitpick, but I’ll try and just go over the biggest issues...
When it launched, the final boss had a flashing light pattern that could trigger seizures. That’s been patched, but sucks for anyone who bought physical and doesn’t have internet.
Since there are so many costumes, there has to be a way to account for every combination in some way so you don’t get stuck... Everything’s really simplified. It’s too easy and boring vs platformers where the level design is tailored to a more limited set of abilities. Even all the buttons only do one thing. Which means all the costumes do one thing. Which means some of them don’t allow you to jump.
On that note, some costumes are redundant because they’re functionally the same. Some are better versions of others. Some are so irritating to use as to be useless (BOX FOX. You’re a fox, sometimes you turn into an invincible box. You can’t control when this happens. YOU CAN’T CONTROL YOUR MOVEMENT).
YMMV, but the stories of the characters vary in quality and tone... I think it would have been more interesting if Balan was the main character instead of the two NPC-looking ones we got. Instead, he’s just kind of always in the background, which I think is a shame because he’s got such a cool design. It’s like if you played a Mario game, but instead got relegated to the role of a Goomba or something, lol.
This might be one of those nitpicks, but I didn’t like the ending. I think I get what it’s trying to say, but if I was going for that type of feeling, I’d be playing a different kind of game. This is a colorful platformer, gimme my storybook ending lol. It was really unsatisfying, like getting a bad/normal ending on a game when there’s a secret, true ending for 100% completion. Except there isn’t, and what you get is more insulting than the Mario Sunshine 100% completion bonus. Maybe they were trying to set it up for a sequel? Somehow doubt that’s going to happen now.
Excellent visuals during cutscenes and great music though. It should have just been a movie.
I’ve read there’s a novel that goes along with it that adds a lot of lore and context, but if that’s the case, it really should have just been packaged with the game in the first place. At least with physical copies.
That was kind of long, sorry. I do recognize I might have a lot of internalized rage. ._.”
@IronMan30 Because it’s presumably coming out on Switch like Chapter 1 and Undertale? Because there are fans who played the games who only have a Nintendo systems and might want to know if it’s a simultaneous launch to console or if a release date has been announced? So there’s an article to update with the release date of the Switch version if/when it’s announced? There are a number of reasons why it makes sense for this article to be here.
@DevinRex This is... not a FNaF clone. The closest it comes is The Joy of Creation Reborn for some of the chase sequences. Maybe.
I came here ‘cause I mistook this for Human Farm, which I mostly wanted for the shock value of showing to friends because I’m a bad person... Oh well, back to waiting.
@ItsjustAnotherGamer Uh, you did read the part where they’re adding new gameplay elements and changing up the puzzles and stuff, right? It’s not going to be life changing or anything, but they are doing more than just changing the title.
I’ve got to go back and play some more Nexomon: Extinction. I kind of put it down after my shifts at work got all turned around... Last time I played, I got a little lost and met a nice but lonely tree in the woods who wanted to make some Nexomon friends. I’ll have to help him out next time.
Dunno if the blurriness is the fog weather condition or the Vaseline smear so many handheld versions of games get to increase the performance/keep the undocked switch from overheating and melting in your hands... I don’t think anything could be as bad as WoFF in handheld, though. Coming from the Vita version, that was a major disappoint since I’ve got a Switch Lite...
@JayPrim3 If you don’t want to wait/import and are interested in color-screen models, the Tamagotchi Pix is currently available in EU/NA (and AU sometime later this year). Its camera eats batteries though, so it pairs well with rechargeable AAAs... It’s also got touch buttons, so there’s a little more interactivity because you can swipe them as well as using them like normal. The camera’s DSi/3DS quality, so it’s nothing amazing, but it’s a fun idea. It talks about social media, but as far as I can tell it’s just the other in-game Tamagotchi characters “liking” your pictures, so no actual interacting with other people/sharing images.
The Tamagotchi On is available in NA, but not EU last I knew. I like these quite a bit because you get to mix genes as your Tamagotchi marry, and it’s got an app you can connect to to get extra items and marry other people’s Tamagotchis from around the world. It’s got 3 different versions, but the only major difference is that each has an exclusive area with 2 exclusive characters to marry, so it’s kind of best to just go by which shell you think is the prettiest, lol.
...I’m sorry if I’m rambling at this point, I’m a little sad to admit Tamagotchis are my one consistent passion in life. u.u
@Not_Soos Might be a bit of a stretch, but Tamagotchi games have pretty much been exclusive to Nintendo systems. Unfortunately, besides the first GB game, the Wii board game, and three of the Corner Shop titles on DS, most of them never made it out of Japan...
@Silly_G They’ve got Digimon versions (though they’re more fitbits with a thin layer of Digimon paint than virtual pets). You do different missions with getting in steps and raising your heart rate and stuff like that and it impacts how your ‘mon grows.
Minimal (none, maybe?) Japanese in the watch itself, so it’s easy to use even if you can’t read it. I think the app it pairs with for storing Digimon and taking extra daily missions and stuff is in Japanese, but people probably already have translations up online...
@alexybubble You can do that in every version of the Tamagotchi, just hold the A and C buttons down together for a few seconds to generate a new egg.
@Damo Any chance of getting an article about the Tamagotchi Pix, since that‘s an NA/EU exclusive as of right now? :> It’s the first color-screen version released to not be based on a previously Japanese-exclusive version.
I grew up listening to stuff from artists like Kikuo, Materu, Machigerita, MASA Works, etc... I’m not saying kids should experience music/media they aren’t ready for, but there are also much darker things they could be listening to than Lil Nas X, lol.
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Re: Datamining Finds Thousands Of New Items In Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0
@Astral-Grain Nothing too big in my case, one of my roommates just got the game and it’s their first AC game, so I started over so we could play through together.
Re: Datamining Finds Thousands Of New Items In Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0
@SuperMariCrow I think I read some people say 3 stars is where a lot of new stuff kicks in, so so if that's the case, she's close! Though I'm at 1 star since starting over and had a few new apps/app upgrades show up for Nook Miles.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 2.0.0 Patch Notes - Final Major Update, Happy Home Paradise DLC And More
@Jokerwolf Time traveling is a legitimate way to play if you want- I did it when I was working second shift- but I’d still say the majority of people are most likely playing in real time.
Re: Pokémon Legends' Hisuian Zorua Is Sad And Dead Because Everyone Was Mean
All of the ‘Dex entries for the Mega forms from S/M/US/UM are pretty horrifying/depressing to think about. Most of them were about how the energy either leaves them acting purely on the instinct to destroy everything around them or causes their bodies to melt and leaves them in constant pain.
Actually, even the regular entries got kind of like that... one of them said that Primape can get so angry that it just dies and that that’s the only time it looks peaceful.
Re: Review: Dungeon Encounters - Square Enix Strips Away RPG Finery To Expose The Meaty Bones Beneath
When I've got money again, I'm definitely going to pick this up. This will be a good replacement for off-weekends for D&D, I think. I'll have a lot of fun making up dumb stories and worlds in my head as I play. It reminds me of being a kid again. =^w^=
Re: The GBA's Unreleased 'Dune' Game Is Being Revived, Minus The IP Rights
@SonOfVon Oh, that’s good. I haven’t played it myself, but one of my friends who got it has been complaining...
Re: The GBA's Unreleased 'Dune' Game Is Being Revived, Minus The IP Rights
Did the servers for the Switch version ever come back up? Did Blizzard ever release any kind of statement about what was going on?
Re: The Pokémon Company Wants To See Your Pets, And Prizes Are Up For Grabs
I've got an IRL Nidoran- an ornery bun that likes to headbutt and thumps if I turn up my music too loud after 10pm.
Re: Action-RPG Crystar, Once A PS4 Console-Exclusive, Is Coming To Switch
@Xiovanni Don’t forget The Binding of Isaac!
Re: Yay! Town Ordinances Are Finally Making A Return To Animal Crossing
I wish some more personality variance would be added within the pre-established types, and I wish a proper nightclub would be added (purely because I loved that location in New Leaf, lol), but I’m overall happy with the state of things. I don’t think the way things were handled was favorable at all, but as someone whose current job is being a go-between for customer service and production, I know there’s a ton of stuff that can go wrong from start to finish and slow stuff down... Most of which the end-customer never gets to learn about. D:
Re: Random: The Battle For Alphabetical eShop Supremacy Ramps Up With 'a'
Seems there’s a countdown timer on the main screen. Considering that and the name, it’s probably some weird ARG type thing. Wish it had also released in the US, I’m curious now.
Re: Review: Monster Crown - Enjoyably Old-School Monster Battling For Pokémon Lovers
1.0.2 is supposed to fix a lot of these issues. It’s already out on steam, but the Switch version is still waiting on approval from Nintendo, it seems...
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Everything We Know About The Happy Home Paradise DLC
This is less than I paid for the original HHD and I loved that game, so I’m pretty happy with this announcement. And that it’s actually part of the main game this time so I can bring stuff I buy back to my main island is even better.
Re: Exp. Share Supposedly Can't Be Turned Off In The Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes
The problem isn’t even the EXP share (though I would like the option to turn it off), it’s that the games aren’t balanced around the ability to level up everyone at once. I get the focus is not younger players, but that’s not an excuse for making a game that nearly plays itself. Kids deserve good games, too. There’s no reason that you should be able to one-shot a gym leader’s ace Pokémon because your own Pokémon are 5 levels than everything around you without even having to grind. There’s no sense of accomplishment if you don’t even have to try. That’s why everyone remembers Whitney and the Mt. Silver Red battle. And as remakes, I’ve got reason to doubt they’re going to be rebalancing them entirely as opposed to just porting everything over. Maybe they will surprise us, but...
I’d even settle for the ability to just make a self-imposed challenge because that’s normally what I do in Pokémon, but an inability to turn the EXP share on/off makes that much harder to do.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
If the areas are well-populated with stuff to do and things to look at, I don’t mind. It’s the way Atelier games barring Atelier Firis have done it. I don’t really want to feel railroaded, though. Or, I’d at least like the illusion of not being railroaded. Just block things off by terrain-scaling HM-equivalents that I can use again later in the game, don’t have people standing in the road as a literal roadblock, lol.
Re: Adorable Hamster-Car Anime 'Pui Pui Molcar' Comes To Switch In Japan
This series also got a Tamagotchi crossover recently. Seems it’s doing quite well, which makes me happy. I don’t need this game, but... it’s so adorable, I really, really want it lol. And with an actual English option it would be easy to play... Not like the time I imported a bunch of Mamegoma DS games and had to stumble my way through, lol.
Re: Random: Fan Spotted Filming Bring Me The Horizon Concert With A Nintendo 3DS
@Dafirelive problem with that is that it’s out of production, and was a popular system.
Re: Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Has Shipped More Than A Million Copies
Made it to year 3. Maxed out my skills. I don’t necessarily regret it, but I don’t think I’m going to go back and play it again. I also don’t think I’ll be pre-ordering the next SoS game, and won’t be buying until I get a chance to see what it’s like. I’ve been playing HM/SoS since the GameCube, and it’ll be the first time it years that’s happened. ...It’s a strange and kind of sad feeling.
Natsume continues to build on the same formula each time. More crops, more mutations to find, more ways to find them. It’s progress, if incredibly slow. You always have an idea of what you’re in for going in. And they continue to put out adjustment patches based on fan feedback.
I guess I just expect... better from Marvelous than Natsume? At least Natsume are making their games in-house as far as I’m aware. And contracting out doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but this particular choice seems questionable at best considering the company Marvelous chose was previously known for producing licensed One Piece and Assassination Classroom games and seems to have been rushed at that.
Maybe I’m still upset at feeling like I paid to beta test this game when I’ve never really felt like that with one of Marvelous’ games in the past. I don’t know. ._.
Re: Koei Tecmo Officially Announces Atelier Sophie 2, Arriving On Switch Next February
@tech7 I think Sophie won out on some polls as a really popular character/game, and they wanted to pander a bit since it’s the 25th anniversary this year iirc. Plus it’s also probably buying them time so they can work longer on Ryza 3. Though I’m hoping a precedent isn’t being set with Lulua/Sophie 2, as I’d rather move onto a new trilogy/series than see a Ryza 4 tbh...
Also doubt we’ll be seeing Firis unless we get some Rorona+ Overtime-style shenanigans, since this seems to take place between Sophie and Firis chronologically.
Re: Koei Tecmo Officially Announces Atelier Sophie 2, Arriving On Switch Next February
@Kimyonaakuma Even with the slightly watered-down synthesis in Ryza, you won’t find games with better crafting systems.
I preferred Lydie & Suelle to Sophie, but Mysterious has my favorite crafting system and my second-favorite combat, so I’m really happy to see a return. I’m also hoping this means a Dusk 4 is coming in the future... I’d really like to know what happened after Atelier Shallie.
Re: Rune Factory 5 Will Feature Same-Sex Marriage In The West
I’m glad to get to play as Ares and have the option of dating either the male or female candidates. I had plans to go after Ryker, but getting to play as Ares while doing it is even better. Also it leaves my options open if I befriend the female candidates as well and discover I like one of them more personality-wise. D:
Re: Yoko Taro's New Game Is A Swords-And-Sorcery Strategy RPG With Cards
I do love D&D. I’ll have to try out the demo later.
Re: Oh No, The Christmas Pokémon Jumpers Have Already Begun
WHO’S THAT POKÉMON, AT THE POKÉMON CHRISTMAS BASH
Re: Review: Colors Live - A Basic Art Application Elevated By Clever Hardware
@Broosh Any stylus that can be used on the switch is compatible, they just won’t have the pressure sensitivity option or the button (though I found both of those features to be more trouble than they were worth most of the time, and just ended up using a regular stylus for the most part).
Re: Koei Tecmo Sale Discounts Lots Of Atelier Games, Ninja Gaiden And More On Switch
@FantasiaWHT Ryza is a good place to start, though not necessarily indicative of what you’ll get if you play the predecessors. Combat is easy even on harder difficulties, alchemy has been streamlined, and there’s only one ending, among other changes. The first also has a lack of individual character events compared to other games.
I think Escha&Logy is seen as a fan favorite, though do note that it’s the second game in the Dusk Trilogy. You’ll get spoilers for the True Ending of the first game in the trilogy (though the games aren’t story heavy at all, and each one barring Ryza1&2 are technically standalone stories and follow different protagonists). It’s got in-game time limits, but they’re very relaxed. If you’ve ever played any kind of time/resource management game, you can more than handle this.
Re: A New Kirby Game Just Leaked On Nintendo Japan's Website
@Bolt_Strike could also be a great cave offensive or Amazing Mirror-styled game.
I’m okay with it being 3D as long as it doesn’t turn out like the time Mega Man tried to go 3D.
Re: A New Kirby Game Just Leaked On Nintendo Japan's Website
@TSR3 He’s cute and cuddly and beats up demons, black holes, and elder gods. Kirby final/secret bosses have a long history of mood-whiplash... Plus, I find the lore unnecessarily, legitimately interesting. They didn’t have to do this for a game like Kirby, but they did and I appreciate the effort and attention to detail.
Re: A New Kirby Game Just Leaked On Nintendo Japan's Website
After everything that happened in Star Allies, I’m interested to see what more this can add to the Kirby lore.
If this is a return to Dreamland, with all the tie backs to the original game at the end of Soul Melter EX mode, perhaps we’ll be getting a follow up to what happens after the special alternate boss battle?
Re: Random: PETA Wants Nintendo To Add A Gun-Toting Chicken To Smash Bros. Ultimate
Games like Ruff Times are far more impactful in their messaging, if anyone’s interested in playing a game that’s like if PETA has any sense of subtlety or dignity. Or even that old flash game Can Your Pet, lol.
Re: Random: This Tiny Game Boy Is Probably The World's Smallest Game Console
I already bought the FunKey-S for the size novelty, looks like I’ll be picking this up too. I love working miniatures.
Re: Feature: Should I Play Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Now?
Umm... light-novel incoming.
It’s not... Awful. But... Some decisions are strange. Like when “upgrading” the town. Nothing really changes. Nothing changes visually, you can’t visit the “shops” people open other than the salon... People in town talk about stuff changing, but you don’t really get to experience any of it. Which is... not fun, when it’s the main story of the game and when the previous 3DS game Trio of Towns handled it so much better. When people opened or upgraded stores, or when visual changes happened like upgrading statues, you actually got to see it and benefit from it afterwards.
I’m not sure why Marvelous’s pushed this off on a separate company, or why they’d choose 3 Rings who previously made... 3DS One Piece games. It feels like they were rushed, or that they weren’t able to fully implement everything they wanted. For example, it feels like this game was supposed to be more fully 3D than it turned out in the end. That might not be the case, of course, but everything is fully textured, front, sides, and back. That seems like a lot of effort to go through just for taking pictures of animals on your farm. The houses have pictures and stuff that are hard (impossible?) to see from the overhead angle without pulling out the camera tool. And with the new dynamic camera, when you talk to someone and it zooms in, it doesn’t just bring up their model with the text box the way Natsume’s game does. It shows you what’s going on around them, from whichever angle you talk to them at. I dunno. Last I read, Marvelous is still planning on working with them for future games. I wish they’d made all this more clear to the non-Japanese audiences, but maybe they didn’t want a repeat of what happened over Twitter when the game first released in Japan. Just seems a touch deceitful, though.
I played long enough to max the skills (it gets really grindy after hitting level 8 for some of them) and I think I was around Year 3 when I stopped. I think that’s enough time to give it a chance. I just can’t help but feel like it’s still got less content and less engaging content than both its 3DS predecessor and rivals like Stardew Valley. I don’t regret the money or time I spent, it’s not like I didn’t have fun or that I hated it, but I’m also not sure that it’s going to be something I return to replay over again. I also don’t know about the opinions of casual players, but I think this game releasing in the state it did and the way the DLC has been handled have damaged Marvelous’s reputation within the HM/SoS community. I know I’m actually hesitating to preorder whatever game they put out next, and I’ve been playing since GC and preordering since the DS without ever having felt like this. I think the situation surrounding the game as a whole has just made me tired.
Re: Sonic And Balan Wonderworld Creator Yuji Naka Is Now Making Smartphone Games
@MetalMan Eh, just depends on how it’s handled. Phones are capable of emulating up to at least PS2/Wii era games now.
And even if you aren’t taking advantage of that power, there’s still plenty of room for creativity (A Dark Room, The Room, Sky: Children of the Light, Another Lost Phone)...
Re: Pre-Order Mario Party Superstars From My Nintendo And Get Some Free Goodies (UK)
Hoping this comes to the US, I want the keychain. It’s not like it’s anything big, but Birdetta was always one of my favorites.
Re: Sonic And Balan Wonderworld Creator Yuji Naka Is Now Making Smartphone Games
@KiraMoonvalley There’s stuff I could nitpick, but I’ll try and just go over the biggest issues...
When it launched, the final boss had a flashing light pattern that could trigger seizures. That’s been patched, but sucks for anyone who bought physical and doesn’t have internet.
Since there are so many costumes, there has to be a way to account for every combination in some way so you don’t get stuck... Everything’s really simplified. It’s too easy and boring vs platformers where the level design is tailored to a more limited set of abilities. Even all the buttons only do one thing. Which means all the costumes do one thing. Which means some of them don’t allow you to jump.
On that note, some costumes are redundant because they’re functionally the same. Some are better versions of others. Some are so irritating to use as to be useless (BOX FOX. You’re a fox, sometimes you turn into an invincible box. You can’t control when this happens. YOU CAN’T CONTROL YOUR MOVEMENT).
YMMV, but the stories of the characters vary in quality and tone... I think it would have been more interesting if Balan was the main character instead of the two NPC-looking ones we got. Instead, he’s just kind of always in the background, which I think is a shame because he’s got such a cool design. It’s like if you played a Mario game, but instead got relegated to the role of a Goomba or something, lol.
This might be one of those nitpicks, but I didn’t like the ending. I think I get what it’s trying to say, but if I was going for that type of feeling, I’d be playing a different kind of game. This is a colorful platformer, gimme my storybook ending lol. It was really unsatisfying, like getting a bad/normal ending on a game when there’s a secret, true ending for 100% completion. Except there isn’t, and what you get is more insulting than the Mario Sunshine 100% completion bonus. Maybe they were trying to set it up for a sequel? Somehow doubt that’s going to happen now.
Excellent visuals during cutscenes and great music though. It should have just been a movie.
I’ve read there’s a novel that goes along with it that adds a lot of lore and context, but if that’s the case, it really should have just been packaged with the game in the first place. At least with physical copies.
That was kind of long, sorry. I do recognize I might have a lot of internalized rage. ._.”
Re: Undertale's 6th Anniversary Broadcast Locks In A Release Date For Deltarune Chapter 2
@IronMan30 Because it’s presumably coming out on Switch like Chapter 1 and Undertale? Because there are fans who played the games who only have a Nintendo systems and might want to know if it’s a simultaneous launch to console or if a release date has been announced? So there’s an article to update with the release date of the Switch version if/when it’s announced? There are a number of reasons why it makes sense for this article to be here.
Re: Happy's Humble Burger Farm Is A First-Person Horror That Would Make Gordon Ramsay Barf
@DevinRex This is... not a FNaF clone. The closest it comes is The Joy of Creation Reborn for some of the chase sequences. Maybe.
I came here ‘cause I mistook this for Human Farm, which I mostly wanted for the shock value of showing to friends because I’m a bad person... Oh well, back to waiting.
Re: Stardew Valley's Creator Is Hosting A $40,000 Esports Cup Next Month
I want it to use the Battle Royale Mod!
Re: Pokémon Café Mix Gets A Revamp And A (Slightly) New Name
@ItsjustAnotherGamer Uh, you did read the part where they’re adding new gameplay elements and changing up the puzzles and stuff, right? It’s not going to be life changing or anything, but they are doing more than just changing the title.
Re: Nintendo Shares Tips So Parents Can Stop Kids Using Their Credit Cards
@SwitchForce Not really clickbait when it provides exactly what was advertised...
Re: Digimon Survive Has Been Delayed Yet Again, This Time To 2022
Still looking forward to this. Would be nice to get a port of Next Order on the Switch in the meantime, though. D;
Re: Tencent Reportedly Planning To Acquire Crytek Through Subsidiary
@BloodNinja To put it in perspective, Tencent’s estimated market value is about 3x Gates’ net worth, and around 1.5x that of Bezos.
Re: The Original Nexomon Game Is Coming Soon To Nintendo Switch
I’ve got to go back and play some more Nexomon: Extinction. I kind of put it down after my shifts at work got all turned around... Last time I played, I got a little lost and met a nice but lonely tree in the woods who wanted to make some Nexomon friends. I’ll have to help him out next time.
Re: Switch OLED Trailer Shows Tweaked Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Footage
Dunno if the blurriness is the fog weather condition or the Vaseline smear so many handheld versions of games get to increase the performance/keep the undocked switch from overheating and melting in your hands... I don’t think anything could be as bad as WoFF in handheld, though. Coming from the Vita version, that was a major disappoint since I’ve got a Switch Lite...
Re: Switch OLED Trailer Shows Tweaked Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Footage
@Snaplocket Because it wasn’t refined to this point up until now..?
Re: Tamagotchi's Next Trick? It's Becoming A Smartwatch
@JayPrim3 If you don’t want to wait/import and are interested in color-screen models, the Tamagotchi Pix is currently available in EU/NA (and AU sometime later this year). Its camera eats batteries though, so it pairs well with rechargeable AAAs... It’s also got touch buttons, so there’s a little more interactivity because you can swipe them as well as using them like normal. The camera’s DSi/3DS quality, so it’s nothing amazing, but it’s a fun idea. It talks about social media, but as far as I can tell it’s just the other in-game Tamagotchi characters “liking” your pictures, so no actual interacting with other people/sharing images.
The Tamagotchi On is available in NA, but not EU last I knew. I like these quite a bit because you get to mix genes as your Tamagotchi marry, and it’s got an app you can connect to to get extra items and marry other people’s Tamagotchis from around the world. It’s got 3 different versions, but the only major difference is that each has an exclusive area with 2 exclusive characters to marry, so it’s kind of best to just go by which shell you think is the prettiest, lol.
...I’m sorry if I’m rambling at this point, I’m a little sad to admit Tamagotchis are my one consistent passion in life. u.u
Re: Tamagotchi's Next Trick? It's Becoming A Smartwatch
@Not_Soos Might be a bit of a stretch, but Tamagotchi games have pretty much been exclusive to Nintendo systems. Unfortunately, besides the first GB game, the Wii board game, and three of the Corner Shop titles on DS, most of them never made it out of Japan...
Re: Tamagotchi's Next Trick? It's Becoming A Smartwatch
@Silly_G They’ve got Digimon versions (though they’re more fitbits with a thin layer of Digimon paint than virtual pets). You do different missions with getting in steps and raising your heart rate and stuff like that and it impacts how your ‘mon grows.
Minimal (none, maybe?) Japanese in the watch itself, so it’s easy to use even if you can’t read it. I think the app it pairs with for storing Digimon and taking extra daily missions and stuff is in Japanese, but people probably already have translations up online...
Re: Tamagotchi's Next Trick? It's Becoming A Smartwatch
@alexybubble You can do that in every version of the Tamagotchi, just hold the A and C buttons down together for a few seconds to generate a new egg.
@Damo Any chance of getting an article about the Tamagotchi Pix, since that‘s an NA/EU exclusive as of right now? :> It’s the first color-screen version released to not be based on a previously Japanese-exclusive version.
Re: Lil Nas X Is Coming To Fuser
I grew up listening to stuff from artists like Kikuo, Materu, Machigerita, MASA Works, etc... I’m not saying kids should experience music/media they aren’t ready for, but there are also much darker things they could be listening to than Lil Nas X, lol.
Re: Sky: Children Of The Light Is Now Available For Free On Switch eShop
@DeclanS98 No problem!