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No, it looks average and the art style is doing those classic characters a disservice.

Shame about the cloud stuff, I haven't really tried them and they might be perfectly playable, but a local physical copy would justify double dipping, and cloud doesn't. Moreover, the cloud versions will eventually get discontinued and then you won't be able to play the game on Switch anymore.

@Mauzuri They might be overrated but they are overrated by everyone, which might mean that they are just not for you. This game is only overrated by Nintendo Life and a couple more sites. It's a 7/10 title.

I love how with an average close to 7 on metacritic you managed to pull only the most glowing reviews to share, plus one bang average.

@Mauzuri Uh, those two games have an average rating closer to 100, it's a very small discrepancy. This is nearly 20 units.

@EaglyPurahfan Yeah, it's crazy. And what's even more crazy is people trying to convince us that Wii U was better than Switch. Subjectivity is a thing of course, but come on, not even the most die hard Wii U fan should believe that.

Why am I not surprised that NintendoLife would shower yet another mediocre modern Disney product with high praise? Metacritic sitting at around 7 right now and NintendoLife wants to convince us that it's the best thing since sliced bread?

I cannot even recognize the characters in this game because they are vector graphic caricatures of the originals. Look at the art direction of Steamboat Willie, that movie is a century old and has such incredible identity to it. This looks like some random Cartoon Network Saturday morning cartoon. I mean, I've seen worse, but it doesn't do these iconic characters justice, it's too generic.

The gameplay looks very simplistic too. Obviously, it's mainly for kids, but do kids these days even care about Mickey or Donald? Disney has pummeled these characters into oblivion. Colour me unimpressed. I might still give it a go if the physical version goes into deep discount, but not giving Disney anything other than the bare minimum.

@EaglyPurahfan Indeed, worst time in history for a Nintendo fan. Glad they turned it around.

These look absolutely fantastic, but that price is ludicrous, clearly whale hunting. For that money you can get a decent marble bust or something which will be an absolute showpiece in the living room.

This looks surprisingly decent, looks a lot like what a possible DS game would be. I'm wondering if it's running on native hardware/emulator or just made to look low fidelity on purpose.

@EaglyPurahfan Maybe, but they can't really give you insight to everything going on because game development is hard and unpredictable. I think people would complain regardless.

So what if it isn't hard? It isn't a resource management title like the previous games, it would be frustrating if you lost Pikmin all the time and you had to grind constantly to get new ones. There would be no benefit to that. I'm totally fine with this approach. This is more exploration focused. For example Pikmin 1 had more challenge, but it was also much shorter. Replaying sections in this one is not the point and it would just make it worse.

@EaglyPurahfan They did. It just didn't come out until like 6-7 years later lol.

Just what I needed, some more busywork added to my life.

@Nintendencies A Short Hike was decent, I enjoyed it, but I can't help but feel a lot of these indie games that are overly praised are getting a boost because they are cheap and easily accessible, often being "baby's first game". Not that this is true for all indie games of course, but I've definitely noticed it with some simple games like that.

I played Fenyx Rising for maybe 5 hours before dropping it, it wasn't terrible but it just couldn't hold my interest, it felt incredibly generic and derivative. It did have some glimpses of identity, but the narrative style was very irritating and overall the game lacked the systems that made Breath of the Wild stand out. If I had to summarize it, I would say it was basically Breath of the Wild minus the fun.

@EaglyPurahfan To be honest, I own it, because I found it really cheap and was like why the hell not. But I haven't played it, and maybe it isn't terrible. However, it is just a spinoff, so it doesn't quite count, it's like saying that Mario is not 100% bangers because Mario is Missing exists. I consider spinoffs their own series!

@EaglyPurahfan I've never heard of such a game. 😇

Of course it's a Pikwin, this series is only certified bangers.

@KBuckley27 You honestly have no idea what you are talking about. I can't remember the last time a Nintendo 1st party studio released a game that wasn't perfectly fine at launch. Oh yes, I remember: never.

@JaxonH Glad you are enjoying it, and boy, if you're already liking it then you are in for a treat.

I just finished the game, and while in the first three chapters I would totally agree with the score, as they were decent but didn't fully grab me, man does it get better in the latter half. Sincerely, the last two chapters are two of the darkest and most intense I've ever played in any VN, with a metric ton of plot twists. The world building of this game is phenomenal. I am really hoping they iron out the issues in the sequel, I'm definitely getting it.

@theModestMouse Classic slacktivist right here. Collectable items are the last thing you should be worried about, only the tiniest fraction of plastics that end up in landfills are of this type, because people hold onto them, they are not mean to be disposed. Plus the rarity of these particular figures means they will end up in a display somewhere, definitely not the rubbish bin.

This generation's starters were a total home run, easily my favourites in a long time. Obviously nothing can beat Gen 1. I would love to own these, oh well we can't have it all.

@Ryu_Niiyama Likewise, by far my biggest collection. I might have more physical games on Switch than most other systems combined. I think Nintendo DS is my second biggest collection, another phenomenal console.

@TruthisRare I'm not saying that it's strictly unethical, in fact I am of the same opinion for games that are unavailable or you already own, but unless you are dumping your own cartridges, then it's piracy. Just calling a spade a spade. However, not liking the format Nintendo is providing you the ROMs in, is not the same as them being unavailable.

@TruthisRare Pirating them*

@GrailUK Likewise, very few games on this list that I haven't played and even fewer that I don't own (yeah, I got a big backlog). Other companies wouldn't even be able to put together a top 50 of their published titles with a straight face and here we have Nintendo with a top 100 certified bangers, the lowest game on the list has a 8.56 user score here, 8.8 user score and 9.0 professional aggregate review score on Metacritic, for heaven's sake.

I don't care what anyone says, this company has the magic touch.

This is probably the most laughable list on the entire website. So many massive omissions to include Dream Daddy and furry nonsense. Like half the list is not even Japanese, which is like 99% of all Visual Novels. I get that you want a diverse list but this is bad.

Somehow I wasn't aware there's a Gargoyle's Quest II on NES, literally the only game on the list I am not familiar with. I definitely need to play it, love the Gameboy game.

Good list overall, but Super Mario Bros 2, Dragon Quest IV and Ducktales should be in the top 10. Good to see people still love Mega Man.

@Wexter Yup, there's definitely no monopoly here, Microsoft is dead last at the minute. Even with this addition, it will take them years to really see it pay off. I mean, they've owned Bethesda for years and are just now getting their first major exclusive release with Starfield. With how long games take to be made these days, I don't expect any immediate fireworks. Though Diablo, World of Warcraft and Call of Duty being on Game Pass would be amazing. I'm wondering how long it will take Microsoft to increase the price of GP at this rate.

@Wexter Activision has a lot of IP they are not taking advantage of, but then again so does Microsoft. The main get for Microsoft other than the IPs, are the development studios themselves. If they can leverage them well, then they will be very hard to beat.

@Wexter They have loads of strong IP, it isn't only about what's currently popular, it's also about what they can leverage. All Blizzard IP (save for Lost Vikings, lol) is still relevant, a sequel of any of those games would make serious money. Just the inclusion of World of Warcraft in GamePass would boost players in that game massively. I suspect they might not do that because it's just too cheap at that stage, but who knows, Phil might be mad lad enough to do it.

I called it, there was no way this deal wasn't going through. Too much money involved for everyone in the deal, including the government in taxes, and Activision Blizzard is not doing well lately so they absolutely need this to go through. The only party that doesn't benefit from this deal is Sony.

Yeah, they are brilliant, I really enjoyed them.

@KaijuKaiser I mean, yes, with any big IP, it means different things to different people. For me there is no FF without turn based combat and a party of heroes. For others just having Chocobos and Moogles is enough. It depends on what you like about the franchise.

@Baker1000 It is not hard, it's just a matter of priorities. For example, they might have had too much UI work and did not have enough time to create the menus necessary for save management etc. Game development is complicated. 99% of players would never use this feature anyways, this is a game without replay value.

@Aeralto I am by no means discrediting the value of sleep, but personally I really wouldn't want to know every single value of all the health measurements on a daily basis, I wouldn't be able to live worry free ever again. Humans are inherently imperfect and non deterministic, you can live 100% by the book and have some random complication and your health suddenly takes a downturn, if not worse. Of course for people that are medically monitoring their sleep in the first place due to sleep related issues, this is useful, but that's an incredibly niche market, this is not meant to be a medical product.

@Shepdawg1 Yeah, I didn't mean that they should develop it, just that it seems like quite a minor thing that it could easily be a minigame of some other app.

I sincerely don't even understand the point of this app. It seems like it could easily be some extra feature of Pokemon GO or something. However, some people obsess over the darndest things these days and want to track how many breaths they take per minute, so maybe it will be successful, who knows.

@KaijuKaiser Either way, that doesn't fix the identity crisis of the series. It is simply not unique anymore, there are other series that are incredibly similar to XVI. For me FF being turn based with a party of heroes was the template. I thought for all its faults, FF7 Remake had a very good take on that, XVI is just not really FF, other than in title.

FIFA made a massively bad call with this one, they will lose billions of dollars in licensing. Players will flock this game regardless of FIFA being in the title, because ultimately it's still the best football game. People didn't care when International Superstar Soccer was renamed to Pro Evolution Soccer. They also didn't care that Championship Manager was renamed to Football Manager, despite the publisher creating a new Championship Manager which only lasted like a couple years because people knew which one was the real Championship Manager and which one was only a title.

People won't care now either; they will see Mbappe and Haaland on the cover, the rave reviews calling this the best football game yet, and they will buy. Any losses that EA might have by not having the game called FIFA they will more than recoup by not having to pay an exorbitant licensing fee.

Technically speaking, the All Stars versions are superior, especially SMB2, but I somehow still prefer the OG. Both have their place.

@adh56 What are you on about?

@KaijuKaiser It's quite simple, it has basically lost every last ounce of identity that the Final Fantasy series had. It might be a great game, but it isn't Final Fantasy in anything but the title. As such, Square Enix cannot really leverage brand loyalty as much as they would like to and that's why they are not too happy with the sales. Final Fantasy basically had no real competition in the turn based RPG space, while now it has competition by basically every single open world action game which is the vast majority of AAA games. This makes me worried about the future of this franchise as well as its relevance.