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@Anti-Matter Pokémon is like Pokémon. Yokai-watch is like Yo-kai watch. We do not need pokémon to be more like something it’s not, because what worked for Yo-kai watch has already been proven not to work for the pokémon formula. They can both be unique, seperate experiences. Not everything needs to be more like a game you love playing, otherwise we’d just get the same experiences all over the place in a genre that’s already pretty formulaic. Almost every rpg goes ‘dum tek dum tek’ because it’s called TURN-BASED combat for a reason. If you don’t like turn-based combat, that’s fine. But many others do. So it doesn’t need to change just because you want it to.

Pokémon has enough problems as it is performance and story wise in my opinion, and it could learn a bit from yo-kai watch there. The time travel plot of Yokai watch 2 wasn’t bad at all and the games looked great on 3ds, but that doesn’t really apply to switch anymore since I’m not importing yokai watch 4 to check it out. Pokemon’s battle system is iconic and pretty good, all it needs for me is more difficult battles in the games themselves to take advantage of team composition and movesets.

Still hyped because of the features seeming like things I'd be into, but goodness, I'm no gamefreak/pokemon company hater by any means but they should seriously get their act together. Pokémon has just become a laughing stock in terms of how much money it has and how it fails to deliver even the simplest of polish, but even more so, an insult to how other games put in so much more effort and achieve far better results on a far more impressive scale... yet pokémon still outsells them purely on brand alone. F*k economics I guess, because as long as it sells, they won't see reason enough to change, and a lot of fans will still be happy with the bare minimum sometime because it's pokémon.

I'm still buying it because I honestly don't mind performance issues that much and it genuinely seems like the formula is at least getting more to my taste, but I shouldn't have to feel guilty that I'm essentially voting for 'more of the same' with my wallet. I should just be able to expect pokemon games to give it their all, but the opposite is true nowadays: I should expect pokémon to be mediocre at best, run stably in the very best circumstances, and that nothing will motivate this to change the next time around.

Ah well, let's hope they at least fix some stuff up before release but as we saw with sword and shield, no reason to have high hopes there either, even if I hope for the best.

Love zoroark so I'm glad to see it get some love, even if I don't play Unite. Wish it got into Pokkén.

I learnt from this, indeed, that there’s nothing I can take at face value online and thus choosing sides is usually a waste of time anyway when the story can shift completely the next day.

@SpaceyCiel Colors alone puts any worries at ease if you ask me, that soundtrack is still one of the all time greats in not only sonic but games as a whole. Just a ton of bangers in there.

With so little knowledge on how any of this usually works, I have no idea what to make of this. Regardess, I’m just a fish in a sea of people who will buy this game and not care even a tiny bit about her plight sooo… yeah. I wasn’t gonna buy it on release anyway so hey, my morals be safe I guess. Just always feel that these boycotts don’t get big enough to change anything, so you’re just f*ing yourself over in the end if you were looking forward to this game. I wish it wasn’t so, but this feels like an issue that won’t be solved with just a smol boycott over a voice actress not getting paid enough. So at that point, since you aren’t truly going to change anything by acting or not acting… decide for yourself. Some are already cancelling pre-orders, some give valid reasons not to, I hope something more gets done about this in the future.

Just gonna wait until the last wave, the only one that interests me much anyway.

I also think the ending to this one as a ‘series conclusion’ was just plain bad, the entire game doesn’t feel like it needed to be tied in this trilogy at all honestly. Just a standalone would’ve been better. But as an ending to this game without the trilogy in mind…it’s fine. It fits the themes of the game, I like the character interaction in it, I didn’t feel anything but the game’s later parts disappointed me as a whole anyway. So I just hope the dlc feels like a better trilogy conclusion, but it doesn’t have to ‘fix’ anything about 3’s ending. Hoping to see more returning characters get playable, but we shall see.

@Snatcher Feel exactly the same way, looking forward to it!

@Fizza Blasphemy, obviously. To the gallows!

I struggle to comprehend how one can be ‘extremely noble’ but hey, you learn something new every day.

Never written off a game so fast and definitively. I didn’t mind the other titles, even if they were odd, but this one just immediately made me facepalm. Then the game that followed just made me look away in an already farm-heavy nintendo direct. Welp, good to know I’m not missing anything.

Looking forward to playing this, all I need to ask myself is whether I’ll go on steam with my sub-par laptop or on switch.

Lost its hooks in me around the end but quite a unique experience despite taking much from other titles.

Adequate for that price, with glitches and crashes?? Yeah no, I’d not call that adequate with the glitches included. At least I know I don’t have to bother until a huge sale, because I do not mind it being pretty much a rehash if it has some quality.

Didn’t even know there was a versus mode in the original, but I don’t mind. I never tried the multiplayer in the original anyway.

I mean, I fall off just as quickly as with other shooters, but at least I want to try to play this one, haha. The fact it’s not just about pew-pew-die and the variety in unique game modes helps a lot there, as well as just the fact it oozes with personality and pops with colour. The music I’m pretty eh on, same for the idols, but there’s a lot to love.

I really don’t like rogues usually, they get too repetitive and dull far too quickly, but this looks like a good time and I do like myself some more shovel knight.

@Friendly I have a little list of all my games (well, not-so-little) and I went with a scoring out of 7 instead of out of 10 since it helped me with the fact that those lower numbers really don't get used a lot, but with the 7-scale it felt a lot more natural somehow. Though I assume they won't suddenly change their scoring system to that.

Feels like games just rank on different shades of 'good' nowadays, instead of really that much coming out that warrants lower scores. I just read it as 9 or 10 being considered great to amazing and 7-8 being good, with 5-6 being passable/mediocre. Leaves a lot of numbers that just signify 'bad' but that's how it goes.

@Snatcher Nope, same here. Reminds me of that super mario bros manga that I also didn’t like the artstyle of. Honestly, same with the pokemon manga’s artstyle now that I think about it… there’s always something off about it to me, even if it’s distinct.

Well, that much was clear from that trailer.

Always glad when I can just pass on these, not many are worth it. The only ‘special edition’ I ever got was xenoblade 2’s because the price was reduced by so much that it was the same price as the base game bought by itself. Quite a lucky day that was indeed.

What a tearjerker.

But really, all the tear puns in here give me life.

Even the people who loved the game and have big nostalgia goggles on at least realise we deserve better than this, right? That it’s the furthest from award-worthy, right? I wouldn’t give any of the pokemon games currently such an award but at least Arceus innovated and breathed some new life into how stale this franchise had become. I skipped these because these remakes are missing features that Platinum had on the DS… so these weren’t definitive on release. They’re a rather sad copy-paste job with no love or passion to be seen. If I wanted to play the exact same game again but now with chibi… then I just go play the DS version.

I’m sure plenty of people loved it for valid reasons regardless of complaints, but a global award? That’s boss baby winning an oscar levels of undeserved. Even the minimum was apparently too good with how it was released unfinished and then patched to be presentable. At least they couldn’t suck the fun out of the experience: a copy and paste of diamond/pearl is still a fun game because it had effort put into the DS release… put it on the switch virtual console (if we had one) and you’d not notice a difference compared to the remake, probably. Everyone who enjoyed the game doesn’t have to suddenly feel bad or defend themselves, but an award is definitely a huge stretch.

I’m just going to be excited about this and leave all the hate by the wayside. It’s looking good, I love the vibe and I’ll but it close to day one, probably.

@Anti-Matter Yes, but aren’t these titles you put a lot of hours into? I love RPGs so I’m not one to talk but those usually have a differing story and gameplay elements that make the experience unique, most of the farming simulators look like a lot of the same thing and then some… ah well, I’m not going to be playing them, so maybe they’re more different than they let on. Have fun with ‘em.

Octopath Traveler? Passable title, but hey, it does convey what the game is about well.

Triangle Strategy? Pretty basic, doesn’t say much of anything besides it being a strategy game, I guess, but again, it’ll do.

Various Daylife… what the f-

I honestly constantly asked myself: who could need so many farm sims?? The other games were pretty nice, just lots of announcements for the next year, but woah, an overabundance of farm sims, which I don’t play because they all feel the same with a gameplay loop that just doesn’t ever grab me without some story-centered drive.

@Lizuka Feel like this is the fate of most online shooters I play. They just lack much of a reason to keep coming back for me, since even with the new content and the like it’s fundamentally the same thing over and over until I grow bored of it, which can happen rather fast. Besides that, my terrible aim doesn’t help, haha. I might buy it since I skipped Splatoon 2, but I’m not expecting it to blow me away or keep me hooked for long.

Though I really didn’t like his and Mio’s delivery on… a lot of lines, honestly, I think it’s more of a case of good voice acting for characters I just don’t like. Might be more the script being a bit iffy at times, I’m not sure. Though, for Noah especially there are some high peaks where Harry’s talent as a voice actor really shines through. I listened to the japanese voices, and though Mio’s just had way more power in her voice in the right moments, I found Noah was pretty much identical in quality. That’s no small feat. The rest of the main cast I didn’t bother to compare because their english voice actors blew it out of the park. Eunie, Lanz and Taion were my favourites.

@sketchturner Wasn’t that an early September release? Or was it still late August? Either way, I agree completely that tinykin is an absolute blast, and I’ve only played the demo so far! It just hit all the right spots within seconds and only got better, will definitely get it on sale.

@Key19 That’s actually pretty true! Party games especially bring a lot of laughs, but that’s often more so through the company you’re with than the game itself doing it. I think that it’s often because games can feel really ‘scripted’ in their dialogue, when more natural delivery, especially in voice acting, helps when it comes to making me laugh. Then again, like I said, humor is subjective, so some kinds may hit you right where you want em to and then for others it doesn’t do much, haha.

@Anti-Matter Your loss, really.

Truly tragic.

Wait, maybe this will finally make mario kart tour legal in my country! Woo!

@JustMonika I keep forgetting Chaos;collection is still on the way to switch, but so glad to finally see the first game also getting properly localised. Never made much sense to me that we had the sequel available in places but never head.

Mario Kart DS for me, though my memories with that one are at the same time fond and hazy because I didn't actually own the game. My godfather got me one of those game carts that had a bunch of games on it, long before I even knew what a ROM was supposed to be. I played it on that, but admittedly never really fell in love with it because I didn't find racing all by myself all that fun. I grew older and really got stuck in at Mariokart 7, and when I played Mariokart DS on the bus with a group of buddies who'd all brought their DS along, now THAT was a great time. From a rather lukewarom first impression to racing its way right into my heart.

Definitely giving this one a go... on sale. It looks adorable indeed.

Wait, this is releasing this September on PC? Dang, completely lost track of it, haha. Might check it out.

Overabundance of the same thing gets old pretty quick for me, and I already don’t find myself chuckling at jokes in video games often where others will claim it to be ‘hilarious’ scripts. Humor is a pretty subjective thing and a game that seems to mostly bank on that and not have much else to show besides the banter is not necessarily bad, but definitely an experience I don’t mind missing. At least the visual style doesn’t look too bad.

The art is gorgeous which has always pulled me toward trying these… but the narrator in the first game just lacked something and I haven’t given it a closer look since. The way he’d voice characters in the mostly the same tone of voice made them all lack any sort of presence, despite the good art, and that really hampered my enjoyment at the time. Might give it another go with different expectations.

@Snatcher Same, I feel like the game will be good, but the marketing definitely hasn’t been, haha. At least it’s getting a bit better recently.

Mariokarts definitely do not need remakes, and a mariokart in this style would probably not look very good unless they'd manage to pull off an artstyle that makes it work. Now, Chrono Trigger and especially pokémon sound like great ideas... aaaand the legend of zelda games would kind of fit but I liked the clay look of Link's awakening quite a lot too. Plus, link to the past already has a link between worlds, we don't need that game again. New 2D Zelda games, where they at? I know everyone is looking at BOTW2 but I'd love a new 2D Zelda sometime.

Well, this looks more like my thing compared to pocket dungeon, even if I’m still interested in trying that one sometime… on sale.

@Fizza I think you can guess which Von Karma gif I’d put here as a reaction without even posting it. : P
Good thing I thrive on puns anyway-

I wouldn’t be able to tell because my aim is so bad. I can never tell if I’m supposed to hit or missing badly because I can barely keep track of everything happening to begin with, haha.

@Fizza The ace attorney profile pic might have been replaced, but the spirit clearly lives on!

At least sounds like a more worthwhile gameplay loop than animal crossing, but I’ll wait and see.

Will always be weirded out by people who ‘can’t play at 30 fps’ or something like that. I’ve gotten better at noticing the difference recently but I still don’t really mind most of the time. Framerate consistency is what matters to me, since it mostly depends on that how comfy the game feels to play. If it’s constantly dipping then it gets a lot more noticeable, so I’d rather have a stable 30 than an unstable 60. When it’s stable I just forget about fps altogether because honestly, it really doesn’t matter that much in most games. It’s an asset in some and a bigger deal in some genres compared to others, but couldn’t ever see 30 fps being a dealbreaker. Depending on the game I can even be quite forgiving with sub 30, even if it’s far from great.

I've never liked any of the idols, ever. I'd have gone for big man if I didn't actually have a bias for rock in rock paper scissors, no matter how weird that feels to say out loud, haha. I feel like these often are more 'battle of the idols' than anything else, but with how little I feel for these cardboard cutouts I often just actually go with the theme.

Those shoes on mew make me uncomfortable, haha