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@tadams587 I doubt there's even much of an audience on the Switch for this kind of game to begin with for it to be even worth boycotting

These cloud versions are probably mostly targeted at people who flat out have no other platform than Switch because if they really cared about A Plague Tale the game's been available on other platforms for like two years and are probably eyeing a legit next gen console for the upgrade. I doubt there's really many people who are going to go out specifically to get this game on Switch. Same with Guardians of the Galaxy

They probably tried running it natively and realized that it wasn't that feasible or worth what they'd eventually make back from the port compared to other platforms as well

the real switch pro is the friends we made along the way

Literally all that's left from the Wii U generation that I wanted to play but couldn't since I didn't own one are the HD remasters of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess

Having the last few 3D Zeldas on one console would be incredible

@moodycat I think Samus Returns is great and is probably more relevant since it's the official Metroid 2 remake but AM2R was incredible

You can straight up ignore the Prime games in this scenario. They're just there to fill in the blanks between Metroid 1 and 2 but you do have to play all of or at least most of the 2D Metroids since those are what count for understanding the relationship between Samus and the other Metroids

Lmao I love how Kamiya's being as real as possible about internet speculation and fan expectations coupled with pretentious comments, and the top comment on this article is a pretentious comment lol

Like way to prove his point

Super Robot Wars is the only thing here I have any familiarity with but they also did get the superior SMT V trailer so there is that

This is like Nintendo's version of Dreams on PS4 and it's amazing what people have done with it already

@AtlanteanMan The thing about Dread is that even if it on paper, wouldn't blow that many minds compared to something like a proper HD Metroid Prime game, Dread has such a storied history of being cancelled, revived, cancelled again and just the state of 2D Metroid being in such limbo that the fact it even exists at all was what caused such fanfare even if the game doesn't look immediately mindblowing at first glance

Metroid Dread was basically the mythical unicorn among Nintendo games for the longest time and it's the first original 2D Metroid game to follow from Fusion in nearly two decades. It's what people wanted out of the franchise this whole time and that's why it's special. Same with a lot of the other announcements like a more traditional Mario Party or Advance Wars being remade

This Direct almost felt like a love letter more to fans of Nintendo during the GameCube/GBA or Wii/DS era more than anything between stuff like Metroid Dread, Advance Wars being remade, Breath of the Wild 2 appearing on the same system a la Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, Mario Party completely returning to form, WarioWare and the prolific nature of the third party announcements like SMT and Danganronpa

Great showing from them this year.

@Kimyonaakuma Yeah I saw both trailers. The JP one was definitely more for the MegaTen playing crowd and gave a much better indication of story elements or what had been updated or refined from other SMT games, whereas the Nintendo Direct trailer was probably purposely presented to appeal to the mainstream audience watching the Direct and not just SMT fans

I am glad Nintendo/Atlus are pushing the game as hard as they are though. This probably ensures the game will end up being the biggest chance mainline has of breaking out of "somewhat niche" territory like Persona did with P5

Shin Megami Tensei V's Treehouse did the game way more justice than that trailer lol

I get they wanted to sell SMT to the mainstream given it's a big thing it's coming out worldwide at the same time, but it wasn't really as exciting from the perspective of actual SMT fans imo.

@Rosona No. He's just a really pretty guy lol

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I'm honestly really curious to see the previous iteration of the game (that was supposedly developed by Bandai Namco Singpaore)

I really want to know what was so bad and what crossed Nintendo's quality assurance boundaries so drastically they felt the need to start from scratch after nearly two years of work had been done

I'm at the very least glad Metroid Dread is like 4 months away to hold us over

It's probably story related or at least is indicative of the story beats so they don't want to have it out there too early for the sake of keeping surprises

It'll probably be revealed when the game is fully unveiled sometime next year if it does end up making 2022

Considering they're developing Babylon's Fall, were doing Astral Chain before, self-published and developed the Wonderful 101 remaster and were involved as consultants on the NiER Replicant remaster I'm honestly not surprised it's taking this long. There was also that new game they made for Apple Arcade as well

Also as an Atlus fan I'm used to waiting long periods for things I want, case in point today

Lmao surprised it took this long for Switch to get this.

@BloodNinja It'd be weird for Switch just to get DS1 and nothing else when PS4 and Xbox One both have that trilogy pack that came out the same day as Remastered on those platforms

Probably not getting this since I already own it on PC but glad these games are coming to Switch for people with no other option or a preference. Same with Danganronpa and Life is Strange

Metroid Dread and SMT V stole the show for me

Kazuya in Smash was also dope as hell

@moodycat Honestly I get way less MCU vibes from this than the Avengers game. Gamora and Groot actually look more accurate to their comics counterparts. I think the only real stand out was Star-Lord but they're also offering the 2008 comic costumes as pre-order bonuses so I ain't fussed about it

@nhSnork Probably because they wanted to support the Switch with such games but the Switch being the Switch meant they couldn't be natively ported without issues

@Heavyarms55 They're likely not going the male/female route. It'll probably be preset since I think the only time they attempted a dual gender for the protagonist was Persona 3 Portable anyway. None of the main entries from what I remember did that either

Plus he seems purposely designed with some form of ambiguity to his look as well. Like nothing distinctly masculine or feminine

I'll probably be getting this on PS5 or PC since I have that option over a cloud game. Nice for people who only have Switch as an option though

Screw the sanitised western trailer I came to see an M rated game

2022* if you're familiar with how the Zelda series takes its sweet time lol

I'm still emotionally reeling from this

Metroid 5 was one thing but they straight up resurrected Project Dread from like 4 generations ago

As soon as I saw the cliff I went "It's Heihachi". Turns out it was his son lol

Super stoked about this. Loved the fact they parodied the whole "throwing family members off cliffs" thing with the Smash characters lol

The art style of this game for me honestly blows Persona 5 out of the water

I'm honestly stunned how good this looks. Also Press Turn is back and I couldn't be happier

Day 0 pre-order. Can't wait for next week

I was only planning on buying this for Wii so hard pass

Probably the only game I cared about for the entire event lol

@COVIDberry SMT I and II are long overdue

Japan now basically has almost every main entry in the series playable on one console excluding Strange Journey, NINE and the two SMT IV games. The fact that NSO basically gets almost nothing noteworthy in North America while Japan got another version of SMT I and II is always going to bother me because having to rely on fan translations just aggravates me given this company's history

@Chowdaire Are y'all really still harping on about Atlus

Even when they give the Switch an exclusive game, which happens to be their first worldwide release after years of large gaps between Japan and US launches, and is also the latest in their flagship franchise, there's always those few people who will always bring the discussion back to a game they never even remotely promised whatsoever

I swear all this b*tching about THAT game is probably going to be the one thing that stops SMT V from making the main series popular

I'll keep an eye on this but the Switch obviously is giving me my SMT fix already and SMT V's release date being leaked ahead of the Direct is further proof of that

It definitely gives me some SMT If... and Persona 1 vibes though

@gaga64 No announcements on that yet

They've only confirmed that Sam Deats and Adam Deats are reprising their producer roles, but the showrunner is likely going to take some time to hire

@3RedTriangles Considering Alucard is known for forging camraderie with those he assists or allies with despite his reluctance towards the idea of attaching himself too much to humans I don't see how he couldn't have some form of sass or sarcasm to his personality given he's known for having a cold and bitter exterior, with only his actual emotional turmoil being brought to the surface when directly confronted by his father or those associated with him like the succubus who took the form of Lisa Tepes in SOTN. In fact this is actually greatly exemplified towards the end of Season 2 when they're within the castle itself and he goes to confront his father alone, since even in the games he feels completely responsible for the path Dracula chose and feels it's his sole duty to face him without the help of Sypha, Trevor, or later Maria and Richter

Netflix Alucard behaves a lot more in character than people realize imo. The only thing I found offputting in any form really was that whole threesome thing in Season 3

@iuli Did we watch the same show? The only person who was sassier than Alucard was probably Trevor himself

@3RedTriangles Were people seriously that bothered with race-swapping Isaac? He's already a pretty different character from his game incarnation and it's clear they weren't word for word adapting every character to be close to their game counterparts to seperate it from the established lore so I don't see how it's a problem

@Zuljaras It'd actually be pretty cool if they adapted the Christopher Belmont story since the Game Boy games were very limited in that aspect but I found the whole son/father dynamic between him and Soleil to be a high point

@gaga64 No, everyone but Warren. He was let go from the series after Season 4

@Zuljaras Considering what Richter's actions end up causing in terms of the Vampire Killer whip itself I can't imagine Morris and Lecarde are too far off now

If or when they end up introducing Soma Cruz I imagine that's when we'll probably get the Julius story and the War of 1999

OH HELL YEAH

THE BEST BELMONT IS COMING

Oh boy

A character from a popular game gets crosspromotion into another similarly popular game available on a platform that doesn't have said popular game

I wonder if that's the first time that happened. looks at profile picture

@kingbk I really doubt Switch can handle Elden Ring if it hasn't even gotten any of the other current gen FromSoftware games like Sekiro or even Dark Souls 3

Even DS Remastered on Switch is basically a slightly better looking version of the original game and is missing a lot of the lighting effects and texture upgrades from the other platforms

thatgamecompany is still one of the best independent developers around

Based on the PushSquare review I think Switch might've been saddled with a really ho-hum conversion

I might as well just pick this up on PS4 or PC

People are probably gonna be pissed about this but I love Weezer so more content for me

The Twilight Princess reveal is still probably the most hyped up I've ever seen a crowd get for anything in an auditorium

It's honestly magical how amped up everyone was watching that trailer

@Twilite9 Street Fighter V is never coming to another non-Sony platform outside PC. Sony themselves directly funded the project in exchange for permanent PlayStation exclusivity due to the financial state Capcom was in around 2013-2014 post-SFxTekken