The_Nintendo_Expat

another perfect debut that needed zero sequels.

now, wheres GX2? 😆

"There's always the Internet Archive."

my thoughts precisely.

Nintendo continues to behave like it's 1998 in regards to the Internet and what's been available to all of us, for free, on demand, for years, no thanks to them for the most part.

@Filthy

ah, but the attic is part of the house! 😌☝️

@Spider-Kev

haha! i shouldve said IRL somewhere in there 😆

what did you think of it, contemporaneously?

i dont think ive ever met anyone who played this game in its day. not that that is qualitative in any way.

To me, this game is an example of a good candidate for a "remaster" or even a random reboot or sequel because the nostalgia ratio is seemingly low.

I mean hot take, idk. i hate everything.

@Serpenterror

"I don't get how this was even an issue, if you play your Nintendo Switch 2 on a modern 4K smart TV you should already had YouTube built-in ready to go on that TV already."

some people might want to watch youtube handheld ✌️ or on a hotel room tv while traveling.

@N00BiSH

sound is half the reason i play videogames, depending on the game of course. 👍

also i turn the music off often, if its not particularly great. i really appreciate games that still sound "right" with just ambience/fx. and, in those cases i often find the game to be more immersive than with the tunes.

(huntdown is a good example of ambience done well. without the music, you can clearly hear the NPCs/enemies chatting or doing whatever they are doing before you are noticed, and the "air is filled" with sounds of the city, etc. its cool.)

@TheBoilerman

i have a wonderful mother 2 OST on vinyl that was a gift from a dear friend returning from japan ❤️

...but i never listen to it, because the vinyl "hiss" sounds oddly "detached" from the signal, and its distracting. and, the music sounds plenty "warm" as designed. ✌️ not to mention, i have ZXTUNE on my phone and it works fantastically.

@Truegamer79

minimalist piano compositions are not for everyone, but the town music is plenty melodic and "Zelda," if not completely on the nose, imo.

i love it all personally, by far the best thing about this game. 👍

im getting more skeptical of this kind of thing tbh.

@Drnsnsr

... read it again.

GKC is just clutter for your house, destined for obsolescence.

@Tibob

"EVERY game in there is available. Is it not about playing the games anymore ?"

its also about owning/collecting games, and it always has been. 👍

(PS that's not even true AFAIK.)

this game being pulled was the first major chip in the hull of my fandom.

...yada yada Steam Deck.

microsoft will always be "other gaming" to me.

@MeloMan

im being a little cute, because ive been on this train... forever 😆 i was working on my ZSNES backlog in the PSX days, and ive always been more into 100%ing my games while i wait to find a used copy of whatever's new, later.

(always with exceptions, like a new zelda or mario game, but now i wait on those, too, after the last few have been kinda... meh.)

but yeah the update, DLC, eventual bundle sale cycle has just reinforced this behavior 😊✌️

@Bunkerneath

I f*cking love lonely mountain! (thats what i call it 😆)

have you tried Decenders? i went into it expecting not much, and ended up sinking some time into it. satisfying game to play, and similar in the sense that its you vs the mountain/trail. i recommend turning the music off 😎✌️
something about driving a gasoline engine around the wilderness just doesnt hit the same, but if this is fun, ill be down. 👍

i dont even want to get into new games anymore, because i know that if i like them initially, they'll just change it. better to "work on the backlog" perpetually and just always be a few years behind.

@NorrinRadd

"The literal construction of your sentence as written indicates that anyone who is a passionate gamer is opposed to game key cards. That is how the sentence reads Implementing proper English grammar."

sorry that's wrong. all his words are saying is that the people complaining about game key cards are passionate gaming fans, and youve inserted yourself into it.

"It's been met with considerably negative reception from passionate gaming fans."

if youre gonna pedant, be right. it's like, the only rule 👍

"If Pokemon fans will blindly buy anything regardless of subpar quality, how do you explain all these sales?"

@UltimateOtaku91

It's an odd strategy. They seem to want it to be a spinoff OR a mainline game, depending on the desires of the beholder.

@MTMike87

i guess "mainline" is just another useful gaming term lost to brainless internet rhetoric and/or corporate subterfuge. see also "retro," "remaster..."

@UltimateOtaku91

what you say comports with what i thought as ive loosely followed along, to this point 👍 thanks!

it seems like they definitely intended "Legends" to be a spinoff series, and later claimed them to be "mainline," for whatever reasons they might have.

@kal_el_07241 @KayFiOS @MamaSymphonia

asked and answered! thanks, all. ✌️

FWIW i found the source of my misinformation:

"This game offers the first real open-world experience in the Pokémon series. Technically a spin-off from the mainline games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in a 'Ye Olde' version of the Gen 4 region..."

https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/pokemon-legends-arceus

"In Europe, the game's racked up the smallest retail launch for a mainline game since Let's Go! Pikachu and Let's Go! Eevee"

dumb question, are we calling this a mainline pokemon game?

I'm pretty certain that Arceus was received as a non mainline game, in a new "Legends" sub series. 🤔

"This game offers the first real open-world experience in the Pokémon series. Technically a spin-off from the mainline games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in a 'Ye Olde' version of the Gen 4 region..."

https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/pokemon-legends-arceus

(FWIW im not sure if i consider remakes (the "Let's go!" games mentioned) as "mainline entries" in a given series, either. seems like we are stretching the definition into meaninglessness, as we often do around here)

McDonald's has made their billions (trillions?) selling us chemically engineered poison that has made us fat, unhealthy, and unhappy. their litter clogs our streets just as their food clogs our arteries. their marketing brainwashes children in a way that takes a lifetime to undo, if it ever happens. their food is designed to be as addictive and as profit friendly as modern science will allow, with not a second thought given to your well being, or the planet's.

McDonald's deserves none of your time as a gamer, and shame on anyone for giving them free (or paid) exposure on their platform.

Corporatism = Fascism. Let's try to get this garbage out of our bodies, out of our minds, and out of our lives. ✊

Thank you ✌️

at first i thought "toss up" but then i noticed the NA art looks a bit "Player's Pulse."

@Suketoudara

"The Switch version does support USB mouse. And USB keyboard!"

thanks! i had a feeling.

i find all this "mouse mode" stuff odd when you could always use a mouse with switch, and many people probably already had the hardware laying around (or could acquire it for 20 bucks) and never bothered.

not to mention, their competitor Steam has obv always had mouse compatibility. I tried "couch mouse" mode with a tower PC hooked up to my TV probably 15 years ago, almost immediately said "nope!" and never looked back 😂

@WheresWaveRace @Novuscourvous

"I got news for you: if it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books!"

@Grim

LOL 😂 i dont even really understand what people often mean by "cancelled" but im sure sick of hearing about it.

@mouseclicker

NEW RULE anyone who publicly b*tches about "cancel culture" gets automatically cancelled on the spot.

im always curious if games that get "mouse mode support" already supported a USB mouse on switch, and if not, why not?

(also curious if "mouse mode support" necessarily means USB mouse support, or if these games might only be playable with one side talkin joycon. 🤔)

(further curious if some people who are interested in "mouse mode" on switch 2 ever bothered to try a mouse with switch 1)

@Damo

You are right, "everyday someone is born who hasn't seen the Flintstones," as they say. ✌️

OTOH, I'm grumpy about it. 😮‍💨

(if I reviewed games which i dont and probably wont, i might implement something like "MSRP: $X, game length: ~X hrs, replayability X/10 pts" as a side bar.)

anyway! thanks for the review, i was/am pleased to see your name attached 😊✌️

PS - now that im a steam deck owner (😌) i'm extremely interested to see reviews for steam games from that perspective. this seems like a good one for example to review this way on Time Extension. its a thought, idk. 😊

why are NintendoLife reviews so often written as though the author assumes the audience is skeptical (or completely ignorant) of the given genre?

this review comes off oddly apologetic about the nature of arcade games. specifically, that they are relatively short, and they end.

"The challenge won't last forever"

"Might be too shallow for some"

both of these cons could be applied to every game ever in existence, no matter how deep (or... 'infinite?' )

@Indielink

that's cool!

how are you finding the ergonomics? (if i may ask,) big hands, small hands? does the joycon feel like it wants to tip over? have you tried using another mouse? are you a long session gamer or short sessions like me most of the time?

thanks! 😊👍

they cant even make joycon mouse mode look fun for 3 seconds in an ad.

"useless crap" is a young man's game, imo.

@Retrograde

"It's only really children who couldn't afford both"

💀

see ya.

@Retrograde

imagine you already bought a switch 2, because first party nintendo is your #1 priority. now imagine you want to play P3R but you cant afford yet another ~500+ for the ideal hardware to run it, so you buy this port as a compromise.

there. youve imagined why someone would buy this port even though they could spend extra money to run it more smoothly. 👍

@Retrograde

"A ROG ally is a similar cost to a Switch 2 though and vastly superior for AAA titles."

I dont know why anyone would buy a handheld with Windows on it.

@Retrograde

"I don't know why people would buy these ports. Personally for me the portability means almost nothing."

you clearly do know exactly why people would buy these ports.

@Retrograde

i agree with plenty of what you are saying here but you are making it seem like an unreasonable position with stuff like "why would anyone buy it?" as if you dont realize its the only portable version on consoles. ✌️

"...loads have never played it. Even folks who've been around since back in the day. It's just one of those games that ended up being unavailable a lot of players whom we reckon [...] might just earn themselves a brand new SNES favourite."

I completely resemble this remark! Gaia was one of the first "long" games I ever beat as a kid, and remains one of my favorite games ever. the sequels of course never came out in the US, so they've been on sort of semi permanent backlog status for at least 30 years (💀)

...yet where am I in the poll answers? 😮‍💨

(I didn't/couldn't vote.)

i cant believe Nintendo wont just sell us their old games to play, either as eShop releases a la "hamster," or in compilations, "Virtual Console" or no.

i've lost interest in the entire idea. Nintendo broke my fandom, thank god for my existing collection and emulation. ✌️👍

"and the latter being a very deliberate cross between Vampire Survivors and Breakout."

that is an apt description but there was a mobile game years ago called BBTAN that is as obvious an ancestor as either of those games 👍

i was once hopelessly addicted to BBTAN. 😂✌️

once I tried a fitbit with "smart wake," where the alarm goes off when your sleep cycle is near "awake" within a 30min window before your alarm, I never even thought about using a "conventional" alarm clock ever again. even a Nintendo one. 😂✌️

@N00BiSH

1 million % 👍

i would like new, full effort entries in any given series over more "double packs," please.

@Anti-Matter

we are on the same page, to a certain degree. ive always preferred my violence cartoony and my sexual themes implicit, as opposed to explicit.

i also find the gameplay to be a little better in games that arent leaning on good ol "sex and violence" to appeal to their audience. Street Fighter has always clearly been better than Mortal Kombat, as an easy example. ✌️

my very favorite games are ones that look like cartoons but have a deeper emotional impact (like earthbound) or are genuinely challenging (like megaman.)

anyway, cool to see your letter published on here! take care my friend.

@Anti-Matter

Anti, if it weren't for your posting on this site, I wouldn't even be aware that there were adult fans of these games out there at all. So, I'm glad you are here 😊✌️ im open to (very nearly) ALL kinds of games, so I dont write off kids' games just because I'm not a kid. 👍

are you a fan of any other kinds of games? in part, im just curious if there is any overlap of our tastes. I like what some of my friends call "baby games" (in a "good natured ribbing" kind of way) but from their perspective that's Tomba, Pikmin, Earthbound, et al.