The_Nintendo_Expat

i think itll take playing it for myself (like if a friend buys it) to reignite my interest in Prime 4. but if that never happens it's probably over. 👍

@AussieMcBucket @itsapossum

i like story based games, and i also appreciate "progression" in the "leveling up your character" and/or "opening up the map" sense.

but, i like "big number go up" games, too, and for me it's a different kind of satisfaction: objectively getting better at the game over time. ✌️

I'll be buying this for Steam Deck, thanks for the review!

-The Steamdeck Pedant

Nothing screams "NES!" like an xbox controller, a PC keyboard, and a bluetooth speaker.

@LikelySatan

ouch! i did plenty of damage to myself, selling games long ago that i really shouldve held onto.

i do have a tidy personal collection of faves from the goodle days, and a fair amount of physical switch carts, but given that ive gone with steamdeck this time obviously ive moved on from physical for now, as far as new and upcoming games are concerned, for the time being.

PS - i got my NES when i was four as well 😊👍 so we have that in common. what a ride its been, eh?

@LikelySatan

i appreciate what you are saying, but fwiw I'm not as concerned about the physical aspect as others here 👍 i buy physical and digital, and a LOT more digital than 10 years ago.

@CANOEberry

i dont see anywhere that we disagree. 👍 its no different really than my old pattern of, "buy the games at full retail that REALLY excite me, pick them up later on discount or used otherwise."

in an era where Nintendo virtually never discounts their games, and physical games are somewhat scarce and i dont just come across interesting titles in the "bargain bin" anymore, ive become that much more choosey about what i throw money at and when.

put another way, I only pay for games once, so bring full value up front or wait for less money later. im a simple man.

cool concept!

otoh imo 8 identical arcade buttons is already too many 😆 id much prefer a classic 6 button layout with the other buttons cleverly laid out elsewhere.

in general im very interested in "alternative" type controllers, and this one is very interesting indeed! thanks for review 👍

Maximum Brain Rot.

@Polvasti

i agree with your point to some extent, but announcing DLC when the game's barely out (or in certain cases not even out 😬) is still an indicator for me that i should wait for the inevitable game + dlc bundle that goes on sale right about as ive forgotten the game exists.

in fact, i already had forgotten this game exists before i read your reply, so the strategy is working 😂

Basically you're either the kind of company that sells me a complete, finite game for a fair price and i buy it, or you are the "but wait, theres more!" kind and I wait... for the bundle sale. 😂✌️ I have plenty of games to play until then, including ninja side scrollers that i havent even touched yet.

i dont expect anyone else to follow my lead, or care if they do. 👍

@NeonPizza

"Super Cyborg & Blazing Chrome"

ive had my eye on these for a very long time! thanks for bringing them back into focus, and giving me the push i needed!

(I was never going to play Iron Meat because that title just icks me out lol 😂)

thanks for chiming in!

@timp29

have you played Huntdown? curious what you think if so ✌️

@LikelySatan

I am working through huntdown again on Steam this time, and enjoying it even more than ever. probably my favorite game of the last 10 or more years.

This looks like it could be nearly as good! but i doubt itll be better. ✌️

@kmtrain83

"Do they workshop these names?"

im convinced they do not. i feel for anyone new to the "xbox ecosystem" and just now trying to get in. 😮‍💨

@AmplifyMJ

"Happy Belated birthday,"

thanks very much! it was a great one 😄

"I forgot you were getting a Steam Deck! [...] how are you enjoying it?"

OH MAN. its the console AND pc of my dreams, no exaggeration. I plan to make a forum post about it and ill be sure to @ you when I do ✌️

but the TLDR is, i feel confident i can play almost anything i want to on it, and the only drawback (for me personally) vs the Switch is lack of first party Nintendo games.

the controls are particularly innovative and competent but that goes for just about everything, top to bottom. completely worth the hype, I shouldn't have slept on Steam Deck!

thanks for asking! 😄👍✌️

FWIW, just taking this controller off the dock wakes my Steamdeck instantly 😂😂😂

(but so does my Logitech bluetooth keyboard, so. 😌)

there's something about using a controller for the purpose for which it was designed. who knew? 👍

BTW Steam OS recognizes this controller specifically, shows the 8bd "heart" glyph on screen for "home" commands, represents the controller graphically in Steam Input, and allows mapping of specific functions to the "extra" buttons, not just clones of face buttons.

TLDR: this controller is an EASY 10/10 on steam. 👍👍 no complaints and I love to find and single out problems, y'all.

@Scollurio

i cant speak to any other "handheld pc" directly, but i avoid Windows as much as any other Microsoft product, personally. Windows on a handheld sounds like battery-powered Hell to me lol.

I get that it can run steam, but even as a Nintendo ex-pat, im still inclined to go with the "first party option," hence the Deck. Old habits die hard! 😂✌️

SPOILER ALERT 🙄 thanks.

another news-vertisement from Nintendolife's usual suspect.

@canaryfarmer

"Relax! Xtra Xposure to X’s Xclusively Xpands your lexical Xperience!"

replies like this are why I post 😂👍

"if you can't actually put games into standby, that is wild."

agreed! as a long time Switch and new Steam Deck owner, I can't imagine buying another handheld that doesn't have standby. even my >$100 anbernic device has it! 💀

so tired of the letter "x." 😮‍💨

pretty please stop with the Dumb x Names

@Member_the_game

LOL well fair enough! 😅✌️

@charliecarrot

FYI theres no trophy for being smug on the internet.

or I'd have it already 🏆

@charliecarrot

have it your way. nothing is an invention, everything is an invention. 👍

@charliecarrot

I respect your opinion but i still think they are lowering the bar almost to the ground. At the very least, they are being pretentious by not simply calling this a list of "best products."

saying Nintendo "invented it" simply because it didnt exist before also doesnt really hold, for me. for example, nintendo arguably invented the analog stick (please dont @ me, ppl) for the n64, but to call the Gamecube stick also an "invention" simply because "it didn't exist before" is obviously disingenuous, imo.

for example im sure someone made a better cotton gin shortly after Eli Whitney (including, probably, Eli himself) but the invention was "the cotton gin" and Eli Whitney invented it, the first time.

PS - "Probably every piece of technology is some sort of iteration of something that came before."

Not really... that is what the word "invention" is usually reserved for: when you make something that is not simply iterative of what came before.

Like, the light bulb was not an iteration of a kerosene lamp, or the automobile was not an iteration of a horse lol. ✌️

@Whyarewestillhere

whoops you got here first 😅👍

"Proof of concept," isn't that what was said about Arceus? 🤔

@Member_the_game

"What you consider to be complacent and boring, others may see it as a more sensible approach.

After all it doesn't seem to do Sony any harm to just simply make a better version of their previous console each time.... they're absolutely killing it in fairness."

are you familiar with the old saying, "the exception that proves the rule?" 😆✌️

@Scollurio

i got a Steam Deck last week and everything "just works," and if i can dream up literally anything to try that usually "just works," too.

i havent been feeling Nintendo's first party games since roughly odyssey so there are pretty much zero downsides.

the analogue triggers and bumpers on Deck are DIVINE, incidentally. SO glad to have em back in my life ❤️

every time theres a "cant wake the switch 2 console" in the CONS section, it should be Nintendo that loses a point somewhere, somehow. ludicrous to deduct points from this product because of Nintendo's greed.

OTOH, why is this particular controller being reviewed here, when its obviously been purposely designed for steam, pc, xbox type applications? it doesnt even work with swotch 2 out of the box 😂 😂 it makes no sense at all. this controller got absolutely robbed in this review for no reason. this one should be on Time Extension where it might have been appreciated for what it actually is. (🙄)

(PS - no mention of the controllers absolutely coolest feature: switchable triggers that feel PHENOMENAL in both digital and analog modes. you can even make one digital and one analog 😱 and zero mention of it made.}

incidentally, what is the "invention" of Switch 2? RTFA, I guess, but are we just calling any product brought to market and "invention," now?

EDIT - I read the blurb: yes, that is what we are doing. 😞

@Skunkfish

I'm glad you are happy with the lineup! 👍

if they come out with some games i "just gotta" have, ill be tempted of course, but 450 for a Nintendo is just too much for me and ill never pay it. if they lower the price over time (no longer counting on it) itll eventually hit that "sweet spot" of library : price and ill get one, just like i did with 64, cube, and U back in the day.

but for now, i got a Steam Deck a week ago, im WAY happier with it than i ever was with my Switch, it does far more than play the games it was designed to play, and it fixes almost everything i dont like about switch. bonus: im no longer disappointed by nintendo first party games every 2-6 months 😬

yeah, ive not enjoyed the Switch generation. RIP Nintendo, c.1985~2015 🥲

@Skunkfish

I agree with you to some extent, but they should have BROUGHT IT with first party games. this year should have been chock a block with heavy hitters, or what is the point?

my favorite Nintendo is the one that tries as hard as they can but still remains the underdog. so the opposite of what we are seeing 😂✌️

@Member_the_game

"remember in the years leading up to the Switch 2 official announcement literally everyone was saying

"please Nintendo just don't ***** up with your next console, all we Need is a bigger, better and more powerful Switch"

I was saying the opposite of this. 👍 But yeah to your point everyone yelled at me lol. ✌️

(incidentally, IMO they still "f*cked up their next console." of course everyone will yell at me for this too, because for some reason the only qualifying factor in their minds for success is sales. 🙄)

@crazywab

it seriously feels like Nintendo waited 7-8 years to follow up the Switch yet still somehow rushed it. They lost me on this one: I got a Steamdeck last week and havent been this blissed out over a console since Wii, launch day. 🤩✌️

@crazywab

you can reply to multiple people in the same comment, fyi ✌️

you are probably right, but i dont think our comments are necessarily in conflict. if they could've waited longer to get it right, im saying, perhaps they should have.

OTOH i don't believe the strategy of re releasing their first game as their "third" game is all that hot in the first place, so.

IMO FF7/Chrono Cross wouldve been a much more satisfying and interesting pairing. ✌️👍

@KatiaManagan

"This reads like an ad."

I tend to agree. I think what we are seeing is the author's personal excitement being expressed, which is cool, but this being a "news story," it's not really appropriate, here.

I tend to think of this site as more of a blog. it helps soothe my discomfort regarding the relative lack of journalistic standards here and there. ✌️ (no offense intended, it is what it is and obv ive stuck around)

If the author wanted to express something personal about this upcoming game, there is an "opinion" tag for that, or "soapbox," or who knows what else to choose from.

I frankly miss the "previews" section that monthly publications used to have, in addition to "news" and "reviews." it was there just to let the editors talk about the games coming up in any way they chose, hype or anti-hype, just-the-facts, whatever.

this site blurs the line between fact, opinion, conjecture, and speculation regularly, but that seems to just be the era of "internet journalism" in which we find ourselves. 👍✌️❤️

in Ollie's own infamous words: "if you don't like it, don't read it." 😂

@Vyacheslav333

i dont think user intended to smear Devolver. Rather, they were saying their games are more for a refined palate, not shooting for the broadest appeal possible (in a good way.)

PS - I agree, Devolver is a great publisher and AFAIK ive bought more of their games than any other on switch, maybe by a hefty margin 👍

looks sick!

PS -

you take on the form of a demon made of "glass and pain"

actually, the text in the video says "glass and pane" 😂

@cvrator

intent to deceive is everything! im all for copyright reform, but these people are just trying to make easy money by tricking grandma into buying Timmy the wrong game for christmas. id be interested to hear the Libertarian element present here defend that.

@Anachronism

remember when Quake was initially called a "DOOM clone?" 😂

gamers had it so good in the 90s.

@ShieldHero

"As long as it isn't straight up using the exact same copyrighted name as Animal Crossing (which it isn't), I see no problem with this game existing."

It's clearly designed principally to deceive good faith customers into thinking they are getting Animal Crossing.

you can do parody, you can even do ripoffs to a certain extent, but you can't do that. 👍

Prototype Jack, anyone?

eye roll emoji.

@ShadLink

"People really don't know what they want."

who are you talking about? it seems like you expect everyone to agree on any given issue.

@ElRoberico

LOL thank you! I knew i was truncating it but what i didn't realize is the OG made even less sense than my abridgement 😂😂

@John_Deacon

i can, and will, wait for (seemingly incomplete) games to "be patched" before i spend money on them, or not, as the case may be. ultimately, this is how the industry works. ✌️

In the case of this game, in the immortal words of W: "fool me once, can't get fooled again."

30 fps cap is one of the biggest self-owns ive seen lately. they must be so strapped for cash to be releasing this at this time.

PS - it appears to be correctly spelled "Yooka-Re-Playlee"