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@NintenGuy

Late to the party and kind of a ****, goes together like peanut butter and jelly. 👍

man, the red banner really sabotages the cover art on this one.

Looking forward to trying this game, I love the graphics!

@Gryffin

i haven't seen about half of your picks so I will be checking those out, thanks!

Also, big props for mentioning Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! I saw and loved it as a little kid and never forgot that one, yet I so seldomly come across it IRL or in conversation 👍👍

I think you'll get a kick out of "On Cinema, at The Cinema," which is a sort of anti-comedy series Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger did in the c.2010s as a sendup of public access TV film critic shows. The less you know going in, the better 👍

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQl8zBB7bPvIooDTYwY7v_V12KJfQueXZ&si=phq5nR5BAvO7yhIt

also Dr Katz, Professional Therapist is one of the great cartoons and/or improv shows of the 90s and definitely underappreciated today, in my opinion. Just the fact that it's animated improv is kinda unique, come to think of it. If you are into 90's comedians even better, though I'm sure most of them are American. ✌️

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboGUWNoRht95JX5Vo15ZKtFb&si=FTB-q1dqa7Nc70dQ

@Gryffin

"the Whitest Kids You Know, the Kids in the Hall, Knox's Klay World, Plinkett's Diaries from the Ricky Gervais Show, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Ghosts BBC, Derry Girls, The IT Crowd"

This guy laughs 👆

Some personal faves I could add are The State, On Cinema, Strangers with Candy, and Dr. Katz ✌️ I'm gonna check out the couple of yours I don't know, though, thanks!

@LastFootnote

" I think if you’re the kind of person who is interested in seeing a Super Mario movie specifically, the opinion of the self-selected group is actually more useful to you. If you just want to go see a movie in general, then yeah the critical reception is more likely to be what you’re looking for."

completely agree. 👍

People comparing the critic % to the user % as some kind of evidence don't seem to realize that one group is literally obligated to watch it and give a opinion as a professional, while the other is a self selected anonymous group among paying customers.

Honestly these aggregation websites feed fallacious arguments more than they could ever support an objective conclusion. ✌️

PS - critics and audiences loved The LEGO Movie. why shouldn't the Mario movies be at least as good as that? 🤔

@benmalsky198

"Whats so “Trumpian” about it?"

Arrogant, entitled, grandiose, and factually inaccurate.

Specifically, the rhetorical strategy of mischaracterizing other people's roles or responsibilities in order to always frame oneself as a sort of victim. Right now, it's NATO/Article 5.

EDIT - also the emphasis on "the industry." (or as Trump would call it, the "ENDUST"ry.)

"I tried to save the industry - and it's not even my industry - but these other people, who SUPPOSEDLY want to support their industry, just want to be negative. They're crazy!"

“We stepped in from another medium and did our best to help energize the film industry. And yet the very people who are supposed to champion the film industry are the ones being so negative; it’s truly baffling.”

This is the Trumpiest thing I've heard Miyamoto say. one hopes this is a mistranslation. 😕

I haven't seen the second one, but the first was particularly weak even compared to for example Shrek and Despicable Me, in terms of pacing, plot, writing, and acting. Boring yet exhausting is how I would describe it.

OTOH my absolutely brain rotted gen alpha relative loved it, bless his heart. ♥️

"You couldn't figure out the worlds theory for yourself? It's just common sense. Everyone knows you have to keep your worlds apart!"

"Ecco The Dolphin: Complete Announced"

"Obviously there are a few games missing"

💩

'If you’re going to create a deckbuilder out of Vampire Survivors, I think Vampire Crawlers is pretty much exactly the result you’d hope for – minus some bugs."

you mean "plus some bugs" i think ✌️

@AussieMcBucket

thank you, thank you 😅

@rvcolem1

the day they joined Hookshot, and I found out I had to support their Patreon to interact on their site (even though I was a hookshot supporter,) that was the first and last time I ever visited Digital Foundry.

is it really fearmongering? didnt 3rd party docks brick Switches in the early days?

I like most Bond themes, but the one for "The World is Not Enough" was just garbage.

@Olliemar28

Options are good! can't argue with that. 👍

I like the 8bitdo solution for this, but otoh I dont like lights on my controllers so I might not actually like it in use.

in general I just wish the buttons weren't labelled on controllers! I know what console I'm playing.

(ps - it wouldnt be that hard for Nintendo to offer the option to swap the layout system-wide, or even per game or per controller. The "other" hybrid handheld system does this, but I do realize that would be a very "Nontendo" thing to do ✌️)

"This input labelling situation needs sorting"

FWIW and from what I can find, there is no controller called the "Hautepad C-AT Arcade Controller For Switch 1 & 2" but if there was, the buttons would be labelled as such.

this is a bit like demanding that controllers made for Switch "need their labelling sorted" for use on PC.

the "C" stands for "Cosmox."

Rest In (cocky little) Peace ♥️

EDIT - I just realized this wasn't even him 😆

still, RIP to a great one! I love the part where Bill shows up to help. (and that WAS actually him 😅)

@dartmonkey

did this followup article make you feel better, Gavin? "insult-to-injury" is not the best way I've ever heard to retain your reader base. what was the idea, here? 🤔

@Spider-Kev

I'm heartbroken it has come to this, Spider Kev. What has happened to our favorite gaming site? Keep in touch, you have my email. ✌️

This is a new low for this site. Telling your regulars with legitimate complaints (yes, they are) to touch grass is... I just dont know, y'all.

Friends, let me tell you, speaking as someone who bought a Steamdeck LCD on 320usd sale in October, months before they went away for good: if you have been thinking of getting a Switch 2 for 450, just do it, man. things change so fast, now.

I fully planned to buy my wife an LCD so we could play online and LAN games together, and they discontinued it a couple days before i got on there to buy it. Now, I cant even get her the more expensive model.

@electrolite77

"The absolute best thing Nintendo can do is find a way to hold the Switch 2 price where it is."

I completely agree with you. All they have to do is convince shareholders that a small sacrifice in profit per unit will preserve the growth of their user base, long term.

@Dimjimmer

2004 you would probably say, "what PS3? where?" 😂✌️

@johnedwin

"ps5 may be old it is still a fantastic system.. and sony most current console so not unless the ps6 comes around the ps5 is only aging in peoples minds.."

that is detached from reality, sorry.

@johnedwin
"if you add inflation a 500 ps5 in 2020 dollars is about 630 dollars in 2026 dollars."

what does that have to do with stagnant wages or aging hardware.

@ROMhaiku

"Don't kill me for asking but is the short-term fix for these crazy rises going to be cloud gaming?"

I was just asking this on Time Extension. 😬

Believe me, no matter how passionately and righteously our feelings about it, if the mainstream adopts cloud gaming and deems it "good enough" they will gaslight you over it after the fact, ad infinitum, and never see the light.

@Aquinas

"Nah, rich gamers are everywhere now and need their fix. Will it see a small change? Maybe. Tank? No way."

given that you've said you are part of "the 0.1%" in a comment elsewhere, I think your perspective might be a touch biased, here. respectfully. ✌️

@zaneplay64

"I've never understood how people get mad at something being spoiled for them, when they are commenting on a site that reports on the very subject they want to avoid!"

if Nintendolife wants their regular users to avoid their site for months at a time, then they should take your comment to heart. 👍

I couldn't care less about this movie but if I did, I would be joining the chorus of people here rightfully calling out the massive spoiler. Still, one thing I cant stand is an organization clearly messing up and then telling it's own users "we are right, you are wrong," and employing bad faith arguments to support their mistake. So here we are.

You guys are well aware that you could've made the headline something like "You'll never guess who is joining the cast of the new Mario movie!" and then a vague thumbnail. You've ironically chosen rage bait over clickbait this time. the fact that "it's on social media" is no excuse, as others point out. If Nlife hadnt reported this, I'd never have known about it without watching the movie. Our fault for putting our faith in our favorite Nintendo News site, we suppose.

I might not care this time, but this isn't the first time this has happened, by a long shot.

To those saying this is nbd: clearly, this is a movie of mostly surprise cameos. there can't be much more to it than that. ✌️

One user might be wrong. If it's a whole bunch of people, you are wrong.

@Zeeba

"I'm not sure why I'm complaining anyway. I'm basically priced out of gaming as is. It's time to tackle the backlog and not worry about this stuff."

the wishlist is your friend 🙂

How Nintendo would it be if they just never price another game like this again, go back to the way it was, and don't ever explain themselves.

@N00BiSH

1) my pleasure 😊

2) Yeah, I knew we were generally on the same page about at least the character design choices of these movies.

it sucks because the best thing they could possibly do for these characters is nothing. 🙄

@AstroTheGamosian

"Will this set the stage for Star Fox to be the next Nintendo franchise to make the leap from video games to cinema"

honestly at this point, he would practically be making the leap from cinema to videogames. 😅

@N00BiSH

now thats just a whataboutism and you know it 😂

he looks more like Huckleberry Hound than he does a fox.

he doesnt even look like a fox.

@electrolite77

thanks for replying. I'm remembering now the Nintendo fans rationalizing (right or wrong) TOTK because "the other guys" had already hiked their prices, something Iwas ignorant of then and apparently still 😅✌️

@Haruki_NLI

fair enough. what even is perspective besides what facts you are aware of, vs not? 🤔

anyway I appreciate you filling me in. things are actually worse than I thought 😂👍

thank god for indies and CDPR or these would be really dark times for me indeed.

@Haruki_NLI

I couldn't care less what the other companies do, and 70 is still a bridge too far for me anyway, especially for a game like this, but I can appreciate your perspective 👍

@Haruki_NLI

Thanks! PS and XBOX haven't done anything i find interesting in decades now so I missed it.

I guess 70 for TOTK was only shocking in Nintendo world. Zelda was the one series I could imagine paying that much to play the new game, but TOTK cured me of that. Now, I will wait for a sale, always. 👍

@HalBailman

Thanks, Hal. It seems that Nintendo is spinning their own reality.

@electrolite77

"Yoshi is priced at what has become industry standard since 2020"

what games were 70 USD in 2020? it was widely believed that Nintendo was pushing the envelope with that price point for TOTK, which came out well after.

@TYRANACLES

you're very welcome 😊 I hope you enjoy! please come back and let us know, if you think of it. ✌️

fwiw I've been playing one puzzle a night on Mario's Picross for gameboy before going to sleep. generally, it's a bit hard to stay awake through the whole puzzle, but that's kind of the point. it's possibly the least stimulating videogame imaginable, in a good way. 😂 no graphics, no story, no action, no words. 👍

@jsty3105

ultimately, i think you are right. the prices are what they are, and people have different perspectives when it comes to what they "mean."

otoh, if the physical games are more expensive than the digital, then you pay a premium for the physical, because that's what that word means. even if the games were 40 digital and 50 physical, that is a 10 dollar premium for physical.

personally, there was a brief time that i would have paid 70 dollars for a Nintendo game, and that time started when I bought TOTK and ended soon after, when I played it. 70 for a Yoshi game is ludicrous, in my personal opinion. But you know what they say about opinions. ✌️

@jsty3105

a higher price is called a "premium." that's not really arguable.

to the other point, since we dont have a baseline for this game, I don't really see how you can rationalize that paying the TOTK price for this Yoshi game physically isn't "a premium" compared to the 60 dollar eShop price.

Respectfully, 60 dollars for a game is not suddenly a discount price just because Nintendo has (quite recently) normalized 70 dollars per game for their fans.

btw remember this? https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/nintendo-usd70-usd-wont-be-a-trend-games-priced-on-case-by-case-basis

very interesting, reading the comments, there.

"Nintendo does state that retailers can set their own prices for physical and digital games."

in the case of physical, is this really true? some big box store could've set a 59.99 or 64.99 price for TOTK, for example?

also who is the retailer that sets prices for digital games outside of the eShop?

@jsty3105

"making digital games cheaper doesn't suddenly make physical games the premium option"

i know what you are trying to say but i do think that it literally does.

also, "cheaper" compared to what? $70 was already a "premium" in another manner of speaking.

so they "lowered" this Yoshi game to the normal price that it shouldve already been, tops.

I can remember that just a couple years ago the apologists were saying that 70 for TOTK was hunky-dory because "it's Zelda."

get ready for 70 dollar eshop games and 80 dollar physical, and climbing.

this should be a late gen Switch 1 game, not a launch window Switch 2 exclusive.