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People who constantly whine about the old games being superior in every way are blinded by nostalgia. I've never played Pokemon back in the day, my platforms of choice were Amiga/PC/Sega. I only played the original Pokemon games many, many years after the fact and they were so boring I never even finished any of them. No rose-tinted goggles to elevate them to a godlike status for me. The DS era was better, the 3DS era I loved (still play Ultra Sun and X occasionally), the Switch has been great. Yeah, S/V was a trainwreck performance-wise but the gameplay loop was fun. Arceus is still the best Pokemon game ever for me. I really want to love Z-A but the city just looks boring and I constantly get lost in it because there are no landmarks to make areas memorable. The combat also really needed a dedicated dodge button for your Pokemon.

Bottom line: you play Pokemon because it's a comfort thing. You get exactly what you expect and nothing more - running around and catching monsters. If you want something intense, original, with unpredictable story, why are you playing Pokemon?

I played it recently cause it was free on PS+. It's surprisingly good. Bizarre, odd, weird... Whatever you wanna call, it pulls you right in.

Yikes, Tencent. Looks like AI rubbish honestly, with so many rip off characters it makes Palworld look original. A cat with the same colour pattern as Totoro? A Catbus? Really?

I ask the same questions every time this abomination of a character rears his ugly head: who in their right mind asked for this? Why does it exist? What are those people on and where can I get some?

Wish they just remade it from the ground up like they did with SS1. The character models in this suck and the cyborg midwife is no longer scary.

Looks old and dirty and it's way too pricey for what it is. I'm happy with my Powerwave hard shell case. Far cheaper and it's great.

DK all the way! I love his movie design so much.

It's great and I'm having more fun with it than I thought I would. My kids are appreciating the split-screen and on the easiest difficulty there's so much help with steering and tricks that even my 2-year-old thinks he's an amazing driver. Honestly, last time I enjoyed a racer this much, I was playing Sonic Racing Transformed.

Rainbow Road is epic. I unlocked the Special Cup last night and the final race kicked a$$. I'm mostly enjoying the free roam, though. It's such a great idea, I hope the upcoming Sonic racer will do the same thing.

Perhaps I'll finally finish the second DLC if it runs better. I couldn't tolerate it on Switch and gave up. My pre-ordered Switch 2 has just been shipped so I'll find out soon enough.

Can't they just let this thing die? No one likes Bubsy. No one ever liked Bubsy. All the old Bubsy games suck and the modern ones are boring and pointless.

Won't be getting new games for old Switch, I don't think. Fantasy Life I'm excited about but will get it on PS5. I'll save money to buy for Switch 2 instead.

No thanks, I like to own what I buy. I got the disc version of PS5 for this reason, and I sure won't change things with Switch 2. I'll be buying normal physical versions, or I'll just download the game when there's a sale much later after the release.

I played it way back then on WiiU and am yet to pick up the remaster, but I remember how annoying the skell was. It felt like I could barely ever use it because it was constantly out of fuel.

Loved it on WiiU so of course I'll love it on Switch. I'll play it once I'm done with Monster Hunter Wilds.

They'll just buy a shrink wrap machine. They should deface the boxes. Actual collectors like me throw them away anyway. People who collect sealed will go elsewhere already and scalpers can go jump.

Am I the only one who doesn't care? A few bucks off a $100 purchase is pathetic anyway. I buy games because I want to play them, not to earn a few measly cents in the form of gold points. I'd much rather be able to earn some cool physical items. Promo Pokemon cards would be sweet.

I still have the PS2 version I originally played, and bought it again on Switch. But perhaps we can all just play and enjoy whatever we want, eh?

Life-sized Pancham or get out!

They're virtual cards. They're worthless. And people still feel the need to cheat and pay real money for them? Just when I thought people can't sink any lower...

Sounds good. I'll get it on PS5, it's gonna look and run better.

Perhaps Nintendo could actually start reviewing and vetoing these rip-off/shovelware titles. There are SO many on Switch and it wastes so much time to scroll through them to get to the good stuff. If only we could blacklist certain developers and all their products. Please, please make it a feature on Switch 2!

I collect Pokemon too and all I can say is: eff scalpers! I hate those scumbags with fiery passion. Us hobbyists have to compete with this scum, and it's ridiculous. I haven't seen a single 151 or Evolutions pack anywhere but scalpers and investment bros have dozens. Can you say I'm angry? Because I'm angry about it - and I'm an adult. Imagine being a kid and not being able to buy kids cards because adults scalp them.

I actually own the Vita and I completely missed this one. Gotta get it on Switch at least.

Another Russian scam. I hope Nintendo slaps him with a lawsuit.

@Slobbert I hope it does. I want Pokemon to be fun again, not business.

@VoidofLight I'm an adult too. I love Pokemon and probably always will. But I'm sick of adults who have no emotional connection to the franchise turning it into a business when it should just be fun for everyone. They just ruin it for everyone.

@IceClimbersMain This is why I have such intense hatred for scalpers. I collect Pokemon but I'm an adult and I only buy a box now and then. I can imagine how much it must suck to be a kid and try to compete with these disgusting greedy scumbags. Like this is a kid's card game, leave some for the actual kids!

@DripDropCop146 I couldn't get into it either. I love Sonic but I want a movie about Sonic. I don't want some stupid human characters. I don't even know why they have to be there. You could replace them with any of the existing cast of Sonic characters and nothing would be lost.

Palworld needs to change its pal designs and the pal catching mechanic, then they'll be in the clear. The game itself is nothing like Pokemon and it's quite fun despite being in early access and glitchy. Some of the stuff in it I genuinely wish Nintendo would take and use in the next Pokemon game.

@Yosher I've been saying for a while that the Pals look like an AI made them by mixing several Pokemon together. Is that what they really did?

As someone with a rather unhealthy addiction to collecting Pokemon cards, I thought this would be great. But I don't like what data the app collects and shares, so it's gonna have to be a no.

I have the new 3DS with Happy Home Designer plates. I loved that thing to bits, it was so good for playing picross. I'm still annoyed the Switch doesn't have a stylus.

I play on Switch, Playstation and PC and I love them all. Switch is wonderful, but the hardware is weak and the store is so full of garbage (Sony is also guilty of the latter, for the sake of fairness). I really wish Nintendo would add an option to blacklist games/developers. With 2 young kids I have a very limited amount of time I can spend gaming, I don't want to waste it wading through trash when shopping for a game.

@Daggot The games are fine, just not on Switch. The first game has voice acting on PC, which all got axed in the Switch version. It also runs really, really, REALLY badly on Switch. The second game is only marginally better in terms of performance. Play the first 2 ideally on PC or at least Xbox/PS.

They're also not your usual life sim. You run a workshop and you gather materials to build things rather than the classic farming stuff.

I wouldn't play anything from Pathea on Switch. The first game was a broken mess, the second one is better but not by much. Unless Switch 2 is on par with/more powerful than PS5, I'll be getting the game on the latter.

They could also just stop making garbage gacha games and focus on making good mainline Pokemon games instead. Learn a thing or two from the Palworld devs.

I'll wait for the reviews. Got burnt one too many times already on pre-orders. I love life sims so I'm intrigued,though.

Looks gorgeous and I really wanted it until they announced the price. Can't really justify paying hundreds for some plastic pieces that will just gather dust on a shelf in the end. :/

Looks great, I'll be getting this.

It's a Day 1 free release on PS+, so I guess I'll just get it on my PS5. Kind of a shame since it's the kind of game that's perfect for a portable system.

@Samalik Yeah, no. Maybe we're each looking at a different picture. So be it, I don't care enough to keep arguing about it.

@Samalik Clearly you didn't look properly. That thumbnail image right above the comment section is an Escher girl with a swivel waist. If you want to pretend this isn't a thing, that's up to you. We'll just have to agree to disagree and move on.

@Samalik Cause she's in a ridiculous pose just so that you can see her ass and boobs? A fine example of an Escher girl if I ever saw one.

Wish I had time to get into something more complex, but with two kids under 3 I can only get in a quick game of Solitaire here and there. When the baby contact-naps on me and the toddler is playing, I play Dorfromantik in handheld mode.

Good, this needs to happen until people stop abusing developers. I have plenty of issues with plenty of games or studios, and still never felt the need to send anyone death threats. It's possible to act like a human rather than an animal.

Played it on PS5 and as much as I wanted to like it, I didn't. Finished it to see where the story was gonna go, but the ending sucks. The gameplay is repetitive, the graphics not very good, the controls wonky, and I honestly don't understand the hype. I do feel bad about this because it's clear it's a passion project of a small team who poured their heart and soul into it, and I feel so guilty I can't give it the same love.

Not gonna buy it again. I got it at launch and still got the physical version, and then I got it again on PS4, because Ubisoft was like "if it sells well, we'll make a sequel". That sequel is still nowhere to be seen, and the only glimpse of it that we got was that absolutely atrocious trailer with a monkey going "bang bang, m*thaf*cka". It's been radio silence since. I'm done with this franchise. It was a beautiful one-off and that's that.

Got it for free on PS+ and just couldn't get into it. I normally love platformers and especially metroidvanias, but this one didn't click with me. The voice acting is really bad imo and I don't care about the characters. Having a massive backlog already, I just moved on.