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@Dezzy70 Why does it matter so much to you if a game is made by an in-house studio at Nintendo? You quite obviously play and enjoy a lot of the other games published and highlighted by Nintendo in their various directs and marketing. I just don't understand the focus on whether something was made in-house or not as some sort of important measurement, but I'm curious enough to want an answer from you

@CrimsonThunder I guess at that point we just come to the problem of how quickly the games have been released, and are continuing to do so. If from the very start there was more time between releases and their slogan wasn't "Gotta catch em all!", maybe having a unique regional dex for each generation could've been feasible. It might've been neat if they only brought a literal handful of older Pokemon back with each title, instead of trying to maintain a national Dex and having all the various starter dogs, bugs, birds etc. (Although I have a very positive bias for birds, but I'll ignore it for this convo)

But then, they wouldn't have reached the merchandise selling heights they have now if they didn't continuously bring back other Pokemon from the previous generations, so I don't begrudge them for continuing this approach, or at least attempting to

@Tates1234 I feel the the Black and White games handled the new influx of Pokemon into the dex the best out of any other in the Pokemon series, so it could also be a good place to start for anyone new. For these games, during the main campaign you only fought and encountered the new Gen 5 Pokemon, which makes the region feel unique and makes remembering them much easier. Only after that could you start finding the older favorites.

In other games, you see new and old mixed together, and it's easy to stick to the familiar old pokemon and remember them, whilst forgetting the newer ones. I wish all the generations did the Black and White approach, think it would make the games stand apart from each other that much more

Black and White are also the only games I beat, so maybe I'm not the best to talk about Pokemon, but that's my two cents.

@Radical_Living I don't want this thread to become an NFT discussion so I'll limit myself to just this post on the subject, but there is always one thing that has always bugged me about the scenario that you, and many others, propose: it will happen so very rarely, to the point where one player will get that and be happy, while the other 99.9% of the players won't get it and will thus lessen their enjoyment of the game. Which then begs the question, why would a big company ever work to design, code, and playtest unique assets for their game to potentially appeal to just 1 random lucky player, when they can allow more players to experience said asset, thus potentially increasing investment and interest in their game? Doesn't seem like a smart way to make money for a business!

This is a very self-centered mindset that some consumers have and I don't see the companies rewarding this sort of thought. If (or maybe better to say when) they implement NFTs, it won't be in the way people fantasize and romanticize it to happen

@Johnion Ah, fair play then. My bad for misunderstanding. I do agree that the gamepad made Wind Waker so much more enjoyable for me as well

@somebread Just wanted to pop by and maybe restore your faith in humanity. I agree with everything you have said about the whole "objective vs subjective" nature of video games. I swear opinions never existed with how vehemently people state that what they're saying is fact

@Johnion That sounds like something that someone who doesn't have a grueling job would say. I'm not gonna say that statement applies to you, though.

But having your favorite game with you on the go, where you can play it even a little bit at the time to progress through it when you don't have the luxury of time to play in front of a big screen, is absolutely nothing to mock and makes no sense to me. That's literally one of the core tenants of the Switch design: a console you can take on the go

Going on topic though, I did not know this BotW detail! It's neat, doesnt really change my overall perception of the game, but the details are cool nonetheless

@Noid I only read the first book, but if I remember correctly, Link does slice a moblins arm clean off

Edit: Just checked and nevermind, I was completely wrong. He did threaten to slice their arm off, but failed and instead had his own arm chopped off. Fun times!

It's quite refreshing to read a different opinion of Balan Wonderworld, as it had gotten pretty stale reading the same criticisms regurgitated ad nauseam. Thanks for a different perspective on the subject! At the end of the day, when it comes to opinions of a video game, there isn't really a "wrong" answer

I have no opinion either way as I haven't seen anything past the original trailer, and don't plan to. Just not my type of game, really.

@Kirby_Girl For the record, Horizon Zero Dawn released in Feb of 2017, while BotW came in March on 2017. It doesn't change what you were saying at all, but just giving you the correct info since I believe it was said that Horizon came out way before we knew about BotW. Also fun fact: we knew about BotW since like 2014 while the first trailer for Horizon was in 2015.

@VoidofLight I will admit that I am pleasantly surprised to see you accepting preferences when it comes to games, especially with the whole Skyward Sword discussion the other day. Good on you, mate!

@Kirby_Girl @VoidofLight @blindsquarel RE: Skyward Sword

Let's just remember that opinions =/= fact. I'll add to this mix that I find Ocarina of Time and BotW very boring and unappealing to play, but I understand why they're so adored by the general populace. I love Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Very indifferent when it comes to Skyward Sword (except for that amazing soundtrack!). And all of this is alright!

Our opinions can differ and no amount of comparing game mechanics will dissuade the other. As Kirby Girl mentioned, preferences! It's not an "us vs them" type of situation where there is a "right" side we have to fight for. We can all have our own opinions and preferences and that doesn't mean any one of us is wrong.

@Darkyoshi98 Ah, so you too are disabled and can't use your hands and beat these games using your chin while using original hardware? How impressive you are as well it turns out!

@BoilerBroJoe Finally someone who realizes the irony of hating what someone does for leisure, on a site dedicated to conversation about video games. The article mentions the dude is a streamer, so I wouldn't be surprised if he made this journey a source of extra revenue, which is better than I've ever done grinding something in a game.

At the end of the day, video games are entertainment, and how we derive the most entertainment from it differs from person to person. A lot of people looking in at video gaming as a whole see it as an unproductive activity, which, to play devil's advocate, it is because it's entertainment. Entertainment isn't supposed to be a full lifestyle, though a minor percentage of people have been able to make playing video games their careers. So it's just ironic when other gamers start calling someone unproductive or say that they're wasting their time.

I didn't like season 11 at all, even upon rewatch, but season 12 with Jodie's Doctor is one of my absolute favorites and I'm currently fully enraptured with Flux and have rewatched every episode at least three times. And hey, if you don't like what's going on, more power to you. My opinion doesn't invalidate yours

Just wanted to add some variety to the comments section. Because it has Jodie, I'm quite intrigued by this game, but would probably prefer to get it on another system, if at all

You know, I'm not one that really embraces the "negativity" surrounding NintendoLife. I use the word loosely because I understand there are proper criticisms people lay and may even agree a lot of the time, but I don't like to spend time thinking about it and interacting with it.

But here, we're almost literally comparing apples to oranges now. Is it really such a surprise that a Nintendo dedicated site has writers that prefer a Nintendo series over one that hasn't been on Nintendo until just last week? I just don't fully get the point of this particular soapbox, when it's usually my favorite series of articles to read

@Kieroni @FishyS For Mario Maker 2 being labelled short and sweet, I assume that simply refers to the Story Mode in game, as that's really the only thing you can properly "beat."

In a similar vein, roguelites and Warriors titles tend to have lower "how long to beat" values when just talking about main objectives, yet many people can play those for upwards of thousands of hours

@mr-duster I have no horse in this race as I don't care about Pokemon or Game Freak unless it's a Mystery Dungeon game. However, just wanted to let you know that ANY multi-million/billion dollar company is absolutely profit sucking. It's naive to think they aren't seeking profits in all their endeavors, otherwise they wouldn't have reached the great heights they achieved

@Ryu_Niiyama A one word comment on NintendoLife? Heathen! Witch! Keep this sorcery off this holy site!

This is the part where I usually add something that's actually on topic, but I don't have anything to say, so here we are

@PhhhCough To be fair to the game, you don't actually have to spend 400 in game days to beat it. Like, that is definitely one way to do it, but there are things you can do in the game to speed up that counter. On "How Long to Beat" it says the average time to beat just the main story is like a little over 20 hours. Edit: so there can be people that beat the game since it released on Switch

However there is nothing stopping someone from starting the game, setting a reminder for 400 days later, and coming back to beat it.

So even playing The Longing probably won't get someone to the hours this person got in ACNH, unless you decide to have it on all day every day for 400 days, which might enhance the experience?

Let's see what NintendoLifes Scoring Policy says about a 7 score:

"A seven is not average in our eyes. This game will sport a few areas where the game is blatantly let down to the detriment of its overall quality and enjoyment, but it is NOT average. A seven is still a recommendation, but you might want to consider what we thought let the game down and decide for yourself if it would bother you before buying"

Ah, so a 7 doesn't mean an average, passing score as most educational institutions have it, interesting. In this case, it seems the physics are the main issue that the reviewer had with the game, and it is up to every reader to decide for themselves whether that will bother them or not before purchase.

Seems like a very reasonable review to me! On a side note, love reading Jon's writing tone, hope we can see more going forward

@Darlinfan What you don't seem to realize is that it's all in the mind, maaaaaan. Simple observation and facts? Pssh, miss me with that. It's all about conjecture, projection, and speculation nowadays, darling, get with the times!

Anyway, briefly getting back on subject, a chicken with a gun sounds fun. Just a shame it's an idea presented from this organization

Oh, and just in case you don't agree with what I'm saying, I hope you have a nice day dude 😉

@everynowandben I don't know about that. Maybe there are a couple people that actually seriously mentioned it, but most comments seem to be more about bashing PETA for their hypocrisy and questioning why NL posted this.

@Znake I have no idea how that giant wall of text responds to what I said. There is so much you added there that, although interesting to read through, left me a bit confused as to the correlation with my comment. I did want to clarify on one thing you said, which was, "there is no hate against other players-don’t understand why you react the way you did."

You enjoyed the game. You have friends that enjoyed the game. Great! More power to all of you! But your previous comments assumed that players lack skill and patience if they didn't understand the controls (comment #22) or stuff like, " it doesn’t matter who doesn’t like it. Why do you even bother responding in regards to genre that you personally don’t enjoy" (in comment #35), completely assuming and lambasting a person based on a false assumption.

Plus, the general tone of your comments towards those who said something negative come off as, "I'm so great because I figured the controls and enjoyed it, so all of you can figure it out too, and if you don't, your impatient and lousy! " Maybe that's not what you meant to say or how you meant to say it, but that's how it comes off in this comment section.

Anyway, that's just my two cents. I don't have anything else to add to this, so I hope you have a good rest of your gaming life and keep having fun!

@Znake Hey man, just take a deep breath. There will always be negative comments associated with any video game, but those are not a personal attack on you. In this instance, if you were able to enjoy the game with its control scheme, fantastic man! More power to you! And feel free to share that, as you already did.

If others didn't enjoy the controls and gameplay, your experience won't change their minds. Edit: There is no need to attack others for their opinions

On another note, Starlink isn't really a Star Fox game. It's its own toys-to-life franchise/IP that has Star Fox characters thrown into the Switch version. So it's not really fair to compare it to other official Star Fox titles in my opinion

I always like reading NL reviews because they're usually pretty fun to read through, and what scores games receive never affected my choices of purchase. That being said, I do like the Scoring Policy Nintendo Life has, as it completely admits to being subjective and shows that it should never be a basis for comparison between other reviews. Because, like any art, people have their own views on what they do and don't like. Weird concept, huh? For example, let's see what a 9 is in their Scoring Policy, as this game got it:

"A game that scores a nine should be considered a must buy for fans of the genre. Of course if we give a nine to a racing game and you only enjoy RPGs then this probably won't change your mind."

At the rate these comments go, it almost feels like reading the Scoring Policy should be mandatory before seeing what the actual score is. That, and actually reading the review proper, not focusing on an arbitrary number placed by a random assortment of reviewers with their own unique tastes and takes.

@Snatcher @msvt Just wanted to clarify that you don't have to cycle through the tools with the dpad only. The game has a neat quality of life thing where you can assign tools to what is essentially a quick select menu, and then bring up that menu to very easily select what tool you want to use. If you play smash, think of the way Shulk can activate his Monado Arts in ultimates

As for advice, it's totally up to you Snatcher. I adored New Leaf and did absolutely nothing to beautify my town, yet still played for about 3 years. I dropped New Horizons after the first couple of months because I'm simply not creative enough to make an island of my complete design. If you feel that you are creative enough for that and that appeals to you, do it! If not, I'd say it's not worth it

@Winter_Samurai This probably isn't the right article for this convo, but I'll add that personally, I much enjoyed the BotW art style and use of colors than Horizon Zero Dawn. BotW is such a gorgeous game and visually really stands out among other video games in general. Though the whole robot/animal hybrid designs in Horizon aren't anything to scoff at either. That being said, I personally have way more fun playing Horizon than BotW.

@Franklin You can, though one switch has to be your "primary" switch, and the other(s) your secondary, since it's still from one account. For the sake of my comment, we'll just stick with two switches. You just download the game on both devices and the vast majority of games have automatic save data back up and download when connected to WiFi. (Edit: which obviously helps make a smooth transition between devices)

However, the secondary switch HAS to be online when you choose a game to play. If the game is already running, you can take it with you. But then you can't do anything else on it except play that specific game until you connect to the internet.

What I think a lot of people do is have the Lite as the primary console (so you can take it with you and play any games without the online check) while making the proper switch the secondary (and probably always docked and thus connected to the internet).

Hope this helped!

I think you mean there is an achievement for examining all the step ladders

@the_beaver Hey man, the prime games are some of my all time favorite games too. But if you are going to call Metroid Prime a "first person adventure" because that's what Nintendo called it, then you need to call BotW an "Open Air" game, not open world, because that's what Nintendo calls it.

Even though there are already pre-established genres that both of those games fall into.

@BloodNinja I didn't see that anyone answered this correctly, but if they did and I missed it, my apologies for the redundancy

The way I understood it in the review is that there are two control schemes: one that uses motion controls, one that uses buttons. If you use motion controls, the right stick only controls the camera. If you use button controls, then the right stick controls the sword (to emulate motion controls), while to use the camera you have to press the left bumper.

@Chocobo_Shepherd I totally get what you're going for, your sarcasm isn't lost on me, but I'm gonna be the guy that points out that NintendoLife is based in the UK. I don't think they care about July 4th as much as an American would

@N8tiveT3ch Wait, fighting Ganon at the end of a Zelda game is considered a spoiler now? Guess I shouldn't tell you that we'll fight Bowser at the end of the next Mario game.

@Jackpaza0508 Now I want to hear Sonic constantly saying, "For real?!?"

@Andy_Witmyer Oh wow, I was right on the money with my earlier comment! You beat me by 10 seconds, but since he blocked you, I don't believe he's gonna see your comment.

@BloodNinja I do not usually comment because I just enjoying reading the chaos of the comments, but I think you may have misinterpreted Andy's comment directed towards you. The way I saw it, it was positively dripping with sarcasm and he doesn't actually hold the beliefs you think he does. Then again, I may be entirely wrong, but I was just surprised you chose to block him when he seemed to be on your side.

Since I'm commenting on this article, I guess my two cents are that the game looks rather crummy, but hey, this kind of press always gives way to entertaining comments so I'm not complaining that the article exists. Then again, I really don't see the point in highlighting shovelware, but since Nintendo hasn't done much recently, guess this is what we get!

@RupeeClock I thought the smug characteristic was only for guys in AC, with their equivalent being the snooty personality for the gals

@BlackenedHalo Since the other person hasn't responded yet, heres a paragraph taken from this article.

"Takahashi: I think it’s very important not to alter game content such as the story and battles, and as such, remains unchanged from the original. That said, there were new mechanics added. Autosave, casual mode, quest and landmark stacked EXP bonuses, advanced level settings that allows players to level down at any time, time attack, event theatre, fashion equipment, and more."

Edit: I just realized it's in the subheading of this article as well

@Dezzy Just going off the info in this article with no extra research of my own, it says that RogersBase confirmed the voices returned for the epilogue, which I assume to mean only Adam Howden and Jenna Coleman, as those seem to be the stars of the epilogue. I doubt the rest of the cast appears in it, meaning their actors aren't necessary, but if they do, it'll be a welcome surprise

@TheFullAndy Ah, I see, you're just doing it again. Adding things to the conversation that nobody even said or implied, and then blaming the person for having that viewpoint even though that's not remotely what they said. Ah well.

@TheFullAndy Dude, you've misconstrued Tekkniks point so many times, so I'm going to try and attempt to explain it one time, and hopefully you'll see what they're saying is not messed up in any way.

Girls can be pretty and beautiful, both physically and personality wise. It is natural to be attracted to said women if you are a heterosexual male.

However, SOME women use that specifically to manipulate, whether to garner incorrect attention through cosplaying, or by streaming with the intent to get people's money based solely on said beauty. Again, SOME, not all. At which point, Tekknik has an issue with that sort of purposeful manipulation/exploitation of a natural desire

Tekknik presented two ideas that work well with each other and can be understood, so hopefully this helps understand their points. If not and you choose to misconstrue it all again, I give up.

@retro_player_77 I think you're misunderstanding the situation. MsJubilee here is talking about Nintendos online in general, not this one instance of it being down for everyone. It's no secret that their online is pretty bad, especially since it mostly relies on peer-to-peer connections instead of proper servers. Hence the comment for Nintendo to fix their online, because people are paying for it.

@Yorumi My thought was not that Nintendo slowed down production, but that they didn't actually have much for this year because of some other circumstances pre-lockdown. This situation can now be used to give them some kind of out if that was the case.

I personally wouldn't have cared if they didnt have much lined up for the rest of the year (as many have stated, massive backlogs exist), but it's just a possibility I've considered. Dont want to go all conspiratorial about their plans, though.

@clvr Now, looking at my profile pic you may assume that I have a bias (and I do), but King Knights campaign was actually my favorite in terms of gameplay and level design. Highly recommend playing it when you get the chance!

@Zeriitas Whoa, I didnt realize the word casual was still being thrown around as an insult in 2020. Good to know that's it's apparently still here.

Also, sarcastic as that start was, I'm not actually here to stir the pot. I'm just curious about one aspect of your response. You ask, "Who decides what game is good or bad?" and then essentially proceed to judge that animal crossing is a bad game. Do you not see how openly those things contradict themselves? Maybe if you and the other dude just accepted that people have different tastes in games and different reasons for playing games all would've been that much sweeter.

Then again, I'm not quite sure why I even bothered responding, you're just hurling insults like there's no tomorrow, but hey, maybe we can both learn something from this internet exchange, no matter how meaningless it may seem

@TheDanslator Hes also a frequent NintendoLife commentor that has made satirical/sarcastic comments in the past

@DennisNOR You can! Just select the item you want to move in your inventory and hold the 'A' button and that will allow you to move items around

@earthinheritor Or maybe Monolith Soft just want to make sure they get paid for their efforts considering they're literally building the game from the ground up in a completely different engine (from the looks of it, the XC2 engine). This isn't a simple upscaled port from Wii to Switch, because the engine used for the Wii Xenoblade game doesnt allow for HD. Plus they're adding at least one new area. It isn't greed as much as it is compensation for the amount of work that's being done.

@Euler I agree with you 100% and considered a lot of that when typing that message. The point was that if, as mesome said, these DLC characters are "has beens" that new gamers wouldn't know, then I can also technically argue that for other characters as well. I felt that it wasn't important if they were added at their peak or not, in the same way that they don't seem to care for the legacy (most) of these DLC characters hold.

Then again it seems to be a moot point to discuss considering a later response from mesome said, "No more third party junk unless it's Mikey Mouse, Fortnite, Batman, Marvel, etc or something that will help sell Smashbros."

[That's where my two cents for this conversation end, so you don't have to read the rest]

In fact, this got me thinking that if we define "new gamers" as those who only started playing with a switch and did no other research whatsoever, and only played Nintendo's biggest games, they would know a considerable amount of the cast (comments in parentheses used for emphasis):

• Botw: Link, Zelda ("but she looks totally different"), Ganondorf ("why human, not purple mist?")
• Odyssey: Mario, Peach, Luigi, Bowser, Pirahna Plant(?)
• MK8D and Mario Tennis: Wario, DK, Yoshi, Daisy, Rosalina
• Tropical Freeze: Diddy Kong
• FE:TH : Byleth
• XC2: Shulk (if they bought the DLC!)
• Kirby Star Allies: Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede
• Pokemon: Idk who was cut so forgive lack of info here
• Upcoming AC: Villager and Isabelle
• Splatoon 2: Inkling

Which is a very solid start, almost half of the cast I believe, and playing Smash might even make them try out different games they have never heard of, or learning more about the ones that they've seen very little of or only in the spin-offs.