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@SteamEngenius If only Inspector Gadget could actually own them brown bricks in Minecraft.

In regards to topic, do Mojang have the final say in this? Wouldn't Microsoft be able to veto their choice if MS went all in on NFTs?

Not that I think either side would go for it. More curious how much say MS has, considering it seems Todd Howard has to bow to MS with his buyout.

Hoping 'Major publisher' means good publisher, but far too many of the 'major' ones are scumbags these days so unlikely.

As for if the game will be quality or not. We know Romero has the talent to do good, but guess depends on the quality of the developers supporting him as well (Yuji Naka's recent efforts come to mind).

@Lolcat Yeah seems like quite a mess. No blame intended at any of the localisers as it shouldn't of been allowed to get to this point. I'm guessing just assuming people have access to every games machine and pc validates not needing to figure out how to release earlier titles.

@Piyo Oh I'm sure XSeed have done / do a tremendous job with it all. I can't say I have too much experience with them as I believe our side of the pond similar releases are handled by Marvelous Europe? I know XSeed use to fill in for some Nintendo stuff on Wii U also in America like Devil's Third?

But if I am understanding this right. Would it not be down to the original rights holder and XSeed to get the first two released outside of Japan on Switch? - Assuming it's plausible due to PC and PS4 releases not long ago - Or is it in more legal cuffuffles due to who and how localisations of the series have been done?

@Lolcat Even worse news for us UK guys then as XSeed have no jurisdiction here. Stupid how many different companies are allowed to hold only partial rights to a series, you'd think the creators / source owners would get things in order.

@EarthboundBenjy Even more annoying 1 and 2 have been available for years on Switch in Japan. I picked up the first game on PS4 in a sale to see if it's my kind of thing, but from everything I have seen from the outside of this franchise you'd be almost completely clueless going in with the third entry. Makes it even more confusing we don't see 1 and 2 here, or had those released first..

@GrailUK I always see these delay messages as code for 'our mtx store isn't functioning as predatory as we want it to be so we need to make sure that functions as intended before we can launch' kind of thing. Even the most crappy and buggiest of games that launch always made sure the mtx store worked flawlessly. EA and Ubisoft come to mind there.

@mjharper It's costing SE literal pennies to have the kingdom hearts games hosted (we don't even get higher setting versions of them), so even a few buys probably made them profit.

According to its PC specifications this should be able to run native on Switch. It does ask for 50gb (so maybe 30-40gb for the actual game), but it's compression (not needing 4k assets) for Switch should drop that way down.

Somebody over there decided it was a good idea to do a Cloud release, not a choice made for them as cloud releases should be. Cloud should be for games that actually can't work or for a company in no financial position to do a native port, however they should fully look over if it's worth alienating the Switch user base with a cloud release at all.

@Solomon_Rambling I'd still be down for that!

@Max_the_German Short answer is because they want to but are too afraid to do this kind of thing with real people. So virtual entertainment is what they strive for.

@Olliemar28 @BenAV Is it possible the lack of audio could be due to licensing issues? Hoping it's something silly like that over it being just crummy music they are afraid to show off.

@Friendly That was the first thought I had when I saw this. Would we get more elaborate trailers and footage for upcoming games? Didn't we get a bunch similar for Smash Bros character reveals?

While I'd be down for more full production stuff like the pikmin movies, or even something as extravagant as their Kingsglaive work, I'd imagine it's more the former. Plus if it was going to be more the latter, wouldn't it of made more sense to have the Mario movie done in house with these guys?

@michellelynn0976 Particularly stupid when it was Nintendo that insisted on Bayonetta 2 being more sexy than Platinum originally intended.

Nintendo are such prudes right??? 'Fans' these days.

@michellelynn0976 Sony is consistently getting blasted of late due to almost everything done and said by that pratt Jim Ryan. It's been going on for a good couple years now, much more vocal than the usual nintendoomed stuff.

For all those above querying the in game purchases label. Keep in mind if there is any online gameplay at all there will be this warning due to requiring Nintendo online membership to play it.

Know Nlife doesn't like to state the likely safe obvious, but don't get your knickers ruffled folks. ESRB's 'in game purchases' label is absolutely pathetic and doesn't do what it should, to notify of predatory mtx in games ala everything EA.

So now Jeff is blaming the war for his lies being well.. lies about this game instead of just admitting as usual he has no actual reputable information on anything.

Switch Pro delayed due to russian war next?

What is it with western publisher's that they can get away with being the scummy of the scummiest? Activision Blizzard, EA, and especially Ubisoft that continually gets a free pass. Then there's your Take Two's and Warner Bros.. It's disheartening this industry about FUN has come to this.

Honestly I had a blast with this game. Have it in a storage box though my brother has the CD-I currently where he is living. Can't say the same for the Wand of Gamelon (only Zelda one I owned) game.

@locky-mavo @anonymous Just thought I would chime in, that same Warner Brothers decided to bring Hogwarts Legacy, a game deemed far too hardware intensive to ever dream to be on Switch, to the Switch. Key point here? They are using Unreal Engine. If Lollipop Chainsaw remake uses the unreal engine then a Switch port is highly likely due to it running native on the Switch. If it's worth whatever downscale it will have is a completely different ball park, as well as how much money and optimisation the dev / pub team is willing to do.

Nowadays it becomes less of a 'this game has hardcore graphics so it won't come to < insert platform here >', rather than is the Engine used compatible with the device. That is what makes Epic's latest engine just that much more versatile to work with.

Would be curious to see what they do with the game regardless. It certainly has its charm back in the day, and strongly due to its choice of soundtrack as well. Fingers crossed it'll be good.

@Giancarlothomaz Unreal Engine 5 functions perfectly fine on the Switch. It just has settings set to lower for it much like lower end PCs. Anything on Unreal Engine these days make it a much much higher chance it will come to Switch due to its incredible ease of versatility, same with any other platform.

Best news of all, that's another 100 or so petition signee's about the 'non existent" abuse and harassment that pit of hell is breeding.

Besides that, sounds to me Spellbreak was canned due to this deal, bit too fast for it to seem like Blizzard is coming in to save such poor and desperate developers from financial ruin.

It's Jeff Grubb, so it's absolutely nothing. He has absolutely no credibility after him and many 'insiders' pooped the bed with their rumours and leaks these past couple years.

You got my click though NintendoLife, you sly ol' gits you.

@RubyCarbuncle A sad day that will be. They still release the odd good game (though modern day SE seem to lack the talent or allowance of said talent these days), but most of their recent stuff has been very poor for me at least. Still need to give Triangle Strategy a go at some point, the rest of this year's releases have been hack jobs to say the least (well majority of the Q1 releases).

@RubyCarbuncle Wait until they start rolling out their NFT games, they sold many IPs to fund whatever they will be.

Miss the days where we just handed money over for a game, and we got a game.

It's nice to see UK finally get some restocks. Now if only they would throw us some of those N64 controllers they been drip feeding America with.

@CANOEberry Oh good to know it's no longer exclusive to fangamer.

@Friendly That would be cool to get an actual release over here. Quite tired of all these releases being US based or Asia only releases. Though as @BenAV mentions, with no further information it seems like a large delay til we see it or their plans fell through.

@Quarth Looks like it is only releasing physical via one website (US based) but they ship worldwide.

https://www.fangamer.com/products/omori-game-nintendo-switch

@ferryb001 Still seems messed up that Germany can dictate what can and can't be sold in Europe. No country should have the power to dictate over others in a free market.

@IronMan30 From what I have played so far, and from someone who had recently played the Xbox original version, the game runs smoother and has yet to crash (knock on wood) as well as the speaker destroying audio issues are gone. I am around 4 hours or so in so can't say if it gets far worse later on or falls into old habits of the original release.

@RubyCarbuncle The Kotor games aren't on PS4, and Xbox One has the original buggy Xbox releases that still suffer many bugs (missing in the switch 'remasters'), and are not wide-screen. When not on sale the games are about the same price too. PC versions you need to install mods to get similar experiences (or far better ones) than these switch versions.

It would of course be nicer if these were remastered more than they are, but it's cool to see these aren't locked in some vault. Wonder what other Star Wars titles we can expect from Disney that isn't locked in with EA rights holding (sucks to think the good battlefront games won't get a re-release).

The pricing is wrong for £ currency. The game on its own is £12.59 (no launch discount) and the bundle is £23.89. Not 14.99 and 29.99. Heads up for those fellow Brits.

@RR529 MUA3 was developed by Team Ninja not Omega Force (Warriors team). Probably would of been easier for them to mention Omega Force as the developer so the titles matched.

Also +++ whatever to DW8XLDE missing from the list.

With an upcoming announcement of another warriors game coming to Switch in the West, may of been a tad early to pull the trigger on this.

I would say that said upcoming announcement could be the best at least content wise. Though the one I have played the most is definitely Hyrule Warriors (across all its three versions). Probably 1200 hours or so in total. Still miss the online 'help' you could provide on the Wii U version though.

Majority of games have this mode on by default. The amount of games I have to make sure to turn voice chat off is insane on PS4/5 and Xbox.

And think how much more profits they would have if they stopped shafting Europe with digital only releases.

Really enjoyed the other two games but this one is asking for triple(?) the cost investment. It does certainly look a lot more polished and much more involved, but will hold out for a review before I pull the buy trigger.

@Pirate1 Yeah it's kind of like RTS. The gameplay comes from managing what units you deploy and where you deploy them. Then the battle plays out on its own. If this game keeps the same features as the other versions you can take over a unit which then will let you play said unit in first person so becomes a little hack n slashy.

I wonder how well this will run on Switch. The game would consistently crash after so long on my Xbox one X.

Battle for middle-earth needs to make a come back. Though unsure if EA has the talent to do a decent RTS anymore, let alone the balls to do one without mtx and live service crap.

The fan HD remasters of the two games are still solid fun even by today's standards.

@CharlieGirl Roguelite is the new metroidvania in saturation. Always seems to be the same style as well, with little unique being brought to the table.

I cried when I saw NIS's pricing over here. Switch tax and all T_T

At least this one is being sold a little cheaper than the old PS4 version unlike most of their releases in UK.

@mereel Swap microtransactions to loot boxes and that's exactly what this is on the other consoles. Even resold the same DLC at a higher price.

@moodycat @Astral-Grain KT Japan no longer offer a budget for English VA for majority of their titles that release in the West now. This has been a thing for several years now where only a few major games will have it (or those funded elsewhere), and everything else will get a mediocre sub translation. It is a shame but KT keep claiming over 90% of their profits come from Japan so the rest of the world doesn't offer the returns for a higher budget.

At the least Atelier games get an advertising budget now. During the Vita era they wouldn't give any budget and the Western branches had to do anything they could to get the demanded sales they needed.

I wonder if they will be able to get away with adding their slot machines to a Lego game.. 2K need those manipulative dimes.

@brunojenso I am sooooo sorry I didn't have a gift prepared for your Mum's cat. Please please please forgive me. Watashi o yurushite!!!

Am sure he could make quite the pretty penny if he teamed up with Heritage scam auction.

Always interesting to see these rare finds get unearthed out of nowhere. Probably tons about in random warehouses.

Bought this on release and completed it. Didn't actually know it got delisted until about a week or so ago. Been trying to think what could of caused it to get delisted though, it is very tame in it's "sexual" side, and the gameplay itself is pretty fun and addictive.

The "punishment" which boils down to clicking a cursor on a clothed girl is likely the cause, but considering you can skip it entirely I wonder why they just don't remove it. Must be something more to it.

Either way, it's a shame as the core gameplay was really fun.

@Damo Yes for Xbox. Everything in regards to the Switch is speculative.

@PJOReilly Would be good to know. Hopefully some of these terrible technical problems get fixed. But shame that won't make the core gameplay any more fun another case of potential squandered.

Probably should tag this one under Rumour as there is no reputable information besides someone who doesn't work at Nintendo or Microsoft (and still believes the Switch Pro will be happening).