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"The unique weapon combinations can make each run different and interesting"

Each run? Do the words in that sentence even vaguely resemble the actual gameplay of Kunai?

Why do all these Portal-inspired games feel the need to copy Portal's world design almost exactly by placing square white panels over all the walls?

Well now I feel like a jerk for not buying Super Lucky's Tale at full price...

You Pokemon fans are too much. Move on to something you actually enjoy if you hate this game so much. And if you WANT to enjoy it but are just feeling pissy and whiny for reasons, then spend the pocket change they're charging for this DLC, shut up and enjoy the additional time you're getting with the brand new installment in one of your favorite series

This review makes it sound really similar to The Witness, which I thought was great

This looks sooo goooooood

Looks good, but did they make any updates to the game design as well? Because reviews when the game first launched said the glitches were only the tip of the game's issues

Was that first trailer even real?? This one is so much better

Also, WHY CANT Gamefreak employees fight back? These guys aren't our spiritual or moral leaders and I dont hold them to the standards that might come with such a position. They are video game developers and their only responsibility to the world is to deliver a video game, which is exactly what they are going to do in just a few short days. If they want to curse out a few jerks online while keeping at their work, I think they have every right to do so

"It's not the best look" for Nintendolife to have written this article and villified a single Gamefreak employee for saying "Thanks" to the one tweet that was defending him out of the many many others personally attacking him over the last few months.

Anyway, can we just remember two things:
1) These "fans" hated the game from the very first trailer when we didn't know a single thing about the game and they also hated Little Town Hero, a game most of them never played nor have any interest in
2) None of them have EVEN PLAYED THE GAME YET. Like imagine if before Metroid Prime came out, Metroid fans were personally attacking Retro Studios for having changed the perspective of Metroid and insisting they weren't going to buy the final product. How stupid such a statement would look in hindsight

Whoa this looks great! Why wouldn't they have been talking this up in a Direct before now?

This is the most interesting looking first-party-developed exclusive for 2019! And Pokemon generally doesn't interest me.

Umm... Yooka Laylee?

The character creation bit looks sort of like what Nuts and Bolts should have been / wanted to be. Overall this looks pretty crappy, but I'm having a good enough time with A Knight's Quest right now (which also looked crappy in its trailers) so maybe this could be a surprise too

This admittedly looks pretty decent, but it's unlikely anyone looking for a 3D platformer today is gonna pick this up instead of A Hat in Time, especially with a price tag that's ten dollars more

@rhaydeo I'm with you. One thing I didn't like about the demo is that occasionally the game just won't let you pick certain dialog options, forcing you down the path the developers want you to go. What fun is conversation-based gameplay and dialog choices if you're not actually allowed to choose what to say?

Also, it bugs me that not a single review has mentioned how your passengers slide in and out of the car like a cardboard cutout. It's super ugly and really breaks immersion

"the Switch is full to the brim with similar titles that provide superior experiences."

What other titles would those be? I actually feel like this type of game is currently relatively lacking on Switch, especially if we're talking about brand new games released this generation

These guys are talented. I'm on board for whatever they're working on next!

So uh... how does it play?

@JayMac83 Metroidvania is one of my favorite genres. What I dont like is that every other indie these days calls itself a Metroidvania. It takes more than a single connected map to make a game a true Metroidvania

This sounds a bit like the degenerate "music" we've been subjected to in Yoshi games for the last decade

No more Metroidvanias please

That trailer doesn't do much for me (kind of hard to make a thoughtful walking simulator look exciting), but the developers seem to have talent. Could be good! October didn't really need another surprise release though :/

@MysticX OK, I guess you're right. The character names and descriptions are definitely new info exclusive to this trailer

Judging by all trailers to this point (including the original E3 reveal), this apparently features two monsters the entire game, and you will be allowed to attack them with only a single spinning jump flame punch.

Seriously, I was interested in this game at first, but
now it's really glaring and odd that they have recycled the same handful of gameplay snippets for every single trailer

This review perfectly sums up why the 10 point review scale for video games is such a joke. Transposed to a 4 star scale, this review would be the equivalent of a 3 or 3 and 1/2 star game - in other words, a game that is almost the very best you can get. Are you really saying Mario Kart World Tour is one of the best uses of our time compared to the hundreds of other games that have released this year?

@Galenmereth you must not be a busy gamer, then!

I was really confused about how the game will play before this new trailer, but now I know you will use your eureka to battle foes

@Kobeskillz Or! Let's say they reduced that deep discount sale price to $1.00 and they only sold 30% of the sales they did when priced at 9 cents. That's a massive increase in profit.

My point here is just that I feel kind of bad for the developer having sold 100K copies and not making much money.

@Silly_G good point, I didn't think about that. All the more reason to not drop the price so much. I mean, let's say it was 25 cents... People would still have bought it up like mad and the developer would have made a lot more $$.

Btw I'm totally in the same boat as you when it comes to these bargain games. Even if a game is practically free, it's usually not worth the time that would be needed to play through it.

So, wait, the Membrane developer only made $9,000 from his 100,000+ sales? Is it REALLY worth it to reduce your game so drastically for such paltry profits?

I don't want to let myself get too excited, but can you even imagine how good a new Legends game could be on modern HD consoles???

This was already on my radar, but I'm way more interested in the game now after reading this interview. Thanks for bringing attention to these developers and the work they've been doing!

I'm not sure I see where the story is in these reports. Employees who say their boss is difficult to work with and says inappropriate things in private outside of the office? Um welcome to life on Earth. Developers who changed contracts offered by Nicalis and then don't get a response back or parking lot "deals" not being honored? Welcome to doing business.

I'm all for the world of gaming journalism to take strides beyond "xxxx game releasing on xxxx date!" but this isn't the way to do it. How about Kotaku (or other sites) start putting effort into publishing stories about the hard working people at Nicalis who are NOT making racial jokes? Show us what it is like to work at a game publishing company. Put a spotlight on those "passionate" workers mentioned in the piece who play a part in bringing our favorite games to the world. Not this crap that is trying its hardest to imitate those tabloids you find next to the register at your local supermarket.

@Steel76 I think the camera man is a member too. Those violent pans and zooms were crazy fast

This sadly looks like a crappy budget game reaching beyond its means... but hopefully it's good! A sprawling 3D Zelda-like would be a welcome addition to the Switch library

I was into this until a saw some raw gameplay footage that hadn't edited and cut into a slick looking trailer. The raw footage looked really unpolished. I hope it reviews well, though! I'd love to have some more DKCR inspired platforming in my life

Edit: Oops. I just watched the raw gameplay embedded in this article and it looks great hahah. I'm looking forward to it again!

The GOG.com update is interesting... Sounds very similar to another Disney game that was recently delisted! Could more collections be incoming?

"The resolution was too low" must be this generation's version of blaming your deaths on the controller

@Ralizah Playtonic said in an interview recently that Switch was basically their target platform for this game, I'm sure it will run fine!

Also: YAAAAAA!! Oct is a lot sooner than I was expecting

@tzahn oh awesome, that looks pretty good too. Thanks for pointing it out!

@tzahn haha Redwall! What a shame they never made any games based on that series

That handdrawn animation is nice, but overall the game looks a little too early in development to be showing off footage to the world

Oh lame, what? The"new" monkey ball game is a port of a 10+ year old Wii game? How disappointing.

Dear Pokemon fans: If you're not happy with sword and shield's preview trailers (since that is the only thing the game can be judged on since nobody has played it), then when your teacher has the class write letters to Santa Claus for Xmas this year, make sure to be CLEAR that you want to take a stand against Gamefreak and would NOT like Pokemon as a gift. Also, I don't want to spoil anything for you prematurely, but you should make sure to tell your parents what you wrote in this letter as well. Just make sure to be strong when the game is released and your best friend brings his Switch to school to show you how awesome it is. Kindly let him know that you have principles and explain to him the meaning of the word lazy and how it applies to adults in Japan that you have never met, and then take your leave to the swing sets.

Pokemon fans suck.

If I found out several enemies or main characters in BotW 2 were reusing animations from the original, I'm not sure I would care in the slightest. Why is this anyone's concern?

How is this even possible??!

I like this. It reminds me of the Nintendo from my youth that would delay all their games a frustrating number of times, but in the end consistently release products that were head and shoulders above the competition. Hopefully this delay is truly because they want to make LM3 a stellar product

@chardir True. The billion dollar headline makes it seem like a bigger deal than it is. The stock went from $45.50 yesterday to $43.50 today. Not a huge drop. And it will probably go back up again soon