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Anyone know why this game is rated M?

Where are these mass quantities of people that are still buying Minecraft?

I'd like to be a Chibi Robo fan but I missed the game on Gamecube and haven't been given a way to play the game since.

@doctorhino yeah it does seem like a double standard, huh? That dark and realistic dragon boss from Odyssey seems like a good example as well. Or the fact that 3D World created an entirely brand new property by dressing up a Toad as an explorer and giving him a name

@doctorhino over a period of many years, continuing to take a "creative look" at an established property would require a constant stream of new characters and possibly more and more creative and outlandish designs. It makes sense to impose SOME sort of rules

Read both my comments carefully before getting upset, though. I'm not trying to justify these exact restrictions (which seem absurdly strict), just saying that some sort of rules make sense at this point

It makes sense for a decades old series to start to impose some rules on what is and what isn't allowed in the universe. Add too many "creative" characters and new designs and over time you could have a bit of a mess on your hands.

But part of me also feels like this is a subtle sign of a stifling and unhealthy development environment at Nintendo where a few old hands hold all the power and lower-level minds and ideas are suppressed. Nintendo used to be known for doing new exciting things with their games and single handedly pulling the entire industry deeper into the future... Now it seems like they're more focused on preserving a decaying image of who they once were

Ugh... I stopped reading at "The story follows Kiara, a 20-something woman who’s struggling to find purpose in her life." Not because I don't like serious narratives in my platformers, but because a game that rips off Celeste in its visuals AND features a serious story about a young girl struggling with adult life just comes across as really phony and a shameless attempt to cash in on Celeste's rightfully-earned success

What's the harm in tweaking existing Mario-universe designs with new character traits? Honestly that seems less harmful to the lore than creating brand new characters

Cool feature and an interesting read. Nice work!

Wow, what a sucky announcement.

Nintendo knew it too ! That's why they did the preventative damage control with that tweet saying not to get your hopes up haha

Nice work, thanks for putting this together

Why does Activision hate money?

Where is this 8/10 review of Itta again?

Wow this is really late.

Awesome game though. One of the best from the last couple years. It deserves to be mentioned among all the other indie greats

I love Metroidvanias and I'm even I'm a little sick of seeing the term attached to every new indie game that comes out.

Still though, this looks pretty awesome. Hope they can deliver with the gameplay

Everything they've announced so far has just been a big joke?

Good for him. Can we now stop complaining about Nintendo protecting their IPs?

"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!