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Though it now has stiff competition for me in the form of Sonic Racing CrossWorlds (the demo was awesome), I'm still eyeing this game.

Perhaps they'll each scratch a different itch, neither of which was scratched by MKW.

Also, I hope Marx is in the game. Best Kirby character. He did nothing (everything) wrong.

@metaphysician ........... Perhaps...

5/10, tops.

It's fun, but cheaply made, and there's simply no excuse for the price. I bought it knowing my copy would be played by me and multiple others in my household; if it was just for me, I would've never.

Maybe if it a) didn't have PS2-looking textures, 2) had voice acting, and D) didn't cost like 3 Expedition 33s (an RPG that looks better, sounds better, plays better, and has voice acting), I'd rate it higher.

I want a remake to give Ark the happy ending he deserves.

Anyone who disagrees with that is welcome to fight me.

@Shade_Koopa Fair.

Totodile. Time for the rise of Feraligatr.

Emulation.

I'll play them on NSO if they're on there, but for the ones that aren't, there's Retroarch.

@Shade_Koopa Most dubs are good, especially in 2025. Only hardcore sub-only elitists disagree.

There's no way they don't have the money.

Everyone who's like "buh buh I hate voice acting and I'd set it to a language I don't understand or turn it off" can kindly be quiet.

I was eyeing one to replace my Steam Deck, but between the price, the recent MS nonsense, and my Deck still working fine, I opted to pass.

If it had included the ability to play all my past XB Original, 360, and Xbone games tied to my MS account though, natively on the device, I probably would've jumped immediately into a few rounds of Harmony of Despair.

Is the Switch 2 a bargain by comparison to the new XB handhelds? Probably, but still really lame that the Switch 2 didn't come with a proper glass screen and hall effect sticks on the joycons.

@shonenjump86 You don't need to play any Pokemon game before any other. Or any game period, for that matter.

I always appreciate this game series'... outfits.

Demon's Tilt and Xenotilt are good games and deserve your money.

@SalvorHardin What's missing the point so hard they look like that don't-touch-the-floor meme, where the floor is the point? Who needs the point when you can just spew drivel?

Nintendo fans when Breath of the Wild iterates on ideas from the Elder Scrolls games: "I can't believe Nintendo invented open world fantasy tropes like crafting and climbing."

Nintendo fans when other games iterate on ideas from Nintendo games: "WHIP THEM. WHIP THE PISS RIGHT OUT OF THEM. SUPPORT THE BILLIONAIRE ORGANIZATION AT ONCE."

I just tried the Sonic Racing Crossworlds demo, and yeah, it is absolutely 100x better than MKW. Better visuals, better music, better feeling game, better track gimmick with the 2nd lap switchup.

I like the feel of Mario Kart games more than past Sonic racers, but Crossworlds feels much more like the better MK8 I wanted than MKW does.

@ShieldHero Everyone getting on your case is in the wrong, but they will never admit it.

IP law is stupid and anyone actually mad about this needs to get off the internet.

The Bubsy dominance continues.

Put him in Smash, along with rollback netcode.

@Clammy Terrible analogy. The former is not denying Nintendo money; the pirate wasn't going to pay Nintendo anyway. The latter is not the same thing.

And even if you meant that example to be me developing a game that got pirated, your analogy would still be terrible because piracy has actually helped indie games find audiences. "Video Game Piracy Is Good, Actually" by Lextorias; look it up.

@poyo_pie Everything borrows and draws inspiration from everything else. The only thing IP laws do is give those with more money the ability to harass those with less.

IP law is stupid and Nintendo deserves to lose every one of these cases.

Fun fact: in the Ogre Battle timeline, both this game (Episode 6) and Tactics Ogre (Episode 7) happen at roughly the same time (after the original Ogre Battle, which is Episode 5).

Tactics Ogre got like 17 remakes, so I hope one day, this game gets one too.

And perhaps, in a far off dream: the conclusion to the Ogre Battle story, Episode 8...

This is the weirdest Smash Ultimate 2 trailer I could ever imagine, but sure.

BABY GOO-GOO-GA-GAS INTO THE FIGHT

Dat Green Amy.

@ anyone saying it should've been Jet: pffft no. Jet's a nobody.

Good. AI fearmongering is stupid.

Okay but YouTube tho

I mean, it's not hard to outdo MKW, but still. Personally I'm disappointed by the lack of guest voices and waiting on Kirby Air Riders, though I haven't tried the Crossworlds demo. (EDIT - I now have, and it's way better than MKW. Like, no contest.)

The last time I remember being disappointed in a Mario Kart game before World was Wii, only because they got rid of Double Dash's double karts. And before THAT... none.

Also plenty of Sonic-related things outdo their Mario counterparts. The Sonic movies are better, Sonic Mania is a far better sequel to the classics than the NSMB games were, and even back in my youth I'd play S3&K and Sonic 2 more than SMW.

Wonder >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Superstars, though.

Bananza deserves the accolades. MKW does not.

IP law and AI fearmongering are both stupid.

AI is not the problem, it's class society and corporate greed.

I want to visit Singapore.

Very neat concept though yet another time I wish Nintendo released PC games, as that's where I'd most want to play this. Still though I might see how my friends feel about it...

I enjoyed it, though its problems are less about music and more about how a lot of the cast sounds like they don't want to be there. The ones that DO (like Jack Black) nail it.

All three Sonic movies are, each, better, purely because their casts LOVE being in them (or at least are good at faking it).

@Mando44646 They claim it's out of preservation but it's much more likely just because this way it's less work.

Though the loss of WotL content is a bummer, it isn't a dealbreaker. Looking forward to the game.

@PrioryChat Steam Deck says hi, but sure, do believe that every other company is following Nintendo's lead on hardware.

@Jorbi This is impressively clueless.

Elliot demo was fun. Looking forward to it.

@Lofoten A proper glass screen and hall effect sticks on the joy-cons. Spare me any nonsense about how those would've possibly raised the price, though.

Just shows to go ya, you can get away with overpriced mediocrity as long as it's popular.

@poudigne Nintendo zealots are the Disney adults of gaming.

@electrolite77 Yes you are.

@ZimmerRemmiz Leave the billionaire corporation alone, you guys.

Nope. I would've if it didn't require a pointless hardware purchase and had the features you get emulating VB.

Guys stop bullying the billionaire corporation you guys

@Telcontyr Yeah no, wrong. There have always been unoptimised trash games, in every gaming era. I would know: I've been playing since the early 80s. There's good and bad, both Nintendo and non-Nintendo. Believing otherwise is lunacy (and objectively wrong).

@Telcontyr This is a silly stance. Many devs make polished, refined games, and not every Nintendo 1st party effort is great either.

@PikaPhantom Exactly. It's pretty damn clear the game is going to hinge on Prime 1-esque environments and these bike areas will be a more minor component.

An apt comparison, this ain't.

@ZeldaFan83 Agreed about Gears 5. I liked elements of 4, though it was definitely the weakest entry at the time.

@Switching Case in point.