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Re: Reggie Fils-Aimé Says Nintendo Labo Has “Absolutely” Met Company Expectations

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  • Commenters need to realize that avid Nintendo Lifers are NOT the target market for this product. This is not for the crowd who is, for example, disappointed that Let’s Go isn’t hardcore enough of a Pokémon experience.
  • The actual market — i.e. the students at my elementary school and their parents — are head over heels for it.
  • The Labo product includes a game card, a set of printed and perforated cardboard sheets, and various accessories. The game includes extremely detailed instructions rendered in very nice 3D, a wealth of in-depth and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny tutorials, a programming environment, and good music.
  • The cardboard is perforated to extremely high tolerances and the printing is very nice as well. Get in touch with a manufacturer if you think producing a product to this standard is cheap or easy.

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*The Labo software is at version 1.0 and the cardboard product itself is, of course, unpatchable. This means that Nintendo’s engineers and QA staff were working insanely hard to ensure thousands or millions of Labo packages released and worked properly. There were no online reports of missing materials or perforation defects. Can you imagine another game company being able to pull this off???

Re: Review: Jotun: Valhalla Edition (Switch eShop)

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reviews are just personal opinions. if two different people review a game, it will get different reviews. also the time when a game is being reviewed is always a factor. if Super Mario Bros 3 came out today, it would be favorably received, but would lose points for sprite flicker and not having a save function. If Devil’s Third had somehow been playable in 1985, it would be heralded as the most impressive game ever made. The Wii U was constantly starving for games and therefore any good indie was a godsend. Now, the situation is different.

Re: Sega Announces AGES For Nintendo Switch, Mega Drive Mini Console

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@Itachi2099 M2 are the people who went and created an entirely new System-16 arcade game that never existed in the first place in order to add it to the original Sega Ages PS2 series, then rewrote that code in 3D for the 3DS release. You are talking about people who go WAY above and beyond the call of duty.

Re: Wii U Viking Epic Jotun: Valhalla Edition Is Reborn On Switch

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@Muddy_4_Ever this is the exact thing that made me stop playing it. One of the first things that happens in the game is your character is stuck in an area of foliage blocking his path. All of the beautifully drawn plants are boxing you in. I was stuck there for a long time until I looked up the solution on the internet. You are supposed to hit one of the huge branches and it will retract into the ground. It is not obvious at all that this is what you are supposed to do. After the first boss you are in an area with lots of branching paths and you are supposed to do some specific things but it is not at all obvious what those things are. So I stopped playing. The artwork is PHENOMENAL but like you I cannot deal with unclear objectives. Real life throws me enough of those. Maybe one day these artists will do a straightforward action arcade shmup or platformer or puzzle game or whatever.

Re: Animal Super Squad, The New Game From PewDiePie, Is Headed To Switch

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hey guys every day you exist in the modern technological world, you support oil and gas companies that cause unimaginable ecological disaster, global food companies like Monsanto and Nestle that destroy global water resources and more, companies like Google and Facebook that are both selling your private information and handing it over to governments for free, and ISPs and cell phone companies who take your monthly payments and use that same money to try to take away even more of your rights and privacy. If you listen to music or watch movies, you are supporting a LOT of people who have done TERRIBLE things. Every time you buy a Nintendo product, you are supporting Chinese manufacturing (and therefore the Chinese government) and much more, i.e. the miserable Coltan mining industry.

I have no problem with people getting on a high horse and I certainly am no fan of PewDiePie but nobody who plays console video games and reads web sites can say he or she adheres to a strict code of ethics when making purchasing decisions.