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The games were cringe on release. This was never going to be good

@Ace-Lucario ah ok that makes sense lol. Apologies

@Ace-Lucario .....why are you telling us this lol

@Not_Soos spanky's quest is actually very good (if obscure), and SCAT is a pretty well regarded shmup. There's definitely a lot of chaff on the service but those two were not great examples

Wait, how much are you taking off that score for being aimed towards people familiar with the series? One might argue that handholding newbies through the plot beats would be a minus, when the game is clearly marketed to fans of the franchise.

This might be one of the most profoundly pathetic mfs I've ever heard of.

To quote my boy Falco Lombardi:

This is awful.

@AG_Awesome the original has coop

@NCChris the dlc campaigns were basically three (four if you include showdown) entire sequels. And then they released Dig and Pocket Dungeon.

@heisnbrg the dlcs were basically entire high quality sequels in their own right, including the fighting game, and were added free for those who had bought the original before the dlc came out. It still blows my mind, and it similarly blows my mind that people don't appreciate that more.

I reckon this'll pan out without incident

@jedgamesguy but they still make money selling games on other systems

Fyi..... this plane flies REALLY well lol. I don't think I'll be folding planes any other way for a while

Please stop reporting on this stuff. It's like you want Nintendo to ruin nice things for everybody.

@SuperShaun have you never played a non-violent game before?

@rainbowtick you bought the arcade game Life Force thinking it was the entirely different (albeit related) NES game Life Force and are blaming HAMSTER for your own mistake? Even though there's nothing at all misleading about the screenshots, etc. on its shop page? 🤔

The interfaces of the HAMSTER releases are meh but the emulation quality is good and they have done a remarkable job of bringing literally HUNDREDS of stone cold arcade classics (and plenty of stinkers but i applaud their thoroughness) to the Switch, many of which had never received console releases before HAMSTER did their thing.

Absolutely worth celebrating and it makes sense Sakurai is a fan.

Idk if this was a worthwhile tradeoff but this kind of bonkers thinking is what makes Sakurai special. He thinks of everything and will try anything, and whether or not it's a successful idea, he put a lot of thought into it and learns lessons from how it goes.

As long as somebody else writes and directs. The first one had literally everything I hate about modern animated movies.

But fortunately it had a lot of cool stuff too.

@WhyYouLie sure, because everybody who gets frustrated with capitalism is automatically a communist 🙄

This is capitalism, ladies and gentlemen.

The only innovation it truly incentivizes is how to maximize profit.

Great when creating cool, quality things are key to profit.

Awful when ruining things (and people) is also key to profit.

@Chopper25 the ambient music is quite nice

I was so excited for banana mania as SMB1 was my first and one of my top 5 gcn games i owned, and smb2 i liked even better but never owned.

But they used the garbage new Banana Blitz physics engine which just plays so poorly and feels so floaty, messed up the minigames, and removed multi-player for the main game.

Still an enjoyable game but tremendously missed potential.

@Folkloner see, your feedback is actually meaningful here, as you are someone who clearly appreciates what this game is actually supposed to be. You saying this game is disappointing actually means something, as opposed to this reviewer who's mad that this isn't a survival game or whatever.

@PeterAndCompany 👏👏👏👏👏 that's all i have to say to you

@GreyFenyx that's my impression and I'm baffled at all the people who expected the main appeal of this game to be some kind of very gamey challenge. It's obviously primarily about exploration.

It does sound like even fans of previous endless ocean entries are a bit disappointed by stuff like the procedurally generated environments, but still. The reviews that actually seem to understand that this isn't supposed to be a gamey game are much higher and fairer

@jojobar what are you talking about? I don't think they were counting on another code to be a huge hit, and peach was a huge hit

@Samalik The graphics are significantly enhanced enough that the fact that this originated as a gamecube game isn't as relevant than it was for say, the tales of symphonia remaster.

Also, the action prompts are never THAT precise that 60fps would make a significant difference. They're pretty forgiving

60fps is overrated anyway. Useful gameplay-wise for fast-action games, and it can look slick with certain aesthetics. But sometimes it adds nothing aesthetically while compromising other graphical possibilities, and sometimes it actively makes things look weird.

@ninjapenguin1 The problem isn't customers knowing about SBI's involvement, the issue is the customers' reasoning for boycotting a product simply based on this consultant's involvement. Because their reasoning is based in bigotry.

A large part of why Nintendo's IPs have a unique cultural cache is BECAUSE they are so incredibly protective and picky about it.

This has always been their strategy, and when it comes to the value of their IP, which third parties and merchandise manufacturers continue to clamor for desperately, it has been working for decades.

Loosening that up might be profitable in the short term, but you don't stick around for literal centuries, becoming one of the most powerful entertainment companies ever, by focusing on the short term.

I'm actually super hyped for this one

@gojiguy same, I'm a major shmuppist and am glad i checked out the demo before purchase, because it's just not a very fun game. And totally agreed on the dramatic dlc.

@Krull yeah that bugged me too, especially as it promotes the idea that turn based combat is an outdated thing. Which is an attitude even square Enix seems to be pushing as far as modern final fantasy games go

@IsThis5or6 you can just not buy it

hell yeah. let's keep this train rolling

@Poodlestargenerica Just because you haven't heard about a company doesn't mean it's not big or powerful. In fact, a lot of the most powerful corporations in the world are almost anonymous or obscure to the world's general population (Rothschild, Cargill, Tata Motors) or if they are commonly known people have no idea how powerful they are (Comcast, Samsung [obviously powerful but far more than people realize], Clear Channel)

@dustinprewitt those are masterpieces

@Porky "that's not something Nintendo generally tends to do"

There isn't a precedent for this; Nintendo has never offered this specific style of service--games that exist offline on your console but are checked for access. The closest I can think of would be how it shut down the 3ds eshop, but even then, you can still download everything you've ever purchased. That actually requires much more server maintenance than just keeping the check system for NSO in place.

Again, it's not a crazy notion to think they would just cut off access like this, because yeah, money, but you're still speculating and making it sound like you're not.

@Porky That's an assumption. What they could just as easily do is simply disable the need for that check.

I certainly won't assume they'll do that either, but to say they'll definitely prevent future access is indeed an assumption.

Wow this is unexpected and a big one. I hope a lot of players, especially younger ones, discover this and start to realize how mediocre the modern AAA, lootbox/live service model is. The new Battlefront games are shiny beautiful trash.

@LXP8 tbf, the games live on your console. You can play them entirely offline. They'd only become inaccessible if you don't download them before the servers shut down, or if they make the unnecessarily vindictive move of revoking access to the games for all users on their own consoles. Which is within the realm of possibility i guess

Pretty nice but if they don't go wooiiipp and grow to full size when you push the button I'm not interested

I have absolutely no interest in this game, not only does it seem a bit edge-cringe to me, but so much I've heard about the gameplay mechanics is basically everything i hate about modern games.

that said, I'm grateful for its success. hopefully it'll be some kind of wake up call for game freak. not that i think palworld is any kind of threat to the pokemon franchise, but i hope the massive success of this game will start to crack open their eyes to the real desires of their fans and ex-fans, and the wasted potential of their own franchise.

probably not but still.

Some decent points here but I swear if one more established franchise incorporates unnecessary crafting mechanics just because everybody else is doing, I'm going to commit a crime

IDK why suddenly there was a consensus that gathering a bunch of meaningless materials to accomplish basic tasks is fun. The TM material gathering is tedious enough. The crafting requirements of Zelda nowadays isn't fun, it's just irritating and tedious.

This was one of the first classic-styled JRPGs I played after mainly playing the GB pokemon games, and it was so good it ruined all those SNES classics for me when i played them later. Not that those games were objectively worse, but I just couldn't wrap my head around why none of those seemed quite as COOL and impressive as this one.

Until the ending. This is basically half a game, narratively speaking. So I'm really excited to dive into the sequel for the first time ever!

The walls of text really are irritating though

@Chaotic_Neutral yes, when i want to actually own it, support the filmmakers more substantially, and not have my access to it dictated by the whims of the distributor.

he needs to get comfortable with shutting the whole fk up

@samuelvictor eh, don't change the minigame solely out of fear that ppl will perceive it as a clone. if it's fun, it's fun, and as you're saying, it's not a clone, you came up with the idea (even if somebody else did as well). you have just as much right to share that work with pride

we need to learn new words for describing games

love that a game with as distinctive a name as SOLITARY FIGHTER touts a mechanic in which the crowd helps you in the fight