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i like this game but i'm guessing it's dead. classic modes might make it a decent pac-man for solo

no problem with nft's myself, but these are dead on arrival because of everything surrounding mighty no. 9

this was the correct choice. everything (free-to-play, resetting the seasons, cross-platform play) will breathe life into this game. console players play a lot more platforming games, Fall Guys should've been on other systems from the very beginning

also, if i recall, credit for store items (costumes, taunts) can be acquired through regular gameplay, you don't have to pay for anything, but you might have to win some crowns!

@SalvorHardin The controls are pretty good, but fighting to get to the front when there are dozen's of players is the challenge. You have the capacity to screw others but it's a fair race

I think Fall Guys would perform better on console because more people are using controllers, and that's what you need for a good 3D platformer. Nintendo players especially are very acclimated with these types of games so I suspect they'll enjoy it more

I don't think 720p will make or break the success of a Switch Pro as a commercial success, but it does once again wall-off games with complex menus—if you've ever seen a new PC game with 720p, many menus either break or are unreadable. And there's so much bezel that could be trimmed on the Switch Pro, the screen could be (a lot) bigger if they willed it so.

What could offset some of the cringe of a 720p screen is a better battery. At least double. Better Joy-Con hardware, not just 'no drift', but higher quality materials. And the dock should remove the front panel. Also, a glass screen? It shouldn't be vulnerable to fingernails.

What changes we'll actually get... well Nintendo has surprised before so it could be anything. But it also could be basically nothing so we'll see. Remember, this isn't 720p today, but 720p in however many years it takes for Switch Pro to come out from today. Don't need to protect corporations from modest criticism, they're here to serve your wants in a competitive market.

ironically, the splatoon headset splitter is actually worth it, and is not as complex as it looks. it can split audio between any two devices and stream them through your headset of choice. so your switch and your computer (discord). your DS and your phone (maybe you wanna listen to podcast and game).

the splatoon headset is cheesy and i'd never wear it, but i get tons of use out of the splitter that comes with it.

@QwertyQwerty You're just arguing for the sake of arguing now, settle down, none of this matters. It's just a report about a 512gb memory card, the (first?) of its kind.

Without doing any research, I think traditionally there hasn't been a huge performance difference between SD cards on Nintendo consoles because their cap is usually pretty low. Might be different on the Switch but I'm betting it's not...

As for durability and all that, that's a different story, but, go with your heart, and Amazon reviews

S'all constructive, it's just a minor argument, it'll be fine

@sillygostly it was probably to promote split joy-con multiplayer for those who wouldn't give it a chance otherwise (some people don't share the joy). what better way than to make a must-play game with that as its only control option

Okay, anybody who is conflating Playtonic being against 'free speech' with, "They have the free speech to remove Jon from the game!" is being ridiculous. Yea, nobody is legally being forced not to speak here, but Playtonic or anyone calling Jon a racist is still anti-free speech.

Calling someone a racist is almost universally 1) incorrect and 2) not useful to the discussion if you're trying to have an honest discussion. It only serves to distract from actual points, and jeopardizes the other person's standing with their friends, employers, others when you say it. This in turn causes: people not to be open or forthright with their actual opinions. Which means we never get to hear their opinions, and we have less of an understanding of the feelings people have on certain issues.

So we don't get to hear a whole side of an argument because people are uncomfortable with letting someone voice it. To avoid ever hearing it, they call out as many people as racists as possible, so we never actually get to hear right-leaning arguments on race and culture. Then, everyone is surprised when a surprise Republican gets elected into office, and you only have yourselves to blame for shaming them into silence in the first place. If actually engaging with a left-leaning (or SJW) person was possible in a debate without some kind of consequence, maybe we'd all be a little more understanding of each other's positions.

Miis aren't going away, but seem to be tied more to the user rather than this quest to make a Mii of every celebrity you can think of.

I'll be fine with whatever the mobile app is that allows you to voice chat with friends, manage a friend list, and, from there, they can expand on that. If they want to add little forums and message boards through that venue, I'm totally fine with that. But Miiverse is a relic of the Wii U and when the 3DS is gone, it will have been an interesting experiment in featuring online feedback for games through the very platform those games run on.

Okay Miiverse was fun to draw on and it worked well in a couple of games, but

I'll be fine with it going away. What, am I going to talk to 8 year olds on Miiverse? If you ever examined the audience on Miiverse, it really was mostly infants.

@Anti-Matter Plus, the "dollar or two upgrade" fee from the Wii U was pretty arbitrary. It would be nice if all your software ran at launch, but at the very least, once they get the software running, or release said VC game on the Switch VC, that it run for free if you bought it already on the Wii U or 3DS. It's not really too much to ask! Seems pointless to unify your eShop purchases if they'll never be allowed to be run on different systems.

@Anti-Matter Not if they wrote it into their contract for the Wii U that software might run on future platforms. This is a non-issue when you get a new phone, or computer, or install Steam, all your games and software can be brought onto your next system. I am really hoping they thought that far ahead.

For god sakes Nintendo, offer up our VC libraries for free on the next console. Platforms like Steam, iOS, OS, Windows, and others allow you to run your games on whatever platforms that can run your games and software. Nintendo should do the same.

Donkey Kong Jr. is the best in the arcade series of DK games. The level variety is good, climbing on the vines increases your tactical movement, and it's hard as hell.

I might do Hard Mode on the Wii U version, I feel like the extra pixels will make some skill shots easier!

Thank you for finally reviewing this. If it gets a few more reviews, maybe it can get an actual rank on Metacritic!

Review this game for god sakes, you could be one of the two major outlets that have reviewed it!

The game really needs more exposure, it's so sad that such a great game has went under the radar.

Just get an Xbox controller and play it on Steam!

Removing AM2R is mean-spirited. It's ironic that hundreds of flash games over the years have never received takedown notices. But this one does because what. It's good?? It promotes the series positively?

Somebody review Gotta Protectors, for god sakes.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/gotta-protectors

How is a game this good being overlooked.

The free download really let me give Federation Force a chance, and while I played a few games of Blast Ball optimistically, it really can't compete now that I've experienced games like Rocket League.

Blast Ball seems like an inferior version of Rocket League, and the Federation Force portion of the demo an inferior version of Metroid Prime. Both are completely unacceptable.

Still appreciate the free demo!

@roy130390 In the end, the majority of opinions decides whether a game is hurt by its negative press or not. I'm just another person saying it's bad in a flood of people saying it's bad. That's so weird. It would be really weird if this game sold poorly. It would also be weird of people shared the same opinion as me. Dang, I'm all on my own here.

Bad is a subjective word. I don't need to bolster it with "this is just my opinion" every time I use the word bad. That is redundant.

@roy130390 Than let Metroid disappear. Put it on ice for another 10 years! But lending the Metroid name to a game that has 0 marketability otherwise only hurts Metroid. This is like when Rare changed Dinosaur Planet into Star Fox Adventures just because Nintendo thought a Rare game with Star Fox would sell better than a game with otherwise new characters.

If they want to make spinoffs, make them awesome. Some awesome series spinoffs that share the same brand as their predecessors: Mario Kart. Warioware. Donkey Kong Country. Metroid Prime Pinball!!!, Hearthstone, Pokemon Go!.

They didn't cancel Zelda because of the negative press that Skyward Sword recieved. They continue to make newer better Zelda games like A Link Between Worlds, and Breath of the Wild, often referencing in their playthroughs, the cardinal complaints of those series'. Anouma brings up mistakes made in the Zelda series all the time.

People act like these companies can't read YouTube comments and just cancel stuff because it doesn't sell well. They can. They acknowledge them all the time. You just have to keep ignoring those games until they listen to your feedback. And if the series' never returns because they keep making a bad game, let it die so that they stop treating it like garbage, and you can remember it for being good.

@NintndoNik The demo for the Federation Force portion of the gameplay is unlocked after a few games of Blast Ball. How are you not getting this??? You can play Federation Force right now, and see if it's right for you.

@Neon_Blues There's a free demo and it sucks. And people are admitting that it sucks and are still saying they're going to buy it.

Metroid is literally the name of a genre of games (Metroidvania), and Nintendo knows what people like about Metroid games. It's not this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroidvania
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Metroidvania/

Don't buy bad games just because you want them to continue the "Metroid Franchise" or whatever. They're just going to keep making the bad game if you do. (Sticker Star/Color Splash, etc.)

the trick here is if you already have the games, you buy controllers for your wii/u and get the NES as a gift for someone

There are some of ardent defenders of Sticker Star, but the reception on the Color Splash YouTube videos is heavily in favor of dislike. Even a 20/80 like to dislike ratio on a Nintendo trailer is troubling, and come release-time, companies love to bulletpoint their releases with big review sites giving them high ratings. (IGN: 9.5/10 "Masterful", Engaget: 9.0, "A real treat.") The reception of this game, and the other strange releases as of late (Federation Force, that Animal Crossing board game) will probably be the sobering reminder that they need to consider fan feedback sometimes.

The Zelda team took the feedback from Skyward Sword, and has since been releasing very well-received games!

@Bobb Yea, that was in an interview with Miyamoto. However, I feel that was kind of a mask for Nintendo's initiative to unify the Mario brand. They think they can sell more games if they strip side games down to core Mario elements seen in their blockbuster main series.

@Jeronan Luckily, Shigaru recently was interviewed and he said a lot of young new talent was hired that could possibly reevaluate some of the conventions of the Mario series' especially.

@JpGamerGuy90 Dream Team had some problems, but the story was fine. The idea of going into Luigi's nightmares was really cool. And it had lots of characters and races from the M&L series!

There's this Iwata Asks interview that always gets brought up about players "Not caring about the story in Mario RPGs", and people always forget that the survey was in reference to Super Paper Mario, not Mario RPGs in general. This was their rationale for removing the story in Sticker Star:

"Tanabe: Yeah. With regard to the story, we did a survey over the Super Paper Mario game in Club Nintendo, and not even 1% said the story was interesting. A lot of people said that the Flip move for switching between the 3D and 2D dimensions was fun."

If you think about Super Paper Mario, it probably wasn't the best type of game to include an RPG-heavy dialog in. But if you worked that plot-heavy story into a traditional RPG, it might've been better received.

For some reason, Nintendo has been getting this impression that story/characters have been a problem in recent games, just because the story doesn't gel well with other elements in their games. Maybe they just made a bad game.

Dream Team was slow. But stripping all of the characters, spirit, and arguably the story in M&L for its Paper Jam sequel was as big a mistake as it was for PM: Sticker Star.

I feel like there is an extraordinary amount of speculation over things like GPU and the NX when the map is probably just not ready yet.

I think some of the humor in Zelda stems from the fact that Link is an awkward boy hero.

Having a completely gender-neutral storyline kind of limits some plots you could write. I don't care if Link is a boy or a girl, but I don't trust Nintendo to do anything interesting with the story if the player gets to choose.

The 3D effect in this game could be amazing.

This looks like an issue, but on it's own, it's kind of a cool controller. It's just not what everybody wants as the primary one.

The NX could retain compatibility with Wii U software, and if it does, they'll have to make all the controllers work with the NX too.

Too bad this game wasn't received better because it is oozing with style.

The big group of Paper Toads just screamed Paper Toad mini-games like Paper Jam. It looks like they're going to cram even more things that I don't like into Color Splash, than just the Sticker Star elements.

Ugh, I just know there's going to be a proper Animal Crossing game and you're going to be able to do something with these cards. I'm predicting you'll be able to invite villagers to your town from these cards, possibly to move in

Piper! She's awesome, I think she should be a reoccuring steambot in these games.

@Henmii Luckily for you, and I really only did mental math here, but I added up all the characters separately, and there doesn't really seem to be a difference between buying the characters in a bundle or buying them individually.

@Nico07 If we exclude costume packs for either game...

When Street Fighter 4 released new characters as DLC, they gave you 5 characters and 6 stages for 15 dollars.

According to smashbros.com, using their most cost efficient bundle for fighters, you have to pay $34.93, for 7 characters + the 3 character specific stages. The stage bundle (5 extra stages?) is an additional $10.45. So it costs about $45 right now to get it all.

So it's about... 2.5x as expensive as SF's character and stage pricing model? And, Street Fighter IV is the cheaper game too, although they do release a lot of versions and you gotta keep your Street Fighter up to date if you want to compete.

I just don't really get why people think Nintendo invented cheap DLC or something. These games are expensive, not to mention the base price of these games.

IDK, hypothetically shouldn't you have double the content if you're paying around 70 or 80 dollars for all of the DLC, since that's what the game costs? So basically, 100 characters and stages, and like, a bunch of other modes?

The Smash DLC is very expensive.

This looks like it would be a good vs. multiplayer game too, if there was enough cover!

@Einherjar Why do other games with similar graphical fidelity and complexity (such as Mario Maker) run smoothly even when there's tons of action happening on screen?

@Radbot42 More or less boring than Ice Fire Plains Swamp? For god sakes it's all been done before, take a chance

@Radbot42 I don't think there's anything crazy about food or toys, they've been done in Super Mario Land 2, and Galaxy, and the RPG Mario games. There's lots of inspiration in those games for worlds.

They just need to fleece Galaxy for fun ideas.