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@MsJubilee So they don't have to reanimate the cutscenes. Pure laziness.

I was hoping if they did this all the Mario Run characters would be playable since they have the models and special moves for them.

Or at they very least they should've had a Sprixie kidnapped so the playable cast could be Mario, Luigi, Toad, Toadette, Peach, and Daisy. Again, they have the animations from Mario Run for all these characters . . .

So wait, what happens if one of the other characters gets the Super Crown? King Mario, King Luigi, and King Toad power up? Hopefully something.

The Direct comes a few months after Spyro's release on PS4 and Xbox. It's followed by a short where Spyro and Crash meet each other and high five.

Then they get sprayed with ink by Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl.

The Smash Bros. logo appears over all four of them.

Suddenly the delayed announcement makes sense.

@FNL A gay Trump supporter with a diaper fetish? This is a new one. I mean, I knew about Josh Thomas being a gay guy with a diaper and pacifier fetish who needed "big brudders" to change his diapers - but his politics somehow make that even more hilarious.

@BezBot

Sonic Team is always confused about what Sonic should be.

Thank goodness they're actually comic back to the Metroid series. If they had canceled the fangame AND didn't touch Samus for another 5 years there would've been hell in bad PR to pay.

Hopefully Smash 4 Switch with Ice Climbers, Wolf, maybe Inklings, and possibly Alph split off into his own character?

I hope we're going to get new Megas, or similar soon, especially for the thus-far heavily neglected gens 4-6.

I'd also take new Alolan Forms, too.

Wish a translation team would take on Giftpia or Captain Rainbow.

I wish Tomodachi Life and Happy Home designer had been DLC updates to New Leaf instead of stand-alone games.

Early US copies also let you eat the dolphins. I know mine did.

@Yalaa There are already tons of similar games to Metroid and Tomb Raider with male protagonists, though.

Shadow of Colossus and Skyrim had a new baby and named it Zelda.

@MarioPhD Anecdotes from local toy store employees in the American south - it's all selling pretty well, except for the Whisper dolls. Americans really hate Whisper. The toy Yo-Kai Watch itself is selling very well. Of course, this is just in my tri-state area, but considering I'm in the Bible belt I consider most reports I hear a success.

@NinjaWaddleDee The first Pokemon game was heavily rooted in Japanese mythology too - they just scrubbed a lot of that away in localization.

@MitchVogel It's nice because it takes risks, while I feel Pokemon designs have become very sanitized in recent years.

@PlywoodStick There was some push to market it as Ghost Watch early in localization but they got the typical complaints about Japanese games making children into demon-worshipping, anti-Christian Satanists.

@Ronnie7 There's at least one Pokemon that's an old man, so I don't see what the difference is.

@MarioPhD The Merch is actually selling really well in America. It's simply that younger kids are leaving behind handheld game consoles in favor of phones and tablets.

@Melkac

Yo-Kai Watch is much better by far, unless you're so infuriated by the Yo-Kai acting on their own that it ruins the enjoyment of the game for you.

You can control everything your monsters do in battle, unlike Yo-kai Watch.

However, also unlike Yo-Kai watch - there's not that much variety in what the monsters actually do in battle.

There's basically only six attributes Plushkins can have - Regular, Light, Dark, Nature, Fire, Water. And the most difference you'll notice is that some can heal and some can not.

There's about 60 techniques in the game, but most are just three-tiered improvements on the same move (Sea, Deep Sea, Ocean World) so really there's only about 30 different abilities in the game.

Also unlike Yo-Kai Watch - there's absolutely no overworld. It's a straightforward randomized dungeon crawler.

@SageWaterDragon
I liked Final Fantasy 13 but its battle system was never something I hear praise about.
But still, what you just described was Yo-kai Watch.
Action-based combat would basically kill Pokemon's Pvp scene by naking it entirely about reflexes. Yo-kai Watch's pvp is rightly regarded as a fun little extra that would be impossible to balance.
Between Mystery Dungeon, Pokken, and Rumble the metafranchise has tons of alternate gameplay as side projects but any attempt to supplant the main series' battle system would likely either kill Pokemon's pvp or pve which both already exist in a perilous balance.
I do agree that the Badge Quest narrative should be jettisoned asap, or at the very least de-emphasized as it was in G5.

@SageWaterDragon
The only new combat people would want is action. And that would be impossible with 150 characters, much less 700.

I think its wrong to view the Pokemon generations as separate games when they are more accurately expansion packs for the same game all interconnected via the metagame and Pokemon Bank.

@SageWaterDragon

Aside from new moves, the games have nothing new to offer if there's no new Pokemon. There's literally nothing else to the series. The storyline is the same in every game, and the environments of the Pokemon series are literally just the real world with Pokemon added in.

"Here's the experience of Lumiose City - it's Paris, but look - Pidgeys are flying over it! Now it's a totally different experience! Now it's LUMIOSE! Totally different! And here's Eiffel, I mean - Lumiose Tower!"

Yeah, right.

@Shepdawg1
It was hilarious watching the XY anime and seeing the writers struggle to wring 150+ episodes from a pool of 70 new Pokemon.

@Kirk
You were never intended to catch them all. That was a phrase invented to sell toys in America. In Japan, the advertising slogan was "Get Pokemon" - with the implication that you'd only go after your favorites.

And the global trade station makes getting all 700 a joke even now.

@GoldenGamer88
Kalos was basically a nonsensical "Greatest Hits" album which is why it didn't make any sense. They had an opportunity to do a slew of European Pokemon and the only ones we got that fit that criteria was essentially the Flabebe line. The rest was all G1 nostalgia-pandering with a few others.

@Arngrim The focus on Mega Evolutions ruined G6 for a lot of players. Especially since a lot of them were as stupid as Genwunners claim new Pokemon all are. Mega Aerodactyl, and its amazing skin condition! Or Mega Garchomp - significantly weaker than regular Garchomp!

@Xenocity All I really want revealed is the box legendaries, the world map, and the 3 starters. XY revealed way too much, I agree - but DP revealed too little. BW is the sweet spot.

@Chaoz I'd rather they just move on at this point. Nothing can be done to fix Kalos because the heart of the problems in G6 was not enough new Pokemon and too much focus on Mega Evolutions. You can't give Kalos it's own unique flavor when you have only 55 regional Pokemon - minus the mandatory Legendaries and Starters.

@Denngar Very few of the Yokai are based directly on Japabese mythology. The only ones I've enountered so far are tengu, kyuubi no kitsune, kappa, jinmenkin, bakeneko, baku, and koma inu. Most of which are also Pokemon, so not hard to understand at all. Most Yokai are the personification of a probkem or emotion, such as sickness, hunger, determination, depression, gossip, happiness - etc etc. The only thing traditionallly Japanese about them are their clothes.

@robotoboy20
A lot of this is incorrect. Yo-Kai are a part of Japanese culture, but certainly not for children. Most Yo-Kai stories are out of date or irrelevant to modern Japanese children. In fact, I read an article last year where an American journalist interviewed children in Japan about the popularity of Yo-Kai Watch. Most of the kids he talked to had no idea that Yo-Kai like Nogappa and Kyuubi were based on Japanese culture. The only really popular franchise in Japan focused on Yo-Kai was Gegege no Kitaro, which hasn't been on the air since 2008, and the manga finished in 1969.

Furthermore, the majority of the Yo-Kai are based on original ideas, rather than actual monsters from Japanese culture. Obviously, Japan doesn't have legends about a tiny elephant that makes you want to pee. The only Yo-Kai heavily based on Japanese myth are the 30 "Classic" Yo-Kai from Yo-Kai Watch 2. The other 400 are mostly original creations.

Furthermore, the third game is going to literally have nothing to do with Japanese culture at all.

I agree with the idea that Miis should be given blank faces or generic faces or masked faces so they can be played with online.