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Skipping a whole console for all your major games was a bad idea!? No $#!+.

To quote myself from a previous article:

"When Nintendo systems don't sell as well as other consoles (N64, GameCube, Wii U) they are direct competitors, but when they sell much better than competing consoles (Gameboy, DS, 3DS, Wii, Switch) they aren't even in the running? Uh huh. Y'all smell that? Smells like BS to me. Just like Sony's momentum chart."

I don't like the superiority complex Sony has regained from the PS4 era. I was hopeful they dropped that after the early failures of the PS3. I think a large part of the problem is that people are too quick to forgive Sony for their f-ups, but they continue to drag Nintendo and Microsoft for theirs.

Not gonna lie, this actually looks like it'll be more up my alley than the first game.

So it's not the worst game ever? Sorry Redfall and Gollum, you probably will keep your titles of worst games this year.

When Nintendo systems don't sell as well as other consoles (N64, GameCube, Wii U) they are direct competitors, but when they sell much better than competing consoles (Gameboy, DS, 3DS, Wii, Switch) they aren't even in the running? Uh huh. Y'all smell that? Smells like BS to me. Just like Sony's momentum chart.

I'm interested in both games, but Sega must be pretty confident to go toe-to-toe with their former rival on said rival's own platform. I wonder how they both will stack up in reviews. 🤔 Wouldn't it be the shock of the century if the new 2D Sonic game reviewed as good as, or even better than, the new 2D Mario game? I doubt it, but it could happen.

@UltimateOtaku91 With any luck, it will be Metroid Prime 2 and 3. If they really want to wow us, they could include Prime Hunters as well.

Every time I see niggling or niggles I keep thinking of the Almost a Slur video from College Humor. If you haven't seen it, it is a must watch.

On topic: I need to pick these up as soon as possible. I want the physical version, but I don't want to wait until September. 🥲 I beat Pikmin 3 before on the Wii U, but I never got to play these two.

If it's good, I will buy it. I love Cuphead and it's art style, but I never got past the second isle.

Super Mario: Magic Mushrooms. Our hero has fallen on hard times, guys. He's started using again. Pray for him. 😭

Prediction Time:

35 Minutes of Everybody 1-2-Switch detailing every mini game and how the world will be saved if we all buy the game. It's super great and tested well in every market. Please understand.

5 minutes about the character customization of Pikmin 4 and your faithful doggo companion. Much doggo, most buy.

EDIT: My uncle works at Nintendo, so I would know. 🤪

@Jamie64326 I know. They don't seem to bother with controlling the projects they develop, though. Same with Kirby and HAL Laboratories. Especially HAL Laboratories. The 3ds was Kirbied to the extreme.

@BenAV I thought I was going to hop into it once I got it, but last year just had so many games released. Truth be told, I got the original game digitally, gold edition, for 90% off. That's probably where all the first game's sales came from.

@BenAV I should've waited longer. I bought the game but never got around to plating it. 😬

@UltimateOtaku91 I don't really mind having multiple games in a franchise either, as long as the games are solid (that's aimed and Game Freak and the dubious quality of their games). The same applies for Hal Laboratories with Kirby as they aren't Nintendo owned either. Nintendo may own Fire Emblem, Kirby, and Pokémon (partially), but they are mostly hands off with those franchises.

@BenAV I got it half off a month after it came out.

@UltimateOtaku91 Easy: Nintendo doesn't develop Fire Emblem and they don'town Itelligent Systems. I think the same goes for Pokémon and Game Freak. Although, if they fully owned Pokémon amd Game Freak, I think we would be getting better games. They have no excuse for Splatoon or Xenoblade, though it is okay if they have a few.

There were parts of Engage's story that I found very intriguing, but I think the story overall was a dud. It was like watching a cheesy 4Kids dubbed TV show from the 90s. Chapters 10 and 11 were the best in the game, but the rest of it was kinda meh. It also sucked that they had to patch in more options for bonding at the Somniel. I was mostly finished with the story by that point. I really liked a lot of the characters, but the fact that not all of the "romance" options are romantic is a little silly. Who gives someone a ring to declare everlasting friendship? And who thought it was a good idea to include the children in as "confession" options?

@BLD I have to agree with you for 3 Houses. Rather than telling a good story, they chose to make 3.5 routes of dubious quality, with what should have been the omni route (church route) just a gimped version of the Golden Deer route. Not to mention that the whole conflict with Rhea and Edelgard could've been resolved with literally one conversation within the ENTIRE YEAR they lived together. We barely got a good explanation for why certain characters did certain things, but they made sure to kill off Edelgard and Dimitri in every route you don't side with them. Then 3 Hope came along and did nothing more than destroy Claude's character.

I breezed through it in a few weeks with 150+ hours in. I moved on to Skyward Sword.

I got happy until I saw which Tomb Raider games. Knowing that the first two reboot games were on PS3/360, I'm honestly surprised that they never made it to the Switch. I think you're right, @Shambo. It's a bit late in the game to bring Tomb Raider to the Switch, though I would still support a physical release of the reboot trilogy if it comes to pass.

I just wanna know what's coming in the fall and winter. New hardware can wait until next year. Unless they are actually planning a release this fall... in which case, I am open to it. I doubt it, though. The Switch still has some juice left to squeeze.

@Nintendancies I came here with the same question. Is the game actually good? NL hasn't reviewed the game, from what I can tell.

Does it have any other smart watch features, or is it just a $80 catching tool?

@presenttense I did quite a few towers before I knew how to get the paraglider. The best I could do was aim for water and hope for the best. I think the paraglider and the flight suit should have been given before leaving the sky islands since the geoglyphs were available at that point.

@presenttense Same here! I thought Impa and I were friends, but she told me jump to my demise.

I wish I knew the correct order to get the memories. I spoiled the story for myself pretty early...

The boss fight in TOTK makes him the best to me. Phase two of that fight was rude in the best way. A stark difference from the boss fight in BOTW.

I just got curious because a YouTuber was complaining that the story quests were mandatory before you can fight the final boss, which is not the case. Kinda makes me wish I beat all the shrines before progressing with the story, but oh well.

If he is in talks with Marvel, then I NEEEED Suda51 to make a Deadpool game. Travis is basically Deadpool already, so we know he can do it.

Also, I need a Shinobu game. She's had my heart since we got to play as her in NMH2. Sidelining her in NMH3 was pretty disappointing.

@IOI You definitely do if you play the game over time. No one needs to cheat their way through the game to finish everything in less than a month.

First time I ran into a Gloom Hands, I was fumbling like a baby with the controls. The music and sky changing did not help my case.

People keep poking the bear and they look shocked when their arm gets bitten off. I'll be surprised if they don't get some kind of take down notice from Nintendo.

@-wc- Some people just like to ruin things. Like those people who stole the game and dumped it online. Then the people online try to defend those practices and blame Nintendo for the actions of the hackers and thieves. And they come after Nintendo for "being too harsh" on hackers and thieves.

The sad part is, if you actually just play the game, you don't even need duplication glitches. People just want to fast track themselves through the game instead of just playing it.

@sanderev Exactly. Not to mention that those exploits and bugs were obviously not found during regular playthroughs. They hacked and datamined the game to death, then use what they learned to cheese the game. It's so disingenuous.

Monster Hunter Stories 2 was pretty good and Ooblets is adorable, but none of these quite have the same feeling of Pokémon. Nexomon has some glaring flaws that made it feel too much like an imitation rather than a game that can stand on its own. Temtem I will never play unless it has an offline mode, which is a shame because I do like the way it looks. Also, both Nexomon and Temtem have some blatant Pokémon "inspired" designs as well, which I don't really like.

I avoid the games that look like Gen 1-3 Pokémon games entirely because that art style doesn't appeal to me nor do the creature designs. The beta Gen 1 Pokémon designs look better than those games.

I updated because I don't care. Updating games to remove exploits is not new and is not the controversy the internet wants to make you think it is.

What Pokémon needs is for Nintendo to take the reins and show Game Freak how it's done.

@Ryu_Niiyama Haha, that's fair. I only buy Nintendo and Sony (if they would put out a real handheld) consoles, but I've been pulling for Microsoft to one up Sony for years now. Both Sony and Microsoft do better when they are firing on all cylinders, but Microsoft keeps tripping over its own feet. I'm hoping they manage to snag Activision/Blizzard only so they look like less of a joke going against Sony.

@Ryu_Niiyama If this is Nintendo with flat brand momentum, does that mean Sony's is in the dirt now?

It it was a handheld digital only PS5, I'd be all over it. For those who do want it though, I hope the price isn't exorbitant. Unless it is more than just a streaming device, that thing better not be more than $100.

So the company who dominated the sales charts for over half a decade, swept the two most power systems for two years after they launched, and just launched potentially the biggest game and movie of the year has low brand momemtum (awareness, idk wtf does that even mean)? Sure. Yep. We totally believe that. Next Sony's gonna tell us that they're super smart and very handsome because their mommy said so. 🙄

I never thought the game or even the concept of the game looked good, but those reviews are even more brutal than I thought they would be.

I'm at 85+ and I think I put a sizable dent into the game. 2 dungeons, 97 shrines, all of the geoglyphs (I think 11?), 70+ lightroots, all of the labyrinths, the master sword, etc. I'm using what I know from BotW to get as far as I can. I've got another long weekend coming up that I'm hoping to use to finish the story.

@Axecon They did! The only thing that got me through AoC was the story, which was pure hype. I loved seeing the characters as they were in the before times, Purah and Impa being my favorites.

@Maulbert Don't get me wrong, I don't like the gameplay either. I only played it for the story. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is another game I had to muddle through with bad gameplay. The things I must do for story are annoying...

@Eagly If it were at all possible, I think either Nintendo EPD and/or Monolith Soft should be allowed to create Pokémon games going forward. It could be glorious, but GF is just holding the series back.

I guess a lot of people slept on Age of Calamity, huh?

Don't forget that these numbers are even more impressive when you consider that Pokémon SV sales are inflated because of the two versions. Some people buy both versions of the game, like me (I regret nothing 🙃). That makes TOTK's sales all the more impressive.