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I can see that. At first I was thrown off by the art style of the movie, but I actually really liked it (and the movie). It didn't exactly feel like a Disney/Pixar movie, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

What make them think that the spin-off will sell well on the Switch if they aren't bringing the main game to it? Or are they using it as a gauge of interest on the Switch?

Depends entirely on the type of game. Kingdom Hearts - Heavily story-based, start from the beginning.
Pokemon - The original games are poor places to start if you want to like the series. Gen 4 is an excellent starting place as it was the birth of the modern style.
Legend of Zelda - The earliest game isn't a great starting point. A link to the past is a good start, but so in most of the titles.
Dragon Quest - 8 or 11 would be good starting places. 7 and below would be a no go for me.

@Bobb I hope it's told as three sides of the same story this time rather than 3.5 "what if" scenarios. Two characters in particular I think were poorly done, only surviving in their respective routes.

@Bobb They introduced the manipulation of time in the game, so it's entirely possible that it's a main part of the plot. Similar to how time travel plays into Age of Calamity.

@Harmonie Ah, that makes sense. I never finished KH3 because the Frozen world was so bad, among other things.

I thought they were done when they beat KH to death with KH3. Why do they want to desecrate the body?

@SmaggTheSmug I was just making a similar point about 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight yesterday. Media aimed at men and media aimed at women are different because of what mainstream men/women are into in a given cultural environment. Like @HeadPirate was saying, why would developers/publishers make an equivalent of this game for women when it wouldn't sell? It's the same for movies, books, etc. It's not like men are going out in droves to read a male equivalent of 50 Shades, Twilight, 365 Days, After, etc. I know I wouldn't.

Aside from some conservative nutjobs, I don't see men running around trying to be offended by smut aimed at women. If women wanted some smutty games, I'm sure they would develop their own, like that Boyfriend Dungeon game. Sure it's not as smutty as something like this, but as you said @SmaggTheSmug, how much more objectification can you have than literally turning people into objects?

I was kinda looking forward to this, as well as Temtem years ago, because I like playing these games to directly compare them to Pokemon. MHS2 was probably the bet runner up I experienced, being hindered mostly by the travesal abilities, essentially their answer to HMs. I started Coromon on my phone a few months ago, but I dropped it immediately after hearing about a Switch port. Now I have to wait even longer, I guess.

The problems I see with this game are as @Dr_Lugae and @Thief mentioned above. The hype for this game is all but gone, and it's designed after the old Pokemon games, before Sun and Moon. Pokemon made several leaps ahead stylistically with Let's Go,
SwSh, Legends Arceus, and SV. If this game can't make it onto the Switch before SV, it runs the risk of being drowned out by those games whenever it does release. However, I do at least want to try it out. It looks like it could be more fun than Nexomon was.

I was surprised at how much I like Fenyx Rising. I'm interested in a sequel, but I still haven't gotten around to playing the DLC.

Hopefully it gets a console adaptation/port/remake or a sequel. I don't recall getting to play it when it came out, I think because I had an old phone that couldn't run it. I had forgotten about it until now basically. Would anyone recommend trying to play it now or would I be too late to the party?

@Strumpan I know it runs very well. I meant that I don't want it to release many months after the other versions for full price, when the other versions were much lower in price and the game was old news. Similarly to how Watchdogs was released on the Wii U and Doom Eternal on the Switch.

@Matty1988 Whatever it is, I hope it's good. I know it's too much to hope for, but I would also like EA to re-release the Harry Potter games they made way back in the day. Those games were great childhood experiences.

@Cyberbotv2 That's what I'm hoping for. WB did put down the funds to get Arkham Origins and Arkham Asylum ported onto the Wii U, MK11 on the Switch, and a plethora of LEGO titles on both. I expect them to at least attempt a port and not just drop a quick and dirty cloud version.

Also, on the topic of WB, was the Batman Arkham Collection ever confirmed for Switch? Because I think that Collection could be a good representation of how well Hogwarts Legacy works on Switch, specifically Arkham Knight.

As long as it is not a cloud version and it runs decently well, I will buy it. I'm very hopeful that it is a solid port worthy of my time that comes out on time, like Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I don't want another Doom: Eternal Switch or Watchdogs Wii U situation.

Also, something is swimming around the internet that should be making certain people rethink things, so I appreciate NL's attempt at civility. Usually these discussions devolve into vitriol pretty quickly, so fingers crossed that it can be avoided this time.

@Medic_Alert Game collections seem to be selling enough for companies like Ubisoft to keep doing them. No one wants to pay $40+ (or equivalent) to play one 10 year old game, when it is availble on other consoles for much cheaper. Nintendo games are basically the only exception because they aren't really available anywhere else.

I mean, it IS the best selling current platform on the market. It's silly that there are not more multiplatform games on the Switch. Sure you'd have to scale back most games to run them on the Switch, but mainly Switch owners obviously don't care that much... WE MAINLY PLAY ON THE SWITCH. Also, the Switch games are comparable to late Xbox 360/PS3 games, and better. So games from that era should be fine. It baffles me that Deus Ex, Tomb Raider, FF13, Watchdogs, Dark Souls Trilogy, KH Collection (natively), GTAV, and many more games aren't on the Switch, as if it can't run them at all. Newer game would have to have compromises, sure, but it's not impossible. Also, making games on the Switch is probably the least expensive. Just make it good, playable, and make sure it runs well.

I need to get this game and play it at full volume in public just to spite the reviewer.

Can we get Galaxy 2 for All-Stars?

@RupeeClock It is because God is testing you. Seriously though, that is a pretty steep ask for some. Not for me, though. The 100 hour Legends: Arceus bender I went on was aweome. I'm still holding out hope for an expansion before Gen 9 gets here.

@Primarina Yes! The mystery gift for Oak's Letter ends on the 27th, but you don't need to beat the league to recieve the gift.

I would much rather have a good dub than it just being subbed. In fact, I rather have no voice acting at all than just subbed. I don't even pay attention to the voice acting during subbed games anyway, as it is just a distraction while reading. I'm not a fan of the overly cutesy girly voices that are prominent in Japanese voice acting, or the childish boy voice acting. It almost feels like it's either one of those two or the husky woman/manly man for a lot of Japanese voice acting. I know that's an oversimplification, but it's just prominent enough to turn me off of subs. Overall, I would prefer both, just to satiate the subz crowd, but I don't use subs for games or anime. I've skipped over many a game/anime for not providing a dub. I would rather read books/manga, not anime/games/movies. Also, slightly related: if the english dubbing for Kung Fu Hustle doesn't put a smile on your face, then you are a soulless human and I don't want to know you. 🤣

I copied my response in the survey that I put in the suggestions at the end:

"The sub over dub crowd sucks. Just do both, please. I've skipped over many games that didn't provide an english dub, especially ones that already have an english voice cast to work with, like the Fairy Tail game. Also, if you want people to use the dub more, spring for good voice actors. When you localize games with a dub, it's easier to tell when the voice acting is bad. I can guarantee you that "more people just use subs" because they don't know what bad Japanese voice acting sounds like. Food for thought: If Dragonball games were not localized with a dub, I would never buy them because Goku's Japanese voice acting is terrible. I'm sure she's a nice lady, but I would rather not hear that voice any more than I absolutely have to in life. Fun fact: I use that voice acting as a prime example of dubbing supremacy to shutdown the subs over dubs crowd whenever its rears it ugly head."

@Degenerate_Mii I know! We'll be well into the Switch 3 by that point. 😭

@Diogmites I feel the same way. Honestly, I want to hold off on getting the expansion pack until they at least add gb/gbc/gba, Gamecube, and Wii games. However, if they keep adding DLC packs to it, I could be swayed.

What does this have to do with the Switch? If it was on the Switch I may have tried the game, but it's not, so...

I'm up to an OLED now. I started from the bottom, now I'm here. 😎

@nhSnork My thoughts exactly!

I swear these internet complainers are trying to make any and everything about these games controversial. If you don't want the games, think they are too early, etc. That's fine, just don't play them. But trying to turn everything into a controversy is just tactless and childish. I just saw a fool's article yesterday about how to starters are too cute. Like, what? 🤨 The clowns are out in full force guys. 🤡

@ATaco That's sad and so much worse. 😢

Uh oh, monopoly alert. Although, this would explain why so many of the anime I was watching were removed from Netflix.

Shin'en needs to get all of their games onto the Switch.

@somnambulance It's funny that way, isn't it? They beg for something other than the gyms (Sun and Moon), then they long for them. Then when the gyms come back (Sword and Shield) they long for more exploration. Then when exploration is key (Legends Arceus) they long for gyms and a league again.

I'm not saying that TPCI, Nintendo, and Game Freak make the best decisions, but I trust them so much more than the flip-flopping masses that don't really know what they want. I was hoping they would space out the releases more, but this game looks even more promising than Legends Arceus did.

Also, on their Tiwitter, they called the game open-world, so I'm expecting it to be like Legends Arceus and the SwSh DLC mushed together.

These games look much further along than Legends Arceus did when it was announced. Gen 9 releasing this year makes me think that BDSP was supposed to be either late 2020 or early 2021 and Legends Arceus was supposed to be late 2021. Regardless, it seems that SwSh was the half-step to LA and LA was the half-step to SV. I can't wait for the hate train to be derailed and replaced with the hype train later this year. You'd think that naysayers would have figured out by now that, if they want to quit playing Pokemon, no one is going to stop them. They just feel the need to stick around and tell us all the reasons they don't want to play it every single time a new anything us announced. Go. No one is going to stop you. But also, stop trying so hard to be missed.

I don't pay attention to any of this stuff but, as soon as I saw that Sony bought EVO, I knew that Nintendo wasn't going to stick around. Why would they willingly support their competition with a literal competition? It's foolish to even think for a second that they would. But of course it's Nintendo's fault that Sony bought EVO, right? Nintendo is being stingy and selfish for not directly supporting an industry rival, right? Where was that same energy when Sony abandoned E3, something that neither Nintendo nor Microsoft owns? I remember people lauding Sony for the decision because they can go it alone with their State of Play model. Well, guess what? Nintendo will be, and apparently has been, going it alone with SSB.

@Tourtus Easy answer: The articles have the same author, and both publications are owned by the same company. It would be like if Nintendo Life, Push Square, and Pure Xbox had the same article about EA because they chose to share the same article rather than have three people write about the exact same thing. Either way, there's no conspiracy in that regard. That said, I really don't like that so many of the independent news sources are being bought out by big corporations, like the Washington Post and Amazon.

Edit: It's not Amazon that owns the Washington Post, but another one of Bezos' companies.

@Arawn93 Yep, you're on the right track. Don't forget to curse Nintendo's continued existence while you're at it.

I'm just here for the "Nintendo's gone to far" comments, even though they weren't even mentioned in the article. 🤣

I'm expecting Pokemon Legends Arceus DLC, more information on upcoming BDSP updates, and an update on Pokemon HOME. I'm hoping for a Let's Go Johto game, the NSO to add GB/GBC/GBA and DS Pokemon games, and an announcement for Gen V remakes. Normally I wouldn't hope for the remakes to come so quickly but I think it would great if they broke the remakes away from the one per generation model by sticking to the "faithful remakes" concept.

As someone who is about to drop $60+ on some old Pokemon games, I am definitely in support of the subscription service over the VC. As unpopular as the opinion may be, I don't want to spend $100 per year for individual 15+ year-old games when I can pay $20-50 a year for hundreds of games instead. That said, I do want them to release the games in console collections like the Sega, Atari, and Namco collections from years ago.

Nintendo digital games are locked to your console after the servers go down. So you basically own that copy. If you lose it in some way, how is that any different than losing the physical copy of the game? You could just make digital backups of all of your games on the 3DS on your computer and SD cards. That's much more protection than a physical cart has ever had.

@alecseus That's what I'm saying! I distinctly remember nothing but hate for the VC for years! Now all of a sudden EVERYONE loved it. 🤦🏽‍♂️

I distinctly remember people disliking the Virtual console because it cost too much and people begging for a Netflix style system for old Nintendo games.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8329699/nintendo-could-learn-from-netflix-first-click

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-can-do-so-much-better-than-virtual-console-1825871773/amp

They delivered on that, albeit in a more primitive form than expected. It's not all it should be yet, but that doesn't mean we won't get to GB, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, GC, Wii, and Wii U eventually. Yes it is slow to update, but it'll only keep improving over time.

Where's the world's smallest violin gif when you need it? The other guys also deserve to go to prison, as does the notorious Mario villain Bowser.

I'm definitely doing this. I already have USUM digitally and I've wanted them all digitally for a while now. I'm probably going to do the same for Switch games at some point. I also recommend getting all of the Nintendo Selects digitally.

@Fizza The game was a resounding success, but the trolls have to go somewhere. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Who was expecting the game that obviously requires motion controls to work without motion controls?