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@BloodNinja Completionist goals!

I've uploaded 4-5 I think. I should play the game again and have a look at their stats. One of them was 'quite successful'.

Is Racer worth getting in 2021? (never played it). The review on NL was not that good, but maybe at that price it could get an extra point?

The setup they had for the Mario items was great, very clever use of the different items. Still looked ugly and out of place, mind you, but not on an official Nintendo island. I'm a bit on the fence about displaying those Sanrio items that are difficult to get or only from scalpers as it looks like advertisement in disguise, but Nintendo has never been a charity, so...

Never jumped onto the pokémon bandwagon but very happy for anyone who's gonna get their pokém on today

Nintendo needs to put up a Mii exchange website, but it would go against its rule to make anything incredibly complicated

There should be some kind of website or app where you could upload or download Miis from/to your Switch. If only Nintendo had ever developed that kind of thing in the past...

@Thatsalie guess I was woke in 1989 when I wore my Phrygian cap to celebrate the anniversary of a 200-year-old historical event

Great piece as usual @kategray

@beepboop368 @Lynox5 that's true. Actually my wishes for the future updates have shifted from more content to more QoL improvements like this one. I hate wasting my time trying to find my way back to the plaza on an unknown island! Craft some direction signs guys (even if it ruins the steampunk pirate horror anime aesthetic you were going for). They're not * just * cosmetic.

That's great ! I bought the game last week and I've been ranking up ever since. Is it just me or is the game a bit easier than the last one on Nintendo systems (MHGU)? Never played MHWorld. Feels like the monsters drop much more materials and are not that long to beat (well I must admit that things get a bit hairier on HR7, and last time I played MHGU I was playing G-Ranked quests).

Great QoL improvements too.

As someone who never quite understood the ways of red stone and command blocks in MC (nor didn't really took the time to get the hang of it), I'm quite impressed!

On a side note, I don't think the title is clickbait as it suggests a clearly unrealistic feature in the game.
And the clickbait conspiracy theory on a news website that basically depends on your clicks is just nonsense. Everything is clickbait if you wanna take that road

@COVIDberry Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails, the Social Network soundtrack etc) is known for using dissonance and going back and forth between major and minor chords, creating an unsettling mood (along with unusual time signatures). I've never studied musicology but watching youtube videos dissecting the tracks was truly interesting.

That music sounds like generic samples thrown on top of each other in Garageband on purpose, regardless of their respective keys. The composer is probably still laughing in his studio that no-one got the joke and that it actually made it to the final version of the game.

I was transfixed by the chat going wild as he was approaching the end and I missed it.

I-

Well, 2 years and a half-ish into development, I guess we're in for at least the same amount of time of waiting. Just throw us a bone or something Nintendo! I can't play the Nes and Snes games over and over.

(and why did I sell my GC, Wii and WiiU? that box didn't take that much space)

@CairiB it will be - next year. I hope we’ll be maskless by then !

I'll start it 400 days before my 40th birthday to make the experience truly distressing.

Let's all watch Nintendo as it celebrates Animal Crossing 's 20th anniversary but totally ignores Zelda's 35th 👀

edit : mildly disappointed that what I thought was a fart cushion is actually an earpod case

@Migoshuro I heard about a certain café, some dialogues, items or festivals that "have yet to return" in NH. But as I only played the GC game I wouldn't know!

I only played the original on GameCube and New Horizons. I kind of regret that everyone is nice in NH, I loved the (somewhat insulting) bitter remarks the villagers could say in the original game. But even though everyone is complaining about NH's lack of content I've still played it daily to this day.

Bought the game last year, played two levels before deciding it was not for me 🤡

@KillerBOB I was thinking, how does one even pronounce this game's name?

@pixelpatch I only played it solo, the action was kind of the same all the time but the game isn't long enough to feel too repetitive. And as I said the upgrade tree makes it exciting enough to go on and revisit some levels to find the artefacts, with an entirely new 'strategy' (stealthy the first time because of my poor stats; only relying on the Überhammer the next time).

@Tandy255 Yes. I remember the first single-sheeted manual I came across was New Super Mario Bros for Wii and I was far from knowing that it was the beginning of the end.

@RadioShadow I loved reading manuals. As a kid my parents wouldn't let me play more than a few hours a day and I would still dive in the game's universe by reading the manual, looking at the pictures, drawing them on sketchbooks (when the manuals were good, that is, but 1st party games never failed to provide cool manuals)

@Bunkerneath The clips are for guarantee and safety documentation but they seem to have abandoned that as well.

I miss paper manuals. I know it's better for the environment and all that (then where's the digital alternative?). But to me it was all part of the experience of buying a game. Except when you ended up with a cheap black and white 6-page booklet in three languages.

I loved Youngblood and I guess I'm one of the only few who did. Bought it on sale a few months ago because the alternative "Nazi Paris in the 1980s" universe had long caught my eye.

I had not played any FPS for a long time and it felt fresh, loved the character/weapon/ability upgrades even though I'm sure there are better games out there in that genre.

Looks a lot like Kingdoms and Castles on Steam. I like it.

What's not to love when you have chocolate chips, gouda, strawberries and cold cuts all at the same time

It's amazing it even got to open in the first place. Good thing they don't close it completely though.

@garfreek Yes that's what I gathered from reading the later comments! She does look yellowish on the cover but I thought it was motion sickness — or hepatitis.

I'm usually all for grim and dark things but the colourful cover seems more promising, adventure-wise, with the mountains and tower in the distance.

edit : AND we need more Zelda casually sitting on top of a locomotive feeling the breeze in her hair, while the steam from the chimney is magically avoiding her, sparing her from 5th degree burns

Now that's a good April Fools' joke. A fake turning out to be true. This looks amazing!

@Noid It's all over gaming social media anyway. They want it to be known.

These jokes are cruel. It's supposed to be funny, and finding out the truth is supposed to give you relief. Most of these jokes are like, look what you could get !! psych we never worked on that lmao we just spent hours on this instead of actually working on new stuff.

Either that or maybe the new lockdown announcement here has deprived me of any ounce of humour I had left

This is obscene.

Japan looks like a preview of the game in Famitsu.
North America is like a missed opportunity, as everything looks misplaced, except for Jill's bREasts, standing right there in hd ('we remade those too!').
Europe is boring and uninspired. But not tasteless. Chose that one.

I'm swamped with work right now (good thing i guess), even if BOTW2 or MP4 were released today I'd still hold it until i have more time for them.

Does anyone know how many Miis are featured in the game? I mean, how many Miis you have to create to fill all the roles.

Can you create all of them or will some of them be automatically created by the game if you can’t be bothered to design them all?

Won't let you add your island's name if it has a space in it.
Cool widget, unnecessary but clever (free advertising!)

If a series played with the players' old habits, it has to be RE. The first trilogy follows the same formula, with a bit of gameplay tweaks here and there between each release. 4 introduced whole new gameplay, 5 introduced co-op and good fun. 6 only introduced human shrimp-grasshoppers while looking like a playable Anderson/Jovovich movie.

Never played 7 nor really watched any gameplay.
8 looks like it's back to the Japan-fantasized Old Europe trope we saw in 4 (ok, everything is grey 6 months out of 12 here, they got that right).

edit : was introduced to the series with 2 on N64, played a lot of 4 and REmake on GameCube then Wii, spent endless hours on 5 on PS3 with friends, can't remember if I even cared enough to beat 6.

@beazlen1 @yodalovesu
I'm this close to buying MK8 Deluxe again (had it on WiiU, didn't double dip with Switch) to get back in touch with an official F-Zero reference in a Nintendo game.

Yeah I made it on there !
I love how different this game can be played from one player to another. Happy Anniversary everyone !

447 stars to collect? Why not 450? What is it, a prime number? A postal code? A dev's birthday?
This is triggering my OCD.

Probably some Animal Crossing, BotW (trying to upgrade all pieces of armor now) and probably go for another play through of Paratopic to try to make sense of it.

Except for the 1-year anniversary cake this looks like a regular update, focused on design tools, which is great.

Looking forward to 2.0.0 too !

I didn't have trouble with the controls or the visuals (except the desert) in SS. The main issue for me was the lack of continuity in the main quest, which looked like the same series of mini-games (however exciting and challenging they could be) stacked on top on each other, with barely more than a palette change in between (silent realms, the countless Imprisoned fights, looking for broken artefact pieces scattered absolutely everywhere — clumsiness seems to be a thing in the series anyway...).

edit : pff... writing this made me want to check how I would feel about it a decade later... d*** you, Nintendo!

edit 2 : nah I won't. the spiders looked too real in that one.

It's 50% off on the eShop right now. The price of a bag of chips/crisps. Went in and spent an incredible, puzzling hour, and i DO want to play it again.

edit : the screenshots here are representative of one part of the story but it evolves in different settings, and some of them are really beautiful in their 32-bit low-poly glory. Felt like a walking sim for a while as I steered away from what I think was the objective.

How can your articles always be so relatable? I thought only I grew up with liars around me in the playground. Except that one time when 101%ing Donkey Kong Country was actually true...

Finally gave in and read it all. Great article. Really sums up how the developers managed to create such an original and inspired parallel universe in a series that was already very rich, using the same assets, tweaking a few things here, adding layers there, while meandering across the implications of redundancy of life and human mortality. Guess technical and time limits do foster creativity. Well written, @KateGray!

My favourite Zelda. Just read the captions to the illustrations and I can’t wait to read the whole piece *adds to reading list tab

I'm going to try the A-Train demo and try to figure why I don't get any DIYs on the beach anymore in Animal Crossing.