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Very wise to make this article before the release of Ys Oath in Felghana, the other games had a chance of fighting for the first place that way.

@sketchturner Unlike the other Xenoblade games, Xenoblade Chronicles X is known for having less enphasis on story, it's mostly an openworld single-player mmorpg.

I recommend just waiting for Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami 1 is not a great starting point and is probably the weakest title in the serie.

@Dinglehopper Nah, emulating current consoles is great when those consoles can't run their games at 60fps and 1080p... -_-

@Dunan The higher score that this port has gotten is 80/100, I think this article has a pretty good array of opinions. Yakuza Kiwami currently has a 74 on Metacritc.

Honestly, I didn't get why people was so hyped about this game. Wasn't this the title where most of Suda's ideas were scrapped by EA executives?(And I personally didn't like the sex jokes)

This was probably one of the most disapponting titles in gaming history considering it was made by a dream team of Suda51 and Shinji Mikami. And honestly, I fear history is going to repeat itself with HOTEL BARCELONA, a game made by a dream team of Suda51 and SWERY, which certainly doesn't look like most people was expecting...

Kiwami is just an ok game, it's the typical "wait for a sale" game, so it's the only case in the franchise that paying 20 dollars for feels like an appropriate pricing.(It reuses so much from YK0 that it feels like a DLC)

But anyways, Yakuza 0 is a better starting point both plot-wise and gameplay-wise. For me, Yakuza Kiwami was a 7.5/10, but without having played YK0 first it would have been just a 7/10.

Slay the princess is a pretty fun light-hearted game with some horror elements, pretty great in short bursts.

"Frustrating difficulty spikes"

This is one of the reasons why Yakuza Kiwami 1 is not a good starting point, it uses Yakuza 0 combat but without its learning curve, Yakuza Kiwami pretty much just gives you all the combat styles from the get-go and expect you to know how to use them.

Early game is quite hard even for people that played 0 first, the game really likes to have you fighting multiple enemies in small spaces, sometimes all of them uses unblockable weapons.(I'm talking about that awful fight at Serena)

Also, Majima Everywhere fights are more enjoyable when you played YK 0 first because he uses his moveset from that game, so that you can inmediately strategize based on your YK 0 knowledge instead of getting destroyed.

That aside, Yakuza Kiwami also has the weakest storytelling and pacing in the franchise, while Yakuza 0 offers one of the most engaging stories in gaming, and it also does a better job at setting and potraying Yakuza Kiwami characters than Yakuza Kiwami.

Thou the score may be a little bit low, this is a great review overall. Kudos to the reviewer! And overall, I recommend to wait for Yakuza 0 to be ported.

Weird, Rayman 1 already received an incredible FAN-MADE remake.

Honestly I didn't get why so many people was hyped for this game, that's, SaGa games are supposed to be ones of the most niche and divisive titles in the market. I was surprised at this one getting mainstream attention out of the blue, especially when the remaster of Romancing SaGa 2(which was already available on modern platforms) is considered niche af.

I can't believe they are doing the "let's show the most pixelated footage possible to make the remaster looks better" with a Xbox 360 game XD

@westman98 kinda hard not to do that when he has been in the Smash bros mines for more than a decade.

It's great that this game was made with Unreal Engine, it helps to prove that Unreal Engine games doesn't end up looking and feeling samey.

Now only we PC gamers are waiting to officially have these on PC.

I kinda want to see that source code leaked, considering how bad the previous game was, I'm expecting yanderedev-like coding skills.

It's kinda obvious that the next mainline pokemon game will be on the Switch 2.

Honestly it's funny how the leaker refuses to share info about future games while leaking employees personal info.

Pc will get 60fps eventually, so not a big problem.

Anyways, are these slice-of-life Shin-chan games any good? I think there was another that release some time ago.

Friendly reminder that Overwatch changed the lootboxes for a season pass, and it was so awful that people missed lootboxes. A Season pass means that they most likely will put the best skins in the in-game shop for 15-20 bucks.

@DollyrotsFan1 I doubt the switch could run the other Horizon games XD

@Samalik I doubt going private would be the solution considering all their problems are due to miss management.

@TotalHenshin You should consider it's based on metacritic scores, PS4 games no longer are reviewed by critics.

"the Switch is comfortably beat by the PC, Mac, iPhone, and Android"
I think you include PC by mistake, PC has way more games than the switch according that table.

Switch- 39 games VS PS4 - 33 games

This is kinda an unfair comparison, PS4 is still getting games, but critics are only reviewing the PS5 versions now. So it probably has more games that are worthy of the +90.(Thou I said kinda unfair because the ps4 has been out for 11 years)

PS5 - 25 games

This is kinda impressive actually, they have that amount of prestigious games in only 4 years, while the switch has been out for almost 8 years. The PS5 could end up beating the switch by the end of its lifecycle.

The message is still the same thou. But it looks like Square Enix is starting to pressure them into cover up what they said.

@johnedwin Traditional Zelda games have never been massive hits in japan.These are some pretty solid numbers.

Let's hope the writting isn't trash in the sequel.

Come to think of it, what happened to the first confirmed Switch game? I think it was about an autistic kid.

It looks like Sakurai is going back to the Smash Bros mines soon.

I think those are some pretty mid box-arts overall. I guess the north american one is the most decent one, but the european one represent the setting of the game better.

Damn, it shows that they truly understand what the nintendo brand is about, they are Super-Mario-3D-All-Starsing those sets.

Everybody knows Nintendo's true war is against their fans XD

@Serpenterror Nintendo apologists are pretty lame and misinformed, Craftopia cannot be considered as a rip-off of zelda botw because that game has every videogame mechanic and concept in existence to the point that it barely play like Zelda. It's more like a sh@tposting game.

A similar case applies to Never Grave, as a matter of fact, that one looks even more original than Crowsworn which had the blessing from the hollow knight team.

Honestly I don't see the point of owning the IP considering that the remaster seem to have performed even worse than the original. I don't see them trying to fund a sequel by themselves unless it's a very small project.

They should have ported Yakuza 0 first, Yakuza kiwami 1 is basically a Yakuza 0 DLC.

I just love that no matter if Nintendo ends up being legally right, it's still morally correct to hate them because patenting mechanics is scummy af.

It's also hard to keep track of which very specific mechanics are patented, specially for an indie company.

Yeah, they really made a bad call when they chose Private Division as the publisher, the publisher tax made the game too pricey.

I personally won't buy the game until it's 60% of, but because the publisher is trash and didn't add regional price for my country.

I miss that time when a movie featuring Jack Black was a reason to be hyped. Now he only appears in mediocre movies -_-

Noooooooooooooo! Wario just got Soniced Fans are doing what Nintendon't

Honestly, this makes wonder what will be the place the AI in this world, certainly it's endangering jobs, but it's also undoubtedly progress, so and I'm not sure if it's right to stop progress.

I haven't played the game but...Was the ending as controversial as the creator said it was going to be? I haven't seen anyone talking about it.

It's a shame that Sparks of Hope seemingly underperformed, I hope we see another colaboration between Nintendo and Ubisoft in the future.

I don't like the artstyle, it looks low-budget for some reason, I think it's because of the lighting. It looks pretty 3DS-like.

Oh, cool, I hope it's the same in LATAM. Thou I think Shrek's voice actor is still facing sexual harassment allegations.

@RupeeClock I hope they are able to port the game, Paper Mario was decompiled last year but there is no projects using that decompilation yet.

It looks like we will finally have the definitive version of this game. I hope they add a mod that make Musical Notes not reset when you leave a level.

@rjejr I think it wasn't intentional, the release date hasn't been officially announced.

@anoyonmus It's literally just a simple port, even if they somehow charge a switch tax, it'd be like 30 bucks.

@anoyonmus I think Yakuza kiwami will be 20 bucks just like the steam port.

It kinda sucks that they aren't releasing the games in the best order, Yakuza 0 should have been released Yakuza 0 first. It looks more like they are getting ready to capitalize on the possible success of the tv show.