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Woah, he buffed everything.

@chiptoon I don't think it's that simple. If it was only ports connected to nothing then sure, a swivel seems pretty trivial. But these ports are connected to passageways for data and electricity, which don't spin themselves.

Heavy inspiration from The Touryst, I imagine.

Curious to see what LocalThunk the developer adds to the game in the next months.

@FantasiaWHT I played about 20 hours of the 2nd demo, not sure how many in the first demo, and have 40 now in the full game.

For me this game has plenty staying power. And 90% of deckbuilders/roguelikes don't grab me like that.

I agree about flushes vs straights though. Straights are not super viable. Just not a big issue for me.

What a deep-thinking dev. That was fascinating.
I haven't played the game but enjoyed watching it being streamed.

@Serpenterror Yeah maybe I was wrong to characterize N64 as a win.
But it did sell 33 million units and I would say is more widely loved and respected.
Gamecube sold 22 million and the Wii-U 13.5.

Nintendo alternates between financial success and failure with their consoles since the N64.

N64 - win
Gamecube - fail
Wii - win
Wii U - fail
Switch - Win

Will Switch 2 break the curse?

@Joeynator3000 yeah, gives you another music track most importantly.

@Drew250 Me too. I would get stuck somewhere and my brain would just be in a frenzy: "how do I proceed??" And I would go to sleep with that and usually wake up the morning after with an idea of something new to try.

Man, this game...

I love this game. Anyone who gave up, I encourage you to give it another hour.

Wow, exciting. Last thing I expected to see.

@Cynas Dig 2 was awesome. My favorite too.

@TheBigK I'd play a Super Mario Kart: Downhill.

Top 3 of my favorite games of all time.
Don't learn anything about it, just go in blind.
I hope it's good on Switch.

Why do we need this.

I second Rauru.

SMBW is awesome so far and is a pleasant surprise. I thought I was tired of 2D Mario but this is proving me wrong.
So creative, so highly polished.

@Judgedean ooh that looks cool, I might try it.

@120frames-please You know, sometimes I look at your username (and the old one with the 60) and it pisses me off.

But I'm now realizing that I am exactly the same sort of framerate snob.

Playing Cocoon on PC for the framerate and sharp visuals. Fun and trippy so far.

Mmm, refreshing!!

@EaglyBird True, true. I agree. It was also Team Cherry's whole shtick the whole time, even with the first game. Every interview they said something like: "oops, we tried to make this little thing but then we accidentally made it 1000 times bigger and we wanted to make it really good so it ended up taking 10 years instead of a month."

I am trying to say something positive, I don't know if that's evident Let them cook!

@MrJellySandwich I feel that they did a great job with TOTK.
I enjoyed BOTW more, because it was so different and new.
But TOTK was awesome, and is the more complete game in my eyes, out of the two.

@Reztobi Counter example: TOTK

I want it to be like Animal Crossing.

That looks beautiful, I'm intrigued.

@Pat_trick I feel like we say that with every generation, and with every generation that is exactly what happens. Nintendo matches more or less with the power of the previous generation, while the new generation is already halfway over.

It disappoints me too, but I guess they know what they're doing. The Switch was awesome.

@theModestMouse the game remembers your guesses for you, and writes them on the screen when you see that word again.

Played the demo, I think it's really cool. I recommend trying the demo. Not sure if I have money/time for the full thing right now, but I definitely want to play it in the future.

Woha this sounds really interesting and unique.

inb4 Anti-Matter: "question, does this preview make you feel more excited about the new SMB game"
Answer: "no, I still prefer style of Kitty Blox Hunky Fighter for PS3."

It was better than I expected. But I'm waiting for 3D mario.

@Friendly and imo:
BOTW was ground-breaking, and incredibly fresh.
TOTK is not, it's just really good

@Friendly BG3 isn't that interesting for me personally. Zelda is a lot more my type of game. But I think it's getting more hype than TOTK. It's the highest score on metacritic for a PC game ever, if I'm not mistaken.

@Friendly I imagine it will be BG3.

@Ooyah The Wink Waker makes me think of The Horse Whisperer

@RobynAlecksys why you mad at DF?

Been itching to play Wind Waker for like 20 years now.

@sketchturner I had that too. Loved THPS 2 and for a long time I saw skateboarding lines everywhere I looked.

Funny to see that I'm not the only one, it's like everyone got stuck somewhere in this game

I remember being stuck for a long time in the very beginning. There's something with the windmill...

Tombaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@spottedleaf I'm curious: what made the depths your favorite part? What was it that was novel and interesting?

Also I'm with the IR pointer guy. I miss it so much, now that NL made an article about it it popped back into my brain. Great pointer in Switch 2 pretty plz, Nintendo...

Thanks for the comments, guys. Given the excessive amount of talking, cutscenes and handholding that you all described I will not be downloading. These things turn me off a game completely.

Yes yes yes. I've been missing this so much. RE4, Splatoon, Pikmin, Metroid Prime. Just way less fun and intuitive without it.

@shake_zula oh wow, I could not figure it out by myself. Some guessing + googling and I found it. Smart NL, smart.

@CRASH64 thanks

@CRASH64 Dude, how many man hours were poured into this game in 6 years of making it? This obviously is going to be a labour of love and great care. That costs a lot of money. The hardware has its costs: stronger hardware allows or requires things like higher resolution assets, which cost a lot to make. But it's far from the only cost in making a game. This game cost a ton to make, no matter if it's on Switch or PS5.

Whether that warrants a $10 price hike, that people can argue about.

But this is a hugely expensive game to make.

@CharlieGirl so inflation does not exist?