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As a Maractus fan... Yeah it needs more love

@AussieMcBucket Um I don't think any other series allows you to transfer your characters at all, never mind delay transfers.

We'll see how time treats this gen, but right now it certainly seems on the higher end for me for designs. Toedscruel, Finizen, Revavroom, Ceruledge, Cyclizar, Glimmora, Veluza, Dondozo, Tatsugiri, Kingambit? There's plenty to love, even with a few clear misses. But Chien-Pao won me over with it's fantastic design, it's easily my favorite legendary and (non-Sandshrew) ice type.

Centiskorch I guess? Besides that, Corviknight and Falinks, Galar is one of the least interesting regional dexs.

Gen VI might have a slight dex, but it's filled with top notch designs. In a gen with mons like Helioptile, Dragalge, Gogoat, Florges, Noivern, Hawlucha, Avalugg, Goomy, Trevenant, Talonflame... I have to go with my heart and pick Clawitzer.

But really, outside of the starters and Slurpuff, there's no bad answers.

If it hasn't been for ParticularMushrooms review I don't think I'd have even clicked this article, but maybe I'll consider getting it.

Joltik and Galvantula followed closely by Maractus and Chandelure for me. Unovas dex is big enough that even with some rather uninspired gen 1 copies (looking at you Throh and Tympole lines), there's a wide swathe of fantastic mons as well. The Sword of Justice is a top tier legendary trio as well.

In general the types that were lacking in Gen 1 (Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel, Dragon) got the best treatment in Gen 5. And Bug (somehow), no other gen has anywhere near as many good bug types. Ground also was treated well, with all four lines feeling totally distinct from Diglett/Sandshrew/Cubone.

Gen 3 huh? I like plenty but love? Really just Nuzleaf and Armaldo that I consider top notch designs.

Definitely Lanturn for me, followed by sirs not appearing in this gen: Houndoom and Skarmory.

Easily Sandshrew and Sandslash are my gen 1 faves. Probably Cubone and Growlithe afterwards.

@PharoneTheGnome I can answer why they think it's worth it: switch 1 game cartridges have a lower read speed, so you'd get faster loading times with the game key card version.

That's about it.

@EarthboundBenjy They closed Overwatch 1, launched Overwatch 2 and promised it would come with a bunch of single-player content that never appeared and things just continued as normal, with literally no graphical or mechanical changes from the 'first game'.

@Max_the_German Nope, the video released by Nintendo explains it more clearly.

@Max_the_German ...The filters are created by the switch itself. The replica Virtual Boy (the expensive one, not the cardboard one) just has the lenses you'd pop out because, it's a replica.

@EarthboundBenjy Well BDSP has been constantly crashing for the last two months (and driving me crazy) so hopefully that.

@Kilamanjaro This isn't native BC, it's going to require them to review literally thousands of games for minor issues caused by the translation layer. This is pretty standard stuff for a compatibility layer to go through, the same happened on PS5.

Previous BC literally involved building the previous system into the new one (GBA->GB, DS->GBA, 3DS->DS, Wii->GC, Wii U->Wii). Unfortunately, there's no CPU that's fully BC with the Switch's, so either they'd need to include the Switch's CPU as a coprocessor (which would be very expensive + inefficient) or they need to rely on a software layer. Given the price issues on the Switch as is...? I think they made the better choice. True BC would have required way higher prices.

@Gs69 AFAIK a rare random Switch 2 exclusive crash. Most 'incompatible' games are still fully playable on Switch 2.

@canaryfarmer If it wasnt made for Switch 2 the resolution numbers would be higher lol. Look at all the Switch 1 crossovers rendering at 4k.

Mega Meganium... isn't new. It's literally a starter mega, the heck?

@Tyranexx Honestly I think you could just say video games in general lol. ZA was pleasantly one of the least buggy launch experiences I've seen in a long time beyond the tent pole Mario releases (and DK Bananza)

Ah they fixed the one and only glitch I ran into, Seth getting stuck out of bounds. It was pretty dang funny when it happened.

Mario Kart World is fun, but not GOTY worth. DK Bananza on the other hand? Absolutely would deserve the win.

@FantasiaWHT
1. Does most of this content qualify as parody? Simply using the characters in new material without saying anything meaningful fails that check.
2. AI models are incapable of learning the way humans do. Humans are able to comprehend what images represent and reimagine them in different contexts, with their own twists. AI models don't have that.
3. OpenAI is actively stealing copyrighted works to make their 'pencil'. If someone used an ethically trained AI to try and recreate Pikachu, it would be a different story.

@KayFiOS - Technically the Megaman Gameboy (Rockman World) series would qualify, but it's available on NSO so doubtful. Though they could bundle it with Xtreme 1+2, and both Megaman & Bass games (one never has been released in the west). Otherwise, they could do a spin-off collection maybe? (The three fighting games, soccer, battle & chase, Xtreme 1+2, Command Mission, Network Transmission, Battle Chip Challenge should be a complete list of other releases of note, though I don't see anyone clamoring for the last 3.) .

Makes sense, particularly Moorwing was a heavy difficulty spike in a game thats generally had a very good learning curve so far.

@rvcolem1 It may have something to do with them putting their games on 90% sales within a month leading to no one buying at launch.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant You mean like all the GCN games on Wii? Or the Wii U games on Switch? Or the SNES and NES classics on GBA? Or the remasters of Kirbys Adventure and Mario 1-3 on SNES? Or the DX versions of original Gameboy games on Gameboy color?

Rose tinted glasses might be showing there, Nintendo has always done this to supplement their release schedule. Or when they haven't, had trash release schedules (looking at N64/GCN)

@Broosh It's me! I'm the one Geist fan!

...Basically, it's a cross between Super Mario Odyssey and Ghost Trick but janky with random FPS segments.

@Tyranexx I want Kirby-shaped bread rolls now ;.;

Still haven't been able to find one myself.

That's probably better than the battery life of my OG Switch at this point tbh.

@Member_the_game Well, shipping reports show 3x as many launch units for the Switch 2 as the PS5, so... they gave a college try? This is likely to be the most stock for a console launch in history, but seems they still underestimated.

Oh thank goodness the comments confirm a better D-Pad, that's all I want.

I look forwards to the day we get a Zero Mission / Samus Returns treatment for Other M.

NA did a fantastic job of converting the art to a landscape format, but JP still got my vote.

Buh bye to L3 and R3, won't miss either of you.

@Medic_alert IIRC a lot of those infuriating things were last minute changes to make the game impossible to beat for renters.

@FishyS Long shot, but maybe the update will add back in the 5th player features from the Wii U version using mouse mode?

EDIT: Peach's Showtime is probably not there because it's entirely developed by an outside contractor. All of these titles are developed or co-developed internally

@Dazman Okay but you do know that statistically, education has been having a decreasing effect on earnings for some time now? The cost of education no longer is guaranteed to be covered by the increased pay. You're better off in the trades or something than school.

@quinnyboy58 Rare was already falling apart before Microsoft bought them, I doubt it would have been that easy.

Totally failed to get one, and not for lack of trying. Went through all 4 pre-order portals and failed to land it in any.

@Olliemar28 Thanks for confirming on the D-Pad, that was my biggest concern after the horrific and nigh-unusable Switch 1 D-Pad, even more so than the drift issues. If you guys get another chance to test them out, I'd super appreciate a deeper review on the D-Pad changes on the pro controller 2.

@GrailUK Saturn had a whole lot more against it than bad timing. An entire generation of undermining consumer confidence with constant mandatory add-ons I'd say was a far bigger issue lol. Though Saturn and 32X being announced simultaneously sure didn't help.

@MangoMahn It looks like the primary purpose of it is for being able to attempt tricks repeatedly to learn to do them consistently anyways.

@dew12333 I think that's underselling the mouse mode. Dual mouse controls, and the ability to switch between traditional and mouse controls on the fly are both things that have never been done before. It's not a huge splash, but it's not a direct copy either.

I can't believe that many people are interested in Welcome Tour tbh.

@Lizuka Preach! Like I might at least consider these unlike the download code ones, since they're a step up. But unless you're someone who refuses to play digital games at all, this is an improvement over the current situation of codes in boxes at retailers.

That said... there's no reason Bravely Default shouldn't be on cart, that's BS.

@PharoneTheGnome If they outlaw it, they should also outlaw all digital purchases as well? Like, this is less scummy than digital only licenses for music, video games, and movies that have existed for decades.

This video is so misleading. Mario Galaxy, NSMB Wii, and Punch-Out are three of the lowest hardware requirements to emulate. TP on the other hand is a ROM hack on the NVidia shield, similar to Sunshine on the GCN, where they had to mess with the ROM in order to get rid of difficult to emulate elements.

If it was just barely handling those four titles, a good chunk of the GCN / Wii library would not have been capable on the Tegra X1... not to mention that the Switch one was underclocked relative to the Shield AND had a lower performance profile in portable mode.

We know that with a ton of effort, GCN emulation was possible on Switch (Pikmin 1+2, Sunshine + Galaxy), but not without patches and partial porting.

@SillyG The Switch 2 has hardware decompression. The FDE can load assets directly to the GPU, and decompress them without taking up CPU bandwidth.

This means that now there's not a balance developers have to strike, and you can compress all graphical assets without worrying about CPU load.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I mean, this one makes way more sense than the SNES instance. If you look at the working GCN games on Switch 1, Sunshine had a ton of ROM hacks made to reduce the complexity of emulation, while Galaxy, Pikmin 1+2, and Skyward Sword all were partially ported (specifically the graphics side, while the CPU was emulated, AND the ROM was hacked). And fan efforts haven't succeeded in getting literally any games running at a reasonable speed on the Switch 1, unlike with the SNES and the base 3DS.

Hagi, the emulator used for all those titles, is almost certainly the same one on Switch 2 NSO. If they could have gotten the games running by just popping in a ROM on base Switch, I don't see why they would have invested so much development time and money into partially porting titles.