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I'll probably end up getting this digital, since I skipped the original release.

@JohnnyMind The original game already had saves from everywhere, what are you asking for? You just pressed B in the menu to save.

@batmanbud2 I do wonder if this is the "new fantasy ip" we heard about all those years ago.

@the_beaver Am I missing something? People keep saying this but I 100%ed Silksong in a few days, while I still haven't been able to beat Grimm or most of the Pantheon in Hollow Knight. Genuinely curious why you find SS harder.

@Yosti @Gabe250 Oh woah, that's a surprise! Usually fangamer means online only, didn't know HK/SS were exceptions.

@Stormcloudlive To be fair, these aren't getting retail store releases, so the chances of casual consumer confusion is very low.

@Misima Really? They said it was mediocre. Do you think that's an undersell or an oversell?

@Jack_Goetz I'd say DK Bananza is absolutely experimental at least. A voxel game like that has never been done before afaik.

@Tyranexx Hm... Well. Willie is by far the most annoying and least interesting of Indy's love interests. The tone and pacing are all over the place. The weird racism in it is uncomfortable. There's a lot of unnecessary gross out moments. Basically everything between the opening sequence and the closing sequence I don't enjoy watching.

That said? It's opening and closing scenes are genuinely fantastic.

Crystal Skull on the other hand? The biggest annoyance I have is the contrived fridge scene and the kids poor acting skills. It's not fantastic by any means but it's far more watchable.

Also for the record I'm one of the people who considers Dial of Destiny to be a good movie so. Take that for what it's worth.

@Tyranexx I'd rank them 3 > 1 > 5 > 4 > 2

5 is pretty good in my opinion, but not Raiders or Lost Crusade must see level. 4 is... a mess, but at least it's not as big a mess as Temple of Doom is.

@AussieMcBucket Honestly, doesn't do well globally is an understatement. Japan barely has them on shelves, the Switch 2 may have already outsold the Series S/X in Europe and it's been pulled from sale in multiple countries and even the US has the Series S/X on track to sell similarly to the N64. Even the Switch 1 has continued to consistently outsell the XBSX/S post Switch 2 launch, while the PS5 consistently blows it out of the water. Microsoft has a serious problem on their hands.

@ArcticEcho There's nearly 450 fully evolved, non-legendary Pokemon, this is barely a third of that. 186 is also less Pokemon than any game since gen 1 (and let's go) started with. Even the Legends games started with ~240. Like I think it's fine if we get more soon, but I was expecting to at least start with all fully evolved ScVi and Legends ZA base game mons. P sure about half the Pokemon seen in advertising aren't in the game right now.

@Metazoxan I don't think it needs even close to every Pokemon (Most mythicals and legendaries aren't legal in competitive formats, and few pre-evolutions have competitive viability outside of staples like Chansey, Porygon2, Scyther.) Heavy gimmick Pokemon and non viable contenders like Shedinja, Delibird, Unown, Luvdisc or Volbeat / Illumise will also probably never be introduced.

You probably need roughly 380 Pokemon right now to have everything worthwhile. So if we see the next update adds ~50 mons, then I think the roster will be fine in no time.

But the bugs with even a heavily limited item set & movepool? That's worrisome no matter what.

@B_Lindz I've been playing Chibi-Robo for quite awhile with no notable input lag. I don't think it's console perfect by any means, but it's p close to where Dolphin was until super recently.

Peach with a bomb = win

@Yodalovesu Honestly the biggest issue with it is none of my friends have a switch 2 yet. If we're gaming together on chat, it's across multiple systems. No system bound solution works for that, Nintendos or Sonys.

Edit: And to be clear, I doubt my friend group will ever own all Switch 2s.

@AlanShore That's a very limited view. Plenty of games offer a variety of modes and options to cater to different experiences. If you don't use assist mode in Mario Odyssey, are you playing wrong? And if not, why is that different than not choosing to use an optional power-up in Bananaza? I first beat the game without even unlocking the Zebra Bananza (accidentally, don't ask), does that defeat the purpose of the game?

If you read developer interviews, their whole goal was to design the challenges in such a way that different people could solve them in their own styles.

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.