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Street Fighter 6 is absolute insanity. I actually prefer to play ranked on Switch 2 than on PS5 because the switch pro controller feels way better, because of the different positions of the sticks.

Works wonderfully (mains are Juri and Rashid btw)

He`s not nearly as bad as the other troopers.

I'm getting to the final area, the game does slow a bit during the ice section, but then improves again. I think there are many highs. People seem to be forgetting about about what Metroid Prime was, many of the "criticisms" were always there on metroid prime games

> Visually - way above the other entries
> Combat - metroid prime has NEVER had good combat, and for some reason we give it a pass on that, lets be real - in this game it is way better than on previous ones, specially bosses
> Storytelling - the NPCs get in the way, but the areas make a great job of telling the story without saying anything. The ice area does a nice job of telling the story of what happened. I particularly like the fact that I have no idea what is going on
> Music - excellent on the dungeons and bosses, but they could have done something better on the desert area. Its boring sensation is very amplified by the lack of music
> NPCs - well, these guys were here on metroid prime 3, and there they were dumber, uglier, and with worse voice-acting. But they didn't follow us around. The game always feels better when they're gone.
> Exploration: In the dungeons this is more or less on the vein of Prime 1/3. Prime 1 was interconnected, 2 was kinda, 3 was not. The desert was added I guess to fill that never ending teleportation on Prime 3 - but the lack of music brings it down, a lot.

With that in mind I think the game is more or less a 9 for me so far - people have graduation googles, to me it is impossible to defend that Prime 3 was better

Hardcore metroid fan here - 3 hours in, so far game is excellent, does not deserve the amount of hate at all.

So far its up there with Prime 1 and 2 - DEFINITELY better than Prime 3

Let's see if this keeps up

This looks incredible

Played recently, this game sometimes struggles with the framerate even on PS5

@OorWullie genius solution, company creates the problem and sells the solution haha

@BaldB3lper78 well, no one is comparing this to PS5, but to the original PS3 release. I played this game back then.

Considering cyberpunk's performance on Switch 2. I would expect the Switch 2 to run the PS4 version of this game... very easily.

They were probably working on a Switch 1 version only, and just bumped that up.

Honestly, it's kind of a fair price, bad port, but very cheap price, kinda makes sense. I just hope people don't go expecting this is an excellent port Switch 2 level performance game for a huge bargain, because it is really not.

I mean, I'm not a fan of Digital Foundry either, and I don't like their nitpicking.

But this looks worse than the PS3 version of this game. The switch 2 runs cyberpunk well, when the ps4 struggled terribly. I don't think this is nitpicking at all.

I played the PS3 version back then and this looks awful. Switch 2 can easily run at least the PS4 remaster of this game. This is lazy work.

This may seem fine, but for reference, the Switch 2 version is sginificantly inferior to the PS3 version. This is not a good port.

They basically did a port for Switch 1 based on the PS3 version and bumped it up - it looks void of detail and shadows that the PS4 version and even the PS3 version have.

For switch 2 they should have ported the PS4 version - this feels like lazy work honestly. Not a good port at all.

Nice casting, that is the most Link-looking face I could possibly imagine

Not gonna lie, I'm very worried about this.

@ParrakerriRush Nintendo does not own Pokemon - they have a 33% share. Pokemon is owned by The Pokemon Company, which is a joint venture between Nintendo and 2 other companies.

@PolitiClank sorry to be that guy, but you should be REALLY sure when you want to claim to combat misinformation.

Both BOTW and TOTK are 4k supported if in a 4K screen, so in docked mode. It is dynamic, but mostly 4k, according to digital foundry.

In my TV, it runs in 4K.

I don't understand this Yamauchi glorification... under his tenure Nintendo was innovative, but also extremely controlling of its almost supply chain monopoly in the NES and SNES era.

People saying Yamauchi was against high prices but we had 60-75 USD SNES games... in the 90s

Wish Nintendo Life would follow more the news of Street Fighter 6, C Viper is out and no news... and this game is phenomenal on the Switch

@PinderSchloss actually pretty good point. The dream was to relive celebrate that original story... which was already very complex on its own

@PinderSchloss I disagree when it comes to FF7 Remake, actually felt that it had a lot of the original's atmosphere.

But I kind of agree when it comes to Rebirth, a lot of cut content, different directions, story got super confusing... a lot of open world "to-do list style side missions / content" that is present in every open world game (destroys the feeling of surprise in the adventure in my opinion) not to mention that the length really tested my patience, I abandoned the game many times before finishing it...

I mean, it's a very good game, but the overall FF7 feel defintely took a hit on Rebirth in my opinion. It's probably on purpose (hence the title), but not really my cup of tea.

Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are phenomenal, but against all odds, I voted for Metroid Dread.

The first time I booted it up, it sent a chill down my spine, the darkness, the music, I love it!

I really like the lines of dialogue in this one. I thought it would be weird having a main character that talks at first (in contrast to Hollow Knight), but Hornet is so well written.

I'm also playing Hades II and having a blast with the writing, seems indies are knocking out of the park this year!

Wow this looks great! Cant wait for RE 2 remake to come to Switch 2

So... this is a substitution between already outsourced functions?

Also... don't brazilians also deserve to have jobs? Only people in countries we like can have jobs...?

Besides, isn't hardware already done outside of Japan/US as well?

I feel like this may be more of a political topic, I don't know

I would buy this - I have the PS5 and the Switch 2, and I'm always annoyed to remember that I have to sit in front of the TV like I'm in class everytime I want to play the PS5

Phenomenal game... such a shame the use of Yoshi IP was dumbed down to "games for small children" afterwards :/

Somehow people will blame Nintendo for this

Can we stop giving these guys a platform for viewership? If we keep comparing Switch 2 performance of every single game that comes out with PS5 Pro or high end PCs, we are going to keep reading the same things over and over again.

The only thing we should care about is the game running well enough to be fun

It's a pretty good game, the reuse of the assets are definitely a high point, but I really miss the hack and slash of 2d zeldas. Attacking using the echoes kinda killed the action a bit...

Brazilian over here, and I'm on the side of Nintendo honestly. Brazil is essentially a sea of piracy, pirated software and hardware make close to 80-90% of the market.

It's a cultural thing since the PS1-PS2 days, due to how easy it was to pirate games at that time.

@Zeebor15 That's a good point, never thought of that... it is odd

Patenting is a way to protect and promote innovation. Without them, there is little incentive to innovation, as innovators are quickly copied.

Patents also don't last forever, and they vary greatly by country, so even then it's not a full protection. It's more of a bare minimum protection, even Apple struggled on their battle with Samsung.

Personally, I don't think designs should be patented, but some technology processes should, as they can be extremely difficult to crackdown, and once its done, can be easily copied. For anyone interested, research the blue LED innovation in the 90s, it's super interesting.

Not gonna lie, the minute they went PLUS DK CAN TURN INTO A ZEBRA I started laughing

That was the wackiest direct ever

@Jamessmooth if you got it in 2020, it was before 2.0 update, which was a major overhaul. Aside from performance improvement, there were a lot of changes in gameplay.

I beat it in ps5 in 2023 and now playing phantom liberty on the switch.

@Yoshi3 my country is brazil, and here the games are even more expensive in direct conversion, but the cause is mostly local taxes than anything else. It was the same for switch 1. We have one of the most expensive iphones in the world, for instance.

What is your country?

@Ryu_Niiyama the switch 2 version has no modes (like performance vs quality), absolutely nothing to regulate performance (unlike cyberpunk which had many options).

This is one of these things that makes this feel lazy. On the graphics tabs there are only 2 things, one related to brightness and some other thing i dont even remember

@Ryu_Niiyama i have it in ps5 and there it runs fine. I heard it is bad on ps4 and ps4 pro, my guess is they just ported those versions to switch 2, with no adjustments

@Yoshi3 no games were announced at 90 dollars. Stop spreading misinformation.

I hope they fix the framerate on world tour, cause it is awful. Everything else works very well!

@Vyacheslav333 because the game is called Yakuza 0 in the west, and Ryu da Gotoku 0 in Japan, and these were always their names.

Ryu ga Gotoku more or less translates to "Like a Dragon" so Like a Dragon was always the name of the franchise in Japan.

The reason for the different names is that in Japan referencing Yakuza is fround upon.

I never understood that uncouncious collective understanding the younger generation has that Super Mario Kart was not good and MK64 was the beginning of Mario Kart.
Mario kart on the SNES was awesome! The multiplayer was also super fun, shout out to all the Koopa Troopa users!

I dont care usually about english voiceover in japanese games, but man, I gotta check out Matt Mercer doing Majima hahahah

@Classic603 Yeah me too, no dialogue, more isolation, definitely feels like a return to old school "atmospheric" focus roots of Super Metroid and MP 1 and 2

Now I have to buy physical, dang it

Guys, it would make zero sense for the Switch 2 to cost the same as the Switch OLED. 400 USD is probably the lowest price.

Is those measurements are correct, its going to have the same thickness as the Switch 1, which is very impressive honestly. I'm worried about the weight, but not too much

@MJF If I ever get the pleasure to play bloodborne on a portable machine, it will be the only game I play when outside the house

I actually think this one is a bit overrated hahahah

In 2d zelda's, I think a link to the past and a link between worlds are way better, and I had more fun with even the oracle games, the dungeons were better

I really like dungeons and this game's dungeons weren't really my cup of tea

Was I the only one who had to google "FOMO"?

@sketchturner they have pretty good gameplay, excellent music, but the story is the strongest selling point, so...

This one that was just announced is probably the one you'll like the best, its more gameplay than story focused... very focused on exploration

You might enjoy Xeno 3, its the one with the most polished gameplay, but I would recommend playing on hard

This looks way better than Mario Lego, but still, this pricing is just bizarre

The fact that a paper mario game is in third in the uk after 2 weeks is insane.