mjhopkins81

Done and done.

@RupeeClock That's correct.

The Knickknack and Hotto Packs are Japanese New Year-themed and Japanese Architecture-themed, respectively, while the Aquarium Pack lets you build an aquarium, fill it with fish, and create glass structures through which you can see water (which requires a textures update when the pack releases). The Modernist pack lets you build what look like skyscrapers and museums, rather than Dragon Quest-specific thematic designs (Medieval, Desert, Cabin, Pyramid, et cetera).

Essentially, the native blocks you can find in the game are all based off of existing Dragon Quest imagery (specifically based on Dragon Quest II); the DLC packs provide "newer" options for people who want to create more modern looking designs in the hub island (from which you launch to other islands - story islands and harvesting islands where you gather raw materials/blocks that can all be found in-game, with a handful of items specific to each harvesting island - the Desert-themed island has a sunflower plant).

Hope that's helpful.

@RupeeClock

The DLC packs contain items you cannot receive through in-game progress. They're primarily decorative items that cannot be obtained by any other means, as well as a handful of joke weapons/outfits like the Slime Stick that basically perform or protect from minimal damage when used by the main character.

Also, these items can only be used on the story hub island, and don't impact the progress of the game in any way.

The first twenty minutes felt like an hour. Really slow to start, but once it picks up, it's a fun ride.

I mean...Sonic looks terrible, but I enjoyed some of the lines. It's like Transformers: mediocre, but okay if you're on a plane and it's the only film showing, but you have to choose whether or not to breach the airlock to walk out of the film.

I believe you omitted Dragon Warrior I & II and Dragon Warrior III, unless you're only counting original Game Boy games.

Agreed. It's...meh. I feel the same way about Hyrule Warriors.

FINE...I ordered one. I'll likely never use it, but hey...it's cool.

So long as I can bring over my entire Pokedex from previous generations, I'll be happy. I worked hard to finish that Shiny Pokedex, damn it.

I would LOVE to have a Dragon Quest special edition Switch...even if I have to import it, like I have my other Dragon Quest special edition consoles.

@Moroboshi876

It isn't really that DQH isn't a good port; it's that the game just wasn't that great, to begin with, and its flaws were more exposed on the Switch.

Honestly, I'd be happy with a few design modifications. Every Nintendo console/handheld in this century has initially had a weird design aspect that leads people to wonder, "...WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!"

Example:

Putting both the Power button and the cartridge slot on the bottom side of the 3DS LL/XL...right where people rest their pinky fingers to support the console's weight.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! It makes random game ejection and power-off screens exponentially more likely.

The Switch has a puzzling issue, as well - why would you put the MicroSD card slot underneath the kickstand...without a cover to protect it?

Kids aren't careful, as a general rule, and it's SUPER easy to accidentally trigger the eject mechanism, which automatically turns off the system.

Saving the game data ON the system is...not a great system.

So, yeah - some improvements would be nice.

Ugh. I could do with never playing or even seeing The Legend of Zelda: Awkward Sword ever again.

Thank GOD. It was a subpar game, to begin with; add in the shoddy motion controls, endless item descriptions, and Fi, and it was nearly unplayable.

Dragon Quest XI

They spent a year developing an ad channel; did they spend as much time on the Switch's eShop? Because...it's kind of a user-unfriendly eyesore.

@Thisismycomment I'm not certain Nintendo will ever do a "Game of the Year" scheme. They've never really been terribly forthcoming with their extra content, outside of bundling it into packages with a minor price reduction. They would much rather have you purchase the game, and drop an additional $10-$50 on "extra" content that should've been included in the game for free.

I know it's not Nintendo, but Theatrhythm Final Fantasy was PARTICULARLY egregious about its DLC. Sure, the game, itself, costs $30; but the DLC brought the total game price to over $150, when all was said and done. That was just ridiculous

Nintendo really got it right with New Super Luigi U. and Mario Kart 8 DLC. I can't say that the Breath of the Wild DLC has really knocked my socks off, but with an open world game of that immensity, there's not really much they can add that isn't just, "Here's the same thing, but HARDER!"

I mean, I won't lie - a large part of me is happy that they're bring back the Apple Lisa as a Switch Peripheral.
@SegaBlueSky

"Dragon Quest VII" should be labeled "Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed Kind."

It's Nintendo of America - there will be a repeat, they'll make up a lame excuse, everyone will be angry about it, Fils-Aime will keep his job, and nothing will change.

@626b The XBOX isn't dead in Japan; it never even got out of the womb.

@Kolzig Yes, it does.

I am 100% behind the comment on the score. The show is otherwise glorious, except for the boring "mood music."

Satoe Terashima, Kinuyo Yamashita, Yoshinori Sasaki, Yukie Morimoto, and Jun Funahashi are all still alive; I hope they at least were reached out to with an offer to compose for the show.

@masterLEON We are not getting one. We're getting YET ANOTHER cheap cardboard sleeve, with no Steelbook case, and some stickers. Nintendo of America needs to get its act together.

Seriously? I mean...why would you create a rewards system that offers discounts on the games that likely earned the member those coins in the first place?

"HEY! You can get a 30% DISCOUNT (off of this popular game that you just bought at full price in order to earn 30 coins)!"

What a ripoff.

LEGO Dimensions, as a medium, presents greater opportunities for expansion and growth by offering a world that expands, rather than one that relegates old expansions to a "Toy Box" mode. That you can use every character you purchase in every expansion, and that their construction is interactive (literally building vehicles three times) are great advantages that neither Skylanders, nor Disney Infinity has/had. The concept of a potentially infinitely upgradable game like LEGO Dimensions is fantastic.

I love that people in the U.K. got the opportunity to pre-order the units. Here in the U.S., I don't know of any retailers who reliably opened pre-orders.

I most certainly ran up $200+ phone bills dialing Redmond, WA. My dream job, as a kid, was to be a Nintendo Game Counselor.

To be fair, the UK gets a lot of great Nintendo merchandise and special editions, as well. This, largely because Nintendo of America is horribly mismanaged.

Honestly, I'm a 2D Metroid fan; I've never really liked the "Call of Duty: Zebes" series that flourished on the GameCube and Wii. Taking an unrelated game and slapping the Metroid name onto it doesn't make it feel like a Metroid game.

I still enjoyed LEGO City Undercover more than any other Wii U game. It's too bad that the console sold so poorly that it's unlikely to see a Wii U sequel (the 3DS prequel notwithstanding).

So, I'm SINCERELY annoyed by the trailer and the reviewers comment about the music for the following reason:

I've been playing the Japanese 3DS version for three years, now, and their cartridge has the fully orchestrated soundtrack; from the trailer, I'm HOPING that the Western version includes that, as well.

UGH. Freakin' MIDI, again.

@Tsurii The biggest drawbacks with the 3DS prequel are that it's a bit sluggish, in terms of button response and movement, and the different areas aren't seamless - going from one area to another requires a loading screen.

I enjoyed Dragon Quest IX enough, but frankly, the lack of well-established main characters in lieu of "Build-a-Bear" blank slates. I didn't care about my characters; they weren't compelling; they weren't even interesting. Dragon Quest VIII, by comparison, did a FAR better of job of selling its characters, and it easily my favorite game of the 00s. Dragon Quest VII 3DS continued this by fleshing out the characters it built in the PlayStation version.

Ugh. I bet this was the best idea of the bunch.

I know I'm in the minority, but I will always love Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

The music was great, the world was huge, and the difficultly level was comparatively high, which made it a great challenge, for me, when I was six.

I'd like to see a REAL Metroid game, and not another Call of Duty: Planet Zebes FPS. Yes, yes, yes - I know the great advances that Metroid Prime pushed the genre towards, but I just don't want to play an FPS. I've not enjoyed a Metroid game since Zero Mission.

@Ralek85 #TRUTH Nintendo (of America - Europe and Japan aren't included in this rant) have rarely ever done pricing promotions. Nor have they really given a crap about their Virtual Console, or advertising release schedules, or their consumers...NoA pretty much sucks, since the 90s ended.

I want to go to there...

They really should start taking the LEGO Dimensions tack, and have the Amiibo unlock character/universe-specific levels/worlds in games. In Super Smash Bros., for example, they missed a great opportunity for the Amiibo to be used to unlock character-themed levels to fight in, different from the ones already in place. Mario Kart could've similarly used them to unlock special tracks to race on (a single track per Amiibo). Sadly, they were designed to only be usable with a single game at a time, which really limits their appeal, in my opinion.

@Tao It's a good thing that somebody asked you what you thought of my opinion. Thanks for chiming in with your trolling!

@Yorumi See, that's something that would've been nice to know! In fact, maybe some type of advertising, press releases, or marketing might've helped sell the game. I'd be interested to see how poorly it sold in the U.S.

Frankly, I didn't buy it, because it just doesn't interest me. The whole concept of it is ridiculous - gigantic robot "gods" are fighting in the middle of an ocean, and then, they both just stop. Oh, and WAIT! There are people living inside of and on top of the immobile gigantic robot gods. Just not my thing, I guess.

Even as someone who works in a video game retailer, there was very little information about the title provided to us (either through Monolith Soft or corporate information) so that we could sell it to customers who might be interested. Just like with the Wii U, the title leads people to believe that is, in fact, yet another port of Xenoblade Chronicles (like the one for the 3DS), without mentioning that it's an entirely new story with new characters.

sighs

<Pedant> "...bated breath. </Pedant>

Bowser, Peach, Mario, Pikachu - of COURSE these are the highest selling Amiibo in the Americas; they're virtually the only ones that seemingly every retailer ever has in stock!

That's no big surprise. It, alongside that sad excuse for a Zelda-themed New 3DS XL, fall into the "meh" category, pretty easily.

It's funny that virtually every Zelda-themed handheld has sold out in a matter of days (or minute, for the last one), and this one...they're practically BEGGING people to reserve it, at GameStop.

"Modest" storage capacity?

I believe the word you were seeking was "paltry;" perhaps, even "miserly."

@Nintendian I wholeheartedly agree. I LOVE grinding, because it satisfies my OCD tendencies.

@Whopper744 Nintendo USED to do events in Pittsburgh and Columbus, but hasn't since the 1990s.