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@Silly_G Properly hacked Pokémon are indistinguishable from the 'real' ones, too. Only Pokémon that have moves they can't otherwise learn can be detected, but even then the Pokémon Company apparently doesn't really care. The winner of those Pokémon Championships or whatever they're called a couple of years ago used a clearly hacked Pokémon (it was inside a type of PokéBall that it could not possibly be in had it been obtained through normal gameplay) and wasn't disqualified or anything. In fact, pretty much every Pokémon in those championships is hacked for perfect IVs, perfect movesets, etc. Many of the people competing don't even play the games, they just battle.

@Ristar24 Vice City Stories ran poorly? I played it just two years ago and it had pretty good performance for a PSP game. Granted, I ran it at 333MHz, maybe the game normally only runs at 266MHz, I don't know.

@dew12333 Sometimes that's just the seller selling to himself under a different username to make items appear more wanted than they really are, which makes people think that they really are worth that much money and that they should probably buy one quickly before the prices increase even further.

@Arawn93 Looking back, Let's Go was a good game for what it was. It was just controversial because it was not was anyone had been asking for: the first new Pokémon game, rather than being an actually new generation of Pokémon, was yet another remake of the first generation, and one with completely different gameplay mechanics at that. But then Sword and Shield came, and they turned out to be much worse than Let's Go. More remakes in the style of Let's Go would be nice, as long as it's considered a separate series.

"moss (is) basically just a sponge made of grass"

(screams in botany)

Very much deserved for Atlus. Let's hope SMTV will be the Persona 5 of SMT, i.e. the game that brings the series into the mainstream. Or, well, closer to the mainstream, at least, because SMT is not as 'friendly' as Persona given its tone and difficulty.

To those people who bought a Switch at launch just for SMTV: it was worth the wait.

Hahaha, wow! I had no idea this was ever intented to exist! Even though it completely ignores what Dune (1-6) is actually about, I still want it.

@carlos82 Thanks!

@moodycat They still put a newcomer on it though, so when TPC complains about the low score there's an easy scapegoat. Just joking, but I'm also dead serious.

Why is the remaster so dark? It's like it's running on an original GBA.

@RupeeClock Hey, at least they fixed it. I'm glad Animal Crossing is now finally a full-fledged game.

Haha, oh wow, I didn't expect that Amorphophallus titanum in bloom. I'll start looking for it right away!

@Shambo This is the first time I've realised that the acronym for Tokyo Mirage Sessions is SMT backwards.

@Ralizah Thanks!

But is smirking still in?

If the update is anything like New Leaf's big update, it's best not to return to your island before you've installed the update.

Man, getting rid of HMs and making TMs reusable were two of the best decisions they ever made.

(Genuinely) nice to see New Horizons finally get back most of the cut content from New Leaf. I haven't played New Horizons for over a year (it got so mindnumbingly boring I couldn't even be bothered catching the last couple of bugs), but it looks like this update will suck me back in for a little longer. Nook's Cranny incomprehensibly remains a shadow of its former self, though. It made sense to start from scratch when you build an island from scratch, but it looks so out of place once you've put some time into developing your island.

• insert Tidus laugh track -

@Dezadocys90 With a hacked Switch, you can even use a piece of Switch homebrew called Emuiibo, which can emulate any Amiibo on the Switch itself, requiring no external accessories whatsoever.

This looks great, and I really mean it. I can see myself actually buying this on launch day. This kind of game doesn't even need to become the new main series, but the fact that they're developing it shows that they have indeed finally taken the many criticisms about their 3D games to heart and started to really give it everything they've got.

@Tempestryke "I don't like it, therefore it's a good thing no one has access to it"

You do understand that just because there is an option to play with others online, that doesn't mean you have to play online? And surely you also understand that playing with randoms is a completely different thing to playing with your friends? Surely you also know that bad behaviour online is not tolerated on Xbox or PlayStation and will cause you to receive a permanent online ban?

@Noid @PickledKong64 Have I got news for you!

https://pretendo.network/

(It's still being worked on, though.)

Very nice. Revelations 1 had a great story mode and Revelations 2 had the best raid mode in any RE game so far (though sadly the online mode no longer works on the Switch without paying Nintendo, despite everything running on Capcom's servers), so hopefully Revelations 3 will excel at both. I also prefer the controls in the Revelations games compared to all other RE games. Both games were and are also truly incredible technical showcases, which is especially impressive considering Revelations 1 was released early in the 3DS's life, and likewise for the Revelations 2 port on the Switch.

@Zidentia Nintendo can already detect literally everything on your console, whether you've hacked it or not. In fact, it's not just that they can, they actually do. The console sends so much data to Nintendo it's ridiculous. It's basically spyware, but it's made by Nintendo, so it's okay.

@Mince Only the earliest Switch models (those sold before August of 2018) can be hacked easily (and will always be hackable) due to a critical, unpatchable bug. All Switch models that came after no longer have said critical bug and can only be hacked with a shady modchip - this is the modchip made by the company whose top dogs got arrested last month or so, which is naturally no longer being produced as the company went up in smoke. I'm not sure how many Switches were produced before they produced new models without the big bad bug, but let's suppose it's 20 million (it's probably not as much). Those 20 million are, for all intents and purposes, the only models that can be hacked. Disregarding the percentage of those consoles that's already broken or sitting at the bottom of a cupboard, you have at most 20 million people who can hack their consoles. Even if you assume this to mean 20 million people have a hacked Switch (which is simply bonkers), this is still a minority of all users, because about 70 million Switches have been sold. Also, the number is static - if Nintendo sells 100 million more Switches, there will still only be 20 million hackable models out of 170 million, and only a fraction of users will actually hack their hackable model.

Holy hell. Three of this review's twenty paragraphs are defending Nintendo pushing out an extremely lazy port that doesn't have at the very least a resolution boost. Pikmin 3 has superb graphics, but precisely because it ran at neither full resolution nor 60fps on the Wii U, it should be normal for the Switch version to have improved at least one of these aspects. This is how it works for any other company, except for Nintendo. Will Nintendo stop providing you with free video games if you stop kissing their behinds or what? It's even worse that, as you (Nintendo Life in general) have been doing increasingly over time, you bring up the bad anonymous internet boogeyman whose opinions are no good because they're real dumb, to place them against your enlightened "Nintendo could assassinate our entire families and desecrate their graves, and we'd write a glowing review about it" attitude. You could not be more pathetic.

A nice surprise to see these ports, and even nicer to see they're actually very well done. (Although, I suppose any port could be considered outstanding when compared to Nintendo's offerings.)

@Octane No no, just the €100 mandatory Bluetooth adapter for wireless headphones.

@gcunit The big difference is that probably 90-95% of all Wii owners only had the console to play a handful of party games like Wii Sports or Mario Kart, and to them the Wii U would be wasted money because "it's just a more expensive Wii". The Switch doesn't have that problem because people who have a Switch have it to play 'real' games, so to Switch users, buying a new Switch eventually makes sense.

@SirAileron Great posts, thanks.

Oh, wow, all past legendaries returning, now that's an original idea... It was cool in BW2, interesting in ORAS and mostly pointless padding in SM. What's the point of adding them all in yet again now?

@FantasiaWHT "if you're not a real lawyer (which I am)"

Haha, no.

I thought the American cartridge art was going to have the D in 3D flipped around to make it look angrier.

Another European company about to be placed under direct control of the no. 1 spyware developers in the world (i.e. the US), but yeah, sure, it's good for Nintendo, hurray...

@shazbot Depends on the hardware revision. The first Switch models sold up until August of 2018 or so (and any sold afterwards that belonged to the same batch) are all hackable with an unpatchable software exploit, the later revisions (including the newer models like the Switch Lite and the regular Switch with a better battery) can (currently) only be hacked with a modchip (but I wouldn't go for what's currently available, because the team who created the modchip exclusively develops their products for playing illegitimately obtained game copies). You can check if your Switch can be softmodded via this website: https://ismyswitchpatched.com/

Hacking also lets you use basically any controller you want without extra adapters, access much more detailed play statistics, use the built-in web browser, use themes, install game mods, etc.

If your Switch is softmoddable, the hacking process itself is also ridiculously easy - in fact, all you need to do is put some files on your SD card. After that it's all just a matter of configuring the homebrews you need.

I think the real problem here is that people are used to throwing away their perfectly functional devices after only a year, maybe two, of use.

@shazbot You can hack your Switch to enable things like overclocking and force it to use docked settings in handheld mode. As long as you don't cheat, or download games from places other than the eShop, you won't get banned. You can even use specific clock settings for when the system is charging in handheld mode. It's a real game changer.

@Apportal "Are you serious? No, they don’t. I’ve had migraines plenty of times, -not even from low frame rate- and on top of that, it doesn’t “stop my life”. They not only rarely get caused by said frame rate, but just drinking tea or water stops it."

Pro tip: you've never actually had a migraine... If drinking water solved it, you were simply dehydrated. If you don't have a clue what you're talking about, don't talk about it.

This'll be the first month I don't have all the critters, I'm missing six! The beetles are way too rare, and I'm not going to spend hours running in circles around the island in the middle of the night just so I might get a sliver of a chance at finding them. This is ridiculous.

@TheFullAndy You buy games in order not to play them?

@TheFullAndy "However on Gold and Plus they are just giving me games that if I already wanted I would have already bought."

This is a really odd thing to say when you take into consideration that games on Xbox Gold or PlayStation Plus are current-gen, a few years old at most, whereas those on Nintendo Online are older than many Switch users' parents. If anything, the old games are the ones you'd have already played, especially because many of them are quite short. (I know you wrote 'bought', but I'll assume most just want to play, no matter how they obtain it.)

Still waiting for them to reincrease the spawn rate of rare bugs. It's fine if one or two have a really low spawn rate, but if they're all really rare spawns and they can only spawn near midnight, it's no longer fun. I still haven't even seen half of the beetles, let alone caught them.

I see, this must be one of those well-balanced Pokémon.

@Nico07 You don't have to time travel, just wait until the next Sunday.

Back in the Club Nintendo days when they actually had (some) good rewards, you didn't have to pay anything, Nintendo paid for the shipping as well. What a joke.

Hopefully the next patch will increase the spawn rates of the summer bugs (northern hemisphere) again, because I can't find anything but drone beetles, drone beetles and more drone beetles. The rare beetle and cicada shell spawn rates are too damn low!

@TophatDragoneye "Anything you have to say is worthless because some other people with similar opinions to yours act rude sometimes" is always a great rebuttal.

"just know that if you ever want to play in a live tournament you'll be blacklisted when they find out"

That's not how it works. All pro competitive players have hacked teams with perfect stats and movesets, although they didn't necessarily do the hacking themselves, oftentimes it's someone else who provides them with their requested Pokémon. Sometimes their Pokémon are even in 'illegal' balls (like a Cherish Ball for a non-event Pokémon), yet no one bats an eye.

Ah yes, this must be that balanced competitive gameplay they were on about.