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Wish they didn't reskin Cece and Viché. Would've loved to still have them based on the Squid Sisters and gotten new Villagers for Shiver, Frye, Pearl, & Marina. Unless they have some form of unique dialogue, I wonder why they didn't do that or why they only chose Mineru and Tulin for LoZ stuff, since dialogue is determined by Personality Type and every Villager is essentially a reskin with the only changes being their pre-set phrases.

I enjoy the Nintendo x Warriors games, but I've already got plenty of games as of now. I'll hold off for next year and hope for a sale of some kind.

Game was made in 6 months and datamining proved they lied about not using AI to upscale everything. The gall to charge $20 for this lazy cash grab...

By the end of the first year every Pokemon mobile game gets super formulaic and people tend to drop it. There's not really an incentive to keep Pulling if you have bad luck without any form of a Pity System, so I'm sure plenty of people just didn't Pull anything over a long period and uninstalled. The regular Pokemon TCG is already super RNG heavy even for a TCG, and who will Win in Pocket is usually determined by the Coin Flip and opening Hands. So there's no reason to swipe to Pull Meta cards.

Looking forward to this big time. I knew nothing about TMNT going into Shredder's Revenge and loved it. Can only imagine how much I'll enjoy Cosmic Invasion with some knowledge of Marvel.

I want Sonic Tracks, Sonic Crossworlds, and more actual Sonic characters with voices. I would actually pay for those things, I have no interest in the miscellaneous Crossover characters.

I can see it coming back, but being limited to what's in the available NSO and Expansion Pak catalogs. Games you buy you can play without a Subscription or needing to be online under a new Virtual Console app, however since you still need the base NSO to play online and would have to re-buy the Expansion Pak for new games added, so it wouldn't cut into the profits made normally.

If that's the case why decide to add a bunch of random Crossover characters to Crossworlds instead of more niche Sonic characters to give them more exposure and show off the Rivals System even more?

Pretty much own every DS game that I'd want that could come to the service. Aside from Pokemon, DS is one of the consoles I love a lot of smaller games more than the AAA ones, and most of them are either licensed or just not expensive. (Seriously, Transformers 2007 DS: Autobots/Decepticon were basically San Andres w/ Transformers and it was amazing for the time.)

However, don't a good handful of DS games use the mic? How would that work?

But does it come with the Day One $30 DLC?

I like Splatoon's gameplay but how they handle everything else dumbfounds me to not want to play. The big two being only 2 Maps in Rotation at once and shoving every PvP Mode that isn't Turf War into Ranked. If Splatoon 1 wasn't made by Nintendo specifically, there would not be a sequel or still online servers for the original with choices like that.

@FishyS It took 22 years for Pokémon Snap to get a sequel - better get a comfy chair.

@Bats1234 Maybe they expect more from it now that it is and has been the biggest IP on the planet for awhile, and not just a potential fad on the Gameboy. There's no reason GameFreak shouldn't be able to hire more employees or spend more time on the games when they're this big.

Well, unless the Nintendo portion of The Pokemon Company is actively ruining the product by not letting GameFreak do those things. Especially since GameFreak has made it apparent they want to do other things and know what fans want but aren't allowed to make changes. Almost like Nintendo just wants their own yearly game like CoD, but only have one studio do everything instead of 3 studios in rotation with 2 support teams like CoD has. And even CoD is going to every other year now.

No interest in this one. Just "Megas are back" is not enough of a selling point with GameFreak's current track record. The new Battle System might be interesting, but I have a strong feeling it'll just devolve into specific Moves being stupidly OP online and even more unbalanced than regular Competitive.

Really weird that they'd specifically leave 3 Stars out considering you still need to Trade something of equal value.

@Munchlax This. I find it really weird a lot of Nintendo fans will trash CoD and EA Sports games for being churned out yearly but just ignore the fact Pokemon does it too. Except where as something like CoD is 3 teams in rotation, minus BDSP Nintendo has GameFreak and GameFreak alone working on the conveyer belt.

@topsekret That's the wild thing, none of them are playing Time Stranger - they just have no interest in ZA. And Time Stranger is amazing, I've been having a blast between it and Sonic Racing Crossworlds.

@Jarodlaraus These things are always via Mystery Gift so no need to worry about that.

I've seen no hype for this in my usual Communities, even compared to Scarlet Violet where there was some interest. The few people who say they're getting it are because they exclusively play Nintendo games and aren't playing anything else.

@Lizuka They likely made it late or post-game specifically to turn it into a pre-order bonus.

@ShieldHero I agree, but Dinkum's is only a Time-Exclusive for Switch. It's not a one-to-one since there's combat, but it'll be a similar game coming to other consoles.

I doubt they'll go after it unless it straight up steals assets. The only reason they're going after Palworld is it got people talking about how stale Pokémon was.

No one will be able to fill Reggies' shoes - you'll never see someone do something like he did to push Wii Sports to be bundled with every Wii at launch. Though I honestly wonder what power the position has if any at this point.

Worth going into just to try and get the Full Art Professor's Research, a card that will never be powercrept.

I've lost all interest in Pokémon following the Palworld lawsuit, where Nintendo is doing anything in their power to make themselves and the brand look awful in a Disney-like fashion. And it is 100% Nintendo because GameFreak is aware of the changes people want and are being told no, and Creatures Inc wouldn't have that kind of sway. Hope people who are excited enjoy it, but I'll be playing Digimon Story Time Stranger instead.

I hope it does amazing to hopefully get it through The Pokémon Company's thick head that people want Spin-Offs that aren't mobile games.

Unlike the original Diamond Pearl, these games would be just fine with facelifts as they don't have many problems. The biggest two off the top of my head are that so many Pokemon Evolve at stupidly high Levels, which they won't change for a remake, and that it'd be really stupid to repeat BDSP's mistake of not making the Mystery Gifts permeant. Either make them regular eShop codes that tie to your Nintendo Account to keep, or just keep the codes up until the Switch's servers end.

Wondering if these are actually locked behind save data like the Spinner in the Wii U Hyrule Warriors was with a Link amiibo or just early unlocks. Between them not being the most interesting weapons and assuming most people played both titles, I think it'd be fine if they were actually locked that way.

As great as the 'secret' performance boosts are, I'd still love official ones for the first two games. Although my OCD more so wants them to update the amiibo scans. Hyrule Warriors DE still uses the Wii U's mostly, so as an example it counts Toon Zelda and Young Link as just Zelda and Link instead of their respective characters, who were DLC originally. Then for Age of Calamity it considers the 4 TOTK Champions as generics instead of giving specific rewards, even though 3 of them and one of their dads are playable and use the same weapons. They don't release amiibo nearly as much as they used to, so you'd think this would be a good time to do something like this since they're actively working on related projects.

@rjejr Says it'll have amiibo support on the website. Probably the same as Age of Calamity - 5 scans a day, generic amiibo give you misc resources, and ones for characters you've unlocked give specific resources or a weapon for them.

@CainTheConfused Can confirm, never listen to gamers. Ubisoft is doing very well with this strat.

It's so weird that for the best received 2D Mario since the SNES, they chose to add a bunch of Mini Games that feel like they're from NSMB DS.

And they'll sit on shelves like the other $30 & $40 amiibo are since the price changes. Wouldn't surprise me if stores stopped ordering them all together at this rate.

God, what changed in Nintendo internally to be so toxic and money-grubbing with the Pokémon IP specifically? It's very obvious they call most of the shots in The Pokémon Company and I feel sad for GameFreak and a company like ILCA who have to shoulder all the blame for them.

As someone with tempered expectations, it was one of the best Directs in a while, because it did exactly what it needed to. It told us about the rest of the big releases for 2025, some more new things for 2025, and things to know about for 2026. Not everything was something you wanted to hear, like Mario Wonder's Switch 2 content being about Co-op and Multiplayer or them already announcing DLC for ZA before the game releases, but it was at least new info.

I'm not a super fan of Animal Crossing, I enjoy them but usually drop them after a year, but I'm just glad there's a new Spin-Off. Switch 1 only got 2 new Spin-Offs, a port, & a Remaster. I'm just hoping this is a sign of more to come and not just a drop in the bucket where everything else is a mobile game.

An RPG with town building and sim elements could be really cool if executed properly. You go from a few random houses to a village to a town to a city, and while growing you're doing things like defending the place from monsters, gathering resources, recruiting and training NPCs, etc. Almost like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime but as gameplay that can change each playthrough, in the Octopath world.

And while I get why people are upset it's just Octopath in name only, I wouldn't want it to be Octopath 3 so soon. Give us a big gap between them like 1 & 2 so they feel special. Experiment with Spin-Offs and side games in-between like The Pokémon Company used to do before the Switch.

Stopped playing this game because it has a crippling bug on Switch 2 that will take control from you and leave you standing still or moving in the last direction pressed for up to 7 seconds, and anytime Tencent is asked about it they say it doesn't exist.

It's wild to think how many companies like Ubisoft went from dominating the industry during the Wii/360/PS3 Gen to being shells of their former selves by the end of the Wii U/XBO/PS4 Gen.

It was fun, but IDK if I'd pay $70 for it. It's basically All-Stars Racing Transformed 2, and I think it does the non-repetitive track idea a little better than the bit I played of Mario Kart Work, but... that's a lot of money for a game that'll probably be dead online in a few months.

It's either September or December. A coin flip of which is Prime 4 and which is Age of Imprisonment IMO.

I'd rather just have more Sonic characters instead of guest characters that aren't voiced. If anything the interactions would've added a lot of value to past characters who were only in one or two games interacting with the current versions of ones that are main stays. Still interested in the game, but I won't be touching the Season Pass unless it's after a decent discount.

@N00BiSH I know, but they still should disclose stuff that that ahead of time in the future.

I'm glad they're not just giving new Megas to already popular Pokémon.

Here's hoping it doesn't need $300+ in peripherals to use the Switch 2 Version like Jamboree does.

I'm really interested in it, but I'd like to try a Demo of it first. I'm still surprised Nintendo doesn't make that many of them, as there's always people who haven't tried some game.

@sixrings Isn't Pokémon Legends ZA for October??

@MrGawain This. If people are interested in those games, most don't wait a decade or longer for them to come to a Nintendo system. Switch & Switch 2 are a little different with the portability factor, but it's still a pretty small group still.

I'm pretty sure the rumor of the MCC coming to anything else was wrong, everything seems to point to a Remake of Halo CE now.

They've been trying to recapture the attention of people who dropped out after Gen 2-4 for awhile now, with things like Megas, Regional Forms, Kanto Gigantimax forms, & another remake of Kanto. But ultimately the most interest I've seen those people express in Pokémon was for Legends Arceus and New Pokémon Snap. They were interested in Legends because it was something new, but even if they did like it, repeating it with some tweaking is not it. And New Pokémon Snap was because people want Spin-Offs that aren't mobile games, but nothing was learned it seems.

If it had some form of Local play I'd pick it up, but I have no interest in another Multiplayer focused game. Which is sad, because it looks like a weird but interesting mix of Rocket League and NBA Jam, which is a sick idea.