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Ugh, still no actual release date. My excitement is definitely in-check now. I guess I'll play it whenever it releases, one day, maybe.

For reference, this was first announced in 2024.

@Markatron84 Yesssss, agreed. This is already in my top 10 most played games of all time (for any system) at 100+ hours with no end in sight.

@samurro There's a ranked mode, so you can play against the worst of the worst! The ranks reset every season (aka yesterday), so you will definitely run into top tier players passing through for at least another week or so

If you want mindless battles, I think copying the meta teams is ironically the best way to go! I just slapped together a team of meta mons and my win rate was 70% on my first day of using it. These teams are easy to use primarily because they give you a good response to most situations.

Making a team from scratch, or using your favorites despite them sucking requires a lot more effort and results in a majority of losses, but is way more fun, IMHO.

Anyway, you should try it...you have nothing to lose!

@abnormalpirate Reading about it? My guy, it's a free game, try it for yourself! I'd give it 10/10, personally.

The internet is hellbent on 7/10 for a bunch of bizarre reasons, like the "light on content" part you mentioned. On that point, it would be like saying Pokemon Snap is a 7/10 because there aren't any multiplayer battles in it. It's just crazy people wanting single player content in a PVP-focused game that isn't marketed to be anything but that.

(Sorry about the rant)

I don't know what's worse, this comments section or Square Enix.

First of all, the cloud versions are the only way to play these games on Switch. Can you blame someone who wants to play these for buying them?

Next, Square are dirtbags for this. Don't sell a product if you're going to just steal it back. Companies like to play games like, "Erm...actually the EULA you agreed to says we're allowed to do this, and the game is not technically a product, it's a service" but at the end of the day, you are selling a lazy, garbage product to a trusting audience and stealing money with dishonest tactics.

If I ever buy a Square product again, it will be used so they don't get a cent. Grubby dirtbags.

@Markatron84 Yep, I have had this game uninstalled for 2 weeks because it was affecting the rest of my life! I was hoping the mobile version would get cancelled, for my own sake!

I was never going to battle on my phone, but messing with building new teams has been my real addiction. I was last making an "Attract"-centered team and other goofy tactics.

I had to uninstall this game...it's all I could think about! I ended up getting mons via buying Eternal Flower Floettes on eBay and trading for what I wanted in Pokemon Home.

The game tries to limit you on how much you can spend (good lookin' out for the kids, Nintendo), but that didn't stop me, haha.

Mercenaries would get me to buy this! I used to haaate that mode, but now I like it more than the main games. Hopefully it's true and hopefully there are unlocks.

For the record, as someone who has always wanted to get into VGC battles, I've been dreaming of this game for 13 years after trying it in XY.

The main thing I don't like is intermittently fighting AI bots online that just let me win. And I wish there were more if my favorites in the game, but it's actually causing me to branch out and discover new mons. I know all of my faves will be added over time.

Overall, the PVP experience and focus on easy team building and being able to quickly try new strategies has been insanely fun!

10/10 (for me)

@JohnnyMind I would not normally defend a game as much as this but I feel like I'm living in an upsidedown cuckoo crazy world with how people expect this game to be all these other things it clearly never was meant to be.

It takes the most inaccessible part of the game, PVP competitive battles, and makes it accessible. Literally everything else about Pokemon (catching, bonding, PVE, story) has its own separate game focusing on those things people can go play instead.

What? If you bought everything the game throws at you (battle pass, starter pack, one month subscription), it's $22. That's nothing for F2P. As others have mentioned, the paid battle pass is also junk, so you really only need to spend $12 to get the most out of it to start.

The fake outrage with this game is insaaaaaane...

I don't know much about Joan of Arc, so I'm looking forward to the history lesson!

@SlowPokemon Same here, I was up all night long, baby!!! These complaints are blown so far out of proportion it's weird.

I will put up with the launch bugs for months if it means not spending a lifetime catching and breeding and training Pokemon just to even begin to play ranked 2v2 battles like in the old games. This game will be worth it for those just wanting to battle.

Kurt Feldman...make another Ice Choir album...

She's perfect for the role!

Good luck competing with Nintendo with your 1 exclusive per-year.

We. Want. DEAD OR ALIVE 7!!! Who's with me?!
...
(crickets)

@Serpenterror I thought Switch 2 was going to carry our digital libraries forward? In your case, hopefully you only have to buy it once!

The Switch console still costs $300, which is nuts considering how old it is, and doesn't seem to make sense if a Switch 2 is coming soon. Then again, we never got a "Selects" line of titles either. Feels bad for kids and families, tbh.

MMAAAAAAAMAMA MIA!!!!! I hope this comes westward!

@DragonBento I'm begging Level 5 to have the game be called that, hahahaha.

Switch port when? Should be easy with those graphics.

Nah, $50 is crazy considering all the matchmaking issues being reported. I'm also gonna guess that this collection will be crickets online like all the other collections within a few weeks, minus getting crushed by legacy players, unfortunately.

I think this is the coolest Sektor has ever looked! Personally super excited for this.

@hd94 Oh god, I have all the Bayonetta games but haven't gotten to 3 yet... gulp

@Truegamer79 DIP AWAY!

The graphics are now on-par with MK11's switch port. The load times are still 30-60 seconds depending on what you're doing (i.e. 60 seconds to load a match). This makes the Invasions mode pure agony. Also, just like MK11, the online fights can also move in slo mo depending on what stage and the connection, which will mess up combos, and nothing works if you're offline.

But for collection purposes and practice mode, I think it's in a good place.

For the love of god, I just want to play the game...

What the heck? Did anyone here actually play these games, because this honestly SUCKS! Yeah, there was room for improvement, but I had a ton of genuine fun competing against friends and family. Booooooo!!!!

@OFFICIALMichi Haha, I think Wolverine and Deadpool are technically Disney characters now, but maybe that would open up the possibility of all those Disney mods for the PC version of MK1 becoming actual guest characters

@RubyCarbuncle They have been updating it so it looks on par with MK11's port. Played it last night and I feel it runs better since the latest patch, but I didn't test it enough. I was playing it a lot a month ago and some of the stages cause the game to run noticeably slower than the other versions to the point it really makes combos hard to perform. Loading times are 30-60 seconds for a match compared to 6-10 seconds on other platforms, which is the biggest downside IMHO. Online was easy to find matches (a month ago, at least), and the community SEEMS friendlier, so if you have no other option, I'd say it's worth looking into on-sale.

@OFFICIALMichi I'm very excited for the gender-bent characters if it means female characters that AREN'T wearing heels. Seriously, it looks so bizarre to me! Thankfully, some characters now have alternate skins that sport sneakers instead.

The leaked guest characters are soooo random, haha. As much as I dislike the superhero guest characters in my MK, they should've at least stuck to a theme, IMHO (like how MKX was horror and MK11 was 80s/90s action movies).

@LEGEND_MARIOID Yep, the patches since launch have really improved the game up to the level of the MK11 port, but it still runs like it's got slo-mo compared to the other versions, especially depending on which stage you're playing on (which seems like a clear fix they need to make). The load times are also insane. Oh well.

Darkstalkers, Chrono Cross/Trigger, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Banjo-Kazooie...the list goes on for games I've re-purchased (multiples times in some instances) with the hope of a sequel and look where those are.

"Should a super old game with upscaled graphics be the same price as a brand new game?"

Can't believe people think "YES!"

No wonder we don't have DKCR 3 yet when Nintendo doesn't even have to make a new game to get more money.

@Warioware IKR, instead of Nintendo asking us to buy this game a third time, the should have backwards compatibility and a new DKCR game.

Nintendo makes the other companies look like Donkey Kong droppings!

Jim Norman hittin' the nail on the head with the wishlist feels, haha. There's also the added dilemma of alternately getting a physical copy instead.

If this were a PS5 or Series X list, it would be one page.

Dang, too soon....R.I.P.

I'll buy it when they remove the "Stop asking for Rage Wars" quip in the credits. That's my favorite one as an adult (the others did not age well at all, IMHO), and the only one I still occasionally play on my real N64.

There's no point in trying to figure out Phil's words or motivations. He's just a idiot, plain and simple.

Phil Spencer is an idiot who likes to NOT make any games under his direction and tweets "OMG Congrats on your game" to Nintendo and Sony so people will like him.

@mereel Seems like Reddit now has Switch footage, but it's all fatalities. I'd say it looks the same as MK11, except the backgrounds are arguably worse.

@Selim MS has had the Perfect Dark IP for over 20 years and they still haven't gotten a single new game (Perfect Dark Zero doesn't count since Rare was making it before they got acquired).

Call me crazy, but it'd be nice to hear Phil say one day, "We're inspired by Nintendo to make a new Banjo-Kazooie game with the charm of SMB Wonder and sandbox gameplay of TotK" instead of "OTheR cOmPaNy GAme GOOD!"

@AG_Awesome Yessss, hopefully Rage Wars is up next for the Turok remasters.

Let's see the Switch footage...we know it's bad, just SHOW US!

Does the Switch version let you use mic chat?

Please let it be a new game set in their Spacelords universe...

Where's the Xenoblade Chronicles X port!