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A review is just a personal opinion where bias certainly can be pulled into the overall rating. As one said trying to find a like minded person is one solution but quite difficult. Also, in todays world, writers/reviewers are much more guided by momentary issues than in the past. Clicks, reselling data, tiered articles and merchandise sales play a much bigger role in success as a reviewer. This is not a criticism but a an observation based on personal experience and perspective. In the early days of game journalism games were tougher and they had to have a certain replay ability or really solid programming to bring new players to the developer. Writers were also looking to be informative in an era where data was sparse and still relied much on word of mouth.

Again, personal opinion most certainly came into play in the early days but it was easier to narrow in on a favorite magazine, writer or genre because there was not much to pick from yet and they depended on subscriptions and the recurring ads that followed subscription levels. Now there are more than enough places on the internet to get opinions and to stand out and get clicks some people will go to lengths to get that by purposely creating clickbait.

It is very difficult to follow up on a hit game like BOTW and Nintendo could have easily screwed this up but it sounds like they were able to do just that. Obviously if the previous game was not your thing the new one likely will not change your mind.

@grougrou
Same here. I started to read the review and I stopped and said " NIntendoLife YOU SHALL NOT PASS". Then jumped to the score.

@Ryu_Niiyama absolutely.

@OfficialHigeDan
You can do a quick search. it is everywhere now.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nintendo-confirms-no-switch-2-this-year-despite-hardware-sales-slowdown

Nintendo has already confirmed that there will be no Switch successor until after March 2024. Also it seems suspect it would be an LCD panel.

My GameStop orders have shipped. I got the Amiibo, case and game. Now if I can just act casual until they get here.

The Switch is my favorite now, replacing the DS. The addition of Super Nintendo and GBA games is really a plus for me. On the other hand I just picked up a Japanese 3DS and this is my first 3DS and I really like it. It’s like the DS but much better.

@Knirau11 that has some interesting content. Especially the one scene where link is in an area of water and island looking formations. Appreciate the share.

I might go. Looks like a good time

@Cashews yeah Jack Black would have been good there also. Fair enough on on Cranky Kong. It fell flat for me though. I guess there’s a fine line on what they could use as a base.

The movie was good. Martinets voice clips would have changed the story dynamic quite a bit though. Chris Pratt sounded like himself and to be honest he faded away into the background, not good or bad just bleh. Luigi and Bowser were the standouts while Donkey Kong was like a Pineapple Express redo. I am not a Seth Rogen fan but I am not sure who I would like to see in this role. Cranky Kong was just bad. Toad was good but limited by his lines. Princess Peach was stiff and predictable. There just was no chemistry between her and Mario/Chris Pratt here, not that I exactly expected it.
The real joy of the movies was seeing the Nintendo logo roll and the loads of game references. I did not think we would see a deep storyline but it was too rushed.

I expected the humor to be better but I imagine Nintendo was concerned about straying too far from the games concepts.

This is a situation somewhat unique to the software industry. There are teams, individual artists, composers and arrangers, team leads and heads that make up a development cycle or project. Programming teams are involved in a fair amount of the crunch cycle that others are not. They absolutely contribute but it is more of a point in time as opposed to a continuous cycle. Therein lies the friction with teams that develop or code areas or physics. Traditional protocol is to credit teams or every team member on a project based on the company’s normal policy. Many times credited persons may not be included based on the amount of time they contribute to the project and so forth.

What many people conflate is the creation of an individual creative work versus a collaboration work. An individual work absolutely need to be always credited. A collaboration credit is really voluntary because the IP is actually owned by the publisher/developer and it is up to them.

Aside from all of this I do understand the feeling these developers are expressing but I have worked on a lot of projects where I received no credit and others I have prominent mention. I also publish written works where I am the sole credit outside of the illustrator and I hold the rights. I think if the game had poor sales these developers would not be as vocal.

I have not seen it but plan to possibly tomorrow. The minions movies are not cinema art but they are entertaining and you rewatch them for the characters and the jokes. Not the story. If you expect more then perhaps plan to be left wanting.

It’s ok to like this and then watch a Raymond Chandler movie. People are allowed multifaceted interests in media.

I am totally waiting on a minion crossover in the legend of zelda

The price is not conducive to my way of thinking. I am interested in playing these, especially 6 but I am going to wait. The “remaster” is a bit lacking for the price.

@Member_the_game
Certainly they are. When the Meta AI finally corrupts win 12 and your streaming service is down we will be spinning our collection data and license free.

So people are expecting a movie based on the decades of video gameplay of a toy company to have a deep and engrossing plot line? Really?

I personally feel most of the entertainment media is catering to the 75% by dishing mediocrity to the masses that refuse to demand better. From magical teenagers to illogical monster hybrids, the script writing is beyond trash and people complain but streamers keep dishing it out.

I totally expect this to be a minion clone with Nintendo iconography and that’s ok.

I mostly lurk now after being trolled by a NL staffer who never owned up to it and the various trolls that come on here. The crackdown on the comments while probably well intentioned has become censorship for the most part.

As far as paying for ad free browsing I don’t use an ad blocker on my phone but on my laptop I do. The reason is not to deny the site income but to block the scammers who track me through multiple resell info exchanges that NL, possibly unknowingly, creates. These same scammers will try to steal your information /identity for financial gain. I use location blocking and a rotating VPN’s as well. While I do see some articles of worth on here occasionally, the comparison to previous gaming magazines is not even logical. They did have ads but it was very difficult to track subscription information and you can easily ignore the ads if you wanted to. The quality and editing was also of a higher caliber.

I still want to see the movie but the things that make me cringe are:
1) Chris Pratt. I like most of what he does but the voice is just not there.
2)Seth Rogen. Not really a fan and he is just being Seth Rogen here which is not good enough for this character.
3) The whole Peach thing is overplayed. The warrior female is great but not new for Peach or basically every thing else recently.

The animation looks great but seems a bit too familiar. I did see more game references in this trailer such a Mario Odyssey. Luigi and Toad seem like they are a good fit voice wise and personality. Jack Black seems to be one of the best in the trailers so far.

I hope the "plot" is better than the trailers indicate. This is a movie after all and since we cannot play it we need a deeper story to follow. That previous statement seems ironic considering Miyamoto once said gameplay was more important than story.

My copy showed up yesterday, I ordered it day one but there was a delay in availability,

@somnambulance
I received the same message. Hopefully it ships soon.

I pre ordered right away and it is still not shipping yet. It looks like Nintendo did not forecast correctly.

The video was entertaining to be fair.

@GuyProsciutto
The persistent ads aside, which I understand, the use of wide margin "articles" is just poor journalism.

NintendoLife has become the BuzzFeed of videogame sites. It seems to be about the clicks.

@MarcelM
It seems like you are confusing movement with collision. The physics engine is using the location of the object, in this case the rock cropping bitmap, to place the animation of the character and by extension the hand as directed by the code. It's a fairly simple programming trick and when combined with the animation of the character gives it a more organic movement. Which IK can do if they are using that.

@abdias
The article you quoted does not refute anything I said and I am guessing English is not your native language because it clearly says they used Merge games to get the licensing from Sega. I never mentioned if they had money. I said releasing a game without the licensing deal is both risky from a legal standpoint and costly. You do not understand the business which I get from what you have said so far and from this point I am done with the conversation because you have convinced yourself you are right.

@MetalMan
Do you still have the Voodoo 3?

@BlueOcean @abdias
No you are both wrong. The publisher Merge games already had a relationship with Sega and had worked on a few titles including SOR 4. They worked with Sega to bring Janken on board and reimagine Alex Kidd. They absolutely were involved from the beginning.
Licenses do not work as an afterthought. It is too expensive and risky to work on a game and pay programmers and artists then ask for terms.

@abdias
I said as much in the comment. I know they di not make it. They had to choose the developer to license the game. they made a bad choice.

I was never a fan back in the day and I was curious about about this reboot but it sounds like Sega, sadly, missed it again. They perhaps, should have picked a different developer to do this one.

The Switch has been very stable and this is a small glitch(outside of the ridiculous Joycon problem) compared to the overall life of the unit. It happened to me as well but it drained the battery down trying to update and when I plugged it back in the problem was resolved.

In my opinion this looks great based on the trailer and I pre ordered it. I was looking at some other games but this looks solid. Sometimes you just know! ; - /
I am also going to get the Amiibos which will be a first for me. You know, you just know. Just me being me. I do try not judge a game by its trailer but life is full of these, just go for it moments.

Really, lets not.

This is the only game I want to get and the Amiibos.

Hailey's Comet is the only game I would want.

@Rocky2418
I have the Mario one and it cramps your hand to play. I still like it and the clock and other features are nice but it needs a stand and better button placement.

@Low_ink
Gamestop has a listing now as well as Bestbuy.

I just preordered it.

I may get this but they seriously are hard to play with the button configuration. Also where in the hell is the stand? The Mario GW would be great if it had the stand but it just lays flat like a turd. I still like it but $50 is hard to deal with.

It looks good. I am in on this one.

Meh. Did not really grab me. It looks like an expansion of the BOTW story with some new mechanics possibly. I was expecting more since the direct was kind of lacking out side of Metroid.

It’s a maybe. It would be nice if they added the stand

This looks like it could be good. It is more appealing than one hundred more anime/pastel apocalyptic "adventures".

Somehow I doubt the Switch will still get any notable games from this. Lol

Ok but can it run Crysis within the app while playing Doom within Crysis? Can it? Huh?

@masterLEON
Ahh, I love mine and beating my score on a regular basis is a treat. I am looking at another one or possibly a pinball game.

@GregamanX
It is technically called the Pacman 8 in 1 and you cannot find it now. It was only available at Christmas time and sold out quickly. I also picked up the stool to match. None of the cabinets out there now match the graphics.

@GregamanX
I have the Pacman plus cabinet and I love it but the emulation is a bit aggravating especially on Galaga but still for the money you cannot beat it.

@RupeeClock
Fair enough

@RupeeClock
Reading the Reddit and the Blog post(the video is private) I really do not see anything more than people upset that they made decisions to ensure they had as much success as they could. I actually agree with the Kickstarter comments as we have seen the same thing. They can go really wrong sometimes.