Small nitpick, it’ll be 7 years old next year. But still, only the NES has ever lasted that long.

I know people have been expecting new nintendo systems every year for a few years but 2024 really feels like it’s gotta be it. The Switch is already the second longest-lived Nintendo console and as of next July it’ll be the longest-lived. Splatoon 3 will stop getting content next year. The only 2 big games we know…

I know at investors meetings they’ve talking about NSO being something to ease people into the next system since that’ll be a big library built right in (don’t remember the exact phrasing but it definitely implied NSO would carry over) but who knows if that’ll be true of all of the games. Every handheld was backwards…

11 are from SV. Pikachu is obviously gen 1, Blissey is 2 like you said, Kirlia is 3, but then Sandaconda is 8, and the rest are 9.

Yeah it feels to me like a lot of people are so worried about “value” that they have to check that a game has enough “content” first by looking in detail what a game has and spoiling it for themselves, and therefore reducing the value for themselves. I’d much rather take risks on games that seem interesting and have…

I assume yes, it would have been easier to build the website he wants from scratch instead of trying to convert a preexisting site into something else, and yes, it would have almost certainly been cheaper, but this way he has a massive user base built in. From scratch might be easier and cheaper to make the website…

The good news is that when the ship sinks the water will put out the dumpster fire

I got TinyKin because I love Pikmin games, and was surprised there wasn’t any combat in it. I still enjoyed it a lot for a lot of the same reasons I enjoy Pikmin, just with less danger, but I can imagine the difference is much more jarring going the other way lol

It’s pretty sad that you think only things that are popular are worth making and also sad that you’re calling a series “shit” just because it’s niche even though it’s well received, just not popular. Maybe get over yourself and learn to accept that something being unpopular doesn’t make it bad and that it’s okay for…

You’ll always have a minority

I don’t know if I totally buy this. They’ve talked about using multiple captains to split up tasks more efficiently but I don’t really feel like they’ve tried to sell it as an RTS and I feel like the demographic Nintendo targets wouldn’t recognize it as an RTS. I think implicitly people might get intimidated by…

I like how your second sentence immediately contradicts your first

Ugh, I hate when XV did this (the days getting shorter and shorter), I can’t believe they’ve done this again. At least XV reverted it when you beat the game. The environments being pretty was one of the most appealing things about the game, knowing that it just gets shitty and stays shitty is not helping the odds of me…

I usually don’t care much about challenge in most games, but I enjoyed the contrast between the tiny adorable setting and the absolute carnage if you mismanaged a fight

The new one should be fine to start, though my favorite is 2 and it removes the day limit from 1 so that might also be a good starting point. 3 one is a less strict time limit than 1 but does still have a time limit. I might recommend picking up the 1 + 2 pack on Switch and starting with 2, then going back to 1 if you…

I think the demo feels great and I’m very excited to play, but I am a bit disappointed (although unsurprised, based on the demo) that the game sounds a lot easier than earlier entries. I’m happy for them to include features like the rewind feature to make it more accessible, but I still want there to be enemies that…

More than “kind of reminds me” of the Witness, my first thought seeing the title image was “why is half of this title image a screenshot of the Witness”

“Around” in the most technical sense, although it’s kind of been a shambling husk for a while now.

I initially saw it as white and gold. It’s not that people who saw that white and gold can’t color correct in our minds, it’s that there wasn’t enough color context from the rest of the image to tell which direction to color correct it. Now that I know that it’s an extremely well-lit store building and is very washed…