I wish I could give you 100 stars for putting Wind Waker next to BotW. Before it came out, WW was my go-to for ‘the most like NES Zelda modern-Zelda’ around.

Ugh! The stupid narrative that the only true Zelda was the NES game and that the series “got it wrong” for 30 years needs to GTFO!

the amount of flexibility gets so undersold, though. True, a few areas need a specific item to get there, but there’s a lot of openness - ESPECIALLY for a NES game in the 80s. Not to mention you’re just dropped into the overworld and it’s up to you to piece together what ‘order’ there is to anything.

The moment you mentioned mid-air cornering I thought ‘so it’s Lucio: The Game?’

Also: my BotW experience felt organic, start to end. By the time I had found the Master Sword, I was one heart shy of getting it, and the shrines I needed to get that heart were right there. I didn’t know I was building up Link’s health before that for any other reason that to build his health. Which is kinda what was…

trust your players

I know I’m not playing a game again when I ask myself, what is the point? Do I really care? It seems pointless.

Zelda game is a proper linear one

I’m about to finally start Assassin’s Creed Origins, and despite the good things I’ve heard about it, I’m worried that it will end up on my attention span’s cutting room floor as well.

part of facing the problem is helping contribute to the message send to those people that no, you don’t get to say those things with immunity. Society can, will, and will rightfully scorn you.

I know, but third parties have been fair-weather friends to Nintendo for a long time. That is, upfront support and positive vibes, and then dropping the platform within a year or so. So I’m cautiously hopeful Bethesda keeps it up, but wouldn’t be surprised if they (and especially any other team) turned up their noses…

I don’t think that’s how it works though - it’s not like paying to keep one show on prohibits spending on another. It’s also a matter of whether or not the rights holder(s) of the show want to extend their contract with Netflix, too.

Switch is a no brainer on this one.

I think you’re right, and I may have misunderstood it!

ah okay, glad I misread it!

but if you need ships to keep playing after the ship you’re in is destroyed, does that mean this is literally pay to play? Like, the game I bought will be unplayable unless I shell out cash for ‘lives?’

Yes - I’m tired of Gamers acting like certain games/genres deserve to be in some lesser-than ghetto, just for being what it is, rather than the quality of what they’re trying to do.

I’ve seen their headlines be WAY snarkier when delivering bad news, and the point over is this: they could write a headline that better reflects the situation, than make it seem like this is a unique issue to the Switch.

Yes and no - Rocket League accounts are handled in a way where you don’t have to sign into a third party account before you play. So you can play it on PS4, then on Switch, because the PS4 account isn’t related in any way to an account that another console would possibly need to see/access.

Paladins isn’t, afaik, and Fortnite on Switch isn’t either. Playing it on PS4 ‘poisons’ your account, making it impossible to use on Switch or XBO.