By ensuring there’s as little demand as possible?

It’s too bad Ubisoft wasn’t running a “shittiest analogy” contest. Very likely you’d have been paid.

Potentially, but it would be a mistake to release a Switch game without solid options for portable play. They’d need to redesign the game for standard controls.

To me, the joy of MM games is how replayable they are - trying stages in different order, experimenting with different weapons.

Two things:

I find that people use different terminology for Nintendo than they do with any other developer.

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

I think a few clone characters (apparently called “echoes” in SSB) are forgivable in a game with a bajillion characters. Even if you just removed them entirely, the roster would be plenty huge, so their inclusion is a kind of bonus.

The DLC shenanigans make this one a no-buy for me. Not, at least, until the “definitive edition” is available in a couple of years.

What pisses me off is that I use the PS4's “rest mode” specifically so that it can download all this shit when I’m not using it. That’s the whole point of that mode.

Players assaulted by an avalanche of toxicity shouldn’t have to spend half their play session blocking people.

People are incredibly (and dangerously) good at rationalizing their behavior.

Ban hate speech.

This is also a strong argument in favor of checking your credit reports a few times a year. All of your credit accounts, forgotten or not, are listed there.

Yeah, the dogs are just jump-and-shoot.

Nah. Thirty years on, my Quickman muscle memory is still spot-on. Set a restore point at the start, and give it a few runs. You’ll be tearing through it within a few attempts.

That’s an overcorrection. It’s nice to have these features, especially with old games like MM1 that are, in hindsight, insufferably flawed.

It’s a great feature for when I want a more easy-going session, and it it does help mitigate a lot of the awful design choices in the first game. But I do wish there was a way to turn it off in the menu when I want to do a “proper” run.

Mother Brain would be an obvious choice in that regard. She was obviously alluded to in Prime 3, but they never really did anything useful or interesting with it.

While I suppose that this could be considered a set for the “portable only” crowd, I think it’s mostly intended to encourage households owning multiple Switches.