Right, and it’s that context of 1980s / 1990s dollars that really makes the case too. $50 in 1990 is equivalent to $114 in 2022. Going the other direction is even more stark, as $60 in 2022 is equivalent to about $26 in 1990 terms, which is absolutely bananas. The fact is, it’s totally absurd that game prices are one…

That too! It’s such an interesting way to integrate the legendary into the main plot, rather than them just showing up at the end (or also the beginning briefly). Koraidon is incredibly charming and doofy, while also still coming across as a mighty powerhouse in one of the opening scenes. Plus it adds some nuance to…

So I’ll start with a couple of big ol’ disclaimers: I started playing this weekend after the recent patch (which everything online says didn’t improve things considerably), I’m still in one of the earlier zones, I’m only playing handheld, and I’ve done very little online. But I was really pleasantly surprised with how…

I seem to remember the SWSH raids being similar, in that upper level raids had limits set at maybe 25% / 50% / 75%, so even if a hit should be OHKO statistically, the damage stopped at the next tier and a barrier was set up again. My guess is they wanted the appearance of more challenge after making people wait…

I’m curious about your opinion that nobody should buy a $60 game, which seems out of context in the review - so do you think that games are overpriced as they are? Or that you should never buy new at release? Or was it just a strange way to say you didn’t think this particular game was worth the price of admission?…

Seems odd that the core structure of the lessons in this game are apparently so dreadful (I haven’t played it yet, I’m waiting for some patches) when they could have easily just used Persona’s classroom scenes and exam system as a framework and filled it with weird and goofy Poke-knowledge instead. You get little…

Real missed opportunity to call it Dududunsparce. Also would have been amazing if that rare 1% variation is secretly the powerful Dunsparce evolution everyone dreamed of and nobody knew about it. Maybe they’re saving that for Dudududunsparce.

I definitely wasn't expecting this movie to be Mario: Year One, but that seems like a great approach so far. These trailers have me way more excited for the movie than I expected.

At the very least, they could do the silly gibberish noises from Animal Crossing, or even little grunts and phrases like Breath of the Wild. Something to break up the silence. Given how those characters are animated, it almost feels like they planned on doing VO and then changed their mind late in the process.

I really like how the secondary typings for the starters help balance out their initial type weaknesses against the others (So Skeledirge’s ghost typing potentially balances out a battle against Quaquaval).

I agree wholeheartedly with this article and have had the same experience since my Deck arrived a couple months ago. The Switch had been my daily driver basically since it launched, with the exception of a handful of big AAA games (FF7R, God of War, etc), but now the Deck has taken that spot and I don’t expect that to…

It’s always seemed weird to me how many of the gens include Pokemon that are bipedal / humanoid and roughly the height of an average person. It’s already weird enough to imagine capturing and bossing around semi-sentient creatures for your own gain and amusement, but I’d imagine it’d feel more conflicting once some of…

I don’t have a strong opinion on Activision’s fate, but I really just don’t understand the need for this merger or the astronomical price tag. $60+ billion could be used for a wide variety of strategies instead of just buying a very troubled company whose major releases (Call of Duty, Overwatch, WoW, Candy Crush, etc)…

Not to say commercial success beats all (I’m a lifelong fan and will be waiting on PSV until some significant patching happens), but this is absolutely one of those cases where the people tuned into the gaming press are loudly complaining in a way that I’d bet the vast majority of people playing the game aren’t. For…

I agree that it’d be really great for Pokemon games like Arceus to create a deeper experience in their world design through more unique behaviors, but I think the big challenge with that would be that nearly every Pokemon could have a different routine. Even if you were able to group some similar ones together into…

Considering the long and troubled development cycle as well as the fact that this game’s release doesn’t seem to be a critical or commercial success as far as I can tell, I’m not holding my breath that we’ll ever get another Bayonetta. (or, at the very least, that Nintendo will fund it)

You know what I notice when I’m blazing past scenery at a hundred mph while technicolor explosions happen all around me? Cuz it’s definitely not texture quality.

Jingle All the Way?

So far as I’ve ever been able to tell, Nintendo isn’t nearly as protective of their tangential projects like Nintendo Power, in the same way that I doubt they’d get upset over an archival set of game manuals or something. They’re in the business of reselling ROMs, not old magazines and booklets. And preserving the…

I dunno, I think first gen has a similar proportion but gets a pass due to nostalgia and the novelty of being the first gen. Klefki’s way more interesting in my opinion than most of the various birds, bugs, and rats, as well as the lines of Voltorb (“I dunno, mean poke balls?”), Grimer (“You asked for a poison type,…