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Heretic

Heretic

Oh my God! And now those fools are saying that Nintendo has gone political and that even bringing it up means you're being political too! This wouldn't be happening if "Dear Leader" hadn't set up the tariffs you morons! Now it's "I was going to buy one, but since Nintendo went political now I'm not". It's so scary that so many stupid/psychotic people walk among the rest of us.
 
soratami

soratami

Obviously they're completely different releases, but having a launch title cost more than twice as much as another is wild

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soratami

soratami

First non-Switch 2 post here in a minute nn, but this "hit the ball 100 times" minigame in Brotership is absolutely doing my head in, ugh. Makes the dodging lighting 200 times one in Final Fantasy X seem relaxing in comparison. I've managed 99 a couple of times, and 90+ like twenty times. It's so annoying.
 
soratami

soratami

Raichu said:
That's actually insane.
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It's worse because unlike the lightning dodges where it's just a matter of getting in the zone and... managing to stay in the zone the entire time, here the speed at which you need to hit the ball keeps increasing, and the timing for those last few hits is incredibly strict, so you need not just to maintain your focus but also be both very fast and completely precise for those last few ones. Thankfully I gave it another go a few hours after I made that post and actually managed to beat it after a handful of tries (oddly enough being kinda sleepy actually helped somehow). I know if I were to try to do it one more time it'd probably take me ages again, so thankfully that's over with.

I'd never played a Mario & Luigi game before, but while the gameplay here is very fun, I have to say it's jarring how the other Mario RPG games I've played (the two Mario + Rabbids ones, The Origami King, Super Mario RPG and The Thousand Year Door) were all super amusing and full of charm and personality, this has just... none of that whatsoever. Not a single likeable or interesting character, not a memorable or funny line of dialogue, it's just incredibly bland in that aspect. Sometimes it goes for wacky but it just lands on nonsensical and stupid rather than actually entertaining. It's especially noticeable as I beat The Thousand Year Door like a week ago, a game which has absolutely top-notch writing and a brilliant cast of characters, from the party members to random NPCs you came across in towns, and that was what made me want to play this one after, as they play fairly similarly, and the two games are basically night and day in terms of narrative. Again, the game is still very fun to play and that's enough to make it enjoyable, but it's wild how much the ball was dropped/how little effort went into that department.
 
_hazzie_

_hazzie_

He / Him
I haven’t got an email and I’m damn well expecting one haha. Kinda gutted I missed the John Lewis pre-orders because I had discount.
 
soratami

soratami

Odd how in all these years they never brought Odin Sphere and Dragon's Crown to the Switch, and no Nier Replicant either. All games I'm sure the console would play perfectly fine, and which I imagine would sell decently too, especially given how well Unicorn Overlord and Nier Automata did. In terms of third party titles that could easily and realistically have been ported to the Switch, I think those are the biggest omissions for me, really no reason for that not to have happened. Would be cool if they appeared on the Switch 2, even if I don't really see it now that it's been several years since they came out on the PS4.
 
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