Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

Odyssey didn't click with me properly at first, although I was enjoying it, but once I hit New Donk City I was utterly in love with the game and haven't looked back. Contends with Galaxy 2 as my favourite Mario game of all time, but I think Odyssey just has the edge

It's weird, because Odyssey didn't truly click with me until the post-game, but I do regard it as one of the best 3D Mario games I've played (although Galaxy is better). There's just so much to it! Usually Mario platformers are 10 - 15 hour once and done experiences for me, but this one has an extraordinary amount of hidden and post-game content. and most of it is really good.

There's definitely a subtle shift in genre, though. I think it's closer to something like Banjo-Kazooie or the original Yooka-Laylee than it is Mario 64/Sunshine.

So with the news that Animal Crossing are scrapping binary genders and you just create a character, what do people think? Is it a good solution given the main audience of Animal Crossing in the West is late high school/university students? Obviously there will be people annoyed since there always is but honestly I think it’s a big step forward for the big N considering their patchy history.

@nessisonett Personally, I can see no issue with any character creation as long as it gives options for people to customise how they please. A male or female preset seems like a useless distinction since you can still customise the same. Never understood the hoo ha from some sectors about it (but agree with you, I think this is a step forward).

They're still behind IMO. It's been nearly 20 years and you still cannot be an actual animal in Animal Crossing.

@nessisonett It's a good thing and honestly I don't see why it should annoy anyone. The character creator options seem robust, so what's the problem? I would hope that Nintendo have increased the number of skin tones to more accurately represent people. Nintendo have a lot of work to do generally. The PR response to Tomodachi Life criticism was appalling.

Why do you ask if it's a good solution given the main audience and what suggests young adults are the main audience?

@mookysam From what I’ve seen, especially given the circles I move in, Animal Crossing is hugely popular among teenage and student-age LGBT+ and gender-diverse people so I wonder if Nintendo realise this. The sorta people I see on Twitter have all been extremely positive about these changes since they plow thousands of hours on each entry in the series. Looking at all the changes to the game as a whole, including things like choosing a hemisphere, it seems like they’re actively trying to make the game more representative of your world, regardless of background.

@nessisonett If I'm not incorrect, your character is still male or female, it just unlocks customization options (like hair, for example), that used to be gender locked. So you can be a female-presenting male, or visa versa. Which, other than hair and facial characteristics, was already possible in New Leaf via the non-gender restricted clothing options.

Anyway, my avatar was trans in New Leaf, and that will continue here as well. The extra options are nice, however.

It’s quite remarkable how crazy things get on NLife at times. For such a non-issue, people get rather aggressive about options being added that aren’t targeted towards them.

It's because NL gets more traffic. More people, more problems.

Thankfully, that nonsense only happens in the comments under news articles, and broadly doesn't pollute the forums.

And people get aggressive because it's emblematic of larger cultural shifts toward inclusivity and away from traditional notions of gender that some people are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with.

NL seems generally fine to me. I think sometimes people scroll through the comments and see a few nutters and tar everyone with the same brush.

Some of the nonsense I come out with on articles probably leads the casual observer to believe I'm a complete idiot, when in reality I’m barely 75% idiot!

@kyleforrester87 Genuinely, the minute an article mentions anything remotely liberal, there’s suddenly over 100 comments. I mean, yeah, some of them are me trying to reason with the mob but I swear there’s others too 😂

@nessisonett maybe you’re the problem

@kyleforrester87 I must now commit seppuku to preserve my honor 😂😂

Everything about this image is an absolute sin.

Before the data on my old 3DS was wiped and I lost year of activity log data, it had logged 800+ instances of me "playing" the Nintendo Eshop.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I wonder if removing the battery resets the clock? Sometimes it falls out when I’m taking the micro SD out so either that or my 3DS is genuinely cursed.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Number 1 is Internet Browser with 3560 plays. I didn’t have a phone for a few years there so used to watch YouTube and the like through it hahaha. Rune Factory 4 is in third with 522 but I played that for hours at a time and didn’t inspire many resets like Ghost Recon did. It’s actually a decent game, considering it’s a launch title. A pretty fun strategy game from before Fire Emblem came out so it kept me occupied for a good few years.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Even weirder is that the play time was over 100 hours for the eshop. I have no idea when I did that much browsing of the store!

To be clear, this was from 2011 - 2016.

I mean, in fairness, I played 3DS almost exclusively from 2011 - 2014 or so, but still, that's a LOT of time to spend in an online store.

@Ralizah Maybe there is some kind of bug that keeps counting when you put it on sleep...
I am not a fan os 3DS OS, very slow even on New 3DS.

I am playing Sonic 2 on Switch for the 300th time and have a blast.
I also got the Season Pass DLC for Atelier Ryza. I really like this game.

By the way having spent more time with the Lite model I like it more than the OG one.