Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Ralizah Oh man, that’s great news, the original is great but I have to dig out my 3DS to play it. Really, really cool for them to revisit it and I know you’ll be all over that physical copy!

@nessisonett The Switch physical was surprising enough, but they're reprinting the GBC cartridge?!

That game costs hundreds of dollars to play on the original hardware.

Risky's Revenge is coming as well. The entire series will be availabe on Switch.

@Ralizah Now I have no excuse not to catch up on the series, this is seriously cool of them to do.

@Kidfried You make a good point about Red Dead 2 actually, I forgot just how amazing that one mission was, where you take Abigail out around Blackwater. It’s strange how few and far between actual games that have a proper canonical romantic element are, it’s one of the main types of media after all. I wonder why so many games treat it as a ‘minigame’ of sorts, or it being left up to the player to decide on a partner. All this talk is actually making me want to try Catherine again, it’s been a while after all and perhaps I’ll take to it slightly better this time. I still find some of the Erica stuff extremely iffy but to be honest, I really like Gone with the Wind as a movie so it’s the same sorta deal for me.

The best love story in a video game is BJ and Anya in Wolfenstein: The New Order.

And Zidane and Garnet in FF9, of course.

The WayForward game is Bakugan. Literally a Beyblade knock-off toy from about 10 years ago. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

That was the worst video game-related stream I've ever watched in my life. Both Paper Mario and... whatever that WF game was just looked really terrible. I hope The Origami King gets better later on, because that footage was... yikes.

@nessisonett The news that Shantae's GBC cart was being reprinted set the cosmic order out of balance. We needed something cripplingly disappointing to balance it back out.

@Ralizah Yeah, Paper Mario does look rather rubbish, definitely not a full price purchase. I have no words for Pokemon-wannabe #9. I wonder if Nintendo actually have any real announcements in the works, if E3 was going ahead then they would have been screwed because the future looks absolutely barren.

What was wrong with Origami King @Ralizah?

You sounded a little more optimistic with some of the recent news about it... I think? 😅

Seemed weird to tease Bakugan as a WayForward game before the reveal. People were going to expect the game to be a charming 2D game similar to Shantae/Mighty Switch Force, or a decent metroidvania like The Mummy Demastered. But instead, it ends up being a fairly generic 3D monster trainer game.

Mario looked okay. Whats up?!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy The people playing the game in the stream went through multiple battles, and I don't even remember seeing anything attack Mario until the boss battle.

And the boss battle itself was also disappointing. It's a pack of colored pencils. They make some bad stationary-related puns, you do some weird mini-game to attack the boss, and then repeat this same procedure over and over. The boss barely damages Mario itself.

The gameplay is running around finding toads hidden everywhere. Dozens and dozens of toads.

My nephew is excited for it, so I'm still getting it, but I'm going to tear this game a new one in my review if it stays this bad.

@crimsontadpoles It literally looked like a Sword and Shield bootleg. Battles make no sense. Your monsters battle each-other, and you play a kid who runs around throwing what look like frisbees at the monster.

WF has made some of my favorite games. Words cannot express my disappointment.

... Oooof.

I'll have to give it a look myself but that doesn't sound particularly great @Ralizah. I know people were rather displeased about Sticker Star and Colour Splash and hoping this paper Mario would be better.

I really do hope it's better for you all then what the stream seemed to show

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Paper Mario fans are a desperate lot. The series has gotten so bad that seeing a toad with a hat or a mustache with an actual name becomes an occasion for excitement.

@KratosMD lol

I have seen them, but I guess I expected... more mechanics? SOME challenge? SOMETHING?

I don't object to the lack of XP or the stationary bosses on principle. I think the bosses fit the theme, and I actually rather like that rubber band monster.

But that extended boss battle footage was NOT good.

@Ralizah I’m so sick of Nintendo’s mentality that boss battles need to be a gimmick that takes 3 uses to kill. It’s been that way in Mario and Zelda games since at least the N64 days and with BotW changing that, I thought the days were over. Nope, here comes Paper Mario to trod all over the grave of its series with horrible, gimmicky minigame boss fights.

Intelligent Systems hasnt exactly been known for making their existing and loved franchises into modern hits, lets just say that.

With the exception of Awakening, and Three Houses that was mostly Koei Tecmo....yeah not great.

@Haruki_NLI I want Advance Wars!!

@nessisonett I wouldn't trust em with it.

Looking at their work since 2010 it's eesh.

Pushmo, Crashmo, FE Awakening, Sticker Star, Game and Wario, Pushmo World, Code Name STEAM, Stretchmo, FE Fates, Colour Splash, FE Heroes, FE Echoes, WarioWare Gold and Three Houses.

So you have some small puzzle games, two WarioWare games, one of which is an anthology of sorts, a few commerical and critical duds in Code Name Steam and FE Fates, a mobile game, the two most reviled Paper Mario titles, and a Fire Emblem mostly developed by someone else.

Their track record this decade aint hot.

@Haruki_NLI I quite like the Pushmo games and Awakening’s my favourite FE but yeah, the rest of that isn’t too great looking. It’s a shame, IntSys were brilliant in the 00s, releasing hit after hit and a few of my favourite games on Cube and Wii. WarioWare on Cube’s tortoise stacking mode is still my favourite Nintendo party game, hands down.