Clemantine! I played PSU about a year ago with my friends. We played about two weeks then they fell off~ it was good to revisit, but it was a repeat of the first time haha

Step one: be hot

Heroes of Might and Magic IV - Diverted from the series’ standards with a new traversal mechanic. Most people hated it and was immediately dropped for Heroes V. But it added unique ways to get around, rewarded having small squads of fast units. Still had incredible music.

Phantasy Star Universe, Phantasy Star Zero - Weird entries in a franchise that pretty much only gets discussed for PSO and PSO2. PSU had a weird spell mechanic where your wand had PP instead of your character having PP, so Cast characters could use photon arts. And the Beast race that was forgotten. PSZ is more story-based, but I mostly feel that people don’t know about it rather than dislike it.

So you’re Romero’s little bitch?

Uniracers is awesome! Truly a unique game for how it plays. The track color code system is very well implemented, and once you get good at the game you feel like Cypher reading the Matrix code directly. Great music that still pops in my head. I think it fits this category because the design is kind of bizarre and I’m sure it didn’t click with everyone.

The lawsuit is just tragic because it’ll never be rereleased/remastered, and would be awesome on NSO.

I quit in Cataclysm and hopped back in for WoD. The garrisons were a great concept and I enjoyed sending expeditions. But I just didn’t have the time for WoW anymore and my community was gone, so I only played a month.

Now, games have aggressive monetization through battle passes and gotcha mechanics! Truly we have improved.

Love In Deepspace is your example of highly sexualized men for women.

For first party support, Tomodachi Life did just come out, and sales data shows that around half of the sales were for Switch 1. Switch 2’s launch year was certainly lean compared to the excellent 2017 Switch lineup, but there were a lot of heavy hitters from their top IPs and that wheelchair basketball game. With how similar the consoles are, I’d imagine we’ll still get a handful of first party Switch 1 titles like Rhythm Heaven and cross-gen games like Metroid and Pokemon Z-A.

The Switch was fairly underpowered when it launched in 2017, so the fact that we’re even getting new games for it more than a year after Switch 2 is pretty nice. And it’ll get third party/indie support for many more years–Switch 1 install base is the second biggest for a console ever so it’s throwing money away not to continue support.

It had RECORD sales. Nintendo did a great job that supply met demand and scalpers didn’t ruin it for a lot of people. Cutting back after your launch delivered to your core base should be a standard, not an exception. Hating on Nintendo is justified in many areas, but this isn’t warranted.

Probably more to do with RAM prices in this case. They already bumped the price up for tariffs.

TotK swapped out all the main abilities and made Gary’s Mod the main focus with the battery power being a new primary stat meter, so it does feel quite different. Also you have a full party fighting with you and two new maps to explore using lots of crazy machines.

Mario Kart 8 introduced tracks that go upside down and underwater, and gave kart customization. Mario Kart World made every track part of an open world map and made open world challenges. Sure the main gameplay is very similar, but it’s definitely not just Mario Kart 64 again and again.

Compare with something like Star Fox, F-Zero, Punch-Out, or Pikmin where the series just languishes until they feel they have a new enough spin to give it. Those games could have much bigger franchises if they changed their philosophy a bit.

That’s genuinely not true. They’re actually infuriatingly devoted to only putting out games with new ideas. We don’t get regular sequels often because they wouldn’t deviate far enough from the previous one.

The spin for this new Star Fox is clearly the camera tie in, getting to basically be a vtuber in their chat system. It also utilizes mouse controls, a series first.

If you watched the video you’d see there are some interesting applications

I wonder how common this was. I kind of assumed they were written just as (more or less) midi

the implication

The point is to learn 3+ alien languages word by word

Seems to be more prevalent here on the fediverse specifically

Yup. 5 is probably tied with 3 as my favorite in the series. Glad they consider 4 a good entry as well, because even if they messed with traversal, the sailing theme is bangin

Have people always had his opinion? I swear I’ve never seen pushback for April Fools joke articles in the past. Hell, they were anticipated because of fun ones like Blizzard.