The Nintendo Switch

okeydoke, tetris99 will end up somewhere on my coint & plick 2019 ballot. i had little interest in the recent tetris that everyone raved about because i really don't care about the graphics or what kinds of backgrounds are floating behind the pieces (i know there are many other improvements besides those). but playing against a bunch of people turns out to be a lot of fun

links awakening is a goat game and better than any other Zelda game

but

also not a Nintendo first party developed game iirc

so

hm

I’m getting my history mixed up. The engine was developed in collaboration with Intelligent Systems for another game. And they might as well be first party at this point so nm disregard previous post

the original links awakening started as an off the clock pet project of some nintendo devs iirc which is why it has some mario enemies in it but then got picked up as an official project. don't think intsys had anything to do with it

the later game boy zeldas were made by capcom, those are the only mainline zeldas that weren't made in-house at nintendo i think

Tetris 99 rules

Most importantly, it’s free, so the fun to expense ratio is...*plugs in numbers and calculates furiously*... 7

Or infinity. It’s 7 or infinity

the fire emblem game looks dope as hell

i already somehow played like 4 hrs of tetris O_o

awesome direct thing today. so psyched for mario maker on switch! june release is sooner than i expected

actually really like the style on the zelda port

http://i63.tinypic.com/r6zb54.png

i'm super basic with what i want from nintendo + they keep delivering, lol.

the style is fine but not super exciting to me since nintendo's already got a ton of 'diorama' presentation games even if they're all a little different

to me they usually look off or lazy/incomplete but this one looks real classy + coherent

yeah, this looks and sounds great. and it feels like a good move and refreshing bridge to a true BotW successor.

Mario Maker is the best thing ever! It's so much better than any other community-creating ecosystem because the amazing, never-beat Mario platforming controls. So it'll never not feel good.

https://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/nggallery/zelda-links-awakening-comparison/zelda-comparison-1.jpg

cute

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the intsys game i mentioned is fan-translated into english as 'for the frog the bell tolls', it has the same engine as link's awakening -- though w/o action combat. i really should get around to playing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaBHoN6GGo

wow a Hollow Knight sequel, looks amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFAknD_9U7c

YES

that looks amazing

I thought it was just going to be DLC. TAKE MY MONEY!

(Now, an aside: I watched that and I though, wow, I can't wait for that movie to come out. I watched the Switch direct and thing, bleh, more generic anime fighting. Different strokes.)

So what's the big deal about the Zelda port? I never had a Gameboy.

it’s a ‘new’ zelda game on switch

that’s the big deal

it will be a nice holdover until breath of majora’s mask drops

also it’s generally regarded to be one of the better 2D zelda games I think

give us minish cap and four swords next. hell I’d take updates to the DS zeldas too pls

Link's Awakening is way better than any other handheld Zeldas. It basically shifted the direction for the entire series with its story, unique oddball characters and tropes. It's a truly beautiful game with a perfectly executed melancholy tone.

Looking forward to playing through it again.

Link's Awakening is the only zelda I've ever enjoyed enough that I finished it, if that's indicative of anything (I don't like zeldas much) (I haven't tried BOTW yet) (I mean I've had BOTW waiting for over a year and haven't bothered to start it up so...)

agree that LA is best Zelda handheld game. apparently they were heavily influenced by Twin Peaks while making it, which explains a lot of the oddness.

The only Zelda handheld I've played is Spirit Tracks...I think they could pass over that one in their remasters.

a perfectly executed melancholy tone.

Yeah. I'm wondering whether the diorama-like art style from the trailer is really the right thing to recapture that. Feel like Link's Awakening should be more hazy and ethereal.

dammit Jim, get on that shit!

i didn't even like hollow knight and that trailer looks good

Was going to say, be careful admitting you haven't played Breath of the Wild.

BAN JimD

seconded

i haven't finished breath of the wild

We don’t ask for much around here. But we do ask that you complete a 100+ hour game and regularly report out your progress AND that you love everything about the game

Jim, can you please gauge your level of confidence in this chart: http://www.fromkarenskitchen.com/tips/produce_weight_yield_chart.php

yes KM otm. ban ciderpress

<whispers> but but I've got a 2 year old so I only play games about an hour a week these days and I've promised myself I'll finish Witcher 3 before I start anything new so that'll take me another 2 years at least but yeah i know, i know

i didn't finish witcher 3 either

2-year-olds nap for 2 to 3 hours each day. that leaves you 30 minutes of main quest progress after you've settled on the day's horse mane style

I’m sorry but what is more important levelling up your two year old or saving hyrule from ganondork. some people

You need to kill time until your 2yo is at least 11 and has their shit together, play zelda

Easier to level up children than Link, imo.

he said, while shaking a can of deer antler spray

JimD, just wait until they get older and *compete* with you for game time.

Oh well yeah we've got a 13 year old too so that's the other issue (I mean the switch belongs to him not me tbf)

has he played Zelda?

100% and he says it's his favourite game of all time.

at least there’s one good D

more than can be said for the press family

don’t even speak to me about the in chicagos

you have achieved the goal of every parent - your child has exceeded you. go to the grave peacefully