the Fire Emblem seems like kind of a low-key approach to that series compared to the anime maximalism that it could have
the 180(!) cardboard Yoshi outfits make me suddenly on board for getting the Yoshi game
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
he is so silly
*tickles under josh’s chin*
yeah I could be convinced by yoshi demo
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
never played a FE before. didn’t think it was so valkyria chroniclesy
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
No indies other than Deltarune Chapter 1 coming to Switch, hoping for a NoA Nindies video soon
Animal Crossing is going to be one of the biggest releases this year, I think it'll either be the centerpiece of E3 or get its own direct in the next two months
The widely-reported Car Fox is still a no show, I wonder if that will actually get released
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
xp valkyria chronicles was always just WW2 3D fire emblem
so now that fire emblem is 3D it's even closer
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
I will dutifully acquire Maker 2 and make exactly three bad levels
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
animal crossing going to chew up so much time
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
yeah I imagine they're going to want to reintroduce the whole experience since it's really been a while since the last full-fledged game (New Leaf came out in 2012/2013)
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
i'm still cackling that nintendo's contribution to the battle royale craze is tetris
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
rarin to get home and download it tbh
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
i've never played link's awakening so i'm pretty excited about that one. also into the idea of tetris99
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
I am very excited to play link's awakening for the first time in rebooted switch form
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
don't know about those goombas, though
battle tetris: i like it
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
link's awakening a definite buy from me. lot of other interesting stuff too, but mostly that for me
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
I got excited from the boat cartoon that it would be Wind Waker, but LA looks great too
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
the gbc links awakening is my favorite zelda game and possibly just straight up favorite video game so i am more nervous than excited about that one
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
That anime-looking mech battle game looks like it could be fun?
― DJI, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
also the goombas are in the original heh. its a weird game
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
places third out of 99 on my first tetris99 game! i haven't played tetris in a long time so it felt pretty good. that was also the first version of tetris i've ever played where you could hold a piece for later. the targeting thing is interesting, i guess. i was too busy trying to play tetris that i found it difficult to glance at the side to pick who to target. near the end i was being targeted by 6 people at once. shortly thereafter i lost.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
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
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
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 ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
Tetris 99 rules
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
Most importantly, it’s free, so the fun to expense ratio is...*plugs in numbers and calculates furiously*... 7
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
Or infinity. It’s 7 or infinity
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
the fire emblem game looks dope as hell
― (° . ° )― (Lamp), Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Thursday, 14 February 2019 05:52 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:03 (five years ago) link
to me they usually look off or lazy/incomplete but this one looks real classy + coherent
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link
yeah, this looks and sounds great. and it feels like a good move and refreshing bridge to a true BotW successor.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 14 February 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link
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
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 14 February 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
wow a Hollow Knight sequel, looks amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFAknD_9U7c
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 February 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
YES
― ||||||||, Thursday, 14 February 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
that looks amazing
― ||||||||, Thursday, 14 February 2019 10:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 February 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
it’s a ‘new’ zelda game on switch
that’s the big deal
― ||||||||, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
it will be a nice holdover until breath of majora’s mask drops
― ||||||||, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
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
― ||||||||, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
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...)
― JimD, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
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.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
The only Zelda handheld I've played is Spirit Tracks...I think they could pass over that one in their remasters.
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
dammit Jim, get on that shit!
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
i didn't even like hollow knight and that trailer looks good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
Was going to say, be careful admitting you haven't played Breath of the Wild.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
BAN JimD
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link