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SSj_Ness said:
I hear Digimon is relatively mature compared to Pokemon too, but I'm not super familiar with it, but I guess it shows the genre is capable of more than these soulless dead-eyed anime kids smiling like gen 3 onward.
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Digimon for some reason hired a the author of Hellsing and Serial Lain (which are pretty adult rated works) to write their 3rd season Digimon Tamers, if you want to get how serious Digimon was to not just be some ultra kiddy bullshit like Pokemon.

The first fourth of the story is an effective monster of the week type of section where it is literal kill or be killed for the Digimon. It is implied that Digimon have a "the strongest survive" kind of logic and they absorb each other's data to in-theory evolve. Which in this context more or less kills them via cannibalization.

Kid 1 gets his Digimon by making effectively a brand new Digimon through imagination, but said new digimon has at the start an uncontrollable killer instinct where he acts like an ruthless small predator whenever he senses potential danger. He goes from cute and cuddly to growling in the span of two seconds. He is also a red dinosaur who shoots fireballs from his mouth, so not exactly a very subtle creature either.

Kid 2 gets his Digimon by seeing it get beat up in a video game where his empathy is so strong he brings it back and refuses to let him fight, only to eventually have it evolve (which in Digimon is usually temporary unlike Pokemon) by accident and his partner than gets twin hand gatling guns and just shoots up car in an empty parking garage like a lunatic bunny rabbit because he literally can't control his urge for violence in the moment.

Kid 3 is good at the Digimon card game, and this causes Digimon to try and contact her and all want to be her partner like a bunch of creepy stalkers. If this were a bunch of creepy men, you'd pretty much call the cops for how on the nose uneasy this is for a child's show. That is until her actual partner kills all of them and they form a bond out of pragmatic where they're both cold bitches to each other.

There's also a MiB suit and glasses like organization that wants to find the Digimon that enter the real world and erase them from the real world because they're considered threats to the real world. So all these Digimon partners have to be kept hidden at all times from wider society and not just "oh gosh I don't want my parents to find out that I got a weird dinosaur!" type of light heartedness you'd expect. Their is a pretty respectable threat that requires these kids to hide their Digimon from other people because they might be effectively killed or who knows what if they're just openly seen.

Its all pretty positive in the end, no retarded "everything sucks" grimderp ending, but their are some real dark undertones and actual reasonable tension within what's going on. Many things do not go as planned and there's no real death erasure. The big real death of the series happens around the mid point of the story and the consequences carries on into the final episodes the entire time.

Digimon Tamers has no reason to be as heavy as it was while still being shown on children's television network programming, Pokemon would never greenlight anything like this ever and this was back in the 2000s. Still the best Digimon show by far even if it has a little bit of a slow start due to the monster of the week early formula before its real arcs start.


Vyse Inglebard said:
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You played this? I've heard it's really good survival horror, but it outright says:

If you played it and you think it's good, would you say it's an exception to the rule?
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I'm pretty sure this is more akin to a "disclaimer warning", or if you want to be less kind it is effectively a trigger warning for people who might be weary of such content. This isn't quite what I think is being discussed when developers go "Oh this is going to be so mature!"

Usually it comes from developers and writers taking interviews and going "Okay so we're going to make Pokemon, BUT we're going to be like so mature because you know Pokemon fans have grown up and they deserve to see a more grounded realistic take on a franchise they grew up with. It is time our childhood grows up WITH US" type of posturing and showing off how totally good your writing is going to really really be. Promise. For Realz.
 
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Alright I finished the Xenoblade DLC in one seating. Gameplay wise it fixes a lot of issues I had with 3, story wise I couldn't be happier. I'll cover story details in a post in the Xenoblade thread, since its only Xenoblade autists that would care about that part

It's 15 hours long

Story stuff: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/xenoblade-chronicles-3.117218/post-16248032
 
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Tarka Dhal said:
I liked BotW, but everything Nintendo has done in regards to the sequel leaves me apprehensive. The Legend of Zelda: Nuts and Bolts could be a great game, but I’m not willing to drop $70 to find out.
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This is my general opinion. I don't feel like TOTK really answers my issues with BOTW (even if I liked it as a non-Zelda fan) that I can tell at a glance so I'm 100% not buying this day one or even week one. I'll probably look at what it is like some time down the line through gameplay footage on youtube, maybe pick it up myself if I like what I see, but to me TOTK is BOTW+ but not with what I would have wanted.
 
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The Zekenator said:
This is my general opinion. I don't feel like TOTK really answers my issues with BOTW (even if I liked it as a non-Zelda fan) that I can tell at a glance so I'm 100% not buying this day one or even week one. I'll probably look at what it is like some time down the line through gameplay footage on youtube, maybe pick it up myself if I like what I see, but to me TOTK is BOTW+ but not with what I would have wanted.
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Tarka Dhal said:
I liked BotW, but everything Nintendo has done in regards to the sequel leaves me apprehensive. The Legend of Zelda: Nuts and Bolts could be a great game, but I’m not willing to drop $70 to find out.
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I've never played BOTW cause I never got a Switch. Would you say that TOTK improved upon things that BOTW started with? Is TOTK a game that would be worth buying the Switch for?

Switch Academics pls respond
 
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IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
The fanbase for Fire Emblem seems to be all danger hair gay fags nowadays so I just stay away from the series entirely.

Especially after reading how more recent games have been butchered in localisation by said danger hairs.
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Unless you really want to go down the rabbit hole, you better not knowing how much localization hijinks are present in western releases of japanese games, not just Fire Emblem.

Dupree said:
Why is Nintendo suddenly shifting to a post apocalyptic theme for all it's major IPs? Mario Odyssey, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 3
What demographics or marketing reason do they have, it seems bizarre.
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I don't recall Mario Odyssey being post-apocalyptic unlike the other three. It was more a globe-trotting/adventure theme across different locations.
Also post-apocalypse is a common world setting in japanese media for teens. God Eater, Megaton Musashi X, 13 Sentinels, Utawarerumono, etc. and mecha-related stuff is rather familiar with that theme too.

Vyse Inglebard said:
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You played this? I've heard it's really good survival horror, but it outright says:
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I really enjoyed it a lot on Switch but it has one annoying gameplay rule that forces you to have no more than six items in your inventory (including key items), so this can be a deal-breaker if going around back & forth a lot (to the safe chests next to save points) ain't your thing. The game is also truly the survival kind as you have to only kill enemies and dispose their corpses when necessary, due of limited ammo and flares. Ambiance and visuals are top fucking notch too.

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Spud said:
Is TOTK a game that would be worth buying the Switch for?

Switch Academics pls respond
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My personal rule is that you should at least find five games, of your liking, that you want to play before considering purchasing a console.
I originally bought a Switch in late 2020 for the Zelda musou games, some japanese third-parties and a few local multiplayer vidya (Mario Kart & 51 Worldwide Games), then it later fully replaced my PC as my main gaming platform.
 
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Anonitolia said:
double-posting to say: LOL look at this fucking interview
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Have any of these indie Pokemon clones ever been any good? I’ve never bothered with them because they always come across as hollow imitations. In contrast Yo-kai Watch is a monster catcher with its own identity, and I loved it.

There is an element of brand power there - you could make a wholesale indie clone of a number of older games, and people would lavish praise upon you, but with Pokemon people want the real deal. As such you will probably never find real success building a monster catching RPG with “Like Pokemon, but” at the core of your design.

Spud said:
I've never played BOTW cause I never got a Switch. Would you say that TOTK improved upon things that BOTW started with? Is TOTK a game that would be worth buying the Switch for?

Switch Academics pls respond
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Nobody can answer that, because the game’s not even out yet. All I can say is the same as Zeke; it doesn’t look to be doing what I wanted it to, but we’ll have to wait and see. That said, no single game is worth buying a console for. If you have to ask that at the end of the Switch’s lifecycle, with everything that it already has, then the answer is probably no
 
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CMA argues Switch not “technically capable” of running Call of Duty
CoD is currently available on two gaming consoles – Xbox and PlayStation. We found that these consoles compete closely with each other in terms of content, target audience, and console technology. We found that Nintendo’s consoles compete less closely with either of Xbox or PlayStation, generally offering consoles with different technical specifications, and with its most popular titles tending to be more family- and child-friendly. Nintendo does not currently offer CoD, and we have seen no evidence to suggest that its consoles would be technically capable of running a version of CoD that similar to those in Xbox and PlayStation in terms of quality of gameplay and content.
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“Call of Duty can’t run on Switch because… um… well it just can’t okay!!”
 
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