Some Switch games could definitely take advantage of more power too

Emoji kinda function as the new punctuation in the internet era.

Whatever one might think aesthetically, they do a lot to indicate the tone of a message.

Of course, but this is what makes me wonder, if there was anything truly objectionable happening, wouldn’t they have been taken down already? It’s not like this was a surprise release.

Absolutely. It’s not like they are incapable of decent original design. Daedream is cute and Depresso is funny as hell.

Yeah, I agree. But being evocative of an idea is not illegal, unless the design is near indistinguishable or if they used files from Pokémon in the production of the Pals. Say, how many Superman copies are there? There are multiple stories out there whose main idea is “What if Superman was bad.”

Meanwhile I see people going “Anubis is just Lucario” and I wonder why they think the Pokémon Company owns the idea of every single upright canid. It doesn’t even have spikes or anything.

In this case it would probably be fought in Japan because both The Pokémon Company and Palworld’s developer Pocketpair are from Japan.

Which would be fine, frankly. With all the money Palworld got, they can aford to redesign some creatures. The number of them that actually look like imitations in practice is much smaller than critics make it to be.

The only Mario series that gets more than rare 33% discounts

Seems to me like the Wonder Seeds might make it much more replayable than NSMB because every stage will have unique variations you can engage with on top of the typical run.

Which, come to think of it, seems like it’s applying some ideas of the 3D Marios into a 2D one. Replaying stages with unique missions and gameplay twists is a staple of 3D Mario since 64.

The jailbreaking community saves the day once again

It definitely should. No digital work can endure a century before it’s completely lost. The copyright length we have today is a death sentence for a large chunk of our culture.

For all their flaws, Valve and Minecraft show it can be done. You can have both a monetizable live service and user hostable servers.

So I hear, but also that DP was really flawed before it. BW was pretty good by itself.

I haven’t played enough Platinum to say for sure, but that doesn’t sound right to me at all. BW alone was a very good game already.

GameFreak needs time. TotK had a lot of time to get polished.

Because nostalgia is a driving force for this franchise and BW committed the sin to dare not to rely on that. Which is why even when they cut the National Dex in Sword and Shield, they made sure nobody would miss that Charizard was still there.

They are constantly testing how little they can offer and still have people buy out of sheer nostalgia. That Indigo Disk DLC with the Blueberry Academy looks like it will be very barebones, just an enclosed environment with some Elite 4-like fights, but they made sure to show that all the old starter buddies are back, because they know people will flock to that.

Back to Tears of the Kingdom until Fantasy Life i drops. Finally cleared Korok Forest. It was surprisingly easy after the Hyrule Castle fight.

I got bold enough to try facing a Gleeok. I didn’t die but I wasted a whole lot of stuff. Seems like my stuff is not up to par yet. Am I supposed to have a bunch of elemental eyes or what?

I like it better like this. There is an oversaturation of pixelated games, but the art style of the first one was frankly the weakest part of the whole game.

Yeah, Capcom doesn’t own every possible variations of blue and red robot people.

Hell, Megaman is kind of an Astro Boy knock-off.

It’s reductionist, but it gets to the point that it’s not an abstract everlasting resource, it’s a system that’s not under your control, so it might not be always reliable. So people should be wary of service discontinuations, rules and price changes.

The point can be distilled even further, the cloud is someone else’s.