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None of these pre-orders are valid, for the U.S. How can you have an article titled "Where to pre-order the Switch 2" when none of the retailers have it...??!!

Does this still retain the guild system (like Path Finders) and massive multiplay as was present in the Wii U version?! If not, it seems the story and context of the game will be hugely downgraded. Why was this not mentioned in the review?

Does anyone know if we can load the saves from WII U into the Switch version?

I agree with all the comments that Prince of Persia is such an awesome release. I'm glad I picked it up. Unicorn Overlord would be my #2. However, I disagree with comments on Balatro — I find that just a steaming pile of doo-doo, even after 10 hours of play.

I've been hearing a lot about the Legend of Heroes game. I think I'm gonna check it out!

I'm not seeing it. I'm all for gaming, however I don't think playing (Switch or other system's) games can really be a substitute for professional therapy. Just become some therapist(s) said during Covid: "Go play your Switch" to one of his/her clients does not make it a realistic, pragmatic, or alternative substitute to the real work of therapeutically processing real-life and trauma issues for which therapy is designed to address.

Please do not ruin the Prince of Persia series by turning it into garbage through making it rogue-like or roguelite or any other rogue-whatever. That approach to "rogue"-ize it will just push even more players away because of its pointlessness and unappealing aspects.

I gotta be honest, 10/10 seems like a Christmas miracle. This game looks pretty lame. 6/10 at most.

Framerate issues continue to plague the Switch with many new and Q3 or Q4 2020 releases. The Switch is just outdated hardware now that really can't keep up with modern game engines. Time is coming quite soon to put this hardware platform out to the pasture because of many great games that aren't playable because of dropped framerate and general performance issues.

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Don't see a real reason to upgrade. And, $350 for a console with a 2015 CPU & GPU combo?? C'mon! Get real.

Picked this up and played it through multiple times. Not sure what all the fuss is about. There are really no horror elements. It follows other VN type games (just hammer the A button). And, certainly isn't breaking any fourth wall or meta anything. The female characters are incredibly superficial, choices are obvious, there really isn't any twist to anything, and experienced gamers can see the endings coming from the start. Even more so, the endings feel quite forced. Overall, the art style and music are poppy and fit the title; however, the writing and dialogue is disappointing and quite sloppy.

The art direction and animation style on this look like a terrible monochrome 4 color Apple ][ basic programmed game. The pixelated style makes me want to pour J&J No Tears in my eyes because it is so horrid. It looks and feels worse than when I was playing disk jockey with 5.25" disks while waiting for the next part of my Zork adventure to load.

Saw the new patch with updates is out for this. Bro, I can't believe people are still paying this piece of junk.

I just want to know, do I get any tiddies?

Picked this up last week. Spent about 10 hours as a casual gamer playing and having to restart after each death. This is definitely NOT a 10/10, in my opinion. As a top-down isometric action dungeon crawler with reasonable gameplay and unique art style, I wouldn only give this a 7/10 at the most. Anything over this feels like it is just sponsored or biased. Hades has a godmode, but I am trying to avoid using that. Overall the monotony after hours of death makes it feel quite dated. The gameplay and mechanics seem to reduce the replayability each round, meaning the fun factor is steadily decreasing by about every 15 minutes because of this. Eventually it feels like you will just get bored of this and its approach to gameplay. Just put it down and not really care about playing again after to 1500th death.

Just finished A Short Hike. Everything about it is good. Controls, frame rate, art style, music, NPC interaction are all solid. There are some areas where the camera is clunky or can hinder progress (like the windy tunnel on the climb up). However, it does feel lacking. It reminded me a lot of Animal Crossing, or felt like it could be a mini-game FROM Animal Crossing. Really, it is what you make it: an enjoyable few sessions of a creatively assembled game. After reaching the top, I've run through again 4 times focusing now on exploration. There are many books and crannies to explore and seek out. In the end, expect 10-15 hours of gameplay which includes multiple playthroughs.

Oh my baby jeebus in a bathtub! That framerate is horrible. It's like my Vic-20 is running QEMU struggling with its emulation.

@Galenmereth Sure. I agree with much of what is said. As I mentioned, I'm sure it will hold my kids interest longer than mine. This is just their first Pokemon experience while I'm leaving the table disappointed.

Been playing Sword for awhile now. Gotta say it does feel half-baked and that I'm disappointed in many of the reused aspects from earlier titles. I'm not sure it will hold my interest much past the holiday season. My children may appreciate Sword longer than me I suppose. I'd disagree with the 8 / 10 and, as a user score, rate more like 6.5 / 10.

I'm not sure I understand ... are these TWO SEPARATE games? (For $60 USD each?!)

I picked this up some weeks back and have played it daily since then. I'd like to comment that all trainers, male or female, are just lame. No difference in dialogue; personalitirs are horrid. Gameplay is weakened by joycons incorrectly registering a punch, such as when you twist but have yet to throw it for a hook or uppercut. This also happens on repeated jabs such as when there is three in a row. Finally, for the US release, why do I have to enter weight and height in metric units?! WTF?!? This is just lazy programming.

I believe I still have this on 3.5" floppies somewhere......

Yes, I also got Bayonetta 2 back in the spring. To be honest, I spent about 10 hours playing it and was ultimately bored. Finished beating Galdera in Octopath, so maybe I'll return to B2 or pick up another I've been meaning to play, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.

...thought the old lady and I could co-op this, but after a lackluster experience on MK8D, she just won't have any more 2-player games.

Sorry. Who the f##k cares? Arms was a P.O.S. from day one. Terrible control, sorry-ass gameplay and logistics, and game mechanics that make we want to Cleveland Steamer all over my Switch Arms physical card. Where to I get my money back from this lame-ass title that has absolutely no gameplay and value beyond its first 10 days?

I am stuck as the stupid Lizard man. How do I change back to the Hu-man??