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• CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hard disagree. Nintendo first party games (the reason to buy their consoles) are always top-notch.

  The ones I’ve bought on Switch 2:

  • Mario Kart World - wonderful game with excellent driving mechanics. Open world and lots of fun.
  • DK Bananza - endearing game with a heartfelt story, great music, fun gameplay. Really enjoyed my time 100%ing this game.
  • pokemon Legends Z-A: good game overall. Nothing groundbreaking but fun.
  • Pokemon Pokopia - I’m absolutely obsessed. Heartfelt story, hits so many nostalgic beats, tackles a difficult subject of humans destroying the environment. What happens to our Pokes when we humans have to leave them behind? Amazing game with deep breadth, excellent quality of life that builds upon typical sandbox games, and the music is so nice. When I first heard the Pokémon healing melody adapted into one song, or when I reached a destroyed Palette Town and heard all the original Pokémon Red/Blue musical beats embedded in the overarching musical theme, I was so moved. Very touching game, too. One of the best Pokémon spin offs I’ve played, and this game is canon.

  Still waiting on more first-party games that are on the horizon - the potential Ocarina of Time remake if the rumors are true, Pokémon Winds/Waves, and the new 3D Mario game.

  Any other game I haven’t picked up because I would rather play it on PC.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lol

    They literally make games for the lowest common denominator and everything on the Switch 1 and 2 is so much worse than anything they’ve ever made prior to these system. They look nice, but they are pretty brainless to play, geared toward young children, the elderly, and people who have never ever played a video game before.

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “They literally make games for the lowest common denominator and everything on the Switch 1 and 2 is so much worse than anything they’ve ever made prior to these systems. They look nice, but they are pretty brainless to play, geared toward young children, the elderly, and people who have never ever played a video game before.”

      Sounds to me like you haven’t played any of the new Nintendo first-party games that are highly revered. Tears of the Kingdom as an example, is a gut-wrenching and dramatic game. I prefer the older Zelda games (having grown up on them starting with SNES), but I would be laughably naive to deny that the latest two Zelda’s have been ground breaking. Mario Odyssey is charming and fun, and one of the best platformers I played (top title goes to Astro Bot on PS5 for me). The Xenoblade games are top tier. DK Bananza is endearing, touching, and incredibly fun. Pokopia, I already commented above - one of the best Pokémon games to have come out (given that GameFreak churns out games so quickly and refuse to innovate). Pokopia was developed by someone else, and boy does that game put the other Pokémon games to shame. Lots of other examples, but I’m tired of typing on mobile.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think the Nintendo fanboys need to take a step back and look what is actually being said.

        They are smooth-brained games for smooth-brained players. As in they are basic, simple, and hand-holdy. There is no challenge. You basically do not need a brain to enjoy Nintendo games.

        That isn’t meant to imply they can not be enjoyable.

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    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok, but... I have young children and parents who I would like to be able to play games together. As far as I can tell, other than Roblox and Lego Party, literally nobody is catering to that market.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The smooth brained entertainment comment was just referring to the Mario Galaxy movie.

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, it’s Nintendo specific.”

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oops, I missed that and thought it was replying to the comment above it.

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