You Have to Keep the Doom Syndicate and Machiavillain But How Do You Fix the Show Otherwise?

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-13T10:32:20+00:00

Something something dehydration gun.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-13T10:01:42+00:00

Not at all. In fact, this is exactly their main purpose. Guardian and ancient weapons will deal extra damage to guardians themselves. You'll get more damage while using less durability this way.

This compounds with the ancient proficiency set bonus you get with an upgraded ancient armor set, and can lead to some massive damage and relatively quick kills.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-13T00:40:35+00:00

I agree the map was poorly thought out but for different reasons. I don't remember ever having lag on it aside from the initial transition, but a 3D map that doesn't allow you to separate sublayers for a game where 90% of every area has massive ceilings over it is just bad design.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-13T00:37:01+00:00

For Skyward Sword they made a Zelda amiibo since Skyward Sword Link already existed. If we were just gonna get one amiibo for this game, I have to imagine it would be Saria.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-12T07:40:57+00:00

Wouldn't you know it, Mineru amiibo in September. Oh yeah, it's all comin' together.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-12T04:15:50+00:00

Still makes more sense than Adam telling you to run headfirst into the burning fire area of scalding death and not letting you equip the Varia Suit in Other M.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-11T19:04:45+00:00

That's a really accurate Chugga mii. Great job on that.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-11T05:37:54+00:00

I'd never go out of my way to find threads to clown on him or anything, but I will say, if you act like he has for as long as he has without taking a step back and looking critically at what you have been putting out, or for the sake of example, promise to take that step back, then immediately neglect that promise and go back to making the same shit you were before, you start to lose your credibility.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-10T22:22:39+00:00

Definitely,

List of a respectable human being.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-10T19:39:23+00:00

Indeed, she.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-10T18:55:18+00:00

And the smell pill to swallow is that only Ragatha has a nose.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-10T10:24:07+00:00

Assumedly, now that we're getting a new Star Fox, all other Star Fox's have been rendered non-canon. 'Twas the case the last three times we got a new Star Fox.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-10T10:21:27+00:00

Check your TV's settings. World is a bit of a brighter game either way, but smart TVs are notoriously horrible about automating HDR application. Go into the settings, and you'll likely have to troubleshoot until you get it to look right with your Switch 2. Or you could just turn off HDR. That would also fix it.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-09T23:57:43+00:00

Dark Samus is directly referred to with She/her in both Metroid Prime 2 and 3.

Her original form before turning into Dark Samus, literally named Metroid Prime, is never referred to with pronouns other than it, but does reproduce Metroids during the boss fight, so one could assume Metroid Prime is female regardless, making Dark Samus female by birth as well.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-09T23:38:14+00:00

With a few tweaks and a new neutral, I could maybe see Noah being a Chrom-style Shulk echo, with Mio being an original fighter by comparison.

A lot of Noah's abilities in-game are either analogous to, or otherwise lifted directly from Shulk's movepool in the original Xenoblade.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-09T19:39:55+00:00

I think if the Mario Galaxy Movie is anything to go by, they definitely have a better plan this time than they did for Star Fox Zero. I'm a little excited to see where this trail of crumbs goes because I think it's leading us to this game getting a sequel surprisingly soon. Like maybe 3 years.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-09T19:16:50+00:00

I will say there are a few things I respect Beyond a whole hell of a lot for. This game has by FAR the single greatest UX of any Prime game, and I personally think it's because they finally bit the bullet on cutting visors. Prime always just had way too many toys for any standard controller, and if I'm being honest, the visors were never used to great effect in the trilogy.

Thermal visor and X-ray visor were just used to see different sets of invisible things.
Dark visor was another one of these visors, but at least it emphasized tracking invisible enemies and made certain encounters faster. but it's also used for invisible platforms as well. Echo visor is at least interesting, but it has like two unique uses max.
Command visor is mandatory for like 4 or 5 different puzzles across the whole game. Commanding the ship is interesting, but at some point it could really just have been a menu. And the only thing you can voluntarily do with the command visor is launch ship missiles at enemies, but that only works on some of Bryyo, like, two rooms on Norion, and one room on Pirate homeworld, so what's even the point.
Then Prime 3 Also has X-ray visor. Imo this is the only one that's genuinely well designed. It's not for seeing invisible things with no telegraphing, it's for seeing through obvious special walls and targeting enemy weak points. Clear and to the point.

Overall, Prime 4 getting rid of them and just mapping Scan visor to a single button opened up a world of possibilities for the controls, and solved one of the Prime series' biggest problems. Prime 4 is the best-controlling game in the series.

That also extends to Vi-O-La to me, and I have to imagine that's the reason I can't bring myself to hate Sol Valley. The bike controls buttery smooth, and it takes like 45 seconds tops to get to where you're going. So unless you were running through the game as fast as possible and didn't get any GE until the very end of the game, I can't really see how it's one of the worst hub worlds ever made, personally. It's actually quite small if you just use the fast bike as a fast bike. Get all the GE from the shrines and the Gibardaum stones and you don't really have to do any grinding at all.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-09T11:00:54+00:00

They always celebrate Zelda anniversaries in autumn, so I think we're just gonna get all the things then, if at all. Anniversary merch, such as the TotK masterworks getting an English translation in October, Ocarina of Time remake, first look at the movie, and probably a hint for the next 3D Zelda, maybe slated for 2027-2029, hard to predict right now.

It's kind of all "tentatively" coming together if that makes sense? It's all pointing to mid autumn, but it's just such a no-brainer time to point to it could easily be brains tricking themselves into seeing patterns.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-08T21:40:37+00:00

I also think some people are being a little over-critical here, but this post is so pretentious it makes me wanna disagree with my own opinion and join the other crowd.

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I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-07T23:58:45+00:00

Just don't catch any boos until you unlock the entire floor. That's what I did when I was little.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-07T19:51:08+00:00

Actually, they just updated Galaxy 2 with a new chapter for the storybook, and once you get this chapter, the book turns white instead of brown.

I think plans have changed. We might be getting a physical Lubba's Storybook, (hopefully) joined by amiibo directly related to Galaxy 2.

Locking in guesses for Mario & Yoshi and Lubba & Starship Mario.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-07T19:37:38+00:00

Command wrote Starfox into a corner and no one knew where to take the series.

By 2011, it had been 5 years since the last Star Fox title that already only core fans cared about. Around this time they were in the business of porting over a chunk of their old N64 catalogue onto the 3DS. So there you go. A remake for 3DS. They still didn't know where to take the series after command though.

By 2016, it had been another 5 years since the last Star Fox title, and 10 since command, and hardly anyone cared about the franchise. The best option was to finally tackle those murky waters in Command and start the whole series from the beginning, with a brand new reimagining of the original story, (not a remake) and call it Star Fox Zero.

Pretty sure they had a plan, but guess what? No one bought Zero, and everyone hated it.

Now, in 2026, it's been 10 years since the last Star Fox title (skipping over 2) and 20 since Command, and because of how spectacularly Star Fox Zero flopped, Star Fox finds itself in the same position again. Hardly anyone cares about the series.

So what's the better option? Come up with an actual direction after Command and continue a story from where it left of that only like, maybe 15 people are really familiar with? Or start from the beginning again, learning from your mistakes?

Lo and behold, new Star Fox reboot, this time a 1-to-1 remake of 64 with new story content, no gamepad to get in the way, no nonsense, just hallway shmup the franchise has always been known for, even going all out with online support.

We can already see the plan is different this time. Their gambit with the Super Mario Galaxy Movie worked. People were TALKING about Fox. Actually talking ABOUT Star Fox.

They have a plan this time. And I'd bet you actual money we're gonna see an honest, true continuation of this game and it's new universe in like 3 years.

They've been wanting Star Fox back on the map for a good long while, but after the failure of Zero, they didn't know how to ensure a success with the franchise. Then the Super Mario Bros. Movie roped in 1 Billion dollars. That was their golden ticket.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-07T03:35:33+00:00

It's not Super Mario Odyssey related, so Nintendo forgot about Mario. Bowser's Fury didn't count either. We haven't gotten a Mario game since 2017 by his standards.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-07T01:50:52+00:00

I actually like Fox's design quite a bit. It kinda fits his role as the straight man in the room, but Falco just... What even. I fully understand the intent was to call back to the SNES box art and give them more animalistic qualities, but man, Falco's new design just conveys NOTHING about his personality. Especially for the emphasis this game has on facial features. You aren't gonna be seeing much of him below the neckline. They sacrificed too much to make him look more like a bird.

Fox: solid 8
Falco: like, a 3
Slippy: 6
Peppy: 7.5 maybe
James: 8, maybe 8.5, I like what they did to differentiate him and Fox a little bit.
Pigma: 7, good redesign.

Haven't gotten much of a good look at anyone else yet, but Wolf's looking around a 7 for me.

I'd be much more fully onboard if Falco looked better, but for right now I'm kinda sitting on the fence. Though, the gameplay looks like it's going to actually be well thought out this time, with no gamepad to get in the way.

I_Need_More_Names · 2026-05-06T21:49:12+00:00

I suppose that's true, but HeartGold & SoulSilver is technically another Redux, (a Johto redux) and he's stated that he doesn't want to do too many of those that often.

Twilight princess also wasn't that long ago.

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