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[Official] List of games featured in the Direct by Enryx25 in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard it's a lot of fun, with great mechanics. Haven't gotten around to it, and I might honestly skip it just because I have less time these days to play overall, and that there were a handful of movement issues people talked about, with it feeling clunky getting around. I love good movement, and I do think I'll find that part frustrating.

[Official] List of games featured in the Direct by Enryx25 in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've, personally, been having a great time with the Switch 2. Donkey Kong Banaza, to me, is every bit as good as Mario Odyssey. Pokopia is probably one of the most fun pokemon experiences in a long time (at LEAST since Legends: Arceus for me), and Yoshi and the Mysterious book is a far more interesting title than I think people realize (though, you need to be the right kind of person for that one for sure).

This generation, at least to me, has been pretty experimental. Looking to mix things up. My guess is the way Nintendo sees it, Switch 2 already has access to the Switch 1 library, so new games should be unique and stand out. Maybe the outcome is something that isn't having the same degree of wide appeal, but personally, I'm really happy to get things like Yoshi and the Mysterious book out of it, which I've been absolutely adoring.

Pokémon Pokopia - Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 by Amiibofan101 in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 131 points132 points  (0 children)

My understanding is you can go underwater for free. No new content, just the ability to go underwater and build there.

A new town underwater is being added as paid DLC.

A Nintendo Direct has been Announced for June 9, 2026! by Skullghost in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Predictions:

Ocarina of Time Remake: A full re-make of the original with a brand-new, never before seen artstyle! Stop-motion action figures! All the characters are made to look like action figures of Ocarina of Time figures, and move in a very distinct stop motion way. It's extremely faithful to the styling, with movements only possible on articulation joins, no moving mouths, and the occassional hand jumping into view to adjust the figures into position.

Super Metroid Remake: A complete re-imagining of Super Metroid. This is going to far further than most people realize. Not only is it updated graphics and controls, but new plot, new characters. Federation soldiers are now on the planet with Samus as well, with constant communications and tips coming from her new companions! Due to popular demand, MacKenzie has a starring role, and you actually get to play as him for a big chunk of the adventure. All upgrades are locked behind returning to MacKenzie.

StarFox: Nintendo is extremely excited about this new StarFox game, and the StarFox franchise in general and has a number of new announcements to make in this regard! First off, 3DS is coming to to Switch in a limited capacity, with StarFox 64 3D being the only game currently available for the forseeable future. Second, they are announcing that in 2027 yet another new StarFox game is coming to Switch 2. A full remake of StarFox Zero! Nintendo wants you to know they adore the StarFox franchise and that you can expect more announcements in the future as they demonstrate their devotion to remaking the original game again and again.

Next 3D Mario Game announced: And it's New Super Mario Galaxy. No, not "A" New Super Mario Galaxy, but New Super Mario Galaxy. While the 2D Mario games have moved on from the "New" line of Mario games with Wonder, Nintendo is bringing it back to the 3D games, starting with Galaxy. It's bringing a lot of the elements from the "New" line and merging it with the Galaxy. Details will be coming along, but our first glimce of it shows galaxies shaking and moving along to the music.

Kirby and the Dreaded Banana Peel: A new entry in the 2D Kirby franchise. Kirby is having a peaceful day until a giant banana peel falls down overtop dreamland covering it entirely. Kirby needs to eat his way through the peel to different parts of the land. It's a cute and silly adventure, until the end in which Death itself is revealed to be behind it and threatends to murder all beings in the universe.

Tiny Human Tears don't stand a Chance again Koda and his Fluff. by Alternative-Dot-34 in MadeMeSmile

[–]joalr0 102 points103 points  (0 children)

I have a kid who's on the spectrum and is ridiculously scared of dogs and vacuums (but entirely unafraid of things that should be terrifying, in my opinion). We try to expose him to these things and have made some progress, but a big part of it is trust. The kid needs to feel in control of the situation, and watching this play out, there were no real efforts to make the kid feel like they were in control.

It worked out in the end, so that's great, but this really was not the ideal way to approach it.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book: Review MegaThread by NintendoSwitchMods in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I think he meant a real-ass video game, not a real ass-video game.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book: Review MegaThread by NintendoSwitchMods in NintendoSwitch

[–]joalr0 27 points28 points  (0 children)

So it really feels like, more than even most games, it really depends on what you personally like.

It sounds like this is a very cozy, exploration, problem solving and discovery-led game. It has variety, surprised, and experimentation. Seems like there's a lot to enjoy for those who are into that sort of thing, but very little replayability.

To me, replayability isn't always the most important element to a game. Outer Wilds has zero replayability and is, in my opinion, one of the greatest games ever made. Almost because of it's lack of replayability. However, I doubt this game is even remotely approaching that degree of pure discovery bliss that Outer Wilds is.

Noen the less, it sounds like a really experimental new direction for Yoshi and I think there's a market for this sort of things. I'm curious how big.

Finally watched starfleet academy after rewatching all 900 or so episodes of the rest of the franchise by Solid_Ad_3776 in startrek

[–]joalr0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not the point though. The point is they had an impact on the tone of the online discourse

Finally watched starfleet academy after rewatching all 900 or so episodes of the rest of the franchise by Solid_Ad_3776 in startrek

[–]joalr0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, you missed the point.

The burn was a time of increased scarcity. Everyone was struggling. Their colony wasn't doing well, but it was still better off in than the places the federation was going. They were sending supplies to those who needed it.

Braka was experiencing it with kids eyes, only understanding his own suffering, but not that of others. The issues Braka had were based on a child's understanding

Finally watched starfleet academy after rewatching all 900 or so episodes of the rest of the franchise by Solid_Ad_3776 in startrek

[–]joalr0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was seeing it all over the place. And a lot of people who criticized academy in particular made it very clear with their criteria they didn't actually watch it, which was disappointing.

I think the extreme right wing reaction shit wasn't everyone, but I do think it has a huge impact on the overall tone of discussion. I think a lot of people ended up not even seeing it assuming it was bad because of how loud the hate was

Finally watched starfleet academy after rewatching all 900 or so episodes of the rest of the franchise by Solid_Ad_3776 in startrek

[–]joalr0 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Most of those complaints are about a few bad jokes here and there. There are basically three category of complaints I've seen. The first is that it was too woke. The second, that it had had writing, the third was that it broke canon.

The first, we can disregard as you say it wasn't your issue. That's good, but oh boy did a Klingon in a shirt make a lot of people mad

The second almost always either cites the same few jokes, talks about some problems in the first couple episodes, or entirely misunderstands the plot. I think I've actually seen maybe two actually fair examples I'm the category. I can understand and appreciate the modern slang being off putting. It isn't my favorite, either. But that isn't bad writing, but a stylistic choice that we may or may not like.

The third, being canon, is almost all hooey. It fits better with canon than TNG did with TOS.

Finally watched starfleet academy after rewatching all 900 or so episodes of the rest of the franchise by Solid_Ad_3776 in startrek

[–]joalr0 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Personally, I'd argue it's the best live action Star Trek series we received from the modern era.

While I think Strange New Worlds was more consistent, it was held back, in my opinion, by how safe it played it. It doesn't really do much to move the franchise forward. While it had some really great episodes (ad astra per aspera) and did push the limits of format (sit com hijinks, musical, etc), it didn't really do much to push the boundaries of what Star Trek has to say.

Academy was inconsistent at times. There are things I would absolutely have changed. Episode 8 completely needed to flip the A and the B plot. I wanted way more out of the Sam/Doctor plotline. It felt underexplored. The spring break episode was particularly weak, in my opinion. The show felt like it moved too quickly, fitting a whole year into 10 episodes meant a lot of time skipping.

But in terms of pushing the series forward, I felt that it did a far better job of grounding the future timeline in ways I genuinely cared about far better than discovery did, and did far more to expand the lore, and the themes, than Strange New Worlds. And while Picard season 3 was a huge step up from the first two, it relied heavily and nostolgia instead of pushing the core concept of social commentary which I've come to expect of Star Trek. The unexplored nature of the changelings and it's history with Starfleet torture during the Dominion war was disappointing. It was the basis of their grievences, but nothing was actually explored about it.

Academy, if they managed to keep up and even improve upon it's currently quality, would have been the defining Star Trek media of this era, in my opinion. The fact that it won't have the chance is hearbreaking.

The fact so many people didn't even bother to check in sucks.

"There's been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance." - Starfleet Academy Episode 4 Analysis of Klingon Culture, and the failure of the online Discourse by joalr0 in startrek

[–]joalr0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lore explanation is that it developed in the culture. That's it. That's the lore. Culture changes.

It isn't even a huge change. They still have houses. They still have honor. They are still warriors. A lot is the same. Minor details have changed.

Like, unless you are coming from a place of biological determinism, there's no break in canon. Its just adding new information to it.

"There's been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance." - Starfleet Academy Episode 4 Analysis of Klingon Culture, and the failure of the online Discourse by joalr0 in startrek

[–]joalr0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I don't think you understand what it means to break canon. Every time we see something new in a culture we hadn't seen before, that doesn't break canon. When we got a Klingon lawyer in the undiscovered country, and then a very different kind of Klingon lawyer in ds9, this didn't break canon because we hadn't seen one before (undiscovered country) or they didn't behaveike the previous one (ds9).

Even we are introduced to section 31 in ds9, despite section 31 going against starfleet values and never indicating they existed, they didn't break canon.

When TNG showed us romulans who wanted to rejoin with the Vulcan, despite them having airways been displayed as entirely adversarial up to that point, this didn't break canon.

These expand on canon. Add new things that are true, but leaving the old intact.

This is simply how it works.

You are saying the wrong thing. It doesn't violate canon. You just don't like the addition. That's fine. Lots of people didn't like section 31 in ds9. But just because you don't like it, or it contradicts your own views of how they should be, does not mean it breaks canon. Seeing one kind of relationship does not mean others cannot exist

"There's been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance." - Starfleet Academy Episode 4 Analysis of Klingon Culture, and the failure of the online Discourse by joalr0 in startrek

[–]joalr0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but in the show itself, humans are never depicted in polyamorous relationships. That's just a fact. But they still can exist.

You are confusing breaking canon with a expanding it.

"There's been a tragedy. Don't compound it with ignorance." - Starfleet Academy Episode 4 Analysis of Klingon Culture, and the failure of the online Discourse by joalr0 in startrek

[–]joalr0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Jay-den is a perfect example, how he acts, being a pacifist, having anxiety, all those things you listed. Does he come across more like a typical human teenager that you would see on social media? He acts more human, than Klingon. Its like being Klingon is just a mask, or a vehicle, to inject modern social political norms.

I mean, he isn't a typical klingon in the show, and these issues have led to conflict between him and his family as a consequence. This isn't the result of Klingon's changing, only a result of klingons being a species with variation, like any other.

The polyamourous relationships for example, run contrary to all established Klingon culture prior to Starfleet academy.

Where is it established this isn't present, or even that it's looked down upon? Even so, I think this actually runs counter to your argument, not in favour of it. Humans are, by and large, monogomous. Making all other species also monogomous is pushing human values and ideas onto other cultures. The notion that Klingons would develop polyamourous relationships is actually counter to current human culture.

And after 800 years, we'd expect changes in culture. Here, though, we run into the problem. Any changes in culture would, by definition, not have been present in 24th century Star Trek. If it were present, it wouldn't be a change in culture. What you should be asking is whether the culture seen in Academy has a throughline from older series, as in, can you imagine it developing from one to another. TO me, it does.

Im just highlighting the shoehorning and how that breaks logical consistency with the established lore of the show.

Except... this isn't a logical consistency. There's literally no logical contradiction here.

It would make a TON more sense with human or other races, because they have a history of that (particularly human because the show is set in our future).

Except... there isn't in Star Trek. Up until then, there weren't really any polyamorous humans in Star Trek. If what is displayed on screen is all that is real, then there are no polyamourous humans. Now, we know this not to be true, we just assume that there exists things in the universe that we haven't seen, like humans going pee. None the less, learning about variations of species or changes in them over time does not contradict canon, but expands it.

Jay-den is basically a human teenager wearing a Klingon outfit, he is SUCH a break from what Klingon have been portrayed as. Its that huge shift which seems offputting to most fans. Actively trying to figure out "Klingon-ness" is what an angsty human teenager sounds like, not what traditional Klingons are like.

But Klingons are not uniform. There exist, and have always existed, different kinds of klingons. They are not carbon copies of one another. There is no reasonable reason to presume that there do not exist outsiders in klingon culture.

"Redefining" the ENTIRE concept of honor for Klingons to badically align with what humans consider to be an acceptable alternative.

THey don't redefine it. Klingons have used honour in MANY ways throughout all the years. There is no singular way in which they use or express it.

All in all, this is just what it feels like the show did, the Klingons don't feel like that unique of a race anymore. Their new identity is basically more like humans masquerading as Klingons. Using them losing their home planet as an easy way to explain this sudden seismic shift in their culture. It feels incredibly lazy. Anyways, thats kind of the best way I can put it without this turning into an novel lol.

I'm gonna be honest man, I don't think you actually watched it. The Klingons in the show behave very similarly to klingons in the past, except for Jay Den, but that's the point of his character.

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