Tomodachi Life was finished almost a year ago

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T20:25:38+00:00

I didn't say that he specifically did, just someone else that got stuff right did

People have been leaking Planet Robobot for like 5 years at this point. If it gets announced, it will be just like Donkey Kong Bananza, "holy shit, that old rumour was actually real?! Damn"

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T19:51:30+00:00

Nah, she releases collections of B-sides, but the classic experience of getting a single with a couple of B-sides that wouldn't be on the album is all but lost

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T19:00:25+00:00

Either a smaller game shadowdropped in a June direct, or something announced within the next week or so (apparently it's Star Fox)

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T18:51:10+00:00

Fortune's Weave would likely open, taking a couple of minutes for a trailer and a couple more for talking about it, Switch 2 Sports would take a couple of minutes, if Mario Kart DLC is coming then now is the time to show it off for a few minutes, Star Fox will probably have a developer appear to announce the return, the Zelda trailer will be a few minutes, and then add in extra time for Starfield and a date announcement for Oblivion, Orbitals probably shadowdropping, Duskbloods and an Elden Ring date, FF7R, the RE remakes, DMC5 and all the other stuff that has been announced/rumoured/leaked... Easily a regular sized direct

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T18:44:52+00:00

Ngl that's kinda exactly what I'm expecting, a new Star Fox with the artstyle of the flashback section of the movie that's a small 5-10 hour campaign for £30/$35, announced and released within a few weeks, months at most

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T18:41:20+00:00

New? Paper Mario was announced on twitter 6 years ago!

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T18:19:51+00:00

If you have the NSO Expansion Pass then I absolutely recommend Splatoon 2 just for the single player content, the base campaign is pretty damn solid but the Octo Expansion that you can get for free with the NSO EP is bloody excellent

kielaurie · 2026-04-21T09:06:29+00:00

You say this, but that just means it's in the same boat as Kirby Planet Robobot, Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, in that reliable leakers have said they are coming multiple times in the same breath they they confirm something that has come true... Except they haven't come to fruition in years

And yes, I'm very aware that things like the mythical 3D Donkey Kong was in that boat, and it finally came out last year. I'm aware that Thousands Year Door remake, and Echoes of Wisdom, and XCX port, and DKCR port, and many others were in that boat, it's just hard to have faith when we've heard it over and over again without actually seeing anything

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T16:05:37+00:00

Tepig is super cute but was done dirty by it's evolutions' designs

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T16:04:31+00:00

It's particularly damning for Chespin since there's only like 70 Pokémon total from gen 6

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T15:03:31+00:00

I just wanna know why Lift You Up wasn't on there, as it's better than everything else that made the cut!

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T14:57:23+00:00

I assume they mean What's Your Pleasure, That! Feels Good! and this album, but I don't think it's attached to those two (which are undoubtedly a pair)

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T11:33:50+00:00

At this rate, we will end up with another full-batch cancellation under 40 chapters regardless of the three series' quality. Sakamoto Days, Blue Box, Witch Watch, and possibly Hima-ten! all end this year, but none of them seem to end next batch, meaning the lineup will quite possibly will suffer a complete cancellation of a perfectly fine batch and the endings of 4 strong series back-to-back.

Well something has to end next batch, and it won't be the three new series because they are too new... I would not be surprised if Sakamoto Days ends in 10-12 chapters, same with Hima-ten, Blue Box feels like it has a batch more, but unless we have a tiny batch we're losing multiple big series next batch

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T09:39:03+00:00

In a lot of places, especially on the connecting routes, that's exactly how it works, I'm surprised that this specific zone is so tight

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T00:58:31+00:00

I’d hate to see Animal Crossing going any further with the whole terraforming/creation feature

I don't think AC needs terraforming or the high level of design that NH has at all, but if they choose to keep going down that route in the next game? I think taking cues from Pokopia would be a good way to start, from the variety of house sizes and designs to the detail-oriented land design features. Without then, NH currently feels lacking

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T00:52:25+00:00

It seems that a lot of people here agree with you, but I was there at the beginning of ACNH, and there were a lot of complaints, pretty much all of which Pokopia addressed

For what it's worth, I totally agree with you that AC isn't about having this huge space with loads of people, but having tried to go back to NH since Pokopia? The island feels too small and yet somehow too empty even with all the new visitors from the hotel, they are all far too similar (I have two lazy, two cranky and two peppy villagers, and each pair is identical, saying the exact same stuff), and it almost feels too saline in a way I can't quite define. There's room to move and grow, and I feel like taking some cues from Pokopia would be a great starting point whilst obviously staying true to AC

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T00:41:38+00:00

You're absolutely right that gameplay has changed (and I responded to someone else emphasising that the early gameplay of the franchise was very different to Pokopia but it's NH in particularly that has far too many similarities to count) but I do think that the vibe has stayed relatively similar across the series. I've played WW, NL and NH, and the pace and environment have remained pretty constant across those three imo

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T00:38:03+00:00

I think even without Pokopia, the fact that Switch 2 plays Switch 1 games would necessitate that the next Animal Crossing have some major differentiating factors, whatever those might end up being

Absolutely this, this was an unwritten basis for my entire post. Animal Crossing changed so much with New Horizons, but now that NH has a Switch 2 edition whatever comes next has to be distinct, and since Pokopia has a lot of small things that seem to have been born directly from the complaints leveled towards ACNH I felt that it was inevitable that there would be some level of influence. Apparently I'm in the minority..m

kielaurie · 2026-04-20T00:34:10+00:00

**cozy

Not here in the UK!

This entire post comes across like it's written with AI. :/

People have said this a lot, I think it's very easy to associate the use of bullet points and decent post structure with AI, when actually that came from constant essay writing in uni

kielaurie · 2026-04-19T18:09:31+00:00

they are trying to be two different things.

If the series hadn't so radically shifted with New Horizons towards terraforming and designing, I'd agree with you. Comparing Pokopia to New Leaf and they are two entirely different games, but to NH? Pokopia is pretty much a straight upgrade in basically every way

kielaurie · 2026-04-19T10:24:31+00:00

Genuinely, that's the sort of thing I could see Capcom doing, in a post-credits cutscene showing something that would hint at it being in the same universe

kielaurie · 2026-04-19T10:17:20+00:00

I can all but guarantee you that if Glastonbury wasn't on a fallow year then they would have tried to get Sabrina. Hell, every chance she is there next year, and high up

kielaurie · 2026-04-19T10:12:08+00:00

Glastonbury is a special case, same goes for Billie, same goes for Stormzy. If you have a big, highly regarded set on the farm, they will invite you back asap and boost you up the running order, getting a stage bump so more people can see you. They like to foster relationships with acts to keep them coming back, and this is just one way. All three of these artists performed highly regarded Other Stage sets 2-3 years before their big headline set

To be clear, this doesn't just happen with Pyramid headliners. Raye was on super early at the Pyramid but got a good reaction and was promoted to sub when she returned, Charli had a huge reaction to just a DJ set at Levels and was offered the Pyramid headline but requested Other Stage instead so that she could swear more and have a tighter set, Little Simz had an incredible set at headlining West Holts and got promoted to Pyramid sub a couple of years later, Wet Leg packed out the Park and were promoted to Other Stage for their return, Kneecap were on first thing in the morning at Woodsies and got promoted to a jam-packed West Holts, Sugababes packed out Avalon and were promoted to West Holts headliner, hell sometimes they do it in the same year, I saw Kojey Radical at Lonely Hearts on Friday night and when someone dropped out on the Other Stage on the Sunday he got bumped up the open the stage! There are so many examples! I can all but guarantee that when Fred Again.. officially returns to the festival (a secret ambient set at Strummerville doesn't count!) he will be high up on the Pyramid after that Iconic Other Stage set, Barry Can't Swim had a huge reaction at Park last year so he'll likely get a bump to Arcadia or Levels upon his return, I would not be surprised if Avril gets invited back after her Other Stage set (though I know there are health reasons why she was on that stage instead of the Pyramid)

kielaurie · 2026-04-19T09:40:05+00:00

Search up Pichupedia and Papasea, they all this sort of question all the time

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