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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: November 20, 2017, 10:17:46 PM »

I think so many beat Super Mario Odyssey over opening weekend was twofold: 1) It's rather easy to do the bare minimum story-related Power Moons and some other things and beat the game quickly, and 2) This was it for me, I didn't want to ending spoiled since it was getting hyped upon the game's leak.

It ended up taking me about 45 hours to get every mission-related Power Moon in the game, and by the time I initially reached the ending, I had only a fraction of the total amount available. The post-game is immense with added Power Moons to collect in previous kingdoms, the already visited kingdoms have anywhere from 20-something to 90-something Power Moons to find in the first place (everywhere seems to be a new point of interest to investigate for a Moon), the platforming challenges are enjoyable, and while the game never gets Grandmaster Galaxy or Champions Road level of difficulty, it's a fun journey for the most part.


Things like certain assists with moves and capture abilities being motion control only hurt, and many of the Power Moons don't have much to them. They're simple challenges that most kingdoms seem to have, such as catch this rabbit, find Captain Toad, ground pound this specific spot, get this dog to dig up a Power Moon, and so forth.

Overall, however, between Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, there's going to be a fight in my mind to choose which game to pick for my game of the year.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Holy crap! DOOM and Wolfenstein on Switch!

« on: November 10, 2017, 04:01:44 PM »

Is anyone picking up DOOM soon as it released today? I hope to get it this Christmas as I loved the campaign on the PS4 and would love a multiplayer FPS on Switch to play. I platinumed the base game of DOOM on PS4, but couldn't keep it on my system's hard drive since it took up an insane amount of storage space!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey Spoiler Thread - Spoilers here or I'll punch your face in.

« on: November 10, 2017, 03:59:43 PM »

Made it to the latter two kingdoms where the first is a boss rush and unlocks subsequent Moons to find, hint arts to view, and remixed challenge rooms to complete (some of which are just insanely challenging). I have been to the final kingdom yet as I want to go back to previous kingdoms to collect Moons.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 28, 2017, 07:38:17 AM »

Got the game at 11 pm CST on Thursday night from Best Buy. Have since played 7 hours in two sittings! Help! I'm having too much fun! The final event in New Donk City was awesome!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We have two new posters on the forums?

« on: October 26, 2017, 01:44:40 AM »

Oh I guess I am dead. Dead as a Redead.   I am now your Zombie Princess of Bugs.   Now attack my lovely bugs and destroy all of Hyrule!!!!   Bhahahahahhahahahahhahaaha!!!!

I thought Redeads were animated bodies of mud and clay; not actually undead creatures. :X

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 26, 2017, 01:43:37 AM »

The review embargo is up 10/26 at 9 AM (EST).

Also, my Best Buy will be opening at 11 PM (CST) for both this and Assassin's Creed!

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TalkBack / Re: Gear Club Unlimited (Switch) Preview

« on: October 25, 2017, 11:56:08 AM »

Thank you for the in-depth preview and footage! I've been looking in to this game since I like similar games (though I don't think Gran Turismo and Forza like you mentioned are close, as I know GT is a simulator and I believe Forza is as well. This comes off as purely arcadey). If there's a lot of content, it'll be worth it unless the game is really repetitive and shallow. Then again, $45 seems too pricey (and a weird price amount at that) for now. I think it's also a GameStop exclusive here in the States, to add some more info.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: October 25, 2017, 09:27:42 AM »

I used to lurk NeoGAF for news and rumors. I just can’t bring myself to go there anymore.

Even without the scum-sucking owner still there, it's nothing without the people that contributed to make it what it was, and they're gone and now miscreants thrive.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: October 25, 2017, 01:24:45 AM »

Those hints/rumors were made-up by the topic creator. (He said so in the same topic.) I doubt he wanted to post real rumors on a site he disapproved of so said site could get traffic and the owner of the said site could get ad revenue, so he made them up in his final topic before moving on from GAF.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: October 25, 2017, 01:18:02 AM »

I don't understand the coworker stuff or Carol. Carol can be complained about to the boss and HR. We're talking about THE BOSS and owner of a major, once-influential (and a week ago it was just that) message board and how this incident was the straw that broke the camel's back. The owner has a history of bad things regarding what he's done, how poorly he's handled them, and how's he run the site, and they relate to how the site is looked at. The community had enough and is moving on to a new site, which I hope will do well and is moderated better (but with a similar level of strictness -- but not rampant bans for those going against the grain). I'm waiting for it -- not to join but to lurk just like I did on NeoGAF. Lurking on GAF now that it's back up, it's a sad thing to see the quality of remaining users there who suddenly "just want to talk about games, man" as if politics doesn't permeate in gaming or practically every part of their/our lives. Unfortunately, as someone used the word, "shitheads" are pretty much the only ones left on GAF now. The type that **** down a topic about helping those who were affected by the Mental Health community being deleted in the now-purged Off-Topic section, telling people who were affected to "go somewhere else" and other things showing lack of empathy. That's the welcoming and understanding community I lurked, for sure. /Not

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid: Samus Returns 3DS

« on: October 25, 2017, 01:09:56 AM »

Ah. I didn't mean to start it up again. I was just hoping to continue to be a compassionate user with my "animosity" concern.    Back to hugs and games!

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Nintendo Gaming / Poi: Explorer Edition: The OTHER 3D platformer releasing this week on the Switch

« on: October 24, 2017, 02:26:06 AM »

We know that Super Mario Odyssey comes out this Friday, especially as this person is excited and made a topic ahead of time for the game. However, there's also another, but less pronounced 3D platformer releasing for Switch this week, too: Poi: Explorer Edition. It's a collect-a-thon platformer that originally released on PC a bit ago (as Poi), and was going to come to Wii U before the team shifted development to the Switch so it'd be out on a platform that people actually would still care about. It got some relatively decent reviews (Destructoid's Jed Whitaker gave it an 8/10 in his review, for instance). I'm a sucker for 3D platformers of quality, and I think this one will be good. Just not awesome like Odyssey, for obvious reasons. That said, the original Poi launched at $15 digitally, and the Switch game gets a Switch tax at $30 for a physical version. Not sure if I'll bite that quickly on the game or jump in.

Regardless, here's some links for all.

Poi official game site
Poi Steam page
A recent interview with the dev on the Switch version

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Holy crap! DOOM and Wolfenstein on Switch!

« on: October 23, 2017, 07:37:10 PM »

If they made a "classic graphics" pack for DooM, that would be pretty funny.

There's honestly already secret rooms in DOOM that have classic graphics in them. :O

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Metroid: Samus Returns 3DS

« on: October 22, 2017, 11:40:59 PM »

Sorry to bump this, but 1) I didn't want to see this topic end on a negative note (hope you guys don't have animosity towards one another in our small, humble community), and 2) I wanted to share my review I wrote.

It's hard for me to get the formatting right when transposing my blog posts to NWR's forums, so I hope a link will do this time. Anyway, I didn't have a high regard for Metroid II, but that was only because I played it much later from its original release. This re-imagining was overall great to me, but the lack of being able to collect almost everything until the end of the game soured me. You needed to get the last thing in the game to fully explore the previous areas.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 22, 2017, 11:31:06 PM »

NP would at least give you awesome walkthroughs as apologies for most of its life.

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General Gaming / Re: What is the last game you beat? Thoughts/impressions?

« on: October 22, 2017, 10:32:06 PM »

I beat Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions for the 3DS. I haven't touched the latter game, but I did get to relive an adventure from my early college years. It's still my favorite in the series, featuring creative locations with plenty of puzzles and platforming challenges to overcome, turn-based combat that makes every battle enjoyable, and a presentation that looks stunning on the 3DS. Pretty much steam-rolled through the game except for the final boss, which I almost defeated before getting a game over. Then, I just said "eh" and switched to Easy Mode to beat the game. Superstar Saga took about 19 hours to beat the final boss, but that was with heavy plundering of the world map for secrets.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We have two new posters on the forums?

« on: October 22, 2017, 10:26:41 PM »

Ravio needs a big ol' sprite banner for his signature. I'm sure that's cool around here since the forum mods are lax like that!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: October 22, 2017, 10:24:50 PM »

NeoGAF was sucha  big part of the gaming community. With all the news and rumors that would come from there,  I'm truly left wondering what's gonna fill the void.

Nintendo World Report forums are what's going to fill the void. Time to step our game!

First line of business -- less low activity sub-forums!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 22, 2017, 10:22:58 PM »

Well, I don't remember if the forums have spoiler tags. That would be neat-o sweet-o for people to hide text behind or image links while still being able to talk about unrevealed parts of the game like kingdoms, bosses and so forth. The stuff I mentioned is the only thing I don't want to get spoiled on. By hiding it in spoiler tags, it would make the topic a happy, cool, awesome place for everyone to talk about the second of the big Switch releases this year from Nintendo.

EDIT: Or a spoiler thread. Which ever is easiest!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We have two new posters on the forums?

« on: October 22, 2017, 05:25:55 PM »

Someone is playing tricks with the forums again!! 

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: We have two new posters on the forums?

« on: October 22, 2017, 02:24:28 PM »

I can only afford to rent right now.

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NWR Forums Discord / We have two new posters on the forums?

« on: October 22, 2017, 06:04:55 AM »

Coolness! Welcome, Ravio and Mipha!

PLEASE don't scare them away, everyone.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 21, 2017, 11:58:53 PM »

I'm just particular about stuff not shown yet. It's only a week away (sorry you have to wait for so long, Khush) so I want to try to have everything else be a surprise.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: October 21, 2017, 10:16:28 PM »

I've been playing through Knack 2, and IMO it is a dramatically better game than its predecessor. For one thing, the designers made an effort to finally rebalance the gameplay in favor of something akin to the LEGO games. In the first game, you died in 2-3 hits, no matter how many relics you had or where you were in the game. And when you got hit, that damage was persistent until you either found more relics, you hit the next area, or you died and respawned at the last checkpoint. Now, when you get hit, you lose a pile of relics & get smaller as usual, but if you can avoid damage for a few seconds, the relics fly back on and reattach, essentially giving you regenerating health.

The game also plays a lot more with alternating size & scale. Outside of the Stealth Knack sequences in the first game, you always started a stage small & progressed through the stage progressively growing larger. It lacked variety. Now, you can shrink back down to Little Knack at any time to fit through small holes & find secrets or to navigate puzzles.

Oh yeah, there are actual puzzles & platforming now. They're basic, but I find them satisfying enough.

You also have a skill tree of stat boosts & new moves you acquire by progressing through the story & finding XP crates.

So far, I'm about 1/3 of the way through the game, but I like it so far. I think Sony actually hit the "all ages cartoons platformer" mark they were aiming for, especially since you can play it local Co-Op. I'd recommend it for kids or the Young At Heart (TM).

What a coincidence! I have this checked out from the library right now, and I finished the first two chapters of the game. I'm enjoying it, but I can't comment on any improvements on the original Knack since I didn't play it. Seems like Knack left quite a bad taste in most PlayStation 4 owners' mouths. I guess that's why this sequel bombed everywhere. I've read that the game sort of overindulges on its story length, making the game sort of feel like it goes on for longer than you'd expect.

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Nintendo Gaming / Super Mario Odyssey - No spoilers or I'll punch your face in!

« on: October 21, 2017, 10:12:37 PM »

Q. What are spoilers?

Unknown kingdoms, boss fights, endgame stuff -- man, I don't even want to know what the main character's name is!

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Seriously, though! YAHOO! Super Mario Odyssey returns the 3D Mario series to a sandbox formula first introduced in the genre-defining Super Mario 64. The game comes out for Nintendo Switch this Friday, so let's have a hype topic and post our impressions of the in-store demo at various stores selling games (GameStop, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, etc.) as well as impressions once the game actually releases!

The game was but revealed a year ago during the Nintendo Switch reveal trailer, and its official unveiling at this past January's Switch presentation, so while it hasn't had as much time to generate hype like Breath of the Wild did, I'm still extremely excited and hyped for the game.