The Monday letters web page asks whether or not Nintendo is now a spent pressure, as readers fear about the way forward for Warner Bros. sport builders.
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Year of the unbiased
Thanks for the Horses overview. I don’t assume it’s for me however, such as you stated, it’s acquired that daring video games like that exist. I really feel that firstly of this technology indie video games had grow to be sidelined to a level. Maybe it was one thing to do with Covid, nevertheless it felt like for a superb few years there weren’t actually that many indie video games making an influence, regardless that there have been greater than ever.
But this yr has been superb. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will get all the eye, because it deserves to, however there’s Blue Prince too, Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Dispatch, Sword Of The Sea, Monster Train 2, Absolum, and so many others.
I haven’t performed all of them, clearly, however trying on the opinions and the variety of what the video games are, it appears a lot wholesome than the triple-A gaming enterprise. Constantly the identical sport, many times. This yr we had Battlefield 6 vs. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 (really the twenty second sport within the sequence) and which one was the most well-liked? The pluck new indie rival, Arc Raiders.
I’m sure that massive publishers gained’t be taught something from this, however triple-A video games really feel like they’re turning into growing irrelevant. What’s the purpose, when indie video games are cheaper, higher, and extra revolutionary? If this isn’t their greatest yr ever, I don’t know what it’s.
Colin
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Unhappy reminiscences
RE: Silksong. I gave up on this ultimately, after I’d lastly gotten to the citadel, after round 60, most likely nearer to 100 hours. When each encounter ramped up and felt like a mini-boss (these large hovering grasshopper issues, three in a row!
I’d discovered my option to two paths in reverse instructions, each resulting in bosses, by then I simply couldn’t be bothered dying many times, no want to see extra, no want to be taught their patterns and simply spending your entire session spitting and swearing on the display, coming away extra careworn than after I began. I moved on… to Blue Prince, lordy!
Looking again on it now, there’s no fondness, no heat feeling welling up in me, simply indignant reminiscences of frustration and vitriol.
massive boy bent
PS: Clair Obscur… sport of the yr, in truth I already voted for it.
Predictable consequence
So if the Warner Bros. deal will full in June/July time we are able to count on lay-offs to start out in August, as a result of, as we all know, that’s what occurs when an organization will get purchased out; they begin chopping prices to start out getting a few of their a reimbursement and its usually those that work on the video games that face the chop.
I actually don’t know why firm’s get the go forward from the regulator once they know what’s going to be occurring with jobs and cuts. Oh nicely, one other firm swallowed up by one other firm.
David
GC: The regulator did attempt to cease Microsoft shopping for Activision Blizzard, and each unfavourable factor they warned of has come true. The present US authorities appears far much less involved with such issues although.
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Christmas favorite
One of my Christmas traditions is to play via Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on my previous 3DS, to get me within the Christmas temper and provides me a little bit of nostalgia for older occasions, after I had a job the place I really favored the folks I labored with…
Anyway, this sport appears criminally underrated as nobody ever talks about it. It set the scene for Breath Of The Wild, with all of the objects and dungeons being accessible from the beginning and has such an amazing soundtrack. It’s the final Zelda sport I can bear in mind the place I acquired caught within the dungeons, which is an indication of an amazing Zelda sport, for my part.
For me, it’s peak Nintendo and I want they might return to creating video games of this calibre, as from every part I’m listening to concerning the Switch 2 in the meanwhile, it’s a dud and happening the PlayStation 5 street.
Simon
PS: I forgot so as to add how the 2D portray mechanic isn’t only a gimmick, however a significant a part of the gameplay and actually satisfying. It’s such a superb sport.
Secret mode
I can’t bear in mind the identify of the guy reader that wrote in concerning the objects selection replace on Mario Kart World nevertheless it’s placing an actual smile on my face.
Setting the objects to solely Kamek, it’s simply stark bonkers loopy and an actual change of tempo. It offers me hope for additional updates that make an actual distinction to the preliminary releases gameplay modes.
Nick The Greek
GC: It is actually good enjoyable. We’d like to know whether or not it was intentional or not.
Time poor
That was a really attention-grabbing reader function by Korey on the weekend with reference to sport issue. Sometimes, after I encounter a extremely annoying issue spike in a sport, I do surprise concerning the playtesting that went into the sport that I’m caught on. Some ranges/sections are so irritating and unenjoyable it’s laborious to consider that they’ve been checked off as acceptable.
Do if builders rent playtesters of various talents?
Korey talked about one thing a few lack of respect for the quantity of spare time folks have. That’s the core criticism that I’ve with reference to tough video games/sections of video games. Wasted time. When I repeat a activity in a sport over and over and I’m solely punished and never rewarded I depend that as a waste.
Where’s the enjoyable in getting crushed down by a sport many times?
Time actually is treasured. Unlike actual world foreign money you’ll be able to’t regenerate misplaced hours. You can by no means get the time that you just spend again, that’s why I personally keep away from video games which can be identified to be tough.
I did give Dark Souls a strive, as a result of hype and the nice opinions behind it. Needless to say, I didn’t take pleasure in that sport in any respect.
Michael Veal (@msv858)
In the bunker
On November 21, for my birthday, my spouse purchased PGA Tour 2K21 from the Nintendo on-line retailer. We used to play Tiger Woods on the GameCube so much and thought we’d take pleasure in this simply as a lot. But wait, there’s no on-line connectivity in any respect, you’ll be able to’t even purchase your character a hat with out a ‘no connection’ warning.
Turns out 2K took this sport off sale on August 30 2025, and shut down the servers on October 30. But there it nonetheless is within the Nintendo retailer, £49.99. No refund although, T&Cs!
Best
Mick McMahon
Calibrate your pessimism
There was a remark within the Underbox of the Metroid Prime 4 overview that stated, ‘Nintendo may very well be a spent pressure’ and it has troubled me since studying it.
Since Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and now Metroid Prime 4 should not precisely setting the gaming world on fireplace, what would occur if we’re witnessing in real-time the start of the top of Nintendo magic?
(All nice artists undergo a blip, similar to my favorite singer Michael Jackson and his ‘Invincible’ album however most can normally bounce again.)
Yes, it’s nonetheless early days for the Switch 2 however what if the following 2D and even 3D Mario fails to excite?
(These are the video games, alongside a brand new top-down Zelda, I’m particularly searching for.)
Traditional Pokémon will at all times promote (gained’t it?) however then does that imply Nintendo consoles are simply ‘Pokémon machines’, as CameronAllOnePhrase stated on YouTube?
I at all times wished a free roam Mario Kart ever since questioning or imagining what was past the monitor limitations within the unique Super Mario Kart and did love Super Mario Bros. Wonder however the opinions of Mario Kart World don’t fill me with eager to exit and purchase it.
For the file, I can afford the £400 for a Switch 2 however with nothing of curiosity to play, I’ve stored these notes in my Super Mario Bros. NES cartridge-themed pockets.
After Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and the very comparable Tears Of The Kingdom, the place can Nintendo go from right here?
I favored the change of play in Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom but when Nintendo video games are now not as implausible as they was once, does this spell the top of enjoyable in gaming?
Because from my understanding, there seems to be an enormous first occasion video games drought on the PlayStation 5 and does anybody care about Xbox exclusives?
LeeDappa
GC: The Switch 2 is the quickest promoting console in historical past and Donkey Kong Bananza is the fifth greatest sport of the yr (and the primary full value title) based on Metacritic, if you happen to low cost the Switch 2 Editions of the 2 latest Zeldas at one and two. Mario Kart World is the twenty ninth greatest, forward of Ghost Of Yōtei, Arc Raiders, and Silent Hill f. Gamers have to recognise that it’s attainable for a sport to not be the most effective factor ever or the worst.
Inbox also-rans
I can’t consider that any firm can be loopy sufficient to present cash to Yu Suzuki for Shenmue 4, after the entire catastrophe that was the final one. So far that motive alone I’m calling the leaked trailer a pretend.
Freddy
I’m worrying about Rocksteady once more, with all this Warner Bros. enterprise. At least Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat are profitable. When they’re trying to see who to put off what are they going to assume when somebody explains Suicide Squad to them?
Tacle
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