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@TriforceBun

It's so arbitrary. Same thing for countless things. Apparently when you turn 18 you magically have the ability to determine if smoking and filling your lungs with disease is okay, but then you have to wait a few more years to be smart enough to know if you should also destroy your liver with alcohol. And everyone knows about the mysterious switch in the human brain that goes from child to adult after 6,570 days on Earth. At Day 6,569 if you get into a fist fight (or have sex) with someone older than you it's right out, but wait that 24 hours and everything changes!

What a weird mess we are, lol.

@TriforceBun

Yeah, movies are the same way! If you're 17 you can see an R, but ya gotta wait an extra year to see the JUICY NC-17 UNRATED VERSION with SIX EXTRA SECONDS OF UNCUT BOOBS!

@J.K. Riki

The human brain doesn't even finish developing until age 25! Anyone who dates a 23 year old is a salacious pervert!

Secret_Tunnel said:

Yeah, movies are the same way! If you're 17 you can see an R, but ya gotta wait an extra year to see the JUICY NC-17 UNRATED VERSION with SIX EXTRA SECONDS OF UNCUT BOOBS!

The ironic thing is now thanks to the Internet almost everything NC-17 is tame compared to what kids have already been consuming in droves when their parents aren't looking.

Lol, boobs. It's such a funny word.

Secret_Tunnel said:

The human brain doesn't even finish developing until age 25! Anyone who dates a 23 year old is a salacious pervert!

And then it starts dying, so really if you aren't exactly a 25 year old dating a 25 year old you're robbing the grave. People are sickening.

More bundle games!

Minit -- Pretty good micro-sized Link to the Past style game. I'm not sure if the die-every-minute gimmick adds that much.

A Short Hike -- Fun and relaxing little exploration game. I like the simplified BOTW-style gliding/climbing/stamina use in a top-down game.

Best Buy is clearancing out Fire Emblem Warriors for $25 if anyone is interested (or $10 for N3DS version):

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/fire-emblem-warriors-standard-edition-nintendo-switch/5721736.p?skuId=5721736

I looked at footage of it and it doesn't look great. I'd say there are worse ways to spend $10...but you could definitely stretch that $10 into something more modern and on sale. I think Capcom just had (or has) Okami on sale for $10 or something like that.

@Mop it up

If it was Hyrule Warriors I'd be very tempted to bite! Fire Emblem Warriors was so bad by comparison. Confusing since it came out after HW (and it isn't even bias, I like the FE series more!). One was packed to the gills with content, the other was over in like a few hours. It felt phoned-in.

PogueSquadron said:

I looked at footage of it and it doesn't look great. I'd say there are worse ways to spend $10...but you could definitely stretch that $10 into something more modern and on sale. I think Capcom just had (or has) Okami on sale for $10 or something like that.

Yeah Capcom's doing a summer sale that lasts until the 30th. Even 3DS has discounts, with some nice deals on the Ace Attorney series there in particular. I only bought the two original Mega Man Legacy Collections, but I was tempted by a few other deals.

@J.K. Riki

That's funny--I love the Zelda series more but I think I preferred Fire Emblem Warriors! Hyrule Warriors has a huge amount of content, but it's also pretty "grindy" when you get down to it. FEW still has plenty of stuff to do, especially when you take the DLC into consideration (I think I played it for 80 hours and am nowhere near done with original content). It also has a lot more character-driven stuff with the Supports, and I like the core gameplay better (with switching characters and ordering them to go places to keep things under control).

Never played the 3DS versions of either though.

@TriforceBun

Really? Weird! I maybe missed something? We beat the game and felt like it was pretty much over with really, really quickly when we borrowed it from the library. Meanwhile Hyrule Warriors had that epic NES Zelda-style map that we barely got halfway through before the game was due back.



Maybe there was some mode of FEW which didn't unlock for us?

I liked HW a lot, but it did lose me on how repetitive it got. I suppose that's the nature of all these Muso games. I put a good amount of time into it, but I tap out eventually and really have no interest in doing hundreds of these missions.

I don't particularly care for Fire Emblem but I like the Zelda series, so I've always been curious about Hyrule Warriors but never found a deal on it, not even the Wii U version. From how people are always saying this kind of game is so repetitive, I wasn't planning on getting Fire Emblem Warriors and just waiting to see if I ever find a good deal on Hyrule Warriors. However, I had a $10 certificate I had forgotten about which was soon to expire, so I decided to get FEW anyway since I have nothing else on which to use the cert. I figure that the game will probably at least hold this much in value, so selling is always an option if I never play it / don't care for it.

I also grabbed the 3DS version as well, despite not having a NEW 3DS model. I'll keep this sealed and see if its value goes up in the aftermarket. Hmm, why are games starting to feel more like stocks...

@J.K. Riki

Yeah, the Adventure mode was chock full of content, although it began to wear on me a bit after I cleared the first map. FEW does something similar with multiple maps (you choose a character to battle on a FE-style map, I think you go for ranks and stuff, etc), but I can't remember if they were in the base game or not...hm...

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

I felt that as well. FEW felt as repetitive as normal games of that style, but HW felt a lot less overall. Sure, still repetitive (that's this genre) but less so. To me, anyway!

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Oh that might be true, I played it on the Wii U and it didn't have some of the features the 3DS one had (like switching characters mid-mission, which would've helped speed things along).

At the end of the day, theming aside, I enjoyed the moment-to-moment gameplay of Fire Emblem Warriors more. It's smoother, with some QoL updates which I can't recall right now.

But a musou is a musou. They always kind of feel like they're wasting my time. Y'know, like an RPG!

I've been trying to work through all of the demos clogging up my Switch library. Labyrinth of Refrain was agonizing. So many words...

Umihara Kawase Bazooka is really freakin' weird, too. As a lifelong Bionic Commando fan, I think that it's time to admit that this series is not for me. I've tried to get into it so many times, but the feel of the 'grappling hook' has just never clicked.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule What a ripoff! I wouldn't do it for more than $5!

Hey all it's that very rare thing, Nintendo 1st party titles on sale! Physical and (some) digital! And apparently Best Buy is price matching this if you don't like Amazon.

Amazon sale

Luigi's Mansion 3 - $39.99
Yoshi's Crafted World - $39.99 (but sold out, and $34.99 at Best Buy?)
Link's Awakening - $39.99
Splatoon 2 - $39.99
Mario Maker 2 - $39.99
Fire Emblem 3 House - $35.99
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe - $39.99
Mario Tennis Aces - $34.99

Any idea how long the Amazon sale is up for?