Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light coming to Switch on December 4th (officially localized to English, $6, available for a limited time)
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Yeah, I'm literally seeing people in Twitter saying "this is abusive, but I'm still buying it". First of all, it's not like the company makes you. Second, you're dumb as hell.
fourth, actually
bunny jump rope was inexplicably going to be pulled until they came to their senses
If you think righteous consumer indignation will do anything for you feel free. I'm not buying the game either because honestly the original Shadow Dragon kind of blows. There are much better Fire Emblems and strategy games you could play.
It's actually just Lucas holding his breath in the hot springs surrounded by magic butterflies (used in EarthBound to restore psychic power) to awaken his own. The way it's framed, however, is misleading and offensive for sure.
It would absolutely be altered in any future official release.
Oh cool you can already preorder. I can feel Nintendo breathing down my neck chanting don't miss out don't miss out
Limited time? What is going on with Nintendo lately and this crazy anti-consumer bullshit they keep pulling?
Honestly the limited release pisses me off more than that they didn't bring over Mother 3. If Nintendo keeps that shit up I'm probably going to stop buying their games. The transient nature and lack of real ownership of digital video games already pisses me off, I'm not going to support someone who's actively going out of their way to uphold that.
Not to mention that it shits on the access poorer people have to these things. I wanted to get the Mario Collection but I just don't have the money right now, I have to save for it.
Nintendo makes some odd decisions that I can somewhat see why they do it but this is just a greedy fucking garbage decision, attempting to emotionally manipulate people to make them more likely to buy it. The only real benefit of digital distribution is that it is unlimited. Fuck off Nintendo.
With stupid shit like this, Nintendo might as well be handing out peg legs and eye patches.
Not to mention that it shits on the access poorer people have to these things. I wanted to get the Mario Collection but I just don't have the money right now, I have to save for it.
Nintendo makes some odd decisions that I can somewhat see why they do it but this is just a greedy fucking garbage decision, attempting to emotionally manipulate people to make them more likely to buy it. The only real benefit of digital distribution is that it is unlimited. Fuck off Nintendo.
With stupid shit like this, Nintendo might as well be handing out peg legs and eye patches.
So...is Switch Online's retro game stuff dead? It's super weird for this to be a $6 game when they've been consistent at putting NES/SNES on there for "free."
Think that this is the end of us getting new consoles and stuff, and they're switching to limited release, virtual console type of sales?
Think that this is the end of us getting new consoles and stuff, and they're switching to limited release, virtual console type of sales?
It's an anniversary release, just like 3D Allstars. Fire Emblem has it's 30th anniversary this year.
Because it's an anniversary release, nothing more
Sony: You cannot play our old games unless we remake them
Nintendo: You can play our old games if you pay full price for them in a specific time periodHuh? What do you mean give our paid online service value?
This new gen already sucks.
Nintendo: You can play our old games if you pay full price for them in a specific time period
This new gen already sucks.
Seeing all the complaints for the price is making it sound like Nintendo is charging $60 for the game.
They had to translate this game from scratch, AND they had to program in all the new qol features. They've justified a $6 price for this considering nes games used to be $5 on the VC.
This is a special localization being done for Fire Emblem's 30th anniversary. It's not a standard issue NSO release in any way.
No. This is just a limited time commemorative release for Fire Emblem's 30th anniversary.
That said, artificial digital scarcity is worth criticizing, which people are rightfully doing in this thread. Other criticisms may not be rooted in good faith, but that one is valid.
When will the CE be available to pre-order? And can I import to Europe from the Nintendo Store?
Please stop defending this, it being an anniversary is not a justification.
It's worth $6 for what it is. Should it have been a NSO game? Of course it should've to ad value to the service. The game will eventually make it to a NSO service one way or another, if you waited 20+ years you can wait 3 more before Nintendo can dump it on NSO for free.
Why would it be limited for a short time? Why put a time limit on the availability of a digital game? Just seems unnecessary and only hurts the consumer.
Wanna bet they'll do an Earthbound collection with Mother 3? The absence of Earthbound games from the NES/SNES online app is pretty weird
i mean its limited for 6 months that is plenty of time for one to save up to afford it. so its not like its 1 month or something so its no that bad.
I thought this was going to be about the second DS game, ugh...
Still, isn't this a first time for Nintendo?? Every other translation of old roms I can think of (Earthbound Begginings, Drill Dozer, Starfox2?) was simply stored in their old vault for years. I hope this becomes a trend in the future, except for the limited time thing.
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Ok, something that I really LOVE from this is that they're not restricted by text space limitations anymore. I'm playing breath of Fire on the Switch Online and it's awful in how much they needed to simplify everything. The fact that the translation is by today's standards is really great... Thought I have to wonder, is this English only?
Still, isn't this a first time for Nintendo?? Every other translation of old roms I can think of (Earthbound Begginings, Drill Dozer, Starfox2?) was simply stored in their old vault for years. I hope this becomes a trend in the future, except for the limited time thing.
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Ok, something that I really LOVE from this is that they're not restricted by text space limitations anymore. I'm playing breath of Fire on the Switch Online and it's awful in how much they needed to simplify everything. The fact that the translation is by today's standards is really great... Thought I have to wonder, is this English only?
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What if they don't have a Switch yet? I have friends who still don't or are waiting for the Switch pro.
No mention on the NoE Twitter account. Looks like is NA only as of now.
Sucks that you can't even purchase a game without owning a system - it's like what's the point of having a web store
- $6 is completely fair given the QoL changes.
- Limited time digital release is fucking stupid and I hate that Nintendo is going this direction.
- I am going to pay way too much money to scalpers for that CE. Mario team at Nintendo- this is how you do an anniversary!
- Limited time digital release is fucking stupid and I hate that Nintendo is going this direction.
- I am going to pay way too much money to scalpers for that CE. Mario team at Nintendo- this is how you do an anniversary!
Because it release to commemorate the anniversary, just because now they offer it digitally doesn't mean anything when is just like anniversary sales, promotions or giveaways which are also limited
It will never happen, too many offensive stereotypes in that game
Shadow Dragon is difficult at best to find. If you have access to it play that but this is a neat alternative given the QoL changes.
There's no reason for this to be tied to an anniversary though. That's bullshit reverse logic to justify ripping people off who otherwise might not have bought it through FOMO.
The big special edition with a bunch of guff, sure, you can justify that being limited. Nothing like that can be said for the digital release.
Oh, ok money bags?? There are plenty of people who would not be able to afford a $100 video game that easily. Especially now with Covid fucking up everyones jobs among other things. Sure this one is only 6 bucks but it's part of a trend now.
Besides, how it effects poorer people's access to something like this is only a part of why this is a problem. It's a step towards companies eroding your rights of ownership towards digital goods. It's extremely emotionally manipulative to make people buy it out of fear. I don't understand how anyone can get behind this shit. This is to say nothing of the actual game, yeah its exciting but this is ridiculous.
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