Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Meanlucario
 
Ah.

@E-123  
There are some made already.

Hollow Knight has been really fun so far.  
Holy shit was Lost Kin tough - it took me many tries to kill it.

You know, I’m very happy 2x Wumpa Coin weekends are finally available offline, it makes grinding less stressful, mostly.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  

 
I think out of those I would like wide joycons.

@PonyPon  
Put the d-pads on the bottom, and I’m sold.

I hope Apex Legends comes to the Switch before February of next year. CROSSES FINGERS for either a Thanksgiving, Christmas/Yule, or New Years 2020 release  
Also, Double Switch is on Switch e-shop.

@Background Pony #F4CE  
Like that’d happen with EA at the helm. They actively sabotage anything they put on the Switch to justify not supporting it

I decided to read on some of Fatal Frame 2’s plot stuff out of curiosity. That game has some fucked up rituals for fucked up entities. I mean, if you fail a ritual because you love your twin too much, than you need to question who/what you’re serving.

@Kiryu-Chan  
I know that they won’t let either their own or DICE’s dev team to bring Star Wars games to the Switch. I can understand the sabotage thing with the most recent FIFA game on the Switch. But What else?

@Meanlucario  
Those entities aren’t being worshiped. The rituals that are performed in the games are meant to seal them away. And the events in the games are typically what happens when these rituals fail.

@Silent_Witness  
So a ritual fails if it’s carried out successfully, but the twins have a close bond. Still pretty dumb in my opinion.

@Meanlucario
 
It ties into Eastern beliefs about ghosts, but the short version is that those rituals only fail when the sacrifice still has an earthly connection. If they don’t pass on willingly, then Hell/Hellish Abyss doesn’t get their tribute.

@Dustcan  
OK. I still find it a bit dumb in this scenario, but OK.

@Meanlucario
 
Nah you’re right. That is a very big hole in the every ritual throughout the series, but the backstory in each game does make it clear that the participants in every one goes through great pains (often literally) to ensure the sacrifice has no attachment to anyone or anything to ensure it goes successfully.
 
It’s one of those things that would look dumb to an outsider (which most games tend to point out) but for the ones performing the ritual it’s a known issue they try to account for.

@Meanlucario  
In Fatal Frame II specifically, the Ritual failed because the twins that were supposed to be the sacrifice tried to escape. One succeeded, but the other got caught. The local priests strangled the ones twin they had and dropped her into the abyss they were trying to keep sealed, but since the ritual wasn’t performed properly, it failed, and it unleashed an evil entity that destroyed their village.

@Dustcan  
Seeing as what the series is about, I can see the entities using that to their advantage by having the spirits that never knew love to want to have revenge on the living for their miserable life. It would fit my understanding of Japanese ghost being entities that are the manifestation of the victims’ hatred and anger rather than the victim themself.

@Dustcan  
That was true in the first game, where the ritual failed because the sacrifice met a boy and fell in love with him, but I don’t know how true that is for the second game. Can’t say anything about the third game because I didn’t get very far into it.

@Silent_Witness  
You’re forgetting that it’s due to the ceremony failing twice in a row, since the one before it had the twins love each other too much. This is due to the hidden sacrifice that is cut and killed by ropes before hand to buy time if things go poorly.

@Silent_Witness  
I think there are 5 core games.

@Meanlucario  
There are. But I didn’t count 4 or 5 because I don’t think they got international releases.

Funny how I learn this to confirm what Pat said in the Shitstorm video of Fatal Frames 3 of the protagonist in it is the only female protagonist in the series in her twenties. He was correct.

@Silent_Witness  
I think they did. I remember a Shitstorm of 5 at least, and maybe 4.

@Silent_Witness
 
Yeah, 4 didn’t get an international release because it was basically an unfinished, buggy mess.