v3launchunit

i like snakes and a free palestine

aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.


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Codarobo
@Codarobo

I wish I knew why Nintendo just suddenly stopped making their consoles/interfaces cute. Was it because of the failure of the Wii U, and they just threw out the baby with the bath water?


Dex
@Dex

yeah it's always felt a bit weird

my assumption is that yes, it was to try and capture some of the audience that had left the wii u for other platforms with more boring interfaces - and the wii u's focus on whimsy could sometimes get in the way1

but
maybe eshop aside, i don't think that was true of the 3DS

people complained about there being not enough themes or having to pay too much for them, not that there were themes beyond the basics (and guess what one of the most popular things to do with a hacked 3DS is!)
nintendo badge arcade might have stopped actually giving new badges when they hit the storage size limit, but they still kept it running until the network shutdown
people would still get surprised about using the mic to spin the icons on the home screen faster

we are at the point now where even apple realized they went a bit too far in simplifying things
and so you get things like the very overengineered iPhone 15 pro/max action button UI that makes sure you know exactly where the button is
and all the animations they put in the dynamic island
it's not much, but it's something

and the switch just... hasn't changed. the most you get is still the joycon click.


  1. commands for gamers: Please use the GamePad.


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in reply to @Codarobo's post:

I feel like the Switch as a piece of hardware is still relatively cute. Maybe it isn't as toy-like as the Wii/Wii U were, but I don't think it's quite as concerned with looking like a cool piece of tech as other consoles are.
The interface is definitely disappointingly sterile though. Except for the sound design? fsr they still really went off with having it make lots of cute little sounds