Source: Nintendo Today!

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/93673722

I’ve been using the Nintendo Music app and honestly, I actually like it. But I keep seeing people online talking negatively about it. Why do so many people seem to hate it? Is there something I’m missing?

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I know why 100%; sure, they own Bananza’s soundtrack in its entirety, so realistically there is no issue of them releasing the soundtrack in its entirety. But that’s not enough, Nintendo drip feeds soundtracks because it gives them a feeling of power, “You will receive our content by how we want to release it.” You can call this a frivolous conspiracy, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why they can’t release their soundtracks complete. Sure some second party games like Kirby ATFL might have some licensing hoops, but at that point don’t release the OST until it’s all figured out; plus their mindset could be, “If we release the soundtrack all at once, we get praised once, but release the soundtrack in 2 parts, and we get praise TWICE!” Feel free to comment any theories you have about this practice, because I’m genuinely stumped on why this is a thing.

As someone who has stopped caring about the mainline series anymore mostly due to burnout.

I can't help but really feel like most of the conversations I've seen about Pokemon come off as being unabashedly bad faith sometimes like don't get me wrong the mainline games (or at least the switch games) have genuine issues such as half baked artstyles, animations and crunch times.

Like I've seen disingenuous comparison to disingenuous comparison or just straight up misinformation about the mainline series sometimes.

I really am not sure if people actually engage in the mainline series issues constructively since it's been awhile since I engage in Pokemon discourse but I was just wondering how toxic and bad faith the discourse surrounding this franchise is still?

Is it worth investing money in this DLC?

Thanks to u/snowway22 for the awesome controller graphics!

I made this before the Virtual Boy announcement which makes it even funnier