Got Fantasy Life i on switch just two weeks ago.

Technically a Japanese cartridge because it’s the only physical edition, but it!s the same as the e-shop, all included languages and compatible with the Switch 2 upgrade patch.

I am still buying Switch 2 physical games, but only if they’re actually on the cartridge and not that empty keycard bullshit.

“Play to earn” and NFTs have never been about making games, it’s always been about “how to pretend our speculation-based scam is something that everyone wants”.

They know they can only get so many faithful into the crypto bullshit. And if they don’t get more people in, or at least pretend a lot more will be interested very soon (get yours early!) the illusion breaks.

Soooo… Hey fellow gamer? Do you know what you need? Game money that’s totally (not completely unlike) real money! And you can even earn more just by playing! (our shitty, hastily made pseudo-game).

I don’t get the author’s point really.

I don’t feel like I’m climbing a mountain, I feel like I’m playing through a gauntlet of single screen platform levels.

Those platform levels almost exclusively take you to higher grounds, unless Madeline is stuck in some place for narrative reasons (e.g., the hotel, and even then she’s trying to exit it through the roof). There are altitude markers. The map is literally a 3D rendering of the mountain with an obvious progression toward the summit.

Both figuratively and literally, you are climbing that mountain.