Topic: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

Really looking forward for this. Loved the first one.

It's up to pre-order on Ubis Store now....

If BotW2 hits next year as well then it'd almost literally be a repeat of 2017, lol (it'd just need a 3D Mario & Xenoblade).

@RR529 Yeah, 2022 is increasingly looking like 2017 2: Electric Boogaloo on the first party front, with 2021 being the year of muscular third party support.

Just saw the trailers, it looks great! I still have to put more time into Kingdom Battle though, lol. Been a while since I played it.

Obviously, there are new weapons.

I noticed a couple minor new things:
new move - jump/sliding over low blocks.
And the tactical range is a circle, not squares.

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I really loved the first game, but it didn't have much replay value after 100%ing it once. I hope the sequel is different enough so that it's a fresh experience again.

I want to get around to playing the first game, didn't do so in 2017, if I'm picking up this sequel since I've heard good things. The release has me a bit excited too for 2022. Expecting Breath of the Wild's sequel to be an early 2022 game probably for March, 2022 is looking like 2017. If the Switch can have another year like 2017, generation comparisons would be a more interesting discussion.

@I-U I think you should just wait for this one, It doesn't look like the two are connected in any way, Or maybe tiny ways but Luigi and peach of totally new weapons.

@RR529 There's also this on the Fire Emblem front:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/rumour_updated_art_...

So perhaps a new Fire Emblem Warriors focused around Three Houses (kind of like how Age of Calamity is focused around BotW), 2022/2023 would sound about right for the next Nintendo Warriors game.

Nice to see this is "galaxy" themed, with Luma's and a emo Rosalina (lol). The first screenshots made it look as if it was more open, but the way the characters walked you would almost think its on a fixed path (though Mario runs to the right in the video as soon as a enemy appears). It seems you don't go anymore from battle scene to battle scene, but just engage a enemy if you want to battle (you can also avoid battles that way, from the looks of it). Also, the x-com grid seems to have been removed. I wonder what that means for the battles, more freedom? Also, what about the dark-hair Rabbid? Reminds me of Shadow the hedgehog for some reason. People assume she's female because of the hip-movement and the fact that Rabbid Mario is in love. But she doesn't look female to me...

Apparently it's single player only this time round but the Nintendo site has "Players: To be determined". It's also meant to be more RPG like with talking to NPC, random battles etc.

Guess I never posted here...Anyways yeah, I'll keep my eye on this one, but...I'm worried about all the glitches/crashes this game may have. The first game, it had some annoying crashes here and there as well as some game breaking glitches (well, not game-breaking, but they caused me to restart the world/level or whatever) and a highly annoying graphical bug in World 3 where I had to close the game out to get rid of it. >.>

I hope Rabbid Luigi will keep his vampirisation.

Looks great. One of my favourites from this Nintendo E3. Pre order must be done.

I'll wait a bit after release.
Ubisoft games are likely to drop in price rather quickly.

@Joeynator3000 really? I did not have any problems with this game and j completed it. Cannot say the same thing about south Park though that hot a glitch that made all save files corrupted and I had to wait for a patch (and still lost my most up to date save)

Those Rabbids with the Thwomps on their backs...they probably replace the stone-slab Rabbids from the first game. Maaannn, those where nasty! For some reason they always got to me and gave me a good slapping!

I like them, they look like Obélix carrying a menhir.

@Joeynator3000 Just to add to this I played through the campaign 3 times with zero issues/glitches/crashes. I've never heard of any issues with this game before, but obviously there's always a risk with any game. Hopefully it was isolated. All I would say it it's still one of the most polished games I've played on Switch and am super excited for the new one.