I've played about an hour of Alba: A Wildlife Adventure. Talk about a lowkey, super-charming little adventure game. Just waltzing around this tropical island snapping photos of the local wildlife. A nice little story about the nature preservation.
It's cozy.
I'd put this up there with Donut County as one of those top-tier mobile games that's worth your time.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Giancarlothomaz
It likely still will, but with larger, more explorable, less linear areas instead of left to right stages.
At the end of the day, I don't really care how it's structured though. It looks fun, and I'm totally into it, whatever "it" turns out to be.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
Yeah, that trailer looks impressive. On par with Mario Odyssey I'd say. And I consider Mario Odyssey one of the top five reasons for owning a Switch. So yes, my anticipation for this game has taken a step up.
It has the potential to be the best Kirby ever and possibly HAL Laboratory's best game since Melee.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,536 games (as of December 14th, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
New Kirby looks amazing. Clearly not open world (it has a hub world, but there is a clear shot of the world map as well), but it looks fantastic nonetheless.
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
Well, thanks to holiday gift cards my fancy new SWOLED and 1TB micro sd card should be on my doorstep after work. The combined cost ended up being less than the msrp of a standard Switch, which is nice. So I'll be handing my current Switch down to my friend's kid who was asking for a Switch this holiday but her parent failed to score one. I'm also giving her the joy-con that are coming with the SWOLED rather than the drift-inflicted pair that came with the V2.
Hopefully they'll last longer for her than the usual six months they typically only last me, lol.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,536 games (as of December 14th, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Okay Kirby looks fantastic. The levels look somewhere between 3D World and Odyssey in terms of openness. I'm super excited for this.
March is earlier than expected - figured they wouldn't release it until May with Triangle Strategy, Chocobo GP, and Rune Factory 5 already releasing that month.
Well, Arceus is 28th Jan, @NintendoByNature .... Life Is Strange Remastered Collection Feb 1st, Dying Light 2 Cloud version 4th, Dynasty Warriors 9 Empire -15th, Monark on 22nd, with Evil Dead the game having a Feb release window
The confirmation of the March 25th release date for Kirby also gives a little credence to Nintendo tinfoil hat leaker, markomaro, in regards to their assumption that Fire Emblem Echoes will be shadow-announced and released for Switch sometime before June.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,536 games (as of December 14th, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Yeah, that's just the ones I remember, @NintendoByNature ..... Got Life Is Strange Remastered Collection on Steam since it was bundled with True Colours there & will get Monark there as well!
January
Pokemon Legends Arceus February
Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection
Life Is Strange Remastered Collection
Atelier Sophie 2
Dynasty Warriors 9 Empire March
Triangle Strategy
Kirby Forgotten Land
.hack//G.U. Last Recode
Rune Factory 5
The big ones I'm super excited for though are Pokémon, AC Ezio Collection, Life Is Strange, Triangle Strategy, Kirby and Rune Factory.
@Magician
I don't doubt a FE game will be announced this year, but that person was giving false FE leaks back before we knew about Three Houses. In fact, they've been so consistently wrong for so many years, deleting tweets of debunked "leaks", they finally stopped giving specifics and just started generalizing with, "casual IP in first half of year" or "FE remake but no idea what the game is or name is" so they have a better probability of guessing correctly.
Here's a list of their "leaks" from a year ago. We already knew about Snap, and 2D Metroid was heavily, HEAVILY rumored. They only thing they got right that wasn't leaked or rumored elsewhere first was WarioWare and Advance Wars. WarioWare was expected in Year 5 with no release yet. I'll admit Advance Wars was a harder one so I'm kinda surprised there. But I guess when you make 20 educated guesses you're bound to get 1 or 2 of them
First half of 2021
New Pokemon Snap (Spring) already announced
Pokemon Collection (Feb) wrong
Zelda BOTW Sequel (April if is not delays) wrong
Metroid 2D (If not more delays, already finished)
New IP (Not announced yet) wrong
Fire Emblem Remake (Spring-Summer) wrong
Second half
Bayonetta 3 wrong
Zelda Collection wrong
Zelda WiiU Ports wrong
Kirby wrong
DK Country “6” wrong
Pokemon Gen 4 remakes already announced
Pokemon Let’s Go Sequel wrong
Detective Pikachu Sequel wrong
Wario Land wrong
New Pikmin (may be shown in 2021) wrong
Zelda Oracles Remake wrong
Paper Mario Remake wrong
Advance Wars (may be shown in 2021)
Metroid Prime Collection wrong
Metroid Prime 4 wrong
Camelot next Mario Sports wrong
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
There are a lot of good games coming out this year it makes it hard which ones I want to get.
But one I'm most definitely picking up is the Sunbreak DLC for MH Rise.
The Kirby trailer feels so refreshing - made me think about how long it's been since Nintendo last showed a new, colourful, joyful looking game that got me excited. Splatoon 3 just looks like more Splatoon; Mario Golf was underwhelming environmentally; SM3DW was mostly just the Wii U game (I was excited by the sight of Bowser's Fury but haven't bought the game yet due to the smaller size of the add-on).
But Kirby & The Forgotten Land is genuinely new looking. Sure, it quite possibly uses the same engine as SM3DW, but filled with the Kirby universe in HD 3D for the first time, after wanting HD 3D Kirby for about 8 years, makes me feel proper Nintendo excitement again.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
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