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Bought Ni No Kuni, enjoying it immensely so far. (I beat it years ago on PS3)

Hooray! Eager to try this out! I heart demos.... I spent like 60 hours on the DQXI demo grinding out money and perfection pearls for forging later, once I got the actual game for Christmas. It worked out great!

I love the game, but I'm annoyed that the internet functionality is locked behind the online subscription service. I have the online subscription only because it came included with Mario Maker 2, but my son can't use any internet functions because we would need a family account (at 35 bucks a year) or another individual account for him. So dumb.

i thought this game looked pretty interesting (though the combat looks a little strange, but that's okay) but DokeV looks amazing, I'll have to watch out for more info on that even if it's never on a nintendo system (thanks @Kalmaro)

This looks GREAT!!! I actually love the CG in the trailer

nearing the end of Dragon Quest XI, I've spent a ton of time with it
we're also near the end of Pokemon Sword, but we also play the NES games (Yoshi and Wario's Woods) and we've been playing some Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii lately

watching the combat, it kind of reminded me of Eternal Sonata, which may be an obscure game (it's on PS3, maybe others)

it's not like BotW completely invented the genre of anime rpg/action rpg whatever

"following Mystery Gift code can be used to redeemed 10 Dive Balls: 0T0SH1DAMA"

Was really hoping Dragon Quest XI would be on sale... it's 50 percent off on Steam right now, but I guess it came out too recently on Switch to be discounted.

Very cool! I have a 13 year old Poke-fan son and I bought him 3 Pokemon movie DVDs for Christmas, plus nearly 40 booster packs of cards. We've been watching the old Indigo League series, so we will definitely give this one a watch! Thanks for the info

Mostly wanted to come and cast a vote for XC2 because I think it's great so far. (Also voted Odyssey and Breath of the Wild because I've played those a ton, obviously both brilliant, and I voted Disgaea 5 on behalf of a good friend of mine who has been playing it.) For 3DS, I voted Ever Oasis and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia — both games I absolutely loved this year and bought and played ASAP.

Really excited to play this in the future, looks great. Just sinking my teeth into XC2 and still have a ton to do in Odyssey, so those games are going to take all my time for the foreseeable future. Nice to see another unique entry for the Switch library of games.

Legend of Legacy is a really cool game; I assumed it was by the Bravely Default team because it looks similar artistically. I like it because I find it challenging for its genre (I would classify it as a traditional, classical, or "retro" style RPG) but it has cute chibi style characters (including an anthropomorphic Frog)

So anyway, my guess is Legend of Legacy. The first game was not a huge commercial success outside Japan, I don't think, but maybe that resulted in Grezzo having the rights to develop a sequel (i.e. Furyu transferred or forfeited their rights to the IP — this is total speculation on my part, mind you)

"The game was developed by Furyu in conjunction with Grezzo" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Legacy

Did anyone mention that it might be "Legend of Legacy 2"? Just noticed that Grezzo is listed as one of the devs for the first one (didn't realize... actually just bought the game at Gstop earlier today)

Yes! Big fan of Ever Oasis... it wasn't perfect, but it had great charm and action RPG gameplay. It was really fun. Would buy a sequel for 3DS or Switch (guessing it's for Switch based on "HD experienced developers")

I agree with pretty much everything this article says about Odyssey, and quoted it/shared on Twitter a little. The game is very accessible, while also still posing a challenge at times for more advanced players. And it's so pretty. I'm reserving judgment until I finish the game, because I do think it has some areas that could have been improved (Metro Kingdom's explorable area should be bigger. I assumed from early trailers it would be huge and act as a sort of hub world. The lack of a big hub world seems like an oversight.)
Also, I think 3D World offers some unique advantages over Odyssey: 4 player co-op, selectable characters with unique jumps or playstyles, while also possessing a lot of the beauty and variety of gameplay that makes Odyssey so outstanding.

"..that's one thing I've always felt is missing from Mario as a whole and the fact that it's not Dante's Inferno" -Alex
hilarious!

I enjoyed the article, and thought Mr. Whitehead brought up excellent examples that used 3D well. However I don't have a problem with them dropping the feature, because personally I don't use it, and it seems a logical step in extending the console's life (with the 2D XL models) and maybe reaching new demographic of younger players who don't want the old 2DS. It's such a great system, the games are fantastic even without 3D.

Odyssey will vindicate the Switch for many, and I'm eagerly awaiting Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (I'd be shocked if that game's not utterly amazing). I don't really have a problem with the slow rollout of features (or arguably new 1st party games) on Switch, since I also have a Wii U and Playstation. I bought the Switch for the eventual Fire Emblem game, and to lesser extent Shin Megami Tensei (which I'm sure will also be amazing)

Oceanhorn is the one I'm interested in. I've held off on buying any Switch eshop games because I have so many Wii U digital games already.

Would really like to see Earthlock: Festival of Magic come to Switch too. It was great fun on Wii U, technical issues aside. I just made it to the boss but my party wasn't set up right to handle it. It's a bargain for $10, though you're virtually guaranteed to have some freezing, possible corrupted saves or general lost progress. I'd like to see them correct those issues and they could charge their normal price of $20 for the game.

There's a game freezing glitch fairly early in the game, but I was able to get through it following the advice here: https://snowcastlegames.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/top...
I tweeted Snowcastle games to ask if they knew about it. Anyway, aside from that (and I think the game did freeze on me another time, and I lost a bit of progress) I absolutely love the game so far. It's fantastic.

Nice to see I'm not the only one looking forward to trying out Earthlock: Festival of Magic
Game looks awesome!

I was wondering how the save data transfer from the demo works for this game. Other comments seemed to indicate the game saved to the cartridge, but I was curious if I could import a save from two different 3DS systems' demos, or play the game on two different systems and save to the SD card or something like that.

my son's been waiting for Mario Sports Mix for a while now, he will be thrilled!

Thanks for the heads up, I don't play Shuffle as much as I used to (daily) but still try to log in once a week at least and catch the special stages. They've done a good job of bringing back the special stages so people who missed them can still "catch 'em all". I've stopped tackling the main stages at about 350, because they take items/resources/coins to S-rank or catch. Overall I like a lot of the improvements that theyve brought to the game.

There was a time when my wife and son also played the game like I did, and Sunday/Monday nights were an exciting time to see what new stages were added.

I did spend money on jewels during their Buy some get some sale, mostly to support the devs because I played the game so much and loved it.

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This is a great quote from the article: "That second year of development was all about paperwork, unusable console portals, technical problems, bugs and desperate searches for information"

@Gridatttack I assume that's just Trap Team, I think it was to encourage Wii users to upgrade to Wii U without having to buy the game again, or because they expected a lot of people to upgrade. I can't remember their exact logic, but I think it's the same reason Disney Infinity 1.0 for Wii U was (is?) free to download on eshop, after 2.0 came out.

Pokemon Shuffle gets no respect

Pokemon Shuffle is my ipso facto game of the year. 330 hours logged... it's gotten a bit stale for me lately, I'm currently playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (about 40 hours into it, still feel like I've barely scratched the surface, but I like it more as I go) and Final Fantasy XIII.

@McGuire I second this!

I am playing FFXiii right now, and the menu text is barely readable on my 32" HDTV (using HDMI connection) when I'm sitting less than 3 meters away. I do think it's a problem, not limited to XCX (which I haven't gotten yet)

Please, NoA, Localize it

I think this game will be good. I'm keeping an open mind, and I plan on getting it as soon I can.

@NaturalGus You're not alone, I'm also in favor of the Western-released Super Mario Brothers 2 style, especially since they revisited Luigi/Peach/Toad as playable characters in 3D World and it worked so well. I liked a lot of the enemies in Mario 2.

@NaturalGus You're not alone, I'm also in favor of the Western-released Super Mario Brothers 2 style, especially since they revisited Luigi/Peach/Toad as playable characters in 3D World and it worked so well. I liked a lot of the enemies in Mario 2.

Devil Survivor Overclocked on 3DS for 9.99 is a fun game, though I enjoyed Devil Summoners Soul Hackers slightly more. I'd recommend them for Shin Megami Tensei fans, though Atlus seems to discount them at about that price regularly.

Sounds great, looking forward to it! I'll probably wait for the Wii U version but they've got my purchase eventually, one way or another

Just want to add, as a Wii U owner who doesn't game on PC, I'm not really interested in this game anyway, but if the reviews had come back that the game made especially good use of the gamepad, then I would have to consider buying, or at least not outright eliminate the possibility.

Mother 3 on 3DS and Wii U Virtual Consoles is my vote

I just beat Lego City Undercover yesterday. I think it averaged reviews of about 8, or 8.5, which I think is right. But it's a really fun, well made open world GTA for kids with a ton of fun things to do. And it was made with the Wii U in mind, and used the Gamepad pretty well. I recommend it. Fantastic graphics, acceptable load times. The story is slightly less fun than the exploration, but it's a solid game. I beat it with 27 hours on my save, and only about 23% completion, meaning there's a lot more to do in my game.

I'm hyped for the Story of Seasons x PopoloCrois game coming soon

Not that big a deal. As a workaround, I wonder if NoA would let them rotate the other themes onto the shop, so they never had more than 4 at one time, but could still offer them to the consumers eventually.

Now that we have badge arcade, whatever its shortcomings, you can easily spruce up your home menu for free. I've never liked the pricing on the themes. I bought one Mario theme. i bought a couple Atlus themes because they were 99 cents and looked decent. I'm good on themes unless they want to give one away to promote their game.

I don't really like the NX name, I hope they change it, or explain it. I smoke Marlboro NXT cigarettes, and I don't know what it means, or even how to say it. If I say "N - X - T", the cashier says "You mean NeXT?" or visa versa.

I think it's inevitable that Mother 3 will be released in the west, but it might be wishful thinking on my part. I assume it would be on the Wii U vc since they won't put GBA games on the 3DS VC anymore. I'd love a 3DS "remake" or rerelease. Anyway, this snippet is interesting, and kind of sad. I think a new Mother game would be awesome. He mentions the game setting and its similarity to the modern real world, it reminds me of the Persona series, which also does that really well.

I thought the images/video of the Nintendo 64 Mother game looked really cool, so I'd like to see a 3D version of the game, but I'm pretty sure that won't ever happen.

@Superryanworld "since the Wii and DS." Because that was so long ago?

@chess227 Totally a fair criticism, but it also makes sense to allow the consumer to buy an external HD as suits their needs, rather than installing a 500 GB HD into every system at added cost. I bought a cheap HD, 1 TB last Christmas, and now I couldn't fill it up even if I tried.

There's quite a few badges on offer now that are pretty lame. I like the idea of Nintendo Badge Arcade, so much so that I would probably buy like a 20 dollar unlocked version (where it wouldn't literally cost hundreds of dollars to collect them all) , but as it is I see no reason to spend money on this, and after getting about 40 badges over the past couple weeks, I don't have much motivation to keep playing. Some of the badges look great, but the Majora's Mask badges are not among them.

@SushiGummy Yeah, it might be. But it sounds like they didn't fix any of the perceived problems with GTI, and just added a ton more content. GTI had the difficulty spikes that he described, but they sound worse in this game. GTI got tedious at times, and repetitive, sometimes the dungeons were just a few floors too long. But it was really polished in terms of the graphics, and was pretty satisfying story-wise. After finishing GTI, I didn't think to myself "I wish I had an even longer version of this."