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Love the music and gameplay in this add on. It's fun stuff! I do hope the next Nintendo console can play light stuff like this at 120fps like PS5 and Series X and S!

Nice info, but I'm left with my always biggest question of frame rate. Will these be locked at 60fps on Switch. Will they be available on Deck without Deneuvo (and without any stupid online requirement like Tony Hawk) and be locked at 90fps? My inquiring mind wants to know! : )

Coin rush is not good, but at some of these games are...

Light It Up is really good. A few of the other are too. I love these free game things!

@intergalacticNikolai It would be so awesome! Super Famicom Wars alone would make this absolutely incredible.

And the number 1 game I'd like to get on Switch is Wipeout 64. Then lower down the list would be the San Fransisco Rush games (all 3 please!), Robotron 64, and Top Gear Rally. I like a lot of the ones in this article too though!

Games like Turok 1 through 3, Episode 1 Racer, and Doom 64 look so amazing running at 60fps that I'd honestly rather not have any more games on my expansion pack online app. Just bring them all to the eshop locked at 60fps and I'll buy them all! Seriously, N64 games are sweet to play at a nice frame rate. I mainly stick to Pilotwings 64, Pokémon Puzzle League, and Dr Mario 64 on expansion pass.

I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom like always. Around 400 hours in and I'm still excited to play it! I'm also playing Trees and Tents, which I love, but still think Kakurasu World is better. I've also really been into Light It Up, which will be free as part of the qubic games giveaway thing this month. It's an awesome relaxing and fun platformer with great music, sound effects, 60fps graphics, and just well done platforming that is kind of like short puzzle after short puzzle. Recommended!
Also playing Dodonpachi DOJ, Advance Wars, Alien Death Mob (great arcade game!), Rocket League, The Spy Who Shot Me, and Chico and the Magic Orchards dx. I've also been enjoying Robo Quest on Deck. Robo Quest feels like a 1st person Ratchet and Clank, which is awesome. Oh, and it runs at 144fps when I play it on laptop, and 90fps on OLED Deck (I really like those high frame rates!!).

Thanks for the review. I noticed this one in the eshop and watched a YouTube video of gameplay on Switch. I didn't know it only runs at 30fps. Sounds like a shoot em up I can do without.

I'm starting to think Parodius will be the final release for Switch, if any of the old Parodius games ever make it to Switch at all...
These are great games though. I love Felix on NES, and want to play Rocket Knight.

And for free, everyone should try it!

I really like Light It Up. Been playing it the past couple days. It has really pleasing audio design, graphics, and gameplay. I got the DLC too, and it has a nice challenge right from the first level. Great little game!

The Witch 144. Nintendo Witch 144. Because it uses magic to lock every game released for it at 144fps!

@larryisaman Thanks for posting that. I was thinking about how much I'd like to play this at 90fps on Deck, but now I'll carefully research the frame rate before buying this game for any platform.

If we get more stuff like New Pokémon Snap and Metroid 5, then I'm excited for this!

I like thinking of the waiting room in Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. There'd be all these gamers with their cartridges and consoles in boxes, waiting solemnly to have their mind cleared for another first time with their favorites. But they'd have to have someone convince them to try the games, otherwise they'd just forget and never play them again!

Metroid would be high up. It was amazing exploring that underworld in the 1980s!
Also I'd love to forget BOTW and TOTK, then play TOTK first, then remember both so I could compare the 2 games!

@DwaynesGames Dodo Peak is a fun Q Bert style game available on Switch. I waited forever for it to go on sale. It's good, I recommend it!

This game is good. It isn't categorized on steam, so I got it on Switch. It runs basically locked at 60fps and is fun. I like the dialogue, music, graphics, and the fact that tons of objects and people react to being shot (you know how many games have uninteractive elements). Get it on Switch! It's a fun and humorous Goldeye-alike.

This looks like a good game. It has a good review from someone on YouTube who loves Goldeneye. It also appears to run at 60fps on Switch, which makes me wonder if it'll run at 90 on OLED Deck (very likely, if it works with steam deck...). I might have to pick this one up.

@LastFootnote Yeah it's sad that any emulator runs it locked at 60fps, but this deluxe release introduces stutters and bad frame rates or bad camera queueing that makes it look choppy. If that's what you're talking about...

I'm always wanting to play Tears of the Kingdom. These days I'm building extremely low energy drain big wheel copters. Using a cart, 2 big wheels, a wagon wheel, steering stick, and a propeller from Gimimik Shrine (far Eastern shrine in the land swirl) I built a copter that flew me up to 1300 elevation using just two batteries (2 each of the 3 unit batteries). I also added 2 elevator rails to the edge of 1 big wheel to make it look like a crazy copter. Pretty funny looking and fun to mess with! I was trying to copy what I'd seen in a YouTube video and was surprised it worked even thought I changed things. Mine is pretty difficult to fly!
I'm also playing Wipeout Pure and Battle Garegga via emulation on OLED Steam Deck. Also still playing many Switch games: Switch Sports, F zero 99, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, Fitness Boxing, Ring Fit Adventure, Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou reincarnation, BOTW, Mario Maker 2, Advance Wars 1+2, Zero Fire M2 ShoTrigGers release, Rocket League, What The Golf?, Knights of the Rogue Dungeon (big improvement on Q-bert!), and Another Code demo (don't know why I like this game so much).
Also recently watched 2 awesome movies. The Boy and The Heron is my favorite Miyazaki film now. And The Bank of Dave is a wonderful film that I think shows the way forward out of our current morass. Lovely pictures!

I like these games, the old one, this one, and the DS remakes, but yeah, passes make games feel junky, trashy. If the game came with all these songs, and added more for free in the year or two after release, it would communicate quality and respect for the consumer. Not this way, please.

This is great news, and the game sounds really fun! Now I just have to find out if it will be on Steam, where I'd assume it could run locked at 90fps on OLED Deck. Sounds like a great release for Switch in January though!

@WiltonRoots I haven't counted or listed them recently, but don't both series x and ps5 have more games that run at 120fps than at 30fps? Not counting ones that have a 30fps mode and a 60fps mode, but counting ones that have a 60 and 120fps mode.
Anyways, I just really hope Switch 2 supports high frame rates since there are tons of lighter games that could be programmed to run at 90 or 120 or 144fps.

@Ironcore yes!

I've typed it like 17 times, but number one for me is having Variable Refresh Rate. It could be huge in terms of helping games appear smooth even when they aren't processing or drawing new frames at steady rates. I really want variable refresh rate on every screen small and large (TVs and monitors). Next is high frame rates. Please at least give us at least 90hz on the portable screen and support for 120 or 144hz in docked mode! I know not all games would support those nice smooth frame rates, but at least allow it to be possible for developers who care about smoothness! Along those lines I'd also be fine with resolutions going down. Maybe 640p in handheld and stay at 1080p in docked. I just want smoothness and don't give a rip about high resolutions!! 4k looks like blurry trash to me at 30 or 40fps! I like OLED screens, but don't care if an LCD is used as long as it doesn't have blurry motion smeariness. High frame rates powerfully convey quality and beauty in games, and that's what I'm always wanting from any game (I'm really excited about these 480hz monitors being announced!).
The only other thing I'll mention is fast downloading and loading. My OLED Steam Deck can download huge games astonishingly quickly! I love it. And my 2 year old laptop can load almost any game very quickly, and I love that too.
So, basically, please give me lower resolutions and higher frame rates! Thank you : )

Looks good! I'm looking forward to playing this one.

I just hope the new system has variable refresh rate and also supports higher frame rates like 90fps, 120fps, or higher. I'd be happy to wait 2 or 3 years if that's what it takes for Nintendo to get that done. Hopefully it's 2024 though, and includes those things. Oh, and I'm not honestly happy to wait! I've already bought an OLED Steam Deck and happily skip 30fps game releases on Switch in favor of awesomely smooth 90fps experiences on OLED Deck. But Nintendo makes like 90% of my favorite games, so I'm still gaming on my Switch all the time. And I love exercise games and weird stuff. Keep the Ring Fit Adventures and Labo cardboard games coming!

I agree with Yoshi Tails, best year for Switch. But I also feel like it's been the best year for videogames ever. Tears of the Kingdom is enough for me for that to be true, but just look at all the other awesome stuff that's come out. Advance Wars, Metroid, Pikmin, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, F zero 99, Warioware Move It!, Dodonpachi DOJ, and many other releases are amazing.
For me the greatest moment was the discovery of the elevator railing. Seeing the clip on YouTube when the discoverer broke it off and it went up and then slowly fell to the ground really inspired me. I love how light it is, it's wind resistance, it's just an amazing block to build with. And I wouldn't give a darn about it if Hyrule wasn't so incredible to explore and play in. I even use elevator railings in caves. Plus there are probably at least 30 moments where my mind was blown or I was astonished at how beautiful or mysterious the game felt to play. Riding a Zonai wing for the first time and immediately understanding how to steer it, diving into places far below (many times at different places and to different depths!), riding a simple hot air balloon and knowing that someday I'd be flying all over the place with great control, exploring land glyphs, walking on a freaking dragon!, there's so much incredible stuff packed in those Kingdom Tears!

Super excited to play this. Hopefully it runs at 60fps on Switch and 90fps on OLED Deck. It looks really fun and sounds like it's going to sound awesome.
Side note: I wish Sonic games had an option to skip water levels. Running out of oxygen isn't fun. And I wish Sonic Superstars (and Monkey Ball Banana Blitz) had an option to skip boss fights! Or they could figure out how to make better water levels and boss fights (like Mario Wonder, in my opinion)
Edit: well, OK, some boss fights aren't amazing in Mario Wonder, but I still appreciate how they don't damage my enjoyment of the game (or stop me from playing the game)

I'd love to see wipEout, Wipeout XL, Wipeout 3, Wipeout 64, wipeout fusion, (all Wipeouts!), Jumping Flash! Jumping Flash 2, all the random Jumping Flash crap collections(!), Symphony of the Night, Einhander, R Type Delta, Tekken 1 2 and 3, Gradius 5, Aquanaut's Holiday (and sequel!), Ridge Racer 1 Revolution type 4 5 Rave Racer etc, Silent Hill 1 and 2, R type Final, Downhill Domination, Hot Shots Golf (all of them!), all the Playstation Parodius games, and about 50 other games come to Switch and Super Switch 2.

@N-MCMXCIX Reading your post made me realize how much I would LOVE a Saturn switch online app. If it could have Battle Garegga, Sexy Parodius, Saturn Bomberman, Nights, Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, and about 10 other awesome shoot em ups it would be perfect.

I've been playing Wipeout Omega Collection (best racing game ever), Rocket League on my nephew's PS4 with off brand controllers, Worms WMD, N++, Videoball, Party Golf, and other stuff on his PS4. I'm feeling homesick for Tears of the Kingdom! Like Lookout Landing is my home and I need to hear my national anthem, lol.
Even though Switch and OLED Deck are my favorite systems I never take them farther than a charging station. I travel light!

I miss Tears of the Kingdom. I'm visiting family and friends and have been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, but miss Addison, Tulin, Purah, and the Depths, overworld, caves, and sky. TOTK is completely incredible.

Yeah, for me Tears of the Kingdom is number 1. Then below that I've really enjoyed Advance Wars 1+2, BOTW, Pikmin 4, Kirby return to dreamland dx, Metroid Prime remastered, Warioware Move It (and Get It Together since I've mostly played it in 2023), Rocket League, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, Zerofire and Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou, Switch Sports (still played a lot of it in 2023), and probably Doom 1993 and Quake because they keep releasing level packs that are like whole extra games.

I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and Rocket League, like always. I'm enjoying building vertical aircraft. Tall skinny flying contraptions. It's fun, partly thanks to elevator rails. I'm also loving Dodonpachi DOJ, Zerofire, and the Telenet Shooting Collection. Another fun one I'm playing is Salaryman Shi, which is like a strange Mario World rom hack. Good platformer! Also on Switch I'm enjoying BOTW, Mario RPG, Advance Wars 1+2, F Zero 99, and Pan Dimensional Conga Combat (sweet arcade style game that makes me think of Jeff Minter).
I've also been enjoying the new OLED Deck by playing Teardown, Shredders, Flying Tank (awesome looking shoot em up that runs locked at 90fps), Cultic, and BeamNG.

I got this last night and played for awhile and it is awesome. I love the graphics, music, and gameplay in DOJ! I was already very interested, but this excellent review lit a fire under me and got me to buy it quick! Thank you! M2 does amazing work, especially with their elite ShotTriggers releases. Can't wait to playe more of this, and see what they release next year.

@MARl0 I wish all M2 stuff would release globally on Switch! Especially their number 1 release ever, Battle Garegga!

@gcunit Shoot em ups do seem like a different beast than other genres. I'm a big shoot em up fan, so I'm speaking from inside this view. Like, I'm strongly hoping for GunNac, Parodius, Battle Garegga, and other awesome shmups to come to Switch (even though there's like 500 on the system already!). I can play those games over and over and they're exciting in a unique way. I'm now thinking I can't explain this... Anyways, I was trying to say that I can totally understand how if, for example, M2 released Zanac and GunNac in a deluxe Shotriggers collection it would be worthy of a 10/10 (even though they're old NES games).

I tried this for a few minutes years ago on PS4 and was unimpressed with the uneven frame rate. Yesterday I played it on OLED Deck and it has the same jittery stuff in the beginning area. I also don't think it has much visual options, like Kingdom New Lands and a few other games that feel like console ports to Steam. Anyways, I finally actually got started and can see how awesome this game could be. It got up to 90 fps once I got to a mostly barren planet, but more importantly it felt fun to decipher alien text and just experience the exploration the game offers. I got stuck, and didn't know how proceed, so I quit playing, but hopefully I'll get back into it. Lovely music, dialogue, 4 eyed characters, etc.

@GravyThief they are randomly selected from the pool of screenshots. Don't think there's ever text related to the image.

Tears of the Kingdom. Just always feels fresh and exciting to explore. I don't understand it, but I'm glad because it's so fun!
I just got Rytmos or whatever, where you do simple puzzles to create music. It's an awesome little game with kalimbas, gamelan, German electronic music, Ethiopian jazz, Hawaiian music, etc. I love it.
Also Rocket League, F zero 99, Switch Sports, Mario Maker 2, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, BOTW, oh qnd Marble It Up! Ultra has an awesome weekly challenge called grasshopper. It is remarkable how much it feels like being a grasshopper!

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, there's many games I try briefly, sometimes very briefly (like if the frame rate has problems). Also, I've played more like 700 plus games cuz I use two other users on my Switch, one for my Japanese store buying account and one for demos or likely crappy games that I don't want a game save stored for on my main account. Plus I play many, many hours of Rocket League on my laptop (and now also on OLED Deck). If I didn't love Rocket League so much TOTK would probably have over 600 hours.

Oh boy... 666 games played a total of 1,805 hours! Top 3: TOTK 336 hrs, BOTW 138 hrs, and Advance Wars 1+2 65 hrs.
Metroid Dread was number 1 in January, the Metroid Prime won February, then Return to Dreamland Deluxe won March. So many awesome games this year. It's kinda too bad about Tears of the Kingdom being so good. Pikmin 4 and other excellent titles massively lost out on playtime due to the joy of exploring Hyrule.

Boosting the frame rate up to 60 (120fps on current gen consoles), and then adding this amazing cornucopia of add ons makes Doom 1993 one of the best new old releases ever. And Quake is right up there in the same lofty altitude! So cool that we keep getting awesome stuff for these games.
EDIT : maybe 120fps on Xbox Series X and PS 5 is only for Quake 1 and 2, I'm not sure. But I was recently blown away at how awesome Doom 1993 looks running at 90fps on Deck OLED. It looks better than Doom 1993 running on my 144fps laptop, which has a non-OLED crappy motion blurry LCD screen.

This is a fun game. I'll check out this new update for sure.

This is an extensive discussion, wow! I don't think he was trying to be dismissive of fans of more linear zelda games, but who knows. I've liked all Zeldas from the 1980s to now. Breath of the Wild still amazes me and I play it almost daily. Tears of the Kingdom is my favorite game ever. I met someone a few days ago who plays it as much as me. They didn't even know about the glorious elevator rail! Lol. So I told them the places you can get it, how you can't fuse it, but you can break it off of an autobuild if you on any older version of the game (and just use an apple or something if you're on the current patch). OK, that's enough. I love TOTK and BOTW and all other zelda games.

I'm continuously entranced by Tears of the Kingdom. In this replay I just got shining steps and quick recharge back. It is so amazing that after hundreds of hours the overworld still feels fresh to me. I also often marvel at how beautiful TOTK is. I'm playing it on a 32 inch TV with motion interpolation mostly keeping the game looking like it's 60fps. I love TOTK.
Also keep looking for various things in BOTW. I just hope the next Zelda feels as rich and fun to explore and play around in it's world. Also playing Advance Wars 1+2, Brotato, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, XllZEAL (12 ZEAL, great shoot em up), Mario Maker 2 (I love Kaizo lite levels), F-zero 99, 1080 on NSO, Samba de Amigo, Ring Fit Adventure, Fitness Boxing, and Atari 50. And I'm always playing Rocket League, these days on laptop, Deck OLED, and docked on Switch.
Also am playing lots of amazing games at 90fps on Deck Oled. Distance is a futuristic racing game that looks and plays incredibly well, super sweet game. There's lots of games on Switch that I vastly prefer on Deck OLED because they can have double or triple the frame rate. A good example is Inertial Drift, which looks incredible with it's rich purple/lavender world flying by at 90fps. I've been trying to find a shoot em up that runs at 90, but no luck so far (all are stuck at 60fps).
EDIT: I tried Natsuki Chronicles and it runs at 90fps and looks gorgeous in motion! I wish more shoot em ups supported high frame rates!

I'm glad I read this page just to get the line super F from anti matter. I needed to laugh!

I'm kinda put out because TOTK didn't win every award ever, but it's OK because I know how endlessly amazing it is!