8thDoctor

This story reinforces my need to always carry wired earbuds on me, I carry a pair: 1 3.5mm and 1 usb-c.

@JumpingJackson Yes it is a thing on the PC1. Though at least from my experience it's a little too subtle, as if the vibrations are coming from deep within the controller and barely making it to my hands. It's different compared to say a dualshock 5 where you can feel the unique vibrations more intensely.
This could just be the games I've been played with it & I do my best to try most games with it since my Lite doesn't have rumble.

I wonder is it not possible to copy data from the Gamecard unto the Switch? Like why not do what most PS4|5 games do, which have all the data on the disc that then copies it on the console's memory? That would be the solution to the memory speed issue & the cartridges would still mean something as they would hold the actual game inside them.

Good review! Thanks for the word of caution towards Lite owners, it's always a shame when games just don't scale well to the smaller screen.

Clearly I have to rewatch Waters of Mars, as I don't remember her in it.
Sounds like her job is to give you challenges & missions to complete outside the story in a Danger Room environment & maybe provide ways to replay missions via simulation? It does create a easy avenue to do DLC based on the movies though, by adding sandboxes based on them (the circus from Octopussy could work wonders in a Hitman format).

This was very unexpected!
$30 seems expensive when Tomb Raider and the Soul Reaver Collections (also by Aspyr) all cost that and provide multiple games. Could have done the 2nd game, Invisible War, in there as well for that price.

Seeing the mess it is in other platforms, it should have been delayed elsewhere too. Hopefully this means Switch 2 is getting a stable game on launch day.

Splintered Fate doesn't have a playable Splinter? Gotta fix that stat

Sucks that adult Goku SSJ4 and Vegeta SSJ3 are their own separate characters. If they weren't getting full adult Daima lines, then at least add them to the Z-End character lines.

Love Lil Gator Game! Seems like a perfect project for your little dark bat friend to take a more central role.
Don't get why this isn't just a sequel, so many years later.

Might was well have included the modern entries for this, that would at least fluff the number of playable entries.

the European one looks like a repurposed classic Mortal Kombat cover, just switched out the logo and name.

There’s no excuse for a PS Vita game to be running poorly on Switch 1.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant it's a thread tied to their needle weapon.

Hopefully it's a manageable size, handhelds keep getting bigger & bigger.

PS. Vita Slim came in such wonderful colors.

End of October-Early November would be my guess, there's plenty of time between Pokémon and Kirby for it.

Looks absolutely wonderful!

If it's that bad I wonder why they even brought it out for people to play? FromSoft games don't use modern upscaling techniques, so they can't lean on a low-resolution with DLSS to make it look & run nice on NS2.

Now all that's left is MK Gold

It's 810p docked and handheld? That's weird

Announcing that the game is delayed to 2027

They seem rather underwhelming, at least og Charizard EX can't 1-hit Mega Blaziken and Gyarados EX. Seems that you're taking a bigger risk for not much gain either in damage output or health over a normal EX card.

It's weird that neither Rugrats or Avatar feature the protagonist as a character (yet?). I think Danny Phantom is doing it right, feature the protag and an interesting pick as 2ry representation.

Looks to be using a very similar look to the one they used for Penny's. I'd love a Sonic game in this style, hopefully Sega sees the potential and gives them another shot.

Urban settings can work & look great, this one just looks so boring and samey, every video just seems to have the same 3 or 4 buildings copy-pasted as far as the eye can see. You have to treat a city map as if you were designing any other type of open world, it should have distinct areas with different themes. I get they wouldn't want to show wealth disparities, but an industrial zone, a shopping zone, a business zone, and a historic zone are examples of things they could do, all with unique aesthetics and color palettes to distinguish them while looking like it's all the same city.

Nintendo going back to its toy company roots never fails to make me smile.

Love the character choices so far, it's a really balanced roster. It features must-haves (Spidey, Logan, Venom and Cap), takes interesting choices to represent teams (Storm and Rocket), has some mid-tier heroes (Nova and Norrin) and specially in picking lesser know alts to cover more popular heroes,
Thor? Beta Ray Bill
Hulk? She-Hulk
Captain Marvel? Phyla-Vell

A portrait mode would fit the Switch release, specially when playing portable & maybe help with the touch input issues they ran into.

Hopefully they can find a good direction for it or maybe rest it to go do something else for a bit like they did during the Blazblue years. I've been enjoying the series casually since Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (R?) on PSP and I like the direction it's been going in, but they have been doing a lot of GG lately. 4 games in a decade is a lot. I'd actually really enjoy another BB, even though the story ended I'd like to see what they could do with a new story that picks up on the ending.

Whatever their next project is, I hope they get alt-costumes as a standard feature going forward.

Praying he says "well eeeeeexxccccuuuuuuuuuussssseeee me, Princess" at least once in this film.
I'm sure Ganondorf, Impa and dad King will be big names to "balance" the cast. So it's really good they got unknown's for the main duo.

I would have payed Nintendo good money for a Lite dock, I already got a pro-controller for it. I bought a Lite because I knew I'd do 95% of my gaming in portable mode + it has a proper d-pad, but when that 5% itch to play in a big screen comes I get really annoyed that I can't just hook it up to the tv.

It's true that remakes are big undertakings, but Sega could consider doing ports of them for modern consoles & release them as collections. Sonic 1-3&Knuckles get re-released constantly, it's high time they do the same for the early 3D games.

Great time to be a 2D Prince of Persia fan

If any AC game needs a remake it's AC1, which isn't even playable on modern consoles, but we're getting one for a game that still holds up, is very playable & it's everywhere to buy. I guess every AC game before Unity could use the "climb down" button to help the parkour flow better, so at least there's that going for it.

It looks really solid gameplay wise, but I wish they'd done more with the graphics. It looks like a PS3-era revival when we're in the middle of a beat em up renascence with lots of gorgeous & colorful pixel-art or hand-drawn looks.

Shame Yuke's got to make this, they have talent making fun games, but I can't remember the last one they made one that was pleasing to look at.

$32K pay cut to the median employee while the CEO gets a $5M raise, nice little snapshot on the state of the economic system.

I always forget Link & Zelda are just a couple of kids, or teens at most, in the games. Looking for ages 16-23 means they're looking to portray them as been around 14-16 years old.

No, I go through each one in order once with a podium finish, then go back (again in order) to clear them out.

I do have the same issue in open world games, where I feel compelled to finish everything I possibly can before getting the ending. Which leads me to practically never replay an open world game. lol

I'd say BotW is the stronger overall experience, while TotK is the better game to play. The narrative and world are in better sync with what they do and how they do it, while TotK fully copying BotW's narrative choices actually detract from the world.
A great example is the Dragon's Tears, it would be pretty emotional story if told linearly, but the game just reuses the old Link's memories format that denies it momentum & it detracts from the ghost Zelda thing that's driving most of the main story, rather than providing insight and context to it like Link's Memories did in BotW.

I mean, if your goal is to upload the pics and videos to your PC this is still the best method. Using the phone is just adding a middle man, you'd still need to connect that device to the PC or sync the Photos app afterwards to download the files unto the PC remotely.

Great to know it plays great, will probably be 1 of the 1st games I get when I buy my NS2.

Really hope Nintendo sells official Joy-Con 2 variants with a proper d-pad. They should have done it for NS1 after the Lite released, make it more viable to play fighters on the go where you are almost certainly using the joy-con.

Only the GBA versions of Deadly Alliance is weird, I have to assume the PS2/GCN/Xbox version will also be announced in the future. Same with MK Gold and the console versions of MK4.

Not surprised Mythologies SZ, Special Forces and Shaolin Monks aren't here, but not sure what other place they'd include them in. A broader Midway Adventure games kollection perhaps? I know an MK Spin-Offs Kollection won't sell much, there aren't many of them and SM is the only worthwhile game.

Skyward Sword seems to be the only Switch Zelda game that hasn't got an update, while every Mario game got an update.

I would guess the 3D All-Stars update is for the emulator, since the N64 Classics app also got an update.

@Jumping_Dead It's a slight remaster of the Vita game, Everybody's Golf 6/World Invitational, so yeah it's going to look worse than the PS4 version.

it is important to note that since this is a fighting game, the characters are included in the key-card download, all fighting games do this to not break the online matchmaking into who has & who doesn't have the DLC. So that extra code is for a couple kilobyte's that unlocks the characters so you can select them.

It looks about the same as the PS4 version does, which honestly isn't dramatically far from where the PS5 performance mode is (higher crowd density, step-up textures, plus higher base resolution is basically it), which is pretty amazing results. It seems to be looking better than both PS5 modes when driving, as there doesn't seem to have the very visible ghosting at the back of the bike/car that PS5 has.

Hopefully the years of PS5 and Switch 1 enhanced rumble means the Switch 2 version will get more & better implementations. It's really cool when it's working well

about what I expected from a free upgrade, higher res, less pop-in, & better & stable 30fps.

I think they need a proper full reboot at this point, they wasted their opportunity by making this a MK11 sequel built on Multiverse shenanigans, with many questionable and controversial decisions that don't feel like permanent changes for the franchise (ej. Kuai Liang being Scorpion & random human Shinnok). Reminds me of the issues MK9-10 caused with killing the vast majority of the main cast between them, leaving them stuck to make a reset with MK11 (itself needing to focus on time shenanigans to have classic characters return).

Hopefully it won't be long before Nintendo allows much heavier games to disable Game Chat to free up resources. Handheld-mode in particular clearly needs all the resources it can get, it's taking a pretty big hit to the speeds.