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LeafGreen was my very first Pokemon game, back at some point between 2004 and 2009. I’m not so sure about getting this, however.

Is it just me or did the game kind of show up out of nowhere and have no real promotion with it? Maybe it’s just that it’s not for me. Speaking of that, am I the only one who gets uneasy when hearing the “Fever “ subtitle? It makes me think of getting sick and feeling unwell rather than a game mechanic 😭

Maaaaaaaan, this game was such a core part of my adolescence! I got the notification, started flipping through the tracks, and it all just came flooding back to me.

The tracks that brought back the most memories for me were: the HOME Menu theme, the Mii creator, the clothing and interior shops, the Mii News news flash, the amusement park, the musical setting in the concert hall, the save screen, the minigame music, wanting to be friends, confessing romantic feelings, and wanting to propose.

There’s still two days left to buy Game Vouchers before they’re discontinued, so that’s an option for anyone who thinks $60 is too much. (The vouchers expire a year after purchase). I know that’s the option I’ll be taking.

I really hope they still have mii sharing. That was one of the best parts of the original, since streamers would put the QR codes up and we could just add them easily, and there’s even websites that collect the QR codes to share.

The game absolutely did not need health bars, but they have the unintended side effect of making tracking easier in certain situations, which I will not complain about. And no, they cannot be disabled.

Honestly the changes that have had the most impacts for me are hitboxes and hurtboxes, as well as the nerfs to stealth jump. Super Jumping feels a lot more like it did in Splatoon 1 now, when stealth jump is being used, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And the change to hitboxes has made it easier for me to play cb, so that’s really cool.

Good to see people in the comments actively go to church! Lovely to hear!

There’s supposed to be “between 3-16 inches" of snow this weekend, so we'll see how that goes too.

As for me, I won't be watching the direct because I'm trying to limit spoilers for the movie. I also didn't watch the first direct, or anything beyond the original reveal in the September Direct. Super Mario Galaxy (2 especially) is one of my favorite games of all time, and over the last year I was super nostalgic for it, so I'll probably end up in tears at some point during the movie. (During the first one it was the credits for me)

It is very interesting to see a Direct on a Sunday though...

Somewhat strange, looking back, that this review didn’t touch on the major goldmine that was the timing of this game’s release. For whatever it’s worth, for a short while in time, this game turned into the universal third space, that we all had the experience of playing asynchronously together, because there was nothing else to do.

I got 12/17. Struggled mostly with the deeper cuts (Metroid Prime 3, Zelda movie actor, Switch 2 editions released, the correct title for Jamboree Switch 2 edition, and the game which appeared in the switch 2 direct (I was accidentally thinking of the switch direct from the week prior))

I remembered the one about storage not from Welcome Tour, but from the direct)

I really wish these demos could also be put on the eShop!

Wow, lots of these tracks I don’t ever even remember hearing! Surprised they didn’t put Wii Fit U in there as well!

Side note: did anyone else have the experience of playing this game as kid and then developing body image issues later in life? I have no idea how I would ever process such a connection, but I saw it on a Reddit thread once and it really resonated with me (since I fall into both groups).

@Anti-Matter have you considered the purchase of a PS Portal, for the rare times that you want to play away from the television? It would allow you to play the games that you enjoy with the performance that you require, but still have the ability to be portable.

If I’m misunderstanding your comment, please let me know.

Perhaps it’s a difference in culture, but I really don’t understand why Miyamoto-san even answered the investor’s question. What good is there out of speculating on what someone who hasn’t been with Nintendo for a very long time would think about the Nintendo of today? Even here in this comments section, it seems to be causing more bickering and disagreement than discussion, and I just don’t see how it’s helpful or healthy for the Nintendo community.

Strange to release something like this so…randomly.

@HeadPirate Respectfully disagree on the snails being cosmetic. Those extra gear XP points go a LONG way over hundreds or thousands of hours of matches. Plus, unless you get lucky enough to have two star gear by default, you HAVE to use snails to unlock all three sub ability slots. Separately, one of my friends pointed out that being able to trade in ability chunks would also go a long way to helping the system.

At least bring the Master Chief Collection over to Switch 2! It’d be so nice to have Halo portably.

I wonder how long the decorations will be up at Nintendo NY? I’ll be back up there (in the city) exactly a week later, so it'd be a shame to miss the neatness by such a short amount of time.

Hmmmmm

A bug fix for an 8 year old game, for a mode that is liiterally dead (sadly)?

Interesting...

Welp, everyone who said it was Pikmin related, y’all were spot on. Still no better idea what it actually is though…

9pm start time seems really late? Usually the fests start at 8pm.

Also that’s a typo in the article: the North American times should all be moved back (decreased in value) by an hour (one number).

Would the Covert Dock 3 work well enough to be a second dock for the TV downstairs, so that I wouldn’t have to spend quite so much on the official dock set?

@Markiemania95 WHAT oh my goodness (actually I don't know why I'm surprised, that'd be my age, and I'm 26, lol). I'm so old actually 😭

I would imagine that a lot of the development staff at Nintendo these days are young enough to have grown up with classics like arcade Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, so it’s understandable that there’d be little references, callbacks, and easter eggs throughout the next few generations of games.

And with Nintendo Music having the Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack, you can read the story just like Rosalina did in the game.

If nothing else, it's a great outlet for some tears. 🥲

@Croctopus I wouldn't expect anything past the seasonal fests earlier this year tbh. The game seems to be in a really good spot, and I think Nintendo might want to leave it that way.

That being said, Nintendo did announce a new North American League event for late this year, that sounds very similar to Leagues Under The Ink, except for the addition of another format at the beginning (Personally I with they'd used swiss, but I'm biased.), so I could be completely wrong.

I'm glad you've been enjoying DK Bananza! I take it you really haven't been playing Splatoon recently then?

A slightly more focused splash, along with rain and vac buffs, are where my interest mostly lies. Douuser and recycle buffs probably don’t amount to much, and it’ll be really interesting to see how the .52 changes will pan out.

@Croctopus dev-n, did you change your username? 😅 I tried playing s3 again last night, for the first time since I left competitive. It went alright, I think!

@Sambuc thank you for calling it the "cross button". Your accuracy warms my heart, lol.

@OctolingKing13 in the same position, but for the downstairs TV. $125 is just too expensive, especially for something that’s only available through the Nintendo online store.

This interested me during the Indie World, and once I saw it was only $10, I bought it right away. It’s so cute, and it’s great for pickup and play. Some of the puzzles really make me think, and I like that gameplay flow a lot! If I had known it was on mobile and not just switch, I probably would’ve gotten it there and played it on my iPad.

@Suketoudara “Do they think by doing stuff like putting UFO 50 in the Sizzle reel they'll get people talking about it more because everyone will be commenting on their bizarre behaviour? Are they purposely trying to start micro dramas to keep Switch 2 being talked about?"

I hate to be the one to break to ya, but even if it's entirely unintentional, it's working very, very well on you and some others in the comments here.

This is the first I’m learning that they were ever owned by anyone…

@Krambo42 would trying the demo for Another Code give me a good feel for it and this game?

How does something like this (or Another Code) compare to Emio? Obviously the story is going to be different, but will I otherwise like these games?

@Shmoo I think the final nail in the coffin for me was when they started heavily pushing the whole "wiki guide" idea, and how some of the guides started to make zero sense after that.

@Duncanballs Unfortunately that seems to come with the territory of being a mainstream Nintendo news site. I know I personally stopped visiting IGN a long, long time ago (back in 2015, if I remember correctly).

@The_Pixel_King The base game of “Super Mario Party Jamboree” is fantastic, and it comes highly recommended. The “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” is a lie, because the base game is literally indifferent from the Switch 1 version, other than GameShare support that’s more limited than DS Download Play on Mario Party DS. The “Jamboree TV” expansion is fine, actually quite fun, but it’s completely siloed off from the base game, to the point of being a completely separate menu, and having no interface between it and the base game.

@CaleBoi25 Hey Caley Boy! EDIT: I didn’t read your comment closely enough 😭 how do you feel about what the guy said????

Every time this man speaks, I just get a bad feeling. I can’t explain it, he just says everything in a way that is like an awful punch to the gut.

@TheSaneInsanity huh, interesting. I can't say I understand that one, lol.

Very interesting to hear the tracks referred to as “stages”. Does Japanese just have one word for all of these types of things? Since maps in Splatoon are also referred to as “stages”, and the same for levels in 2D/3D Mario. Or is it “stages” in regards to being like a play, a musical, or a production of some sort?

I believe, even more than in the past, that the time period between Iwata-san’s passing and introduction of the Switch was a period where the Nintendo we all knew and loved began to transform into the corporation we know today. Just as the new management was setting up for success, they were also ripping out the soul, the relatability, the humility out of the company. As an example, Iwata said that online would always be free, but as soon as he was no longer present, Nintendo began charging for online. Generally, it feels as though, the second half of the 2010s were a transition period, and since Reggie left in 2019, it’s somewhat soulless compared to a decade ago.

While I haven’t won by getting first place, I have gotten very close a handful of times. So far, I’ve gotten 2nd one time, been eliminated in 5th one or two times, gotten knocked out in 9th through 12th many times, and had a small handful of times where I never even made it past 21st.

So, it’s very fun. I’ve also had a surprisingly fun time with battle mode.

@Anachronism I got them to work using @CobaltFan's link, but now they're small. Oh well, thank you both!

Here are some highlights of my own photo mode adventures:

Edit: what am I doing wrong with posting? I inserted imgur links inside the tags, so it should just work, right?

Funny, I was just mentioning this to friends last night:

Dino Dino Jungle is one of my favorites, as it was in Mario Kart 7 (the new remix of the music is so good).

Other favorites so far of mine include: Great ? Block Ruins, Mario Bros. Circuit, Peach Stadium, Crown City, and Rainbow Road.

Out of all of the tracks, there are a few I straight up dislike: Dry Bones Burnout, Desert Hills, Boo Cinema, and anything with extensive use of water physics.

One thing I really, strongly dislike is the text size of most of the UI elements that are interacted with most, such as the in information stands. I understand that my vision is far from perfect, and so I’m not exactly the largest target demographic for video game design, but even compared to something like Mario Kart World or older games like Super Mario Odyssey, I’m sitting here, around 10-12 feet away from a 65 inch TV, and I’m struggling to see the text and detail, in a similar way to around 14 years ago, playing Skyward Sword on the Wii on a 32 inch CRT TV from 7 or 8 feet away (towards the end of the Wii’s life, games like Skyward Sword, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns no longer included 4:3 display modes, and instead rendered a letterboxed 16:9 image). It’s just kind of frustrating and sad, especially since the accessibility options for text size don’t actually affect the games themselves.

This might be pessimistic of me, but I feel like the shift in Miamoto’s involvement kind of coincided with the last year or two of games landing in the 8/9 range instead of getting perfect 10s across the board? Not necessarily a drop in quality, but a drop in breadth and perfection at all costs?

Maybe I’m just online too much…

Will this also change the NSO apps to use the Nintendo Classics branding?

I got 11/13, only missing the questions about the name of the guide feature and the total number of galaxies in the game. I remember I got all but one but of the regular and green stars in my original playthrough as a kid, but the final challenge of the final galaxy was just a bit too much for me. Still one of my favorite Mario games of all time, much more so than the original game for me.

@JimNorman there was also a Nintendo Today article on how you can have up to 8 controllers on a single system yesterday. As far as I know that wasn’t available on the original Switch?

Splatoon, of course. Also 3D Mario. And I really hope Nintendo gives us another take couch co-op, similar to It Takes Two or Split Fiction.