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I had 796 hours in total.

My top 3 games were:
1. Splatoon 3 (639 hours)
2. TotK (49 hours)
3. Splatoon 2 (19 hours)

At the risk of sounding like Anti-Matter, here is my comment:

The Game Awards 2024: How and When to Watch? Don’t.

Question: Will you be watching the Game Awards? Answer: No.

( of course I feel like Anti-Matter would probably watch it if there were kids games in it. You do you man.)

@Chimichanga lol I scrolled all the way down here to comment just that! I think Halo-style multiplayer in Metroid Prime 4 would be so cool! It would probably even scratch that itch for Halo that I sometimes have!

I wonder how it compares to Sonic Superstars?

I never played the original Generations, and I’m not sure about this one quite yet.

The Wii Vitality Sensor returns!

On topic, I made a comment about this exact thing on The Verge’s review of Astro Bot, that I’ll copy and paste here:

“ I’m two hours in to the game, and I would say an apt description would be “Kirby and the Forgotten Land x Super Mario Odyssey x Super Mario Galaxy”. It’s joyful, playful, wonderful fun, and for anyone on the fence, play the built-in Astro’s Playroom, as Astro Bot takes the basic mechanics of that game, blends it with the ethos of the three games I mentioned above, and results in something memorable. The controls can be a bit finicky at times, and it’s not quite toe-to-toe with Mario Odyssey in terms of polish, but it’s the closest anyone’s ever gotten outside of Nintendo’s own games. Astro’s Playroom was my first and so far only PS5 platinum trophy, but it might not be for long…”

@Anti-Matter There’s no lines of text or voice acting to speak of? The cameos in Astro Bot are akin to something like seeing a Donkey Kong reference in the Super Mario movie.

As I stated in a previous comment, I had never played (or even heard the concept of) a visual novel prior to this game (except for maybe Doki Doki Literature Club, but even then I didn’t get it). However, after playing all 3 demo chapters for Emio FDC, I’m sold on the concept, so much so that I bought the full game. It’s really nice to be able to effectively read a “book” while having just enough guidance, guardrails, and stimulation to keep my ADHD brain focused and intrigued. It also helps that the story really is so, so good. My previous comments on the typeface chosen being a little too thin still stand, and I also can’t shake the feeling that I’m missing a dialogue or two in each scene because of there being so many menu options and it not being entirely clear at all times what to press when.

Overall, so far, as of having finished chapter 4:

Story: 9/10
UX design: 7/10
Art design: 9/10
I’d say, for me personally, it’s closer to something I’d pay $30 or $40 for, but not quite $50. (technically, since I had a Best Buy reward certificate that I used for a code, I paid about $35, which this game is definitely worth.)

I haven’t played chapter 3 of the demo yet, but I did enjoy the first two chapters, especially when things started to get going in the 2nd.

I suppose I’m not alone in this, but the only reason I decided to stop playing Splatoon for more than two hours to give this game a try, was the apparently-overblown hype around “Nintendo’s first-ever in-house M-rated game”.

To my surprise, as mentioned above, I ended up really liking it a lot so far, in spite of having no concept of a “visual novel” or adventure game, let alone having played one. Personally, I don’t find the archaicness to be an issue, as when I’ve exhausted a particular menu option, I go to the next logical one (usually “Think”) and the choice I need to make is highlighted in orange.

My one complaint so far would have to be that the text, especially in the Notebook, is very thin and occasionally hard to read because of it. Other than that, I really find the story interesting, and I would be interested in finding out what genre this “visual novel” belongs to, as I’ve been meaning to get back into reading. (Could someone please tell me what genre the story is? 🥹)

I wonder if this will release before or after the new game in the series, which is also coming out in November…

Super Switch announcement confirmed for before November 28th, 2024? 🤔

@Joriss some people on TikTok seem to think so (not even joking)...

https://youtu.be/6mjK7f1RzCw?si=vhXAcKbhKaL97kME

@VoidofLight I agree, something about that feels slightly off.

@TheBigK In the same boat. Curious, but don’t really know how to tell the difference between the entries, and additionally don’t really know what to expect since I’ve never played a game in the series.

It could be that that the original icons, especially the Profile Icon, resembles the Taiwan or Kuomintang Emblems a bit too strongly.

I understand it’s China and their whole shtick is “China good, rest of world bad”, but this sentence is just truly terrifying to me for some reason.

@Arcsol It’s not a joke, however the problematic behaviors I listed are far from the only problems plaguing modern society, though they are the ones relevant to the article on this page.

@SalvorHardin That sounds horrific. I mean, those are three of the worst things in life right now: overt sexualization, parasocial connections, and idolization of someone who doesn’t even know that person exists.

No wonder society is falling apart…

@SillyG thanks for the reminder! I had no idea, since my experience with WarioWare is limited to Snapped, Mega Microgame$, and DIY on Wii and DS.

Which platform are those screenshots from? I highly doubt it’s Switch, but if it is, wow…

@BoyfriendOfDeath Rice is also Indian in nature, hence it being Frye’s team.

@UltimateOtaku91 I don’t believe they’ll only give us two years of updates. New content, maybe, but seeing as they just made pretty significant balance changes yesterday, with more apparently coming at the end of this season, I don’t think they’d leave the game at that. Additionally, Splatoon 2’s ‘final fest’ was two years after launch, yes, but looking at the Wiki there were four Splatfests after that one. To that same point, the last content update to Splatoon 2 was around the time of the ‘final fest’, though the last balance update was released a few months after the actual final fest.

@-wc- have you heard of 9-Volt from the WarioWare series? I particularly remember a section for this character in WarioWare: Mega Microgame$ that had classic Nintendo games in a bite-size WarioWare format. I think the game is available on Switch Online expansion pak as well, so it might be worth a try for you.

@UltimateOtaku91 I was just thinking the other day about how cool it would be if, for the 10th anniversary of the series in May 2025, we got a fest asking which idol group (Squid Sisters, Off the Hook, or Deep Cut) is your favorite. It looks like @Croctopus already brought up the idea, too.

Glad to see acknowledgment of issues with the camera clipping terrain, although I did not see a fix listed for that happening on Marlin Airport.

@CammyUnofficial I tried to, at least! In the end Team Beach pulled through (by some magic I don’t understand, I was sure Theme Park would win), and I only had two total mirror matches: one in open battles and another in tri-color. The tri color one especially was interesting, since the colors were purple, orange, and green for some reason.

@beaus27 I’m on the east coast as well (Maryland, specifically), and like you, I think it might be server/P2P issues, unfortunately.

@CammyUnofficial Outside of Tricolor battles, I don’t remember seeing any matches with Palace either. I did have a LOT of matches with Theme Park though.

Also, as @beaus27 mentioned, I had so many matches where the game wasn’t even close, in addition to losing streaks a plenty. Now, I’m not going to sit here and say it was entirely or even mostly the game’s fault, because lately my performance in normal ranked modes has been inconsistent and less than stellar (relative to my all-time performance), but it does seem like something is going on with the matchmaking, in some way, on some level, and I can’t quite put my finger on it, except to say that I never really had any of these issues in Splatoon 2 (that I remember).

@XE77 That was the bundle I got, too! In March of 2013, to be exact!

@Yousef- And yet there’s still no Wii U emulator for macOS… 😭

@_Figo_ Sonic the Hedgehog 1 when??? 🥺

I was just thinking to myself the other day that there was no DK Jr. Math on NSO yet, and I had been hoping for it to be announced soon, and here we are!

I remember buying DK Jr. Math as one of my first Virtual Console games from the Wii Shop Channel, back when I was in 4th grade (around 2009) and was really, really struggling with multiplication tables. My dad and I used to play it together!

@LinktotheFuture Could you mod your console and keep regular backups just in case yours stops working? Theoretically, I don’t know for sure because I’ve never modded a console, but you could take those backups and legally play the games on an emulator as a last resort? Just a thought/guess.

@premko1 thanks, I didn’t know that.

The title was a bit of a challenge to wrap my head around at first, because I thought “what does Mario Kart Live have in common with Knockout City? Wait…Knockout City, the dodgeball game?”, and then I read the article and I’m still not sure what Mario Kart Live has to do with this?

@KingMike Compared to Xbox/PlayStation, where new releases are routinely 80GB to 100GB in size, and updates are between 20GB and 40GB, it’s downright tiny. Compared to GameCube/Wii/Wii U though, it’s in the same range, especially within the context of the HD assets Nintendo uses now.

On-topic: my initial reaction was to go Theme Park, but @Red_211’s comment reminded me that it’s Frye’s option, and idk why, I just don’t really like Frye? I’ll probably just go with whatever team the majority of my friends are on.

Off-topic:

Are Splatfests usually announced three weeks in advance?

Also, regarding the headline’s wording of, “Splatoon 3 Reveals…”, is that an SEO thing? Outside of that context, and at least for those of us “in the know”, the wording seems a bit strange.

Stray only released in 2022? I swore it was longer ago than that! I guess I’m getting old…

Regardless, I don’t really have a yarning to play it.

@BTB20 Thanks for clarifying. I didn’t actually read the website, to be honest.

What a strange selection of games. And why postcards? Why now? I do agree though that that having to pay for shipping is keeping me from actually getting any of the My Nintendo rewards. I’ve been eyeing the NSO controllers for a long time, but whenever I think of actually purchasing them, I don’t have enough money.

Technically speaking, “multiple platforms” could very well mean Switch and whatever the next Nintendo console is.

An All-Cup tour is something I’ve wanted for so long. Maybe not with 96 tracks now, but even just the ability to create “playlists” of sorts, where you could choose the tracks you want, and it would go through them in the order you select, without returning you to the course selection screen…would be amazing.

Somewhere on the Nintendo Life forums is a “first impressions” kind of thing I wrote way back in 2014, a few weeks before the original game came out on the Wii U, when GameStop was offering pre-release demos.

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wii-u/mario_kart_81?start=1820#reply-1829

More FOMO and live service?

Oh no…

It’s going to take a while to get used to new releases being Wednesday night/Thursday morning…

Cool! Didn’t expect to wake up to free stuff on a Friday, so it’s a nice surprise!

Just a heads up for anyone reading this, though: you have to click the link in the Tweet to apply the discount code automatically. Clicking the store link in the copy of the article will NOT apply the discount automatically.

E2A: First! 😛

Is this the same Aspyr that did the rounds a few months ago after releasing Battlefront Classic Collection?

Yay! Now we get Dr. Shadow on December 31st, 2024?

Also, did I finally do it? Am I First?

Edit: no, I’m third. Darn.

I played this last week on Game Pass for the Gamerscore. And I quickly learned that visual novel-type games like this aren’t my thing, which surprised me. Then again, especially lately, I’ve really not been known for venturing into games I’m not already familiar with, Persona 3 Reload being an exception.

@OctoCallie20 Animal Crossing and Splatoon are developed by the same team.

@SpeedRunRocks Breaking News: Splatfest Results Incorrect: Pearlina Shocks The Splatlands With A Victory For Team Synthesizer!

I live for that subhead.