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if someone presented me with an exquisitely hand-crafted, jewel-encrusted package that contained a festering, maggot-riddled dead rat, I still wouldn't be very impressed by the gesture as a whole.

I'm sure there'll be an minor audience for this, but I fear the buyers' remorse will be all too real once the "hilarious/ironic" novelty wears off, the YouTube clicks stop coming, and the games' sheer bang-average-at-best-ness rears its head after the first 15 minutes or so.

I genuinely thought that Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4 were going to be launch games — along with Mario Kart World and Fast Fusion that would have been a pretty solid line up of original games to get the ball rolling, but here were are three months later and still no Metroid?

I completely missed the boat with Hollow Knight, and subsequently the hype that came along with the idea of a sequel — it kinda got lost in the sea of Metroidvanias that have been being cranked out since its release (the similarly-named Shovel Knight, and the similar-looking Ori games to name but two), and Silksong was just one of those games I kept hearing about second-hand

I come for the update, but I stay for the bility.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT if you pass out outside your home you basically get mugged and lose a few of your items — that's really the only penalty, but it's not worth the aggro

@MetalGearValley Yeah, the one-tile whack n' scoot method got very tiresome quickly and gave me ACNH ptsd flashbacks Tbf I've not actually properly dove back into SV, since big chests were introduced in 1.6, maybe this is the answer to my woes!

Was that something specific or more of a je ne sais quoi? While I had fun with Ryza I think overall I'm more of a Rune Factory person.

I managed to get past the initial stress of the constantly ticking clock (I got into the habit of opening a menu to freeze time every time I was standing still or thinking about something), but what eventually wore me down with Stardew is the inventory system. Having to manually create multiple 30-slot storage repositories (which can't be moved if they have anything in them) makes managing your thousands of items (particularly later in the game - I was on my third year) a real slog. Also not being able to craft items unless you have them on you, or in an adjoining slot to your workbench, was a hassle.

@xenobladexfan Oh yeah, they never did, did they? Just on PS5 — although at least Switch is region-free, if you find one on ebay (it's currently £55 on Amazon...)

@CasualTalkRadio The Ryza games were Japanese only and they've proved pretty popular from what I've read.

I would like it if they went the extra mile and sprung for an English dub though; the series is famously a very chatty one

@xenobladexfan Yeah from the few I've played they're a lot of fun — very light and fluffy tonally but with surprisingly deep and very satisfying crafting mechanics

Script feels a little overstuffed at times

I've been encountering this a lot lately, in game genres like platformers and puzzlers that you'd think wouldn't really be the place you'd find it. I wonder, was the original version this verbose or did they add a load of new dialogue to it?

No reason has been given for the removal, but fans speculate that it's due to the licenses for some in-game music running out.

Yeah, it's almost always music licensing. They really need to sit down and update whatever archaic laws they're still abiding by with regards to licensing, it repeatedly sucks the fun out of gaming.

I'm choosing secret option: "It's a game I've been curious about for a while but never got around to procuring or playing. Maybe one day."

It'd be nice to get the majority of the numbered FF games in one place, plus I'd definitely be more inclined to dip in and out of an MMO such as XIV if I had the option of doing so in handheld

Will we get to battle toads?

Bubsy continues to refuse to go silently into the night.

I can't wait to finally get around to playing Hollow Knight so i can feel just as outraged by the absence of Silksong as the entire rest of the gaming cosmos seems to be.

Remember when Nintendo were making Mario Kart, and they had those nondescript, helmeted F1 racer characters, before introducing Mario and co? This reminds me a little bit of that — how much more appealing would it have been been with big, bright, Mushroom Kingdom/Splatoon-style chararacters?

DF is one of the few gaming YouTube channels I still find bearable (their retro stuff is always a treat), although as soon as they start talking about the intricacies of graphics cards my brain does start to glaze over a bit...

@electrolite77 Yeah, you would think that Codes in a Box would be a thing of the past now — if they've gone to the effort of making Key Cards a thing, CIAB really needs to GITB.

Why in the hell is there no Mouse Mode for the HotD games?

@DominionGamma it's probably something that was debated, tested, and trialled, but yeah like you say the blowback might actually have been more than they expected (like I say, certainly amongst the more vocal, online quotient) — I wonder if they'll take a similar tack to peoples' reaction to the price of games

It's the equivalent of quietly announcing "I'm making tea, would anyone else like one?" before quickly sneaking off to the kitchen before anyone has a chance to answer

This is what I'm thinking; 200+ like-minded comments might seem like a lot, for a dedicated NintendoLife article, but when you're talking millions of Switch 2 owners (and we're only a couple of months in to its release), realistically what percentage of those are going to care, or even notice, that Game Key Cards don't actually have the game data on there?

Boo to no upgrade path! Also it seems weird to offer bonuses for having save data but no way to actually use said save data...

"Okay guys, here's what I'm thinking for the Switch 2 DX versions..."

What a bizarre pitch meeting that must have been.

@Pillowpants SMTV:Vengeance - the Revenge of Cat the Dog

@nhSnork Oh I just remembered, there is that P4 remake coming next year as well (I knew there was something else nagging at the back of my mind) — reckon it'd worth holding out for that? I have a pretty sizeable backlog to keep me going til then

@LEGEND_MARIOID it'll probably never happen, but if they announced a Switch 2 upgrade for P5R I'd nab it in a heartbeat

@nhSnork well then! And wouldn'tchya know it, they're on sale right now for £16.49 for the pair — Thanks for the tip!

@nhSnork Yeah, it's one of the things that's continually impeded me from playing both P3 and P4. I only recently finished P5 and thought it was a phenomenal experience. What version of P4 would you say is the quintessential version (if there is one)?

I'm so down for a new Katamari entry

As someone who's only played P5, would this be the best way to play Persona 3? I'm not 100% clear, but doesn't the P3Portable version have extra content/QoL features?

Yeah, even at the time I never felt they were particularly decent examples of what fighting games were. Especially being a direct competitor to Street Fighter, which only served to highlight their shortcomings.

I imagine most of the time bugs and other small critters are on the menu, boys — but when an unassuming hobbit wanders into your web that's the equivalent of dining out at a fancy restaurant.

@ChessboardMan if there's even a couple of tracks by Anamanaguchi I'll take it; I have the first SP game to thank for introducing me to them.

Yep, after having now played it I instantly felt somewhat was amiss — turned motion controls off and after a few minutes I readjusted. It's definitely gyro/motion camera controls that does it — Splatoon affected me similarly with its motion aiming that took me ages to realise what the problem was.

@DiggleDog Very good

Oh I had no idea Charlie Cox was the voice of Gustave! Just coming to what feels like the end of the second act now — it's a really solid RPG, surprisingly breezy, and bereft of bloat.

@Bex_Tries primarily it's the resolution and the framerate that are capped, plus the textures are noticeable lower res than on PS5. If they could give all three of those a boost, that'd be grand.

Came here to say exactly this. I just finished that game the other week, absolutely loved it, but if they released a Switch 2 update I would restart it in a heartbeat - I missed quite a fair bit of the game without realising.

Usually anything with motion controls with a first-person view messes me up — As much as I enjoyed it, the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii really did a number on me after a certain length of play time.

Yeah, this feels like Christopher Nolan's Pac-Man; I'd love to see a modern-day sequel/reboot of Pacland with lush hand drawn cartoon graphics - hell even a HD remake in the style of Dragon's Trap would be sweet.

Glad it's decent — I was waiting on hearing at least a handful of positive reviews before going in on it, but I'll likely nab it pretty soon.

Originally, the earliest I could see getting a 512gb in the UK was late July - from Smyths, but after quickly reopening the tab, I notice they've moved it to "August 2025", no specific date

It's all a bit too vague and subjective — if (as I suspect) it was left to some sort of AI/algorithm, you just know it would accidentally take down a bunch of legit games it deemed fell under a certain criteria. You'd ultimately need some kind of human adjudicator to systematically go through every game and make the call. Which they should totally give the user an option to do; just implement a filter that lets you quickly blacklist a game (or even a notorious publisher) in the same way you can create a wishlist.

@ottoecamn yeah, I'd be all over an upgrade path, but I doubt I'd double dip on an entirely new edition as I've already got all three physically

Outside of the initial system transfer, I've not really downloaded a tonne of games so have not been actively paying attention to the download speeds, but they seem decent enough.

You know they're not mutually exclusive, right? A finely-crafted spice rack can be regarded as a work of art, but you'd still use it to put your basil and oregano on.

Release an upgrade path, then we'll talk.

@BenAV Yeah, same — i'll happily pick it up to support the creator, but knowing that there is still more to come really dampens my enthusiasm to go in on it just yet