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You had me at GBA style RPG, and sold me at "Golden Sun composer". This looks gorgeous, I'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

Still playing over a year on, I've just passed 75% map completion. 320 hours so far. Two weeks at 139 hours is insane.

The inability to just give us a remaster of SA2 in the year when the 3rd movie will draw significant inspiration from it is a missed opportunity by Sega. Always here for Sonic Battle getting references in 2024 though. It's about time we got a sequel, right?

Seems extreme, yes, but the knife laws are there as a deterrent. It's a huge issue here these days. If they let this go, what's stopping an actual criminal from carrying one with intent to hurt people? Hell, maybe this guy is, who knows. These things are not sold as fidget devices, they're keychains (aliexpress, if you're interested) and as much as I think they're cool, I'd never put one on my keys for this very reason. If this dude is naive enough to walk around with it in his hand (so blatantly that CCTV spotted it) then that's on him. Keep it in your pocket if you want something to click...or get something that isn't a sharp object.

And to all those going oh the UK is so fascist, woke, totalitarian or whatever nonsense you think, you really do not know how daily life here is. It's nothing like the alarmist stories you're fed online.

Hate the obsession with white minimalist backgrounds on Nintendo boxart. Thankfully we moved away from it with most franchises but seems it's around with Mario and Luigi.

No wonder ol' Louis is always so moody. He never got his hands on this.

Now if only Gareth Southgate could do the same for his England starting XI every game...

But seriously, I think Pyoro already did Nintendo's job for them. Ain't no leaks coming from the web back end no more. Maybe we'll have to rely on good old printed lists of Direct content that seem to always pop up somehow...

Oh yeahhhh I have that one, why didn't you ask sooner?

Joking, of course. StreetPass was great, I'm not sure it would ever come back with the Switch or whatever is next (it's still quite a size to lug about, so wouldn't be nearly as big a thing as the 3DS one) but I'm shocked Nintendo, or another company, has never utilised the massive potential for a similar game on smartphones. Everyone has one, there's bluetooth functionality in every device. Seems an absolute no-brainer with Nintendo venturing into the mobile market.

They could really do with giving Prime: Hunters a remaster. Doesn't have to have the excellent online mode, but that would be nice too.

This is the problem when they created a timeline that had to be adhered to, every version of Hyrule has to contain certain basic landmarks/areas in roughly the same parts of the map to have continuity. They've tied their own hands in this regard. This is why I'm begging for a Zelda game set outside of Hyrule again like Link's Awakening, the Oracle games, Majora's Mask. It'll allow them to be creative with the map again instead of being stifled by timeline continuity.

A surprise to no one really, every Switch Zelda game has had an amiibo, and it's pretty much franchise with the most figures

Doesn't need to be revolutionary. Not everything needs to be open world and have a map that takes you an hour to walk from end to end. Just needs to be more Metroid Prime on a bigger scale than was previously possible, with a few new abilities and mechanics. There will undoubtedly be some new gameplay feature that runs through the game in the same way Echoes had the light/dark worlds and Corruption had multiple worlds to jump between.

If Sylux is making a return surely it's about time they gave Metroid Prime: Hunters a modern update so players know his backstory. Maybe asking a little there. Also the environments look too good for just a regular Switch title imo I'm saying this is Switch 2, even though it has a Switch logo ident at the beginning.

I can't lie, I started to get weary of this series after the 3DS entries. Just seemed to get a bit stale and gimmicky. Hope this is a return to the good old days. It'll be strange to see the series outside of the conventional 2D sprite format.

The game that just keeps on returning. They should call it Donkey Kong Country Boomerang.

It doesn't look "2D-HD" in the same style as we've seen previous games though. There isn't the same depth of field look that really made those games look stunning. This looks more like a HD version of the style we got on the DS remakes of IV-VI. Still looks great, but I expected the graphic style to be more like the Octopath games et al.

This is a lovely little surprise. I was hoping to see the Link's Awakening engine put to use bring the Oracle games to a new generation but more than up for this. A brand new top down Zelda title, it's been so long.

This is absolutely going to end up being a Twilight Princess/Breath of the Wild situation and launch on two consoles. Hopefully it doesn't suffer being a Switch game launched on a better console, or a Switch 2 game being launched on old hardware.

Curious as to why they didn't take the opportunity to drop another Metroid Prime port today to take advantage of the hype. Or at the very least confirm we are getting Echoes and Corruption before it launches.

I think they used to use "we" for reviews in gaming magazines back in the day. I always read it as knowing it's the opinion of the reviewer anyway, not the collective staff.

A little unfair to say this was the end of the true Paper Mario games? Not at all. Super Paper Mario is practically a platformer and none of the releases after it have ever gone fully back to the standard RPG format with a party of sidekicks that are fully controlled in battle. Hopefully people playing this for the first time can see what we've been robbed of.

Convinced it'll be a launch title for the next console. There's a reason they haven't shown it off, because it won't be on current hardware. As of right now the only other major franchise I can see them launching with is Mario Kart. It's too soon after the last Zelda, we've not long ago had a side scrolling Mario. I'm thinking they want to launch with Metroid.

@Poodlestargenerica gee where to start? Buying a perfectly good, hugely influential discussion platform and broke it, just because it was too liberal for his tastes? Allowing the most dangerous man in America to have access to it again (which he thankfully hasn't obliged to use yet)? Allowing several extremely awful people such as (if you're British) Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins to come back and spew hate on the platform? Just his general day to day immature baiting of various protected communities? Filling our night skies with thousands of trails of satellites in a vanity project? Naming his child something akin to a web host error page-ok maybe that one is too far. But you get the gist.

We're going off topic, but I don't recall anyone from Nintendo being such a public nuisance just because they have the money to do so. Not all billionaires are bad people, it's how you use your status and money which determines that.

I wish they would just name a date, even if it's two weeks away. Hate that we're being kept guessing even though we know it's this month. In a way that's even worse than not even knowing it's coming. Fully expect them to schedule during England playing on Sunday night to be quite honest.

@SpaceboyScreams and what would be wrong with passive aggressive Elon hate? Thoroughly deserved.

Just can't get hyped for this. A bunch of companies I barely care about drip feeding reveals for two months. All I need is to hear what Nintendo are bringing to Switch. If anything else interesting gets announced, I'm sure you guys will inform me.

It's not suggesting that though is it? It's just asking people's opinion on the matter. Could very well not happen still.

Excited about this until I saw the price. Jeeeeesus. I'll plump for Hyrule Castle or Temple of Time but not for the Deku Tree. Hopefully they do those little £7 mini sets with the enemies in an environment like they did for Mario. I'd buy tons of those.

So we're expecting this before the next console then, I guess.

I'm surprised it's 50/50, the colourful, characterful Europe one is much better.

It would be welcome. Something to bridge the gap until the next major release

I'm still playing it now. Had a couple of months off at the end of last year, but it's been in my playing list for the full year. Still need to find 3 shrines. 280 hours down. I can't believe some people really just blitzed the story in first month and then put it down for good.

344 tracks of WHAT exactly? There isn't that much music in the game surely. Can't we have a more concise 2 disc version without all the filler tracks? The Xenoblade 3 soundtrack is 9 discs and 144 tracks, which is a theme for pretty much every character plus a different theme for every colony/location both day and night.

This ST must feature a whole load of sound effects for it to be so long, and squeeze that many tracks on the same number of discs. Because there sure ain't as many musical scores in this as Xenoblade, I can tell you that.

All because Elon decided to make companies pay an extortionate amount for the API. Surprised it lasted this long (including the bird logo remaining on the console) I use it all the time, if I have a screenshot or video I want to share. Just means I'll have to go through the slightly convoluted method of downloading it to my phone first. Hopefully you'll be able to do that on Switch 2 as well. The sooner a viable Twitter replacement steps up the better.

Looking forward to playing this but in terms of the competitive element, not bothered at all. We all know the leaderboards will be spammed with hacks and people who manage to get the absolute lowest possible score. Us regular folk will have to settle for the 5000th mark and below.

It really feels more like & Knuckles. Not really a show about him, which is a shame. Needed more lore about Knuckles, an adventure where he's the lead and not just a sidekick to someone else. The Sonic Adventure 2 story searching for the emerald shards was right there (it could have shattered after the events of the 2nd movie) but instead we got the Wade spin-off. Fun watch, but I don't think anyone who skips this will feel they've missed anything come Sonic 3.

Not in the slightest. Bored of this whole obsession with 60fps and games not having it being "bad". Didn't even realise the original had it, not gonna notice any difference with this version.

Those secret stones hhhnnnnggghhhh

Nintendo Magneto confirmed!

Also people worried it could detach easily...I've had some pretty strong magnets in my hands before. Believe me, it's possible to have something rock solid with magnets. How you'd take them off to play on TV when they're that strong is another question though

@Uncle_Franklin in your opinion

Am I missing something? In what way were those pictures depicting racist ethnic stereotypes? Unless there are other pictures besides those two I don't understand that reason.

@Uncle_Franklin it really wasn't a bad game in any sense. You can be disappointed the battle system wasn't traditional (as I was) but it was still a solid game and closer to traditional Paper Mario than anything SPM was.

This game was nowhere near as bad as people made out.

Meh, never watch these, so hard to care tbh. I want a proper direct, we haven't seen one in 2024

Absolutely not having this. The amount of media, merchandise and games Mario has been in, there is absolutely no way Lara Croft is more recognisible. I'm not saying she isn't iconic, she sure is, but no way is she number 1. The biggest outlier here is "Agent 47". Now, I've never played Hitman admittedly, but I didn't even know he was called that. Very much doubt anyone outside of gaming knows that, or have even heard of the games. A generic bald dude in a suit is absolutely not more recognisible or iconic than Sonic, Pikachu, Pac-Man, Link, Crash...I would put TAILS above him.

TOTK is superior in every single way. People voting BOTW are just nostalgic, because it was all so fresh and unexpected at the time. A bit like how people still clung to OOT being the best Zelda for years because exploring in 3D was brand new. Same goes for Mario 64.

He better write Tingle into it then. It's what the people want.

Quick someone make another hard one!

No, because having to play through the story again is such a chore. It's essentially the FIFA approach to games, the same thing with a little tweak. DLC is better. Also, as it's not the 00s now and games aren't on handhelds made in 2D, I'd rather that time was spent on developing the next game because they churn them out too rapidly as it is.

I kept myself completely in the dark about this game so didn't read this preview at the time. I'm thankful that I did. So much you wrote about that I had no idea was in the game, from reuniting koroks, attaching things to arrows, building things and the fact that bomb flowers exist. It was so joyous to stumble upon everything and have no pre-warning of any of it. Not saying you shouldn't write about it, I'm just saying I'm grateful I allowed myself to be free of any information going into it. I bookmarked this to read when I had finished the game.