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It's honestly ridiculous. All they needed to do was add a toggle to choose between intermission races and regular races and then everyone could have been happy playing however they want.

This just makes me mad honestly. Instead of adding a mode to play three lap tracks which is what everyone picking random clearly wants, they just patch random to further force the crappy intermission tracks onto everyone whether they like them or not. I really wish I didn't pay money for this game.

I would have preferred a fully fleshed out game for a higher price, personally. It's good that they're not way overcharging for it but if it's a pretty barebones experience then I'd still rather save the money and play something more substantial instead.

"Feels a bit small in adult hands"

I guess I still have child hands then.

@Jack_Goetz It's an eShop exclusive so I assume it will have a lower price point.

The gameplay seems interesting and I would have been into it if it were a fully fleshed out game with lots of content and variety but from what we've seen it looks more like a tech demo sort of thing with little substance to it and that's not for me.

I'm still just patiently waiting for it to be fully finished before jumping in.

@Max_the_German You actually can't dodge a blue shell with a feather.

@Picola-Wicola I actually don't mind frontrunning in Knockout Tour. A blue shell is inevitable and it's pretty rare to hold onto first for the whole race (against humans at least) but I've also found it to be pretty rare that I'll get messed up so bad that I fail to qualify for the checkpoint as long as it's not the first checkpoint. Where I really don't want to be is in the middle of the pack as you can often straight up lose if you don't get mushrooms from the last item box before the checkpoint.

I played quite a bit of Knockout Tour before I gave up on the game as I don't like the normal race mode in this game. Finished top four regularly and won quite a lot. Not with any real skill though, just bagging for good items and using them at the right time. If you get a shock in top eight you probably win the race.

Trying to buy a console that's only a few weeks old second hand is probably asking for trouble in general. It's pretty likely that there's something wrong with it.

It's possible that they've been working on multiple games at once, possibly with multiple teams, and that a 3D Mario game is also pretty far into development. It's been a long time since Odyssey after all. Either way though I'm just excited to play DK Bananza which looks just as good as peak Mario.

@Friendly I've only played a couple of Switch games in the last year.

My Switch 2 is currently collecting dust after Mario Kart ended up a huge disappointment for me but this could be the game that makes the console feel worth owning. It's looking extremely fun.

@OctolingKing13 Being able to race normally like every other Mario Kart game instead of just driving in straight lines all day.

@Kingy I think it could have been fine if they didn't drop the ball by making both race modes basically just the same thing.

If I was designing the game, I would have kept the standard race mode as 12 players with full laps only just like previous entries.

You still have the new 24 player chaotic straight line races that we have now but only in the form of Knockout Tour which is what it feels like it was really designed for anyway. Get rid of the eight rallies and replace it with more randomised routes that can go through any of the different roads to add a bit more variety to the mode.

I think the chaos that the new gameplay brings can be fun in small bursts but the problem is that they've made it the only way to play the game, replacing the core gameplay of the series until now, rather than just letting it be the fun side mode that it should have been.

It's mostly pretty boring honestly much like the rest of the game. Probably the most disappointed I've ever been with a video game TBH.

Can't say I get particularly excited about these individual game Directs. I'll probably watch but I'm already getting the game so I don't really need to see more. Hopefully it's better than the Mario Kart one.

I played through all 150cc Grand Prix first and then went back for the ones I missed 3* on afterwards and then did the same in Knockout Tour. Just finally got around to doing Mirror Grand Prix earlier (3* first try in all of them this time around) but still need to do Knockout Tour.

I almost like the game but the absence of an option to race online with just full laps drops it to a 1/10 from me.

A notification from the Nintendo Today app about a new Splatoon game was about the last thing I expected to see when I checked my phone. Nintendo being as unpredictable as ever.

This probably doesn't bode well for our chances of a Nintendo Direct in the near future sadly but I'm excited for the game. Love seeing more Splatoon even in spinoff form.

It's hard to say when the game barely lets me race on any of them.

I don't see the point in going out of your way to farm coins. 3k coins happens pretty quickly just from normal gameplay.

@AllBLK Took away from the excitement of the official announcement. I hate leakers.

Reminds me that I haven't even bought a case yet. I've got nothing to play on the console anyway for the next month or so anyway so I've got time to find one I guess.

I refuse to buy any Genki products after the leak fiasco though so I'll be going with a different brand when I get around to buying one.

It's the most comfortable controller I've ever held. When a limited edition comes out, I'll be tempted to replace my Xbox Elite with one for PC.

@Ooyah I haven't run into any issues. Still works fine while playing online and everything. You're just adding extra files to the game's folder rather than actually modifying any of the game's files which might be while it doesn't seem to cause any problems but I'm certainly no expert on the topic either.

@Ooyah There's a mod on Nexus Mods called "Better Chase Camera" that improves it a lot.

It's far from a perfect game as while I've played it I've constantly been finding myself thinking "why is it like that?" or "they should have done this" but despite that I've got 142 hours in the game and have had an overall really fun time with it.

I'm glad I got the Steam version though so that I could fix the awful camera with mods. The game feels so much better to play when you can actually see where you're going.

@CriticalHit I do too but I still struggle to avoid some from sneaking in somehow.

Not a big fan of these plastic films TBH. They'll scratch more easily than the screen and you're not supposed to remove it so it's basically like having an easily scratched screen. Makes using a screen protector pretty much mandatory and my least favourite part of getting a new system is trying to get a screen protector on without anything getting stuck under it.

I had a fun time with ARMS. Played it for like 40 hours when it came out but never touched it again after that. I wouldn't be interested in an upgraded version of the same game but I could potentially be very interested in a sequel depending what they do with it. Work in some sort of interested fully fleshed out single player story mode that isn't just going stage to stage and then I'm in.

@Anakin That's pretty valid. The way Level-5 have treated the Switch fan-base has been very poor. Even though I was planning to get it on PC instead after it was announced there, part of me was pretty put off by how they handled things.

I'm about 15 hours in on PC and I'm having a fun time with it but it's certainly not without its flaws either that subtract a little from the experience for me.

The controls (with controller) in particular feel like they tried to make them as initiative as possible for me personally. I press the wrong buttons constantly and would love to remap basically everything if I could but the options are extremely limited. I died one time because I tried to use my special and somehow ended up in the chat log instead.

The multiplayer implementation is also very disappointing. I've got a friend who is also playing through the game and I would have loved to go through co-op.

@Spider-Kev It's not the same.

@Spider-Kev They were asking about patches, not DLC.

@Billy_Lee You should be able to just update it from the home screen like any other game. Region doesn't matter for that.

I want to see proper multiplayer.

@wollywoo I'm trying to resist the temptation of picking it up on Steam for now because I already have too many other games I'm playing and know it will take over my life for a while.

Preordered right after the Switch 2 Direc to make sure I secured one but turns out it really didn't matter as it's still widely available in Australia now. Better safe than sorry though.

This is a game that I was so excited for when it was annouced but have gotten less and less excited with every piece of news since its annoucement. I'll be waiting for reviews and impressions and probably still picking it up on Steam if it turns out to be good but Level-5 have fumbled this title big time and it feels like they've given a big middle finger to Switch players, who should have been their primary audience.

@Erigen I've given up on Pokemon ever being good at this point. I don't think The Pokemon Company could care less as long as it makes them money and I'm not convinced that Game Freak even have the ability to make a good modern 3D video game.

I haven't played my Switch since Echoes of Wisdom, mainly because there haven't been any exclusives that have interested me since then. Just playing stuff on PC/Steam Deck while I patiently wait for the Switch 2 to come out and more importantly for Nintendo to actually start releasing games again.

@Erigen As good as I'm sure that would be, I'd rather just see Monolith just keep creating their own thing from scratch TBH.

Now I know not to trust any positives reviews for this game after the dev has begged for them so I'll just keep this one on my avoid list.

I'm over 60 hours in and feel like I've only seen a fraction of the total content in the game so far so I believe it.

I tried playing Palworld a little while back but I regret buying it to be honest. It just feels like a generic open world survival game with creature collection/battling tacked on as an afterthought. It feels pretty soulless and got boring super quickly. I've been as critical as anyone about the recent Pokemon games but I actually think that Palworld is just as bad which is kinda impressive in a way.

I have hundreds of games on Switch and not one of those were made by EA. I don't see that changing on Switch 2.

I hate leakers with a passion as they just suck a lot of the fun out of big annoucements for their own selfish means. I hope Genki get taken to the cleaners.

Not finished the game yet but it's definitely my favourite game of the year so far and probably the most invested I've been in a game since Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Hopefully it does well enough that they can keep making more brilliant games. Don't really care whether it gets ported to other systems or not though, it's already on the two most important ones.