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With a new major 3D platformer in Bananza, new Metroid Prime, new Pokemon, new Mario Kart and quite a few big third party ports all within the first half year, I struggle to see how I should rate the software and purchase below 10/10.

Game not arriving. Done with physical of games I want on release...

It will arrive by mail tomorrow!

Unfortunately, I am not home until Sunday... But then again, I have Monday off so it will all be okay.

@Elektrogeist1287 well pardon your French.
I did this crazy thing and looked at metacritic where the game has scores between 60-100.

I think that is mixed reviews. I am fairly sure it will be a 9/10 experience for me though so all fine.

Veeeeery mixed reviews. Hmmmm.

Looking forward to Thursday!

Not surprising. It is a very niche title.

Quite a few other Nintendo titles in the top 20, though!

Nice. This would have been a day one buy for me if Prime 4 was not only 3 days away.
Will get it for the Christmas holidays!

Nice! I will must likely play Prime 4 on Casual/Easy mode on first playthrough. There is always the possibility to do a 2nd playthrough in a harder mode.

@Pat_trick What do you save by waiting? Maybe 15 $/£/€?

The best Black Friday deal is that you can preorder Metroid Prime 4 at full price and play it a week from now.

I will wait 2-3 years and buy a 512 gb.

256 gb internal storage is plenty for now.

Whaaaaaat assassin's Creed Shadows is almost 70 gb...

Even Myles cannot dampen my Prime 4 hype!

@ChessboardMan I was thinking the same thing! This inverted pyramid?

OoT remake incoming!

@Lofoten I was obviously expecting there to be an option where I could indicate how little I care.

I am missing a "I really do not care!" option.

After I finished Bananza two weeks ago, I started replaying this for the first time in 7,5 years.
I was never the biggest Odessey fan. But it is better than I remembered.

@Cloudman.
Just... What?

How on earth does one find a way to complain about an opportunity to try the game out before purchasing.

I play a NES game on NSO every other month or so.
Just sold my NES, N64 and GC as they had been in the attic for 15-30 years...

After playing the demo on Switch 2, the Adventures of Elliot is one of my most anticipated games of 2026.
I am so sick of turn-based combat, so it is nice to finally have a good 2D-HD action adventure.

Awesome free roam update!

I hope the more lap-type races update helps with this issue for the people who care.

I preordered the physical edition!

Some of the best 3D platformers made, and I have not played them in years.

Yeah I am not nervous. I am quite sure I can enjoy this game even if Retro should have included a single element that is not completely to my liking.

That being said, it seems quite obvious from the footage and from the previous trailers that there will be plenty of Prime -like gameplay.

I really do not care if a game is on a game key card or a full physical release. It is not that interesting.

Will pick this up tonight!

So I thought this looked pretty fun in the short trailer. But it just plays waaaaay too slow for me. Crawling, walking, picking up, Telly sidekick talking it is all so very slow.

Okay. I just do not see it. This is a very easy pass for me.

@ATMVF
That being said!
One could potentially argue that since DragXDrive is a smaller title that will not get much press, they might launch a general direct on the release date with it being the first title of the show.

My money is on the latter half of August though.

@ATMVF
I think we will have to wait with the general direct until shortly after DragXDrive (?) release.
Besides that you could be right.

Downloaded the demo. Looking forward to trying it out after DK Bananza!

Very interested in Hela!

Besides that not much for me.

Assassins Creed ports, please.

Nice!
I hope for some Assassin Creed ports, as I have not played a game in that series for almost 5 years.

Also, have we not previously seen a full blown Direct being announced a week or two after a partner/indie direct?

After just reaching the fourth layer, I have gone back and found >90% of the bananas up to and including Canyon.

I wastly prefer this over Odyssey (which was an 8.5/10 game for me) so far.

I never noticed the performance issues in Echoes of Wisdom, but seemingly others thought it was really bad.
So I am guessing I will not notice this either.

That being said, could this not have been fixed with simply having less debree flying around when smashing everything?

I was just thinking this yesterday when downloading Strikers.
Would really like the option.

I really appreciate Strikers as a 30 minuttes on a train kind of game.

My employer paid meetings-from-home headset (Jabra Evolve2 85) works great with my Switch 2.

@1UP-HUSKY I think it is too soon.
We will here no more until after the Bananza release, and then August is almost here.
Late September or October.

I cannot remember being more exited for any game that was not a mainline Zelda.

@Pickettfury Hmmmm. Annoying.
Mine works great.

My bananergy is beyond hype!

This looks awesome!
Do we get the point of Pauline being Oddrock for the first 5 minutes of the game?

@Friendly this is exactly how I see it as well. Hope to be convinced otherwise tomorrow.

I need some goal and purpose. Not just random destruction in search of another banana which on its own is indifferent as there is >900 total...

I of course added a tempered glass screen protector first thing.

Gold is gold. Do not care about the stars.

I had hoped that the upgrade would give me the spirit to go on and find the last 30 shrines, finish the last side quests etc.
But I just cannot find more motivation for BotW and TotK. It was good fun for 400 hours though. But now I am out.

@zander_dale My original Switch 2 case from Nintendo has hold for 6 game cartridges.

I got the original case from Nintendo and a tempered glass protector from somewhere else.
Seems capable of protecting the Switch 2.