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I’ll have to give this game a go, it always surprises me how popular the Rayman games are. Back in the day I assumed it was another generic ‘90s mascot platformer, although I did really enjoy the Rayman game on the Wii U!

The NPCs did grow on me (to the point that I hate the ending and feel it ruins the game), but chances are I would never have heard this extra dialogue anyway as I tended to go through the base room so quickly that they never managed to finish any dialogue they’d started! 😅

A huge improvement on earlier US releases (especially the one where MegaOldMan looks like he’s messed his pants) but the Japanese version is still the clear winner. The US one reminds me a bit of the art style of those old Garbage Pail Kids cards!

Sadly it's a 7/10 for me. It was a strong 9/10 but the ending sucked to hard it's even robbed me of wanting to replay the game this weekend. Oh well.

If they have Drew Karpyshyn involved I'll be excited, but Mass Effect 3's story was a disappointing mess without him.

It would be nice if they could fix all the rendering problems in GoldenEye that make it much harder to beat than necessary.

Funnily enough I think Cronos The New Dawn is my GOTY, I’ve replayed it twice and I’ve found myself thinking about the story a lot.

I liked DK Bananza a lot, but I just haven’t felt the need to replay it endlessly like I did with Odyssey. Mario Kart World just isn’t fast enough for me, I’ll give it another chance if they ever add 200cc.

I like the "option to toggle respawning enemies off" feature, it is quite annoying to clear an area and suddenly find enemies have come back again as it makes exploration more difficult.

I'm not happy about the "Removed Acclaim intro cutscene" though. The letters dropping into place with colourful explosive particles is quite iconic to starting the game up and it was a pretty effect too. It's a bit like watching a Star Wars film without the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

Sounds like they've reversed the gyro activation trigger, it should come on when the menus are closed and switch off when the menu is open! 😅 Should be an easy fix for them.

I love this game, and at this price it's pretty much a no-brainer for me. Borrowing elements from the TV show Lost and the film The Descent just worked so well. It's such a shame the two sequels somehow lost what made this one special.

Dichen Lachman as Impa is a great choice. I didn’t previously have any thoughts about who would be suitable, but now I’ve got her in my head she does seem perfect for it.

Man, I really wish I’d actually liked Breath of the Wild, it was basically everything I didn’t want in a Zelda game, and it seems like that’s the only style we’re going to get from now on. 😢

I have no complaints. He looks like Yoshi and is the right colour. At least he’s not an animatronic dinosaur!

I remember being so impressed with the fireworks at the end of Super Mario World, but then not long after both Super Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts and Legend of Mystical Ninja did them even better! 😅

Also, special mention to the final track of Ridge Racer Type 4 where the fireworks go off on the final lap just as the new millennium begins.

I do like the choice of the FFVII fireworks though, that scene had a lot of importance to the characters so that might be the best one.

I think the Japanese one is trying to depict how you can visit other peoples’ villages with the two worlds. That no-one has picked up on this probably shows it wasn’t a very effective way of conveying that feature!

If only the customisation also let you use gyro to control the right stick, then lots of games that never properly supported gyro could be played with it.

I had a quick wander around in the demo, the key thing I was excited to try was 21:9 mode as I have an ultra wide, but the image isn't 21:9 squashed into 16:9 which I could then stretch to fit on my monitor, instead its a letterboxed 21:9 and sadly my monitor can't zoom to fit. 😢 Oh well, given how many games have launched over the past three days it's probably a good thing I don't want to buy this as well.

@1UP-HUSKY Same. We used to get CDs with music from the games and recreations of old Game & Watches. Now we get cardboard cutouts with a magnet on the back. 🙄

How long would it take to do 1000 battles? If it's a tediously long grind then this seems justified, if it's only 10-15 mins then obviously it would be better to actually play the game.

Oh no, please don’t put Tetris DS on there! It was practically all I played on the DS when I got it and then when I re-bought a cartridge for my 3DS that’s all I played on there as well! This could mean I lose my Switch 2 to Tetris DS too! 😆

I play on an AV Famicom with the Hi-Def NES mod. I regret parting with my RGB modded console as I play all my old consoles (except this one!) on a CRT these days.

I don’t bother getting my original carts out though, I just use a NES PowerPak with a 72-pin to 60 adaptor. I also have the NES FourScore plugged in so I can be lazy and use auto-fire in Robocop and Super C. Finally, my dogbone controller is modded with an 8-bitdo wireless conversion.

After talking about this, I really feel like playing Mario 3 again…

Axelay. Actraiser. Still waiting. 😞

I’ve hit the home button so many times on my Pro controller. When I’ve been quickly moving my thumb to the Y button my thumb sometimes extends a bit over the edge of the button and catches the other button.

That said, surely the solution is to put those buttons elsewhere on the controller so they can’t be accidentally pressed rather than engineering a whole locking system.

If it could wake the console, I’d definitely be down for a clear green one.

I tried the demo for Sonic Crossworlds and it was too slow. The same is true for MKW. I’ve gone back to MK8 because I just can’t live without 200cc speeds now. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe I’ll give World another try if/when they add in 200cc.

I’m shocked to hear an EA game is a lazy cash grab that doesn’t even bother to be free of bugs when massively compromised to run at 30fps.

I sadly don’t have the time/patience to learn a game like this these days. I can actually beat GnG and Super quite easily, but I found Resurrection just didn’t click with me.

I’m really curious to see how the assist mode works on The Perfect Run. Will it still give you 6 health? Or maybe it always doubles, so you get 2? Either way, it should make practicing that level much better as you don’t have to repeat the start sections over and over.

I won’t pay that much, I’ll just re-play it on my Wii instead. They’d need to replace the pointer mechanic for that price, the 3D All-Stars way of doing it wasn’t very good at all so it needs to be thoroughly reworked to be fun on a device without a pointer.

All my old 8-bit NES carts still working vs countless examples of digital-only products being switched off says his argument is naive at best.

About 10 years ago or so I realised that I barely knew this game at all. I had it back in the day but as soon as I found the Warp Zones the only levels I ever played were 1-1, 1-2, 4-1, 4-2 and as many levels of World 8 that I could manage (which often wasn’t much! 😅)

So since then I’ve made a concerted effort to avoid the Warp Zones and to play all the levels Big Shiggy and his team spent time making back in 1985. Ironically, finding the Warp Zone is probably what made me a gamer- the idea that experimentation and exploration could be rewarded completely rewrote my idea about what games could be.

I wish that 9,999 to 99,999 had been done to Odyssey, you could grind for coins in Luigi’s Coin World so much more effectively if you didn’t have to keep losing your winning streak when hitting the 9999 limit.

I love that they’re doing this, I’ve just got my preorder in. I’ve actually got a VB but I don’t have all the games and I’d expect the 120Hz screen could reduce eye strain by being less flickery (unless Nintendo deliberately try to mimic it! 😅).

Don’t summons in early Final Fantasy games count as prior art? I’m pretty sure Pokémon wasn’t the first game to do this.

How on earth is the European art winning, it’s by far the worst, it doesn’t even include the character art. Japan all the way for me.

I tried the demo on PC a few months back and the performance was shocking on Steam Deck and even on my desktop with a 5080 I was getting random frame dips and frame rates worse than Cyberpunk (and that’s with Cyberpunk running path tracing!) I’d recommend waiting for some performance analyses before buying this one in case they don’t fix the problems before launch.

I’ve enjoyed the game a lot, yes it’s only one track and a slightly different version of it, but it’s got that immediate satisfaction only an arcade game can give.

The funniest thing to me is that all these years later and Wave Race 64 is still the best jet ski racing game ever, and believe me I’ve tried loads of the alternatives hoping someone could scratch that itch. Aqua Jet is probably one of the stronger contenders too!

This looks awesome, I love how the trailer is done in the style of an old-school He-Man toy advert. The Golden Axe influences seem like a good choice too.

Oh, and I love those total junk controllers they’re playing on. 😆

Still can't see it on the UK store. You'd think they could at least put a place holder up.

Ahh, I love Metroid 2. I beat it back in the day but struggled without a map, but I gave it another go after playing the excellent AM2R and found I didn’t need a map after all, as the game does a great job of encapsulating the game into manageable sections which can’t be reached until the right conditions are met. It’s probably my second favourite Metroid now after Super.

The fan made DX version looks awesome on an OLED GameBoy Colour, with the subterranean creatures and backgrounds often having a nice bioluminescent glow to them. It’s a real shame Nintendo didn’t do an official DX version back in the day.

@HammerGalladeBro I just listened to the extended Escape theme in the Nintendo Music app and wow, you’re right where did that extra bit come from?!

Also weird is how it’s there for the cartridge version of the Escape theme, but the extended FDS version doesn’t have it.

That's great news, the last thing you'd want is to be shackled to IGN's owners.

I loved the idea of Game Builder Garage but I found it too limited in certain ways and what I really wanted was some sort of “encapsulation” tool.

Too quickly the flow became a spiderweb of lines that were hard to follow. If I could build a unit within a container which hides all its innards when closed it would make navigating the main program flow a lot cleaner.

"Sorry, this survey is not currently active."

Translation: Woah, woah, we didn't want this many people telling us they don't like Game-Key cards. Now how am I going to spin this to look good to senior management?

The map was very good, but I do wish they'd perhaps allowed the player to zoom in a bit closer at times. Particularly towards the end where I'd be trying to work out where a missed banana might be by looking at the numbers on either side and trying to guess roughly where it would be nearby on the map! 😅

I'm late to the party as I wanted to finish the game before deciding on a score, if I'd scored it in the middle of doing the Zebra Rehearsal yesterday with its annoying time limits it would have been busted down to a 7/10. 😂

I'd say it's a solid 9/10 overall. It doesn't quite score a 10 as I found banana discovery a bit more luck than skill and sometimes I'd waste a lot of time trying to find a banana that wasn't actually collectable at that point (the helpful parrot in Odyssey would tell you when there's nothing left to find). The larger level sizes perhaps contribute to more aimless searching for bananas and there seemed to be a bit less variety in missions compared to Odyssey.

I probably sound too negative, I had loads of fun playing it and pretty much played it non-stop every evening and for most of the weekends, so it's very addictive. I think because it's from the Odyssey team that I'm holding the game to a higher standard than I probably would hold any other game. Roll on whatever game they make next (hopefully it's Odyssey 2)!

I love how MK8 is still selling! I'd buy another physical copy myself if there was a version out there with all booster courses on it. 😂

As yes, the old don’t ask questions you know you won’t like the answer to trick.

Surprising considering this supposedly started as a Switch 1 game. What would performance have been like if they hadn’t moved to Switch 2?

On the one hand, all I’m playing on the Switch 2 at the moment is old Switch 1 games, so the Switch 2 is kind of pointless from that perspective. Bananza should hopefully fix that problem.

On the flip side, I like the bigger screen (I think it looks fine, all these reviews saying it’s the worst screen eva and all I see is a nice, big, bright screen 🤷). I also rather like the Pro Controller.

The oddest thing with the Switch 2 is I used to play the Switch 1 handheld all the time, but with the Switch 2 I’m mostly playing docked! 😅

I’ve barely played it, 150cc is just too slow, so I’ve gone back to MK8D. Maybe if they add a 200cc I’ll give it another go. Most of my Switch 2 time has been spent playing old games (Odyssey, Mario Wonder, Super Metroid and of course MK8D). Hopefully Bananza will reverse this trend!

I've got those themes already, it's more recent ones I missed. I wish Nintendo was much better at communicating when these events are on. If I don't catch it on the NintendoLife homepage then I'm completely oblivious about them.