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Personally I didn’t think there was much wrong with the old Zelda format outside of the constant reuse of the same items over and over again. “You got the hookshot, “You got the bombs”, “You got the boomerang”, etc, etc.

Unique, new weapons would have made the games feel fresh and original. ALBW was great because of the wall merge puzzles (and because it basically gave you all the other weapons right away instead of slowly doling them out).

Give me a classic Zelda with new items and new puzzles and I’d be very happy.

Japan looks way better than the others.

I think Nintendo are going for the PS2 record with all these bundles. They want to shift as many consoles as they can before the Switch 2 needs to be launched.

@Qwiff I was going to mention 40fps as well. Like you, I find it looks much smoother than 30fps and doesn’t feel like a huge drop from 60fps like 30fps does. For some reason anything below 40 tends to look choppy to me, but 40fps+ always looks decent.

Japan by a mile for its lovely anime-style art and because it highlights all the key characters rather than randomly picking the level 2B boss like the US one does. The Probotector one is pretty cool as well considering it had to deal with all the characters being changed to robots.

I hope this comes to the UK, I really want a physical copy of the game with all the tracks, I don’t want to lose them when Nintendo inevitably turns the servers off one day.

@Apogee90 SNES Doom was low-res but it filled the screen. It was the 32X and 3DO versions that reduced the window size.

I’m quite keen, but why the US shaped cart? It won’t fit in Japanese or PAL region consoles.

I still use the original Splattoon theme as my default as it has nice vibrant colours and no distracting background image. If this is the same I might be able to vary which theme I normally use!

@Lady_rosalina Never underestimate the ability of devs to take an ancient game and somehow end up with it running worse on modern hardware! 😉

Oh what a surprise, greed killed it. While I'm not interested in these games, I'll bet they were a lot more polished and well made than whatever soulless rubbish full of NFTs and micro-transactions the IOC will come up with.

I wish Nintendo would release a new physical version of MK8DX including all the recent DLC tracks. I don't want them to all disappear in a few years when they switch the servers off...

GAME are more likely to stock the figures from the game than the game itself…

7/10 is winning. We could all work for IGN!

I was a SNES Remix and an N64 Remix. I hadn't thought of a GB Remix but I want that now too, but they need to be more like the old NES Remix and less like the World Championships style they've gone for.

That's a pretty good list, I think I'd put Fall of the Foot Clan and TMNT II on the NES higher, but other than that it's about right.

Oh yes, hook it up to my veins! Any time Inti does pixel art it's awesome and this looks really good. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long for the release!

The "NES Edition" postfix gives me hopes of SNES and N64 Editions!

It all sounds a bit too online focused for me, I loved NES Remix but I'm less keen on trying to beat the time of someone who's been obsessing on the same mini-game over and over all month to shave a second off their time.

I always play Zero Mission on easy, I enjoy the Metroid games for the exploration and trying to find hidden items and routes, I don’t really play them for hard boss fights.

I think it’s because the first ones I played were Super and then Metroid II and neither of those had particularly hard bosses, so tricky combat isn’t what is go to these games for.

Also, when it comes to getting good at a game, I think people learn in different ways. I do not get on well with doing the same thing over and over endlessly. I tend to prefer beating something on easy until I’m really good at it and then bumping the difficulty up. That way I have a good idea of what to expect and don’t need to keep dying over and over as each new phase of the fight starts.

Hey hey! It's time to lose some kerrrazy money making a beloved single player game a live service multiplayer one!

Nah nah nah nah nah....

Japan’s is waaaay better. There’s nothing going on in the Western cover, it’s just Samus three times for some reason.

Hooray, Turok... which I already own and with gyro aiming. Why would they release this when there's so many other games they could have picked?

Japan, because Violence Killer is an epic name.

The map is the killer new feature for me. I couldn't find my way back to various places in order to complete quests and the map in Mario Odyssey definitely spoiled me. I'm definitely going to get this. I'd guess they used updating the original game as a means to update their engine and tech and will work on a sequel after this.

I always get to the super giant puzzles and run out of steam on them. I don't think I've ever fully finished a Picross game. 🥵

Luckily I got the email from Nintendo telling me the limited edition was available for pre-order, so I managed to get it. I'd have preferred the Japanese version but they're sold out everywhere and already on eBay for £200+. 🙄

Interesting that it says both sides filed for it to be dismissed, that usually indicates some sort of out of court agreement has been reached. Maybe Nintendo offered them a crate of joy-cons so that they would just go away?

Dammit now I want the Japanese version. What's the betting this will be triple the retail price on eBay? 😩

What the what?! If this is anything like NES Remix I’ll be all over it. I’m actually replaying NES Remix on the Wii U at the moment, trying to get rainbow on every challenge is hard work! 🥵

I just wish Nintendo would let us buy/unlock missed Tetris 99 themes. I've got them all except one I think I missed while I was on holiday. 😢

@PikminMarioKirby Very true, plus Paper Mario tends to have "jerky" animation anyway as the characters are meant to be a series of paper cut outs. I'd be interested to know how many frames are in Mario's walking cycle. If it's say 4 frames then there wouldn't be any visible difference from 60fps to 30 as the number of frames where he changes is less than the frame rate anyway.

Admittedly, scrolling/movement could be slightly jerkier, but even there, if the scroll speed isn't high then there wouldn't be much difference between 30 and 60.

The only place where frame rate could really hurt I think will be the timings in the battles. Hopefully Nintendo have mitigated that with some looser timings in which case it should all be good!

@PikminMarioKirby In fairness though movies and TV shows are different from games. Games draw each frame like it's a stop motion animation, the more frames there are, the smoother the animation seems.

Films and TV shows capture motion blur from the exposure level which smooths the motion between frames. Plus of course, you're not playing a TV show so there's no downside to on-screen events taking longer to get to you.

Even with films though, higher frame rates can be desirable. The action scenes in Avatar 2 are 60fps and unlike something like Transformers or the Bourne films where the action scenes are smeary and hard to comprehend, all of the action in Avatar was very easy to follow.

I’m only interested if it’s got a good single player mode. Not interested in multiplayer at all.

Japan’s is by far the best. The PAL one is OK but it’s squashed into that small box. Not only did PAL games have ugly borders, so did the boxes. 😩

Where did it all go wrong for Aspyr? They used to be pretty decent and made good ports of KOTOR for mobile devices back in the day. I can only assume that after they were removed from doing the KOTOR Remake that they’ve been desperate for cash and have been cutting corners to try and steady the ship.

Sadly after they didn’t bother with the KOTOR II DLC they’d promised I can’t buy anything from them on principal. This is yet another game from them that requires you to buy it on the faith that they’ll actually finish it, there’s no way I’d take that gamble with the reputation they have now.

@batmanbud2 I consider it to be part of the SNES’ holy trinity- Mario World, A Link to the Past and Super Metroid. They’re all excellent and no-one would be wrong for calling any of them the best game ever.

That's brilliant. I'd imagine this could totally break the game by letting you skip all sorts of progress triggers, but being able to punch King Zora out of the way rather than wait for him to slowly shimmy to the side must be very satisfying. Whacking "The Great" Mido out of the level was funny too.

Why is Wario Land winning? 🤣 I do love that game (I beat it with the DX colour patch just a few months back) but it’s surely not the best Mario game (the best one is Mario World).

Yes to the originality, craziness and imaginativeness of the levels, but only as long as it doesn't end up just rehashing the things we've already seen.

I'd particularly like to see the badges return (new badges though, not the same ones again!), I thought they were a great addition and really made things interesting.

Super Luigi U is the most underrated Mario game.

I got bored after a while and haven’t gone back to it. The tasks needed to complete the Pokédex were just tedious busy work (like having to catch the same thing over and over in different ways).

The main story and gameplay were pretty decent, it’s one of those games I intended to go back to and try to do the minimum to finish it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get around to it.

Japan, because the primitive CG renders are integral to the era and the aesthetic of so many games from that time.

The stock markets have always been a bunch of people screaming "buy" and "sell" down the phone lines. They panic and sell at the first whiff of bad news and then the people in the know get to buy all those shares up at a bargain price. It's just a racket.

This is the mistake all these companies make when bringing back old arcade games. Namco killed Ridge Racer by trying to make it AAA. Sega made a similar mistake with Sega Rally Revo. These sorts of games need to be short and focused, the design needs to prioritise immediacy and replayability over waffle and padding.

Certainly it's appreciated if the graphics are amazing, but don't spend millions making some massive photo-realistic world when it's unlikely to make that money back.

Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but I suspect this will be another example of a game being stretched longer than necessary and end up being repetitive and tedious because of it.

The demo was definitely very easy, maybe this is why I was so disappointed by the game back in '04 after highly anticipating a sequel to the GB game?

@MetalKingShield I completely agree. Too often companies seem to think everything must be bloated up so it can be a AAA release. Sega would be much better making smaller, more focused games for a lower price.

I like that the sprites are massive, so many modern 2D remakes go with really titchy sprites. That said, I think they need more frames of animation. I know that's expensive (and apparently why so many modern remakes go for small sprites) but it will improve the end product immensely.

Mario Kart 8 back in the top 5 again! 😆 I can't imagine Suicide Squad will keep that spot for very long given the poor reception. I'd imagine it only got to number 1 because there was nothing big out this week.

Any time an actor publicly says they're not coming back for a sequel it's usually their way of signalling they'll only come back is if more money is involved. Still, it's good news as I really enjoyed Carrey's Eggman, even if he's nothing like the games. 😅

I quite enjoyed the demo, Mario definitely feels stiffer and less fluid to move compared to the original DK '94 and I found the 3D graphics made it a bit harder to judge jumps- a couple of times Mario's toe would graze an enemy and he'd die. I don't think he jumps as high in this game as he did in DK '94.

It's been years since I played the GBA game and I remember something about it disappointed me compared to the original, but I had fun with this demo so I'll be buying the full game.

This is a plausible outcome, I think the Switch got a bit of an unexpected shot in the arm during lockdown with Animal Crossing and the chances of lightning striking twice are somewhat slim… that said, the original GameBoy struck gold with Pokemon reinvigorating sales, so Nintendo has form for defying the odds.

It will be interesting to see if the Switch 2 really is iterative or does do something unexpectedly new. If it has some unique gimmick then all bets could be off.