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Honestly I quite like Baby Park, I’ve never really understood the hate it gets, and this is from someone who really doesn’t like Double Dash!! at all. I would be interested to see what a completely circular track would be like, I think having to keep turning while also boosting and collecting items might make for an interesting track. Maybe. 😉

That said, of the new tracks we’ve got so far, I actually like the Tour ones the best. 😮 I’ve got no interest in playing the mobile game, but I do love the way the tracks rearrange themselves each lap to keep things interesting, especially when you end up racing towards karts still going the other way!

I'll be grabbing this, anything from the N64/PS1/Saturn era is always interesting to me.

Was the last theme #22 for Kirby Forgotten Land? I'm hoping I haven't missed any, but I'd have thought there would have been one for Mario Strikers by now.

I'm assuming there could be a Xenoblade 3 one as well soon.

The form should just auto-submit the Japanese cover as soon as you visit the page. That hideous GBA logo with its naff brushed steel background takes up nearly half the US cover and then we get the lame ESRB taking up even more space.

Oh good, they’ve fired the starting gun for the scalpers. 🙄

Yay! I’m not going to watch the trailer, I want to play the tracks unspoiled. Obviously I’ve played some of them before but this will be the first for many of them in HD.

I preordered this on the strength of iX2. I didn’t particularly like the first two Gunvolt games, but Burst is still an absolute favourite of mine and iX2 played well enough for me to give Gunvolt one more shot.

I just hope they haven’t locked the best ending behind a totally different hard mode like they did with iX2…

No gyro, no buy-ro. It’s hard to understand why a developer would make an FPS for the Switch and not include it.

I’m happy that mode is in there. There are times when I might be playing the game with other people around and I wouldn’t want Bayonetta’s clothes jumping off her.

There are loads of good ones, but I went with Animal Crossing (I don’t even own the game!) but I think the hardware sales it drove have probably helped to extend the Switch’s life quite a bit.

@Serpenterror I'd definitely be down for a Final Fight collection!

I'm still waiting to hear the most important thing- if they'll finally let us use up and down on the right analogue stick while using gyro aiming. I'd upgrade to this game just for that alone even if it is more of the same.

It’s an awesome game, although interestingly I found the harder difficulties easier than the easy ones. I think it’s because the hard mode basically has more targets to hit that correspond to the beats of the music rather than being one target randomly aligned amongst a whole load of beats. So Elite Beat Divas was actually my favourite mode by far. I really need to replay the game myself.

Either Donkey Kong Game & Watch or the Astro Fighter arcade game.

That said, it was discovering the Warp Zone in Super Mario Bros 1 that really blew me away and taught me that games could be much more than just going from left to right.

Megadrive’s Super Street Fighter II is my favourite, with anything anime styled after that. I can’t believe the US SNES cover is winning, it just looks hideous to me.

It’s a pity the Japanese SF2 Turbo for the SNES isn’t there as that’s my personal favourite.

Personally I think callbacks are a bad idea. By referencing lines and occurrences from the games, you’re simply taking people out of what they’re watching and reminding them of something much better that they enjoyed a lot more.

This whole series sounds like it would have been a lot better if it hadn’t tried to saddle itself with being anything to do with Resident Evil. By using that name you’re setting up an expectation of something that even remotely resembles the games. By completely ignoring the games beyond a few token lines and monsters you end up with something compromised that pleases nobody.

Either be properly faithful to the RE games (which has never happened yet outside of Sienna Guillory’s Jill) or just make something else with a different name!

@ryuuryuunonoroi Aha, yes I can see that now. 👍

I started playing WinBack the other day, it's actually pretty fun. I didn't have it back in the day, but once you get used to the lock-on aiming it plays quite well.

I've found it plays even better on a real N64 which doesn't have the overly twitchy analogue implementation of the NSO emulator.

Now if we could just get Wave Race...

It’s a pretty disappointing selection of games for me. There’s plenty of CPS-1 stuff not represented. I know there’s licensing issues but really they’re the only games left that I’d want to play. While it’s not as convenient as the Switch I can at least still play these games on my CPS-1 multi board.

I can't quite work out what they're trying to say with that NTR mode, that's kind of the opposite of what NTR means.

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I'd have a lot more if they let us have folders. I also lost loads of screenshots and videos when my Micro SD card died.

Just make Titanfall 3 already!

@JAGleics But you get a scarf from Game! 😂

I love Robocop, I hope this is as good as the trailer makes it look.

I'm totally fine with this. Hopefully this shows Square are getting the message that no-one wants laggy cloud streaming versions.

Looks good, although the lack of texture filtering means it looks more PS1 than N64. Still, I'll be happy to play something that homages that era.

Very nice, I've already got the white OLED model but I'd definitely be upgrading to this if I didn't.

It was a pretty fun little game back in the day. I'd imagine it would be considered "problematic" these days so I'm not sure how a remake/remaster would fare.

Wow, I didn't realise sales were being affected by shortages so badly. No wonder Nintendo have been spending a lot of money stockpiling raw materials.

The GTA Trilogy would have sold even better if it hadn't been a buggy, rushed mess. That's certainly why I've stayed away from it.

Ew, Viruos. I've not been impressed with any of their work, they totally changed the look of the Arkham games when they ported them to UE5 and they failed to put gyro aiming into their Switch Bioshock ports. Nier has gone from an insta-buy to a wait and see.

I don't know if Japan is seeing inflation like other parts of the world, but they could be buying stuff now before inflation makes it much more expensive. Whether it's for a Switch 2 or making more of the current models, they'll want to ensure they don't have to pass a price increase on to consumers.

@gaga64 I don't think it needs a permanent connection, basically I think it wants to connect to the internet to record your achievements (it seems to pop up whenever I unlock an achievement, which is usually after finishing a room).

Edit: Yeah I just turned on airplane mode and it carried on playing, so a connection isn't required.

I definitely prefer GoldenEye over Perfect Dark, but that’s mainly for the single player as I haven’t played the multi-player for years. I’m always re-playing GoldenEye’s single player mode, the uniqueness, variety and unpredictability of the missions means I never get tired of playing it.

Insta-buy... unless it's cloud streaming. In which case, no thank you.

I always liked the art style, at the time I saw it as what A Link to the Past would look like in 3D. The only problem Wind Waker had was it was clearly rushed and was missing at least 2 dungeons.

I prefer the Japanese cover, the European one is OK, but I never liked the shading they put on the GameBoy Color logo or the fake metal background. The US one isn’t bad, but Leon’s head looks a bit too narrow.

I wish they’d fix the animation glitches in Mario Kart 64 along with the unfiltered texture surfaces.

Basically this means Apple devices 8 years or older aren't supported. Everything else can be updated to a newer version of iOS and will still be able to run the app.

It's kind of crazy to see people saying Apple dump support for their stuff when the only Android phone I've ever had was a Nexus 5 and Google dumped support for their own phone after just two years.

I don’t think we needed the Reginator to tell us this, every Nintendo fan has been saying it for the past 10 years or so.

He likes playing GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64? The man has impeccable taste. 👍

“It's unclear at this early stage how exactly this version of the game will be delivered on the Switch.”

And there goes all my excitement for this game. It’s going to be cloud based isn’t it? (And not the sort of Cloud with a big sword) 😢

I’m replaying Odyssey again at the moment and annoyingly I’m past the point where I could have tried this for myself! Oh well, there’s always the next replay.

Capcom were really good at blending RPG elements into arcade games back then. Even things that wouldn’t initially seem like an RPG would have elements like levelling up your plane in Area 88 or Willow’s magic meter in Willow.

I’m pretty sure derivative works that require a lot of effort to create are an exception under copyright law. Of course you’ve got to spend a lot of money in court to prove that so the big corporations with expensive lawyers win by default.

Sounds great, but I'll be waiting for the patch that fixes things not fixed in the day one patch. The story mode with missions/objectives in particular sounds really fun.

Time for Sega to make some craaazy money 💰

I’ve never actually played any of the Persona games. I’d really like to try 5 (I think it’s that one everyone says is the best) but I’m not interested in playing a long JRPG type game on anything but the Switch. To me it’s the ideal platform for long-form games so it’s crazy Atlus won’t port it to the Switch.

Does this tell a complete story? I've only watched the first 8 or so episodes of the first season and I think the show is on its third season, so I'm wondering if this ends on some sort of cliffhanger or something.