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Personally I just had to vote for the “T” family, as Jimmy T is one of my all-time faves!
Ashamedly, I had no idea he had siblings! When I first saw his entry, I assumed he would be paired with Jimmy P. (Whom I now assume is no relation.)
Love your game idea for the “T” family tho. I’d buy that in a heartbeat! 😂

25 hours in 2+ weeks is nothing, especially for someone whose business it is to play games! If you had said you were burned out after playing 100+ hours in a week or 2 I would have said fair enough but the amount of game time you stated in the time specified really is a tiny amount. Particularly for a games journalist 😱

I can’t see Sonic even come close to winning in any metric if I’m honest. Wonder will absolutely destroy it in sales. Might be close on metacritic but I doubt it.

@dartmonkey
You mean my comments about Raikou?
I’m surprised such mistakes are made in these articles. I guess it could have just been an oversight

Edit. Whoops. You have staff credentials! I understand now. Sorry, not meant to cause offence.

Auto win for me because……

Hitmonlee!!
Also the mewtwo v mew event looks cool.
1 quibble tho. The raikou lookalike will NOT be a raikou evolution. It will be more akin to whatever walking wake is to suicune.
The legendary beasts do NOT evolve!

So many relevant choices but I have to go for Chibi Robo.
Absolutely loved the original and park patrol. Even photo finder was really enjoyable, save for the subpar 3ds camera.
Zip lash, not so much, tho.

@johnedwin
Maybe worldwide but certainly not in Japan

@Deemo37
I explored the minecart tracks but had no idea they went to the temple! I thought that part of the story quest was linear

@Deemo37 Can’t make it thru the Eldin depths. Even getting through the 1st lot of monsters leaves me with just a couple of hearts, I started with 7 and can’t recover any 😡. Even with brightbulbs it’s still too dark to gauge the distance of the flying monsters and the rest seem to be on me in a flash. The armoured bokoblin gives me grief and Yungobo is next to useless. He’s never standing near enough when you need him to do a charge attack. I’m also aware there’s a long way to go.

@Deemo37
I plan to soon. Was about halfway through the Goron quest but had to give up because it’s too hard. Will try again later when I have more hearts and upgraded gear. Probably wasted around 10 hours trying it then giving up. So frustrating.

Like a few on here, 95 and not even finished any regional phenomena story quests yet!

Apart from the obvious Tarrey town quest, another I loved was I think called missing friends, where you have to find some missing adventurers and (spoilers) it turns out they have been captured by bokoblins and are being held amongst some sprawling narrow structures that have been built high up on some cliffs

“Only a fool wouldn’t want as many Zelda games as possible on the Switch “.

You mean an April fool?

@johnedwin
Even accounting for digital SW I doubt PlayStation systems would have much presence in the top 10. The Ps5 physical attach rate is well known to be horrendous and even with digital sales, it’s not thought to be that great. (Apparently the Japanese digital game sales percentage is on the low side.)

Pleased to see I wasn’t the only 1 that voted for Chibi Robo!

Good riddance Noob

Why no love for Alex on this list?? His opinions are certainly relevant in this case.

My goty personally on the Switch would be Wreckfest, closely followed by Legends Arceus.

People need to play Switch sports before criticising it. The controls are spot on, with far more nuance than I remember on the original.
It’s also good fun online and even more so in local multiplayer.

Tank tank tank is missing from the list. I remember getting that at launch and having quite a lot of fun with it.
From the list my fondest launch memories are with Nintendo land and ZombiU. So I voted for those

Don’t like your list.
Was an auto-loss the moment Waluigi didn’t win.
Waluigis ‘tache is amazing. Although I may be a little biased because…. Well, Waluigi himself is amazing!

I’m convinced Switch sports will take the top spot again at some stage, even if it’s just for 1 week.

Back in the day we had a gadget on the n64 that let us play import games. I think it was called explorer or something like that. We played original smash months (possibly years) before EU release. At some stage, whilst playing, this really weird “spaceman” type thing appeared on stage and booted me off! I had no idea what it was but it appeared fairly regularly, sometimes getting me the ko!
I had to find out what it was, so researched. At this time, the internet was in its infancy so it took me a while, then I discovered Pokemon! It had been delayed in Europe. (Can’t remember why.) I realised the Pokemon had come from a pokeball ingame. The Pokemon in question was hitmonlee and it’s been my favourite ever since!

Hitmonlee or riot!

About time this game was reviewed!

For those slagging off Switch sports, have you actually played it for any length of time? The control scheme is actually very polished. It picks up subtle flicks of the wrist along with finesse. It’s a very tight control scheme. That and the fact that it’s actually really fun, it’s a budget title and it has better online play than most Nintendo titles suggests to me that it’s more than worth it

Personally I’d love a new auto modellista but that’s extremely unlikely to happen.

Still not working for me

Chibi Robo or riot

Yeh, Kirby would definitely be higher if digital sales were included.

@6thHorizon
Agreed. I feel the developers got lazy on the harder levels and their way of making it harder was to all of a sudden make your vehicles’ handling turn to *****. Such a shame.

I feel that miitopia and scribblenauts should be on this list. We’ve had so many LOL moments with our weird and wacky creations in both those games! Along with Lego city and goose game, probably the games that have made me literally guffaw the most this gen

@Degenerate_Mii
I’d say 2024 at the earliest

Keep miis or riot

Looks like wreckfest isn’t going to make it out in time for this year then 😭

The new ones are ok but I miss the old ones! It won’t be the same without dekkoids and freakoids IMO.

@westman98
Metroid dread did 3.5x Samus returns’ sales, so if we say Samus returns was 4950, then Dread was roughly 17,350.
Had to be the higher end of Returns’ sales otherwise it wouldn’t eclipse Super Rush

If there was a rhythm heaven rep it should be Karate Joe. Either him, Chibi Robo, Paper Mario or Mike Jones would get my vote.
Considering Waluigi is the only one on this poll, apart from Paper Mario, he got my vote.

Would love an entry in the Wii sports/party series but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Also excite truck 2 pls!

Maybe that rumoured Donkey Kong game will be shown. After all, they have done nothing so far and I think it’s DK’s 40th anniversary this year. Also, the SMO team must have been doing something since 2017! So hopefully we will see something later.
My dream would simply be something Chibi Robo related, preferably something more akin to the original.

@mattmanvsuperman
It really depends on which titles you are referring to.
3rd parties are a law unto themselves but it’s my understanding all platform holders had a retro gaming service right up to last gen.
Again, I feel some are acting extremely entitled, whilst the game companies don’t “owe us” these retro titles people are clamouring for.

I disagree. The owners of these IPs have every right to do whatever they want with their IPs and if they want to do nothing with the historical titles from said IPs then that’s their prerogative.
No gamer is entitled to x game being re-released/remastered etc. Gamers shouldn’t act in this way IMO.

I already have it too. Arrived early, on Saturday. Awesome game, so much fun!
For anyone who likes OTT arcade racers I strongly recommend!

@tourjeff
Not seen any but my copy arrived early! As long as you know what to expect with the Cruis’n series, I heartily recommend!

Seems strange saying this but for me, it has to be miitopia. I’ve had so much fun playing it! Only limit in miitopia is your own creativity in casting. Also I never had the 3ds version.
That said, it’s not even an option in the poll as it didn’t score high enough
Horses for courses I guess.

Should see if shipment figures for 3D Allstars appear in Nintendo’s next financial briefing. Something tells me either they are still putting it in circulation, or it’s not at all popular. Given that it’s Mario I’d guess at the former.

I am surprised there hasn’t been an NL review posted yet. Or is it deemed too similar to the 3ds release?

I was definitely part of that 20%. Bought 3 last year. 1 as a gift, 1 for myself, as backup to my OG launch Switch and 1 for my daughter. So there are 3 in my household atm. All 3 of them are played daily, too.

@Kaori-chan
Nice to see some cherry picking at its finest. Afaik both the famicom games are full remakes. So I guess you was expecting 2 full remakes for the price of 1? I’ve seen a few people who are fans of the series here, who are more than happy with the pricing.
I wasn’t necessarily calling you out, kudos to you, not mentioning Miitopia. However there were a few trying to claim Miitopia and fdc were full price releases, which is not only flat out wrong, it’s also misleading

To all those uninformed people on here, thinking their opinion is fact.
Why not spend literally a minute on google? There, if you have reading comprehension you will find that both miitopia and famicom detective club are NOT full priced titles. You can find this information in less than a minute.
No need to thank me, although I doubt you will even bother looking, as that would invalidate your wrongful perception that your opinion is fact 😱