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Trying to finish DK Bananza event to get the Lanky Kong statue. Most I have been able to get is 750,000. Got a feeling I won’t be able to hit the 1,000,000 mark. Finished the Kirby Air Riders event last night

8/10 for me. I’m having a fantastic time with it, but the amount of content overall leaves me concerned for its longevity. More tracks on both Air Ride and especially Top Ride would’ve been welcome as well as at least one other City Trial map. This is a game that I feel dlc would’ve been much more appreciated. Some post launch updates ala Splatoon would have pushed it to a 10/10 for me

Picked mine up this morning but didn’t have much time to dive in before work. I have another 2 hours to go before I can go home and put some real time into it. Unfortunately, short of a single City Trial I completely missed the demo times due to my work schedule on Saturdays being a wash and the fiancé has me on Sundays, so I’m looking forward to getting some real time with the game

Still waiting for my physical copy of the Pipin Hot Collectors edition… it keeps getting pushed back, now says December 5th… exactly one day after Metroid Prime 4 so even if it does come looks like it’ll be a bit before I boot it up

I hope I can get into this game. Sakurai is a brilliant developer and I can see so much potential with this game. I didn’t really get much of a chance to participate in the global demo, only managed one or two city trial runs in the first weekend, and wasn’t thrilled with the chaotic nature of it. Hoping I just have to get used to it and get more time with it.

I disagree with those people saying this is a good reason to delay this. If it doesn’t need any additional work and the update itself is ready to go just release it digitally and give us the physical release later. I ended up buying the Switch 1 version digitally because I can’t stand trying to get anything through Limited Run. I was really looking forward to the Switch 2 upgrade. If this were a brand new game and they delayed it to have a simultaneous release that’s one thing, but this is a Switch 2 version of a game that released a year ago. Most of us that wanted it probably already have it. This release is really mostly for the obsessed collectors out there that will buy it just because it exists in a physical format. I see no reason to hold the digital version hostage in this situation.

Do people actually want this controller? Honest question, because it’s not even that great of a design for a special edition controller. Granted I’m not much of a RE fan to begin with (though I’m considering giving VII, VIII, and IX a chance on Switch 2) but it just looks boring to me. Also the way the Switch 2 logo cuts the design off is especially egregious

@KidSparta it gives it a smoother look. It’s not necessary in the slightest for this game, but even a 40fps boost would’ve been welcome. Not a dealbreaker, but it would’ve been nice. At least with the Switch 2 we shouldn’t see the frame rate chug in the low 20’s to teens in over populated islands anymore. I remember my ex’s island the poor Switch had such a hard time keeping up because of how much stuff she put out.
@CupidStunt I’m fairly sure that despite the far more simplistic art style ACNH is actually a more demanding game than MP4. If you’ve ever visited an island with the max amount of furniture, flowers, etc the game can completely bog down. Can Switch 2 run it at 60 fps? I’m sure it can, but can it reliably run it stable no matter how many elements are present on the island? That I’m not so sure about, which is probably why they stuck with 30 capped. As I stated above though, 40 capped on 120hz display would’ve been a nice compromise

I want the Zelda stuff but I DONT want to have to open my mint in box amiibos. I like how they look in the packaging. I’m hoping these items and villagers aren’t completely locked to amiibos and can be obtained in other ways even if it takes far longer, like the daily fortune cookies from New Leaf

Really would rather have a new game… all this is going to do is push back the possibility of getting a new AC game anytime soon. ACNH brought some good new features like being able to decorate outside of the house, more interior decorating options, etc as well as diy crafting. These elements I would like to see migrated to a new AC game because these features aside ACNH is still the inferior AC game compared to New Leaf.

@Bunkerneath who said this is another alternate timeline. I don’t see anything in here that makes it seem like this won’t be canon. This game is supposed to depict the Imprisoning War as had occurred after Zelda went back in time in TotK. Age of Calamity did take liberties with the story and became more of an alternate timeline because of things that contradicted BotW, and the same could happen for this game, but as of now nothing that’s been said or shown about this game indicates it won’t be the canon events to my knowledge unless I’m missing something

I was really hoping we would get a free Switch 2 update for Age of Calamity to bring that game up to Age of Imprisonment’s standards while we waited for this release. I guess Nintendo was concerned that people would just skip on AoI if they did that. Hopefully after this release they do it. I’d love to have 60 fps in AoC. Regardless I can’t wait to pick up my copy of this game in two weeks! Between this, Air Riders (which the recent direct pushed my hype level to max) and Metroid Prime 4 the next two months are going to be extremely stacked

There’s a huge difference between DLC being actively worked on while a game is in development and planning DLC for long term support. I love the fact that Sakurai confirmed no content is being held back for DLC, but I don’t know why I’m seeing so many people applauding the lack of planned long term support. I certainly wouldn’t mind a new course pack or a new City Trial map offered as DLC in the next year or two, especially if this isn’t planned as an ongoing series. Remember folks DLC isn’t inherently bad, it’s how the developers and publishers utilize It. A game like this can benefit from post release DLC support. I hope Sakurai is just trolling us the same way he did with Smash Ultimate DLC when he told us wave 1 was going to be our only DLC until it wasn’t and wave 2 was announced.

@dew12333 Thank you! We are spending 3 days in Tokyo, a day in Hakone, and 3 days in Kyoto before going back towards Tokyo for a day at Disneyland Tokyo before flying home. Any specific things you recommend we check out, doesn’t necessarily have to be Nintendo related

I will be in Kyoto this coming May for my honeymoon and the Nintendo museum is high on the list of things we are hoping to get to see. My understanding is that tickets are sold on a lottery system, I'm hoping we can get in!

I’ll be visiting Japan in the end of April/early May for my honeymoon, I’ll keep an eye of for these, hopefully I can score them for a good price!

Looking at the comments here just makes me sad. I grew up on the 16 bit era. I can remember when gaming was just about fun. We weren’t all that concerned with performance as long as it played fine and was fun we were happy. Heck Ocarina of Time, one of the greatest games of all time played at 20fps and we didn’t care. Now you get people complaining a stable 30fps is unplayable and a slideshow. Not even close. Is 60fps preferable? Sure. But 30fps is fine too. If it’s stable it will look all the better, we have seen FFVII remake on Switch 2, stable 30fps on that looks really smooth, at least to my eyes. Gamers these days are so entitled and care for their performance more than anything else. Bring back the era of just having fun with our games without fixating so hard on technical specs

@nathatruc “I bought all the yakuza on gog last summer for 25€ I have them drm free why would I rent them on switch, if they did real physical version I would have bought them.”

I truly don’t understand comments like this. I don’t like game key cards either, but your thought process here just makes no logical sense. You say because you “own” the games on GOG why would you “rent” them on Switch. Tell me how exactly you are renting the games. If you buy a game digitally on the Switch or even game key card as long as you have the game downloaded and installed that game is never going away. The games can always be redownloaded as well until if/when download servers are ever taken offline, which the same holds true for GOG, so why is buying from GOG “owning” and on Switch 2 it’s “renting”

@Teksette actually the physical release date got delayed, again… we are now getting it October 24th, unless that’s just specific to the Pipin’ Hot Collectors Edition. If you look at it on Amazon the actual product image has been adjusted to reflect the new date. That said I’m not so sure the free update will be on the cartridge, depends on when the update was actually completed. It would have had to have been finalized well before the physical version went gold. My guess is none of this content will be on the card sadly

Edit: Ok so the delay is just for the Pipin’ Hot Collector’s Edition. Oh well I’ll continue to wait. I played the game originally on Apple Arcade when I had a free trial for it. I can wait another month

I will be traveling to Japan for my honeymoon next year at the end of April. Unfortunately I will miss the special lighting, but I’m hoping I can see the museum! Currently it looks like tickets are only available via lottery system so no guarantees I’ll be able to see it when I go especially since we are traveling all over Japan so I don’t have the freedom to put in for several days in the lottery as I’ll only have one or two days in the area near the museum. Fingers crossed I can get a ticket!

@Liam_Doolan spotted an error in the article, you state Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta (Daima), Vegeta doesn’t go Super Saiyan 4 in Daima, it’s Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta that’s offered in the Daima dlc

@Jeremazing considering Splintered Fate is highly inspired by the IDW comic series I think Jennika is a very real possibility. I haven’t gotten to the point in the comics yet but I’m aware of her character, and agree she would make for a great addition to the roster

It’s awesome to hear it’s getting more content, but this has me concerned for the upcoming physical release not being content complete. I legitimately waited for the “pipin’ hot collector’s edition” and figured that since it was releasing so far out from the digital release that it would have all content on the card. Maybe it’s not the biggest deal in the world as getting content complete physical games in this day and age is extremely rare, but for a release that doesn’t get a physical until over a year after digital release I kind of expect everything to be on the card

Just Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Switch 2 edition upgrade for me. The demo more than sold me, spent 10 hours in the demo and after it was over it left me wanting si much more. I have the Switch 1 physical preordered for in store pick up and will pay the $1 for the upgrade

I don’t understand why 120 fps mode isn’t available in handheld mode. I guess it’s too taxing on the battery? Silksong can run 120 fps handheld don’t see why this can’t either if it can hit it in docked mode. Still excited for it!

4K for Switch 2 is all well and good, but what about mouse mode for Switch 2? I get that they’re Wii games so it’s supposed to be motion but Galaxy games use pointer which wasn’t emulated the best on Switch. Mouse mode would make this the best way to play these games imo

@mikegamer because they had to wait for user backlash to force them to actually put the effort in… I guarantee you if nobody complained about the game not getting a Switch 2 version or any improvements that take advantage of the Switch 2 we would never have gotten this patch. They never had any intention of adding this when the launched the game

Every Switch 1 game releasing from this point forward should at minimum have this as a default option. Really I feel every Switch 1 game releasing should have the option to display at 1080p on Switch 2 handheld too, but at the very least a FPS toggle should be standard

I’m sure Silksong is a great game, but I’m getting tired of everybody treating it like it’s the messiah. I’m glad it’s finally out so now we can hopefully move on, at least until Team Cherry announces Hollow Knight 3 10 years before it releases…

@Coffeeglitch don’t get me started on Sparking Zero… I blame the Switch 1 version for that. Honestly, while I’m glad for people who can’t get a Switch 2 right now whether due to cost or availability will have access to the game I’m not thrilled with the S2 port likely suffering because of it as the S2 version appears to be a slightly modified version of S1. And being an Unreal 5 engine game it had no business being on S1 in the first place. I was going to double dip but not unless they heavily patch it to have it running properly

@Switching there is an excuse, these are early Switch 2 games and Nintendo sent dev kits pretty late. I sincerely believe many of these early games were rushed to the market to give early adopters games to get for their new console. This is why we are seeing poor performing ports. I’m hopeful that later games will be better optimized by developers taking their time to get to know the hardware. Specifically I’m waiting to see how Indiana Jones will perform. We should be seeing around Xbox Series S levels from Switch 2 and since that game has built in ray tracing similar to Star Wars Outlaws, which seems to be running pretty poorly according to previews I’m hoping the developers get it running properly

I’ll probably enjoy this, but I don’t need it day one. Just canceled my limited edition preorder, not because of this review, but because I have too much to play right now and life is getting in the way as it is. Definitely one I’ll look into in the future (and hopefully after sufficiently discounted). There’s a lot coming this month and for the rest of the year that has my interest, not to mention I still haven’t picked up Super Robot Wars Y

@OFFICIALMichi agreed, Shadows of Valentia was fantastic, probably my favorite of the 3DS games, but I really would rather they focus on the older games first. FE has been at the height of its popularity in the west and get we still have several titles that have yet to get an official release outside of Japan. I know Nintendo likes to keep the NSO classics as faithful to the original releases as possible but if NOJ/IS isn’t willing to do remakes of the SFC games and Binding Blade I wish NOA would at least translate them and put them on NSO with English text.

This makes me think we are getting an announcement of a remaster on Switch in the September direct. Perhaps the Genealogy remake rumors were simply false? Seems strange to me to both add music to the Nintendo Music app AND add NSO icons for specifically this game. There’s no important anniversary for it as far as I’m aware either so it’s not like it’s an anniversary celebration. If it was just the music getting added I wouldn’t suspect anything, but the icons tells me the game is coming possibly sooner than later. Maybe a shadow drop for the digital version like they did with Pikmin 1 + 2 with a physical release in time for holidays?

So will R-Type Tactics finally release this month? It’s been delayed at least three times and I’ve had it on preorder since it was announced, I believe back in 2023… far too much releasing this month, I had Daemon X Machina limited edition preordered but I think I’m going to cancel and just get the standard release later. Trails in the Sky also has my attention and the physical version of TMNT Splintered Fate since I skipped the digital one. Then of course there’s Pokemon Z-A but I’m not getting that one day one. I just have too much going on that I have neither the time or finances for all these releases

Just the Kirby DLC for this week. Got it for $10 on Best Buy’s website after applying a free $10 voucher. I do want Super Robot Wars Y but I can wait for a discount. For now it’s going in the wish list

@sketchturner probably because Mario Kart World doesn’t exactly have bad gameplay. They would have judged based on many different factors; music, graphics, etc, not just gameplay. However, while I understand how DKB can win best gameplay but lose best overall I can’t say I agree. MKW was good, but didn’t grab me like DK did

@jfp Same. I think much of the reason many Switch 1 games are releasing without a Switch 2 version though is because many developers still don't have a Switch 2 dev kit, or got one not too long ago too late to have a Switch 2 version ready for release. I think starting next year we will see much more Switch 1 releases having a Switch 2 version launching simultaneously.

Got my preorder in at Best Buy. I have so many reward points from my initial Switch 2 purchase plus picking up my best friend’s Switch 2 when it was restocked when DK Bananza released that I got Bananza and Air Riders for virtually nothing, plus I still have enough points left for two more games, one being Metroid Prime 4, undecided if I want to pick up Pokemon Z-A at launch or wait and get Hyrule Warriors as my other almost free game

I’m glad these are here. Even though they are generally seen as awful games they are a part of the franchise’s legacy. Anybody that doesn’t want to play them can just not play them. I guarantee their inclusion didn’t mean other games were axed from the collection to make room for them. As for Mythologies, do we think they will use the N64 version or the PlayStation version? Personally I’m hoping for the PS version for the cheesy FMVs

Getting this at some point down the line if for no other reason than to be able to experience the atrocity that is Bubsy 3D. It’s one of those worst games ever that I’ve always had a morbid curiosity to play

@Vyacheslav333 I’ve been waiting forever for a modern port of Gradius V. I feel like that and R-Type Final are never going to leave PS2. I own both but I would kill to have them on Switch and/or Switch 2

Unfortunately I won’t be able to play because of the limited time windows. Saturdays I work for 14 hours, and while Sundays I have off I spend my day with my fiancé and step daughter and we will be going to the zoo tomorrow so no chance of getting on. Would love the chance to play since I’m not sold on the game yet, hopefully we get some kind of free trial period for NSO subscribers in the future that runs for the entire weekend

Deca Police may be one of the ones pulled. That game was announced in a direct what was it 2 years ago? We haven’t heard much about it since it’s multiple delays other than it’s still coming. Would’ve been a good time to share some more information

The big question for me is this, is R-Type Tactics actually coming or is that September date a placeholder? I’ve had it preordered for over 2 and a half years now with multiple delays

Did performance look fairly stuttering to anybody else? I wouldn’t mind having it on my Switch 2 sometime in the future when it goes on discount, but I’m just hoping it runs well

This looked fantastic to me and pretty much saved the show in my eyes. By far the most interesting thing shown and can’t wait to give it a try

It seems like this is releasing without the dlc… the game is over a year and a half old, if it’s getting a full retail price (which I’m sure it is) it really should be a complete release like we got with Cyberpunk. I adore this game, beat it on my PS5, and haven’t gotten around to the dlc as my best friend has had my PS5 disk since July last year. I’d absolutely double dip on Switch 2 and replay the game then finally play the dlc, but if it’s going to be like $90 for the full game… guess I’m waiting for a deep discount

Hoping if this is true that a remaster or port of Garden Warfare follows. One of the few competitive shooters I actually enjoy

@rjejr “I've just never thought a board game was worth $60. $80 is just hard to take.🤑”

Don’t look at kickstarter board games then lol. I’ve spent multiple hundreds of dollars on some board games. But I do agree $80 for a Mario Party is a tough sale. I think for those of us that own Jamboree the $20 upgrade is a no brainer but for anybody starting fresh $80 is a little steep. To be honest I think the full cartridge should be $70. Give new players a $10 discount for buying the game and dlc bundled together