DiamondJim

@nhSnork When you add those to the list it doesn’t sound quite so disastrous. Nintendo Life should’ve made a bit more effort compiling this list.

Quite possibly the worst month that I can possibly remember. There is no new first party Nintendo games being released. It's basically a month of indies with an Assassin's Creed game. When a really old Assassin's creed game is the highlight of the month you know it's a bad month. Lucky I've got a backlog & the new Pokemon game. March onwards to March and things pick up but February is slim pickings indeed.

I would love to see this remastered (as I loved this back in the day) like Shadowman was. Unfortunately Rare is owned by Microsoft so we can’t even get Rare Replay

After changing Immortals Fenyx Rising (Great game BTW) With the Pokémon Arceus cartridge The downgrade in graphics was jarring. They’re still OK and I’m excited to get into the game. Thankfully the graphics are not as poor as Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl as the graphics in that stopped me from purchasing it. Top down games like Links Awakening can look beautiful so there is no excuse for how ugly Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are.

It feels and looks like a mainline game and would’ve had a big development budget, certainly a bigger budget than that ios/android looking game they just released BD/SP. Furthermore the Pokémon company refers to it as a mainline game except the title of the game clearly shows it’s a spin-off otherwise it would’ve been titled Pokémon Arceus. By having a Legends series it makes it a spin-off

Kirby and the Forgotten Land is all I need. I’ve got too many 2D platformers so not interested in that. Also don’t want a Kirby fighting or party game but a Kirby racer or RPG might be ok. I’m daydreaming now….

Is it any good? When does the review embargo end? When are Nintendo Life planning on posting their review as I’m keen for this.

Looks like garbage. I’ll stick to Trials Rising which you can pick up pretty cheaply.

Rare have gradually died a slow cancerous death since being acquired by Microsoft. It’s terminal now for them. Shame

I just want to know if it is any good as I might get this day one but don't want a GTA trilogy situation. Lucky I didn't purchase that day one and that's only because there was no physical release.

Doesn’t seem to be much collecting of bricks. The combat seems to be more varied. Heaps of different locations. The graphics look great. It looks amazing and a big step up from your standard Lego games. Can’t wait for this.

@popey1980 Agreed, surely they could do a deal with Nintendo or Bandai Namco to localise it. 3DS had Yokai Watch 1,2,3 and Blasters localised so surely it would make sense to have Yokai Watch 4 as a sole entry in the series localised on Switch. I don’t get it.

Not impressed with the visuals, not much variety of trees, most of them look the same.

This is concerning for me. The Switch’s success is that it is a hybrid console with Nintendo exclusive games such as Mario, Zelda and Pokémon coupled with the best third party support Nintendo has ever had. If we take away 3rd party support from big developers like Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard and possibly more we might end up with a Wii U situation. As much as Mario, Zelda and Pokémon games are desirable good 3rd party support from AAA developers is also essential.

Looking like a must buy purchase and not long to wait

@Joe-b One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. If you’re getting enjoyment out of it then that’s what matters cos all our opinions are just subjective.

@PushMyGran1986 I hadn’t considered that but the way things are going you might be right

It's a good time to hit the backlog as apart from Pokemon Legends Arceus there are no AAA titles releasing in January or February AT ALL. It's very bleak the next 2 months but March it starts to look better. So I'm getting back in to Stardew Valley and next I plan to start Ni No Kuni 2, Xenoblade 2 & Persona 5 Strikers.

If they can keep good games flowing for the next near on 3 years potentially they might be ok to wait until late 2024 to release the next gen console. I’m worried that Nintendo’s underpowered Switch might not be an attractive purchasing option in early 2024. Sony would’ve got a decent library of games for the PS5 by late 2024 so I think a late 2023 might make better sense

If it’s Kemco then it’s probably shovelware so no way would I waste time and money on it. Maybe I’ll give it a go when my sanity has departed.

@Banjo I agree with you BOTW was a good game but it was also frustrating and annoying with weapons breaking especially during a storm which I thought was plain stupid as well as the empty and desolate samey open world which needed more characters, towns, etc. Hopefully BOTW2 addresses this so I remain hopeful.

I had this for the N64 and liked it back in the day. We have moved forward a long way in gaming since then and it doesn't look to have aged well even with the remaster.

Can we just have either P4G or P5R on the Switch? Give me either of those and I’m happy

I actually think it will come to Nintendo, whether it’s the switch or the new system that I think Bloomberg says a number of developers have kits for I don’t know. It could come to Switch if the 2022 release date is correct as the Switch is so dominant and I think the Bioshock trilogy has sold well on the Switch (correct me if I’m wrong) - Just hope it’s not a cloud version

3rd stratum was annoying. I had to watch a YouTube video to get past it. Great game although the environments and buildings are too samey so graphics really lack variety. That said I’ve lost 100 hours to this game so I’m obviously enjoying it

I was considering this but when I read about the micro transactions that is a deal breaker. There are so many great games on Switch and I have a backlog of games already so there’s no chance an average game with micro transactions will be considered

I loved playing Arkanoid on the Commodore 64. That said it’s aged and is pretty basic by today’s standards and really needs to be priced at less than $10 to even tempt me today

Looks like a mobile game. Really lazy effort. Hope Arceus recovers because I would hate to see the Pokémon franchise end up like the Sonic franchise where we get used to mediocre games and lose excitement for new releases in the series

How damaging will this be to the Rockstar (owned by Take-Two) & GTA brand? I'm guessing not too damaging if GTA6 is amazing. But what if GTA6 disappoints on top of this disappointment? Then they'll be major issues. Let's face it doing this GTA trilogy should be a piece of cake compared to GTA6 and if they can't get this easy piece of cake right then maybe just maybe GTA6 might be disappointing or worse yet a Cyberpunk 2077 / Fallout 76 moment.

Fair enough that it’s a cheap remaster and rough around the edges. Rockstar are a little independent studio with limited funds and don’t have the resources that a company like Saber Interactive have to make a quality port or upgrade. Right?!?

I just want Yokai Watch 4++ to be released in English even just digitally and I’d be super happy.

Seriously this game graphically looks like a free mobile game. It’s unlikely that I’d pay full AAA price for a game that looks this bad and is based of a DS game however I’ll wait for the reviews to be sure. I’m pinning my hopes on Arceus

I loved the Yokai Watch games on the 3DS and I would love anything to do with theee games on the Switch but After waiting patiently for Yokai Watch 4 I’m not getting my hopes up

This and Captain Toad had the best 3D IMO

I’m Ok if they put GTA3 and Vice City on the cart with San Andreas as a download provided you can play San Andreas even without the cart inserted (eg Borderlands 2) They might go with this as GTA3 and Vice City should fit on the cheaper 16 GB cart. I would prefer all 3 on the cart but I would be Ok with this outcome

Physical release - fantastic. I'll hate waiting a few extra weeks but it'll be worth it

There’s stuff on my wishlist that I didn’t get and that will be the case with all directs but this is a really, really good update which will get me back in to the game which I haven’t touched for 5 months. Exceeded my expectations so well done Nintendo

Difference is Link’s Awakening looks nice whereas this looks like a mobile game and a cheap one at that

It’s hard to believe it when they are completely non-specific. I’m sure these updates have improved the stability of the controllers

@westman98 - you have a fair point.

About time. Smash Brothers sales figures are well below Animal Crossing but they’ve had heaps of regular new content whereas what Nintendo has given the larger Animal Crossing install base in comparison has been pathetic

Don’t know I can wait for the physical so unless the download size is more than 15GB will be picking this up digitally

@VoidofLight No just any game announcement that involves Switch. P4G would be great but P5R for Switch would blow me away.

What a complete let-down of an announcement. Even more so for everyone living outside of Japan as we get nothing. Having said that hopefully the reason is they don’t want to shift focus from SMT5. The next announcement is in December a number of weeks after the release of SMT5 and we have the Tokyo Games Show soon so I haven’t given up…….yet.

Loved the first one on switch so I’ll be buying the physical day one. In Australia the physical is released one week later than digital.

Interestingly the hefty 45gb download was not even mentioned in the review or comments which is a big factor preventing me from buying. Even with my 512gb sd card I’m not prepared to give up nearly 10% of my storage on a basketball game

I would've liked more explanation on what they fixed from the first Little Nightmares game which you scored a 6.

Good to see Rockstar doing something for Switch however I was hoping for GTA 5 or at a minimum GTA 4. I’m interested to know if they will charge a premium price for this as I would pay $30 but if they charge more for these old games I would make do with the Saints Row games I have.

I really liked this Direct. I was hoping for an update or release date for Disco Elysium as there’s been no news of late on the Switch release