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Looks great! Reminds me a lot of Part Time UFO as well as Nitrome's old Hot Air for that balloon level in the trailer, which of course they mention in the press release. Surprising they don't have a dev kit even now the console is out, hopefully that'll be rectified sooner rather than later.

@Medic_alert Ok, that's good to know! And I assume the collectables have some kind of signposting rather than just being behind random walls. I still think I might get a bit overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to destroy but I'm sure I'll get used to it once I've played the game for a while!

I feel like this element of the game might stress me out a bit when I play it... If you can destroy everything, how do I know I shouldn't just smash every wall in case there's some goodies behind it?

I love that Disney Tsum Tsum has the (joint) highest average age

That Rainbow Road costume is incredible

To be honest I sort of liked the 'we' instead of 'I', though that's probably just because it's what I'm used to after a decade on this site and several years reading ONM before that. I'll admit the singular pronoun makes more sense!

By the way, I correctly guessed the third letter was penned by @Maxz while reading it, and I would definitely like to see a Joy-Con didgeridoo

At the moment I'm playing Paper Trail, which is a lovely little puzzle game. It seems to be quite short so I might finish it this weekend, and my copy of Shadow Labyrinth hasn't arrived yet so I'm not sure what I'll play in between. Maybe this would be a good time to go back and complete the Pokedex in Legends Arceus before Z-A comes out?

Takeda is Donkey
And LeBron James is Gwa... sorry, wrong thing

I need to renew my NSO and I've been thinking about finally subscribing to the expansion pack, so potentially having a chance to play this seems like another good reason to do so! I never saw any footage or anything of the first playtest so I don't really know what it is, and getting to play a new Nintendo game with no prior knowledge at all would be pretty cool.

Edit: Turns out you have to have already had an NSO+ subscription as of the 17th, so I can't take part unfortunately. Oh well, it will still be worth subscribing for, like, Banjo-Kazooie.

@The_Nintend_Pedant There was also a cancelled Mega Man game called Maverick Hunter which was going to be a dark FPS. I don't normally like the idea of taking a colourful game series and making it dark and edgy, but something about Shadow Labyrinth is intriguing me and I'm strongly considering buying it right away even if it is only 'good enough'!

I don't really associate Danger Mouse with toilet humour? This looks like it could be decent though, better than that other Danger Mouse game on Switch anyway.

I've held off on buying a Switch 2 for now and for the most part I'm ok with not having the shiny new thing, but this kind of feeling is the one thing I'm a little sad to miss out on. By the time I get the console there'll be a fair few first-party games to pick up, so I may not give as much attention to each one as I would if I were grabbing them as and when they launched. Ah well, I'm sure I'll still have a great time with them, and at least there are still some Switch 1 games coming out for me to look forward to!

I clicked the Humble Store link and it says it's already delisted on there! So there's no way of getting it discounted unfortunately.

I like the other Bithell games I've played but I have no interest in John Wick, so I'd probably only pick this up on sale. At least there seems to be a physical release so it won't be impossible to buy the game in the future.

I don't have the game (or indeed console) yet but from what I've heard about it, the #1 thing I'd want added is progress tracking for Free Roam collectibles. Just seems like such a bizarre omission. I also hear the non-humanoid characters don't have costume options, which also needs rectifying ASAP - give Biddibud butterfly wings or something, Nintendo, come on.

(Well OK, the actual #1 thing I'd want is a reasonable price tag for the game, but the sales figures have probably blue-shelled any chance of that happening...)

I don't really see the need for a remake anyway, it holds up pretty well.

Currently it's Deltarune, by default. Even though it's an as-yet unfinished game (and I haven't even fully finished what's there so far), it's delightful and, well, I haven't played anything else released this year.

@Dimjimmer It's like opening a can of Worms

I kind of thought this was a full retail game so that's a lot cheaper than I expected. I hope it does have a good amount more content than what we've seen though.

Still making my way through the new Deltarune update. I haven't had a great deal of time to play it so I only just finished Chapter 3 yesterday, but I loved it and have no idea what to expect from Chapter 4!

@Flapflop As much as I would be happy with a Switch 1 version of this game since I don't have a Switch 2 yet, GameShare isn't proof that it would run on Switch 1. GameShare works by streaming the game from the host console - the Switch 1 isn't natively running it.

For some reason I kind of love the music when you lose in Team Tanks (which I assume is on the extended playback in this?)

Shout out to WarioWare Move It popping up at #40

I can't see myself using GameChat much, but if I ever feel like trying out Mario Party's camera minigames (once I eventually have a Switch 2, that is), this will probably be the option I go for. I don't want to spend loads on what is, let's face it, a novelty, so the cheaper price and adorable design more than make up for the lower image quality if you ask me. Love the picture of the Piranha Plant checking out its brethren on the TV, by the way!

I will of course be playing the most anticipated release of the week. Yes that's right, it's Deltarune time! Haven't had a chance to get into the new chapters yet but hopefully I'll have time to make a proper start this weekend.

I'm not a big fighting game fan but the solo mode actually sounds like a lot of fun, much better than trying to figure out how to play the game by just doing a load of contextless scraps. I might consider giving it a go whenever I get a Switch 2 - I can't imagine caring about one mode only being 30fps, although the 50GB download and lack of proper physical release is rather more off-putting...

Welcome back, Miitomo

@nessisonett Yep, I've made peace with waiting a while to get a Switch 2, there's nothing else on it that I desperately want to play at launch, but I can't help feeling a bit of envy over this one game...

Amazing news, this is a game I've been wanting to pay for a while and it's a great idea to include the original version alongside the remaster, I hope they'll do the same if they remaster/remake Chrono Trigger!

I was almost sold when I watched the Switch 2 Direct, but my excitement quickly ended up being outweighed by the pricing of the console, games and SD cards. I'll get one eventually, probably when a more exciting colour variant is available, but I can live without it until the games start getting discounts.

This is an entirely superfluous feature, I love it

Definitely interested in playing this after reading this! As an asexual person I'm not massively into dating sims, but the abstractness of this game as well as the friendship option makes it sound much more up my street.

Eh, I'm not getting one, too expe-- sorry, @Siaha, what do you mean you're going to continue balding? Do you include that in your schedule every day just as a matter of course or are you going to be tearing your hair out waiting for your Switch 2 games to download?

I think I would cry if I met Donkey Kong in real life

Japan may have two Kirbys but NA/Europe has three Ricks (plus a few more that are hidden), so I think there's a pretty clear winner here

I'm long overdue a replay of this amazing game but I got 11/13, so I guess I remember it better than I thought!

@LordPieFace I was thinking the same - that's what the famously gameplay-first Miyamoto is most excited about?

How fast would he be with wings?

'At this point, it's not really a Switch console without Hamster's excellent Arcade Archives series'

I suppose this is true in that there is currently 1 Switch console that has the Arcade Archives series and 0 Switch consoles that don't, but I'm not sure that's a big enough sample size to make this claim

I was assuming it was going to be pre-written voice lines using AI to recreate Jones's voice, but it seems he can just... say anything? I hate this is but it is kind of funny

That's a really fun idea, I'd love to get a chance to go one day! How do I become a pudding paleontologist?

I quite like the look of it in theory - it's pretty neat how you can superimpose yourself onto the game with the camera, or 'parallel play' by half-watching your friends play a different game. Will I actually do those things? Not sure, especially given that the camera is a paid extra. But I think GameChat does just enough to make it feel like a somewhat novel spin on voice chat.

Player 2 probably gets to shake the Joy Con to flap DK's tie or something.

I've never been someone who buys every game I'm interested in at launch, but I do tend to make an exception for Nintendo's big hitters at least. With the Switch 2, though, I'm not buying the console until the games start getting decent discounts, and if we're looking at £60-75 for every major first-party game I think it'll be very rare for me to buy anything at launch once I do have the system. I definitely do want to get the console in due course, but for now I'm not feeling particularly enthusiastic about modern gaming and I'm quite happy to just focus on older games for a bit.

@Zufolobelisk I don't disagree, but I'm curious how you know he's not autistic?

I've always wanted an Ecco game with GPU sensibilities!

I preferred the orange, it was a nice contrast to the red of the NSO apps.

I might do if I find a game I'm interested in for a good price and it's only on key card, but I already tend to skip Switch games with hefty downloads so I can't see myself buying loads of these. It might actually encourage me to buy games I wouldn't normally if they do have proper physical releases though - Cyberpunk isn't something I would have considered if it was digital only but I may actually give it a go (when I eventually get a Switch 2) just because it's a full game on cartridge, and that seems to be a novelty now!

ARMS! It's gonna happen one day, right? RIGHT?

I open it now and then to see what's on it but it's never massively exciting. There's some nice artwork but it would be more useful if there was a better archive of that stuff rather than having to scroll back through the days. Having said that, they did recently treat us to a 3D view of the Switch 2 HDMI cable and a video of Donkey Kong pulling funny faces, and it's hard to imagine what more we could want than that.

Good to see we're continuing the tradition of Nintendo consoles launching with a third-party port with added Mario or Zelda costumes.