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This is the second bit of great news today!

Happy to carry over my huge backlog to Switch 2/Super Switch.

How many of these 'songs' actually have words?!

What happened to calling them tracks, tunes or instrumentals?

Also no F-Zero, Super Mario World or Super Metroid at launch is a poor effort from Nintendo.

What about Splatoon 1 and Super Mario Maker 1? Obviously there's the online element of both but there's single player games in both of them too.

Have been really looking forward to playing this on Switch and as others have said the review reads more like a 7 or maybe an 8 than a 6/10. Anyway it's averaging 74 currently on Metacritic and most reviews say it's a decent port, so that's good enough for me to add it to my LRG wishlist.

@Yoshi3 It definitely is an F-Zero game, they just need to add an offline race mode with 98 bots and it'll be one of my favourite games in the series.

About time they created a one player version we can play against bots and bring out a physical copy too, the same way they did both for Tetris 99.

It's a shame to see what the PES/Pro Evo/Superstar Soccer series has become. I spent many happy hours playing the games on the SNES, N64, PS2 and latterly e Football PES 2020 on the PS4.

The last few entries since they went full on eSports/DLC have been shocking though and the series seems to have lost all relevance.

Great news, hope they'll bring Kiwami 2 to the Switch as well, and the rest of the games to Switch 2.

Great news, as a big Goemon/Mystical Ninja fan I'll be pre-ordering this ASAP.

MathSSSSSSSSSSSSS not Math.

As a long-time F-Zero fan this has been easily my most played game of the last year with over 80 overs spent on it so far, I'm loving the updates too. As others have said we just need a proper single player offline mode now, and a physical version a la Tetris 99 (which I got the physical of and also thoroughly enjoyed).

@Lizuka 'Cis people', there's no such thing there's just people.

Like others have said I have mixed feelings about LRG, but I'm mostly positive.

However they definitely push the FOMO aspect and some of their Collector's editions are over priced.

It's also a shame that a company as big as Konami is relying on LRG for physical releases rather than producing them themselves.

Nice review, here's hoping for a physical release in the West as well.

Also Konami really need to bring out a Ganbare Goemon/Mystical Ninja collection with translations of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Super Famicom games.

Definitely has the F-Zero X style handling, cracking tune too. Hope it comes to Switch or Switch 2.

Hopefully Limited Run Games will release DDP Blissful Death at some stage this year, as they have done with previous Cave games that have been ported to the Switch.

Have had my eye on this, here's hoping it's as good as it looks.

@LikelySatan Hmm, all three of the originals were on the SNES so maybe 'spruced up 16 bit style' might be more accurate?

Will get it if it's as good as their remakes of Wild Guns, Ninja Warriors and Pocky & Rocky were. We need more games in the 16 bit style, the 8 bit retro style has been overdone and does nothing for me personally.

@kedireturns I'm a big fan of the PS2 and would say it's one of the three greatest consoles of all time, and arguably the greatest. However there's no doubting that some people bought it primarily as a DVD player, especially in the early days of the PS2.

It's also highly amusing that someone who keeps shouting "Nintendo fanboy' at other people on here has 6 posts on this one article as he's so determined to defend the PS2's honour against the perceived slight of people pointing out that it was also a DVD player, out of 7 posts in total on Nintendo Life.

@kedireturns An ex of mine had a PS2 purely as a DVD player, so that counts for 1 of the 155 or 158 million.

@electrolite77 Add on the SNES and that's my list of 3 favourite systems. Could make a good case for them being the 3 best consoles of all time too.

@nocdaes The Switch has had a Youtube app since late 2018. Still prefer to watch Youtube on my phone but it's nice to have the option.

Why bring politics into a thread about Paper Mario: TTYD?! And I mean that on both the left and the right. Thankfully Nintendo seems to be A-Political unlike some developers/publishers.

Great that they're adding more stuff, we really need that offline mode though and even better, what about a physical release a la Tetris 99? What about it Nintendo?

Are CPU players not designated such? If so I've still not seen any in any of my races, although it does seem that the numbers are down from maybe 50,000 users a week when the game first came out to perhaps 5,000 or so now?

@ThatZeldaNerd It's one of the best comedies of the last 25 years, just because it's a cartoon doesn't mean it's for kids.

@1UP_MARIO Yeah it looks like SFIV mixed with Streets of Rage 4.

-Looks at results: Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (GB) 20%

Houston we have a problem.

Classic edition for me, assuming the reviews are decent when it comes out in a fortnight or so.

March 2025 or later is fine with me. I've got a humungous backlog including about 70 Switch games already, and another 200 games on Switch that I want to get at some point.

The Switch has such quality, depth and breadth in its game library (right up there with the PS2 which it will hopefully dethrone as the best selling console ever), that the Super Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 could come out in 2030 and I'd still be busy catching up.

Downloaded the demo at the weekend and enjoying it so far. Hopefully someone like LRG might pick it up for a physical release?!

Early 2025 is fine with me, the Switch has an insane line up of quality games already, a few more Nintendo remasters (Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and F-Zero GX please) and a couple more big 3rd party multi format games and Switch will sail past 150 million consoles by the end of this year.

Looks pretty cool, looking forward to Nintendo Life reviewing it.

@120frames-please Do you mean Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics? It's got Gradius I & II on it but that's it.

There was an excellent Gradius Collection on the PSP with the arcade versions of I, II, III, IV, & Gradius Gaiden which had previously been tied to the Japanese PS1. They could add the NES version of Gradius I, the PC Engine version of Gradius II, the SNES version of Gradius III, and maybe even Gradius V on the PS2 and Gradius Rebirth from the Wii judging by what Konami did with the Contra and Castlevania collections.

Hopefully it's just a matter of time before we get a Goemon Collection. Parodius, Twinbee, Gradius and Bomberman would also be ripe for the collection treatment at this point.

EA has been shocking with their lack of support for Nintendo since the early days of the Wii U when they seemingly got burned. Madden admittedly is a shell of its PS2 heyday these days but I'd still love to see a version on Switch.

Even after Switch selling 135 million consoles worldwide, EA haven't even brought a 'legacy version' of Madden to Nintendo's hybrid. What a joke of a company they are.

Love the Goemon games so will pick this up if/when it gets an English translation added, or even better a full Western physical release (fingers crossed).

Great stuff, as a longtime F-Zero fan this is such a good game (put 40 hours into it in just 4 months or so). They really need to add an offline mode and bring out a physical version, the same way they did both with Tetris 99 (another Arika/Nintendo game that's also a free download on Switch online).

@Hank_Scorpio Did you see the reference to ISS 64 in the subtitle to the article too? Hat tip to NL.

Going to be boring and vote for the original Smash Bros and Diddy Kong Racing, the two most obvious missing parts of my N64 collection (with Paper Mario a close 3rd, need to play that on NSO some day).

@AllieKitsune I'm not saying it's realistic but who thought that Konami would bring back a Felix the Cat 'Collection' which includes all of 2 games?!

Just bung the Super Famicom, N64 and PS1 Goemon games on there and I'd be more than happy, no need to include the portable games. There must be more of a market for a Goemon collection than there is for Felix the Cat?!

As others have said we really do need a Goemon/Legend of the Mystical Ninja collection next from Konami. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th games on the Super Famicom were never translated and brought over to the west, and the 2nd one in particular is meant to be great.

The two N64 games were really good too (luckily I have both of them on cart as well as LOTMN on the SNES). There were a couple of Goemon games on the PS1 too, all in all there's more than enough there for a collection. but it would need some good translation work.

Looks and sounds like an intriguing game, can't be long before they announce a physical release on Switch, if so they'll have reeled me in and I'm sure I'll be hooked.

Great to hear that LRG will be releasing a proper physical version. After many hours spent and lives lost playing Super Probotector on the Wii Virtual Console and the North American version of it (Contra III) on the SNES Classic, as well as Contra Rebirth on the Wii, i'm looking forward to this.

Goemon Collection (with translations of Ganbare Goemon 2 & 3 on the Super Famicom) next please Konami.

@NintendoWife 2017 (Breath of the Wild & Super Mario Odyssey).

Great review, hope that Limited Run or Strictly Limited pick this up for a physical release in the west.

@Euler Presumably you're counting the N64 as one of the 3 'unsuccessful' Nintendo home consoles? 33 million consoles sold is very similar numbers to the Mega Drive/Genesis and Atari 2600-no one thinks of them as failures.

I think the N64 suffers because the PS1 was such a sales behemoth, selling 102 million and broadening the appeal of home consoles so that they were no longer just seen as kids' toys.

The Switch is a fantastic system with a brilliant library, my second favourite console behind the SNES, and I've had all of Nintendo's home consoles. With it still doing so well sales wise I wonder if Switch 2 might be pushed back from a likely Winter 2024 launch to Spring 2025 though?

8 years with one platform dominating the industry, what a feat that would be for Nintendo, especially coming straight after the dismal failure that the Wii U was.