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Picked this game up from the $5 walmart bargain bin when walmart was selling gamecube games at the end of it's life. I remember being sucked into playing this game, even my sibling played the mutiplayer with me. Would love to see it remade, though I will probably be breaking out my copy of it before that time. Great sleeper title.

This makes the steam deck look damn affordable. I already have a huge library of games, and their sales are actually sales. Plus you don't have to run Elden Ring at potato level graphics.

The last switch game I bought was ToTK, games are just too expensive to buy for console these days. There are too many other extensive catalogs of games to play in the mean time, hard to justify. Now if you want to play the Latest and Greatest, again. Many folks have a decent PC these days....

Totodile! Still love him from my original play through of Silver. I'm excited and nervous about this one haha. The battling/dodging looks awesome and is something I've always wanted to do in a game. But the rest of the video left me a little wary.

After such an open setting it will be harder to adjust to city life. Especially with the track record of these more recent games with having barren city environments.

Carts are the preference, love getting a deal on something used. But to be honest I don't think I bought a switch game digital or physical all of 2024. Rough out there. 😥

Sad news, I loved getting these in the mail and reading them at the dinner table.

The other issue is economic time's are rough right now, or could be even rougher in the future. I'm sure this has caused lot's of folks to pair down on game releases they would like to get. All of these studios releasing $40-$60 games so rapidly just really becomes unsustainable. I've never really been too into Square Enix's library, but they didn't endear me to them by announcing NFT stuff.

Regardless I wish companies would remember that in order for folks to buy a game, it needs to have some sort of marketing attached to it. Some way of getting the name out. Otherwise their titles are just going to get lost in a sea of 30/40/50 other titles releasing in the same genre or time span. Heck even price range.

Kirby Air Ride 2 when?
Played tons of Air Ride and Amazing Mirror with friends as a kid, really the only way those games are meant to be played.

My last game purchase (Physical, Digital, Nintendo or otherwise) was ToTK........wow almost a year ago now. Usually I like to buy new games pretty often, there are plenty of titles out there I would like to play, but unfortunately my budget, (and free time) are small. I have been looking more at $30 and under purchases/only on sale purchases but haven't made any yet. Can't imagine trying to keep up with all of these titles as they come out, paying full price or more for special editions. fondly remembers the time where $20 could get you a GBA game Videogames are still entertainment and unfortunately food and shelter have to come first in the budget.

Not looking forward at all to the migration. While TCGO is jank I haven't heard much of anything good about Live. Maybe it's changed in the past few months but I am doubting it.

I loved using my action replay to make all the pokemon appearing in game be their shiny counterpart. It was a ton of fun to play my copy of Pearl in that way seeing all of the fun colors. Luckily all my time spent with the AR in Pokemon didn't end in corruptible failure, unlike my attempts with it in Phantom Hourglass in the later hours of the game.

Wish the pro controller wasn't white, id rather have the black/grey/gold/teal or blue. 😔

Red OG 3DS upgraded to the Hylian Crest New 3DS XL, bought my partner the Pikachu New 3DS XL, and just picked up a Transparent Blue 2DS doorstop (Whom I love)

I think I got pretty much everything i'm willing to get, some I would like to have but I am not down to pay $40+ for each of those titles. Wish there had been a few more sales. Spent my last couple of bucks on SMT dlc just incase. Really is sad to see it all go.

I'm interested but not at their "premium" price, why not do some reprints in their Fossil or Jungle set instead. They've already re-released Base set before.

I find it funny they're making these cards, yellow border and all, for nostalgia sake, yet they are getting rid of it in the upcoming expansions.

I clearly remember getting my Blue Sp for my birthday after (no doubt) driving my parents crazy with begging for it. So so so many countless hours playing that thing on long car trips cross country, battling cousins in Pokemon when they came over for Holidays. SO many great times. I even remember fondly cracking it out during english class my senior year after replacing the rechargeable battery. I never had an original game boy advance, and I do want to get one to mod with a cool shell and backlighting, I think it would fit better in my now adult hands.

Wish Nintendo would release the SP games for purchase through the eshop instead of with their membership. I'm not interested in renting them when I have the carts stored away, i'd rather spend the money on BUYing them on new consoles.

I passed a copy of this up the other day, retailing for too much. Would like to give it a chance but not for $50+, there's still plenty for me to pick up on wii while prices are low. I'm sure any remaster would be selling for $50+ anyways and would be more accessible.

@Ulysses No problem, if you get one I hope you enjoy it. I use mine to print photos I shoot with my phone as well as my switch photos. I have the camera to use the film with as well, but its limited on the tweaking you can do with it, which is part of the charm but sometimes you just want a nice photo.The printer is great.

@Ulysses Localized? I'm pretty sure this is coming to NA/EU and Japan. You can already buy these in stores without the silicone wraps and print off your switch photos on them. Splatoon update coming in Jan for those stickers as the article says, all you need is the companion app for them and not the special Splatoon themed printer.

Hyrule edition has been my main unit, upgraded from a red base unit 3ds. Couldn't be happier with it. The gold color is so rich.

Sucks that its apple exclusive at the moment. Not a big fan of those 3D models. Maybe they will look better in action, the 2D assets had much more character to them.

@theModestMouse You do understand paper costs have grown exponentially over the course of the pandemic and the ongoing paper shortage. That is not to say they don't rake $$ in over cardboard, but cardboard still costs money, especially if you have to fight to source it.

I'd love another one after having slept on the first for so long!

Is there anything this game is doing right? I feel that the current game is fair in its distribution/handing out of in-game bonus packs. Restricting boosters to 5 instead of 10 is really lame and does not make me want to go out and buy additional packs when I'm being ripped off.

Put it back in the oven, its not done yet.

I'm enjoying the game, but the bugs do take me out of it. One thing i've been thinking about is the graphical style, Arceus, BOTW, and a lot of the games listed above have more....stylistic cartoony worlds. Can't help but to think if they had gone more that direction instead of the more realistic tone that folks wanted if some of these issues would have been less noticeable. Haven't we always said cel-shaded games age better?

I've only played part of one FE game (Shadow Dragon) and this game actually looks really interesting to me. I'll probably pick this one up at some point. All of the things the hardcore fans dislike, story, character design, overall look. Are things that I find appealing here.

lol whats left to spoil, trailers and an over abundance of info about the game have been out since announcement. You can't avoid anything these days. I've done as best I can myself, sometimes this makes nintendolife unusable.

Good bye keychains. :v; maybe they'll restock (doubt)

I would love a port of the 3DS games to switch. I only just started playing SMT IV this year when it went on sale (I think it was on sale?) and somehow sunk 20+ hours into it the first week I had it. As someone who doesn't particularly like JRPG's nor have any ties to the franchise or spinoffs, 20+ hours is crazy talk. I do play on baby mode because I don't like it when games repeatedly kick you into the dirt, I know that's how this franchise is, but i'm still getting though it without it being too hard or too easy. Just right for me at the moment, still trying to learn mechanics. Like Digimon the classification system is a mystery for me.

I'd also love to see Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army, and its sequel re-released/available. I would love to play those without spending over $200 USD.

The artstyle is my favorite part of the SMT/Persona series. : )

Still no go, PIKO leaves a bad taste in my mouth with their (in my opinion) poor preservation, ROM take downs, and NFT support.

Seems like they're dropping online features earlier and earlier now.

What an amazing video, absolutely drooling. Loved being able to see the graphics end of the printing process, really interesting to get a tiny peak at how they layer their artwork and what their process is. Also how they do the foil designs! I've loved pouring over those beautifully textured foil cards.

As for printing, keep in mind they have 7 presses, each with UV and inline coating abilities. So if one press can do 26.62 Million in one day, imagine 7 doing 186.34 million cards running at max capacity!

The quality control/Dot gain/ink and color density checking process was awesome to see since we can see partially printed sheets. (The one on the foil with the white plate only was so cool)

This is truly a dream job as a designer/pre-press artist though i'm sure it's a extremely challenging and frustrating job. (Pre-Press is Person setting up imposition and layout before the printing/plating process starts)

I've only played part of Shadow Dragon, and am not really interested in tactical RPG's but the visual style for this game looks more appealing than the previous games for some reason. I do like the design despite being that sort of 'Mary Sue' look. I'm over it being cringe at this point. Down with cringe. Not a day one purchase but maybe at some point.

Reached a 999 max in my lobby, had to close out the whole game and re-open it, timer doesn't reset and couldn't back out of the lobby search. :/ other than connection frustration it's still fun.

@gcunit Totally agree, I like the gradated colors the best out of the whole design. Wish they would just come out with cooler controller colors or whatever. But they want to sell you the whole system instead.

@Geit_de A great explanation, thanks! I would have just assumed that your own connection effects only you, the person with the connection issue. Just making you drop the match leading to 3v4 matches. Not sure if they changed it at all between the two games, but Splatoon 2 seemed much more stable overall.

Whoever is playing Splatoon in handheld is a better man than I, can hardly see whats going on in all the action on the small screen. Thanks for the break down, I'm more apt to consider doing LAN in the future.

@Geit_de I'm wondering if it was a connection issue on Nintendo's end because I got tons of disconnects, not something I ever really have an issue with in Splatoon 2. Wondering if it was overloading something on their end. Maybe my internet was just crap yesterday but I have been seeing a lot of connection issues overall.

Defending in the tricolor splatfest was a nightmare. I probably ended up in 10-15 tricolor matches and only won 2 of them. That's pretty rough.

An idea would be to make the ultra beacon useable by any team and make it equidistant for everyone, or maybe make it more like a capture the flag type ability that attaches to your player so you can move it around the map. It would stick to you and create a spray of ink, and you can still use your normal weapon. Sort of like tower defense, but once the player running around with it dies it has a brief time where you can pick it up before it respawns back at the central location for someone else to pick it up.

Something has got to give, it's way too unbalanced against the defending team in a way that makes the game unfun and frustrating. Maybe a custom map that has some advantages for defense, or is more designed for defensive teams in mind instead of reusing a map designed for 2 team battle.

@jcboyer515 ¯(ツ)/¯ Have a good rest of your day? Its fine man we don't have to agree/disagree.

@jcboyer515 You said you went out of your way to agree with me, so I mean. Then we are in agreement? ¯(ツ)/¯ Whatever the case may be, take care I hope you have a good rest of your day.

@jcboyer515 It sounds like we don't see quite eye to eye despite facing the same direction. I see their comments more of "Yeah BUT-" rather than. "I want to hear what the other side has to say before making my judgement." Just the vibes i'm getting. People can be wrong, people can be right. Corps can be good, corps can be bad. I myself am more apt to believe developers who said they are wronged vs the publisher, who from my view has more power in this dynamic. Everyone's free to develop their own opinions though.

@Ryu_Niiyama People do things on behalf of companies all the time. Yes Individuals make decisions, but that doesn't mean it isn't a decision that the company as a whole makes. Business moves are business moves. I'm not saying don't request further information. Information has been requested by NL staff and other games journalists already with no word. See what the publisher says and make your decisions based on that.

@jcboyer515 I'm not saying that you shouldn't be asking for the whole story before passing judgement on something. I'm just shaking my head that people think that companies are their friends and jumping immediately to their defense. That they and won't try every and any trick in the book to make a buck, right or wrong. Facts or not, corporations are not your friends, they aren't your buddy, pal, funny twitter user BFF. They won't give you anything for defending them on nintendolife or twitter.com. That's mostly what I'm getting at here. No need to grovel at their feet, just come out and say "Can we get more information from the publisher?"

@Sonos I mean, its their official statement...on twitter. Not just one of the Devs personal twitter account just making random comments with no word from the whole Dev team. Its a PR statement. Do you want them to mail you a personal signed letter to your house? Most all companies/projects have social media accounts where they post their PR notices.

Weird that the comments section is jumping to defend the publisher. I've seen this scenario plenty of times, especially with U.S COVID Paycheck Protection grants. Companies accept paycheck protection grant (Intended to keep employees on staff and paid 40 hrs) then lay folks off and/or cut their hours. Pocket the cash. Same with the other Business loans, accept the money and just pocket it, let it get written off. This story is totally believable, sure hearing what the publisher has to say is fine but dang, remove the boot. They aren't your friends.

Depressing. I loved this game. Some stages were wicked hard but still it was satisfying to clear a stage you were having trouble with. I guess this means we will have to go back to Trozei. I wish they would make a new trozei game, I really love the simplified icons and quick game play. Probably unlikely since the Switch doesn't particularly utilize the touch screen.

New map looks interesting, I wish that there were many new maps/battle modes. I know its a F2P game, but after a year I feel like there should be more than 1 main map and 2 main Mini/quick games to choose from at this point. I feel like even just different skins/music for the main battle map would be an improvement, for the sake of variety.

I've been on and off for this game, but it is quite fun. More fun than I was expecting.

Man I always hate the wait for the codes, makes me nervous i'm going to miss it! The TCG one looks pretty useful.

@sketchturner Infinite is the worst one, Bioshock 1 and 2 are great games with different shooter mechanics, (Plasmids/Upgrades are different and allow for more customization/fine tuning, you have a larger roster of weapons and you can hold more than two, health packs vs shield/recharging health) There's a lot of differences between them.

As far as the story goes I think it's a lot more interesting/compelling than with Booker and Elizabeth. Plus there are more side characters/NPC's that are interesting and dynamic. It keeps you moving along and feeding you story elements throughout plus the atmosphere of Rapture is a lot more fleshed out than Columbia. I could go on about how much they dropped the ball on Infinite but alas this is a comments section, there have been many a good youtube video discussing that if you were further interested.

Bioshock 1 and 2 are often on sale on Steam if you have a half way decent PC. Usually you can pick them up for $5-10 bucks not sure about the price on the remasters. I can't say how they would run on switch as I haven't played them there. But I mean... they probably run better than they did on my jank low powered PC back in the day? Hoping anyways.

@sunny63 Shiny Decidueye is awesome, I am partial to Dartrix's shiny a hair more. XP What can I say I love a good barn owl. Decidueye is one of my favorite recent gen designs, a super cool look especially in the darker colors.

@nukatha
True but people still collect the flip coins. I have a modest collection, probably will never own these but the design is cute! Would make more sense to add a standard die in there for flipping.