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That's easy: Min Min. She's got a dragon on her arm. End of story.

@MarcelRguez Ah, I forgot about this.

Aw yiss. Now give me Ori and the Blind Forest and I can delete my Steam and GOG accounts.

I don't have a Switch, but when I'll have it, I'll probably buy ARMS right away. It looks like pure fun. It's worth to get a Switch just for games announced for this year (Splatoon 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Super Mario Odyssey).

And of course I'm watching today's Direct.

@Aurumonado Like half of footage from trailer is pinball.

Oh Natsume, Natsume... well, still waiting for European release of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns.

Aw yiss, I hated this moments, when I was like "time to play Splatoon!", but game was like "that's nice, I can offer you 4 hours of Rainmaker".

@Gorlokk Thank you.

Go to the store? Oh crap.

@Steven_the_2nd Yeah, I know, but i saw them on youtube already. But, hm, this is a chance to buy this game again on Switch (I played on Wii U), with all DLCs from season pass and sink again for 150 hours or so in winter

But... why now? I finished the game (or at least I viewed all story events)

Still waiting for RCMADIAX games on Switch. Don't disappoint me, man.

Looks cool, but I dont' have my Switch yet

So much Digital Foundry-like news and discussions

Probably no one on the whole web has the same nick as me (oh, I'm so unique) but I claimed it anyway.

I have so many games to play that I don't really feel checking all this 'new - AND BATTER - Chrono Trigger' fan-made titles.

Don't know why but I'm pretty interested in it too. Looks fun and has typical DS graphics which I adore.

Uuu, je suis interested.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Oh, come on, unlocked functionality is just a bonus. Figurine is what counts.

At least they're honest now.

Mario snooker, pretty please?

It's full story with photos and comments, not only these two videos. You can find it on UK Nintendo page: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2017/February/Join-The-Legend-of-Zelda-producer-Eiji-Aonuma-on-an-adventure-into-the-wild-1183466.html

I'm somewhat concerned. Switch presentation and launch of Super Mario Run without microtransactions - share price drops. Launches of Pokemon GO and FE Heroes, games with microtransactions - share price rises. Shareholders are giving Nintendo a clear signal and I don't like what this signal is meaning.

As suggested by Damien, I think this is Miyamoto's case. He has always wanted to make game which will use unique Wii U features, but failed - Star Fox Zero could easily launch without motion controls in my opinion. So, yeah, Shigeru ambitions.

Maybe it's a fun game, I don't know, but man, this graphics. Definition of word 'generic'.

Wow, I've never seen such a beautiful SD card slot.

Sadly 1430 zlotys (€330) in Poland.

Wow, so Nintendo.

@Damo Hey, change this guy's surname to Poix (it's Piox in 3-4 places).

Russian sounds pretty damn good, better than English. Of course Japanese would be perfect, but we Europeans probably won't get it.

Oh my god, talking with friend about Xenoblade and then I entered Nintendo Life and spotted this news. Seen this awesome art before, but love your timing guys

Chrono Trigger-like pixel RPG in Xenoblade world - would play!

Loved first one (it was in European Humble Bundle in April if I remember correctly). Never was a big fan of Sonic series, but Freedom Planet was great and I'm hoping for Switch version of sequel.

These australian game prices [*]

Nice article Thomas! Not because I completely agree with what you have written (but I agree), but it's well written.

I'm not in this "graphic doesn't matter" camp, but I also agree that power isn't the key to Switch success. We all know how more powerful PSP and Vita were compared to DS and 3DS respectively. And we all know how this battle ended.

Most important are:

clear concept, which Switch has: you can plan some nice games in front of TV and on the go. What else should customer know?

good games, which... we don't know whether they will be, but Nintendo accustomed us to high-quality titles. I hope that Switch will be the only Nintendo console for the next few years. Imagine machine with 3DS and Wii U games combined - it's massive amount of quality games! And now we could also have some other third-party support from studios which never collaborated with Ninny.

In brief: I'm optimistic.

I hope their next game will be tactical RPG, but different from Heist, more traditional, like Final fantasy Tactics. But of course I love Heist, Top 3 eShop game.

Good looking Polish game on 3DS... what a time to be alive!

I'm big fan of this game and gonna import this book, but I'll wait. June 2017 is still faaar away. Money is also far away from me

@Moon It's something about £5,50, so rather cheap for a Nintendo game.

@menzo1986 Sadly no. Maybe it will.

"It's pretty hard to get lost this time around, as NPCs are a lot more helpful and you can always ask a woman in the Bathhouse where to go next."

I will try this in real life.

Played all previous games in series, loved it, bought Half-Genie Hero too of course. I will spend my Christmas with this purple-haired half-genie

How many kilograms were lost?

@Mega_Yarn_Poochy Whole this day lacks interesting news and Thomas wanted this editorial to be the same

2D, because, sadly, 3D Wii U platformers besides 3D World don't exist. And even 3D World isn't 64 or Galaxy type of game.

Concentrating on the games on the list: I love Yoshi's Woolly World, never finished Tropical Freeze (this bear beats me), never played Mario Bros. U, cause I'm not a 2D Mario games fan at all. I have problem with Rayman - it's beatiful, I know it's fine game, but I don't find it interesting at all to play...

People are like "I want it, but I want it free". Go and play Flappy Bird

I don't know if 5 games from each category is good criteria of selection. Boxed games are, presumably, more recognizable, they are just bigger, more refined titles. Maybe 7+3 (boxed and eShop respectively) would be better choice?

Nevertheless, my favourite games are in. Voted for Pokemon Sun and Moon, Dragon Quest VII and SteamWorld Heist. I would choose Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, but Generations, though I played this game for something about 200 hours, isn't that good. So, yeah, time spended wasn't most important here

I hope we will scenery like this in BoTW. I love autumn locations in games.

XSEED, so no retail in Europe I assume? Ok, i will pick digital, don't want to wait for retail like I waited for Gunvolt Pack (which didn't happen).

@Bobb Yes, you can import your save from Generations. It was shown in Japanese Direct, but probably nearly no one noticed because, well, Japanese.

@Pazuzu666 What? Some people just like physical releases. Maybe they're collectors, maybe they're selling completed games to save money (like me).

One of the best Wii U games, but compared to the first Xenoblade, it's doing a lot of things worse. Chronicles on Wii have plenty interesting characters, in X we have like... one? I've got Elma on my mind of course. Protagonist is one of the poorest in jRPG genre, he/she even says nothing, only nods - who pushed this idea after Shulk in predecessor?

Story is just... ok. First Xeno have brilliant, emotional plot with many twists (even if they were predictible sometimes, they were just in the right place), which kept me playing and playing.

I also think that game became weaker after getting Skells. Yep, controversial opinion, but exploration on foot was more interesting, world seemed bigger and more dangerous. I also find combat system too complicated, Overdrive was just a mess compared to Chain Link, especially during mechs battles.

Summarizing, Xeno X took too many elements from MMO games, and I'm not fan of this type of games. I can forgive a lot when I get addictive story (and i forgave a lot of first Xeno because of this), which this game, sadly, did not have, partially because of too many additional elements, mechanics etc., which distracted me from the main story. But first Xeno is presumably best game I've played in all my life, so I'm extremeley subcjective here

I really enjoyed playing VII and can't wait for this. My most anticipated game of 2017 except Breath of the Wild.