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A poll would have been a fun addition to this article.

I'm kind of indifferent about fall damage. It's fun to be able to leap off tall things but it's also fun to be able to climb up tall things and have it be dangerous. I also like how Zelda Echoes does it in the Still World with agonizing screams so the player takes psychological fall damage rather than the character taking damage which gives a different type of deterrent to falling.

I think the variety is good from game to game. And I would much prefer fall damage to weapon breakage.

Also, Kirby already does take fall damage if the pit is deep enough.

Looks cute. Might be one to put in my Switch 2 wishlist whenever that becomes a thing.

Happy weekend and gaming everyone. This week I have been playing:

• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (NSO) - Hoping to finish up the main game today. Although I've collected most of the secrets I'm probably not going to go for 100%.
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure - Haven't played for a while just because I've been busy and the game sucks me into long play sessions but I'm at minimum going to finally do the multiplayer quest this weekend.
• Pankapu - a pretty and relaxing 2D Platformer which has been on my backlog for a long time.
• Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - 263/270 main puzzles completed. Only fairly hard levels left so the home stretch may take awhile.
• Tetris 99 - continuing my random urge to unlock all the themes. I've now finished unlocking all the special themes but have a ton of standard 15 point themes to unlock so this will take months more if I keep at it 😅

oooh, I've been waiting for Tempopo to come to Switch for ages. Looks like such an adorable game.

I played the demo and it was fun but the game needed a more major patch than this. I'm really hoping the game gets a free Switch 2 update.

@GrailUK It could still be worse; they've only done extremely basic testing (such as 'does game load' ) on the vast majority of Switch games.

Don't worry, small children will figure out how to break it quickly enough.

I'm sure those were completely random reactions and not picking and choosing some super positive ones 😆

@Baker1000 The Switch 1 NSO menu already has all the games listed out and you can already click on one and go directly into the game. Although most people ignore that option and click on the apps instead.

It looks fine. Nothing too different. I wonder if folders or wishlist will change. An improved wishlist would be nice.

Survival Kids looked merely forgettable but I think the fact that the NA Switch 2 direct froze during Survival Kids changed people's opinions from uncaring to hatred 😆

Happy weekend and gaming everyone. This week I have been playing:

• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (NSO) - Not sure if I'll play more this weekend but I just got to world 7. It's a fun game, although world 5 has a couple bad lag issues. It's getting me in the mood for the new 3D DK game.
• .Cat Milk 2 - Grabbed for $2. It's a silly little precision platformer where you bounce on balloons to get your bowl of milk. I enjoyed the first game, though the hitboxes in the second game are a bit questionable so far.
• Tetris 99 - I unlocked one new theme doing daily Goals so many more to go.... Why did Nintendo think it was a good idea to have the goals all be in different game modes.
• Star Overdrive (demo) - I know nothing about this game but I saw the demo and decided to try it.
• Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - 258/270 main puzzles completed.

High Praise from the Verge especially. I'm really looking forward to this game so happy to see most of the responses are positive so far.

I already bought .cat Milk 2 but it's not an option in the survey sadly. The first game was super adorable.

I haven't played any of these, but I'm looking forward to Gal Guardians eventually because I enjoyed the first game.

@prw_88 In terms of 'how could Donkey Kong be as big as Zelda', it might be good to recall that they are both top-10 Nintendo franchises and before BotW, Zelda was much smaller than it is now (More than a third of all Zelda sales in history have been BotW/TotK). Total Zelda sales pre-Switch were larger than total Donkey Kong sales, but not massively larger. The New DK may not end up as a mega game, but I would say both DK Bonanza and Metroid Prime 4 have at least a chance of skyrocketing their franchises into popularity.

@charliecarrot Maybe the upcoming direct will show something new and change my mind about Mario Kart. I've heard a lot of people compare it to non-Nintendo racing franchises I've never been interested in. So far from what we've seen it looks to me like a combination of same 'ol Mario Kart (with nice graphics) and a couple gimmicks which look kinda neat but aren't really the type of new features I personally was hoping for.

@SuntannedDuck2 A combination of platforming and massive destruction has shown up in metroidvanias and been fun. I've never seen it done well in 3D however, so DK could be very cool.

To me, the new Mario Kart mostly looks like... Mario Kart. It looks good, but not a game I plan to get immediately or that I would be too sad to miss. The Donkey Kong game looks really original however. Since 3D Donkey Kong has barely happened in the past, this could easily be a franchise-defining game.

sooo... Kirby port for Switch 1 incoming?

I originally wanted the HD version but if I end up getting expansion pack and the HD version comes after that I definitely won't buy it. In general it kind of annoys me when two versions of the same game are released for the same console (I will count the time after Switch 2 releases as a new console even if an HD port is technically cross gen).

@N00BiSH To be fair, someone on Reddit suggested the same thing 9 hours ago.

@N00BiSH Between the movie and bringing back Mario vs DK, I feel like Nintendo is trying to link the franchises back together in people's minds. When I first saw the trailer I actually wondered if any Mario characters would make an appearance.

I refuse to believe any explanation other than that it is Pauline's and Donkey Kong's daughter.

Joking aside, maybe Pauline was visiting and got turned into a child because of magic rock sumthin sumthin and DK needs to find a cure.

I'm hoping for a little more. I've never gotten expansion pack but basic NSO used to be effectively free if you bought a voucher. Expansion pack is gaining some worth but not quite enough for me to want to subscribe to it for the next decade. If they add the Kirby Switch 2 edition I will be more tempted. Or if they added DS but that obviously wouldn't be soon.

Donkey Kong is my only definite buy, but I'm interested in the two Kirby games and Pokemon Z-A as well as FF7 Remake which wasn't in this survey.

Happy weekend and gaming everyone. A lot of my game time this week has been taken watching the direct and reactions 😅 I can't wait for the new 3D Donkey Kong. Probably not much gaming for me this weekend but I'll play a little of:

• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (NSO) - Just starting the second area. Great game; I love playing as Dixie.
• Tetris 99 - Just playing enough to do 1 or 2 daily goals per day. Lots of themes to still unlock.
• Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - 253/270 main puzzles completed.
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure - Not sure if I'll have time to play, but I'd like to snag an hour to do the basics and upgrade my friendship levels if I can.

I'm the same; I'm glad Nintendo added this for variety and for people who want it, but I will probably basically never use mouse mode. Maybe occasionally for games like Mario Maker 3. I'll get civ 7 eventually but for civ 6 I actually like the touch controls better than mouse so simply don't play it docked for that game.

This was already happening with game vouchers; they've just reformated it. With physical you have the option to resell later and something to display versus a little convenience and a slightly cheaper procer for digital. For many devs, digital eventually goes on extreme sales, but Nintendo is allergic to sales for both physical and digital so I don't see it being all that different than in the Switch 1 era which was already 50/50 physical versus digital according to Nintendo financial briefs.

For extra paid DLC, you will gain the ability to change the volume on your Switch 2.

On the one hand, great direct with almost everything I imagined.

On the other hand, the pricing, lack of some of the games I wanted most, and issues such as 100s of Switch 1 games with compatibility issues, has made me less convinced I should buy a Switch 2 on day 1.

I'll stick with my current one until we learn if they have fixed the d-pad issue or not.

The fact that almost 200 games have issues and Nintendo apparently hasn't yet fully tested 75% of the eShop games worries me.... I have quite a few games on the current list.

@SalvorHardin @kkslider5552000 The Napoleon Dynamite comparison is clearly only because this movie has the same director as Napoleon Dynamite. So, yeah, calling this movie a cult classic doesn't make sense, but comparing it to Napoleon Dynamite (favourably or otherwise) is kind of logical.

Pass for me but I hope everyone who watches enjoys it.

@Shepdawg1 The difference between audience and reviewer scores on Rotten Tomatoes can be hilarious; For Mario Movie it is 95% to 59%.

And the poll has the traditional 3% of voters who presumably haven't played the game voting 1/10. Are they trolls? Do they not understand how scoring works? Did they somehow misclick? We'll never know.

Edit: As an experiment I just went to the main Xenoblade X page and clicked score and it somehow registered me as 1/10. So ... I have changed my opinion; I think many of those 1/10s are misclicks rather than trolls. Note that I fixed my score but it would have been easy to not notice. Also I tried to recreate what happened and failed so I am confused — mobile jank maybe?

@snichelsticks You can add any links like this:

{url=https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/tetris_99} Tetris 99 {/url}

Change { to [ and } to ] and it becomes

Tetris 99

Happy weekend and gaming everyone. I haven't had a lot of time to play games this week, but here is what I've been playing or plan to play this weekend:

• Hello Kitty Island Adventure - I'm stuck plot-wise right now until I increase some friendship, so crafting and friendship farming it is.
• Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince - I snagged this on a good sale. Oddly it makes you redo the part from the demo but that was 2 years ago so I don't really mind.
• Tetris 99 - Just doing one or two daily tasks. I am slowly buying the themes I missed.
• Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - 240/270 main puzzles completed. I may take a bit of a Picross break; I've played a lot in the last year.
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (NSO) - Probably my next NSO game.

I'm not 100% decided on any of them, but I'm interested in the Pac-Man game, Pokemon Z-A, Fantasy Life i, Rhythm Heaven, and Gradius Origins.

Strongly disagree with Mario Maker 2... there are an insane amount of good ideas for Mario Maker 3 out there and some of them could take advantage of Switch 2's more space/ram etc. Just adding a little to Mario Maker 2 would be far too limiting.

In general, there are some third party games I think need a Switch 2 edition but I don't really think any Nintendo games do unless you mean very mild improvements like fixing the loading screens in Peach Showtime. I wouldn't say no to a BotW Switch 2 version if it was free or a cheap upgrade but it's not really needed.

I do hope the new Pokemon Legends game has a Switch 2 version just as a bit of a bonus for getting a Switch 2 early.

I always like comparing the Minecraft patch notes to Nintendo ones which say things like 'minor changes to improve gameplay experience'.

The YouTube video re-upload has hilariously snarky comments.

Not really my type of game, but I would be interested to see if it would sell well on Switch.

But also ... is the game ever actually getting out of early access?

I mean, I wouldn't complain about light gracefully reflecting off of my blocks... but fundamentally it's still blocks.

Happy weekend and gaming everyone. This week I have been playing:

• Hello Kitty Island Adventure - Mostly just running around, but also finally got around to doing more of the underwater quests and got the bubble wand.
• Tetris 99 - I've been doing the daily tasks even though some of them are basically speed run death in some random mode. 😆 After 6 years (?!) I suddenly decided I want to unlock everything. We'll see if the urge lasts until I'm finished.
• Super Mario Maker 2 - Another game I have been playing since 2019. Doing a little endless for the first time in a while.
• Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - 239/270 main puzzles completed. This game does a remarkably good job at making some of the later puzzles significantly harder without actually increasing the size of the puzzles.

@Leahi84 Nice to see someone else playing Hello Kitty when half of the site seems to be playing Xenoblade😅

I prefer to think he remains anonymous because he has evil relatives who would murder him if they knew he was now wealthy.

All I want to know is if it will have much better optimization for Switch 2.

@Morsel Dragon Quest Treasures was a pleasure. Such an adorable game. I'll probably grab Monsters; I usually really enjoy Dragon Quest spinoff games.

@Poco_Lypso Dragon Quest Monsters started as $60 in 2023 and permanently dropped to $40 in late 2024. The current sale is 40% off of the $40 price, so $24.

I'm very tempted by Dragon Quest Monsters. They first permanently reduced the price of that game and now are taking 40% off the reduced price, so it's 60% off the original price. I really enjoyed the demo.

Plus, last chance to get gold points so It's a good week to buy a game.

Lots of letters this month. Less controversial than sometimes, but fun reads. +1 to the good photography.

I am in the evil category of people who think the NSO emulation is 'good enough'. Occasionally the lag of a Gameboy game frustrates me but when I ask someone who played the original they usually say it had horrible lag also so I don't know if it's worse on NSO or not.

@ScalenePowers howlongtobeat can be hit or miss in terms of accuracy so I usually look at all the data it has, not just the main number. For Fantasian NEO dimension , it has 22 hours for main story but 60 hours for 'all styles'. I find my playtime in games is often closer to all styles unless I am trying to 100% it or speed run it. Also, for that game, only 14 people submitted hours for 'main story' and the times ranged from 17 hours to 45 hours which makes me suspect people had different opinions of what counted as main story. The website also lets you see each submitted score and who submitted it. The spread they give for 'all styles' is 35 hours to 127 hours 😆 So good luck I guess.

@Riku3456 The site gives an average of 81 hours for 100% so if you did the side content and took 80 hours you are actually right on top of the howlongtobeat prediction.