@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.
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 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'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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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😅
@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.
Blood Lines : Magicians' Chase2 - Snagged this on sale recently. Basically a Castlevania-lite where you can swap between quite a few different characters you pick up as you proceed. Cute little game so far.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure - Haven't managed to play all week but hoping to play this weekend. I should really explore the ocean more and find more teleport locations now that I can survive under water.
Oh, it's one of the weeks where we only get one poll choice. 🤔 I guess I'll put Tetris 99.
@CRB1984 the mobile roots of the game are evident in the game loop; it's sort of half like animal crossing and half like dailies. It's a little odd in that game time mostly isn't dependent on real time so it doesn't matter if you miss a few days but how many actions you do is limited by real days (plus events are seasonal based on real days).
The main daily task is to give gifts to all the villagers. And you can also harvest, craft, fish, catch animals, etc. every day. And there are various daily/weekly quests
The main way it is different than animal crossing is the more rpg-ish quest system. Also there are puzzle dungeons and things like that. And a fair amount of exploration.
In the long run you also have lots of houses to decorate so that part has a bit of an ACNH happy home paradise DLC feel.
Compared to ACNH, all the npcs have both more personality and simultaneously even worse dialogue. Basically talking to them randomly doesn't give dialogue but they all have a lot of plot and lore.
Ooh, also you get to be an animal yourself rather than a human which is nice.
I've played and enjoyed the main Dadish 2D trilogy as well as Dadish 3D. All fun games. I kind of wish this one was in the Dadish series also but I'll probably try it out anyways.
@LXP8 I mean... BotW came out for Switch and Wii U the same day so it wasn't actually a port, just a cross-generational release; the Switch version was made for Switch. Number 4 on the list, however, was a Wii U port. And several others farther down.
Not having choices would be annoying, but I suppose I would vote for Mario Maker 2 as the only Switch game I have played consistently for 6 years and for a total of hundreds of hours. There is enough variety in the game that I could easily get thousands of hours of play if I had no alternatives
@GrailUK There is a good chance your home wifi router is old enough to not support wi-fi 6 but Nintendo will be very aware that most people won't have new routers so I doubt it will effect your experience in practice.
Ironically, Wi-Fi 7 devices just started getting certified but it's pretty rare so it makes sense for Nintendo to use the newish protocol which is currently popular.
I'm not sure how much this will effect in practice since many speed related things are capped less by your home wifi network and more by Nintendo's servers. Hopefully things will improve on the Nintendo side as well during the Switch 2 era.
I admit, the constant comparisons to a series I've never been interested in (Xenoblade) isn't really selling this game for me. The combination of traditional play and active catching in Arceus has been my personal favorite combat in the series; I was hoping for more of the same. If they're using the Legends sub-series to experiment that is fine, but I'm hoping gen 10 will be a bit more traditional.
I have momodora and afterlove on my wishlist. The only February game I bought was Jumper Jon, a really cute metroidvania where you have 30 seconds to reach each new checkpoint or you die. Exploring while frantically running to a new checkpoint is a really creative twist and they made the game easy enough that it keeps you on your toes without being annoying.
@Princess_Lilly To be fair, Phantom Brave did get discussed in a couple NL articles and a NL YouTube video before it came out. I'm surprised it didn't get a review, but perhaps the developers didn't give them a review copy for some reason. Or maybe the review is in process. Or maybe they just have too many reviews to write (they did 13 in February) and had to focus on shorter games. Hard to guess.
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Re: Nintendo: Switch 2's Launch Titles Are "Sort Of" Genre- And Franchise-Defining
@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.
Re: Nintendo: Switch 2's Launch Titles Are "Sort Of" Genre- And Franchise-Defining
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.
Re: Nintendo Understands Switch Owners May Not Be "Ready To Jump To Switch 2"
sooo... Kirby port for Switch 1 incoming?
Re: Talking Point: Zelda: Wind Waker Is On Switch 2 - Do You Still Want A WW:HD Port?
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).
Re: Did Donkey Kong Bananza Key Art Accidentally Leak A Big Surprise?
@N00BiSH To be fair, someone on Reddit suggested the same thing 9 hours ago.
Re: Did Donkey Kong Bananza Key Art Accidentally Leak A Big Surprise?
@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.
Re: Did Donkey Kong Bananza Key Art Accidentally Leak A Big Surprise?
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.
Re: Nintendo Outlines Switch Online's Updated Tiers Including Switch 2 Exclusives
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.
Re: Community: Which Switch 2 Games Are You Wishlisting?
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.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (5th April)
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:
Re: Opinion: Oh No, I'm Not A Fan Of Switch 2's Mouse Mode At All
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.
Re: Digital Switch 2 Games Being Cheaper Than Physical Is A "Challenge", Says Retailer 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.
Re: Nintendo Expects You To Pay For Its Switch 2 "Welcome Tour" User Guide
For extra paid DLC, you will gain the ability to change the volume on your Switch 2.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct?
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.
Re: The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller - All New Features Revealed
I'll stick with my current one until we learn if they have fixed the d-pad issue or not.
Re: Which Nintendo Switch Games Aren't Fully Compatible With Switch 2?
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.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of The Minecraft Movie Are In
@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.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of The Minecraft Movie Are In
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%.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition?
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?
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th March)
@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
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th March)
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:
Re: Nintendo Showcases Every Switch Direct Game In New Infographic
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.
Re: Talking Point: Which Switch Game Needs A 'Nintendo Switch 2 Edition' The Most?
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.
Re: Minecraft's Latest Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Patch Notes
I always like comparing the Minecraft patch notes to Nintendo ones which say things like 'minor changes to improve gameplay experience'.
Re: Nintendo Reuploads Game Vouchers Trailer With Switch 2 Fine Print
The YouTube video re-upload has hilariously snarky comments.
Re: Forget The Lawsuit, Pocketpair Says Palworld On Switch 2 Is "100% Worth Considering"
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?
Re: Minecraft Is Getting A Graphics Upgrade
I mean, I wouldn't complain about light gracefully reflecting off of my blocks... but fundamentally it's still blocks.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd March)
Happy weekend and gaming everyone. This week I have been playing:
@Leahi84 Nice to see someone else playing Hello Kitty when half of the site seems to be playing Xenoblade😅
Re: The Reason For Balatro Dev's Anonymity Is Pretty Straightforward, Actually
I prefer to think he remains anonymous because he has evil relatives who would murder him if they knew he was now wealthy.
Re: Atelier Yumia Update Intends To Address Optimisation On "Some Platforms"
All I want to know is if it will have much better optimization for Switch 2.
Re: Square Enix Publisher Sale Brings Delightful Discounts To A Boatload Of RPGs
@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.
Re: Square Enix Publisher Sale Brings Delightful Discounts To A Boatload Of RPGs
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.
Re: Mailbox: Switch 2 FOMO, Spark Games, Pancakes & BOTW - Nintendo Life Letters
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.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th March)
@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.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th March)
Happy weekend and gaming everyone. Another pretty busy week so I have mostly been playing games I can play for 5 minutes at a time:
Oh, it's one of the weeks where we only get one poll choice. 🤔 I guess I'll put Tetris 99.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Land New Update As Series Passes 200 Million Sales
I am responsible for 2 of those 200 million 😃 I'll probably get more of the games later.
Re: Review: Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist Of Memories & The Envisioned Land (Switch) - A Bold New Direction That Strains The Switch
Switch 2 performance patch please? I'm not a huge performance snob but if I can get a better experience by waiting, I will take it.
Re: Hello Kitty Island Adventure Sales Surpass Half A Million In 30 Days
@CRB1984 the mobile roots of the game are evident in the game loop; it's sort of half like animal crossing and half like dailies. It's a little odd in that game time mostly isn't dependent on real time so it doesn't matter if you miss a few days but how many actions you do is limited by real days (plus events are seasonal based on real days).
The main daily task is to give gifts to all the villagers. And you can also harvest, craft, fish, catch animals, etc. every day. And there are various daily/weekly quests
The main way it is different than animal crossing is the more rpg-ish quest system. Also there are puzzle dungeons and things like that. And a fair amount of exploration.
In the long run you also have lots of houses to decorate so that part has a bit of an ACNH happy home paradise DLC feel.
Compared to ACNH, all the npcs have both more personality and simultaneously even worse dialogue. Basically talking to them randomly doesn't give dialogue but they all have a lot of plot and lore.
Ooh, also you get to be an animal yourself rather than a human which is nice.
Re: Hello Kitty Island Adventure Sales Surpass Half A Million In 30 Days
It's a pretty fun and very adorable game. I'm enjoying my time with it.
Re: Jupiter's Latest Picross Game Brings More Doraemon Action To Switch
I may grab this one. Picross -LogiartGrimoire- is my favorite in the series, but I need a new Picross game periodically.
@HammerGalladeBro there are some really good non-Picross-branded Picross/nonograms games too like the Piczle Cross series. Switch is Picross heaven.
Re: Dadish Dev's Adorable Gravity-Bending Platformer Jumps Onto Switch Today
I've played and enjoyed the main Dadish 2D trilogy as well as Dadish 3D. All fun games. I kind of wish this one was in the Dadish series also but I'll probably try it out anyways.
Re: Poll: What Switch Game Could You Not Live Without?
@LXP8 I mean... BotW came out for Switch and Wii U the same day so it wasn't actually a port, just a cross-generational release; the Switch version was made for Switch. Number 4 on the list, however, was a Wii U port. And several others farther down.
Re: Poll: What Switch Game Could You Not Live Without?
Not having choices would be annoying, but I suppose I would vote for Mario Maker 2 as the only Switch game I have played consistently for 6 years and for a total of hundreds of hours. There is enough variety in the game that I could easily get thousands of hours of play if I had no alternatives
Re: Switch 2 Filings Show Support For Wi-Fi 6
@GrailUK There is a good chance your home wifi router is old enough to not support wi-fi 6 but Nintendo will be very aware that most people won't have new routers so I doubt it will effect your experience in practice.
Re: Switch 2 Filings Show Support For Wi-Fi 6
Ironically, Wi-Fi 7 devices just started getting certified but it's pretty rare so it makes sense for Nintendo to use the newish protocol which is currently popular.
I'm not sure how much this will effect in practice since many speed related things are capped less by your home wifi network and more by Nintendo's servers. Hopefully things will improve on the Nintendo side as well during the Switch 2 era.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th March)
Happy weekend and gaming everyone. Very busy week for me and I work this weekend so not a lot of game time but I played a little bit:
Re: Opinion: Legends Z-A's Xenoblade-Style Battles Are Pokémon's Most Exciting Evolution In Years
I admit, the constant comparisons to a series I've never been interested in (Xenoblade) isn't really selling this game for me. The combination of traditional play and active catching in Arceus has been my personal favorite combat in the series; I was hoping for more of the same. If they're using the Legends sub-series to experiment that is fine, but I'm hoping gen 10 will be a bit more traditional.
Re: Nintendo Places Outside Top 20 In Metacritic's 15th Annual Game Publisher Rankings
@nhSnork @HugoGED Echoes of Wisdom was seriously under-rated in my opinion. It was easily my 2024 GotY and is in my top 5 favorite Switch games.
That 85 metacritic score deserved to be a 91.
Re: Hamster's Arcade Archives Celebrates Eight Years Of Switch eShop Releases
I apparently have 7:
Only 448 more to buy to get the whole collection!
Where is the big sale to celebrate this anniversary? 🤔
@Solomon_Rambling Some of those I definitely wouldn't have gotten if NSO had existed in the early days.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects (February 2025)
I have momodora and afterlove on my wishlist. The only February game I bought was Jumper Jon, a really cute metroidvania where you have 30 seconds to reach each new checkpoint or you die. Exploring while frantically running to a new checkpoint is a really creative twist and they made the game easy enough that it keeps you on your toes without being annoying.
@Princess_Lilly To be fair, Phantom Brave did get discussed in a couple NL articles and a NL YouTube video before it came out. I'm surprised it didn't get a review, but perhaps the developers didn't give them a review copy for some reason. Or maybe the review is in process. Or maybe they just have too many reviews to write (they did 13 in February) and had to focus on shorter games. Hard to guess.