FlyingDunsparce

I remember playing Space Invaders on my calculator in school.

Honestly pricing is an issue with all of these ACA games. There's so many games I'd like but can't justify spending 8 bucks on. I think I bought 5 total with 4 of those being on sale. If it were 2 or 3 bucks per game it would be so much more affordable and I would go on massive buying spree. But as it is they're all just passing me by.

Ver 3.0.0 and all it does is add a new language and a camera option? I was expecting something bigger like new challenges or even just some outfits or something. Very strange.

I got Hollow Knight on sale but still haven't played it so the Switch 2 Edition might be a good excuse to finally play it whenever that releases.

I've literally never heard of MindsEye before this so that wasn't obvious to me.

I played FE Shadows a few times when it released and didn't care for the gameplay at all so yeah, this feels deserved.

I'm waiting to see if these games are playable without any accessories. If it's absolutely required I guess I'll pick up the cardboard but only as a last resort.

Very reasonable. We're talking about employees refusing to sell mass-produced pieces of paper. That absolutely warrants ripping their heads off.

@Markatron84 yeah I know about that, but like you said that's still a mess having to scroll through that. There's two easy ways they can fix this.

1: have a costume sub-screen under each character. This makes way too much sense so I'll accept option 2: first have all the characters in order, then after that all the costumes in order with the x-button swapping to the current layout of having all the costumes appear in order alongside their character for easy access.

@KayFiOS the character select screen in World is the single biggest problem in the game. Like it's incomprehensibly bad. There is absolutely zero logic applied to it at all and I cannot believe Nintendo thought it was okay to send the game out like that. Like even if we accept that costumes get their own character slot, that still leaves them in a completely random order with actual characters randomly mixed in with them.

I just want to say I love unlockable difficulties. Prime games have always had this and it gives you a reward for beating the game that also invites replayability. If all the difficulties are unlocked from the start it feels less special to play hard mode and it takes away that reward for beating the game. Besides, Metroid games are literally designed to be played multiple times so if that's a complaint this might not be the right franchise for you.

Since the IP holders are chill like that hopefully the Gamecube games can get added to NSO in the future

@AussieMcBucket @Moroboshi876 the GB, GBA and GCN do use the orignal boot sounds whenever you use the secret boot shown in this article. The coin sound is just the default for all consoles for the regular red screen boot.

@Markiemania95 the GBA uses the Mario Advance coin sound.

Yeah no. This close to release I don't want to see anything else. This has been my most anticipated game for over 8 years now and I'm praying it'll be worth the wait. I can't believe we're actually just about a week away now. It doesn't feel real.

Yup! My copy already came in today.

Frame rate over visuals any day. I actually got this for free on Steam 5 years ago but never played it since I hardly ever game on PC. Don't think I'll be picking this up because my backlog is infinite but glad to see it here.

@contractcooker at the time I wrote that (14 hours ago) the website said it was unsupported. It's fixed now though.

LET'S GOOO FINALLY! I literally checked last night when the update went live and it still said it was unsupported and was so disappointed. But they were just late to update the website thankfully. Now I can finally continue my playthough that I started years ago and stopped for some reason.

They also added Switch 2 to the console list so we're one step closer to getting the Mario Kart World ost added.

Nier still not fixed 🥲

None since I haven't played it. I did play the demo however and I'd give that a 6. I was utterly bored by it. Especially city trial felt like a complete waste of time. Really the only thing it has going for it are the visuals.

30fps is a shame of course, but it's actually the same fps as BT3 on the Wii if you're familiar with that game. From what little I've played so far it feels pretty good to play but it might be an issue if you're already used to 60fps on other consoles.

Since they openly told us about it this isn't an issue at all. They shouldn't have to change their entire park just to accommodate some people. Personally I most likely won't ever be able to visit at all since I don't live in Japan and that's just how it is.

My digital preorder was cancelled and whenever I try to go to the purchase screen I get an error code, both on the Switch 2 itself and on my phone.

I'm still wearing the default outfit because I really like it but also because it takes me out of the story if I change it. Maybe in the postgame I'll mess around with it a bit but that's about it.

The Japanese box art feels like the villagers are running because the moon is about to crash.

Original for me. I hate modern camera controls and always go straight to the options to revert them back. When I got No Man's Sky I was shocked to find out it wouldn't let me change the x-axis and it made the game borderline unplayable for me.

Surely they'll add DK64 alongside this right? Right? Either way I'm happy two of my favourite Kongs are being acknowledged again.

Anyone remember that Avatar Flash fighting game from back in the day? Good times.

I was convinced it's Baby Rosalina from the Galaxy movie, but it does have Pikmin music despite no Pikmin appearing on screen.

I want to be excited for this game but I'm really not. I also still need to play the AOC DLC so this game will go on the "eventually" list for when I have time for it. (I'll definitely get to it someday though with it being a Zelda game and all)

I've already pre-ordered the game on the eshop. First time I've ever done that but unfortunately the "physical" is a key card which I refuse to buy. I've been wanting this game ever since it was first announced so I'll make an exception and get it digitally for full price.

I hope Nintendo sue them

Price should never be a factor in a review. You don't know how much someone paid for the product, they could've gotten it for free as a gift in which case it's completely irrelevant.

That being said it's difficult reviewing two 10/10 games if you try to factor in people who've played them before and expect new content, with the price possibly factoring into that setting expectations. But ultimately it's up to each person to decide for themselves whether they deem the product worth the price, with the review outlining the product.

Frame rate priority is the only option here imo. At least for Switch 2, where handheld doesn't even have a difference in resolution alongside it.

@AussieMcBucket @Daniel36 I get what you're saying and obviously the games are what it's all about. But when it comes to a collection like this the games will all already have individual reviews you can look up. At that point just apply the score of the highest reviewed game to the collection as that's the best it will get with everything else being a bonus. Obviously barring any emulation/performance issues. In that case the score makes sense.

The reason I said the score was unfair is because I don't think it gives justice to the competency of the collection itself. A 4 is a failing grade which means the collection should've been better than it was. So let's ask three questions:

• Does it include all the original Bubsy games?
• Do all the games run properly?
• Does it include any QOL features and bonus content?

I'm pretty sure all of these question can be answered with YES. So then I wonder what else this collection should've done to earn a passing grade?

It's difficult in this case because you obviously don't want to give people the impression that these are good games. The 4 is a good way to make sure people know that. But it doesn't give the developers any feedback on what they could've done better other than that they shouldn't have made this collection to begin with.

I feel like the score is kind of unfair. It sounds like the collection itself is great, just the games in it aren't. Which then begs the question of what is actually being reviewed.

I have no stake in this since I've never actually played any of these games and I've heard they're very bad so I guess the score is justified in that sense. But that would also mean there's no way the score could ever be any higher than this no matter what they do.

Either way I appreciate games being preserved even if they're bad.

I have no intention of buying this game but I am a little curious and know next to nothing about it so I might actually be interested in trying a demo.

Did I read this correctly and is the new '+' content added on top of the old content? Unlike Super Mario Party Jamboree where the old content was untouched and the '+' content was it's own thing? These naming conventions are incredibly confusing.

Xenoblade anime

@Vyacheslav333 "a fresh visual novel from the minds at Arc System Works that eschews written or spoken dialogue in favour of relying on visuals and music to tell its narrative."

A farming game? Direct confirmed.

"Made COM weaker in everything other than “Battle”."

I guess I can now brag about 3-starring all the grand prixs and knockout tours on mirror mode before this update. This feels like how in Smash Ultimate I unlocked all the characters before they nerfed the cpu battles.

Jokes aside, this probably means more Switch 1 game are compatible with Switch 2 now.

@siavm they can have part of the data on the card with the rest needing a download. This was common practice on Switch for games that couldn't fit everything on the card.

I'm glad we got these out of the way because I actually wanted some of these games on here and I wasn't ready for the comments if Ice Climber had taken up the one game a week slot.

As much as I'm very excited for DK Bananza, I won't be getting it at launch. I'm most likely still going to pick it up sometime this summer but I don't feel like I'm ready yet to jump into a brand new game. I'm also waiting for some kind of Direct to tell us how the rest of the year is going to look.

The three games I'm almost guaranteed to pick up this year though are:

• DK Bananza
• Pokemon Legends Z-A
• Metroid Prime 4

While I appreciate them adding different versions of soundtracks I find it very strange they decided to add this now when MM and TP are still missing in terms of 3D Zeldas.

The real problem is that they have both the European and NA versions in the app. Meaning that every game they add actually gets added twice. For the other consoles this wasn't really an issue since the file sizes were small anyway, but for GameCube this adds up fast.

They should simply add only PAL versions to Europe and only NTSC versions to NA. With the exception of region exclusives like Doshin the Giant where NA should get the PAL version and vice versa.

People who want to play versions from the other regions can just change their account to those regions and download those versions of the NSO apps.

@Pillowpants depends on how badly you want to play as Peachette. If you can resists the urge (I know it's hard) then the game is exactly the same experience as on Wii U.

Cool, but Sunshine is sorely lacking. Needs to be the next Mario game ost.

The only games here I've played so far are Yoshi and the original Yoshi's Island. I've gotta say, I really didn't like Yoshi's Island. Probably one of the worst Nintendo games I've played. Conceptually it should be a good game but for some reason I just didn't have fun.