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@The_Pixel_King I’m all for 3DS remake/remasters on Switch. Kid Icarus: Uprising next, please!

Took the words right out of my mouth! I mentioned this game on the announcement article yesterday about the coming Direct. With this release I'm so hoping they consider Uprising!

To throw another curveball I'm hoping for a Switch HD re-release of Kid Icarus Uprising. That game's weapon mechanics, gameplay and especially multiplayer is too damn good to be lost forever in the 3DS side of the world. I just can't accept that Masahiro Sakurai will be spending the rest of his days being a YouTuber. I'm confident he's still got enough lead in the pencil to get that game updated on Switch if Nintendo wants it done.

I'm going to throw a huge curveball and say being summer season I'm hoping for anything of a new Wave Race and/or a HD re-release of Wave Race Blue Storm I loved that one! C'mon Nintendo, make my day with the ultimate unexpected surprise!

I may have to keep my eye on this. Looks like a super fun kickback game. I miss that old school arcade style sports games.

There was a time in our household arcade style sports games dominated. Especially during the N64 era. At any given time we would be all over NFL Blitz/Blitz 2000, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey, and most especially NBA Hangtime. So unfortunate pretty much that genre nowadays is nonexistent in mainstream because those games were very popular at the time.

Put so many hours into this on the Switch. It was one of the best kick back and just have a blast games I've played in a long time. Especially on a day off and boozing. Unfortunately I had to part with it when the servers shut down. The peer to peer matchmaking made the online virtually unplayable. I have so many good memories of being Jason and a counselor. Win or lose it was still so much fun. R.I.P.

With all the various Kirby games they keep releasing on the service it's starting to baffle me why they haven't released Kirby's Pinball Land yet. That one to me seemed like a for sure release by now. That game used to create intense high score rivalries amongst my brothers. That game was also a very kick back and chill time killer back in the day.

Yeah this is by far one of my favorite ads. As many have already said its relatable to many of us older gamers. I often feel like I'm constantly grinding to just get a handful of moments a week to get in some gaming time. Good one, Nintendo!

I'm very surprised with the ambition and full speed ahead approach with this business model in today's conditions. I mean 'live service' games are struggling and shutting down left and right. I get this IP has more weight behind it, but I'm baffled they're going all in with the marketing style. In one way you could appreciate them being very open about what you'll be getting into but on another way it's quite ambitious to automatically expect consumers to hook their credit cards on file and go nuts. I don't support this practice at all but at least you'll know upfront what's going on. I don't see this lasting longer than the usual 1.5 - 2 years lifespan with the expected social media post from the developers thanking the "community" for the support but unfortunately it's shutting down. In other words "we got your money and now is the best time to peace out so we can come up with the next venture to do it all again! Suckers!"

I will probably sound like a big, whiny baby but this whole MK "anniversary" celebration was a total bust. I think I let my imagination run a little too wild because I for whatever reason got all hyped up for a possible MK Trilogy remaster or something along those lines. It's my fault though I bought into everyone's hopes and dreams for the possibility of the classic games being revamped I forgot to notice the small fact that absolutely nothing was officially announced.

@MegaMari0 Aliens: colonial marines.

By far the best representation on the subject. I'll never forget that time period in my life because I remember physically feeling my heart hurting when it all came to light.

The only silver lining of that experience is that it really helped prepare me for future marketing/hype by Companies and keep myself in check. A very "wait and see" or "I'll believe it when I see it" approach to virtually everything gaming since then. And believe me it's paid off more times than I'd like to admit.

The first person parts in the SNES Jurassic Park used to scare the hell out of me. I had a hard time just watching my brother play those parts let alone myself doing it. The music for those parts was so dark and moody for its time. Honestly, I don't think I could do it now because even watching it on YouTube gives me a slight chill. I'm such a wuss

Still waiting for Skitchin' and General Chaos. Those 2 alone will be worth the price of admission any day of the week for me!

I love this game and still regularly play it. However, as some have said since there are already a few Kirby themes I was looking forward to more variety. As we know a game's music can really add some spice to Tetris 99 so with games like Bayonetta 3, Astral Chain (especially in my opinion!), Metroid Prime (yeah I know there's already a Dread theme), and Doom 2016/Eternal are good examples I see lots of potential for fun themes. At first, I thought there would only be Nintendo system/first party exclusive themes however with the Monster Hunter Rise theme that opened the door to all sorts of possibilities in my mind.

Nothing against Kirby I'm happy for all the Kirby fans swimming in their fandom. I just believe there's all sorts of potential for good themes of a bigger variety instead of multiples of the same subject matter. Oh well it's not the biggest deal. Just my 2 cents.

I understand this very well. This dude breached a confidentiality agreement that many Companies (depending on the industry) have you sign when you start.

Perfect example is me. I work for a certain major Corporation who's mascot is a certain rodent (mouse). I signed (and every few months have to resign) confidentiality agreement(s) when it comes to unnannounced projects, exclusive sneak previews, etc. in regards to anything that hasn't officially been announced to the public (and even if it already has in some cases). If you break any of that in any fashion you are hunted down, terminated and pretty much guaranteed you will never work for that Company ever again. This Company I work for even has a dedicated department that handles all that. When we get granted exclusive previews of new attractions and/or lands/experiences our phones are put into a sealed pouch in front of Security and opened afterward in front of Security. Even taking a selfie backstage can get you canned. So yeah, I get it this was all on the dude. If anything Nintendo was just ensuring that Gamestop held up their end of the confidentiality agreement so they can hold them accountable for future releases.

I know its comparing apples to oranges with these games, however still to this day I'm still waiting for a proper follow up to the 2001 PC game Aliens vs Predator 2 from Monolith Productions. That game was everything and all things Aliens to me in regards to single player campaign and most especially the chaotic multiplayer. It will never be re-released and/or remastered due to by far the worst licensing hell of a rabbit hole but since that game nothing has come close to that experience. My peak Aliens/Predator time of life.

Back on topic cloud gaming can die of gonorrhea and rot in hell.

Would you like a cookie, son?

It was exactly what I was hoping it would be. Entertaining and fun. I don't need it to reinvent the wheel. They did good with what they had to work with.

The content of Mario they can pull from spans decades so its not possible to put EVERYTHING in to satisfy all. Quick example for me is I was hoping there would be a haunted house/Boo part of the movie where Boos are chasing the characters around (and playing their awesome music from Galaxy) but all I got was a cameo of King Boo. I get it they can only do so much so I was fine with at least an acknowledgement of the Boos in some form. What they were able to cram in there must have been after hundreds of hours of meetings with the creative team(s) and coming to a middle ground agreement must have been a nightmare.

Overall what they were able to accomplish is a miracle at the same time keeping it entertaining while paying homage to the source material. Kudos, Nintendo and Universal!

I'm totally fine with this movie for as long as they want to prop it up. Take the time and don't over dilute it so fast. As some have mentioned nowadays many Companies when they have a "hit" of whatever the IP is they immediately start announcing more movies, spin off shows, prequels, books etc. or whatever to ride the wave. What makes it worse is they announce all this stuff without any actual plans in place. They just want to appease the shareholders that there's guaranteed more money incoming for years to come based on this initial success. However, doing that in my opinion dilutes the brand and I actually lose interest because now I'm expecting that usual cannon fodder of content before the next actual "good" product to get excited for. Even then though when that happens my attention span is usually elsewhere. That's just my take.

As someone already said the whole Marvel thing has programmed consumers to not enjoy the now as much as to be more hungry for everything else coming after to so it can all eventually connect together for a (big) event.

Wow now this takes me way back. That Samus poster came packaged with the game and it was a cool surprise to little me back then. Of course I lost it although I always suspected one of my older brothers hid it from me cause they liked to do that to my stuff all the time. LOL I think I even scribbled a 'missing with reward' poster and put it on the fridge. I'll definitely grab one if they make it available in the NA so I can be finally reunited with it after almost 30 years

C'mon, Nintendo! If there are any more Kirby games in the pipeline be sure to add Kirby's Pinball Land. That game used to have all my brothers and I fight over my Game Boy to compete for high scores! Surprisingly so good!

For me N64 Bowser's Castle will be worth the price of admission alone if it happens. C'mon, Nintendo, make it so!

Now that looks like an anxiety inducing experience alright. They should put a warning on the game about anyone with a heart condition to play at your own risk

@jump yeah or even have a boss named "Mr. Brownstone" or a level called "Pretty Tied Up".

SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Had my pass holder preview last week and had a blast in there. They let us in early to get a head start before it got busier, too. Cannot wait to go back

Had my pass holder preview last week. They let us in early before our scheduled start time to get a head start before it got a lot busier. Really, really awesome what they accomplished in there. Had a blast and can't wait to go back!

My scheduled pass holder preview at Universal for Super Nintendo World is tomorrow 1pm - 3pm so it looks like I'll be drowning in all things Nintendo tomorrow! While in the midst of that I'll try to catch some of the news. They should broadcast it off Bowser's Castle or something!

Just hook it to my veins!!

The level "Lair of the Blind Ones" in Turok 2. Even WITH an online walkthrough AND the QoL 'save anytime' feature I still got so frustratingly lost. How the hell anyone back in the original release days got past that level is beyond me. I had it back then but even I couldn't get past the 2nd level.

I have my pass member preview reservation for February 8th at 1pm! If I knew these rehearsals would be happening I'd be there all day every day waiting!

I really need to rewatch the movies because I only made it through most of them and just stopped for whatever reason. If I remember correctly I did enjoy them at the time. I was just telling the lady last night we need to watch them all so we can have a better appreciation for the Harry Potter area at Universal Hollywood since we're pass holders. The land is dope but I'm sure I'll enjoy it more once I get to know better what I'm looking at.

Maybe after we do that I will be more inclined to give this game another look.

So excited! As a passholder I'm hoping to secure a sneak preview reservation today when they open up. I'll report back later if I can get one!

UPDATE

The lady and I were able to secure our pass member preview reservation for February 8th at 1pm! Yahoo!!! I'll be sure to load up a few Duff Beers and a Jurrassic World IPA beforehand

NA/Europe all the way I'm confident even Stevie Wonder would agree.

On a side note I was big into this game when it released. It was one of my first games I got for my DS Lite.

@jbreez00 Well that obviously flew over your head. I was quoting a line from the first "Ace Ventura" movie except saying Dan Marino I switched in cloud gaming. I just thought it would be funny and I was confident at least one person would get it.

Back on the subject matter I'm sure cloud gaming works best for some. I just don't want it being the lazy way of porting. The Switch has too many examples of good ports and exclusives that prove its capabilities. Enough said.

Cloud gaming should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell.

Would you like a cookie, son?

I'm surprised no developer has figured out and/or incorporated a way to have different options to choose from for their games. Could make some of them rewards for beating the game on difficulty "X" or something like that.

No stability with this update? That's unfortunate cause my Switch has been falling over lately.

Situations like this always prove to me how history just keeps repeating itself. This to me is similar when parents were worried about rock n' roll and metal music making the kids rebellious in the 70's and 80's. Not too long ago there was all this hoopla about getting Joe Rogan off the air JUST LIKE what Howard Stern went through pretty much his whole career years before.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg of examples that are out there.

I feel like I'm seeing a Street Fighter crossover a lot more often in the last couple of years. It's like the bean counters over at Capcom just said "f#%k it" and started taking any request for licensing.

Wouldn't surprise me there is a collaboration with a future "Just Dance 2XXX" in the pipeline with Ryu and Co. dancing around.

This game was such a gem it's criminal that it's locked to the past. I remember the multiplayer being so deep and addictive! If this was brought to Switch properly, I can see it being a massive hit just for its multiplayer alone. However, the campaign was really good too!

Having said all that, I must agree with everyone else that the controls would need a major revision.

I've had Bayonetta 3 since release but my job eats up so much of free time. This last week I finally get some time to play some games and I get distracted with...some out of left field indie game called WarPips. It just hooked me and Bayonetta 3 may have been put to the side. LOL I turned on Bayonetta 3, did the Prologue mission...then went back to WarPips.

Prodeus is another one that is distracting me too. I haven't purchased it yet but its on my wish list. If it goes on any kind of sale before I finally get to Bayonetta 3 I'm worried I'll once again push her back again. I've waited so long for her return and it's baffling me how easy I'm getting distracted with these unexpected indie games!

Anyone else ever have this problem?

@sevex it's just a tool to abuse people's OCD to "maximize player engagement" at all times. I like to be able to take a break from a game and not feel anxiety.

You hit the nail right on the head. Perfectly well said. Kudos!

@Bizzyb This is how it is now with virtually any industry especially anything entertainment. They'll keep pushing it and pushing it with ridiculous paywalls and the like. As long as the bottom line is on an upward trek no matter what "backlash" they face all that matters is the bottom line. Once that either stagnates or dips down only THEN something may change.

@Gitface You're absolutely right. That game was not in any way a jump scare type experience. Maybe that was the secret sauce. In a lot of ways jump scares are easier to accomplish even in non-scary games.

Pretty much all the sounds in that game were each of their own characters. The radio static, the heavy windy type of music that would play when outside in certain areas, the enemies, all the creaky sounds of the environment, the footstep sounds, I could go on and on. If I remember correctly there were many times in the game where there was no music and just the lifelike ambient sounds of the environment were all there was. Combine all that with the PS1 graphic style and slow drip story development (but done in a way that keeps you wanting to continue on but scared with every forward step) and you had lightning in a bottle.

@Gamecuber Oh wow you totally reminded me about my own Alien 3 game experience. For me though it was the SNES version. For whatever reason with that game the opening intro scared me AND the 'Game Over' screen with the alien looking at the screen along with that accompanying music. The game itself didn't scare me. It was just those 2 parts. Very random but those 2 parts just got me good.

It was a very similar experience to Contra 3: The Alien Wars on SNES. The game itself was nothing. BUT for whatever reason that opening intro of seeing a cityscape, then a big explosion happens followed by a scary looking demon face then it goes silent.

Yeah, I was a weird kid. Sharptooth from "The Land Before Time" even wrecked me

Right off the top of my head is the original Silent Hill (1999) on the PS1. The most interesting fact though I must mention is I technically never actually played it! Back in those days it was pretty common when hanging/staying over at my best friend's house I'd watch him play through games (if we weren't playing 2 player games on anything else). Sometimes it was just as fun to do that together. Anyways pretty much anything from that game scared the bejesus out of us. Most especially the part where you pick up a phone and you hear your daughter crying for help.

It felt like we both were going through such a nightmare scenario...even though it was just a game. Such atmosphere.

I consider myself one of those players that uses builds/weapons (and also looking cool!) based on how much fun I'm having. Not based on having the highest numbers possible in all categories. With that being said I'd like them to tweak the HBG crouching fire to be more like MHGU. I have a Normal shot build that I like to use to mix up the fights and use the crouching fire a lot. However, in its current state it can sometimes be a buzzkill keeping one eye on the heat gauge all the time. In MHGU I LOVED the power run, followed by a cool looking slide and then just emptying a full clip into the beast. Then doing it again. And again. Gave me such a thrill. The way it is now it kinda has the DNA of that experience but definitely is lacking. If they tweaked it more like MHGU I'm confident you'd see more HBG use.

I'm really curious to how all the typical media journos are going to handle this when they took her side immediately and dumped on Platinum before any due process. Kinda reminds me of that infamous CNN broadcast headline "Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest..."

@theModestMouse I also got Call of Juarez: Gunslinger as it was on eShop sale for $1.99. Been having a blast with it, definitely worth 2 bucks.

Yeah awhile back when it was on sale for super cheap I picked it up randomly because it was on the bottom of my backlog at the time. Soooo glad I did because there was just something about that game that had me really hooked. There's nothing groundbreaking about it. There's just something to that game that hit all the right notes. I didn't finally put it down till I got a perfect score on every duel.

I was all over Wario Land: SML3 back during the Game Boy days. Really dug it.

However, to show how far back I go my favorite Wario game was Virtual Boy Wario Land. That was a really fun game! I remember being worried I'd go blind playing it because I'd play it for hours at a time (Lol the Virtual Boy had warnings against that all right). It really disappoints me that I didn't see it mentioned up there. Then again, I can understand why it wasn't because I was probably just 1 of 23 people that played it

@Andee You took the word's right out of my mouth on such things. Kudos!

As I just mentioned in a previous post I boycott pineapple on pizza every day though

@RubyCarbuncle

...which leads me to believe people who are boycotting were never going to buy the game at all.

That statement right there is more accurate to majority of these overnight twitter/social media "boycotts". One of the best ones that comes to mind is when back during the 2016/2020 elections, there was supposedly a "boycott" against Home Depot because some blue-haired twitter weirdo discovered Home Depot did a political donation to a certain orange skinned candidate. That went absolutely nowhere because those that would boycott Home Depot never shop there or even been inside one

Using that logic, I technically boycott pineapple on pizza every day because that's just disgusting

Yeah, ok, I could write a whole dissertation on the subject matter for many Nintendo tunes. So, to avoid all that and just get to the first one from the brain I'm going to go with:

Egg Planet - Super Mario Galaxy

It just hits all the notes so perfectly for an opening level and experience yet to come. The end.