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For a second I though this was the same game as the one I got on my PC (Horse Tales - Emerald Valley Ranch), but nope, different game. But both feature your character on a boat coming to a seaside town. lol Hm...

To everyone talking about the quality of horse care games, IDK. I found Horse Tales to be okay. The horses were cute and I loved the animations while petting... Completely melted my heart! Lol. But a lot of the story progression is based on obstacle course races and that gets repetitive.

I haven't played this game or the first in its series. I'd love to hear if it's good.

I've played all three games. Hope those who haven't get to enjoy them!

Now, Capcom, please give us a new Ace Attorney? Pleaseeeee.

16/17. Just got tripped up by #8.

This Zelda is certainly creepier than Skyward Sword and BOTW, but I don't know how it stacks to OOT, MM, or TP for me.

The hands are more frightening in a exhilarating/danger sense than anything else for me. The Gibdos were a little bit creepy, but less realistic than TP, so not as much. (the Gibdos queen boss should be terrifying as it's a mixture of two things that scare me - moths and zombies, and yet it wasn't super scary for me either).

@alienfossils I get why they do two different colors. When I got my original Switch I almost went with the gray, but went with the red and blue instead and I've actually liked the duel colors... It flows.

With that said, I'm not disagreeing with you here. At this point, I think I'd like them to release each color in individually, but with each package just having one of the two Joycons and every color being available in both sides and then you can mix and match.

That's probably some kind of thing that is bad for business or something, but boy would it be great for us to have the options. It would still allow, perhaps even encourage mixed colors, but give you the options to mix and match as you like, and allow for just one color if you wish.

Nintendo, just please give me a set of those pastel pink joycons! Or pink and purple. I really hate the idea of having to purchase two sets of joycons (one from another country) to have both matching. =( Too dang expensive.

I haven't used a duplication glitch since like first gen Pokemon. Lol. Didn't even know there was a glitch in TotK, TBH. Did not use it and updated. Not much lost for me.

I think that the next mainline Zelda will be a new map and graphical style. They did an impressive job of expanding upon the original BOTW world, but it can only be done so many times.

One thing is a must, to me, though. They must remain open world going forward. Open world is so immersive, there's no turning back.

I'm moving soon to a more expensive state in the US for many reasons, so I'd rather not have to think about a new Nintendo console for quite some time while I regain financial stability. =/

Of course, the Switch also released at a not-so-great time for me back when I had returned to college and wasn't working. Nintendo loves to line things up poorly for me. lol

The joy of an open world game is the feeling of exploration. I enjoyed it so much in the first BOTW and I will here, as well.

That doesn't mean that I won't focus on the story, just that I will spend a lot of time in between each story chapter exploring.

@Arawn93 But I think this misunderstands the fact that when someone states an opinion they aren't saying "this product isn't successful because I don't like it". The metrics of someone's opinion and the financial success and/or popularity of a game are two completely different metrics. And that's my point here. The success/popularity of the game is irrelevant to an individual's opinion.

I think practically everyone knows that the game is successful. It's just pointing out the obvious and acting like it matters when it doesn't.

The time to argue a game is financially successful is when someone is arguing that the game wasn't successful. When discussing someone's opinion over a game, it has nothing to do with anything at all.

@Maulbert I love Breath of the Wild. My favorite Zelda game and definitely the direction I personally want to see the series keep going... But I can't help but get frustrated when I see this idea that good sales have any weight at all against someone's personal opinion on something.

An individual's opinion isn't invalidated by good sales. Where did this notion even come from? Nintendo cares about sales because they're a corporation, but we are not them, we are customers. We come to Nintendo for entertainment. Sales are not part of opinions over enjoyment of a game.

As I said, I love BOTW. I'm really happy to see it sell well. But I wish people would stop using this argument that someone's opinion is overriden by sales. Like, yes, the corporation cares about sales, but that doesn't change our opinion over whether or not something is entertaining or not.

The Song of Storms reminds me of a very old Jazzy cover of Dark World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63t77qe6_U). I've always loved it. Glad to have some more jazzy Zelda!

Wow. New Super Mario Bros theme is waaayyyy better in Minor. LOL.

Aw, great to see them expanding the catalog. Sobble isn't personally one I'd buy (nothing wrong with Sobble, just not one of my top favorites and these are pretty expensive).

There are so many of these I'd love to get, but I've spent a lot of money on plushies lately (including a really nice decent sized Galarian Ponyta plush from Japan)... Would love Alolan Vulpix, but the smaller cheaper plush I got will have to do. lol

Technically X. But I didn't get very far in it because I sucked. lol. The same goes for VII, which I started years later (when it came out on the Switch). I got well beyond the scope of the VII Remake currently, but I still got stuck. VII Remake I did finish and loved.

I consider XIV to be my first full experience with FF, though. VII remake was great but it's only a small portion of VII's story and I can't wait for the later installments! XIV I have put more hours into than probably any game ever. It's great fun and I like the characters!

It's hard for me to be impartial here. Breath of the Wild was my first experience with open world gaming and the trailers really hyped me so much. Tears of the Kingdom doesn't have that advantage. My hype for it is naturally lower, but I know it's going to be a total blast!

Nah. I don't have any desire for a Switch OLED. My original Switch is doing just fine aside from the blasted joycon drift.

I already own a Pro controller. Have almost never used it because I play handheld effectively all of the time nowadays. So I don't need that either.

@WiiWouldLikeToPlay Sprigatito is a really cute, likable design, though. This is a brand new anime series, and may be a generation specific series.

Eevee or another Gen I Pokemon? yawns Seen quite enough of that. Sprigatito is great!

It's so neat to see a female protagonist! =) I wonder if this will be stylistically different from the past Pokemon anime. I stopped watching it somewhere in Gen II.

Animal Crossing New Horizon's DLC was great, both for what it brought to the game, and also adding Happy Home Designer on.

I'll pretty much vote game designs. Most of them are fine, though. I agree with others that Mario looks a little off, and DK definitely looks off (DK is just very goofy looking, unnecessarily so). The rest of them I think are fine.

I had no idea this was a thing! Funny! (Also, seeing the kids there and knowing that I was the same age range back then is wild)

I would love Kalos or Galar because I love European history and styles. Also would love a brand new region set to Ancient Greece.

I remember doing that back in Red/Blue/Yellow. Those were the days, back before the internet, when you were so bored that you would mess around and find that kind of thing out for yourself. lol

I am barely into P4G, will play P3P later. So far, I'm pleased that P4G doesn't feel as dated as I thought it would.

In my mind, weapon degradation is fine as long as you eventually get to weapon(s) that do not break. It makes sense to start out with rough tools and have to forage around, but later in the game, after you've put a lot of time and work it feels like you should be able to get unbreakable weapons. And I don't mean ones that can charge, I just mean plain, unbreakable weapons.

Unfortunately, Nintendo more recently failed at this with Animal Crossing New Horizons. Another game where breakable tools early on in the game make perfect sense. But they didn't do that, even golden tools were breakable. It's annoying.

I have always picked the water starter in each game, so looking for other water Pokemon has never been a thing for me. With that said, I have seen plenty of "fish" Pokemon that I find the designs appealing.

This rail against Pokemon whose designs are "too simple" kinda gets to me. Sometimes the simpler Pokemon designs are the best. I get that complaint with a Pokemon like Flamigo, but not really any of the fish Pokemon.

Looking forward to the Persona ports and, of course, Zelda!

Really neat we get to marry anyone regardless of gender! =) I haven't kept up with this series or Harvest Moon since Another Wonderful Life on the GCN. I'm glad to see they have made that change.

Xenoverse 2 is my favorite anime game ever probably. FighterZ's graphic style is absolutely gorgeous and accurate to the anime, but that raw kind of fighting game isn't really for me personally.

Need to look into the JJBA game someday. The last time I looked into that game I had only seen the first two parts and wasn't familiar with the vast majority of the characters. lol

@RareGames Well, it comes down to a matter of opinion really. For me, 2022 had two ambitious new (not remake) Pokemon games and the most exciting Kirby game (for me) in two decades. Also, Mario Kart 8 DLC and some great long awaited third party port releases like Persona 5. And I mean, on top of that there were other major first party releases like the new Splatoon and Xenoblade (neither of which are of interest to me, so I don't really know how good they were)

For me, with my tastes, this blows all of the other Switch years out of the water. So many years before were very one-note and that was it, like 2018 just being SSBU, and 2020 being primarily Animal Crossing. Far too many Wii U ports coming out in prior years. This year was NEW Nintendo titles and that was much needed. For so many years, the Switch was feeling like a Wii U port machine with some new games scattered here and there.

I wish Tears of the Kingdom could have made the 2022 deadline, but I guess since I don't know much else of interest revealed to be coming out this upcoming year, I'll gladly take TotK in it.

2022 felt like the first really strong year we have gotten on the Switch. I've been very critical of the Switch since the start, but I will give them 2022, it was a fantastic year.

Joycon drift is getting bad, but otherwise it's doing just fine.

Pokemon Legends Arceus takes this for me. Scarlet and Violet fall a little short of it, but I still like them. Also the Kirby and the Forgotten Land deserves a mention for sure. It's the most enjoyable Kirby game for me in two decades. I hope they keep making Kirby games like it!

Given my memory of playing Persona 5 years ago, I think that Quick Save is an amazing addition! I do think I'll wait and play these on the Switch.

I was overtaken by the cuteness when I first ran into Deerling in this game. They were asleep and I couldn't handle it. Lol. This game certainly made me love Deerling more. (Sawsbuck has been in my top favorites since Gen V, but Deerling's cuteness for some reason didn't shine as much until now)

I agree with most of these. Another small one is that the characters are more expressive. We've come a long way from the static-faced, always smiling, never showing any expression protagonist from Generation VII. lol

This trailer was certainly better than the first. Not sure about the humor, though. Guess that's just the style now.

Also, I can't unhear Charlie (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) in Luigi. lol

What's really annoying about the uniform thing is that Penny waltzes right into classrooms out of her uniform, but we're still forced to wear them.

It's true that these issues are inexcusable for what should be very well-funded games due to how massively successful Pokemon is. But I'm still having fun.

Even as a dog person, I do have to say Sprigatito is adorable. I didn't choose it, though, because I always use water starters.

I’ve avoided the leaks and with the official info I have no reason to pick up one over the other, so probably Scarlet.

Curious that they don’t apply this same logic to Wii U ports which we have far too many of in place of “new experiences”

New Leaf holds a special place because it kinda "revived" the series after the huge slump that was City Folk. New Leaf felt like the real sequel to the original on the GCN, finally.

However, New Horizons brought some major features to the series with the island terraforming, outdoor furniture finally (NL's implementation of it was extremely clunky). NH struggled initially with how little variety the game had in terms of furniture and that brought it down a little, but not only did the DLC fix that, but I was always more partial toward NH over NL because NH had me playing longer than NL did, even before the DLC.

NH gets my vote. It's not a perfect game. It has some strange omissions (like why we didn't get a Nook store expansion?) and the villager interaction is blah (but it has been for a long time, and NL is absolutely no exception), but overall NH is my favorite. NL was tough to beat, but NH managed!

Enough Charizard. Give it a break!

Hisui takes the win for me (over Kanto, and everything else).

Not my top design, but it is fun to see the mimic chest trope finally implemented in Pokemon.

The DLC was fantastic, but it gave me a couple of months after release of play before I moved on.

I would definitely pick it back up if they released another DLC pack, BUT they've been pretty clear that's not happening.

I finally got Kirby and the Forgotten Land! I'm on the third set of levels and do have to say this is by far the most entertaining Kirby game since Kirby 64. =) (which I'm very pleased with, because I adored Kirby 64)