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Ah that infamous single glitch that caused all these problems, the ugly, buggy rain, the upscaling errors, the typos, the mission bugs, the disappearing bridges, the awful performance, the missing fog, the wrong menu sounds, the cut music tracks. What a nasty glitch that was. So glad they were able to fix that glitch.

I love this game, one of my favorites of this generation, but my last playthrough left a sour taste in my mouth. Ran into the sleep crash bug and there seems to be no fix right now or even planned. There a couple of threads about this on reddit and different forums, but they are all full of people who can not find a fix and hope for an update.

I struggle with the length of JRPGs often. Absolutely love Persona and Dragon Quest, but I feel they are too long. BD2 was one of the rare games of the genre that I finished 100%. Loved it. Loved the characters, the setting, the old-school FF-feeling and especially the depth of a good job system. I hope SE views this as a success and continues with BD.

I was - despite having zero interest (no pun) in whatever is going on in the finance sector - always deeply fascinated by the NES game Wall Street Kid. I will check this out too.

Being able to play the trilogy on Switch is my #1 wish beside a ports of Persona 3 - 5, but by the fifth or sixth time these stupid rumors made the rounds I told myself to stop thinking about this til I actually hold a copy in my hands... yet I still click on these tweets and articles... it is hopeless.

Still sad we dont get Advance Wars this holiday, but even with AW it felt to me Nintendo is missing a big holiday release this year.

Buying cloud versions is utterly absurd, no matter how good or bad the connection is. Maintaining these cloud versions costs money and publishers will disable access to cloud titles the minute they feel they can get away with it without too much backlash. Or think about publishers going bankrupt. Imagine spending hundreds of Euros on cloud versions from a company like THQ... who will give you access to your games? It is your money, but please do not support a system that takes your money, but refuses to give anything back but temporary access.

I really look forward to Mario Golf and Sin & Punishment, hope we get Snowboard Kids... but since buying the Oled I have a bad feeling playing Switch Online cause of burn-in. They really need to get rid of the border... though I read even playing 4:3 games daily for a long time on an Oled screen can cause screen problems.

Whenever I think of getting one of the Kemco games in a sale I tell myself that I probably won't have enough time in this life to play all the good stuff, the Atlus releases, the Final Fantasys, the Dragon Quests... Why waste time and money to play the stuff that - at best- competently mimics the classics... when there is such an overabundance of the real stuff?

So sad this was so overlooked because the Direct had too many great announcements, but this was definitively one of the highlights for me.

Especially Dragonfall is one the best rpg-experiences I had in the last ten years. Love the atmosphere of Cyberpunk-Berlin.

Each game is kinda short for an rpg, but as a whole the trilogy will give you a typical 60 - 80 hour rpg experience. Oh, and I just have to mention how much better this is compared to CDProjects dishonest *****.

If it turns out to be a remaster/re-release of Q1: It has to have the Trent Reznor Soundtrack. This is one of the cases where the soundtrack und the soundscape are an absolute essential part of the experience.

Game is awesome, but I gave up on it. Performance gets worse and worse on Ps4 Pro once you find and keep more elaborate forms of slimes (like ones that explode). Exploring was painful cause some parts of the world seem to run at around 15fps.

Unless they have done a massive rewrite I highly doubt the Switch version will be very enjoyable from a performance point of view. Even the XBox One X has performance issues. I would wait for extensive reviews.

I think I will buy it anyway, but I feel 25 games is not enough for a computer. With the NES and SNES Mini the included games covered everything I did own back in the day, which really gave me the nostalgic feel these machines were build to convey, but 25 games will not even come close to the boxes and boxes full of Amiga and C64 floppy disks I bought on the flea markets.

To be honest: The most fond memories of these computers are actually not of playing certain games, but to do hour long dives into the content of unlabeled floppy disks on the search of hidden gems. Yeah, highly problematic from a modern anti-piracy view, but I had zero awareness for that as kid.

I dont understand how a big Japanese studio just starts to refuse to bring its games to the west. Like we are back in the 90s. Isn‘t making the game the most costly and time consuming part of development? So if a studio invests money and time into making a game, wouldn‘t it make sense to invest a little more time and money for at least an English localization for a digital release instead of settling for the small Japanese market? I dont get it, but maybe I just don‘t understand the business side of games.

I don't know if my kids get Christmas presents this year, maybe if there is enough demand.... We'll have to wait and monitor the situation.

Oh, and by the way, if somehow SE gets back in touch with reality, I hope that also means they take a look at those fonts and... just use something...anything... less eye-burning generic.

That would be great, Square Enix, but only if u feel like it...

@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah, I totally get that. I also have very very fond memories of Minish Cap and think it would awesome if we could still get those classic, smaller Zeldas as an addition to the open AAA-level BOTW 2. Skyward Sword though is both huge and painfully linear. That is part of the problem.

I am pretty sure this style of Zelda gamedesign will have its big comeback after Breath of Wild 3, haha, when everyone is tired of the openness.

It's so weird to see how the Wii version got 93% on Metacritic. Every time the game comes up in discussion, even with diehard Zelda fans, everyone is disappointed and annoyed by the slow start, Fi, the restrictive structure, forced motion controls. It really felt like the death of the franchise, like everyone was so tired of the drawn out old formula. Yet the metascore makes it look like it was universally liked.

The fact that A Link Between Worlds and Breath of Wild threw the classic formula out of the window shows that Skyward Sword really was a dead end for the franchise...

I have it preordered and will give it another chance, but I am honestly more curious how it feels to play the game after Breath of the Wild instead of actually interested in the game itself.

The real newsworthy part of the announcement is: This weird, bug-focused and garish colored amateur-game looks a lot more like Contra than Rogue Corps with its godawful Panda and early-360 era 3D. Soo.... yeah, good job.

Seriously: Can you/we blame them? No. As long as a huge number of people give them money for an half-assed, low budget, last-last-gen version, they will produce an half-assed, low budget last-last version of Fifa. It hurts me to see, when Switch Fifa sells more than real games, but I think it's totally understandable to make them as long as so many consumers think they are good enough.

If you have any love for classic Point and Click-Adventures: please check out Unavowed. It is from Wadjet Eye Games, a small indie developer/publisher. They make and publish the best modern Adventure games, I'd go as far to say most of them have a classic LucasArts-level of quality, and Unavowed is the latest and best. Always wanted to have Wadjet Eye stuff on the Switch and I really hope they find the audience they deserve.

I'm sorry, but releasing another system with this ongoing chip shortage ist just so bizarre. Congrats to those that manage to get the system before Holiday 22.

I quit my 1.5 playthrough because the game would randomly crash when going to sleep, erasing the whole day. Hope this fixes it.

I screamed with joy when I saw the logo, but my excitement dropped pretty fast.
1. A lot of the enviroments look kinda bland und lack detail imo. 2. Mercury Steam, oh god. I can not wrap my head around the fact that some of the best Metroidvania-devs struggle to get called back by Nintendo, when they want to put their game on the Switch... yet the Team that did these strange God of War clones with a Castlevania skin gets handed the keys to the two central IPs of the genre.

Who looked at Mirror of Fate, the game that killed the legacy of fantastic handheld Castlevanias, and thought: Screw the guys who did Ori, Hollow Knight or Axiom Verge, and give Metroid to the Mirror of Fate-crew... I mean, yeah, Samus Returns was quite good, but it's not even in the league as Ori oder Hollow Knight...

@Roxas_ Thanks for clarifying. Missed that. Now I think I have to. buy it.

The review said you can not create custom assets, only those boxes and pre-made characters. How did they got the MK sprite-assets?

I held off playing Donkey Kong Adventure right after immensely enjoying the main game, cause I lost hope in getting a sequel. This way I had at least some new content to look forward to after a second replay. Would be absolutely ecstatic if this turns out to be true. Kingdom Battle is easily in my Switch Top-3.

I too miss Reggie. Not in a delusional "he was a true gamer and Bowser is not"-kind of way (Reggie's #1 passion was to sell products and run a successful business, not gaming or Nintendo-culture). I don't really get Bowser at all. He is this fake-friendly american business-guy in a suit that says some forgetable business-phrases about making consumers happy with "exciting new games" and stuff like that...

I would absolutely love to see a Star Traders Frontiers port on Switch, but it seems the Devs have given up on that idea.

Looks like such a fantastic game.

I like how the press text promotes the shovelware machine Ratalaika to "preservation specialists". LOL.

I wonder what this will mean for bigger third party releases on Switch in the future. Why would anyone invest months of work into porting a game like Witcher 3 when you can simply offer a cloud solution?

To me it sounds just too awful to be unable to play AAA third party content on Switch because my internet is crap. We just recently had a 1 1/2 day long internet breakdown on the weekend followed by a whole evening a few days later. Yeah stupid first world problems, but I feel I really don't want to rely on a stable connection just to play a game.

I'm very happy this game finds its way to modern consoles. Though I just don't get why Atlus won't remaster Persona 3. This game needs a definitive edition that can be accessed on modern systems. The success of P4 on Steam and sales numbers P5 should theoretically make this the easiest business decision for Atlus/Sega ever....

I really thought the situation had improved by a lot. I. remember when there were was this constant flood of Reddit-posts and forum threads. In the last few months it felt like the situation got better with the release of V2.

Same with the Lite. There was so much hysteria because of faulty launch-units, yet the expected flood of complaints about drifting Lites did not happen.

So Im really shocked to read so many still have the problem, even with V2. Mabye people contact Nintendo sooner bc of the free repair offer.

Star Traders: Frontiers. Every direct or press conference I get my hopes up this will be ported to the Switch. It is the best space game I have ever played, and I would so very much prefer to play this on my Switch instead of my phone.

I am still waiting for Cloud Save support. Don't understand how a game that released in the same month as the Switch Lite is not compatible with the cloud.

I was there this morning. The line looked small. And then I saw the next Part of the line and the next and the next....

AllI want and need regarding Space games is a Switch port of Startraders Frontiers, but I doubt this will ever happen.

The worst thing that happened to me since was a broken hinge on DS Lite, which Nintendo replaced out of warranty.

And then came the Switch and I have:

• Problems with Pro Controller Dpad (though this is just bad design, not a hardware issue, I know
• Constant wireless issues with Pro Controller and Joy Cons.
• Joy Con Drift
• 2 Switches significantly bent

To me it really feels like something has significantly changed with the Switch.

Am I the only one who starts to worry about this flood of older Indie titles? There are too many games right now coming to Switch in a very short time, because they obviously sell like hot cakes right now. But what is with the Switch market once the bubble bursts and titles start to bomb, not because of quality but of over-saturation. That would hurt the Switch more in the long run.

Got your SNES Classic Mini? Good joke...

Hate to say I told you so: This is basically the confirmation of no-virtual console on Switch.

Can we now finally agree there is and will be no Virtual Console on the Switch? This is the strategy of selling games from this point forward. Next year we'll probably see another iteration of the NES Mini.

I just checked: Mine is bent too. Not as severe as in the picture, but it's definitely not straight. I played 110 hours BOTW docked, maybe an hour or two in handheld mode.

Impossible to tell if the screen has always been this way or if it really bent because of whatever issue could cause this.

I pre-ordered/imported this through Play Asia. That means I probably have to wait till April for it to arrive here (Germany). I know I could get the digital copy more easily through the E-Shop, but I still think its ridiculous to limit the physical release of such a popular game to one market. Especially in the early days of a console, when lengthy core games are rare.

Maybe they have limited resources and will plan the EU release after the US version shipped, but the way they constantly ignore any mentions or questions about a physical EU release makes me doubt it will happen at all.

I really liked Disgaea 1 on DS, but the OCD-Completionist in me doesn't like jumping from 1 to 5 without having finished 2 - 4, which I cannot play, because I don't own any Playstation.

Does this really stand on its own, or is it tied to the predecessors?

It's stupid not to have Game Cube VC. Games like Mario Sunshine, Path of Radiance and Luigis Mansion would have sold well and covered up the blank spots of the launch line-up and the first few months.

I'm still hoping for good news, but to me the radio silence on VC means: There is no VC, only some multiplayer updated NES and SNES games, like the short lived 3D Nes Classics on 3DS.

The system is clearly not designed for VC. Handheld mode has no D-Pad. Four separate buttons that look like a D-Pad, but not a real D-Pad. And as the article mentions: No triggers analogue triggers means some GC games are not or barely playable.

Maybe there will be special Joycons for VC, but for now I wouldn't be surprised of Nintendo is avoiding to talk about old VC purchases etc., because they know what the say would ruin the pre order excitement of a lot of people.

Konami exec 1: What is this Castlevania?
Konami exec 2: The theme of our new Pachinko machine.
Konami exec 1: These crazy gaijin make a tv show based off a Pachinko machine?

Seriously: Lets hope this is a success and Konami gives us new Castlevanias on Switch or 3DS.

@GravyThief A lot of articles from the preview events mentioned framerate problems on the Switch while the system is docked and no problems while its in handheld mode. So it seems all versions will have some problems - but these articles also say the frame drops are tolerable.

The biggest difference I see in the comparison video is the color. The Wii u version always looks darker and less vibrant than the Switch version.

I hope all five sports will get a season mode or something like that. Otherwise this would be just a mini-game compilation.

My first thought when I played this on PC: Nintendo should do anything in it's power to make them port the game to the Wii U with some custom Mario Kart Skins and one or two Nintendo themed Arenas.

Hopefully now both parties realize the potential of this port.

@Megas haha, maybe. But its not just about the strangers. Playing a game like Zelda is very special. Somehow its important to me to feel comfortable to really immerse myself into the game. The only games i would play outside would be something like Tetris.