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Also worth noting that this game has a REVERSE Switch tax. The Switch version is 49.99 while the Steam version is a whopping 79.99. If I just want to make games for my friends who all have Switches and lack the artistic ability to make my own sprites anyway, this seems like a better deal.

@Old-Red Same as Mario Maker really. Making things is fun in and of itself. I've never made a game before so nothing I make is going to be high enough quality to actually sell. It'll just be a fun little adventure for my friends to play.

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles is a generic tactical RPG that offers a lot of content for your money, especially at sale price. It's no Fire Emblem: Three Houses but it isn't bad by any means. WILL: A Wonderful World is an okay visual novel which is basically a compendium of short stories that you influence as a god. Again it's a pretty average game but could be worth it for a sale if you're starved for games at the moment.

This is the first time My Nintendo has had something actually worth spending platinum points on. So naturally, I have a ton of them and got myself some stickers.

Port RCT Classic and then we'll talk.

Thank goodness for digital copies or this would be basically unobtainable.

And 100,000 of them are good!

The title of this article is misleading. Pro controller support is confirmed for the game as a whole (meaning probably 64 and Sunshine are guaranteed) but it hasn't been confirmed for Galaxy. In fact, the phrase "motion controls are required for pointer functionality" seems to imply that you CAN'T use the pro controller in Galaxy.

It actually looks worth the wait which is good. I was starting to get skeptical after how long they waited to show any gameplay.

Has anyone identified the music for the '2' and '4' tweets? They sound like video game music too, probably just from something more obscure.

God forbid something interesting happen in the pokemon anime

I don't know anything about Peaky Blinders, but that's the most British sounding TV show name I've ever heard.

This looks more reminiscent of TP and SS than BotW. Which isn't a bad thing, if anything there's a bit of a hole in the market for that kind of game with Zelda going down the open-world route lately.

Gonna file this one under "games I just kind of assumed were on the Switch already."

That title sounds like it's trying to trick parents into thinking its Heroes of the Storm, Warhammer and Overwatch simultaneously.

Stories Untold is a really great game that fits into the general scope of narrative and environmental storytelling. Although it also has some light puzzle solving and not very much walking as you are sitting at a desk for most of it, so maybe it was excluded for not being a true "walking simulator."

To the Moon on the other hand definitely belongs here, since it features plenty of walking and very little gameplay aside from reading text and walking around. There's technically puzzles, but they're very easy and not at all the point of the game. It's also brilliant.

Will somebody please leak some gameplay footage next? Can't believe how long this game has been announced for with absolutely no gameplay.

The game has been remarkably glitch free up to that point. Nintendo is the gold standard when it comes to quality bug testing in video games. It's one oversight that they are fixing almost immediately, not Fallout 76. Older games had glitches and oversights like this as well. Hell, Stryder7x has an entire youtube channel dedicated to bugs in the original Paper Mario.

This seems like some incredible technology that will be wasted on an overpriced game full of microtransactions.

Well, at least they're being honest unlike the A Hat in Time developers.

7/15. I wasn't old enough to actually buy games for myself until like 2010 so honestly anything before that I'm kind of at a loss for the release date.

My two favorite games of all time are Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, so that excludes 2015 and 2020 for me by default. 2016 was a pretty terrible year all things considered. Only game I can think of that I liked that year was Detective Pikachu.

Edit: My sense of time is really a mess, it didn't come out in America until 2018 and that's when I played it.

@Stuckinaboxthere Thanks for the heads up. Sometimes issues like these are tied to something specific like the model of switch being used or whether the game is physical or digital, or the region... there's a lot of unknown variables and oftentimes not enough information online to find out what the issue really is. It's especially annoying as the people who are lucky enough not to have those problems call you a liar or say that you must have done something to cause it. Same thing with the Switch joy-cons. As somebody who has been screwed over with unplayable copies of games like Civ 6 and Pandora's Tower and unusable joy-cons though, the fact that it's possible to have your copy broken like that is enough for me to just stay away from this to be on the safe side.

Very nervous about the save game issue, since I've been burned before on games NL has reviewed NOT mentioning the game breaking bugs (Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Civ 6, Pandora's Tower) so the fact that they actually noticed it for once suggests to me it must be very bad.

I'm assuming this is one of those games where the story takes a big twist and makes it more interesting than it sounds on paper, but they just don't want to spoil that here. Games like Doki Doki Literature Club and Papers Please sound pretty dull too until you actually play them.

This probably just means there will be an easy mode and/or hint system available to players that want it, like most Nintendo games have these days. Calm down everyone.

Chinese Checkers is the big surprise for me that I've had a ton of fun with. A shame it didn't make any of the lists.

Tbh it still looks better than Pokemon Sword and Shield.

I did notice the issue with Gentle Mother Armu disengaging combat, but I assumed that was an intentional mechanic and the gimmick was that you needed to kill her quickly before she forced disengage. Perhaps it was intended, but just felt really janky and glitchy due to how it worked so they decided to remove the mechanic anyway.

Wow, now I can get twice as many slightly discounted 3DS/Wii U games that I already own.

@RupeeClock Thanks for sharing the link, I knew this game looked familiar from somewhere and I probably would have spent an hour trying to find out where I had seen it before.

Is anyone gonna tell the My Nintendo people the Switch is out?

@Lapses The AI is mostly competent, though it does seem to heavily favor attacking your weakest units. This sounds like a good strategy and often is, but you can exploit this by throwing cheap, expendable fodder into range of enemies to stop them from killing your more valuable monsters. They also have an unfortunate habit of retreating from battles they would have been able to stall out by camping the castle. They don't seem to understand the 12 turn time limit.

Actually, Final Sword is the original action RPG, which means Zelda must have stolen it from this game.

I have such a strong urge to jump smash my head into those question mark blocks.

I used to use the Wii U internet browser to watch youtube videos on the big screen since it was already hooked up to my tv unlike my laptop. However, that usefulness ran out once the Switch took its place as the console I always have hooked up. A bit of a shame, but I don't think too many people are still using it.

Sad but necessary

Tossing all my Star Fox games in the trash

I've kind of lost faith in the pokemon series at this point. Only thing that could interest me here would be Detective Pikachu news.

I don't trust firaxis after their Switch port of Civilization 6. Gonna wait until there's more fan feedback and I can be sure this doesn't crash constantly.

Two questions, both of which are potential deal-breakers:

Can you use a pro controller when playing local multiplayer with multiple Switches or online multiplayer? I heard that single switch multiplayer requires Joy-cons, and my joy-cons all drift. If there's no workaround for that, it's gonna be a no from me since I don't want to buy another pair of joy-cons that will just drift again a year from now. Not too bothered about darts and bowling being joy-con exclusive, I mostly want the board and card games.

Can you play online with friends, or is it only random strangers? I'd assume you can, but you didn't specify in the review.

@GiygasAF Diddy Kong Racing comes to mind as a game that made great use of reactive music. The overworld music would change dynamically based on where you were in it which according to this interview would have been harder to do on PS1.

I'm shocked! Shocked!

Well, not that shocked.

@JasmineDragon I really wish they would add graphics settings to the Switch version that you could tone down to minimize crashing. I don't need to see individual fish moving around or waves crashing upon every shore. I need the game to not crash.

Civilization 6 crashes a lot for me, but it does seem to vary from game to game. I have had 30 hour games with no crashes at all, but I've also had games that I got 25 hours into and had to abandon because it would crash almost every turn. Declaring war does not fix those games, for the record. It's a bit like joy-con drifting, some people don't get it and then go and call the people who do have the issues liars, but that doesn't make it not a widespread issue. Like the drifting, if you don't have the issues it's probably that you haven't played enough to encounter them yet. That being said, more updates means more chances for them to potentially fix the crashes, but I'm not holding my breath. The only thing they have fixed so far was the issue that crashed the game before the victory screen, since that was near 100% of the time and too egregious to ignore.

The reason I complain about this every chance I get is because I love the core game so much- despite probably over a hundred crashes now I've still sunk 700 hours into the game. I want them to notice the problems some players have and fix it.

Why are they so hesitant to show gameplay of this? Every time there's new info it's just screenshots of cutscenes or models, never any actual gameplay footage.

I'm disappointed, but I understand.

Still refuse to buy anything from EA.

@giveahoot No, that's exactly what I have a problem with. If you think the game deserves a 5/10, you should give it a 5/10, not a 0/10. That way your opinion is reflected accurately within the score rather than counting extra because you rated it lower than you think it actually deserves. That's basically the equivalent of a person who thinks the game is a 9/10 rating it a 14/10 to put the score closer to their liking. Rate it what you think it deserves, don't try to game the system to get the overall score where you want it.

Too many people don't understand that user scores are meant to be an average of what everyone thinks, and you shouldn't just give games a 0/10 just to lower the score to where you think it should be.

Even if you really despise the game it's at worst like, a 5/10 by video game metrics of 7/10 being average. Lower than that is generally reserved for games that are full of bugs or don't function at a basic level.

So if you hate the game, by all means give it a low review score, but a sensible one that gets balanced out by the people who love the game and results in a more accurate representation of fan feedback.