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By Grabthar's hammer. What a savings. 😒

Valkyria Chronicles is a great game. Scouts die a bit too easy and jerks behind sandbags with interception fire normally wreck my day and so many missions fail to explain how to activate elevators or that there are locked doors and the Edelweiss tank is just a big instant-lose pile of explosives...BUT the game is really fun, the story is great, and I'm on the final chapter so I will see this through! 😆
for an easier and more fun experience see VC4, story is not as good though

Didn't notice when I watched the whole season last night. Really good, even better than season 1. I loved the musical touches and a certain main item being found.

Going to try to finish Valkyria Chronicles 1 this weekend. On the latter mission of chapter 16. Harder than VC 4, but the story is very good. Next big game for me will be the Atari Flashback Collection as well as SNK Anniversary, Fallout 76 and Pokemon Let's Go. Should be keep me occupied while I wait for the Genesis collection and Super Smash Ultimate.

Every console is down from last week in Japan except regular Xbox One. Clearly it'll make a comeback! 🤣

Let's Go Eevee, Super Smash Ultimate, SNK 40th Anniversary, and Sega Genesis Classics are preordered from amazon. Wonder if Atari Flashback Classics will show up on there one day or of its Walmart and Gamestop exclusive?
Also: If Civilization VI reviews well I'll grab that up.

Something for everyone. Honestly most eshop games don't seem like shovelware, just stuff that doesn't fit my interests. I doubt 90% of games makers are hoping people accidentally give them money for their awful games.
I'm sure there are people that enjoy the card games that I find boring on the eshop.

@RushDawg I blame Wonderboy transforming into Adventure Island on Nintendo consoles. 😆

@KingdomHeartsFan some people perhaps. Nintendo's software sales are doing fantastic for the year so far though.
In summary: sorry you find the Switch offerings of 2018 disappointing.
I'm happy with them and I'm sure 2019-2020 will bring enough new games to keep most of us happy.

@KingdomHeartsFan a good game can be played more than once.
Also the Switch's portable form factor makes it easier to play quickly during lunch breaks at work, when the main tv is occupied, or a quick gaming session while waiting for dinner or whatever.
As someone who didn't game enough during the early 2010s due to my busy and financially poor life I've also been able to grab up many titles I missed since I don't have a Steam account or PS4.
It works for me and many average consumers skipped the Wii U. (I didn't but I did miss out on a lot of games I wanted to buy.)
And before the pot calls the kettle black every system ports over its best games from the previous generation. Fact of life.
Its why Super Mario Bros 3 and Resident Evil are remembered fondly by gamers.

Was 2018 the same as 2017? No.
It did have a deluge of games though.
Bayonetta 1+2, Kirby Star Allies, Skies of Fury, Punchout Arcade, Go Vacation, Megaman Legacy 1+2, Megaman X Legacy 1+2, Pixeljunk Monsters 2, Bloodstained Curse of the Moon, Hyrule Warriors DE, Capcom Beatemup Bundle, Broforce, Nintendo Switch Online NES games, Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4, Super Mario Party, Starlink, and coming soon Sega Genesis Classics, Atari Flashback Classics, Pokemon Let's Go, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
Different from 2017, but still fun.

The Genesis was a good console for Sega exclusives. If a game was available on SNES also though, you're better off getting the SNES copy nearly 100% of the time.
That being said, I'll always love Sonic 1, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Super Hangon, the Golden Axe trilogy, and the Streets of Rage trilogy(way better than Final Fight, yeah I said it.)

Never thought 0 or 4 were all that. Day 1 buy on Resident Evil 1 though.

Nothing for me this week, but just started playing Valkyria Chronicles on Switch so that'll be a week or three.
Waiting for SNK and Atari collections as my next game puchases. (Though Fallout 76 and Let's Go Eevee isn't too far off either which should keep me busy until Smash.)

Waiting for reviews to say its awesome. Have high hopes for it.

I own pretty much every game I want. I was tempted to collect like this for a couple years, but luckily never acted on that urge. 90% of most console's library's aren't worth playing. Be happy with what you have.

I have 14 physical games and 36 digital. More than any console I've ever owned. It's got the games. I've grabbed some great games so far.

@DenDen $20 for 7 arcade games? Bought seperately at Arcade Archives prices would be $8 each or $56 altogether.
Also, downgraded home ports of these would've been $60 each on the SNES.
Just because something is old or because you could download MAME on a computer and steal these for nothing doesn't mean they shouldn't have any value.
Capcom is practically giving these away for the price of an hour worth of quarters at an arcade and I guarantee I spent more than $20 in quarters in freeplay continues to make it through every game.

Bring me House of the Dead 2. 😁

I'll buy this sometime next week. Almost 100% Starlink and Super Mario Party. Loved Valkyria Chronicles 4, so I can only imagine this is about as good.

Got the digital deluxe. No regrets, it is the 3D space fighter free flowing base building game I've been looking for. My Starlink Alliance currently controls 100% of every planet, but there's still a lot of outposts to annex and the occasional star dreadnaught to shoot down. Once I feel satisfied with this playthrough I know I'll start a new game and conquer the star system in an entirely different way next time. Fun stuff.

Been blasting through Starlink. Shorter than I thought, but very fun (though the final boss on Normal was much easier than I thought he'd be, I felt overleveled for him. Had cleared out Atlas of all Primes, Extractors, Dreadnaughts, and Outlaw cruisers before I took him on.) Looks like there's a little postgame content which I'll finish up this weekend, but no regrets it's a great game worthy of some replays.
Also got Soul Calibur VI in the mail last night which I'll start on this afternoon on my regular Xbox One.
Maaaybe Super Mario Party with the wife if she feels up to it. Despite playimg through the music remix thing, 3 games of river rapids, 2 partner battle boards, and all 4 regular mario party boards I haven't unlocked single player mode yet. Bad RNG for unlocking all the games I guess. Fun though.
Dreaming of Valkyria Chronicles since I loved 4, but I won't purchase it till I'm done satisfied with Super Mario Party and Starlink playthroughs...so maybe next weekend.

Never picked it up. Ultra Street Fighter II is perfection to me, so why get a dozen other street fighters?
Just beat Starlink's main quest (I'll put more time into it, it was pretty fun) but I also just received Soul Calibur VI for Xbox One so that'll be a good weekend. (Only other fighter I get into other than Mortal Kombat Trilogy on 64 or Killer Instinct on SNES)

@Dang69 just normal. I'm a big baby 😋
Was tough at first, but I feel its at a reasonable level now. Getting blown away by outlaw fighters everytime I would travel to another world was worrisome. Now not so bad.

Really enjoying my $80 deluxe edition. The first hour I was worried it would be too difficult to be fun, but then I started learning how to fly/hover/and jump correctly. Game is actually deeper than I thought and reminds me of Herzog Zwei, Star Wars Clone Wars multiplayer, and Vostok Inc.
Break bases, build your own, set up automated resource gatherers and armies, then go break more things. Combat's pretty fun but scary if you get overwhelmed by numbers or enemies leveled way higher than you.

So engrossed in Starlink and Super Mario Party. I will get Valkyria Chronicles eventually because 4 was very fun, but after I'm finished with the other two.

My Switch with hundreds of good games is better than any phone.
Heck, a Switch with Breath of the Wild already outshines any phone.

Really should've left the option of censorship to the players. Oh well, what can you do?

I approve. I also want to see Sega thrive as a 3rd party studio. They drag their own good name through the mud too often with bad 3D Sonic games. I think they could either keep bankrolling smaller studios that know what they're doing like with Bayonetta 1, Sonic Mania, Wonderboy Dragon's Trap, and Streets of Rage 4 or if possible buy those studios up or hire on their best personnel to work directly for Sega. On Switch I currently own Bayonetta 1, (and 2, but yaknow Nintendo money) Sonic Mania, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Valkyria Chronicles 4. Looking forward to Valkyria Chronicles 1, Streets of Rage 4, and the Genesis Collection. Hope Shenmue, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, Super Hangon, and the Sega F-Zero get ported over to Switch one day too.

For whatever reason my hype is pretty low all around, but Super Smash Bros is #1 followed by Fallout 76.
Getting Soul Calibur VI, Everspace, Valkyria Chronicles 1, Sega Genesis collection, Atari collection, SNK collection, probably Starlink and wife is getting Pokemon Lets Go Eevee.
Plenty of good games, just none as earth shatteringly good as Breath of the Wild.

Just to be 'american': the swirl looks wrong in blue. Bring on the orangey-red version! 😂

Starlink, if the reviews are good.

For awhile I was unaware WiiU was a new console and not just a tablet controller. Back then I'd stopped reading IGN and other gaming news due to my work/home schedule. My friend decided for my birthday to get me the Wind Waker Wii U console around the time I realized it was Nintendo's next gaming rig. I avoided Wind Waker for awhile since I'd grown frustrated with the Forbidden Fortress stealth level and never returned to it on Gamecube. We went to Gamestop and bought New Super Mario Bros U, Super Luigi U, Super Mario 3D World and Nintendoland for very cheap prices. I enjoyed playing all the games, but only managed one playthrough of each. Wind Waker HD however blew me away with how pretty it was. It sounded great and was actually much more fun than I remembered it being as a teenager on gamecube. I've replayed the game and I'm sure I'll give it another playthrough in 2019. I also bought Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors and had a blast playing both with my friend. So much that I rebought Hyrule Warriors for Switch and got to experience all the content I missed on the 3DS release. My final Wii U game was Twilight Princess HD and that game is more playable without the derezzed fog 20 feet away like my gameube version. Good game, but Wind Waker is just plain more fun. I also bought a number of SNES games on the Wii U VC because I figured it was the only legal way to reacquire them on a modern device. My 3DSXl was loaded up with 18 NES games and I almost didn't double dip...cept LoZ and Zelda II. The Wii U got me used to playing Nintendo games with a big pad which was convenient when I was up early in the morning or my wife wanted to watch shows that didn't engage me. I'm ready to move onto Switch. Reggie is right though, without being taught a brutal financial lesson with the Wii U, the Switch wouldn't be as successful as it is and will continue to be.

@klingki I'm going digital deluxe if it reviews good. Had it preordered physically but cancelled a couple days ago when I learned I'd be punished and get 3/4 less content. My SD card can handle it.

@Jayenkai sounds like the map from Mario Party 8 on Wii where you would invest in hotels and whomever invested the most coins owned that particular hotel and its star rating.
One of my favorites from that game, though the dolphin boardwalk with pirate goombas or the shyguy train that rearranges itself were also great.

Loved half the initial batch of games, but unfortunately I gave each of these games 5 mins to grab me and wasn't happening. Hope someone has nostalgia for these 3 cause I sure don't. The Zelda rom hack is nice for beginners, but since I can play every part of the first quest without a walkthrough...I'm good without easy mode. Better luck next month for me. Least I've got lots of new Switch games ongoing and some coming out soon.

I do love me some demos.

Birdo identifies as female and is glamorous. No more need be said.

I'm more excited for Switch than I have been for any other console. Being able to take console quality games on the go is a great thing. I've also purchased far more indies than I would've without it. As a kid school was just a terrible block of time between me and my NES and Super Nintendo. These days there's work, but that feeling is still the same...cept when I play on lunchbreak. 😁

I double dipped. Because this is a great fun game if you like wiping out masses of bad guys to zelda heavy metal music with a friend.

TLDR Nintendo please bring us more games faster. Rental service, Arcade Archives, or a collection of titles. Stick a price on it and people will buy it. My 6 purchases of Legend of Zelda say its true.
On my Switch I happily have the online service, all 4 Megaman collections, Capcom's Beatemup Bundle, 5 Neogeo games, arcade archives Punchout, and I've preordered the SNK and Sega Genesis collections. Waiting for Atari (confirmed coming) and Midway (in my dreams) collections as well. I want my Switch to be able to legally play as many games that I love as possible because hybrid console is king. (AKA I take it to work to unwind during lunchbreaks and can hide in some reclusive part of the house when the inlaws visit or play it next to my wife when the TV is dominated by a cooking show.)
I also have other collections (Atari Arcade collection, Midway Arcade treasures, Namco plugnplay, Sonic's Genesis collection) and modded devices(Xbox, SNES, and NES classics) but these all lack the portability factor that I covet my Switch for. Bring us the games Nintendo, we'll bring the $$$.

@Yosher same could be said of most every Madden, NBA2K, MLB, and Call of Duty game for the past decade. Change some names and stats. Make graphics 2% better. Profit.
Full disclosure of bias my last sports game was NFL Blitz for N64 (I also don't follow sports) and last CoD I enjoyed was Black Ops 1.

I do enjoy the novelty of owning Arcade Punchout in the palms of my hands. Though normally I put it in vertical mode and put it in a stand while I use a joycon in each hand....you get the idea. No other Nintendo Arcade game has been unique enough for me to slap down $8 per game though. Sky Skipper is not my cup of tea and I get NES versions of Donkey Kong, Excitebike, Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros with the Nintendo Online feature.

Day one bundle with blue and red joycon, extra set grey joycons, pro controller, charging grip, Zelda BoTW collector's edition with Sheikah case, map, and coin, Zelda stickers for dock and joycons, hard cover guide, Fast RMX and Shovel Knight. Hundreds of hours of entertainment.

Played through Megaman 11 on casual over the week, I'll attempt a run on normal next week or the week after, but this weekend I'm getting into Super Mario Party with the wife and finishing up some skirmish battles in Valkyria Chronicles IV. Hoping to unlock the 'true' ending soon.

@diwdiws I also work 45 hours a week and excercise for an hour and a half every day. I play board games or watch various older TV shows with friends once a week. I also watch anime with my wife at the end of the evenings and spend a lot of time helping my family members with various projects. I do more than play Nintendo, its just my favorite way to relax.

My wife complains that since I got the Switch Nintendo is the only company I give the time of day to. It's true though. Microsoft, Sony, modern movies, and TV are just looking for my $ without offering equivelant entertainment in return. Wheras my Switch has provided literally over a thousand hours of entertainment. 800 spent on Breath of the Wild, 200 on Shovel Knight, and 200 on Enter the Gungeon. Many other games I've racked up dozens of hours on. My only complaint is two broken left joycons, but given how much I've used them its understandable. I look forward to even more content in the future.

I wish I could purchase Mario cereal....don't care how bad it supposedly tastes, cereal scalping should not be a thing.

I still question how you can possibly measure brand relevance with any chance of accuracy. 10 kidnapped grandmas are asked what company comes first to mind while they're being water tortured?

Good to know he still has goals to strive towards. He's a jerk to his rivals, but amazingly nice to fans and the general public. In the Nintendo Power days he would just need to take a picture of thr screen, but after all the controversy, I'm loving his "not MAME" machine. No reason to be upset with this. No harm done.