Jack_Goetz

There's a particular irony about this article.

How is Ball x Pit missing?

Runs to check NL's 'and Roger' review

Oh...

I played this one NYE with my then girlfriend, who really wasn't into video games. She enjoyed this though, which made it a fun experience for me, but that might have been down to the bottle of Buckfast I downed prior to playing.

Interesting that he doesn't directly mention Mario Kart World. I wonder if he also found it to be a bit of a misfire?

Nintendo really needs to introduce partial installs from game cards, where there are data streaming speed issues. This all or nothing approach is quickly alienating me.

Interesting that Mortal Kombat X and 11 are in there, but no sign of MK1.

The irony of this coming from Pillsbury, when movie Mario is looking like the Doughboy.

@Dee123 No, but 2035 (Mario's 50th anniversary) does feel quite a way off, currently.

"I always personally play through about the first 30 minutes of the game..."

Well, I guess that actually explains a lot. I've always felt Odyssey and Wonder were missteps for the Mario series, that got boring really fast.

Um... Well, it looks great in action, though the I'm tired of the Smash Bros. UI at this point. While I had fun (certainly more than I've had with MKW) with the lessons, three courses, and the city run, I can't see myself coming back to it, especially at its current asking price.

I'm not a huge Kirby fan, and while I appreciate Air Riders having its own 'feel', I think I'll just stick with F-Zero 99, Fast Fusion, and CrossWorlds for the foreseeable.

Zelda's English voice acting really gets on my nerves. It's so over the top and pathetic-sounding. Nothing against Patricia Summersett though, as she's only doing what's being asked of her.

Zelda Notes on the Switch 2 Editions of BotW and TotK could have been a great feature, but I'll never get around to using it based on the voice acting direction going on in these games recently.

This guy is one of the biggest shills in the industry. Mighty No. 9 is still one of the worst games I've ever played. The only reason that campaign was so successful was his constant reliance and referencing of a big IP (Mega Man) and making out he had a bigger part in that series than he did. So I guess that makes him somewhat of a hypocrite too.

And let's not forget this gem, which ended up backfiring spectacularly: https://www.eurogamer.net/mega-man-creator-laments-tragic-state-of-japanese-games-industry

The lengths some companies will go to please their shareholders is gross. The real QA team will be those buying the game on day one, as is pretty much the norm these days.

I'm guessing they've nearly mastered their HD2D AI engine then.

I dunno... That might be one of the worst amiibos I've ever seen. The pose just seems so unnatural for Samus.

@Serpenterror I doubt Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection will be near finished before next year even.

@Ironcore I concur. Even though I'm having a blast with Ball x Pit, there's something very special about Silver Bullet (not to mention its bargain price).

@cmbaum It looks like the user score is for the Switch 2 Edition, which runs worse than the Switch 1 version currently.

I see Daz has decided to go anonymous on these articles now. 😅

Anyways, out of the above, I'm very interested in how Terminator turns out.

I don't think we'll see a new main entry in the Animal Crossing series after this update. And I don't see the Switch 2 generation sticking around as long as the original Switch managed to.

Therefore, it would arguably make more sense to keep a new entry back as an early/launch title for Switch 3 to shift some units now that it hasn't got Mario Kart to fall back on (I believe we'll be getting a new main 3D Zelda entry on Switch 2).

I never got on with New Horizons for some reason. I played it for a couple of weeks and didn't touch it again. I'll definitely be checking this update out though, as it offers enough bells and whistles to differentiate it from previous iterations. Saying that, I really don't see the Switch 2 getting a new entry in the series after this.

Yiiissss! We love a Kate article around these parts! Couldn't agree more on "Can play cult classic Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward" factor in the comparison. 😅

@3Dburn I'm sure it could, but based on the majority of third-party efforts so far, I don't see it happening.

This is one of the few games that I think should stay off Switch 2, and I say that as a massive Ninja Gaiden fan. I just don't see a port of this being optimised well enough to justify it. With an action game such as this, you really need it to be 60fps.

I have an original NES, that's in pristine condition (I had one in the 80s but had to sell it to upgrade to the SNES), but it's just a pain and expensive to set up to look good on a modern TV. So I'll either pick up a compilation collection, such as the Castlevania, Contra, Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc, or just fire up NSO for convenience.

I do have a NES mini and Famicom mini too, but they just seem like another unnecessary step now, unless I'm looking to play a ROM hack like Mother 1.

A notorious character in the game industry, but his integrity always shone through his work. There was an Xbox 360 exclusive documentary about ninjas around Ninja Gaiden 2's release, and Itagaki's contributions and insights in that film were fascinating. It's worth tracking down if you can find it.

I also loved how much he hated his games being ported to PS3 back in the day, and always complained about the difficulty being watered down in the Sigma versions. He was certainly passionate about his creations.

@SuppressorSteve Wow. Your ignorance and assumptions really know no bounds. At least your new username checks out.

@SuppressorSteve Neither MKW or Bananza offer new experiences. One's an underbaked version of what's come before (albeit with prettier graphics) and the other is basically Odyssey with a very repetitive mechanic. Arguably, Drag x Drive offers a new experience, but it's just not fun.

If you think your old Switch games loading slightly faster is a new experience, well, good for you I suppose.

This is ridiculous. So far the Switch 2 doesn't even offer any real new experiences that first Switch doesn't.

'Use the Joy-Con 2 mouse controls to pop an ollie'. Probably.

These videos scream "Miyamoto vanity project". I love the guy, but there's no need to shoehorn Pikmin into everything just because they've not set the world alight as much as he expected them to.

@betterman Shouldn't they still be 1080p screenshots though? Some of the backgrounds look half of that.

Some of the screenshots in the article look very blurry (apart from the text). Switch 2 clearly isn't the platform to play this on.

Well, that was shoddy. Even the thumbnail for this article looks 'derpy'.

Nate the Hate didn't see this one coming.

@MarioLinkSamus Thank you for such a useful post! 🙂

Maybe a dumb question, but can these DLSS models be patched/upgraded on Nintendo's end through a firmware update?

Kirby fell off fast, huh? It'll be interesting to see how long Air Riders will stay in the UK chart for. My guess? Not long.

Totally agree with everything PJ has stated in this article. MKW was incredibly disappointing for a Mario Kart game, especially after such a long wait. The open world is boring (not to mention incomplete due to missing P-Switch tracker). The tracks are not all that fun. The character select screen is a mess. A lack of traditional three-lap races. Overall, it was style over substance, whereas Sonic CrossWorlds is just more fun. It's as simple as that.

So, it turns out that I like colour.

I've yet to play Silksong but these 'wild take' articles seem a bit forced. This is the same writer as 'you should play Silksong with the sound off', which, as far as I recall, not one person agreed with. Clicks are clicks though.

"Those racing around in CrossWorlds will be able to get in-game decals from Puma that you can use to customise your vehicles with."

Of course... CrossWorlds should have been called CrossOvers and been free-to-play based on all this tie-in nonsense.

And... uninstalled. I found the premise interesting, but if it's executed poorly then what's the point?

But of course. Nintendo has to shoehorn the latest gimmick into anything when possible, even if it'll rarely be used.

"Who doesn’t love a job or class system in an RPG?"

Me. It really puts me off RPGs that have them.

Two of the absolute best games ever made for £50? Sounds good to me.

@Vegeta937 It's pretty clear they did, hence Street Fighter 6 being a launch title, and one of the few that runs at 60fps.

"Death Added"

I can see how that happened. 😅

Edit: ah, it's been fixed now