Jayenkai

You can use the bins!!!!!!!!!!

As someone with over 320 hours on the clock...
... This game looks absolutely rubbish in trailers!!!
It took an Animal Crossing YouTube channel showing how the "villagers interact more with your builds" before I even bothered to pick it up.

It's don't mind a good remake, but sometimes I feel like they could add new modes and things once you complete "original mode".
Even a bit of ProcGen randomness so replays are interesting and new. So many times I've seem "here is this game again", and it feels like such a waste.
Heck, why not reuse what you just spent years remaking, and use it to make a quick sequel?
A remake shouldn't be the end of the tale.

That's ok, I have the Smash Amiibo, thanks.

300+ hours is INSANE for me, especially when you consider how long it's been out. I just do NOT play games like that.
It hooked me in, and won't let go.

Ooooooooooh.....

I mean... .. they pretty much stuffed Rare, right from the get-go, so this isn't all that surprising.
AI powered games for the masses. :/

It's lovely, but....
I haven't played it enough yet, just got past the underwater-credits screen.... Does the menu stay as a "I could've written that myself" boxey joyless menu the whole time, or can I look forward to it being as rich and joyous as the 3DS-Gold edition was? 'Cos.. man, that's really letting the side down.
Oh, and the button in the menus no longer goes "pop............Pop" when you release it, any more, and that's alarmingly more disappointing to me than I expected it to be.

Called it!! (almost a decade ago!)

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/08/nintendo_happy_to_leave_door_open_for_more_rhythm_heaven_games#comment4093458

Really looking forward to playing this tomorrow, though.
Maybe tonight?
Oooooh!!!

As a musician with thousands of compositions under his belt and thousands of pounds spent on music software over the years, I don't think I've bought anything physical since the Amiga days.
Other than midi keyboards..

As an artist of sprites and art for hundreds of games, the last physical art software I bought was PaintShop Pro 7, in the early 2000s.

As a software developer, the last physical boxed programming language I bought was Blitz Basic 2.0 in the late 90s.

Guys, you'll live..

Honest question, as I only bought a single card for each Switch/2 I've owned. (I don't play a lot, and when I do it tends to be focused on one or two games)

If I load up a bunch of games on one (say a Zelda card) then another card I put Mario games on, and so forth..
Does the Switch OS support me popping those in and out, like it does physical carts?
I presume it'll phone-home to ensure I own the games, but does it then work like that?

@FrylockJ ... "Whatever comes next"
Just because WE can't think of it, doesn't mean someone at Nintendo hasn't.

I mean.. .. bathroom weighing scales as a gaming input device...
....!

Looks like an inverted Holodeck.
.
.....
R&D Holodeck, please, KThxBai

Loved it!!! Woot!

... Is it me, or does that very first song not have a very good rhythm to it?
It feels like I'm tapping against the rhythm of the other 4 hoppy bobs, and the music kinda .. disappears.
It's not very strong, and given that it's a demo, it feels like a bad choice for a first-experience.

Oh yeah, and they left in the Japanese track? Wowie! Imagine "normal" players stumbling onto that. I wonder how well that'll go down?

I grew up on HangOn and Outrun. That's what "SEGA" was to me, before Sonic. They oughta do those. Just do those.
We don't need Sonic in every game. We don't need Sega's Off-Brand-Nintendo Kart Racer.
We just want proper Sega Racing games..
Do those, Sega.
Make Sega games, Sega..

Follow Me from Sonic Heroes seems to frequently get stuck in my head.

More Pokopia for me.
And more Pokopia, too.

Maybe a little bit of Pokopia, on top.

Payed!!
I've spent WAY too much time in this game, so far.

@Ryu_Niiyama It's picked up my cat.
And a bunch of Lego Minifigs.
And I have a ton of screenshots from games I've made over the years, and they're all getting smushed in, too.

Honestly, it's chaos!!

A lovely review.

Seeing a lot of incredibly biased reviews grumbling about the concept of MicroGames, over the past couple of days.
It's like in the 80s when you would read reviews where the reviewer spends the first paragraph complaining that they don't like Racing Games, then giving a racing game 5/10 because it's "just driving in loops".
Ugh...

I can understand why people don't "get it", but if you're a WarioWare fan, it's right up your street.
I really don't understand why this isn't a WarioWare title.
Maybe they thought the WarioWare name wasn't enough to sell it, but it likely would've stopped a lot of the hate I'm currently seeing online, if people knew going in that it was another WarioWare game.

@trobby fair enough!

The Switch 2 has DLSS, though, doesn't it? If reduced resolution increases the frame rate, should the game not be running lower and using DLSS? Or does that not work in handheld, or something? (Honestly asking, no idea.)

Gosh, and it's so much harder when you don't have to code any of the games.

.. Is that all?
What are they up to, now? I know village was 11.. And there's been remakes galore.. Let's call it 20. And that's 20 flat, not counting ports. So, being really insanely generous.. Only 10 million per game?

That .. That doesn't seem a lot.
Does that seem low to anyone else?
What numbers to typical games get, nowadays?

Thank goodness. I heard the Xbox edition is tragically hampered by horrific gamepad controls.

No, wait..

In other news : A 10p Freddo is 39p now..

Why did I just waste 2 hours of my Saturday rebuilding a road?
WHY?!???!??

" goes "beyond games" "... No... Just make some games, Sega..

Finally bought the game over the weekend, and spent ages lighting up "can't remember the name of that dark town", using utility poles and hooking up everything I could. That was fun.

... Then triggered off the events where "omg! Let's light up the town", and had to go through stupid amounts of completely worthless "look over here, it's a utility pole. What could you do with that?!" and "OMG! It's a Water Wheel!!!" and "Gosh, we could wire everything up" and "Oh, wow, a street light.. But it isn't powered!" and more...

Could they not have "You've already done this" checks at the start of the dialogue.. Skip it... Skip it all!! I've done that! RAWR!!!!

We need simpler remakes. Put these devs to work on 8-bit > HD Remakes, .. Even better, put them to work on making new levels/experiences based on those, too.
Smaller jobs, more frequent output.. Right? Am I right? I'm probably wrong, but classic 2D games as 2.5D/HD remakes would "probably" be simpler. Game-dependent, obv.
But, new from old, instead of "it's the same but cleaner"

More of that. If 66 people got laid off last time, and presumably another hefty chunk now. Imagine what those people could've achieved...

In an era where Hamster gets away with "Here's another single ROM with nothing new", I yearn for actual effort.

Yeah, I'm also in the "the lyrics don't fit the rhythm" camp.
This might not be a movie, but if you're gonna do a Bond Theme, then.. .. You gotta do it right!

Just make a 3d shoot-em-up. Modern 2D SeU's are super popular. There's no reason why a straight forward 3D on-rails SeU won't be just as popular.

Is it themes?
It's themes, isn't it?
We're getting themes!!
OMG! Themes! Yeah!!!
Woooohooo!!!

"Let's make a nice relaxing theme with nice relaxing SMGalaxy music, nice and soothing, aaaah"
...
"I KNOW! Let's make the drop sound the most obnoxious CLANK we can find!!!"

Mario Kart 8 dropping out of the Top 20? Say it ain't so!!!

Do remember that the PS5 and XboxWhateveritis both came out at the end of 2020, during the year of Covid, just as all the price horrors were starting. If you consider the changes in tech prices since THEN, then it's no surprise this has had to have happened. I think Switch 2 should be "ok" for a while.

Late night to early morning? ... Demos don't do duvets.

Where's the Angry Angry Puyo Pop?
Come on, Sega...

It's lovely that so many racing/kart games get this treatment. And we've had Beat'em'ups do this, too.
..
But can someone finally do a "buttload of characters from all over the IP-o-sphere" Platform game, now, please?!!
Especially with all these lovely varied worlds to explore.

I really enjoyed this the first time. And then never enjoyed it again because once you know the puzzles, it's done.
So.. ..
Um..
Yeah..

I did enjoy the basic concept of Mario vs DK, taking the puzzle/platformer of GameBoy DK and amplifying it with an almost Lemmings-like mechanic.

BUT..
They didn't do anything different than that in future instalments.
It's like they got stuck with the Minis and never quite got out of it.
Could've been a whole series of different puzzle mechanics for each game, but instead, future games in the series were stunted.
Bah, humbug, etc.

Hmmm.. ... .. You know when we only had the Switch 1, and they targeted just the Switch 1, and the games ran like treacle on the Switch 1?
...

... We're one step closer to the dream...
Come on, Parappa!! You can do it. You gotta believe!!

It still ticks me off when, during a particularly mysterious event in Stargate Atlantis's original run, the Gateworld news site had pretty dang spoilery "Next time..." thing, right on their front page, minutes after the episode aired.
It put me right off ever visiting fan-sites for TV shows.

I don't mind "tidbits" that keep you interested, but spoilers that ruin (or .. literally spoil!) a reveal are a whole other level of spoil.
Boooo...
Death to them all!

LOL.. I noticed the "Timmy and Tommy wander away" thing, yesterday. There was a tourist in the shop, so I presumed they'd added extra code so the brothers took care of other customers instead of just me. .. Didn't even consider that it might be a bug!

Dear NMS,
I am currently paying off another loan on my house. Mr Nook drives a hard bargain. I will return to my ship once I have harvested enough fruit from trees.
See you soon.
Lots of love,
Jay

I've always loved the "idea" of a Zelda game, but every time I've tried to play one I kinda trailed off after about an hour or so. I just don't have it in me to bother with storylines in games. Gimme gameplay, focus on that. But I did love BOTW/TOTK, so much that I ended up with hundreds of hours of each.

Having said that, I know that my opinion is NOT the norm, and as much as I'd love another "roam-em-up", I don't think that's the right idea for a Zelda game. None of the other games have really been like that, and as much fun as it was to have this excursion, I think we should probably go back to what we had before.
It won't be for me. But it will be truer to the series.

(Though... .. I wouldn't complain if there was a "Free Roam" option on the titlescreen..)

If this were released in time for Xmas, it'd have been one mighty fine Family game.
I bet kids would love this, though. And maybe that's the target, not us.

The VR set was a little clunky, fiddly to use, and .. is sat on my bookshelf, unused. I won't be grabbing the VirtualBoy.