John_Deacon

The review reads like a 9 for me. I hope it really sells well. Games like this (full of content and polished) deserve to succeed

@abe_hikura That's great of them!

I have the trilogy on XBox One, where I played it first, then I bought it again for the PS5 for improved performance and graphics. I paid peanuts both times. Now having this game handheld is a dream, but I'm not sure I'm paying for it again, especially without knowing how it's running on the original Switch...

My GOTY (or the past three years, maybr) is Silksong. It's just awesome and oozes love in every aspect, but I know it won't win. It hasn't got the necessary "qualifications" for that

Talk about a wonderful series!
Lots of high quality games, so in the end it all comes to personal preferences. Just to leave my two cents here, if a game that gave me dozens of hours of great fun (Skyward Sword) is placed at 20 something on the list, it means it's just a matter of taste. Just don't ask me to rank my favorite 10. I can give you a list, sure, but no way I can establish an order of greatness

I wonder how many people actually played Mother 3 in the West....

The 2 in "Switch 2" made me think what many others thought too. But I guess it's a matter of time

@Pillowpants I live in Brazil. Our economic situation hasn't been great for quite some time, but we have a law that requires a yearly raise (called dissídio) aiming to compensate for purchasing power lost as a result of inflation. And thanks God that's still in effect. So, even when inflation is low, formal workers will get a low raise (agreed upon between worker unions and employer unions). Other than that, raises can be given in a case by case basis although in some sectors of the economy, raise has become a bad word LOL

Whoa! So the word "raise" is still a thing? Thought it had become just some old-fashioned term that scares people off... it's great it still exists somewhere

I've been playing it since launch - had to stop for a week, then another week because life got in the way - but it's been a wonderful time so far. I'm in Act 2, maybe approaching the end of it, progressing slowly but feeling really good with every tool acquired or patch of map discovered. I'm a huge Metroid fan, it's my favorite franchise, and I can't say anything about MP4 now, but Silksong is my GOTY now

I thought Activision had ordered to shut down all Crash projects because Crash 4 (a superb game) sold "only" - in their opinion - around 5 million copies...

Boy, everybody knows this game but me. And they say it's great. I missed this one completely!

God, I hate face off campaigns!!!! You get to a point in which you have super metroid x donkey Kong Country 2, secret of Mana x Mario Kart 8 deluxe.... A dispute that doesn't make any sense and I feel under a lot of pressure and guilty for making hard choices LOL... yeah, yeah, mental health has left the building, I know

...while I've been wondering when we're gonna have Mega Man 12...

If they manage to keep frame rates steady, these resolutions are just fine. Of course, I'm a single player, so I'm not getting 30 fps, and i totally understand those who are frustrated by the announcement of 30 fps for 4- player split screen

No way Im paying 30 bucks for this DLC

When you think they just won't find any topics for new best of articles, here they come! LOL

@JohnnyMind you have a point, sir. Having a physical version available and a waaaaay small library to compete with certainly helped 1-2 Switch around launch. What baffles me is it sold one extra million during the first financial year LOL This i just can't understand

@JohnnyMind I'm not sure whether Welcome Tour was expected to reach a million copies sold or not, but let's remember that 1-2 Switch sold around 1 million copies in its first month and was also criticized and got really mixed/average reviews when it came out. I'm comparing the 2 games because they serve the same purpose (showing what the system can do and so on). Of course, the S1 didn't get all the backlash the S2 got around launch, which certainly didn't help Welcome tour sales numbers. That being said, maybe some people indeed were expecting WT to sell 1 million. Who knows?

It's nice that this outfit thing is available (it seems to be extensive) since many people like to spend hours of gameplay solely focusing on this, but for me it's something I don't care about in a pokemon game. Out of my ZA gameplay time I've dedicated nothing to dressing up and collecting outfits. I keep wearing the original outfit and that's it

@OhioStateBuckeyes Your comment reminds me of the Saturn version, which had a huge number of voices and effects removed...

Although some of the versions I played more are out of this collection (Saturn versions of MK2 and UMK3, and MK4 for the N64), the included material is excellent in my opinion, both for playing (especially the superior arcade versions of the original trilogy) and preservation. I love these collections for the games and the extras, which are superb in some cases, like the Cowabunga Collection, and OK in others, but still good

And as I'm not an online fighting game player, I guess I'll not have problems with input lag, which would totally put me off

That's awesome news! I just love the series and hope they keep expanding it

In certain side missions, if the time of day switches between daytime and nighttime at the exact moment that a move hits its target, it will become impossible to hit the target afterward, rendering the side mission incapable of being progressed further.

it's not exactly what they're going to address, but I was battling an alpha Pokemon (a slow battle, struggling to deliver any super effective hit, but the alpha Pokemon had around only 20% of its HP) when it switched to morning. My battle was interrupted, I lost all progress I had made and the alpha Pokemon had its HP replenished. A real bummer

About the boxes, there are 16, right? At least for me, it'd be a little hard to get all of them filled before the first Rogue Mega Evolution battle, but....

@LinktotheFuture thanks for that, man. I got it all wrong

That's great news, as it's an excellent game that explored really well the NES power at the end of the console's life cycle. I just hope they release it digitally because I have zero interest in buying "new" NES games today and that the cartridge doesn't brick anyone's system

It's just wonderful to have the trilogy available with quality of life enhancements! I'm definitely getting this remaster

@DennyCrane @HammerGalladeBro If I remember well, another outlet published some days ago that there's gonna be a Switch 1 version, too

It's crazy how things are different in different regions! I guess we'll still have a long way to go until we know how good/bad it has been

Microsoft's games division has been trying really hard to be seen as a joke since the announcement of the Xbox One. This is sad because supposedly the more competition, the better for players, but they're making a real effort to be out

@nikolai131 while we were technically in the pandemic when Arceus was released, it was in 2022. That's a completely different scenario from, let's say, Animal Crossing and other games who enjoyed the 2020 and early 2021 window. I guess Arceus sales numbers are largely due to the Pokemon name and its own merit rather than the pandemic

@Yosher No backlash from me, as I totally agree with you. I have the impression that Sakurai-san just can't deliver a game that's not packed with content, beautiful and with all of its details well taken care of. I really hope it sells like hot cakes

My experience with the game (S1 version) corroborates that some NPCs are indeed creepy, not because of the reasons you stated but because some of them just pop out of nowhere some meters ahead of me while others simply vanish

So we aren't getting FZero, but we're getting an FZero + Mario Kart + CTR + Kirby mix with a great soundtrack and beautiful graphics?

It sounds, looks and apparently runs great!

It's great to know that a game who didn't get the spotlight it deserved is getting a sequel. And a good one!

I had a lot of fun with the first Lumo, and I'm gonna get this one, too. For those who arent sure about getting the first game: if you're into puzzle platformers with a great deal of difficulty, you're gonna have a blast

@Jack_Goetz Some say third-party releases have been struggling due to the dev kit issue. I don't know how far that goes, but maybe next year's releases will give us a clearer picture of what is on the console (power or lack of it) and what's on devs and other issues

@Jack_Goetz There's no technical limitation that prevents the S2 from running it at steady 60 fps if the Series S can (although, I know, they're not the same). If it's the case, some visuals could be slightly downgraded, but not necessarily. Of course, there are a lot of other commonplace elements that might come into play: a rushed job, tight deadlines, the "(maybe) we'll fix it later" factor, but it can be done

Whoa, 60 minutes of Kirby alone? I'm beginning to think there's gonna be something else....

I'm rank F now and considering what I've experienced, it's a 6 for me. I love the new battle system (basically an action style system now) and point collection within battle zones with the card system is cool, but the bland visuals (awful, repetitive looking buildings and rooftops, windows, etc), limited city, almost no expression in characters' faces during interactions, boring and very limited wild zones, no voice acting, bad pop in (S1 version) all scream "no polish, no care here".

Being the NES (and the old) guy I am, I'm a little disappointed in myself, but still not that bad LOL
17/21

I have an NES and a bunch of games, but as I don't have a CRT TV, it's been quite a few years since I turned it on for the last time.

I still play 8bit games a lot, but mainly through retro compilations, NSO or a good old emulator

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT well, if you can go through all the grinding and difficulty spikes in a couple of days, great. I needed a lot more time than that

I really love Arceus, but both its freedom and focus on exploration/catching are now confirmed to have been ignored in this one, which was a strong suspicion, but now it's a sad truth. If it runs smoothly on S1 (and based on everything that's been shown so far, it has absolutely no excuse not to), I'll give it a try, but if it has the same performance problems as SV, I'll pass.

I was a huge fan of SNK games when this one came out and I played a great deal of FFS. Takara did a great job with this version and albeit lacking when compared to the original game, it's a great port. The NA cover is the one that makes my nostalgia scream, but the Japanese art is much better in my opinion, that's why it gets my vote

@The_Nintendo_Pedant If consumers in general adopted your approach, i'm sure we'd have better games to play rather than the ton of half-baked releases we get all the time

PS: seeing a picture of my favorite sitcom character gives me some 'positive' bias toward your comment LOL

@Pillowpants Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a nice little gem by Playtonic. I recommend it

I've been saying the same thing since 2017: when a graphically demanding Switch 1 game is capped at 30 fps, I understand it, as hardware limitations are clear. Of course it'd be ideal for games to run at 60, but I know it's just not feasible. I know Mario Odyssey shows what can be done, but not everyone will do what it takes to achieve it.

However, when it comes to the S2, I don't see it as acceptable. I know it can (and will probably) be patched, and I know that's how the industry works these days, but it doesn't feel ok. We deserve more

Things like tighter controls, fast travel, a map, and loads more collectibles change up the gameplay experience in some important and very positive ways, rounding off those rougher edges that caused some players to bounce off the original.

THIS is what I was expecting to hear

It baffles me that we still can't see for ourselves what the Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered title screens look like..... how much longer is that gonna take, Nintendo?

@norwichred If you downloaded the game(s), then the patch has already been downloaded and installed, too. Otherwise, you would have gotten this message: "A software update is required. Update data will be downloaded now." That's the case when you insert the cart on the S2

@LastFootnote well, I'm clearly not expert, but I thought this could have been implemented in the cart as, by design, S1 carts are recognizable and fully functional on S2. Maybe they were late.... Or am I just saying a ton of BS here? Does anyone know if that'd be feasible?