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I picked up DK Bananza early in the week and so far I've been enjoying it a lot and also getting overwhelmed by it. Now that I'm on the 2nd layer tho, I have a better understanding of what to look for. But in the 1st layer I spent a huge amount of time just smashing rocks thinking there might be something to collect lol. I am really loving this game, the few areas I've been look gorgeous and finding bananas can be really fun especially the really well hidden ones. Music's decent so far. Honestly I really look forward to getting further in. But so far it also feels like it has the same issues Odyssey had. When the bananas are put in fun challenges or hidden areas, it's awesome. But so far many of them are just sorta there, I think I've got like 70 of them now and a good chunk of those have been found at random with no puzzles, no challenge or anything. I'm hoping that's just cause it's early game still. Either way I look forward to making progress

Apart from most of the color being minimal and hidden away in handheld mode. The actual sides of the switch are still gonna be red and blue no? Lol

Geez by new entry I thought you meant they were making a 4th lol

Got a hefty target gift card as a present and since I already had a good amount of leftovers just sitting in my account, I just went and bought a switch 2 lol. In a way the fomo for prices got to me but yea I got the mkw bundle

Tried mkw out and so far I can't get too into it but I think that's cuz I have 200 hrs in sonic racing. The controls feel super off, and the open world is pretty but I'm just mindlessly driving around until I find a p switch. This definitely feels like a play for 10 mins a day type of game. Honestly I was a bit bummed how awful totk looks without the patch. It looks even more blurry and pixelated than on switch 1. So I bought the patch and it's a pretty significant change. I mean the world still has the ugly fog covering it but the resolution and 60 fps makes it so much better. Still baffling how awful the game looked without the paid patch tho. And lastly I tried out the bananza demo and that is 100% gonna be my next purchase. Keep going back to it just to smash things:P

Still have not felt compelled to nab one out of 10. The only 2 games that are really calling to me are dk and air riders but I could live without them for longer yet

Continuing on Tales of Graces F, the game has opened up a lot now with plenty of events and side stuff to find in older areas. I love the writing and combat so it's been fun exploring every single thing

And I also restarted Sonic Frontiers. When i 1st played this I wasn't really in the mood to play games, so I think it negatively affected my view on the game and also never finished it. But on this 2nd try, things are going so differently I'm shocked lol. It's such a wonderful game. I adore all the mini platforming segments sprawling around this open free zone to run around in when i used to think they were randomly thrown all around the map with no rhythm. And it helps that sonic actually feels great to control. I remember feeling like it had some jank to it but this time I don't feel it at all. Great music as usual, tons of collectibles, fun open areas to explore. Stages are short but sweet. Combat has also been fun with plenty of options. Easily one of my favorite modern Sonic games

Finished Kirby and the Forgotten Land. There are fun great moments but then there are some stages that tend to be overly long but the gameplay is too repetitive for that, so it tends to drag. It's also kinda too easy, only the true final boss poses any real challenge. But abilities are awesome, and it has a variety of neat little things to do which I like. And it managed to sate my hunger for a platformer lol

And I also started up Tales of Graces F. Been wanting to play this one forever and it does not disappoint. Absolutely love the characters and the dialogue. Story starts off pretty troupey but there's never a dull moment yet at least. And the style of the game is gorgeous

Some more races in Sonic Racing Crossworlds for the minecraft festival. And I had originally only planned to play Galaxy 2 but screw it, I went with a replay of Mario Galaxy first. Its still every bit of a masterpiece that I remember it being

It being kart racers with battling items, I expect and want tons of chaos. Mario kart is fun in very short bursts made slightly longer when I play with friends, but it is the most vanilla kart racer I've ever played and seen. And no where near enough people give it flak for making being 1st place, the most boring experience ever. All you ever get while in 1st is coins, and the very rare occasional banana, green shell, or 1 mushroom

Crossworlds in comparison is pure chaos in most of the right ways. It can get a little annoying if ur hit with like 3 items back to back. But that goes for anyone and there's a ton of different fun options to circumvent that, and as you learn the tracks they become easier to avoid. It just feels faster, more strategic, and competitive. The only other kart racer that had a similar feel for me was Kirby air ride lol. Here's hoping air riders follows

A remake would be cool if done right but they haven't been doing them right such as BDSP so yea... Not to mention that part of what made B&W so good was the neat use of 2.5D for the graphics of the game. It'd basically lose that charm being fully 3d now unless they make some kind of HD2D remake like Squares doing

Not feeling the character designs yet again but they're certainly a step above Engages. And with it seemingly being connected to 3H, then I'm sure I can expect the story and writing to not take a backseat like in Engage too. Definitely looking forward to seeing more

I do not have a single bit of FOMO for not owning one yet which I did have for the original Switch. So i guess that tells you what I think of the 4 meager exclusives out so far, and the 3rd parties I can or have already played elsewhere and are key cards. Just waiting on FE and whatever Monolith cooks be it Xenoblade or new IP

Nope another Nintendo console launch that just feels like an afterthought. The only other being wii u. But at least in this case I'm mildly interested in upgrading my switch. So maybe at some point down the line with the inevitable revision, I'll consider it

@killercerial not sure I never bothered cause I rarely use mine and when I do it's dock. I knew they'd take some money off for it having drift but I'm seeing here that they might take a lot so now I'm wondering. But yea I guess I'll have to go in and ask

How much do they take off for having stick drift on the left joy con that is purely Nintendos fault?

I wasn't planning on getting a 2 any time soon if at all but if I could trade in my switch plus some controllers I never use, maybe it'll be worth an upgrade at whatever reduced price that is. Assuming I can just casually walk into a gamestop to do it. I'm not gonna be rushing and struggling to pre order one

Finally playing The Last of Us for the 1st time. Idk why it took me so long but it's been pretty good so far. One of my favorite implementations of stealth gameplay. Never too slow but you also don't breeze past clickers, making it all pointless. The story's been a little cliche but the character interactions have been great

And more Xenoblade X. Took me a while but got to ch.9, what a chapter 8 was. I'm really liking the story beats but getting to the actual story means going thru a bunch of side quests, affinity missions, and fighting a bunch of mobs to level up. It can be pretty exhausting at times. But when it clicks, it clicks. I'm still enjoying it and can't wait to get further into the story

By this logic no open world is just mindless running or driving or swimming or flying around, man. There's always something to do in any of them. But mindlessly driving around pressing switches and collecting coins does not scream $80 lol. I'm shocked they showed almost nothing else to do in its open world

Wake me up when Kirby Air Riders gets a trailer. I'm sure even if it's not open world. It'd still make way more use of its city trial map than whatever this was

@Zuljaras you mean the little check that happens right when you actually click on the app to play? I'm definitely not a fan of that yea. Especially cause I forgot to set my switch to primary console one time, and it literally wouldn't let me play even my switch 1 cartridges offline lol. I can't imagine how frustrating this will be with these game key cards 😂

@Zuljaras this i didn't know and if true makes it even worse cause you just can't do anything with it offline then

@Poco_Lypso idk if all 3rd party will be like this but there's already some questionable ones like bravely default being a game key card

@BrianJL with the exception of live service games such as MH Wilds or maybe stuff from companies like ubisoft that's just purely bloated, most games are entirely on the disc and the patches are small bug fixes. One of the biggest games rn on ps5 would be FF7 Rebirth and I could install it rn from discs with no internet and the only patch id miss is a small resolution bump for performance mode. Or Elden Ring, I'd miss a bunch of nerfs and buffs to different weapons but the game is completely playable thru the base disc with no patches

@electrolite77 yea but that initial download needs internet as far as I can tell

My only real problem with this thing is that you NEED internet. The vast majority of PS and I think Xbox discs (I'm not sure about theirs) do not need internet to download a game off a disc. If my internet someday goes down which has happened, I know I can still pop in my discs and play them. You seemingly can't do that with these cartridges

The switch 1 is gonna be supported by making games like the new Zelda musou and bravely default exclusive to 2? While the switch gets uh I guess rhythm heaven and a mii game lol

Why are you charging $80 when we're barely, if at all, still getting used to $70

It should be said repeatedly that Sony packed in an amazing 3d platformer with the quality of a Mario game altho with the length of a Kirby game if not shorter (keep in mind they're now most likely gonna be charging 80 and 70 for 3d Mario and Kirby too). And all for the price of 10 dollars less than this thing

It also lead to an equally amazing full fledged game but that's besides the point lol

A bad kids movie beat out another bad kids movie. Color me surprised. I expect the inevitable roblox movie to absolutely eclipse either of them

MH Wilds, fought the Zoh Shia twice because the randoms that joined my quest the 1st time got obliterated by it lol. Gonna fight it some more for the amazing gear

Xenoblade X, admittedly haven't had as much time to play this as I would've liked this week. Went on a expedition to install a bunch of probes in oblivia and got a few cool party members. That's about it. Hopefully can really dig in this weekend

@nhSnork that's funny cause as far as I remember that was a trade off for choosing to play on a switch. On the go play at the expense of nearly everything else taking a hit. Graphics, loading times, fps, etc. So no, it doesn't matter if you played 20 hrs or 5 minutes (which is kinda hard to believe when the busy man Sakurai himself had time to play hundreds of games on his ps5 lol) of a game on ps or an xbox or pc. It is still a better experience on those platforms than on a switch. And frankly in the year 2025, it also loses its on the go angle now that pc handhelds exists. How anybody with one, can look at the ports they showed today and be excited, when they can literally already play them on a handheld rn and cheaper (and with similar capabilities of a pc like mods and free online) is beyond me. The only thing that makes remotely any sense is if you only own a Nintendo then I could see how all those ports are any good

Lol Nintendo 1 UP'd Sony in fleecing their fans

5/10. None of the hardware features appealed to me in the slightest. None of the 3rd party ports do anything for me since there are literally better ways to experience those games. So all that was left was exclusives. The fromsoft game was confirmed to be a multi-player game so my interest has dropped utterly lol. Mario kart looks nice but the real kart racer star for me was Kirby Air Riders. And I hate the awful DK redesign and was hoping for a new 3d Mario instead so this one while cool didn't exactly wow me. So yea it was pretty timid. But that doesn't mean my fire emblems and xenoblades aren't coming in the future so I look forward to that

So it doesn't come with the camera that's necessary for part of a feature they kept hyping up thru out the show?

This one is a dream come true. I really hope they show more soon. So many hours spent on the 1st one on GameCube was amazing

Still not really far in but now having got a taste of skell gameplay, id say it's an 8.5 to a 9 so far. The story is interesting, characters are decent. Music is great if a little repetitive. Combat is as fun as ever. I will say I'm not that keen on the enemy variety. I feel like I see the same spiders or apes over and over all around the map just with different names. Exploration also gets a little repetitive but I'm having fun marking off the map. I just wish the yellow squares on the map actually led to decent loot. It's a really solid game, I'm loving it a lot

Some more MH Wilds, I think I'm finally at the endgame. And I don't think the game has been as easy as it was made out to be. LR for sure but HR had just the right amount of difficulty and open ended-ness which I loved. Can't wait to really start messing with decos and gear and for TU1 to finally arrive

And also more Xenoblade X. Finally got my skell. I love this game so much. It can get a little overwhelming with the huge amount of quests it throws at you, most of it filler. But it's been fun riding around Mira and completing them. Fighting and leveling up. Doing the story which has still been so interesting. And just filling out the map and clearing out all the objectives. Music is getting a little repetitive now. But what's been there has been great. I hope to hear some new tracks tho

It was pretty awful and it's like sure the big stuff is for the switch 2 direct but they still decided to go thru with this presentation anyway lol. The only 2 highlights for me were the raidou and saga remasters but they're multiplat anyway so yea

Oh no, not another FE Awakening case. And in a similar genre too. I'll have to try out the demo on steam. Hopefully it's a good time

Still on MH Wilds. About to reach HR 30 and doing every optional quest I see. I don't mind how linear the story was but HR is way more fun with how open ended it is. Seeing an unknown icon running around the map and heading towards it yo see what it could be is so fun

And now that it's officially out, Xenoblade X DE. I'm on Ch.5, I'm loving the story and characters so far. Nothing amazing but it beats the start of XC3. The Sawano music during the world building cutscenes was fantastic and peak anime lol. I'm determined to get to my skell this weekend

@themightyant @BTB20 I checked too early cause it was at a 90 and even then it's not far off from it atm. So it could go up as more come in which is crazy for what literally was considered the black sheep of the family before DE was even announced. And not just by reviewers literally fans of the series. I still remember so much of the criticisms thrown at it. But now its a misunderstood masterpiece lol. Tho I've never played the original so I can't say how significant these gameplay and story changes are, it should still largely be the same game

Either way I'm loving it so far. I've wanted to play it for ages now even after all the things I'd heard about it

Lol the switch up on this game is crazy from the wii u reviews. Altho I can't say I disagree with the score at least so far where I'm at. I've heard lots about the story being very weak but I love the premise so far. I'm so excited to really be deep in the game and see where it all goes

On ps5, Monster Hunter Wilds. Just started high rank and the forest looks absolutely gorgeous. I love this game so much

On pc, I'm playing Xenoblade X Definitive Edition. (Couldn't wait lol) So far I'm loving it

These 2 games are probably going to keep me busy for a good chunk of the year. And I'm fine with it cause they're 2 of my favorite series

Can confirm that so far its... awesome

Xenoblade 1 is a 10. Gorgeous world and music, combat is fun. The story is very engrossing and the characters are great. Oh yea and pretty great voice acting

Xenoblade 2 is maybe an 8 or a 9. Vastly improved locations and exploration even with the annoying gacha implementation. Combat is even more interesting and fun. The story is pretty weak especially in the beginning but when it hits towards the end, it hits hard. And the ost is phenomenal

Xenoblade 3 is probably my least liked out of any Xeno game I've played in general and is probably a 6 to 7. I can recognize that it's a well made game. But the story is so underwhelming, the characters are easily the weakest, the locations are a downgrade. Most of the music wasnt memorable and for some reason combat just felt more tedious here. Maybe it was the way it placed so much importance on chain attacks but they take years to finish.

I'm looking forward to starting the dlcs and additional contents for all three main games and eagerly await XCX

I think cause of the leaks all over twitter and apparently being all correct, this was incredibly underwhelming. And that doesn't even look remotely like a next gen Mario kart lol. You sure that's not just 8 again

The only wii u port I ever wanted when I got the switch. Christ why the massive wait. Either way I'll be there day 1! Super hyped to finally explore that world for myself

It's shown me that the dev writers clearly want to be a lot more closer with pokemon than to just catch and battle with them lmao

As for the new game. I find it hilarious the leaker is saying he isn't gonna leak anything of it then proceeds to do just that but in small bites. Hes the obnoxious attention seeking type alright

No way you just made this article with one of your Twitter citations being a huge console warring fanboy lol

I would normally say i prefer TotK mainly cause overall it has more than BotW and makes BotW look and feel even more like a tech demo than it already felt. But because I played BotW first, a lot of it just felt too samey and ultimately felt repetitive faster. So I ended up not even finishing TotK and I haven't gotten the motivation to continue it since the month it dropped

Didn't think I was gonna spend the end of 2023 on my switch but here I am still going with SMT V lol. I'm in the final stretch. And it's been a pretty great experience overall. I just wish it wasn't so held back by the switch. The 3rd and last areas have been absolute headaches to run around in. And the story is once again underdeveloped

Other than that great gameplay, exploring can be fun, music is mostly very good, demon designs are as great as ever

Dusted off the switch to give SMTV a try since it was $20. So far so good. The gameplay is good old smt/persona fun. I'm really liking how explorable the world is atm. It has the most verticality, and just big areas that aren't hallways, in an atlus game to date it seems. But camera, framerate, and resolution are pretty iffy so sometimes it feels like a headache going through the ruined buildings to find stuff

2 games for a total of 120 hours
TotK: 102 hrs
Monster Hunter GU: 17 hrs

Not bad I was expecting way lower cause I rarely use my switch. But MHGU is definitely getting way more hours in next year once I really get into the meat of the game. Can't wait especially since MH Wilds is getting closer and closer

If the translation is accurate he just pulled a Jim Ryan "why would anybody play this" lmao