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@RBRTMNZ luckily, we already have a top games list! This was just for fun

@Snatcher there's something about the Fortnite chunky cartoon style that just makes their characters very attractive!

@tabris95 we just do not know!!!

@MarkyVigoroth I was tempted!

@TDRsuperstar2 it's cool! It's Monday, we're all a bit rubbish at reading today

@TDRsuperstar2 yep, that's in the last line of the article

@VoidofLight but they've already DONE red! Now we have Pokémon Red and Pokémon Scarlet? That's just flippin confusing!

@FroZtedFlakerZz I think it requires you to have a common item to hold, and a stackable item to dupe? I can't replicate it myself as I lost my BOTW copy in a move

@ISeven I've added more information in the article. This was the last thing I wrote at the very end of my work day last week, so it was a little light on information, and I apologise!

It's certainly not up to my usual standard, but as I said... it was the last thing I wrote on a Friday afternoon, so I hope you can grant me a little leeway for that 😅

@Astral-Grain I like that it's matte, but that means it's going to show scratches like the dickens.

@Why_Do_I_Exist
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Koopas, not join them! Bring balance to the Mushroom Kingdom, not leave it in darkness! You were my brother, Pablo! I loved you!"

@PessitheMystic me neither

@Bayjax Canada is getting an ugly drawstring bag

@Astral-Grain sorry, I boob'd. Please boobgive me

see, the thing with this is that boobs, boobs. And boobs boobn't. Boobs? Boobs.

Ah, I'm glad to see so many people here are team polygamy. Good work, y'all. The Greek gods would be proud. Especially Zeus.

@sakuraprisma Apollo Justice is my favourite too!!

@SlowPokemon YUP YOU ARE RIGHT thank you nit-picker

@UglyCasanova yeah, if wet food sounds are ASMR, then I think I do not like ASMR

@delspencerdeltorro That's a good question.

Updates that include free DLC will be available to download for free "for the foreseeable future". Same deal for paid DLC that you already own.

Your DLC is tied to whichever Nintendo account you used to buy it from the 3DS eShop, so you can sign in again on a new 3DS and you should be able to redownload it. But if you get it fixed, that will work too!

However, I think you won't be able to buy new DLC from the eShop after March 2023.

@Chibi_Manny I don't have my Wii U with me, or I'd put together something! I can see if someone on staff can work one up

@tseliot It got a 9/10.

@Troll_Decimator in terms of being able to date people, yeah, I think it makes a difference

@GerBearNy people fighting in the comments is not my fault, and it's pretty unfair to try to hold writers responsible for the way some people behave in here - we're certainly never trying to make anyone angry, because why would we want to deal with that?

I'm just doing my job, highlighting games that people should download, not stoking the fanboy fires on purpose.

@CANOEberry Tale of Two Towns and Trio of Towns are both pretty good, although the mining in both games sucks — Trio of Towns is especially interesting because it has three towns (duh), each of which is themed — a Western one, a Japanese one, and a tropical one.

I liked A New Beginning, but it is VERY slow — you have to unlock all the town buildings yourself and it takes a long time. I also vaguely remember having to rely on the online multiplayer to get a lot of rare items that took ages to get.

Friends of Mineral Town (and More Friends of Mineral Town) is great, but I really think the Switch remake is the best way to play it!

I think going from Stardew to some of the older games will be a bit of a stark difference, so I leave that decision up to you — they don't include a lot of the modcons of the later games, like dating and easy access to shops. Also apparently HM3 ends when you get married, if you choose to play as a girl, which SUCKS

Please read the article before repeating things I said in the article in the comments, folks 😭

@Luigivaldo Trio of Towns has Ludus, my favourite Harvest Moon husband of all time!!! A New Beginning isn't the best HM game, but I have spent A LOT OF TIME in it all the same, so I'd recommend that too

@GerBearNy not sure what bad blood you're talking about, this is just a PSA from one Harvest Moon fan to another

@ToniPSB @travisbrowning I'm glad I did it justice!! I can imagine it's frustrating to have to tell people that sometimes you're just born with it

@Kilroy because I couldn't spend all my time writing it 😭 I have other responsibilities, y'know!

Also, this is a living list so we can keep adding to it

@MS7000 Not everyone plays games in the same way! A lot of people, myself included, want access to a wide range of things that they can dabble in. If I only had $30 a month to spend on games, Game Pass is a better value proposition than... half a full-priced AAA game.

Besides, subscription services aren't an either/or. I still buy games all the time... it's just that I can also dip my toes into Sea of Thieves or Crusader Kings whenever I like without forking out huge amounts of money to find out that I don't like them.

@HammerGalladeBro it was, but not the specific amiibo... although we could have guessed most of them!

@SirKif you mean a ladder, surely

@FroZtedFlakerZz it's a hotel that pretty much ONLY provides a tiny room with a bed - very popular in Japan. You can save a lot of money, because they can pack way more people into one building, as long as all you need is a place to sleep

@Anti-Matter I remember this! I used to call them "zangles".

@Gerald don't make me get my Klobb

@nessisonett with little crunchy fruit nuggets in it!!

@MarkyVigoroth I do think they should have done it in Spanish for the full effect! Buuuuut I get why they didn't.

@Saturn589 I linked to the page for Bioshock Infinite on Switch in the article

@RupeeClock Scuse Me! The posters are clearly for the entire game, represented by iconic props from those games!

@SuperZeldaFun he is a little orb and I cannot change that

@nessisonett the US version is more about MASSIVE wins or MASSIVE losses, less in-between

@HotGoomba I can relate to that.

@Rosona Again, I wasn't being unkind to Dragon Quest 11. The fact that the games are designed for busy, stressed workers to unwind with is not necessarily a negative thing.

I have a busy, stressful life, and even though I work in games, I don't always have the mental energy for a game that asks me to invest a lot of thought and energy into it in order to enjoy it. A game, like PLA and DQ11, can be good and accessible to people like me with frazzled nerves — specifically when exploring the open world and doing side quests. Low stakes moments in a game are good for winding down from a difficult day at work.

And I do like PLA, quite a lot actually — I'm not sure where you got the idea that I didn't. I am just cautious about recommending it to friends who aren't already Pokémon fans, as I would be with any Pokémon game.

I understand that you disagree with me, but you've read quite a lot of feelings into my answers that just weren't there, and now you're writing angry comments to me for things I didn't say. Being a fan of a game does not mean being uncritical of it. Enjoying a game for its simplicity does not mean that the game is bad, or that it is not challenging in other ways. People play games differently, and that doesn't mean they are wrong.

@eleven you're reading a negative connotation into something I said in a positive way.

Not everyone enjoys games in the same way — I like to play through PLA in my own way, which sometimes involves gentle grinding through the Pokédex while I listen to an audiobook. I particularly enjoy doing that when I'm having a stressful time, which I am right now, because it allows me to completely turn my brain off. I am glad that a game can offer that to me.

It's like the difference between watching a thriller and a Disney musical: Both are worthwhile and made by talented artists, but one requires much more active thought, and the other is like a balm for your brain. That doesn't make it less worthy.

@Astral-Grain yep, pretty much — I'm definitely not going to use Pokémon as my only historical source. In fact, I wouldn't use any video game as my only historical source! But it's fun to get different people's takes on history all the same

@Fizza MUAH

@Slinkoy1 weird? or very very cool????

@ModdedInkling As Skunkfish says, the news isn't that we just discovered its existence, it's that the high-quality scans were uploaded.

@Teksetter you're welcome! It's a great read. 😊

@Troll_Decimator
Roundness: 10
Little bowtie: 11

that's all the stats I need