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It's not a Metroid theme, but at least it has Piranha Plants on parade. I haven't listened to all of the previews yet, but I'm not hearing a talking flower and that just sounds like a missed opportunity. If I had to listen to that lowsy lily in the morning, I would rush to turn off the alarm!
Either way, come on Nintendo. Give me that Metroid theme. It doesn't have to be Prime 4, just give me music from Super Metroid.

Credit where it's due, Ubisoft is at least letting Digital Eclipse address the issues with this collection. I would expect them to release the collection in a crappy state and never look back.
If they add the original music, I'll definitely pick this up.

Hopefully the draw distance is better across all platforms.

I'm about to interview for a job that'll hopefully allow me to buy something like this for the future. Wish me luck!

This seriously better get updates to add more compatible Pokémon, up until every Pokémon, at LEAST through Gen 9, is supported, though it should also support Gen 10 eventually.

I guess they decided to ruin DQX so people outside of Japan would stop asking for it.

As much as I like the 3.0 update, I don't think it eliminates the need for a new game. It's like the Welcome amiibo update for New Leaf. I would hope the next game lets you create more detailed textures, if only so the nasty smoothing filter is less noticeable, assuming it isn't removed entirely, but more important than that, players should be allowed to design their own pants. This is a feature that I've wanted since New Leaf, please Nintendo, let there be custom pants!

Now that I'm done drawing my new profile picture, I'm going to play some Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Good. Companies need to stop treating people like they're too stupid to even conceivably do their own DIY repairs by removing that option completely.

@Gabe250 Oh didn't know that. Damn, I thought SEGA was actually improving. How silly of me.

And it's all on the cartridge? SEGA, are you undergoing... character development...?

@Game_n_Watch_it_pal this isn't the first time I posted my grievances about this, so I doubt it, but it would be nice if they actually did listen to me. I don't look at the Nintendo News app everyday, but I do check NL on a daily basis. Seeing an article with Kirby Air Riders letting me know that there's an event while I'm working would trigger my brain to instantly know what it's going to be doing once I get home from my 9-5. They could make an announcement article, and then update that article with the rewards once the event is underway because the in-game event post is the only way you can find out what is being offered.

@Grim I'm not questioning whether Splatoon will be relevant in the future, but it's ridiculous to imply that the game from last year doesn't deserve to have its events reported on just because it's not the squid game from 2022.

@Bobb Funny enough, that's the only time NintendoLife has reported on an event in Air Riders, so it's not that they can't report on these events, they are just actively choosing not to. Heck, NL even reported on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Spirit Board events, and all you got from them were a bunch of PNGs. Kirby Air Riders events offer PNGs too, but they also offer titles, attachments for custom machines, and the occasional hat, and the PNGs can be used to decorate your machine or license! You get more new content by playing these events than by playing repeat Splatfests.
I'm sorry to any Splatoon fan that doesn't like reading this, but Kirby Air Riders doesn't deserve the radio silence it's gotten just because "Splatoon is 100 times more popular." It is still a new game, and it is baffling that Nintendo Life—the NINTENDO news site that has plenty of times where they have so little to report on during news droughts when Nintendo refuses to do a proper Nintendo Direct—chooses to ignore it. They don't even have to play the game to see these events. They are constantly checking the Nintendo News app for things to report on, so they would see these events, and then write them off as not newsworthy? Be for effing real!

@HatesCheese Hate to break it to you, but Splatoon 3 is on life support. The only time that game is relevant is when it's getting new content, which it has stopped getting regular content updates. Kirby Air Riders is still getting more content, as it should because it's still new. The "fresh" squid game is developing fuzzy mold. The only way Splatoon is going to regain relevance is when Nintendo adds more third kits or actually talks about Splatoon Raiders. Remember Splatoon Raiders? Whatever happened to that game? Is it still a thing?
EDIT: A third option that I just remembered would be if Nintendo actually added the rest of the soundtrack on Nintendo Music, including everything from the Inkopolis DLC onwards.

I really don't understand why you report on repeat Splatfests, but you won't report when new events happen in Kirby Air Riders.

I hope people who already bought any of these games doesn't have to double dip for the upgrade. I think the new mouse mode is neat even if I prefer motion controls, but I'd like to play Epic Mickey at 60fps.

They should have let this game die because now I keep seeing these articles for new updates and I start freaking out because I think this might be the one where they add more third kits 😭

That freaking bird that I hate...

Definitely going to listen to Brinstar: Heavy Foliage Area for an hour straight at work tomorrow!
Glad they finally put this soundtrack on there, I really hope Splatoon 3: Side Order gets its soundtrack added to the app soon.

I did recently pick up a copy of the switch 2 Edition at a used game store, mainly because the DS I bought from them blew a fuse the moment I powered it on at home, and they only offer refunds in store credit, and Pokémon Legends Z-A really was the most appealing option in stock... And this is coming from someone who wasn't all that hyped for this game to begin with, so that's not me praising the game, that's just a testament to how poor the selection was at this used game store. Still, $60 for the Switch 2 Edition isn't bad at all. I have the game now, and who knows? Maybe this game will impress me somehow, and I will feel the need to pick up this DLC.
I think Torna: The Golden Country was a better physical DLC release, by virtue of actually having the DLC Side Story available on the cartridge, with all of Xenoblade 2's other DLC being included as a download code, but I guess if the Mega Dimension DLC is tied to the main story, then it probably doesn't work as a stand-alone cartridge.

I think she's a good fit for Era of the Wilds Zelda, but if Nintendo was working on an Ocarina of Time remake with voice acting, I don't think she would work as well as young or adult Zelda. I think it would be fun if Nintendo changed up the VA for each incarnation of Zelda.

I wish Nintendo would release a Pushmo/Pullblox collection, one which includes Pushmo/Pullblox, Pushmo/Pullblox World, Crashmo/Fallblox, and Stretchmo/Fullblox (along with all of the paid content from the free-to-start title), all with enhanced visuals to be on par with World, and running up to 120fps on Switch 2. I don't think Nintendo releases enough cozy puzzle games these days, so a collection like this would certainly fill that void!
Also, they should pull a Star Fox Adventures and give this collection a universal title to go by.

I'm basically doing two Pokémon playthroughs at once with FireRed and SoulSilver. Even if Nintendo re-releases the latter on the Switch at some point, I strongly doubt they'll reintroduce the PokéWalker, so I'm playing it on DS.

I saw an ad for that here earlier, and I noticed that it also says you can download the trilogy on mobile now. Completely free too, at least that's what I'm led to believe. Wouldn't want to play these games on mobile, but it's an option for those who care.

I got my girl Birdetta!

Awesome news. I've been curious about this one for a while. If I do pick it up, it'll be the physical edition for sure!

@ArcticEcho similarly, I didn't buy crafted world until I found it at a reasonable price, and it was one of those games that I had been on the fence about buying for a long while at the time and I decided at the very least add it to my collection for when I eventually purge my backlog.

Glad to see a spin-off game do this well, and I'm hoping that Winds and Waves will look just as good as it did in the trailer (if not better somehow!) when it finally drops next year. I talk a lot of trash about the more recent games, but only because I do want the series to live up to the standards one would expect from the owner of the most lucrative IP in existence. I want to be cautiously optimistic, but I'm interested to see how things will play out next year.

So I'm guessing $60? That's a decent price for a switch 2 game.

@N00BiSH oh, so it is. Still a weird decision for Nintendo to not adjust the tracklist to be more consistent with where the tracks play in-game...

Glad to finally have this here. Now where's Super Mario Sunshine and 3D Land?
EDIT: Not even two tracks in, and I'm already complaining. The soundtrack is missing the music from the intro cutscene...

$20 to fix the game's inexcusable lack of boss variety, but only if you own the new system? That'll get a hearty "screw off" from me. This should have been a free update for the Switch 1, with a resolution upgrade and mouse control support for the one mini game that'll use it available as an upgrade pack for $5.

@AlexanderDaniels Totally has never been done before...

My digital copy of Kirby: Planet Robobot was somehow deleted, and I suspect it's because the data was corrupted in some way, because whenever I tried playing it, the sound would erroneously cut out. I redownloaded it from the eShop, and it works fine now, but my save data was lost, so I'm back to restoring my 100% completion. I don't mind so much, I was going to play this game last year anyway until it turned out that Nate the Hate was wrong.

If there's one thing I noticed, it's that I can appreciate a VA if they can produce a gut-wrenching scream! Like Alphen screaming if Shionne gets knocked out in battle in Tales of Arise, or Yosuke Hanamura's shriek of despair when his scooter gets flattened!

There will be no mention of games in this Direct.

YOOOO! Sweeper Woman moved forward! I'm rooting for her, partially because I was also going to design a maid bot, but I suck at drawing, but also I want another female Robot Master since in all 11 games so far we only have Splash Woman, and unless Capcom already plans on making one of the 7 other RMs' names end in Woman, I really want Ms. Sweeper to win this contest... Even if Capcom does have one lady bot on the Robot Master roster, then her winning this will mean we get TWO women in the game!

I was already on the fence about getting at least one of these Air Riders amiibo, but now I know I'm getting two of them for sure!

Mina the Hollower's finna be the next game people put their clown makeup on for for each direct...

@UpsideDownRowlet OMG I didn't notice that! Autocorrect strikes again!

Wonder if this is where they'll announce the winning design for the Robot Master Design Contest...

@TripleJump Not to mention it's false, anyway; they did take the time to fix the roar glitch with Entei, Raikou, and Suicune, add censorship so that you can't use naughty words when naming your character/rival or nicknaming your Pokémon, and made it possible to unlock event-exclusive items, which are added to your inventory after beating the Elite Four. Sure, it doesn't change as much as your average ROM hack, but these are very welcome quality of life inclusions.

Apparently the ROMs used here have been drastically changed from Rev 1, and in the recent datamine, the file system reveals that the ROMs were last worked on last year, which makes sense.

Just want to casually inform people here that the Switch release for these games was datamined, and the emulator running these games activates emulator hacks based on which ROM is loaded into it, and it checks for five different ROMs, being FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Now why do you suppose it checks for ROMs of games that aren't available on the eShop right now? 🤔

This is significant. We finally have our first full soundtrack for a Switch 2 game. Now where's Mario Kart World?
EDIT: 0/10 release. Tiny Boxes isn't in this soundtrack.
How am I going to hold my son's bar mitzvah without the Item Bounce music from Kirby Air Ride?
EDIT 2: Wait a minute, there's no Checkered Knights either! Is there seriously still a stranglehold on that song? I swear, whoever holds the rights to the anime music is seriously the Ken Penders of the Kirby franchise...

Probably gonna see Mina the Hollower get a final release date.

@rsabol10 A streamer by the name of Papa Jefé just managed to get a shiny mew today, on the Switch version!

People have datamined this release of FRLG, and there's code in the emulator that references RSE, meaning we might get those in the future as well.

Tapu Lele stumped me for a moment, but I still got a perfect score! And I'm in the top 20, so I did pretty well I think.