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Maybe. It would be a good excuse to revisit the game with my brothers, who I played the entire game with locally. My thoughts on the camera during the final level aside, we did have a good time overall.

How hard would it be for them to just have the classic classic cover art on the reversible side? They could be doing this with all NS2Es that come with an expansion, but nah, let's just make them ugly to look at instead.

@Nintendo_Thumb I never said your opinion was invalid. You're allowed to feel that way, but just like how you're allowed to have an opinion, I'm allowed to have an opinion of that opinion. And if you don't like getting pushback for having an unpopular opinion, stay off the internet. This is common sense, bucko.

I also didn't make you talk about how bad you think this game is. I didn't hold a gun up to your head and say "Compare a game that people enjoy to rushed licensed garbage from a quarter century ago that everyone universally hates! Do it NOW!" Who's making up stories here? You chose to do that. I wasn't even talking to you at first, I was replying to someone else who said the game is terrible. You didn't have to insert yourself into our convo, but you did it anyway. Stop trying to blame others for what you did. It's very embarrassing.

Anyway, I grow tired of reading your immature prattle. You can't accept that not liking a game doesn't automatically mean it's a bad game, just a game you don't like. There's nothing wrong with disliking a game, but when you act like it's objectively bad, going so far as to compare it to Superman 64, then you are just being disrespectful. It devalues the emotions of the fans who genuinely were happy to see this series return and love this game for what it is, and it's disrespectful as all hell to the team who clearly put passion into creating it, unlike the people who were just trying to make a paycheck under stressful conditions because Warner Bros. gave them a strict deadline. I have nothing more to say to you, except that I will not see whatever you have to respond with, as I am ignoring you. Good day sir!

Sadly, Cyberpunk 2077 isn't on this list.

While I'm definitely glad to have mine this early on into its life cycle, if only because it basically acts like a Switch Pro, playing most games for the original Switch better than its predecessor could, I do think that Nintendo needs to step up their first party offerings for the new system this year, especially if they have any intentions of keeping this momentum going.

It took a while, but Bubsy may actually finally have a good game. I was not expecting to see this kind of character growth from Mr. Bobcat of all people!

I'm really happy to see Captain Toad finally get his own amiibo! It would be nice if Captain Toad Treasure Tracker got a Switch 2 update/edition that adds more levels, maybe based on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, with talking flowers placed throughout each level... And also brings back the 3D World levels!

Subtitle should be "Croc and roll it out already!"

@Nintendo_Thumb I'm sorry. I was a teenager when this game came out, and my little brothers hadn't even reached double digits by then. Nothing about your behavior indicated to me that you are older than me or my brothers. Of course you're allowed to say a game is bad, but other people are also allowed to correct you. And if your age and source of income are the only discrepancies you could correct me on, then it seems like I was pretty much right on the money about everything else! You spent money on this game twice and got burned both times because you didn't like it the first time and then you chose to buy it again, and now you're bitter about it. Fool me once, yada yada yada.

By the way, the Metroid series has a history of not selling nearly as well as Mario or Zelda, especially in Japan. Is Super Metroid bad by that metric? Absolutely not.

Let's turn the tables though. Look at the Pokémon series. That series always sells incredibly well. It is the most lucrative IP in existence, but does that mean that every game is good? Obviously, that's going to be subjective because some people are okay with spending over $90 to get everything in a single game, but it is this user's opinion that the game is bad by virtue of engaging in horribly predatory anti-consumer practices.

Using sales to determine whether a game is good or not is just shallow. Air Riders is not bad, you're just bad at it, just like you're bad at justifying your opinion, or your childishly disrespectful mindset. Move on.

There it is. I knew these guys wouldn't resist. They wanted the Beyond Good & Evil fans to make free assets for them for BG&E2, and rightfully got backlash for suggesting such a thing! They've been trying to weasel their way out of paying artists to help make their games for a long time now, and now they have a means to do so.
It's also not surprising at all to see them jump on a bandwagon, not after they tried doing it with NFTs. Tell me Ubisoft... How's the return on investment for that Captain Laserhawk game?

@Dev-N I don't even hate Mario Kart World, I'm just disappointed by it. But they are improving the game by fixing the intermissions, and I'm excited to revisit the game later down the line when they're done patching it. I didn't like Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U at first, but now it's my favorite Mario Kart game... The deluxe version, not the original Wii U version. That one still has a laughably bad battle mode.

@Nintendo_Thumb I think you told me enough about your personal experiences there. Your parents probably bought it for you back in the day on the GameCube, or you spent your own allowance, doesn't matter. You didn't like it. Years pass, new game comes out for $70, you buy it (without waiting for a sale, and mind you, I just found the game on sale for $50), thinking this time will be different. You still don't like it, but now it's personal because you bought the game with your own money (possibly for a second time), and now you're just irate at the game for still not being to your liking, so you'll just tell everyone the game is bad, not that you didn't like it. I shed a tear for you.
Anyway, I bought Street Fighter a few times, and never got any better at it. I don't say that the game is bad, I just acknowledge that it's not for me, because I don't want to invest time into getting good. I still respect the fans who do enjoy the game, and I still enjoy watching people play it! It's not too hard to be respectful to the people who enjoy something you don't. It's called letting people enjoy things.

@Strawblaze That's actually very fair to say. Nintendo does have a tendency to learn from their own mistakes, and not follow what everyone else is doing, sometimes to their detriment, other times to their benefit (they only dabbled in VR, and look where that trend is headed). In this case, they're probably paying attention to what people are saying about ACNH - NS2E, and hopefully they'll learn to not tie game behavior to frame rates in the future, but that does unfortunately mean that this is going to underwhelm players who were hoping for 60 FPS on Switch 2. If they can avoid doing it this generation, then maybe for the Switch 3, they'll make upgrade packs for games to run at 120 FPS. By the time that happens, 60 FPS will be unplayable to people, and 120 FPS will be the new bar to clear.

Maybe now Donkey Kong Country Returns HD version can be the definitive version for speed running?

@Dark-Luigi I won't even pretend I haven't done the same with Pokémon Legends Z-A, but that's because I am a Pokémon fan, one who's just had enough unoptimized slop that asks players to pay for DLC and an online subscription to unlock everything (things this game doesn't do at all). It was a problem with Pokémon Violet, and it's a problem in Z-A, 3 years later.
Here, there's no reason to hate on this game. If you're a Kirby fan, you just recently got Star-Crossed Worlds, and because you're a Kirby fan, even if Air Riders isn't to your liking, you just have to wait 3-6 months for the next cool thing to happen to you. And if you're not a Kirby fan, then you're just jumping on a bandwagon of people who supposedly hate this game that they probably haven't even played.

I really have to question why people will see an article on Kirby Air Riders and feel the need to go into the comments just to say it sucks. It's like seeing that pink marshmallow riding on a warp star awakens a demon within them, and any positivity surrounding that game must be squashed because they're bad at it/haven't played it, so why should other people be allowed to enjoy it? Absolutely miserable people...

@Nintendo_Thumb The idiotic things people will say for the sake of jumping on a bandwagon holy moly...

That's awesome, he can go and do absolutely nothing over there, and we don't have to see him at TGA this year!

@Nintendontyouknow Or maybe you're just not fond of it. Doesn't mean it's a bad game. Food for thought.

I'm just this past week, my brother casually mentioned Linebeck's theme, and Linkus7 released a Phantom Hourglass video, this game has been on my mind a lot lately, then this happens!
...Surprised we don't already have the soundtracks for Twilight Princess and Majora's Mask by now...

I love how companies used a subtitle that referenced the DS, like Dawn of Sorrow, or Deadly Silence... But I'm sorry, I read "Deadly Silence" and I'm thinking "Okay, who farted in here?"

A lot of this game just felt like Metroid Prime... again. It felt like it didn't take any risks to try to evolve the series aside from having the Federation troopers be more heavily involved in the story, which I didn't mind for the record. By the end of the game, I found myself actually giving a damn about them... More than any Other Metroid game, at least...
But the gameplay is what matters most, and aside from a beam that breaks the pacing of the combat and a bike that has a couple of cool moments that are sadly few and far between, the game mostly plays it safe, and a lot of your power-ups are what you've acquired in previous games, but now with psychic in the name.
Bottom line, I hope that this was just Retro Studios getting their bearings in developing a new Metroid game for the first time in a while, and the next game they make takes more risks and takes player feedback into account... Also, if Sylux returns as a villain, make me give a damn.

I think it's silly that Nintendo seriously wanted us to believe that Mario, this chubby chiocciole chomper stands even a slight chance against Sonic in a foot race without the blue blur wearing weighted shoes or something. Come on now. Only way Sonic is behind is if he's letting Mario take the lead at the start of the race before he decides that he's done with his warm up and locks the heck in!

This game came out at a time where people needed that escapism, but I don't think it's a 10/10 game, even after 3.0, let alone when the game came out. I do think the game is almost as good as New Leaf now, but it took way too long to get to that point. Next Animal Crossing game needs to be feature loaded out of the box. No more holding back features we've had before, just for the sake of giving us "free updates." Give the game as much time in the oven as it needs, and make sure that everything from New Horizons is in there, unless there are no plans to bring it back.

You know, if Lego wants to make more affordable Zelda themed sets, the answer's staring them in the face: helmets and masks. They've done like a few dozen of those for Marvel and Star Wars, all floating between $50 and $70. There are over two dozen masks in Majora's Mask If you include the Sun and Moon masks and Majora's Mask, of course, there are the Gerudo, Skull and Redead masks from Ocarina of Time, and then you have the Fused Shadow and Zant's mask from Twilight Princess, Master Kohga's mask and several headgear options from BotW/TotK... There are plenty of possibilities!
Another Lego set that could be sold for a low price is the Guardian from Breath of the Wild. It could include a Link Minifigure with a hood and cape riding on a horse, but the main attraction would just be building the Guardian, which can't be too much bigger than Link. It could be like $35.

Went up for pre-order! Can't wait to build this in March!

No... I'm trying to avoid buying new games this year! I thought this was going to be easy... Darn you!

So wasn't there a rumor way back when that Nintendo was striking a deal with Netflix for a Zelda movie? I guess this must be part of that. I am just going to buy the 4K Blu-ray when that comes out.

I've done some thinking, and this is the only Switch 2 Edition from Nintendo that does not improve the frame rate from 30 FPS. To all the people I argued with, you do have good reason to be upset that this this didn't turn out the way you wanted, even if it personally does not bother me, and I'm sorry for being an ass about it.

That aside though, this Switch 2 Edition is such a Nothing Burger that it may as well have been included with the other content in the 3.0 update for free, especially when you consider that there are a few third-party Switch games that have a free upgrade path and do more. HDR looks nice, and when I'm standing still, I do notice the 4K difference, but by and large this is the same game as it always was. At least the game doesn't chug on more detailed islands, but that was true when playing the Switch 1 version on a Switch 2 anyway. The Switch 2 Edition doesn't really add anything significant, and I don't know how many people are getting a lot of mileage out of the megaphone or 12-player multiplayer, but I'm certainly not one of them.
This is a painfully average upgrade. 5/10.

As for the 3.0 update, this game in my eyes was a 5/10 back in 2020, because it took way too many elements away after New Leaf, and after 2.0 I would have given it a 7/10. While I don't think the hotel is a grand inclusion, bulk crafting, Dream Islands and sidestepping bump this up to a 9/10. I finally think that this game is almost as good as New Leaf. Only thing holding it back is the villagers lacking personality, which sadly hasn't changed since launch. If you actually got me to care about my neighbors on this island, this game could have been a 10/10

@Yoshi3 it would be cool to get a model of Clocktown... As long as it isn't $650.

Oh it's not going to break the bank like the Deku Tree! This made me immensely happy. I can actually afford this one, and maybe even earn enough points hopefully to get the Pokémon Center! Might be time for me to swap the Deku Tree over to the Ocarina version...

@Charlirnie I've been saying the same thing since I got my Switch 2. It really does feel more like a Switch Pro, especially when games that didn't get an upgrade pack, like Another Code Recollection can actually run at a consistently stable 30 FPS now, where it constantly felt like it was melting my switch before.

@Anti-Matter It's not that I think 60 FPS is not important in newer games, but not every old game is going to run at 60 FPS like magic. Fans still haven't made Wind Waker and Twilight Princess run at 60 FPS, though that could always change in the future, but these things do take time. No doubt, making New Horizons run at 60 FPS was probably too big of a task for Nintendo to want to bother with, when they are probably better off developing a new game that does run at 60fps.

Inb4 people whine about the frame rate of a cozy game.

@JayJ Did I say smooth? No I said consistently stable. But it's not necessary. If 30 FPS is unplayable to you, I'm sorry to say it, but that's an issue with you, not the game.
EDIT: I also want to point out that I wanted to go into other potential reasons as to why the switch 2 version only runs at 30 FPS, like maybe the fact that it is still being played online with the switch 1 version could be a factor in it, but I am not a programmer, and I don't want to talk out of my butt, because there are enough armchair developers here doing it already because 30 FPS is soooo atrocious 🙄

@Wafers It's a good thing that it did solve the frame rate issues. Game runs at a consistently stable frame rate at all times. I haven't noticed a single frame drop. And now it runs in HDR, and outputs at 4K. It looks damn good!

Dudes when a non-action/fighting game runs at a consistent frame rate below 60 FPS:

Never mind that the game stays consistently stable, even on islands that have many objects crammed into small spaces that would tank the original switch, 60 FPS isn't just something you can achieve by flipping a switch (ha) and calling it a day. If you try doing that in an emulator, the game will just run at double speed, because it doesn't have 60 FPS animations. In many cases where you try to force 60 FPS, the animations can be outright broken, and if you consider how many characters and objects, including furniture have animations, then it's no wonder they chose to keep the game at 30 FPS. There are probably several factors that prevented this game from being 60 FPS, and it's way too easy for people who don't program to pretend like 60 FPS was such an obvious choice, when in actuality, it could have been a buggy nightmare.

I picked up Shining Pearl because I figured why the heck not, it's probably the best Pokémon game I'm going to play in a while, since it's based on Gen 4, which I have a lot of nostalgia for, but it's been sitting in the back log for a while. I didn't know it had issues on Switch 2, so I'm glad to know that when I do pick it up, I won't have to deal with that.

I know I said multiple times on this site that I am not buying any new games this year, but a collection of old ones, especially one that I was vocal about wanting to have on the Switch? I can make an exception for that.

Hopefully if they do release the soundtrack for Superstar Saga or Bowser's Inside Fury, they include both the original and the remaster, like they did for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

@Lizuka $200, please!

No more third kits?

I don't understand why the Kanto starters can't be sold as individual sets that you can put together once you have all three, should you decide to purchase all three of them. I don't have that kind of money, just give me Charizard.
But wait, there's more! You NEED to buy the trio to get the stupid badge set that could have just been sold on its own, but no, who needs money, am I right? Certainly not our customers, and we don't need them to be able to buy this badge set as a standalone purchase. That would be too affordable for them! Can't have that! Oh and that Pokémon Center? I've spent quite a bit on LEGOs over the past couple of years and I only have HALF the required points for it! This is what happens when two companies that are overrun with greed collaborate with each other. To hell with LEGO, to hell with Pokémon! I will not be purchasing from either company!

Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Kirby Air Riders.
I always play BG3 with my brothers.
Thank goodness for cross saves in CB2077, because I actually have it on PS5 too from PS Plus and if there's one thing that's been bothering me about the Switch 2 version, it's the lack of analog inputs for driving the car, even if you use an adapter, or the GameCube controller.
Thanks for not reporting on the new event in Kirby Air Riders, NintendoLife. You gave me hope when you reported on the last one, but I guess you only care as long as there's a Santa hat for Rick involved.

@obijuankanoobie Fixed it.

@Questionable_Duck None taken. I'm not trying to make anyone mad; I'm pretty sure we're all fed up with how MicroShaft does business. The only person I can imagine being upset with that comment is Phil Spencer, and if that is the case, good, screw him.

I couldn't care less if Nintendo released Virtual Boy games on Switch, since you can get a better 3D effect and more importantly, change the color between more options than just red using a modded 3DS. I did buy the cardboard Virtual Boy, because I want to see if it will work with games that supported Labo VR, especially since you can't use that Toy-Con with Switch lite, or Switch 2.

@Questionable_Duck I know MicroShaft isn't the publisher, but I always will take any opportunity to take a swing at MicroShaft for how they treat smaller studios (some of which are likely to appear in the Xbox showcase later this month) for the sake of making their own numbers look good to the investors. It's called a joke, and I make them quite frequently.

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