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All I can say is that I certainly hope not. I plan to start setting aside savings specifically for Switch 2 once the direct drops, and that would just not be enough time.

That sweater might be the loveliest piece of wearable merch I have ever seen.

“I can’t BELIEVE Nintendo expects us to use a phone app separate from the console to use voice chat! Ridiculous, right guys? Let’s hop on Discord to discuss this further.”

“Randy Red Sox is ready to climb his way to the top of the Mascot Baseball League, but his bully, Barry Blue Jay, is doing everything he can to stop him! He’ll have to catch, battle, and trade all the mascots in the league to make his way to the top and cement himself as the greatest baseball player in all of Canton!”

Game Boy DK, people! This is NOT a drill!

Chikorita seems like a win-win to me. Either they fix the underpowered line with Mega Kalosian Meganium OR the Chikorita line serves as an unspoken Hard Mode just like they did in Gold & Silver.

@Ryu_Niiyama Ah, my bad. Definitely misread that and thought it was dumb that we got Koraidon twice.

How about Miraidon? You know, the one that actually uses its wheels?

“Although the game itself might not be quite as popular as certain other Mario side-scrollers…”

I don’t know about that. Can you name another Mario side-scroller that’s won game of the year for ten years straight?

It’s been a long time since I played and I have no idea what Equipment means. Is Cloud wicked broken? After he got done terrorizing Smash 4 he started working on getting into Magic?

Neither is perfect, but Japan shows off the fun characters that differentiate Star Fox from a run of the mill spaceship dogfight game.

@Pro-Matterer His greatest rival has finally arrived

I personally feel that Wario World’s short length is precisely the reason I feel good about recommending it. The gameplay can get repetitive, but unlike a lot of games with that same problem, it’s hard to get tired of gameplay that you’ll only be repeating for ~5 hours. The boss variety, interesting level layouts, and dedicated platforming zones all break up the, in my opinion, rather good even if repetitive beat-em-up style gameplay. I would not feel this same way if it was a 30 hour game with the same reskinned enemies in each level, but for what it is, it’s a fun little game to sit down and get through on a Saturday. Admittedly, though, if you want an excellent short GameCube game, you could just stick with Luigi’s Mansion…

Tricked once again. End of last year the article was “Sonic the Hedgehog” “4” “Metal Sonic” and now here we all are reading “Metroid Prime” “4” “Phazon Suit” “Sneak Peek”

I kinda love the box art I grew up on, but I had to let Japan have this one. It’s creative to me because it goes beyond just “it’s gold” and looks like an actual gold brick with Wario engravings on it.

I hope they’ve learned from Sony’s example. Fingers crossed we’ll be getting Switch games in 2030 to play while we wait for the release of Switch 2’s five exclusives.

Original Metroid Prime and DKCR development team: “huh, neat”

@Greatluigi absolutely. I truly underestimated how many people would be on at the instant the update dropped. I couldn’t successfully get all the way to the actual pack opening until about thirty minutes later. The day reset is at midnight for me, so I think I’ll just wait until morning whenever the next expansion arrives.

Okay, the update to this article gives me a smidge of hope this isn’t just a knockoff but something with some actual passion put into it. If all you want is profit from Advance Wars nostalgia, why bother delaying it? Just release it unfinished if you don’t really care. A delay makes me feel better about it and more interested in checking it out.

@rjejr I agree with this point of view, but if they handle it the way they handled MK8D I think it will feel just fine. The game felt complete already, making the paid content feel like a huge bonus rather than a requirement to make the game good. If they make a great game and then decide that they want to make it even better later on, that’s all good with me. Intentionally making an unfinished game and then paywalling the rest of it obviously sucks, though.

Free content cycles could work and actually be really fun in Mario Kart (I friggen love Splatoon), but I really hope they learned their lesson from Battle League. That game was already rather bad compared to Charged and even the original, and to this day it’s still bad but now you can play as Diddy Kong. Splatoon 1 really became something magical, but its launch content was also abysmal. Update cycles / seasons sound really fun to for Mario Kart now that you mention it, but I hope they don’t launch a game with nothing to do. “Trust us, it’s going to be really fun in a year!”

@IceClimbersMain I think that’s mad interesting, and it could be visible stat going forward like “Stability” or “Hardiness” or hopefully something better than those two ideas. But even so, the shortest invincibilities in MK8D are still too long for my personal taste.

Maybe this makes me a little mean-spirited, but I want more than any other feature for them to bring back the shorter invincibility after being hit that was basically a staple of the series before MK8. The current way invincibility is handled makes moments like that Get Mario Karted clip with Daisy nearly impossible, and on top of that you have cool but dumb strategies where good players will hit themselves in order to save time that they would lose getting hit by something else. To be clear, I don’t mind good old fashioned mechanical depth, but I believe a good game is fun for the dedicated and the casual players, and I think the current, longer invincibility makes it less fun in casual settings. For those chill sessions with friends, it’s fun to not take it too seriously and have a good laugh / be a good sport about getting hit by four items in a row and going from first to tenth.

Ecco the Dolphin is going to be in Sonic 4? Can’t say I saw this one coming

Well, I’ve already got The Lost Crown on Switch, and they’ve have already made it quite clear they’re not interested in making another one, so how exactly is this supposed to get me excited?

“It’s because it’s moving to Switch 2 obviously!”

No. It could release on both, but it will definitely release on Switch at least, even if the Switch release is heavily downgraded compared to the next-gen version of the game.

They have specifically stated that BOTW released on WiiU because it had been promised for so long, and they did not want to be responsible for a scenario in which someone bought a WiiU specifically to play “the new Zelda with laser arrows and robots” only to find out that the game would not be releasing for the platform it was originally announced for. This even meant that certain features that the Switch could theoretically handle were not implemented into the game if the WiiU couldn’t handle it, like TOTK’s huge cave systems on the surface. MP4 will be given the same treatment, though I wouldn’t mind graphical and/or performance improvements over the Switch version for the next-gen release.

One of the first major Switch games ever announced WILL be a Switch game, whatever else it may be in addition to that.

They’re following up a portable console that fits nicely into a backpack with a portable console that fits nicely into a backpack? Sign me up! As long as it isn’t roughly the weight of a small child like the Steam Deck, I’ll be just fine.

I’m sorry for all those part way through their playthrough who were affected by this. I feel your pain. I am still to this day in utter disbelief that they released a Metroid Dread trailer that revealed Kraid is in the game.

Single joy-cons are way more comfortable to hold with the strap attached, and single joy-cons have been my group’s preferred way to play with all three Switch Mario Parties (Mario Party 8 nostalgia might play a role…)

@Tober the culture-defining aspect is definitely why New Horizons made the list but no other Animal Crossing did. Still, I feel like if a game was big enough in that way, it could break the multiple entires rule (Metroid Prime and Super Metroid). No Ocarina of Time based on that metric is unhinged, though.

An outstanding April fools prank for Nintendo to pull would be putting googly eyes on game icons on the Switch home menu.

Crash’s face looks terrible in both of these, but Japan always nails their character designs…oh

@nukatha Absolutely, but we can’t underestimate how much of a disadvantage that can be. I was really into Android Netrunner before it was out of print, and their approach was very refreshing. Every new set came in a big box that had every card (and multiple copies at that) for like 40ish USD. Way, way, more consumer friendly than random booster packs, but also way less profitable and difficult to sustain unless there’s insane interest in the game.
Very much the same dilemma we have with FTP in video games. If you’re an indie developer with an ambitious passion project, sell it on digital storefronts for $10-$20, but if you’re trying to stack as much cash as possible, go FTP gacha.
Still, one can hope this whole x-ray issue blows up so big that interest in booster packs wanes and they are no longer the most profitable approach. I could live with that, even if it means that little dopamine hit from opening packs is lost to time.

Does this mean there’s still a chance we get Gestalt DLC for the Replicant remake? Pretty please?

Just woke up this morning and my brain read “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “4,” “Metal Sonic.”

I know there’s still some things in the new trailer that raise some suspicions, but I feel like the whole thing would have been a lot better received had this gameplay trailer been the initial reveal.

No chance of adding the DS exclusive features and minigames to break up the mindless monotony of the first game? Didn’t think so…

I was already very interested, and that price can’t be argued with

@Nameless_Shame You’ve just informed me for the very first time that “Returns” is not in the title of Tropical Freeze. Major mandela effect.

Finally! Shovel Knight on spades!

The pieces are all falling into place. Fingers crossed for a third Returns game to complete the trilogy with Donkey Kong Country Returns: The Return of King K. Rool

It truly has me baffled how they decide what to release.

I’m sure there’s some licensing hullabaloo with games developed at Retro, Gamefreak, Rare, etc, but music for games they solely own shouldn’t be that difficult to get on there. I’m sure it takes some time to come up with the themed playlists for each soundtrack, but it can’t be that hard.

I’m assuming the drip feed is purely artificial to generate a little hype boost every so often (emphasis on “a little” at times; sorry Brain Age). But even this doesn’t explain how they plan to go about adding tracks to existing games. These tracks are now missing from S2’s soundtrack, and S3 is still missing Side Order and Grand Festival. New Horizons also lacks any music from Happy Home Paradise, yet all of the Scarlet/Violet DLC music was available from launch as far as I am aware.

There’s still no precedent so far for “Tracks have been added to the such-and-such soundtrack!” and until there is I really have no idea what the plan is. Whatever the plan is, REMOVING MUSIC should not be part of it!

My optimistic guess is that they didn’t bother to mention Switch because they’re planning to put it out for the next console.

I am definitely nostalgic for this version, but the lack of Tetris Type A music is hard to ignore

@weisske you are valid. I didn’t miss your joke, brother

Do the Terraria devs know about this?

@fenlix it really would have to be fundamentally different from BOTW. I feel like the whole system would have to be built around range. Just dropping Zelda into BOTW with no weapon would result in a lot of frustrating situations where it feels like you can’t do anything because the enemies got too close (which I’ve also heard is how it feels getting dropped into LTTP as Zelda with no weapon). Though if you put Zelda into BOTW but WITH a weapon, the thought will be, “Well, this could have just been Link.” If she gets another chance in the spotlight, it will have to feel like the game was custom designed for the gameplay styles her character allows.

@Yoshi3 ooh yes, absolutely true. To be completely honest I reread my comment and thought, “man, everything I described would be a whole lot cooler if it was Ganon.”

Edit/P.S.: I was also not trying to call you out specifically. I’m just speaking to the general consensus I’ve heard from people on the internet who don’t like the EOW.

I get it, you guys hate Echoes of Wisdom (I haven’t gotten around to it just yet, but I will be playing it), but I think the rage is blinding you to the possibility of just how cool playable Zelda in a 3D open world would be. The movement would be insane - levitating, walking on water, short range teleportation. There could be a huge arsenal of magic for a variety of situations - ranged attacks, close-up burst options, temporary buffs, sensing enemies or secrets.

But no, instead, “I don’t want playable Zelda because I hate building things!”

Admittedly, I feel the multiverse fatigue as much as the next guy, but I would still be absolutely delighted to get a game with insane multiversal lore that somehow merges all of the timelines into one, linking the rest of the series up with BOTW and TOTK, especially BOTW given that it has multiple references to all three timelines.

Dang bro and here I am like 20 cards away from a full collection and I haven’t spent a cent

Crazy that they had to throw in a little bonus rule just so they could give a free win to Erdtree. “Can’t have Balatro winning, no sir! An indie for GOTY? Don’t be ridiculous.”