KingdomTears

@AlexanderDaniels yeah it happens all the time here. Would be nice if Nintendolife could make it clearer after articles are updated

@Kirbyo @AlexanderDaniels look at the dates from those comments

@nessisonett was the missing question mark intended to add some irony to your comment?

The music sounds great, and happy that they are utilising the themes from various games, but did anyone else just feel like it was information overload watching that trailer for the first time?

There was so much going on and with a different theme popping up every few seconds I was struggling to keep up with what was happening on screen as my ears kept on going "oh, where do I recognise this from?" - God knows what 80-90 minutes of this would do to my aging brain 😵

Definitely getting some Audrey II vibes

@CammyUnofficial yeah that would've certainly been clearer.

@Olliemar28 have to say, I went through the same thought process also. Not sure why, something about the way it's written just gave that vibe. Super glad he's in good health and hope he's having a wonderful day celebrating. Thanks for everything Miyamoto-san!

I think the service is pretty good so far but would like to see them add full multiplayer/online Switch games to the service now. The Switch Mario Tennis, Golf, Strikers & Party games would be a great start. That Kirby fall-guys type game also. I dont really get why those games are still being pushed as full stand-alone releases

Seriously, 2017 was such a good time to be a Nintendo fan. Remember when everyone thought 2022 was going to be a repeat of that year?

I'm more shocked that I had completely bypassed the fact that the logo was designed to look like a yin & yang symbol

Yup. See the crown-shaped water droplet in my profile pic: Tears of the Kingdom.

@LXP8 0% is pretty sure! Shame as I would happily shell out 100 notes for such a release (as long as each game was available on a separate cartridge within a single package). Maybe that 0% might inch up a percentage point or two in a couple of years' time...

What are the chances of Nintendo releasing a special edition 3 pack with WW, TP and SS remasters? That's what I'm hoping for.. not necessarily to play right away, but so I have the best versions of the GC/Wii era Zeldas available in my gaming collection in one nice package 🙏

First was Metroid Prime 3 on Wii that my brother bought me for xmas one year, I really wasn't into first-person shooters at the time and gave up pretty early on. Then tried Fusion with the 3DS Ambassador program, but got bored after about 2/3rds of the way in. At that point, I just figured Metroid wasn't for me. Then when the SNES mini got released I decided to give Super a go and absolutely loved it from start to finish. I've only played one other Metroid since (Dread) and loved that too. Really hoping the Prime remake rumours are true so I can finally get around to trying it out also!

The Switch becoming the go-to platform for everything Indie was the biggest for me, I think

@Clyde_Radcliffe I had the same thought when playing through the flying sections of Kirby. Great fun!

Have been looking forward to Ex-Zodiac for some time now as I am a big fan of the original Star Fox (or Star Wing as it was known here in the UK). Hope it works out well

Agree with everyone mentioning that GaaS titles shouldn't be full price at launch. Honestly Nintendo should add the base version of games like this (Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Strikers, Mario Party, Switch Sports) for free as part of the NSO expansion pack and then charge small amounts for extra characters, maps or story modes with a season pass option to get all of the additions at a single cost. I'm a bit confused as to why they keep following the current model as it just seems to be annoying their loyal fan base, but guess these titles sell well to families, so Nintendo doesnt care

Podd on the BBC Micro. An absolute monstrosity of a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIMFMUvE0M

@Clammy Okay. Why I incorrectly interpreted your comment as a joke was because you purposefully took my comment out of context and made it about guns when it was clearly prefaced with a comment about combining sex and videogames. I now see that you were merely incensed by the idea that I was cool with gun violence in videogames, but not nudity in videogames - which would be fair if I had actually said that.

For the record, I'm really not particularly enamored with gratuitous violence in videogames either. I will say this, however: There is a marked difference between violence against other human beings or animals within games and violence against fantastical undead demons that are intended to represent pure evil.

Therefore I'd like to refute your claim of "pure hypocrisy" on the grounds that this really isn't like-for-like.

@Clammy if you get off over guns then I'd recommend getting some help tbh. Considering everything that's been happening in the US and Scandinavia recently I'm not sure that the joke is entirely appropriate either

This is really cool actually. I played the demo for Bayo2 back in the Wii U days and just couldn't see myself playing through the whole thing as the nudity just didn't sit well with me (videogames and sex aren't something I'm looking to crossover personally; more power to you if you get off on this kind of thing). This would actually make me much more inclined to play it with this option.

FINALLY!!! THANK YOU!!!

EDIT: haha - I've just remembered that I lent my Switch to my friend as I had "nothing to play on it for a few months" - damnit!

I could be wrong here, but pretty sure the Akai MPC series of hardware controllers are for Music Sequencing/DAW and not for DJ'ing.

That being said, this does look rather lovely.

@Olmectron not necessarily wanting to be that guy, but didn't you just judge the game before its release by saying that it looks great?

@EVIL-C fair play. Good to know.

@mariomaster96 I believe bayo3 and Mario rabbids2 would be second-party titles, since they are created by third party devs but published by Nintendo directly. Doesn't mean that they definitely won't show up however - these two games have been big question marks on Nintendo's release schedule for the 2nd half of 2022 so it would make sense for them to have some kind of presence at the show.

@SwitchplayerJohn - haha I mean, yes of course - the ideal situation would be that they simply create more, but that doesn't seem to be working out since there's been 0 restocks in Europe since launch which is over 6 months ago, so just trying to think of alternative solutions

My god, this is really starting to annoy me as well.

Honestly, surely there's a way that Nintendo could tie sales to individual switch online accounts (since you need at least the basic service to order these) and then lock the controllers sold to only be able to be used with the account sold to for 6-12 months? That may be a bit of a drastic measure but would solve the scalpers issue and only needs to be in place while they are in such high demand / short supply.

Ugh, can you bring some to the UK also please, Nintendo? Its been over six months and we haven't had a stock refresh since launch. Not subscribing until I can get my hands on a controller.

@KingMike oh wow that's super interesting. I had no idea there was actual plans to do that kind of thing! My assumption at the time was pure speculation

@Hank_Scorpio yep - we used to play this with two TVs back to back an AV splitter, cardboard, and sellotape. Good times!

I remember imagining that the next generation of consoles would be able to output multiple screens as default, as I clearly hadn't realised that internet connectivity would solve that particular problem

@FatWormBlowsASparky fantastic

It was DK: Jungle Beat that was the one everyone liked, right? Getting confused between that and Donkey Konga, assuming they are different games

@blindsquarel yeah that is totally fair. The only reason I still rate 64 fairly highly is due to its history of setting the foundations of what was to come etc. and because I am old enough to have played it when it first released. If that game released in 2022, I'm sure most would agree that it's basically unplayable.

@blindsquarel same here on your top 3. I actually hated sunshine the first two times I tried to play it - finally got into it last year with the all-stars re-release and (i think mainly because they fixed the camera controls) absolutely loved it. My list would be:

1). Galaxy 2
2). Galaxy
3). Sunshine
4). 3D Land
5). Bowser's Fury
6). 3D World
7). Odyssey
8). 64

That being said, to me even the worst game (64) is still an 8/10

My worry is that if this does end up happening, scalpers will buy all the stock, and then I'll have to wait even longer before I can play BotW2

I was a regular buyer of Nintendo Magazine System back in the day but somehow their review past me by completely. It was only several issues later when they ran an article on the best SNES games and ALttP beat out Mario World to #1 that I took notice of the game. I ended up buying a second-hand copy from some guy via auto-trader and ended up loving the game more than words can say.

That stacker mockup would solve a long-running issue I have with Ring Fit Adventure, as it is not possible to purchase a digital copy of the game so I'm forever having to switch out whatever other game I'm playing so I can excercise in the mornings (I'd even pay another £70 for the game to own a digital copy, if that was an option). Would be so happy if someone made this a reality.

I've definitely been thinking the same about a few of these theories such as the circular time line and the arm belonging to Ganon/Demise. Was thinking that Zelda might fulfil the role of the Goddess Hylia in having her role in the game focused around sending the land back into the sky. Sad that we'll have to wait at least another year to find out if any of these are true!

I mean, I can't say I'm surprised. But it still hurts

Yeah, I don't buy into this rumour at all tbh.

Maybe it's the Wario Land article that NLife just put up, but was just thinking that maybe Nintendo will drop the "Legend of Zelda" part of the name and go forward with "Breath of the Wild" as the series name instead (basically a spin-off). Similar to what they did with the Wario and Yoshi series:

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 > Wario Land 2
Super Mario World > Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island > Yoshi's Island DS

Maybe the sequel therefore will be just Breath of the Wild: <something>

I'll take a punt at Breath of the Wild: Demise's Curse

The question I have is why are they even asking us? Surely this information gets sent directly to them and they know exactly what the most commonly used phrases and names for groups are?

@G4n0nD0rf I'm the same, checking almost every day for stock but nothing happening. What the f*** is going on?

I'm of the opinion that the Expansion Pack isn't seen by Nintendo as a retro-games service at all, but instead a push towards a subscription tier for their software-as-a-service model. Like the Nintendo Switch Online service, which is primarily about playing games online with cloud saves, etc. The NES and SNES games should merely be seen as the cherry on top.

We've seen Nintendo work towards a SaaS model for years now (the original Splatoon followed this model with a bare-bones initial release followed by a slow drip-feed of new courses and weapons - I'm sure there'll be other examples that happened prior to this), and recently they have kept gamers locked into titles like Smash and Mario Kart tour by providing new items/courses/characters to play with over a long period of time. It only makes sense that they want gamers to keep coming back to their existing games (many of which have sold in ridiculously high numbers) but also charge for the extra content. That's why Mario Kart 8's dlc is stretched out over 2 years and that's why the N64 service is drip-feeding games to us. They want to keep you coming back, not give you everything at once, and then be done with it after a week or two. It also explains why the expansion pass is more than the price of NSO itself.

I really think we're going to see more "season pass" style dlc for existing games (think new Mario Odessey kingdoms being rolled out one at a time every 6-8 weeks) and most of the upcoming games and recently released games (Splatoon, Mario Strikers, Pokemon: Legends Arceus) will have extra content added over a period of time that will be available for free with the Expansion Pack.

My somewhat realistic yet entirely unlikely to happen predictions are:

Metroid Prime Remaster/Remake
Ring Fit Adventure 2 (or substantial dlc for the first game)
Star Fox Zero port

Ring Fit Adventure (as always) and Ghost of Tsushima on PS5. Did order Pokemon Arceus after seeing the £35 deal at Curry's in the UK but hasn't arrived yet and will probably wait until I've finished Ghost before diving in. My first ever Pokemon game so excited to see if it's something I can really get into!

@Not_Soos Jon's leaving Nintendolife?? D:

@NinChocolate underrated comment

Already played this on my xbox series s and loved it, but this is going to be an absolute must for Switch players who havent played it on other systems

Whoohoooo! Yes!!!