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90's inspired? They surely meant to say Donkey Kong Country inspired.

This is just horrible.

I mean sure, we could have fun characters this was as well, but just think back to how many fun and creative characters were in the first two Paper Mario games. I feel like Miyamoto (and perhaps many of the higher ups at Nintendo) don't take Paper Mario seriously.

Super Paper Mario pretty much only had original characters and vanilla Mario characters, and that worked out wonderfully, so maybe someday we'll get something like that, but I'm personally all for the wacky characters based on existing Mario enemies and races.

I actually really liked both Sticker Star and Color Splash, the battle systems and the lack of incentive to actually engage in battles were the biggest, and almost only negatives in those games in my opinion. I just don't understand why they have to do the exact same mistake for the third time.

21/21, pretty easy.
I only got a bit hesitant at Spirit Tracks.

Curse of the Moon 1 was amazing. Definitely gonna get the second one... But not now. I have too large of a backlog...

Wow, awesome!
I only played the remake of the first game for the DS from this series, but that one is nothing short of a masterpiece.
I don't have a Vita, so I'll love this, I'm sore.

So I need Pokémon Home for this? Bummer.

@CalTonTheRobot It's more complicated than that.
Spirits, or maybe even Assist Trophies don't deconfirm characters in the second fighters pass, because they thought of it and put it together way after the game came out.
Spirits did deconfirm the wave 1 fighters, though, because they knew what they wanted to include before the game came out. So if they knew that they wanted to put in a character later, they could just not include a spirit of it in the game. I think the best example of this is the very first DLC fighter, Piranha Plant. When the game came out, there was no Piranha Plant spirit in the game. Which is strange in itself, because every other common Mario enemy had one. Not to mention that you had to evolve a Nipper Plant spirit into Peter Piranha. That just feels weird. Why not a Piranha Plant? Because they already knew he was going to be a fighter later on, so they just omitted the Piranha Plant spirit.
Every fighter from now on was decided after the game and the DLC sold well. They didn't plan for these guys originally. Now, anything goes.

@DrJoson Well, Super Mario World came out 4 years(!!) before they stopped making games for the NES, so it's not that surprising.

@BabyYoshi12 Doki Doki Panic and Mario 2 are not technically the same. There are different characters in them, a boss is different, you can save in Doki Doki but can't I'm Mario, and you have to beat the whole game with all 4 characters in DDP to see the ending, but not in Mario.

15/15!
There were some tricky ones, nice quiz.

It's funny how everyone seems to forget how Piranha Plant was actually the first DLC fighter, making this one from ARMS the 7th, not the 6th. Just because the plant wasn't part of the first Fighters Pass, it was still a DLC character.

Anyway, Min Min for the win win!

The Western edition of the Namco Museum games don't include Youkai Douchuuki? That's a shame, I really liked that one.

@Zorothex I don't think so. There are Pokémon in the game that currently don't have Pokédex entries (like Mew, the Bulbasaur family, the Squirtle family, and Slowpoke), and actually, there were tons of Pokémon in Sun/Moon and especially Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon that you could easily capture in-game, and didn't have Pokédex entries at all. I guess the logic was that Pokémon Bank had entries for everyone, so that was the new place for you if you wanted a complete Pokédex.
I think it's not that outlandish to assume that Game Freak would do something similar this time around.

@mariomaster96 Awesome, thanks!

@mariomaster96 Really? Did they state that somewhere?
Anyway, great news then.

The main concern I have with this DLC is whether it expands the Pokédex or not. Adding hundreds of Pokémon that weren't previously in the game is cool and all, but if the Pokédex won't have entried for them, I'll have no drive to actually get them.
Plus new Pokémon and forms really need Pokédex entries, so we actually get to know stuff about them.

Slime-san wasn't that great in my opinion. I like platformers, I like retro stuff, I like hard games... But it was just okay in my opinion. I definitely didn't enjoy it as much as other people seemed to.

Finally, a game based on Japanese history.

These are cute. I've seen this kind of stuff with Kirby merch before in Japan, so it seems like it's somewhat common there.

Not a bad list. Glad to see Panel de Pon in the top 10.

This is awesome!

@BANJO Yeah, a new Goemon game would be great. We've had more than one per year in average since the series started, then it just completely stopped in 2005. A Goemon ReBirth would've been awesome when Konami made all those ReBirth titles on the Wii, but no such luck...

Even a Goemon collection in the style of the Castlevania and Contra ones would be lovely.

...At least we have Mr. Goemon on Switch, am I right?...

@ROBLOGNICK It enables you to send items to your storage or to the store drop-off box from the airport, without needing to go back to your island. Meaning if you find an island with a lot of scorpions for example, you could keep catching them and sending them back home all night, making a lot of profit.

...except it only works for Harv's Island at the moment. Which is probably an oversight, because you don't really get any items there, so it's pretty much pointless.

@dartmonkey Yeah, it sure does feel that way. But I just booted up City Folk just for fun a few days back, and it was weirdly too smooth - that's when I realized that THIS is 60 fps, and NH is only 30.

9/10. The only one I didn't know was who designed the American SNES. It was quite a challenging quiz overall, well done.

@TheFox Which one, Half Genie Hero? That one was a bit different, as it was half linear platformer and half metroidvania, but all the other games are purely metroidvania games.

So... The last villager that moved in will never move out if no one else does? That's pretty bad, because the one I want to kick out is the last one who moved in, and I like everybody else.

Yeah, I'm not so sure that any of these is more important than say Pursuit.

A truly tragic day.
And that's where I'll leave it, you'll be free today from my extensive lecturing of how mayo is clearly better and more versatile.

8/10.

I've never seen T2 and never played Out Run. The rest were pretty easy, though.

Fates is pretty unpopular, it seems. It was one of my favorites.

10/10, this was pretty fun.

Meh.
Some of Nintendo's mobile offerings were cool enough, but I've come to realize how much I HATE free to play games. All of them. Some of them are fun enough to play even if you don't pay anything, but all of them are built in a way so you either have to spend money at one point to get forward, or spend a ton of time grinding for stuff that's not really fun but you've invested so much time or money into the game that you don't want to stop, because then you would think that all of your time has been wasted (which is mostly true anyway).

The one I was into the most was Pokémon Shuffle. I absolutely loved that game. I caught every Pokémon, and every variation of all of them, cleared all the extra challenges, made different teams and what not, without ever spending a single penny. I was constantly looking at online discussions for new strats, and by the end of it all, I've put in around 1,500 hours into the game. I only really realized how much time I've wasted with the game after putting it down.
To attempt a stage, you need a heart. A heart regenerates in 30 minutes, and you can only hold a maximum of 5 at a time. To absolutely get everything that would disappear after a week, and also have enough time to power up your Pokémon and collect some in-game money, you have to use as many hearts as possible, which means playing the game once every 2.5 hours. I can't count how many times I've stopped work to play for a few minutes, went out to my 3DS at family gatherings, played right before getting out of the car to go shopping with my fiancée, didn't go to bed the same time as her because "the next heart was only 7 minutes away, I gotta use up that one first".

I mean I really did enjoy many aspects of the game, but most of it was actually grinding, and it was conflicting with everything else I was doing. It was actually very uplifting to stop.

I recently stopped playing Mario Kart Tour, because it was pretty much the same, even if it seems very different. You have to play the same stages over and over again, sometimes with minor tweaks to get through the cups, and you have to play them even more times to get better score or finish some missions.

So all in all, while it was obvious from the beginning, I've come to really realize that all free to play games just offer much more shallow experiences no matter what, and yet you have to play them for much longer to get anywhere. They are just bad games, no matter how much they can seem like good games.

Now this is an awesome selection. Panel de Pon is literally the best puzzle game ever made, and the others are pretty good too. I don't know why some people are disappointed.

I freaking love Pikmin 3. It's an amazing game.
However, there's no way in heck I will buy this, except maybe years later at a very big discount, if the game has some worthwhile additions.
All of this is pretty sad, because I'm pretty sure many people wouldn't buy something like this, and they would think that there's no point in making a new entry, but in fact, I would definitely buy Pikmin 4.
A Pikmin Trilogy would be pretty cool though. I probably wouldn't buy that either, because I have the games separately already, but still.

Black/White being the least sold ones is just heartbreaking. I think gen 5 was the best one. And I've been a massive Pokémon fan since the very first generation.

I've been looking forward to this for a while now. It combines two of my favorite things ever: classic Paper Mario and insects.

Definitely Europe. It's one of my favorite box arts ever.

Instant waifu material.

Finally, some Pokémon panties. They were listening to the fan demands.

Team mayo all the freaking way.
Mayo is just so much more versatile. You can put ketchup on burgers, hot dogs, omurice... and that's pretty much it.
Mayo, however... You can put it on the same things, plus you can make mayo-based salads out of it (like potato salad), it's the basis for tartar sauce and goes really well with fish and seafood (as mayo or tartar), is a staple of any cold plate, and it makes sandwiches a thousand times better. Not to mention it's quite easy to make at home.

I don't know... For me, it was always pretty obvious that they are work partners. People are reading too much into this.

Yes. Please. All of this.

What about Super Metroid? It's awesome, and it's playable on Switch.

Oh, and why Stantae 4 instead of 3? Not only is Pirate's Curse a better game, but it's more of a Metroidvania. Half-Genie Hero is almost a linear platformer. Still a great game, though.

You mean the one that doesn't need a remake at all?

Is it strange only to me that it's a Dark-type Pokémon, which are known to be evil, and its signature move is something that heals itself AND its partner? I mean it's hard to think of a move that's more kind-hearted than this one.

@Kirby_Girl That wouldn't really work. The point of Rhythm Heaven was always almost frame-prefect reactions, and it wouldn't work with motion controls, sadly. The Wii version didn't have any motion controls either, and it was an amazing game.

Yes! Yes! Yes! All of my yes!
Rhythm Heaven is like the best game series ever. We could never have enough.
Would be a day 1 purchase without a shadow of a doubt.

@FullmetalB My point is that you needed to buy something extra to have a different town from the very beginning. And in case of the Wii version, you did need a separate Wii console.