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A bit sad to hear Rebrushed isn’t off to a strong start. It did launch at a rough period though. Its still fairly top of mind to play for me personally, so I might purchase it this year

I’m so conflicted. DKCR is an all-timer for me and I’ve it beaten multiple times on Wii and 3DS, but its a tough ask when its just a remaster for an already pretty game with no major content added.

Its been far too long since the last Genesis update. Would love to give Vectorman or Panic at Funkotron a shot if given the time

Tencent is in the middle of a massive divestment spree and given their stakes in all sorts of international studios, its rough to see.

Donkey Kong Land is underrated. I honestly think its far better than DKC. Very well thought out translation to the Game Boy that both plays to its limitations but also pushes the hardware visually.

1. Pokémon SoulSilver

2. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

3. Pokémon Black

4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

5. Tetris DS

Had there been a 3D Donkey Kong game in the GameCube, maybe even the Wii era, this sounds like the track that would have been used.

Now we need a DK Rap in the style of trap artists like Future

I thought Helldivers would get nominated for either GOTY or Game Direction over Black Myth Wukong. I’d argue Helldivers has better direction than all of the nominees.

Very interested to see where Best Sports/Racing game goes this year. Kinda thought EA College Football would make in the nominees and even take the award, but maybe its too American focused to earn the nom, where at least NBA has global appeal.

Given the pretty small amount of game adaptations released yearly, I was wondering if the well dislikedBorderlands movie would be nominated by default. Thankfully that’s not the case. Regardless though, Arcane Season 2 really doesn’t have any competition, even though and it just squeezed through in the nominations too, which is a shame for Fallout’s case.

Erdtree deserves its Game of the Year nom. Its an entirely different game from Elden Ring. Different campaign, different mechanics, different progression, different enemies, all of which is done very well. It’d be a shame to not recognize it as one of the best games this year because of semantics and technicalities.

My guess is either Astro Bot or Metaphor win Game of the Year. Leaning more towards Astro Bot, since I don’t know how confident a panel would be to award a game that’s in the triple digits in runtime and its been released for a month and half.

Love love love F-Zero X. Great intense tracks to this for my workouts.

This is the right choice. These awards should celebrate the best to come from this year and shouldn’t turn its head away because its building directly off of a previous release. In the case of Erdtree, its essentially treated as an entirely new game within Elden Ring. Plenty of thought and effort went into Erdtree than what you would see in other major releases like Princess Peach Showtime. Let the cream rise to the top.

The idea of a “best expansion” nomination is tricky because frankly DLC expansions have been less popular in recent years. Its like how some years in the “Best Fighting Game” category or “Best Sports Game” category are just write-ins. I’d rather it belong to something like the Best Ongoing Game category to reward innovative ideas within an established product. The nominations get alot deeper in competition that way.

Fun interview. I’ve played all the Jackbox Games available on Switch, including the recent Naughty Pack and Survey Scramble. The Jackbox Survey Scramble in particular is one of my favorite games of this year and one of my favorite Jackbox Games in quite a while, as it blends aspects from Guesspionage and The Poll Mine. Looking forward to the upcoming game modes to be added as well.

Top Golf Angry Birds is legitimately fun. I’m sure to plan another trip to Vegas in the future, so I’ll try it at some point.

Edelweiss are technical wizards. Cool to see them branching out Sakuna

I’d like to revisit Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric eventually, especially after having played and loved Jak and Daxter. I tried to hide myself among the reception at the time, given how disastrous E3 Demos had already shown themselves to be, but part of me felt pretty immediate jankiness and boredom. Still, something about the world seems pretty cool. If nothing else, the stories behind developing Rise of Lyric are very fascinating. Shattered Crystal was too sluggish however from the jump.

Donkey Kong Country Returns is one of my favorite games of all time. Seeing this world taken straight from the game is going to give me so much joy.

So they did change it! I thought I was going crazy.

That sucks. I’ve been meaning to play Fatal Labyrinth and this is the only way to play it on Switch.

@Not_Soos The antiwork movement found its new leader

I take Miyamoto as someone who really understands the simple pleasures. Not exactly the definition of a genius, but still someone who gets it.

First track I had listen was that funky Diddy Kong clear theme.

Now I don’t have to spend 500 coins in Splatoon 3 to listen to tracks!

Neat. Pretty slim stuff at launch though, like no 3DS representation and the sole Gamecube game being Metroid Prime (which if is goine to be one, this would be the correct choice).

Great to be able to stream Splatoon 3’s catalogue, but even then it doesn’t have the Final Fest or seasonal Splatfest music

Neat! Hope it gets an actual ending this time.

I love it! I forgot Jason Cirillo is now at Digital Eclipse, still working on games with a similar spirit to the Bit Trip series. I love that its a different spin to what we usually see with multiplayer Tetris where the punishment is typically garbage blocks.

That’s too bad. It worked really well on mobile, where I played it. Simple and short, but a lovely time. Play it on Switch if you haven’t played it yet.

I think its ridiculous to think Nintendo didn’t expect these leaks to occur.

Any messages of not sharing the content is just to keep any control of messaging this product. Nintendo is so tight-lipped about games until mere months they release in an effort to be the primary source of messaging what these games are about.

That being said, they should have just announced this. I think it’d be cooler to publicly give details about this project and just throw closed beta tests, but maybe the state of this game being an actual game to sell is not certain.

I love playing Zelda II. The sidescrolling combat feels better and more involved than alot of the top-down games. Echoes also uses side-scrolling incredibly well. I’d openly welcome it

That’s neat. I would love to see F-Zero 99 take on the crossover ideas like Tetris 99 does. It’d make for some fun weekends.

I’m about 8-10 hours in this game and its just not gelling with me. The combat is tedious and frustrating. Puzzles aren’t interesting and its been repetitive. The world so far is kinda bland. I look at something like Breath and Tears and their worlds are challenging, fair and give you so much incentive to learn and be better from the jump. Everything in Echoes is mostly for the taking, gives you so much variety (alot of it is fluff though) but not enough to challenge your skills. This does seem like a game that can turn me around halfway through, especially as autamatons come into play, but I’m far from impressed.

Merge had a good catalogue of published games. It really goes to show that the space for mid-budget indies is thinning to an alarming rate.

My favorite game published by Merge Games was Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. It was a fun, absolutely light hearted take on open world game design with fun economies and great environments.

Seems like just a recap video so people could get straight into the sequel trilogy or the Edgeworth collection

More people are going to buy a Virtual Boy key chain from the Nintendo museum than an actual Virtual Boy

Nintendo Canada really likes their store demos. It was really neat when they had their pop-up Kiosk near by house. They had set up a Super Mario Odyssey demo station, as it was getting shown off during E3 2017. That sort of local-level hype that Nintendo likes to draw in the GTA goes a long a way (although it was more prevalent when I was a teen).

It also comes soon after Stitch collaborated with Dreamworks for a Shrek crossover. Shrek is becoming an indie game icon.

Very curious if David Wise’s past activity will be mentioned in relation to the game. I get the idea of separating art from artist, but its very tough when one of the first things you see in the trailer is Wise’s name.

Slowly but surely, every Vita/PSP game will be free from the chains of exclusivity. Here’s hoping Mega Man Maverick Hunter X is next

Definitely going to give Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen'in Shūgō! a shot. I love Super Dodge Ball. I’d love to see what makes this game different.

I’ve thought about trying Cosmo Gang the Video here and there, but I never realized The Puzzle is just Pac Attack

I’m kinda surprised Jedi: Fallen Order never got a Switch port. It can likely run the game well enough and it came to Stadia after all. I hooe this means EA will support Switch more in the future (and maybe bring Popcap games back in grand fashion).

You don’t get to see so many live service games end on a high! Usually its with alot of silence and a notice of demolishing it off of your console. This was high effort, well understood and just incredibly fun. Its honestly amazing that Nintendo has put so much work and faith into Splatoon now to the point where it can now celebrate its history in glorious fashion, despite the series having yet reached 10 years old.

Splatoon 3 brought me back to Splatoon in a way I somewhat expected (since I was a freak for Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2: Side Order) but not to this magnitude. I can confidently say Splatoon 3 is in the running to be my favorite game of all time. And the series itself means as much, if not more, than Zelda or Mario. Its one of those series that have rewired my brain to the point where its been special enough to commemorate it on my body with my first ever tattoo, which I’ll forever flaunt.

Come to Toronto! We love nerdy concerts like this!

“Thank You for Fried Chicken”

I’d highly recommend people to go in on this bundle, if they’re choosing between this or waiting for the Switch successor. Consoles are rarely worth their price at launch, even with a good lineup and the Switch as it is has excellent games, Mario Wonder being one of the best. I’ve beaten the game to completion twice already, once with a friend and another on my own with the little online components. Both were really fun times.

I have Tony Hawk’s number in my contacts. I can give you the dirt if any more Pro Skater games will come out.

Happy Grand Festival!

I’m on Team Present because I feel like this happens to be the prime moments in my life, but maybe that’s not giving the future enough credit.

It seems like Present is the overwhelmingly popular choice. I thought it’d be a bit more split, but I think it will be okay. For what its worth, Future and Present seems to have a more even split looking amongst my friends on the NSO app, but that is a smaller sample size.

Its crazy how often Japan is adding these Pokémon manholes around the country. It feels like I see a new one pop up online every week or two.

“Dang I wonder what Toby Fox music will appear.”

(Plays Megalovania for 0.1 seconds)

“Well alright then.”

Finally. Really looking forward to that 2nd volume bundle for Samurai Shodown and Mutation Nation.

I wish I got to Lost in Random it came out on the same day as Warioware: Get it Together! and Life is Strange: True Colors and got lost in releases for me. I’ll try to keep it top of mind, with the new game coming out.

RIP Pocket Camp. It clicked with me for only a few weeks here and there in 2018/2019. I kinda liked that the main gameplay of the game was doing favours for your neighbours. That was my favorite aspect from ACGCN that didn’t carry as much in later instalments and it’s cool seeing neighbours have tangible relationship levels.

I hope the offline versions of passing mobile games become the standard, at least for Nintendo games. Dr. Mario World and it’s fun multiplayer mode didn’t have to get wiped off the planet.

Wish these were up with the Grand Festival shirts or the amiibo. Now I got no reason to up the order for free shipping, especially since the shirts haven’t shipped yet.