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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.

@Pillowpants I think one thing the game the trailer does well is prepping you in a change of art style and possibly tone, considering most Borderlands games try cracking jokes every half second.

I’ll try to plan a trip this January, but it seems like its going to be tricky for a while.

Gamescom’s awards, based partly on behind the scenes demos and a well edited trailer were already the dumbest part of the show. It’s not like a film festival, where critics are able to judge the whole product, instead you’re judging it upon a fraction’s fraction of the entire game. So, at least avoiding the Nintendo portion will speed things up a bit.

But still, separating awards by console is still dumb for the most part. No console, especially Xbox, produce many exclusives anymore. Last year’s best Xbox and PS games were Mortal Kombat and Tekken, both multiplatform, showing that this award is entirely moot. It’s something that was a lot more commonplace pre-PS4/Xbox One/Wii U and made sense then, but it’s so telling how pointless it is nowadays with Gamescom and a few other fringe publications being the only ones left to hand awards partly by console ecosystem.

I want to get to Tomba! I haven’t heard anything about crashes though.

Kirby and the Amazing Mirror deserves to be lower.

My personal top 5 (As of August 12 2024)

1. Super Mario Bros. 3 Advance

2. Warioware Inc

3. Fire Emblem

4. Yoshi’s Island

5. A Link to the Past + Four Swords

Finished this one on Apple Arcade a few years back, it didn’t impress me.The art style is cool and kinda reminds me of some of the diagrams you’d see in elementary school textbooks. But its also kinda just a glorified game of Simon. Its slow there isn’t much to do than move straight. The chase section is pretty memorable though.

As far as games under the radar go, it’s interesting to see The Lulluby of Life here. It was another delisted Apple Arcade game. Not a very good in my opinion, but I still like the art style.

We’re well into the Switch’s lifetime where if they were doing that, we’d see it by now. Nintendo would rather want for you to take advantages of limited time sales or have promotions be tied to paying for Switch Online. Its the same reason why Switch models haven’t dropped in price.

I would like to see it though. I tried out Punch Out! through Wii’s Nintendo Selects line, as well as Star Fox 64 3D. The Switch is in so much of a good state right now that I haven’t played nearly every 1st Party game. If Animal Crossing, Mario Maker 2, ARMS, Mario Golf or Astral Chain were Nintendo Selects titles, I could easily see myself jumping on the chance to get them

@Clammy Getting these things to move can be a bit tricky if you’re not used to LEGO. I’ve had to put a lot of hours just to get the Might Bowser on properly. Even Piranha Plant took me somewhere a bit under 3 hours.

Dang. That’s neat. I’m loving all these more complex Nintendo LEGO sets. Not sure if I’ll pick up this, especially over the Deku Tree set, but let’s keep these 18+ LEGO collabs coming

I’m kinda surprised it took Nintendo a month to respond to this. It came to the point where I thought there was a chance it was going to get blown over. Thank goodness it’s not and everything they had fought for is taken away. Competitive Splatoon brings the community together and it was fun to see that during the championship.

A reminder that last time The Pokémon Company was at Gamescom, they announced a concept car.

The amiibo look stunning. I definitely want to use Marie’s jacket in battle.

The Splatfest happens during the time of my vacation, so playing will be a bit tricky. But all the more reason to rep Team Present. But I need all the shirts and that goofy wristband.

Honestly, this game looks much less exciting compared to what NES Remix and Ultimate NES Remix had. The aesthetic is uglier and really doesn’t have to be tied to NWC. They got rid of the remix challenges that changed the games slightly. There are no bonus modes like the NWC mode or Speed Mario Bros. It has less games than the Wii U Edition. And the multiplayer mode looks far less exciting beyond the base fact that Nintendo is still supporting 8-Player games. This feels like the Nintendo Switch Sports equivalent to NES Remix with less appealing content, in favor of attempting multiplayer features that will likely have little impact.