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@AussieMcBucket It's probably because, "Just throw a time limit and random item spawning on an existing map," is a very cheap, low effort way to pad out content. Be it this or the DK DLC they're both just minimum budget nonsense designed to waste your time.

@ThatOneLevel "I don't recall other games doing other than the enhanced editions and remakes for the next console generation."

It certainly happened in places. Look how many versions of Street Fighter 2 there are after all, plus you have stuff like the alternate versions of Persona 3 and Shin Megami Tensei 3, there being two separate SNES versions of the first Final Fight one of which was a rental-exclusive, and how a number of the early Harvest Moons have separate boy and girl versions.

@ThatOneLevel Silksong's already most likely sold more copies than Arceus, which ZA does not appear to be selling as well as, and DLC tends to have a pretty low attach rate compared to the base game. There is zero chance this DLC outsells Silksong.

@NintendoByNature Don't see how on earth that's a contradiction in your book - Dan is a Japanese man and they have him being played by a guy with a history of blaming Asians for COVID - but thanks for letting me know you're someone better off on my ignore list.

It really just feels incredibly cheap, like they were trying to figure out a way to make it drawn out as long as possible while putting in the absolute bare minimum amount of effort.

Also god would it kill this game to shut up every once in awhile? So tired of constantly checking in with the useless friend groups in these games to endlessly hear about food, no clue why nearly every Pokemon game does this now but it gets to be infuriating.

Seems like it might be worth a look for $10 but is an easy pass for $30.

Nothing's topping Hundred Line for me this year but at least the E33 devs shouted it out when they both came out.

Glad to see Mega Man getting some love. New Ace Attorney soon please?

Even if the movie looked any good - and it really, really doesn't - casting a white guy with a history of racist jokes as Dan is enough to make this a never watch for me.

Game really just seems super generic to me, just another forgettable dad game.

Oh neat, was curious about this one but never got around to checking it out.

God that DK design never stops being absolutely hideous. It's a neat picture but I can only look at his stupid, ugly face.

I find this game way, way more fun than MKW personally.

As for Kirby, played the demo a bit and it seemed okay but not okay enough for me to ultimately decide to buy it. The poor roster didn't help.

Mine for last year never worked for some reason, only ever got an error message.

Either way my most played Switch game was definitely Hundred Line.

Really doubting it's a release that's going to have much in the way of legs given 1), it''s already fallen out of the top slot on the Switch 1 eShop under a week after releasing, and 2), about the most positive buzz it's really getting is, "Yeah, it's pretty good," and there are a lot of people who aren't being that nice about it.

I don't think there's any danger of Metroid as a series dying or anything - Dread is the best-selling individual release in the series and all - but between the nightmarish production and the attempts to big-up Prime not really seeming to have worked critically or commercially I could see it being a series that ends up sticking to 2D for awhile.

No love for Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws? Unacceptable.

@Gerald You can freely use games on either, the only restriction is whichever one doesn't have a given virtual key card loaded needs to be online to use it. And even then since you can set two consoles as your primary ones you can just move the virtual cards back and forth freely anyway.

If you do a whole system transfer you'll need to re-log in on your Switch 1 and do whatever necessary setup again (which is one of a multitude of reasons why I opted not to actually do a system transfer myself and instead gradually move stuff over) but the Switch 1 will still be totally usable as a viable alternative if desired.

No clue who owns it at this point but I'd love to see Mischief Makers.

I feel like regardless of quality, "Give us $10 to play an instruction manual about the console you bought," is a stupid enough idea to deserve it.

I haven't used it enough to have the minimal amount of usage required, which I guess goes to show you how quickly I forget it's even a thing when not looking at articles about it.

Though really I'm usually just not a listening to music person anyway. I doubt I've listened to a single song on Spotify this year.

Wario World's aged like a fine milk. Replayed it a bit back and from the word go it's a cheap, plodding chore. I struggle to think of a Nintendo-published Gamecube game I wouldn't rather have over it.

I'd probably pass ordinarily but my roommate agreed to go half and half on it and I've always regretted that my grandma cluelessly tossed out my actual Virtual Boy so yeah, I'll go ahead and spring for it.

I'll never understand why people are so fanatically obsessed with obtaining cardboard that costs like 4 cents to print. It'd be one thing if you were actually playing the game but with so many people throwing thousands of dollars just at owning the stupid things it's insanely eye-rolling to me.

I think these are both pretty solid but I'm more partial to the Japanese one.

Probably going to try to cram through the original Super Mario RPG in the next few days. Wondering about trying to get through replaying Danganronpa V3 or doing a run of Paranormasight before the year's out.

Okay, best to worst and filtering out ports, let's go.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
No Sleep for Kaname Date
Shuten Order
Sonic Racing CrossWorlds
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
Donkey Kong Bananza
Iwakura Aria (speaking of you don't seem to have an entry for that one, wasn't coming up searching for it)
Mario Kart World

Sure there's a lot worse out there than MKW but it is the one I liked the least of what I played.

I just blew the bulk of my points on getting the SMB2 box art and Xenoblade 3 coasters (mostly wanted the former but felt like if I was spending $7 in shipping might as well get something else out of it) so will probably need to be kind of choosy about these.

Great piece of hardware but there really has yet to be a game for it that's made it feel worth the purchase. I'm glad I got it before the inevitable price hike but feels like nothing until Fire Emblem's likely to make it feel must-have. And even then after how much I disliked Engage I'm kind of hesitant to let myself get that hyped up for that one.

Really not an FPS fan so I'll leave those out of it but of the ones I have really dug into I'd personally rank them best to worst...

Fusion
Super
Dread
Samus Returns
Zero Mission
Other M
2
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Glad to hear, though personally I very quickly after buying it decided this game is very firmly not for me, didn't click with it at all.

Roommate got me Sonic and I grabbed the upgrades for RDR and Shuten Order. Probably not getting anything else until Death Match Love Comedy in February.

Neat, glad to hear the game's getting some love since it felt like it went pretty under the radar. I have it digitally so no interest in a physical release, but I'd definitely recommend it for anyone wondering about it.

Personally I'd say it's weaker than Danganronpa 1, 2, and V3 and Hundred Line, but it's better than Rain Code, World's End Club, and Ultra Despair Girls (and if you want to bring anime into it, better than Danganronpa 3, worse than Akudama Drive). You kind of have to be patient with it though, it's one of those games where it takes awhile to really get a feel for its structure.

@thefly0810 It just isn't posted yet. There's a graphic they put out about the upgrade that does specify that it also includes the Werehog, just not stuck it in the store yet.

Trying to decide if I want to buy the deluxe edition while it's 30% off at the moment. I think I'm kind of leaning no because it's Sega and it'll definitely be a lower price within a couple months.

@John_Deacon Not unheard of, Super Metroid did it.

The one year I actually watched I found it to be an utterly miserable chore to get through. I'll catch up on any announcements after the fact.

Glad to see Hundred Line get some love. Undoubtedly my game of the year.

As for the subject of Banzana vs. Mario Kart, I didn't even particularly like Bananza (and wound up hitting the last layer, not touching it for a month, then beating it and never touching it again afterward) and I still think it's handily better than MKW.

I really, really just want a straight port of it, don't touch it beyond that and certainly don't remake it. Maybe - maybe - if it were done in the style of the Mario RPG remake it'd be fine, but don't desecrate it like something like Live a Live or the series is just going to be dead to me.

I bought the first Octopath and I checked out the second on Gamepass and my quick takeaway on both was that I hate the art style and they feel like they never start so this one's an easy skip for me.

Never been on my radar. Not a fan of FPS games and though I've tried to get into the first Prime I have never been able to. Mostly just been keeping an eye on it because my roommate was considering it but I think after the reviews came out he's leaning toward skipping it.

I feel like people are really overestimating the likelihood of this being a hit. In pop culture terms Shovel Knight's ancient at this point and doesn't really have much lasting legacy, this is a game that thus far hasn't really had any notable marketing or buzz that I've seen and people seem decidedly mixed on, and Cyber Shadow (which being fair they only published) didn't even hit 100,000 sales in its first year. Hoping it does well for them but I think it's certainly within the realm of possibility that it doesn't.

I think more than anything what's likely to bite them is that Shovel Knight pretty much came out at the height of the NES nostalgia wave, while there's really never been anywhere near the same kind of GBC nostalgia. Feel like between how long it's been since Shovel Knight came out, it not even being the same genre, and using an aesthetic that only really appeals to a hyper specific selection of people it's got a steep uphill climb to be a success.

@PLATINUM7 Yeah, that's what I meant. Honestly not sure I knew there even was a single player versus race.

Honestly really doubt I'm ever going to redownload the game unless they add some sort of laps in single player mode, and even then not sure how long that'd get me to stick with it for. I really just don't find the core experience of MKW very fun.

@Spider-Kev At least personally I like the first game way more than the second. The second one really drastically bloated out and slowed down the experience, on top of adding a bunch of awkward new mechanics for the sake of an attempt at realism that really makes it feel like a very different beast that while I think it's good I very much have to be in the mood for.

The first one's a lot more just GTA in the old west, for good and bad, and at least personally I think it's much more just straight up fun for that.

@Ganner The Switch version also includes Undead Nightmare which is a much shorter playthrough, you tried doing it?

@SBandy1 I honestly wasn't even aware it wasn't supported but I guess it's nice to learn that now since I was wondering about doing another run of it soon.

Desperately wish they'd just port the Steam version of Chrono Trigger already, but at this point I imagine if it does ever end up on consoles it's going to be in the form of a remake that completely ruins it by inflicting that HD-2D trash on it. Probably while scrubbing out all the DS content given how Square loves for modern releases of their games to have less content for some reason.

Can't believe people are resorting to the, "Let's see you do better!" defense. I'm not a game designer, it isn't my job to do better. You don't have to be a gourmet chef to say food tastes bad.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Yeah, that's a pretty funny difference. Can tell what happened there - Switch 1 version they killed that guy while in the Switch 2 one they captured him - but it does look a bit jarring if you don't know the context.

One of those updates I likely wouldn't shell out for if only because the Switch 1 port was very good anyway, but with it being free, hey, I'll happily check it out, been meaning to replay it anyway.

Now please give a similar treatment to GTA4 already.