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@StewdaMegaManNerd
About Mario Party 9 (since I'm something of a MP nerd myself):
Just because something is original, doesn't make it automatically good. The designers stated in Iwata asks interview that the decision to put all the players in the same vehicle was because "there was nothing to do while other players rolled the dice in previous Mario Party games"... which is just plain wrong. An important part in the previous Mario Party games was paying attention to what your opponents are doing on their turn: what items they buy and use, do they manipulate your moves with items such as poison mushrooms and pipes, etc. Mario Party 9 lacks a lot of planning decision making since all the players are heading to the same direction while sitting in a car (there are different dices to use, but a lot less decision making that would actually matter in the long run). As someone who has played every Mario Party game to date, I'm just glad that awful era of Mario Party games (2012-2017) is over (Mario Party Advance can join the bottom tier party of MP too). What MP9 and 10 (and the 3DS entries) had though, were solid minigames and extra modes.

If car ever makes it grand return to Mario Party I hope it's put into an extra mode and doesn't limit the number of traditional MP boards... unless they make a lot of great changes to car mechanics, somehow making it the best MP main mode ever. I have no idea what that would require though.

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And now about Kamiya...

I'm really looking forwars to Õkami 2 and other games he's going to be working on in the future.

@Anti-Matter
Have you played Lego Island? That was the first Lego game released in the west and also one of the first pc games I got. Lego City Undercover was fun. Not one of my absolute favourites but still a great 8/10 title that deserves a sequel.

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is the best one because you can play as Shrek.

I have a japanese account as well so I guess I'll download this.

DK94 is one of top 5 Game Boy titles but I gotta ask...

Whens DK64? We got that for Wii U 10 YEARS AGO.

Not all these "brand new games" are new though.

Glad I noticed this early enough.

When will they patch this poor HD version though?

Magic the Gathering used to be about it's own world and characters, now it's about Spongebob punching Cloud while the 4th Doctor is dancing in the backround.

Not that I really care, I'm mostly a Pokemon TCG player myself.

Black and White remakes... both 1 and 2 on a single cartridge... Pokemon company has more than enough money for that and they need make the GREATEST REMAKES EVER after what they did with Gen4 remakes (and yes, I've actually played trough Brilliant Diamond, only borrowed it though).

@LXP8
You mean Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled, right?

@Dee123
Which is a shame, since CTR NF and Sonic Transformed are better in both gameplay and track design, imo. I just don't get the hype for Mario Kart 9, at all.

I don't expect Nintendo to replace this with anything but having a much better, less laggy eShop would help.

Really? The latest one was Pikmin Bloom and that was over 3 years ago.

I hope they find work from a much better company.

Ubisoft is still around?

Sure, just bring the online features back Nintendo.

It's cool to have those 3DS exclusive stages on the big screen, but having the less graphically detailed 3DS version because of that as the base for Switch version... and selling it for 60€...

Not cool.

And if people don't buy this version, the hyper Nintendo fanboys will use this as an excuse for why we can't get new Donkey Kong games: "You should have bought the most expensive version of a 14 year old game" or something.

@swoose
Have you played The Gym Leader Challenge format? It bans the rulebox cards (ex Pokemon, etc).

Easily the best of the three Sonic movies.

Saw the video last week, so glad for the blue dog.

A shame really, since the Wii one is really good boss rush game and my favourite Punch-Out.

Moomin is finnish, you know.

I recommend Pizza Tower to anyone who loves a great fast paced platformer with parry and combo mechanics.

I swear... these comment sections are just so weird sometimes. Let people enjoy whatever products they want. Just because someone types a comment on a Nintendo related site doesn't mean automatically their favourite company.

And now to the topic:
It's been well documented that this partnership could've well ended into Sony's favour. Sony would have received profits from every single CD game sold and eventually they might have just become that much bigger and bought out Nintendo.

@MontyCircus
Now I want to check the list since DKL2 and 3 are easily in my top 10 Game Boy games.

Nice, I'll use the japanese app to play the color version.

@Dev1024
I'll join that club as well. Kiddy Kong is great and I wish his water bounce ability was used mire in DKC3.

My favourite evolution line as a console? Yes!!!

I would prefer this over the DKL sequels because of the new level themes BUT the controls and movement of the Kongs was greatly improved innthe sequels.

My neighbors played the original two on their PC's in the late 90s. One of them even said that he wanted to be part of the team developing LBA 3 in the future as an adult. Back then I just said that LBA 3 will be done years before anyone of us reaches adulthood.

And here we are with a new version of the first game and no LBA 3 on the horizon.

It'd great to have a physical release in the west, since this game is NEVER SOLD AT A DISCOUNT.

Just don't ignore certain game OST's from your vast history of games and also remove said songs from YouTube. Don't drip feed songs as you've done with old games on NSO.

Do these and I'll be a happy customer, Nintendo.

@epicgamner
As much as I want Switch 2 revealed already, announcing Switch ports of Wii U era Zeldas would be very funny and totally worth it.

Wasn't there supposed to be a co-op update for this game or was it just a dream I had?

Had fun with Prince of Persia, I just miss the old Ubisoft that gave us new Rayman games and a little gem called Beyond Good and Evil.

"(Insert game title here) Has Reportedly Leaked Online".

@Dirty_Croc
Bought the original cartridge 5 years ago for 40€ and that was years after I had played it on an emulator. Last time I checked the prices for cartridge+box+manual were between 100-200€. Haven't checked after the NSO release though.

Great to have this on NSO so that I don't have to endure the frame rate of hhe original N64 release anymore.

This is probably my favourite of the "2d F-Zeros" so it's nice they acknowledge it's 20th anniversary.

I have NSO Expandong Subscribtion with a full 8 family members... but my country is not on the list.

Whatever, I guess.

I have F-Zero Climax as a physical cartridge. Bought it before the time every damn retro game price went up.

F-Zero Climax is one of the two F-Zero titles that have a level editor, other being the 64DD exclusive F-Zero X Expansion Kit. Hope we get that one officially to the west someday trough these online services.

I find all the "whoa, so many hateful comments towards Nintendo, did these people come from other sites"-comments really funny. As if you are not allowed to criticize things you like in any way.

Just because a person visits a Nintendo site doesn't mean they love every Nintendo game or EVERYTHING Nintendo does.

"Good."

• Zelda from Zelda Wand of Gamelon

I'm just glad someone is making new 3D platformers. Astro Bot on PSVR was amazing and if I had a PS5 I would buy this game right now. I wish this eventually gets a PC release.

Great article! Giygas and the story surrounding the final encounter is one of the most memorable in videogame history. I'm just in the camp that much prefers Mother 3 but I'm glad there's still a very dedicated fanbase for this series that ended in 2006. It's just great that for once there's a Nintendo series that is complete.

@_exalt
Wish they had bothered to release that one in my country at all.

Looks amazing and something I'd like to have in my collection as well. The water effects especially are mi mindblowing.

My ranking for original DKC Trilogy is:
DKC2>DKC3>DKC1

Since F-Zero has been brought up in the comment section, I'm going to continue with that: I would really like a new F-Zero like X or GX but I'm also really happy that Aero GPX has been awesome even in Early Access.

I downloaded the demo already. One of my most anticipated game releases currently. The world needs more games like F-Zero X and especially GX.

Nice, but add DS games next so we'll get Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Sky.

World of Goo was one my favourite games in 2008 so might pick this up at some point.