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Where the F are the 2DS LLs?? Is this the fateful day that they drop off this chart?

@Hoshiko I imagine there's more info in that article but it's behind a paywall

I played this game on GameCube recently and loved it, but sort of trapped myself, my only save is in the last castle without enough items or health to survive and there’s no way to warp out. Hopefully the remake includes some QoL stuff to save me from my own stupidity

At night I’m playing Majoras mask 3DS, a game I’ve dropped several times but am determined to finish this time.

During the day I’m working through Princess peach with my 9 year old. She is absolutely loving this game, and it’s the first one she’s primarily playing. I’ve seen many negative reviews on YouTube and I just don’t think these people without kids understand how hard some of the hand-eye stuff is for most young kids in games. Even Mario wonder was too hard for my kids. This game is giving her everything she wants, with some challenge, but she can actually do it herself and get better.

Looks like something my daughter would love. I’m trying to cap my switch physical collection at 100 (8 left after pre-ordering thousand year door) and I don’t think this one will make the cut

New 2DS LL sales plummet to 6...

I recently played the superstar saga remake - my first M & L game - and thought it was fantastic. Everything I want in a game. It’s a shame the game didn’t come out on the switch instead, it doesn’t even have 3D!!

I’d be most interested in gathering up a bunch of people who played TotK first THEN BOTW and seeing what they think. I wonder how many people there are in this boat - it must be small, like a rowboat

It’s hard to separate whether a person enjoyed BOTW more or just that BOTW gave them a new feeling which couldn’t be replicated again for the similar TotK.

I guess what I’m wondering is: would many people just prefer the one they played first, and for most people that’s BOTW?

@Not_Soos well written and I agree with most of it. And I appreciate you being positive when it’s so much easier in a comments section to go negative.

I just wouldn’t be a gamer without Nintendo. None of the other consoles give me what I want and need enough to justify the cost of purchase. Through all my hobbies and phases of life, the one thing I have never gotten rid of was my Nintendo products. Collecting their games has been one of the great joys in my life

I can only speak to my experience, near me there is a Best Buy and a game stop side by side. I check Best Buy regularly because they often have good sales on switch games. I’ve stopped going into GameStop completely, there’s never any kind of deal for anything I care about, and the used games are just $5 less than new, sometimes without the case. And the vibe is rarely good.

The larger digital trends will probably get them regardless, but if an avowed physical game buyer like myself doesn’t want to go in there that’s a big problem.

Dumb guy question: why do so many of these performance fixes get put out shortly after a game launches? Often these come out so soon after launch you wonder why they didn't just wait a month to release the game. I feel like there's some info I'm missing here.

With a multiplayer game I would understand that you need to have a lot of folks play it to uncover unique issues, but with a one player game is anything learned from the initial player experience after launch? Or did they know the framerate wasn't great but needed to launch the game?

A few times per year I go away for the weekend with old friends - I always bring 20 or so switch games but this is the only one that gets any play. Everyone can pick it up and play it, and they immediately understand that it's in a lineage with the arcade TMNT games we grew up with. Probably a top ten game for me in my switch collection, I'd love for them to do a sequel

I will shed a single tear the day the 2DS LL sales go to zero in these reports

I’ve thought about this a lot and honestly, I just want ports.

When a new format of blue ray or whatever comes out, i don’t want the older movies I love to be recut or reshot to make them more like the current era. I want access to that movie, with maybe a visual buff that makes it closer to a theater experience.

If an older 70s movie moves too slowly for a modern audience I don’t want it to get a remaster with QoL upgrades to make it more palatable. I dont want older vfx upgraded. I want to experience the original piece of art that resonated so well with people at the time, even if I end up not liking it myself.

I try to keep it positive on here but boy I did not like this game. The graphics were stunning but no other part of the game clicked with me and by the end I felt like I was just going through the motions. It’s one of the few games where I look at the scores it got compared to my experience playing it and feel like I’m taking crazy pills

Playing through LM3 with my daughter was one of the greatest video game experiences of my life, so there’s no way I won’t pick this up even though I’ve got the 3DS version. It only has to be 30% as good as #3 and I’ll be perfectly happy

@Thomystic thats an interesting theory - it makes a lot of sense

Wow and they just released that Goemon game (Japan only for now) so they are on a roll. This makes me glad I pre-bought Peach. Woolly world is a top ten game for me, so I’ll give anything they make a shot, even if Crafted world was kind of forgettable

I'm about 2/3 through Superstar Saga, the 3DS remake. This game has tons and tons of charm, I really love the world and the way the game is presented.

It does feel a little bit too easy though - if you have good hand-eye coordination you can almost always avoid taking damage during battles. At the same time, they seem to have balanced that by making some enemies have way too much HP, making some battles pretty tedious

I finished Minish Cap - in the end, it’s one of my favorite top-down Zelda’s. Some of the later bosses and dungeons were top tier.

Moving on to Superstar saga on the 3DS, only a few hours in but finding it very charming

I have 90 physical switch games and have it in my head that I’m going to stop at 100 and then wait until the next switch to buy more games. I’m going to be very picky about the last 10 but I think this one is making the list

I bought a translated copy on a flash cart and played through it late last year. I'd recommend anyone who likes RPGs do the same. Simply one of the best games I've ever played. I liked it more than Earthbound by a large margin.

I absolutely loved RC Pro AM as a kid. It had the absolute tightest controls

When I look at my backlog, which spans decades of games, anything I can play on a handheld will get finished, but anything locked to a tv console I can never make the time for, since I like hanging with my wife playing while she watches a show. So anything on 3DS, switch, or their services/virtual consoles is covered.

When I look at my backlog thru that lense, my most wanted port/remakes are Mario galaxy 2, twilight princess, xeno X, and super paper Mario. The b tier is saga frontier 2, Chrono trigger, and the Layton games

I see these updates on here occasionally. How does this work? As each chapter comes out you buy it separately, or are the people who bought the game getting each chapter for free when it drops?

It sort of reminds me of the way novels used to be serialized across multiple issues of a magazine

I much preferred Square Enix's recent output where they released lots of mid-tier games. I don't know if it was a good business strategy but as a consumer I loved it, and i didn't mind paying full price for the games that I matched with.

I replayed crazy taxi recently on one of my old systems and what made it special to me was the speed, zaniness, and at the time the soundtrack of licensed songs. I think creating a fast and loose experience with style would be more important than going full AAA on a game like this.

Last week I beat the Legend of Mana remastered. There is a giant place in my heart for flawed PS1 role playing games with strong art styles, and this was one of the most flawed, with the best art.

I am now about 5 hours into Minish Cap with enough momentum that I know I'm going to finish it. I've started this game so many times and found the opening hours a bit tedious, but I've finally broken through. Some of these later palaces - the Droplet Palace particularly - are already among my favorites in the Zelda series.

I collect physical switch games - I have about 90- and superstars is the only one I’ve ever bought and gotten rid of. I sold it to a coworker for what I paid for it. Just didn’t enjoy playing it

As a heads up, Play Asia has a sale going where you can get 3 games for $100 with free shipping. It doesn't include all games but the list is large. I pre-ordered Peach from there along with 2 xenoblade games I had been wanting.
I had a few reward points with them and ended up getting all 3 games for $90 - not a bad deal! Boxes will have some japanese on them but the games are all in english

I finished up Yoshis New Island last week - I always put a low key platformer between big games - and now I’m tucking into Legend of Mana.

It’s such a janky game but those PS1 RPGs have so much charm. The storybook graphics with their fixed perspective remind me of those 90s Sierra adventure games, and the music is just incredible.

Please just give me a golden Zelda cartridge to put next to my ocarina of time

I didn’t pick it up after Zion seemed a little unenthused about it in the video review and he was initially pretty hyped when it was announced. If I ever see it cheap I may pick it up.

The good-feel yoshi games, specifically woolly world, are some of my favorites of all time even over Mario games. I rarely get Japanese language games but I’m almost certainly going to import this

1. Nintendo announces MP4 as a launch title for Switch 2
2. Nintendo announces MP2 and 3 Remaster for Switch releasing in Spring and Summer respectively.
3. Nintendo announces that switch 2 is backwards compatible and I can play all 4 on one console.
4. I buy all of it and move to an island where I can be happy forever.

@LikelySatan I don’t know many of these which is rare - thanks for the recs! Gravity rush is on my list for play Asia purchase once I can buy enough for free shipping

@datamonkey @datamonkey thanks! I have it but only played a little, it gave me a tropical freeze vibe. I’ll put it at the top of my list

Well, I finally finished sea of stars after about 25 hours. Unfortunately I didn’t really like it but past a certain point I knew I was toward the end and just had to finish it. They did a lot right, but I was frustrated that the combat and the box-pushing puzzles - all of the gameplay, really - never deepened or progressed.

Now I have to decide what to play next. I have so much in my backlog it makes it hard to actually choose. I need a break from role-playing games, so I’m considering something like the mummy demastered or Rayman. If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

I'm 12 hours into Sea of Stars and unfortunately I'm very close to dropping it. The graphics are unparalleled, but the gameplay itself I find very rote - I'm working my way through it half-asleep it feels like. I don't even mind simple RPG combat that gets repetitive - it tends to soothe me - but the environmental puzzles and traversal requires no thinking. They just click along cleanly, there's no sense of struggle of exploration. Anyway, I'm not one to beat on games, but I was really anticipating this one and am disappointed.

Someone sold their whole switch collection to my local game shop and it's an extensive one - tons of imports, special editions, I even saw a mummy demastered which has been on my list. So my plan this weekend is to see how much $ I can spare to buy up some of these games, and start one of them.

Lately I've felt energized and able to tackle a bunch of life stuff, so I've been gaming less than usual. 2022 and 2023 really were the years of gaming for me, and I think in 2024 it may take a back seat.

This weekend I'll put a few hours into Sea of stars. I hotly anticipated this game and waited until I could get it on cartridge, and now that I'm playing it....I don't know if I like it. The early sections are a little dull from a gameplay perspective, and the writing is pretty poor - just my opinion of course. The graphics, though, are just astounding. Those alone will keep me playing it to see what's next - hopefully the game will pick up.

My sea of stars physical game came in yesterday, so that’s what I’ll be playing with the little gaming time I’ve got.

@IceClimbersMain I'm obsessed with this 2DS factoid as well and want someone to do some investigative journalism and find out where these things are selling from

For a game like this all I care about is smooth movement and tight controls and based on gameplay footage this looks like a pickup for me

The naming of the DLC tells me that the dragon quest style “verb of the noun” titling isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

I love video games with a passion, but I wish the writing was better in most of them.

Wow - I played a lot of games this year but I guess only a few that released in 2023.

I rated Mario wonder, TotK and Metroid prime the same level of awesome. Tunic was a 10/10 for the first two-thirds then became too obtuse and difficult for me. Happy to say I didn’t play any outright bad games.

Not 2023 related but playing through Luigi’s Mansion with my 8YO daughter was by far my best game experience of the year

I'm on the final hours of Mother 3 and WOW, I am loving this game. It is a little bit easier than Earthbound and a little more on rails, but the story and gameplay are great. I think I might like it better than Earthbound, actually.

If I finish the game this weekend, I have to decide which of the 1,000 backlog games goes up next. I've got Sea of Stars and Star Ocean Second Story coming in the mail from play asia, so I'll probably play a shorter platformer to fill the time. Happy gaming everyone!

This survey taught me that there are lot more VR headsets than I even realized!!

@rallydefault yes it’s multi language, the play asia site is pretty good about showing the language options for each game. If it’s English then it may as well be a us purchase, if it says multi language there may be Japanese on the cover or spine but you can pick English within the game

I preordered the physical copy of this from play Asia releasing very soon (maybe even today) - I wonder if this patch is on the cartridge.

oh cool, my daughter was playing a janky version of this the other day on her ipad and I thought it was fun - this will probably be much better, excited to show it to her

I’m probably a third of the way through Mother 3 - I’ve never played it before and I absolutely love it. I’m at one of those old-school hard RPG spots where I keep getting killed and it’s obvious I’ll need to grind and get some better items. Meanwhile I’ll be watching the tracking as castlevania advance collection slowly makes its way to my house.