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I beat TotK! I loved my time with the game but was ready to be done with it and I thought the ending really delivered.

I got my physical copy of Tunic this week and started that - it’s very opaque and difficult, but it’s been revealing itself to me slowly and I’m loving the ambiance and mystery of it. After putting 150 hours into Zelda with all its checklists of detailed quests, it’s nice to pivot to a game that tells you absolutely nothing.

If Nintendolife covers the plane ticket I will travel across Japan to answer the question: where are people buying these 18 2DS LLs? I’ll then embed myself in one of the shops and write a long form feature about it. Hit me up NL!

I think with a couple of more unique branded switches that people will want to collect, mixed with the thousands of kids who are growing up into “video game age” every year, plus people replacing broken switches, Nintendo could get there.

My local Facebook marketplace has people selling switch games - just the cartridge - and often they have pretty big selections. I’m thinking maybe there’s a connection here…

Man, Sea of Stars looks so up my alley, I hope they pulled it off. The demo showed so much promise

@WaveBoy IKEA mushroom kingdom is a perfect way to describe what is off about the NSMB games for me.

I’m getting Super Mario World vibes from this as well, but that’s a top 5 of all time game for me so I’m trying not to burden Wonder with those expectations - it would guarantee disappointment.

I'm about to leave for a week long vacation and based on my post office tracking number there's probably a 50% chance I'll get Tunic before I leave. If it doesn't arrive I'll bring TotK and Pikmin 3 and focus on those games, but if Tunic comes all bets are off.

I really like the character animations but the level art doesn't seem to match it. I wish they'd gone all in on this art style sort of like cuphead.

I was playing magical quest starring mickey mouse recently (a SNES capcom gem) and the levels are overstuffed with beautiful cartoon pixel art - all of the elements hang together to create this perfect whole. I'm not getting that feeling watching this one in action

One reason to play these on NSO even if you own the originals as I do is screen size. I just pulled out my Gameboy Advance SP to play a translation of Mother 3 for the first time and WOW the screen is smaller than I remember, and poorly lit. And SP is the best version in this regard. GB and GB color games don't even use the entire screen when you're playing them backwards compatible

If you spend a lot of time using a Switch as I do the difference in screen size and lighting is jarring

2DS LL sales down 10 from last week - what does this significant statistic mean for the industry??

I really like the look of amiibos, especially the Zelda ones, but as someone who has too much stuff already I have convinced myself to just not be an amiibo person - full stop. Except a single wool yoshi because, I mean, I’m not made of stone

I'm always going to choose the pixel art option in these situations - just the way I'm wired I guess

@Ooyah Yes! I agree, it's a classic and it's weird that it hasn't resurfaced even as a cash-in. The bosses and character sprites are so good, and his ability to flip in mid air and turn his head into a downward weapon gives the game a whole new dimension.

I'm continuing my two-track playing, mixing Tears of the Kingdom with some lower stakes platforming action.

I dusted off my TurboGrafx16 and just finished playing through Bonk's Adventure - truly a great retro game, I think it could've competed with Mario if they'd kept making new entries and building the world. Next I'll be on to the sequel Bonk's Revenge.

TotK I'll be heading to Gerudo, my fourth temple, with 120 hours under my belt. I'm loving the game but I think I'm done wandering and am ready to focus on the main storyline.

@Dr_Corndog your streak of saying common sense things I agree with continues.

This doesn’t bother me too much. Call me old fashioned but I like my emulators downloaded off a janky looking website with 20 pop up ads per click

It looks great, but my backlog is like a million hours at this point so I’m going to wait. Inevitably people beat these games and put them up for sale at a good discount, I got Pikmin 3 deluxe from a local guy for I think $20

This man is me and I am him. I could've written this. Of my 60ish switch games, at least a third are older playstation RPGs that I never played because I could only afford one consoler per generation as a kid and I always chose Nintendo.

I've said this before, but if the switch ever gets chrono trigger, symphony of the night and The Thousand Year Door, there will be nothing more for me to want. The good old days are now, what a time.

Not interested in this but I’ve gotta say, Best Buy is the only physical store where I can sometimes find good deals. I’ll pop in when I’m in the area and have found games like hollow knight for $15, persona 5R and Mario party all stars for $30, etc. Good deals! There’s a gamestop next door and I’ve stopped even going in, there are never ever ever any switch games on sale

I love these - reminds me of the first few pages of my old Nintendo powers

I’m 120 hours in on Tears of the Kindgom - after getting the master sword I’m suddenly feeling like this magical experience is going by too fast, so I’m going to take a short break and play a lower stakes platformer from my backlog. Maybe Mario Galaxy 2 or Rayman Legends.

Happy gaming!

Not a master system fan but loved this video. Alex is so funny.

I have 10 of these, so no worries - you can all come play them at my house

Welp there goes another small chunk of my money

I tried to replay the original circle of the moon on original hardware recently and wow, I forgot how small the GBA screen is. I love all things retro but we truly are spoiled in the modern age with our handheld screens. Super excited to play this on switch

This trend of special editions being a pile of random stuff completely misses me. Bring back the days of the gold Zelda cartridge!!

I’ve probably only played half of them, but I know the rest are waiting for me when I have the time. My Dragon Warrior IV cartridge is my most cherished video game item

I lived in Providence RI during the whole Schilling disaster - I can’t tell you how fast that company came and went and how quickly he blew through 75 million dollars.

That 75M was originally a fund to split between dozens of small and midsize businesses to lure them to Rhode Island but the governor unilaterally gave it all to Curt Schilling on essentially a whim. It was so interesting to hear about this person’s ground level stories about how it affected him, which is about as bad as I’d expected.

I’m 100 hours into Tears of the kingdom and am maybe only a third of the way through. I’ve come to terms with this game taking me the rest of the year to beat and have started having a backup game going to balance things.

I just finished Paper Mario: Color Splash (flawed but fun) and am going to move on to the Mother 3 fan translation on a cartridge. I bought a Gameboy advance SP specifically to play this game and am excited to experience it.

I’m convinced there’s one guy who goes out each week and buys 30 2DS XLs

@Snatcher same! I own two copies of this game and both discs fail randomly making it hard to complete the game. Just give me a switch cartridge Nintendo - I’ll pay you!

I'm kind of obsessed with checking the sales of the New 2DS LL each time one of these is posted - 47 this week!!

I was hoping they were working on a new yoshi game - woolly world might be in my top 10 favorite games, period. I’d love to see a yoshi platformer with a clay art style like Kirby and the rainbow curse.

I really hate this, though it’s important to differentiate that this is slightly better than code in a box. Code you can only redeem on one account I believe, where a cartridge - even one this terrible - you could sell to someone else and then they can then plug it in and download the game. these cartridges tend to sell cheaply on the 2nd hand market - I got Bioshock collection for $10 I think.

I’m usually physical only but for this nonsense I will just buy #3 digital if that’s an option - it’s the only one I’ve never played and I’ve heard great things about it.

@fenlix I agree - I don't think the pixel graphics need any improvement. Also because of the way encounters and traversal work, it doesn't even need the type of speed-up or 'turn off encounters' QoL modes that other old RPGs get. I honestly don't know what you'd need to change from the DS version - the game hasn't really aged.

I'm going to let myself get excited about some of these rumors even if they're thin. 2D mario is always a big deal for me, even though the new ones have been hit or miss.

Beyond that, I'm rooting for Chrono Trigger (simple port is fine) and Paper Mario TTYD. If those two games came out, my switch would be capable of playing 99% of all video games I've ever cared about - and I've been playing since the 80's.

Never played it but I’m getting it. Over the past year I’ve amassed a near encyclopedic collection of RPGs for the switch that span the genre’s history. So much stuff I missed the first time around. It’s awesome seeing them all in a row on the shelf. Now, whether I’ll ever get around to playing them all…

It was a big way for me to stay in touch with friends during the pandemic - multi platform and free so no barriers, and the voice chat worked really well. But eventually it tailed off and we haven’t been back, though we had a short run with the zero build setting (which we call Dad Mode).

Like the author I logged in to check it out recently and was completely overwhelmed by how different it looks.

I’ve never been someone who cares about framerates as a rule, but for platformers it really adds a level of polish that ends up enhancing the gameplay for me - I don’t think I would’ve enjoyed Metroid dread or tropical freeze if they weren’t so silky smooth

The trailer reminds me a bit of Tropical Freeze which I just played through for the first time and really loved

Playing through this game with some old friends was BY FAR my favorite gaming moment of 2022, highly recommend anyone with an interest pick this up.

Across every game I’ve played on the switch (a lot), this is probably second behind Breath of the Wild for magical, immersive experiences. I know that map like the back of my hand

This weekend I’ll be trying to close out at least one Paper Mario game. I’m about halfway through Color Splash, having a great time even though the game has some serious flaws. Separately I’ve been working through Thousand Year Door for about the last year and I just got to the moon - what an amazing game that one is. My retro systems are in my garage room and I can’t get in there as often, and my game seems to crash with a disc read error after about an hour of play, making this slow going (can we please remake this one Nintendo??)

I’d encourage everyone with NSO to give Kid Chameleon some time. It was a classic game when I was growing up, friends and I would play it for hours. I eventually beat it after months of practice, but I had to leave my genesis on overnight, there was no save feature. Save states should improve the game greatly

@Bydlak I’m obsessed with Dragon Quest but I will not buy the 1-3 remakes on switch because of the reason you said, in my opinion they look so terrible

Surprised I’m not hearing more about Kid Chameleon. I spent an entire summer trying to beat it, sometimes leaving my console on overnight paused. It’s fun, tough as nails and in my opinion an absolute classic

I have 3 games I’m playing through right now and boy I’d better finish them before this comes out, because I see this taking over my life for a few weeks at least. talk about a backlog blocker

@RainbowStarFlower if you haven’t played the demo on switch yet it’s worth checking out. The sprites and lighting look amazing

I was in Japan last week and was surprised at how little console game culture I saw. I walked all around Tokyo and sat on trains for hours and saw maybe one person playing a switch - everyone else was on mobile devices. There were some splatoon ads but no giant billboards of the Mario movie or Zelda totk at least that I could see.

Akihabara is the video game and anime section of Tokyo and whenever I walked into a gaming shop there it was mostly other 40yo American men like myself browsing the shelves. I don’t speak the language so I never got any insights from locals, but overall I expected console gaming to be a bigger part of the outward culture given how many companies operate there

All these updates sound great, but I always wish these rereleases had an option to play the games exactly as originally released.

@Dr_Corndog I completely agree with you. My two big hobbies are video games and reading fiction, and I'm shocked at how rarely a game has writing at the level of even a mid-quality fiction book. I think games get graded on a huge curve in this respect. I loved everything else about Octo1, but the stories were hackneyed in my opinion, and the writing was really bad: characters stating their motivations directly, saying the same thing 3 times in the same conversation, etc.