Markatron84

16/17. I got tripped up with how many named courses there are in Mario Kart World.

Going through the comments months after the list's initial publication is fascinating. It's funny seeing which games made it to #1 through the months and how there was usually somebody who thought it was utterly blasphemous.

I loved Donkey Kong Bananza - best 58 hours I ever spent with a game - but I'll be honest, I expected it to be much lower on the pecking order. I feel like people focused more on the fact that Nintendo launched this instead of a new 3D Mario game and less on how absolutely bloody amazing a game it actually is.

Good on you, DK. Beat your chest with pride.

This is like a softcore spot the difference.

@Kingy have you read any of my past comments? Positivity is not my forte. Neither is patience.

I love how Nintendo holds these sales and then forgets to include its own games in them; it's great.

I have 28 first-party Switch 1 games on my eShop wishlist and not one of them is discounted 👍

Patch notes:

Eeehhhhh 🙅‍♂️

@HingryHuppo

Making a noise on social media makes the biggest difference of all.

Oh, it absolutely does, which is why anyone commenting on Nintendo's social media likely had infinitely more impact on Game Key Cards than someone commenting on here did. Then again, I'm one of those people who's sick of hearing about it, so I'm probably biased.

@HingryHuppo I'll counter that with:

Booooo to everyone who complained about it in Nintendo Life comment sections where it would have no effect on anything. And well done to anyone who complained to the relevant people through the relevant channels 😉

@Kirbyo I did that once. Took ages. Then about a week and a half later they added more achievements and stuff. I'm just a joke to them at this point.

@Tyranexx your optimism is an inspiration to us all.

@gojiguy this is the worst take on Vampire Survivors I've ever heard/seen. It's not even a hot take; it's a take that was left to fester on a sun-baked Nevada highway for weeks on end with the odd 18-wheeler further flattening it in between coyote gnawings.

Vampire Survivors is as easy or as hard as you want to make it.

Oh my god, that Shadow one!!! It is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen (apologies to my wife, but she's in second place now).

@Serpenterror I wouldn't bet against an X-Men retro collection coming at some point. I can see Marvel wanting to really push the X-Men once Doomsday and Secret Wars are out.

Wow, this is a sad state of affairs. Six games, and what is arguably the best one is neutered by only being available on cloud 😐

Props to Nintendo for not being afraid to put mediocre games on NSO. Wario World is far from good, but if Nintendo wants the service to truly represent the Gamecube's library, it's got to be there.

Next up: Doshin the Giant!

@Misima and it'll still run at 30fps.

How are Bethesda games so popular? I mean, really. Look, I've enjoyed Fallout games but, let's be honest: they look, play and run like utter arse and have more bugs than an insectarium. In fact, the only Bethesda (Game Studios) game I've played that felt good to play and ran at a decent and consistent framerate was Fallout 4, and that's only because I was running it on a PC with an i9 and a 4080 in it.

Pretty sure Skyrim has even been released on me at this point.

@Nintoz "Just water for me, thanks. I'm a mean drunk."

Oooh, or maybe he's the designated driver?

Or maybe they don't talk shop?

I understand why outlets feel the need to assign scores to reviews, but I've just read through nearly a hundred comments proving why they shouldn't.

@canaryfarmer it looks like someone was walking past an arcade stick while carrying a load of buttons and tripped.

@FlyingDunsparce

Like even if we accept that costumes get their own character slot, that still leaves them in a completely random order with actual characters randomly mixed in with them.

You can press a button - either X or Y, I forget which - and it'll group each character and all their costumes in order.

I agree that it's still a mess though. Selecting a character should just bring up a sub-screen with all their costumes.

I sincerely hope that Mina turns out well and that Yacht Club doesn't fall on hard times. From what I played of the demo, the full game should deliver the goods and then some; let's just hope it gets the sales it deserves.

Nintendo are attempting to drag this game back into the public consciousness and drive more sales 👀

@NFrealinkling @scottdevine48 I absolutely wouldn't bet against it.

@Elektrogeist1287 well, that didn't take long. Just the Keymaster to find now 👍

I recently played through The Cosmic Shake for the first time (I'm trying to work through some of the large backlog of Steam games I've built up over the years). It was the very epitome of a 7/10 game; 10 hours of unspectacular but nonetheless fun platforming. Plus I finally get the appeal of SpongeBob, having been a series virgin prior to this. I'll definitely be looking at Titans of the Tide.

I unfortunately own and have played Gear.Club Unlimited 2. Going by what I've experienced, it's going to take a unanimously good critical reception (or one hell of a bender) to get me to try Gear.Club Unlimited 3.

Tomb Raider 2013 is such a good game. I've played the game twice; once on PS3, while my second playthrough was of the PS4 version, mostly through Remote Play on Vita. Even with the slight input lag it was a good experience, so I imagine it plays really well on Switch 2. 👍

I've got to admit that the costumes look infinitely better than I was expecting them to 👍

Rabble rabble rabble, I disagree with the ordering of this list, rabble rabble rabble.

In all seriousness though, Super Mario RPG (Switch) shouldn't even be on this list, let alone at #38 🤣

Next week, in a bid to put a stop to this, Nintendo will patent the cube.

@Dee123 it's amazing how a global superpower can be so insular.

This looks awesome. Out of interest though, how litigious is Square Enix?

I'm all digital on Switch 2 so it's personally a non-issue. I'm not eagerly anticipating Pokopia but my wife is going to go mental for it.

How a remaster of Plants vs. Zombies came out this borked and needed this many patches is beyond me. It's Plants vs. Zombies, not bloody Star Citizen.

@Nintoz I legitimately laughed out loud when I read that. Good work.

@Rhaoulos @1UP-HUSKY I assume retailers paid Nintendo for the rights to have the demo in their stores before it comes to the eShop, in an attempt to entice people to actually go to a physical store in 2025.

Not looking good for there being a new Animal Crossing anytime soon then.

@Nick2054 I love it.

@DarkTron not playing a game because they don't agree with its content or find said content upsetting is perfectly rational and perfectly valid. Dogpiling someone for making that decision - for themselves; not you, or anyone else - is the only irrational behaviour I can see.

My views - both on the game and religion - don't align with those of @SillyG, but I can show them enough respect to not belittle, berate and humiliate them for holding such beliefs, especially as they've not once tried to force those views upon others.

Why is this not titled Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Superfluous Title-Lengthening Words, Nintendo?

Don't tempt me. I've got The Binding of Isaac on four different platforms already and I'm most certainly not above adding a fifth.

@Elektrogeist1287 jumping down somebody's throat just because they don't share the same beliefs as you doesn't make you a good person either.

They're pushing this game more than Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza combined.

@USWITCH64 their handling of Mario Kart World post-launch support and content has been beyond tone deaf.

Year of Mighty, confirmed.

I play retro games via the method that requires me to say that I allegedly play retro games.

I'm going to have a proper look at this list later and see how it compares to Jeff Gerstmann's Ranking the NES list (so far). Should be interesting.