Markatron84

@PJOReilly

As you can see from the trailer above, this one's is all about living your dream life on a little island full of terrifying Mii-styled characters.

They're not just terrifying to look at. Those voices were the stuff of absolute nightmares. They sound like text-to-speech from 10 years ago, but murderous.

@zander_dale same here, to be honest. Donkey Kong Bananza is a cracking game but if the Emerald Rush mode is the DLC's sole mode/content, I don't know if I can justify £17.

@Azileron That last marathon stage took me a good chunk of time to do 🤣 But I'd done and collected literally everything else in the game so I had to do it.

Also, if you are my clone: my condolences.

@Azileron Yeah, obviously I'd be here for more content, but I'm not hankering for it. I had fun with Wonder when I played it. I even 100%-ed it, which I rarely do with games; I liked it that much. But I didn't feel like it wasn't enough, if you get what I mean?

@zander_dale £16.99 in the UK. I'm assuming $19.99 in the US.

@fenlix I just checked on the UK eShop. Separately, each game costs £33.99. The bundle is £58.99.

Which is ludicrous but I'll pay it because I'm an idiot.

I'm not entirely sold on this. Woolly World and Crafted World are definitely good games, but something about Mysterious Book isn't doing it for me. I'll eagerly await more footage and information though, because I'd like to have my mind changed on this one.

As much as I love Super Mario Bros. Wonder - and I bloody do love Super Mario Bros. Wonder - I'm really not interested in a bunch of multiplayer add-on fluff. Though, if more information comes out and it turns out that more is being added to the main campaign, then obviously I'll be all over it.

I'll give the second Mario film a go when it comes to streaming services, but I didn't think much of the first one. I personally felt that the Sonic films were better.

Most of the games looked cool and exactly what I expected; New Acclaim™ is obviously looking to enter the same space as companies like Devolver, Annapurna and Curve. The idea that this new company was going to burst out of the gate with things like Turok, WWE, NBA Jam, etc, was completely and utterly unfeasible.

@SurprisedRobinChu obviously the two are directly comparable, but I have to question whether the Digimon anime, or games, or the franchise as a whole has ever really been what Nintendo might have considered a threat to its dominance in that particular space.

I'm not saying it's not been successful for those involved - it's been around for nearly 30 years, after all - but think about the games, for example. What are they selling? What will Time Stranger's numbers be like when it comes out next month? Now think about Palworld, a game that so many people were talking about prior to release, releasing in a time when games are far more mainstream and discussed than they were 30 years ago, and at one point had 2,101,867 concurrent players on Steam alone. Those are numbers that I guarantee no Digimon game has ever even come close to matching. That had to give Nintendo and Pokémon Company the willies.

@GrailUK you are becoming increasingly facetious and antagonistic, so somebody else can field your stupid questions and flippant disregard for everything that's repeatedly being explained to you.

My absolute top three wants (in no particular order):

• a new Animal Crossing (my wife will lose it)
• a new 3D Mario
• Super Mario Maker 3 (I will lose it)

Also a release date for Metroid Prime 4, obviously.

@GrailUK the reason is: it's ****ing ridiculous and petty.

Even if there weren't games prior to Pokémon containing the mechanics that Nintendo/Pokémon Company has just patented, do we really not see an issue with Nintendo waiting 29 years to patent them? If they really gave a damn, they'd have either filed the patent prior to the game's release, or filed the patent as soon as it looked like Pokémon was going to be really big. It is, as I said in another comment, purely a reaction to Palworld looking like it was going to be the first similar game to come along and eat Pokémon's lunch.

Jeez.

@GrailUK I mean, you asked the question in the first place?

Get ready for Super Mario 3D All-Stars 2, available to purchase soon but only in select countries, only to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pass subscribers who are between 5'4" and 6'1" and only during the eight minutes that all planets in the solar system are aligned. Also it's a Game Key Card.

@GrailUK what am I, a search engine? Pull your finger out and look 🤣

@Suketoudara 🤣🤣🤣 did Nintendo patent... cars? That's wild.

@GrailUK a lot. Certainly enough to make the filing of this patent an absolute farce.

After I said a few days ago that Nintendo was well within its right to pursue a legal direction, today I find myself taking the exact opposite stance.

Digimon, for example, has been around since 1997, doing the exact thing that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have just patented, and what? They only thought to patent it now? This is a knee jerk reaction to Palworld being the first comparable game in years that truly looked like it might be a competitor to Pokémon, in terms of popularity and financial success, and Nintendo got scared that it might no longer be able to rest on its laurels.

A predictable outcome and something Nintendo was well within its right to pursue. Personally, when it comes to pirating games and films, I've always been of the mindset that if a company will sell it to me then I'll pay for it, but if they won't then I won't. Switch games definitely fall under the former.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant careful. That statement brushed up awfully close to being a complaint 😉

Oh I thought this was going to be a survey about the website itself. I was going to request a feature that lets us filter out comments with specific words or phrases. Because there are some topics that I'm personally sick of hearing people complain about, and also some viewpoints around social "issues" that people in here bring up that I personally find abhorrent.

@JackieCMarlow then the complaining is even stupider than I initially thought. Complaining amongst yourselves in an echochamber solves nothing. Email Nintendo. Write to them. Phone them. Spam their social media. Start one of those online petitions. Direct your complaints at someone who can actually resolve your issues.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I don't see how, given that I complained once in this thread and a grand total of twice ever on this site. And at least I'm complaining in the right place. I don't need Nintendo to read my complaints for them to actually be addressed. 😉

Also, you people will use any excuse to moan about Game Key Cards in a comments section that nobody at Nintendo is reading, no matter how irrelevant it is to the topic at hand. I admire your consistency, if nothing else.

I only bought a Switch 2 for Nintendo games and Picross games. I'm still playing Mario Kart World and I got a good 50 hours out of Donkey Kong Bananza. Plus there are a load of Switch 1 games I haven't played yet (including at least three Picross games).

I could definitely see how/why people who bought a Switch 2 as their main console or handheld might not be completely over the moon with its third party library at the moment as it is slim pickings. But I game elsewhere when it comes to third party so personally I currently have no complaints.

The "lol stability" joke is the cockroach of comedy.

I just did a Grand Prix (on the Steam version) and I'm sad to say I didn't enjoy it. The handling didn't feel good to me at all. If nothing else though, it is a very pretty game. I'll have another look at it later tonight and see if it clicks.

They could've done us all a solid and made the Sonic characters silent as well. 👀

More companies should make deals like this. If one company is sitting on a load of smaller IP that they're never going to do anything with and another company wants to do something with them, do the deal. Getting a bit of money for something you don't want/need is better than sitting on it and getting nothing from it 🤷

A lot of people here need to get their expectations in check. Burnout? Turok? WWF/E? Smash TV?

Most of Acclaim's catalogue was based on licences (Turok, South Park, Shadowman, WWF/E, etc), stuff they ported to home consoles for other companies (Smash TV, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, etc) or stuff they published that is now owned by other companies (Burnout). Plus, this isn't the same company it was. Jeff Jarrett and co. just bought the name.

@JimNorman so judging by this article, you're not an... X-Man? 😁

(wind blows and a tumbleweed gently rolls by)

@Liam_Doolan Playtonic weren't thinking of media outlets at all when they signed off on calling the game "Yooka-Replaylee". Hopefully the next game is named something less stupid.

@TryToBeHopeful it's still spelled incorrectly at least once in the article. To be fair though, I don't envy anyone having to type out that stupid-arse title 🤣

On their 2025 bingo card, who had:

1. Bubsy 4D?
2. Jeff Jarrett reviving Acclaim?
3. Ballsack Victreebel?

That thing is disgusting and ridiculous, I love it!

First thing I did was change B to jump, and A to dig down 🤷

@Anachronism fair enough.

@Anachronism in his defence, this article was originally a video and was transcribed (by someone else, no less). I think it's just a case of spoken words not transcribing into text, which is completely understandable. Spoken words and text are structured and flow very differently.

I already hate Demon Turf and now someone's gone and put Bubsy in it?

@N00BiSH Right?! It's not bad, but yeah it looks placeholder and unfinished. The logo might as well be in Comic Sans.

After watching the Direct (and having my wife, bless her, narrate the whole 45 minutes because I couldn't read the subtitles), I'm not sold on this game in the slightest. I know in the grand scheme of things Nintendo's games don't get demos on the eShop all that often, but this is one instance where I'd really appreciate one.

If they can't even get the button placement right, what else is potentially wrong with it? Get outta here with this 🤣

I'll tune into this out of sheer curiosity. To be honest, I've played Kirby Air Rider on GameCube once in my entire life and couldn't tell you the first thing about it.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely understand and appreciate why people would be against Game Key Cards. But seriously, not everyone needs to comment on every article or review regarding a game that's releasing on a GKC about how they're not going to buy it because it's on a dirty GKC. Again, I get it and you do you, but Nintendo's not reading these comments. Why not email Nintendo every time you see an article or review about a GKC game instead?

I only bought a Switch 2 to play Nintendo games and every Picross game Jupiter makes until the entropic heat death of the universe, so I'm personally not actively hoping to see any of the games mentioned come to the platform. However, more games should be available in more places so that people have more of a choice, so: all of them.

Any picture of Kirby mouthful mode cracks me up, seriously.

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game at #8? I thought it smelled of disappointment around here lately.