MasterGraveheart

I kinda wish they'd re-release the original ones, or, at least bring 'em west.

And Qibby too, of course, but, wishful thinking.

I just want a little Utooni figurine for my desk. Is it too much to ask? ;_;

THEY'RE TWO JAWAS IN A TRENCHCOAT! IT PLEASES MY TTRPG BRAIN!!!

"AND A GLOWING PIECE OF OUR RADICAL ROCK!"

...Probably just wanna find that on the secondary market or something... ^^;

I'm interested, but I'm also hoping it doesn't do as well as Nintendo hopes. There needs to be a reality check to some of these game developers (Nintendo isn't the only guilty party) about these price tags.

Bayonetta 3 was decent, but my big problem was the ending, and the way it felt like it pivoted from Cereza & Jeanne to Cereza and Luka, just so they could have a kid to carry on the next trilogy of Bayonetta games. I dunno, maybe as much as I liked Bayo 2, best in the series, the way Bayo 3 flew in the face of the developments in the first two left a bad taste in my mouth.

On the other hand, Jennifer Hale is always welcome. <3

Fun! It'll be fun to just mess around like this. IMMORTAL TIFA INCOMING!

The Pokémon Company's greed, ego, and laziness are on full display with this one.

Greed, pure and simple. Just like the way the Pokemon Legends ZA DLC and paywalling is being handled.

Donkey Kong Bananza, Cyberpunk, Street Fighter 6, and Mario Kart World are GREAT stuff, and I'm sure there's others I haven't picked up on, but the fact that there's so many have Switch 1 releases (Silksong, Deltarune), and so many are probably better purchased on the Switch 1 and getting the upgrade path (Final Fantasy Tactics), AND that so many of these games are Key Cards (basically almost every third party title...), AND that we don't have a lot announced from Nintendo that'll be Switch 2 exclusives (Tomodachi Life, Metroid Prime 4, all are gonna be Switch 1 games at their core), I'm sorry, I'm compelled to call it a 5 three months in.

There's games I'd love to see come out for Switch 2. Mario Maker 3, a new Pilotwings, etc. Of course we'll get Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon at some point. Those games will come. It's just slow going out of the gate.

What ultimately makes me happy with my Switch 2 purchase, though, is how much better games run in general on it. It really feels like buying a new computer and seeing that things could have been like this before. Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, for example, while still flawed games, now actually feel like they had some effort put in... some, anyway. I no longer dread going to "Lag Lake" anymore and feel like I can complete my Violet playthrough! Imagine that!

Gee, it's almost as if pricing games super high to have ALL TEH MONEYZ is a BAD idea, hm?

Team Cherry did a great thing. Selling it at a price that gives them more than enough profit, letting good will and effort carry the sales, using good marketing strategies, and (hopefully) pulling more than enough money to justify their efforts.

Not every game needs to be Grand Theft Auto 6 or Mario Kart World.

I reiterate: Lower the prices of the games, game makers! Learn from Team Cherry.

The future is Forsaken.
The future is Forsaken.
The future is Forsaken.
The future is Forsaken.

Good, hopefully with more to come.

But the issue I REALLY want fixed is the "digital game/physical card" update loop issue.

See, if you have a digital game, and then buy the physical card, there's a chance the update that exists for the digital game and the physical card won't match. Usually, when this happens, the physical card will have an update number later than the digital game copy.

So, when you take a game, say, Coffee Talk, that you've been playing the physical game card version of, and you try to go back to the digital version for, say, a trip, when you try to start the digital game, you'll get prompted for an update. Try to do the update, after a moment, you'll get prompted to do the update again. Try to update again, wait, prompted all over.

I've had this problem with Coffee Talk and with Skellboy Refractured, two favorites of mine. So, sadly, if I ever wanna play them, I either need to figure out the answer (so far, the only solution being a factory reset... despite the fact I've moved systems twice now) or just accept I have two useless digital copies now and continue on with my physical cards.

Apparently, this problem also exists for VVVVVV, but I've not confirmed it.

When will this issue be fixed? I dunno. I've written devs, no answers.

Yes please. I'm still waiting for a true remake of the original version of Chrono Trigger. No re-writes. No anime cutscenes. No "Dream Devourer." No alluding to Chrono Cross. Just the SNES version remade. Make it HD-2D, make it FFT-style, just keep Chrono Cross out of it.

If EA had some sense of standards, that "basically" wouldn't be such a red flag.

You know what? There are plenty of "6" games out there that are still full of enjoyment, and this still looks fun. Maybe I'm dumping out the copium, but this is still one I wanna give a chance. If they improved on the original's presentation, this'll be a winner for me.

I'm enjoying my time with it! It's on the weaker half of the Shantae games, but that's still a pretty strong game overall imo. Not as good as Pirate's Curse, Half-Genie Hero, or Seven Sirens, but better than the original and Risky's Revenge. Solid entry.

@Truegamer79 You're gonna need the digital space either way. If the pre-order physical bonuses (if any) don't sway you, just go pure digital and skip the key card. That's what I'm gonna do... until they announce, like, a Tifa statue or something that's gonna try and tempt me... that'd be, like, the one thing that could persuade me. Something big and spendy of my favorite character... ^^;

@HalBailman The price thing doesn't quite matter as much to me. If the prices are equivalent, and it's a choice between a digital copy and a key card, I'm going digital because the key card has nothing to preserve your purchase on it, and it takes up the game card slot. Digital vs. card with game at the same price, maybe a little extra for shipping if my friendly local indy store doesn't have it? Card with game for me.

@Oppyz666 Yep, it's a digital game that you need to keep a physical card in the slot for. And the full digital storage is required.

I'm genuinely happy to hear this. This game was on my wish list for Switch 2 since it came out on PS4, and to hear all this, to see all this, puts such a big smile on my face. <3

Now, Square Enix... how about putting the game on the actual card?

I own one Game Key Card to give it a chance. Street Fighter 6. Just to try it out.

Immediately regretted it and bought a proper digital version so I could keep my physical slot free for another game I'm playing PHYSICALLY. Like Donkey Kong Bananza.

I will not buy Game Key Cards in the future. And I suggest nobody else does either.

Since it seems all but certain we'll get the full FF7R trilogy on Switch 2, this makes it easy for me.

Metaphor, Marvel Rivals, Expedition 33, Doom, Final Fantasy XIV, Baldur's Gate 3, NieR, Indiana Jones, Halo, Hi-Fi Rush... and a NON-CLOUD KINGDOM HEARTS TRILOGY as my own little add.

Ahh, there's my Shantae!

...TMNT, Tiny Bookshop, you can join the library too.

To quote one of the games itself...

"Aww spit, here we go again..."

It's probably being withheld because of spoilers in the song titles. You don't wanna present the whole shebang this soon after release. We'll probably get them some time next year after the Holiday rush of new Switch 2 adopters are minted.

♪ Ohhhhhhh~ Zebra~ Zebra~ ZEEEBRAAAAA~!!! (Zebra-Zebra-Zebra-Zebra!) ♫

I'm just gonna say there's two Paulines and call it a day.

Wake me when the flight module. Call Amarys and tell her we need some of those berries in the fuel tank!

Something to listen to while we soar like a bird, man.

…I’m gonna just play Birdman on extended loop nonstop… XD

This whole "Game Key Card" thing would be a lot better (though obviously not great) if you didn't have to have the key card in EVERY time. Like, once every month? Every two weeks? Something like that? Free up that card slot for other physical games that have the decency to be all on the cartridge.

If it's true?

Flawless Victory. Friendship.

@Anachronism I know that it wasn’t a direct quote, but considering Miyamoto-led games are very story-light, repeat the story done before (Star Fox Zero from Star Fox 64), the way Rosalina was all but retconned in Super Mario Galaxy 2 over the storybook scenes as confirmed by devs, the simple (though enjoyable) approach to the Mario Movie, it becomes a perception that is going to be hard to beat. It isn’t a bad way to do things, but it comes with accepting you’re gonna remember the gameplay and aesthetics more than you will the story.

Again, it isn’t a bad thing! But you don’t remember Michaelangelo for his poems.

This is all about the gradual phase-out of physical media, and this is Nintendo's part. Game Key Cards are so unappealing that people are skipping them for the purely digital version, which will lead to fewer cards entirely, which will lead to companies justifying cutting down manufacturing costs.

It's all about profit in the end for these companies. As Miyamoto says, to them, games are a product, not an art. Preservation means nothing to all of them.

@Nintenchrome Don't be. The outfits may be risque, but you don't get a lot of "check out my body" in the game, short of some of Risky's innuendos in the first couple games. And they're a lot of fun. If you want Metroidvanias, you got OG, Risky's Revenge, and Seven Sirens. If you want level-by-level DuckTales-like stuff, that's Half Genie Hero and, to an extent, Pirate's Curse. Lots of fun to be had that isn't coded in provocativeness.

Ahhhh, THERE'S my Shantae!

I'm glad they brought this back. Looking forward to it.

Honestly, I hope they'll do a digital art book for the series next from the last Art of Shantae book. I'd love to have it on the go for wallpapers and such. Not everything, believe it or not, has made it to the Internet, especially from Risky's Revenge.

All of that, Final Fantasy XIV Online, and Marvel Rivals, please.

Just as long as this doesn’t turn into an exclusivity game… which, let’s face it, it’s going to…

I never played the original versions, so, this was kinda lost on me.

I would hope that the fact that they're doing a survey means they realize that something is wrong with the Key Card system. We'll see what happens.

Sorry for the nothing sandwich comment.

Never been a fan of iFixIt. He comes across as a sleezy con-artist who just wants to sell his own stuff off of his "hot takes."

Mine works great. I don't need my Switch 2 Pro Controller to control a laser-accurate shaving razor from orbit or turn on my car from my bedroom. It just needs to PLAY THE GAMES.

And frankly, I've had all of two sets of controllers drift on me, and they were JoyCons. The Pros have always been reliable, knock on wood. I don't know what people are doing to these controllers. Maybe stop treating games like life-or-death fights for survival? shrug

Y'know, in 3D like that? Sonic looks like he's in a giant self-branded bath tub and it makes me giggle uncontrollably. :3

Lather, rinse, and repeat comments from Capcom with no changes evident.

We'll get collections for Legends, Star Force, and the spin-off games before we get a new entry at this rate.

Code in a box... not surprised.

Maybe Nintendo should lower the prices they're passing onto their partners for the physical cards?

If I get it, I'm just going regular digital.

@kmtrain83 Gameplay was fine. The issue came when jumping between games. I don't just play one game for the day, I play a bunch. And many of those are on cards, so, the inconvenience of losing my card slot to play what amounts to a digital game is a huge detriment to me. For example, I'll do my daily run in Animal Crossing (both on cards), then play some of my daily digital games like My Hero Ultra Rumble and Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, then move on to wanna play whatever game(s) I'm working on at the moment, which include Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6. Cyberpunk is a physical edition for me, but SF6 is the GKC. If SF6 is installed on the system as if it were a digital copy, why am I bothering with a physical card?

What would make the GKCs more bearable is if you only had to have it installed, say, once a week or two weeks as something of an authentication check-in, then be able to keep the slot free after. It wouldn't be great, but to have that convenience of the freed up card slot would be huge for me.

Vivi. Precious boi. <3

We know Nintendo is keeping the smaller cards to themselves, which is not okay in of itself. The next question is: What's the cost difference between a 64GB card and a Game Key Card. If the amount is relatively small, then we can easily accuse the big companies of being cheap, especially considering how inexpensive a 64GB card is these days.

THAT SAID!

It's also just as likely that Nintendo is being greedy on the subject and they're letting the success of the Switch 1 adversely affect the Switch 2 out of the gate. It's my hope that this situation course-corrects.

Because as of right now, I have no incentive to wanna buy "Game Key Cards." I tried it out with Street Fighter 6, but I don't like it, frankly. Using my physical slot to play a digital game is honestly awful. I'm passing on the Dragon Quest I & II "physical" editions because of it. The only game I would buy it for again at this point is Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and only if it had one of those nice deluxe editions. Otherwise, this might be the generation that makes me go primarily digital, which is likely the end goal here.

In the words I’ve been echoing here for many, many, MANY years here now… “Where’s my Shantae?!”

Soon!

I honestly don't think this deserves too much deep lore thought. Things will change with characters on a whim. It's just like Zelda and the supposed timelines. Some games are loosely connected, some are standalone, don't lose sleep, people.

Not everything needs every box checked for lore and detail stuffs.

I don't think the SYSTEM price was ever the question. It was always software prices, and those can always course-correct, no matter how unlikely it actually is.

Stick to your guns, people. If you don't like the prices, don't buy full price.

I mean, don't stress yourselves out over it. If it does, it does, if it doesn't, it doesn't. I doubt the Call of Duty fanboys will wanna jump to a Nintendo platform. For them, it's realism or nothing.

Hold up... a single-player Splatoon game? Yeah, okay, I'm on board!

Please don't ruin this with a multiplayer mode. I know it's your bread-and-butter, and it's much-loved, but please, give some of this goodness to the single player fans that won't get shut down when the servers close down.

cries in Splatoon 1 collecting dust