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@Sisilly_G Still gonna need way bigger ones, I think. If the rumors on the Switch 2 are even close to true, and the games are gonna be approaching PS5 levels of size, and those games are hovering around 80GB each, Nintendo can't skimp on the standard card size, even if they have to eat those costs themselves with their licensing partners. A size of 128GB should be the standard going forward for card size, with bigger ones available as needed, with Nintendo offering to eat the cost of issuing the cards to use if they need to go bigger.

I hope the next Switch cards are bigger than 16gb each, though. We can't keep having retail games take up boatloads of storage on-system or on-SD card.

Very nice! Love how Billy is totally chill, Jimmy is a rage machine, and Marian is just there in the corner wondering “what the heck, I thought I ditched these guys?”

“Go beat up the world, bro!”

That's kinda dumb, tbh. Weren't those posters kinda a reflection of Lara's flirty personality? It's not a big deal in the end either way, so... why do it at all?

I should go check on my uploads and see where they stand before the end day.

I see a barrel launcher there. I trust it's to launch Harry Potter world out of the park? :3

@Lady_rosalina I never liked her out of the gate. She was annoying, she was rude, and frankly a terrible friend to Marina.

@MsJubilee That was a fad? I honestly thought I was in the minority with that.

Off The Hook:
Pro - Has Marina
Con - Has Pearl

Deep Cut:
Pro: All three members are at least likeable.
Con: Is in Splatoon 3

So, yeah, tough one, tbh.

From the Smash line, I'm only missing Pyra and Mythra. From the Splatoon line, I'm missing Deep Cut. But my golden geese are Box Boy and the Monster Hunter Stories 1 amiibo.

Aspyr at it again with the Star Wars-related nonsense. Between this and the KOTOR 2 DLC debacle, I'm wondering if someone else should be on the legacy Star Wars stuff.

Great! Now can Raji go back to its old icon?

The grin on Jet is just unsettling... x.x;

Here I thought they were trying to do an update for FF7 Rebirth. ^^;

That's gonna be havoc trying to get the birthday bonus for that game...

I remember buying the first two in a collection on PC back in the day, but not being able to get them to work. I'm glad to have a second chance at these.

Castlevania: Dance through the Night

What people forget is that the CD-i games were made on a solid and proven formula, but it was the programming and planning that ultimately let it down. Having a competently-built game that has that paint of wierdness to it could be effective. Hoping for the best here.

Aaaaaand they're gone. ;_;

Combined with their interest in AI, things do not look good for SquareEnix...

I JUST WANT A 2.5D CHRONO TRIGGER WITHOUT THE PS1 CUTSCENES! ;_;

You have Mischief Makers & Mystical Ninja on this list. Auto-win.

Throw Mega Man 64 and Bomberman Hero on here, and we're golden.

Good riddance to NFTs. Take cryptocurrency and AI art/writing with you while you're at it.

Sakura Wars would be awesome. I still want an HD remake of So Long, My Love. I played the heck outta that one on Wii!

I still wanna hear about another Vectorman, though.

And I know this is an EA thing, but I want a trilogy collection of the first three Road Rash games.

As someone who /loves/ Simon's Quest? I say go nuts. Have fun with it. In fact, own this parody. I wanna see it!

Team "As Long As Shiver Loses One For A Change, Not That I Dislike Her, But The Record Is Ridiculous, Justice For Frye And Big Man, Great Characters Who Need To Get Their Due Too, I Know This Is A Long-Winded Team Name, But The Wins Need To Be Spread Out, Okay, I'll Stop Artificially Extending This Team Name Starting Now, Still Love You Shiver, Okay, Now I'll Stop."

***WARNING! SPOILERS! WARNING!***

That's okay, I hate Kieran too.

Okay, okay, okay, I turned it into a meme, but... I don't like Kieran. His villain arc centers around him being jealous that my character got what he didn't get, and... as someone who has issues with self-image, a character like his is NOT what I need in my life. I escape into video games to step into the shoes of something else and just enjoy a fantasy for a little while. Kieran's hatred of my character, my avatar, rubbed me the wrong way. If he was just supposed to be a straight-up villain and simply get defeated, fine, but the fact he was supposed to have some kind of redemption arc, without really doing anything to make it right, just cheesed me off.

The way he treats his sister, the way he treats the school, the way he treats the Elite Four members, all because of what my character allegedly did when it was ultimately Ogerpon who rejected him in favor of my avatar? Yeah... I'm taking that personally! I didn't ask for any of that, I didn't ask him to go through that, heck, I didn't get any choice in the matter at all thanks to the game's inconsequential dialogue choices! So no, Kieran, you can take your self-righteous grudge and bury it in the deepest depths of Area Zero! I don't forgive you, I don't like you, and if you show your face to me again, I'm stomping you flat like I did across the entire DLC!

And I'll do it with the Ogerpon I named after your sister that you hate so much to boot! Like I did twice!

The grudge, the self-entitlement, his treatment of others... no, Kieran, we can't be friends.

...The actual specs aren't even out, though? There's rumors and educated guesses, but we haven't even actually seen it. I'm not doubting it won't be on the Switch 2 because Rockstar, I've more hope for Final Fantasy VII R-series, tbh, but that's still awfully quick to say, isn't it?

It's probably not winning Best Animated Picture, that's likely going to Spider-Verse. But if Peaches doesn't win for song, we riot.

The only way this happens is if there's something coded in that prohibits the skins from being used on other platforms, kind of like what happened with Minecraft's Mario pack... which is possible!

Also, if Nintendo can accept the image of Captain Falcon gunning down Princess Peach with a machine gun... which is probably not.

@Greatluigi Dragon Quest doesn't usually get the same respect in the US as it does in Japan. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of importing from the US to Japan in light of the sell-outs in Japan.

Professor Layton - Lower scores if you fail a puzzle. Resetting isn't fun if you wanna try and get completion with max score!

Resident Evil 4 - The quicktime events. They single-handedly ruined this game for me and made me no longer take the franchise seriously, especially lists that have this game as the best in the series. It's not.

Tales of Symphonia - New Game Plus mode. The concept is good, but the New Game Plus feels incomplete, and the GRADE shop feels like unnecessary needs to grind. Minor, and nowhere near as outgregeous as other games.

Limited Time DLCs - I hate DLC as a principle, so hiding things behind it is a huge red flag for me. See Professor Layton and the bonus puzzles, or limited time download events... it only aggrovates that FOMO nerve.

Loot Boxes and Battle Passes - There was a reason I was considering dropping Overwatch and Fortnite respectively before Activision/Blizzard and Epic got into their nonsense. That just pushed it over the edge. I now actively avoid games that have these things in them, even games I would otherwise love, like Rocket League and Fall Guys. Among Us does it so much better with the cubes where you can still basically get everything with no-pay currencies, but I'm still not a huge fan of in-game shops in general that use real money.

Live Service games - I'm a reclusive goblin who doesn't want to interact with people for the entirety of my life with a game. Let me play alone! I only do Among Us because I have a close-knit group of friends I play it with when we all can, and it's a blast... but I still wish I had more to do single-player.

Knockback - Most notable with retro games, but knockback is a real drag... usually into bottomless pits. ^^;

Silent protagonists - They're supposed to be projections of us... it's just a shame that they don't project anything at all.

Only recently heard about this and I R EXCITE! I only got to play the second one on DS, so, I'm glad to get the whole story.

Oof, that's rough all around, but par for the course for WB-Discovery properties at this point.

That has to have been Konami's call. I can't imagine WayForward would have signed off on this for as often they've partnered with Limited Run Games for physical editions.

Whelp, I think this is another feather in Steph Sterling's cap for why Konami is the worst.

Banjo & Sephiroth are gonna be the popular ones, but I'm throwing my hat in on Hero. I loved the whole composition of that entire trailer, especially with the first, fourth, and eighth heroes.

I know it'd be a big undertaking, but I kinda wanna see cutscenes between the bachelors and bachelorettes and expand on their relationships.

Maybe Abigail and Alex attend a martial arts class together?

Do Penny and Sebastian find common ground in a certain author?

What about that time Emily and Harvey got arrested outside of Zuzu city for counterfeit Star Drop sales?

Does Leah paint Haley in secret?

Did Sam ever give Elliot back his fondue pot?!

Go wild with these!

This was always going to be the roughest of the trilogy, but honestly, it doesn't look quite as bad as I was fearing. I'm hopeful for the patches.

What I really wanna see is how Asylum and City play. Those two were my favorites in the series.

She's adorable!

And yes, that's all that needs to be said. XD

I don't care what anyone says. I unapologetically love both of these games. And they probably influenced my love of the Shantae series, which followed a similar setup in the early days!

Nine episodes may be a bit ambitious at the rate they come out, but honestly, Kamiya, go nuts and do your thing for as long as you care!

Bayo 3 wasn't my thing story-wise, particularly the ending, but the multiverse of Bayonettas thing is interesting and worth exploring.

Just, y'know, maybe not shaft Jeanne in the next one?

So far so good... now if only we can also get an HD remaster of Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, and a collection of the six Layton games, we'll be living good with DS/3DS era ports.

Remember when Banjo-Tooie was confirmed when this launched?

Me too.

...Can we also get Diddy Kong Racing, Mischief Makers, Mystical Ninja, and Goemon's Great Adventure, please?

That's cool, but I'm still waiting on Banjo-Tooie, Mischief Makers, and the Mystical Ninja games.

Probably easier said than done, but it's a nice thought that future generations can discover what we loved so much about this franchise.

Though, and I hate to be /that/ commenter, especially since I enjoyed Scarlet & Violet more than most... you know what would help with that?

Making better quality games.

Even if they don't come out yearly, the quality will speak and people will keep coming back.

Kicking off with Shantae is an absolute win. I don't care how the rest of Indie World went. <3

It had Shantae. Auto-win.

I'm going to lean a high 7 (probably around 7.8 if we were doing decimals), but more 7 than 8 nonetheless. I enjoyed it, it's fun, I'm good with Wario's voice, and I do like the nostalgic throwback to WarioWare Smooth Moves. I think I do like Get It Together a bit more between the two (Penny's theme is an absolute joy-fest), and I liked that they tried something new with the formula and was largely successful.

Again, 7 is a good score, and it's a high 7 if we did decimals. But since I'm comparing it to others in the series, and the WarioWare series is largely full of good ones, it's got a lot more to live up to.

I recommend it if you missed Get It Together, though. You can go listen to Penny's Theme on Nintendo's YouTube and be good.

Hey, NintendoLife is officially old enough for a pint, yes?

Happy birthday!

I don't hate this game. It's flawed and its weak, but I do feel like there was some merit to it. Sonia is a well-designed character (albeit maybe leaning a little heavy into titillation), and remains one of my unironically favorite characters in the series.

She deserved better than to be retconned out. They couldn't even just reboot the poor girl? Aiya...

I wouldn't mind if the Switch successor launched with, like, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Deluxe or something, that just added maybe a couple of modes and a handful of new characters. That'd be good in my book.

Super Mario Sunshine because it's actually challenging and not cheap like Lost Levels or the special stages of Yoshi's Island.

I dunno, Yoshi's Island. Poochy seems pretty stupid to me. >.>;

Heavy focus on Nemona AND Meowscarada, two of my favorites from Pokémon period? YES PLEASE!