MatthewTaranto

Awesome, I really wanted a demo for this.

I kind of like it but that price point is worlds apart from what I'd pay. $30 for a bold watch that has some fun Mother visuals on it would be one thing, but $160 plus intl shipping AND there's a lottery system?? Forget it.

Thanks for the shout-out for Tadpole Treble!

Nice free update. Any excuse I can get to try out more of the game's routes, I'll take, and the promise of at least 6 more Knockout Tour rallies is lovely. Love me some Mario Kart World!

I need to play Kid Icarus Uprising for my children without them peering over my shoulder at a tiny pair of screens.

Excited to see more of Mega Man!

Am I the only one that liked the chatty partner? I liked Navi too, except when she'd pipe up telling me to do the next story thing when I was busy doing side things.

Looking forward to getting this tomorrow.

First five are okay suggestions.

Totally disagree with that last one. Turning a spoiled, stubborn princess into an "crate" you have to move around the dungeon is hilarious. Changing it into a dime-a-dozen escort mission would be stripping that sequence of all its personality. You're supposed to be kind of annoyed by her. And Ruto has plenty of "agency." She has so much that she demands the hero carry her around and by gum she gets her wish!

I don't think they need to have the 1st/3rd person split for every RE game. It was pretty cool for RE9 considering its dichotomy between the two playable characters but it's a ton of work to implement and I'd rather just have them focus on a singular vision.

I just can't get excited for remakes these days. I have no problem playing the original OoT and there's an appeal to me on what a game like that was able to achieve on the hardware at the time. Not Nintendo's fault but it also didn't help that leakers decided to spoil that one.

Tons of Switch 2 versions of stuff and I'm kind of over that. I love Wii Sports Resort but the new one is yet another pseudo-remake instead of a real sequel. I'm not interested in XB or KH but getting the next installment of each were good reveals.

Rhythm Heaven Groove is shaping up really well at least. It wasn't a surprise game but I am looking forward to it.

Nice article. I had a similar good time with MKW, taking in the sights, trying out the challenges, enjoying the transitions between stages, and rocking out to one of Nintendo's best OSTs ever. I've been playing this series since the SNES and MKW might just be my favorite of them (or maybe MKDS).

DK Bananza is currently my favorite, one of the best Nintendo games in years I'd say. MK World is fantastic. Rarely have I felt so disconnected from the Nintendo fandom as I have with the MKW vs MK8 discourse. Oh well. Requiem would probably be my third pick. Looking forward to Elliot!

I agree with the comments saying it feels a little too soon for this to be remade. It's already in HD, already on current systems, and already looks GORGEOUS. So it's kind of a head-scratcher.

That said, at only $40 AND it includes Rayman Origins HD, that's really not a bad price at all. And Rayman Legends is one of the best modern platformers ever. I just wish we could see a brand new Rayman game that looks like this.

Elliot and Rhythm Heaven for me.

I've never played Braid but this trailer reminds me of Mole Mania. Single-screen puzzlers are sadly lacking in this day and age but can be fantastic when done right.

I expect to see DQXII again. But in terms of wishlist, I'd love to see Builders 3 and especially a localized version of DQX.

Hugely influential to Nintendo and video games in general. Thanks for all the memories and I wish you the very best.

One of the best games ever.

Please be an upgrade path!

Wait, isn't this Mario's 41st anniversary?

@romanista I could get behind this concept but it doesn't really do that since we see games from 2017 then 2019.

Very cute commercial and I love the focus on 1980s Japan in particular.

To nitpick, ending with a port of Galaxy is some serious weak sauce though. I would've highlighted Mario 1, 3, World, 64, Galaxy, Maker 1, and Odyssey, and then had a sneak peek at the next game for 2026. But I guess this probably means no new Mario for this year. In a pinch they could've used MK World but that kind of goes against the spirit of the commercial.

I LOVE Metal Slug.

I actually think a new one by the team who did Metal Slug Tactics would work reasonably well. They put a ton of effort into the spritework of that game and it shows.

I got this a couple weeks ago and it's just awesome. A must-have package for a must-have game/games.

@Munchlax This sounds exactly like my wife! She plays Party House pretty much exclusively.

@Zequio ...and those are the bad guys that you vanquish with crosses and holy water. Part of what made Castlevania cool to me is because you're a demon-slaying paladin. Not unlike Doom.

Thematically, fighting an actual saint goes against that. I know it's one of those video gamey "she's corrupted" type of things but even that can be tacky if not handled right.

They better tread lightly with this whole Joan Of Arc boss fight. She's an actual saint, so if this is a bunch of edgy anti-religion nonsense like the Netflix show, count me out.

There's probably a way to do it that won't feel tacky, but I've been burned before.

StS has become legendary in my household. Easily one of my favorite games of the past decade and I can't wait for the second one to hit the Switch.

I'll have to give this a try. Neat addition.

Still waiting for the jukebox mode though. Let me hear more of this game's incredible soundtrack!

DQB is awesome, and the sequel is even better. Neat that it got a little update; I might have to revisit it sometime.

Picross Bygone Fossils Edition: If You Remember These, You're An Ancient Geezer

Looks pretty good though.

@HammerGalladeBro
I'm a little confused too; from what I understand, "Theme of Samus Aran" has always been the intro of the game (the song you hear after "The last Metroid is in captivity...") with the ending theme elaborating on it further.

But according to this playlist, "Theme of Samus Aran" is now the song that plays in Crateria after you make some progress in the game. So I dunno what's what.

What I do know is that this is one of the best OSTs ever and I'd love for Metroid games to go back to this style of music again.

He made me chuckle a few times in Mario Wonder. But he also felt kind of superfluous. I'm still not sure how I feel about running commentary and quips in a Mario game. I'm all for Nintendo weirdness and whimsy but something about this dude almost feels a little cynical.

Maybe if he had a better voice and a better name. "Talking Flower" was honestly the best they could come up with?

Looking forward to this game. I found the demo to be lots of fun.

Gotta love Dragon Quest!

My favorites include Valve Man and Cactus Man, but my final vote went to Juggle Man. Lots of great designs here!

Generations Pack is looking good.

Does it come with the preorder bonuses though? How's that work with the physical one? And will Amazon continue to drop the ball and deliver my games 1 to 2 weeks after release? Is there a more reliable gaming retailer these days because they've been kinda cheeks lately.

I love all the Dragon Quest we've been getting lately. I'm not sure if I'd recommend newcomers start with DQ7 though--it's always been a bit impenetrable compared to stuff like DQ5, 8 and 11. But the remake may have adjusted the pacing. The visuals look spectacular.

@Henners
It's not really about Samus's powers, that's something that people can overlook. It's more that the timeline for Metroid is actually pretty compelling and makes a lot of sense between the first game through Dread (even with the developers bending over backwards to make certain things make sense plotwise, such as the climax of Metroid: Samus Returns).

Super Metroid and Other M say in no uncertain terms that Metroids are all but wiped out. So--immediately after those two games--it feels kind of lame to have this random warrior guy just running around with them, with no explanation. Metroids are supposed to be a really big deal.

Thanks for the update, my son will be excited about this! He was just lamenting that the previous event ended early and abruptly and was worried he couldn't get the Santa hat.

Awesome! Classic Mega Man is my favorite Mega Man. Always happy to see more of the Blue Bomber.

DK Bananza comes close but I gotta go with UFO 50. Mario Kart, DQ1&2, KARs and Shinobi were great too.

I love Octopath and this one scored higher than I was expecting. Looking forward to trying it out eventually, although the Game-Key Card thing is a pretty big deterrent in my eyes.

@Exerion76
Why not just play it until you're tired of it? Either way you'd play for 30 hours. As any Tetris player can attest to, you don't have to "beat" a game for it to be worth your time.

@TimelessJubilee
Thank heavens for that, MK8 almost killed my interest in the series.

MKWorld rules, suckerrrrrrs!!(runs away frantically, pants around ankles)

What the heck does "Marmite" (adjective) mean?

I appreciate the transparency of the team in this interview.

Looks decent enough to me. Link looks less like a cosplayer than I feared, so that's something. Otherwise I don't really have much of an opinion.

Honestly, I'd take "the baby" over quippy Marvel jokes at this point. At least Other M was earnest. I'm so tired of movies and games being afraid to commit to sincerity to the point where they undermine their own worlds.

All the mainline games are worth playing. But my favorites are 11, 8, 3 and 5, some of the best RPGs ever.

Well-deserved, Horii is one of the great visionaries of this industry. Congrats to him and the whole DQ team!

I kind of like the newspaper vibe but man that Switch 2 logo just totally ruins it. Makes it feel very cheap and slapped-together to me.

Like those custom-item websites where you can print a personal photo on a mug or something but it clashes really weirdly with the handle so you end up getting like 2/3rds of your wife's face and the top half of your dog's head.

Dragon Quest has been consistently great for nearly 40 years and this remake is no exception. Looks and sounds great, the new additions are (mostly) very welcome, and I really love the fact that they bundled both games together--a bit of generosity you don't see that often nowadays.

I do think the difficulty balance is weirdly wonky at points in DQ1, where survival can come down to luck due to RNG in the boss fights. And I'd argue a few of the new scenes take away from the serene, simple quest of the original.

@Zimon This...can't be happening--!!