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@somnambulance …But… but… that doesn’t fit the narrative! And I’ve internalised the narrative!

‘Mario Sports title gets “generally favourable” reviews on Metacritic’ must be indicative of something greater!

For any other sports game the fact that the multi-player outshines the single-player would come as no surprise, and certainly not a source of disappointment.

But the shadow of the Gameboy titles’ excellent RPG modes looms large with this series. I’m glad the core gameplay holds up, and that the single player at least seems like a step up from Aces, but I also would have loved to see a fully fledged Adventure Mode on par with the old games. The wait continues.

@Dev-N I could be misinterpreting the notes, but didn’t the Rapid Blaster get a buff (in the form of more paint coverage)? It seems like it was the Pro that got nerfed.

@Olliemar28 Luigi is the long green one.

This is a highly exclusive and collectible post limited to only one of one and it comes with a unique serial number (#67489655gd6436) and is personally written by the author who is me who is @Maxz and you can buy it from me for $€£1087578399 except you can’t because it is too exclusive and valuable and I would never dream of selling it and you’ll just have to deal with the resulting FOMO and sorry not sorry and also I win at capitalism because I own this rare and valuable and ultimately worthless thing.

It’s not

“Let’s go”

it’s

“Mamma mia, pizza, pasta, fettuccine, gotta go fasta”

Can’t believe the writers can’t even get Mario’s most basic catchphrase right.

Nobody seems to be mentioning the fact that Switch games are in fact Switch 2 games, many with Switch 2 exclusive upgrades.

By keeping the Switch 1 library alive and relevant, they can keep selling old games to the current crop of Switch 2 owners. All they need is a lick of paint and some bells and whistles.

Heck, sometimes not even that. People keep buying Mario Kart 8 to this day, despite the fact it has a direct successor, hasn’t actually received any major updates since the Switch 2 launched, and is originally a port of a decade old Wii U game.

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It seems they took that to heart.

“Manifestation of my own resentment”

Buzzwole the Ultimate Edgelord making Shadow the Hedgehog look like Hello Kitty’s pet cat Charmmy.

Still holding out for the Pokemon TCG 2 on the Japanese eShop. The prices of carts are fairly steep!

@Zero2990 My commiserations. Thank you for offering a peek behind the curtains. That’s a really interesting and quite depressing insight into the whole affair.

@SuntannedDuck2

”Doubt it has anything interesting in there.”

Did you read the book review?

If not, here is the opening paragraph (…and the one after that).

In the introduction to Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald makes a simple promise: over the course of the next 12 chapters, you'll read something you didn't already know.

It's the kind of gauntlet-laying that would have any self-respecting Nintendo fan click their knuckles and close their Bulbapedia tab in a 'challenge accepted' kind of way. And yet, 250 pages later, I can honestly say that it rang true.

This is where the Apex Leg ends.

The comparison video makes for fascinating viewing. The most immediately striking thing is the difference in voiceover duration, despite both narrators describing the same thing.

At the risk of incorrectly extrapolating cultural differences from a ludicrous video game trailer, this does seem to bear out the tendency for Americans to want to ‘fill the space’.

They say nature abhors a vacuum, and I feel that nowhere is this truer than the Home of the Brave and the Land of the [REDACTED].

I think I’d rather be disliked online and left alone to make games than taken for granted and treated by hordes of strangers as if I exist for their personal gratification.

Online discourse skews toxic as a rule. Being a public figure automatically makes you a target for that toxicity. Most online communities act as feedback loops that froth up individual grievances into an enormous storm of collective madness. If you produce something that people hold as part of their identity, there’s an even greater risk that your vision equates to someone else’s ‘betrayal’.

I feel there’s a certain wisdom in erecting a barrier of irascibility so people don’t push their luck. You can’t please everyone no matter how hard you try, so it might be best to make clear that you are absolutely not trying.

Personally speaking, I can’t say I like Kamiya.

But really, I don’t need to (and he certainly doesn’t need me to).

In a strange sense, so feel it’s really quite a healthy relationship for a creator and consumer to have.

I hope he keeps making games. And I hope I like them. Ultimately, I’m more interested in playing good games than becoming chums with the chap who made them.

@Whirlwound CEX sells.

GAME?

…GAME over.

Getting rid of pre-owned games was a baffling decision. Maybe they can’t compete with CEX as a specialist, but you’d think the secondhand/retro market would be a good secondary source of income and lure in gamers interested in something other than the latest AAA games — which are moving towards a digital ecosystem and can be bought cheaper on Amazon anyway.

It’s hard to out-new the new, but by having a good selection of old stuff, you get a wider variety of wares and a wider variety of customers. I love window shopping second hand shops, and often come away with something I would never have thought of buying if I hadn’t seen it in front of me.

A Comcept of a plan, out which did not pan.

The studio is gone but the pizza flames will burn forever in our hearts.

@sikthvash You could well be right, but I was wondering if it could potentially have the opposite effect.

Opponents tend to push forward into your area when they have map control, as that becomes the front line. This has the effect of bunching them together and putting them on the back foot in terms of stage design (there’s an elevation advantage near one’s own base in addition to multiple pathways).

With a bit of luck, a player may be able to take out a few members of the other team who are pushing too deep, and then use the resulting momentum from Flow Aura to make a comeback.

…Maybe.

Really I have no idea, and won’t until I play the game post-update!

@IronMan30 Sweats appreciatively.

I’m hoping we get a ‘Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2’ + ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park’ Combo Pack so we can experience some Mario’s best platforming in 2D and 3D.

I believe it also contains pretty much all the face buttons on the Switch controller, + and - included.

Final Fantasy VII: Revenue

It’s almost certain to make Square bank.

I really hope they add Biff the Widgeriwog from Sonic and the Seven Celestial Spheres and Douglas the Wombat from Sonic and the Crepuscular Sandwich.

It’s okay, but not quite Bavarian enough for my tastes.

@Dang_69 Try this link:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-2-edition-plus-meetup-in-bellabel-park-upgrade-pack-switch-2/

It’s right at the bottom. If you Ctrl+F for ‘4K’ you should find it!

This looks like a really substantial, thoroughly fleshed-out update.

For those who aren’t interested in multiplayer (a significant but not exclusive part of the package) I think it’s perfectly reasonable to question whether you’d want to pay $20 for it. And perfectly reasonable to conclude that the answer is ‘no’.

But let’s not pretend this is just a ‘resolution bump + mouse mode support’ tinkering-around-the-edges level upgrade. There are many, many more bells and whistles than that. (Well… certainly plenty of bells at least!)

@JayJ The U.S. has always done tariffs. They were typically lower, fewer, and less erratic, but they were there. It’s certainly not a new concept.

Now they’re higher, more frequent, and more erratic than most people can remember.

When the world’s largest economy starts making massive, sudden changes to the structure of the global financial system, the effects are widely and profoundly felt.

How you feel about these effects is one thing, but I feel it’s disingenuous to understate their magnitude.

Hasbro what Nintenhasn’t.

…

Needs work.

@Lizuka

They did get around to it eventually!

The older games were the result of ample time and limited resources.

The modern games are the result of ample resources and limited time.

Nostalgia is obviously a big factor, but I know which I prefer.

@Dee123 https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/09/nintendo-of-europe-announces-leadership-changes-as-president-resigns

“There's some gnarly bosses”

She should know. She’s already toppled Bowser!

This is why adults were a bad idea.

Sonic “Gotta Go Fast But Not Quite As Fast As Mario” The Hedgehog.

@Alcea Your ghost impressions are solid. You sound just like the ghost I met last Tuesday.

I predict a Switch 2 2 by January 2022 at the earliest.

Either that or the long rumoured Switch ONE Pro Lite Series X Advanced OLED Super Hyper Fighting Lighting Edition with Blast Processing.

It means don’t do this.

Safety starts with knowing the difference between a Switch and a sandwich. Some consumers have been known to take the term too literally.

Remember gamers: Practise safe gaming. Keep your console away from your mouth hole.

Brilliant piece.

I’m generally in the ‘let the devs have their vision, even not everyone gels with it’ camp.

But like… it’s really hard to see any ‘artistic merit’ in omitting in-game button remapping, even if it’s buried somewhere deep in the game’s settings menus.

I don’t believe everything should be for everyone. I don’t believe Dark Souls should necessarily have an ‘easy mode’ (although if the devs want to include one, fine). But this isn’t really about game design itself, so much as an easy to ignore option in the settings menu.

@SurprisedRobinChu I believe the Natural History Museum does indeed posses a fine collection of (fossilised) scalps.

@notreallyhere You could say the same of any human feat, really. Was Roger Bannister really the first person to run a sub-4 minute mile? We don’t know. But he was the first person to get it verified.

It’s impossible to fact-check something if the facts against which to check it don’t exist.

We don’t know that shredberg was the first person to complete SMB deathless, just as we don’t know that Nicaragua wasn’t actually the first country to put man on the moon (but didn’t bother telling anyone). Without wishing to get too philosophical, we don’t really know anything. To live in this world is to navigate an ocean of ignorance; we can only make educated guesses (and more often than not, uneducated ones).

All we can say is that shredberg was the first person to demonstrate this accomplishment, and so surely the kudos belong to him. You’d think if anyone else had managed it, they’d at least share a picture of final ‘0 deaths’ completion screen.

@RumandCohibas The biggest development in the UK Christmas Top 40 over the last ten years was when FIFA changed its name.

Metroid Prime 4: Neither Above nor Beyond the Call of Duty

…Really quite far behind, in fact.

But Boxing Day was last week!

Word just in from the portly man in red, who slides down your pipes while you’re tucked up in bed.

“It’s-a me! Merry-Old Nicholas! Mamma-Mia to all! And to all a good Christ-o-mas!

Nintendo should release Mario Kart Galaxy and along with remakes of Mario Karts 1 through 7 to see if they can’t claim the entire Top 10 using just Mario Kart alone.

How do you get balls into a goal?
…
Kikmin.
…
Kick ‘em in.
…
Into the goal.
…
With your feet.

Miles upon discovering that he has extra dialogue: “It’s about to get reeeeal wordy in here.”

The Switch 2 can just about push 4K with the right game and perfect optimisation.

Don’t know what the devs were thinking trying to get 40K out of it.

@Handy_Man Let the man enjoy a drink!

I don’t think we can definitively rule out that Sakurai is having a cheeky tipple.

I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case, but he could well be holding a whisky high-ball or lemon sour, both of which are popular alternatives to beer in Japanese watering holes, and similarly alcoholic.