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Reviews sound like it's "okay" docked...but not "great" docked.

Hopefully a patch comes soon to make it the experience on Switch 2 that it should be.

On Steam this is rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 4,700 users, the highest possible rating.

Getting:

• Haste
• Marvel Maximum Collection (X-Men: The Arcade Game, arguably the best old school beat 'em up of them all, it's finally here!)
• MotionRec

"This weekend, Super Mario Bros. will join Shrek, Toy Story and Minions as the only animated franchises to have two titles open to more than $100M for three days at the domestic (North American) box office."

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” is frenetic in such an impersonal way that it feels like the entire film should be put on Ritalin.

I try to avoid those kinds of "sugar rush" animated films. Even when made for "mature" audiences, so many animated shows and movies feel like they're playing on fast-forward and are uncomfortably shrill.

the movie is projected to make $350m worldwide across the five-day Easter weekend. While this is slightly lower than the $377m achieved by The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023, the projected domestic gross of $175m is quite a bit higher than the original's $146m.

This is incorrect. The original movie made over $204m domestically over the 5-day (not $146, that was the 3-day), which is more than the $175-180m 5-day that the new one is projected for.

So the new one will make less. But still lots.

Me too!

A while ago I googled for lists of the top old school beat 'em ups (from back in the day). I looked for sites with long ranked lists. Assigned points based on rank and added it all up.

• X-Men ended up tied for first spot (with Final Fight)
• Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage and Captain America and the Avengers both ended up in the Top 25.

Getting:

• Meetup In Bellabel Park
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
• Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection
• Taito Milestones 4

Waiting for Switch reviews:

• Human Fall Flat
• Easy Delivery Co.

And I missed JAWS: Retro Edition somehow. Looks like it came out a month ago? Not a classic game, but perhaps the #1 favourite "guilty pleasure" NES game. And they expanded it, giving it a longer gameplay loop.

Fortnite just fired 1,000 people. Free-to-play doesn't last for anybody.

A game publisher isn't remembered for its "misses". All we remember are the "hits".

No one looking back at 2017 says: "Sure, Nintendo had Breath of the Wild and Odyssey...but releasing Flip Wars just tarnished the whole year for me. So really it all comes out even."

Instead of averaging out the games, they should be tallying up the great ones:

• Add up the # of games each publisher had over a MetaCritic "85"
• Don't count any reboots, remakes or re-releases.

Then we'd have a better picture of what they provided us.

Doesn't look like there's anything for me this week.

I'm still waiting for a Pokopia physical edition.

Game keys...gotta catch 'em all!

I used to run home every day after school to make it in time to see it.

Especially on Friday, 'cause that's when they showed a Zelda cartoon.

Really popular on Steam (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 30,000 users, the highest possible rating).

But the Switch version was criticized for the clunky controls. Now with NS2 mouse controls, I'll be picking it up.

A while ago I googled for lists of the top old school beat 'em ups. I looked for sites with long ranked lists. Assigned points based on rank and added it all up.

X-Men ended up tied for first spot (with Final Fight)
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage ended up in the Top 22.
Captain America and the Avengers ended up in the Top 25.

None of the rest were among the 57 games in the lists.

People have also been debating whether the novel is pro-fascist or anti-fascist since 1959.

Getting:

• Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
• Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake
• Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Aiko's Choice in the Ultimate Bundle

Waiting for S2 reviews:

• WWE 2K26

Waiting for reviews period:

• Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
• MLB The Show 26

I read an article today where a company was defending this kind of thing by saying "it's no different than Magic or Pokemon cards".

When I was in high school I blew my first paycheque on "Magic: The Gathering" cards. It just sounded like so much fun.

I eagerly and greedily tore open pack after pack. After looking over my new stack of cards with a friend, my friend said: "Wow...it doesn't look like you got much that are very good."

It then dawned on me that this was a huge waste of my weeks of work to earn those cards. So I gave them all to my friend, marched home in a livid state of mind, and never touched a Magic card again.

"It's not a game, it's a scam".

I went to GameStop today for Pokopia. They said it sold out. Was restocked. And then sold out again.

I look for..."anti-cozy" games generally, and hated Animal Crossing.

Hoping this isn't too much like that one. Hope it has more purpose and challenge, not just aimlessly decorating and petting animals.

So I'm going Game Key. If it isn't for me, at all, then I'll recoup most of my cost.

Had no idea this was a timed thing. NintendoLife proves their worth again!

Looks like physical game key versions are a wee bit cheaper than digital as well.

I want to feel the fear!

Surely you must be mistaken...the Internets assure me, that Switch 2 has no games!

I was at a big concert festival in 2003. In-between acts they threw Strong Bad clips up on the screen. The crowd went crazy each time.

I was like: "...what the heck is this??"

I quickly became a frequent visitor to the site, and received many compliments on my new t-shirt wardrobe.

Getting:

• Pokémon Pokopia
• Blue Prince
• Minishoot' Adventures
• Back to the Dawn
• Planet of Lana II: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
• Öoo (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 1,600 users on Steam, the highest possible rating)
• The Last Ninja Collection (some of the best action games for computer systems in the late '80s early '90s, also includes the International Karate games, etc. Huge selling, computer game of the year contenders at the time)

I'm most excited for the games we already know are quality:

• Blue Prince (Game of the Year nominee last year)
• Minishoot' Adventures ("87" on MetaCritic for PC, and rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 3,500 users on Steam, the highest possible rating)
• My Little Puppy (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive" by over 800 users on Steam, the highest possible rating)

@OneBradley13

Hey, I found one!

DuckTales & Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers here I come!

Getting:

• Resident Evil Requiem, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Gold Edition & Resident Evil Village Gold Edition (in the Resident Evil Generation Pack 3-in-1 collection)
• Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
• The Disney Afternoon Collection (FINALLY!!!)
• Tales of Berseria Remastered

Waiting for reviews:

• Scott Pilgrim EX
• Pools (rated "Overwhelmingly Positive", the highest possible rating, from about 3,000 users on Steam. But no Switch reviews yet...)

Getting the upgrade:

• Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

People are more enamored by the modern 3D games, but as I like to say:

• In 1985, Super Mario Bros. was in my opinion the greatest video game ever made.
• In 1986, The Legend of Zelda was in my opinion the greatest video game ever made.

Miyamoto set the template, the standard for all 2D platformers going forward, and then turned around and did the same for the action-adventure genre. Put together, it's quite an incredible feat.

This is great content. Without NL I would not remember or even know about these free upgrade packs.

Bet you're not as excited a-Siam.

Looks like I'll be trading in the original to GameStop, or EB Games, or whatever the heck it's going by now.

I went cardboard. The size, the cost, and the short time I assume it will be fun for, scared me off of the big boy.

But I felt it is something I had to try once.

@Neo2814

He also said: "FF VII. It wasn't even that good when it first came out."

So...

Getting:

• Mario Tennis Fever
• Reanimal
• Blazblue Entropy Effect X
• Lil Gator Game In the Dark DLC

Tokyo Scramble's first MetaCritic review is a 4/10:
"incoherent story, repetitive encounters, and rough presentation"

Physical in a month and a half.

I bought the first 2, skipping this one.

Getting:

• Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined
• Hollow Knight - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition free upgrade

Waiting for Reviews:

• PGA TOUR 2K25

Thinking about it:

• Super Bomberman Collection (I mean, the arcade games are probably better than the console versions right?)

I would love a new Pokemon pinball but this is a bit outside my budget

New Goemon Switch Collection

"Woooooooooooooooooowwweeeeeeeeeeee!!!"

Releasing in Japan

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Yeah buddy!!!

For the sub-heading I would have gone with: "My name is Qud".

But I suppose there aren't that many Primus fans around here.

The collection of 40-year-old games, The Disney Afternoon Collection, finished 4th-most anticipated in this poll.

And I've never been prouder of you all!

Count me in the "just waiting for the damn physical release" chorus.

Getting:

• GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition
• MIO: Memories in Orbit
• Escape from Ever After

Getting on Steam:

• Dispatch

Getting:

• GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition
• Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass

Getting on Steam:

• Dispatch

Cool, I'll get Trials Rising then! Been holding out 'cause of the need for analogue triggers.

Getting:

• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins (and its Visions of Four Heroes DLC)

It's got a solid MetaCritic score on a couple of other platforms.

Can you have too many quality Metroidvanias? I can't!