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Man, this looks lovely. Superstars wasn't a bad looking game but aesthetically this concept piece blows that game outta the water.

...when does a joke go too far?

@Sambuc ever head of City Trial

@Moroboshi876 Yes, there's 50 games in total, and all of them match up to your average NES game in terms of scope and scale.

@Jack_Goetz They're planning on changing the icon in a later update:

The seven-year wait for this was already worth it on PC, becoming one of my favorite games from 2024, but replaying it on Switch has made me love it even more(even if Barbuta still remains an enigma to me). If I had any complaints, it's that I wish there were proper button remapping. I get that almost all the games only need two buttons, but having the option would be nice.

I think it'd be a better idea to port the other Tekkens to Switch first. Would help to build a solid install base for 8 on the system.

@AussieMcBucket why do you expect a tie-in game?

Danny DeVito's Tingle gets closer and closer.

@VGFreak1225 I'd say so, yeah. Core gameplay is pretty low-key and the story is fairly laid-back(even with some of its subject matters).

Now THAT is how you justify an NSO subscription.

@BTB20 The Captain Toad levels in 3D World started out as a pitch for a 3D puzzle game starring Link. You can read more about it here.

@Lizuka Okay, now I'm curious. How would that work?

We're putting Razzle Dazzle Slider on full blast tonight. Love this track.

Guess now we know why MKWorld is $80 - the plumber had to pay his dues to the mob.

@The_Nintend_Pedant there are still plenty of tracks that lean into the jazz style. Here are (imo) four standouts:

Hisstocrat:

Creative Exercise:

Drifting Away:

3D Land Overworld:

@Bydlak Not really. It's designed to look like the in-universe box for the game Wario is selling.

@jojobar Objectively untrue in Mario's case.

The reason they're taking so long is because they need to make sure every track has a contextually relevant screenshot

Hard for me to pick between the two. Both of these boxes have great designs.

@Elbow PMW3 Repac will probably the only one of the three I'll actually buy. Remaking a game people already like is whatever, but improving a flawed game? Way more interesting to me.

Yeah, we might wanna put an asterisk next to "faithfully remade" in that trailer

Happy 40th Anniversary, y'all!

It would seem the Playdate has competition.

@mystman12 gotta get clicks in somehow

@OorWullie Oh my God.

@WoomyNNYes it's $25 on the eShop. Might've been a typo on Wario64's part.

It's like Nintendo Today for Squirtle enthusiasts!

Hmm, lemme check something.

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Nope, I still don't have a Switch 2, so no. I will not. Thanks for asking.

@Suketoudara being real, they don't really "throw out" anything in Bananza. Sure, Pauline may be an adorable little time anomaly, but they don't actively try to say "those games never happened," they clearly still do. They just don't want you thinking too hard about it.

Hard agree. As fun as it is to speculate, I think it's better for the games to focus on telling good standalone stories rather than be bound by a hard canon or logic.

Mina and UFO 50 are pretty much what I wanna see.

@WiltonRoots yep. This ain't a case of "Nintendo is bad," it's a case of "Japanese copyright laws are weird and kinda messed up."

Just seems like a licensing thing here, nothing to really blow out of proportion unless you really wanna hate Nintendo.

@The_Nintend_Pedant oh. I see. my bad.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Nobody was "clamoring" for Martinet to retire(not that much, anyway. It only really picked up after the buzz around the movie and Wonder).

@SalvorHardin I think people are overdramatic about that tbh. It was never really an issue for the most part.

[sigh] You never know you had something good until it was gone...

It's nice to Sonic branch out his footwear choices after years of holding on to those tacky red shoes.

A triple helping of Pilotwings? Don't mind if I do.

Also, I really like the "distributing multiple games with smaller tracklists all at once" method here. Same with the NES tracks last week. Hope that becomes standard.

@foursider so have you just not played any other games besides BotW, because I assure you, games like Mario Odyssey, Mario Wonder, Kirby and The Forgotten Land, and Splatoon 2/3 still rely heavily on strong melodies for their music.

Here's what I think: they're skipping Mario's 40th to celebrate Donkey Kong's 45th next year

Truly it was

A Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 7.31.2025

Don't care for the remake, but it's worth noting that Pac-Man's talking again - I think it's Martin T. Sherman reprising the role from World 3.

they've got a real obsession with this style, don't they.

If this one manages to get on the level of the first two, then we are well and truly back.

@Olmectron this ain't about you specifically. besides, even if they're not abusing employees that still doesn't change the fact that they're engaging in some rather anti-consumer business practices.

@nuff64

• Continued collaboration with Limited Run, who's been monetizing Shantae and other WF games in their usual skeezy ways(e.g. charging 60 bucks for a GBA cart in 2025)
• recently started partnering with ModRetro(run by right-wing arms dealer Palmer Luckey) on some licensed GBC Sabrina game(see here)
• Making the Digital Deluxe version of said GBA an independent purchase that you can't upgrade to if you have the base version, meaning you gotta pay $10 extra just for a bunch of costumes

Yeah, they've been pretty much shooting themselves in the foot recently and making some pretty bad business decisions and it's made anticipation for any of Wayforward's output less enticing as a result.

I'd be interested if not for Wayforward throwing most of their goodwill into the gutter lately.