Nep-Nep-Freak

I've already updated, and will definitely play some a bit later! I'm not restarting my island or anything drastic like that though 😅.

Hello again, y'all! I supposedly played a total of 465 hours this year, but that's not counting the July and August time that my thing seemingly skipped over for no reason. Here are my top 3 and their hours:

1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 87 hours
2 Animal Crossing New Horizons: 83 hours
3 The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: 80 hours (my Switch profile says 110 hours though, so I have no clue what's up with this)

Most played every month:
January: ACNH
February-April: TotK
May-June: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
July: it says SSBU, but it's only counting 2 hours from that month even though I played way more than that. I'm assuming DQ3 was most played this month too.
For some reason, August isn't present even though I did play this month. I'm assuming that it was TotK that won this month, since this was the month I beat the game.
September: SSBU
October: Dragon Quest XI
November-December: ACNH

Still confused as to why hardly any of my July and August time is showing up when my console was fully updated at that time but not during December.

Switch 2 will need that stability to overcome the RAM crisis---

Okay, I'm done.

Greetings, Mai! Welcome to the team of "lovely peeeeeeople!" 😀

Wasn't going to get these anyway since I'm too busy to spend any time with the LEGOs I already have, but damn... those prices are high. Let's put this into a bit of perspective: a Switch 2 without a game is 200 dollars cheaper than the Kanto starters one 😅.

Well, hopefully anyone who buys these enjoys them 😀. They do look pretty cool.

Alright everyone, who's ready to play Persona 5 Royal Definitive Edition and Knuckles, Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series and all-new Funky Mode 😅

And then Persona 6 for the 40th anniversary 🤣

@Robot99, I didn't even notice the anime part until you mentioned that 😅. That's what I get for reading too fast sometimes, I guess. None the less, a Nintendo anime venture would be incredible, especially since I'm a massive anime fan.

I have already accepted that there will never be a price drop for Switch 2, and have never really complained the price of the system either. Heck, I've actually supported the standard $450 price many times in arguments (not necessarily on NL).

But IF the Switch 2 does get a price INCREASE before I manage to get my hands on one...

I went with EU / USA this week.

So they're doing a bit of graphics enhancement too? Not super necessary, but I'll gladly take it 😀.

For the longest time, the Virtual Boy was Nintendo's version of Bruno from Encanto 🤣.

Hello again, y'all! This weekend I'm playing:

Switch:
Animal Crossing New Horizons: a few days ago, I paid off MY FINAL HOME LOAN!!! Now I'm starting to save up for the two more from the new update next week 😅.
Tetris 99: I got the theme from the new Maximus Cup yesterday already, but I might play a few more rounds just for kicks this weekend.

PS4:
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1+: found a great monster for grinding and have been doing a lot of that before taking on a story boss that I lost to a few times, most of my party member characters are now in their mid 50s in terms of level.

Kind of disappointed that they're going away, I actually got them twice back when I was going completely digital during the years of 2023 and 2024. But in early 2025, I decided to get a mix of digital and physical going forward, with digital being only for some games that I want digital DLC for.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe, actually, Nintendo allows a lot of different kinds of content in third party games now in these past few years (with many Japanese fanservice games being an exception on the American and European side of things recently, unfortunately 😡). Heck, Cyberpunk 2077 of all things is on the Switch 2. And freaking GTA is on Switch. Their standards are pretty low compared to how they were back in the 80s-early 2010s.

I am pretty sure that BG3 would've released on Switch 2 in time if not for this new squabble between Hasbro and Larian.

I never even once thought it was AI. When I opened the post's comment section on Instagram and read some of the comments, I thought "Really, people?" 🤦‍♂️

At least some Idea Factory games are coming out on Switch (I'm talking about Temirana, which does look pretty interesting actually), but I'm still kinda butthurt about the situation with the Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth games 🙁...

Anyway, nothing for me this week.

Sounds great, the more JPRGs available on Nintendo platforms the better. Maybe make some of them not be GKCs while you're at it 😀?

How about any of the older entries that came out before they started censoring swear words in online play (it's a freaking rated mature game, I don't get why they felt the need to do this in the more recent games) and made even story mode require internet (which is just in Black Ops 7, thankfully)? Not my kind of series, but I think it would be awesome if some more popular older games came out on Nintendo platforms 😀.

Congratulations on passing 1 mil, Z-A! I still want to play that one, hopefully sometime this year.

I'll finally be able to download Hello, Mario! It looks like a cute thing to play with every once in a while. I will immediately download it 🥰.

Looks pretty good, but I'd rather play some of the older ones first. Also disappointing that the Switch 2 version is a Game Key Card. But still, hopefully anyone who plays this new game in the series enjoys it a lot 😀.

These look nice, but is it just me or is the Switch 2 controllers in general just really... black? I don't really have any issue with it, it's just kind of confusing why the full red, full blue, full green, full pink, etc. of the Switch 1 generation became just black with small bits of other colors.

Looks pretty solid, it would be nice if there was also the option to play as a Mii just like Mario Golf Super Rush. Again, as I already said in a previous article, I might pick this up many years down the line.

Best wishes to those affected, of course.

Even though I don't like almost everything about streaming services these days, I still have fond memories of watching cartoons on Hulu as a young child. It's kind of crazy knowing that Hulu will just... no longer exist anymore, as of this year. Another part of my childhood just... gone. Alright, I need to stop doing this before I feel like an old man.

If this game has at least a revision with all content on the physical cartridge, I might actually pick up this game many years in the future. It looks entertaining enough.

@MisterStu, to answer your question about why the Switch 2 version needs to exist, it's because the Switch 1 version can't support Gameshare. If you pay the extra 75 cents, you get Gameshare. And if you don't want Gameshare, you can just get the Switch 1 version on the Switch 2, thanks to backwards compatibility.

It's actually very nice. If you want Gameshare, you pay just a bit more. For anyone who doesn't need Gameshare, there is a cheaper option.

Looks pretty interesting! Been kind of interested in trying out the original sometime, but I'm already busy with other games so I haven't yet. Nor have I purchased it. And maybe I never will. But still, hopefully anyone who plays this one enjoys it! Cool that it supports Gameshare too. Maybe I'll just buy this one, sometime after I get my Switch 2, so some of my members could play it with me through Gameshare 🥰. Definititely something to think about.

Definitely gonna play this (and that new ACNH update)! Hopefully they return the previous ACNH one as well, I don't really want to spend 30 tickets on it 😅.

Hello again, y'all! This weekend I'm playing:

Switch:
Animal Crossing New Horizons: just selling more crops to obtain bells to pay for house storage upgrades.
PS4:
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1+: I'm already on Chapter 3 in the game, and the main character, Neptune, has been poisoned by a bad guy and is out of action right now, but a different goddess character named Vert has taken her place, and I'm searching a new dungeon called Marabuco Forest to defeat a specific monster with an antidote that will help cure Neptune. All of my party members are now in their late 20s in terms of level.

Happy upcoming 30th anniversary to my favorite franchise ever! Also, cute video 😊.

I'll definitely get the Switch 2 upgrade for ACNH, not right away though. Sometime after I get my Switch 2, which will hopefully be early next- I mean this year.

Happy new year, everyone! ❤️🎉

_{But seriously, who needs Rhythm Heaven when there's new Pokémon and Neptunia to look forward to? 🤣 I'm just kidding, Rhythm Heaven looks pretty good actually}

Aw man, and this just a few months after Zion left... good luck with whatever you're doing next, Felix! I'll make sure to watch the video later.

I really hope Alex keeps sticking around for as long as possible though. His "Hello there, lovely peeeeeeople" catchphrase is way too iconic and I sometimes even use it myself 😅.

Congratulations for the milestone! I may end up not picking this up because I'm busy with other games, but I am keeping my eye on it for far in the future, especially if they release an updated physical cartridge revision with all updates on it when the updates are finished.

I'm pretty positive that Pokémon Gen 10 will release in the fall. Other than that, my prediction is that they'll just make some more awesome stuff like usual.

This article got me thinking for a minute. If 2026 is the 30th anniversary of the series, then the series started in 1996. And Persona 5 came out in 2016. That's a 20 year gap. That means there are five new mainlines in the first two-thirds of the series' existence. And then zero new mainlines in the last third. 😮

Dang, that's crazy.

Hello again, y'all! This weekend I'm playing:

Switch:
Animal Crossing New Horizons: I'm halfway there to being able to afford the (currently) final house storage upgrade. Will also participate in the New Year's countdown just like the last two years.
PS4:
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1+: got this game as a Christmas present two days ago, and have been playing it and loving it. Most of my party members are around Level 10 and I already have access to two of the cities: Planeptune and Lastation.

15/17 and I'm number 1 right now?!

Probably not for long, but I'm surprised I did that good... the only ones I missed were the number of Switch 2 Editions (off by 1) and number of Mario Kart World courses ( off by 2).

Thanks for the laughs! The "it's bloody time" for Prime 4 was freaking hilarious for some reason 🤣.

Thanks for the great letters like usual, y'all!

As for my answer to @beltmenot 's letter, I personally think New Horizons is the best Animal Crossing. Just so much fun there. I actually liked being able to craft, as well as buy, items (and when multi-crafting will be available starting next month, it will be even better). I actually liked that I could put the game on hiatus for several months without major consequences, since I like enjoying other games too. Maybe I'm a bit biased since ACNH is my first Animal Crossing, but it really is my favorite in the series.

Merry Christmas, y'all!

Here's hoping 2026 is a much better year for me. 2025 was kind of rough 😅.

And the Switch 2 version is complete on the physical cartridge too! Definitely shows that they care about their audience.

@CaleBoi25,

Just update paranoia that has been slowly getting worse for a while now because of situations like Nintendo changing the icon for physical cartridges and I'm not used to it, and the Samsung Galaxy One UI 7 update that my phone got a few months ago that changed up the look of a lot of things when it was completely fine and familiar before, and I wish I had the option to go back. So even updates that I know are just for bug fixes, I never intentionally update anymore just because of update paranoia.

At least I won't have to deal with it for long hopefully, since once I get my Switch 2 (hopefully early next year) I can transfer everything over to there and factory reset my original Switch and turn it into a completely offline console without any update prompts. And then maybe mod my Switch a little bit so I can lower the system version to before 20.0.0, so all of the 2025 features that I'm still not used to seeing on my Switch 1 can disappear and everything new can just be on the new console instead.

This is all a part of my "Louisiana Purchase: Nintendo Edition", which involved me spending months of constantly thinking about what to do with whether I'm getting a Switch 2 or not, and how much I want to continue supporting Nintendo when they are doing things like canceling third party Japanese game releases that I'm interested in (which makes me not want to give Nintendo of America a ton of money at the moment). I decided that I would only get a Switch 2 if I factory reset my Switch 1 afterward, so that I would have at least one console that is not reliant on the Nintendo Account system, just in case. It's all a part of my plan for the Switch 2 life cycle.

I know that not downloading one bug fix update won't really help make modding the system version lower any easier, but again, my update paranoia does come into play too.

My apologies for the wall of text 😅.

Oh wow, this is so cool!

I actually haven't seen this yet, since as of a few days ago I haven't been able to access the NSO application since I've been refusing to update my Switch 🤣.

Oh my god. If they censored the actual game too... ugh. And last I checked, this game isn't even a Japanese one either.

What the heck.

There's Switch Sports and Ring Fit...

Switch 2 Party when?

Oh man. I don't know, I just feel like I don't hear much about the passing away of famous, important people in car crashes. Though I don't follow most major news sources, so maybe there's more than I realize. Anyway, rest in peace, and I'll make sure to pray for your family.

I don't mind AI a whole lot (it's definitely not my favorite thing in the world, nor my least favorite thing either), but I know there are some people that do, in everything from games to web browsers. Thankfully, as long as things that use AI and things that don't use AI both continue to exist, then there will be plenty of different options for everyone to choose from and everyone should be happy. Right?

Right?