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Dreamcast and Saturn, especially Dreamcast, but I'd also like to see some games on Switch. I'm hoping for Sonic Adventures, Shenmue, Sega Swirl, Chu Chu Rocket, Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, 18 Wheeler, Skies of Arcadia, Sega Rally 2, Sonic Shuffle, Sega Bass Fishing, Space Channel 5, Jet Grind Radio.

But I feel like they'd make a lot more money doing small quality of life things and upping the resolution and fps and textures and audio and adding good online and lobbies and selling the games individually.

What no Jimmy T.? That guys got the best stache.

Just nice to see Switch Sports beating Splatoon 3. It's going to end up being one of the best selling games on the platform. Which it should, the game is great; easily the best way to play Soccer, Volleyball, Tennis, or Bowling in video game form (aside from VR).

I'm just glad Nintendo took my suggestions: no themes or music to bloat up the system and get in the way. I'm here to find my games and play them, not stare at some menus looking at themes and listening to some background music that I'll get sick of in a week.

Meh. I don't care about the oversaturated comic book games, and sure don't care about EA, and even if I did I'm sure they won't make this for the Switch because they'd rather make more polygons than money.

If you can find it get Super Mario Maker, it's got millions of exclusive great levels to play, Weird Mario, horizontally breaking bricks with Giant Marios, 100 Mario Challenges, costume unlocks, event courses, the fly swatter game, death screams from the pit, Marie-O, overlapping pipes, official Nintendo made courses, top ranked courses all still available to play. If you just want to upload, then it's worthless as they disabled uploading a couple years ago, but as a Mario fan looking for more Mario levels to play it's a goldmine of infinite entertainment.

And Splatoon 1 is still really fantastic. The single player is unavailable anywhere else, and it's great Nintendo platforming/shooting. And then obviously the online is a big deal and last time I tried playing last month I got into matches within a minute, so seems like a lot of people still play.

Otherwise, I'd also get NES Remix 1 and 2, those games were a lot of fun.

I'd love to see a 2d Super Mario rogue-lite.

You can see it as a flaw, games have flaws, the issue is that they said "can't be that difficult to implement.", as if it was a problem because they were some tiny company rushing the product out the door, and they're so inexperienced and stupid that they don't know how to do it. As if this wasn't all intentional.

If they wanted GreenFlash's preferred control method, they would have implented it from the beginning, or at the least patched it into the 1st game a little while after launch; we're on the 3rd game now, 8 years later, it's obviously not happening. They don't need more time or a bigger team or bigger budget or to git gud, this is the game, get used to it or play something else. Expecting it to change, when nobody said it would, is just a waste of energy.

@KingDunsparce "would potentially feel better"...that's only a potential to the users who are in the dark making guesses how that would feel. Nintendo, the creators of the game know for a fact if it would feel better or worse, because they've obviously already tested the standard control method and they decided that what they included was superior.

And how hard is it to tilt the controller up slightly? Are gamers really this lazy?

@GreenFlash They chose not to implement that, if they had wanted it implemented they would have given players that option. It's not about how hard it is to do, Nintendo isn't some indie company, and Splatoon isn't some throwaway franchise they rushed to release. The design decisions were quite intentional. Sorry your preferred play style didn't make the cut.

I wish ARMS had Little Mac, but I'm not going to go around acting like they forgot to put him in...or that it "can't be that difficult to implement" as if that was ever a problem for a billion dollar company. They just decided to make the game in a way different than I would, and there's nothing wrong with that.

@GreenFlash Obviously they designed the game with a specific control method in mind from the start of the franchise. I'm not sure why you'd expect things to change. Your preferred control method was deemed uncomfortable for the play style or less efficient as the final product. A company as big as Nintendo, you can't really believe that they haven't tested this out already extensively. They didn't forget, or do it by accident, or incompetence, they chose this control method because it plays better this way.

Still waiting on that Super Wario Bros. game

I like Garfield but it seems kind of weird seeing him try at something. He's always seemed to me like a lazy cynical apathetic cat, so to see him competing against everyone in a big race, it seems out of character.

Not that I'm complaining, it's cool he's in there, just a little jarring I guess.

Ouch, that's painful to look at

It's a great game, well deserved. At least I had fun while I played it, though I haven't had much time with it, since Switch Sports takes most of my game time.

@Rykdrew If you think it's worth $15 then don't buy it. You should know if you like this or not, if it's not worth it to you don't buy it. I think it's worth at least $60 as I play it every day and it's more fun than pretty much anything else I own, but if you're more of a couch potato gamer happy with pushing buttons, or not a competitive person, then maybe play something else. Not every game is made for everyone.

@ZapNCrap Every day, the game is fun as hell

It looks nice, but, I think adding Mario to the watch is tacky and makes it look cheap. Same as if it were Elmer Fudd, Homer Simpson or any other cartoon character.

That's easy, the Wii Fit U Plaza song, it's absolutely beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CQ-6Xnuvw&list=PL5qS2O4KOmp4cfjw4Ovgm0kJtlzHfpS_R&index=3&ab_channel=WiiSpeak

I only play docked, but I really hope it stays a hybrid. Not because I might play portably or table top once in a great while, but because all the games are made for that one system. Up until the Switch came out, if I wanted to play Pokemon, Box Boy, a lot of Kirby and Zelda games, etc. I'd need to own a portable. As a huge fan of Mario, I primarily play on home console but with things like Mario 3D Land, I felt I had to buy it even though I'd rather just sit on the couch and play on the TV. Having it all done on one system with the Switch has been the best decision they've made in years.

@mweee The article says "game music, anime music, classical, and more." and it says "Super Mario Bros., Frozen II, Pirates of the Caribbean, One Piece, and classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven"

That's not what I'm looking for at all, I don't care about anime or video game music, I was hoping for actual Japanese city pop songs like Junko Yagami, Momoko Kikuchi, etc. or even some modern stuff I guess though I much prefer 70s and 80s.

I like the series, but not a fan of American music. My favorite part on the old ones like on Wii were how they had all these songs that I never heard of before all in Japanese. If they had some Tatsuro Yamashita, ANRI, Taeko Ohnuki or Toshiki Kadomatsu on here I'd pick it up right away but I'll bet they don't have anything like that.

That's not cheating. If that's how you win the game, they'd be stupid not to use this strategy. This is Nintendo's problem, they need to fix this issue, they're the ones to blame, not the players.

I'd really like to know how the motion controls are. Seems weird that they didn't mention motion controls in a Switch review of a golf game. That's literally the difference between me picking up the game or not. Any sport game on the Switch should have a point marked down for not having it, and seeing it not even being listed as a Con or Pro, it just sounds like a paid article at that point. Switch Sports sold 5 million copies in 3 months because of motion controls, you remove that, and it's just another game.

I kind of thought it was fun for a bit, but, the level selection really brings it down. As in I can play the first few levels and then I don't know where to go. I guess Peach's castle, or the Face Ship or just a plain old map seems boring, but it gets the job done.

Another issue that's not often mentioned, I feel like some of the levels are too vertical, which look really cool, but when you fall down it can take a long to get back up.

lol, I love it. It's great seeing what Nintendo Life gave a 6 continue to top the charts month after month. The game is great.

Needs more Duff Man, Disco Stu, Mister Plow, etc.

Obviously it's rips & tears, in all the gameplay they showed it specifically shows the kingdom torn apart; parts of the world that were usually on land are floating up in the sky, ripped from the earth.

@ohithere okay, but how were the motion controls? Does it feel like you're golfing when you swing the controller or not? Because if not, who cares? People don't buy Switch Sports so they can sit on a couch and push buttons. If that's all this is, then I'm not sure why you'd even bring it up.

@ohithere How good are the motion controls?

With the lower camera angle I wonder if the main character is going to be a pikmin

I hope to see a bunch of stuff I never knew I wanted before, but also, I'm hoping for SNES/N64/Gameboy Remix, Kid Icarus, a new Digi Drive, Light Trax, Sound Voyager, Gameboy emulator, Mario Maker 3, a 3d Mario Maker, ARMS 2, Mario & Luigi ports or a sequel, Super Mario Bros. 5, they could even start selling Brain Age in the US. And I miss Miiverse, so I hope they bring that back somehow.

Good idea. Who likes money anyway?

@Rykdrew But why stop there? If you're willing to pirate Switch games, might as well pirate Elden Ring, God of War, etc. People act like Nintendo is so special because they have roms, but, pirating Elden Ring isn't more difficult or morally questionable. Just seems like a weird way to do things, like either pirate or don't, which platform it's on shouldn't make any difference.

had to go with Japan on this, Ghost Babel makes so much sense. People who have played Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation (and who hasn't?) wouldn't want to play a downgraded port and reading the US and EU boxart as just "Metal Gear Solid" "only for Gameboy Color" it sounds like that's all it is. Putting Ghost Babel on the cover, that indicates that it's a sequel, which it is.

Oh sure, I do that plenty. Get a game I like, end up buying it on Steam. Though I really take no offense to the word pirate, I think if I did, I'd stop doing it. Which is why it's funny seeing all these people that need excuses, I mean, if you can't handle the idea that you just stole software, maybe don't steal software.

I don't understand all the deflection and acting like it's just fine, saying that it's not stealing even if it's a newly released game. I've played emulators and roms, pirated all sorts of stuff, piracy is great. I stole that software because I wanted to get it for free and I hate spending money. You shouldn't need to justify every action as being some holier than thou crusade against the big corporate bad guys robbing everyone blind like bandits. People just get curious and download things because there's very little retribution from such crimes. No reason to make excuses.

Game exists, you want game, you download game. That's it. It's not that complicated.

@Rykdrew $60 includes the price of the single player + online battles. The multiplayer is the draw for a lot of people, but the single player in these games has always been quite a lot of fun also, with a lot of levels, collectibles, bosses, and lore. Any DLC would be in addition to what's already there.

NES for me, one of the earliest games I got for the system. It was a lot of fun but I didn't really know what I was doing and got lost a lot, but remember using 999999 kkkkkkk or justin bailey to mess around with.

Meh just looks like more Splatoon to me. I'll be buying it day one, I love Splatoon, please never change. We don't need another Paper Mario or Star Fox situation on our hands.

fingers crossed that they port it to Switch or PC

Action 52 was the best game on the NES

@RubyCarbuncle No definitely not. I sit there with a controller in my hand looking to twiddle my thumbs, some timing games, action, puzzle, rpgs with very little dialogue, even strategy is okay once in a while but I draw the line when it comes to games with mountains of text they expect me to read. I don't really care how good the writting is, that's a boring game in my opinion. I get that there's people who like this genre, but, people who don't shouldn't be silenced and labelled as "review bombing" for expressing our opinion. If a game gets such mixed reviews, it deserves it for making such polarizing content.

@Kazman2007 There is always "a new story based single player campaign", they're great a lot of fun; 2 even had it's own DLC campaign in addition to the story based single player campaign already part of the game. You just need to find the old man near the sewer drain on the main overworld map. There's actually loads of lore you can discover and the platforming and gunplay is fun, the enemies are fun to kill, worlds are super imaginative, and it's just good fast paced action arcade gameplay you'd expect from Nintendo.

But people talk about the online multiplayer because it's great fun playing with other people in 4v4s, and there's no such thing as unlocking everything and beating all the levels. With good human competition, the game never needs to end. And by the time you finish the single player content, you'll be a pro at the guns and controls and such and have a leg up on your competition. Not that it's even necessary, because the single player content is actually quite good and worth it on it's own. This game's first trailer mentioned the return of the mammalians so that should be quite an interesting story.

Sounds awful tbh, I think the low score was right. VNs are the most boring games there are and I'd be incredibly disappointed to have spent $60 and ended up with this.

I'm so angry, I can't believe they updated the game. I've only been having fun playing it since I got it, but now realize that I actually wasn't. I want to remove all of the fun I had and be forced to wait until they finish work on Badminton, a game I'll never play, because apparently the game isn't enjoyable until then. Like I really want to just sit here bored for months rather than play what's in my opinion one of the best games on the system as-is.

I played the demo and didn't think it was very good. Really not sure why there are so many articles about it when there's better games to cover. If you want to spend money on what Nintendo Life gave a 6, go get Switch Sports (which should have been an 8) instead of this (which should have been a 4).

I really like Tetrisphere, and maybe Wave Race, Cruis 'N USA, the Bombermans, Hydro Thunder, Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Diddy Kong Racing, Ridge Racer 64, San Francisco Rush & 2049, Pilotwings 64, and Smash Bros. but I really wish they would have random matchmaking, it would make these so much better.

@RushDawg No, I don't think the game of the year should go to Elden Ring, I played it for a few hours and got bored. It's okay, maybe really great if you can stick with it but not really anything all that special as far as I'm concerned. Switch Sports however, I play that game every day since it came out, gotta unlock all the new costumes, emojis, titles, clothes, etc. every week. Still way too fun in online multiplayer, it never gets old. If that was it, and this was December 31st I'd have to give it to Switch Sports.

However, I was in a couple betas and an alpha for MultiVersus, which is set to come out soon, and that's what should be a lock for GOTY. Plus it's free to play, available on all systems but Nintendo, cross-play, and with a ton of characters along with proper voice actors that fans can't get anywhere else. Made by the Mortal Kombat team, the fighting is fantastic, and it's main focus being 2v2 so it's even better than Smash Bros. And with the promise of regularly adding new characters and WBs enormous catalog of franchises, it's sure to be a big hit.

I don't get the whole 'cursed' thing. These sound pretty normal to me, and a little funny. What would have been a bit more 'cursed' is if these were weird voice actors, or voice clips that weren't in the retail game but buried in the code somewhere or from a leak of something unreleased.