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Always thought Camelot and Intelligent Systems would be under their wing by now but I'd much rather Nintendo play cautious as oppose to doing a Disney

One of the contemporary greats alongside Atsuko Asahi in my books. Very sad to see him go!

This means only Kenta Nagata, Shiho Fujii and Asahi are left from the base Mario Kart 8 composing team, although it is worth noting that the Booster Course Pass had a whopping 16 composers!
Many of whom are in their 20s and had not worked any Nintendo project prior to the BCP, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those names graduate to the next mainline title!

This was the first year where I was a little unsure whether I would keep going with the expansion pack.
If it weren't for the 12+2 month deal that was on a few months back may well have downgraded. Hopefully I'll get more use out of it in the next year!

And breeeeeaaaathe!

@SplatRay001 The promo images on Google Play Store also say "New tracks are added frequently" so who knows at this point

Brilliant! Please keep to this kind of pace XD

I actually have a lot of nostalgia with this music player.
During lockdown, I hosted a little "Guess The Smash Music" quiz every day with a small group of friends where you would have to guess the franchise that the track was from. If you got it right, you would be able to risk your point for 5 by guessing the specific game it was from or sometimes the name of the track. It got a lot deeper over time but that's the general gist of it lol.

I used this music player, for some reason, to record the music onto my phone. Sure there were better ways of doing it, but it was the quickest way of getting a little 15 second snippet and sending it out. So I ended up spending hours on this thing!
Looking back though, all the tracks in Smash are understandably quite compressed so it doesn't make for a particularly pleasant listening experience, for me at least

OOOOOHHHH MY GOOOODDDDD
I came up with exactly this concept about 3 years ago and it's actually come to fruition I can't believe it!

I hope they add games pretty regularly though because they have a lot of soundtracks from the last 40 years and if they're gonna release them at the same rate as NSO games, then that would be pretty disappointing. A weekly surprise drop of a few games would be really fun!

Nintendo just went "oh yeah by the way..."

Always thought Mario Party needed a villain

They're either incredibly naive or incredibly clever

@mlt Took the words right out of my keyboard.
What an outstanding series from an outstanding individual, thank you Sakurai for sharing your valuable wisdom with us, now please just don't drive yourself to exhaustion with your next project!

A really strong 9/10!
The boards are top-notch and all the side modes are great additions which don't detract from the main party experience as was often the issue with previous titles.

Delighted to see my dinner party dilemma up there, thanks!
Aurora is such an amazing pick ngl

There needs to be one with Monty Mole patting his belly!

@NielsNL Yep this is intentional.
The quadruple "turbo" dice lets you move up to 40 spaces when used at the expense of bypassing stars and boos.
A very high risk, high reward item!

Fantastic to hear!
The sheer 180 this series has pulled over the last few years is astonishing.
Then again, when you consider things like TTYD and F-Zero 99...sometimes, they do actually listen!

Got it preordered!🎉

What an incredibly odd crossover

A Switch 2 reveal is probably more likely than a Direct at this point.
I can't imagine we're seeing anything this month but... you can never say never with Nintendo

I really liked the first movie but, the writing (even for a kids movie) was pretty poor in some places.
Still very much looking forward to what appears to be a very ambitious sequel!

Oh YES! I can't wait to try these!!

@AG_Awesome In total, 25 out of the 110 minigames are motion control based.

7 Free For Alls
3 2V2s
2 1V3s
1 Item
1 Duel
1 Ally Showdown
And all 10 Rhythm Cooking games

...It just keeps getting better and better😍

I have a friend who's possibly looking into getting a Switch Lite and that Animal Crossing bundle will be perfect for them!

This really does have the potential to be the best in the series but tbh Mario Party is one of those series where nostalgia plays a big part in what makes "the best entry"

A Nintendo Direct? Unlikely I think, but I do think an announcement of some sort (game or system) is imminent

This looks soooo fun but I'm not quite prepared to shell out for a PS5 and never really have tbh.
Keeping my funds for the eventual Switch 2 which will come.........at some point!

@electrolite77 It can be played with all controllers! The only benefit you gain with playing with a single joycon is access to a few motion control minigames when playing the board game mode and some of the unrevealed side modes

You can probably fit about 3 pieces of popcorn in that party tray!

@PikminMarioKirby Yep it is! Just checked the website and it's a 2 player coop offline mode

"I wonder what your dog tastes like🤔"

Okeeey, back in the box you go!!

That's fantastic to hear! Look forward to picking it up next month.

@WreckitRyan Yep, there's an 8 player co-op mode called Bowser Kaboom Squad although you can't play local co-op with it. Only online with friends/randoms or with CPUs
There are other modes yet to be properly revealed though so all hope is not lost yet!

Really nice to see these boards in greater detail!

On the Japanese website, where it talks about how many people can play each mode, it mentions a "Toad's Factory" mode alongside the "Rhythm Cooking" and "Flapping Adventure" but we've already seen those two in previous trailers.
I wonder what might occur in Toad's Factory🤔

YEESSS, let's go! About damn time too haha

I'm certainly not as big of a Sonic fan as some people are but I enjoyed the previous 2 movies a fair amount.

But watching this trailer got me very hyped which I wasn't expecting! I think the films are finally becoming more Sonic as opposed to a fast blue hedgehog in the real world, if that makes sense.

As the lines have become a bit blurred as to what constitutes a 'partner', I'm very intrigued to see what will crop up in the partner direct whilst keeping my expectations measured!

Interesting how they've paired it with Indie World...there's something about which I really like for some reason!

Ooooooo I'd love to try me some Jamboree!
...shame I'm a few thousand miles away

25M is such a good idea for a set though despite how this concept looks

Is there anything Pokémon haven't done at this point?!

Link looks stuck in the Europe one

@Hemibear It wouldn't be summer without them!

"Why does your t-shirt say Hello There Lovely People?"

"😏"

This is a pretty damn decent line up I've gotta say.

Really looking forward to Super Mario Party Jamboree but am also curious as to how M&L: Brothership will turn out

I can only imagine the excitement of holding brand new NES/SNES/N64 cartridge for the first time!

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games 2020 and Kirby Triple Deluxe

It really is one of the best looking Switch games with such beautiful lighting too

GAME's just a sinking ship on fire at this point!

CeX is a far better store to go to for games imo, the prices can be a bit all over the place but the selection is much more interesting. Perhaps it's an unfair comparison as it's really a second hand tech store but hey it's still better than GAME!😂

@NinChocolate Oo maybe 'Emio Amiibo' is his full name!

@_Figo_ Tickle-Me Emio launching on Switch in 2025!😝