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I was replaying this game recently on NSO, and my wife kept asking me what I was playing, so I would respond “Minish Cap, no cap”… I guess I’m just saying that I don’t really know what ‘no cap’ means. Please help.

@solarwolf07 - It’s a great game, but part of what makes it great is the nostalgia factor many of us 30-40 somethings have of playing SNES rpgs. I believe it to be objectively good as well, but since you don’t normally play turn based rpgs, maybe wait for a sale, but yeah, give it a chance! The art, soundtrack, combat, and story are all good.

@PikminMarioKirby I agree with everything you just said. Maybe not the best Mario RPG I’ve ever played, but it’s quite good!

This game is awesome, and I would give it an 8.5/10. I’m about 15 hours in at this point, and I just don’t have any real complaints. It’s not revolutionary by any means, and the character models of the denizens of the world don’t “wow”, but it is a SOLID entry in this series.

@Mario500 My apologies for being vague. I meant that at the point in the game where I am at currently - which is 8 hours of gameplay in - I would thusly agree with NintendoLife’s review score whilst allowing that my opinion may be altered by factors that, as yet, I have not encountered.

This honestly didn't take long to get accustomed to, but I will admit that I missed a few of Luigi’s attack prompts because of it in the beginning. This game is great so far though. Honestly, I definitely agree with the 9/10 score NintendoLife gave it at about the 8 hour mark. Interested to see if I’ll agree with the “padding the time” complaint further in though.

REALLY looking forward to this. Never has there been a Mario RPG that I didnt at least ‘like’. IGN’s score is pretty different from NintendoLife’s this time around. Seems like the whole package may come together well for some people and not for others.

I mean, I’m happy this exist but so far not a lot of the games featured on this app are really narrative heavy. If they end up adding the Emio soundtrack or something like that down the road, I can imagine this would be a useful function. But SPOILER ALERT, you tend to fight Ganon in Zelda games…

By the time I finish both Brothership and Dragon Quest III HD-2D, I will be so ready for something other than a turned-based RPG game (looking at you Donkey Kong Country Returns) in January. But November and December are going to be epic!

@NinChocolate whatever it is, it is most definitely NOT a pig!

Fingers crossed for Fire Emblem Engaged…

I agree with the sentiment, but most of these albums are composed by a team of composers and tying individual tracks to composers would be challenging. Though an easy work around would be to list “Nintendo Sound Team” as the composer and make a list of all composers who worked on the project available somewhere in the app.

This made my whole week!!!!!!!!!!

For sure! I still own this for the WiiU but I’ll definitely buy it again with new content.

@JakedaArbok I agree that it definitely had a big luck element, but it plays out like an old school memory matching game. The winner is usually lucky, but deduction can keep you from last place usually. I dunno, I kinda enjoy it.

I’m really not sure what went wrong here. This was one of my favorite games of the year.

@BANJO exactly my plans! Except I’m hoping to complete chapter of Emio at some point too? We’ll see…

@JohnnyMind Always appreciate your weekly gaming blog! Thanks for sharing as always.

I respect the articles author’s desire to be impartial and give a wide variety of review summaries, but a bunch of the most respected sites for these reviews definitely were very positive. Currently sitting at 86 on Metacritic.

Does this mean we are looking at pre-historic squids for Splatoon 4?

Is an echo of monster technically an undead creature by fantasy rules? Is Zelda a necromancer? 🤔

Im actually more curious about how Guilty Gear Strive will play on switch. I only have so much time in my gaming life, and fighting games already only take up a fraction of that. I remember some of these being fun years ago though, so I’m excited for those getting this one.

Glad they’re giving a more fleshed out answer to the Radjen question. Looking forward to this DLC. This was one of the better games I played this year.

I’ve never played Minecraft (I am, alas, too old to have played it younger), but the trailer for the movie looked kinda fun - knowing zero contextual elements about the game except building things.

No one will ever reach this comment, but I’ve been an avid metroid fan for years, so I recently picked up the GBA collection on Switch to try out the other side of the “metroidvania” portmanteau, and these games are quite hard! 5 hours in suddenly the difficulty ramps up. Metroid has treated me so gently over the years by comparison.

@anoyonmus right!? Like okay, let’s pretend that they simplify a lot of the animations and roll back the visuals, there still aren’t a lot of fighting games on switch with roll back netcode because of the added technical challenges. If this game runs well, looks even marginally acceptable, AND doesn’t explode the console - a miracle may have occurred. But hey, Im always hoping for a miracle.

H…how??? How is this going to work?

Oh my gosh, I can’t wait for this game. I went back and finished the Minish Cap because I needed a Zelda fix and couldn’t wait until the end of September 😆

I feel like there was a much bigger focus on the multiplayer aspect of this game in the open network beta test than is reflected in this review. It did seem to run the online multiplayer pretty well and with a fair amount of stability for a switch game from what I recall.

Ive never played any of these. I never had a DS so I’m looking forward to this batch!

It’s a little niche for sure. Honestly, I would argue that it’s done pretty well by the critics considering.

Ive played the demo and committed to the preorder, but I wanted to mention that I am grateful for text translations that are in languages other than just English and Japanese - like most visual novel releases. There are plenty of fans of the visual novel genre that are grateful to read in their preferred language. Japanese only dub doesn’t bother me at all.

@MagicEmperor and to charge my cell phone!

Just finished part 3 of this demo. Definitely intriguing, but the pacing up until this point suggests it will be a slow burn for sure.

I’d like some more Dragon Quest III footage.

Piranha plants!!!!!!! ❤️

This is an easy buy for me. Already preordered. Looking forward to chapter 2 in like 30 minutes or so from the time of this comment.

This is definitely a tough topic, because I would definitely pay whatever it takes. Nintendo is my brand and I’ve loved it since I was a child. However, a $500 (US) price point would make it rather inaccessible for some, and I cant help but feel like that spoils some of the fun. Hopefully it retails for closer to $400 (US).

I mean, people love Dave the Diver and Little Nightmares. Wont be putting anyone down here, but I agree with the article’s author’s sentiment. Zelda is, in fact, coming. So how much I care about other games (other than Emio Im pretty invested in that) amounts to little.

It’s fun that the title is Tintin Reporter, and one of the definitions of the French word Reporter means to push back (like a deadline) - almost as if Microids decided to delay the game in a meeting and forgot to change the working title in the excel document.

As someone who hasn’t played any previous entries into the Famicom Detective Club series, I would say that the Prologue and Chapter 1 are off to a good start. I love detective games.

Awesome! I was just complaining that I felt like they forgot about this game. I enjoy creative releases. I’m on board to start this game a little earlier than release date.

It releases in 2 weeks, but Nintendo doesn’t seem to be giving it much coverage - just the teaser and the one overview trailer to my knowledge. I know it’s probably better to know less going into this story, but I’m excited for this release and would like to see Nintendo share a little of my enthusiasm…

@Sans_Undertale Yes, thank you. I was just being silly because the article title says “next”, but the next splatfest is the carbohydrates one actually. That’s all.

Well if the next splatfest will determine the future of the franchise. I am curious how ‘bread’ will be worked into the aesthetic of Splatoon 4

This looks WONDERFUL.

Emio is already preordered. The open network test for Gundam Breakers 4 was enjoyable as well, so I’ll probably pick that up. Zelda feels like forever away still, but that’s a day 1 purchase.

Yeah, I thought this was a bit weird when I saw the winner’s video. I wasn’t able to replicate this myself. It’s great to think creatively for a solution, but it does spoil the fun of good competition a little when this kind of thing happens.

Thank you for the reminder! Im terrible at this game, but I still get satisfaction from spending an hour working through some combo trials.

Is there a middle ground where I can believe that Engage was more fun to play but it’s story was kinda 3rd rate when compared to 3 Houses?