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I'm very happy that this game did well sales wise. I was always concerned that this game would languish away in obscurity but I'm happy to see it become one of vanillaware's best selling games. If you're a fan or vn and/or anime and sci fi this is a must play!

I love the kirby 25th anniversary theme though I do also love the swapnote & ashley themes!

Im definitely most bummed about P&D X, Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2 from this list. Both were titles I was greatly looking forward to.

Very surprised that this list left off EX Troopers. Definitely a JPN exclusive game that I wish we had gotten in the west!

PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME PEOPLE! It is seriously a masterpiece. It is a thrilling mystery/adventure game with a gripping plot, wonderful rube-Goldberg style puzzles and amazing music + art!

Dont sleep on this game!

I loved the 1st game! I am beyond excited that we're finally getting a new one after nearly 9 years!!

This whole process was utter crap! I waited more than 4 hours from 10am pst to 2pm pst and when I finally got in it told me it was out of stock so I couldn't get one despite fact that I had one in my cart. I am beyond frustrated with the idiots at Nintendo who thought that making this limited edition exclusive to their site was a great idea.

Congrats scalpers, you win this one! I'll be seeing you soon

Edit: After trying again yesterday following some other people posting about checking the cart again I was miraculously able to pre order one successfully. My point still stands that this is absolutely one of the worst pre order experiences I've ever had! This was terrible

Definitely deserved. This game has easily become one of my favorite games of all time!

@RupeeClock Took the words right out of my mouth. Really nailed why I feel like artist re-interpretations can be hit or miss for me.

I am still playing AC New Horizons! About to finally unlock landscaping so the real fun is about to start. I also finally started playing Sayonara Wild Hearts. Great game but a bit on the short side and unfortunately a bit of style over substance. Definitely recommend but maybe at a slight sale (around $10)

Just playing Animal Crossing New Horizons. Wanna load up on money for the stalk market tomorrow. I'll also try out One Step from Eden. Looks very good!

Echoing the sentiment of others here, Culdcept Revolt is an underrated classic. It's basically Magic the Gathering meets monopoly. It's not too hard to understand and it's incredibly fun!

I am slowly but surely making my way through the tutorials in Skullgirls 2nd Encore. Fantastic fighting game with a very welcoming tutorial. Can't wait for this upcoming Friday to play Animal Crossing New Horizons.

I just got a Cammy & Chun-Li Hori fightstick mini (that thing really lives up to its name. It's about the size of a small book) so I hope to finally take the plunge into skullgirls 2nd encore and possible Uni-clr.

Disagree with Gone Home, Firewatch, and Limbo as these were all games that I ultimately found to be disappointing for one reason or another. (GH for it's lack luster gameplay and narrative, Limbo for being a dull and uninteresting slog, and Firewatch for its ending). Still solid list otherwise.

@lloydcoombes No problem. I definitely agree that score chasing will add some play time. The only reason I asked about total playtime is that length can be a huge determining factor for people when buying a game. 'Short' ends up coming coming across a bit vague as you could tell in my original comment.

How short is short? Are we talking closer to Sayonara Wild Hearts & Donut County ( both sub 2hr) or are talking something closer to Bastion and Transistor (around 3-5 hrs)?

Edit: According to the sixthaxis there are about 20 levels that take around 5-10 minutes to beat so overall playtime is looking to be around 2-3 hours. Wish Nintendolife would have put the playtime in the review.

@Heavyarms55 I definitely think you have a point about variety online personalities. It seems like people who cover multiple games will have slower growth in the beginning but in the long term will have an easier time sustaining themselves than the people focusing on just one game. (The hot new game fades in and out and I feel like it's a bad idea to put all your eggs into one basket)

Really dont get the hate for this game. The game looks solid and I'll probably buy it. It seems to have better combat than BotW as well.

@Yosher If you don't mind fanservice I'd highly recommend Muse Dash. Very simple rhythm game (2 buttons) with a ton of great songs and a deceptive difficulty. It gets updated with free music packs quite often and it's around $30. It's probably one of my favorite rhythm games on the switch

@PJOReilly Hey there's a minor typo in the cons section of the review. Just pointing that out.

Yeah gamefreak was pretty dumb with this one. Why hide menu options like this?

I think this whole article is fairly pointless. The man simply liked a tweet. This is not newsworthy. Grow up Nintendolife

My October pick was Skullgirls 2nd Encore

I also have some issues with this review. I fail to see how a lack of Switch exclusive features is bad. It's a port and it feels like a weird criticism to have now especially when other ports aren't marked down for the same thing. Also disappointing to see no mention of the lack of voice acting in story mode despite every other version of 2nd encore having fully voiced story mode.

I'm very surprised at how well Smash Ultimate is selling. It's a fantastic smash game but I didn't expect it to outsell Brawl by this much this quickly with a smaller install base.

@judaspete Yeah I definitely agree about Arms needing a price cut. I got the game for about $40 used and thought that was fair. At $60 it just lacks enough content to justify that price point especially in comparison to 1st party titles like Splatoon 2, Super Mario Maker 2, BotW, Smash Ultimate, etc.

For me my copy of River City Girls came in from Limited Run Games. I'll be playing that for a bit. (Annoyingly I found a typo on the box in which they forgot the o in Kunio in the description. I know it's so minor but to pay ~$40 and wait almost 2 months since the game came out for there to be a typo as well as being unable to register the game to my Nintendo is a bit disappointing)

I'll also play for Fight'n Rage in order to compare which one is better. Lastly I'll try to finish Ape Out and Check out the new songs added to Muse Dash.

@KitsuneNight It was good for the time but MAN that camera system does not hold up. When I played SM64 on the wii u vc I had nothing but issues.

@Coochie_Kong I agree with you on that. When they said "It is strange that despite Super Mario 64 having arguably one of the best cameras in any game," I was like um are you sure about that chief?

I'm also embarrassed about never touching minecraft. I have a pc, 3ds, wii u , and switch as well as an xbone and have never really been tempted to play the game. I know it will go down in the history books as one of the most significant games of all time and even though I was in the age demographic when it first launched back in '09 (I was 14 at the time) I just didn't have any interest in playing it. Maybe I'll try it one day.

@Snugglevixen ok, thanks for updating me.

I would love for a Final Fight Revival, especially since Sega is finally making Streets of Rage 4. I would also like to see more Okami, Powerstone, Viewtiful Joe, and Breath of Fire. I think Breath of Fire could work since Capcom doesn't really have a flagship traditional rpg series.

@Snugglevixen Alright that's good to know it includes most of the dlc. I'll probably pick it up on a slight sale. What parts of the dlc are missing?

@MsJubilee Thanks for the reply, I'll be sure to check it out.

Hey did anyone play Blasphemous? Is it any good?

Hey I have a question. Does the switch release contain all of the dlc? I couldn't find that info on the game's Switch store page.

This looks FANTASTIC! It's like all the best parts of the gba sp + micro+ gba player combined. And for less than $200!? Sign me up!

I think the 2 modes would be fine. I'd most likely stick with the one shot mode but I think having multiple hits like Cuphead would be fine.

While it doesn't look as good as Cuphead, namely in the animation department, I still find it cool that Cuphead could inspire more people to make 2d animated games like this. Might buy it on a sale if it ever successfully gets made.

@GhostGeneration Try the Capcom beat em up Bundle. You get 7 games for $20 and it usually goes on sale for around $15 every few months or so.

OH MY GOD YESS!!!! I DIDNT THINK IT'D EVER COME TO SWITCH!!! Dude I remember that the dev was having issues as nintendo wouldn't give him a dev kit about a year ago. I guess the issues are all cleared up. I'm definitely buying this DAY ONE! (It'll be a double dip for me). Check out this cool combo video. One of the best beat em ups in recent memory imo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKb5lFYo464

I'll try it out when it goes on a slight sale, around $8-$10 is when I'll bite.

Also for those on the fence, from what I've read from other reviews it's around 45 min to 90 min long at $12.99

Hopefully it's not too short. I don't mind shorter games but I'm not really willing to pay a premium for a sub 2hr experience. If it's around 2hrs I'll most likely wait for a slight sale tbh.

I'm going to echo a lot of the previously made comments by saying I'm not a huge fan of this race to the bottom. I've suspected that this was the case for months but it's nice to hear it outright confirmed that this was the case. Truth be told I'm actually far less likely to buy a lot of these games that drop into the sub $1 range on a sale because it genuinely makes me question why the dev charged the initial game at that higher price point if they're essentially going to give the game away for next to nothing at a later date.

In the long run it largely hurts the value of these games because consumers will eventually catch on. "Why buy day 1 when it'll be 97 cents in a few months to a year?" I know it's working out fine in the short term but in the long term it will just encourage more low effort games to flood the eshop.

I feel like Nintendo could fix a lot of these issues by having indie specific categories like they did on the wii u and 3ds eshops. Making it easier to find these titles outside of the limited space of the best sellers and featured lists would largely solve this issue.

The map system was the same in Risk of Rain 1. It had set maps but would spawn the player in different starting locations as well as randomize enemy, loot, and teleporter locations. Just thought I would correct that part of the review.

The issue is money. They tried with Super Mario Run and it got outsold by FE Heroes, Dragalia, and AC Pocket Camp despite the fact that Mario is one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world. It sucks but it is what it is.

Glad it reviewed well. Was a bit nervous ngl. Already preordered with LRG so I cant wait for it to come in!

I own 9/10 of these games. I'm only missing UltraSun/Moon (that's mainly because I though Sun and Moon were a bit lacking so I held off of buying them)

Definitely on board with this. I love a good beat em up and I'm very glad it's not 8 bit this time around.

Didn't Jools complain about poor sales on 3ds with the launch of Chicken Wiggle? Now he's releasing another 3ds game? Good luck I guess. Never really been a fan of his games tbh.

Yeah this is a bad take Nintendolife, and this is coming from someone who doesn't even mind the limiting to regional dex only. (I gave up on catching them all a long time ago). I genuinely understand the frustration from long time fans. These issues can be resolved in GF were to delay the game and hire more people but we all know that they wont.