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Payment successfully taken from my account so I'm sure he'll arrive safely, then we'll see if Nintendo truly are done with Smash amiibo. Wouldn't put it past them to do some re-releases along with a few high profile "player 2" versions, female Byleth would be good for a start though I don't relish the idea of every fighter getting an alt 😅

Edit: I absolutely would buy every single Koopa Kid variant in a heartbeat though!

@GarlicGuzzler I'm hoping there will be an update once all the events are over which will add the spirits to the general spirit board rotation, I missed the second event and spent two hours watching the board rotations so I'm fairly sure they aren't available just yet... based on events in the past though they do get added eventually.

@JimNorman I'm shocked you've never encountered it before, given the company your work focuses on is Japanese I would have expected that you'd had a bean paste filled mochi or had some on top of shaved ice... but no bother!

Red bean paste is a traditional Asian sweet made from adzuki beans and is called anko in Japan, it most definitely is not strawberry or raspberry jam. You often find it as a filling in pancakes called dorayaki or in those little fish shaped confections you can get from street vendors, it comes in smooth and "crunchy" versions like peanut butter but because the beans are cooked it's softer than the word crunchy would suggest.

@JimNorman no worries!

@JimNorman is Mario Wonder 2nd or 3rd? Article says 2nd but list says 3rd...

Gamefreak has long since turned me off the Pokémon series but how much longer will millions of people still excuse this kind of performance from the number 1 multimedia property that's ever existed?

@Wilforce this is specifically US unit sales, I believe the numbers you refer to are global unit sales. That's why this is news today because some consoles are more popular in certain territories

@RupeeClock omg don't that would be so dangerous! I would buy ALLLLLL of those! 😆

@RupeeClock I'm hoping some of the more recent amiibo get player 2 versions, female Byleth (can't believe this one didn't come out along with the male one!) and Pneuma coloured Pyra & Mythra would be perfect candidates and ones I'd love to collect!

@RupeeClock do you think they'll announce some more "player 2" versions or do you think they'll be adding more fighters entirely?

I've seen a couple of YouTubers playing this and it looks fun, I love a good strategy game so I'll definitely be giving myself a little early Christmas present

Phew! I was so worried I'd miss this and my collection would never be complete but thanks to this article I got my order in 😁

Hey @AlanaHagues sorry this is slightly off-topic but the Splatoon 3 Deep Cut amiibo have been up for pre-order on the UK's My Nintendo Store for almost 2 days and I haven't seen an article about it on the site, thought you might want to get something up 🙂

@Olliemar28 just thought I'd let you know the 3 pack is available to pre-order on the My Nintendo Store, stock is currently still available but as pre-orders dropped yesterday I'm not sure for how long!

This development debacle would be studied in university on how NOT to develop and announce your game, delay after delay after announcement after announcement... and yet still releasing with game killing bugs. Wow the promise of an excellent game in that first trailer has entirely evaporated and the developers have no-one but themselves to blame.

@RupeeClock it's a pretty disastrous rating isn't it, and I'm betting it will only get worse as well.

@RupeeClock @Chris77 I cannot believe this operation is still so poor after so long, no wonder their satisfaction rating is taking a nosedive!

@NintndoNik ooh what's the tea about why they didn't include English VO?

@LU1GI see my comment above about contacting customer services

@Ryu_Niiyama they're still available from the My Nintendo Store UK, if you get desperate do you know anyone here who could buy them and ship them to you?
Edit: unless you mean Pyra & Mythra who are still out of stock since before release 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

@Chris77 sorry I accidentally tagged the wrong person in my comment above, it was meant to include you.

@durian @EarthboundBenjy @Jack_Goetz try contacting their customer service, I know @RupeeClock was in the same boat and didn't get a confirmation email so they've had to reach out to customer services for assistance. No idea if that's worked tho!

@pjzx the My Nintendo Store UK takes payment in the week prior to dispatch, in my experience is usually the Thursday or Friday of the week before release.

@MoogleMuffins I mean he is hanging off the base so I'm betting it's the bigger size, but a full fiver on top of the usual price is a bit much and I'm really hoping they don't make a habit of this... the Noah and Mio double pack is already pricier than normal and they're definitely not any bigger than usual

@RupeeClock hope you can sort it out! We both know this is precisely the kind of bs the MNS pulls though, don't we

@AlanaHagues you might wanna let everyone know the pre-orders are open for those who registered their interest 🙂

@MoogleMuffins yep just finalised my pre-orders for them, even if I am a bit miffed about the price hike for the Ganondorf one.
@RupeeClock did you check your spam folders? That's where my "confirm your interest" email went. I would be gobsmacked if these sell out before you get a chance to place a pre-order though, there's usually an initial period only available to those who registered their interest but after a few days it usually opens up. Just keep checking periodically, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

@JohnnyMind yes it's very odd, this is the first time the My Nintendo Store pre-orders have appeared before all the other gaming websites' so I'm wondering if they've realised they need more stock than they've been ordering in the past...? Regardless I hope scalpers are kept at bay and everyone who wants them gets them at the proper price.

@luckyseven it's early days yet so I'm sure you'll be able to get a pre-order in somewhere, keeping my fingers crossed for you!

@MoogleMuffins you have to register your interest on the My Nintendo Store, presumably because they intend to have a queueing system when pre-orders eventually go up

@RupeeClock bizarre isn't it, I didn't see them up for pre-order until about 9pm so I'm very relieved they were still available to preorder after being up all day! You'd think they'd have learnt from the XC3 CE debacle by now but apparently not.

@JohnnyMind Zelda and hot daddy 'dorf are a "register your interest" type situation, you have to input your email address and click the confirmation button when you get the email. Mine went into my spam folder so be wary

@luckyseven US pre-orders are open already, hope you can get yours!

@ryancraddock the My Nintendo Store UK just dropped the pre-orders for the Noah & Mio amiibo and I thought you might want to let people know since they're just open for anyone to order... they are 1 per customer but that doesn't seem to prevent scalpers at all so people need to be quick on the draw.

Very, very disappointed. It's all but confirmed new hardware will release next year, that's the only way to explain the dearth of 1st party heavy hitters and abundance of ports.

@EaglyBird are you as gutted as I am that rumoured X port didn't show up in the direct?

@EaglyBird doing the lord's work

I wish they'd let you place more than 20 stickers in/on your locker, it's just not enough to get the look I want

@Ashina I know the context of this article makes your abbreviation make sense but do be aware AC can stand for at least 3 different game franchises (probably more given my not encyclopaedic knowledge of the entirety of video game history) that I can think of off the top of my head 😆

I'm very very tempted to go digital but I think I need to hold onto this one physically, it looks too amazing not to

@masterLEON this is exactly what I'll be doing, I simply cannot stand how many mirror matches you get when you're on the popular team so I'll be choosing Frye

@sevex same, I'm currently at 72 and if my calculations are correct I'll need to get just under 2.5 levels per day to finish at level 100. Luckily the week before the last day of the season gets a nice 20% boost to your catalogue points, so every 5 levels you gain you get a 6th for free! At least that's if my maths is right 😅

@vio there wasn't a new one this season either, horrorboros came out last season. I'll be very disappointed if they've only come up with two of the king salmonids when there's so much to take inspiration from

I still cannot believe the sequel to Blasphemous is here before The Last Faith has released, I wonder if that game will struggle to find an audience after two excellent games in the genre have served Metroidvania fans so well

@AlanaHagues no worries, thank you for replying! I did think it was something along these lines, I've been meaning to write into your letters page about a great website I found which seems to track every Switch release but I haven't got round to it yet... It's so frustrating that we're forced to utilise external tools to hunt for decent games because the eshop interface is so lacking in so many areas!

@AlanaHagues hey I've been wondered where the European version of these has disappeared to, did I miss something?

@EaglyPurahfan I think the My Nintendo Store were so badly burnt by that release that they had to implement special procedures for certain releases going forward, the Tears of the Kingdom special edition was gated behind an email address queuing system so I was able to secure one fairly easily as it prevented their entire store being downed by the volume of traffic and presumably kept bots to a minimum. More of that in the future, I hope.

@RainbowGazelle oh no I can't afford it until payday, but I really appreciate you letting me know otherwise I would never have known it was in stock there so thank you!

@RainbowGazelle thanks! Your link didn't work for me for some reason but it's up on their website, and it's a tenner cheaper than the MNS!