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@Maxz oh yeah that does look much more aerodynamic, if a little lacking in aesthetics 😉

@Maxz do you have any images of the new design? I'm intrigued by your description 😆

That price is obscene, preying on people's nostalgia is gross predatory capitalism

@KateGray nooooo Kate I was so excited to see your name on this review and then you break my heart! I was so entranced by this game's trailer I'm devastated it runs the way you've described, what a terrible shame. Great review, I love reading your work 😘

@Lizuka don't do it! Every time I've paid over the odds for one Nintendo has eventually restocked it, thankfully the total between the two is only £10 but that's £10 I would still have had I had patience and simply waited. If they ever restock poochy though... 😬🙊

@Iconoclysm that doesn't change the fact that it's a ridiculous price

£16.99 for a 6 inch soft toy is daylight robbery

@OctolingKing13 I have a feeling it'll be a launch title for the next console, a deluxe edition with extra story content. Can't decide if I think they'll put the extra content on the Switch version or not, they might try to funnel people to the new console by making it exclusive?

@Antray1984 I would be surprised if we didn't see some more restocks in future albeit smaller than this one, there are still certain characters missing in the lineup and it seems the demand for amiibo is still very much present. Nintendo would be fools to leave that money on the table.

@FX102A I think they were in stock relatively recently, some of the ones restocked this time have literally never been back in stock since they sold out back when they were released in 2017

@AlanaHagues until you come up with a few scorchers I'd say yes

@AlanaHagues truly your most tepid of takes, doubt you'd find anyone to argue the toss over this one! 😜

Anyone struggling with the ShopTo site not showing the button to actually preorder (as I did) will need to log in and refresh the page, came up fine after that 😅

@Papery0shi this is not the first Paper Mario, it's the sequel to the original which was on the N64

@rvcolem1 those people are insane

@rvcolem1 is that not just normal?

@AlanaHagues I love your lukewarm takes! 😆

Whatever they did to the matchmaking in this patch has made it orders of magnitude worse, I've never known so many disconnections and communication errors. Won a match and one of the players started sliding across the stage making a weird noise until an error was registered and it totally disappeared from my play history, bizarre

@UltimateOtaku91 same, almost every match I played was a mirror match and the one that wasn't seemed like my team left their brains in the lobby. Constant losses match after match is just not fun, I barely even made it out of the "fiend" stage but I admit my tolerance for enduring the torture of so many losses in a row is not high. I say this as an S+ rank and EVP 200+ player, so I know I'm not totally inept

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