Pak-Man

This is what we call a "red flag."

Whispy is the Winston Payne of the Kirbyverse.

I get it. Time limits stress me out when I'm trying to puzzle-solve. I have a similar problem with Pikmin. I recognize both as great games, but those time limits stress me out to the point of diminished enjoyment.

I'm one of the 10 Switch owners who doesn't have Mario Kart 8 yet. I have it on the Wii U and it's fine there, but this DLC blitz is making me reconsider.

Ooh! I just noticed Dark Deity. That's a pretty nifty way to scratch the Fire Emblem itch. Not quite as good, but still really good.

Square has long been flirting with the question, "Will fans pay full price for a game with a mobile game pay scheme?" With Chocobo GP they went all-in and found out the answer was "No!"

Just wish they'd picked a different franchise to mess with. I like the Chocobo racers.

This is why the weekly polls are interesting to me. What is Potato Flowers in Full Bloom? What's drawing 3% of us to it? Should I be excited too?

@Mikmoomamimocki Almost none of these games have ever left their home system. In fact, I think Arcade and TMNT1 are the only two that have ever seen a re-release.

I still remember for TMNT 2 it's Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. A variation on the ol' Konami code.

Oh damn!
You must have got one of them
combustible heads
I've read an article all about them

It's KIND of number 2, but I go for whichever Pokemon has the goofiest look/stupidest name. I have never been more instantly in love with a starter as I am with Quaxly.

And just as I was about to report that after 5 years, it's still going strong, the cartridge reader broke. And after 5 years, the warranty is not going strong.

Now we nead Sneak-King HD!

The joke in the subheadline is very obtuse.

Not much info here, but it doesn't matter. We have that headline. I needed that headline. Thank you for that headline.

@DTFaux It might be the women thing, but it's also indicative of a problem with voice actors in general. If you look at the poster for Michael Bay's Transformers, for instance, you'll see Shia LeBouf, and Megan Fox, but not Peter Cullen. The only time the voice actors get a shout out is when they happen to also be a big pull, like Ben Schwartz.

Now that's something worth whining to the studio about! Good job, The Internet!

But Spoink's gonna be there, right? I'm planning a team of forehead-slapping pokemon names, and I need Spoink to join Quaxly.

I have a weakness for Pokemon with brilliantly stupid names. Quaxly all the way!

You forgot to mention that Art Style Pictobits even has a lot of nifty homage to classic NES games built into the puzzles, color schemes, and soundtrack. It's my personal favorite of the Art Style bunch.

Only if it's translated horribly like an SNK game should be.

I need Min Min. I mean how much Arms merchandise will ever be available?

If I ever imported a 3DS, it would be for the Dragon Quest: Theatrhythm game they got over there.

I saw that logo and briefly thought, "Civilization 7?"

I'd also like a compilation of Capcom/Marvel collaborations, but with the mouse in charge that might be tricky. Or easy. Not sure which.

Some people may be tired of it, but there's an overwhelming number of games I never got to, and I have no idea what to grab while the ship goes down. I'm taking notes, and am deeply appreciative of articles like this. I never even thought of Harvest Moon!

I didn't know there was going to be a Voice of Cards sequel already! What an awesome and kinda pricey surprise!

Ok, but let's be honest, about 900 of those were just shovelware.

To be fair, it was a lot harder to get Netflix onto your TV back then.

Hot take: The responsibility of preserving video games falls on the games' publishers, not on the company of the system they happened to live on.

It was Square's responsibility, for instance, to release some kind of port of My Life as King before the Wii went belly up. It's not Nintendo's responsibility to keep ancient, unplayed games on their servers indefinitely.

This is where Nintendo Life should write up an article on eshop games that one should definitely get before March 2023.

I still haven't upgraded, and here's the thing. If Nintendo would let me subscribe to the upgrade for like $10 a month, I'd happily subscribe, EVEN THOUGH I'D BE PAYING NINTENDO AN EXTRA $50 A YEAR! I feel like I can always spare $10, but I can't bring myself to drop $50 on something that isn't even a game.

Breaking your Switch may cause it to stop working.

I anticipate something that sounds amazing until we find out it's for mobile.

Nintendo, more than any other company, has been exceedingly fair with their DLC schemes, and I expect that to continue.

Sure didn't have Klonoa on my Nintendo Direct Bingo card, but I'll take it!

Am I crazy or was April 8th announced a long time ago. Everyone's talking like it's a big date reveal, but I've had that date in my head for months!

Ooh. Zelda 2 Remake... You know Wayforward has been talking about how many dream projects they have lined up, and if you've played Adventure Time on the DS/3DS, you know SOMEONE over there has love for Zelda 2... What if-

Let's skyrocket those hopes and expectations!

Fire Emblem Echoes: 4 and 5
Super Mario Odyssey 2
Metroid Prime 4 - Out This Week!
Earthbound Trilogy Remastered
Advance Wars: Switch Wars
Super Smash Kart
Goldeneye 64
Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1 & 2: Remastered
N64 for all levels of Nintendo Online - Expansion now includes Gamecube
Cubivore 2
Wario in Smash Bros. Just because.

It looks like playasia is going to offer the special edition as an import, but the link isn't up yet.

They should offer one in his underwear for an entirely different reason than most statues are offered in their underwear.

So I would pounce on an all new Castlevania game, but at the same time I feel like the indie companies have been happy to fill in the void. It's not like there's nowhere to go to get gothy-creepy side-scrolling action with light RPG elements.

NFTs run on the same voodoo that gave me a D in economics.

I think Nintendo Fans are more the "I want to have this and keep it forever" types. Ever notice how much smaller the used section is for Switch? I don't think it's because they're not selling as many games..

I never wanted Great Ace Attorney to end. Speaking as someone who has never set foot outside of North America, both the Japanese and Engish settings gave me a chance to experience a historical setting I'd never thought much about before. In these very-much homebound times, the chance to see the world via video games is very freeing.

I've only ever backed one video game kickstarter that didn't put physical goods at $100 or more. (That was Wonderful 101, which was a very different kind of Kickstarter.) As others have said, there will probably be physical copies available after the game releases, so you're probably just paying for exclusive Box Art. (And a bunch of other stuff. The previous tiers' rewards aren't bad.)

RE: Why do successful Indie companies need Kickstarters?

Successful indie companies are still indie companies (Yacht Club is still just 20 people!), and risk-taking is extra risky when you're a smaller company. Kickstarters are a good way for them to gauge interest in a different project before deciding whether to sink what they have into a new project. The world could have taken one look at Mina and said, "Well that's not Shovel Knight 2" and maybe it wouldn't have sold. Now they can move forward with the assurance that people are interested in the title, and they have some extra funds to pour into it while they do. Kickstarters mean they get to take risks instead of just settling for releasing Shovel Knight 2, 3, 4, etc.

The bigger the companies get, the "safer" everything is going to get. You see it in every entertainment medium. There are a few huge companies that churn out endless streams of exactly what the people are asking for. Not BAD stuff, but nothing that feels new.

What's "safe" in video games has changed over the years, but you can peg it by how many companies were trying to do the same thing. In the '80s it was Mario-Style Platforming. In the '90s it was Fighting games, then shooters. In the aughts, it was Open-World GTA-style games. In the 2010s something interesting started to happen. It started to become all about these little indie projects that emerged and turned into something huge. We started to see weird stuff, and the world started to realize that it LIKED weird stuff. You have games like Among Us and Hades and right now, Wordle. We also saw a lot of the companies that used to make our favorite weird stuff get bought out by big companies and suddenly they stopped making great stuff and started making perfectly acceptable "safe" stuff. Safe stuff gets funded. Safe stuff makes its money back. That's what the big companies want. Weird stuff is only getting cranked out down at the indie level (And occasionally, by some of the bigger companies like Nintendo.) They need that individuality to innovate.

I'm pretty sure Square gets their titles from an AI title generator that consumes all the least-used words from the dictionary.

Grr. They put the gold edition of Fenyx Rising on sale for $25, but left the season pass at $40. Now I have to decide whether I should double-dip on the main game just to get the cheaper expansions.