Pak-Man

Gets awesome geek-cred for name-dropping Lemmy Koopa, then loses it immediately by saying you can conquer him "in Super Nintendo."

The DS Remake was treading on sacred ground. I'm in that small camp that considers FFIV to be the pinnacle of the series, and while I liked the new dungeons and cutscenes, and the soundtrack was nicely remade, it just goes down much better as a 2D Sprite-based game.

I am jazzed for Clash of Heroes. My favorite match-3 game ever.

Chibi Robo is such a wonderful series, but they haven't got it quite right since the Gamecube era. I'd love to see it as kind of an open world adventure where the open world is pretty much one house.

I think the brilliance of the undocked Switch has given birth to a lot of rereleases we wouldn't see on a screen-bound system. That, "But you can take it with you now" element gives gamers a reason to double-dip, and game companies a reason to let them.

"The ability to cook and feed your Pokémon?"

This is grammatically correct but has hilarious implications.

Are we not counting the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection? I know most people are picking them up piecemeal, but together they make a really nice collection series.

I wonder if Kate rejoined NIntendo Life JUST so she could review Ghost Trick and maybe Fantasy Life i. I know I would!

There SHOULD be some similarities between New and Wonder. If you make a 2D Mario Game, part of your goal is to get back to Mario's roots.

Little details and puzzles I spotted during the trailer though tells me that this is going to be to New Super Mario Bros what Odyssey was to Mario 64. That's probably overly-optimistic, but I have a good feeling about this new direction.

Mostly, I'm just glad there's a title that won't confuse eBay. STOP USING "NEW," NINTENDO! It won't always be true!

Where were you a month ago when I obsessively unlocked every character, Switch port? I needed you then!

Wonder how you'll unlock Toastie, Exdash and Smith in this version.

Sometimes a game is so hyped up over years of Nostalgia, that there's no way it can live up to that hype, and you end up underwhelmed when you finally get your hands on it.

This is not one of those games. Believe the hype.

I almost feel like there has to be an announcement in this presentation, because, "Hey look! We made a well-recieved game 5 years ago!" is a weird reason to host a livestream.

Looks like the opposite of Goose Game. Go around helping people instead of annoying them.

I adore the whole Harvest Moon series, but somehow none of them have ever clicked with me like the original did. Can't wait to dive in again.

I don't think that tracklist is complete. It would be a crime not to include Samba De Janeiro or Bamboleo.

Just got Power Wash simulator before a business trip, and I spent a lot more of that business trip playing it than I thought I would, given that Tears of the Kingdom was right there. It's so pleasant and addicting!

The G&W collections for Gameboy and GBA are legit some of my favorite games ever. Just add a few unlockable challenges and G&W goes from addictive to pure gaming-heroin.

Equal parts strategy and puzzle game. Probably my favorite puzzle game of all time. I'll buy this despite already having it for PC and DS, and I'll buy it again if they release it physically.

The description for Alicia Griffith is fun. "But murder took place and local sheriff needs her help." I wanna introduce that plot twist in every story. "It was a beautiful day- but MURDER took place!"

True Story: I saw a physical copy of Torna for sale for $15 at a Best Buy, and I bought it, thinking it was Xenoblade Chronicles 2. After realizing my mistake (I didn't have the base game yet), I immediately returned it.

Kinda wish I hadn't done that now.

I have a Mario mushroom on my Switch memory card and it warms my heart to know it's there, even if I paid an extra $5 for a little piece of art I'll never see. (I got it on sale or I would have paid WAY more than $5.)

I'm just gonna assume that El Ritmo Tropical made the list, per tradition. That's my Samba De Amigo jam.

I'm an old fogey who listens to '80s music, but even my crusty old heart has to admit that shaking my Maracas to Kesha's Tik-Tok sounds like fun.

If we look at the original, you had a game that tossed you in the middle of a sprawling kingdom with no real instruction on where to go and what to do. You'd find items along the way and stumble on dungeons, but it was totally possible to wander into a place where you weren't ready and get destroyed.

In that sense, Breath the Wild was more like the original than any other Zelda game since.

"Well they got me with the NES, and again with the Atari, but there's no way they could pull off a THIRD retro Lego set that will make me spend over $200," I thought!

@nhSnork Not just racing in car! "Racing in Car: Night Traffic Highway Driving Games Mechanic Simulator 2023 for Kids!"

I dunno how I feel having my condition considered a "Bad Word."

Yay! Scored me an extra set of Metroid Dread. Now we have one we can open!

I toppled Ganon, and if I never do anything else, I'll be OK with that, but I did pay for DLC I've barely touched, and there are a lot of shrines left unfound. I might just see if I can get all those shrines found and solved, and get myself a motorcycle in the next month or so. Or maybe I'll just end up playing some $5 indie title the whole time. You just never know.

I Kickstarted Curse of the Sea Rats, and am looking forward to digging in today! Looks like a fun Metroidvania with a mouse/pirate theme.

Move over, Last-Week. It's time for Mario to FINALLY get the spotlight!

Capcom tossing them into the Nintendo Online service tells me they aren't interested in cashing-in on Breath of Fire any time soon.

@Dr_Corndog It was an unlockable game within Staff of Kings.

Also they're selling the games individually at $35 a pop (Which is reasonable), so this is really a buy-2-get-one-free sale.

For a collection of three full-length RPGs, I'll give it a pass. If they were trying to just sell one game, I'd wait for a sale.

Square's website has changed the button from "Unavailable" to "Waiting List." Keeping my fingers crossed that they'll have a bunch more to sell at launch.

Honestly, I feel like Nintendo is more scared of being stuck in a rut than any other company. You'll get one sequel- max- of "More of the same" and then they change it up again and almost never look back. Want a Paper Mario game that plays like Thousand Year Door? Sorry. Nintendo don't do that anymore, even though everyone wants them to and it would probably be a best-seller. But they're more focused on going somewhere new than they are on rebottling old lightning, and it's served them well, for the most part.

I've been spending the last year scooping up anything that might ever be interesting to me and I think I'm ready. It sucks, though, that many of these games won't be available to anyone in any way. Some of them will get ported, but some of them only work on the 3DS's unique features, and those will be lost to time.

My days of PLAYING 3DS, though, are far from over. I have a huge backlog of games still to play, and it's still just the best system there is for plane rides and bus trips. As an overall system, it had probably the most robust variety of RPGs and Strategy Games, and other genres that take hours to play. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

This is one of the rare games that really took advantage of the 3D display. It's playable in 2D, but 3D really makes it work.

It wasn't necessarily when the best games came out, but I, like many, spent SO much time in 2020 playing Switch. It might not have produced the best games, but 2020 stands out as the year that the Switch really helped my state of mental well-being.

Etrian Odyssey remaster is coming. Maybe they don't like the idea of giving those games away on the cheap when there might be a whole series of remakes to sell.

The Fire Emblem Echoes theme with Celica that plays With MIla's Divine Protection, which is probably my favorite Fire Emblem song.

Something's wonky with the poll. It lists the results, even though I haven't voted, and there are a whole bunch of blank entries with various percentages.

According to my sources (My sources are the guy behind the Gamestop counter, so grain of salt) Nintendo accidentally shipped out some game that was supposed to come out at the beginning of March in the cases that were supposed to have Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime is expected to come in at the start of March.

My Day 1 Amazon preorder is coming in late March!? Gonna hit the pavement and see if any of the brick and mortar stores are carrying it, and then cancel my preorder if I find one.

GBA may overtake it in time, but the SNES just had such an amazing library. Even the duds are fun to play for a couple hours.

The NES game was my very first disappointment. Used a birthday present to get it and it sucks soooooo much.

I didn't know they were remaking Montezuma's Revenge! Hi, I'm older than the hills, and I used to play this game!

Metroid 2 was the Nintendo Power poster that hung in my bedroom throughout my childhood, and will always be the gold standard in my mind.

I traded in my GBA for a Celebi-Edition GBA, and then traded THAT to get my SP. I would eventually trade THAT up to a 3DS, but a couple years later, my wife would give me the NES Edition SP for my Birthday which I still have to this day.