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@Fazermint Pam arrives at 10ish (or you can make her arrive a little earlier with a glitch) which is a pretty good time frame which lets you get stuff done on the farm first. Bring plenty of stone to craft staircases, and you can easily craft bombs or buy them from the Dwarf for cheap. Once in the desert mine, blast away and/or set staircases down, and don’t stop until you get to around level 30. Once there, the chance of rewards and good materials significantly increases.

This looks like hot garbage

@retro_player_22 Yep, I was just going to say this looks like Mystic Quest. Jumping 2 spaces ahead on the rocks, and the character placement in battles. This is one to keep an eye on.

Can anyone tell me if some of the show’s original music is in this game? Specifically A Tender Feeling or Everyday Life?

Anyone else notice the “Zelda” font is directly ripped from Breath of the Wild? Same rips and tears, just no Silent Princess growing out of the Z.

@Reigestugatensho Yes, you can get smart phone / tablet styluses that have some give to them. A bit squishy to imitate your fingertip, but they are larger, like your finger is, and not the fine pen/pencil tip like the 3DS/Wii U styluses are. As a result they still occlude the screen a bit, which can be slightly annoying when you need/want absolute precision.

I suspect Mario Maker is a similar situation. "Absolutely perfect" on Wii U, and "really really good" on Switch, if it ever comes.

@Reigestugatensho I played it on PS3 and loved the combat, hated the digging / building with the onscreen cursor controlled by the right stick. I also played it on iOS, and I loved digging / building with touch controls but hated the combat. You get the best of both worlds on the Wii U.

I would only consider it on Switch if it has touch controls, but even then, using my finger is still not ideal compared to the Wii U's stylus, when it comes to absolute precision.

I love Terraria but I feel it’s best suited on the Wii U. Actual buttons for fighting, and the touch pad and stylus for building.

@the8thark Can you explain please a few ways how Yooka is better than A Hat In Time? I've never played either, and based on reviews alone, I'm more inclined to purchase Hat. I would hope that the majority of reviews for both would be honest.

This kind of looks like the same gameplay as the vehicle / ship levels in LEGO Star Wars

@JaxonH If Nintendo or Squeenix hasn't officially stated that a physical is or is not happening, then whatever Amazon or Best Buy says means nothing. Retailers will list whatever they want as a placeholder just so we have the option to pre-order with them. Release dates, price, and format don't mean anything.

@Anti-Matter PlayAsia also says both are set at $50, and release date is December 2019. These are just placeholders.

@Anti-Matter Do you have a source that says both will be physical?

Love the artwork for XII, but it's missing my favorite character. Basch is the man.

I think how the fighter plays is more important than who they actually are. I mean, I'd love to see Banjo, but if he plays like garbage then I would never pick him. On the other hand, if they give us Gameboy Pixel, just a dark green square and he bloody owns, then I'd choose him even if he's boring to look at.

Kid Chameleon is a true gem. Great music, a handful of transformations, and multiple pathways through what seems like hundreds of stages so that no play through needs to be the same if you don't want it to be. A true competitor to Mario back in the day.

Does anyone know how the multiplayer works? Similar to Nintendo Switch Online? In Kid Chameleon 2P, each player makes their own progress through the game, so either you're watching Player 2 run through the stage you just beat, or in theory they could be stuck on a level and you leave them in the dust. The game is so massive that it makes more sense to just play 1P and "pass the controller." Anyone know if that's possible?

Or you could just play Stardew Valley

@Pod Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the narrator in Bastion is the same voice actor as the Transistor, which also acts like a narrator. If it ruined Bastion for you it’ll ruin Transistor as well.

Personally I love both games and can’t wait to get this one!

@impurekind @LUIGITORNADO didn't say anything negative about VR, just that they have no interest in it. That doesn't make them ignorant, it just means they have an opinion about something.

I happen to agree with @LUIGITORNADO, VR is just not my thing. I don't want my vision restricted either.

I would have guessed maybe Terraria, if it hadn't already been released physically. My next guess would have been Freedom Planet, except now there's the Switch edition so that doesn't make much sense either.

@smashboy2000 @Mogster The Whitehead version also includes an area in Marble Zone only accessible to Tails and Knuckles which is a cool treat. And I agree, despite having touch controls and not a traditional controller, the Whitehead version is still superior. The touch controls work perfectly, to the point where I can unlock Super Sonic in S2 before fighting the first boss.

@rjejr I was thinking "Overcooked 2: Wolfgang DLC"

@MH4 I second that

@Gerald Thank you, someone finally mentioned the benefits of the controller. Have you ever tried playing GoldenEye or TWINE with a dual stick controller? It's impossible, those games were made for the 4 C buttons. Not to mention the ocarina / instruments in OoT and MM. I would buy this in a heartbeat just to have those controllers again

And for anyone saying the graphics haven't aged well, 1) I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem making each or most of the titles 60 FPS, and 2) A great game is a great game, and after 5 min of gameplay you can be absorbed enough to not care

@gcunit Paraside is a hidden event in Pocket Camp where a bunch of parrots get together and kill themselves

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Dom has made some terrible grammatical errors in the past that are often distracting. No one can deny that. But for this article's mistakes you're just being a nitpicking troll. You said these are basic and obvious mistakes that shouldn't be made, but you missed one:

"There's are issues with these lines..." -your first comment

That was a basic and obvious mistake, and you shouldn't have made it.

@nab1 Braid would be an instant buy for me, even though I've played it a dozen times on my PS3. Same for Flower and Journey.

I really want to hear about Hollow Knight, and I would love a Supergiant Collection announcement (Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre) 😍

It's better than nothing but I don't understand the mentality. I "save" $3.00 on a $60 game, but if 1 million people download that game then Ninty just lost $3M (using simple math to make my point).

Also, I agree with everyone else about the timing in the US. I got 12 points for registering BotW a year ago, and now it should be worth 5x that amount but we rolled this new system out a few days too late? What a joke. I love Nintendo and I love the Switch but this is ridiculous.

@FlashBoomerang when you are upside, most likely left will still be left and right will still be right, so flipping the Switch would actually make it harder on yourself. But if not, that's a great idea 😃

Uhh...which one of these titles is the "Metroidvania" ?

@AlexioC Right, it'll be new for Nintendo and new for amiibo.

Or maybe it'll be like a board game, Mario Party style but with amiibo, that you play with the Switch flat on a table.

I bet we will get a Nintendo game similar to Disney Infinite or Lego Dimensions, with steady updates the consumers throw money at. After all, they copied Disney and Skylanders by releasing amiibo, but they never had the same software experience to go with them. This would breathe new life into amiibo which would increase their sales.

YouTube would be good. I find it funny that whenever I want to watch a Nintendo Direct on my TV to get all the latest Switch news, I need to fire up my Wii U to do so.

Other than that I don't need or want any others. Right now the Switch is primarily "mine" because it's just games, and I keep my games in suspended status all the time. The last thing I need is my wife losing my progress in a game so she can watch Real Housewives.

@Biff_ARMStrong while that is true for the Phantom armor set that is relatively easy to obtain, 2 of these Xeno pieces are in hard to reach areas where you should already have armor that far surpasses them. In other words, by the time you find these they are useless.

I would buy an N64 Mini just because some of those games NEED to be played with an N64 controller. If you ever tried playing GoldenEye or TWINE with a dual stick controller, you'll know what I'm talking about. Not to mention playing the instruments in OoT and Majora; it's doable but it feels right at home on their native controller.

I'm okay with the save time. I love the game so far but I have a few concerns. You can't customize the controls at all, B and + both take you to the inventory screen, - takes you to Quests, X takes you to crafting...and nothing takes you straight to the map. Clicking in the sticks does nothing, the left "d-pad" buttons are the same as the L stick...there is plenty of real-estate here to give me a map button.

Also, does anyone know what the L and R shoulder buttons do? The gear in my inventory kind of wiggle when you press them but nothing happens. I'm sure it must be something I'm not ready for.

@aaronsullivan I definitely respect that opinion, but keep in mind there's a reason why the Iron Boots became an equippable item in OoT3D. People complained that pausing the game to equip/unequip over and over again was unintuitive. The Korok mask is no different, except now we aren't just dealing with a small number of water areas in OoT's Hyrule, we are talking about 900 different locations spanning across a massive world. Either we will be doing a lot of pausing and unpausing, or we will end up wearing the Korok mask at the end of the game when there is nothing left to do. Probably both.

Also, I would like to argue that one of the most fun parts of this game was getting distracted and lost, going off on tangents to go see what's "over there." The Sheikah Sensor helped to facilitate this whenever it started beeping, depending on what you were targeting with it. An intuitive, automatic Korok sensor that I don't need to bother equipping would have done the same thing seemlessly.

@nf_2 The name of the DLC pack is The Master Trials, we don't actually know where any of the new items will be located.

I have to say I'm very disappointed that all the new equipment have the same functionality as original equipment. I thought for sure Tingle would be something like 2x Rupee Find. Majora's Mask is the only one sort of worth finding. Hopefully you can upgrade its armor unlike the Kilton masks.

Also, the function of the Korok mask is a good idea and much needed, but it shouldn't have been a mask. Wearing it will cause you to break set bonuses and will require pausing the game to equip/unequip. It should have been a key item like the Champion powers, turn it on and off, or Koroks should have been added to the Sheikah Sensor. Or even better, it could have functioned like the Fireshield earrings in SS, start to glow when a Korok is nearby. They had plenty of options here but they went with the one most intrusive.

I love the references, but I'm pretty sure "Rok Woods - Roc's Feather" is completely wrong. Rok Woods is filled with OctoROKs. I'm sure there's also probably a KoROK or two in there.

@BlueKnight07 I was thinking the Switch itself would be the sensor bar, similar to how the Wii U Gamepad had one. And when the Switch is docked the top pokes out which is where it could have been.

I was so excited during the Switch presentation, I had thought the IR was on top and the Joy Con were, essentially, the Wiimote and Nunchuk reborn. I had expected Wii games to come to the VC, and I was ready to buy my whole Wii collection over again just so I could play on my sleek new Joy Con. I can't believe it took me this long to notice the IR is on the bottom😭

I understand the shoulder buttons are "in the way" but still. My excitement level just plummeted. Third parties aren't going to waste their time with IR on the bottom, especially when it's only on the right and not on both. What a missed opportunity.

Anyone know if anything is planned for WonderBoy in Monster World from the Genesis? Hands down one of my favorites of all time, bought it day one on the Wii VC

I think the main question is, for those of us who own or want to own the Shovel Knight amiibo...what functionality will it serve now? They need to create some new use out of it; that's what makes it amiibo and not just a plastic statue.