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@LazyDaisy Your first paragraph (the one you have just removed !) was fair enough.

So many phallic symbols...

Is this the way Samus feel empowered ?

@jfp But don't you think Nintendo games (and now movies) are actually blockbusters made by a company that don't take much risks anymore ?
They kept their cold blood and took a risk with BoTW (a WiiU game, originally) when they were close to the edge and when Itawa ran the house...and because they couldn't feed a console only with "Mario kart" and Kirby remakes.

I wish they made more space a for more creativity and experimental things like Mario 35, F-Zero 99 or this cardboard stuff (Nintendo Labo).

It looks like the laboratory has closed its doors and that Nintendo asks itself : "What Disney would do ?"

I guess video games are polyglot. "Tetris" doesn't speak the same language as, say "GTA 5".

"Pac-Man couldn't be anything else than a video game, therefore Pac Man is hitchcockian."

None of them provide the smell of powder nor tinnitus...

@Styledvinny79 You sound so optimistic that I have the feeling that when you wrote "if we see it", you meant "if we see 2026"...

Apart from that, T2 is the only game I've been looking forward since a long time.

@goomba478 Thanks for the input !

@SirLink Indeed. "95% of original Switch owners haven't transitioned to Switch 2" might be read in a negative way.

"it’s clear you’re not in Kansas anymore" : )

Apart from that, the game looks like a psychedelic collectathon, but a collectathon still. Isn't this a bit boring ?

There's a smiling young woman (those thighs !) lost among the steroid club on the japanese cover, so....

@Yoshi3 Congratulations for your patience !

We're all so different...
749$ is the price i'd ask to keep that "absollute thing of beauty" (dixit Yosher) at home for one month.

Is Muhammad bin Salman still a shareholder of Nintendo ?
Knowing that Singapore is a tax haven with virtually no political opposition, one can see the democratic values of Nintendo which is a multinational like any other.
One for the money, two for the more and more standardised and pricey video games (and Legos, and Happy meal, and bland movies, and real estate, etc...)

@PinderSchloss

Indeed. It's been a while that Mario swapped his plumber overalls for the international business class traveler suit.

Not to be mistaken with Shapiro factory , the famous rabbi simulator.

Rather globular eyes.
Glad there was not a voiced narration in Captain Toad.

I found Lego Voyagers was the most appealing game of the Direct.
It's published by Annapurna, which seems to have slightly changed their artistic views to make more $$$.
The daughter of Larry Ellison eventually became a business-as-usual adult, I suppose...

The best entries of the series were released within the first 5 years (the first 10 years if, as I do, you consider Yoshi's Island as part of the gang).
The wait for "Super Mario World 2" seemed sooo long back in the days, when I was a kid.
And I'm still waiting for a sequel to "A link to the past" on Super Nes !

@gcunit You can read it. The article contains misconceptions (e.g : "it's a masterpiece") but no spoilers.

@NintendoJunkie My comment doesn't contain an ounce of irony. There were enough original and intriguing game mechanics that made me stay but I found Undertale disturbing and unpleasant by the way the story unfolds. I couldn't tell you more without spoiling this already bitter sauce.
Just don't put too much trust in that skeleton character that sticks with you along that game, which has been widely praised, but turns out to be a sadistic moral lesson, in my opinion.
Keep in mind I'm in minority, but still...

No. This game made me feel terrible and guilty.
The twist at the end was imagined by a pervert, and I felt like I was abused by the creator of this horrendous game and by the characters who inhabit in it.

Thank you for this free advertising, Nintendo Life.

@SausageWearer
Hard to know if your comment is ironic or scornful.

Please no ! Not the Gymnopedie n°1 !

"Card shark", a game that takes place two centuries before Satie's era is already playing this tune in again and again.

And there will be no problemo to play Terminator 2 on Switch 1, baby !

How to put things, such figures, in perspective ?

Nintendo capitalisation = 100.000.000.000 $ = 1/4 net worth of the current Senior Advisor to the President of the United States = 50 millions times my wage.

Everything's normal.

"The heart of the matter lies in production costs"
...and the brain of the matter lies in profitability rate.
Don't want to know where the cojones of the matter lie.

The weakest moments of the Iwata and Miyamoto show are the shots on that poor 3DS screen and that messy map and that CG Victory of Samothrace seen from the top or whatever angle...
I hate audioguides even more if they are videoguides.

How many "Retro Bowl" (82 MB, still) can you store in "Madden 26" ?

I love the original F-Zero and X.

Fast RMX and its cumbersome vehicles had not much to do with them...

@Moroboshi876

Yes: F-Zero 99 1.7 : the offline edition.

98 decent artificial opponents in such a game must be more challenging to achieve than with Tetris 99.

All things considered, writing the script of "Outrun" requires much more talent than adapting, say "Gone with the wind" (based on a novel) or "Amadeus" (based on a play), because there is no story to rely on at all.
( my attempt to prove Hollywood is still getting better)

So, Rudd got his paycheck for both the commercial and the "rather lovely little conversation" (aka "professionalism") just like he (and his colleagues) does with industrial movies and press junket, and we're supposed to get sentimental ?

SUPER FAMICOM !

Super Mario World ! F-Zero !

REALIZE !

A detective ? I thought he was the mailman.

Why not summoning demons, good for them, but does someone know how to summon good Nintendo directs ?

That host... please, change the host !

And no more such anticlimatic endings !

Phase 4: the shovelware tsunami

"Video games are not video anymore" (Stevie Mario Wonder)

I've read a lot of rumours.
That one about the Philippines crew who mutiny because Brussels sprouts were served at every dinner (Nintendo owes half of sprout fields on Earth, it's not well known).
That other one that claims those Switch 2 are actually on a cruise, going to the Cyclades islands.

They made an offer he couldn't turn down : Miyamoto woke up with Epona's head besides him.

I hesitate between "Dolores Los Angeles" and "Blennorrhagia chronicles".

@Olliemar28 Hello ! Homeric typo in the title.

@rvcolem1 Thank you ! I knew I could count on NL community rather than google.

It's absolutely off topic but, by seeing the hour this article was posted at, I just realised that 12 a.m. = midnight (anglo-saxon I am not)

What hour is noon, then ?

I'm waiting for the "harmful edition" that comes with a lancet and a flamethrower.

The name reminds me I brushed my teeth with soap once.
Avoid doing it.