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They should've fixed the performance in the final trial of V3.

I love these recurring Nintendo Life "would love to see game X on Nintendo platform Y" articles – they always fills me with hope... not.

Would have been interesting to see how many of these dreams ended up becoming realized. @Liam_Doolan, can you investigate? You must have written a couple of hundred articles on the subject by now?

I don't really care that much. Should they have American accents instead? Or Swedish?

Best news of the year!

@JohnnyC At first, I thought you meant that GTA as a franchise has sold 150 million copies, but it's really just GTA V?! That's insane numbers! Wow... I haven't played it, but I've no doubt it's a quality game. Rockstar are known for it!

Snagged a physical copy of Shadowverse recently and it's a really good game! Highly recommend it!

I also have Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution and Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission in my Switch collection. They are fine, but the former crashes all the effing time. Irritating!

I hope Voice of Cards 1 and 2 will get a physical release eventually. Come on, Square Enix! I'll even import an English language version from Asia!

I'm doing the same as @KateGray: playing my physical copy of Murder by Numbers (imported from Play-Asia, they have the exclusive right). I highly recommend it to fans of Ace Attorney and Picross.

Other than that: Pokémon Legends Arceus and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 + going back to Octopath Traveler and Final Fantasy X-2.

@IronMan30 Yeah, what was I thinking? Of course it will.

It'll probably sell pretty well, but I don't think it will be the Switch rival everyone is writing it up to be.

I can see this easily outselling the Switch by the end of the year.

I'm fine with the 3DS remake.

How could I've forgotten about a game that I've never heard of and that probably will never come here?

The future of speedrunning.

Just started it up, have chosen my starter and cleared the first mission some minutes ago.
I agree that the graphics are not up to the standards you'd expect in this day and age, even on the Switch, but everything else seems pretty solid so far. Will see if it holds up in the long run.

@jarvismp Sorry?

@jarvismp It's modern day Konami we're talking about...

@JokerCK The other YGO game on Switch, Legacy of the Duelist also runs pretty bad with constant crashes. Hasn't been fixed.

Played it a lot as a child. Can't wait!

@Specter_of-the_OLED Thanks! Hopefully we'll get a physical release, at least in Asia with English language options.

Lovely art style! Is the mobile game any good?

Will there be a standard retail release, both in Europe and the US?

It seems that some people only care about the graphics.

@wolvesboy Excellent comment. Agree 100%.

@RyanCraddock Why is this not labeled rumour?

I hope it contains a great single player campaign this time.

Shin Megami Tensei V got down from 87 to 85 since last time I checked. But it doesn't matter. It's my favorite game of the year!

I don't care for football (or any other sport), but this game looks very charming!

So no European physical release...

Some of them needs to be put down for their own sake.

A lot of awesome purchases for me personally, so would give it a 9/10.

The 2021 Switch games I bought are the following:
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
Bravely Default II
Saviors of Sapphire Wings/Stranger of Sword City Revisited
Monster Hunter Rise
SaGa Frontier Remastered
New Pokémon Snap
Miitopia
Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster
World's End Club
Game Builder Garage
Legend of Mana
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
The Silver Case 2425
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
NEO: The World Ends With You
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1
WarioWare: Get It Together!
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot + A New Power Awakens Set
Astria Ascending
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania
Metroid Dread
Mario Party Superstars
Shin Megami Tensei V
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond
Danganronpa Decadence

Bodes well for future SMT titles. Best new game I've played this year!

I have played three (IMO) 10/10 Switch titles this year: New Pokémon Snap, Metroid Dread and Shin Megami Tensei V. SMTV is my favorite one.

Edit: Oh, I forgot The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles! That's also a 10!

Yeah, haven't played it and heard it's one of the best in the series. Only played Sticker Stars (yuck!) and The Origami King (good!).

Didn't watch it and seems I didn't miss anything noteworthy.

@IronMan30 There are pros and cons with most countries. But the social security is pretty good here.

You can always apply for citizenship.

I was hoping for Metroid Dread, but this seems like a deserved win.
Josef Fares directed a lot of good movies here in Sweden, before moving on to video games. Cool that his studio got this recognition!

@AmplifyMJ Yeah, here in Sweden 8 hours per day (40 hours per week) is considered a normal full-time job. I think it's the same in a lot of European countries, but I'm not sure.

Might be that we work less hours overall though than the US? You might take into account some people with full-time employments reducing their working hours, to take care of their children or study or something else. I know a lot of people who are only working 75%, though they have full-time jobs, of course cutting their monthly salary.

Great news! Well done, Germany.

@HammerGalladeBro People prefer diamonds before pearls? But might've changed if Brilliant Diamond was called Brilliant Swine instead?

It's the same in my country: Diamond is more popular. Maybe because it shows up first in order?

@JasmineDragon Same here. Though I play Pokémon Diamond as well at the moment. And I own Animal Crossing, but got tired of it early on.

But SMTV and Danganronpa are where it's at! Though my physical copy of the latter got delayed, hope it shows up this week.

I recently got Brigandine and Astria Ascending too, seems like two fine titles.

I don't know if any of these games are bad, really, but the most boring ones to me are the two DS games. Couldn't get into those.

There's a lot of dislike for Zelda II, but is that because of the game's quality or its reputation? I've been playing it some on the new G&W and sure, it's hard and pretty primitive, but also kinda interesting and... yeah... fun! Would love to see a remake of it!

Looks interesting! Are these games good?

Mario Kart is a beast!

Love the artstyle!

The first game was good, so will check this one out.

Cheesy, but I kinda liked it, at least the artwork. The mixing sounded a bit off though.

But it wasn’t as cringe as this (first four minutes):
https://youtu.be/DCnpPOLMJXE

🙀

Never really gave the DS original a chance, but I relly dig this remake so far and find it more entertaining than Sword and Shield. It’s not perfect, but it has that classic Pokémon feel I remember from playing Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver as a child. I think the DS originals came out at a time when my interest in Pokémon had dropped, and even though I played it, I never really got into it. So I’m glad I got another chance on the Switch.

I prefer the cel-shading. It will age better.

"We feel special mention needs to be made here that you need no knowledge of the League universe to connect with this story."

Sounds great! Will there be a physical release?

Seeing as other SW games, that first got a LRG release, later got European retail releases, I will probably skip this.

@Razzy Play whatever you like. If you think the games look bad, that's your opinion and it's fine as long as you don't insult other people's intelligence like the insecure fella above. I think these remakes look fine. Nothing remarkable, but not mobile quality either. Taste differs.

Regarding the sales argument: yeah, that's pretty stupid. But it also comes down to opinion. A lot of people like these games. I can't say that some of these titles are objectively bad, just not my taste. Some games I like sell like crazy, some games I like don't. I still enjoy them equally though.