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We just need some progress indicators or something that tells us which levels we've played or beaten in the new DLC mini games. There's no way to tell.

A really great game. Would love a new one.

I held off on buying it on Steam since I heard it is coming to console. Now I know when, hurray! Should be fun in local co-op.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Wind Waker

@datamonkey I noticed that. They make no sense!

What is wrong with everyone. It was a blast. Went with my wife and 2 kids and we all agreed it was fun and loved it.

Plot was fine, you just have to keep up. It was a bit rushed like the first but that's only because we wanted more!
It felt more serious than the first.

I do wish Yoshi's voice was more like the games though, but we got used to it.
Wish Donkey Kong had real screen time though.

@hol_up Also, it happens a lot with open world games since there are more variables to take into consideration.

@tjhiphop Terrible article and foolish decision. I was just checking the daily news here and saw this. I avoided trailers on purpose.

I had no idea he was going to be in the movie and NL spoiled it...

@Mana_Knight I've always said "bros" and not "bro's" even in the 90's.

This looks great and seems like it has a lot of content. Not sure why the low score. It seems very fun. I personally didn't enjoy Wonder in local co-op. We played it all and I didn't have fun and didn't like the badges.
I am playing it on my own lately and it is a lot more fun. Not a fan of the map though. But, this DLC looks great for co-op.
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is better though, especially in co-op. Very funny game.

Silly Nintendo and all other companies that launched products in the past 2 years and this year. They all knew, along with me and others, that EU will be enforcing this. They should have done this for the Switch 2 already. But, greediness won over their souls. They want us to buy it again.

@Kiz3000 Exactly, especially if we want to quickly enable/disable motion, etc.

@SillyG And also to have Handheld Mode Boost in Quick Settings (holding home button).

A proper update! That is exciting. I know they had one a few months after launch, which was great too.

Very happy to see that and hope they launch these once every 6 months or so to keep this machine updated, unlike the Switch 1 that was pretty much abandoned after it released (apart from new games).

Would love to get system music like the Wii U.

@rockodoodle which game has better handling and overall driving?
I tried the Crossworlds demo last year and didn't like the driving at all. It felt bad and cheap feeling without good control.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed was awesome. Mario Kart is great as usual.

Maybe they went with C for both "Chat" and "Custom", such as when we remap this to a custom key, which is what I'm going to do.

It's a cute flower, but the voice is so off from what it should be. Never liked its voice and always found it really freaky.

I wish they chose a more Mario-style voice (cartoon, matching Mario games).

Great news. I think they mean play PC games like Steam and such (hopefully all launchers) from what I recall from a year ago. I already love the Xbox Series X, really fun and great console with lots of features, apps, and such, but I'd love to stop playing games on laptop due to how uncomfortable it is and play on a console with keyboard, mouse, and controller.

So many people have Xbox so lots of the comments here are plain ignorant and silly.

Switch 2 is really just for Nintendo games (or on the go if you do that, but I don't). It's a boring machine, other than that while Xbox is jam-packed.

Yay Toem 2! The first was amazing.

Looks awesome!

@ElkinFencer10 Indeed!
By the way, I tried Monster Hunter Stories 3 demo on both Xbox Series X and Switch 2, and yes, I can confirm that Switch 2 version is very blurry, both handheld and docked, unfortunately. The FPS is poor.
Shadows are not as good.
Sharpness is very low.
Even colours look toned down.
There's also more depth of field or blur so that it doesn't have to load assets that far.
Anti-aliasing isn't that good.
Less texture too, maybe.

It's a poor version but totally playable. I'm sure they can do better.

Xbox has 3 graphics settings (performance, balanced, quality) + motion blur, while Switch 2 has none but only brightness.
Balanced looks great and plays at 60 FPS most of the time.
Performance stays at 60 FPS and still looks way better than Switch 2.

Switch 2 plays at around 25 to 50, mostly around 30-40 FPS (my own impression).

Played the Xbox Series X trial this morning, at least 1 hour of it. It did draw me in but like its predecessors, I am not a fan of the battle system. It does have skills and other things but I get so confused and it's really too fast. I understand the triangle system of what beats what, but the way it plays is confusing. Who's turn is next? Why can't I control other characters, etc. Mind you I only went through one tutorial battle that had 2 separate enemies.

The graphics and areas are stunning. Makes me want to be there. Soo beautiful. Love the art style

I am playing Balanced mode on Xbox, not performance and not quality but in between. It's nice to see these 3 options! It's usually at 60 FPS but can dip down a bit but usually 60 FPS.

What I didn't like, apart from battle system, is that movement in the city is limited. Lots of invisible walls, can't jump (yet we can jump in the overworld), can't go see what's beyond a fence, etc. It's already open world so they should have allowed us to go anywhere, like Dragon's Dogma 2 (one of my favourite games).

@ElkinFencer10
Edit: I am looking at this from my laptop, not phone, and it is way sharper.
I'm surprised because Star Wars Outlaws is sharper than this and requires more power. Metroid Prime 4 is way sharper. I'm sure they can work on this a bit more.

But, yes, I do wish the Switch 2, in docked mode, had some type of stronger hybrid GPU to give more performance than now, but this is Nintendo and I'm used to them taking the wrong decisions (in my eyes ).

@Axecon Exactly! So much potential and they're focusing on the same games over and over again. E.g., Switch 1 got 3 Mario Party games for some reason.

I bought this game a long time ago but didn't play it yet. Very excited to one day as I love this series. Color Splash was one of my favourite ones. Witty, funny writing. Fun gameplay. Lots to explore and I really enjoyed filling in the blanks .

Xbox Series X it is then (will be same as PS5 version). Way sharper than Switch 2, which is the worst out of all (again).

There should be one app for everything. Nintendo Store, Nintendo Switch app, Parental controls, etc. and just add security settings in there to access any specific part. Fingerprint for this, for that, etc.

26.99 CAD on Xbox Series X.
33.49 on Switch 2.
26.99 on Switch 1.
I won't buy this on Switch 2 then. Xbox it is.
Good job Nintendo and companies for this extremely silly pricing thing. Hope they keep losing business for their price increases and learn their lesson. No one should support that practice until they decide they were wrong and go back to normal pricing.

@LastFootnote I got my MicroSD Express from eBay. The seller was in USA back in July and he shipped it to Canada. Lower price than anywhere else. Brand new, all good til this day!

Not sure why Clair Obscur is in best design. I played most of it and watched the cutscenes of the rest since I get annoyed (and stressed) with turn-based combat (and I had other issues with the game), and I only found its design decent. I wonder how they grade that category.

@DdG1408 - It was a great movie. We all loved it here and we're many.

Once they add cloud saves, I'll buy this. For now, we're playing using my brother's virtual game card. Before you comment, when we switched from Switch 1 to Switch 2, my daughter lost all her save file. It got corrupted somehow. She had to start anew. If there was cloud save, everything would be fine. If Nintendo would just listen to us...

It's going to get worse for almost every company since they all want to keep increasing prices on us, including the government.

@boxyguy Indeed.
Next I really hope they can bring more sports games back like baseball (Mario Super Sluggers) and hockey (Mario Sports Mix), etc.

They've given us enough tennis, though this is welcomed.

They need to fix Mario soccer/football (Strikers) as it was not fun on the Switch but fun on GameCube, and a Switch 2 edition of golf with improved everything.

@UpsideDownRowlet Hmm..

Too late. They should have launched these at launch. Silly decisions they take. I already have four Joy Cons 2 and do not need more.

Would have liked different colours but I feel the way they have the Switch 2 set up indicates that we need those 2 default colours and only those. It's really weird how they did things with this machine.

I love all those Wii Party and U games and all others with Miis. We need them all back!

I'll stick to Xbox Series X or Steam. Though Steam version really wants us to play with a controller. Very low mouse sensitivity even at max, very very low, and controls are off.

Switch 2 plays at 30 FPS with a bit lower graphics, less AA, bad shadows, etc.
Awesome game though.

Can't wait for a Switch 2 edition so that I can finally play this game, if they ever launch it.

I love Hogwarts Legacy! A true RPG in a very detailed world. Lots to do.

I have it on Xbox Series X and they recently made it accessible via Windows PC, meaning that I can now play it on PC just for owning it on Xbox, which improves it since it has better graphics (more options). Keyboard and mouse supported on both.

Hope they don't abandon this.

I hate timed events . Haven't even started the game.

@Jhena It's a great game! No idea why some dislike it. I'm thinking they may have only tried the demo. I honestly didn't fully like the demo but really loved the game. Lots of levels. Some good challenge here and there. Lots to do but some repetitive tasks too. Music was repetitive.

@DennyCrane Same. Switch was a downgrade in every area apart from screen and graphics performance (even then, it was very weak). Wii U was comfortable, lots of unique features, lovely machine, fun games.

I see the Switch 2 as a computer upgrade over the Switch 1.

Switch 1 is as if I had a very poor computer that wouldn't run games well.

Switch 2 is an upgrade and finally runs those games well.
I bought it on launch day for that reason, not because of new games.

I have many previous games that I refused to play on the poor Switch 1.

Folks need to see it like that and really refrain from commenting about the Switch 2 not having enough games. The Switch 1 is a very, very poor device and I and my kids couldn't stand it. No one wanted to use it, so we just used the Xbox Series X or my laptop. We still do, to be honest, but now we reach for the Switch 2 more often and are mostly pleased with it compared to the first.

You know what's strange, some entertainment media like video games and phones reduce "packaging" and cheapen out by not including booklets, chargers, earphones, etc.

What's really going on with those deceptive companies and not including booklets/chargers/cables?

But yet, if I go buy an electric shaver/trimmer, I get multiple manuals and information booklets along with a cable and a charger, a brush, etc. Those devices cost from $25 to $90.

I buy Uno or other card games, booklet with instructions. And it's only around $7.

Same with many products.

I got 4 Joy-Cons 2 warrantied already here in Canada, for free of course. Issue was the rubber below was getting stuck on its own, preventing stick rotation, and ZL button wouldn't hold when I was holding it, it would unclick it self. All mostly okay now.

The Switch 2 itself is a not bad device. Whoever thinks it's outstanding or excellent doesn't know hardware and is lying to themselves because that's all we're getting and we can't do anything about it, unfortunately.

It needs a bit more to be able to be great. It's not comfortable. It lacks features. Wi-Fi is quite poor. Etc.
Other devices, especially the Legion Go models, are better but this one has the Nintendo games.

It LOOKS so good. Reminds me of older games. Nice feeling. No idea how it plays yet so I'll wait for reviews. Hopefully no hidden agenda too.
Nvm, based on the images I see, looks like it has the agenda. I'll stay away.

@Jimmy_G_Buckets I'm always happy to see those. They caught and fixed/resolved issues quickly.
I do hope they add more content to this though. 20 hours is too short for this big title.

@AlonditeFE I love Dragon's Dogma 2! So much that I bought the first one also (Dark Arisen) and will play it in the future.

Got it a few weeks ago and been playing it ever since. Soooo much exploration, it's wild. Very long game as I like to explore everything. I imagine it was poorer when it first launched before the patches. It still needs a bit of work here and there but very nice, fun game.

To stay on point for this. Can't wait to buy Metroid 4, but a bit disappointed to see that it's only about 20 hours. I would expect 40 hours for this type of game.