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Man I hope so. I've been able to stick to my guns about not buying any GKC yet, but that's only because nothing I care about has released that way yet. It's a ticking clock until that happens.

@HammerGalladeBro
You'd be forgiven for not realizing this, but both Dragon Driftway and Dragon Palace have the Chai Kingdom motif mixed into their songs. Lol

Actually pumped my fist and said "yes!" when I saw this appear in the app. Easily one of the best OSTs they could've added relative to how small it is.

@HammerGalladeBro
There's 16 tracks in this release that are just varying levels of "hurry up" versions, so your estimate of about 20 is actually almost spot-on.

@Neckcrane
I already know this all from checking my playtime in the past few months, so this is probably cheating, but I believe my top 5 games at the moment for 2025 are:
1) Tears of the Kingdom (120 hrs)
2) Super Mario Maker 2 (95 hrs)
3) Pokémon Scarlet (70 hrs I think)
4) Mario Kart World (60 hrs)
5) Donkey Kong Bananza (50 hrs)

I could see shifts upward for MKW or SMM2 after I finish Metroid Prime 4 though, we'll see.

This is a huge win imo, I was always disappointed that December didn't count.

As someone who just dumps everything he cares about onto his favorites playlist and then shuffles that endlessly, most of these stats are too limited to be interesting - my "favorite songs" are just whatever lengthy songs have been on my playlist the longest. (e.g. Castle Bowser Battle, Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit, BotW Hyrule Castle, etc.)

The main stat of note is my 818 hours of listening. I don't have a problem, you have a problem 🤣

@LazyDaisy
I always joke that Nintendo requires the Yoshi games to have bad music; Woolly World's composer* missed the memo and accidentally made an S-tier OST full of bangers, so they laid him off and replaced him for Crafted World lol.

(*I believe this guy is known for having done certain Castlevania soundtracks!)

This is perfect, I've been teetering on the edge of the fence with this game. A demo is just what I needed!

I was pleasantly surprised recently when Pokémon Legends Z-A included a bunch of extra printed material inside the case! I don't think I have any other first party Switch title like that. Admittedly made me smile, reminded me of the good ole' DS days. The type chart in particular was really nice.

@Dark-Luigi
The Switch 2 version of Pokémon Legends Z-A + the DLC for it is $95, so unfortunately it is believable that they would charge for MKW DLC, even if it would certainly be unreasonable.

@FlyingDunsparce
Hard agree on this, the CSS is beyond awful and easily the worst I've ever seen. Possibly the biggest UI blunder I've ever seen Nintendo make. I can post a huge rant on it but I'll spare y'all that lol

I strongly believe that we'll be getting Bananza DLC featuring K. Rool, but this seems like a huge reach. It's still important information though, because it tells us that Nintendo's lifting the lid on Bananza spoilers, so that brings us a step closer to this DLC getting announced.

(My personal belief is that one wave of DLC will be a Bananza tie-in and will have K. Rool and the missing Kongs plus costumes for DK and Pauline, while another wave will be Wonder-themed and will include the Koopalings, maybe with some costumes for Bowser and Jr.)

@1Kismet
I knew that they added more laps, but I didn't realize that they actually changed the layout, that's huge! Thanks for pointing it out!

The music option is great, but for some reason instead of including a slider, they just give you a "loud" option. Better than nothing I suppose lol.

The item selector means that NPC characters are now super easy to unlock!

This update is u_ns^t_ab_l^e

For the US, this seems more like a clearance sale lol (outside of Hogwarts Legacy and Star Wars). A slew of games that either no one cares about or are some of the worst GKC offenders.

Yay, all of the apps are now rebranded and have the control updates! The inconsistencies for the last half a year has been driving me crazy lol

@SuperBro64
But that might make the comments section unstable!

Typo in the sub-headline, it should say "compete", not "complete".

That's awesome, now can someone ask them to also handle adding mouse support to Mario Maker? 😆

@Nep-Nep-Freak
I was always pretty impartial to the rhythm-stepping, boxing, and marble-tilting minigames! The running one was definitely fun too, although the detection was super wonky on that one lol

Say what you will about the game itself, but Mario Kart not getting nominated for best score is a huge clown move, I've seen so many non-gaming content creators online state that it has the best audio they've heard from any media all year.

@martynstuff
I would imagine that Bananza would use Breaking Through for the GOTY orchestra, would certainly be fitting.

I have the NSO one from last year and it's been awesome, the art is specifically adapted around the calendar (e.g. Dr. Mario has the calendar inside the game's UI). I'm not as sold looking at these new ones though, this is just artwork with the calendars slapped on top, and often not the best artwork choices this time around either.

Do you guys think that these calendars are hinting at upcoming releases? Teleroboxer is pictured for the same month it's expected to release on NSO, as is Mario Tennis; I wonder if Tomodachi Life and Rhythm Heaven are using the same logic here. I hope not though, I can't wait that much longer for RH lol

Hey, you never know, maybe this guy will be the next Rundas! Eh, who am I kidding...

That's pretty clearly the Ocarina final boss cutscene, this outta be cool!

Doesn't look related, but after seeing many of the wild theories that people online came up with for Donkey Kong Bananza come true, I wouldn't anything out entirely, lol.

Seems more like a commercial than a trailer tbh. It's awesome anyway though! Looking forward to next month

This is a cool update, but it was announced all the way back in March for some reason lol. Nintendo being Nintendo I guess.

Upload the second issue's cover, you cowards

@Gen4Fan
"I use this app daily as background music but desperately want old Pokémon games on it" is my exact sentiment, kindred spirit. I hope we don't need to wait forever for Gens 3 & 4... >_<

@Pillowpants
The point about extending songs and finding a looping spot is largely irrelevant for Mario Kart World, since the vast majority of tracks don't loop - I'm pretty sure less than 50 of the over 200 tracks have a looping point, and even then, many of them have codas for Knockout Tour.

@Ultimapunch
That's a perfect point. Sword and Shield is also arguably where the fanbase started getting outwardly frustrated, and it's pretty easy to tie back to the botched console shift.

I don't think that the answer to this question is as black-and-white (hah) as people would have you think - a lot of people online will assert that [insert the generation with their first Pokémon game here] is "teh BEST" generation, and everything after that is mediocre trash. Putting my own personal biases aside (personally not a fan of B/W), I think Gen 6 is where they started aiming for "good enough", although it didn't really become obvious until Sw/Sh. I feel that most games from X/Y onward hope that their central grab (first 3D entry, first console entry, real-time battle mechanics, open world, etc.) is enough to get you to ignore how underdeveloped they might be in other areas (plot, visuals, locales, animations, difficulty, settings, etc).

By the way, I'm glad to see that NL users know what's up with Legends Arceus. That's the only Switch entry that I've been able to wholeheartedly recommend to people!

@BigNate
They have some unique themes? The only ones I can think of are some world map themes, and the warp cannon courses in NSMB2. You are right in that the themes themselves are definitely rearranged in a few cases at least though - NSMB2 has way more "bah"s, and NSMBW's athletic theme sounds very different from how it did originally.

@The21zonz
Oh, so I wasn't crazy about it being half speed! Probably a bad mistake on Nintendo's part somewhere.

@BigNate
I think it's a joke about those two entries using the same songs that were already in NSMB DS / used again later in NSMBU. Those albums are gonna be really disappointing once they get released lol

EDIT: Ninja'd!

The bestselling game of their bestselling system ever took a full year to add to this app lol. (This coming Friday is the app's first anniversary.)

The US version of Echoes is probably my single favorite box in my gaming collection. As someone mentioned, it's holographic when seen in-person, with lots of subtle details only noticeable under a light source.

So that was the Imprisoning War...

That does not read like a "debunk" to me - it's certainly not a hard tease either, but if this is supposed to mean anything then it would be that imo.

Ah, typical Sakurai. Lmao love the guy

@MarcusIsCool
Ah, that's fair. Edited my post above, but I don't actually disagree with you about Nintendo's previously-weak future-proofing.

@MarcusIsCool
This is a mobile app though? I can get your comments about future-proofing in general, but this app isn't actually available on the Switch.

Definitely a bit of an oddball choice imo, there are both other Game Boy games and other Metroid games that I think should have been a higher priority. Would have been nice to see the remake get released alongside this as well. I'm glad that they didn't forget about this game regardless though!

@parkerdeal
I've been told that the Switch 1 version runs better on Switch 2, so I'm wondering about that as well.

I personally think that they should just stop making those awful cutscenes that were clearly developed with voice acting in mind. I have no doubt that I would find voice acting to be really annoying and probably poorly done, although I'll admittedly still take it over the nonsense that they currently do.

Oh thank you guys for this, I was looking for something like this everywhere. Seems like I'll be fine saving $10 and going with the Switch 1 version, it's definitely not a performance disaster like the last game was.

@N00BiSH
I was just having fun there, I actually like TotK's plot a bit more than most. The opportunity with the subject of this article was too obvious not to take lol

"Demon King? Secret Stone?"

"Lanaria" kind of looks like Impa from the Oracle titles.

I'm not sure that title screens are the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Metroid, but now that you mention it, the title screens of Super, Prime, and Echoes are all pretty epic.

@ShieldHero
The original Metroid hasn't aged well at all imo, it wouldn't leave a great first impression of the series if you played it today. I highly recommend giving either Super Metroid or Zero Mission a shot!