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I mean...okay? So much for immersive historical accuracy. You do you Ubisoft, I guess.

@Maxz That's a beautiful take on the series.

Watched Matt McMuscles play this on his Youtube channel and he actually had some fairly warm things to say about the execution of the game. I know it looks like bargain bin fodder in the screenshots but from what I watched a 6 is maybe a tad ungenerous. Fully agree that Double Dragon has been a C-tier property for years, mind. A series with the occasional bright spot but predominantly a litany of clunkers. And whatever was going on that time they hung out with the Battletoads, of all creatures.

I honestly don't think Pokemon needs or would especially benefit from voice acting. But then I thought the same about Zelda and they just about made that work. Ultimately it seems more like a luxury than a necessity for Nintendo games to have voice acting. One of Nintendo's biggest strengths has always been how universal their IPs are and how they resonate the world over. Adding fifty different dubs for their games runs the risk of taking time and resources away from what's actually important in them.

First there was Dead Cells. Now we have Dead Memes.

Come on, this would only qualify as 'news' if it hadn't been named one of the best gaming inventions of the year.

Oh look it's Wilbell. I remember her!

....sort of.

KAMEHAMEnawwww not this guy again ._.

Got really sucked into Monster Train the second time of asking so I've already put a couple of runs into that this weekend. Might push on with mopping up the last trophy on Crow Country to platinum it on on PS5 if I can summon up the willpower and I've been itching to play something nostalgic after binging Youtube videos on Zelda this week. Maybe a cheeky bit of Majora's Mask to round things out.

Nobody here acknowledging the fact that by the time of the Pikmin games themselves, the sobering truth is that those Pikmin and that baby are all presumably long dead.

'Family-friendly' corporation my foot D:<

@KingMike And yet, Bubsy still hasn't been invited to that kart race they're all having right now.

...has he?

'Gallivant across 16 total stages, each containing an average of 300 screens, packed with wacky enemies and kooky mechanics.'

I know this is supposed to be read as a positive, but given Bubsy's reputation this inadvertantly sounds like unadulturated hell.

This really feels like someone at Nintendo saw the Bubsy collection was out and immediately was like 'Oh s**t, we gotta warn these poor folks somehow.'

I'm glad this turned out well. The Yooka-Laylee series has always seemed like a series with its heart in the right place, made by people who just wanted to make fun games. Maybe this will give the series a second life and see more games down the road.

Of all the years to pick to launch your kart racer, the same year as the guys who literally invented the genre probably wasn't the optimum choice Sega.

@Lizuka I wouldn't be shocked either...though it'd be interesting to see what form it might take. To my mind the world of Silent Hill is probably the farthest thing from compatible with the bullet blitzing battlegrounds of Vampire Survivors.

Not going to deny the game is a classic, but these days so, so many improvements have been made to the tactical RPG formula it's really hard to recommend one that is a) slow as molasses and b) so inscrutable in its systems you're almost destined to arrive at the worst ending at the end of it all by design. Maybe if you've exhausted all other options and you've a spare month of your life to devote to it it'd be worth a go, otherwise this classic is probably better best watched on Youtube or the like.

The Metroid Prime title sequence is possibly my all-time favourite for a video game, if not any piece of media. Honestly outside of the same series I'd say it wasn't even especially close. No idea why someone at Retro or Nintendo decided that Metroid was going to be the series for bonkers good openings (let's not pretend there haven't been a few clunkers *cough * Other M/Dread/Prime 3 *cough) but I'd go so far to say as it'd be a genuine disappointment if Beyond doesn't deliver on that front. Even the Prime Trilogy re-release had its own bespoke, insanely good, launch sequence. Come on Prime 4, you know what you have to do.

Let's be honest, the real reason Nintendo is happy to roll its properties in the mobile free-to-play filth is so their $80 games look like a good investment by comparison.

I'm kidding, obviously.

@cire_GDC With the greatest of respect, DVD players are nowhere near as prevalent as they were even five years ago in people's homes. Technology marches on in all areas of entertainment, not just the console sphere.

Aww man, Zion videos are always as wholesome* as the video game franchises he holds so dear. A great content creator and a great person by all accounts, best of fortune in your coming adventures.

*except that one video where he shot Jon, obvs.

Someone should probably have told them 'Pacman Fever' went out in the eighties.

I've played both the original and the 3D remake of Seiken Densestu 3, and I will say that from a flavour aspect the class system is impeccable. From a gameplay one though? Honestly it makes bugger all difference which you pick.

I love Brotato, but I have to question if this isn't a little late in the day to be adding additional content to a game a large chunk of the playerbase have probably long since moved on from? The roguelite space is pretty crowded these days.

Genuinely surprised Nintendo Life didn't run this story with the title of 'Shock Bowser Resignation' for maximum views. One of the few times they could probably be forgiven for click baiting, since Doug's name is probably the only thing most folks will remember about his tenure.

@gcunit Odd. My main takeaway from this is: absolutely as good as Silksong.

To everyone saying the review should be about the quality of the presentation of these games rather than the actual games. That's great up until you're someone who drops their hard-earned money on this absolute dreck because they read some seemingly 'positive' reviews and thought they'd check the series out.

Why anyone would actively want to claim ownership of this supremely irritating song is the real mystery here.

@Synecdoche Yes, and I think the Master System might even lay claim to having the very first released version of Sonic if memory serves. Or maybe it was the sequel. Either way they're a bit like alternate versions of the better known Mega Drive/Genesis games. It's sort of a DK Country/Land situation.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles for me, as well as a shared playthrough of the OG Until Dawn with my partner. I had every intention of finally getting started on Unicorn Overlord as well, but as ever there just aren't enough hours in eternity for all the great games out there. Happy gaming everyone!

@TomSupreme It's an affordable blu-ray player. The fact you can play games on it is a bonus.

The amount of development time that's gone into this makes me reasonably confident the bike won't just be a gimmcky afterthought even if it probably shouldn't be too integral to the core gameplay (Hello Arkham Knight Batmobile!). And at the end of the day it doesn't have to do much to beat out the near-pointlessness of the gunship from Prime 3, so I'm sure it'll be fine.

It's weird. Looking at them all laid out like that, that is an objectively stellar line-up of titles headed the Switch 2's way. And yet it really does still feel like that Direct was underwhelming. No mainline Zelda, no Smash, no Splatoon. The system still feels like it's missing that tentpole release that can really get the fanbase clamouring.

If you just play Undertale once, finish it and move on (like my brother did) I can see why you might not necessarily understand the apparently outsized impact this game has had on gaming culture. Undertale as a game is underwhelming. Undertale as a story you are an active agent in is phenomenal, and that's its special sauce. As a piece of interactive fiction I'm not sure Undertale is going to be surpassed any time soon in terms of what it does. Happy anniversary, Undertale.

Would love to get these, but at that price I can't really justify it when I can always just play the old ones. Absolutely worth it for anyone who's yet to experience these masterpieces though.

Calling Yoshi and the Mysterious Book 'a traditional side-scrolling adventure' is certainly underselling things xD

Woo. Time to hunt monsters! Or read them stories? Either way it's got dragons in it so it's automatically 10/10

Koei-Tecmo are continuing on their path to full absorption by the great Nintendo overmind, I see. Probably not a bad thing since they seem to put in more effort than usual when they're being paid in Mario coin. Could be a surprising success story.

Sometimes Nintendo you are just the most Nintendo.

Not sure why anyone's surprised by this. These games are jewels in the crown of Nintendo's gaming empire. Disney used to do exactly the same with their animated classics. Their view is 'You give people cheap Mario now then they'll just want cheap Mario all the time.'

No trashy, exploitative shock schlock backed by a morally dubious ad campaign to herald the rebirth of gaming's sleaziest sons?. Go home Acclaim, you're not drunk.

I had every intention of starting Golden Sun 2 after finishing the first one and having a great time with it...until I was confronted with the ludicrously long passcode you needed to manually transfer completion data between the two games and gave up after spending about half an hour trying (and failing) to replicate it exactly in a notebook. Maybe it's time to give it another shot now I have decent camera phone xD

As the co-owner of a VW campervan I feel duty-bound to cheer on Make It Home, hopefully it'll find an appreciative audience out there beyond the Deepnest.

I played about half of Magical Starsign years ago but eventually just got bored of it and moved in. It was very pretty, but I think I lost patience with the gimmicky stylus stuff (as I did with a lot of DS games, in fairness.) so maybe the earlier games in the series might be more palatable.

@horizonisland Which, of course, is why they'd never do it. Hundreds of hours spent playing Fire Emblem Ultimate Mega Awesome Edition is hundreds of hours you're not spending money on other Nintendo products.

@Suketoudara Tetris Attack definitely had some remixed Yoshi Island tracks serving as BGM for a few stages/modes. Haven't played Panel De Pon outside of a brief boot up but now I want to go ahead and see what the soundtrack's like for myself. The final Bowser battle music has always stuck with me over the years.

Contrary to popular belief, I had never heard of this thing before today. Looks fine enough though.

Well ball's in your court now, Beyond Good and Evil 2.

They're turning it into a gatcha game aren't they? That's the 'special' announcement.

Played this pretty consistently for the first few years on PS4 before life necessitated cutting it out of my gaming schedule. I don't imagine I'll go back to it any time soon but I will admit to a degree of envy for anyone who'll be jumping aboard for the first time. It's a genuinely great game. Closest thing I had to a main was probably Octane since I was a big 'ole chicken who ran away from most gunfights, but I'd have loved to be better at Bloodhound. Such a cool ultimate.