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This reminded me Cadence of Hyrule is one of the precious few physical Switch games I own, and because of that I've never actually inserted it into the Switch. I should go do that :I

I love Pokemon Gold and Silver I swear, but these two weren't a patch on the OG Legendary birds in my estimation. The amount of love Lugia gets in particular is mind-boggling for something that looks that derpy. Is it because of the film or am I genuinely missing something?

I just imagined I had every card for a few seconds and then went and played something else. That was more than enough of an expenditure for me.

Managed to beat this on the OG Gameboy as a kid, somehow. The city levels were brutal I recall, and it really was trying to do a wee bit too much for the hardware but with the benefit of full-screen support and save states I can see this being way more enjoyable these days.

1.Ace Attorney (The series as a whole can go here, otherwise the list would just be these and Ghost Trick :I)
2.Ghost Trick
3.Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors.
4.Advance Wars Dual Strike
5.ELITE! BEAT! AGENTS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

My DS is next to my bed, even though I hardly ever pick it up any more. It's comforting to know it's there, that gateway to a thousand fantastical worlds only a fraction of which I ever actually got around to exploring. One day I'll go back and actually finish you, Spirit Tracks. One day...

@the_beaver Maybe it's because both sequels feel 'smaller' in a sense compared to the originals? Echoes and Majora's Mask both display their creativity through expanding the game mechanics rather than the game worlds and that's going to hit differently for different people.

That or maybe you're just super, super cheerful as a human being xD

Anyone who rates Echoes as the weakest entry in the trilogy is drinking crazy juice. It's the Majora's Mask to Prime's Ocarina.

All I'm taking away from this is never to trust Science Team to implement your multiplayer. They have vapor for brains.

I check in every day for new cards, but honestly in a week I've probably had less than a half dozen actual battles (even including the solo stuff) There's just not enough strategy in the game, doubly so now they've halved the points you need to win and limited the energy options.

Vampire Survivors is basically what every mobile game for the past fifteen years has wanted to be. And the mad lads went and put it on console instead.

While the game itself comes with all the inevitable pitfalls of a TCG with a hyper-competitive scene (ie: you either keep up with the meta or get your for-funsies homebrew deck steamrolled eighty percent of the time) I'm here for the gorgeous art all day long.

@OctoCallie20 ...I hope you can at least see the irony in your screaming at other participants for behaving like children in a made-up battle between ninjas, knights and wizards.

@SBandy1 I think you may be ever so slightly overestimating the appetite of the general public at large for wonky late nineties 3D games there. The Nintendo 64 was my childhood but even I have to admit looking back it had probably one of Nintendo's weakest libraries of games, if not the weakest outside the Virtual Boy.

Honestly, in most museums/galleries the no-photo rule is predominantly to stop exhibits getting bogged down with crowds of non-moving amateur photographers than anything else, so I wouldn't be surprised if in the grand scheme of things this rule was more of a basic courtesy to other museum goers.

I'd say it wouldn't be unreasonable to suggest Tooie is an 8/10 compared to the original's 9/10 (or higher) , even these days. I certainly didn't feel compelled to 100% it when I played it over a decade ago but I'm really looking forward to having my mind changed on its virtues this time round. It almost feels like the difference between Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine with these games in that the first feels leaner and tighter while the sequel sometimes gets bogged down by the avalanche of new mechanics and collectibles. The worlds are wonderfully designed though (excepting perhaps the baffling mess that is Cloud Cuckooland :I ) and it's a proper epic of a 3D platformer. Throw in some actually decent bosses and Rare's trademark British silliness and you still have yourself one of the N64's best achievements, even if I do think it still sits at the bottom of Rare's golden trilogy of this, Kazooie and DK64.

Well, I guess this is one way to ensure Nintendo never bring their boring old museum over to the West.

Great job as usual, team

The Yakuza series is a bit like the Warriors series from Koei. Loads of people find them fine but mediocre games for the most part but there's a solid seam of people who are absolutely rabid about the games and the world. Under those conditions any review score is likely to be divisive.

I played the holy heckins' out of Yakuza 0 and went into this hoping to be similarly enamoured but...honestly it's just the same game, but I care less about the story and characters this time round. The repetition is maddening and half the side activities feel you need a spreadsheet to understand them. I want to love this franchise but it's an uphill battle.

I played one of these games, once. Whatever one it was that released on the Gamecube back in the day. I remember a few vague fleeting images of having to mash a button to drain enemies' blood or lifeforce or whatever and that's literally it. Pretty sure I finished it, but ironically soul was probably the one thing the game lacked for me.

Isn't this the game with Plo Kloon in it and his ridiculous pallet-swapped force lighting which Wookiepedia was then forced to try and make into an actual thing in canon? If that's not a reason to pre-order now I don't know what is.

I hope whoever performed this vital and wholly needed supplementary maintenance to this hip and current game was paid well for their endeavour.

Though let's be real we all know this was Sakurai bored at home one evening.

@DiggleDog Inexpensive? Probably so. But easy? I think that's likely to be the biggest speedbump on the road to Ace Attorney VII. It's must be darned tricky planning and writing multiple cases of compelling interactive detective fiction in a world whose lore only gets more and more convoluted with each fresh entry in the saga.

You better be penalised for stepping on the grass in Duloc for maximum authenticity.

Kingdom Hearts took about twelve games to finish one 'saga'. At this point he's better off just leaving it as is rather than attempting to wrap it up in the space of a few years.

Party's over, pal(world.)

I'm sure they'll manage to wiggle their way out of this somehow, even if it means dropping a feature or two from the game. Reminds me of the nonsense with WB (I think) patenting the Nemesis System from those LoTR games. A super cool feature being held hostage by a company that probably won't ever do anything with it again. Wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo got the idea from that in the first place.

Surely if we go far enough we can simply suggest every developer is guilty of copying every other developer by virtue of them all releasing 'games' for 'computers'? Food for thought.

Oh wait it's really not.

Also, go Astro Bot <3

*poring, not pouring.

@PinderSchloss We obviously have two very different experiences with Nintendo. If I for a moment felt I was getting 'robbed' by buying their products I would simply stop doing so. Things have a finite lifespan and everything ends sooner or later. How we deal with this sobering fact of life is down to the individual at the end of the day.

@PinderSchloss Ah, loyalty. Always best served with a massive sense of entitlement.

I can't shake the image of this exact discussion taking place in Nintendo HQ, only with a bunch of middle-aged Japanese men in suits.

Video gaming is deeply, deeply, weird.

I think it's fair to say the Pokemon anime wouldn't have had nearly the staying power it did if it wasn't for the VAs turning the lightweight scripts into something that was always fun to watch on screen. Rachael Lillis was a huge part of early Pokemon and will likely always be the voice of Misty and Jessie for most of us. Truly awful news, may she forever live in our hearts <3

This series is so charming and well put together it's become one of my favourite franchises in modern gaming despite having all the depth of a litterbox. Great games to get kids into RPGs, or just gaming in general. Delighted to hear this turned out well.

The last two levels in this game are nightmares that live in my head years late, absolutely nullifying any desire I might have to pick this up and revisit one of the cooler narrative offshoots from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Probably safest just to watch someone suffer through it on Youtube.

Edit: This is the game that gave us the hilariously named Longo Two-Guns though, so I can't truly bring myself to hate on it for long.

I thought the name of the 'Chucky' franchise was actually Child's Play, but then who am I to argue with the wisdom of the soulless corporate thinkvat that spent all of five minutes putting the wheels of this trainwreck-to-be in motion?

These icon selections are laughably bad. Someone must have the stats somewhere about the hundreds of icons that are never being used by anyone, because ninety percent of most waves are absolute nothings. If you don't have enough interesting art assets for three waves, you probably shouldn't be releasing three waves. And I say this as someone who is quite happy to have an obscure F-Zero car for an icon.

They never translate any of the Japanese-only games they drop. I understand that these endeavours take resources but it's not like the online service is free in the first place, and then there's the expansion pack premium on top of that. One of the areas Nintendo could stand to do better in, honestly.

@Qwiff Well said.

System stability at 10000%

The game's fun enough while it's sticking to the actual 'bounty hunter' part of the premise, but the later levels are murderously tedious action-platformy slogs. That said, the story's decent and fills in a lot of backstory for Clone Wars-era Star Wars so it might be worth it for fans.

I could get behind this as a way to kill some time with mindless amusement on the go as I do love a bit of Metal Slug, but equally I could see it being a quick route to lobbing my Switch through the nearest window. Quite the pickle.

@Spider-Kev Yeah, of course they'd refute this story. It'd be bad for business not to, regardless of the actual situation.

Bye, GAME. Thanks for all the cheap preowned games over the years!

Everyone who said Hybrid Heaven over some of the dubious choices here (Daikatana? Really???), I salute you. If they gave that the modern remake treatment it would hold up and then some.

Honestly, drab as the EU/US boxart is I think it's a better fit than the rather cluttered composition on Japan's. Even though the ensemble cast was larger than usual in Corruption you still spent vast swathes of the game soaking in that good 'ole Metroid isolation. The first one captures that a wee bit better.

@mikegamer I jest.

Sort of.

Gex in 2024. Have we learned nothing as a species?

I have a Lite but the battery's borked after months of being left plugged in accidentally. Genuinely considering the Hyrule Edition because it's gorgeous and, more importantly, fiscally irresponsible

Just picked up Wildfrost yesterday so this is fortuitous timing. The game is super adorable but also super challenging right now. Given how most roguelite's play out I can't imagine it'll be long before I'm snowballing everything in sight into oblivion. Hopefully more people pick this up because it's a really polished game and tons of fun.

My Switch is so stable at this point it's giving me life advice.