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The tedious modern-day segments in the vast majority of Assassin's Creed titles. Baffling they kept up with them as long as they did, since I don't think I've encountered a single person who found them remotely enjoyable.

I know this is an insane take in the eyes of most, but the amount of love Thousand Year Door gets has always seemed bizarre to me. It's a good game, sure, but I don't think it'd crack the top three for me. Top five, maybe.

@Sisilly_G Yes, but can you behead ewoks in any of these 'other' games? No, no you cannot.

The fact Animal Crossing has outsold Mario Kart by such a margin in Japan is eye-opening.

@PtM Pretty sure eleven o'clock is an Undertale tableau, with Undyne as the 'fish-man' in question.

Looks like Black Friday did wonders for Jedi Outcast.

No surprises the Song of Storms is dominating the vote. The order of this list is mind-boggling, even from the point of view of someone who has no musical talent to speak of and would put the Requiem of Spirit on top >.>

Is that the American version of the cart for Jet Force Gemini? I have no recollection of it being that horrific. Juno's dead eyes will haunt my soul tonight.

Always nice to see Charles doing lovely Charles things. Wonder if he'll be discouraged from doing his Mario voice for fans now he's no longer the officially sanctioned performer? You'd hope not.

The game spent 78 consecutive months in the top twenty and here people are acting like it's a lack of quality in the DLC that's 'killed' Mario Kart. How many more Switches do you think are out there waiting for Mario Kart to be installed on them?

This "third party" was Palpatine, right? It's always that chuffing Palpatine.

I hope whatever he's doing now he feels better in himself. Working in any career that demands an exacting amount of skill sounds like my idea of hell.

I'm fairly sure she's just saying this to signal her appreciation for the role in general, as well as to (perhaps unsubtly) hint she's open for another Hyrule payday whenever Nintendo want to open their chequebooks again. Gotta respect the hustle, right?

I don't envy them having to somehow come up with something that builds on the stellar world they created for themselves in Hollow Knight. They can take as long as they want to get there as far as I'm concerned, and it certainly looks like there's been enough progress to disabuse the idea that it's 'vaporware'. I think it'll poke its head above the parapet again at the Game of the Year Awards.

But Antz came out two years before Road to El Dorado ._.

It's-a-me, profit-o!

Poor Mallow. He'd be a much cuter Amiibo but nobody will ever campaign for him, ever.

Kirby looks way too much like a pink hoodlum in the NA art.

19 out of 25. Nice to finally be made aware of how pretty Zelda's boots are, less nice to find out that Lucario and Toon Link both have nightmarishly mutated leg stumps.

These stories are always painful to read. Smaller studios with passion and heart for what they're doing rarely stand a chance in the f2p sphere without the depth of funds necessary to keep the game promoted in the public eye. I understand why they keep trying their luck in the hopes of taking off as the next viral sensation but the odds of actually pulling the trick off seem phenomenally small to my mind. Hope everyone makes out okay and their next project yields more fruitful results.

What is it with these lists and people putting Pokemon on them only to immediately write 'X evolution is a better example of the thing we're talking about'?

Also, it's Parasect. Parasect is terrifying.

Banjo beating out Mario? Cheeky! Also true.

I had no idea there were two Ghostbusters II's on the NES, which is why I was scratching my head reading entry #9 and thinking 'Wait, Ghostbusters II on the NES was a sidescroller?' Good to know I had a copy of the actual enjoyable version.

Inscryption is a wonderful mindscrew of a game.

@Rykdrew This must be some weird happenstance of fate. I literally just finished my first successful run of Roguebook today and very nearly bought Monster Train on Switch as a result. Having had a heap of fun with Slay the Spire earlier this year I guess I now know what I'll be playing this weekend. Thanks for the recommend

This is this some next level viral marketing going on from Nintendo Life.

@Kyloctopus Better if for no reason other than it's exploiting people's nostalgia for the golden era of a popular tv series. That'll get it looked on kinder in reviews.

On paper this sounds like it should be awesome. But it won't be. It just never is with this franchise outside of Telltale's efforts.

Of course Nintendo aren't going to add any more tracks. This is the company that routinely adds Japanese games to it's online libraries without even the barest effort to help people decode them and calls it a job well done. Nintendo are the undisputed kings of low-effort when it comes to their free content.

Man who is not plumber voices plumber who does not plumb.

Film at eleven.

@OldGamer999 Spiderman 2 is surely going to flatten Mario in the first week at least. One's aimed squarely at the young-men-with-disposable-income-and-poor-impulse-control crowd and the other's likely going to rely on traditional Nintendo longevity in sales as parents pick it up for their kids as and when they can get round to it.

@ZZalapski Oh they undoubtedly have enough material. It's whether they have enough good material that's the real question here.

Played the NES game as a kid, though was only ever able to beat it with the able assistance of a certain Game Genie. The modern remake is far, far and away a better game so I'm surprised to see these being unearthed for a re-release. At least it's not priced ridiculously. If you do get this, prepare to have the endlessly repeating background tune burned into your brain for the rest of time though :/

@Rika_Yoshitake You earn cards by levelling up naturally through playing the game, though the latest released cards are usually extremely rare to come by due to the 'pool' system they use to distribute them. You can also spend currency (which you can earn or pay for with real money) to get cards early, and I think each month you're allowed to pick one card from a set group you'd like to claim as a freebie. Like most free-to-play stuff it's super generous with the content at first but eventually the card supply will dwindle to a trickle unless you pony up money to speed the process.

It's terrifying to think there are a whole three games in the series worse than the N64 version of Mythologies.

Played the game for a few months consistently, then the lack of things to actually do in it became increasingly apparent and I just uninstalled it. I doubt it'll come to Switch any time soon, if only because Hearthstone hasn't. It seemed like it was pretty optimised for mobile and will presumably stay that way while it makes money.

Actually quite surprised this only got a 7/10 considering it's a double helping of two sprawling RPGs of immaculate visual and audio polish (regardless of where you stand on 'the dreaded dub') with a unique combat system that sets them apart from the crowd. Obviously tastes may vary but for my money there's very little these games do wrong.

Aw, bless. Keep dreaming, Phil ;D

@GogGogGogGog I'd love this to happen but the game seems to be firmly rooted in emulating the original F-Zero experience now, and thus the original four cars that featured in that. Another thing they'd have to consider is how to balance any new racers so that they don't accidentally create a situation where one vehicle consistently outshines the others and leads to nobody ever picking anything else. The differences between the cars seem pretty minimal as it stands, but I'd imagine it's still a programming headache they'd rather avoid for now.

Sea of Stars! And it's ace! Also, rather more shamefully, Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp! That 'game' is just the dirt worst, but I am still deep in the thrall of it's hideous fanservicing tentacles.

I am a terrible person and I deserve terrible things.

@Hippy_Pirate_89 Yeah, that's the one. Way too easy to get locked into a practically unwinnable situation with no way back at that part. At least you can rest easy knowing it (probably) wasn't your gaming skills that let you down there xD

Looks incredible, but could have done without that reminder at the end of the super creepy Princess Peach subplot. Still no idea what they were thinking with that all these years later.

Amazing. What a ride the Smash saga has been.

@Hippy_Pirate_89 There were a couple of notoriously tricky boss fights in the game, though if I had to put money on it you likely fell foul of that one fight against Giacomo and his goons in the game that for some baffling reason takes place right after a save point with literally no option to go back and grind, so if you were underlevelled or didn't have enough of the right cards you were borked. Hopefully they've remedied this or lowered the difficulty of the fight this time round!

Finally took the sanity-retaining step of uninstalling Yakuza 0 rather than sinking any more time into its ludicrous amount of sidegames, took my first few steps into Yakuza Kiwami. Somehow still haven't managed to finish Breath of the Wild after discovering several more mountains I just had to climb in Hyrule, and revisited Danganronpa v3 just over a year after leaving it half-done to try and polish that off too. Oh, and I also cleared Classic Mode in Smash Ultimate on the highest intensity-something I could never manage on the previous iteration of the game, so a winner is me I guess.

I'm with Shigsy on this one. The Mariophant looks like an idiotic cereal mascot to me.

Edit Also, poor Yoshi ._.

@Gryffin Hahaha thanks so much, I'd literally headed straight for the mountain since it was the first location mentioned in the list of objectives so that's saved me one heck of a baptism of fire.

Didn't the original Pokemon Pinball come with a weird rumble attatchment built into the cartridge? I dimly recall it making my gameboy look absurdly space-age sticking out the back of it, but it's entirely possible I hallucinated the whole thing. Either way, the public demands the return of Poke-pinball D:<

In the endgame of Breath of the Wild now; 100 shrines down, Ballad of the Champions polished off and just about ready to go gunning for Ganon after a final treasure hunt across Hyrule and a few more snaps for the album. Also sunk plenty of time into Vampire Survivors, Smash Bros and took a few tentative steps into the world of Blasphemous after reading all the good things about the sequel this week.

Rayman is one of those video game mascots I never 'got'. I'm not disputing the quality of the games but the little limbless dude has just never done it for me. He can join Tintin and Asterix in the 'blandly European characters who just sort of exist' bucket unfortunately.