Rykdrew

I have new games. (Black Friday)

On Switch

• Mario Tennis Aces ($40) - loving it, best Mario Tennis mechanics.
• Super Mario Strikers ($15) - good little game.
• Metroid Dread ($30) - love 2d Metroid. i feel its a $30, not $60, game.
• Advance Wars 1 + 2 ($30) - I feel its a excelent $30, not $60, game.
• Blazing Chrome ($1,90) - Best modern Super Contra
• Might & Magic Clash of Heroes ($10) - I have this game on Steam and Xbox360. This game is just perfect rpg + puzzle + battle. Wonderful multiplayer singles and doubles.
• Monster Train First Class ($2) - The second best “Slay the Spire” game.
• Rogue Book complete edition ($3) - The third best “Slay the Spire” game.

On Steam:

• F1 2023 ($30) - Best F1 game in history…excelent VR
• Asseto Corsa Competizione ($30) - wonderful racing game….complex and difficult…and fantastic VR
• Super Woden GP 2 ($4) - excelent little arcade racing. I have all achievements in the first version

i’m playing on this weekend:

• Mario Tennis Aces
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Battle Mode (as usual)
• Metroid Fusion by NSO (Gba)…preparing me to play Metroid Dread after.

Buy Windjammers 2 right now, people!

@Narrator1 New Luigi U in New Super Mario U Deluxe...

Any hard mode? No? So…i won`t buy…

@John_Deacon probably Mario Wonder sells so much more phisicals than digitals.

My wife is undergoing treatment and needs to stay in bed.

So, let's play our bedside game:

• Clubhouse Games 51, using touchscreen (Yatch Dice is our best choice!)

@John_Deacon Nintendo First Party digital? Or smaller games?

What i see is:

• nintendo games? Physical
• non nintendo games? Digital

I think that of the Xbox, PS5 and Switch users, Nintendo buyers are the ones who least buy First Party games as digital media. Nintendo's audience seems to be the one that values ​​physical media the most among the 3.

No. This game is TOO EASY (child level) on SNES. And, on Switch, its easier = no fun. Maybe if I was 7 years old ....no, wait...when I was 7...I Played and finished Super Ghouls and Ghosts with 0 life losses. Maybe if I was 4...

@K31 it is never meant to be hard is a terrible choice by Nitnendo. Put new challenge setting. Not Dark Souls level, normal-people level is just great. But the game has only child-level challenge. Its terrible for people don´t like to play a game only to see graphic animation and design. I don´t care about it.

I care about a challenge that motivates me to play, that makes sense for me to use my time to have fun facing some adversity. Playing a super easy game, already knowing, with 100% certainty, that I will win without any minimal effort, makes me not want to turn on the video game. Then I prefer to do something other than play.

I want:

• Super Woden 2 (great top down racing mixing Gran Turismo and Circuit Superstars. it´s a new game and the game i´m playing on steam this week)
• Silksong: master of obvious
• Golf story 2 would be great

I am in other city this weekend. Only switch:

• World of Solitaire: fantastic solitaire game. So much added value, game modes, achievements, you can unblock musics and card stamps (using an evolution system). Touchscreen. Love this game. I have 25 hours in and 52%.
• Windjammers 2: perfect game, single or multi.
• Super Mario Strikers: Battle League (demo). I bought the game but still not arrived (i paid $15 new)

Unfortunatly this game was too ease on SNES. And its easier on Switch. No-fun ease level, unfortunatly. I,ll play Persona 5 Royal again.

I dont care about graphics and design if the game is this ease = no-fun to me

@John_Deacon "Strange days we're living"

You made me think: WALL-E

LOL

I read a lot in reviews that the game is physically tiring, and that older people have difficulty.

I think people are out of shape and need to go to the gym.

I'm old as hell and I can play Just Dance non-stop for 2 hours without breaking a sweat.

CONS: "Default difficulty is too easy"

But this Star Ocean "too easy" is HARDER than 100% Super Mario Wonder.

Why isn't this same attribute a CON for Super Mario Wonder?

And..C´mon, you can choose harder difficulties in Star Ocean. Not in Super Mario Wonder.

Star Ocean 2 is the only jRPG what I liked to date. I don´t like this kind of game...but Star Ocean 2 is GREAT.

My favorite Nintendo Franchise.

One of the only games made by Nintendo that actually brings me genuine fun and I don't have to work hard to have fun.

I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that Nintendo translates this game into more languages, because children in my country don't know how to read English or Japanese. And I like to let them play alone in my gamer room to free up the adults for hotter, adults-only parties.

ok, If the next Smash Bros be smaller, you can sell it $50....$40.
Smaller Smash Bros...$60? hmmm...not!

So simple...

Thank you very much, Coleco!

@TotalHenshin "People matter more than console loyalties."

This sentence is perfect. And I say more: this so-called “loyalty” limits every human being, whatever the topic of interest. I prefer not to be loyal to any brand, because it doesn't make sense for me to be loyal to a brand. What I'm loyal to is my fun, wherever it may be.

A writer is not good or bad, better or worse, if he only plays Nintendo branded games or plays a little bit of everything. I trust more the one who plays everything, on all consoles, because that way he has something to compare with. I prefer this writer profile to one who lives in a bubble of idolatry.

@Chibi
Almost no one just plays Nintendo. Nintendo is just one more.

Nintendo Switch

• Super Meat Boy Forever (the most complex auto runner I´ve ever played)
• Axiom Verge (first time playing)

Steam

• Pocket Bravery
• Windjammers 2

Nintendo Life Review:

"Our only real gripe with Gato Roboto is its overall difficulty. Most players will fly through the game in just a few short hours with ease. The only grief you’ll likely face is from the boss battles which, although punishing at times, are nevertheless thrilling and amusing in equal measure. Still, at such a reasonable price, it still feels like a no-brainer. "

"Only its difficulty leaves a bit to be desired at times - anybody with a lick of experience will likely breeze through it in no time, and we wish it lasted a little longer."

This phrase fits perfectly in $60 Super Mario Wonder.

@Jhena This is why I find Super Mario Wonder so boring. I have no fun, because you can just close your eyes, press the D-pad forward, and hit the jump button randomly. And in 30 seconds you passed the level. Serious. Test this, close your eyes, press forward and press the jump button. You will beat many levels without making any effort.

The game is based on showing the player cute animations, and it really is all very cute, but as a game, with substance, a basic level of challenge to bring some fun, I didn't find this. I thought it was a beautiful game graphically, but completely without substance to make it 100%. Very easy indeed. It's Kirby Star Allies from the Mario franchise.

Many people are happy because they took their 6 hours to do 100%. And the game brought that satisfaction of being able to do 100%. Something that few people can do in Ori, Rayman Legends and Crash Bandicoot. So it gives you that false sense of achievement. But, for those who have a little experience with games, it seems like a waste of time. Because it doesn't give any satisfaction, because it's too easy.

This is my wife's best game ever...second to Binding of Isaac. I´ll buy it on Steam.

@Munchlax I understand you. This year has seen many critically acclaimed releases.

However, almost none of them were fun for me.

I bought more old games than new ones.

The only game that was genuinely perfect for me this year was Street Fighter 6, my easy GOTY.

1. URGENT: being able to observe friends who ARE ONLINE, but NOT PLAYING, that is, who are idle, and be able to INVITE them to play. You need to have more ways of communicating with your friends to arrange a game.

There might be an online panel where you put your intention, like "I want to play Smash Bros online". Then any friends who want can click on this message and immediately join my game.

2. Online lag-free.

Steam online is so much better than Switch online (any game, any time)

My wife is japanese.

I've traveled to Japan a few times to visit her family. It's a fantastic country.

But, my taste in games is completely different from Japan. So sales in Japan are a bit irrelevant to my taste. I just find it interesting, but it's "another world" there.

This game is so advanced. I play on Steam. Its one of the best King of Fighters ever. I think only 2002 Unlimited - steam version and 98 Final Edition - Steam version, are better than XIII.

But playing it on Switch controller must be so difficult. The level of precision in commands here is relentless.

I have a joycom with dpad from Hori that works very well in games like persona 4 Ultimax, Chaos Code, Dragonball FighterZ, and others...so...it's possible that I buy this game for Switch too. For Steam I just have KOF XIII (one of the most difficult games to get 100% of achievements)

Please, play Inscryption ! This game is FANTASTIC!

I play on Steam and its a really GREAT game...side by side with Slay the Spire, Monster Train and Roguebook (the 3-best-rogue-like-deck-building).

The game needs to be challenging from the second map onwards. Playing 95% of a game that is easy and has no fun, to have 5% fun, is useless. I will never do this to myself, because I am not a masochist.

The hardest Mario game is Lost Levels on the NES.

@Polvasti I don't think there was much work on Advance Wars 1 + 2, because the A.I. is exactly the same. The programming was already made, and it is exactly the same.

The only thing they made were 3d models for the vehicles and characters, but they are extremely simple and unimpressive. I can model each 3D vehicle in about 4 hours using Adobe Substance 3D. It's really simple. And there are few objects too.

So, they made a cartoon opening, which is cheap to do.

And finally, a few dubbing lines, which must have cost less than $5000.

Nintendo spent little on a product that sold for $60, and Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped. And on any forum you participate in, you'll see that people would buy the game if it sold for $30-$40.

In other words, the remake was poorly done, and there was no perception of value on the part of the consumer to justify the $60 price.

It's like Nintendo Life says: you need to understand that this game is extremely easy (100% in 6 hours) because it's aimed at children.

I'm not a child, I have experience with games, I don't need this game to have a Celeste level of difficulty (I did 100% Celeste on Steam, A, B and C-side), but, to BE FUN, for me, it needs to be, at least the difficulty level of Rayman Legends and Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze.

We, who have played everything, have a lot of skill with games.

So, it's not enough for the game to be colorful and cute, with beautiful graphics, but to be 100% exhausted in just 6 hours, without any effort. This is NOT FUN.

This is why Mario Wonder is an easy pass for me.

The message that Nintendo sends is: if you have played Mario in the past, and therefore have skill with platform games, YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY ANY NEW MARIO GAME! I understood the message and, therefore, I will not spend money on Mario games.

Nintendo needs to put a FUN hard-mode in Mario games.

I´m playing Crash Bandicoot Trilogy right now on Nintendo Switch and I´m having a blast. Harder than Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze, but SO MUCH FUN.

Winning a game that's too easy doesn't give you a feeling of achievement. But, winning a game with a challenge makes you vibrate with each victory.

If I were on an island, with only very easy games to play, I would bury the video game in the sand and enjoy the sea.

Spider man games = 40 hours content + a lot of difficult settings = replay value ($60)

Mario Wonder = 6 hours for 100%, too easy game and no difficult settings = poor replay value ($60)

Spider man has more fun hours for the same $60

It's understandable.

This game will flop for the same reason that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped: $60 price tag.

(Many may argue that Advance Wars 1 + 2 flopped because of the Delay, but when you go to Reddit and read hundreds of comments saying that they would buy the game, INCLUDING ME, if it were $30-$40, instead of $60, you can understand consumer perception of value.

Companies want the $60, but consumers don't. The consumer is powerful in this relationship).

We love:

• Dance Dance Revolution
• Pump it up
• Just Dance
• Dance Central.

Dance Central 3 was the most complex and perfect game.

Dance Dance Revolution is pure fun. Pump it Up is only for experts, so it´s impossible for a newbie to like it. But i love it.

And, Just Dance is the most casual....we love it in parties. But, we have the Just Dance Unlimited...so we don´t need to buy another retail version.

Easy pass.

Steam

• Windjammers 2
• Skull Girls 2nd Encore

Switch

• Clubhouse Games 51

Sonic is a franchise that I play and play, but I never really find fun.

So I give up.

I've found this feeling of playing and not having fun with other franchises, like Zelda, all the 3D Marios....

It doesn't click with me at all.

Despite this, I have more than 20 Sonic games. One of them isn't even on Nintendolife's list:

Sonic Wacky Worlds: Creative Studio (the Mario Paint competitor)

I have all the Sonics from Guilty Gear and Master System (including Sonic Drift 1 and 2), I have Sonic 1, 2, Spinball, Wacky Worlds (Mega Drive), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 (Dreamcast), Sonic Unleashed (x360) and Sonic Mania, Sonic Adventures (Steam ).

I Have Sonic all star racing (x360 and steam), Sonic all star racing transformed (x360 and steam), Team Sonic racing (steam)

Except the racing games, I confess that the only Sonics I played with any desire were:

• Sonic 2 (Mega Drive)
• Sonic 1 (Game Gear)
• Sonic Adventure 2 (I got 180 badges, and it was very, very difficult)
  SonicCD

I intend to give Sonic Superstars a chance. One day.

I've never played Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles.

My TOP 3 Sonic (no racing games included):
1. Sonic 2 (Mega Drive)
2. Sonic Adventures 2 (Dreamcast)
3. Sonic CD (Sega CD)

@heisnbrg There is no DLC for Wargroove 2.

@heisnbrg "No, because I still not get the reason to pay full price for a game if I have to wait for the full game:"

So...you´ll never buy any Pokemon game, any Mario Sport game, Zelda TOTK (is on 1.2.1 patch)....

@LikelySatan Yes, you can play Rayman Legends on a smartphone via Game Pass.

However, this game does not exist natively for smartphones.

Rayman for smartphones is very different from Rayman Legends.

But even so, let's suppose it can be emulated on a smartphone. Wow, interesting, so more people can play!

Still, Rayman Legends runs much better on the Nintendo Switch. Being able to be played on a smartphone doesn't affect how good it is to play this game on the Nintendo Switch.

Mario Wonder can be emulated on a Steam deck, in the same way, in 4K. But anyway...

Changing the subject, you like Darkstalkers, I assume. Want to play Darkstalkers online? I promise to give you a good challenge. I've been participating in Darkstalkers championships since the 90s....and I play with Jon Talbain

@LikelySatan In fact, what matters is that you have fun with what you like, and share the reasons why you like or don't like games you play. With your glasses for your experiences.

Just like me and everyone else.

No one is defining reality, because everyone's reality is always valid.

And the debate is good.

I understand many people's frustration in wanting a 2D Mario, however, as soon as it is released, the game comes with the same problems that made you have zero fun in previous versions.

@LikelySatan Yes you can. And you can play the excelent and more challenge, complete game, Rayman Legends! Or the perfect challenge game...Donkey Kong Tropical Breeze. For me, both better than 2d Marios.

There are people playing (again and again) the old Super Mario World (SNES) than New Mario Bros U Deluxe..and, probably, Wonder.
So...they can play Rayman Legends if they never....I recommend!

@LikelySatan Whether the game is old or not doesn't matter, since it is being sold for the current video game and is a gaming option competing for the player's available hours.

@NeonPizza You said absolutely everything. I agree 100%. Nintendo destroyed what motivated me to play Mario in the past. There is no longer that fun as before for reasons like this. For me, it became unplayable. Fortunately, Donkey Kong still sticks to its origins!

Persona + XCOM? I´ll buy!
This kind of game fits perfect on Nintendo Switch.

Day-1 here!
Love Warioware and I loved this last video.