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We're giving pros to maybe-but-not-yet-fulfilled promises now? 🤨

In any case, I'll pick up the eventual LRG release. Blood Money was my first experience with Hitman and I loved it to bits.

I know Dichen Lachman from Neighbours. I remember her first appearance and she was quite possibly the most strikingly beautiful woman to grace the soap. Not the best actress in the cast though, but the writing and direction was pretty atrocious at the time (mid 2000s), but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt considering that she's built a career for herself overseas.

I still want a Switch port. The Switch lends itself better to these kinds of experiences, especially in tabletop mode, but they'll need to tweak the original version's weaknesses to make the concept shine. Less unnecessary amiibo tapping and stick to commands that can be executed with Joy-Con.

As a budget game bundled with an exclusive new amiibo figurine, there could be life in this old girl yet.

I hope those new Pokémon variants are canon and added to the Dex in the main games. Gimme Corpsechu and Mosslax!

But man, what an absolute s*** show the Switch 2 is turning out to be after such a (mostly) great physical library on Switch 1, almost rivalling the variety of the DS/Wii days (minus the abundance of non-game software, which I also miss).

The fact that they still have the nerve to charge US$70 for this though is such a sick joke. Happy to pay more for a faster and/or higher capacity cartridge, but what the hell are we even being charged for here?

Give me a full cart and I'll happily double dip.

Better yet if it's a "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" and I can retire my Switch 1 cart altogether.

But considering that Rockstar previously cheaped out on L.A. Noire and GTA Trilogy's cartridges, I'm not terribly optimistic.

@LikelySatan : I was thinking the same. Give me organic artisan games curated by chirpy free range developers any day.

@Dogorilla : When it comes to experiences focused mostly on user-generated content, TTS makes the most sense, especially when no amount of human-voiced dialogue will be sufficient to cover the breadth of what users may wish to create.

I had a game called Opening Night as a kid (released in 1995), where you could create your own theatre plays. The actors were portrayed by real people via photographs, but players could include dialogue (in the form of very primitive sounding, Microsoft Sam-esque TTS voices).

Though we should also be given the option to provide our own recordings, where practicable.

On the other hand, it was bleedingly obvious that Endless Ocean Luminous had utilised AI-generated voiceovers, which is inexcusable as there was absolutely no user-specific dialogue, and most of the dialogue pertained to information about the sea life depicted throughout the game. Examples like these just stink of shameless miserliness from the developers, and I have no doubt that we'll see more developers cutting corners in this way as the shift toward AI use advances.

@Kingy : The monotonous voices in Tomodachi Life was a big part of its charm. I'm not sure I'd even want them to sound more "human", even though there are so many AI-generated voice options nowadays.

With respect to voiceovers in games generally, I do not have any objections to machine-trained AI-generated voices for customisable character names, custom phrases and such (which I think would be fabulous), but all other pre-set dialogue should be human-voiced.

Will eventually spring for the (DRM-free) versions on PC in the absence of proper physical releases on Switch 2.

Unless of course LRG pulls through with the goods, but who knows when that will be.

Please, please don't break my heart with a GKC...

The last two were exclusive to Japan/Asia, and that's fine (I don't understand people's aversion to importing, unless it's prohibitively expensive), but I hope they don't rob us of the option of a proper physical release altogether.

@SpaceboyScreams : All your ear are belong to us.

I really hope that this turns out to be a storm in a teacup with the video merely showing us a hypothetical Nintendo-published GKC, but surely Nintendo couldn't be so naive about how this would have been perceived.

Because if that is the case, then they should have just made up a dummy game. It would have been particularly hilarious if it had been Wario themed and that Nintendo had not-so-subtly thrown some shade at third parties for taking the cheap way out.

To further insult their consumers' intelligence, Nintendo thought that adding whimsical music to the GKC video would somehow make their crappy new practice palatable.

By all means charge less for the digital release if they're tying to avoid arousing the ire of digital buyers with an unfairly high asking price for smaller scale games, but stop screwing over the physical releases in the process.

I'm really annoyed that the game isn't titled Dittopia, but I can at least accept the fact that Ditto isn't in fact called Ditto everywhere, hence the more uniform title choice.

Still...

sniff

EDIT: HOLD UP! A GKC for this too?! (Unless this is indeed just a "sample" image, in which case, did Nintendo not realise what a catastrophically awful look this would be?!)

But if so... un-freaking-believable...

@Yosher : I'll need to take an empty suitcase (or four) just to bring back all of my Pokémon merch in.

I don't like what Illumination have done with any of the character designs. The first film wasn't terrible, which is about as glowing a critique I can give to anything coming out of Hollywood these days, but I wish that the designs had stayed closer to the pre-rendered art of the modern games. By all means, throw in a little more detail so that they shine on the big screen, but the weird proportions and always grotesquely oversized and over-animated mouths... yuck.

@sportymariosonicmixx : The way that backwards compatibility operated on the Wii, DS, 3DS, and Wii U was that the "guts" of the previous generation hardware was also included within the newer hardware, so it was essentially like playing those games on their original hardware, warts and all (e.g. no performance improvements, no resolution increase etc.).

The way that "backwards compatibility" is running on the Switch 2, however, is that the Switch 2 itself is natively running the software, which introduces some unintended issues (as the games were not tested to run on more advanced hardware during development). For the most part, this is a good thing for games with performance issues that now run even better than they did on the previous hardware, but this also means that some games may not run correctly (if at all).

@Erigen : It would be appreciated if they were obligated to have "safe for work" cover art at the very least, similar to how covers of pornographic magazines are required to be concealed in Australia (leaving only the title of the publication visible).

Unfortunately, games that are no longer listed in the eShop (or were only released in other regions) are not included as part of the database.

The first movie wasn't terrible, but I still don't like these character designs. How freaking hard was it to just stick to how they look in the pre-rendered art for the games? Maybe chuck a little more detail in places for good measure, but as for those facial proportions... yuck.

@ottoecamn : Even with my extremely limited knowledge of Japanese, I noticed the many, many embellishments in the English text when compared with what I was hearing of the Japanese. All I want is a faithful adaptation of the original dialogue, even if some may deem it "bland".

Where did the time go-

Joined: 2010

Never mind.

That's... underwhelming.

I was hoping for some character-themed unlockable furniture too.

As long as the Big Man amiibo can be used to summon either Splatoon villager, they should have extended that functionality to all Splatoon amiibo (and likewise of the Zelda amiibo for their respective villagers).

In any case, I already have them all, and I still have a mountain of cards to get through if I'm ever to collect everybody's portraits.

I only wonder if the new additions will be enough to renew my interest in the game. I must have played it for some 900ish hours, the most of any Switch game, but I got burned out from the same routine (which easily consumes 2-3 hours per day), and I haven't played it in what feels like over 2 years now.

To our Indian friends, all is forgiven.

@Potimarron : If only old mate Sigmund were here to behold the sheer bewildering lunacy of it all. 🤓

@Friendly : All three are treated as separate games, so for whatever bizarre reason, they've skipped the complete edition and went with Overcooked 2 only.

People are seriously making excuses for Nintendo et al. releasing significant paid DLC for games barely 1-2 months after release?

By all means, release them digitally asap, but for crying out loud, delay the damn physical releases until all of the content can be consolidated on a single cart. I'll even pay AU$155 for your bloody game, but I don't buy physical games only for the other half to be account-locked and/or tethered to a single console, especially at those inflated prices.

And the fact that this is releasing just weeks after the base game screams shamelessly cut content.

Forget a Pokémon game even giving us a single region, now it seems that they're happy charging US$70 for half a city!

@Friendly : NSO isn't required to access Mystery Gift.

@Eh-Red : Unfortunately, GKCs aren't even cheaper to make up for it. Resident Evil Requiem is retailing for AU$130 here, being the highest price for any standard edition game that I have yet seen, and none of it is even on the damn cart.

I could grant a little grace if the games were cheaper to reflect the lack of proper cartridges, but this is just obscene.

Mega "Shinka"? What in the AI-translated slop is this?

Hopefully an all-on-cart version will materialise (as it previously did with Sw/Sh and S/V), even if that means waiting some months after the digital launch.

I really want to play this, but I don't want to keep rebuying the games either.

@topsekret : You've pretty much summed up my Switch 1 buying habits and sentiments toward the Switch 2 so far.

In fact, the whole GKC situation is why I'm skipping at launch (and the console seems to have other issues as well, so I might as well wait for a revision and/or OLED model at this point). I might grab a few third party physical releases that I suspect might go out of print, but as for first party titles, I might as well wait until I grab the actual console, because a lot of the software updates will be baked into the cartridge by then.

Incredibly disappointing. It's arguably worse than the Wii U, because we were able to buy third party games physically at least, as few and far between as they were (and they were also playable straight off the disc, unlike rival consoles, which I think gave the Wii U yet another unique point of difference that went completely unappreciated).

Had every third party release been on the cartridge, then it would have been a phenomenal launch, with some fantastic games so early into the console's life, but as it stands, I'm incredibly underwhelmed, and the ability to play Switch 1 with some performance improvements is currently the Switch 2's most compelling selling point, but that alone isn't enough.

This looks like the sort of cheap knock-off slop you'd find in the eShop, which is pity for a franchise that's been kicking it for nearly four decades.

With that said, given that there's a physical release, I'll likely grab it eventually, but I'll wait for a sale.

I was hoping for a complete edition of Age of Calamity with improved resolution/performance etc. first (which I have also yet to buy).

In any case, I'll likely pick this up whenever I eventually nab myself a Switch 2.

Start making bank now, fix later.

I hate how quickly this industry (and its consumer standards) have plummeted. And for a collection of ROM dumps of all things!

I wasn't keen on getting a plain Pro Controller 2 (or any other such accessory for that matter), so pretty much any theme would be preferable. I certainly wasn't expecting Resident Evil to be the first, but I'm not complaining. I also don't hate the design like some do, and I appreciate what they've done with it.

But it's ridiculously expensive at AU$135, plus it's currently exclusive to EB Games's (paid) membership holders.

Hopefully that will change and it will become available to all consumers after its release, but $135 is really steep, and EB defaults to full retail price for everything, and I can't see this being available at anything less given that it will probably be quite limited.

Similarly, Requiem is also retailing for AU$130, which is absolutely obscene, made more so by the fact that it's a GKC to add insult to injury. Cyberpunk 2077 retails at a lower AU$120, and is available more cheaply than its SRP anyway, so what's Capcom's excuse here?

So... Sega could have given us an awesome two-in-one cartridge with both Kiwami games... but chose not to.

Gigantamax Garbodor débuted in Pokémon Go earlier today. My first one was shiny, and I later caught a perfect one, but my luck ended there. Not much else of note, but a fun day out.

I'll get the upgrade pack whenever I pick up a Switch 2, and only because it's relatively cheap. In most cases, I'd rather double-dip on the physical.

Hell, I'd have eagerly double-dipped on this had it included the DLC on the cart, but as it stands, it's a hard pass (and likewise of BOTW, though I'll happily double-dip on TOTK).

What would people even expect from a new entry? Animal Crossing is one of the most formulaic series there is, and apart from adding new content here and there, I don't see how a new instalment will even bring anything substantially innovative to justify starting from scratch. I still have mountains to do in New Horizons, but I got fatigued with the demanding gameplay loop (I was playing about 2 hours per day, which was a bit much). If they could upgrade the game to include more quality of life features, and make some of the daily tasks less of a chore, then that would entice me far more than a new entry. I think it's easily my most played game on Switch, but I probably haven't played it in over 2 years now, though this upgrade will probably rope me back in (albeit not straight away).

When City Folk/Let's Go To The City was announced all those years ago, I was looking forward to the town expanding to include more urban environments, but all it amounted to was a hub that made certain features/merchants more readily accessible, and that aside, the game was virtually identical to Wild World on DS.

The lack of touch controls in New Horizons is also such a huge step back. It's frustrating enough when third parties ignore Switch-specific capabilities and stick too rigidly to feature parity with other versions, but Nintendo has no excuses. I'd have expected touch controls (which would benefit both generations of consoles) before mouse controls.

To be clear, this version only works on Switch 2, yes?

I'm a little disappointed that this isn't a two-in-one release considering that the cartridge should have more than enough space for both even if they're separate builds of the software (as opposed to a Switch 1 game enhanced for Switch 2 like the "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" releases).

In any case, I'll likely grab the Switch 2 version eventually. I might even grab the Switch 1 version, but only if it's on sale.

@Kiyata : The new cartridge will include the new content, but the moment a new update is released after the fact, no matter how small, you will have to download the entirety of any updates (currently about 6GB, from memory) released to date if you want to download any further updates.

Lego may be one of the most overtly commercial in-game collaborations in a Nintendo game yet.

This is Zool 2's Chupa-Chups territory.

Here's hoping that any physical release will be complete and include the Deluxe Edition content on the cartridge as well (and any other paid DLC released thus far).

They've recently released the base game on cartridge (after the Deluxe Edition), which seemed like such a monumentally stupid thing to do. Who in their right mind would spring for a physical release with less content. What the hell were they thinking?!

@FishyS : If it's a "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition", then that suggests that it will be upgradable just like every such subtitled game (and that it will utilise your existing save data).

@dskatter : That option already exists. It's called buying the base game + cheap upgrade pack. There's almost nothing in this physical re-release to justify a whole separate release.

This isn't a positive thing. The DLC isn't even included.

I would have happily double-dipped and paid more for a complete release with absolutely everything on the cart.

Nintendo's really pissing me off with these re-releases of years-old games and leaving out the DLC (as they've also done with BOTW). Imagine if Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors 1, Pikmin 3, Layton etc., on Switch were just the base game, and Nintendo deliberately left out the DLC to nickel and dime us again (or, more annoyingly, deprive us of the opportunity to own a complete physical copy of the game).

Even the scummiest of third parties tend to include the DLC when they re-release their games. Whoever's making these inane decisions at Nintendo HQ needs to get dumped.

So... it's basically confirmed that, like BOTW, the Happy Home DLC won't be included with the physical release. What a joke. 😢

I've been itching for a complete with DLC physical release for years, and the Switch 2 version was the perfect excuse to make that happen.

Imagine if Mario Kart 8 on Switch was just the base game, and Nintendo expected everybody to cough up more money for the Wii U DLC. Not even third parties tend to be this contemptible, but modern Nintendo keep lowering the bar...

Seriously?! No DLC on the cart for this either?!

I would happily double-dip on this (and triple-dip on BotW) if Nintendo bothered to do the right thing here...

Considering that the S2 upgrade is only AU$8, I'm more inclined to take that route in this case, but I'd have happily paid up for a proper, complete physical release with absolutely everything on the cart. 😢

@DarkTron : A single sentence is not "rambling". Reflect on the inane irrationality of your own comments before smugly disparaging others. If irreverence means nothing to you, great. I wasn't begruding anybody of indulging in a game of this persuasion (unlike those who seek to ban anything that they personally deem offensive). I merely (and very briefly) stated that I won't be. And my preference seemed to really bother some of you. Act like an adult and have the maturity to understand that some people have different values/priorities/perspectives and get over yourself.

If a revised physical release surfaces and it doesn't include the DLC, then that'll be such a monumentally 🍆 move from Nintendo.

Wow. Virtually nothing there that I'm interested in. Good for the wallet, I suppose.

Though I do have a tendency to blind-buy games I have an inkling that I'll enjoy, but other than Capcom Arcade Stadium, it's looking pretty bare.