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Link’s Awakening — Link and Marin on the beach. Oddly touching.

Skyward Sword — The ship dungeon, the first time you lift a timeshift stone and carry it along with you. Holy crap that was exciting.

Majora’s Mask — flipping the Stone Tower Temple upside down. I played this game for the first time on 3DS without a guide, and when I realized what was happening here, my jaw dropped open and I had a smile plastered on my face for about ten minutes.

Ocarina of Time — Ruto’s father (I can’t remember his name) scooting out of the way in that cutscene that went on for a crazy long time. Just hilarious. The little skinny fish legs wobbling uselessly make it even better.

This is a really surprising announcement! I enjoyed the first one a lot even though the plot was over-telegraphed and some characters sucked (Iris, ugh). It’s a fantastic sign that they’re making the next one about Mizuki!

@KateGray Ha! Probably would have gotten that if I was British. I played the fan translation of this game and he was called something different in the original.

Can someone please tell me what Iyesa Nosa is a pun of

@Amin_Parker it’s been on PlayStation for over two years and steam for over five years haha

@HeadPirate your comment 100% doesn’t warrant a “woooosh” lmao

@Tandy255 This discussion has nothing to do with pricing, it’s about the content Nintendo is producing

Re: your point about Gamecube getting Metroid Prime and GBA getting Metroid Fusion: Aren’t we still seeing this happen? Switch got both Breath of the Wild and Link’s Awakening, the latter of which would almost certainly have been delegated to a 3DS, not Wii U, release had it come out a few years prior. Strange little things like Good Job and Part Time UFO are still coming out of the company, as well as bigger titles like ARMS and Splatoon. New Pokémon Snap is a sequel to a home console game, while Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX is an entry in a series that has traditionally been only on handhelds (barring Virtual Console and WiiWare releases). That’s not to mention things like Miitopia, which originally launched for 3DS. I think the balance is still there.

Never played one of these, despite loving Animal Crossing. This article is the first that’s actually made me want to play one.

It’s basically a tradition at this point that I’ll play every Zelda game twice. Once to see the story, and at some point again to get all the heart pieces/extras/Korok seeds as the case may be.

Also I’ve played all the Layton and Ace Attorney games more times than I can count, except Layton’s Mystery Journey and Edgeworth 1. (They just don’t do it for me.)

FINALLY! I’m so glad this one ended up in Kate Gray’s hands. I’ve finished the main story, which was a 10/10 for me, and am now about halfway through the prequel that unlocked, which is…not as good. But I think maybe I should have just taken a break between the two titles.

You guys have been sleeping on last month’s The House in Fata Morgana, which is a 10/10.

The House in Fata Morgana, which N Life is really sleeping on for some reason.

@Damo incredible proofreading on their part, lol

That’s actually how you spell “consumption” though so idk what the [sic] is for

Paradise Killer was fantastic. I hope it gets more and more well known as time goes on. I also really hope a Murder By Numbers sequel is in the works.

Gotta admit, I hadn’t heard of the game but am purchasing it after looking into it. Not because of the controversy (I don’t like gratuitous sex and violence) but because I’m a fan of Japanese horror, which is what the developers are trying to invoke. Japanese horror often has ties to sex and sexuality (Death Mark and NG are good examples of this) and while it can distract from the atmosphere, some might argue that it’s part of the atmosphere. It’s down to personal taste. Though of course I don’t know the specifics of this game yet.

A bit bummed not to see Murder by Numbers. I thought it was a really great little title.

Tbh with how bad Layton’s Mystery Journey was, and rereleasing that instead of a classic Layton collection (literally already developed on smartphone), they only have themselves to blame for lack of sales.

The fireworks shows warmed my heart, so that’s number one. I started a new job in august, which was very stressful, and the fireworks shows made me feel like there were still some happy summer feelings to enjoy. I also picked Halloween because that music is just amazing and the island looked spectacular that night with all of my spooky decorations and the creepy clouds.

@skulltulips lens of truth coming in with the truth bombs

@TheLightSpirit Forgive me for thinking someone with your username isn’t completely unbiased (I also love the quirkiness of Pikmin more than almost anything else out there)

Poor Pikmin. Better than anything on this list, IMO.

@Late yeah that’d be great. I don’t check the community here.

@Late I had to import that game a couple years back because I had replayed Hotel Dusk over and over. The sequel never came out stateside, but I managed to get an import copy pretty cheap. It’s a really good game. I felt like the localization was kind of bland (it was obviously someone who’s used to British English trying to write for Americans) but the storyline was good. I hope you enjoy, feel free to reach out if you want to chat about it. I’ve never met anyone else who’s played it.

I like the S series...but really nothing beats the touch screen controls of Picross e series. It’s harder for me to go back to buttons.

@lacaras4 I remember that one being the worst star in the game but actually, this time around (I 100%ed the Switch port over the weekend) the star I had to try the most times was the 100 coin star in Rainbow Ride. So annoying!

@lacaras4 And Mario Over the Rainbow! (Sorry to remind you)

Don’t forget that next year is the 35th anniversary of Legend of Zelda, so all these theories about MORE Mario releases are maybe misguided considering what will no doubt be a Zelda-centric year.

@Philip_J_Reed stumbled across this comment nearly ten years later and boy it did not age well

This was my first Paper Mario game. I’m about 30 hours in and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve always preferred the Mario & Luigi series RPGs, but this is similar.

How many times can you use “dozens” to mean “a lot” in one review?

This conceit reminds me of Level-5’s 3DS game “Crimson Shroud,” which I really liked.

@VelmThrift they changed several puzzles (most of which were not well made in the 3DS version) and added a lot of outfits. Also, obviously, it’s in HD. Otherwise it’s the same game.

@TeslaChippie I see it as a continuation of her story. In City Folk, she and the other two were in a sort of feud, because she rejected her home and her birth name to work for Gracie, a big brand corporation, and changed her name to Labelle. In New Leaf, she’s back to being friendly with her sisters and helping the family business in her own department. Maybe by now she’s realized she wanted to stick to her roots. (Pretty common narrative for adult siblings honestly)

My town tune I wrote for New Leaf: https://tunes.nooknet.net/?melody=B-f-D-s-G-B-f-s-c-b-f-e-B-A-B-s&title=New%20Horizons

I’ll probably bring it back to New Horizons, I love it so much.

This is one example where a demo actually discouraged me from purchasing. Bad idea to make a demo for a game that has boring, repetitive gameplay and a bafflingly bad art style (it’s so close to being right, but as it is, nothing about it works for me). I loved this series back in the day but didn’t like the plot in Super Mystery Dungeon and hate how slow-moving and tedious the dungeon crawling has become in this release. Sorry, Spike Chunsoft.

Guys...this is almost definitely just going to be an in-game prompt to buy a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Other games have had the same marking (such as Pokémon, way before any paid DLC was announced).

Most of these make sense to me, but I have to admit “Shadows of Almia” really got me laughing

I’m fine with that. He hasn’t composed a decent track since Black and White (well, maybe the XY trainer battle, but even that was just Ichinose doing his arrangement magic). Minako Adachi, on the other hand—she is a really fantastic, versatile, and above all INTERESTING game composer. I loved her work for Sun and Moon and was overjoyed to see her name again. But most of all I’m glad that Shota Kageyama wasn’t a part of this. I’m less glad that Hitomi Sato is missing from the crew—I really love her style.

Edit: also, Masuda hasn’t been lead composer since the very first game. After gen 2, he basically only composed the battle music, and the last couple gens others have been helping even with that part.

@Ardisan @Porky I can’t believe they actually took my comment down just because I linked to a legitimate collection of complaints. How much is Nintendo Life getting paid to give this game positive press???

The moment I finally got the “How Many Mice?” puzzle from Curious Village is such an intense memory for me, even nearly twelve years on. I love these games.

@Xylnox My recommendation is to start with Curious Village on mobile, but the truth is you can’t go wrong with any of them. The only one I wouldn’t recommend starting with is this one. It is not a bad game, but it doesn’t give the best idea of what the series is all about and why it’s loved.

I’m a major fan of the Layton series, but saying this game has fantastic writing is really just not accurate. The characters and locales are perfectly charming, but the story is not interesting in the least, as much as I wanted to love it. Also, as a longtime Layton fan, the new localization style with all the puns and obnoxious Britishisms and accents in the text really got under my skin. I get that the reviewer liked it, but it’s not at all consistent with how the other Laytons have been localized.

Why on earth does everyone want this wonderful little console to die so badly? There’s been something unnecessarily cruel about the way this site and the general public clamors for it to be stamped out.

@CarpeDiem took me forever too. Made me think maybe I should have activated E. Gadd’s hints.

Unwound Future is going to win this poll, but (while I love all of them and played every last puzzle multiple times) for my money, the series still hasn’t recaptured the charm and atmosphere of Curious Village and Diabolical Box. I also think the 3DS games and the prequels in general are unfairly criticized a lot; I really can’t stress enough how great each of the main series is.

Layton’s Mystery Journey is...okay. I’d have preferred fewer puzzles if it meant that we wouldn’t have so many with trick answers or dumb solutions; you can really tell Tago didn’t work on the puzzles unfortunately. The story is also completely dull, even if the locales and characters are charming. It’s like someone took the egg hunt chapter of Azran Legacy and stretched it out to an entire game, except the egg hunting stories were much more interesting. Oh well. Hopefully Layton has a return to form in the future.

Great write up. I love Twin Peaks and saw a lot of similarities through Link’s Awakening and especially Majora’s Mask. I would have liked to see this article go deeper into the parallels to the 2017 season, though, which is imo the most interesting thematically and has a lot of similarities to Zelda’s quirkier aspects.

I can’t believe the author got through this entire article without mentioning Polteageist.

Also, Weezing is doubly good when you consider that its smokestacks resemble a Victorian London chimney, with the smog and smoke.