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@GrailUK depends on the game. Some it's easy others no way. Interested to see how their first switch games do

@PhilKenSebben out of interest where did you get Lisa Frank stickers?

Finished the single player over Christmas. I love love loved it. I only own Nintendo platforms (mainly because I don't have time to play all the games I want to on one platform, let alone two or more). But about once a year there's a game I can't play on Nintendo that I really want to. This year it was Cuphead, last year it was DOOM. I grew up a PC gamer, so I have fond memories of the first two DOOM games. When I heard it was coming to Switch I was delighted.

It did not dissapoint. Easily the best portable FPS of all time. The progression system is perfect - enemies that scare the pants off you in the first few levels you will slaughter in waves by the end, as you unlock new weapons, add-on mods for those weapons, higher ammo limits and passive buffs for your character. The environments are varied enough but add up to a really cohesive world. They're not realistic (obviously), but they feel logical in how they are put together and are very well-made which helps the immersion.

Obviously you're not playing with a mouse which can make aiming a challenge but you'll perfect the strafe-shooting as you work through the game.

The throwbacks to the earlier games, the very well-written lore you collect, the secrets, the challenge sub-levels. The varied enemies, their awesome AI, the glory kills. I just ruddy loved it.

There's bugs for sure. I hope they patch them. But bravo Panic Button, id and Bethesda for putting this out and blessing Nintendo fans with this game. I will definitely be checking out Skyrim and Wolfenstein for sure. And plz plz plz give us DOOM 2 in this same wonderful engine with Switch support on day one.

Bet this is a prelude to the next new character - that plant based fighter teased in an earlier Twitter image.

Need to get back to ARMS and collect me some badges

Save me:

DOOM
LA Noir
Rime
Xenoblade
Snipperclips Plus

For me, plus tempted by one of those 8bitdo controllers - do we know if their dpad is good?

Been playing this game on and off. It is very addictive if you like a challenge.

Looks awesome

This looks great - will pick up at some point

Amazon dropping the ball on my Switch version pre-order yet again...

Just played through the story bit of the demo (more of a tutorial) and spent the five daily demo tickets. At first it was too easy, but I bumped up the CPU difficulty a bit and they are really quite smart.

The only issue I see is aiming in the 2v2 battle mode - it's quite hard to land your cutter. Might just take some practice but we'll see.

Does anyone know where you can pre-order this (UK)? Amazon don't seem to be offering.

Sounds like a real labour of love. Need to finish a couple of other things but will pick this up soon.

@speedracer216 I was hoping for a reveal that live-action Pauline was actually Karen from the first switch commercial. Sadly not

Sprite work in that trailer is gorgeous. Will play at some point

I'm well up for an achievements system

Original and best M&L, so I'm looking forward to this remake. Later games got a little bogged down and too lengthy, though always enjoyable.

@dougphisig just got around to re-ordering it from Base.com

Opted for picross s over golf story this week, but will be sure to pick up down the line

I've dropped off a little recently but need to get back into this.

I tried to get one off John Lewis at 8pm yesterday - no luck. Ordered from Amazon France today

Pre-ordered Metroid from Amazon - said it was out for delivery for a week then they just cancelled and refunded me. Weird. That's one sale lost

Lord yes. Secret best puzzle series

Going to experiment with different buttons for guarding. Hopefully that gets me to rank 10 finally...

Pumped for this - do we know if it has download play?

They've had this website for a while. I've looked at it many times when I umm and ah about pre-ordering one of their switch games (I always do).

I love their physical editions, but I acknowledge that they are basically rinsing collector nerds and their digital prices should be a bit lower.

'I feel this is just something we have to accept'

@Scrummer not sure you need to be so defeatist. Having more equal gender representation on organising committees/in positions of power in a given community is one way (of many and not sufficient in and of itself) in which they can become more welcoming to the gender that is not as heavily represented at other levels i.e. in the competitive player base in this case. You know, role models.

Good idea to have representatives of both genders on this sort of panel. Where I've ran events in the past I would try really hard to have more than one woman involved.

If it was picked purely on who is the best in a competitive scene, and that turned out to be 25 men - that only reinforces the need to get female representation!

For those on the fence, I really recommend the demo. It's meaty (I spent four hours playing through it), and will give you a flavour of the main story, sub quests, egg farming, item collecting and battling either vs. monsters and versus a trainer and monsters.

Will pick up the full game soon.

Yokai Watch is a guilty pleasure of mine. Love the relaxed vibe of this series. Wish busters would come over

Wow didn't expect this. I've become accustomed to dodging rather than blocking due to the controls. This should give me some more options to mix it up. Good job

YES!

Yeah had some funny hit box situations so good they've tweaked that.

They also really needed to let people know how to change targets. I've benefitted from ignorance on that point for far too long!

Have a feeling some of these just refer to existing characters and were early placeholders that were not removed. Happy to be proved wrong but not going to be too dissapointed if we get less than 9 further characters.

Love Arms. Think I'm topping out at around rank 9/10, which I'm fine with. Spend most of my time in the game on party mode and working through GP with Spring Man. Currently stuck on a level 7 Twintelle - soon hard! Would like to do level 4 with all characters default arms eventually.

Probably depends on how VII and VIII sold in the west, and whether they are straight up ports or require any new localisation.

Some arms might need rebalancing to prevent them becoming dominant. Thinking specifically of the electric homing missile here.

Well up for this. Have played MLB the show bit always prefer a more arcade experience

Love my black N3DS with splatoon faceplates. Best handheld I've ever owned

@Maxadams stress can contribute to cancer. It's not 'the' cause of cancer though.

Bit offensive to say that Iwata's work killed him. He had an illness. How the heck would this guy know the details of that? Gross

Will pick up Kirby at some point. It was a good mode in robobot. Pleased they haven't gone free to start. Found the last one a little underwhelming.

Has everyone noticed the slow and steady stream of interesting puzzle release coming to switch? That Shephy game looks really deep, and then next week I'm super intrigued about the game where you have to level up coloured numbers in a grid (can't find the name of it).

Wanted to get flip wars but looks a bit too much like bomber man for my tastes.

Planning to pick up all the first party titles, and Mario Rabbids which I guess is 3rd party. Only really have budget for one first switch game a month - may pick up some of the other stuff like Skyrim down the line

Only been tinkering with a map of a hospital - the first location in my game, but enjoying it so far. Readers please note that free sci-fi and modern style dlc is now available.

Also agree that the 3DS is an RPG machine. Perhaps you could argue that SNES or PS2 had more genre-defining titles, but the range and breadth of quality RPGs on 3DS is staggering. And we have plenty more to come - more atlus, dragon quest, hopefully more level 5 and more pokemon. Easily the best handheld of all-time for RPGs, better even than Vita.

Looks hot

@garydbz25 believe they have a deal with head up games for an EU release later: http://nintendoeverything.com/headup-games-will-publish-cave-story-in-europe/

Strong 3DS week. Got both RPG Maker and Ever Oasis, and will try those demos too

Love the series - I feel it''s stepped up a gear since return to dreamland. Long may it continue!

Top 5, in no particular order

Planet Robobot
Dreamland
Mass Attack
Rainbow Curse
Kirby 64

One thing that I've noticed is with best since at least OOT Zelda, best ever Mario Kart, the most relevant tetris/bomberman releases for years and a street fighter 2 port incoming, the first three months of switch are an absolute nostalgia juggernaut. We've seen the power of nostalgia in other media like the Star Wars franchise recently, and Nintendo is really surfing that wave. I've been surprised by how many nontendo friends and family have been curious about games beyond MK and Zelda - particularly tetris and bomberman.

And we haven't had VC news yet!

Baby Park all day every day

@datamonkey I get what you're saying, but localisation is an easy win, and most of the recently announced games (hey pikmin, Kirby action game, fire emblem echoes etc.) apear to be quick turnaround projects using existing engines built for the specific 2-screen setup and resolution specs of the 3DS. Doubt we will see anything as resource intensive as Super Mario 3D Land/Kid Icarus Uprising again on 3DS. I'm very happy these new games exist as I love 3DS and the games they are building on. I also have a tonne to play on switch with more coming out every month. For me it's a great situation. I have no doubt each of these developers (possible exception of Arzest), is also hard at work on Switch titles that make use of the specific hardware there. The nature of these games (existing engines/assets) likely allows them to do that. It's a win-win!

I don't feel like resources put into 3DS software is hampering development of switch software. The more the merrier! We still have lots to get localised too - some great looking Atlus titles like Etrian Odyssey V, for example