Splash_Woman

I can already feel it, the dark chill in the air, as the seedier corners of the internet froth with excitement at the announcement of Poppy Kong and begin to churn out their abominations.

I mean, sure, she got her name in the title of DKC3, but let's not pretend I wasn't playing as her rather than Diddy as often as possible. Dixie was the star of DKC2 as well!

You may ask "Who wants this?" or "Why is this in a DK game?" Meanwhile, I'm asking "Once my kid gets ahold of DK Artist will it be my turn to play the Switch 2 ever again?"

I don't think I've ever had a single game direct turn my opinion around so quickly! They took this from "DK's Smashy Time Tech Demo" to an actual game in 15 minutes flat. I'm SO excited!

It happened to me on Wind Waker in Dragon Roost Cavern. I hadn't heard about the issue at all and quickly paused the game in alarm, thinking I had done something dreadfully wrong. After a few seconds of clicking around the menus while trying not to panic, I unpaused it and went back to what I was doing. The rumble was working perfectly fine, and the issue has yet to pop up ever again.

My kid really wants a Switch 2 camera, but considering neither of us will be going online any time soon and I have yet to even set up GameChat...yeah, no, there's no way I'm spending $55 on a piece of plastic we'll use to complete that one mini game on Welcome Tour before throwing it in a box, never to be seen again.

After reading this review I thought, "Huh. Off-brand, low quality, yet still super cute camera? My kid won't really care, let's see what the price is! If it's around $40 then..."

......this thing is $60. $60! To paraphrase the old adage: that's as many as six tens, and that truly is terrible.

1. Yeah, it's probably nothing.

2. Come on, though! It may be a historical symbol, and were it to pop up in some other form of media like a movie maybe I'd buy it, but in the realm of gaming three triangles in that configuration really only means one thing, and it has nothing to do with 13th century ninjas.

Would I have liked this to be a pack in? Obviously, yes, and it feels even weirder that it isn't one when you get to the camera portion, which feels so much like a sales pitch that I got twitchy to find the "skip ad" button.

But on the other hand I still remember 1-2 Switch from 8 years ago, with its shallow offering and $60 price tag. And I look at the clock and notice I've been playing Welcome Tour for three hours without noticing. AND I'm only halfway done with everything.

Hot take: I'm satisfied with my purchase.

I assume Miyamoto has more than enough clout that if he really wanted his name on there he could have just walked into the studio and said, "Hi, I'm Shigeru Miyamoto. You're going to put my name on the credits. Any questions?" If he's fine being left out, I don't see how it's any of our business stressing over it.

...it is a bit weird, though.

I have to wait outside this store for another hour before getting mine...I'm now extremely paranoid...

Setting aside any ethical qualms about AI in general for a moment, I have just one question:

Like...this AI might be hot, sure...but is it as hot as Brock?

Switch 1, at its own funeral three days before it's death:

"Um, guys...whatcha talking about?"

I was starting to type a response...but no, it's just not worth the effort. Many of you have at the very least put a damper on my night, if not ruined it, and I hope you all find something better to do with your time. Have a great one.

It was almost at this precise moment that I realized how disconnected from the current online culture I am. I shall now take a "eh, not bad, maybe 7 out of 10, give or take" girl walk to think about my place in the universe.

Thanks Pikmin!

I wasn't going to get it at launch. I thought "I can wait! I don't have a preorder, I have a big trip planned and should save my money, and there's nothing I'm THAT excited about at launch!"

...I took the day off work and my kid and I will be waiting in line...

It might just be me hallucinating it, but it appears to be entering/exiting the different menus quicker than the Switch 1. Not a huge deal, but cool to see!

Galaxy 2 is one of the weirdest games for me. Facts:
1. I bought it the day it came out.
2. I reached 100% completion.
3. I really enjoyed it.
And yet...I don't remember it at all. Not a single thing. The same thing happened to me with Twilight Princess.

It's practically been a given that a Zelda area will pop up eventually ever since the name of the park was announced. You don't call it "Super Nintendo World" if it's just going to be Mario and friends.

Surprise Smash trailer:

"Marilyn Monroe likes it hot!"

...wow, everyone really IS here!

"Dude, here comes Becky, you...dude, what are you doing?"
"Shhh!"
"Why do you have that huge book over your lap, dude!?"
"Because my Masamune just adjusted based on the title’s specifications, okay!?"

Hmm...guess I'm not a real fan, then!

I love how removing the hat reveals the entirety of Vivi's eyes, causing him to look startled. "No! What are you doing!? Stop, you maniac! Please don't drink my bruberupgubblerg...."

I never played Hotel Dusk (though it does seem right up my alley and I would love to), but I'm all for Nintendo mining for old DS gems! If they dig deep enough they might finally hit Elite Beat Agents!

@TheSaneInsanity It's possible, I obviously can't speak for him (though an AI chat bot can).

James Earl Jones did indeed sign the rights to his voice over to Disney. I imagine when he did so it was with the notion that they would modulate an actor's voice to sound like his, a human actor reading lines written by a human.

I can't imagine he could have even fathomed this was a possibility, let alone be okay with it.

Nintendo's just trying to prevent future heartbreaks. After all, the more you smash with someone the more % builds up, and it's inevitable that some day a final smash will come along to end it...

Now that their entire install base has come to expect a hybrid TV/portable console from them I think it's going to be nearly impossible for them to stray from that design going forward. My hope is that they take the creativity that arguably may have been left on the cutting room floor with the design of the Switch 2 and use it to make some imaginative gaming experiences. I have little doubt they will!

@dskatter That was immediately where I went too. Having the blow-up doll be Gex himself and not her is...somehow even more off-putting...

Sure, I've intentionally played worse games just for the "so-bad-it's-good" heck of it. And I've been more disappointed in other titles. But I don't know if I've ever genuinely, of my own ignorant volition, played a game worse then Bubsy 3D.

I want to say it would be a no brainer for Rebirth to come out on Switch 2, but considering the technical hiccups it had at launch on PS5 I'd say it's a toss up whether we see it or not. Mind you the issues didn't bother me at all, and I played it close to launch on my vanilla PS5, but I can already hear the complaints when the textures are blurry and the frame rate stutters on a device that's only as powerful as a PS4.

If it does show up, regardless of performance, I'll be lining up for a second helping on Switch 2!

@amongtheworms One of their Pokémon got too powerful and now TPC's gotta get the word out somehow: beware Bewear's bee war!

Seems fitting that putting the vowels back in "BWR" spells "Beware".

First Oblivion and now this...whoever's got the monkey's paw that's giving us an increasingly destabilized world in exchange for top tier remakes better get a Final Fantasy VI remake off the ground before it's too late!

I super hope it comes to Switch 2, but I have my doubts. At the very least I wouldn't be surprised to see the evergreen juggernaut that is GTA V finally plant its flag in the eshop, though I can't see myself buying it a third time.

If it's a game my kid wants I might buy one as a birthday/Christmas present, but for myself? ...nah

I actually JUST last night accidentally stepped on a roach, turned to my spouse, and asked, "Sorry, was that your auntie?" So this is wonderfully, eerily timed. I love it!

Do I care much about it? Not really. Does my kid ask me to open it every morning to see what's new? Absolutely. So there you go: I think the fundamental misconception with it is that it's not even meant to be an informational app for those of us that get our news from elsewhere. It's for kids to get a daily jolt of Nintendo endorphins, and some of the stuff on it really is cute!

I couldn't pick just three, there's SO many! I'm old enough to have been gaming since the NES era, and for me the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox era was hands down the pinnacle of gaming. Awesome current gen games, brilliant and innovative handheld games, the first wave of "gamer nostaglia" that brought ports of previous gen titles to modern systems...everything since then has just been chasing the same high. What a magical time!

And that's not even mentioning Donkey Konga! Not to bang my own bongos, but I'm an absolutely top tier Donkey Konga player! Or I was, anyway, it's been a looooong time!

@EarthboundBenjy I forgot about the whole FE1 debacle. I'm not the biggest Fire Emblem fan, but I did buy FE1 during that brief window of availability out of sheer panic that I would get the urge to play the series some day and not have access to the only official English language version of the first game. SO glad that the FE1/3D All Stars business model hasn't really been repeated by Nintendo since then!

"We didn't think we could love Rudd anymore."

Why!? What did he DO to you!?

Japan's is cute, even though NA/Europe is still the winner. I almost went the other way though just on the principle of misinformation on the western cover: I would LOVE if my Pikmin ran away from danger, but those little sprouts always seem to jump right into bulborbs' mouths!

Can we maybe just get a rerelease of Um Jammer Lammy? Maybe? Please?

Of course they start the day before I get my bonus. Of COURSE they do!

I'm assuming the rewards for collecting coins and completing missions will be more cosmetic options like racers, costumes, and karts, which I absolutely love! I've sunk dozens of hours into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, don't get me wrong, but it always bothered me that there wasn't much to unlock. I'm super excited!!

It's nice to hear his life wasn't totally destroyed (hopefully, though I don't know what having a very public criminal record does for your job/housing opportunities in Japan). Yeah, he did a bad thing, but...I dunno, it breaks my heart a little that it was a 58 year old dude that, in his words, did it so people would think he was cool.

@Romoredux I feel that one. Like all of my SNES games, the Earthbound box is long gone. The guide is still on my bookshelf, but it's been abused by water damage, something sticky, time, and the love of child me. There was a moment, a moment I still remember, when my mom and I stood over a bargain bin at Best Buy, staring down at a sea of $20 CIB copies of Earthbound, only one of which became mine. I often wonder where I might be now if my mom had had the foresight in 1995 to buy multiple copies. What if...

Now, as a life long Earthbound fan, I find the term "Earthbound-inspired" to be overused, or perhaps used incorrectly. While certainly you can be inspired by Earthbound to make something new (I know I was when I wrote my first novel) that doesn't necessarily mean your end product has any correlation to its inspiration. Earthbound-Inspired has always seemed like a catch all for "weird, old school RPG with a modern setting" that misses the point that Earthbound had an undefinable secret sauce that held the thing together in a way most imitators can't match, at least not in the same way.

This is my first time hearing anything about this game. Based on the trailer...yeah, this looks like it has the potential to bring some Mother series vibes. "Earthbound-Inspired" indeed! I'm interested!

The real question:

22. What does it taste like?

Sounds like somebunny didn't carrot enough to not make this Switch port into hasenpfeffer. Still might get it, though!

I had the time and gave each title on the lists above a number based on how much I liked them now and how much I was excited for them then. I thought, "Wow, this'll be a neat and objective way to answer the question!"

...the Wii U came out on top thanks to sheer volume...so don't ever hire me to track statistics for you or anything like that...

I mean, the Wii U version of Arkham City IS the best version, and I like NSMBU better than most but...yeah...