StardustWhip

I sort of get it, the Chao Garden was created as a bonus to incentivize exploration and replaying the main game. But if it has to be tied to a Sonic game, I don't see why it has to be Adventure. If anything, an open-zone game like Frontiers feels like it'd suit a Chao Garden just as well, if not better.

@Phenzy If that were the case though, it wouldn't have that PEGI 18/M rating. It has to be a game of some kind.

Some of my favorite parts of the Oscars, or Emmies or Annies or any award show, are the speeches from the winners who just got an award for all the hard work they put into their art. I still tear up at Ke Huy Quan's speech after winning Best Supporting Actor!

If someone tried to make a heartfelt speech like that at the Game Awards, they wouldn't make it past their first "thank you" before getting shooed offstage to make room for the announcement of Bang Bang Shooty 2024.

I'm both liking the update, and a little disappointed that a lot of the content I enjoyed from New Leaf hasn't returned, and now definitively will never return. I'll probably still stick mainly to New Leaf, but I'm gonna be checking in on my New Horizons island a lot more often with the stuff they added.

Even if we were to disregard the environmental impact of NFTs (which we really shouldn’t until less ecologically harmful methods of blockchain management become the universal standard), NFTs are a total scam.

People are paying thousands at least for what essentially amounts to bragging rights. Even the already-flimsy argument that it supports small artists goes straight out the window when huge corporations like EA want to get in on the action.

@N1ntendodo But that's a big "if." I've seen lot of people try to come up with ways that Nintendo will add stuff later on to make the Expansion Pack worth it, but it's all just speculation, and even if that does happen, that still wouldn't make the Expansion Pack worth it at the moment because it would all be stuff coming later.

Maybe the Expansion Pack will also add DLC for Mario Party and Splatoon 3 and other first-party titles eventually, maybe they'll add other systems. But that's a maybe, and an eventually. Right now, they're charging $30 extra for ACNH DLC, nine N64 games and fourteen Genesis games.

I can definitely see the value in the Expansion Pack... if you're in a family plan and at least two of the people in said family plan love Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

I'm not in a family plan, and I don't like New Horizons enough to even be sure I want the DLC, so for me it's just $30 extra for Mega Drive/Genesis games (most of which I've already bought as a bundle in a Steam sale for like $15 at most), a not-ideal version of N64 games, and DLC that I may or may not play for more than half an hour.

I love Gravity Falls so I'd pick this up even if it was garbage. It's like the Doctor Who adventure games. Objectively mediocre, but come on, they're Doctor Who adventure games.

@kingofthesofa ...No? I mean, just speaking personally, I'm completely capable of focusing my attention on the terrible hardships that Syrian refugees go through, while also being somewhat frustrated that I've never seen a Marth amiibo, and outside of eBay, probably never will.

So, Mabel is pretty much confirmed then? Here's hoping Dipper's next.

Guys, it's not dead yet. And even if it were, so what? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to pretend it's some sin against humanity. Personally, I'm looking forward to 3.0, if only for the Inside Out and Gravity Falls figures.

Hold on... Does that say MSX and TurboGrafx 16 in Japan?
Geez Nintendo...