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@ATMVF Some of the dialogue in it really made me laugh like the person with a broad Northern England dialogue and the man and woman hiding under one of the Joycon sticks who you can barely see, whose dialogue was only "he he he... " The implication being they were up to something naughty under there.

Also like the little touches like being able to skate on the screen and falling over if you go too fast.

Very much disagree with comments that it's without charm. It was developed by Nintendo Cube (previously NDcube) who made Clubhouse Games/51 Worldwide Classics and they both share a very similar art style, soundtrack and humour which I enjoy a lot. They make a nice quirky pair.

@SalvorHardin I find the mouse games in it fun, they remind me of the fly swatting mini game in Mario Paint.

@KoopaTheGamer And £16.99 in UK

Both GameCube and the Switch 2 screen looks fantastic and play great to me. Some of these tech nerds are quite annoying with their hyperbole and nitpicking. I wonder if they even enjoy playing games?

@Coalescence "Smash Bro" Oh dear... Can't look at the game's name in the same way anymore.

@Roibeard64 There is a dislike button (thumbs down) and you can also block users. Personally his rants are funny and weirdly comforting in their predictability. The site wouldn't be the same without his quirky presence, so I choose to keep them, lol. But I can see why people might find them repetitive.

I think the screen looks great and I've come to find I don't really like OLED screens anyway since I can't stand how grainy they look, especially on grey colours. Actually considering selling my OLED TV and going back to LCD.

I'd much rather have a Switch 2 Lite model than an OLED one as I find it a bit too huge to take out with me often.

@Dr_Corndog Sidestepper is a legend, he deserves more props for being a true OG from the original Mario Bros game (not Super Mario Bros!)

One of the oldest Mario characters and it's very cool he's playable. He is older than Peach, Toad, Bowser and Goomba!

And I find it so funny that he barely moves, doesn't hold the Kart and has the same expression like in Mario Bros. It's like he's still a rigid sprite that got lost and ended up in a 3D game.

@JohnnyMind Was thinking Kirby possibly

@JohnnyMind Thanks, that's good to know! I was actually thinking of buying certain Switch 1 games that have Switch 2 editions unboxed on eBay as a cheaper way of getting the Switch 2 upgrade.

@Mana_Knight So true. I just go straight to my Subscriptions in YouTube now because I can't face being greeted by yet another bearded man with his mouth agape at something irrelevant/made up. Every Switch 2 suggestion be like:

This and the lack of story mode (what I played most in Team Sonic Racing) has really put me off this game :-/ Add to this the lack of Switch 2 upgrade paths for Sonic x Shadow/Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 and it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth for money day SEGA.

@GinMiguel Yes I would. These tacky crossovers really kill the feeling of playing in a cohesive and believable universe to me.

I'm so glad Mario Kart World ditched the villager characters, Link, F-Zero, Inklings and such for the same reason (although at least they were Nintendo IP) It's such a nice celebration of the history of Mario, music and all.

Can you imagine if Nintendo did the same to Mario Kart World and let Illumination have access to it (makers of Mario movie) and we had to play alongside a bunch of Minions... The horror! Please don't take note Nintendo!

@Member_the_game I move on to a mixture of physical and digital games early on, on 3DS, picking depending on pricing, but I'm the opposite to you and couldn't get on with PS Plus or Game Pass.

I always found myself too overwhelmed on what to play with them and found it very hard to complete anything. I think single purchases encourage me to appreciate my games more and not move on so quickly.

Funnily enough Nintendo's much criticised "drip feed" of games on Switch Online stops me having that problem as I just play new games as they come along. It works really nicely for me and stops me getting overwhelmed by analysis paralysis.

@Member_the_game I'm getting it from there too as £35 for essentially a digital version is actually a bargain.

I'll probably throw away the paper packaging and keep the box as a spare case for if I ever buy any unboxed games off eBay.

Does anyone know if Switch 1 games fit in Switch 2 boxes? Actually do Code In A Box games even have a cartridge compartment? 👀

"There's nothing behind me, there's nothing behind me"

@Waa-Laa It still changes it as a whole but makes it way quicker to switch. Especially as you can access that menu from the main home screen too

@Picola-Wicola @Waa-Laa FYI there's a setting in Switch 2 accessibility options that let's you add your button remapping to the quick Home menu (the one that pops up in game when you hold down Home button) This makes it way quicker to toggle between different control setups per game if you save a remapping called say Mario Kart World.

@KoopaTheGamer I miss the flags saying where everyone's from 😭 You CAN kind of spectate though by driving up to the race (or transporting to them with the map) and seeing everyone racing live, it's pretty cool! I assume they can't see you.

@ROBLOGNICK LG OLED C2 is 800 Nuts so it's 7 - 8 clicks
I have the same TV and also found reducing the black balance to 8 and increasing the white balance to 20 made Mario Kart World look way better. These features are in the Game Optimiser bit. White 20 does remove a little detail so might not be for everyone but I'd definitely have it quite a bit over 10. It looked so washed out before.

Also should be on Game Mode, HGiG, range limited (on Switch settings and TV) and probably Colour Warm 50. I did all this and it looks 👌🏻 now. No longer washed out and grainy.

Mine looks okay but it's a little troubling how hot the thing gets

Europe but I I don't understand how this is Nintendo related? It doesn't make any sense and would be better suited to the Time Extension site.

@Mana_Knight No, they work more like DLC on Nintendo's games and still require the cartridge. Hogwarts Legacy downloads an entirely new digital game so they'll appear as two separate icons on your home screen.

@arb93 My advice, decide for yourself whether games look fun and interesting to you and don't rely on others opinions. Buy physical if possible so you can sell them on after if unsure (I'll probably do this with DK Bonanza but I pretty much knew I'd want Mario Kart long term as I've loved every game)

I stopped reading reviews and impressions until after I have the game (I do watch a little gameplay footage, usually without commentary) and have been enjoying them a lot more since then. Feels more like how I experienced gaming pre-internet. It's nice not being clouded by others impressions which at times can be overly cynical or nitpicky for clicks these days on more unscrupulous websites and YouTube channels.

Disaster Report 4 was one of my all time favourite Switch games and had mostly awful reviews just because of the framerate. Meanwhile BOTW was rated highly across the board and I just couldn't get into it and it has so many gameplay elements that drove me mad. Conduct Together was an obscure game I picked up on eShop on a whim for 99p as it looked intriguing/different. I have 30 hour playtime on it!

And frankly reviews have become too subjective on many sites too (Not this one) They used to be more along the lines of "if you like so and so type of game you'll enjoy this" and try to consider their readers but many of them are very me-me-me now. I read a review of Welcome Tour that said it was a bad 2/10 game just because THEY don't care about how the Switch 2 works and don't enjoy simplistic twitch minigames. That's as silly as getting someone like me who can't stand RPGs to review the next Final Fantasy.

Anyway, rant over 😉

And honestly some Switch 1 games look loads better just by putting on Always On in the HDR settings on the Switch 2. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeeze looks stunning and the colours really pop. Really like Splatoon 2 with it on too, plus Wind Waker/F-Zero GX on NSO. Definitely turn it off for the earlier NSO consoles though...!

Disaster Report 4 is one of the funniest games I've ever played. I loved it from start to finish and went through it twice as a good and an evil character!

@Zuljaras "The big negative for me is that I do not own the game I bought unlike the releases that are full on the cart. I prefer ownership of that little chip and what is on it. In this case there is nothing on it. It is a plastic DRM key and nothing more."

The game plays the same either way though, doesn't it?

@WhiteUmbrella Good points, thanks for explaining and yeah, the refund policy is so good on Steam currently.

@Spaceman44 Yes for buying new games but you can still redownload games you previously purchased from the Wii Shop Channel on your Wii.

So not sure why some are so scared of digital games when Nintendo's track record shows we're still able to download them again 20 years on.

@SillyG "or I might buy it on PC when I eventually grab a handheld PC, because whatever I cannot get physically on Switch, I'll support elsewhere"

Erm, but those PC versions will be digital only too? Shouldn't you be against the practice of digital only there too then. Seems a funny way to protest digital games by buying digital games somewhere else

@Spaceman44 Nintendo still let's you download Wii games that are 20 years old...

What I find funny is a lot of the people here who say Nintendo are childish play nothing but Fifa and Call of Duty...... games played by and large by children.

@Arcticpandapopz Same here, I thought it was problem with my HDR settings at first until I turned off HDR and saw it was still there.

"In response to fan feedback regarding the slightly 'blurry' visuals, this will remove anti-aliasing and reprojection from the image, producing a much cleaner presentation"

I wish Nintendo would give us an option to remove the weird "fog" in Mario Kart World too. I'm not the only one who's noticed it right? It's hard to put into words, but there's something off about it and it makes everything look less vibrant and sharp than it could do Especially in outside areas.

@Dr_Lugae Also in the 80s we favoured home computers like Commodore 64 and Spectrum which had a long lifespan being supported from 1982 until at least 1992 so it was hard for the NES and even the Master System to that big a degree to get a look in. I'm not even sure the Master System did very well either.

So Nintendo didn't really become that iconic brand from people's childhood here and have that to build upon.

And then the culture became more "laddish" in the 90s/00s which favoured PlayStation with it's Lara Croft, Fifa, more adult games and cooler image. Nintendo and it's games were "gay" or "kiddy" and the GameCube's "purple handbag" design probably didn't help at the time!

I think cultural shift was a big reason Nintendo started doing better here from Wii onwards. More women started gaming, more entire families, more older people etc (actually largely to do with the Wii and DS which aimed themselves at non-gamers) and the pressure on boys and men to act a certain way or play certain types of games etc isn't there to the same degree (even though it's not gone away entirely of course) I remember boys at secondary school calling N64 gay and for kids compared to PlayStation in the playground before quietly asking if they could come to my house to play Mario Kart and Smash Bros 😏

It might be easy but it isn't fun IMO. I'm enjoying taking my time to unlock everything and am so glad all the character weren't available from the start like in MK8dx

The new Rainbow Road, it's STUNNING, especially when it goes dark.

I kind of love Koopa Beach too mostly for the party vibe and that amazing remix. Shame it's so short though.

Cue a bunch of comments from people saying it's "bad" or a "tech demo" or "an instruction manual" from people who haven't actually played it. It's actually a museum and mini game collection. It has 20 mini games BESIDES the 14 tech demos and they're both labelled as such.

I really like it. Super interesting, quirky, funny and some of the mini games are very addictive, trying to beat your high score/earn all the trophies. The early ones with the UFO's and such remind me a lot of the fly swatting mini game in Mario Paint. The quizzes were enjoyable too.

With that said it is a real shame they didn't pack it in with the system, even if it put the price up a little as I think it would've been well loved had it been. Nintendo definitely lost some goodwill there.

I think Miyamoto is done with games and just focusing on films and theme parks these days. He did an interview with IGN recently and just spoke about the theme park and pretty much wouldn't talk about Switch 2 when asked.

@Yalloo Yep, was added in 2022!

@speed_loafer Switch 2 has a bigger screen than phones and a nice kick stand that makes it perfect for using YouTube tablet style if you don't have a tablet

@N00BiSH It could be but I also think it's possible they did want some younger and more lively voices to take the characters in a new direction, as all this recasting seems to be to coinciding with them giving the character models more personality and expressive faces etc, as seen in games like Mario Wonder, Mario Kart World and DK Bonanza.

Good for PS and Xbox owners but I can already play them on NSO.

@GrailUK There's a P mission in Peach's Castle that feels so Pilotwings like! I really hope they make a new one, it's been too long.

Only played Mario Kart World but I find the HDR graphics weirdly inconsistent on my LG Oled TV. Some bits look really sharp and colourful but other parts are foggy and dull/washed out looking. Also am seeing the colours flash and change before me in places, especially at night. And in day sometimes clouds turn to a white too bright mush with no detail that looks strange.

I have HGiG turned on/TV mode and weirdly found it looks best with RGB Range set to Limited on TV and Auto on Switch 2... Limited on Both or Full Colour on both looks really bad.

Also have on Switch 2 settings ALLM on and 120hz on.

Does anyone have any other tips? Also how literally should I be taking the sun thing on the HDR Setup when it says the right one shouldn't be visible at all? Should I be going up close to the TV until it's 100% gone? Most of the time when I do these setups it says Barely Visible rather than Invisible

@Tyranexx I agree. They're reviewing the gameplay, not the format it's released in. By that logic digital only games would have to have it mentioned as a negative too.

@HugoGED Another article mentioned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spongebob and Avatar: The Last Airbender characters being in it

@GinMiguel At least they were only from other SEGA franchises (Wreck it Ralph aside) and it wasn't some cheap Nickelodeon and Minecraft cash grab. And I bet they won't even get their own beautifully crafted tracks like in All-Star Racing but just appear as characters.

But without going as far as Anti-Matter I have to say I'm not a great fan of crossovers in general since I feel like they take the immersion out of the worlds and stories creators make. It's a trend I wish would die off, especially when they include someone totally ill-fitting like the Yakuza guy in Monkey Ball! At least when Link was in Soul Calibur back in the day it made sense as he's a sword fighter.

I was super pleased that all the racers in Mario Kart World were from the Mario universe this time and they dug so deep into the franchise and spin offs for the soundtrack!

@Wraggadam1 Also was Astros Playroom really "free" or did Sony just increase the price of the system? I suspect that's the case with most "free" pack in games.

@michellelynn0976 Oh so even on PS5 and Xbox Series X it's 30fps in world tour mode?

I wonder why only that mode?

@Overzeal Exactly. I'm beginning to think some are willfully misrepresenting it on purpose for some reason.

@Arawn93 Fast Fusion and Survival Kids are exclusives too.