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@obijuankanoobie Certain Nintendo fans will always just hate on anything Sonic related unfortunately. I think this game looks really fun!

@somnambulance It sounds really interesting and different. I couldn't find this information online but are the anomalies different every time you play or in a different order?

Edit: Oh, it's only £3.71 on the eShop!

@Wewewi It doesn't even HAVE a story mode like Team Sonic Racing did, which sucks, as that was one of the best things about that game.

And honestly it feels really stiff with bad handling compared to Mario Kart World :-/ MKW has really raised the bar in that area. It seems to have really bad audio quality on the Switch version too, the music sounds really compressed/tinny? I liked the pre race banter from the characters though.

@N00BiSH @milonorth Well that's what people here keep saying they wanted... the expensive Full Physical release over the more affordable Game Key Cards (ツ)

@Faucet Apparently it does offer alternative controls to the old tank ones. It also read that it has CRT filter, optional widescreen support, save state and rewind

@SpacedDuck It's a 3D PS1 game, it'll likely look kind of terrible on any undocked Switch or modern HD TV

But seriously, wouldn't be a PS1 game look worse upscaled to 1080p? I've done that in some emulators and it... wasn't pretty.

Personally I'd rather play it on the Switch Lite anyway because the smaller screen is much more flattering to PS1, Saturn and N64 era visuals, ideally with a good CRT filter. I play all my NSO games on Switch Lite over Switch 2 for that reason, just a shame you can't use the N64 filter on it.

@Shmicko I heard of some people's Nintendo DS games starting to fail to load now :-/ SD cards and storage of that nature doesn't last for aeons like the old NES, SNES and N64 cartridges sadly. That's why I find some of the arguments against digital games dubious.

The vouchers are only for Switch 1 games so I wonder if the timing indicates it won't get much 1st party support after 2026. Rhythm Heaven and Tamagotchi Life will probably be added to it. Still hoping for a port of Yoshi's Wooly World too. 🙏

I wonder what became of my copy sold to "Mad Andy's Games Exchange" in 1996 when I moved on to PS1. Actually it's a really weird thought when you stop and think about how many homes all your childhood games ended up going through and where they all reside today! Damn and your toys as well.

The original really blew me away even though I'm not a big fan of the 2D Kirby games. I still think it's amazing HAL made such an almost flawless game for their first fully 3D platformer. I mean, like, look at Pokemon's rough transition into 3D space in comparison after how many games now... :-/ It's something of a masterpiece IMO.

The only thing I wasn't keen on was the sometimes repetitive bosses as mentioned.

@axelhander Hmm, maybe I'm remembering wrong then, but I thought it had more Yoshi's Island type music. I think the main Panel De Pon theme was missing anyone, the one that's in Smash Bros Ultimate

The control feature is handy for the Japanese games as you can see what all the buttons do now from the Remap page. Shame they didn't put Tetris Attack on it outside Japan rather than Panel De Pon (licensing issue?) but at least the latter game has better music.

@abe_hikura It sounds a bit crass to say it but Nintendo was insanely lucky Covid lockdowns coincided with Animal Crossing New Horizons. I really don't think that game would've become such a phenomenon otherwise.

@MSaturn

"Nintendo is the last company still acting on an older philosophy of video games. Everybody who has a problem with modern gaming winds up in the Nintendo camp, giving Nintendo a stable core audience. I used to be an all-console gamer but now I only play on Nintendo, simply because I’m not interested in what the other platforms are offering. The value proposition doesn’t work for me"

They either end up in the Nintendo camp or playing a lot of indie/cosy games on Steam like some people I know who are bored of big AAA story based games. I'd definitely say indie devs still have that old school mentality.

I mean Nintendo isn't perfect, but god, when I watched that GamesCom presentation they look like a breath of fresh air compared to the massive onslaught of grey and brown shooting games shown... it comes to something when Bubsy (!) looked like one of the most charming and interesting titles.

@some_other_drum

Nintendo's new CEO is actually a finance guy who is not a gamer

That's a common misconception, Furukawa IS a gamer and wanted to work at Nintendo because he loved Super Mario Kart so much growing up and likes some pretty niche titles like SNES Nobunga's Ambition and Switch Golf Story (see my message above for more info) and actually comes from a creative family, with his dad being animator Taku Furukawa whose short films you can watch on YouTube. He was also mentored by Iwata.

There's a lot of misinformation about him because he's so elusive compared to Iwata and even Yamauchi (who actually WAS someone who didn't play videogames, although he was a visionary and even came up with the idea for the Nintendo DS which I only found out recently!) as well as some rose tinted revisionism about Iwata. Let's not forget one of the first things Furukawa did as president was scrap Iwata's god awful YouTube Creators Programme

@AllBLK

Game key cards, the Switch Joy Con scandal, higher game prices, etc... Yeah they are really in "touch" with their fans.😐

People need to remember that the likes of us who post on Nintendo Life are not the majority of fans.

@breach187

But here’s the big difference: Nintendo makes games that they themselves would want to, and do play. You ask the CEO of EA, Microsoft, Former Activision CEO, Ubisoft, and other such publishers if they play video games and once you filter all the marketing fluff out, they’ll tell you no.

Good point. I think people forget that a lot of Nintendo's executives are games developers and even their current president, who many people falsely claim "isn't a gamer like Iwata" decided to join Nintendo because he loved Super Mario Kart so much when he was younger (he also loved Nobunga's Ambition) and stated Golf Story was his current favourite Switch game which is a pretty damn niche indie title.

That's why I find it a bit strange when some say "they love Nintendo as a developer but hate them as a company" because, well, it's the company that greenlights/funds the games they love and it's their culture/values allows their developers as much time as they need to make their games right. It's all intertwined. Of course it's fine to criticise them about dubious decisions but it would be nice if we could give them their dues for the things we like about what they stand for as a company without some trolls in other quarters of the internet (cough... reddit, youtube) parroting out cliches like "tHe MuLtI-bIlliOn DoLlAr CoMpAnY iS eViL, bOoTliCkEr!"

@DennyCrane OMG your profile picture! When are we getting a Pob game where he spits and breathes all over the Switch screen and you have to wipe it off using the touch screen?

@Anachronism There are almost 400 challenges in the open world so it's not really accurate to say you can't enjoy the music while actually playing

@Wewewi

Sure, MKW is amazing for 5-10 minutes. But 5-10 hours and you're so done with it.

Maybe for you but I've played it for 130 hours. It's definitely flawed and need some QoL updates but I really love it and would agree it's the best game on Switch 2.

Meanwhile DK Bananza has been a disappointment for me and I wish I liked it more than I did, as a huge fan of the series I wasn't expect it to be such a repetitive bash em up coming from the Mario Odyssey team and frankly, it's kind of ugly to look at compared to the Donkey Kong Country games. :-/ Some of those garish colour choices and character designs... the music so far isn't much better either so far (and how lazy are those SNES "remixes" ... David Wise is sorely missing) plus Pauline's cheesy yapping makes me feel I'm playing a Frozen game. Might switch her to another language.

Everyone keeps saying it'll get better half way through/near the end of the game/at the end game so I'll persevere but it does make me question how it can be any kind of "masterpiece" if half the game is kind of mid... I could tell Mario Odyssey was something special from the Cascade Kingdom.

@Filthy

DK is such a TikTok-generation platformer

My thoughts exactly and I felt the same about Super Mario Wonder to some degree. It's cheap dopamine hits over well designed levels. You can definitely feel the younger development teams coming through now. Honestly makes me a bit concerned to what direction the next 3D Mario will go in.

They should just add a Performance Mode with reduced visual detail or resolution and smoother framerate

Extreme G? Hopefully not BMX XXX!

@carlos82 it's already confirmed to have local multiplayer on the eShop entry. Up to 8 people wireless and up to 4 on the TV.

Speaking of Meat I really hope Super Meatboy 3D will be coming out on Switch or Switch 2, it's only announced for PS5, Xbox and PC so far The trailer looks so good!

"Nightdive had been involved in discussions with Nintendo about remastered some of its games, but noted that the company was "gun shy" about working with third-party developers"

Looked up "Gun shy" (never heard that term) and it means they had bad experiences in the past that's making them reluctant to do the same, I wonder what game/third party that was

@BANJO @nib0 Switch 2 version is 60fps too

@Anti-Matter Yeah if you buy the upgrade DLC then playing from your Switch 1 cartridge will run it at 60fps on Switch 2.

@Crockin

Yea I’m not totally sold yet. Other than the fact that sakurai doesn’t put out bad games, so I’m sure it’s pretty good.

Kid Ikarus Uprising was pretty bad tbh. The terrible control scheme ruined the game. Could've been great had they fixed that so shame it never got any kind of remake.

@Anachronism I love Felix's videos, very relaxing to listen to and his insights are interesting, don't agree at all.

@quinnyboy58 @NintonicGamer The original took 136 hours to 100% complete! https://howlongtobeat.com/game/5065

It had A LOT of achievements and collectibles as I recall

Pac-Man, the only character iconic enough to have raced in both a Mario Kart and a Sonic racing game!

Grey and brown shooting games after grey and brown shooting game in the main presentation :-/ Boring... Needs more indie games to break it up. Thank god for Kirby, Pac-Man, Sonic and BUBSY for giving us some colour and joy today!

Wait... it looks good?! Demon Turf was a great game and I have faith in those devs

(The SNES game was also good)

@SmaggTheSmug eShop entry pretty much confirms a split screen mode: "Single System (1-4), Local Wireless (2-8), Online (1-16)"

@N8tiveT3ch It's out in September

@Vivianeat Sakurai's wife Michiko Sakurai designs the user interface for all the games he directs, that's why they all have a similar look

@N8tiveT3ch Mario Kart World does look great and we don't need to hate on it when Sonic Crossworlds is right there 😜I'm joking... but damn does that game look lifeless and lacking in character compared to Mario Kart World and Kirby Air Ride! What happened to Sonic's style and joy?

@Roger_Brazil

horrible, this is could be a Mario kart World DLC

Apart from the completely different gameplay, game modes and controls... sure?

@AussieMcBucket The original Kirby Air Ride sold 1.35 million so not a flop but I guess a modest hit. Mario Kart Double Dash sold about 7 million and slightly less than Smash Bros Melee (about 7.5 million) which is interesting

£58.99 digital in UK, so same price as Donkey Kong Bananza

It looks really fun, but potentially quite complicated and overwhelming! Definitely gonna play the slower mode and offline only to begin with. It feels like he's making the game he would've liked the original to be had he had more time to work on it... Bigger and better, rather than radically different.

@MrGawain If you think that's weird in 2003 in the US Nintendo released Mario Kart Double Dash and Kirby Air Ride one month apart and released FOUR racing games within four months!

August 2003 - F-Zero GX
October 2003 - Kirby Air Ride
November 2003 - Mario Kart Double Dash
December 2003 - 1080 Snowboarding Avalanche

@DynamoDouglas I agree and smart to release Kirby Air Ride at the start of the console's lifespan when there's less games to play on it as it could've got lost in the mix later on as a more niche title.

Hopefully it's different enough to Mario Kart World too and Nintendo's able to successfully get that across to people, especially as Sonic Crossworlds and Garfield Kart 2 (lol) are launching soon as well!

@wizzgamer You found finding and completing all 394 P Switch missions short and easy? I still only have 263 (not using a guide)

I don't think it implies a shadow drop. Remember they put out Smash Bros music tracks on YouTube leading up to Ultimate's release, probably the same deal.

Tomorrow is Nintendo Music update day too... Kirby Air Ride (GameCube) soundtrack?!

@Ryo_Hazuki Wait, what? They announced an HD Shenmue collection for Switch 8 years ago?

@kalosn Yeah, tomorrow will be pretty fun with the Kirby direct at 2pm and Gamescom presentation at 7pm! (UK times) Although I suspect there won't be too much for Switch 2 on there and it'll be more focused on PS and Xbox.

@FragRed I'm also still haunted by the video of this cancelled Shenmue 1 + 2 remake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4jNHoY1TPE

@Truegamer79 Basically for all the things they're fixing in this version. It was ridiculously grindy to arterially lengthen it which made it a complete drag and had an annoying stamina meter where you had to be eating all the time unless you did yet more LONG grinding to level yourself up which made it last longer.

Amazing news! The first is my favourite game of all time, but I didn't get far in the second because of all the things it sounds like they've fixed in this version... I hated the Stamina meeting and the grinding for money was unbearable. Give me a shorter game any day over a game artificially lengthened with cheap methods.

@SBandy1 @FragRed Unfortunately that's probably up to SEGA rather than ININ :-/ I still wish they'd let the Yakuza team make a Shenmue 4... imagine.

@BenAV It will be interesting to see if they stick with the one button controls for the racing modes