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@JohnnyMind I remember when SEGA patented the Crazy Taxi mechanics too and took Fox to court for Simpsons Road Rage. They eventually settled.

@TYRANACLES Because the first two games were actually well reviewed and pretty popular. It was 3D where everything fell apart. The assertion that "none" of the games were good is a modern meme.

@KaiserGX I don't really like the filters must either. I use the soft one but they look far too much like arcade screen filters IMO and most of the games I've tried so far feel much more like Commodore/ZX Spectrum home computer type games.

@sketchturner I played almost 10 hours on the first two games alone! The bug hunting one in particular is super addictive for me and it's funny as I'm not even a Strategy game fan normally but it makes me want to explore the genre more.

Weird, my icon is the same even after restarting the console? Maybe I have to redownload.

As an aside I feel like Nintendo really did this amazing game dirty by not including a full trailer explaining what it's about in their Partner Showcase and just throwing it into a Sizzle Reel.

I can't speak for other countries but Is This Seat Taken? and Tiny Bookshop which they highlighted fully have been consistently in the top 10 download games on the UK eShop since the Partner Showcase but UFO 50 currently sits at number 32 😔

@FlyingDunsparce @The_Nintendo_Pedant I'd argue that people who HATE a certain game series (as the reviewer seems to) aren't best suited to review a collection of them in the first place. The fact that the review contains a major error in saying all the Bubsy games are here (there's two games missing) perhaps justifies my view.

I'll be getting it as I have a lot of nostalgia for the SNES GAME (that one was good IMO) and would like to try the others, especially the infamous Bubsy 3D!

Also the series has a genuinely interesting backstory like the Bubsy 2 developers hanging his plushy (by a noise) in the office and Bubsy 3D developers trying to make one of the first 3D platformers and being horrified when they saw Mario 64 for first time! Looking forward to hearing more about this in the video interviews. To me it's like Tetris Forever, in that I'm partly buying it for the historical significance and interest in the franchise story. And bad games can be entertaining in a funny way, just like bad films!

It's really sad that his creator died recently and won't see Bubsy 4D which has potential to be first really great Bubsy, being developed by the Demon Turf team who I have a lot of faith in.

With so many of the major publishers treating Switch 1 like a dirty stepchild and making poorly optimised ports (despite the huge install base) this is really heartening to see and bodes well for the future.

I read an interesting message from a reliable insider on Resetera that Nintendo was working with third party developers to find a way to make Series S ports very easy to make.

@Rebusmind

I had several occasions where guards would run off into the distance (even through walls) when they noticed a knocked out guard instead of investigating what happened.

They were traumatised and scared by what they saw and ran away.

@AverageGamer Surely a demo doesn't take many resources or much time to make given it's just taking a small section of the full game that's been finished with development (bar later patches) and releasing it on it's own? Not like it's new content.

@SBandy1 @JohnnyMind Didn't Star Wars Outlaws release on the other formats a year ago though? So that 75% is gonna be very skewed by that really as most with other formats will already have it by now.

@Olliemar28 Thanks! So looks like proper digital might be doing better.

I wonder if Game Key Cards are doing worse in Europe as I noticed Pac-Man World Re-Pac 2 is digital only here but getting a Game Key Card release in US.

How's digital Cronos on UK Switch 2 eShop chart doing? Can't check as on holiday in Greece with only my Switch Lite!

@Real_Obsi Because some people seemingly don't realise games at expos that are still mid development are pre-release builds or they know but just enjoy creating a drama anyway, especially some of the more trashy and desperate Youtube channels

@MatthewTaranto I totally agree there and I've not seen many people talking about that. Nintendo could've easily made a safe "more of the same but better graphics" Mario Kart title and come out with a 3D Mario rather than a Donkey Kong with highly unusual playstyle. Wheelchair Basketball and a sequel to the relatively obscure Kirby Air Ride was a leftfield move too!

The creative freedom and "weirdness" of Nintendo at the moment might cause polarisation but it's reminding me a lot of GameCube era Nintendo which is when they were at their most interesting and unpredictable I think.

Excellent for me, Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are some of the best Nintendo games I've played in years (I didn't care about TOTK as am not a fan of the open world Zelda) even though MKW could do with some Quality of Life changes to make it even better. Also am really loving Chibi Robo and the fact that I can now play some, or my favourite Switch 1 games like Disaster Report 4 at a massively better framerate.

I do find the comments about a lack of games bizarre, especially as someone who lived through consoles like N64, 3DS and Wii U... Everyone talks about the "personality" of the Directs in the Iwata era but nobody wants to talk about the fact that the reason they did all these random skits and comedy bits is because most of the time they barely had anything to show and fill up the time.

Like how many games do people need? I've put 70 hours into Mario Kart World and 30 into Donkey Kong Bananza alone and in between Switch 2 releases I play Switch 1 stuff in my backlog, new indie titles (For Switch 1 or 2) and NSO titles. I could NEVER have nothing to play.

Wasn't Mystical Ninja starring Goemon seen too?

@The_Trooper49 Yeah and just saw the review of the new Everybody's Golf on here and it doesn't sound x great tbh :-/

@AllBLK @The_Trooper49 The benefit of Everybody's Golf is it will probably be active online, this one is pretty much dead I believe.

@SplatRay001 Actually was a story on here about how they had to remove and adjust various assets in the Switch 1 version of Splatoon 3 to create parity. It could've been that there's so many mini games it would be too difficulty to not cause issues.

I do think it might be related to that as none of the other Switch 2 editions are like this and in theory would be pretty simple to just upgrade the resolution and it actually already is if you run the base mini games from the Jamboree TV section.

@SplatRay001 It only ran at 720p undocked on Switch 2 if you ran the base Mario Party Jamboree from the title screen on Switch 2 presumably is just be referring to when it's undocked with the 1080p upgrade? It doesn't sound like they updated it Docked, though I think I heard having it higher than 1080p might cause compatibility issues with the online against Switch 1 players

@MyMemory When did they attack their fans? Are you referring to pirates?

Hoping for Yoshi's Wooly World and Galaxy 2 coming as they're two of the only Mario platformers (if Yoshi series counts as that) I've not played.

Plus Mario Kart World QOL updates allowing us to track the P Switches and race online without intermissions. Music playlists, volume slider and proper 2 player Free Roam with P Switches would be nice too.

European one is strange but I feel like it would've stood out more on the shelves. I definitely would've been more intrigued than if I saw the other two and have to look at the back of the box to see what it's about.

@echoplex This developer has lots of interesting looking games on there. I have a feeling there's a treasure trove of Japanese indie gems underscovered by Western audiences on the eShop. 🤔

@DennyCrane That's the Switch 1 version, I meant the Switch 2 one

@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