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@Pillowpants Having played it, I can say that Yoshi's Island DS immediately comes to mind as a Yoshi game that is most definitely not easy, especially if you're going for 100% completion, as some of the Extra/Secret levels are absolutely brutal.

I agree with Miyamoto to an extent in that the really negative reviews, like the one calling it worse than AI, seem vastly overblown.

But I also think he's being a bit defensive about it, too. It's not the job of the critics to praise something if they don't like it. And movies will be judged differently from video games.

On that note, I've never been the biggest fan of the general sentiment I see online that critic reviews, especially game reviews, are meaningless and that only the audience knows best. Critics can have bad takes, but so can the audience, too.

Please, I do not want a remake of Ocarina of Time, because 1) There's already the 3DS remake, and 2) The PC port for the game, Ship of Harkinian, already exists and is extremely good with all of the various enhancements you can do to the game.

Please, I've been wanting remakes of the Oracle games since the Link's Awakening remake came out over 6 years ago... Those deserve more attention IMO.

Seriously, if a Zelda remake happens and it's one of the games in the series that has already gotten a remake, I'm going to be so upset.

Still getting it because I'm really loving Mario Wonder so far playing it with my dad, and since we're not done with it yet I think it will be worth it for us to at least test this updated version out.

Finally played Bowser's Fury for the first time last year.

Mount Magmeow is one of my new favorite songs in any video game ever. 🙂

@cyrus_zuo "There are probably only 2-3 levels in the entire game as difficult as 1-1 in the original SMB game."

Were you perhaps meaning 8-1 in the original SMB game? I've been playing through Wonder for the first time the last few months, and it's not that easy... Like, I don't disagree with people saying that the game is easy (even though I don't personally mind it), but I can confidently say that claiming that nearly the entire game is no harder than the first level in SMB feels a tad hyperbolic.

Not intending to call specifically you out, just wanted to give my thoughts on the general sentiment I tend to see people have about Wonder's difficulty.

Super Mario Run continues to be very underrated in my opinion. Requiring an internet connection is a bit of a bummer, but it's a small gripe compared to how great it is that it's only a one-time payment for the full content and then no ads anywhere. Plus as I've said before, the actual game and its levels are very well-designed around the auto-running gimmick. And it's very satisfying acrobating your way through the terrain.

I've always liked the water-type starters the best, but it doesn't really matter to me because I've long had a system for easily getting all three starters early on in a Pokémon without glitching or hacking:

1) Start the game and choose one of the starters.
2) Continue playing until you reach the point where you can trade with another player.
3) Trade the starter over to a different save file using another game, and store that starter in that file's PC.
4) Repeat steps 1 - 3 for the other two starters.
5) Trade all the starters from the second save file back to the first file.

Now you have all three starters early in one save file! 😉

Horse riding was one of my least favorite things about Breath of the Wild, primarily because of Nintendo's decision to make the horses "realistic" by having them automatically follow the paths you're on.

I can understand the quote about how "real horses don't run into trees", but in practice it just made the controls while riding feel extremely slippery and imprecise. I constantly felt like I had to fight my horse when I wanted to just go off the path and it would absolutely insist on not doing that. I just want to be able to move wherever I want to like in the older games, man!

This "realistic" system also makes the horse-jumping obstacle course minigame at Highland Stable incredibly difficult if you follow the intended path. One of the obstacles is actually much easier to jump over if you travel the path in the opposite direction.

I also wasn't very incentivized to travel by horse in general, because BOTW is so designed around climbing things that it was too much of a hindrance to bring my horse along.

@SpaceboyScreams I put it in quotes because as I said I've pretty much never cared about difficulty when playing games. And I still think the levels are well-designed and fun, far from being a slideshow.

Also, I never said it wasn't a fair criticism if other people prefer harder games.

I'm going against the sentiment in this comments section and will say that Wonder is incredibly fun and inventive. I especially like how it introduces a brand new enemy nearly every level. And the Wonder effects are really creative too.

Also, I don't really care if the game is "easy". I've never viewed a lack of difficulty as a major negative when playing games.

Played Rayman 1 for the first time back on the DSi when it released there on DSiWare.

It's a fun, well-designed game, but the levels felt too overly enormous. I was so thankful for the touch screen map that version added. Also, the environments were so lavishly designed that sometimes it was hard to tell where you could actually stand on.

I overall prefer both Rayman 2 and 3 to the first entry, but I still enjoyed it.

@B3RTAY It's completely fine if you're not interested in the multiplayer stuff, but I'm just curious to know why you consider such features to be more low-effort in comparison to single-player content.

I'm kind of surprised at how many people here have no interest in the multiplayer features. I may be biased though because I've been playing the main game with my dad, and we've been having a lot of fun with it.

So I think this upgrade will be worth for us to at least try out.

@Robot99 I've been playing Spirit Tracks for the first time recently and the two different dungeon themes there are definitely better than the one in Phantom Hourglass, especially the Fire Temple/Sand Temple theme.

I've said this before, but Gen 4 is my favorite gen of Pokémon because it's the first one I ever played as a kid. And so overall, I really like Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl despite their flaws.

So it's always a bit of a bummer for me whenever I find an article focusing on the remakes like this one, because more often than not most of the resulting comments are talking about how bad they consider the games to be...

Well, I personally enjoyed the games, so that's all that matters in my book. Just needed to vent a little about it.

Having never touched a Virtual Boy before, I'm excited to at least try it out, especially Virtual Boy Wario Land, which I've heard is quite good.

It would definitely be nice if they could let us change the color, though, or at least grayscale it like on the Game Boy app.

It's also kind of a bummer that the goggles are required to play, but at least they're offering the cheaper cardboard option.

@Anti-Matter "and some Pokemons can heal or support their team or debuff the opponents with saboteur skills."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting, but the Pokémon games have already had this since the very beginning. There are many, many various moves that Pokémon can do that heal/buff teammates and status inflict/debuff opponents.

Ring Fit Adventure has become one of my favorite games ever, most of all because it doesn't just succeed as an exercise game, but also succeeds in its own right as a video game. Not only is it a genuinely good workout every play session, but it looks beautiful, sounds amazing, the writing is very amusing, the worldbuilding is delightful and intriguing, and the RPG-styled gameplay is so well-done in relation to the exercises.

After over three years of constant playing, I recently just finished the last world for the fifth time and passed EXP Level 700, on my way to 100% completing the game! Then I can officially say I've defeated fitness and stop exercising for the rest of my life lol.

Can they please fix the YouTube app?

@The_Nintendo_Expat Hey! Thanks for your reply! Sorry for the late response, but my notifications told me that you had responded to my previous post, but I missed that notification until just now, and for some reason I don't see your response here in this comments section, only in my notification email. But I thought I'd still answer so as to not leave you hanging.

To answer your question about if I played the OG F-Zero on SNES, I was born in 1996, so I grew up more on the GameCube, but my parents had an SNES that I still played a lot on. But they never got F-Zero, so I never got around to actually playing it until it came to SNES Switch Online. When I finally did, it was at the same time as when I started getting into 99. And so it's probably harder for me to tell the difference between the two, other than the obvious additional actions in 99 like spinning and boosting at any time.

For what it's worth, despite preferring 99's control scheme, I still do play the Classic Race mode a lot in it, too. Though without the ability to boost at any time and instead only once per lap, it tends to feel to me like the original game mechanics favor the faster vehicles like the Fire Stingray more lol.

Chiming in just to say that's a 10/10 subheading lol.

@The_Nintendo_Expat You have every right to your opinion. Having played both the original F-Zero and F-Zero 99, I personally like 99's controls more, but I can understand you preferring the original. Everyone has a different take on things and that's completely okay. 🙂

Honestly, my preference for 99 is more based on the visuals, which are a lot easier on my eyes than the original. The Switch doesn't have Mode 7 but it still does Mode 7 better than the SNES lol.

Yes! Finally a new update! Was worried that they might have forgotten about the game after they skipped an update for the second year anniversary.

@Samuel-Flutter Just confirmed that on the Super Mario Wiki, yeah. After reading it, I can say that, while it's a nice epilogue, I think I'm fine without it being in the real book. The original ending is good enough for me.

Regarding the book missing the new pages, based on what I've seen online, aren't the new pages actually located in Galaxy 2 and concern the events of that game specifically? Or were there also new pages added in Galaxy 1?

If it's the former case and the book still has all the pages from Galaxy 1, then that makes it worth it in my eyes.

As the first comment on this article, I hereby decree:

NO STABILITY JOKES ALLOWED IN THIS COMMENT SECTION 😉

I'm sorry, I understand people preferring the colored buttons of the Europe and Japan controllers, but as an American, I've always really liked the contrast between those two shades of violet. I think they look really good next to each other.

As a kid, I finished everything in Banjo-Tooie except for the two races against Canary Mary in Cloud Cuckooland... I just couldn't do it and I didn't know why at the time. Her rubberbanding was absolutely crazy.

But last year, I decided to boot up my old save file and look up the strategy for beating her online, and with that knowledge I was able to win both races and finally declare the save file complete! Woohoo!

I really like both designs. Link looks great in that green outfit, even without his iconic hat. And the blue also looks really nice on Zelda, as well.

I just want remakes for the Zelda: Oracle games, man...

I feel like the people who ask what soundtrack BOTW had never stepped foot in a single town in the game.

Sheesh, is 30 fps really that bad that so many people are just straight-up refusing to play it? I just don't understand...

Count me as one of the people who prefers a stable frame rate over a high frame rate. I really can't believe how much distaste so many people seem to have for 30 fps. Even going so far as to compare it to watching a slideshow? Seriously? Come on now.

Something I'd like to point out about Reggie and Bowser beyond their roles as president... You could probably count the number of memes Reggie was known for on at least two hands. But Bowser wasn't really known for much in the way of viral jokes beyond his name. Here's hoping Pritchard can get a few good jokes to herself! 😉

YES! The lack of indicators for the locations of the P-Switches and Peach Medallions was my biggest complaint with Mario Kart World. Super glad to see that fixed! 😀

@Uncle_Franklin "This one looks even slower and more boring than Crafted World"

@Vil "Already looks so much better than Crafted World"

Duality of man right here. 😉

This is genuinely funny and cool. I've always wanted to try Virtual Boy Wario Land, at least.

Also, it's amusing how Nintendo has stopped denying the existence of the Virtual Boy and started poking fun at itself with it over the years.

@AussieMcBucket Thanks! I have a big affection for puns.

About the pronunciation, I just looked the word up on dictionary.com after seeing your reply and it said it could be pronounced either way.

Err and Patch Again

I would very much like for the YouTube app to work on Switch 2.

Never played Pac-Man World 1, but I did play and love Pac-Man World 2 as a kid, so this is exciting for me. The original was quite difficult to 100% complete though, so I don't think I ever did it at the time.

@YunoboCo I think it's only a key card on Switch 2, while it's a normal card on Switch 1.

@PharoneTheGnome Donkey Kong Bananza doesn't really seem like an open-world game, though? It's more like Super Mario Odyssey and Donkey Kong 64 before it where the levels are expansive but are also self-contained and separate from each other, and not all together on one enormous map.

Perhaps that's still too big for you in comparison to the linear levels in the Donkey Kong Country games, which is perfectly fine, but I wouldn't say it's as big as the open worlds in games like Mario Kart World or Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

I'm sorry, but Mario Kart World is awesome to me. And I actually love the open world, because it really makes the Mushroom Kingdom feel cohesive and alive.

Very cool news, but once it gets added the GameCube Online app will already be at ~7.5 GB in size with only five games. 💀

@maulinks Have to disagree with that statement. Yoshi's Woolly World and Yoshi's Crafted World are really beautiful looking games with really fun gameplay IMO.

And Yoshi's Island DS, especially its bonus levels and especially if you're going for 100%, is actually very, very difficult, much more so than the original Yoshi's Island.

North America / Europe because unlike the Japanese cover it shows the missile carrier (the red truck in the back) that you spend the bulk of the game trying to protect from exploding by destroying everything in its way. It's the game's central gimmick so I think it's better to show it off on the cover.

Hopefully they can fix the YouTube app soon.

Apparently, through the use of spawning Ganondorf in-game, a glitch was found last week that lets you get max hearts and stamina, which I was really thrilled about! I did a glitch to get max hearts and stamina in BotW, and I was hoping that a similar glitch would be found in ToTK.

And then moments later I learned that the glitch is no longer possible thanks to Nintendo patching Zelda Notes to prevent the glitched Autobuild spawns. Very sad about that. ☹️☹️☹️