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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.

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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. ☹️☹️☹️

It's actually technically not true that Piranha Plant Pipeline is only playable in Mario Kart Tour! There's a mod of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe called CTGP (Custom Track Grand Prix) that adds a bunch of new tracks to the game, and one of them is Piranha Plant Pipeline.

I honestly can't agree with Mario Kart World being only a 7. It's some of the most fun I've had with a game in a while. I do have some problems with it, but not enough to drag the game down any lower than a 9 for me.

I do understand the issue some people have with the new update, and I will agree that having more options is better, but it doesn't really affect me as I rarely play games online if they have a local multiplayer option. And local multiplayer in Mario Kart World lets you choose between a three-lap track or an intermission track.

(Plus, I personally actually like the intermission tracks. <_<)

Still, I won't take issue with the people rating the game a 7. But I will take issue with those giving it a 0. I seriously can't see how the update is so bad that you start hating the entire game!

Cool addition, but it's still a little lame whenever they add only one game at a time.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy Basically, the biggest change in the new update is that when selecting the "Random" option for the next course in an online wireless VS race, the chances of that next random race being an "intermission" race between two different tracks as opposed to a standard three-lap race on one track has increased.

Some people aren't happy about this change because they prefer the three-lap races over the intermission races.

I personally don't mind it much as I like the intermission races and rarely play online anyway, and doing VS mode locally lets you select on your own whether it'll be a three-lap race or an intermission race.

@Dev-N Yeah, for sure, you are definitely allowed to have your opinion. And I don't have zero problems with the game, either (the lack of completion indicators in Free Roam comes to mind for me, especially). My initial post was a bit of an immediate gut reaction, I'm guessing.

@PepperMintRex @MTMike87 @traceman @TAttila @Bigmanfan @IronMan30 I appreciate all of the nice responses from everyone here. Definitely makes me feel better now. Thanks, everyone! 👍

As someone who is loving Mario Kart World, it's very frustrating seeing all of the backlash against the game, especially after the recent update.

I'm not saying people aren't allowed to feel how they want to, but it doesn't help in making me feel a little alone in being overall really satisfied with the game.

I always really hated how in Mario Kart 8 that if you played in multiplayer, the auto-controls would always default to "On" for players 2 through 4.

It made it rather exhausting when sharing the game with more casual players and having to explain the auto-control options every time and ask whether they wanted them on or not.

@Anachronism I recently learned that you can dodge a blue shell entirely if you use the new rewind function at the last second before it hits you. Doing so has actually saved some Knockout Tour runs for me. 😉

In my opinion, the best thing about Mario Kart World is that it is the epitome of the game design vision I've loved about the series in the last few entries, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe especially.

Namely, that the Mushroom Kingdom isn't just a collection of abstract obstacle-filled levels where all you do is reach the flagpole and win. Rather, it feels like a fully realized, interconnected world, where Mario Kart is a major televised event watched by millions of viewers, and where there are real businesses that provide valued services like Fuzzy Battery, Morton Construction, Boomerang Bros. Airlines, Rainbow Exploration Agency, etc.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was already fantastic in this regard, but Mario Kart World makes it even better. Various aspects like how you can travel directly from one track to another in real-time instead of merely going through menu screens, that when you are at a high-enough altitude you can see nearby tracks off in the distance, the landscape being peppered with realistic architecture like power lines, suspension bridges, freeways, and ski resorts, and lastly the end credit visuals, really sell the Mushroom Kingdom as being a inhabited place that you'd definitely want to go and visit. I think it's the closest the Mario franchise as a whole has gotten to making its universe feel real.

Overall, a 10/10 game for me. Oh, and it has the best Rainbow Road in the entire series. =)

My first Zelda game, so I might be biased, but I've never understood why people disliked the sailing in the original so much, when you get to listen to the Great Sea music, one of the best songs in the entire series in my opinion.

Plus, seeing the islands come into view over the horizon as you approach is really cool. It even takes the height of the island into account, like how the Forsaken Fortress actually appears into view first before the smaller islands around it do.

Pretty unfortunate that she seems to have been let go far more unceremoniously compared to Charles Martinet. Peach and Toad are almost if not just as important to the Mario franchise as Mario and Luigi are, after all.

@FlyingDunsparce Yeah, that's pretty lame, honestly. They could've made it work by having the Tingle Tuner bring up a simulated GBA screen within the GameCube NSO app that you could then switch to at any time while playing the main game.

I remember playing FF Tactics Advance on my GBA when I was a kid. It was fun but also really tough, and I never managed to finish it, even with the Nintendo Power strategy guide.

I'll still be happy with my Switch 1, but unlike seemingly (and a little strangely, to me) every single person here, I very excited for the Switch 2. 👍

Chiming in again to say that the people here commenting things like, "This is toxic positivity, everyone will just be blindly praising it, why would anyone defend such a garbage series?"... Saying that seriously just feels like toxic negativity to me.

Again, just because someone is liking something that may be flawed, it doesn't mean they are ignoring the flaws. It means that they can still like it despite the flaws.

I just really dislike all the assumptions being made in this comment section.

As someone who still appreciates Pokémon despite its flaws (I really liked Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl), this sounds very nice.

I really don't understand why people here are thinking this will only be toxic positivity... Toxic negativity exists too... And just because you enjoy something doesn't mean you are being oblivious to its issues.

The "let people enjoy things" mentality can be annoying, yes, but I think the "don't ask questions, just consume product" mentality is equally annoying.

12 out of 13 for me. Only missed the Yoshi star cursor question.

@dew12333 This isn't a game. They're making fan art.

Still trying to get used to his eyes... They just feel a little too off to me...

I've always loved Pokémon's logo. Very clean and elegant in my opinion, especially with the two Os looking like eyes. Great story.

@Ryu_Niiyama The basic point is that you generate cookies by clicking on the cookie.

When you have enough cookies, you can buy upgrades that help you generate cookies faster automatically.

When you have even more cookies, you can buy even better upgrades that help you generate cookies even faster automatically.

This repeats until you've generated cookies in the billions, trillions, quadrillions, and beyond.

There's a bit more to it than that, but that's the general point of idle games like this. Generate enough of some resource so that you can buy upgrades to generate it faster and watch that sweet number skyrocket.

Anyone else think the music is the one aspect of the Pokémon franchise that's always consistently good?

Like, say what you will about the gameplay and graphic qualities of the Pokémon games on the Switch, but Sword and Shield's Gym Leader battle theme was absolutely fire. 🔥

I still think that the most perfect time for Zelda: Four Swords Adventures to have been rereleased would've been on the Wii U. Then, instead of having to buy a bunch of cables to connect Game Boy Advances to a GameCube, you could simply connect a bunch of 3DS systems to the Wii U through wi-fi, like how you could use your 3DS as a controller for Smash 4 on Wii U.

But now the 3DS is long gone, so they can't do such a setup anymore... So I wonder how Nintendo would handle the multiplayer in Four Swords Adventures if it ever gets added to Switch Online...

In Super Mario Run, after grinding a lot of Toad Rally I've finally amassed the 50,000 Toads I needed to purchase Peach's Tent. With that, I've now fully 100% completed the game with all levels finished and all items collected! 😀

I think Super Mario Run is very underrated. It takes the common endless runner genre and perfectly meshes it with classic Mario platforming. Getting good enough at the game to see your character gracefully acrobat their way around each level provides a very unique thrill unlike that of any other Mario game. The fact that Super Mario Run as a mobile app is a cheap one-time purchase with no ads is the icing on the cake. 🙂

Happy gaming, everyone!

I just don't really like new DK's eyes very much... They're too scrunched together...

Still not fully a fan of the new Donkey Kong design. It looks a little too off-putting in a way that'd hard to describe... I think it's the eyes in particular that I dislike.

Yes, finally! Mirror and Classic Ace League tracks to be consistent with the other leagues! 😀

Personally, I think the game could've instead costed no more than $70 maximum, but I still think it looked really cool and fun in this Direct. It helped that I was able to watch and discuss it with my fellow game-loving dad, who works at Nintendo of America in the technical department and has already been able to try the game himself a little bit, including with the new GameChat feature lol.

One of the things I think is most underrated about the Mario Kart series in the last few installments, especially Mario Kart 8, is how "real" it feels, perhaps more so than anything else in the whole Mario franchise. I see the world the games take place in with all of the fake brands dotting the courses (Fuzzy Battery, Boomerang Bros. Airlines, Rainbow Exploration Agency, etc.), as well as the in-universe Mario Kart Television broadcasting company filming it all, and it really feels like an inviting, believeable universe where Mario Kart is a major televised event watched by millions around the world. Mario Kart World definitely looks to be a natural evolution of that core design philosophy.

Overall, I'd give this Direct a 9/10. I'm very hyped for it! =)

I've never understood why people dislike the sailing in the original version so much, when you get to listen to the Great Sea music, one of the best songs in the entire series IMO.

Also, you can add me as someone that overall prefers the original version's graphics for not having the overpowering bloom. And the lack of Tingle Tuner functionality in the HD version hurts a bit, especially since it was replaced by the Tingle Bottle that's now completely unusable now that Miiverse is shut down.

Overall though, both versions of the game are great.

As an American, I'm not too familiar with GAME. Is it as bad as GameStop?

@Gamer666 The original Wii actually did have analog triggers on the Classic Controller attachment for the Wii Remote, but they then went back to digital triggers for the later Classic Controller Pro.