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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.

Somewhat related, but I'm sure most of us remember that 3DS cartridges had a little notch on the side to prevent them from being inserted into a normal DS.

But it appears that Switch 2 cartridges have no such notch to differentiate their shape from Switch 1 cartridges. Hopefully nothing bad happens if someone were to insert a Switch 2 cartridge into a Switch 1.

Not saying it still isn't expensive, but I'd like to inform everyone that sees this comment that the physical version of Mario Kart World will cost $80 just like the digital version. The rumor of the physical version costing $90 is false.

This was confirmed to me by my dad, who works in the technical department at Nintendo of America over here in Washington State and has been able to try out the Switch 2 himself.

@EarthboundBenjy Great job on having the top spot! I lost to you by only three seconds lol.

Woo! 12/12 in 1:30! I knew the answer to all of these except for the Tri Force Heroes one, which I haven't played. Guessed right on it, though!

@RainbowGazelle I'd say possibly because unlike the Wii there's no sensor bar for the Switch to keep a pointer location accurate.

Just curious: What makes the yen weak? And consequently what would be the issue with the system charging the same as in other regions exchange rate-wise?

People here seem to think this feature lets you talk to random people online... It looked more to me like you can only talk to your friends with it.

Very surprised at the middling reactions here. I thought it was pretty great. 9/10.

@Uncle_Franklin Because picross puzzles are fun to solve, I'd say?

@DrJoson I agree, Star Fox Adventures has some great songs. It was developed by Rareware, after all. Their games from that era were always amazingly scored.

Cool update, though now both of the theme updates the Alarmo has had so far have been Mario-themed. Hopefully we can get themes from other series that haven't been represented yet!

@Spider-Kev The themes are free.

@PikaPhantom Yes! I greatly enjoyed the Mario vs. Donkey Kong remake, especially with it having more worlds than the original version. I would hardly call it "middling".

It hasn't even been two months and I am so tired of this presidency already...

@wildesttimelines Nintendo accepting USAID was reported to be fake. It came from a fabricated image on a 4Chan post:

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-usaid-did-not-pay-nintendo-9-million-dollars-to-study-infantailism-fake-4chan-post.html

@Mana_Knight Yeah, Super Mario Bros. 2 doesn't have a lot of tracks. Outside of the situation-specific themes (character select, boss battles, etc.), there's only two different level themes in the whole game. Anywhere outside? Overworld theme. Anywhere inside? Underground theme. Even the first game had more level themes than that lol.

Super Mario Bros. 2's soundtrack is short, but the game's overworld theme is one of the best overworld themes in any Mario game.

Man... As someone who overall really enjoys the Diamond and Pearl remakes, seeing so many people say they are bad is frustrating to see...

Great tracks here. Some of the Streetpass DLC games also had some really great music, like Mii Force or Ultimate Angler.

@-wc- I was able to 100% this game as a kid... with the help of the Nintendo Power strategy guide lol. 😅

@-wc- The 3DS remake actually makes very few changes to the masks design-wise. If I remember correctly, only one has a different appearance and only one other one has a different name, and that's it.

Have played Majora's Mask many times so got 24/24 very quickly.

I sometimes wonder how Link sees out of some of these masks, like the Couple's Mask or Kamaro's Mask lol.

Best version for me would be the PC port version that came out last year, 2 Ship 2 Harkinian. It has since added many great features that neither the original N64 or the 3DS versions have.

After this Splatfest, at least here in America, Big Man has officially won more Splatfests than Shiver. This was his 10th victory, while Shiver has won 9.

Meanwhile, poor Frye has still only won 3 Splatfests.

Fun fact: You know how the pause screen music has Wario constantly saying "nyah nyah" over and over and over? If you wait a whopping 50 minutes (seriously), he says "sorry" and then stops doing it after that lol.

Japanese version is nice, but went for the US / EU version as it's framed really well with Wario in the center and his treasure surrounding him.

Also a great game to play.

Since they started making them, I ignored Nintendo's mobile games for the longest time. I just wasn't really interested. But I finally decided to give Super Mario Run a shot a few years ago, knowing that it was only a one-time fee.

I'm glad I did, because I think Super Mario Run is very underrated. Even outside of it being great for a mobile game, I also think it can stand among the mainline console Mario games. Being forced to keep running the entire time so that you have to focus on jumping properly and carefully is a nice change of pace from the other games in the series with more traditional platforming.

@VHSGREMLIN @Mirastrix Super Mario Run doesn't have predatory pricing. You only have to pay one modest fee to unlock everything the game has to offer, and then there are no more monetary transactions at any point after that.

That being their first mobile game, if only they kept that pricing system with all of their following games...

@Twilite9 Those additions would be great, yeah. For me, I'm personally hoping for a Mirror Ace League, just to have consistency with the other three Leagues.

@PinderSchloss I haven't played it myself, so you can take my recommendation with a grain of salt, but I've seen a lot of praise about Stardew Valley.

IMO 3D Land and 3D World are both great in their own ways. I do think I prefer 3D World overall, though I'd say 3D Land has a better main theme song than 3D World does.

@Bolt_Strike Yeah, thinking about it more, GBA Treetop Tumble is fine in those other stages, and other than that, that's really the only musical dissonance I remember in the GBA version.

My main problem with the GBA soundtrack is as I said above how many of the tracks have "empty" sections of ambient noise, at least six of them:

• Stilt Village
• Frosty Frolics
• Enchanted Riverbank (Ground)
• Rockface Rumble
• Cavern Caprice
• Jungle Jitter

Ambient noise isn't inherently a bad thing, to be clear. It just happens a little too frequently in the soundtrack for my tastes, especially since you hear these level themes multiple times throughout the game.

But I agree with you that various other songs in the GBA version do sound better, like Mill Fever, Water World and Cascade Capers. Honestly, I'm about half and half on it.

P.S. I hope you don't think you're being attacked here for your opinions, you have every right to them. Just trying to have friendly discourse about it. =)

@Bolt_Strike Well, perhaps "infinitely" was a bit much, but at the very least the GBA Treetop Tumble being cheerful and bouncy does not really fit a stage where you are being chased by a giant tree-cutting saw IMO.

@Bolt_Strike Having listened to both versions, I like some of the GBA tracks better, like Stilt Village, Mill Fever, and Water World. But too many of the other tracks have long sections of nothing but ambient sounds, which the SNES tracks did not have.

Also, Treetop Tumble fits the treetop stages infinitely better in the SNES version compared to the GBA version, especially in the level Ripsaw Rage.

I love these kind of ambitious fan projects, especially when they are able to come to full fruition. Good luck to the devs.

Awesome! I can get the rewards from last year's Frozen Knight League event that I missed! I'm so thrilled about that! 😀

I played the "fake gambling" casino games in Super Mario 64 DS quite a lot when I was younger.

It never gave me the desire to gamble for real.

So I don't think Balatro should be rated 18+ just for featuring a game (poker) that is associated with gambling if the actual game (Balatro) features no monetary transactions of any kind, just like the casino games in Mario.

Very cool. Congrats to the Switch!

@CJD87 @Zaphod42 You might already know, but the Ship of Harkinian devs already released a PC port of Majora's Mask earlier this year. It's called 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.

For those interested, there's a fan hack of DK64 out there called Donkey Kong 64: Tag Anywhere, which lets you instantly switch between any character you've unlocked at any time using the D-Pad. It's a really nice way to mitigate the frustration with the character-specific collectibles.

Pretty cool, though my first time playing this game was a really good colorization fan hack, so it would likely be hard for me to go back to the original monochrome version.

@batmanbud2 Glad to see another person's support of DKC3. It's my favorite of the original trilogy.