SykoMuffin

I'm going to be camping out on the Nintendo website to buy them when they first come out! I can't get them any other way...

400USD so ~550CAD is my maximum price. That's much more than the original cost at launch but, y'know, inflation and all that... I will still end up getting Switch 2 regardless while selling my old Switch to slightly make up for it. Nintendo always tries to make their consoles affordable.

I understand that the headline means Nintendo isn't showing up, not that they have zero games but it really feels to me like nothing is releasing right now. They skipped a couple directs and then showed off three big games (Prime 4, Brotherhood, and Zelda) only one of which I feel excited for. Maybe it's good that they're giving my wallet a break but still. The games are really drying up now that they're putting all their resources into the Switch 2.

But I want it now! (flips table)

Yes! Another win for Frye! I was on Team Pasta but the results still make me happy. Remember when Frye won with Team Bucket List and she had her first win in over a year? I love cheering for the underdog! Plus I had a lot of fun playing with my friends. This was a really great Splatfest overall!

I didn't see any advertising for this movie anywhere. The closest was when I saw a poster in the lobby while I was buying my ticket to go watch Twisters, an actually good movie. I took one look at the poster, thought it looked like garbage, and actually forgot about it. I only remembered the movie existed when it actually came out and I saw a flood of negative reviews online. If a movie based on a video game is good, it's the exception and not the norm...

Oh no! I'm so devastated... I had no idea she had cancer. Pokémon Indigo League was my childhood and Jessie was always my favourite character. Rachael had such a distinctive voice.

The Switch is super old and the next one will likely be backwards compatible! I'm super excited to play Splatoon 3 in higher resolution and with more battery life for handheld mode. I have a couple games in my backlog/games I'd like to play, so the Switch 2 being backwards compatible would be epic. I'm also excited for truly next gen graphics. The Switch looked incredible at the time but I'm ready to move on. Plus, this has been the longest console life of a Nintendo console yet. My Switch is showing its age... I'm hoping it can hold on until the Switch 2 lol

Woo! Team Theme Park! Nothing would be better than throwing a massive rager in an empty theme park and eating way too many fried snacks.

Meh... Wish the paper background of the box art had some cool holographic swirls or details or something. The art feels kinda off center? And what's with the lazy 3D render? I loved the drawn artwork on the old games. Even the M+L games that had the white background had something interesting going on in the background or corner. I hope this is a temporary cover...

If this guy ever plays Cat Mario, the whole world will be in danger XD

I'm going to miss the Nintendo Switch leaking era. Was pretty fun. I understand that it ruins the fun for some people, but to me, it exponentially increases my hype. I don't take leaks as gospel, I just think of them as an educated guess of what could be in the next direct. Sometimes they're real and its a huge surprise that some random Spanish speaking account got it right. Other times the rumour was fake but it was to think about.

There were some cool reveals and things shown off, but nothing was really that interesting to me. Nothing here generated hype within me. It was overall pretty meh. I was interested in the Mario and Luigi reveal, but that's it. Donkey Kong Country Returns is a great game, but I've already played it on the other systems its on. The new Zelda game just looked okay.

I have a weird feeling that the original 3 SNES Donkey Kong Country games will be remade. I have no evidence, just a vibe.

Another Nintendogs would be awesome : DDD

This got Splatoon legit trending XD
Awesome job everyone!! I could not have been happier with the outcome of the Splatfest!

Well... This is random. I'm not an NES Remix fan so I'll pass.

Haha reminds me of when i was a kid and I would put stickers all over my DS. Anyone want my original DS with a "special" Mulan sticker? It's very ~exclusive~ . No lowballs, I know what I have XD

Oh nooo! Not pixels and polygons from over twenty years ago!! Oh my god what will the children think!? They might realise women exist!

Haha they will really do anything but make a new Rayman game, won't they? This is your daily painful reminder that Rayman 3 came out over 21 years ago lol. And Legends came out over a decade ago.

I feel like puzzle platformer could be a genre that fits? the costumes give different abilities and collecting the star glitter things are kind of a puzzle? Action platformer works too. I rated it 7/10 because its pretty good, but its not "can't put it down" type of game like Splatoon. It will be entertaining on the go or on roadtrips though. And I love Princess Peach (can you tell? LOL) so it gets extra points from that bias as well.
edit: But I seriously dislike the box art. Why did they give her the American Kirby treatment? :,(

NOOOO!!!! I don't live in America
How come only the USA gets all the good stuff?!

...So does this mean they will finally leave my favourite IPs alone? Awesome!

(This is purely opinion! I wasn't a fan of Crash Team Rumble or About Time)

Remember that really old fan concept of Super Princess Peach 2 that was floating around back in the day? Mermaid Peach finally became a thing! I wonder if Nintendo was influenced by that. Coincidence!? I think not!!!

@-wc-
My Wii remotes from launch got chewed on by my childhood dog and then dropped in water and they still work with absolutely no issues. My original dual shock also still works despite the abuse I put it through by playing so much Crash Team Racing. My joycons from the Switch's launch randomly quit working completely after two years. And the ones I bought afterwards look in worse shape than my old Wii remotes! I wouldn't be that upset about a Mad Catz quality controller if it wasn't so expensive!

I don't need it. I don't need it.
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I NEED IT!

Edit: Why do they cost so much in Canada!? $100?! I was looking into replacing my old joycons from like 2019 that are warped and destroyed, but maybe I'll hold onto them 0_0"

"AI enhanced GameShark"
You guys know you could just put in codes you found off the internet, right? You don't need expensive tech to do that LOL. In reality it's just a meaningless buzzword. Like how everyone was obsessed with "the blockchain."

OMG when this game comes out, I will not get anything done for months lol. I know most people when hearing of an upcoming Donkey Kong game were hoping for an actual DKC game, but I was actually hoping it would be this lol. Or that other weird GBA Donkey Kong game where you grab onto pegs and climb through levels.

If this ever comes to the west, then we could finally get a port of one of my favourite childhood games, Conker's Bad Fur Day! I know, that shouldn't be a game I enjoyed as a kid LOL. Besides that, I can't think of any games from the N64 rated over 18. Maybe one of the old South Park games.

The Paper Mario series was really great, until it got bad. But I think the great titles outweigh the bad ones. I played a lot of the Mario and Luigi series, but not all of them. They were quirky, original, and funny. But some of the remakes erased original designs and replaced them with more bland ones, which was a disappointment. Not to mention they released remakes of games on basically the same console you could play them on? And they skipped Partners in Time for some reason??? Never played Mario + Rabbids even though I like both Mario and the Rabbids.

I'll get them eventually, when they come out where I live... Why does Canada always get neglected? It's going to come out like a week or so late! And they're impossible to find because not many get shipped to here anyway.

Please be a Squiffer alt... Please please PLEASE let there be another kit for the Squiffer... I would sell my soul for that.

This doesn't surprise me. Nintendo has pretty high quality control on everything they release. They've buttoned up and become pretty serious lately. They put the Wii U era behind them and demand nothing but the best. And if you can deliver, you are staying there for life. It sounds high pressure, but like you get rewarded for talent if you have any.

I'm glad so many people will be supporting this game. Super hyped for it.

Oh noes! Not spoilers for a game that's around 26 years old! Whatever shall I do?

Just kidding! I am trying to go into the remake blind so I'll see how it goes. I'll have to avoid leaker accounts.

Not sure this really counts as a game, but I've been feeling the weirdest urge to mess around on Flipnote 3D. It's just so fun and simple to make little animations. Now that I have a computer I could have "real" animation software, but for some reason I always get the bug to return to that simple 3DS program. Time to bust my 3DS out of the junk drawer again lol.

And I'll play some Fashion Dreamer as well. So fun and addicting!

Finally I might put in some time on Splatoon 3 to collect some conch shells for Team Hug.

I was shocked by all the Wario Coliseum support. That's a really niche track from Double Dash! I mean, I actually was wanting it to come back too so it's glad to know I'm not alone in that LOL. Because I'm an enjoyer of weird tracks, I may have been the only vote for Mario Raceway (N64). I was also going to vote for Rainbow Road (DS). I don't understand why it doesn't get love, and it literally has an upside section.

I think I'll get Fashion Dreamer. I'm a sucker for girly cute games. But yeah, not super interested in the new WarioWare game. It's just Smooth Moves again. I mean, Smooth Moves was fun and all but that's a tech demo you only need to play once. Plus, I'm basically elderly now and the less movement I have to do, the better XD

@KingMike
That's true. I can't say I hate something unless I try it. I gave Panel De Pon a try (on NSO) and became completely addicted despite not knowing what it was.

Despite the slightly boring box art, I'm very excited to experience this classic for the first time! I could never sit through the original version because the graphics were just too blurry and jumbled for me to make any thing out. I'm so hyped! The cutscenes added look adorable!

P.S.: I understand that the graphics were revolutionary for the time, and I get that but the way they look in the game hasn't aged well. I've seen renders with the models before they were compressed into 16 bit and they're beautiful! So choosing to translate everything into modernity without any compression is awesome.

@SoIDecidedTo
Same, kind of. Splatoon 3 has a total curse for me. I've managed to miss nearly every Splatfest in this game because of so many random circumstances. The only one I got to play as much as I liked was Rock Paper Scissors. This is after playing every splatfest in one and two and being on the winning team pretty much every time. My luck finally ran out XD

...could they have chosen any games that I could care about less? I'm a very casual gamer and none of these appeal to me. I want Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (or Gold/Silver/Crystal because I missed those ones growing up). Why not the original Mario Land!? I get that these are important games in Nintendo's history that probably have some fans but still.

At least they added Mario Party 3.

@sixrings
True. Rayman Legends was fire. Legends and Origins have got to be some of my favourite games of all time. But I'm a sucker for the Rayman series in general. Even when the games are bad, they're still good somehow.

When the game first came out, I found them creepy! Their soulless huge black voids for eyes gave me the heebie jeebies. After awhile I grew to find them ugly cute. But then they wouldn't shut up! It would be fine if they had something of value to say, like a tip for how to play the game or some world building but no! They say literally nothing but use like three text boxes to do it!! Don't get me started on those god forsaken flowers. From when I first heard them in the trailer, I knew I would mute them. I played through the game with the flowers muted and haven't regretted it at all.

I want Street Pass back so bad! It was amazing fun to go vacations with my 3DS and connect with people who lived in the area. I liked that you could see what they answered on the "personality test" section, like that their goal for the future was to be rich or something. Or you could see what they had been playing! Awesome stuff. I was just actually thinking about how much I missed that. I also want less joycon drift/better built joycons in general. I broke my first ones within three years! Boo. Finally, I want more fun original Nintendo games that aren't just rereleases from the Wii U.

I think I'll label it a pro controller but it's a small Rock Candy wired controller with just the basics. No motions controls or nfc. It's the best controller for me because it's one of the only ones I've found that fits my freakishly tiny hands LOL. It has an adorable Princess Peach decal on it and it's clear pink plastic with gold buttons.

I pre ordered! As long as the game is better than New Super Mario Bros U/Deluxe, I'll be happy with it.

@Eggolor That "sigma male Luigi gif" is my new favourite gif on the entire internet XDDD

I was always confused by the existence of this thing. The main sell of the DS/3DS line for me was that it was portable and you could close it to travel with it. That way the screen wouldn't get totally destroyed in luggage or in purses. The hinges on mine were rock solid. Actually, the whole darn thing was rock solid. I dropped that bad boy in water and down the stairs a couple times and it still works like a charm. I used it from launch day until a couple months ago when the circle pad broke, but besides that it works flawlessly. So therefore you should own a huge clunky version of the same thing that doesn't fit in DS carrying cases and will get tossed around like crazy... but there's nothing you can do about it. Sold! /s

@Clyde_Radcliffe Exactly! I liked Peach because her kind, sweet, girly personality. It reminded me of myself! She was always my favourite. It's not like she was a pathetic girl who was helpless, she could fight and stuff too. Saying that girls have to be masculine or give up feminine characteristics in order to be powerful is actually kind of a bad message. I was excited for the game because I wanted to go on adventure as someone I related to