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@Ralizah agreed! Even though I'm a Switch-only guy these days anyway, its true ability to keep me gaming is due to the portable mode. If the difference between docked and undocked is anything like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 then I'm going to be pretty disappointed.
Not that this is anything other than a guaranteed buy, of course...

Aw, and EA were just about to be voted most popular corporation of the year.

So he leaves Marvellous for a developer who is less likely to let him show boobs?
Edit: ninja'ed by @Tharsman

Come on, "new Nintendo", here's your chance. Let this project live!

I wonder if the trick is in any way related to this one from Mickey Mania:

https://youtu.be/nt-AxAqlrOo

@geox30 you're talking about sex, right

@Desrever don't write it off - surely it's not impossible for someone like Netflix to commission a reboot of something like this. No 1337 haxxor e-sports, no attempts at journalism, just a game show where the contestants must play games - classic, new, or indie. The only problem of course is that the contestants for this nostalgia fest would all be 25-45 so you'd lose the true excitement of a kids' show.

@MeloMan Gotta start somewhere!

@Danjel "create your own" could mean "using the software itself"...

Slappers only was silly. The best way to do it was to play one hit kills with rocket launchers, and then be the guy able to dodge around and get up in people's faces for the slap kill. Bonus points if you remember to do the Jaws music while you're at it.
Oh, and: unlimited match length + one hit kills + being a teenager = literal all night sessions in front of the TV... Man my brain was mush when the morning came.

Does anyone know what enhancements or quality-of-life changes will be in Alex Kidd?

The Master System II was my first console, and Alex Kidd in Miracle World was my one and only game for what felt like years. So much nostalgia... But it was a punishing game, I never finished it (although my dad did once). Does it have infinite continues now? Help with the Janken matches? Emulator-style save states and rewind? Or anything at all, other than a fancy screen border?

+1 for Yooka Laylee - once I accepted that it would never be as tight and fresh as Banjo Kazooie 1, I found myself having a ball.
-1 for Snake Pass - that game is nothing but stress and frustration. How anyone is classifying it as a joy to play, is beyond me.

@Antraxx777 yes, surely Nintendo is very impressed with CotND and the developer.
But this kind of playful riffing on a cherished Nintendo property is exactly the kind of thing that has triggered them to destroy people's projects in the past. For Nintendo to approve it (perhaps even suggest it in the first place) shows a dramatic change, I think.
I love it. I for one have been putting off getting CotND (sounds too frantic for me) but there's no way I'll be able to let this one pass me by.

This is unbelievable! It reads like a cease-and-desist-incoming story. Who would have ever imagined Nintendo embracing the indie scene to this level?

If you ever wanted to own a princess, this is the game for you!

Dear lord, the children!

Looks like I'm one of the lucky few nintendo fans who've never played Metroid Prime. I'll be experiencing it all for the first time when the Switch HD collection launches!
Annnny day now...

Yep, 2 years on and I'm still loving the "full experience in handheld" wow factor that first grabbed my attention when it was announced.

Dear god, it's... Exactly the same!

@NintendoFan4Lyf the depth of field effect is the whole point of Octopath!

I hope y'all hadn't forgotten about bowsette!

I used to know a kid named Banjo. He was 30cm taller than everyone else his age and absolutely dominated at football. Full of muscles, that lad.

Pretty amazing!
Just want to shout out to WWF Warzone on the N64, what a time to be alive. Commentary by Vince McMahon and JR! The Rock from when he was a heel! Smashing big ole' CRT TVs over each other's heads! Perfectly executed.

@carlos82 oh well, I guess it will just have to be Ocarina then.

Edit: ok, pre-rendered Hyrule Town won't work... Majora then.

I imported the Japanese version from PlayAsia last year, hoping for an evening of unintelligible chaos. Imagine my disappointment when I booted up the game and everything was in English, even the voices! And no language selection option in sight.
Well it's a decent suite of minigames, if you're interested. Good for providing a distraction at parties. It's set up as a competition where you play x events and get an overall winner. The animals are cute so that's 90% of the point achieved right there.

Great article, great points. I for one will hold off, but keep my ear to the ground for any surprise announcements down the line of real games providing support. I'll pay $40 for a 360p Zelda BOTW VR experience, for sure.

@DK-Fan exactly! While on one hand this sounds like Nintendo just doing in 2019 what Google did in 2014, but with a heavier and lower-res screen... On the other hand, the Nintendo difference has always been its software. And software has always been mobile VR's achilles heel. If they can patch in a way to play Mario Kart on this thing, or (lord help us) Zelda BOTW... I'll be there with bells on.

Thank you for starting the article with the word Kemco. Really saves a guy a lot of time.

Oh, and climbing to the top of the tower in Shadow of the Collossus, but that was really just a war of attrition.

I've never gone to these scientific extremes, but two of my fondest memories from back in my one-new-N64-game-per-year days are (1) finishing ocarina of time with 3 hearts, and (2) cleaning out each level of Banjo Kazooie in a single session (I think only Freezeezy Peak actually forced you to leave the level and come back for something)

When I die, my only regret will be that I was too proud to play this game.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. They just made a huge risky business decision and here they're reminding people that there's no guarantee it will work as planned.

What a game. Makes me wish I could wipe my memory to experience it for the first time again.

I think my fifa / pro evo friend would lose his mind if he tried to play this. Is there any actual soccer involved at all??

When will they bring out another free roaming skating or biking game like the original Tony Hawk / Matt Hoffman...

@AlienX you're thinking about it too much.

Can anyone who's played it explain why it's a "short" game while also being randomized? Wouldn't that make it infinite?

I rented the original game with a friend when I was 10. I didn't have a mega drive myself and I was too young to understand it all properly, but amidst all the weirdness I could tell that this was something in a different stratosphere to the platformers of the day. Stacked 3D levels, strange interactions, mysterious characters who run away from you... The sheer fact you can fall off one level, pass two others and land back where you were an hour ago... This was a scope I'd never imagined. I never played it again and that one afternoon stuck in my memory for the rest of my childhood life.
It actually kind of ruined it when I did revisit it on an emulator as an adult...

This happens with almost every port from the more powerful machines, on the Switch e-shop.
Hardly unique to this game but if we're lucky, articles like these may one day draw Nintendo's attention to the problem and they'll find some way to close the loophole.

Does anyone else find this whole concept unpalatable?
Riots occur as an emotionally-charged response to gross social injustice and crowd panic mentality. The idea of them being carefully planned and strategized is so strange it's almost revisionist. Alternatively, playing as the police makes sense from a gameplay perspective, but who really wants to roleplay as the force of injustice?

Of course all of this is irrelevant since game streaming does not work unless you live in Japan and have optical fibre straight to the mainframe...

Let me know when they find a way to get outside the world boundaries to the far geometry. I must have spent hours in that top right corner trying to glide or raft or swim to those peaks...

@LaytonPuzzle27 it seems so obvious when you put it like that.

@The_Mysteron thanks mate!

@OorWullie @Ashunera84 thanks guys!
I'm a huge fan of Okami and Viewtiful Joe, and these characters look straight out of Resi 2 so I'm even more stoked about this one now.

People keep introducing the other guys, but assuming we know who Hideki Kamiya is. Can someone please let me know what's on his CV?

So what's the deal here with speed running mario kart... Those cups take like 10 minutes to complete - after something like this happens, why didn't he just try it again?

A 3 week delay for 60fps is a pretty good deal if you ask me.

Since the punters hate 8/10s so much, perhaps an interesting approach would be for NL to ban that score entirely. That way, for every game the reviewer has to make a tough but entertaining call: 9/10 (a great game) or 7/10 (today's "bad"). No middle ground and guaranteed drama!

This will be worth it only if it's as blurry and low-res as the first screenshot.