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I'm not sure why the author thinks the cartoon style is supposed to evoke wholesome familiar memories of childhood. There's not a single game player alive today who grew up with these ancient cartoons from the turn of the 20th century. They are instinctively weird and disturbing. Those eyes!

@retro_player_22 surely you didn't actually do that

What a great idea for an article. Too many games are slipping through the cracks, it's excellent to see more picked up and reviewed, even if in a mini format.
More of these please!

@kobashi100 oh I totally agree, I'm loving Spintires on Switch. It's a Panic Button level miracle feat that it runs at all.

@Pod remember the N64 days, when fog was a crutch for performance!

@baller98 well yeah, sometimes they even give us extra for the price. And that's even better. But I still feel it's worth more to have it on the Switch in the first place. A bit like the flip side of getting a mobile version of GTA for peanuts but you have to dismally tap away at virtual joysticks.

They charge more on the Switch because people are willing to pay more. I know I am. I have hundreds of games on Steam and as a matter of principle I very rarely pay even $10 for any of them. But if a good game comes out on the Switch, I'm going to buy it. And as for the more heavy-duty consoles, pfft. The Switch is simply the most fun way to play.

Cool trailer though.

Very tempted. But after a long drought of good car games, Spintires Mudrunners finally unlocked yesterday. I'll take my 5km/h, 400p, 20fps CPU-fest for now thank you very much.

Nidhogg 1 is utter genius. I've had friends who couldn't pull off a hadouken spend hours laughing and battling for Nidhogg glory. It spent 2 years in heavy rotation at my place. The graphics in the sequel are off-putting, and I'm sure the pure gameplay of the original must be overcomplicated now... But I have to have trust in this great developer. Perhaps now is the perfect time to give it a go.

@Crono1973 too late, you already clicked. Undo, undo!

@Anti-Matter some of the special courses are pretty generous with coins. For example, in the snow kingdom there's a pot right at the top near the start, where you throw in a seed and climb the vine... Coin rings galore.
That could get boring though, doing it over and over... Myself I finally finished Long Journey's End last weekend - months of almost finishing it had me racking up a few hundred coins every try. But now that's over, I dread going back there.

I agree with the first paragraph - despite a fair amount of indie hype, there seems to be no way to make this game look appealing. A shame though, if it's as fun as they say it is.

@infernogott oh, that's cool then. This product deserves to rock!

Didn't someone here once say that there are a bunch of games which only rotate the other way (270 instead of 90 degrees) so the options are more limited than you might think?

@icebear80 you and me both. After all this time, there are still no car racing games on the switch - mobile ports and top-downers don't count - so a PS4 review which says "it's ok" is good enough for me to bite!

Those graphics for the ninja have been hypnotizing me since I saw this on the e-shop. The way the outline colour changes based on what's behind him... Yeah maybe this is just some kind of palette limitation but it makes him look like a crazy chameleon super-ninja. Why is there any combat in the game at all when surely nobody can see him!

Wow, Zelda for $5 off. NL have outdone themselves.

Fine with me. Bring something newer than NES to Switch Online and I might actually sign up for it.

Looks awesome!
But is anyone else getting Battletoads flashbacks from that gameplay?

I love it! Don't think my friends will really get into it but I'm gonna make them play it anyway!

I played my N64 to death back in the day, even rounding out my catalogue in the 2000s when the games got real cheap 2nd hand. But I'd swear that I never once in my life touched the D-pad. That extra prong was nothing but a failsafe in case this analogue thing didn't catch on.
Beautifully iconic though.

Never cared for Harry Potter myself, but I wish this had come to the N64. I wish everything had come to the 64. I wish they still made N64 games today.

There is far too much content in Celeste already. I made pretty good progress getting all the strawberries but those B-side levels are just not happening. And I saw a commenter somewhere mention C-side levels... Lord almighty I hope that was a typo.

And all of them are goooold!

@Moroboshi876 for me it was all about the games; if I could have played them at home I always would have. I wasn't a fan of spending my meagre allowance on 1-2 minutes of gratification too often. That said, my local arcade would sometimes have "lock-in" sessions where they set all the machines to free and you paid to be locked in for a few hours. That was pretty sweet. Although if memory serves, everyone kind of just lined up for Street Fighter so it got a little silly...

@DenDen I assume when you say "convince", you mean "bash"

I blame this game for getting me hooked back on Dragon Quest Builders.
So relaxing... So forgiving... Ahhhhh

This article didn't say what actually was the reaction to genderbent Terry Bogard. Is she popular? Is the phobic gamergate fringe doxxing people over her existence? I was actually hoping to find out.

@PALversusNTSC I hope you're right about that, all I know is Netflix and YouTube run fine on my chromecast but E-shop videos on the switch are an absolute dog's breakfast 8 times out of 10. Even e-shop browsing sometimes struggles. Certainly put me off signing up for online.

It's not about the violence. Hotline Miami is fine. It's just a tasteless theme. Shooting up your neighbour's party is not far off shooting up a school... Or a movie theatre... Or a church... Or a synagogue... Or a christmas market...

Time for me to take a photo of my switch playing a video of Red Dead Redemption and blow up the internets!

@WiltonRoots people keep saying that, but there are no snes or n64 games available on the switch. So no, virtual console is not just "a banner", we are not getting the games.

Did anyone play that Double Fine coding game, Hack 'n' Slash? I got about 3/4 into it then all of a sudden it was like they were asking me to calculate pi using their dinky interface. Ever since then I've vowed to keep my game time free of that kind of drama.

I couldn't wait back in February (after reading this very review) and downloaded the Japanese version. Thought I was the coolest cat around for a few weeks there. Unfortunately, it had serious motion detection lag issues which made it impossible to play docked, and with so much of the game being unreadable anyway it landed on The Pile pretty quickly. From what I understand, they have tried to fix the first problem, and with this western release I was hoping against hope that it would essentially be an English patch update and all my dreams would have come true. But it wasn't to be - this is not recognised as the same game for some reason, so I'd have to buy it again. It is an incredibly cool game. But not that cool.

I tried the free mobile version but it left a really bad taste in my mouth, with ads and paywalls and energy systems all over the place. Looks really cool though, it probably deserves to be tried again with a normal purchase model and proper non-touch controls. The memory still makes me cringe though, while conversely thinking 20.00 is far too much.
Perhaps sometimes free versions shouldn't be offered at all if they're just going to get your brand associated with a frustrating, kneecapped product.

Edit: it's possible there were no ads? I may be lumping a bunch of different mobile racing games together in my memory...

As long as it's not waluigi, this is great news!

@Nego Sans?!?

I have to admit: I'd watch it.
Even if it was Philips CDI quality.

This is more like Milhouse Is Not A Meme. It gets funnier the more it becomes clear that it'll never happen.

I got a mega drive late in its life, when it came with a pack-in cartridge containing golden axe, streets of rage, etc... Still it was Gunstar Heroes which kicked the most ass, and I got a soccer game which even had replays.

I'd think the purpose of these is to protect the rails while playing in docked mode, surely? Like if you have a house full of screaming kids running around and spilling stuff and knocking things over? I never thought about it before but those rails do kind of represent gaping holes in the integrity of the shell when there aren't joy-cons attached to them.
Of course, 99.999% of the time, there will be joy-cons attached to them...

@Whalehome @jtmnm yeah as great as Undertale is, it's a postmodern subversion of classic JRPGs. There's still plenty of enjoyment to be had in playing it straight with the real thing.

I think Penny Arcade said it best back in 2003:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/08/25/how-could-they-do-such-a-thing

Don't forget you also need electricity to power the smartphones... That's another few mill for a coal power plant right there.

Not that there's anything wrong with that

To be honest this seems like a game that the Australian film institute has paid for people to make and the Australian education department will pay for people to play.

@GrailUK but then Fonzie came along and he freed the squares!

Ni No Kuni is far from a no-brainer; that game was eye-popping on the PS3, I expect it would be a huge job to get it onto the Switch. Sure would love it though.
This one looks cool but yeah we can't take localisation for granted...

Remember that game Thomas Was Alone? A game starring just squares? No-one had seen anything like it before.
Now there's a new game every month starring cubes, just on the Switch.

Given this guy's enthusiasm, it's not too strange that he's sticking to his word with the 3DS. Didn't he even get Retro City Rampage running on a NES at some point?