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@Bart_T
Ah would ye go 'way outta dat. Sure everyone knows de Irish accent is the best, boyo!

@OorWullie "Really like the Bowser one but I've never got on well with 3rd party controllers. Well except for the 8bitdo SF-30 Pro, that's fantastic."

I've been tempted by that 8bitdo controller, but am very sceptical of 3rd party controllers. Is it worth a try?

A Splatoon themed controller with no gyro!? That would be so frustrating for me. Love me a bit of gyro aiming. They look like lovely controllers all the same.

Looks like a bit of fun. That animation is janky as hell though. What way are everyone's legs moving?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE "I hope those spaceships at 1:18 teleported there through the blackhole to the right and weren't as a result of pop-in."

I was thinking the exact same thing 😄

@Shiryu I was intrigued from the off. I'd never heard of this game before today, but your glowing praise of it has me positively excited. Do you know if it has similar trading/economy features as Elite, or is it more about space battles?

@Steven_the_2nd
Asks if it was difficult....gets a time-lapse instructional video. Lol.
Thanks Steve. You went above and beyond there. 🙌

@Steven_the_2nd "I already have a dpad thanks to those 3 party shells. It works EXTREMELY well. Feels just like a normal dpad"

I've been tempted to try this, but fear damaging my joycons. Was it difficult to change the outer casing? I heard from one of Alex's videos that the screw heads stripped very easily.

No virtual console or d-pad announced. I guess Bayo 3 is cancelled....

You spelled the title of the game incorrectly in the headline
😑

@daveh30 "it's not as bad as "the platform holder" over on Push Square. ITS OKAY TO CALL THEM SONY ONCE IN A WHILE!"

Maybe they've typed Sony so many times that they've broken those keys on their keyboard

@dystome "apart from anything else, why does he assume we're lovely? I personally am completely reprehensible."

Lol 😂

@Shellcore
Titular....Proverbial....This scribe.....
It drives me insane! 😵
They're taking the proverbial piss and ruining this scribe's titular Nintendo Life! Gaaahhh!
Heeeelloooo there lovely peeeeeople!

Never played any Diablo games, so this has my interest piqued. These days it's turning into a positive to be an insular Nintendo gamer like myself, cos all these ports are brand new to me! 😄

Hope this is real. Day one buy if it is! 😃

This doesn't look like my kind of thing (walking simulator!?) but it's good to see 3rd parties bringing a bit of variety to Switch. Seems like a good port too.

@Sentinator "definitely think a clam shell model with the joysticks on the side would be most ideal for me"

Great idea. Love a clam shell design.

@Sentinator "Nintendo is missing out on a big opportunity by ignoring the desire for a more compact Switch"

Be careful what you wish for. A smaller Switch would mean a smaller screen, or a slimmer bezel around the screen, both of which would be undesirable for a lot of people, myself included. I would struggle to play a lot of Switch's best games on a smaller screen, and a slimmer bezel would harm its durability. My kids have dropped the Switch from a height multiple times and it hasn't broken. That trumps slightly better portability in my eyes.

17 million sold in a year. Wow. Far from the dark days of WiiU. I loved my WiiU but man, it was hard to defend it. It looked like a cheap toy from the early 2000s, it didn't have any 3rd party support after year one and Nintendo dropped it like a bag of steaming poop once it wasn't doing the numbers. Shame really. It had some great games.

Such a beautiful object. Do I need it though? That's what my wallet is asking.

I saw the awful, dated 3D thumbnail picture and expected this review was going to be a 3 out of 10. I'm pleasantly shocked it's a 7. 😂

@nayfz "Apart from both having a button that accelerates and another button that brakes, what else do Mario Kart and Burnout Paradise have in common? Really? They're completely different driving games, hardly imitations."

You, like, steer with the sticks too. Totally the same. Plagiarism! /s

@QwertyQwerty "Already got Mario Kart, don't need a pale imitation tbh"

How is Burnout a pale imitation of Mario Kart? They are nothing alike, and Burnout Paradise is one of the most highly rated racing games ever made.

That Tumbler is boss

@electrolite77 "I'll take pixels over warping, primitive polygons any day of the week. PS1 games look dreadful these days. It's not the 1990s anymore, we've figured out that 3D doesn't always make games look better."

Truth! PS1 and N64 graphics, by and large, have aged horribly. Pixel art has a much more timeless appeal and I personally hope it never goes away.

@Agramonte "There is never been a technical limitations in oil painting - and you think we still using the garbage oil paint from back in the day? Waiting for it to dry in a year"

Thanks for proving my point for me again. The pixel art we see today is a massive step up in clarity and resolution from what we had in the past. Developers aren't using "the same garbage from back in the day" If you think Owlboy looks the same as an 8bit or even 16bit game, then there's no point even having this debate with you.

@Agramonte If you're annoyed at people's responses, maybe you should choose your own words a little better and you might get a more positive response.

@Agramonte Who said there was no difference in digital and classical art?

@Agramonte "This was not born as an artstyle - it was from a technical limitation. In belongs in tech history books (or nostalgia inducing icons)"

By that logic, artists today should stop painting with oil paints, should they? Only digital painting using a stylus and tablet should be done these days because of technological advances? Absolutely ridiculous argument. The fact is, many many people, myself included, love the look of pixel art. It is as valid a form of expression as polygons, bump maps and HDR lighting. If people didn't like pixel art, these games wouldn't sell and wouldn't continue to be made. Don't confuse your own tastes with facts.

@Agramonte
Completely missing the point, repeatedly. Nice work.

@Agramonte "My icon is not PixelArt. Check out Pac Man Championship DX+"

Pac Man Championship DX, a game which wouldn't exist had it not been for pixels. I think you're cutting off your nose to spite your face by overlooking games because they are rendered using pixels.

@SuperTeeter64
"More unneeded hate on pixel art."

Yeah, what's up with that? Also kind of ironic seeing as @Agramonte has a Pac Man ghost as their profile pic.

Looks beautiful. Think I'll pick this up.

@Nincompoop
"PS5 and Xbox 2 will still be using AMD chips, so their console will have a smaller brain."

You may be right, because playing PlayStation and Xbox makes me feel like I have a smaller brain.

Billy Mitchell is a sad, sad man

@LUIGITORNADO "Wave Race? Wasted on Retro's talent? Ick. Go play it on 64. Some franchises need to stay dead."

There's no need to be rude and there's no accounting for people's taste. I adore the Wave Race series. I'll admit that Wave Race 64 hasn't aged well (the same can be said for many 64 era titles) but Blue Storm on the GameCube was incredible and still looks and plays beautifully to this day. I'd love to see Wave Race on Switch.

I'm playing through BOTW again (had it on WiiU and held off getting it for Switch)
Daruk and Urbosa's voices are the only ones I like. Zelda and Mipha just come across as wingey and annoying. I understand why voice acting is deemed necessary, but I really loved the reading element of previous Zelda games. Makes you more invested somehow.

"He wanted me to think of my character as this big, larger than life kind of gentle giant, (a la Gimli in LotR)"

Oh, yeah. You mean Gimli...the dwarf.

@liljmoore
"If this is true. Then where the hell is Retro Studios and what are they working on?"

Please be Wave Race. Please be Wave Race. Please be Wave Race.

@iMarkU @Saego @Nincompoop

Don't feed the trolls guys! Nincompoop gets people so easy. It's actually hilarious to watch. Troll Level = Master

@Cheechzilla
"I’m interested as long as a sequel is also in the Switch’s lifetime. Heck a Mario Kart Maker might even be better than a sequel!"

Mario Kart Maker is an AMAZING idea!

Looking forward to this. I'm getting serious Lemmings vibes off it. Seems like my kind of game.

@Bunkerneath
"@JHDK not really as 200% of 0 is 0"

Damn you and your stupid logic and maths.....

It says here that the demo appeared to be running at 1080p at 60fps, but in Alex's video he said it was just under 900p and 30fps. I wonder which it is?

@WindyCityGSH "You are painting with some seriously broad brushes there. Holy poo."

Dude is painting with a Dynamo Roller!

@Dr_Corndog "A harder question is, what DOESN'T a pickle go with? Answer that, if you can!"

Here's a couple of things pickles don't go with: ice cream, chocolate, cake, kisses

I would never put a gherkin in my burger, and yet I wouldn't take it out if it was in there. I'm kind of gherkin agnostic, I guess. If I had to pick a side, it would be.....fries.

@c2017nlifemedia
'you'll just be paying to do what has always been and should be 100% gratis: using your own internet connection for p2p multiplayer.'
Uummm. There's a little more to online multiplayer than that...

@retro_player_22
Don't feed the trolls!

@FX102A 'This does put a damper on my plans to buy a physical copy as I want the cart to contain the updated variant.'
If storage is your problem, I picked up one of these babies last week:
https://www.lightinthebox.com/samsung-128gb-micro-sd-card-tf-card-memory-card-100mb-s-uhs-3-class10-evo-plus-evo_p5841762.html?prm=1.5.1.1

128GB Samsung Micro SD Card for forty bucks! It delivered in 5 days and works an absolute dream. They were actually selling them for €33 last week, so the price seems to be fluctuating a bit, but either way that is cheap as chips!