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That sounds a bit like Ben Starr. He's cool but is in everything nowadays.

I've lived in the American South for a lot of my life and wouldn't mind increasing the number of games I have that were set there from 0 to 1. I never owned Bayou Billy on NES.

The concept of indie has changed so much in the past 10 years. There should be terms like mid-size and small-size instead. They filled up 2 or 3 rows there and still contracted out parts of game development. Just their core team was 3x the size of the GoldenEye dev team.

The headline makes it sound like it's still coming out, just no longer for Switch.

This also gives me DK and Pauline vibes, but it seems it was announced much earlier than Bananza. And it's a dynamic that seems to work.

I had never heard the term "Latam" before. And I basically live there.

I like them both and like the arrangement of the NA one better. But the motion blur is a bit tacky, and that castle does not look like Wily's. They must have gotten that from the wrong series. So I went with Japan.

These lists don't usually limit themselves to Switch. It would have been cool to see these next to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1&2, the SNES Spiderman and X-Men games, and of course NES Silver Surfer. 😆

Obviously Pokemon Pokopia is the first first-party game key card. But is it also the first $70 game key card? That's a lot of money for still having to buy a micro SD card.

It's nice to know that he's an equal opportunity insulter.

But they still say "each and every year." Awwww, they were so close. It's not FIFA or Madden.

I'm surprised so many of y'all haven't heard of Tonic Trouble. It got an entire cover on Nintendo Power here in NA. Ubisoft was making so many platformers around then. It was quite the pivot from Jimmy Connor Tennis on SNES, their first console game. It makes sense that they obtained the Prince of Persia license later.

Both Ubisoft platformers from 1999, but NLife didn't mention that they're both limbless! I suppose it's obvious enough from the post, but it's still a very odd coincidence.

Watch Apple buy 2K and make GTA6 an Apple Arcade timed exclusive. 😆

Quite a week! And that's with Assassin's Creed being strangely absent.

I'm surprised PS5 Pro is higher than Switch Lite in Japan. And yet it's true two weeks in a row.

No need to add up Xbox SKUs. We can do that in our heads. 😆

@RenanLK My sentiments exactly.

Brilliant use of lore to freeze the Metroid's. I'd be afraid of my ice "cubes" thawing.

And it's very common for students and office workers to nap on their arm which is unergonomic. So inventing a pillow that you wear on your hand is genius and might even attract non-gamers.

I'm amazed they've never shrunk her suit's shoulders. She shouldn't have any peripheral vision. And Retro was keen to make DK's platforming more realistic by justifying why a platform is functionally just floating in the air.

One reason for Nintendo not to do more is these comments. Their diehards will just complain about the extra step that they didn't take. Offer no manual, "make a manual." Make a manual, "translate it." Etc.

I agree with manuals being something they should offer. They should be available on Nintendo.com for $5 each, but knowing Nintendo, that would probably mean $10 for them. Many of us would still get them. I pay more for unofficial ones online.

I'm even starting to collect old manuals for games that I have a Switch version of. Thus, PS1 manuals for the Spyro trilogy to go with my Switch trilogy, etc.

At the other end of the spectrum, I'm excited for the full player's guide that will come with the UFO 50 physical in February.

Year Walk! That reminds me that Tengami would also be a great port from Wii U to Switch 2.

I don't really get the cover art though.

@PJOReilly
You had some fun with this one! Kudos for saying what you've had to say several times before but in a really lively new way.

@AlanaHagues The year at the bottom of the article is incorrect.

Wow, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe must have slipped on a banana peel finally.

I had never noticed before how much he looks like Dana Carvey from Wayne's World.

Is it called the Control Beam because it's like the mechanism in the game Control?

@Olliemar28
I appreciate your point about the realism of the space between the biomes. This is, after all, the studio that wasn't content to have Donkey Kong stand on a floating platform.

@DanieK
Your broader point stands, but Silksong is too cheap and shouldn't be used as a reference point.

@johnedwin If that's true, it's still probably negated by its being Metroid which isn't very popular in Japan.

@MatthewTaranto What a weird example. Tetris doesn't have a narrative that leaves you hanging if you move on. And there's no investing in a character to discard either.

@Beeeell The final 1% of some games is straight nonsense anyway, just there to try to break you of your completionist tendencies. I like to stop there anyway to retain my autonomy: that way I determine when I'm done with the game, not the developer.

@Coffee-Waffle It's Monopath this time.

@Misima It's cross-gen, so you can get it on Switch. I read that it limits you to 250 buildings in your town instead of 400.

But where is Fighting Force? I think they announced it equally long ago.

The Mana series has perhaps the best art direction of any franchise.

I'm surprised other sites to my knowledge haven't copied this article type. It's brilliant and so original.

In-game purchase will be a Silence Beam to choose NPCs with. Beautiful business idea.

@darylb24 Probably T for Tardy.

I think the optimistic take is that a movie is being looked at in the smoke-filled rooms. And a movie would need talking and thus other characters besides a computer named "Adam" and a levitating jellyfish that squeaks. This game might make $5 million less in compromising its vision (if concerns are warranted) to set that up but make $100 million more for the company in the form of a more viable movie.

And while the Marvelization is being decried, I believe many of the same people have called for a Nintendo Cinematic Universe of sorts. Perhaps that's the Marvelization they're going for. If the rumors of a Super Mario World movie were true at one time, they skipped that a Sunshine to go to a Galaxy setting for Super Mario movies, perhaps allowing Samus to tie in more naturally. It's just a thought.

And there I was thinking Metroid Fusion was too intrusive when it was just coming from alarms and announcements. What no one is mentioning here is that other characters in games often serve as the voices of the game devs pushing you along their linear intentions. If that's heavy-handed, that veers the game away from the "first-person adventure" that Nintendo has always claimed and towards an action game, which we have plenty of. That then makes the series less special. It's a spectrum; it's not binary.

To go even more grandiose than that, in so far as this game is a barometer or rudder of game design philosophy (coming from the most Western subsidiary of the most Eastern publisher), this particular difference seems to reflect an East-West divide, and we've seen what the bombastic overstimulating Western-style game design results in: lowest common denominator homogeneity and studio closures. Sort of a "What happens when the salt loses its saltiness" kind of situation.

Obviously, saying Myles MacKenzie is the death knell of traditional gaming as we know it is ridiculous. But I think some of the above dots are being connected subconsciously as a possibility or harbinger by some of the commenterati on various outlets.

If Baba is You was a dungeon crawler

@HugoGED Weren't the ones from that era on Wii?

I wonder if anyone on this team happened to work on Star Fox Assault back in the day. I’m reading that the Ace Combat team did NOT make Star Fox Assault.

Could they have asked for the rights to Xenosaga while they were at it so that Monolith can get cracking?

@Zeebor15
I would love for us to get Hirogami. It’s a very Switch-type game.

@Arnold-Kage
Imagine what Tokyo EPD could do with Rayman.

I don't know why touchscreen for menus and maps is not more prevalent, so kudos to Ubi for this extra effort.

I was hoping Brok was a spiritual successor to Plok.

@kevin74 Well, now we know.

I love the orders of magnitude on display in the hardware charts.

@gabrigoes True. I've long noticed that movie genres vary in what they're referring to: western, sci-fi, fantasy, and period refer to a movie's setting while comedy, drama, action, etc refer to the plot or tone. In games, roguelike and Metroidvania refer to the progression system, shooter and platformer refer to the core gameplay, and RPG no one is really sure of.

How did a Devolver game release escape my purview?

@metaphysician @rallydefault
I suspect, although I'm not an engineer or supply chain person, that one factor was tariffs, at least indirectly. The push to manufacture and import as many console units as possible into the US before tariffs kicked in likely competed for the same factories, parts, and boats as the dev kits which in theory should be very similar technology. This paid off in terms of units sold but might cost the release calendar some thickness.

Also, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC's 30% off.

@Gatorclops National teams and entire major professional sports leagues are not the same thing. The WNBA is the only one that's mainstream. There used to be a scantily-clad women's football league in the states, but I'm not going to count that.

I didn't even know there's a women's hockey league. That's pretty cool.

My main 3 multiplayer games I'd play with my best friend back then were GoldenEye and Wayne Gretzky's 3-D Hockey--and Mario Kart 64.

It's a mini console, and the Japanese one doesn't show it to scale. It's not even eligible in my mind. NA all the way because it shows more than just SMW, although it fails to say how many games are in it.