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I love how much Goncalo adds to these with his very different gaming tastes.

It's hard to vote against "infinite fun." This is perhaps the starkest contrast in the history of Box Art Brawl. I'm amazed it took 6 years to get to it.

The American Law School Admission Test just got rid of these types of brain teasers (on disability grounds since they required drawing diagrams), and now they're showing up on my Switch. Just put a 2 minute timer on it, and it could have been prep.

It reminds me of a hilarious viral browser game where you have to choose which is the most socially acceptable urinal to use when there are no walls between them.

It makes more sense for DKB since the songs are themselves collectibles. People keep complaining that the open world for MKW isn't interesting enough (although I disagree), so maybe they'll hold off on posting that music to do something similar.

We're never gonna get concave buttons on a controller again, it seems. I love that from the SNES controller. It's one of the subtlest and most underrated Nintendo innovations.

@PJOReilly Can you put a screenshot function on one of the programmable buttons?

@echoplex Yes, those were there. These NSO games are all unaltered ROMs as far as I know.

@GammaPhonic Mainline entries in game series are often 5 years apart anyway. What's your point? SM64 was 5 years after SMW (in the west), just like Galaxy after Sunshine.

1-Up Studio has helped on so many 3D Mario games. Have them do Galaxy 3 while Koizumi makes Super Mario Iliad or whatever.

I'd also love for them to continue remastering Mario RPGs by giving us Super Paper Mario.

Fever dream idea: Mario FPS where he shoots fireballs.

Those wanting Mario Maker 3, we'd eventually lose the treasure trove of levels from Maker 2.

I concur but wish the map kept parts you haven't been to mysterious except in Assist Mode. I don't want to spoil myself regarding the size of the place and what traps lay before me or which animal theme I've stumbled upon at the mere touch of a Minus button. But it's hard to stay disciplined, and I might need to check the map for other reasons and inadvertently see something.

"How do you square this circle?" is supposed to be a rhetorical question. But Minecraft Sonic's rings exist.

@Liam_Doolan Why doesn't the Related Articles section include this one?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/12/random-sakurai-wanted-the-gamecube-controller-to-include-a-scroll-wheel

And then in mouse mode, it becomes Yacht Club's Phantom Hourglass.

And yet, there's nothing about this game or even the showcase itself on the S2 eshop's Featured page. Just Mina. Fail, Nintendo.

It is on the Featured for the S1 eshop, at least. I guess those launch titles really crowd out the spaces for S2's.

Contra references Terminator a bit, so it's neat to have Terminator (well, a video game version) reference Contra back.

@AG_Awesome I usually don't spend more than $10 for a digital game, but I would have felt guilty spending less than $25 for this. I might double dip, too.

I guess I worry a little bit about their sustainability given that graphical improvements are becoming less and less impactful to the gameplay experience over time. FPS and resolution get closer and closer to what the eye can differentiate.

@EarthboundBenjy It seems video gaming sometimes participates in the "twin films" phenomena (such as The Prestige and The Illusionist releasing close together and being very similar).

@foursider One of my biggest gripes with Metroid Dread is the lack of melodies compared to the earliest Metroid games. They didn't specialize in melodies but in creating a feeling, but still they were there.

I'm surprised it wasn't System Shock.

I actually like both of them.

The mouse feature will end up being seen as one of the best recent console gaming innovations, smaller but also more impactful than the Wii U's gamepad.

A visual novel that's very visual and pretty novel. I'll bite.

Watch these numbers for Switch 1 climb a lot higher if there's no price hike in Japan. People will import or engage in arbitrage. (Even a slight price hike there would make the OLED the same price as the semi-region-locked version of the Switch 2, if not already.)

Game key cards would be less of an issue if Nintendo just promised to have games redownloadable for a minimum number of years, like 50. But they want that flexibility.

How was this not in the article or update or comments? The web site says you can unlock the hidden fighters with the touch of a button.

So, basically no one bought ToTK after its record-setting first week.

Where does it say the full game will be on the card? Not in the trailer or the web site. I'm super stoked for MKT though and am surprised this wasn't a separate article with that in the headline. "Mystery game in MK Kollection announced"

@Haruki_NLI Triangle Strategy and Live a Life were HD-2D. But hopefully soon they'll need to call it 4K-2D.

Having finally been to Tokyo now, I'm very interested in games that let me return and just hang out.

I've been defending them against those concerned about an HD-2D monoculture thus far, but I worry they're gonna drive it into the ground before making the inevitable Chrono Trigger remake, knocking 20% off its sales numbers. I bought into this series for its novelty and even the second game since it improved on everything, but I'm not interested enough for 3 games. They'll have to come up with even more contrived names to continue to fit their OCTOPATH acrostic gambit than in the second game.

@shoeses It was announced as "coming this winter" in the announcement trailer 4 months ago.

@Bigmanfan Yeah, this seemed to me like such filler. Not the game or even the trailer; it just had no place in the Direct. There are announcement trailers, release date trailers, and launch trailers. Or story vs. gameplay trailers. There's a reason why "new construct trailer" is not a term.

This game got on my radar strangely because of bingeing Chrono Trigger OST covers. The composer for PvZ made a vocal version of Schala's Theme. I wondered who that angelic human is and found that she is a composer with an OST credit.

I was gonna skip physical for this since I believe the ideas were used in later Shantae games. Thus, this would be like playing an antiquated build of a game. But it's genius for them to add some DLC to add to the uniqueness of the release, preserving the integrity and historicity of the base level product while still increasing the value proposition.

@N00BiSH How exactly would you upgrade or update a GBA cartridge?

@Zeebor15 It had more Square games than Namco.

@Cakefish It seems a lot of titles with unlocked frame rates are getting automatic bumps on S2. So hopefully developers moving forward will take that approach if they don't plan to sell official upgrade packs.

It's not often that a game announcement could have waited a few minutes until after finishing the game, but I get that there won't be a review.

Based on the studio name, I could see this becoming a series or very specific niche. But hey, category of one, right?

One button I won't be mashing is "buy." But I'm glad this is out there.

@Xansies It reminded me of rustling leaves in the wind, but yes.

@Willo567 That's great and news to me. And the Wii store dates back almost as far as Steam. I think people have reasonable suspicions though that their purchases from those stores are less permanent than their purchases on Steam. And while you didn't list DSi, it also allows re-downloading but won't for long.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7030/~/how-to-redownload-nintendo-dsi-shop-content

@Jack_Goetz
For a long time, people were salivating over the prospect of a Switch Pro. The way so many games run better on Switch 2 and the free update patches mean that even if there literally no new games, the S2 would have its merit just for that. Of course, no one expected a Switch Pro to cost $450.

@Willo567 Steam has a store that dates back to 2004. And while things have been delisted before, and you're more likely to need to reinstall a game on PC versus console, it's a much different prospect than trusting a console eshop to stay open. Valve also has the vast majority of their profit eggs in the digital retailer basket while console platform holders are more differentiated. This means Valve can't afford to lose trust with consumers on redownloading in the future the way a console maker can.

@The_Nintend_Pedant He seems to be factoring in overhead cost for Capcom but not for Nintendo.

The box art on the left looks like so many other games, but both are better than the LRG cover.

Cue up Anthill Recharged.

@Zeebor15 Why the hostility for @TerribleTerabytes ?

Does anyone know what good games on other platforms have a file size in the 35-65 GB range? They'd be our best hope for fully on card.

@Punisher67 Imagine saying Operation Rainfall needs to get over not having Xenoblade. 4 games later, where would we be?

Hopefully they learned something from the key card fiasco and at least tentpole big budget releases like FF7R and Elden Ring will be fully on card (if they can fit). Hopefully other developers will make the game cards at least playable if they still want to require a download. Capcom's RE 4-6 trilogy is instructive here where the most popular game was entirely present.

Some are saying here what they think a Mario 40th Direct in September would mean for a general direct. They could be the same thing, hello? That's what happened for the 35th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Direct#2020

Silksong will not be a shadow drop since it will be playable at some upcoming convention I read.

There is still plenty left in the closet for several publishers:
Ubisoft: Plenty of AC games not on Nintendo, Rayman collection
Square: Chrono Trigger, Quintet games, PS1 era games, KH for real this time
Capcom: Breath of Fire, more Mega Man collections, and now that Kamiya is back perhaps he can browbeat them into a Viewtiful Joe collection, Zack & Wiki w/ mouse controls
Konami: Goemon, Bonk, Bomberman collections
Namco: Tekken, Time Crisis (w/ mouse controls), Soul Calibur, Tales collections
Atlus: Trauma Center collection (w/ mouse controls)
Now that we've got mouse controls: Monkey Island, please!
Digital Eclipse Gold Masters themes I'd love: Eugene Jarvis & Midway, Advergames like Pepsiman and Cool Spot, unlicensed games like Tengen Tetris and 3-D Noah's Ark, Edutainment titles like Carmen Sandiego and Number Munchers

Maybe Xbox was feeling left out with it being announced at a State of Play and with speculation that the release date would be announced at a Nintendo Direct. Shrewd.

5 ads in 30 seconds of skipping around in the video to see what people mean by the graphics. Unwatchable.

So many store displays cover up the bottom portion of the game box which is of course where the disclaimers about download required or game key card are. Walmart has this unnecessary "NEW RELEASES" banner in front of that section.