Uncle_Franklin

We all need to make a living I suppose,
but being a scalper seems like a miserable existence.

Ohh, for a tenner reckon I could go for this.

Guess I'll wait for a sale.

I fully expert to see the expert splasher t-shirt in among adult Instagram content in the near future.

@The_Nintend_Pedant

I consume quite a lot of peripheral commercial nonsense available now,
but then what we think we want isn't neccessarily the best thing for us.

Still the best Paper Mario for me.

In fact I might go as far to say that it's the definitive Mario adventure.

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Australia and New Zealand: 1

@batmanbud2

I'm going to go ahead and say that hydrogen bomb wins that confrontation.

Really enjoyed the game,
but felt it was already enough.

It's interesting, because for a long time Nintendo didn't take such a direct route to profits. It's odd that it took them so long to launch a Nintendo theme park.

There was a time when they seemed to give out the Mario license to anyone, hence the weird cartoons and all manner of substandard merchandise.

But there have been decades of relative restraint between these two points in time.

Needs more Princess Peach stuff.

I hope they eventually release the other characters with their own three piece sets.

Blimey. The Sea Life Centres in the UK did a promotional event with Animal Crossing while I was in Japan, and they release this now I'm in the UK for a couple of months.
I think they're just changing the outisde world while I'm on a 'plane' a la The Truman Show.

Might get for my small niece.

Of course. Of course.

Kill the heretic!

@B3RTAY
I don't know, but if you think about it, it is the logic behind these fundraising schemes.
If you give money to a cancer charity because a celebrity has a bath in baked beans, then you should have been giving prior to that event already; cancer exists regardless of whether that celebrity has a bath in baked beans or not.
It's idiotic.

Not a great look,
but if you're not persuaded that Doctors Without Borders need money until you see a speedrun of a game, then you're a cretin.

Utterly bizarre decision.

Hate this so much.

@Fiergala

Seems to pop up once a year or so.

@Fiergala

I have a Pikachu flat cap from the London Pokemon centre,
so I suppose I'm a member of the Pika Blinders.

Not sure what he did to deserve being inflicted with Birmingham.

Hmm, boots look quite nice and farily subtle.
I'll be going to that Parco probably around Halloween time.

@PinderSchloss

I felt that New Super Mario Bros. 2 made more sense as a Wario game.

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Jesus Christ,
can we have some good box art next week?

Great game,
play it now!

So on my eshop (Europe) it says that Witcher 3 is 100% off...

Four games in this Zelda universe is a bit much isn't it?

What the hell is happening with Layton?

I genuinely cannot see the difference,
which presumably says more about me.

The days of Pokemon Conquest feel very long in the past.

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

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Japan: 100

North America: 119

Australia and New Zealand: 1

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 104

Japan: 99

North America: 119

Australia and New Zealand: 1

@onlyonemello
My initial reaction to that was,
if the idea is too ambitious for them to make work with a functioning camera,
then they shouldn't have pursued it.

But then, I suppose with that attitude we would never have gotten Mario 64.

@Medic_alert

I would buy second hand magazines from a small local game shop for the walkthroughs.

Seems insane now.

The problem these days is that in the race to be among the first to publish a walkthrough online, these guides understandably are quite sloppy.
What really needs to happen is that someone goes back and tidies them up a bit;
I've read walkthroughs on this site (though like I say, they're far from the only offender) that were so badly written and opaque that they actually hindered rather than helped my progress.

How I long for the sumptuous displays of game guides found in NMS.
Or perhaps I just miss being younger.

Where's my Spy Camera?
I mean, where's DK64?

Feels quite Rebecca De Mornay and Clive Warren.

From what I've seen so far, it appears to be more thematically coherent than Odyssey.

Oh my.
Camera issues in 2025 is unforgivable.

I was only looking at the leaks in order to get directions away from the leaks.

I would imagine that the Japanese market would be resistant to it, but who knows.

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Australia and New Zealand: 1

@Max_the_German
All too often online people confuse anticipating an argument with countering an argument.

@RasandeRose
"The best way of preventing crime is to make it a considerable risk for consequences."

We have seen that is not necessarily the case.

@Samalik
The issue is going through the EU courts right?
Will be interesting to see what happens.

@MathByThePixel

Exactly.
Like saying bread was popular in 18th century Europe.

Almost feel like this should have been a Diddy Kong Racing revival.

Or probably more apposite,
the start of a Donkey Kong Racing series,
released a year or so after Bananza (time to iron out the issues this article refers to as well).
Theme seems generally better suited to the adventure elements.
You could have the classic Kongs, but also newer additions from Bananza.
And later release actual Mario Kart for people that like real Mario Kart.

@Kilroy

Lap changes sound okay, but we already had that with some tracks.
Expanding the amount of racers in a race which leads to ever wider tracks isn't great.
A too empty open world isn't great either.

Mario Kart never needed to become open world,
and from what many have said, sounds like it doesn't suit it either.

Each new Mario Kart just needs new characters and tracks to represent the new adventure games released.

Grotesque indeed.