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I've seen people begging for an Ocarina of Time remake for awhile lately and I have absolutely no idea why. The game's aged mostly pretty well, especially the 3DS version, and at best it's just a completely pointless one-to-one and at worst you mutilate the game into something it isn't to try to chase the trend of Breath of the Wild. Either way seems like a super easy thing for me to pass on.

As for Star Fox it'll flop just like every other entry in this series post-Adventures has flopped (and I say this as someone whose favorite game in the series is Assault). The audience just isn't there for it because they keep trying to reinvent the wheel and you can't really sell people on a $70 rail shooter.

Yeah, just like Pokemon Bank was the future of the series right up until they replaced it with a separate service that's triple the cost.

@Moonlessky What makes it especially weird is they're mostly still in the data, just missing the models and music. It'd be pretty trivial to put them back in.

Granted I'm kind of inclined to think part of cutting them was just general dissatisfaction with them, since they don't really fit the game's typical level structure while the Odyssey levels do.

Weighing in on the replaying games thing, generally I'm a lot more inclined to replay something for the hundredth time over playing something new. Though tying it back to Mario Wonder, I feel like it's pretty low on the list of 2D Mario games I'd be inclined to regularly replay; top of my head I'd definitely slot SMB1-3 (though not Lost Levels), World, Yoshi's Island, NSMBWii, and NSMBU over it. I've done three runs of it (one very soon after the first one) but I don't really expect my fourth to be any time soon.

Leon, but I really want a Revelations 3 focused on Ashley. Never minded her in the original but the remake made her a genuinely great character.

Definitely sounds worth skipping then. Rosalina and the new powerup are kind of tempting but I cannot at all justify paying $20 for seven levels and I don't care about the multiplayer.

I realize it's not super popular but it's really weird that Luvdisc isn't one of the options. Especially given it's not like Dedenne's a fan favorite.

Might give it a look sometime if there's some kind of single player component but if it's just playing with other people then this offers nothing for me. Think last time I played Pokemon multiplayer outside of raids was gen 5 and I barely did it back then.

I rather like the character designs but I kind of just have this thing where my interest levels in a thing plummet the instant you add mechs to it.

Personally the only ones of the games I've ever actually beaten are 4, the 4 remake, and the 3 remake, though I keep meaning to try and dig into most of the rest of them (probably never playing 0 or 6). Will probably buckle down on Requiem soon.

I played Fever a lot for the first few days then just kind of lost interest. I'm sure it'll be a game I come back to and fiddle with periodically but I don't think I have much interest in making a longterm thing of it, especially since I prefer not to play online.

Really wish you could actually play a full length game of tennis and that there were a middle ground on the AI between, "Completely ineffectual," and, "Will just keep the ball in play forever until you use a fever shot."

@ThaBEN This is for February, it hadn't come out yet.

I spent a year and some change playing New Horizons when it first came out, but I think I've had my fill of Animal Crossing. I know sooner or later they're going to get abandoned and well before that point it becomes a matter of, "Ugh I guess I've gotta check in today fiiiiine," so I think it's better for me to just disengage from the cycle from this point. I've certainly had fun with the series over the years but I don't have any real further interest in it.

Not used it, can't see a scenario where I ever would. Prefer to play games alone and if I want to chat with someone I can use Discord.

Granted it's not like this is a uniquely Nintendo thing either, never owned a mic on the 360 or PS4 and on the PS5 I disabled it immediately. Even if I have to play online for whatever reason I don't want to talk to people while I'm doing it.

Nothing eShop-wise for me for the time being, but did shell out to import copies of the Corpse Party series and Death Match Love Comedy since their US releases were blocked.

Always way preferred the menu profile select over the in-game one certain games do so that's a very welcome change.

As for getting the DLC, I'm going to need to wait and see just how many single player levels it has. If it's just one for each Koopaling then I don't think I can justify the cost spent, but if there are some more than that then combined with Rosalina and the new powerup I might be able to convince myself to go for it. Either way it's pretty clear the multiplayer's the primary selling point and there's no chance I'm ever touching any of that.

The first AI: The Somnium Files is another one that super benefits from this. It already gained a lot from the Switch 2 cutting down its loading times but now it actually looks pretty nice handheld compared to how before there was a lot of fuzz around the models. Having played the game on both PS4 and Switch the gap is nowhere anywhere near what it was.

I assume Nirvana Initiative got a similar glowup, though that one generally looked and ran a bit better than the original game in the first place.

It's a game I've kept meaning to check out but not really interested in doing so without a way of moving Pokemon to Home afterward, so while I'll likely check it out at some point it won't be NSO.

@horizonisland It still uses the handheld controls.

Another one I'm really noticing this morning, Fitness Boxing 3. I tend to do it in desktop mode and it's a bigger glow-up than you would think.

So far I've tried it out with Hundred Line, Persona 5, and Danganronpa V3. Think Hundred Line was the most I noticed the glowup but Persona 5 also looked much nicer, while with V3 it seemed to be running a bit better but still had some of the awkward lag and rough edges around the sprites since end of the day it's just a phoned-in mobile port no matter how you dress it up.

All I can say is, "Ugh."

Surprised the NA one is winning because I think the other one looks a million times better.

@MrGawain Given the camera isn't actually included in the first place, it'd likely shave off almost nothing? The microphone was probably relatively inexpensive since it's not exactly professional quality and it's not like adding an extra button is a particularly expensive thing to do.

I remapped mine to just be a duplicate Home button because the only time I could ever actually picture myself using it is if I'm meaning to hit that instead. Really no clue why they thought something you can easily access from the home menu in an instant anyway needed a dedicated button.

Meh. Good for people that liked Bananza I guess, but I took a crack at it because my roommate was interested and the end result was taking a month off after reaching the last layer then when I did get back to it promptly turning it off as soon as I hit the credits and I haven't touched it since, really just not at all for me. Hate its art design (especially the new DK look, it's absolutely hideous), thought the gameplay could be fun in spots but was way too repetitive, and I really just constantly wished there was an option to mute Pauline because she was deeply irritating.

Maybe a future 2D game would sell me on on keeping on with the series, but there's no scenario where I bother playing a sequel to Bananza and I really doubt I'm ever even going to touch it again. Cool it went over well with the people who liked it, but I didn't.

@HauntedMasque General consensus is that X-Men, Captain America, and the Spider-Man & Venom games are great, Arcade's Revenge is pretty bad, and Silver Surfer is so brutally difficult as to be basically unplayable but has a sweet soundtrack.

I'll probably pick it up digitally. Mostly here for X-Men and Maximum Carnage but certainly down to try out the rest of it.

Kind of hoping in the future we get ports of other old Marvel stuff like the X-Men Game Gear games and the Hulk SNES / Genesis game.

I'm very much going to wait for reviews on it. Yoshi games are wildly inconsistent in quality.

I found them more tolerable than expected but could also comfortably live with never seeing them again.

I need to make the time for it, kind of decided to prioritize FireRed when they both came out and even with me now being done with that I haven't gotten around to it yet.

In general I'm kind of getting the sense Nintendo underestimated its appeal, between the key card release and relatively small amount of marketing. Not really on my radar, not my kind of thing, but it seems like they weren't expecting how well it's been reviewing.

Nah, I know my tastes enough to know I'd play it at most for an hour or so before getting bored and never touching it again.

Was always pretty curious about it, might pick it up.

Glad Vac Woman didn't make it through despite the fact I voted for it.

Already own all of these except the Switch 2 version of Jamboree which I'm not interested in. Though bares noting that sometimes other retailers have different digital sales from what the eShop does, offhand that's how I got Luigi's Mansion 2 this time last year.

@CoOokie Almost like when you see two contradictory opinions they're coming from two separate sets of people.

Certainly makes me more interested, really not at all a subgenre I'm fond of.

Also I really wish they'd just call it a Metroidvania. It's the name everyone uses and Action Exploration sounds like meaningless overly broad nonsense.

I don't think they'll do an individual Legends collection because at best you can only put four games in it and that's assuming they remember Roll's Close Call exists. I think it's more likely they just stick the first two and Tron Bonne in a collection of other assorted games that don't fit anywhere else like Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man Soccer.

Personally I'm fine with the 400 that's pretty much been the standard since USUM, having too small of a lineup makes things way too repetitive going through the game and is one of the bigger reasons why I think BW2 is much better than BW1.

That said I do kind of wish there was a way to fix the Nidoran issue, but given how that would upend basically the entire Pokedex's numbering I see why they don't. Right off the top of my head that'd force a redesign of Zarude and would render Gholdengo's gimmick pointless.

Glad to see it's being well-received, hopefully folks enjoy it, though I can tell it's very much not my thing so going to pass personally.

Way overdue for them to remaster everyone's favorite entry, Brotherhood of Steel.

@garfreek I really want an Athena-focused game. Feels the most primed for it of the established cast and like it would really help her character.

Keep hoping for SMB Deluxe, but glad we got something. Though I played through Mario vs. DK on my 3DS late last year and wound up absolutely hating it so not super enthused about it personally, but happy for its fans that don't want to shell out for the remake.

I think that's a fair score but also personally I'm loving having this on the Switch. Definitely some parts of it that have aged - the overall slow pace, Kanto's wonky level structure, not having stuff like Fairy or the physical / special split - but still finding it feels so much nicer revisiting these older games on the Switch than playing the newer ones and really hoping they do similar ports for the gen 4 and 5 games at some point.

@Dom_31 They can be a bit inconsistent on it. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, offhand the Apollo trilogy was a surprise announcement.

That said I'm inclined to think this one won't actually include anything new.

@Warioware Kind of doubt it since they weren't even involved in the Steam version besides licensing it out. Doesn't seem like Killer7's a thing they're really interested in doing anything more with.

@UpsideDownRowlet Oh yeah, I forgot about the existence of Champions. That explains that, though still makes the raid thing a bit odd.

Seems odd between this and the rerunning raid events that they're dropping support for SV when WiWa is still over a year away. Guess there's ZA but it's kind of its own separate beast and it's not like PLA's existence caused them to stop doing SwSh stuff.

@chucksneed Generally more often than not legendary names are left as they are. The only ones changed from Japanese to English are the birds, Mesprit, Azelf, the genies, Silvally, the Tapus, Cosmoem, Eternatus, Kubfu, Urshifu, Calyrex, the horses, the Treasures of Ruin, the Loyal Three, and Pecharunt.