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@BrazillianCara It pretty much goes hand-in-hand with that. I have way more digital games than I have space on my Switch 2 and so it was a, "Well, I'm done with this one, into the not installed pile it goes," move and by this point I don't think I even have space for it without clearing out something else first.

I feel like I'd need to convince myself to do it, might need to wait for word of mouth on the Toad challenges. Rosalina is tempting but I'm never going to touch the multiplayer stuff so that makes it a tough sell.

Doesn't really help I'm not crazy about Wonder to begin with? It's fun, but the only 2D Mario games I'd definitely rank it over are Lost Levels and NSMB2, feel like the emphasis on spectacle over platforming makes it not hold up super great on repeat playthroughs.

Not gotten season 3 yet - decided to wait for whenever it's on sale - but whenever I do get it whenever I play as Alex I'll definitely finish people off with the One-Winged Angel every chance I get.

I know it's kind of intrinsic to the art style but wow these big Lego sculpts often have really nightmarish faces. It's not quite as bad as the Pikachu but that is still not pleasant to look at.

@Kazman2007 Honestly Bug Fables kind of scared me away from trying any other Paper Mario-likes. As hyped up as that one was I just could not get into it at all, it felt like a hollow imitation walking around in a Paper Mario skin suit.

Picked up FF7. Next thing I'm for sure getting is Mario Tennis but I might decide to take a gamble on Dispatch, we'll see.

It's kind of giving me Arkham City Game of the Year vibes, and that is about the worst imaginable possible comparison point.

Kind of sucks that most of this upgrade seems like multiplayer stuff I'm never going to care about but Rosalina is probably enough to sell me on it regardless.

My primary takeaway is, "Please don't spend too much time in the anniversary Direct blathering on about this."

It's well past time to shine a spotlight on the greatest of all Mario characters, Trunkle.

Don't think I'm going to play the game again any time soon - the DLC really just soured my opinions on it - but the Mega Shard limit boost is a great addition.

It's very unfortunate for the devs, though I do wonder how on earth the game managed to have such a troubled production in the first place. Definitely had to be poor management because the original mostly holds up and it really should've just been a matter of, "Make it look prettier, polish the wonky controls and camera," if you wanted to modernize it.

@LinktotheFuture Physical includes Magic the Gathering cards, digital includes the original FF7.

I ended up deciding to spring for it and at least based on the demo I wasn't having any problems. I can tolerate some artifacting or whatever so long as the core experience is mostly stable and that seems to be the case here so I'm fine with it.

@X68000 Eh, Nintendo likes to do random housekeeping in the weeks leading up to Directs sometimes. I could see a year later update to a remaster that sold pretty well but didn't set the world on fire being something that they're like, "We don't need to devote runtime to this," since dropping this update like this has people talking about the game again but it'd probably be buried by talk on the Mario Wonder DLC or Fire Emblem or whatever new they announce otherwise.

Will say from some playing around with it I am definitely not a fan of the Turbo mode. It feels like the enemy hitboxes are overly wonky and it's really stupid that even dying or choosing to restart keeps counting down from the same timer, with the only actual way to reset it being to completely exit the level.

@Spectrum123 Probably didn't include a Funky mode because the 3DS version already added its own easy mode and that's also included in this one.

@Joeynator3000 Honestly I figure it's because assuming this is just ported from Tropical Freeze, Dixie's mostly just a better Diddy while Cranky's more unique bouncing mechanics might make him just flat out break the game's design.

Adding Dixie's a really awesome surprise, been wondering about replaying the game soon anyway.

I really just want a port of the Zero Escape series at this point.

I do kind of wonder if they'd gone for the, "Make them muscular wrestlers overseas," thing how much that would've impact the series' overall life. Can't see it being nearly what it is if they had gone for that.

Not getting anything for now but did go ahead and preorder the FF7 Remake.

Animal Crossing update I considered but I decided, "Last time they put out a big update I returned to it for a week before dropping it again, no sense in bothering." I played New Horizons every day for over a year when it came out but I think I've gotten all the mileage out of it I'm ever going to.

@RoboCube I think kind of the key problems with doing a Mario & Sonic platformer crossover are that 1), Mario doing high-speed gimmick levels is already a fairly common thing so it wouldn't really feel like Sonic was actually bringing anything to the table, and 2), the expectations that would be riding on it would kind of demand Nintendo themselves making it except there probably isn't much time or incentive for them to do that.

The NA one is definitely less detailed but I also just kind of prefer it. Characters standing in a white void always just looks kind of cheap to me and I like the color scheme the NA one went with.

@MirrorFate2 Honestly while it's probably a factor, if it were the only thing stopping them from doing another they'd just call it like Mario & Sonic at the Winter Games and just drop the Olympics tie-in. Doubt that having the official branding really makes much difference in terms of the sales.

That's less a "funny" story and more an insanely stupid and petty one.

It really is amazing how much cushion you can give yourself to keep trying things when you made one game people liked but didn't buy 24 years ago. Dude's been nothing but a failure since, see no reason to expect that to change now.

Weird choice to rebrand it that way now, given the title screen being changed to have a 2 on has been a thing since day one. Maybe it's a sign of DLC being made official around the anniversary event in April and them wanting to market that as 3?

I'm all for ironically puffing up a random series for the fun of it but I really wish it were for a show that didn't star a predator.

i imagine it'll be a problem that levels out (though I'd argue to this day it still really hasn't for the PS5 so maybe not) but I definitely agree that the Switch 2 feels more like a new model of Switch than a distinct thing. Probably doesn't really help that I don't think there's yet been an exclusive for it that feels worth a new console to play and the only potential one even announced at the moment is Fortune's Weave. ... And really after Engage I'm hesitant to get all that excited for it.

Glad the ink ribbon thing is optional since I've definitely always been on the, "They stopped doing this for a reason," side of that argument.

Either way I'll probably get Requiem at some point but I don't think it'll be at launch. Capcom stuff drops in price quickly and really the only reason I'm even tempted is the 7 and 8 ports coming with it.

I think it kind of needs a better background to really judge the look of the costume; just having in front of a stock photo background gives it a very definite, "This is just cosplay," vibe.

Think the best case of how to balance them I've seen is Xenoblade 3, where they pretty much entirely unlock cosmetic stuff, but it's 1), neat stuff that you'd have reason to want, and 2), all of it can be unlocked without them but it's all late or post-game stuff.

TotK also handled it decently, making the actually good unlockables also able to be gotten in-game for free while only putting something more minor behind the paywall.

@SearchingS One of the Japanese actors in the game, Teruyuki Kagawa, was accused of and admitted to sexual assault in 2022 and has numerous other accusations around him, and he's not only still in the game but getting spotlighted in trailers and stuff. It's really, really gross that he's in there.

Mine were...

1. Hundred Line
2. Persona 3 Reload
3. Pokemon Scarlet

@FuzzieGinge88 Depends on whether or not you consider graphics to be the defining element above everything else. It's entirely possible for a version of a game to look a little worse but still be the best version of the experience in other ways.

I moved a few months ago and the one near where I lived was one of the ones that closed, so that sucks. And where I moved in there's a mall nearby that for a long time had a Gamestop (and used to have two) but it closed up a few months ago.

There is still one not too far away, but still, it sucks when people lose work.

Oh neat, been wanting to have that one ported for a long time.

@garfreek Honestly the biggest problems with BDSP are that they chose to make it a faithful remake of a pair of games that was deeply flawed to begin with and they didn't really have the dev time to properly bug test it. It's really not bad at all - did a second run through of it last year - but it feels like the exact same thing but based on Platinum instead would on its own be significantly better.

My top three games were most to least Hundred Line, Persona 3 Reload, and Pokemon Scarlet. By month my most played was...

January - Donkey Kong Country Returns
February - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
March - Pokemon Scarlet
April - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
May - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
June - Pokemon Scarlet
July - Donkey Kong Bananza (though doesn't really count, friend was playing it on my profile)
August - Pokemon Scarlet
September - Shuten Order
October - Persona 3 Reload
November - Persona 3 Reload
December - Fitness Boxing 3

They really should have to specify exactly what they change.

Eevee and the starters look good, Pikachu looks hideous.

Don't care at all about multiplayer so I'm hoping the single player additions are worthwhile.

I definitely prefer the Japanese one, mostly due to the lighting.

@Dom_31 That Iwata story's a myth, all he actually did was slightly improve decompression times. Useful, but not like, "Saved the game," levels or anything.

I might pick up another set just in case but seeing as I just sat on one for a year up until eventually settling on, "Fine, I'll use it on Xenoblade X before it expires I guess, whatever," probably better to not bother.

Really very firmly not my thing, though hope it turns out well for folks who are interested.

As for Mega Dimension, I kind of put up with a lot of compounding annoyances until I hit the special scans and that was the point where I got completely fed up and deleted the game. Been about a month since I've touched it and not sure I'll do so again any time soon, it's a case where I think having the DLC actually lowers the quality of the overall product.

@Kyloctopus Honestly the one game I've seen I think handles it correctly is Xenoblade 3, in that everything they're used for can in some way or other be gotten without them, but it's all late game and a lot of it's kind of a grind.

Though Tears of the Kingdom isn't terrible in having the actually good unlockables be available otherwise while the more minor ones are exclusive.

Is weird how even though there are existing ones for Boo, Koopa, Goomba, Diddy, and Piranha Plant they left them out.

They really need to at some point add an ability to pick and choose which Gamecube games you have installed. The app's already nearly tripled in size since it launched and it still only actually has eight games with a ton of first party stuff not there yet.