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Not really any reason to, only person I have to play with is my roommate and both of us have our own Switch 2s as well as our own Pro Controllers.

If the Fitness Boxing DLC were coming out here today then I'd grab it, but seems like they're dragging their feet on it for some reason. Past that not really planning to get anything until Death Match Love Comedy and Mario Tennis next month, though maybe I'll end up springing for FF7R if the mood strikes me.

Feels kind of dumb that they didn't throw Baby Daisy and Rosalina in there since they're already established and would work as extra story mode options. Also wish Dixie could get into these things every once in awhile.

Petey, Goomba, and Kamek are some nice surprises at least.

Really hope you can actually do a full match this time around, though either way I'll likely pick it up since I never got the last one.

That said the character count thing isn't new info, they announced the total way back with the game itself.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe The game almost killed the studio because they got jerked around by their first publisher leading them to have to restart development and the scope of it spiraled out of their control because it's an incredibly dense, ambitious game and they mistakenly thought a tactical RPG would be very cheap to make. And even then, "almost" is doing a lot of work there because it didn't and they're fine now.

You tilting at windmills because you don't know what localization is has nothing to do with it.

@ShadowRJ Yeah, it's mild adjustments on two images (kinda three because one of them has a variant) deep into one specific route, and it's still entirely clear what you're looking at and not really at all important to the overall narrative anyway. It's completely irrelevant.

@sunspotty Yeah, I have no clue how anyone could possibly think Uchikoshi supports their bigoted nonsense. AI: The Somnium Files has a part where Mizuki stops to lay out how the fact she's uncomfortable around Mama has nothing whatsoever to do with her being trans, and then Nirvana Initiative has a scene in the same location that's very clearly Mizuki ranting at the people who complained about that scene in the first game and reinforcing her support. It isn't subtle.

@Warioware If it were to meaningfully update the visuals it likely would need to be, since the sprites are at a pretty low resolution. They'd probably need to patch in new versions of all of them.

Would be nice, though I know in the past Kodaka's been pretty upfront that whether Hundred Line will get other console versions mostly depends on the publisher and I imagine that would also apply to a Switch 2 upgrade.

Feels like one of those, "Cool you can do it but why are you doing it?" things. Paying extra so your model can play an occasional jingle just doesn't feel worth it to me.

@the_beaver "They shouldn't make another Metroid Prime game because you dared to criticize the one they did release," is an utterly wild take. They don't make these things out of charity, they're selling them as a product and when you do that you open yourself up to negative feedback.

And it's not like it's even an unusual opinion either. The game didn't review super great and a lot of people are complaining about the pacing and the desert sections and the story. It's cool that some people are loving it but plenty of people aren't and that's reflected in the pretty mixed word of mouth it's getting.

Honestly kind of disappointed it's not an entire game, but even just music I'm definitely down for, will totally pick it up.

Also it stands out as kind of weird that it's specifically billed as a Royal DLC pack when only I Believe is actually from Royal. Would think Take Over or Throw Away Your Mask would be in there, especially since you could probably argue that having both I Believe and Life Will Change is pretty redundant in instrumental form.

The oddest thing about the European cover to me is that Dr. Salvador also seems to be holding a hatchet for some reason. Not sure why he needs that when he's got a chainsaw.

I'll forgive the subtitle being spelled correctly because it's the Wii version.

Honestly I kind of expect the next remasters or ports they'll do will be the Q games, surprised those didn't come right after the Etrian Odyssey ports.

The Fitness Boxing announcement would be a weird one to lead off the celebration with but I'd be very happy to get confirmation of it.

Meant to try submitting one for it but never got around to it. Curious to see what ends up winning.

Probably just a lot of random short platformers I haven't played since this time last year like SMB3 and Yoshi's Island.

If I end up doing something more substantive it'll probably be Danganronpa V3, been wanting to do another run of it before 2x2 comes out. Though I've lately also been really wondering about replaying 13 Sentinels.

Only things on my radar at the moment are Death Match Love Comedy, Mario Tennis, Danganronpa 2x2, and Fortune's Weave. Might pick up FF7 or RE9, kind of remains to be seen, but not dying for them.

Had that stuff turned on last year and still never got anything but an error message when I tried to look at my summary.

Though either way I know my most played Switch or Switch 2 game this year was definitely Hundred Line followed by probably either Pokemon Scarlet or Persona 3 Reload.

@TheExile285 I'm sure there'll be a Switch 2 version of Royal but I can't imagine there'll be a save transfer option, the PS5 version didn't have it.

It'd be a day one buy for me, been pretty into Fitness Boxing 3 lately and the biggest complaint I have with it is the soundtrack is kind of meh which a Persona 5 version would instantly solve.

I really just hope they do some kind of retro rerelease for the anniversary. I'd settle for gens 1 through 3 on NSO but I'd really love it if the DS games could get some kind of rerelease themselves, or even the 3DS ones.

Honestly if they did some kind of separate retro Pokemon game subscription service with Home compatibility I'd pay for it in a heartbeat.

I will always say X in titles like this as the letter X. Not as "cross", not silent.

I don't understand why they have an option to share your wish list but not an option to gift games to people.

@rvcolem1 On its own, nothing really, but the fact certain games have her taking more clothes off as a reward based on your completion time is pretty eyerolling.

I like how unhelpful, "After Super but before Fusion," actually is because that doesn't clarify if it's before or after Other M and regardless of your opinions on its quality (and mine aren't high) it's a super significant point in both the overarching plot and Samus's personal journey.

Given how poorly the game runs on significantly better hardware I can't imagine a Switch 2 port would be at all functional.

I'd be down for it, though admittedly I already feel tempted to replay 3 rather than trying out 4 as it is and this wouldn't help.

@molkom I do feel like the story very much starts slow. I really kind of had to force myself through the demo and kind of just decided, "Yeah, sure, why not," pretty last minute on getting the full game but it picks way up after that.

I have the Switch 1 version, don't think I'll bother grabbing the upgrade. Never a game I've been able to develop a taste for and while mouse controls might help it won't resolve my other hangups with it.

I really just want the Steam version of Chrono Trigger ported to consoles, maybe a Switch 2 port of Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2.

The Invincible Collection is routinely on sale for $18 so even if you did want to pay potentially double digits for Space Invaders (which is a pretty big if) there are better purchases you could make.

Never been able to at all develop a taste for Stardew Valley, and the controls are a significant part of why (though not the entirety of it). Might give the upgrade a look given that but not really chomping at the bit to so I dunno.

@shonenjump86 Kodaka's been very open about wanting to do DLC at some point so hopefully that pans out.

@GoldenSunRM V3 isn't actually a direct continuation anyway, it's doing its own thing. The only actual followup to 2 is the 3 anime (and Killer Killer and the OVA but those are their own whole things).

Kind of surprised they've never done a modern port of Kirigiriso. Can't imagine it'd take any real budget or effort to port and there'd probably be at least a few people willing to drop a few bucks on it as a curiosity.

Let's see, all four of the Switch games, 1 + 2, V3, and Ultra Despair Girls on PS4, 1 and 2 on Steam (keep meaning to get V3), so I've contributed to that count 9 times myself. No regrets here (well, maybe some regret for Ultimate Summer Camp) and 2 x 2 will definitely be another I pick up.

Also for anyone curious about Hundred Line it's on sale at a good price right now so consider buying it.

It isn't mentioned in this article but at the moment on both Switch and Steam Hundred Line is only $42, so very worth getting a look for anyone on the fence about it.

I grabbed Cyberpunk during the screw-up there, otherwise probably not going to get anything for now.

I wouldn't be shocked if a ton of the stuff that was planned for the very start of the year gets pushed back a bit now that they're clear from GTA.

@Axecon I'm sure Metaphor will. Soul Hackers 2 was a flop both commercially and in terms of reception so I think they'd rather just ignore it.

@ozwally No, held off on getting it and even if I had I would've put it off since by the time I was done I was VERY ready to be done. I might give it a shot at some point but it's not going to be for right now.

@molkom Debatable what the best is, but if you're starting the series now then start with P5R. It's got a lot of quality of life improvements even compared to vanilla P5, and while P3R came out afterward it kind of has a lot of areas where it does these weird half-measures that are partially modernized, partially still pretty archaic, and it makes it harder to see it as a good jumping on point as a result. I'd say give P5R a shot and if you enjoy that enough then wonder about checking out one of the versions of 3 or 4, and then worry about 1 and 2 after that since they're very different beasts (even from each other) anyway.

I had to glance back and forth for quite awhile to even discern what the difference was.

Bloober Team's had a very impressive glowup the past couple years so hopefully they can keep it up.

The primary thing I know about Wii Party is that the sequel was the only one of the free Mario Kart pack-in games I wasn't able to wheel and deal to get on the cheap when I was first filling out my Wii U library, so no clue what to expect out of this soundtrack. Think there might've been a song from it in Smash Bros.?

@cedarhyped Thanks for the tip. Even the PS5 version has only ever been that cheap one time and it didn't include the DLC so this is almost definitely a mistake.

I finished it up about a month ago so not in any hurry to play it again any time soon but neat to hear. I mostly played it docked and generally thought it ran fine that way, but you could definitely see the struggle handheld even if I don't really think it actually matters too much in a turn-based RPG.

Hundred Line is undoubtedly my favorite game this year and nothing else comes anywhere else.

Generative AI should be completely eradicated.