Wisestfool

My little cousin developed a technique where he would slam the wiimote against the back of his leg on his swing. It made his bowling ball fly down the lane and helped him score a 300. I tried my best to mimic his technique, but always fell short of 300.

@Zeebor15 These awards are voted on by the Japanese public.

Thanks again for the reminder to play Tetris 99! It had two surprises in store for me. First, my initial game was actually Tetris 76!!! The game filled the remaining 23 slots with bots, complete with a different sound cue than when an actual player joins. I’m sure this has happened to me before, but perhaps the XCX music is distinct enough to make it obvious. Second, if you had asked me what the XCX soundtrack would sound like…. um, knock-off Linkin Park would not have been my pick. Not to say it was terrible, just rather unexpected.

My latest dive into Animal Crossing: New Horizons is starting to wear thin. I’ve been plugging away at it daily for the last three months. Still have eight or nine plots to fill on the DLC and have two months left to close out 2021 on my island, but the remaining goals are becoming a chore. I might be taking a break shortly.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is still proving to be a delight as I work towards getting all the season rewards and slowly chip away at the EX missions. It helps that I can pop in and out for five minutes if I am not feeling it that day, whereas ACNH takes a solid hour to complete my daily routine. Plus I fully understand that I won’t be 100% the game, already pleased getting over 80% on the missions.

Mario Picross on the NSO has been my main focus at the moment. Working on the Star group of puzzles currently. I set Fever or Chill from Dr. Mario to 1 hour on Nintendo Music and try to complete as many puzzles as possible in that time. By the end of the hour, my eyes are ready for something else.

Appreciate the reminder to play Tetris 99 this weekend. I finished Danganronpa earlier this week, but I am reluctant to immediately jump into Danganronpa V2 after playing the first one and Ace Attorney Investigations Collection back-to-back. Just a tad burned out on murder mysteries.

I ended up seeking out a free Prime trial (weird that I had to google to claim the offer) and then bought Mario Wonder & Brothership for $45 each and Zelda EoW for $42 from Woot. Wish I had thought of googling the free trial earlier as the Mario games had an even lower price on Woot but sold out.

@Anachronism I am a Charge Blade main (actually it is the only weapon I use), but I love the grind and hold off on playing quests until I’ve collected the gear I am missing. Still haven’t moved off MR1, partly because I have uncompleted HR quests and am still deciding if I want to complete them before MR gear takes the challenge away or just forget about them.

I just finished Danganronpa and I liked how the Monokuma gacha machine told you your % of getting a repeat. I wanted to claim everything after the first trial, so my save scumming system was to reload my save if I didn’t get a new item within X number of 1 coin pulls:
Repeat % >50 = 2 pulls
>67 = 3 pulls
>75 = 4 pulls
>80 = 5 pulls
>90 = 10 pulls
>95 = 20 pulls

Once I got a new item, I would immediately save and repeat. I barely ever had to reload my save and a lot of times, the new item would pop on my first pull. I assume there was likely a hidden bonus on your first pull since your character is the Ultimate Lucky Student after all.

@TheBoilerman My patience didn’t last long enough. Seeing it get that $55 sale price a few short months after finally buying it really sticks in my craw.

What I read:

To mark the occasion (surpassing 200 million copies sold), the studio has released a new patch for all six games in the collection, bringing the Switch editions up to ver. 1.2.0.

What I hear:

SquareEnix will not patch games unless they meet some arbitrary sales goal.

@Bizzyb If you believe North American warehouses currently hold Switch 2 consoles before Nintendo has even properly debuted the system to the world… well there’s a hold line of refrigerators in Antarctica that you might be interested in!

I was the oddball waiting in line at the Switch midnight release so I could buy a WiiU copy of BotW. I instead waited a year and a half to buy a Switch, and only bought it then after using an eBay promo to knock the price down to ~$250.

I plan to wait on Switch 2. I doubt I will be as lucky this go around on finding a deal, but I also won’t have to worry about FOMO on a nice special edition console because I already purchased the base model. I will however buy games for the system ahead of time.

Does this mean Chris Pratt will be the new voice for Meowth?

@DwaynesGames I am well aware of that. It is a shame Nintendo finds time to program new Cups/themes, but can’t spare a little extra programming to allow all old special themes to be purchased.

I should revisit my DS copy. I tend to have a “one and done” playthrough philosophy with games, due to the size of my backlog. But Chrono Trigger well deserves an exception.

The last Max Cup for DKC Returns Again was the second Cup I’ve missed. The 1st missed Cup I was able to snag in a 2nd chance event, it would be great if they had another. But I doubt it.

@BoFiS Then you should own the DLC right now as it was on sale the last week of 2024 with every retailer price matching the eShop sale.

The physical version of Mario Wonder is on sale for the same 30% discount ($42) on the My Nintendo online store, but you need to purchase at least $50 to get free shipping.

Woot did have it for $40 for a bit (now $45), but you need Amazon Prime for free shipping from Woot these days.

So the wait continues for me.

I made 2025 the year of visual novels. And sought out this guide to figure which ones I already own and which ones I don’t. But first and foremost, I am shocked that nearly every VN I have played this year are not listed!

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Ace Attorney Investigations Collection are well deserving to be placed on this list! Did Nlife’s VN contributor leave? This guide is in severe need of a refresh. Kinda baffled at VA-11 HALL-A’s regulation to an honorable mention as well, but now I see it only garnered a 7/10 review score.

Anyway thanks to all the previous commenters who helped me flesh out my VN list!!!

edit- somehow I missed Danganronpa on the list previously

I have been considering selling off my miib collection, so it is nice to know there will still be a market for them.

I’ve already dived into Mario Picross and cleared the Easy puzzles. Working through the regular ones now, but I have found the chiseling noise to be extremely ear-piercing. It’s to the point where I muted my TV to avoid it.

But playing in silence wasn’t as fun, until it hit me: combine both services my NSO sub is paying for! Perusing the Nintendo Music app, I quickly settled on its GB puzzler: Dr. Mario. First time I have used its “Extend Music” feature, setting Fever and Chill to 30 minutes.

I was also getting mishits from my procon (need to reapply tape to the D-pad contacts) so I switched to my regular NEScon for the closest GB feel.

For all the people in the comments wanting a gritty baseball RPG… “Have you met OFF?”

https://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/off

I can see individual duel being shoehorned into pitcher vs. batter matchups, but the base game would require so much extra development to get the rest of the game of baseball into it… weird anecdote.

I thought I would finish Live A Live last weekend, but the final chapter was like all the other chapters combined and I didn’t finish it until Thursday. Had a good run with Big Run on Splatoon 3 yesterday. Hit the silver target on my first shift, which is likely the best I can achieve with my skill and playing with randos. I continue to plug away at Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Up to 40 vacation homes on the DLC, down to less than 90 DIY/recipes missing, and I have around 30-ish bug/fish models to collect with triples of everything except tuna and stringfish to catch. Danganronpa is the main game I am working on, currently between the 2nd and 3rd trials. Everything about this game (graphics, music, plot, characters, etc.) can be described as “great but something is a little off”. And finally I hopped onto Mario Picross on the NSO last night just before slumber took hold and knocked out half of the easy puzzles. My only gripe is having to decline hints before every puzzle- a QOL update to move that to a options menu would’ve been nice.

I still haven’t seen the Mario movie despite it being readily available on streaming services. I think years of poor video game adaptations have soured me on new ones. I will likely skip out on a Zelda movie despite (or because) it is my all time favorite franchise.

@TeeJay

I would wager if this really interests you, set up a Japanese account on your Switch, purchase some Japanese eShop credit (via Play-Asia) and download the manga app. No need to wait for the very unlikely event it gets released out West.

@JJtheTexan

Fortunately for you Nintendo has its own museum in Japan so you can just skip Rochester if you are so bothered.

The VGHoF is an extension of the Strong Museum which is dedicated to understanding how toys and games affect how we play. Sure it may have started from a personal doll collection, but video games also didn’t exist back then either. The Hall didn’t open until 2015, so museums in Japan and California had ample time to create one had they so desired. So to answer your question, it’s in Rochester because Rochester answered the bell. It also helped that they already had the infrastructure dedicated to children’s games already in place.

I feel like Angry Birds is always a finalist when I see an article on this, so I checked- AB was a finalist in the very first class of 2015, then again in 2023 and this year.

Stunned Minecraft wasn’t inducted until the sixth class in 2020 after being a finalist four times. Even though it was only five years old in 2015, it was pretty obvious back then how influential MC was.

As for the other finalists:
—Age of Empires, 2nd time finalist
—CoD4:MW, 2nd time finalist, 4th time for CoD franchise (no wins so far)
—Defender, 1st time
—Frogger, 2nd time
—GoldenEye007, 3rd time
—Golden Tee Golf, 1st time
—Harvest Moon, 1st time
—Mattel Football, 2nd time
—NBA 2K, 3rd time
—Quake, 2nd time
—Tamagotchi, 1st time

This year’s finalists are mostly rehashed from 2023’s losers. AoE, AB, CoD4, GE007, NBA2K, and Quake, half of this year’s list, lost to Barbie Fashion Designer that year. Internet troll job, perhaps? But every other winner has been deserving, even if the game isn’t my cup of tea. So I’ll give Barbie the benefit of the doubt, must have been a great game for her fans.

I thought for sure I owned both of these games on my 3DS, but it seems I didn’t pick up Mario Picross. So this is great news! Mario Picross can soon join Mario Super Picross as the only games I have finished on the NSO.

@Princess_Lilly By my logic:

Mandela Effect = A lot of people think something happened that actually hadn’t.

Reverse Mandela = A lot of people thinking something never happened that actually had.

Is there such a thing as a reverse Mandela Effect? Please?

You lost me at “Metacritic”

I’m not completely against digital, my Switch library is about one-third digital the last time I checked. But all my digital games are small indie titles for the most part. If there’s a physical version available, I always opt for that. But if there’s future is all-digital, count me out.

Been waiting for Wonder to get a decent sale, it’s been 1.5 years since release… so I’ll keep on waiting then. (Brothership too, but it’s understandable why it wasn’t included)

psssh… I could listen to the SMB2 OST nearly six times over before the LttP OST finishes once!

I hope they delist more games! It got me to play Super Soccer over the weekend and I couldn’t even make it to halftime before quitting. Surely there is more bloat to be churned off the NSO than just this?

Last night I stayed up til 3am trying to knockout Ace Attorney Investigations Collection before February ended to keep my one visual novel game a month in 2025 streak alive. Still need to look into why Feb was shorted a couple days. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim kicked off the VN streak in Jan. And now that it’s March, I am finally going to dive into my copy of Danganronpa Decadence to continue the trend.

I have yet to tire of my Animal Crossing: New Horizons revival. My AC quirk is that I don’t like skipping days, so when I picked it back up I had to reset my Switch clock back to July 15, 2021. It’s now October 17th on my isle and I am hoping to closeout 2021 before putting it aside once more.

I beat the final EX stage in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble earlier this week. Thoroughly enjoyed it and will continue to play until I clear the season rewards in about 5 months. I’ll use that time to chip away at the EX missions, but I am satisfied after 100%-ing the regular stages.

Also gave Splatoon 3 a little extra love to complete my Tableturf Battle card set. Still need to hit Lv 30 in that mode for the special emote, but the Lv 3 CPUs are cheating RNG ***** and I grow tired of waiting all game for the one card I need in my deck to drop on the last turn (or not at all). I will likely only play during special events from now on.

I should finish Live A Live sometime this week. And there’s always a chance I may start working on the Sunbreak DLC for Monster Hunter Rise in earnest. Been holding off on moving past MR1, but I do so love a nice casual 4-5 hour long exploration mission with no fear of failure as I grind.

Permanently reduced price is still twice as expensive than the physical copy I picked up years ago on sale.

Baby Zom was giving me Baby Groot personality vibes without the cuteness factor (sorry Chicken).

Jason Momoa should stick to selling out for Monopoly Go money. Same character in both.

@EarthboundBenjy

Dang, you just reminded me of my Crystalis playthrough on the NSO that I put a good 25 hours into before I got stuck and abandoned it. I should try and go back to it. So far the only game I’ve played to completion on the NSO has been Mario Picross.

In fact, ConcernedApe noted in a recent interview that he might even be inclined to update the game further when he's 90 years old. And we'll be right here to cover it, too.

That is pretty optimistic from both entities. I highly doubt I will still be around to find out if either of you are correct.

This was clearance bin fodder for the longest time back in my day. Passed it up then, and at $25 will definitely pass it up now.

It cost me ~$40 to repair the drift in my pro controller. Regular joycons were repaired of drift for free thanks to the class action lawsuit, but for some reason the pro controllers don’t qualify. Now my 2nd pro controller is having drift issues. Going to wait until I learn if I can use them with the Switch 2 before I fork over another $40 to fix the 2nd one. Little peeved that I basically have to pay the price of three pro controllers to get two functional ones.

My joycons haven’t shown any signs of drift, but at least those are easy swap out if they ever do. Likely never will since I barely use them.

I doubt Nintendo will maintain this pace for the Switch 2 since backwards capability will prevent them from rehashing the same old ports on the OG Switch.

I’m more focused on finishing one game a month. I started 2024 strong before falling off by summertime. 2025 likewise has a strong start as I’ve rolled credits on 13 Sentinels and ACNH HHP DLC in Jan, and close to rolling credits on Ace Attorney Investigations and Live A Live in Feb. Oh and this week I beat the final EX stage in Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, which I count as finished since I know the Ultimate DLC stages are beyond my limited skill level.

@somnambulance

I wish this article had backed up that claim with actual numbers so I sought out the answer myself. I found a pic on reddit that claimed it showed every Nintendo published game from the Switch pictured. So after 8 years, there should be (8x12=) 96 games pictured. The photo included 113 games. But as I took a closer look, it had games I personally would not count. Both versions of the same Pokemon game for example. That knocked the total down by 12. Then there were the SquareEnix games Nintendo published Stateside, but those publishing rights have since returned to SE- that was another half dozen games, bringing the true total pictured down to 95 games.

The picture didn’t include any games released in 2025 or any digital only titles (Tetris 99 made the cut as it had a physical version). So it’s safe to say Nintendo did release a game per month during the Switch’s lifespan when you factor those games in.

Stunned this wasn’t apart of the initial launch lineup. The music deserved as much, but there isn’t enough of it to warrant a stand-alone drop.

Nearly four decades later, it still slaps.

Back when the Switch was first unveiled, one feature they touted was the joycons “HD” rumble. Oxenfree was the first and perhaps only game to give me that “HD” experience. There was a jump scare (that wasn’t very scary tbh) in the game that used the rumble. I was playing in bed at the time and rumbling started a tingling sensation in my hands that traveled down my arms to my body, down to my toes, and back up to my chest. It was absolutely wild.

Sorry to hear about the layoffs. I haven’t played the sequel, been hoping it would get a physical release since I have a physical copy of the original.

Streetpass Plaza was my 3DS jam. My most played game, over 500 hrs played according to my Activity Log (why oh why Nintendo did you take this feature away from the Switch?). I traveled for work back then and loved nothing better than getting someone at my gate from a new region. Went so far as to drive 2 hrs from Boston to a Vermont McD’s to secure my last missing state and complete the US.

Tell me I wasn’t the only one who zoomed in on the carts to judge their collection?

And I judge it a not bad collection (giving them a pass on the obvious kid games)