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The only thing I've heard about this game is that it's a sort of "spiritual successor" to Bayonetta ... I'd buy it with my eyes closed day one if it comes in a proper physical game card.

I will have another look at this thanks to the comments on this article.
I'm putting it off everytime since both suns disappear alltogether.
I'm too old to watch youtube videos and commercials XD

@N00BiSH Appreciate your comments here, and passion tbh. I hadn't noticed anything with Wonder, but there are a couple of sentences in World where I thought "hum ... couldn't you re-do this line?!"

I usually don't care for voice acting, even in Bayonetta the change was obvious but it didn't bother me. Here I just tick every time.

We'll get used to it I guess, there's no way around it.

Oh, and regarding the article, good for him, it must be wild to hear yourself voice a game you've been playing since childhood. That makes him sound a bit naive though saying something blunt like that.

@Pillowpants Best wishes and a happy life ahead ... full of lovely games too ✌🏻🧡🎮

@JohnnyMind Ah, ok. So the retailer's supplier sold pre-orders that they didn't have guaranteed. Too bad. And of course they can get you the bundle but not the console itself ...
Having Mario Kart digitally is something I needed despite usually getting my games physically, as it's a game I play in between others and I enjoy coming back to it a lot, so it's handy not having to switch cards all the time.
But anyways, I'm sure you will enjoy both your Switch 2 and MK World even more when you'll finally get them, due to the longer wait. I love my Switch 2 and MK World is super fun. I think you also never got the OLED, so it will be an even bigger leap for you.

I'm starting the side missions level 71+ in Apocalyptic mode @ Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

Participating in the weekly ritual + full moon @ Tetris Effect Connected.

And playing Mario Kart World in between these.

Happy gaming!! ✌🏻🧡🎮

@JohnnyMind Man, it sucks you still haven't gotten yours, a week later already. What happened?? Luckily you have plenty of great games to play in the meantime!

@Crimson_Ridley I'm guessing that Nintendo needs to know that one potential customer awaits a white bundle Switch 2 + Animal Crossing ... 😉

Super cool. Thanks for the info, I have just placed my pre-order. Just 45 EUR including taxes and shipping, that's a steal!
Btw, love the tone of those news bits and I assume congrats on joining the team, always enjoyed your reviews very much! @PJOReilly

@Suketoudara Cool, thanks! Will look it up and add it to my play list.

@rockodoodle I couldn't agree more. Finally got to play the new Rainbow Road this morning. It is SO MUCH FUN!! Looks amazingly cool too. Have fun!

Is the Congo game also on NSO? I played the other two again and see no point in a digital release. Why not make them into a physical edition? Save states and rewind are not new features btw.

Playing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, doing the side quests level 61+ in Apocalyptic mode. It's very challenging to say the least.

Participating in the weekend ritual + full moon @ Tetris Effect Connected.

Discovering the new Mario Kart World. So far I really enjoy it. Just the fading out and switch of music tracks during races feels really off so far, need to get used to that.

Happy gaming! ✌🏻🧡🎮

Is the mission temporarily available or is it just the reward that you can't get past the deadline?
In any cases, I won't be playing this anytime soon, and likely never on Switch 2 if there's no proper physical release.

Thanks for the review.
When they'll come up with patches and a proper physical, I'll most likely get this one.

This is my first physical game on Switch 2, not going to start it anytime soon, but really glad it's so good.
Though I find that asking people what they think of the game while it's been out for one day is a bit ... questionable, don't you think?

@martynstuff Thanks!

Are the games and save data remaining on the original Switch following the transfer as well or are they automaticalpy deleted?

Not a fan of it, but I can see how a better fit it would be for MKW and its open world.
It changes the gameplay completely, or you just pick the slowest racer and it almost feels like 150cc.

I loved Wii Drums ... but without the Wii Balance Board how would that even work ...

Wow ... software would not start after updating ... really good they're fixing that and I'm happy I didn't have this problem with my games!
Is there an option to revert an update btw?

I love playing through old NES and SNES games once in a while, especially with the save and rewind features. But I find that older 3D games from the N64 and Gamecube eras have aged poorly. The good ones need remakes/remasters, imo.

Playing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and Tetris Effect Connected this weekend, as well as BPM: Bullets Per Minute.

Hope you all have a great weekend! ✌🏻🧡🎮

And how about a physical version of Lorelei ... ? 🙏🏻

@r_p_trzy aha .. just seeing your comment!
Same here, haven't played it and most likely won't unless they release it in a box...

I have zero faith in the Dutch postal services and I'm working that day. I also have a friend over who is not a gamer ... so I really don't know when I'll be playing with my new Switch 2. I will certainly check it out as soon as I get it though, getting my account set up etc ...

I played Bananza during the Switch 2 Experience and it was for me a big disappointment. Graphics are good and detailed but I found the color choice to be odd and quite ugly overall. The gameplay itself was also pretty boring, you just break rocks. On top of that, since there are rocks everywhere, you never know where you are anymore and I got a feeling that I was missing out since there's always more rocks to break all over the place.

Don't take my word for it, and hopefully there is more to this game than what I've witnessed ... but I'm left with a negative impression and I have no interests in it.

@Burning_Spear That would be a perfect solution, especially since apparently the problem isn't so much with the costs as with the time/logistics constraint. Are those cards read/write or read-only? Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere before.
I still can't believe that Nintendo hasn't seen this coming ...

Wow, really appreciate how this article piece is put together. Thanks for that!
I've pre-ordered the physical of this one. I am already convinced it will be super fun.

@tgt Same experience with me. I thought those were useless until far into the game I decided to check it online and went looking for some I missed that would have made a big difference!

I don't think it's so difficult when you know what's going on. But it was the developer's point to make everything so unclear, based on their childhood experience of not understanding the English (or Japanese) language... so I guess it's meant to be this hard in a way!

@tgt I did enjoy Tunic but also found it unnecessary obtuse... I only realized towards the end that you can use ability cards which actually change the gameplay (a bit like the charms in Hollow Knight). Maybe that could make your experience more enjoyable...

I'm working this weekend, so less time for gaming:

• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: going through the story in Apocalyptic mode, currently at chapter 5.
• Tetris Effect Connected: I'll participate in the weekend ritual + full moon as usual.

Happy gaming!! ✌🏻🧡🎮

Sauna of the dead.. seriously? 😮‍💨

I've just noticed that there's a pre-order for the physical of Nikoderiko, so I'll be getting that.

@GinMiguel That could be something. But then he would only be playable in certain missions .. not like a character throughout all/most of the game. Let's see what they come up with ...

@Misima Playing in higher difficulties forces you to develop new strategies. There's still a lot of button mashing and the same animations come back for sure, but it keeps missions feeling fresh since you need to think of different approaches.

Playing again through AoC at the moment, and saying that I'm looking forward to the new Hyrule Warriors game on Switch 2 is an understatement. I'm very curious how they will bring Link into this story, I cannot imagine him not being one of the warriors in the game though.

Nice little video, slowly building up hype for the game. Looks great, and love to see more stories from this beautiful world of BotW/TotK.

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I don't have that problem with multiple/regional accounts. I find it however annoying to get notifications for the same news on my 3 different Switches. Same goes for the NSO 'app' and the icons that I have no uses for. I'd love an update to sort that...

HD Rumble 2 feels amazing in hand. It certainly is the second best new feature of Switch 2 after the graphics/screen, imo.
All things that missed out from the S2 Direct, you can only experience these irl.

I've played this at the Switch 2 experience event. It was really cool. I died quite quickly since I started with just a hammer (!) and I was in shock how fast the game reloaded. So I've pre-ordered the physical game.
I don't think I will start it very soon but I am certainly looking forward to playing it.

Wow, seeing it up close shows just how beautiful it is. Even more looking forward to playing this one after seeing the video. 😍
Already pre-ordered the Japanese physical!

Cat Quest III
Just started the third game.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Going through the Divine Beasts side quests in Apocalyptic mode.

Tetris Effect Connected
Participating in the weekend ritual + full moon.

Happy gaming everyone!! ✌🏻🧡🎮

I'm looking forward to Switch 2 to actually play new games. I would expect regular Switch games to perform better too, but Nintendo has so far never mentioned that, so I wouldn't bet on it. Also like mentioned above, one of my concerns would be input lag indeed, since the games will be "partly emulated", this has been explicitly stated by the big N.

So we can speculate ... but we'll know for sure in less than 3 weeks. And in the worst case scenario, games will just play like they always have on the regular Switch. I have no intentions to replay those two Zelda titles in any ways ... Echoes was fun once but nothing mind blowing. Awakening was quite the disappointment to me.

@Rob3008 Good to know! Fingers cross it does ..

That trailer looks pretty old for a remake ... for people to call their own game a masterpiece, I always think they have to be quite full of themselves. But I haven't played the original, so I don't know how good it was. And it feels like there are now better games using similar mechanics and most likely with a less cheesy story too.

Also planning on getting this as soon as I get my brand new Switch 2 in a few weeks ... also seems like this game is very popular already.

I can't believe it's so cheap ... what am I missing?!

@Tayrailbridge Have you never noticed?! XD Like in N64 Rainbow Road there's the flying gold train throwing coins onto the race..? In other circuits the toads and other characters in the audience throw coins too.

And to answer the questions: I haven't played MK8D since January I think but I do intend to get back to it before MK World releases, which I'm super looking forward to, even more after trying it last weekend. It was so much fun and it looks absolutely gorgeous.

I can honestly not believe Nintendo hasn't seen this coming... They factored the price of Switch 2 into sales forecast but not the cost of cartridges into game sales?? They couldn't have naively just assumed everybody would suddenly switch to digital and pay for expensive express cards!!
Curious how this situation will evolve in the lead up to release...

So what happens when somebody enters the wrong digits three times ... that would be more my concern with such a feature.
"Misplacing" your Switch? God no!

Same feeling as the commenter above, sounds more like a musical than a game. To have to wait for a song to play and an animation to roll out before being able to continue further with the action sounds like you'd need a lot of patience...
To answer the question ... No, I would not have been interested in a 3D platformer like this from Retro.

@babybilly Thanks! 🙏🏻 I'm glad for Astral Chain ... like I said, it could allow them to do a better and improved #2. They had lots of good ideas, but imo poorly executed and plenty of cliches.

I've never read that AC was one of the best action games on Switch, but good for the people thinking that, like you said we all have different preferences.
I have heard that many were disappointed with B3, which is mostly about the story not the gameplay, which many people find even improved, and just like Kamiya mentioned in his vlog, that was to better prepare for the next installments.
I don't care so much about the story, but the gameplay is genius and just so much fun imo.
AC in comparison feels rushed, unpolished with much room for improvements in that regard. But again, I'm happy it sold well, I did enjoy many parts of it, and if they make a #2, I'll be looking into it for sure.
Now I cannot imagine Switch 2 without Bayonetta 4. With or without Kamiya, doesn't matter to me. He was certainly not the one person who created all of it.

I also agree with your note about Sega, I don't believe P* has much of an input when it comes to deciding the future of the series. But they could certainly pitch a new game to Nintendo, and possibly use Kamiya/Clovers as a consultant. Or Kamiya/Clovers could pitch a new game to Nintendo himself, but that's not how he's proposing that at the moment according to his quotes.

Finally, let's not forget that P* is supposedly working on celebrations for the 15 years of the first Bayonetta game ... I'm very curious what will come out of it 😍

@Lizuka Each Bayonetta entry has sold well over a million, that's not as much as Mario or Zelda, but it certainly is successfull. Plus the character is wildly popular and certainly unique and recognizable.

Astral Chain on the other hand, despite the potential, looks very generic, and the gameplay holds lots of room for improvement.

Maybe I am biaised being the big fan of the former and quite disappointed in the latter.
I certainly don't feel that both hit the same "niche".

I wouldn't really mind what they'd do with the story, in the sense that it's already so over the top that it doesn't matter to me so much.
But a complete model change for the game design sounds plain absurd. Just create a new franchise in this case. The mechanics in the Bayonetta games are absolutely perfect the way they are. Build upon that if you want, but from my side, I'm perfectly happy with a whole new trilogy with the exact same mechanics. With all of the demons and masquerades there's enough variety to just add new enemies and environments and call it a new game.

Now in any case, nobody is stopping him to be consultant on the new games if he's still so interested.