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I guess I'll give the demo a try and then delete it. But I'll probably end up getting the inevitable collection on PC instead. I have no desire to plug my Switch 2 memory with this game.

If only it had a proper physical release which would have mended that problem. 🤔

@Spider-Kev I mean, I do think it's worth $50 at least, personally. But definitely not $80.

Fair enough on the statement though lol

@PinderSchloss I'm trying to keep a complete collection of amiibo, though.

But I do agree that paywalling content behind them is dumb, mind.

My poor wallet.

Can't say I will miss this guy. He has the name, but not the fame, or the game. Dude just showed up in one Direct, explained why Mario Kart World is 80 dollars, and left.

Yes I know he did a lot more than that. But he really doesn't feel like a good addition to the Nintendo team, in my opinion.

Best of luck to Devon Pritchard though! Hope she will come up in a Direct sometimes.

@progx Quite frankly I have to say I don't really care. It's Nintendo's product, it's Nintendo's job to provide proper ways for their developers and partners to distribute their products to consumers. If they can't do that, then in my eyes, they failed. And you cannot convince me that Nintendo could not have come up with a better solution.

They can say whatever they want, I still don't care. At the end of the day, consumers are still the ones who are off with the worst of both worlds, with the only benefit being able to resell them.

Nintendo failed at their job in this case, if you ask me, by not providing a proper media storage for developers. I'm going to continue to refuse any game key card purchases.

I'll kindly pass. Mobile games remain bottom of the barrel in my opinion, no matter who developed them.

I quite enjoyed it, but yeah it was just.. okay. It was very predictable and all that.

But them going straight to Galaxy really, really has me worried that they're once again not going to allow anything to actually breathe. This one really needed to be more world building, not going straight on adventures in outer space.

We'll see though.

Cool. I already beat these games not too long ago though so I won't be booting them back up for a while yet, the cases are still way too fresh on my mind.

They're very good though, would absolutely recommend.

The only thing still missing from this, imho, is text history that the other collections have.

Also lol at that art of Mia, Maya and April.

Nice to see it's such a solid entry. Will certainly pick this one up then. Just a shame about the War of the Lions content being left out, but I never played this game in the first place in any capacity (unless FFTAdvance is a version of this), so I don't know if I'll really feel if I'll be missing out on that content or not anyway.

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Suppose I will have to sink more time into the game then and see if it manages to click with me too. Will probably do a deeper dive later this week and see how that goes for me! I beat one boss so far, and as yet it hasn't clicked quite yet, though I have been enjoying it a bit more than I was at the start.

I will say that I beat Odyssey 100% and loved that game, and considering this game is from the same team, I definitely should give it more time anyway.

Good update. Needs actual content updates for me to jump back in though.

I finally got this game, having found it for a more decent price. I've played about two hours now, and I have to say I don't really get the hype for it. It's just DK smash and bananas. My thumb even gets tired having to continuously tap to destroy everything.

It's a good game, for sure, and I'm glad I got it. But it's not more than that in my opinion, just a good game. Maybe I'll change my opinion as I go further into the game, though. But that's it for now.

Anyway, good on them to fix up some more bugs, of course.

@SabreLevant I thought as much, but I wasn't entirely sure. Thank you.

@canaryfarmer True enough, but in my memory it never went there quite to this degree. But then, I guess the one I played the most is SF2, and haven't played many entries much aside from that one. I'll stick with other fighting games though.

I just tried the Street Fighter 6 demo, and I think I'm forever cured from wanting this game. I don't like how it controls, and the setting is way too.. what's the word, rap culture? Can't say I care for it. Unless it ever gets down to say, 5 bucks, I'll steer clear from it.

Actually kind of tempted to get Street Fighter 6.. hmm.

They can take all the time they need really. This is one of those games that keeps on giving, and it's already chock full of content.

Europe and it's really not even close. The Japanese background is too boring.

I actually quite enjoyed this game, by the way. I know it's just a glorified tech demo but the gameplay loop was fun for me and I enjoyed seeing how far I could go.

I would if you didn't need that dumb gadget for it. I'll download it and see if it works anyway without that thing, but if it doesn't work then I'll also not get it.

I still have to properly play through the base game, but what I did play of it was really cute and charming. I'll be glad to get this expansion!

As far as I'm concerned, gen 5 was the last truly good generation. I loved Black & White a ton, same with Black 2 and White 2.

If they're remade, they most likely will be butchered with new mechanics anyway, even moreso if they're handled the same way as the Diamond and Pearl remakes. So I don't really care if they're remade or not. I'll stick with the old versions anyway. Still some of the best Pokémon games.

Cool, more Yoshi icons for me to use.

It is frustrating, but I don't think Nintendo is really doing it on purpose necessarily. Ryu_Niiyama explained it well better than I could, really.

Of course, they can still do better. For me personally, a big gripe I have is that for pre-orders, including that from NSO exclusive stuff, they require a credit card for payment. I don't want to get a credit card, so I'm locked out of pre-orders for this reason. Otherwise I have access to pretty much everything I think (aside from region exclusive rewards and certain smartphone games due to gambling policies in my country), so I personally can't complain.

All I can say is that I hope everyone is able to get everything they want before too long.

Adding to the discussion on Super Mario World 2.. It's really weird to me seeing Yoshi's Island not being on this list. Considering they announced a new Yoshi game for the anniversary. That new game seems to have very little to do with Mario himself, whereas that original Yoshi's Island had baby Mario in it, so that one had more of a connection. Just feels off to me.

I really wish Nintendo wouldn't wet sock so many of their announcements though. And a lot of it comes down to things just being too expensive. Really brings down the excitement of what would otherwise be very hype announcements.

Yeah I'm not going to get a second pair of joy-con unless they make special edition ones I really want. They burned me too much on the drifting Switch 1 joy-cons. So this thing is lost on me.

Though I think even if I do get a second pair I still won't get this, I'll just attach one set to the system and when the disconnected ones run out of charge, I'll stap 'em around. Been doing that with Switch 1 and that works just fine for me.

I guess it looks pretty, though.

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I really want to, but the price is too hard to swallow here. I'll wait until I can at least find it for just a little bit cheaper. I still have the Wii versions anyway if I really want to play them, and the 3D All Stars version for Galaxy 1.

That's okay, I decided to cancel my Legends pre-order anyway due to the sour taste that DLC announcement left me with. I feel like I'm now fully done with the main games of this series. I'll stick with potentially fun spin-off games and the past main entries that I do enjoy from here on out. They absolutely lost me now.

I'm just thankful this isn't an amiibo or I would have had to buy this thing too lol.

I don't really see why this game needs a second Direct, but I'll tune in regardless. I have faith in Sakurai. He feels like one of few genuine developers left.

Looks like a good box art to me. Will look good on my shelf!

If it had all the pages I would've gotten it. Now it just feels incomplete and I'll be passing it up, as such.

I'll pass. Needing this thing to play those games is absolutely ridiculous.

Overall, this Direct left me feeling pretty mixed. There wasn't a ton that interested me, but that Yoshi announcement absolutely made this Direct for me.

NEW things that were shown that I'm absolutely gonna buy:
Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 pack
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (♥♥♥)
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch 2 Edition
Mario Tennis Fever
Stardew Valley Switch 2 update (I mean, it's free)
All the amiibo
I guess the Mario Galaxy movie also counts kind of

Things we already knew that I'm gonna buy:
Kirby Air Riders
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Games I'll certainly pick up later:
Hades II
Suika Game Planet
Fire Emblem
Popucom

Games that are (probably) gonna be a game key card that I would have gotten if they weren't:
Final Fantasy 7
Resident Evil 7
Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil 9

Games I might pick up sometime, depending:
Storm Launchers
Pokémon Pokopia
DK Bananza DLC (still need DK first sometime down the line)

Aside from that, the only reason I'm still getting Legends ZA is because I already pre-ordered it, otherwise I would have just not bothered anymore. The DLC really pushed down any hype I had for this game.

I gave the Direct a 7, and 2 points of that is solely Yoshi's game. Nintendo's greed and dumb decisions made this Direct worse than it could have been, but that one announcement left me walking away more than happy at least!

I preordered the game on a small discount a few weeks ago, on the notion that I enjoyed Legends Arceus decently enough. But if I hadn't, I would not have bought this game at this point due to the pre-release DLC announcement.

I'm so sick and tired of them milking this franchise to the death in all the wrong ways.

Looks good. Looking forward to this. Gonna need to be making some Miis in preperation for this.

You already know my vote. Yoshi looks so good. Though I hope they deliver, since Crafted World, while still good, wasn't up to standard to what Yoshi games can be. This one looks promising though.

Also miiildly disappointed that the new Mario amiibo isn't Mario riding Yoshi, to tie in with both Galaxy games. Gonna get them regardless, though.

Honestly though, overall, so far I'm a little bit underwhelmed by the 40th Mario anniversary announcements. I would've expected a little more. Still happy with what was shown for it though. Well, aside from the museum and marathon things. I don't live in Japan and don't plan to go there for a while yet, so those things are lost on me.

Definitely appreciate this update. I might jump back in once this update launches.

Looking forward to this game for sure, though I do really hope this will be the last time we see this world of Zelda. Next time I hope they make a Mario warriors game. It's not gonna happen but that's the one I personally would love to have.

I just hope they're not gonna scrap Yoshi from the movie now. That teaser at the end of the first movie better not lead to nothing.

I guess Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine are pulled out of the package to sell people on NSO+EP subscriptions. Regardless, I'm still getting this game.

Please please please please update the Yoshis to be properly playable without having them be easy mode characters, PLEASE....

Just let us play without the stupid peripheral. It really is not necessary. We didn't need that thing to see the footage in the Direct, and we don't need it to see it when we play regularly on our systems. This is ridiculous.

The game looks cute, but.... why do you have to play as a human, even though you're playing as a Ditto?

I don't like that decision at all. Other than that the game looks decent enough.

Yeah, no. I would love to get this but not like this.

No cloud versions, but they'll almost definitely be game key cards, so I'm skipping them anyway if that's the case. Too bad.

Nintendo please stop making amiibo, there's TOO MANY, I'm gonna need a warehouse to store all amiibo if this keeps up lmao.