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@Winklebottom Price wasn't officially announced at that point. Amazon was just taking a guess. It was a reasonable expectation for this game to be $50 because that was the launch price for the Wii U version.

@Winklebottom Did you know it was getting a retail release priced at $60? No? Ok.

@l33tchr12 You misunderstand the difference between claiming gold points and expiring gold points. Claiming gold points means you use a physical copy of a game to earn gold points. For example, I can use my physical copy of Super Mario Odyssey to earn 60 gold points, but I only have until the one year mark of the game’s release to claim those points because I live in North America. Those in Europe have two years to claim these points.

Once those points have been claimed I have one year to use those points before they expire. The one year deadline is the same for all regions.

@SanderEvers But that doesn't address the underlying issue here. Sure, I can go ahead and do that, and while it is a mild inconvenience, at least it's available to me. But, if I can easily access a product using a different region this close to release, why can't NoA just release it in North America?

Remember, I asked why this was the case. Not how to get the demo.

EDIT: You probably got several notifications that have this same exact response from me. I swear I only clicked Reply once, and then when I went to delete all the duplicates and it deleted all of them when I wanted to keep one. I apologize, but it seems like a certain website really wanted to glitch out on me. (Also doesn't help that the site went down for 10 minutes in the middle of all this)

"The demo still isn’t live on the North American eShop..."

Why are there still inconsistent eShop updates when the Switch is region free? What makes Nintendo of America think that it's a good idea to hold this back? I have many questions to ask Nintendo, but above all else, I just want to know their thinking beyond the PR crap.

Tenta Missiles
Made it so that the player can press the ZL Button, enter Squid form, and move around in the period between readying the weapon and firing it.

Whoa, this is actually a pretty big change....

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You’ve been here long enough to know that they don’t dock points for it being a rerelease with no added features. They judge the game as is for people that haven’t played it before, which makes a lot of sense here. A lot more people will be able to play this game now, and reducing the score because it’s the same game as it was for a previous console misrepresents how good the game actually is. (It’s a different story if the game aged poorly, but I think we can be certain that that’s not the case here)

To be fair, I do concede that the review should’ve made it a bit more clear what’s new in this version and what was pulled over from the Wii U, and that the game as a whole is relatively unchanged.

Unfortunate....

“Banjo-Kazooie” is a singular word. Great English in the headline, there. If you want to use the plural form, just say “Banjo and Kazooie”.

And our new editor kicks off 2018 with a typo. 🤣

Undoubtedly, a tough pick here. Both games deserve it.

@Kalmaro As Aonuma said at The Game Awards, his own "divine beast".

@citizen_zane He's not doing it right in the picture, of course, but you can actually use the analog sticks only to race in Mario Kart 8. The left stick is to steer, as it always is, and the right stick is used to accelerate. The further up the right stick is, the more you accelerate. It's a neat way to have analog acceleration if you don't just want to hold down the A button to go. (and since Nintendo controllers don't have analog triggers currently, it's the only way it works)

Eh...it's probably not a Zelda game. Majora's Mask 3D went into development shortly after Ocarina of Time 3D. By the time the job listing went up the first time around, Majora's Mask 3D was more or less done.

Ever Oasis 2 seems more likely, or a game in a similar vein.

As far as I know, the GameCube controller is treated as the Pro controller, meaning every game that supports the Pro controller also supports this. If you can get away with not having ZL, Minus, Home, and Capture buttons, not being able to click in the thumbsticks, and not having motion control, you’re good to go! It’s a long list of missing features, but it works just fine for games like Mario Kart.

Would love to get it, but not paying full price for it.

@rjejr I think it's safe to say that this was a document made before the Switch got its official name. Why else would it have NSMBU as an example?

Not that big of a deal, but sheesh, what's the next thing that'll get pulled at this rate?

I loled at Ash Ketchup.

There's always a chance for it to show up in the west. The Luigi's Mansion arcade game did come to the US even though we initially thought it would be Japan only.

Honestly, at this point, I'm not expecting any new features to pop up in these updates

I'm ok with this. I can't even count how many times that I go for useless 1-Ups or for doing things in game that reward you with them. At least coins have been fleshed out to have more use: you can buy Moons and clothing items with them from what I saw in the demo at E3.

So when is Nintendo going to finally blame Apple for the Switch shortages?

I had a blast playing this even though the difficulty was set at 5%. A little odd that you got the Splatoon 2 logo pin. They were handing those out just for playing Turf Wars. They're handing out Inkling Boy and Girl pins (just one or the other, unfortunately) for playing Salmon Run.

You forgot one important thing!

How did you like those profit margins?

Yes, I was able to play the demo and had a blast with it, and I do appreciate that it is voice acted, but the line about profit margins came up a smidge too much.

According to the eShop listing, it has touch screen support. I wonder in what way.

@BLP_Software I was able to spot the visual glitch in the game, but very rarely. Honestly, if I never knew about it, I would've never noticed.

@Danpal65 You can have up to 8 player local play as well if everyone has a Switch and a copy of the game. Another selling point to add to the list.

@DarkKirby Technically, the three games that Ganondorf appears in is the same person (Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess). Other games either have a different villain or have Ganon, who does have different incarnations.

@PlywoodStick Unfortunately, Miyamoto has confirmed that Mario and Luigi's last name is indeed Mario, and that the Super Mario Bros. movie is ACTUALLY CANON.

And the Wii U Gamepad wasn't bulky either?

Excuse me, I need to go to the store and pick up some more gallons of milk, just because they mentioned it.

I flipped out when I saw that it was 80 Gold Points for the discounts on all the games. Turns out it was just a typo. :/

EDIT: And now it's fixed.

Oh, man! Time to play Spot the Difference!

@Flanktwo The online services are in a "trial" period right now because the entire service is not fully operational yet. Matchmaking is working, though.

In other words, online services are free until sometime in the fall.

I noticed that some Guardian Stalkers will fall through the ground if you use the upgraded stasis rune on them (at least in Castle Town Ruins).

This was in the Switch version, not sure if it can be replicated in the Wii U version.

@mikegamer Did you miss this one that came out when everyone else's came out?

https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/the_legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild

Just waiting for the Switch rewards to pop up. At least we know they're "coming soon".

16 points? Versus the 60 you get for downloading? It's a nice change...that also feels like a slap in the face at the same time.

Gee, when you don't have a battery draining feature on your device, your battery lasts a lot longer! Imagine that! I'm looking at you, Streetpass.

Ok, in all fairness, that's a pretty efficient sleep mode, but I imagine Spotpass will drain it a smidge faster.

Fantastic! I was worried that leveling up would be ridiculous if the required stamina was doubled. Also, I was wondering why the training tower had no rewards on Monday. Seems like an oversight to me.

Now, they just need to hand out more feathers. It takes 20000 feathers to get to the top rank, and you only get 2000-3000 a week.

@LordGeovanni You need both. You'll always need feathers, along with badges to get up to three stars and great badges beyond that.

@LordGeovanni Because the number of hero feathers you need is based on the current rarity of the hero. It only takes 20 feathers to upgrade from one star rarity to two, but it requires a whopping 20,000 feathers to go from four stars to five. (Order goes 20/200/2000/20000)

Now that the day has switched over in game, we now know that Dueling Swords replenish to full each day.

That's fine with me!

Uh...ok. I'll take it, I suppose.

Maybe Nintendo was working on the approval process with Apple and it was approved just after the Direct was filmed/aired. Or maybe Nintendo was being weird like they always do. One of those two might've happened (and I think we all know the more likely scenario).

Since I have the Wii U version, I'll be skipping this. But I'll gladly take that amiibo....

Sure the always online requirement sucks sometimes, but I played Toad Rally for 45 minutes and it only used 1 MB of data. It's very efficient.

@bluedogrulez It depends on how much you use Miitomo. The more you use it, the more space it takes up. I tried getting into it, but interest kinda fell off, so it only takes up about 90 MB for me.

@bluedogrulez To make sure everything saves correctly, you'll need about 350 MB available. That's about how much space it's using on my phone.