YoshiTails

Can't think a better platform to enjoy some crash bandicoot on. Hope it happens.

I don't get the undiluted praise for Odyssey.

The level design is lackluster - there just isn't much craft or design to the levels. The Sand Kingdom in particular - all that open space and very letter clever nuance or structure.

I get that it's sandbox but for me once I got to 500 moons, I was done with it.

Mario 64 on the other hand, you wanted to get all 120 stars and some of the worlds were terrifically designed. There were still some dud levels and dud stars but overall I feel it's just a better designed experience.

With the possible exception of Donk City, I can't name a world in Odyssey that left a mark on me, that was special. Strangely, my most memorable aspect of the game was capturing and playing as the caterpillar in Lost Kingdom. Well that and the 2D Donkey Kong sequence in Donk City, that was pretty fabulous.

I wonder if this concerns Sony and Microsoft or do they still see Nintendo as occupying a neighboring but not overly overlapping market?

I would have preferred 4 traditional dungeons with varied themes over the Divine Beasts. I think that was really lacking. Everything else, shrines included - fine. But there is no way those beasts come anywhere close to some of the rich and varied dungeons in Zelda's history.

I disagree with the review. Massive fan of Banjo back in the day and it still holds up. The worlds in this are meandering and aimless - remember the zippy joy of running through the first world of Banjo Kazooie and getting all the jiggies? It was easy but also unbridled fun.

In Yooka Laylee, the Pagie challenges don't have much sense of flow - you wander around until you find a pagie in a cage and then complete a task that isn't always fun or natural.

Jiggies were never in cages - Banjo Kazooie had a more cohesive, buzzing confidence about it.

That's my impression so far - I think it's a 6 or 7 /10 at best.

How long is the show set to be?

1 in a bajillion chance of winning

@Anti-Matter My money is on "Switch Plus"

A valid question but the granddaddy of them all, Super Mario 64, is simply unsurpassible

It's a fun game but far too easy - like "climb a tree — get a moon!"; "do a backflip - oh look another moon!"

You just trip over moons and it makes it far too passive an experience where you just ride along and don't think too much.

A fun ride but just not a patch on 64. I do love the homages though.

These characters are kinda lame compared to Banjo Kazooie so not sure why anyone would want this

Golf story is beautiful

Move over steamworld! Eshop game of the year is in town

Got this in the post on Friday and it's fab - once you get into it, boy do you get into it!

Beautiful game. 10/10. Better than Mario.

Midnight is too far away

Great game

I got 18 games, kinda surprised by that. Cannot WAIT for Sonic Mania

I've spend about 300 quid on switch software and I think half of that has been Eshop exclusives

Sleeper by name, sleeper by nature - the reviewer took a full week after release to publish this review!

Anyway, I bought it cos I'm a sucker for anything cat related. It's relaxing and pleasant, a touch repetitive so a 7/10 I think.

I just went to a physical Argos store and got my pre-order in - top tip!

Let's hope it doesn't get cancelled

Sony are not wrong and see Nintendo as a potential sidekick in kicking Microsoft like a dead pony

It was decent but not amazing. The highlight was the Odyssey trailer which was incredible. Other than that the next best footage was Ubisoft's Rabbids..

Does Reggie have a massive notebook of "messages he's heard"?

Play as two cats simultaneously

SOLD

Advance Wars for me is the greatest video game franchise of all time and it would do incredibly well on Switch. MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

Pokemon Golf!

Way too cool - great gorilla impression

All well and good for Nintendo fans and dedicated gamers to express their opinion here but the broader market will want these apps accessible on switch. Especially as it can be used like a tablet - it's nonsensical not to include a few.

If he thinks he's the next Iwata, he can think again.

Why didn't big Dave Cameron use this in his campaign? "vote remain, keep Mario games affordable"

I think he's talking about a subscription service - so there won't be a discount just a typical Reggie PR spin "pay this small amount each month and get access to ALL our retro software"

@FX102A with the value of the pound tanking, perhaps it will end up closer to parity with US price

Maybe the 15 placeholders include 5 versions of Breath of the Wild with a different amiibo packed with each one.

Yeah Boy!

Trust you to be talking about Freudian slips, @k8sMum

Tried demo, feels like a blatant cash-in to me. Very simple, short levels. There's nothing wrong with it but it's not groundbreaking and probably get as much fun out of jetpack joyride.

A tablet anywhere close in power to ps4 is impressive.

Well in a sense you can call it a "swift decline", it feels more like a long, drawn out death, that started some time in 2015. The day the NX was announced was probably the beginning of the end and as a Nintendo fan this year has felt anything but swift!

Imagine if the Switch had been released instead of the Wii u. It would have been killer. Today with tablets less fresh, it feels like a risk. But a calculated one at least, Nintendo are determined to make a controller with a screen work - hopefully they shift at least 5 times more Switches than they did Wii Us.

Looks like somebody's jjeeaallooouuss...

Miyamoto: "I must create all the perennially successful franchises!"

That's awesome, what an epic person! I have a deserving person in mind should I win, merry Christmas to one and all

What a load of Karp

The Switch is not an innovation. It's a Wii U with a severed umbilical chord.

Good luck Nintendo Life on filling the site with content for the rest of the year!

Trailer prob be like "here's footage of what breath of the wild looks like on NX. C YA!"

Nintendo Next - a collaborative effort between Nintendo and the ghost of Steve Jobs

Bob Hoskins was not 25 when he played Mario.

Games to appreciate but a legacy to regret

Playtonic should buy Earthworm Jim

The Wii U (and Wii brand) has long sunk into a swamp of irrelevance. So this is a simple, effective way for Nintendo to become relevant again.