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Nice to see Golden Sun hit that 10% in the poll.

The Sun Will Rise Again!

That extra coat of paint on Super Mario Bros. is really nice and I love the addition of a boss theme for Bowser too.

The problem with the success of any iteration of any franchise is that the developers settle into doing more of what's successful rather than throw everything away and start fresh. But, that starting fresh is part of why I fell in love with Nintendo franchises.

Eventually people clamour for a new aesthetic even if the core gameplay remains the same. This is why people got burnt out on the New Super Mario Bros design because, despite how competent the core gameplay was, the visuals started to feel homogenous. It would be the same if every Zelda going forward simply looked like more BOTW and TOTK.

I for one can't wait to play Hands of the Kingdom this Friday.

'You finally found me, I've been eating nothing but sand for three days!'

'You've only been lost for 1 day.....'

'Yeah I was eating sand when I was at home too.'

Dadish is worth it just for those end of level interactions alone.

8 was a fair score. I knew the important ones, I promise.

There's a scary thought. Save those rumours for Halloween.

Everybody was obviously playing Superman 64!

Obviously he's referring to our ability to attach fans to a Molduga and make it a deadly machine to fight with from the sky. No hope for Ganondorf to stand up to that.

If you play this one folks play it in the dead of night with a pair of headphones plugged into the gamepad. Truly it is a haunting experience and one not easily forgotten and is amazing for it.

No, not my invincible Flying Kick! RIP Shiva....

Joking aside I have to have a go at some custom survival. Need to beat my paltry Level 37 score. How do people get to 90+ with all the ridiculous red enemies hahaha.

Dare I hope those Golden Sun rumours were true....

SNES all the way.... if I was forced to pick. Really couldn't give any of them up. I'm a greedy sod that way.

Missed some of the Xenoblade ones as my siblings and I were re-modeling our Mam's sitting room at the time and had no time to play anything. Would like some Ouroborous goodness.

'Open world lacks stand-out locales'

A pitfall that many games fall into when transitioning to an open world format.

Despite a number of farming-sims I did not receive a Zelda themed farm-sim. Literally unwatchable. 0/10.

@BenAV I bought a copy at launch but still need to find a time to play it due to the awkward timing with Xenoblade coming out a week later.

Nice to be sharing this boat with you.

Cromulent Gascoigne.

Yep, checks out.

Remains my favourite Mario game to date.

My first game was Creatures 2 on the Commodore 64. Followed closely by Flimbo's Quest!

Don't you dare, don't you dare give me hope!

It's pronounced Another One Bites The Dust: The RPG.

I never got to play the original XIII back in the day so I'd welcome it's return if it's with improvements.

Although to be fair I'd give my right nut for anything Timesplitters related, be that a remake of 2 or just something outright new. Never been a big shooter guy but TS2 ate up tons of my time back on the GC.

Really can't wait for that Golden Sun game by Camelot & Monolith Soft.

Duel Master is fun enough when all the Drytron players are filtered out of whatever rank you currently play at.

Finding Witchcrafters to be a lot of fun.

Silksong would be big enough that it deserves to be part of a larger Nintendo Direct. Leave this little showcase for some interesting titles that deserve a little more spotlight.

Should I turn off all the little red dots in my house? Hmmm...

meanwhile in Las Vegas

AHHHHHH MY EYES!!!!!

So big that only the three richest kings of Europe shall own them.

Using Nintendo as a noun? That's a paddlin'.

I don't believe a Zelda game since Ocarina of Time didn't suffer a delay of some sort so this is not really unexpected. We'll just have to enjoy the other games we get this year and occasionally play BotW in anticipation.

It's obviously Mario Costanza.

Other:

I've always found it the hardest to supplement my teams with a fire Pokemon I like which is why I often just picked the fire starter. Luckily they're usually quite good!

Live-A-Live remake will be Day 1 for myself.

I hope this means Treasure of the Rudras and/or Bahamut Lagoon won't be far behind!

@Stroopwafel This was the last place I thought I'd see a Dark Place reference. Really made my day!

If we got Rainbow Islands, Creatures 1+2 and Flimbo's Quest I would be a happy, happy lad!

I think maybe the focus should be to go back to the Nintendo aspect of the series and dial back the 3rd party inclusions (I'd miss Banjo though, so keep him lol). Focus on Nintendo's cast, bolster the single player and online modes and only add a slim crop of 3rd party that works alongside them (e.g Banjo & Sonic).

'It'll be a tough late-night watch for those of you in Europe!'

Exactly why I'll be in bed and catch the news in the morning.

Never got to play Chrono Cross so I'd be very interested in a re-release of any kind.

Oh yes, I will gladly take a Twoka-Laylee thank you.

Gasp!
Money laundering via eshop, just like on Steam!

Really though it's likely just a pricing error.

"NFTs have high affinity with our assets"

Thankfully they have no affinity with my wallet.

@BlueMonk 'What was once clever is now just a trope.'

I think you mean cliche rather than trope here; tropes are simply tools but an overused trope becomes a cliche. But I understand the point you are making.

Luckily as a community we search out all our favourite games in any sphere and share them with each other thus making sure we avoid the pitfall of shovelware games while also being made aware of some truly hidden gems.

Always got a chill out of the Invasion music from MM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFwACXa_Zg

If they were to outsource them to studios who know the properties better, and they do know them better, I would down for this.

Feels like when they changed the Nickelodeon logo years ago; a kind of minimalism that is afraid we might have our senses inflamed by a myriad of colours.

Looking good Lilac! This'll give me time to play through the first again in preparation. Cannot wait!

Before I even knew this article was a thing I was saying Gamecube.

Though there was always something striking about the original Playstation start up that I loved too.

Coke Zero confirmed? Oh, that was already confirmed... disregard.

Scorch 'N' Torch from DKC:TF.