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I still dont understand why Toadsworth wasn't in the film, theres even a Toad who has "adviser voice".

I am disappointed this dosen't play the games on a virtual 3DS in MR mode.

Yeah, September seems like reasonable punt.

Of course, it's Nintendo and there is a non-0% chance they stealth-drop the thing in May.

Don't get me wrong, I want it to be Super Nintendo Switch, but after all the confusion around the Wii U, doing anything but calling it a Switch 2 is too much of a risk.

Some will see a "Super Switch" as a Switch Pro.

This is one of those time where the character concept and gameplay role conflict.

Sad but I get it. Yoshi and nabbing are supposed to be low fail options and throwing in a "complicated" aiming system undermines that.

I was worried this was going to be a straight clone of... dorf... checks notes Dorfromantik but this dose seem to be trying some stuff (I like that some tiles produce more tiles)

@ParadoxFawkes That or WB is trying to squeeze out as much money as they can. Remember they was looking to sell their gaming business but no was willing pay the price consider it doesn't come with the IP.

WB seems to be in a really poor place ATM. Scrapping near and completed films for tax right offs, pulling their own content of their own streaming services they can sell it to others, and of cause, no one going to see massive budget DC film knowing the current universe is being scrapped.
Squeezing out sub-par ports to try and milk the consumers fits this.

D9nt get me wrong looks great, however...Whether it's due to the lack of games or that Mario "out grew" DK, it dose feel like Nintendo might be overestimating DKs brand reach here. Unless as others have noted Nintendo is goog for a year of DK mext year

I liked the idea of that "NX controller" having scroll wheels replacing the shoulder bumpers.
They'd obviously be "click able" but you could have used them for inventory.

Granted that's probably from me playing MGS1 as a kid

Considering this came from the guy who birth Waluigi that's a disappointingly plain design.

Bonus, purely for the violence.

It'd be wild to play as the Goose instead of a pet.

The Goose best just turn up in random games.

I struggle to rate these. They are indie content drops and every time it drops content from indies. So mission accomplished?

its not like a direct that's selling us on the next _____ months of Switch, where the "fate" of Nintendo's immediate future is decided.

It's a collection of games that some will like, and some won't.

It depends. Are they prepared to recast everyone in each film?
If so do OoT, if not do BoTW

I'm guessing the switch lite will take the same niche as the 2ds did. With a nice discount it'll slowly cost the sales numbers past DS and perhaps maybe the PS2 over the years.

It makes sense it'd be monster hunter as we have the anniversary and it's the sort of game they won't want to talk about on the run up to Dragons Dogma 2.

This was inevitable. Studio has been putting more and more effort into their side stuff.

I just finished Ishin which had a very harvest moon like side story.

Every Christmas I get my girls a MP game (along side their solo games), Mario Wonder will be this years group game.

Got one for my daughter, it survived when countless other devices failed.
I didn't personally use it that often but I quite enjoyed using it when I did.
There was something about it, some element that appealed to me buried with in its "tough for kids" design. Probably ancient muscle memory from using a classic GB

@RubyCarbuncle For Switch support?

https://www.techpowerup.com/314367/nintendo-will-support-switch-until-march-2025

@beazlen1 Throw in that Nintendo just confirmed Switch support till March 2025, and an April/March release for Switch 2 (or whatever it is) makes sense

So we have servers being freed up in early April and Switch support for a year after. The former is something you do before new hardware, the other about a year after.

If this was a whole "ha we got what we really wanted" thing they did it the most stupid way ever with the retroactive change bit.

It makes them out completely untrustworthy and that's what we're seeing with the devs, their happy Unity isn't coming to be collecting new debts on old releases but they are still looking elsewhere.

@PinderSchloss I think it's like surgeon simulator where the janky controls is intentional. Like how Christmas cracker jokes are terrible.

Every "sucks" at playing this game, so everyone is having fun together.

Every person who wants a new F-Zero has to play this game at least once. Nintendo needs to actually see an F-zero game "move the needle" the more hits the game gets the more they'll see the IP is "hot".

We've seen it before fans demand a new entry in an IP, and the creators release some sort of "taster" content to gauge interest, fans get annoyed it's not a new game and ignore it, and creators then assume there isn't interest in the IP.

So play the hell out of this make it bigger than Tetris 99 and Pac-man 99 to show its the IP not the game type.

For a "these will hold you over till the next tentpoll release" direct it was decent.

My daughters made one hell of a noise when Peach's game hit.

It's a shame, for entire generations he is Mario's (and the others) voice.

That being said the man is 67 years old, and this is probably the better way of his time as our plumbers ends, I'm glad he's been given a new job around Mario. We've seen other VA's who made their characters legendary just tossed aside before.

I have the shrines and labyrinths to do, but I'm not really interested in doing those.

I've done the story, got the tears, got the towers, got most of the side quests (outside busy work), explored most of the the depths.

I refuse to do the koroks, caves, and compendoum

Don't get me wrong artistically Japan wins this hand down, but the Western one is better at telling us what the game is.

I like the idea of playing RDR1 on Switch but the pricing is too high for a straight port.

@jamesthemagi I agree, an announcement at Gamescom is an even weirder play than just doing their own independent live show

I think it's going to depend on

-when the Switch 2 is announced.
-if Switch 2 is BC.
-any new Switch models announced (Lite OLED?).
-any permanent discounts.

Worse case for future Switch sales: Nintendo announces Switch 2 at gamescon with full BC and no new Switch models, no discount on Switch till after Switch 2 launch.

I'm expecting some sort of great change for the next one.

If Sakurai is still involved then it could be something like all characters getting new move lists.

If its someone else it could be more an reinvention of gameplay itself. An absolutely massive risk, something like making it 3D

Good.
Don't get me wrong I loved Mania but it was basically a remix of the pixel Sonic games, which I say as a compliment, another remix would be hard to justify itself. (Basically the same reason I am desperate for Xenoverse 3 to do something new).

The biggest issue with the sensor bar was its relative size to your TV.

When I used it on my dads small "portable TV" it was basically 1:1 and felt great, when I got my 42inch plasma it was harder

I'm not entirely sure just how different a 2D Mario can be. It's Mario.

Short of replacing the models and voices with the movie ones there isn't anything they can do to make a 2D Mario that much different. It's all presentation.

For a "we just dropped one of our biggest games" Direct. It was really good.

As a "not e3" showcase it was one of the better ones this year. Some tease for 2024 but a lot of 2023 games.

Two thoughts
1) that's some very... animated animation
2) I'm surprised Daisy is playable.

Seems like a worthwhile successor to the New Mario Bros games

My daughters have been after for a new Peach game, pretty much forever (Super Princess Peach came out before they was born)

I look forward to playing it, though I'm a little disappointed the models are squished like the OG sprites.

I may "eventually" do this so I can buy many, many arrows and kill the various Ghidorahs.

There wasn't a "I'm near the end of the main story and now I'm panicking it's nearly over and purposely trying to avoid finishing the mainline by giving myself random tasks to do but don't want to chase down every shrine or every damn seed"

So i selected

"I'm no where near completing it yet"

Good.
Illumination is famous for its phobia of exposition and lore, Zelda is objectively the worse fit for that style.

I prefer this concept to those split pads that make the switch massive.

I'm 3 temples down and the Ghidorah/hyrda's still mess me up. Buy I'm clearly playing it wrong, I have barely any arrows or money to buy arrows.

@Buizel True... unless they have some truly concerning lizards where they live? Like all the Geko's have massive bunny ears.

The rental price makes sense when your a family.

There's 5 of us the rental price is nothing compared to the total cost of a cinema trip and my kids have 48 hours to watch it as many times as they like.

Preordered a physical copy thanks to the discount currys offered.

My format choice was entirely driven by pricing.

However for funsies my Switch broke and needed to be sent off for repair, so for me the race is between my Switch and my copy arriving.

My money is on the game, "direct" collection was supposed to be faster but it sat at the courier depo for 4 days before getting to the repair shop yesterday,.

It dose seem to be standard practice for cgi films to have some sort of short for the home release (unless your Disney the you attach it to a film you need boosting) I think all of my kids illumination DVDs have a related short

They're all great in different ways!

@StarPoint depends on the company. Xbox treats gamescon like E3 with announcements and demos, Nintendo usually uses it to push games they annouced at E3 but since it's not happening this year (after everyone pulled out) we don't know what Nintendo will do