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@Wesker oh, this did not age well at all.

Get the Switch 1 version, even if you own a Switch 2. I knew MGS4 was gonna be download only, given its size, but still. . .

Konami finally remembered they used to make games.

. . .I'll take it. Would've liked Portable Ops and Rising: Revengeance, but hey, with MGS5 still on the card, Vol. 3 is a shoe-in, so. . .

Wow, Dragon Quest does well in Japan. In other news, water is wet.

Haha, nope. The only Mario Sports game that holds any value for me right now is Hoops 3-on-3.

Yeah, that's about what I expected. I'd say that this'll probably end up being the best Mario Sports game since Mario Golf World Tour.

(What do you mean, World Tour is 12 years old?!)

@EarthboundBenjy even as someone who hasn't played it, I'd say the opinions are that it's basically Chuchu Rocket with Mario characters, and that it's on par with (if not better than) Super Paper Mario, assuming you believe the first two to be the best, as most PM fans do. I know I'm interested enough to play it.

YEAH BABY MORE YOSHITO SEKIGAWA REPRESENTATION LESGOOOO

I haven't even played this game, but I would've been stupid to not listen to Red Streamer Battle and Battle With King Olly.

Now, if only they added Radiant Dawn.

Wake me up when they do Sonic Adventure 2, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, and Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion.

All I got out of that was Konami remembering Bomberman's existence, Console Archives existing (and possibly being the only way we get Symphony of the Night on Switch), and Leon Kennedy being one step closer to Smash 6.

@shiningpikablu252 oh yeah, that.

Yeah, nevermind. I don't hate Tingle, but the footage of his games just looks boring to me.

Where's Balloon Fight 3, Nintendo?!

@Jumwa Nintendo definitely made some dumb choices with the Switch 2, but this Nintendo Grifter trend is annoying to no end. It's like the early 2000's all over again, where Nintendo fans are regarded as little children, regardless of how much they spent on the Switch 2.

If it's not Styling Star HD, I don't care. Nintendo were fools to make that game a digital 3DS exclusive and rob Smash fans of the origin game of "Ring A Ding".

I was crazy about it when it was big. I remember putting a decent amount of time into the Vehicle Kit game, and I liked the VR headset, even if it wasn't used for many games.

They sit in a box in my room right now, and they likely won't get touched until I feel like talking about them in a reel or something, and that's if I start a YouTube channel.

Currently playing through both versions of Luigi's Mansion 1, with Dark Moon on the horizon.

Also, Radiant Dawn, if I have time. Good night, that game is long.

Insert haha funny "Luigi's Mansion beta version" comment.

@larryisaman that, and Prime 3 literally having blood on the screen.

MP2 I can understand, but the Switch 2 already has access to all main Pikmin games. I myself have the Pikmin 1+2 cart.

Honestly, this feels a little fake. There's a higher likelihood of WarioWare Mega Party Games getting added than these two.

I personally think it would've been better to do a compilation of the series' vocal songs. Drifting Away is good, but I long for the day that Ashley's Song, Tomorrow Hill, Body Rock, and Penny's Song get added to the app.

Yes, I played all four of the games these songs are from. Why do you ask?

Wow, crazy. It's not like this has been the case for the past five years or so.

But seriously, I really need more info on Fortune's Weave and Splatoon Raiders.

I'm not surprised by anything on this list, despite having never played a single FF game. The reputation of the franchise speaks for itself.

NA/PAL, solely because it's a classic. Still not the best Yoshi box art (Wooly World clears), but one I definitely think of when I hear "Yoshi's Island".

Playing my legit $100 copy of Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn and not regretting a thing.

Also, Yoshi's Island DS. It's not the atrocity old hats claim it is. It's just DK 64 in 2D.

@Fighting_Game_Loser Jun Ishikawa retired from composing for HAL after having worked on every mainline game from Dream Land 1 to Star-Crossed World (plus a few spinoffs), so Kondo also retiring would not be out of the question. I was honestly a bit surprised Kondo returned for Mario Wonder.

"Focus, M."

r/joke

It's the first mainline Mario content since Wonder's initial release, so it's a no brainer for me. However, I'm a tad bit worried about its staying power and whether or not it will actually be a substantial addition. I'm one of the few that actually really liked the NSMB2 Coin Rush DLC, and obviously Luigi U was the best thing Nintendo could've done for NSMBU, but this kinda looks like extra multiplayer-centric content that should've been in the game from the get-go.

I'll just say this:

Anyone who lets Yoshito Sekigawa (the best composer to ever work with Int Sys) compose for Paper Mario is based in my book.

I'll say nothing more.

My desire level for this version (as opposed to DKCR 3D) has changed from "almost never" to "maybe if I got nothing else on my wish list".

Also, no one's ever using Diddy again. Dixie is the most broken character in 2D platformer history.

Bad news, Phantom Hourglass has the worst soundtrack in the series (mostly due to largely being crunchy Wind Waker rips).

Good news, SPIRIT TRACKS HAS A CHANCE (unironically top three soundtrack in the series).

EDIT: I forgot about LTTP + Four Swords. LTTP is even crunchier in this version, and Four Swords makes my ears bleed.

@Porky let me cope, ok? Tbh, I'm not the translation snob that others are, but I don't want to be reminded that I live in a world where the only Nintendo games with a completely straight translation are the Xenoblade trilogy (X was done by Treehouse).

First off, haha, Deadly Silence, DS, ha.

Second, THERE WAS A RESIDENT EVIL FOR THE NINTENDO DUAL SCREEN?!?!?

FYI, I'm a DS nut, so I already know about the existence of so many other DS games, so this was especially surprising.

@Vyacheslav333 #blametreehouse

I honestly wish 8-4 would completely take over NoA's translation business. Treehouse has completely lost the edge.

Suddenly, my $100 purchase of Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn looks tame.

Then again, who would I rather be playing as? Micaca and the Doodoo Brigade? Or Cory in da haws?

I never involved myself with VR much, and the only "headset" I ever got was Nintendo's own Labo kit (,it was fine), but it's sad to see that a trend that has existed for over a decade is now effectively being left in the past. It'll only be a matter of time before used headsets skyrocket in price.

Netflix is getting desperate at this point. They know they've sucked for years now.

@Retrodouche to add to this comment, I haven't played FE12 myself, but from what I've gathered, it makes the already mid story even worse with the new characters (the only remake to accomplish this, unless you count Faye in Echoes) and basically overloads your army with increasingly weaker units, among issues that carry from FE11, such as the art style (which only improved slightly) and the dog water supports.

There's also Heroes, which Int Sys counts as mainline, but you're better off watching the cutscenes for Books 1, 3, 6, 9, and 10 on YouTube and admiring the artwork on the Fire Emblem Wiki.

And the spinoffs are spinoffs (even if TMS and Three Hopes get more hate than they deserve).

@GoproGO honestly, you could say that about any game in this franchise. Genealogy is praised to the moon and back, but those maps are way too big for their own good, even if they are integral to the plot.

I still don't get the point of the biorhythm mechanic, the lack of stats during fights is annoying, and the map design could be a little better (COUGH COUGH CHAPTER TEN), but other than that, this game is definitely worthy of its praise. Ike is a great character who definitely earns his position in the story, and the overall gameplay is as good as ever, even if the laguz still feel like discount manaketes.

EDIT: forgot to mention the amazing inclusion of bonus XP, something I've only ever seen in the Xenoblade games.

@Laurenzio I know

No Eternal Bond or The Devoted 😔

Maybe one day.

Also, Against the Black Knight kinda sucks, despite the character it's attached to.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS

#IFIGHTFORMYFRIENDS #YOULLGETNOSYMPATHYFROMME #WELIKEIKE

Oh boy, I can't wait to put my Wooden Block Yoshi amiibo on my shelf next to my super kid-friendly Pyra and Mythra amiibo.

(This is joke. I don't have those amiibo. . .yet)

@EarthboundBenjy I mean, I suppose it's been long enough that people forgot about the mess that was Dark Dawn, but I doubt anyone there still remembers how to make RPGs. Maybe they should just leave it to Intelligent Systems and Monolithsoft.

Unless the first Direct of the year reveals something good, only Fortune's Weave and Splatoon Raiders are on my radar, and Mysterious Book is a definite second-hand purchase.

Welp, that's the end of Fitness Boxing, then (r/joke).

Speaking of which, how long until Fire Emblem Heroes receives the infamous game-ending P5 collab?

Even as someone who has yet to play this series, I just know the replies will be filled with disgruntled fans that will claim that, with the exception of XII, the series went completely off the rocker after X.

@The_Nintendo_Expat I can assure you that I never wanted this, but I know plenty of Zelda fans did back at E3 2014, when that first Zelda U showcase dropped. The problem was, they didn't know what they actually wanted.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Nintendo's open-world design peaked with Bowser's Fury and, to a lesser extent, the Xenoblade franchise. Everything else has fallen flat.

@The_Nintendo_Expat the thing is, the push for open-world, 200-hour experiences was so strong in the 2010's, especially the late 2010's, that there was no avoiding it back then. It's partly their fault, but it's also our fault for thinking that was the way the industry should go.

Sometimes I wish Skyward Sword had sold more copies while Skyrim was left in the ditch back in 2011.