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Super Mario Teaches Typing of the Dead

Not a fan of the GameBoy Zelda remakes style, but if they did make an Oracle remake compilation, I hope they go the extra mile and flesh out the third one that never materialized.

@Dr_Corndog The fabled Mario Streakers: Battle League?

We’re definitely getting the Switch 2 Gamepad this year that lets you use a second screen or play your Switch 2 remotely while it’s docked, paired with Star Fox Zero Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star Fox Guard with somehow worse controls.

I anticipate the sales of Mario Kart World will sharply decline as a result, though I am often wrong about these predictions.

Can always tell when an update isn’t worth looking at when the title doesn’t explicitly mention something worth looking at.

This is great news that is unfortunately hard to put faith in with the rising storage costs thanks to the AI gold rush.

I hate to say it, but GKC may be an unwanted boon in light of this hardware availability trend.

@Nanoline52 The fact that he would even bring it up at all is just as telling. It’s like shouting “I’m innocent!” when nobody was making any accusations to begin with.

Just repeatedly saying the economy is great doesn’t do anything to convince people struggling to make ends meet.

It truly takes some garbage to break through the mobile games firewall and into “of (year)” lists.

I would also argue that the whole “physical games are still a license” argument was never about preventing customers from accessing the contents of their physical media. That’s a retroactive justification that only came later to excuse publishers from unilaterally terminating the license on digital storefronts, later repackaged as “but you don’t really own it” to weaken consumer protections.

On the topic at hand…
I don’t like what they’ve done here, but I accept the excuse they’ve given. Doesn’t make it okay, but I do understand. I respect that they’ve committed to future reprints containing the full game on cartridge, however vague and confusing that will be for the customers.
Not the best response, but not the worst.

Lots of people arguing in bad faith on the side of the abusers as if it’s justified simply because they do it. Please show us on the doll where the publisher hit you.

And when you’re done with that, please tell me how Square-Enix can revoke my license to my physical copy of Chrono Trigger on SNES and make it unplayable. I see at least one person arguing this is possible.
Oh it’s only possible with newer, internet-connected devices? Well maybe we should strengthen up those consumer protection and first sale rights instead of shrugging our shoulders, doing nothing, and going “oh well, they had every right to do what they do.” That’s how we’re here today.

I stand by my previous statement after going into 10 or so ranked battles and just getting trounced by legendaries, megas, and shinies, ultimately scoring zero points throughout all the battles.
I did not have fun. I remain Rank Z. There doesn’t seem to be any semblance of a matchmaking system.

They should work with Sega to release Phantasy Star Online.

Oh nice, that’s one I haven’t played before. Looking forward to it.

Time to introduce a whole new generation to headaches.

Bethesda doing whatever they can to keep the meme alive.

Thanks to those who educated me on how easy it is to do the thing I was complaining about. I’ll give it a shot. I just don’t like competitive events because it brings out the worst in me.

Oh boy, more content locked behind a wall I’ll never achieve.

I know the update will only be good if the headline is loudly proclaiming it.

I just wish they’d merge costumes under one character selection that you press like L or R to cycle through.

Their decision to make costumers their own character slots is stupid. Even if they may have different stats (I don’t actually know if they do or not), they should be merged under the main character.

This is neat and I welcome it.

But just for fun, I’d rather see Mario Kart World content added to Donkey Kong Bananza.

@SuperEndriu Don’t feel guilty about grabbing an NFC writer on your phone and a bunch of writable NFC tags and just making your own amiibo tags. You won’t get the neat figurine, but it will let you unlock whatever locked content.

It’s a fine system with a few flaws.
The screen is pretty bad from the few times I’ve used it, but I pretty much play in docked mode all the time.
My left Joycon2 will randomly not charge (either when connected to the system itself or to a charging controller). Disconnecting and reconnecting it has seemed to work so far. The firmware is up to date; this seems like a connector or communication issue.
The whole key-card thing. (No need to elaborate; everyone already knows)
There needs to be some smaller gap-filler experiences between big blockbuster releases.
There’s a pretty big lack of native Switch 2 games. I’d say 95% of my playtime has been Switch 1 games that have been fixed to perform better on the Switch 2 or ports. I don’t hate ports. I actually think they’re good for consumers, but they just can’t be the majority of your library.
There are other issues that aren’t specifically Switch 2 related but more Nintendo related issues that I won’t get into.
Overall it feels like what the Switch 1 should have been all along, which I suppose is a good indicator that you did something right.
The prices on everything are pretty shocking, but not unexpected, nor unjustified.

Overall I’m fairly satisfied with it. It feels like the proper, finished Switch console which the original was dragged down by poor performances.

Oh yeah, one last thing. You can’t just take Switch 1 game, slap a tiny isolated Switch 2 side content on it, and call it a Switch 2 edition. Stop it.

Edit: One last one last thing: Stop charging for tech demos. I know Nintendo is really proud of their Switch 2 ‘interactive’ instruction manual, but it’s not worth $0.99 let alone $10.

Waiting for Prime 2 and 3 to be released first. I’ve never played them before and there’s no legal and convenient way to do so presently.

Seems weird they’d release Prime 1 targeting new audiences and then just never release 2 and 3 before 4.

@slowpoke_tail And right into the waiting arms of generative AI.

@JohnnyMind Agree. I think it’s dumb to have expiration dates on digital goods.

I’m having a blast with Metroid Prime 1 Remastered. Can’t wait to play Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered next to catch up on the story before Prime 4. Would be kinda silly if they released a sequel to a game that isn’t available to play.

Instead of Xenoblade 2 Switch 2 Edition patch/upgrade, I’d rather see a Xenosaga Definitive Edition Collection (full cartridge).

Hello from the far distant future of November 2025. We are now mere days away from the release of Metroid Prime 4 and there has still been no word on Prime 2 and 3 Switch releases in any form.

@John_Deacon
You’ll need the Nintendo Switch Online+Expansion Pak+Memory Pak tier subscription which introduces this basic QOL feature plus like one Wii game a year.

@Erigen You sound like a trustworthy chap. I mean nobody else has ever offered to protect me from velociraptors before. Do you prefer I bring unmarked cash in suitcase form, or bag form?

While not a Switch 2 title, I was able to pick up Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door for $30 at BestBuy.

I’m surprised they’re not enlisting the police to raid people’s homes and retrieve these characters.

“Let’s make storage the customer’s problem!”

Now do Phantasia and Destiny in 3D, you cowards.

Gen Z doesn’t care about gambling mechanics and dark patterns in video games, but it doesn’t mean they should be in them.

Just because you’ve trained a new sucker born every day to like your slop doesn’t mean it should be done.

The game does have problems, but there has been rarely a time when I’ve stopped playing for a moment to really think about something that’s ruining the experience for me.
I read the article about the ‘lifelessness’ of the NPCs being rooted in place, and at the time I hadn’t played the game yet, even reacting negatively towards the game for it based on the article alone. Once I actually began playing, it was a moot issue. There were a couple of times I stopped to go “oh yeah, wasn’t this a big deal?” only to conclude that, while yes it is a flaw, it didn’t detract from my experience in any significant way.
The lack of voice acting for important scenes is really the only notable issue for me that took me out of my immersion.
I think most of the big talking issues can be summed up with “oh yeah, and this minor thing also annoyed me a bit.”
Mind you, I’m playing the Switch 2 Edition, so I can’t comment on Switch 1 performance. (Going by previous titles on the Switch 1, I expect it to be an abysmal time.)

There will absolutely, 100% be GameCube and GameCube-inspired skins for this thing. I can’t see a reality where it doesn’t happen.

Ran into my first instance of running out of space on the default Switch 2 internal storage just the other day. Looked at express microsd cards and they’re expensive.
I’ll stick with games on cartridges for now thank you.

I think there’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation going on now because big publishers only really publish big game franchises, so the public has come to expect that all big publisher games need to be big budget games too, so big publishers only publish big game franchises.
There’s also a bit of a demand situation where if big publisher doesn’t publish big franchise game sequel, the public gets upset with them.
And of course the ever present issue of big publishers being risk averse, so they want to stick to what’s big and successful to minimize loss on more experimental games.
And lastly, big publishers have gotten into the habit of just buying up studios that have those experimental successes, sucking out anything useful and assimilating them into their own franchises, then discarding the empty husk.

@Yosher nothing killed my desire to work in the video game industry faster than the video game industry. They have a real image problem due to stuff exactly like this, and crunch, and abuse, and everything else they do.

No they aren’t and this analyst is wrong. Those games are perfect as is. You don’t remake the art just because it’s old.
The only thing they should do with these games is release a definitive edition (applies more to Chrono Trigger than ALttP, but you could add Four Swords in to that) for modern consoles and that’s it.

Current techbro industry trend and Square-Enix going all in on it; name a more iconic duo.

@Taya I don’t know why this needs to be continuously explained to people. Square-Enix, and other Japanese parties involved, don’t care about it being AI or LLM or generative or whatever the flavor term of the day is. They only care that the company is using their IP(s) in an unauthorized manners. They’re not opposed to AI, they’re opposed to their property being used without their permission.

@billychaos There’s nothing to be confused about here. It’s all financially motivated. That’s the start and stop of the reasoning.

I hope it adds more Pokemon and a new Dex. The most fun I have in Pokemon is catching them all. While I appreciate ZA for what it is, and what it has, I’m looking at what’s left to catch for my ZA livingdex and it’s starting to look very thin.

@automatom Ah yes, I see it now. Thank you for pointing out the design genius that is Residejoycon 2vil.

Looks like a cheap skin. Not even Dbrand quality. Is that what special edition hardware has become these days?

@Rob3008
They are not denouncing the use of generative AI. They are opposed to a foreign company infringing all of their IP. Theres a difference.