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If this had dropped a couple of years ago I'd have been up for it but now I just want a new entry. I can't say I'm impressed by Zelda items etc being seemingly locked behind Amiibo and the retro games requiring an NSO subscription

Sega characters, plain and simple

I play them mainly on my PC, with my Sinden for some Duck Hunt or through my mini SNES which I've modded to be able to boot into the mini NES OS as well and with added games

A very easy 10, these are arguably the 2 best 3D platformers ever made

@RupeeClock even if games are ported I'd still much rather have a replica of the Wii mote controllers. I personally don't feel the joycons are an adequate substitute. Gyro controls aren't as good as the pointer controls for games like this and the HOTD Remakes vs the Wii versions, whilst I'm still not a fan of the button size and analogue sticks of the joycons, albeit they're a bit better on Switch 2

I hope that Wii gets added to the NSO at some point so we can get Wii controllers for the Switch, as these games feel so much better to play with them.

I may just get Galaxy 2 as I have 3D All Stars and there isn't much reason for me to get it again

Funny seeing Mario Kart above Sonic Crossworlds given the online discourse (I think both are fantastic). Though I suspect Sonic Crossworlds will likely sell more digitally than MKW.

Nice to see Donkey Kong hanging around in the top 10 as well

I enjoyed the Mario movie but didn't think it was great, it was more a collection of scenes to recognise from the games, than a coherent story, even my 8 year old son has never asked to watch it again. Overall I'd say the Sonic films, certainly 2 and 3 are better movies with more of a story and developed characters.

That said, I'm still very much looking forward to the next one. I just hope we get more than the barebones narrative of the 1st and not have Luigi sidelined for most of the runtime

DK Bananza is my favourite game this year but this dlc is something I couldn't recommend to others to buy at this price, about half would be fair. That said, it is fun but doesn't really add much new content but seeing DK Island is incredibly nostalgic for me and playing the DK64 theme helps that. The Island itself doesn't have anything to do, other than explore a few nods to past games and weirdly has 6 bonus stages just to collect gold, which kind of suggests it was originally intended as a reward for the post game.

The new mode is fun but I do wish it used the end game enemies and overall, whilst I'm personally happy to at least have the Island, I'm more likely to replay the last boss again over this when I'm done.

It's a shame we didn't get some new retro challenge levels or something along those lines alongside this

Tried the Switch version and wasn't overly impressed and in the absence of a Switch 2 version, I'll be trying this elsewhere. Overall though I'm still not sold on the game

Panzer Dragoon Zwei is my favourite on rails shooter to this day. Sadly between the mediocre Panzer Dragoon Remake and the truly dreadful House of The Dead remakes, I have no faith that these people will be able to do it justice

It would have been better as a sport in something like Switch Sports rather than a standalone game

I don't doubt I could be as good or arguably better at fighting games with a leverless controller but for me, the main reason I use an arcade stick is for the feel of it and I don't see myself ever swapping to one of these. Looks cool though

I'm saving for one of those Octopus sticks, so I can use it on my Dreamcast as well

@Suketoudara @Itsashame @MontyCircus cheers guys, I did look shortly after the Direct but couldn't find anything. This certainly puts it on the buy list to play with my son

I'm not entirely sold on this yet, I've already got Mario Kart World which I really enjoy and this hinges on whether that City Trial mode can be played split screen. So if that is online only (or need multiple consoles), that is a big mark against it, as I buy these games primarily for local multiplayer

Edit: as below it seems like it does support local multiplayer in that mode, kinda weird to have a 45 minute direct and that information still wasn't clear but looks like I'll be getting it now

I might be alone but I'd much rather have that horror inspired trailer as a game

No chance, this looks like a game that would have been one of many in something like Wii Sports and even then, it'd be one I'd play once or twice before returning to bowling.

I just don't know what they were thinking with this one

I can understand why DK Bananza isn’t on there as it contains massive spoilers but there's no reason not to have Mario Kart.

The music app has potential but with so much missing, I've long since just found these on YouTube music, ironically including MK World and DK Bananza

I should hope so, it wasn't exactly a looker back then either but it was a decent playing 3D platformer from what I remember. For the price I'd say this will definitely be worth it for fans of the genre and I'll probably be getting it myself

Funny thing is, my son has had a Mario and Luigi toy since he was a baby, so had he been that age now, nothing would be different

@JohnnyMind yeah there was a demo on Steam and I own the original there which has the same issues. I've got the Sinden Lightgun and its basically useless with this game because of how its made. With motion controls the cursor persistence isn't as big of a deal but even if this got mouse support on Switch 2, it would have the exact same problems as on PC, simply because that is how the game was designed.

@Paulo I don't even think the graphics are better, I think this looks worse than the original game

@Serpenterror I've had one of these for a few years and its brilliant. I think there is a standalone lightgun and plug and play console coming soon and is bundled with Time Crisis and Point Blank

@JohnnyMind I won't comment on the standard controls but even with a mouse this plays poorly, as its not actually built as a lightgun game and every time there is a camera cut it resets the cursor to the centre of the screen. So with a mouse, you constantly have to pick it up and move it to be able to aim

I played the demo of Steam a while ago and my review is

Looks worse than the original
Sounds worse than the original
Plays significantly worse than the original
Essentially a lightgun game that isnt even made as a lightgun game, so even on PC cannot function with modern ones

Utter garbage 2/10

We don't need a timeline for any of these games, its just a bit of fun to imagine where they might go but nothing to obsess over or that has to be set in stone. Same for Zelda games, the majority of which have no real connection to one another

@rjejr @Talkshowhost @ATMVF all you have to do is pick the option on the right, the game even suggests this and it works exactly as you'd imagine

Both this and Odyssey are brilliant games that share some elements but by and large the core gameplay loops of both are quite different with the 2 main characters controlling quite differently.

Then structure wise, DK doesn't actually require any banana's for progress, meaning you can engage with as much or as little of the game as you like and the last part of the game is one of the best I've ever played.

I've now collected everything on DK and have the 3 star save file and at some point will do a no banana run , which should be challenging with no upgrades but ultimately if you're a fan of 3D platformers, play both, oh and New Donk City is one of the all time great levels

@Kraven the big problem with this art style is that none of the games that use it have their own identity and just blend into one another

Elliot of Philadelphia looks quite promising, even if I'm kind of over this art style but I am more excited for this than another Octopath game

Is it just me or are far too many games today, way more demanding than their visuals deserve? We all know that the Switch isn't a powerhouse but come on, a 2D pixel art game

Just finishing off Donkey Kong Bananza, I've done the main story and post game quest, so just mopping up the rest of the Banana's. This game is amazing and has one of, if not the best end sequence I've seen in a game which i won't spoil

Once I'm done with that, it'll be back to finishing Death Stranding 2

@Bunkerneath I think it just means sold in store but more importantly, looking at the overall sales, there isn't a big gap between the total of MKW and the Switch 2 itself. So as most of the consoles sold are the bundle, its safe to assume these are included, unless people are going out and buying an extra copy of a game they already have

I'd take Rare Replay and Sea of Thieves on Switch 2 and Doom of course but outside of that, there isn't much I care about from them, now that they cancelled Perfect Dark

Presumably those Mario Kart numbers are including the bundle and its a shame we can't have those separately as I'd imagine DK would have been number 1 by some distance but hopefully DK does well long term as it's a fantastic game

I predict the next Direct will be sometime between now and another point in time

Yeah let's compare the sales of a game that launches in the summer just 6 weeks after its console, to that which launched 7 months into it and the holiday season where more games are sold anyway.

The time to judge Donkey Kong's success isn’t now but in the months and perhaps years to come.

What I will say, if you're one who buys Mario games but not DK's, then you're missing out, as Bananza and the overlooked Tropical Freeze are easily as good as anything with Mario in

They aren't even competing devices and this is simply the old PC vs console debate. People buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo's games, so at that point the Steamdeck is irrelevant in that discussion.

A few on here are even saying the Steamdeck is a console and it simply isn’t, its literally a handheld PC and as simplified as its OS is, the majority of games on Steam do not function like console games.

Steamdeck is a great device for what it sets out to be, but sales data alone shows that these do not cater to the same market at all

Absolutely loving it, just smashing through the environment is incredibly addictive and then falling off the map when I go to far 😅

@IronMan30 yeah I watched it after reading this and John was way more positive than this makes it seem

Would I rather it be a locked 60fps, sure but my only real concern from that is some bosses going down to 30fps, so hopefully that can be looked at, everything else seems minor and not something I'd be bothered about.

Actually watching DF's video, John is overall very complimentary about the game, much more so than this article suggest as they only pickup on the negatives

"I highly recommend giving it a shot if it looks interesting to you. Sure, it has a few technical issues under the surface, but what the team has accomplished on the whole is really quite amazing"

@AussieMcBucket I know, it just me me smile when I really think about some of these things.

I just went back and looked at the direct and it looks like the ostrich only glides, similar to how it did in DKC, with updrafts of air to give you more height

@AussieMcBucket I get what you're saying but it's kinda funny that someone can accept that an ape can transform into a giant ostrich, just not that said ostrich can then fly, next you'll be telling me that zebras can't run on 2 legs or on water 😉

@YellowMagic1965 interesting, I'll check that out

@h3s yeah the VRR on PS5 is a smaller range and of course this can easily mask small performance drops though other issues such as traversal stutters would still be noticable, or games like Oblivion which has enormous frame time spikes.

Thing is, most of the time such minor drops aren't a big deal and thats ultimately my point. I've been gaming since the 80's and the majority of console games have suffered from slow down, frame drops etc and for the most part they don't matter.

Sure I'd rather every game lock to their fps target but what I've seen of this so far it seems unobtrusive and I think sometimes we get far too obsessive over such minor things (myself included), rather than just look forward to something or having fun with it

@tseliot yet if you want me to list all the games that drop frames on the PS5, PS5 Pro and Series X then we are going to be here for a very, very long time

I used it once and in reality it was only a tiny discount or in many cases, actually more expensive than purchasing them elsewhere. They stated a while ago they weren't using them for Switch 2 so it makes sense they discontinue them

That's normal for how game development works and clearly this concept wouldn't have been fully realised on Switch 1.

I see some going on about graphics but I think both this and Mario Kart World look gorgeous

Mines a lot faster than Switch 1 over WiFi, downloading all my games when I first got it was significantly faster than when I did the same with the OLED

Given the size of them, they absolutely should. Out of that initial lineup, I've not interest in half of them, such as the Pokemon games, Chibi Robo and Mario Sunshine as I have the 3D All Stars version, so if much rather save the sapce than have multiple gb taken up so I can play Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion