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I'd love a new Donkey Kong Country game with the visual style of the SNES originals, which still look way better than the bland HD port that's coming to Switch.

Those original games are still gorgeous and I'll always remember first playing the likes of Snow Barrell Blast as the snow storm moves in from the background until you're in a blizzard

"Especially one this good"

"but this is still a fantastic way to play over 50 classics"

I'm sorry but am I living in some kind of alternate reality? Whilst this is a great collection of games, the Switch version has atrocious input lag and is easily the worst way to play these games on modern consoles

The official timeline of nonsense, where in the real world these games aren't connected outside of a few directly to one another

Spoiler alert the game is nearly 28 years old and anyone with even the slightest interest in it, knows about this scene. Also Vader is Lukes dad, Arnie is the good Terminator in T2 and Columbo always arrests the murderer at the end of the show

The menu system for the echoes is awful and one of the main reasons why I stopped playing the game. No thought whatsoever was put into it.

It'd be so easy to fix by just having a favourites tab or even assigning a couple to buttons for quick access, or how about not giving us countless variations of pots, boxes and statues

It's standard Sega nonsense to start developing a game, only to sign an exclusivity deal with a console manufacturer that didn't even support the engine.

Personally I never liked the design of the characters in this, so I'm kind of glad it failed. Especially now that we got Frontiers which is rather good and that has bow been built upon with the sublime Shadow X Generations. It's taken them a while to find their footing with 3D Sonic but this is definitely the path they should continue down

From what I've seen of this, it seems the Dreamcast is actually the best use case scenario for it. On Switch it ranges from a nice little boost to basically no difference

@Mgalens yeah it's got nothing to do with NSO as Xbox is losing more games outside this collection, such as Virtua Fighter 2 and Crazy Taxi. To me it seems like they're gearing up to repackage them another way, or at least that's what I'm hoping for

@LadyCharlie what's this got to do with NSO? They're delisting these on all platforms with Xbox and Steam losing even more games such as Crazy Taxi and Nights

@NintonicGamer Sonic 3 and Knuckles isn't on this collection

@KayFiOS yeah it's utter garbage and has sound emulation issues on top of that

Hopefully this means we'll get a better collection and as much as I hate games being delisted, this one is poor on the Switch with near unplayable input lag

Got it at launch but found it to be really disappointing with several glaring issues

This is one of the worst aspects of the game and actually stops me from enjoying it, I can't believe they shipped it like this. Just assigning a 2 or 3 echoes to buttons, like you would items in previous games would make a huge difference. That and a favourite ls bar so you can effectively hide the 90% which are either useless or or literally needed once.

Finally don't limit the use of Link form, so many of this games issues would instantly be solved by simply being able to fight without the need of constantly having to summon something else to do so

I did, my main issue with Breath of The Wild was the lack of real dungeons, sure a handful of the shrines were genuinely excellent (most were pants) and the divine beasts were hugely disappointing and sadly TOTK never really rectified that, although at least it had more higher quality shrines

Echoes has a lot of problems but the dungeons at least are fun and well designed from what I've played so far

Sadly for me, Echoes is certainly one of the weaker entries and even amongst the top down games it's not amongst the best. The echo mechanic really needed a bit more thought in how it's implemented as I feel I spend more time navigating a very long bar than actually playing the game at times. Plus limiting what are essentially better controls with the Link form, is just poor game design as far as I'm concerned.

Ocarina and Wind Waker are still my favourites, with A Link to the Past, Minish Cap and Zelda 2 ranking highly

I'm looking forward to this one, so far on Switch we've had Super Mario Party with its dreadful selection of boards, having just 4 and basically all rubbish.

Superstars faired better with higher quality of boards but really should have had a few more, especially as they're remakes.

Now this one looks to have a good amount and interesting looking boards and might finally stop me regularly playing the Gamecube games

Around an 8 at the moment, making direct combat so limited isn't a great decision and it would have been better with traditional Zelda combat and summoning echoes, as some times I feel I'm just stood there as the game plays itself.

Then the echoes themselves really need some from of curation as it just becomes an unwieldly mess navigating that bar when most of them are useless anyway.

That said the game looks great, is very charming and the dungeons are really fun to explore and the bed becomes your best friend

I might have to get that NES before it's gone, I've got the Atari 2600 Lego and it's great

I guess I'll get in on PS5 then

As quite a few others have said, I'm waiting for the physical release of this

These days I largely ignore most longer games, partly because I don't have as much time anymore but also because most of them have a lot of filler content to pad them out

It certainly takes heavy inspiration from a few of Nintendo's games and specifically a few Mario games but why wouldn't you learn from the best?

I've just got the platinum on Astro Bot and see it as a celebration of gaming, whether that be PlayStation's history, the many cameo's from different publishers and Nintendo's influence on gaming.

It's great fun

@dskatter don't worry, none of us do

I'm looking forward to this, the first Mario Party on Switch has a dreadful selection of boards so I quickly got rid of that one. The next one had good boards but not enough considering they were just remakes, still fun though but finally this looks to have both good quality and a nice number of boards

This all just seems like an awful waste of resources, all that time and electricity wasted just for it not actually be able to fully replicate a near 40 year old video game

OK this now looks incredible, BOTW esque puzzle solving mixed with Link's Awakening visuals and a return to real dungeons, all with a creepy underworld that looks interesting to explore, count me in

Loved the demo but it certainly convinced me to pick it up on Steam instead

Not having take an age to load anything would be nice but yeah it needs all of the above as it's a pretty miserable experience at the moment.

Granted the Wii Shop had way less games but it was a significantly better experience than the mess that's the eshop, so much so that I barely ever browse it.

That said, a shopping basket is a top priority then they need to curate or control what games are on sale and sort out the home page so that it can't be abused by trash games

Can they just shut this place down already, it was the worst video game store when we had multiple to choose from and it's still the worst way to buy games even being the only store left. Not that it's actually a store now but a kiosk in a dreadful clothes store that also sells terrible sports equipment

I'd love for it to be a horror game from Nintendo, Eternal Darkness was great and it'd be cool to see them do something different and this is a fantastic way to get people's attention

When you look at their big franchises they haven't done too badly compared to past generations, granted this is the first without its own Mario Kart, but did get a 3D Mario plus a small 3D Mario game, it's about to have a second unique Zelda plus a shared one, a Yoshi game, Kirby and a couple of massive Xenoblade games amongst more

They've even utilised the Wii U library on Switch but this is going to be a bit more difficult to maintain for the Switch 2, though they still have Wind Waker and Twilight Princess up their sleeves.

It's going to be interesting to see if they can maintain their output and how far away the next 3D Mario and Zelda games are and fingers crossed a new Mario Kart isn't too far away

I've never been worried about going back to an older game and I'm also struggling to think of one that I didn't enjoy returning to. I've replayed the likes of Goldeneye, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and still think they're wonderful to play and if anything I much prefer to revisit older games than play many modern ones

@FoxyDude I gave this a 7 but agree with pretty much everything you said. The mission style gameplay really interupts the flow and the shiny ghosts don't look as good as those in the first game

Probably a 7, it's a good remaster that improves the visuals smartly and the only negatives being the design choices of the 3DS original. I'm enjoying replaying it

@WaveBoy with current controllers I agree but you can play it on PC just fine with a modern lightgun, it's just a shame the console manufacturers won't adopt the technology

Even better if you buy your eshop credit from curry's first using DIGI15 for 15% off saving you another £10 or so off the cost

@Paulo there are some great light gun games on Wii but it was never as good as using a real light gun, still fun and far better than the Switch though.

@AtlanteanMan VR is a great way to play such games but I wish console manufacturers would look at the Sinden Lightgun (which works brilliantly on modern displays) as a way to bring these games back

I picked this up for £40 and I'm actually pleasantly surprised how good it looks on the TV and they've done a good job updating the visuals. It's certainly my least favourite of the trilogy but still a game I really enjoy. Sure if you have the 3DS version there is little reason to get this unless you really want to play it on the TV but if you're new to the franchise then this is the best way to play it

@RobotReptile it's on Amazon Japan https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/aw/d/B0D3Q69V5V/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5&psc=1&th=1

I've preordered the Japanese version of this as it was just £15 more and if rather have a pair of the Famicom controllers than an empty gold cartridge

Any chance we can get the best Star Wars games? Rogue Squadron/Leader and Shadows of the Empire

Capcom having a showcase for RE7 on a platform where almost nobody will buy it anyway? I'm looking forward to seeing more of Dead Rising though

Realistically I'd never be playing this in multiplayer anyway, so of the single player is good then that's what counts. Just a shame Sega seemingly don't know how to accurately recreate the feel of those original games

I love how Nintendo still have reasonably sized games and they still look amazing, though I'll be getting it on a cartridge

None really, I'd much rather see them make another Zelda game in that style and it could simply be mixed with the creative side, perhaps it is in the new game, we're assuming much based on a short trailer.

Even TOTK does it to an extent by limiting how much you can use Zonai devices initially as well as the type of devices, so you still have the progression the series has always being built upon. In the new game it certainly looks like you could well be limited where you can explore or tackle until you've learned certain echoes

Lots of games I'm looking forward to but mainly, Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, Mario Party, Metroid Prime 4 and Mario & Luigi

It's weird how the best N64 emulator Nintendo had was back in the Wii and hopefully these issues get fixed. I tried this myself and it's a shame they don't bother adjusting the sensitivity for their (inferior) modern analogue sticks. It's borderline unplayable with the joy cons and even the N64 controller doesn't fully correct the issue

@Banjo- there's a native PC port that he's referring to, which is the best way to play this game, the XBLA version is decent but still has some issues

This game looks stunning and whilst I'm not entirely sure how I'm gonna feel about the lack of a sword, I am very much looking forward to playing this game