cedarhyped

@PessitheMystic You’re calling it “bad” and asking for a “pragmatic” evaluation, but pragmatic relative to what?

It was a commercial failure. That’s settled history. There was nothing “pragmatic” about rereleasing it. This review isn’t grading it as a competitive platform. It’s assessing whether the rerelease makes sense for the niche audience it’s actually aimed at.

@PessitheMystic It’s goofy watching you and others complain about a review score for a device they’re not the target audience for and clearly don’t understand.

The Virtual Boy is being rereleased because it’s strange and historically interesting, not because Nintendo is trying to compete with modern hardware. The game library is small because it bombed. That’s not a flaw of the rerelease: that’s literally the history.

No one expected Mario Odyssey 2 on a red-and-black 90s novelty headset.

This review is asking: “Should someone in 2026 buy this for what it is?” If you’re grading it for “pragmatism,” you’ve already missed the point.

@NPC411 You’re circling the point without noticing it. If you need specific regions and cherry-picked time windows to argue that a record-breaking, fastest-selling console with tens of millions of units sold is “actually not doing well,” the argument has already collapsed.

I hope the load times aren’t long. I enjoyed playing Doom on the Switch 1, but I ended up lowering the difficulty just to avoid what felt like 30-60 second load screens, particularly on the optional challenges.

Today we all learned physical only fanatics can’t read.

Saying you prefer Hollow Knight feels a little contrarian at this point.
Silksong keeps the same core design and just pushes everything further. Faster movement, deeper combat, bigger world, more variety.

If someone prefers the gentler difficulty or the mood of the original, fair enough.
But on pure game design terms, Silksong is basically Hollow Knight with the ceiling raised.

@DashKappei “Mental gymnastics”? You mean like the kind required to play any video game without first running a criminal background check on everyone in the credits?

Does anyone having any Switch 2 comments for the original? Is it a “blurry mess” in handheld?

I wouldn’t normally care about these things, but I was recently really unimpressed with Clubhouse Games.

Oh no guys. Nintendo is doomed.

@OwenGamer22 Dispatch sold over a million copies on 10 days. Skull Girls took five years on Steam.

@PtM Disagree. If it were that simple, they just wouldn’t have responded at all. They clearly didn’t like they way AdHoc worded it, so they felt they need to address it, but the only way they can is with corporate speak.

@NintonicGamer Agreed, but I think the fact that Nintendo felt the need to respond at all shows they’re not impressed with AdHoc trying to throw them under the bus, which seems like solid evidence that AdHoc absolutely shares more of the blame than they’d like us to believe.

Fortunately uncensored Dispatch is “unbelievably affordable” on the PC if AdHoc wants to be lazy and play games on Switch.

@MTMike87 this exactly. What are we even doing here?

@jwfurness true, you can hardly walk down the street without tripping over used $30 copies of Nintendo switch first party games.

Why is Nintendo Life and the community even trying to review what’s basically a five dollar DLC? Clicks I guess

@SirLink I’m thrilled there’s a lawyer in the comments: you can help me get my kids back.

@GoldenSunRM You’d be wrong in Italy too, at least as far as your 100% certainly goes:

https://www.wired.com/story/mediaworld-accidentally-sold-ipads-for-euro15-then-it-asked-for-them-back/

“… Article 1428 of the Italian Civil Code allows a contract to be voided if the error is fundamental and recognizable …”

@sportvater @PhillyG411 Yeah, they could have taken it back. Business laws protect consumers AND businesses.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8d4fce33-a7a0-47de-a797-3d4e7c8b26ae

I’m surprised too TBH.

ALERT: Cyberpunk is currently experiencing what’s likely a pricing error in the US and CAD sale. 75% off digital, so like $17. Probably intended to be the Witcher 3 discount.

@PikminMarioKirby You are massively delusional, objectively speaking. The Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time. The PS5 beat it in one country, in one month, and those two aren’t even exclusively competitors since the libraries don’t overlap and many of us own both. But yeah, I’m sure Nintendo has “learned a lesson”, just not the one you’re hoping for.

@nessisonett Yes, we can only pray that Fire Emblem shall reach the dizzying heights it had once attained, and that this stain on its peerless legacy can be, if not washed cleaned, blurred by the gentle passage of time.

@nessisonett From “This sort of stinker is indicative of the general reputation of Fire Emblem these days” to “this niche series is in a lull because the last one I declare ‘had an impact’ was released 6 years ago.” Thanks for your insightful, non-controversial takes.

@MamaSymphonia I too think that people should work hard to give me free stuff if I decide it’s “old”.

I’m amazed so many of you have such a thorough understanding of the game before release. It’s honestly impressive. Have you considered running a YouTube channel?

The commentary around these departures is way too dramatic. People leave companies. People join companies. When someone quits, it gets treated like a death omen for the studio, but when new talent arrives, nobody says a word. Then those “unknowns” make great games, stick around for a decade, and eventually leave too. The cycle repeats, and nothing about it is unusual.

I’ve tried going back to the older Animal Crossing games after New Horizons, and it’s surprisingly hard. Once you get used to things like crafting, outdoor furniture, terraforming, moving buildings, swimming, and all the QoL updates, the older ones feel like they’re missing half the game.

@CammyUnofficial I heartily agree that would be ideal. I bet you can load the file on a Miyoo Mini or similar device.

The reason people make Gameboy games in 2025 is at least half because it’s effective marketing. There are millions of retro games on Steam. One way to stand out is to do a Gameboy release, even if you sell only 500 copies. The only reason this site is reporting it is because of the format, and now @JohnnyMind and I might get it on Steam or wherever.

@AStupidID “Loads of people are refunding COD: Slops 7 because of the AI.” And yet it will remain one of the best selling games of the year, hence his point.

@Giberaltor That’s right, you can’t even buy All You Can eat on Switch 2. The devs must be nuts.

Hey guys I’m having pasta for dinner. Do you mind if I dump your comments into the pasta water?

Unless I’m reading this wrong, this matches the best price that Steam has ever offered for the base game plus DLC. Another example of where the “Switch tax” is either misinterpreted or made up; it’s just a new release price.

@SpaceboyScreams that’s a good point. I think I’ve actually spent more time modding Skyrim than playing Skyrim, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing: I had fun doing it.

@SpaceboyScreams I agree for games like Skyrim where there are overhauls, new quest lines, new companions, but the most popular Cyberpunk mods so far as far more minor. I wouldn’t say any of of them make the game longer, just the hours more refined. They are great though, don’t get me wrong.

@JayJ that’s not all aluminum then, is it.

@MatoFilipovic Apparently we’re reading different reviews. It’s just the usual suspects not optimizing their games for the hardware. The first two games had performance issues on the Switch one, despite being relatively simple graphically.

@Dang_69 Apparently not unpleasant for the majority of people, judging by fan and critic reviews. Plenty of videos online showing it running at a stable 30-40fps for the majority of the game, only dropping down to 20 during some sections of the DLC where even the more powerful consoles suffer. So no, I can’t say that there’s any exaggeration of how it’s running on a 10-20w console.

@8thDoctor It makes financial sense to price high for early adopters. In that sense $30 seems pretty fair, as it’ll be $15 when it goes 50% in a year or so.

@JayJ 150 million people own Switch 1, vs 2 million own the Switch 2. Also, I’m pretty sure the 4K 120FPS community is a vocal minority, like buying vinyl.

@Gohanjin you’re literally the only person I’ve seen say that on any site, so yeah you might want to book an appointment with an optometrist.

@Markatron84 Fortunately Nintendo is heroically charging more for their content than ever, bearing the brunt of consumer ire to build a brighter future for devs everywhere.

Loving the dramatic pronouncements that Nintendo is “losing their most loyal fans.” Two days ago Bananza was a game of the year contender, now it’s the death knell of the company.

If your plans are that mercurial, you’re one good game away from hopping back on the bandwagon.

People upset over this change have either forgotten or been totally unaware of the tons of balance adjustments made to the first game, or maybe they disagree with balance changes on principle.

@Oldstalk I haven't played Silksong yet myself, but I'm wondering if your Hollow Knight experience made it so you intuit the map and design more easily than you did on your first playthrough of Hollow Knight, so it feels more linear.

I pretty much always wait for sales, and DLC guarantees it. I’ll buy it in like, 3 years.

I was about to pull the trigger on Cult of the Lamb. Haven’t decided what to do about that. Dead Cells should be on its biggest sale ever in the near future.

Some of you guys are hopelessly idealistic. The standard has not been raised. Nintendo is not lowering its prices. Other indies aren’t likely to lower their prices. Good games regularly fail to be profitable. Survivorship bias is rife in the industry. No one would be talking about Silksong if it wasn’t the sequel of a famous game. FIFA makes a gazillion dollars. Nothing has changed, and that’s fine.

@Sabruka Yes. If both games were aiming to wander around in space, NMS is the winner, but Starfield was trying to be a first class RPG, which NMS fails miserably at.

@RadioDog me too. I’ve waited until now to buy Dead Cells, and I’m still kind of waiting for them to call it Dead Cells Complete, and a sale price. I’ll probably stop doing that when I’m 60 or so so I don’t run out the clock lol

How is this different from the stuff that’s already officially licensed from Nintendo? I mean you can already get stuffy’s, plastic play sets, and presumably lots of other stuff. I can see the quality on this looks higher, but is it really a strategy shift?

@FishyS I’m bewildered by what to expect from Mario Maker 3. A bit like Smash Ultimate, it’s hard to guess where they go for there.