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Interesting to see how many memories in these comments have to do with Pokemon Blue. Did no one have Pokemon Red??

(ok the memory I submitted is also about Blue)

Snake also uses a dualshock 3 controller when you take control of the little mini metal gear robot droid thing.

Love this game! Glad it's finally broken free of its confinement on PS3.

I picked up this game at launch, but I set it down after a couple of weeks as other things took my attention. I just got back into it the other day, and I'm so in love with it. Such a unique game with a fun combat system.

Mario Sports is the one example in the entire sports genre where I kinda expect a robust single player mode.

It could just be nostalgia speaking, but I remember playing the heck out of Toadstool Tour and Mario Superstar Baseball on GameCube on my own. Haven't played them in ages though so maybe it's just that I was a kid and easily entertained.

@Thomystic My favorite way is to use a bedside tablet stand to hold the switch above my head so I can lie on my back, and with the separate joycons I can have my arms resting at my side. The most ergonomic way to play games while lying down.

@Chocobo_Shepherd No - it was just a poor choice, and your suggestion would be an even poorer choice... Maybe they should've stuck to musicians!

Me with my 1080p 60hz TV: Yeah looks great 😅

Rushed to download this one immediately!! Thanks for the heads up 🤩

Suddenly game key cards don't seem all that bad, huh?

On one hand I trust Square Enix to put proper care into this release, but on the other hand, I want to caution people against preordering this game. Rebirth on the base PS5 was notoriously blurry and was really only able to shine on the PS5 Pro.

They did amazing things with VII Remake on Switch 2, but that was originally a PS4 game. I worry about how well Rebirth will make the jump to Switch 2 when it was built ground up for the PS5, and even that console could hardly handle it.

Absolutely loved Paranormasight on switch! Great art style, actually interesting gameplay mechanics for a visual novel type game. Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't tried it.

Can't wait for the follow up!

Wii would like to play?

@Kingy As one of those people who hasn't played it, I'll avoid saying too much, but I'll point out that differing opinions on this game are obviously subjective. What's paced well for one person might not be for another.

I think of the recent TV show Pluribus, where I watched it thinking it was a masterpiece of television, keeping me glued to the screen the entire time - and then I go on the internet and see loads of voices calling it boring and slow.

I made that general comment about cuts made thinking of the recent Final Fantasy Tactics remaster, where every comment section on the internet was filled with people saying it's a ripoff because it didn't include two bonus classes and two cameo characters from the PSP version.

Since I haven't played DQVII, I don't have a strong opinion about it, but I think in general, the idea that more content is always better is a misplaced idea. That's where I was coming from - responding to a general sentiment I often see in internet comment sections. Maybe I'm off base on this one, but it's not really for me to say.

No matter what the naysayers argue: more content is not always better!

Sometimes, recognizing elements of your own creation that you can edit out to form a more cohesive, well-paced experience is a good thing, actually.

I never bought any of these things! It seems like a cute idea but didn't go anywhere beyond a novel toy you use once or twice. Maybe if there was a whole ecosystem developed around it with 3rd party support or creative ways to make your own gadgets out of regular cardboard, it could've had some staying power.

As it is? I'm content never touching or seeing anything to do with LABO.

Interesting to have so much "it doesn't quite live up to X game series" - being unfavorably compared against other games at least three times, and then see a 9/10 score at the end.

Obviously a score is just a number and people who take it seriously are missing the point of reviews, but I was not at all expecting a close to perfect score based on the text of this review.

Nothing here really stands out for me, at least as an exclusive. I'll probably pick up Fortune's Weave one day, but it's not worth buying a Switch 2 yet.

That headrest mount is awesome 👌

Switch is better than most other portable gaming options because you can remove the controllers and mount the screen separately! Allows for a lot more ergonomic solutions if you're creative

As for me, I've just been playing Forza Horizon 5

I love driving across the beautiful map, through desert and jungle and canyons, finding new cars and customizing them. It might just be the best car / racing game I've ever played.

Most recently I started the Rally Adventure DLC and it might be the best part for me - I love me some rally (I'll take an off-road rally any day over the super fast super cars)

@Zuljaras AC: Origins is one of the best games I've ever played! For me, mostly because of the virtual tourism aspect. Who wouldn't want to explore Ptolemaic Egypt as the Romans are beginning to take over? Cities like Memphis are breathtaking to me. Hope you're enjoying!

9/12!

Had no idea about the Splatoon thing (never played it), Fitness Boxing (guessed DQ since it actually has big remakes recently/upcoming), and the amiibo release month (why oh why would I care or remember that)

Who's out here buying a PS4? It's time to move on!

@Serena_ It keeps the game in the news cycle. That results in more awareness of the game, name, branding, and even content (people who've never heard of the game are curious what's been censored and then they see screenshots for the first time). These are all positives for marketing.

If nothing else, this whole debacle is great marketing for this game.

I don't care if he never releases it. I'm glad he's taking his time to work on something he really cares about, however long it takes. Not enough artists do that (or rather CAN do that).

Yeah, so you can also use AI tools to slap together a fancy website that looks really polished.

But when you try to maintain that AI-generated website over many years and add new features without breaking any existing functionality, suddenly it's really difficult because no one understands the codebase and the AI is getting things wrong (as all AI tools do constantly, every day, to this day, and there's nothing about the technology that guarantees generative AI will stop getting things wrong).

And websites are extremely simple compared to video games. It may not matter if buttons are styled slightly differently and show different behavior when hovered on every page of a web app, but players expect consistency in game mechanics.

Sure, we see in these videos that you can produce some weak facsimile of one part of an existing video game, or some generic Frankenstein of the most-streamed video games on YouTube, but can you use this technology to actually produce anything useful for game devs, components that can be tweaked and inserted as a functional part of an overall project? I'm not convinced.

I don't care what they say, Hugh Morris is King

@Bass_X0 I guess I meant silly from a business perspective as opposed to a consumer perspective. But I think I agree with you.

Also shouldn't really be confusing to consumers since they wouldn't be accessed through the same storefront (one is on the shop and the other is on the NSO GameCube app)

Also, I could be wrong, but isn't it a little silly to offer Pikmin 2 as a Nintendo Classic when there's already an HD remastered version available on Switch?

"not planned for release at this time"

So planned for a later time then. Got it!

Well the videos that got popular for the 3DS game were mostly people holding up their phone cameras to the screen, so if we have to revert to doing that, then we will

inb4 someone complains about "plz" in the tag line 🫣

This here is Mona Pizzaaaaa
Makers of the world's best eatsaaaa
Fresh sauce and cheese galooore
Brought straight to your front doooor
(Touched soundtrack when?)

Cool, but... I'm not planning on using 3rd party controllers on modern systems when they always lack features compared to the real deal.

There are services on eBay that will repair or replace joysticks with TMR sticks. You can even buy controllers outright with the joysticks already replaced.

You know, we're coming up on the 40th anniversary of Zelda... I'll take anything, even Twilight Princess 🙏

I hope the new Rhythm Heaven gets its own direct too!

All these people complaining about how niche and uninteresting Tomodachi Life is, and meanwhile it easily outsell Rhythm Heaven... Which is the actual best series Nintendo has ever made.

Basically every title here is worth playing. If you like turned-based battles, grab yourself a copy of Final Fantasy X and don't look back.

What a list!

It's definitely a must for racing games in my experience - especially ones that lean more towards simulation

This was my most-played switch game of 2025, but I completely dropped it a bit after finishing the story. At the time, I fully intended to get the DLC when it released... Now I'm reading this article thinking "wait, the DLC is out?"

Maybe I'll go back to it one day

I'm amazed that the improved textures, lighting, and reduced pop-in from the PS5 version is all here on the Switch 2 version.

I know they mentioned the lighting changes were mostly artistic choices rather than things held back by the hardware on PS4, but why did the PS4 original have so many low res textures?? Glad Switch 2 isn't plagued with that weirdness

There's gonna be so many great Scott's Stash videos over all the various little updates Switch games get on their Switch 2 versions.

I'd be surprised if Forza Horizon 6 doesn't eventually drop on Switch 2!

Final Fantasy XIV, for sure, but honestly every game after FFXII would be nice! Give us a XIII trilogy, give us FFXV so we can road trip with the bros.

Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I think the Phantom Hourglass soundtrack is great! Maybe not as fondly remembered and a bit derivative, much like the game itself, but I played through it last year and I was really surprised by some of the tunes on offer here.

I often choose to play certain games in 30fps quality mode on my PS5 because for many games, it really doesn't make a difference.

For more action / adventure / platforming type games, yes, give me 60 fps performance mode all day. But animal crossing? I couldn't care less that it's 30fps.

We've been trained to focus on negatives by algorithms that prioritize engagement over everything else. Content creators make money on YouTube with long videos only pointing out flaws in games they claim to otherwise love.

One of the first comments on this article only has negative things to say about the game, and then says "it's a 7/10" which is a decidedly above average score (meaning, assumedly, more positives than negatives). It's so odd to me - if you like something enough to consider it above average, why would you share only criticism? Maybe sharing more about the parts you liked could help elevate the discourse.

Ready for my Daddy of Dojima 😍

It's so funny how many people buy into the venture capitalist / shareholder propaganda. Of course they say "it's going to constantly improve" and other capitalist nonsense that assumes endless resources because that's what gets them short term $$$.

In reality, the capabilities have plateaued for years now, every AI company is bleeding money, and there's not actually good evidence to show that it IS going to improve any more - they just hope if they throw enough money at it and build more data centers, something magical will happen eventually.

I often use AI tools at work as a software developer, and while they're immensely useful to generate boilerplate and reduce the number of rote tasks I have to do, when you work with these tools regularly, you become intimately aware of their limitations.

I'm genuinely scared for the future with the number of people who rely on LLM chatbots to make decisions and trust them as valid sources of information. The disclaimers are right there - LLMs don't know anything, they don't think, and they regularly hallucinate information. They're fancy autocomplete, probabilistically generating text strings based on previous input. But people ignore that because it feels magical to use chatGPT, and critical thinking goes out the window.

My top three:

1. Pokemon Legends Z-A
2. Persona 5 Royal
3. Zelda: Breath of the Wild

All hovering around 50 hours

No one deserves $35 billion. No one even deserves $1 billion.

I don't think people comprehend how much that is: The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

That means someone with a million or two is closer to a minimum wage worker than they are to someone with a billion dollars.

No one should have a billion dollars.

Welcome aboard Mai! I hope you enjoy it!