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@Bret couldn’t agree more, no way I’ll ever play Phantom Hourglass again, the stealth sections are awful and that main temple is a pain. It also didn’t introduce any new items. Spirit Tracks didn’t have any of the flaws that PH had, and yeah the music’s great.

Unlike the majority here I didn’t mind the touch controls.

Something like this is my wish for BotW2. Of course the Switch is not powerful enough to render an open world twice, but maybe if you have to relatively near each other it could work. If not, I'll even take a Cappy Mode from Odyssey.

@Spoony_Tech I’ve heard many stories of people getting into Monster Hunter thanks to someone else, I think there’s something to that. It feels like the demos are made for people who are already familiar with the series, to convince them to buy the game. To be fair, a lot of Japanese game tutorials are awful, Nintendo are the exception to the rule.

Anyway, the Rise demo felt anything but streamlined.

This’ll be the fourth Monster Hunter demo I try out to get into the series. I’ll bet it’s just as user unfriendly as the other ones, dumping pages of text in my face.

Maybe make a special tutorial monster and explain 1 technique at a time? By all means a Boss Battle Action game should be a slam dunk for me, they really need to work on making it beginner-friendly. That doesn’t mean making it easy or not putting in depth, I’ve beaten and loved Cuphead, Bayonetta 2, Astral Chain and Thumper.

Two mediocre boxarts. I dislike the little boxes with characters on the Western one but the sepia filter completely ruins the Japanese one, so I’ll go with West on this one.

Hope so, Shy Guy is one of my favourite characters to use in the Mario Party games. The sounds they make are just adorable and they’re also kinda troll-y. Would love to see what Next Level Games animating a Shy Guy would do.

Seems like the only Indie Words that get positive reactions are the ones that feature games people already know — maybe adjust your expectations if you expect every Indie World to have Hollow Knight or Sports Story.

Since I love platformers and weird games, there’s about half a dozen interesting games on here, which by all accounts is a good score. Ooblets, Elechead, Soundfall, Wildfrost, Gunbrella, Mini Motorways, Another Crab’s Treasure and Gibbon all look like interesting games to me.

Definitely picking this up, thanks for the review guys!

Death's Door been at the top of my wislist so I jumped on that one. Considering Banana Mania, Boomerang X, Fire Emblem and Phoenix Wright.

@Felixfromdownunder I've heard putting your Switch in airplane mode fixes this, and if it's the one after you fly the plane, doing barrel rolls consistently towards the end.

@imgrowinglegs Interesting, they've been on my wishlist but the artstyle and supposed difficulty have been holding me back, might pick 'em up if they get another good deal, thanks for the heads up!

Love the Adventure Time art-style and character design. I heard the first 2 are very difficult but if this one is more laid-back I'll probably pick it up sooner or later.

Fun trailer btw, definitely worth a watch!

Looks like the regular crowd so far to me, but I'm sure my 300+ games wishlist will have some good deals. I've been eyeing Baba Is You.

But 35% off on Hot Wheels sounds promising, too!

The demo's well worth a shot, I immediately put the game on my wishlist after playing it.

Fantastic list! I’d definitely add the criminally underappreciated Red Steel 2. Could maybe work with a Skyward Sword-esque controls in handheld, or make it Docked Only.

Ah yes, “unexpected technical issues”. So why didn’t you send out any review copies or show any gameplay footage again?

@The_Pixel_King I’m curious what you mean by “no matter how much they probably deserve it”?

People defending this game should look up some footage of LA Noire and compare the two. It runs smoother, in a higher resolution with way better textures and lighting.

I really hope they fix it through updates because this would've been a day 1 buy for me if it wasn't so crap.

Or just give us a port of Chinatown Wars, that was a great game.

Rockstar should've delayed the game or picked a different development team with a better track record.

Where's the GTA review? Did you guys not get an advanced copy? Is the embargo not up until after release day?

Nice artstyel, but I hope there's a font size option

Them not releasing a single second of Switch footage and the review embargo being on release day are not great signs. No way I'm buying it until I'm seeing at least some footage.

Loquaciousness! Those word-of-the-day calendars are great, aren't they?

I'll go with late 2023, 6 years seems like a good run.

I always wish Treasure had a chance to work on a popular franchise like Star Fox. Based on the sequel to this game they'd do an amazing job.

Defintely picking it up! ... When it's like $10-20

And definitely agreeing with some of these comments, Lego City Undercover is amazing!

An umbrella, brilliant

People misspelling rogue as rouge is one of my favourite things. I'm counting 4 on this page.

Sounds and looks good! Not sure about $60-good, but I'll pick it up sooner or later. Can't believe they never ported GTA V.

Every silver lining has a cloud

@Clyde_Radcliffe It reminds me of the shrines in Breath of the Wild, it's entirely physics-based and it's fun to just mess around.

30 million? I thought this was a niche game. Through humble bundle and things like that, maybe? Either way, really fun.

I'm considering spending a coupon (so, €50) on Skyward Sword since it's my favourite pre-BotW Zelda, but I do agree that it's overpriced.

Famitsu doesn't count

I don't blame EA, they're transparent about what they're doing (it even says so on the eshop page), I blame the people buying the game anyway. Enough for it to be a top seller every year in Europe.

It wasn't as bad as Twilight Princess' dreadfully slow start, but I'm still happy they're streamlining this. Between this and Fi's unwanted advice they're doing a pretty good job convincing me to pick it up again.

Treasure should make a Star Fox game, they'd be perfect at that. They make great games, but they sell poorly so they should attach a stronger IP to it.

I'm still trying to get into this game. Its world is amazing and its writing is great, but its combat and gameplay loop aren't grabbing me. Kinda bummed I paid full price for it, I was hoping it'd give me the "adventure feel" that BotW and RDR2 give me.

Not sure how this is a platformer, but it looks cool!

I'm curious how this isn't copyright infringement? Is he paying Nintendo for using their characters? Getting paid to draw fanart sounds like a dream come true, good on him.

Just what I was hoping! Nintendo isn't splitting up their Switch audience with games that some people can and can't play. Just bring a real successor in like 2 years with PS4-quality graphics.

10/10 for Prime, Prime 3, Trilogy, Super Metroid, Zero Mission and Fusion. This is one of my favourite franchises, for sure.

8/10 for Prime 2 and Samus Returns, great games but not quite as good as others in the series.

7/10 for Other M which was fun, but had an awful story and was pretty ugly.

Cutting the Fi explanations will cut the game by 2 hours, and it’ll be so much better for it.

Definitely keep these articles coming!

@Patrick-Sukiyaki Nice non-binary straw person argument

Tony Hawk for me as well. I hope they'll do a free week for this one like they did with Aces. Otherwise, maybe on a sale.

@Yodalovesu MercurySteam, same developers as Samus Returns

People interested in a good Monkey Ball game should check out Marble It Up! and Glyph (thanks @AlexOlney), both great indie ball-rolling games with fantastic level designs. Glyph is more about bouncing/air time though.

So here's hoping this one's good!

Bummer, it's definitely really charming and pretty.

Looks cool! But there’s basically 0 platforming in the trailer.

Given that the vast majority of the dozens of titles will be completely unknown to virtually everyone one, maybe add some screenshots or trailers?