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Fantastic dessert joke, Kate.

@kingbk Have you played Octo Expansion?

6/10, would've been a 7 if it hadn't been this long or if we had more to look forward to this year. Not many games that are to my taste, Fall Guys looks fun and I'll keep an eye on Mario Golf and Neon White. I'll pick up Skyward Sword when it's on sale. Splatoon 3 is a cool announcement, but they should've showed off some of the single player stuff.

Love the game, definitely want to play it again, but not for $60.
IMO it does have the best dungeons, items and sword combat in any of the Zelda games. I'll wait for a sale, which will take years.

Bowser's Fury turned out to be an absolute delight, combining Odyssey's freedom with a much stronger focus on platforming and skill. It's not worth the full price (what 5 hour game is?) but since I was expecting an hour long with content repeated from 3D World, I was pleasantly surprised. I was originally hoping for Galaxy 3 next but now I'm hoping they use this format.

Thanks @beazlen1 !

Can anyone answer what would be benefit of this compared to a generic $20 device that converts SCART to HDMI and thus can be used on any old console and requires no software?

@Rambler That's correct, it's a region that isn't in the main game and you're free to explore it. Good call by Ubisoft.

@the_beaver
BotW owes a lot to the AC series for sure, climbing freely is a game changer. But whereas BotW blends ideas from Skyrim, Minecraft, Red Dead Redemption and adds a bunch of ideas of its own (god I love that chemistry engine), Immortals feels like Ubisoft told its AC studio "let's get as close to BotW as we can, gameplay-wise". Check out this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSuMZyCWqLQ

It does an admirable job, it's a good game, but it's clearly derivative from one source. Definitely looking forward to what the team does next, they only had 2 years for Immortals, after all.

@meeto_1 There's lots of control options, thankfully.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi The demo takes place in a completely different region from the main game and doesn't take place at the start of the game, so no the save data can't be transferred.

@the_beaver I like the game and it's worth playing, but it's about 80% a copy of Breath of the Wild. And BotW does everything a little better.

@duffmmann New 3DS and DSi are great examples... of handhelds that did barely anything with their extra power. I'd count them as arguments against a Switch Pro.

Nintendo has sold 70+ million regular Switches and it's selling insanely well, why fracture the market now? Just hold on for 2 years and bring a successor.

3 out of my 4 joy con are now drifting, it's pathetic. I can't believe they haven't updated their controllers yet. Switch is pretty much the perfect console in every other way to me.

"The list does seem to stretch the meaning of "indie" quite far, given that Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a Microsoft-published game, and Streets of Rage 4 is licensed out by Sega"

Indie usually refers to the developer rather than the publisher, though.

"it was a trail by fire"

Wow, he must've run really fast!

the jump looks a little odd but otherwise it looks pretty great!

I think it looks great, but I'll probably pick it up on PS4.

Hyper Light Drifter would be my favourite indie on Switch if it wasn't for Hollow Knight. Anyone who likes 2D Zeldas or action-packed games with a bit of challenge should check it out. That soundtrack is especially amazing.

Thanks for putting this on my radar, NL! I likely dismissed it because I'm not a fan of the art-style, but everything else sounds like my kind of thing.

Definitely picking this up. Definitely not for €60. I'll wait until it's on sale for 20.

Gods & Monsters is definitely a better name, but okay

So this looks pretty, but... multiplayer? No word on that?

Listening to the new tracks on YouTube, it seems they're almost exclusively metal or dubstep. I was definitely sold on this DLC before, but those really aren't my genres. I'll wait for a discount, personally.

Hoping DLC #3 contains some new environments and enemies!

Not enough "Strike the tail!"

Burnout's 30% off... almost there, I'll pick it up for $20 or less, EA.

@Yanina I can't speak for others but I didn't pick up Link's Awakening because it doesn't have enough content. Nintendo gets away with pricing their titles whatever they want because they're not available elsewhere. Not saying that's fair, but it's pretty clear EA is only releasing $60 Switch games so they can take full advantage of the sale-trick on the Eshop. You're welcome to buy it full-priced at launch, of course.

Will pick this up for sure! ... when it's on sale for $20, the price it should be selling at.

Are there any controllers like this with gyro and rumble?

This looks fantastic! Definitely waiting for reviews but it's got so much charm and gorgeous pixelart.

@Anti-Matter Tools Up, Cannibal Cuisine

Overcooked 2 is easily one of the best multiplayer games on Switch.

I just wish the level selection was easier, what's with having to spend minutes loading overworlds and having to manually find that one level you liked so much? Just give us a list and the ability to favourite levels.

I don't want curation / quality control, because it'll delay every game on Switch by weeks/months and it'll result in people whining about their weeaboo titles being blocked.

Watch gameplay videos, read reviews and don't blindly buy eshop titles, it's not that hard.

This looks fantastic

Definitely picking this one up! ... when it's $20, or less.

@andyc777 In Color Splash I had no idea why I would even battle enemies anymore. They just dropped more cards to do more battles, etc etc. I started avoiding battles altogether. I got to the bit with the timed haunted mansion, where I failed to do all the tasks I needed to do in 30 minutes so the game reset my entire progress. I then closed the game, I couldn't believe they actually put that in a game: a required timed quest that the game doesn't tell you about.

I'm cautiously pessimistic.

I didn't even mind Color Splash's card-based combat, but I was wondering why on earth if all it does for you is give you more cards to fight more. So I skipped every opportunity to combat.

Hyper Light Cat. I'm down with this.

@Kaas I turned my volume up loud to hear the background music. Thanks @Damo

EA realises better than most posters here how well games on sale sell on Switch. Some people will pick it up full price, and most people (like me) will pick it up when it drops 50%-75%. Let's face it, 50% off is about the normal price for this. So basically, the higher the price is while still on sale, the more they earn. That's how you get to a base price of $50.

@Grandiajet @Kintypoo121 The second game is much, much more forgiving. The first one has you trying the same stage 12 times in a row to get an extra star, this one lets you progress with just 1 or 2 stars. There's also way less annoying level elements (slippery surfaces, lava).

Thumper, Cadence of Hyrule and Sayonara Wild Hearts are all highly recommended.

I'm not seeing the Slay The Spire discount. I'm in Europe. UK only?

Picked up Conduct Together (-90%), Völgarr (-90%), The Stretchers (-30%) and Shakedown Hawaii (-50%)

Hyper Light Drifter is amazing, great soundtrack and combat system. Great cyberpunk atmosphere and storytelling through absolutely 0 text. Highly recommended for its original price, a no brainer for $10. Unless you dislike difficult games.

Probably good to note that while it's published by Nintendo, it's actually developed by Paladin studios, an indie team based in the Netherlands.

Love the social satire in failing upwards through your career because you're the boss' son.

@EdScissorshands Turns out Good Job is developed by Paladin Studios, a Dutch indie team. So it's like The Stretchers: published by Nintendo, developed by indies.

Are you guys not going to post a news article for Good Job, a brand-new Nintendo-published co-op game about the boss' son, physically wrecking a company while doing menial tasks and failing upwards in your career? Easily the most exciting game of the bunch.

This'll be the best arcade racer on the Switch, then? Hope they make a new one at some point. Wish they'd add splitscreen multiplayer, something absent from tons of games from the PS360 era.

Looks cool! I definitely want more 3D platformers, although most end up being okay-at-best.

I wonder how much it would've been if they went ahead with the original design.

I'm 100% picking this up, it sounds exactly like the sort of thing I've been looking for since Night in the Woods. Sadly didn't care for Oxenfree.