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@Crono1973 You can use touch controls to draw something on the bulletin board at the Plaza, but not when designing patterns. It's a little inconsistent.

@Deltath @Nintendofan83

No, you can't transfer save data to another Switch at the moment because Animal Crossing handles its save differently from other games and doesn't support the standard Switch transfer features.

However they announced that they will release a custom made transfer function some time later this year.

I'm really looking forward to this. I backed it on Kickstarter and unfortunately they don't allow to switch to Switch (their words 😁) for technical reasons. At least I don't have to worry about performance issues on PC, which is always a risk with indie 3D games on Switch.

I really liked this game, but I never finished it. Might be a good time to go back to it.

I've bought it on Android and it works pretty well with touch controls, but in the end I bought it again on the Switch to play it with a proper controller.

You must be new to Kickstarter if this is surprising to you in any way. Every time a bigger company is doing a Kickstarter campaign it is to "gauge interest", especially for video games . Even if the game isn't already finished when the campaign starts, it is more useful as bargaining chip with investors/publishers than for the actual money. Even if you get a million or two through Kickstarter, that isn't enough to fund a mid tier game and a huge chunk of it is eaten up by paying for fees and physical rewards.

In addition most backers treat it as a glorified pre-order anyway. I don't have a problem with developers doing the same.

@teamdoa no, you are missing the point in this case. This has nothing to do with censorship. The physics engine on the Switch version glitches out and produced unintended panty shots. This is just a bug fix.

Why would they retroactively censor the Japanese version anyway? They usually only do it for the western release and that hasn't happened, yet.

@Wilforce I don't think it is that complicated. They wanted to completely disable the ability to copy saves to avoid cheating and they also have to handle the saves differently because one save is shared between different accounts on the same Switch.

After the fan backlash they changed their mind but don't have enough time now to implement it at launch, because they can't use the standard implementation that is already available.

@Zyph It was a little bit different in the past. On the DS and 3DS saves were stored on the cartridge which is less likely to break than the console itself. On the WiiU you could store saves on external hard drives. But on the Switch they are locked inside the internal memory of the console.

@Burning_Spear No, as has been posted several times in this comment section already, the European website says they will add a function to transfer saves between Switches "later this year" (specifically for Animal Crossing, other games support this already).

For 9.99 € I'll probably buy Rayman Legends again, just so I don't have to boot up the WiiU to play it. Together with Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze it is the best 2D Jump and Run on the WiiU IMHO.

Edit: Checked the eShop and found a few great deals:
Agent A: a puzzle in disguise looks pretty cool and has good reviews (one called it the best puzzle game on iOS) and currently costs 2,59 €

Forgotton Anne is one of the best looking games I have played in recent years (played it on Steam when it came out). It feels like a playable Ghibli movie! The game play is nothing special, but it has some neat puzzles and the story is great! Costs 8 € right now.

@spurryitboi Yes, it is available. I can't think of any first party games that are not on the eShop, apart from the ones that need additional peripherals to work, like Ring Fit Adventure or Labo.

Red Joycons from the Mario Odyssey Bundle with a matching red skin from dbrand for the console.

@Woomy_NNYes I don't know how it is nowadays but at least in the 80s and early 90s he didn't get any royalties, because he was in the Soviet Union so the right to tetris belonged to the state and not him.

@SonOfVon Like they did with the Witcher? LOL

I'll probably dust off my Switch and finish it. I have to play the newest Shovel Knight DLC on it too and a few rounds of Super Mario 3D World would be fun as well.

I might even buy it on Switch if it is uncensored or the Japanese version is playable in English. I didn't really care about the censorship but if an uncensored version is easily available I will always prefer it.

@The-Chosen-one There is a Demo available for it, so just try it out yourself. I have played Crypt of the Necromancer, but I never got into the flow of the game and haven't played it very far.

Even though they made it a lot easier and more accessible, I still had the same issue with Cadence of Hyrule.

@Smigit While I agree with you in general, in the case of armor it is just an oversight from the developers. 100 inventory slots don't limit a normal player in any way. It only affects the hardcore completionists.

@daebiya There is a jury of 40 people (mostly gaming journalists I think) that votes for the awards.

@MsJubilee Geoff doesn't decide who gets an award. He isn't even part of the jury.

@Crockin I'm not convinced that people will stop buying consoles. ebooks didn't kill paper books. "With music streaming nobody is buying CDs any more" and suddenly you can buy new albums on frigging vinyl records again! All the streaming services combined still can't offer every movie or TV series I own on DVD/Blu-ray. And Nintendo will continue to be a hardware company for a long time.

Can we please all take a chill pill and wait with complaining how bad this game is UNTIL IT IS ACTUALLY RELEASED.

@KitsuneNight Ocarina of Time 3D was a fully priced game as well. The only difference is, that the full price on 3DS was lower.

@Manah looks like there is some kind of promotion or sale going on. Every single first party Nintendo game that I checked costs 47.99€ right now.

Looks like Mario Kart Tour is working as intended

@Heavyarms55 To be fair you don't need a 1000 $ PC to play Overwatch on High in 1080p with 60 fps. It's not a very demanding game.

@BenAV My main concern would be what the durability test on JerryRigEverything on YouTube showed: If a Joy Con breaks off while attached to the Switch it's not the Joy Con that most likely breaks, but the points on the Switch were the screws are that hold the metal rail in place.

@johnvboy @nessisonett I don't know much about the British newspaper market, but if it is anything like the German market "highest circulation in the UK" is very misleading.

Tabloids are available everywhere, but with "normal" newspapers most people read regional ones. I did some research once to compare our local paper with Germany's biggest tabloid (Bild). In absolute numbers it looks pretty clear (120.000 copies vs. 1.5 million), but the local newspaper has a potential readership (number of people living in the area where it is available) of 1 million, compared to 80 million (the entire population of Germany) for the tabloid. So if you break it down to "numbers of copies per 1000 people" it suddenly looks a lot worse for the tabloid.

@BarefootBowser @aVagabond I mostly agree (I really like the collectathon, though), but the quality of life improvements are a big deal. Constantly swapping out items was very annoying in the original version.

@Panopticon
"My biggest issue was how things were unlocked. Instead of finding missiles, Adam goes "okay I guess I'll allow you to use your missiles now" for this specific new development that has occurred, like coming across a tougher enemy (boss)."

That really bothered me as well. With the missles it at least made a little bit of sense, but why would she need permission to use the Varia Suit? And why would Adam give her permission only AFTER she climbed through an active vulcano?

The only game I can think of that gives a good explanation is Metroid Fusion.

Super Metroid: No explanation
Metroid Prime: Explosion that didn't look strong at all destroyed her stuff
Metroid Prime 2: No explanation
Metroid Prime 3: She had to give the suit from Prime 2 back I guess?

The difference is, that in all those games I think "That doesn't make sense" at the beginning of the game and then I shrug it off. But Other M constantly reminds me how stupid it is.

@kepsux I hated one particular game mechanic. To fire a missile you have to point the Wiimote at the screen (normally you hold it horizontal, like a NES controller), wait a second for the game to switch to first person, aim and fire. That's OK for most of the game, but there are one or two boss fights where you have to use missiles. Those were very frustrating for me. The game was also a lot more linear than previous games (comparable to Metroid Fusion). Aside from that, the game play was great.

The story was like watching a bad, overly melodramatic anime from the 90s and Samus' characterisation sucked. But it had some interesting elements, too. I especially liked the antagonist.

It is one of the best looking Wii games and still holds up today. I was impressed by how it moved from pretendered cutscenes to In-game graphics seamlessly.

Whoa, Patrick Stewart with a mustache!

@Spoony_Tech 3480 Yen is around 30$.

@Kanbei @Zeldafan79
It will definitely come to the Wii U. King of Cards even has an official page on the Nintendo website:

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/shovel-knight-king-of-cards-wii-u/

@GeminiSaint They used a different hardware design for the sticks because normal ones take up more space which would mean that the Joy Cons would have to be a lot thicker.

@Blizzia It is not that simple. A Japanese person talking to another Japanese person would call every animated movie/show an anime, regardless of where it was made.

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with calling Pokémon a cartoon. In the west anime refers to cartoons made in Japan. So every anime is a cartoon but not every cartoon is an anime.

@sanderev The same way as on the regular Switch? You just need to buy a pair of Joy Cons and build some kind of stand for the console.

The IP is technically still owned by Sega so they probably had something to do with this decision.

@retro_player_22 I own Fatal Frame 5 on disc. Or to be precise Project Zero 5, so maybe it was exclusive to Europe?

I'm more surprised that people spent a million dollars on Magikarp Jump

I didn't use YouTube on the 3DS much but on the WiiU the app was just horrible. I much prefered to use the browser especially since you could play a video on the TV while doing other stuff on the game pad.

I have already preloaded it. Just waiting to get home from work.

@fafonio I'm pretty sure it will. What's now called the Treasure Trove edition is the only version that was ever released on the WiiU.

Overwatch is a tough game for me. I love the characters and the lore. But I'm kind of burned out on shooters and especially multi-player ones. Every time I watch game play footage from OW it just looks really boring.

I enjoyed Apex Legends at the beginning of the year but stopped after Season 1 started and have never gone back to it.

Even Splatoon 2 I didn't play that much. I've bought it at launch and am now at level 18 At least it had a great single player campaign (and the Octo expansion is even better).

@ramu-chan I think the reasoning behind this is that you can't play one handed in landscape mode. If you are on a crowded train you need a free hand to hold on to something.

Maybe they used a more modern video compression format for the cutscenes that wasn't available on the PS3?

My NES has issues reading cartridges sometimes (blinking screen). Cleaning the contacts on the console and the games helped a lot but didn't fix the problem completely.

The dpad on my new 3DS is a bit wonky. I have to press harder than usual when I want to go right or it will often not register. I mostly notice it when navigation menus. During game play it doesn't bother me.

On the Switch I don't have any drifting issues, yet, even though I have bought mine on launch day. But the left Joy Con stopped working completely after about 15 month. Even when connected to the Switch it would stay dead. I bought a new pair but kept the defective one. After a few month I tried it again and it started working again. Since than I didn't have any issues with it, except for the fact that the battery life is significantly shorter than on the right Joy Con.

Hey Nintendo, if you are so determined to release obscure NES games, can we please have Guardian Legend next?

The WiFi on the Switch is really bad. My router is one floor above the living room, but I never had any issues with reception on my phone, PC, Blu-ray Player or WiiU. The Switch works OK when I am in the middle of the room in handheld mode, but as soon as I go to the corner of the room, where the TV (and therefore also the dock) is, it loses connection.

"Luckily" the WiFi dongle on my PC broke and I am using an old WiFi router to connect with the main WiFi and the PC is connected via cable. Now the Switch is the only device connected to that router's WiFi and everything works perfectly.

@Silly_G Someone already mentioned that it is apparently made with Unity which probably adds a lot of overhead.

In addition the music in the original version was stored as MIDI files that are only a few kilobytes in size. If they are stored in a modern audio format now they probably add a few MB to the size.

@60frames-please I can't think of a single show it's more making fun of typical anime clichés in general. For example shows like Dragon Ball often spread out one big epic fight over several episodes while Kill la Kill sometimes has multiple climactic fights in one epsidoe.

One show that I was think about a lot while watching it was Gurren Lagan, but that's probably because it was made by the same people.

@60frames-please Kill la Kill is probably my favorite anime (if we are talking strictly about TV shows and not movies). However if you haven't seen some other shows it isn't nearly as fun, because it is basically a parody of typical anime tropes.

But the music is awesome indeed, the animation is great and I loved the characters and story. There's a lot to enjoy even if you don't get some of the jokes.

@Realness I was really looking forward to Kill La Kill, but the demo was weird. I only tried the Story Mode. After what felt like half an hour I was still watching cutscenes I already knew from the show and hadn't seen even a second of game play, so I just stopped.

@Galarian_Lassie Yeah, Square Enix isn't known for good quality ports.

The recent Final Fantasy ports on Switch weren't too bad apparently but I've heard that there are some issues (e.g. some sound/music issues in FF X).

But some of their PC ports are just bad. Nier Automata had several issues and never got a single patch. FF VI had sprites that looked worse than the original on SNES etc.

I doubt they would be able to make KH3 run well on Switch.

@Anti-Guy Why? It looks like Yacht Club Games isn't involved in making this besides giving them a license and providing some of the artwork.