@Lord Just heard back from Capcom PR who confirmed Europe is getting a GKC physical release.

@DashKappei I covered a lot of that in the two unscored impressions pieces, and always happy to answer questions here. Mouse mode and gyro are great with comprehensive settings options. No gameshare or local wireless. And the portable experience is strong - naturally, you’ll want to play docked for the best possible performance in MP but handheld is absolutely playable.

@Arkay It feels improved over the beta, although if you mean the campaign, Entrenched is a pretty murky level in general.

@VeganH It has them and they're good. Loads of granular settings to tweak as you like.

@AdmiralBribery It was an issue with the capture settings from the event, most noticeable in bright scenes (that final 'Mission Complete' image, for instance, looks very washed out and grey). On the console and TV, it looks punchier/normal.

I've uploaded a handful of screens to the game page this morning using the Switch's own capture button that better illustrate how it looks.

A brilliant piece. Thank you for sharing that, Ben.

@Steifybobbins 👀

@MADLUDWIG11 Better. Better colour accuracy, bitrate, etc.

@MADLUDWIG11 Yeah, Switch’s internal screencaps are far from perfect, though they usually capture colours accurately. There are all sorts of bitrate and colour space settings with capture cards that might compress things or affect it in a way that doesn’t reflect precisely what the game looks like, variations between different cards, formats, monitors, etc. HDR can throw up saturation issues, all sorts of weirdness.

The capture I got is a fair representation of the Switch 2 experience, but a higher bitrate or other tweaks could potentially be more accurate. If anything, it looks better than this in person.

That said, 99% of people will be reading/watching this on their phone. 😄

@AussieMcBucket Anything labelled 'Nintendo Life' is from my Switch 2 capture from the event (docked only - it wasn't possible to capture handheld). Anything 'Activision' is a press shot (four, including the lead).

Definitely worth remembering that none of these shots come from the system's capture button. Also, Alex from our vid team reckons the capture setup could have been optimised, so worth keeping an eye out for our own shots next week. 👍

@Dpullam The beta had multiplayer running at higher frame rates, so you can expect that. Same with cross-play across consoles. I'll be able to share more on those topics soon. 👍

@imagazelle Yep, that's in the options menu.

@ReddMcKnight From everything I've seen, he isn't renameable. BUT we started from a save, not from the very beginning. Considering the VO, though, I can't imagine you can rename him.

@USWITCH64 Carrefour's second cheapest, unless there's a cheeky 2-for-1 on something softer.

@Broch83 When I knocked at the door along the 'back' back alley, the "zzz" came from "Treasure-Chest Shopkeeper".

@Everythingnotsaved Yep, the option is "Voice Language" - I played through the entire Forest Temple in Japanese and didn't realise until the boss battle.

@Bobb It's definitely not smaller, although all the added visual detail makes it feel much busier. Running around, the geography didn't feel different beyond maybe a tiny bit bigger and infinitely more detailed.

@Wisps You can change VA language (the Forest Temple session seemed to default to Japanese) and swap jump controls (switch 'X' and 'B'). I didn't see any volume options, though there are options to tweak the HUD and get rid of stuff a la BOTW/TOTK.

@bluemujika Ha, she's keeping well. I woke her up and she was out of Bombchus, told me to come back another day.

@GravyThief Not sure - that would be fantastic, though!

@uncleMike The tears helped lubricate my eyeballs.

Hey everyone! Happy to answer questions if you've got them - drop them below and I'll answer if/when I'm able. 🫡

@DarkTron I take it personally because you’ve taken it upon yourself to come here with a conspiratorial tone and disparage me and my staff for covering a story that is patently of interest to many Nintendo fans. Evidently this one isn’t for you, but obvious or not it’s our judgement that former staff stating publicly that NOA was displeased with this whole thing is noteworthy.

If Kit and Krysta had said something we considered newsworthy every week since their podcast started, we’d have 200+ articles about them. I’m sure we’ve missed some good stuff since 2022. Fine if you don’t personally find it newsworthy or don’t like the source, but cracking out the ‘do better’s is unwarranted and bloody dispiriting. That’s why I take it personally.

Anyhow, I don’t think we’re going to reach any common ground here, so let’s agree to disagree. I’m going to bed 🫡

@DarkTron I’m not keeping count. If other former NOA employees started a podcast where they frequently discuss their time working for Nintendo, I imagine we’d cover their comments with similar frequency.

@Wisps Disingenuous? How is five or six articles (across four years!) covering items likely of interest to Nintendo fans disingenuous?

Friends? I've never met Kit or Krysta - I'd love to. They are ex-NOA employees with many years of firsthand, behind-the-scenes Nintendo knowledge, and it's intriguing to hear their perspectives. Same with all our articles covering Takaya Imamura's various post-Nintendo comments online, though for some reason they don't seem to rile people up.

I really don't get the hate. And I wouldn't confuse a handful of comments from the same handful of people — on an article read by thousands — as some groundswell of support for any particular sentiment.

@DarkTron We're not constantly prioritising anything. Kit and Krysta worked there for years and can offer genuine insider perspectives on NOA's internal reactions to all sorts of events.

Yes, they're channelling that knowledge for their current gig, but that doesn't invalidate what they're saying, and this will be of interest to many readers. Hence our covering it.

@Spider-Kev You mean like either/either? I can't think of any other examples where my pronunciation changes depending on the sentence. Unless you're speaking a different language and altering your accent to suit, usually we only say something one way, no?

I've tweaked the headline on this to 'AI-era' to better clarify the distinction between 'generative AI' and 'the AI generation'.

@RadioHedgeFund @Member_the_game The artmonkeys nicked it. Words were had. It has now been retrieved and reinstated. 🫡

@PushMyGran86 Hellraiser should be in the bottom bit. The Resident Evils aren't getting their GKCs until January.

@Picola-Wicola We've been working on getting a Nitro Deck 2 for a while - hopefully we'll have something on that soon.

@Kilroy It looks like it dropped on Download Thursday, so it likely fell through the cracks, coming in too late to be included in the weekly press release. Looks like the same has happened with SiN Reloaded - I can't find any mention.

Anyhow, I've updated the Shape of Dreams game page with more info and images.

@mingyjongo Birdcage was in last week's, but SiN seems to have slipped through the net.

@Kilroy I’ll take a look at the game page in morning and see what’s up with that - it’s likely it somehow fell through the gaps in Nintendo’s press releases, for some reason. These round-ups are based on the weekly lists Nintendo publishes and sometimes things are duplicated or missing. I’d speculate absences are usually down to late-arriving details or last-minute alterations to game pages - or plain old human error.

We choose to go to the 'mon.

Not because it is Eevee...

@Yalloo The Sqwetlch 3 version is the one you want tho 😄

Gerudo Valley theme still slappin'.

@BaldB3lper78 You're very welcome!

The smaller ones here look worryingly like something that will end up in the trolley during the weekly shop.

"Hmm, yes, this week I should add a Swimshorts Mario minifig in with the fruit and veg."

Actually no, I'll have a Kaepora-iña.

Mine's a Minish Nightcap.

Glad the menu music's good.

@JohnnyMind Of course, thanks - a brainfart on my part! Corrected 🫡

A couple of minor edits for clarity.

@BaldB3lper78 Duskfade coming very soon, still finalising Madden code.

@Pak-Man So it is/was. Gobliiins in the system this week, it seems - I've added that and Starsand Island. 🫡

That's on purpose, as it's not out for a couple of weeks.

@JohnnyMind Curious. I've added it now. You saw nothing.

@C-Olimar Indeed! A leftover from a different retro review intro (DK64 if you're interested😄) I pasted in. Zapped - thanks for flagging.

Hello everyone. Just a reminder that most of the comments above are from 2010 - a fine vintage but one that's 16 years old now! 😄

My money’s on the Deku Tree. 🤞

@JohnnyMind Thanks, zapped. 🫡

@Lizuka I'll bank that for the next average Trek game. 😄

This whole situation is odd (not the delisting — that's frustratingly common!) considering the Switch version didn't appear to have any server checks whatsoever. I'd assume that it will continue to be playable after September, but as Ollie mentioned in the article, we'll update if/when we get confirmation of that.

@Unffclcntrllerpd Yep, digital only.

@SgtQuint Ha, hit refresh and you should get another set of images from the screenshot pool - they're randomly drawn from a larger selection.

@jarack Thanking you 🫡 I've added that and a few other stragglers.

@DarkTron That’s definitely worth flagging - I’ve added a line in the outro listing the countries.

I've added a note detailing the free update available when playing the S1 version on S2. An odd workaround but a welcome one!

@SBandy1 Agreed. Following a week off, I sat down at the desk raring to go on Monday morning and it was a total gut punch. Maybe it's getting older, or that I've been going on a Jurassic deep-dive with the kids over the past year or so, or the combination with everything else right now, but it's really affected me.