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@Jack_Goetz Ha, I was hearing Chicago mobster.

@Max_the_German We've been expecting a Switch 2 reveal most days since 2022.

@OswaldTheLuckyGamer Ha! Very good.

@nukatha Ha, I've linked to exactly that article in the reaction piece that's just gone live.

Hello lovely readers. Just a note that we’ve overhauled the format on this list — feel free to drop any feedback regarding the changes here.

@gcunit Er, no. Publishers aren't in the habit of sending out walkthroughs, unfortunately. That would be nice!

@Johnny44 Exactly — people will be playing right now and may have questions!

The info is here as/when/if players want it.

@Thomystic I didn't stumble on any. Probably for the best!

@trcsf I (personally) found something like Link’s Awakening’s performance massively jarring, so I’ve really got my fingers crossed for patches. I would imagine the small team is stretched to breaking point given the cross-platform release and the outsized profile of this one, but I’d also imagine (hopefully!) it’ll get there or thereabouts in the end. 🤞

A real shame. For anybody curious, here's a clip showing the sorts of issues Lowell ran into:
https://x.com/nintendolife/status/1836740110307524628

@LastFootnote We've been having some issues too — we're looking into it.

@WoomyNNYes As soon as we're able.

@JohnnyMind The test is passed. Well done.

Actually, he was born Michael Theodore Rat, but the connotations of the surname (especially back in '20s New York) led his father to change the family name to Rodent. 'Mouse' is a screen name he took when he moved to LA.

Hey @WoomyNNYes - re. Little Kitty, it was considered but given the overwhelming amount of cosiness on Switch, it didn't quite meet the quality bar to make the list.

@Vyacheslav333 No plans for review, unfortunately, but I've updated the game page.

https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/fatestay_night_remastered

@AmplifyMJ They came in yesterday evening, live now.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/08/uk-charts-mario-kart-8-deluxe-retains-its-crown-as-we-await-new-releases

Yesssss!

@Ace-Lucario Military? USS NL's mission is one of peaceful exploration.

Just a quick note, the comments above are over eight years old now, so @-ing might not get a response!

@Kiyata I get you with the 10-cent rule, although I feel it's still broadly applicable/useful as a rough value gauge. So many sets these days have SO MANY tiny 1x1 detail pieces that they tend to balance out the cost of printed pieces imo.

I'd definitely take a higher (within reason!) RRP for printed pieces only, though. Can't stand stickers!

In before the Tangy backlash.

@Maxz Ha, thanks.

@rjejr Games can go live at different times on launch day, and listings on Nintendo's sites can be similarly erratic — some appearing weeks in advance in one region and not going live until after it's on the eShop itself in others. For example it's live on the Japanese store and site right now.

If it gets to the end of the day and this one's not available to buy in the West, we'll investigate. As for our review, sit tight.

@MarioBrickLayer We can tweak the max limit and various other settings. For seven options, two picks felt sufficient to get a decent spectrum of results.

On desktop, you can float the mouse cursor over the bars and see the exact results (Echoes of Wisdom has 33.8% with 127 votes atm, for example), but it would be nice to surface that on mobile too. I'll look into it.

@Bunkerneath The 'Super' applies to both.

@jump Ha, I didn't want to sway things too much. N64 would get 10/10. GB(C) and Famicom behind that, then descent down to Switch at the bottom.

In-progress reviews are rare, but we've done them before! As Alana says in the text, she's only been able to play through spring so far, but we wanted to give people considering jumping in Day One a sense of what to expect. We'll be updating with a score in due course.

This company has published some of the very best games of the last decade. It's just confounding.

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@jco83 Ha, I've just updated the article with the NUK tweet.

Such sad news. The teams on these games were so tiny - so much of the joy these games brought so many of us was a direct result of Brett's talent.

Grid is fantastic, but it's pretty much the only great realistic-style racer on Switch in, what, nearly seven-and-a-half years? A port of a 2014 PS3/360 game. That's it. Crazy.

@Qwiff That's on me, zapped. Thanks.

@ScalenePowers I can't see anything from your username in the inbox — feel free to send again.

@sanderev I don't see how putting the info in the headline is 'clickbait' - surely it's the exact opposite?

Again, though it's impossible to say right now if this is a 'revelation' Nintendo was saving for release, this isn't their first ratings rodeo and I'm almost positive anything included in the ESRB blurb will be advertised well ahead of the game coming out. As speculated above, it feels like something from the game's intro, but we'll see.

Looking around at other outlets, the vast majority have gone with the same straightforward headline approach. Again, I'm not unsympathetic (and as usual we'll be avoiding story and gameplay spoilers from leaks closer to launch) but we'll have to agree to disagree that this is some sort of spoiler.

@brandonbwii PJ did revisit the Trilogy a while ago, so I've updated that entry to reflect his thoughts on the updated experience. We try to keep all summaries current, seems like this one slipped through the net! Thanks for the heads-up.

@sanderev If it's part of the ESRB rating, you can be certain it isn't something Nintendo will be hiding until launch day.

I'm absolutely sympathetic to people who want to play the game without knowing ANYTHING (I'm one of them), but details published in official sources like the ratings blurb can't be considered spoilers.

Just a reminder to new readers, the comments above are 15 years old(!), so tagging might not result in a reply.

@AhabSpampurse Body Harvest is a great shout, but it was rated T (for Teen).

@JohnnyMind Fixed, thanks. I think I was writing this while watching the new Zelda trailer and everything merged!

@Ooyah I was going to question how someone had sat down and typed "a solo-player masterpiece" with a straight face, but I'm not convinced a human went anywhere near the original blurb tbh.

This and the GBC version = best golf video games.

@DestructoDisk I'd like to, although I don't have any experience with Mastodon personally. The other day I saw Ron Gilbert was on there talking about his next project — I almost went and signed up just for that!

@RetroGames Very odd. Suspicious, even!

And cunning, too, that I’ve infiltrated enemy ranks to deploy my blue-skies, Sega-centric agenda and ultimately DESTROY the Nintendo way of lif—hang on, hang on. Ah. Nintendo isn’t on Bluesky.

As I wrote in the article.

@SpaceboyScreams There are lots of cool people and things going on on Bluesky that we wanted to highlight, that's all.

@Lofoten Fair enough, I've edited the options down to a simple scale of probability with a 'don't know' in the middle.

@CaleBoi25 It's not sensitivity, it's two different methods to control aiming on the X-axis — either pivoting the flat pad around a central point or raising/lowering each handle. It's best to just head into Training and test each setting tbh.
https://howthingsfly.si.edu/flight-dynamics/roll-pitch-and-yaw

@charlesmaso23 Believe it or not, I have read that.

@sanderev Hookshot pays the salaries. Ziff Davis bought Gamer Network and its sites. Hookshot is partnered with Gamer Network (for ad sales), but operates independently. We’re not owned by Ziff Davis.