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@NinjaLuigi Don’t make me start dropping links to show that’s simply not true!

@JayJ Why?

@Axecon IGN doesn't own us.

And wut?

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@-wc- It’s not defensiveness, I’m just clarifying our position! You asked a question I’m best placed to answer. 🙂

@-wc- It's 100% NOT our job to think about sales, but to offer readers a subjective opinion on a game's quality. In an ideal world, I'd love every single NL review to be constantly updated, but the sheer number of games and updates that come out make it totally unfeasible, unfortunately! We can only ever review a game in the state it is at the time of writing. If significant updates drop which reportedly improve things, we typically add a note at the top of the review, but we don't have the resources to revisit games individually.

In the case of No Man's Sky, the Waypoint update went live four days after launch and we knew it was coming, so we decided to publish a Review In Progress over the weekend which we finalised the following Tuesday. PJ reviewed that one for us in-house, which made updating it easier.

Hmm, lots of questions. Do I need two to have both versions built at once? Maybe three to keep one MIB? Should I build an extension on the East Wing to display them? Where's the dodo egg I requested for lunch?

@Rozetta I hardly think throwing on a podcast for company while you grind the same floor for four hours is sullying the sanctity of the RPG experience.

@Bunkerneath 🙏

NES Remix...er, Remix?!

Just smh.

Don't worry, folks! There'll be another Forza along in a couple of minutes...

@riccyjay Thanks for flagging, I’ll look into it.

@razza1987 We’ve added a couple more higher-scoring examples from critics that we missed when we originally scheduled the article. Seems to be a divisive one!

@Stormcloudlive True. Although I actually flagged this one in our Slack channel and Ollie kindly wrote up the article. 😄

@DarkTron Which specific Youtubers are we advertising?

Even if it's been covered elsewhere in the past, I don't remember seeing the inside of a Switch cart before. My hunch is that it'll be interesting to many readers for whom NL is their main gateway to Nintendo-related content.

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@AccessibleDaydream Thanks for the heads-up. I've switched out the "store page" link to be the same as the one in the tweet — should be auto-applied on that one now.

@Lofoten I’m choosing to take it that the competition is SO fierce and the quality SO high that you’re still getting all-timers in the teens.

@AltCode @norwichred We updated the article to remove the iPad mention and add that it's available on the App Store in other regions. Seems like we've got a few more hoops to jump through to access it here!

@CaleBoi25 It's in the diary.

@CaleBoi25 Slipping a semi-ironic selection into the exclamation-filled tag is one of the few positives of assembling those things. Don’t take that away from us!

@Savage_Joe @HeeHo I am thoroughly ashamed I didn't think of either of those! Top work.

@Thomystic Those are both great shouts. Both @Olliemar28 and I are big fans of the series, so I'm sure we could work something up. Watch this space 👀

@topher6490 Ha, yes of course. Not sure how I forgot that — I'll update the text.

Edit: Tweaked, thanks for the shout. The fact I totally blanked on it probably says something about how there's room for bringing it back with the Digital Eclipse's bells and whistles. It would be great to have different versions, including the original.

@JohnnyMind Should be displaying now. 👍

@Uncle_Franklin ? I think it's pretty clear you can get 10+ hours out of it if you're collectible-hunting.

I was on the fence, but this sounds like just the ticket for the weekend!

@NintendoNewsPL @Uncle_Franklin @JasonLee99 "You can easily rack up double figures of playtime hours grabbing all of this stuff."

@Thomystic Yes! Zapped, thanks for spotting the folt.

@Lofoten The pros and cons aren't a scale that dictates the score, they're a quick, general overview of our impressions. There could be four pros and one con and it could still be a 6, it's not a 1:1 thing. Also, a 6/10 is an above-average, decent score!

I personally prefer minifigures from an aesthetic POV, but it's not about throwing the Super Mario functionality into the AC sets. That could have been an option, but there are loads of possibilities Nintendo/Lego could have explored given how imaginative both companies are. Nintendo's MO is to "surprise and delight", and it feels like these sets are lacking the former.

I'll be taking a look at the other ones soon, so fingers crossed they'll hold more surprises.

@Mince Lies?

@fR0z3nS0u1 @Pikachupwnage Apologies, all adjusted now.

@StevenH As FishyS mentioned, if you click the 'Reviews' tab at the top of the page, you'll see that list. I'll add a link to the article.

In terms of listing all February releases in the article, if you bought a new game in the last four weeks that's so great that you can't even remember it... it's probably not much of a gem.

Who needs Switch 2? Check in on me in 2026...

@nukatha Ha, indeed! Zapped, thanks.

@jco83 I've been looking into this today and while it is easy enough to switch regions quickly, there are some caveats to consider in certain cases, especially if you're the admin of a Family Group.

Personally, I'd rather have a separate Nintendo Account/profile to access the Japanese eShop whenever I want, but I've assembled a guide for switching regions and embedded it in the article above.

Finally!

@step_over I've removed the Mini references, apologies for any confusion!

@vec42 NIS America reached out to clarify some of the wording in the original press release, we've updated that section.

Long story short, their website is correct: Japanese audio options on consoles, too. Japanese text options on PC only.

@JohnnyMind You know, I might just do that when we add Mario vs. DK in due course. I enjoy exploring the delineation between remakes and remasters, and it created some good discussion on the previous post where we canvassed opinion, but it is nebulous and seems to be derailing things here.

@NerdyBoutKirby You're right — thanks for the heads-up.

@Sisilly_G You're also right! I've replaced the box and banner art.

@gcunit Yep, it was posing the question and requesting ratings, and this is the result.

@CaleBoi25 As we covered before, it's in the title!

As I said before, there's a fine line and several grey areas, and we haven't been consistent in our own categorisation over the last two decades. I think a game that has the word Remastered in its title is a pretty open-shut case, though.

@Peteykins It ran perfectly from what I've played.

We've discussed it some more and decided to remove Donkey Kong GB from the running. It's a great game, but essentially a port of arcade DK with an entirely new game bolted on the end — not really a 'remake'.

It's more like 3D World + Bowser's Fury, if Bowser's Fury was 80% of the game.

We've also eliminated Mario World and Yoshi's Island on GBA, which feel more like straight ports than remakes.

@Scoopz I’ve adjusted the wording to highlight that November was when the figures were reported.

I've adjusted the headline slightly to "Heading Into 2024" — it's unclear at the moment, and Switch outselling any new hardware in this calendar year seems very likely to me, but going into the year seems more accurate. @FishyS @pbisawsem

@MarioBrickLayer I believe they reworked some models and did a lot of texture work — I’m pretty sure they didn’t remodel every asset, though.

@MarioBrickLayer There are always cases that blur the lines between remake and remasters, but LA is a total rebuild. I can’t imagine there’s anything of the original Game Boy code running under the hood, whereas Metroid Prime Remastered is an augmented HD version of the GameCube original.

@Yoshif3 I mean, it is called Metroid Prime Remastered.

And Another Code is on there now @T-3.

@NateAndDestroy Ha, now that would be a VERY different game. The art monkeys who stole the L have been found and apprehended.

@Rozetta Thanks for the heads-up — zapped.

@Vyacheslav333 It got a physical release, so wasn't eligible.

@Poodlestargenerica Ha, I can’t think of any examples of Excitebot-style controls specifically, but loads of games must measure z movement — 1-2-Switch, Switch Sports, Warioware Move It, off the top of my head.

Someone tore down and reverse engineered them — it definitely measures all three axes with both accelerometer and gyro:
https://github.com/dekuNukem/Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Engineering