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This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
Earthbound (Wii U)

To be fair, I’ve only ever played the OG models, so can’t really judge the later ones, but I love it as it is, it’s perfect to me.

I do love the SNES deco on some later ones though

First tried it on the high seas at uni and gave up almost instantly. Tried properly on the Cube Collector’s Edition, but still didn’t click with it. Finally finished it on the 3DS eventually

This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion 2
F-Zero GP Legend

I’m happy about this except for one thing: separate releases for each language, that’s insane. For £16.99 I’d expect the game to include language options included already

This week I will be mostly playing

Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love
Fire Emblem Shadows
F-Zero GP Legend

How about a 3D Anniversary Collection with the N64 and PS2 games?

Or finally bring Symphony of the Night to a Nintendo platform for the first time?

This week I will be mostly playing

Metroid Prime 4
Ripened Tingles Balloon Trip of Love
Layton Brothers Mystery Room

So 155m Switch 1 owners can’t speak Thai or Polish?

@StewdaMegaManNerd whoops, my bad, thank you!

@darylb24 true. And Splatoon has no real release window yet, so might not even be this year (though it would be unlike Nintendo to announce it too far in advance)

Mario Tennis, Wonder+, Yoshi, Splatoon and Fire Emblem all for sure.

The rest I can pass on, but those 5 are enough to keep me gaming for the first half year.

Didn’t you hear? Sony sold another 20m PS2s so they’re celebrating a round 200m lifetime sales.

Honest

This week I will be mostly playing

Metroid Prime 4
Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love

@nessisonett because staggering additional features increases engagement. You get more news articles which means more marketing to remind buyers that this is a thing, and maybe anyone who was on the fence at launch but distracted by other things then decides to give it a go after all.

But I agree, this seems counter-customer-friendly to me.

@Oldstalk shutting the servers down doesn’t necessarily mean they’re lost forever, it depends on whether the games are programmed to regularly verify via that server.

I have hundreds of digitally purchased games on Wii, Wii U and 3DS, all happily working long after the servers were shut. They’re no longer available for purchase, but anyone who downloaded them before the shut down can keep them indefinitely.

NSO Classics all require the respective app logs into their server regularly, or you lose access. Once those servers go offline, yes, these games will be lost to history once more and the VB headset (plastic or cardboard) will be useless.

Hopefully that doesn’t happen for a very long time though.

This week I will be mostly playing

Metroid Prime 4
Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love
Super Mario Party Jamboree TV

Will pre-order the upgrade path once I can.

I need to see the cost of the amiibo before committing. If they’re under £20 (like Sylux) I’ll be tempted to get all 3, but if they’re £25 (like the newest Galaxy Mario and Rosalina) then I’m gonna pass.

Oh what am I saying, I still want Captain Toad…

This week I will be mostly playing

Mario Party Jamboree
Metroid Prime 4
Ripening Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love

@Inaroomalone it’s 1 island per console. You can have multiple users on the same Switch residing on the same island. Still true

Aesthetically I prefer the purer Japanese one, but it also looks too similar to the N64 cover art, whereas the Western version feels more “GameCube” to me

This week I will be mostly playing

Ripening Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love
Mario Party Jamboree
Layton Brothers: Mystery Room

@DennisReynolds Metacritic scores it 60 or “average” on Switch. It did better on Xbox One and PC. And even better on N64.

Biggest complaint was the multiplayer missing on Switch, which was later fixed by a couple of patches…

@Smithicus in this case, sure, credit where it’s due for Nightdive providing extensive after care. And there’s plenty of other high quality releases that still get minor patches after the fact as niche glitches get discovered that most players never experience.

What bugs some players is when certain games do get rushed out in a broken state, with the “we’ll fix it with patches” mentality. They always get slammed by the critics, so launch sales will go down and you’d hope the devs learn a lesson from that, but apparently not enough.

What specifically bugs me is when looking at reviews of games that have been around long enough to be patched into a hugely improved state (thinking the original Cyberpunk, No Man’s Sky, Yooka-Laylee, GTA Trilogy, Arkham Knight) and the reviews no longer reflect the product on sale. Sure, there are plenty of news articles detailing the patches (which like this one are extensive, dry, and importantly pre-release), but sadly very few reviews of the revised player experience.

But in this specific case, I’m just stirring the pot of other people arguing, I have no real skin in this game.

@DennisReynolds or maybe test the game more fully before release instead of rushing to meet an arbitrary launch date and get slammed by critics for a buggy release that damages the reputation of both game and developer?

This week I will be mostly playing

Mario Party Jamboree
Metroid Prime 4
Ripening Tingle’s Balloon Trip Of Love

This week I will be mostly playing

Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV
Metroid Prime 4
Magikarp Jump

This week I will be mostly playing

Metroid Prime 4
Magikarp Jump

This week I will be mostly unpacking my house move. And when there’s time:

Metroid Prime 4
Magikarp Jump!

This week I will be mostly playing

Metroid Prime 4
Magikarp Jump

What? You mean that until now the Switch 2 was the one device in the history of the universe that couldn't play Doom?!?

This week I will be mostly playing

Detective Pikachu
Magikarp Jump!

@Tourtus a whole range of Vi-O-La designs based on different characters (a la Yoshi’s Woolly World or Mario Maker 1) would be considerably more awesome than a jingle.

Prime 3 had stickers on Samus’ ship from other franchises if there was a save file on the Wii, it’s not completely outside Metroid/Retro’s style either…

So relieved that my Ridley and EMMI amiibo finally have something worthwhile to dust them off for

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokemon Legends Z-A
Magikarp Jump

@ShadLink @Flashlink99 thanks for confirming

How does it run on Switch 1 though? And given both versions are the same price, is there a free upgrade path from Switch 1 to 2, or are they totally separate?

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokémon Legends B-A
Magikarp Jump
Jack Bros

Wow. Just wow.

The top 25 are all solid bangers, but Mario 64 and Galaxy are way too low in that

5 apps, including the Parental Controls one

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokémon Legends D-A
Full Throttle

But what’s the app called?!?

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokémon Legends E-A
Full Throttle Remastered

@Username_1 nice, thank you

How’s it compare on Switch 1? I can’t imagine games this old wouldn’t run as well

I’ll definitely get it, but not right away - it can wait until Xmas

Western would look a little nicer without the HUD/scan effects. I know it’s part of the the Prime series identity, but it’s kinda obscuring some of the nice art. Otherwise I like it.

But Japan gets the vote because the date on the box? My 24th birthday…

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokémon Legends Z-A
Fire Emblem Heroes
Speedthru

@KingMike well that was kinda my point. If they felt they could get away with Patenting the idea of Summoning a monster to fight on your behalf, despite decades of games predating Pokémon, then trying to Patent the idea of replicating 2 Screens on 1 despite dozens of other prior games doing exactly that, seems almost as dubious

@DM7Dust fair enough, good answer