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@Not_Soos so exactly the same as the Mario Galaxy movie then? But with a yellow hat instead of red?

@CurryPowderKeg79 I was riffing on how the US uses a different date order to 98% of the world, so if 426 becomes 4/26 there then it’s 42/6 anywhere else, which is ridiculous because there’s only 30 days in June. Clearly I’m a riot at parties.

Actually Alien Day is the 42nd of June…

I like the EU art, but feel the others sell the gimmick better, and Japan just looks more interesting than the kinda empty US one

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokemon Legends ZA Mega Dimension
Earthbound
Tekken

This week I will be mostly playing

Earthbound
Pokémon Legends ZA Mega Dimension DLC

@dartmonkey cool, thanks! Good ages

@dartmonkey great article. Just for a little more context, how old are the kids (if you don’t mind me asking, I understand if you’d rather not share)?

This week I will be mostly playing

BoxBoy!
Earthbound
Pokémon Legends ZA Mega Dimension DLC

This week I will be mostly playing

Earthbound
Pokémon Legends ZA Mega Dimensions DLC

This week I will be mostly playing

Mario Wonder +
Earthbound

That PS5 Pro USD increase has to be a typo, right? Every other increase is £90/€100/$100 (including the Pro for £ and €), but for the US they’re adding $200 to the Pro!?! A 28% jump? Madness!

Please let there be an upgrade path for the Switch 1 version I bought when heavily discounted and still haven’t played yet…

I feel like the renders in the US version haven’t aged great (mostly Wesker), and the Japanese one is too murky. EU reminds me of this Deadpool comic: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FxsAAOSwyQtVtrWL/s-l400.jpg

This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion 2 (3DS)
Catrap
Earthbound
Lara Croft Relic Run

@MoldyPasta only in handheld. Vanilla S1 games in a docked S2 won’t be in 4K

This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion 2
Earthbound
Catrap
Lara Croft: Relic Run

This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion 2
Earthbound
Catrap

@Fabilous I guess some reviewers only reviewed 1 version? Would need to go rummage in the WayBackMachine to see what reviews they were logging for those

Back when GameRankings was still a thing, the OG Red and Blue also got 88%, but Gold got 89% and Silver got to 91%.

Not trying to downplay this great news, just adding some historical context for the games that predate Metacritic.

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