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@Yas Yeah, just try and buy a sealed copy of the original Luigi U in the green box.

Suda was my boy. Now he's dead to me. Dead. To. Me.

@Tandy255 Totally!! Not just for Game & Watch! Back in those days (the mid-late 80s) befriending rich kids was also the only way we ever got to play consoles like the NES and Master System. The only console us peasants otherwise had was Chinese Atari knock-offs with 16 built in games.

These were all the rage when I was at elementary school. I only had a few Casio ones which were much cheaper since we were poor. Only ever got to play on Nintendo ones by swapping with the rich kids during recess. I wish I still had my collection though it's long since disappeared when nephews and nieces pillaged through my old toys.

This is like an AA meeting. 41, male, lifelong gamer, have been playing New Horizons since March 24th and Animal Crossing since Wild World.

This game has a great demographic.

I just really miss Advance Wars games. I think this franchise has been the victim of Fire Emblem's success.

Ni No Kuni vibes with this one. Hope it doesn't get cancelled.

I agree seems a bit random. Nothing which wasn't available individually. A nicer deal would have been the controller with a download code for any full-priced game.

I don't have a theory, I just hope it shows up in the near future. SMG & SMG2 are both near perfect games. I couldn't choose one over the other. Where the original had all the new concepts and originality going for it, the second one added some new mechanics with Yoshi and turned things up and let the level designers really go wild. Even if it was really made up of ideas left on the editing room from the first game, it was a perfect sequel.

Let's see how many of those crying bloody murder will actually now buy it, or buy the DLC. The cynic in me says very few.

Bit of a tryhard contrarian review. Why is it even necessary to review this? It's not really a purchase decision. I doubt people will choose to get an online subscription or not based on what you make of Super Mario All Stars.

@SPL64 My guess is this is an identical situation to that 25th Anniversary red box. "Limited" but anybody who wanted it could get it.

Last couple of years were about the games. This year is the celebrations. Next year will be the hangover.

You have to feel kind of sorry for them ... "Hey, how do we get people to care about our forgotten license survival horror switch game?" ... "Ooh I know, place a secret not secret Animal Crossing easter egg, they love their Animal crossing!!" ... "Oh what a great idea!!""

Three months later ... "No one noticed our secret not secret Animal Crossing code "

'Tis a thing o' beauty!

Nintendo: Wealthiest company in Japan

Also Nintendo: Decides to quit while they are ahead and to never make another console or another game again.

I enjoyed The Swindle on WiiU so this looks very promising.

I loved the first three Wonder Boy as a youngster in the arcades in the 80s. The first one was for me at the time the best looking and most advanced side scrolling action platform game at the time alongside Ghosts n' Goblins. You fought a boss at the end of every fourth level. I never completed this game. At best I could make it past the fifth boss on one credit.

The second one was Monster Land, a totally different game. One of the deepest most engrossing experiences I'd had with videogames up till then. In hindsight it was like a side scrolling RPG lite with emphasis on platforming which one could finish in half an hour or so. It was great.

Wonder Boy III was a totally different game once again. An auto-scrolling game with levels alternating between a platforming section followed a shmup style section at the end of which you fought a boss. I did not take to this game at first (after the brilliance of Monster Land) but warmed up to it (a little bit) eventually. Still think it was a poor sequel.

I didn't even know there was a WBIV. Haven't had a chance to play any of the WB games on switch. The remake of the first game is supposed to be very poor but the two "metroidvania" style are supposedly better. Should maybe try those.

Lovely and original concept and execution. Hope it performs well critically and commercially.

@sketchturner One of those rare instances when a game world consumed me completely. I thought about it constantly I even had dreams about it.

Probably several but Silksong is my most highly anticipated game. Indie or otherwise.

Got excited over nothing. Will only ship to UK and Channel Islands. Hopefully amazon (not amazon marketplace scalpers) will have some stock.

@Yanina Making me nostalgic. Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, SSX, Burnout and hardcore and punk revival soundtracks.

This is a great comments section. Lots of positivity. And although unrelated, I loved reading about the deep connection of Brazil with the Sega Master System. Very interesting piece of gaming history which I was unaware of.

This is a first, right? I remember Brazilian gamers always saying how incredibly expensive it is to buy games and consoles there. Good move. Better late than never.

Thank you! That makes sense. There is a degree of risk but it's more hedged than say a crowdfunder pledge since you get a working build for starters.

If there are people who will eat chicken feet there must be people who will like this.

I'm not familiar with the concept of "early access". Is it like a beta test which you pay for taking part in?

Surely that was created at the press of a button using some pet creation app by the developers with the dials turned to ugly.

Yes that looked good as well. I would love a game like Endless Ocean.

Must be much easier to please than most people here. Thought there were several good games which looked enjoyable: Hades, Card Shark, Raji, Torchlight 3, Manifold Garden, Evergate ... all seem like good games. If we had games such as these on WiiWare or WiiU shop we would be screaming with joy.

@FullMetalWesker Animal Crossing has superb writing and dialogue and most of it is very humorous. Some of it subtle, some more in your face, some of it very absurd and left of centre.

I think you owe Mr Bob the Cat from my Animal Crossing town a huge apology. Bob has made me laugh out loud so many times since late March and he still does on most days. I talk to him every day/ In fact some days I talk to him too much and he starts complaining he is seeing too much of me.

But to classify or pigeon-hole Bob as a "comedian" or any given type would be grossly unfair. Bob in not only mirthful and funny and making me laugh, he also makes me smile, ponder. He very often amazes me and makes me think like when he made a cry for help and asked me if I ever considered that he and I might not be real, and that we may just be characters in a video game. He even made me sad at times, like when he got depressed when I gave Billy the Goat his marching orders and he cried and told me that it's terrible when good friends like Billy get to leave town. I hope he forgave me.

So now then ... Bob and I are waiting for that apology.

If I understood the article correctly when users buy stuff using Epic's new app which doesn't involve the appstore they don't have to give Apple the 30% cut they otherwise would have. They then lowered prices by 20% so they are still making more than before.

@MeowMeowKins No, you needed to have bought them last Sunday or before. If you buy them this coming Sunday they won't have spoilt for this promotion.

With the exception of indie games, I still buy most major releases in physical format. I'm not going to attempt to justify this, as for the last several years it is really against my better judgment.

I am a compulsive collector, nay, a hoarder of things (not just games and consoles but also records/CDs, synthesisers/drum machines, books, DVDs etc). I am addicted to buying and collecting much more so than actually playing/using them. In fact I would need several lifetimes to fully appreciate what I already have backlogged and accumulated.

I desperately want to stop clinging on to physical things, just embrace my impermanence, live like a nomad, enjoy games/music/films/books to the maximum whenever I get to do so without attachment to physical objects and collect nothing but memories.

Monsters are knock-off pokemon with funny names. I like it.

Can the self-righteous brigade for once, let it go and stay out of the comments section instead of coming with the pitchforks and torches to burn the heathens?

These are so beautiful. I got the initial set of five amiibo which came with the launch of BoTW but never bothered with the four champion ones. I wish I had got them. Same as the pair of Samus Returns ones.

I'm neither upset nor satisfied by news such as these. These guys knew there was a high chance of this happening but they had nothing to lose. On the contrary, they got themselves a nice bit of publicity. Some people might end up taking an interest in what this "project ianus" ends up being. They will put all their assets to use. No work will go to waste. If it's good work they might end up getting noticed by some bigger developing team and land a job.

It's the equivalent a new band playing cover versions in order to learn to play and get better and also because they are instantly recognisable, before they start presenting their own work.

I did buy Xenoblade Chronicles, even though my Wii copy is still sealed on my shelf. Felt this was a project I wanted to support though I don't know if or when I will get to play it. Can't say the same about Worldwide Games. I'm not in the target audience for that sort of thing (having said that ... I did buy 42 on DS, and for a time used it to play Backgammon online).

@beazlen1 When I lived in the UK (1998 - 2008) Electronics Boutique/GAME employees would often try to talk me out of buying the Nintendo games I was looking at or which I took to the register, and into buying Playstation games instead. And not once had I asked for their advice or opinion. I witnessed them many times trying to dissuade parents from buying a gamecube for their kids and into getting a PS2.

@Varkster The only thing surprising about this is where so many people manage to find new copies to buy. It's been out of stock for a very long time to my knowledge.

Street Fighter II: The World Warriors was the first and only game which I ever stood in a queue for in order to play. (And it was a cabinet with just three buttons at the time.) Eventually I was to become so obsessed and so good at it that the older kids at the arcade had to physically bully me (blow cigarette smoke in my eyes, lift me up by arms and legs and pull me away from the cabinet etc) in order to ever beat me.

I tried to recapture the magic of those days by buying SFIV and even SFV on consoles but I just couldn't get into it at all. I even bought an expensive arcade stick. The excitement died before it began. It seems there was a time and a place for 1 on 1 fighting games. For me it was the early-mid 90s in the arcades.

Happy retirement Mr Ono. Thank you for the magical memories.

@DoktorTotenKopf I still can't believe what Nintendo did to AlphaDream. After four incredible Mario & Luigi RPGs they lumped a forced Paper Mario tie-in on them ... and then had them remake their own games (which were not that old and perfectly fine as they were) to release on the 3DS/2DS which was beyond dead at that point ... and then let them go bankrupt after those games sold poorly (what else did they expect?). How I would love a new Mario & Luigi on Switch!

Battle system in Paper Mario (N64) and PM: The Thousand Year Door was far from broke ... and they're still trying to fix it.

It wouldn't be a bad thing if Nintendo was also making new games in these franchises alongside the re-releases. But it looks like new games for these franchises are most likely skipping the Switch. No Mario Kart 9, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Pikmin etc

This is the point when something has crossed over from being merely a videogame, to becoming a cultural phenomenon similar to the likes of Pokemon, Minecraft, The Sims, Grand Theft Auto, Wii Sports and others.

Personally I love the game, I love that it is doing so well, I love that they keep working on it and adding to it ... I love that it's the product of a diverse and talented team with a female lead director.

Not surprised but not exactly pleased either. Don't get me wrong, I am happy for this game to reach a much bigger audience on a new and successful platform. It is a great game and deserves to do so. Also very happy for people who want to replay it and no longer have a WiiU set up.

I was just foolish enough to hope for Pikmin 4 and now those hopes are dashed for good. None of the games which got ported from WiiU have got a sequel yet, and most probably never will. Where's Mario Kart 9, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3, New Super Mario Bros Switch, Bayonetta 3, Toad 2 ... Pikmin 4. And this strategy has been in place since the start with the Switch, no use blaming everything on the pandemic.

So many people in these comments seem to think hard games put people off but easy games are for everyone so what's the harm. It's not true. It's the reason why I have been avoiding Kirby games which I would love to play and the reason while I'm playing Yoshi games thinking "this would have been so much more enjoyable if there was a little bit more challenge to it". But so be it, I accept that not every game is for me and I don't demand that it is.