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Why are people not convinced this is coming west? Only Dragon Quest X Version 6 had a "there are no plans to release this title worldwide" banner on screen?

It's great to have so much Monster World-adjacent stuff available all in one place. Glad people have another viable way of playing MWIV, and bundling the original in the physical release is a nice touch, but it's not lighting a fire under me personally.

Definitely, and should have been on 3DS.

To be fair, they could just do a remake of Warioland VB with Shake Dimension's art style (or any art style really) and that'd probably suffice for most of us.

The only legitimate concern should be that Shinzo Abe will suddenly pop out to promote the Olympics.

Also: "hey, it's the pipes from Flappy Bird!"

Was interested to try one at half-ish price, entirely unenthused to buy both at full price.

Will consider when there's a sale (or go the slightly sketchy US account route), but come-on NoE . You could've had my money already! (With a pretty good chance I'd buy the second for a similar price if I liked it).

Kemmmmmmmcoooooo

Three years ago, if you said "there will be more mainline SaGa games on Switch than mainline Dragon Quest games" it would have sounded kind of dubious? Zenithia trilogy ports for Switch already.

As last year's biggest seller, Animal Crossing will be a factor in this - it has a reputation for being most convenient in download form.

"If You're Not Hyped Ask An Older Relative": jokes on you Nintendolife, you are the substitute older relative that I go to for hype guidance.

People primarily want Gameboy for its single-player titles. Trouble is, Nintendo probably sees NSO as a multiplayer thing. Exceptions? Tetris, Pokémon: games that won't come to NSO anyway.

laughs in SEGA

Also, more people need to understand how to break down boxes into nets for storage. Takes up a fraction of the space if you really can't spare it.

Signed, your former housemate who always got stuck with taking out the recycling.

Not an N64 kid and still slightly non-plussed about the appeal, even as someone who finally came round on the main series way too old. You're just taking screenshots of those pesky pocket monsters?

I should probably give it a try at some point, I mean, I can flip it if it really doesn't click with me.

I wonder if they're actually more sensitive about their legacy content than we realize. Like they are very anxious about how much the existence of how an ever-growing back catalogue of fondly remembered games undermines their upcoming releases.

Legacy content lets us see all the stuff that hasn't really evolved, or has gone backwards, or has been entirely neglected and ultimately it robs player hours from new £50 products. It makes sense that they want to try to control it to a certain extent.

Not to reveal myself as completely tedious, but I think I write professionally because I loved a good game manual back in the day. If I couldn't be a magazine journo, I really wanted to be the one to describe the game world and the mechanics to people. A complete trajectory for obsolescence.

Enough of an enviro-bore to say it's probably better for them to be a thing of the past (don't hit me, but I'm ready for boxes to go away too) and acknowledge that games are just generally better at explaining themselves these days. Give me a nice hardback full of development art and discussion instead.

Really enjoyed this one and good to see it finding an audience. Still, you could definitely imagine "more quasi-canon story content for a 21 million copy selling game" reaching higher heights than this. Maybe musou is just that little bit too niche.

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Left of that thumbnail - is the CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński?

"Joy-Con Riff" is right there.

That £28 Wii U lifetime energy figure definitely feels like a dig.

It was solid, but the world situation really makes waiting for things hitting even as soon as the summer seem too far off to really energize me. And I can only assume that anything coming in the far flung space year of 2022 will arrive in pill form.

Can't really get excited about Skyward Sword HD, even if it's the only 3D Zelda I haven't played at this point and I'm sure it's a fine game. If they were dropping it next month? Maybe. But it's a long time to wait to find out whether we should have all just played the Wii version.

Amazing how the screens I sit less than a metre away from 36.5hours/5 days a working week are specially built to avoid the squarifying effects my mum told me the TV had.

This is probably the only top 10 I actually own boxed and have played extensively. Objectively one of Nintendo's worst consoles, and probably the one I love the most.

I actually kind of hate how the DS remake looks and would probably prefer to play this one because it at least has an excuse for how it looks.

I guess this new model proves that these sell despite the markup or the general pointlessness of having a Nintendo-branded design on a device no bigger than a cornflake. So is it people who just don't know better, or people scared off by rampant SD card fakery?

Finger on the Monkey's paw curls and gives us 'Codename: SteamWorld'

(Steamworld Heist 2 please).

So, umm... Did nobody feedback about the character models?

It's impressive how poorly thought through this is. Even if it was true that the audience plays exclusively in either mode, having the ability to develop games for two distinct audiences with a single SKU makes a tonne of business-sense.

If his premise was "most people play on the TV, the handheld mode is holding the main audience back", he'd almost have more of a point. This way round, he's just attacking a value-add for a supposed "handheld-first" audience (you know, an audience that has purchased tens of millions of copies of famously horrible on a TV games like, err... Mario Kart 8?)

Funny thing is, making a single version of the console that ships without a dock, and selling that dock separately does actually make sense as an eventual way of selling this system. But he sure arrives at that conclusion after a whole lot of nonsense.

Chicken Police
Arrest this hen
Her custom joycon
Are making me feel ill
And she has
Pecked my cartridge

Got it and played solidly for about 5 weeks in Spring 2020. Then just stopped. Partly a weather thing - my living room simply got too hot. Unfortunately I haven't picked it back up now the seasons are changing. I hope to, but just can't will myself to.

@PoorGeno Oh... you must be another handsome boy grad.

Most likely to call it "Dee Kaycee-Two", which also sounds like a good name for a country singer.

Took about two years for anything to start to go wrong for me, but it has been pretty much constant since then. I own four joycon and have had drift on all of them. One of my neon yellows went in for repair at the beginning of this year, and it's on the blink again. At least the repairs have been free, but they get sneakily recorded as a "calibration issue"

They set out to make a good piece of art with the Japanese cover. The western one is a better functional piece. Giveaway is the sword, which seems like the last thing they drew into the cover in Japan, and the first in the west.

I have a whole bookcase of coffee table books, but I neither own a coffee table nor do I drink coffee. If you were looking for ideas on future Kickstarter tiers.

@westman98 Never did get round to playing Yoshi's New Cayman Island.

@westman98 What's the point in Mario's medical degree if he can't even cure a pandemic?

Graph ghost says woooOooOooOOooo

While all the different localised names are interesting to look over on the cards, the best is any EU Tom Nook card, which just invites you to say "Tom Nook" in a variety of accents.

Yes, but is the ludonarrative sufficiently dissonant?

This datamine doesn't account for the fact that any one visit from Sahara seems like two visits too many. The real villain of Animal Crossing.

And putting Label on the upper tier with Flick, CJ and Redd, oh my days.

Fun fact: there was someone selling hundreds of packs of series 2 to 4 of these things on UK eBay for 2.10-2.40 a pop, end of last year.

@MBII ... Is the repression session over yet, or do you have more people to cry at?

Eh, I mean this may as well be like all those biographers who euphemistically chat around the probability that a historical figure's 40 year cohabitation with a person of the same sex was totally no homo. Got to account for the author's hang-ups too.

Still, I can't get anything more or less than CJ having a huge crush on his bug loving roommate personally.

Phew, there's Christmas 2020 sorted!

A race-car bed? Anyone know Kirk Van-Houten's friend code?

It's important for you all to have this tune from the first level of Fantasy Zone:
http://tunes.nooknet.net/?melody=E-s-D-s-C-G-A-C-E-E-D-D-C-s-z-z&title=Fantasy%20Zone%3A%20Plaleaf

I'd put the offset rule on the same level as adding the spin-dash to Sonic 2. It was the missing piece of the puzzle. The series didn't really start until they added it.

Still, it's not wrong to say this is purely an archivist/enthusiast purchase considering the ruleset is essentially available in every subsequent game, two of which are available on Switch. AND there's actually a version of Puyo Puyo Tsu in the SNES app you could play online. Odd release.

There is insufficient frothing demand on this boxart.

@sleepinglion It's definitely a case of the puzzles being the reward themselves. If you collect every last one you will be able to select a minor cosmetic change in the gallery section in E. Gadd's lab. Same with the Boos. I doesn't even seem to be a case of the gems contributing to your gold reserves (and by extension, your final grade).

Something to show off with in Scarescraper mode, I suppose, but I wouldn't want to scare people off finding them when the reward is so miniscule because finding them was probably the most fun part of the game for me.

I love shorts! They're comfy and easy to watch!