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That's me! That's my letter! I'm not sure how I missed this article despite getting an email from Nintendo Life saying "your letter brought tears to our eyes and you deserve a Pulitzer Whatsit"*. Also, I might have been slightly inebriated and/or exhausted from lack of sleep when I wrote the thing, but I'm honored that my letter was chosen to be a star!

@Thomystic With a kid growing up in Japan, that's a VERY good guess. But no, fortunately he doesn't seem to know about that game yet. Or the other game Japanese kids love, Human: Fall Flat. The game he wanted involves CRAFTing things out of materials that you MINE out of the earth. I think it's called "Boxy Diggers" or something. And I guess I don't entirely HATE the thing... it's just that the time he spends playing it is time that could be spent working on my backlog of artsy indies games. Because that's what kids SHOULD like!

*Not their exact words.

Ahhh jeez, required purchased. Even though I never owned any of them, I LOVED these games back in the day (plus Mega Bomberman), which led to me purchasing Saturn Bomberman, which is STILL my favorite video game of all time. Blast first!

I spent a couple of weeks in the hospital last summer thanks to a combination of misdiagnosed appendicitis and vertigo (worst summer vacation ever!), and man-oh-jeez I played the crap out of this game. Then they kicked me out of the hospital and pesky things like family and job have kept me away from it. But when I finally get around to buying a Swetch 2 this is jumping straight to the top of my backlog.

@Pillowpants To be fair, Nintendo hasn't put new My Nintendo rewards on the Japanese website in 3 or so years, though they apparently still add stuff in other regions. I was SO proud of having a Nintendo calendar on my desk at work, too.

...that might not really be related to this awesome Japan-only Pokemon thing. I guess I just needed somewhere to complain.

I like this part: "Trekkies are a notoriously detail-oriented bunch and quick to offer, erm, 'feedback'."

I love Star Trek, but in general Trekkies suck. Including me! I don't know if I'd rank Voyager near the top of my favorite series list (and personally, the only series I truly dislike is TOS, but obviously none of the rest would have existed without it so I can tolerate it), but I AM looking forward to this game, and not reading the comments that "fans" post about it.

I saw a couple of the things on sale for dirt cheap years ago and will forever regret not buying them because I always wanted to try them. I don't remember why I didn't buy them, but maybe it's because my kid was too little at the time? I DID, however, pick up the VR kit on sale and... I should probably do something with it now that he is big enough to play with it without destroying his eyes.

I looooove the Opus series, so even though this game doesn't take place in space (I also looooove space) this is one of those rare games that I WON'T EVEN WAIT FOR A SALE to buy! EGGCITE!!!

Florence is one of the very few games (maybe... 3?) that Nintendo Life tricked me into buying that I've regretted (for shame!). It wasn't terrible, it just felt overly cliched. And like I was supposed to be playing it on my phone. Also, wait... I know it's been a while since I played it, but how is that game a walking simulator??

On the other hand, Nintendo Life tricked me into buying both ABZU and Shape of the World, and I absolutely loved both of those games! And one of these days I might get around to playing some of the other games on this list that I already own!

Thanks for the pro tip. I just went and fixed mine.

I never owned an NES as a kid. I had a friend who had one, though, and every time we hung out he'd be like "let's go play outside!" and I'd be like "shut up, you have a NES - let's play Contra!!!" and he always caved to my pressure. But then I got a Game Boy and this game and then I didn't need him any more! Dang... sorry childhood friend who's name I don't remember. I was kind of a jerk. Let's not discuss how I also made you let me play Zelda.

Side note: Oh man I wish they'd make DLC (Physical Content... PC??) of this game for the LEGO Game Boy.

These are beautiful. And beautifully expensive. Give me the option to buy a Switch 2 with these packed in and I'll buy three!

Too bad this article was written by AI. So was my comment.

@OHB123 About an Elf is pretty good. My blurb about it showed up in one of those "games we missed" articles on Nintendo Life!

Personally, I have a ton of games in my wish list that "I'm totally going to buy when it goes on sale!" Then it goes on sale and I don't buy it because I have too many other games. But sometimes I do! I just can't bear to delete the games that I know I never will buy, sale or not, because for whatever reason, they EARNED their spot on my wish list.

I read this after reading the review for Blippo+, and now I NEED to play them both so that I can relive around half of my life.

SPOILERS! There's going to be a whole bunch of N64 games at the top of that last, all of which are games that I never liked.

The "Dark Echoes" subtitle reminds me of how in Japan the movie "Gravity" is called "No Gravity". Or how "black ice" is known as "black ice burn".

C'moooooooooooon Nintendo, open one in Sapporo. I DARE you!!! Also other countries for all those other people or whatever.

Did Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime ever get fixed?? That game is easily in my top-5 list of Switch games, and when I eventually get around to getting a Switch 2 I'd love to give it another go.

I also like the change from "we" to "I". Also, "Wii" to "me". I think. Imagining the entire staff playing a game and coming to a consensus, then having a single person write the review always seemed a little unrealistic. On a semi-related note, my horri... uhhh... misguided child watches videos of people playing games on the YouTubes (side note: I hate when he does that and I BEG him to just play games himself) and it always irritates me when the person playing says "we" instead of "me". Like, "oh, we just barely made that jump!" instead of "oh, me just barely made that jump!" Annoying.

I can't believe being STILL take these things so incredibly seriously. "This game looks amazing and is super fun to play! No wait, it might have slowed down a little there. UTTER GARBAGE."

@Princess_Lilly I don't care if you people try to get in my way or not. In time, you'll find out who's right. This is a present from me, to you.
...is what I hope Forever Entertainment is thinking.
Give me the original voice acting and I'll buy this game for the... what, 4th time?

Well, poop. I love them all!

I decided to give Splatoon on WiiU a chance even though I don't like shooters, and it turned out I didn't like it. So when Switch rolled around, I decided to give this game a chance even though I don't especially like fighting games, and... holy crap I loved it. It's probably the only game I've ever played online (granted, there aren't a ton of those for me) where I felt like I was actually GOOD. So yes, I will gladly play it with fancier specs on Switch 2, and I will impatiently await ARMS 2.

I love this: "I don't live in the US but simply must vote in all polls"

@MatoFilipovic As someone who only ever played games on Sega consoles, and then later only on Nintendo consoles, I've never played a game with voice chat so in my mind they'd might as well have invented it!

I'll only use it if I can use it on the train! But actually I'm slightly interested... I've never played a game with voice chat, and only rarely have I even played games online, but if I can find friends to play/chat/leer at then I'd like to give it a shot.

Holy hell I want this!!! ...even though I haven't played the game. But I want to do that, too!

Make a limited-edition Xenoblade version and I'll buy 2 million myself! But not any more than that because that would be ridiculous and unrealistic.

@Mario500 I decided "dumb" sounded classier than most of the other adjectives that came to mind when discussing the teenage version of myself buying a game like this.

I actually found this game on Saturn for something like $15 once long ago. It wasn't very good. Or sexy. And the apostrophe in the title always bothered me. But owning a "yellow label" Saturn game was exciting as a dumb teenager! Then years later when I sold it I made something like $40. Sexy!

Awww, I can only choose one (1)??? Xenoblade and Pikmin will probably probably going at some point, along with others that I'm at least somewhat interested in, but F-Zero is one of my all-time-favorite games so I would love to see a follow-up.

I think this is the first time I've seen both versions of DK side-by-side, and to be honest... I like them both.

I found the VR Labo on sale for dirt cheap a few years back but never put it together for fear of ruining my child's eyes. Well, it sounds like it's time to get started ruining!

Side note: I seriously regret not buying the other Labo sets when I saw them on sale, too. On the other hand, both my backlog and the "graveyard of unfinished projects" room in my house are probably okay with that.

I still don't get why RE2 is so incredibly popular. If I wasn't impressed by the game play, and I found the story to be awful, will the remake somehow magically change my mind??

The first time I ever played this game I finished in 8th place! ...Then I got distracted by my backlog of games that I paid money for and I keep forgetting to go back to it. Give me an F-Zero GX99, though, and I'll gladly forget about said backlog!

I finished Echoes of Wisdom recently (100% and everything!) and I decided I'm going to try to finish off some of the smaller games in my backlog before I play Xenoblade X or one of the other RPGs I desperately want to play but have been avoiding. So I chose Patrick's Parabox, and... it hurts my brain. But in a good way. Still, I don't want to look up solutions and each level is starting to take a long time to figure out. Maybe I should have just played an RPG.

I'm mostly just impressed that someone noticed this at all.

Oh cool, I get to spend more than everyone else just so I can play the games I bought from outside of Japan. Or when I want to be lazy and play the games I buy in Japan in English.

I finally got around to buying Tears of the Kingdom two (2) days ago!

That's my letter! I'm in this article! WOOO!!! Now they owe me a raise at work for some reason!!! ...I kind of really wish my job involved taking pictures of game things.

NOOOOooooo I'm never going to finish any other game ever! But... after spending 1000+ hours with this game on WiiU, I think I'm okay with that.

"$28,000 feels about right" is the best thing I read today.

I gave them all 10s. They're all fantastic games but in their own ways. If I was going to try to rank them strictly by how much I enjoyed them, though, then it would probably be:
1 → X → 3 → 2
The ridiculous thing is that I own all three versions of 1 and I've STILL never actually seen the ending. Which reminds me, I should probably finish 3, too. Also all of those DLC things.

The free demo thing on the Nintendo online thing finally convinced me to buy this game, because apparently $4 or whatever was WAY too expensive for me. But then I of course bought all the DLC, too. Hey, why not??? It's not like my backlog will notice. Even though I'll never play it all, it's a great game and I don't regret my purchase!

Don't worry, we've always had to pay more here!

Weird... I bought 18 PS4s last week, so who bought the other one?!?

Here in Japan, I've never been able to use my Japanese credit card to buy games on the non-Japanese eShops every time I've wanted to buy a game that has no chance of being translated and released in Japan. I've had to rely on tricking my poor old mother back in the motherland to buy prepaid cards for me. Good thing she's easily trickable!

@Glrd At this point I've given up hope on a collector's edition, which probably means that the very second I give in and pre-order it they'll announce something amazing.

That's way better than the part of Japan I live in where our daily reward for our hard work is an increase in price of some basic necessity. Yesterday it was eggs!

I'm okay with this. It was SO hard to avoid seeing any leaked information about Switch 2 before today, but I'm proud that I managed it.