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Too late! Everyone in Japan has already forgotten about Demonkey Slayerp (or Himitsu no Yakiba or whatever). Which is kind of nice because for a year or two it was the ONLY THING anyone under the age of 40 or so talked about, which got real old real fast.

YES!!!! I mean, if I wasn't lazy I could play this on my Saturn, but it's really hard to take that on the train. This is one of the few Shmurps from my youth that I loved to the point of actually going for high schools (as opposed just trying to finish the game, which was usually the case). I wonder if I'll feel that way about it the second time around.

@ryancraddock You forgot to mention the real jewel of the bunch: Ryan Craddock's Rescue Squad!

Is it just me or does this thing look delicious for some reason??

I've been in and out of Japan for the past 20 years, which turned permanent 10 years ago, and I've noticed arcades disappearing. Granted, I "only" live in the 5th biggest city here, so there aren't as many arcades as some place like Tokyo, but it's still pretty sad to watch first-hand.

@Kilroy To be fair, I've been in the World of Backloggery since... hmmm... probably since when I was in college and in danger of not being able to graduate and I finally learned how to prioritize other things over video games in my life. I kind of miss not having responsibilities.

@PenultimateOtaku77 Personally, I don't read Gizmodo; so I didn't "cam" across this video this week. I'm disappointed, @PenultimateOtaku77.

@Deepdoop I was also wondering if this would be a good jumping-on point for someone who's never played a Pookiemoon game before, and after reading the replies to your comment... I'm still kinda not sure. It sounds good, but then again, they all sound good, but I'm just not sure if I'm ready for the time commitment or the billions of things that I won't get because I haven't been playing Pecomorph games all these years.

It's just as well because I wasn't planning on copying his technique anyway because I can't stand horses.

Hmmm... This sounds pretty fantastic, so I just might have to get it so I'll finally have an excuse to buy a Flip Grip. Then I'll regret it when I end up buying 30 other shmups on my Switch that I've been holding off on and never finish another game again.

Ooh, another weird avant-garde game! This is definitely going on my watch list. And yeah... I don't quite get people calling it shovelware. It looks pretty unique and interesting to me.

Wow, these comments. Sometimes the platforming can be annoying, and the game is way too long overall, but the story sort of makes it all worth it. I personally wouldn't give it a 10, but I can see how others would, and it's stuck in my memory even more than some games I personally would give a 10, which probably means that it was a meaningful experience for me.

Living in Japan, I see these appear on the eShop all the time, but without Nintendo Life's input they seemed like a total waste of my precious time (you know, time that I could be using playing video games instead of browsing the eShop). Even though some of them looked pretty good. After reading this article, I now know that maybe they're not a TOTAL waste of my time, and I might give at least some of them another look.

Then it's settled! I'm going to buy 6193 OLED Switches this week so that total gets pushed up to 1 million. I'm pretty sure my wife won't mind.

Way back in ancient times (aka 2019), I played two of my favorite games on Switch - Quarantine Circular and Opus: Rocket of Whispers, which both dealt with the topic of horrible world-ending diseases. Then not much longer that whole COVID-19 thing happened. This game looks beautiful and like something I would enjoy, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for my choices in video games to destroy the world again.

@Nontendo_4DS Ahhh jeez don't tell me that... every other device I own that uses an SD card already has way more than enough memory, so if I upgrade to 512 GB (and then probably something even more ridiculous later), I'm not sure where to put the old card.

SPOILER ALERT: In a surprise twist, Nintendo buys Microsoft!

YES! Finally!!! It felt like I was waiting for this update forever.

My 256GB SD card is in need of a culling. Or I could gasp stop buying games that I'll probably never get around to playing.

It somehow took me like 2 weeks to finish Meteoroid Bread in under 4 hours, so before I do that again on hard mode I decided to take a break and play with some of the games I bought on sale. Untitled Goose Game is as wonderful as I expected it to be, KORG Gadget is like 8 billion times more complicated than the KORG synthesizers on 3DS and DS I've been using the the past 10 or so years, and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (a friend of mine found it on sale for 3000 Yen, as opposed to the normal 10000+ so he picked up one for his household and one for mine) seems like it would be really fun if my 3-year-old would actually let me play it. Anyway, with all these new games (and 5~6 more that I bought on sale in the past few months and haven't yet played!) I bet I'll be playing Metroid Dread again next weekend.

Thank you for this. I understand what an NFT is... slightly more than I did previously. But I'm also pretty sure that it sounds like the sort of thing that won't affect any of the sorts of games that I like playing, so whatever, dude.

@Ventilator I trust Nintendo Life because the only [current] systems I own are Nintendo, and I don't have the patience or time to read other gaming sites. Over the past 10+ years, I've based the vast majority of my game purchases on Nintendo Life reviews and I've rarely disagreed with them. I can only think of two games that I regretted purchasing (and one of them is Splatoon, so that really just comes down to personal preferences), and there have been a few that I felt deserved a higher score, but if you live in a Nintendo-only bubble like I do, then reading this review tells me "if this game wasn't so expensive I would probably enjoy it least a little bit, mostly because I find the story behind the original movie very interesting." So yeah, I'd be missing out on a lot of content, but here in my bubble I'm blissfully aware of that, and if the game were on sale for a price I decided was reasonable, I probably wouldn't mind.

The only Tomb Raider I've ever played is the original on Sega Saturn, and watching this video made my teenage years flash before my eyes. Pretty damn amazing.

For some reason I look at this and mostly feel like anyone who was in a sword-duel-to-the-death with this woman would immediately think "maybe I should just stab her in the belly button".

@Poodlestargenerica Do you not trust Nintendo Life reviews because you don't read them, and instead rely on Metacritic to summarize things for you? I read the entire review (which isn't something I always do - if it's not something I was already interested in normally I'll skip to the summary and then decide from there if I want to go back and read the rest), and I felt like it told me everything I needed to know about the game and the pricing.

Besides, if someone's day is ruined because they spend that much on a game simply because they saw a 7/10 but didn't bother to read any details about it, they probably deserve to have their day ruined.

[edit] Oops... I didn't mean to steal that last part from @Kochambra, but hopefully I ruined someone's day.

I wish they would do one of these things on a weekday since I easily walk over 10000 steps every day for my job (and pass lots of flowers), but on a typical Saturday I'm lucky to break 2000 depending on how lazy the boy-child is being. I had to cheat in order to get the last special badge (Though it's funny because it proudly tells me "you planted 0 poinsettias at Community Day!"). Also, I can't believe I'm still "playing" this "game".

@OnlyItsMeReid Seriously, what is the point of coins if you can't use them to purchase any of the upgrades??? It makes me sad that I'm going to have to cull my Pikmin soon in order to get the badge for growing 400 of those expendable jerks. Also, since you can't really use them for anything useful, I can't help but wonder what kind a horrible person would actually spend money on coins (the most expensive one in Japan is 12,000 Yen, which I assume is $100 or... some large number of British currency).

NOOOOOooooo that's too soon! The traditional Holiday-Sale-Spending-Spree tells me my backlog isn't ready for this game yet.

Ugh... I bought a million (or, uh... 5) games on sale over the holidays, but I'm still very slowly working at getting Metroid Prime to 100%. And here I thought winter vacation would mean extra time to play games, not less.

This looks like it'll be both fun AND stressful! Count me in! I do miss licking the handholds on the train during my daily commute ever so much, after all.

Bleargh, every one of those games is on my wish list. I'm a terrible father.

I have no idea what's going on in those screenshots and now I want it.

SHUT UP EVERYONE and sell me 30 of these RIGHT NOW.

That's awesome! Also something I never would have noticed, but I'll be sure to look for it the next time I swing past that area.

I've played maybe around half of the games on this list, and absolutely loved most of them. Florence is the only one on there that I wasn't terribly impressed with.

@r0mer0 Planet Alpha is in my top 5 Switch games. AER Memories of Old is probably in the bottom 5 because it was a good game, but the ending is just cruel.

Cool, I thought this looked pretty neat and put this in my wish list just in case, but actually hearing positive things about it will make it lot more likely to graduate from wish list to back log.

I feel like that trailer could have used more shots of gameplay and fewer reminders of all the awards and praise that the game has received.

We had a Commodore 64 when I was a human larvae, but I have no idea what games were popular or successful and hence might actually be ported to it. Realm of Impossibility (which was amazing), California Games (probably not as good as I remember), and the first game I ever bought with my own money, Apple Cider Spider (not likely to be ported) are about the only games I remember, though I know we had a bunch more.

@Solomon_Rambling OOOH can I help??? Buying a new CD and figuring out how it fits into the collection is one of my favorite ways to spend several days!

Ahhh jeez, this game just looks like an extension of my OCD-riddled daily life. And yet, I feel like I'm obligated to buy it because my fake-musician-stage-name is "Panda Left", which I came up with when I was studying audio engineering and an instructor would say "pan to the left", and I'd say "couldn't you save time by saying 'panda left'?" A little panda to the left indeed.

@Eel I used to love playing light gun classics like Virtua Cop or House of the Dead where there was no reload animation so you could use a controller and just smash the fire and reload buttons as fast as humanly possible as if it were a Mario Party minigame. The best was when you got a shotgun and were able to fire it so fast that it basically became what we called a "shotgun laser". I think this guy needs to figure out how to make a toaster laser video now.

@nessisonett Damn, that was good. High five!

Even as a kid I always felt like, if you can get past the annoying voice, Rita Repulsa was kind of hot for a lady who's thousands of years old.

@nessisonett Jeez, thanks for ruining the surprise.

As a convention-going minor celebrity close-up foot shot enthusiast myself, I approve.

This looks both relaxing and stressful. I've been on a million (not literally) road trips in my life, so the whole driving though awesome scenery vibe is pretty fantastic... but those input prompts are painfully small, and on most of the road trips I went on up to this point in my life I wasn't focusing on tiny arrows carved into the scenery. Maybe I was doing it wrong all along.

@Rayquaza2510 Uhhh... because capitalism is inheritably evil? Or because we live in a society where celebrities and athletes are basically worshipped as idols and the majority of people are just plain dumb? Or something like that. But yeah, I agree. Unless Jeff Goldblum personally tells me to buy something. Then I guess I have no choice but to buy 30 of said thing.

Please make this a regular feature. I took a course on programming AI in college something like 18 years ago and came to the conclusion that "AI is pretty dumb because it still relies on humans to try to make it work". I can see that not much has changed in all those years, but at least AI is also hilarious these days. That picture of what I assume is Bred kind of makes me want to change my avatar for the first time ever.

Those un-cel-shaded-ed graphics remind me of every game in the late 90's/early 00's and make me feel surprisingly nostalgic.

Weird... my best friend is at currently at USJ with his family instead of going to today's pointless meeting with his co-workers, but he didn't mention anything about this. Clearly that's evidence that HE caused it. Nay, PROOF!

Side-note: people in Japan call Universal Studios Japan "USJ", and when I mention that the original Universal Studios is in America they work out the acronym in their heads and then their heads explode. It never gets old.

That's not kanji. And as someone who's been living and working in Japan for well over 10 years, and whose life basically revolved around Japan for another 10 before that... man I hate kanji.