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I still carry my New 3DS with Xenoblade faceplates every day, and earlier this week the circle pad decided to explode. Well, I figured out how to repair my JoyCons, so I guess this is my next challenge!

Man. Dookie is a classic, so I went to the website and listened to all the samples and I thought it was kind of amazing. I can't imagine a lot of people would be able to get use out of the player piano roll, but I'd love that Minidisc because I still have a player. Or I could just record the album onto a blank MD myself, unless I already did that years ago.

People act like I'm a total weirdo for taking pictures using an actual factual camera instead of a smart-o-phone. I still carry my 3DS with me regularly, so maybe I've just been using the wrong camera!

Ahhh jeez, I just found the Saturn version of Lunar for around 500 Yen a week or so ago and was thinking that I'd love to replay those games. But having them on Switch means I HAVE to replay them, which is not good news for my backlog.

I'm pretty sure those are ropes, not vines. Still, I've never played any of the DKC games other than demos so I don't think I'm entitled to play for Team Semantics™ here.

Maaaaan I want Power Stone(s). And X-Men: Children of the Atom. Also MvC2. And Darkstalkers. Too bad they're all scattered across various compilations containing many, MANY other games that I'm not especially interested in adding to my backlog.

Haha, I immediately went for "If it has StreetPass, I'm in", and then saw the results. I guess more people read that as a joke answer than not.

I bought this game on sale for something ridiculous like $1 a couple of years back, and found it to be... okay. It was fun, but once I started trying to get the best rank on every level, there were tons of them where I'd have it all figured out but the way the passengers show up randomly combined with the punishing time limits made it incredibly frustrating. But apparently not frustrating enough for me to power my way through and finish the game 100%. More recently, my son booted this game up and then immediately gave up on it, but I noticed that they seem to have added a ton of DLC content. I'm almost tempted to find out more, but... neverending backlog and all.

I can't believe they made surfing an official event at the Olympics, but not doom surfing! Boycotting for life.

These long, long games are the reason I'm struggling to complete my backlog. Though today I just finished my my 60th game out of 118 on Switch. Next up, should I attempt to finish a bunch of shorter games (that always turn out to be longer than I expected), or put in the final grindy hours needed to finish Xenoblade 3 100%?!?

@CapitalQ WHaaaaAaAAAAaa how did I not know about this until just now?!?!? I swear I've never heard of it before, but sure enough an inter-netto-search showed me I'm dumb. Thanks for the info, though!

I randomly discovered the first series in a store just today. It's so very tempting... but a lot of money for a mystery box. With my luck I'd buy two and they'd be the same thing. Then my wife would find at least one of them and ask how much they cost. Uhhhh...

God I hate Sepiroth... he was the most disappointing announcement of them all in Smash Ultimate for me. However, that reaction of his after Kirby flies away from the hoop in this video is priceless. Slight redemption at last!

Well jeez, I always kinda wanted one of these (but didn't really NEED it), and after looking at the pictures I was like "hay you could use it as a controller!" Then I was like, "wait... why didn't they just put a charging port in the contoller-attachment-thing that came with the system in the first place??? Still, it might be nice to have a 1st party charging option I guess.

@CapitalQ Yeah, I was wondering that, too... if we can use current Joy Cons with the next Switch then releasing this now would make a lot of sense. Sort of.

Well crap... the HDMI connection on my Wii U crapped out a few years back and I was so distracted by my Switch that I kind of forgot about trying to get it fixed.

"Dogs of the AMS... time they made a" [skip cutscene] -MUDDY-

Oh man I can't wait to hang out with my ol' pal Goldman again!

"To protect the LOIF cycle!"

You forgot to put "Nonsexual Donkey Kong" on the ballot.

Ahhh jeez that American box brings back traumatic memories of that very, very stressful game.

Amiibo are way too expensive these days and I'll never buy another one ever again unless it's some character from some game that I like. Damn you, Nintendo, please stop tricking me out of my money.

@nukatha I read that as "Elvis" and was very confused why someone would want that.

High-fives to the other 18 people who chose the last option!

@MattAllsopp I've already pre-ordered your memoirs!

Woah... it's currently at 50/50 with 1670 votes.

Ahh, so THAT'S how you store a cat! Thanks, Sakurai!

Totally agree with A Short Hike. What a fantastic game. I just picked up Minit a week or so ago and it's next up in my back-queue as soon as I finish BotW. Glad to hear it probably won't take as long as that game.

I seriously hate that every time I see the 'X' logo on Nintendo Life I'm like "oh boy they're finally bringing Xenoblade X to Switch!!!"

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Whatever, dude, I still haven't beaten Ganon in Bo'tW! I'm getting there, though... I finished all the quests and whatnot, I'm like 95% done with the DLC, and I only have 398 or so Korok seeds left to find. Also, I bought a To'tK t-shirt today even though I don't own that game... yet.

@minamiyama I did, and I enjoyed it! It might be a while before I can justify adding yet another game to my backlog, but I have a way of surprising myself by buying games in my wishlist when I wasn't planning on it.

OOH! I'll take three!!!

I was doing great with my backlog in 2024! Then I finally got around to playing BotW. So much for that, then.

Oh dang, time to get my sister-in-law who manages a Uniqlo store to put her employee discount to use for my benefit!

It's been years since I've seen one so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's a real tree, not a prop.

To be fair, Japanese people are absolutely terrible at naming things, so there are plenty of games with awful names that get localized and have dumb exclamation points or subtitles, but end up actually being BETTER than the original name.

It makes so me happy to see how long ARMS hung in there, and also that Xenoblade 2 managed to make it for a while.

Oh cool, in order to get Paramount+ in Japan I have to sign up for one of those streaming services that I REALLY don't want. At least I could also watch Star Trek... no wait, that's on Amazon Prime, which I stopped paying for when my kid stopped needing diapers.

TBA is my favorite day of the year!

That's the day my son turned 6 years old! Obviously it was meant as a birfday present for him. Oh crap, does that mean I need to buy Melee now??

You Nintendo Life people convinced me into playing Subsurface Circular and Quarantine Circular, then later I found out I had been tricked into playing what are basically visual novels. And they were both fantastic and should be on this list.

I kind of like how the European version has Samus wearing the "zippers in awkward places" suit. I'm kind of surprised that I've never seen that one before despite owning all of the Metroid games.

Gyyeearrgh I want those SO much and wish a set of Joy-Cons didn't cost as much as like... 10 games. At least, the games I buy. That's like, what, 1/2 the price of a 1st-party game?

Ahhhh crap, I completely forgot about the last set exactly as I KNEW I was going to. Is there any way to make them magically appear again???

It's not on a Nintendo system, but I wish I could forget everything about REZ and then play it on my fancy modern TV with a fancy surround sound system.

Oh boy I can't wait to forget to get these!

I bet Nintendo surprises and confuses all of us Metroid fans by shadow dropping Metroid Prime 5 before any of the other games! Or Metroid Prime Pinball Remastered.

I done bought myself some Christmas presents in the form of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge and Trombone Champ. I was planning on playing them both for the first time with my kid, but he has school and the wife has work tomorrow (on Christmas day!), so I'm going to sit on the couch in my pajamas and play at least one of those. By which I mean Metroid Prime Remastered.

1) Xenoblade 3 - Ahhh jeez I'm never going to finish this game, probably because I'm trying to finish it 100%
2) Smash Brothers - Awww yeah I actually did 100% this game!
3) Kirby Forgotten World - I'm kind of surprised this was number 3 considering how much What the Golf? my son and I played, but it's another 100% complete game for my list.

Ahhh jeez there are so many, and they're all so easy to screw up. More than anything else I would LOVE to see a new Shining Force that's actually a turn-based SRPG and not some dumb action RPG like all of those other Shining... games. And I'd destroy star systems for a legitimate RPG Phantasy Star if that's what it takes. Besides those, though... I'll take any or all of: ChuChu Rocket! / Columns / Eternal Champions / Kid Chameleon / Nights / Panzer Dragoon / Skies of Arcadia!

Please tell me the mine cart roller coaster will actually jump like that!

Min Min, Pyra/Mythra, and Ridley, in that order. The ONLY DLC characters that I was even remotely interested in. Also, I still don't get why the reveal movies can somehow be included in the game, because man oh jeez I'd love to watch them there.