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I can't believe I've never seen the European or Japanese versions before. The European one is pretty awesome, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the American version (other than that dumb quote), because it feels closest to the Dreamcast version, which is easily the best.

I ran home on To'tK's release day to to sit down play Bo'tW! ...For the first time ever. I bought it like 4~5 years ago and it got lost in the back log, mostly because I knew I'd spend hundreds of hours on it and never finish my other games. So this seemed like as good as a time to finally try it out. I'm only a few hours in, but it's really good! How come no one ever told me before??

I played Breath of the Wild for the first time today! I can't wait to buy this game several years from now and then actually play it several years after that!

@rjejr Xenoblade X on Wii U had some ridiculously cleverly-designed caves. After hundreds of hours I'd find one and think "what the crap, I've gone through that area a million times before - how come I didn't see that until now???" So yeah... caves being hard to implement seems a little weird. Digging underground, however, sounds like a programming nightmare.

I don't consider myself a huge fan of Castloids (man I love that term), but I own like 6 games on this list, have maybe only played 2 or 3, and have something like 10 more on my wish list. Maybe I like them more than I thought. Or I want to like them.

@Yosher You'd love Japan. People line up for anything "new" or "popular" or "because there's a line of people". They could open a new convenience store and people would line up for hours to get inside, and the start of the line would be in front of the exact same convenience store just a little down the road.

I really like the Euromerican design, but their creepy lizard-like hands are unsettling. On the other hand, the Japanese design is great but I feel like if you touched one of those Yoshis you'd get the worst static shock of your life. Tough choice.

@Cashews If all of these games received 8/10 and were selected by more than one Nintendo Life staff member, calling them "boring to the extreme" seems a little... extreme. "Horribly over-priced", maybe. But probably not all of them. At any rate, I would love to play any of these games, but the backlog has other demands.

@FancyGamer His body is well read? ...I think you forgot something there.

I can't believe that I didn't know that Lemmings, one of my absolute childhood favorites, was made by the same people who made GTA, a series in which I have absolutely no interest.

NOOOOOO I don't need MORE games right now. But Shadows Over Loathing is a must so here I go!

It's been a few years since I played the first game on WiiU, but I seem to remember thinking it was an amazing game other than the ridiculously frustrating boss fights. Especially the last boss... I think I tried that thing like 30 times before I finished it, and the game stopped being fun long before that. At any rate, if I hear good things about the sequel I might try to block those bad memories and give it a chance.

Now that my kid is probably old enough to not eat these things, I might finally pick one up the next time I find one on sale.

Oh cool, I only need to finish XC1, Future Connected, Torna, and XC3 in the next five days and I'll totally be ready to play this!

I just finished this with my 5-year old, and I feel like this review is pretty unfair. Yeah, it stutters at times, but the performance was nowhere near as bad as the review makes it out to be. The game looks and sounds absolutely beautiful, and performance issues didn't affect our enjoyment at all.

Side note: After playing the whole game together, we were at the last boss when my kid said he wanted to go to the bathroom, so we paused it and he went, and then I took my turn, and when I came back the credits were rolling. Oh cool, thanks for waiting, son!

Ahhh jeez, I'll take six!

...Then never get around to playing them.

@Barbiegurl777 Thank you for that. The only other in-depth reviews I've seen are from people who haven't actually played it but are apparently knowledgeable enough to say that it's garbage because it's a licensed game.

I chose #4 because I STILL haven't gotten around to playing Bo'tW, but I nearly bumped it up to #5 because "Better call me 'The Kingdom', because there are TEARS!!" is brilliant.

But like... is the game any good? Because I'd rather watch Peppa Pig over something like 80% of the other things my son picks on YouTube, and if this game wasn't so expensive I'd love to give it a try.

I should probably play it, since my Switch still lists it as "not played" even though I purchased it years ago. Not to mention that DLC that I also own.

Remember back in the Genesis/Mega Drive games when people couldn't even put their real names in the credits for whatever reason? That was weird.

I'm not terribly interested in visual novels, and I only have a passing interest in Tron (I grew up with both, but I have a lot more fuzzy memories of the arcade game than the movie(s)), but I do love the Bithell Games I've played so far so it's pretty tempting.

Just give me Saturn Bomberman on my Switch!!! I'll probably wait for a sale for this one since the first one was moderately entertaining but didn't hold my attention for terribly long.

Rabbits are me second-least-favorite animals after horses, but I absolutely love the thoroughness of this article and I might have to bump them up a notch. Now I have to decide what my previously third-least-favorite animal was.

After finishing a chapter on Xenoblade 3, I decided to take a break and play/delete all of the demos and free games on my Switch. During that time my son became obsessed with Smash Brothers, which I never really got around to completing, and then I became obsessed with it. Recently I finished everything in that game 100%, and just last week I finished the thing with the demos. So I finally got around to booting up Xenoblade 3 a few days ago and had no idea what I was doing. No surprise, because my last save data said October 2022. Good job, me!

I can't believe I got 14 out of 15 correct, and the one that I missed was about Metroid, which is one of my favorite serieses. I haven't even played most of the other games in that quiz!

Jeez, finally. And jeez, expensive. But since I have pretty much all the other limited edition Xenoblade stuff (other than the creepy sexy figures which would be hard to explain to my wife), I guess I'd better buy this.

@jojobar Me! I don't actually listen to my music on CD, but the wall of CD cases is beautiful!

I've probably complained about this in the comments of like 30 articles on Nintendo Life, but this will apparently NEVER happen in Japan, where everything is extra expensive because why not?

@BoilerBroJoe My mind blew up all over my face. But in a good way.

At one point I was obsessed with getting those dumb badges, and my collection stopped growing somewhere around 7800. And yet I only placed some on my home screen once near the beginning and never got around to doing it again.

I had an XL and then replaced it with a New 3DS (facey-plate edition). And then I bought an original model 3DS a week before the shop shut down because why not?

@Noxide Except that they're using Hollywood actors, not voice actors. Which is a shame because voice actors earn their livings specifically by... well, you can probably guess. I'll reserve judgement until I see the movie, but personally I wish they had just hired the entire cast of Futurama

Tough choice: "MARIO MADNESS" vs. "BOM".

I have indeed seen this on Japanese television!

Is it even possible to choose? These days, there are so many fantastic games that get released every year, but I can't possibly purchase them all, and I have a hard time playing the ones I do purchase.

That being said, I went with 1997 because a bunch of great games came out on Sega Saturn and back in those days I actually did have the free time to play all of the games I owned.

I just got my new old 3DS in the mail yesterday, and it took a couple of hours to get everything set up, but I was able to purchase the KORG synthesizers that I already have on my main 3DS. And that is all! Goodbye forever, eShops!

I wish I had enough free time to warrant the purchase of a chair specifically for gaming.

I recently (many months ago) decided to take a break from whatever chapter of Xenoblade 3 I was on to play all the demos I had downloaded so that I clean up my SD card. It was going nicely until I got to Triangle Strategy, which was way too long (side-story: actually my 4-year-old got obsessed with Smash Brothers, which led me to decide to finally get around to playing/completing that game, which took months but man-oh-jeez I absolutely destroyed it and finally got my money's worth for that game). It was interesting... but it's all like "thank goodness that old war ended and everything is peaceful", when obviously something is going to start a new war, but the demo drags on with endless conversations and by the time it ends you don't get to know what actually starts the war, so it almost seems like peacetime will just continue on forever. But mostly, it took a really long time to finish the damn thing, and it was like 80% dialogue. I tried a little bit of the other demo for that game, which focuses more on battles and jumps the story around a little more, and though it's not quite as in-depth as the first one I tried, it seemed like a much more effective demo, if the goal is to convince me to buy the full game.

Sounds like something I'll enjoy. Into the wishlist and/or backlog with ye, then!

Uhhh... "golden"? It kinda just looks yellow to me.

I just bought another 3DS about 10 minutes before I read this article. I got it exclusively so I can buy both of the KORG synthesizers again for backup/performance purposes. Still, I can't believe I just bought another 3DS.

Wow, I actually remember seeing a few of those! Especially the Yoshi's Island one. Thanks for making me re-remember it. Ugh.

Sorry to hear about the performance issues, but I'll still be buying this game. On my Switch. And I plan on enjoying it. I won't even whine about it (or the first game)!

Man... Mario's ground pound has never looked more painful. It doesn't seem to bother him, though.

I might actually attempt to take my kid to his first ever movie theater movie for this. I look forward to everything going horribly wrong!

This was easily one of the best games I played on DS, and I'd love to experience it again, but I don't know if I really NEED to play it again. At least, not before those other billion games I own and haven't played yet. Into the wishlist it goes, I guess.

I have little to no interest in trains, and yet that train thing looks surprisingly interesting.

I still need to get around to playing the dog Zelda game.

@gcunit I love that it seems like you must have spent hours working on that post, yet it's only #4. Nice work!

This game was amazing. Too bad I got stuck somewhere around level 17 and for whatever reason couldn't find a solution online and forgot to finish the game. And now my WiiU refuses to recognize HDMI cables so who knows if I'll ever get to try again.

I have a bunch of interesting themes on shuffle, but the ones that I can remember off the top of my head and therefore like the most are the Xenoblade, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast themes.