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That was the best poll ever!

Whenever I see an article like this, I think "I know I've had lots of moments like that, but without digging through my collection I can't remember them off-hand." But then I read the bit about the Sonic 3 barrel. Yay! That was me, too!!!

I got a few of the 4-leaf clovers during this event last year, and within a few months of the event ending I still managed to get 4-leaf clovers through sheer luck and park decor Pikmin. Except for blue. I've plucked well over 30 blue park Pikmin and raised them to 4 stars and still haven't gotten a 4-leaf clover. And again I ask myself, why am I still playing this terrible game???

@Dark_Isatari Rule #1 of Japanese product design: have some empty space? Put some text in there!
...Just kidding, that's the ONLY rule of Japanese product design!

I had a Super Scope! Why did I not have Yoshi's Safari??? Well, I sure screwed up in life.

I hate the name but it looks pretty awesome. It also reminds me that I have Star Fox games on both my 3DS and Wii U that I haven't played for more than like 10 minutes each.

Man I hate the internet. Or the... Leak-net? Whatever the thing is where people decide they need to find and then leak stuff in order to bring themselves internet fame (I guess?) is. I honestly don't get why it's such a huge thing.

@KayFiOS The Final Countdown works for EVERYTHING.

Oh man, I've still only played this game for like 30 minutes total, and I've only played with my Flip Grip for about the same. Time to pretend like I'll get around to fixing that and instead continue slowly chip away at other games on my backlog! Sounds awesome, though.

That Masha lady brings back memories of all the boobmonsters in Xenoblade 2. But mostly this update reminds me that I need to finish 3.

"If you're a franchise fan, you'll have played this to death."

I've owned and played every Metroid game staring Samus there is (except for the pinball one that I'll forever regret not buying the one time I saw it). Am I a horrible person for having only finished Super Metroid once in my life, while I've played and finished II (including the remake) probably around 6 times?

@KateGray Wait, what, you're leaving?? Well that's a bummer... I love your sense of humor and lists of things I didn't know I needed lists of, and I will miss your articles dearly. Good luck in the future!

I played through Pikmin 3 with my son recently, and when I told him that they announced 4 he kept asking if there were going to be green or orange Pikmin. I mean, it seems like a logical progression, right? He's going to be so disappointed.

Let's all buy 100,000 more Switches each and help it reach that goal! Okay, maybe that's not very realistic. Let's just buy 10,000 each.

How come these things always happen when I'm on my way to work???

@Olliemar28 For whatever reason, NBC blocks any and all SNL clips in Japan. Could you please get Alex and the video team to recreate the video solely for my benefit? Thanks in advance!

@Liam_Doolan They still don't fix them for free in Japan!

@AmplifyMJ Dang, I'm way behind you at a measly level 83 and only... 40 badges. I should get the final step badge by early next week, but the final expedition badge will probably take well over a year unless they do a bunch more of those crazy events like the one where I was getting 50 expeditions every day.

@Joeynator3000 They have been updating the game... just not in ways that tend to make it feel like "oh boy I sure am glad I didn't quit!" Also, with each update it causes my phone to run worse.

@GogGogGogGog You can increase the limit, and if you walk a lot then it's pretty easy to do.

If you include the Japanese text, then the Japanese title is actually "Killer7 Capcom Killer Killer7 7". Maybe throw the second Capcom on at the end for fun!

Did anyone ever play VATLVA for the Sega Saturn? No? Oh. Well, it has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a game, by that Yuzo Koshiro person that a few people might have heard of.

Also, Pen Pen TriIcelon for the Dreamcast... it's meant to be a children's game (I guess), but the weird polka-EDM music is super catchy and ridiculously awesome.

...I'd post a link to either, but, well, I'm lazy. Plus who's REALLY going to read this far into the comments and do research on everyone's suggestions? Whoever you are, I salute you.

So... 38,602 people bought a PS5 and 0.14 copies of Gran Turismo 7 each? How is the console suddenly on top without any games also dominating the charts?? Weird.

I played this game a lot on N64 a million or so years ago, and it totally would have been fun if I hadn't been the only person in the room who didn't own an N64 and therefore got absolutely destroyed every single damn time we played. Stupid proxy mines on spawn points GRRRR.

Oh dip, I always wanted to play this and it might just have to be my first Arcade Archives purchase!

I'm sure I've had plenty of frustrating game encounters throughout my life, but the first few games that come to mind on Switch are Thumper (which I loved and hated at the same time but managed to 100% S-rank the thing), Crypt of the Necrodancer (another awesome game, but I never made it past the second level because it's just too hard), Conduct Together! (getting perfect scores on a lot of those levels was ridiculously frustrating, but it's hard to complain when I only spent like 100 Yen on the thing), and my favorite game to complain about: Earth Atlantis.

Once my kid showed an interest in actually playing with the Amiibos in the physical world (but also in Smash Brothers), I started regretting not buying MORE back when I could still find them easily. Oh well... at least I have Pyra and Mythra to look forward to.

Where's Aegis Defenders??? Also, I kind of hate the term "pixel art" because 3D games also use pixels. But yes, I get it, and I regret that I joined Team Semantics.

The first Figment is one of the first games my kid managed to play through (mostly) by himself, so I'm super excited to be able to play this one together.

I bet the cost reflects the downgrade since everything in Japan is ridiculously expensive.

Awww, no Japan?? Oh wait, Wii U.

I'm not ready to buy a new console!
...unless it's 100% backwards compatible.
Then I GUESS Nintendo can have my money.

I'll be the one person in Japan to do this! I hope to see that green light at least once before 2024!

My games aren't on the list because they're both for Sega Saturn. Every year I tell myself I'm going to play Mr. Bones in fall, then Christmas NiGHTS in winter, and then every year I either forget or get too busy with other stuff to remember how to hook my Saturn up to the TV. Maybe 2023 will be the year!

I hate that Human: Fall Flat is still on that list when there are so many fantastic indies games that make it to Japan these days. When my students ask me what games I like, the chances they've heard of any of them are slim to none because they barely even know what the eShop is, and if they do, they've probably only heard of that game. Still, I have to give a shout out to the girl in 4th grade who's really into Undertale. Now if I can just convince her to buy Thomas Was Alone (which is not available in Japan/ese).

My son and I have been making good progress in Smabbers Ultimate, but that jerk Santa brought him that fancy Kirby game and now Smash Bros. will probably go back on the "games I'll never finish" list.

Weird... I bought 24 Xbox Series X's in Japan this week. I wonder who the other person was???

I have a friend's wife who works at... a company that does... something for Nintendo. I've had it explained to me like 20 times and I still don't know, but her name is in the credits of Mario Party Superstars, and their family has received two (2) free trips to Nintendo Land in Osaka. Whatever, the point is that I feel like she basically OWES me a job because of how much money I've spent on Nintendo games, and yet every time I bring it up she stops talking to me for some reason.

Well, E that W in the U!

• I intentionally used vague letters that don't immediately call to mind naughty words, but because this is the internet I'm sure someone could still find a way to turn it into something terrible. And maybe that's what this update is all about! Blessed be the internet.

Not surprisingly, a bunch of those games are on sale right now in Japan, too, but at much smaller discounts. 30% off of Hades is probably about the best I'm going to get (I have no way of easily adding money to my American account), so I guess I'll pretend I didn't see this article and be happy.

Xenoblade 3 / OPUS / probably a bunch of others / I wish I could choose my favorite game of 2022 in 2024 or so after I've actually finished more of the games I purchased this year.

My son and I have been playing a lot of Smashy recently, and now that I'm finally trying to finish all the stuff that I've been putting off for several years, I find that Pyra/Mythra is easily my favorite character. Heck yeah I'll be buying those two.

The best Christmas game ever is Christmas NiGHTS! ...for the three people over 40 that read Nintendo Life who own(ed) that game.

@Olliemar28 "but ignoring the fact that the bacon looks absolutely nothing like bacon"

For the record, that actually IS what bacon looks like in Japan because they incorporate English words into their language however they damn well please here.

@williamchyr I just finished this game the other day. Thank you for a fantastic game! It was relaxing and challenging without being too difficult, and absolutely beautiful. I actually kind of wish you had done some sort of tedious "collect X hidden items" thing, only because I wanted to spend more time in every single ridiculously interesting space in the game, but the constant nagging of "I have 20+ games on my backlog that I bought before this game and haven't played yet" compelled me to keep moving on to the next area. At any rate, I loved every minute of the game and I hope you'll come up with more interesting ideas for games in the future!

@Joeynator3000 To be fair, they're still adding crap to Pikmin Go. I mean Bloom. Not like, "good" crap, mind you, but crap all the same.

I don't like fighting games and yet I loved this game. Too bad the online component was what made it really fun.

Weird... I kind of like the Mike Tyson version, but I love the artwork on the Mr. Dream version. Meanwhile, the Japanese version does nothing for me. Apparently not a lot of people agree with me.

I've been pretending like I'm good at making Indian food for around 15 years so this will either inspire me to get better or just make me really hungry.

I bought all of the DLC but still haven't touched it. That's okay, though, because I haven't played the game yet, either!

I started playing video games on an Atari 2600 when I was 4 or 5. My son is 4 and knows his way around my Switch nearly as well as I do. I think I need to buy this collection and give my son a history lesson he's sure to find disappointing.

More importantly: why have I never played this game???