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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???

Dang... I'd love to have more games like this to play together with my 4-year-old, but I don't especially want to buy a second Switch to do it. Or maybe this is an excuse for me to buy an OLED model...

I didn't know any of these (other than the ones I already read about on Nintendo Life) because I STILL haven't played this game after buying it maybe 3 years ago. What's wrong with me???

@AmplifyMJ It took me about 5 days to find out that the 1st Anniversary Snack decor event thing works completely differently in Japan... I have to visit a specific chain of convenience stores to pluck a 10,000-step Pikmin. Getting close like with the giant flowers doesn't work, I actually have to be in the store (or at least the parking lot), and of course there aren't any on my daily commute. GRRRR just another reason to want to quit this game. But... but... I'm SO close!

Oh man, I loved that part of the game. Not to mention the similarly satisfying inventory management in Solatorobo. I might just have to check this out.

I can't believe I'm still "playing" this "game". I'm at level 79 and have all but 4 of the badges (some of which I estimate will take half a year or so to complete), so I'd might as give up on life and complete the dumb thing!

I feel like I should buy this game because I own the first two, but I was disappointed by the original. It looks and feels like something I should enjoy, but up to the end of the game I kind of had absolutely no idea what I was doing, and didn't have the patience to go back and try to figure it out (plus, my backlog was like "NO TIME! NO TIME!"). I hear 2 is way better... and 3 is even better than that... so I'd like to give them both a chance, but there are just so many more games on my Switch I'd rather attempt first.

@Rainz I wish I could "<3" your comment more than once. Unfortunately you can only do it once and that's unacceptable to me! Seriously, though, if the most important thing about a game to someone is the resolution or frame rate (or some other arbitrary performance statistic), I feel like they're totally missing the point of playing games in the first place.

I finally finished chapter 4 of Xenoblade 3 and decided to take a break and finish a few shorter games before diving back in. Good thing What the Golf? only has like... 2000 levels.

I remember when the soundtrack to Jet Grind/Set Radio on Dreamcast blew my mind out of my face. Except for the tracks added for the American version... it was the age when people felt like Rob Zombie's music needed to be included in absolutely everything. Around the same time was Rez, a game where I've seen like 3/5 of the artists featured perform live, though that was a different time for me. So I guess... if the music you like shows up in a game, then good for you. I've come to accept that with my eclectic tastes in music it's probably never going to happen again for me.

I still regret never buying this on Saturn, and that collector's edition looks... oh cool, [pre]sold out.

PenPen TriIcelon! I still don't get why the Dreamcast failed with this gem as part of the launch lineup. Seriously, though, I have some great memories of this not-so-great game. I was fresh into my first year of college and living away from home for the first time... my friends and I would take over the giant TV in our dorm's lounge and play my shiny new Dreamcast, and this game was by far our favorite because of how ridiculous it was. The best part, though, is that the TV was inside of a giant wooden box (I guess so no one would try to steal it?) which made the crazy techno/polka music EXTRA loud and obnoxious, and turning the bass all the way up would cause the entire room to shake. Ahhh, precious memories.

I borrowed Pikmin 3 from a friend a while back (my Switch is 100% digital, so physically borrowing a game makes me feel like I'm back in the SNES days), and my son and I might have finished everything there is to do. Which is good because I'm ever so tired of asking him "why are are you just standing there???" while I do all the work. I was SO much better at Pikmin than he is when I was 3. In 1984.

In other news, I bought 4~5 games in September, so I have this CRAAAAZY idea that after I finish the current chapter in Xenoblade 3 I might take a break and play some other games before jumping back in because otherwise I'll probably never play anything else.

@Unapologetic I think I need better mental gymnastics just to understand what I read in the article. As far as I understand... someone got fired for doing a thing, but said firing might not have been fair because things have details and stuff? Okay, never mind, got it.