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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.

Ugh. My kid LOVES Gigantosaurus. Now I have to make sure he never sees anything of this game in the eShop or in the news feed thing.

Oh boy! I can't wait to get my new art book that I won't look at for years because I'll want to finish the game first, and then by the time I do finish the game I'll have forgotten about the art book!

This looks like it could fit into the Kingdom/West of Loathing world.

After playing Link to the Past approximately a million billion times (without owning it, somehow), I tried to play Ocarina of Time SO many times on SO many consoles (okay, three?), and it kind of ruined the series for me.

Oh boy! I can't wait for this to happen in Pikmin Bloom! I only have like 5 more things to do in that game, but a rough estimate tells me that if I want to completely get all the stuff and "finish" it, I'll need to play constantly every day for another 20 months or so. Dragalia Lost seems like it might have been a better use of my time.

The one Saturn game I've always regretted not buying... now made both entirely affordable and playable on the train!

I don't think I understood a single word in this article. Besides maybe the words "the", "with", and "cloud". I might have heard "a" somewhere before, too, but it all sounds like corporate-techno-mumbo-jumbo to me.

I would have bought an OLED Xenoblade 3 Switch, damnit.

After buying my first 3DS game in years which is probably also going to be my last (also I'll probably never get around to playing it) a few days ago, I started thinking about something like this. Specifically, Nintendo is going to remake and re-release the same popular games for ages, but what about the games that I loved and still own? In just the past few years I've had a number of tragedies occur... the charging port on my DSi is broken and I have be very careful if I want the thing to charge. I'm already on the 3rd battery for my 3DS. The disc drive on my American Wii died, I can't get my Japanese Wii U to recognize HDMI cables, and of course I have lots of discs and downloaded games for both that aren't compatible with the other. I have a pretty fantastic library of Nintendo games that are getting harder and harder to play as time goes on. I would consider paying money again to have a lot of those games on my Switch, but because they're not Mario or Zelda games it's not going to happen. How many years do I have left before I have to start worrying about what will happen to all of the games on my Switch?

I've finished both Metroid Dread and Thumper 100%, and I've tried a few of the others, but after Thumper especially, I'm not looking to add anything to the "stressful" folder on my Switch any time soon.

You forgot Golden Sun!

I bought a new 3DS game that I'll probably never play today, for the first time in a couple of years. It's also the first time in a couple of years that I couldn't buy the thing I was trying to buy because I had to stabilize my 3DS first.

Oh cool, I first played Kirby 30 years ago! Thanks for making me feel old, Sakurai.

Japanese people call Baskin Robbins "31" because they're so afraid of the English language that they can't see past those numbers. If you try to explain the real name they act like you just set fire to a rescue shelter for disabled baby red pandas. It's super weird.

This looks not appealing to my alley at all; I think I'll give it a go!

I didn't have an NES as a kid. I'd go to one friend's house and demand that he let me play Zelda (against his pleas of "let's go play outside!"), and another friend's house to play Metroid. For obvious reasons I never finished either. Metroid II was the first Metroid game I owned, and I absolutely loved it, even though either the cartridge or the Gameboy was broken, and after about 20 minutes it would overheat (I guess?) and shut down so you had to make your time worth it (strangely, that didn't happen with any other games). I'm not entirely sure why I missed out on Super Metroid since I had a SNES and played most of the big games... years later after I fell in love with Prime I played it on emulator and knew that a big chunk of my childhood had been missing until that point. After that I've owned and played pretty much every non-Federation Force Metroid game there is, but Samus Returns (remake or original, both of which I've played multiple times) will always be my favorite. And I still kind of think the original is the worst of them all.

This is beautiful. I can't wait for the finale next week to crush all of my hopes and dreams for Saul & Co.!

Recently I finally started going through all the demos I downloaded and deleting them after trying them. And then Xenoblade 3 came out and so much for finishing that project.

I'd like to see a Xenoblade 3 Direct from this week's Splatoon 3 Direct! Oh wait that already happened once.

I think this was my second or third Switch game, but I never got past the second level because it's just so hard. Now that I've finished Thumper and Steredenn (among others) 100%, maybe it's time to go back and give it another try.

Well crap, why have I not been scalping Switches in my spare time all along???

I really don't need more Splatoon. As fun as it is, it all kind of blends together after a while. That's why I'm going to buy Call of Duty: Modern Black Ops Warfare 7 instead!

@aznable Aren't there like a million billion games that use 16 or 32-bit visuals with 8-bit sound? Personally I'd really rather have that extra factor of 2 (though really I'd rather have more, no matter how many bits the visuals are).

@Snatcher Don't forget to play Xenoblade X! Oh... wait... maybe that one's not so easy to play these days, especially if you're looking to finish all the online stuff. But yeah, they're all good, just in different ways.

@thinkhector Thank you, that is beautiful. If Xenoblade 3 wasn't a digital download for me I'd chuck it in the garbage right now and get started on that list!

P.S. I wouldn't really do that.

Garfield Kart 3, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No wait I meant Xenoblade 3. I get those serieses confused all the time.

My Sega Saturn and everything related to it (games, soundtracks, stickers, figures, flyers, tattoo, etc.) will always be the highlight of my collection, even if I'll probably never play any of the games again. The three scenarios of Shining Force III and the Premium Disc are probably the fanciest thing in my gaming collection, even if I only ever played 1/4th of them. But Saturn Bomberman is my all-time favorite video game and I have SO many memories attached that game that it's my ultimate treasure.

News news day, I see. News!

Not as cool as the NES. And yet... I never owned an NES but I owned one of these, so it's like 200% cooler. Crap now I want them both.

@Type_Trubbish Yeah, I went for the Gameboy version. I like how it looks like Chun-Li just murdered Ryu with a well-placed kick, but the look of shock on her face is because Blanka busted in saying "your secret's safe with me... for a price!" ...Maybe it's just me.

Not nearly enough!!!!!

I would probably enjoy that. Or at least remove JUST the blue shell. At one point in my life I was ridiculously skilled at F-Zero GX... I only wish that talent translated into Mario Kart.

I finally finished OPUS: Echo of Starsong, and even though I found like 90% of the memories, I feel like I need to play it again to really GET what's going on. This time I'll do it in Japanese!

I've been pronouncing it in the fourth variation, but now that I've seen it written out "LIVER-LIV", it shall now permanently be "Liver a Live" (which rhymes with "Giver a Give") to me.

I want to play this game but I feel like I should finish Metroid Dread on hard mode first because of that whole metroidovania thing. Also... I just know Portal is going to win the vote for the next backlog club game, which is too bad because I REALLY want to play Baba is You and participate in this club for once. On the other hand, I've never played Portal for more than maybe 5 minutes and would really like to actually experience the whole thing. So... screw you, Superliminal, we've got other games to play, I guess!

@KateGray That first paragraph is magic. Besides my mother insisting me she's not a wine snob (she kind of is), I have a wonderful memory of going on a date to a fancy restaurant where the tables were a little too close together, and after the guy next to us told his date, "I feel that by the third glass you start to get palate fatigue", we spent the rest of the meal struggling to contain our giggles. Some wines might be better than others, but for the most part wine is wine and what does it matter once you're drunk??

Anyway... there are a number of games that I played in the same time period as listening to an album or watching a certain movie or reading a book, and some of them really did work together and are forever connected in my brain, which I think is pretty cool.

I feel like it's time for Nintendo Indirects, where... never mind. I had several ideas on how to finish that joke, but I think I've already cause enough damage.