kurtasbestos

Will there be another mode like this that allows for ACTUAL nudity?? I'm asking for a friend.

@Nermannn 190 Kwatloos is... ridiculous. As is 7480 Yenllars. I put money on my Amazon.co.jp account today to buy this thing (because otherwise I have to explain to my wife a huge payment on our joint credit card), but I decided that I don't need to preorder this game. For one, it doesn't come out for nearly a year (seriously???), but also, that price would make it the most expensive non-Xenoblade game I've ever bought for my Switch (oh yeah, also that breathy Zelda game I still haven't played) AND my first-ever non-digital purchase. As enticing as that two-level bonus game is, I think I'll just stick to digital purchases and wait for a sale. I'm only slightly disappointed, but that Amazon-cash can probably be put to better use on other things.

I LOVE violence, blood and gore, partial nudity, and strong language! But in-game purchases? That's where I draw my line. Definitely not buying this game.

I want to listen to this but I won't because I want the game to surprise me in as many ways as possible!

Uh oh... this is live on Amazon.co.jp right now for just one day (if you want the bonus game that sounds like it's not much of a game), and a crazy thought occurs... will it support TATE mode? Because if not I'm not interested because that's kind of the whole reason I want to play this game on my Switch.

I would buy this.

For the first few years I kept screenshots to the internal memory and had to erase the ones that weren't precious to me every time I reached the limit. Then I moved to a newer, gigantic SD card (okay, I did that twice) and realized there's not a limit when the screenshots are on the SD card... so now I just don't have the will to cull them anymore and probably won't even look at them because there are THOUSANDS.

@cyrus_zuo My son apparently loves taking screenshots of menus! Just the other day I found about 30 of the title screen to the Pikmin 3 demo.

I'm cancelling my preorder. There's no Klingon!

Gotta agree with Ollie... I don't like anything about the N64. Especially that awful controller. But I approve of all of the other selections on this list and now fully expect Nintendo to make it happen.

Man those are beautiful... too bad I don't much care for them thar Splatoons, boy howdy.

Ahhhh jeez I'm not ready for Xenobarf 3 to consume all of my free time. Maybe I'll feel slightly better if I make a goal like "finish one game on the backlog per week until it gets released and then never finish any of the others".

The Japanese one is kinda cool, but also kind of generic. The American one, though, is like... "WOAH HAY DUDE BRO HERE'S THAT TOTALLY RAD GAME YOU REALLY WANTED TO PLAY BACK IN THE 80'S BUT DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE DUMB!!!!" It's just rubbing its awesomeness in my face.

Ahhh jeez I always wanted to play Target Earth/Assault Suits Leynos... still not enough to pay money for a service I'll never have the time to use, though. A man can dream, I guess.

It really was totally different in Japan... some weird problem with my credit card made it so that I couldn't pre-order a copy. I kept trying different things for a few days while panicking that my window of opportunity would run out until I decided to try using my wife's credit card, which is basically the same thing as mine since they're linked to the same account, and that DID work. Sorry to hear it's so messed up elsewhere.

OH EM GEE I CAN'T WAIT FOR my copy of Chickip Dancers: Norinori Dance de Kokoro mo Odoru to show up!!!!!! Also, Xenoblade 3 I guess or whatever.

@SwitchplayerJohn I can't decide if that sounds like it would be terrible or incredibly fun. Terrible because F-Zero should probably just focus on the races. But incredibly fun because the cut scenes in GX were so ridiculous that I would love to spend more time in that ridiculous world. But only if I can play as Octoman.

@jrt87 Thanks for the advice. I absolutely loved Galactic Attack a million years ago and still own the Saturn version, but it's surprisingly hard to play on the train and I don't think my TV-hogging 4-year-old is quite ready for it (though it blows my mind how good he is at some of the games I've introduced him to). I think I might just hold out for the collection because I always wanted to play the sequels. Unless there's a really good sale before then.

@OorWullie Eschatos is definitely on my wishlist. As is Ikaruga, a game I've already played to death on other systems a million years ago, but am super excited to play again in TATE mode. My backlog isn't really recommending that I give in to temptation and buy a million SHMUPS to play in TATE mode, so I need to be selective. That guy is such a jerk sometimes. He's probably saved me a lot of money, though. So, uh... why do we not have Radiant Silvergun on Switch yet???

@Rambler I heard rumors that the programmers typed using their feet. For shame!!

This is like the #4 most-played game on my Switch. If these changes had come out before I declared it "finished", it probably would have jumped up to at least #2. But... no. I'm done.

@jrt87 So.... I finally got a Flip Grip recently but have nothing to play with it. I was playing on getting Layer Storm / Galactic Attack, but should I just wait for this instead???

I've been obsessed with theremins (and that documentary made me even more obsessed) for years, and yet I still haven't gotten around to owning one. Possibly because I can make the same sound with my mouth. Still, I wish theremins got more of the respect they deserve in the public's hive mind. One of my favorite bands uses a theremin, and I'm sure their other tens of fans would agree!

If only there were more comments complaining about this. I, for one, am perfectly okay with it.

No thank you. I don't need MORE games. Unless it's a game that helps me finish my other games. That actually sounds kind of cool. OOOOHH!!!! I figured it out! Nintendo's going to announce a new WarioWare game where the minigames help you finish your backlog!

This reminds me of the twin sticks controller for Virtual On on Sega Saturn... of which I owned TWO (I mean two sets, not two sticks total). And then I probably used them like... three times.

UPDATE: Huh... there aren't any "HOLY CRAP I MUST PLAY THOSE GAMES AGAIN" games in the new list. Suddenly this thing seems a little less desirable, though Silpheed and Shining Force CD alone would probably justify the purchase for me.

Of course I own several versions of the first two games, but I'd really love to play Sonic 3 and CD again (because I only have 1~2 versions of those but not the hardware to play them on), but the lack of save states is troubling... playing through Sonic Mania reminded me of how the maze-like levels in the later Sonic games get pretty tedious pretty quickly. Or maybe it's not as bad as that in the older games.

Must... not... buy... more... games... Oh boy time to get Tetris Effect finally!!!

Oh dang, my son just finished the first one a couple of weeks ago instead of letting me play it (though I had to do the battles for him), and hearing that there's going to be a sequel AND that it features co-op is fantastic news!

"the surprise announcement of an Expansion Pass" Yeah, no, I already knew they were going to trick me out of more of my money long before any details of this game were announced.

I have absolutely no interest in these kinds of games (to be fair, I still read the reviews that appear on Nintendo Life and for the well-reviewed ones I feel like maybe I'm missing out on the fun... but then I remember my backlog), but I would buy Xenoblade Warriors without a second thought out of obligation to the series.

@solarwolf07 That might be the craaaaziest comment I've ever read on a gaming news website!

My first memory of this phenomenon was back in 1999 when previews of ChuChu Rocket! described it as "Lemmings vs. Bomberman". Well crap, I love both of those games!

...it wasn't REALLY like either of those games more than superficially. But holy crap I loved that game, and I probably owe a lot of thanks to that original description for guiding me towards it in the first place.

PLEASE tell me it's a new re-master of Sonic 2!!!!!!!

@BloodNinja I'll be honest, I'm super biased. I only played RPGs on the Saturn and Dreamcast back in those days, and since there weren't a ton to choose from on those systems I played the vast majority, which all seemed to have some sort of mine cart sequence. A lot of the times it made sense story-wise, but sometimes it felt completely arbitrary to the point that it became sort of an inside joke in my nerdy friend circle.

@Ocaz I'm... pretty sure Minecraft didn't exist in the 90's. But maybe sometime in the future it will have gotten so big that it opens a rift through time that makes it influence games that came decades before it. That seems plausible.

OPUS: Echo of Starsong is incredibly slow-paced (and there are some very long segments where you can't save your game and have to completely redo them if your child decides to grab your Switch and play something else), but I'm enjoying it as much as its predecessors. Once again, the world-building is fantastic.

Please give me Radiant Silvergun on Switch, Treasure. Or send me a copy of the Saturn version. You OWE me!

Why is it that absolutely every RPG in the late 90's had some sort of mine cart scene???

This was a fantastic, beautiful game that fits in both my "relaxing" and "stressful" groups on my Switch. Some of the puzzles were ridiculously challenging, but if I could (eventually) get through them with a 4-year-old, then I can't really fault the game for being too hard.

My 4-year-old son is really into Pikuniku, and after playing it a billion times I decided to pick this up when it was on sale so we'd have something else to play together. Holy crap it was difficult (I imagine that even playing with an adult would be
pretty tricky)... but we managed to make it through the entire game together, and it was super satisfying. Not to mention beautiful. Screenshots don't do it justice.

Holy crap, I actually finished Ibb & Obb with a 4-year-old!!! I don't think I need to worry about his English comprehension (it's not his first language since pretty much the only English he hears is from me) because that game would have been just as hard playing with one of my native-English-speaking adult friends.

Now I can spend the rest of the weekend staring at my shiny new Flip Grip because I don't have any games that are compatible with it yet!

Neat! That means I'll be able to buy it on the Japanese eShop (and play it in English, of course)!

From what I've seen it looks just fine to me, but because the internet hates everything conversations like this have to happen.

Did they also eat the metal wires that give support to the characters?

I think they're both kind of ugly.

Why is his introductory image on Twitter basically just a crotch shot???

I totally thought it was the spiritual successor to A Short Hike until I saw that the names of the people who made them thar games don't seem to be the same. It still looks pretty interesting, though, so I'll forgive it for that.

Oh hey, Sonic Jam, Sonic Mega Collection, and Sonic Gems are all collecting dust somewhere in my house. Plus the original cartridges for 1~3 + Knuckles. Also, Sonic CD and Sonic R. And yet, I don't think I've touched a single one of those games or compilations in at least 15 years.

I spent most of the week at home with a sick 4-year-old, and since I was trying to get him to relax I decided I'd rather let him play video games than watch the awful crap he watches on YouTube. So he ended up finishing his 1-player campaigns in Figment, Pikuniku, and Thomas Was Alone. We also made good progress on Ibb & Obb. I only wish I could get through my backlog as fast as he is.

I love that this isn't a back page article. This is serious news, people!