mjharper

His glasses are like the enemies you can possess in the desert level in Odyssey. If he puts the sunglasses down, you can see invisible short cut paths on the track, but your cart stops moving. When he puts them back up, he can drive again, but the short cut paths disappear.

I haven't had this issue with any games on the Switch. It isn't really the issue being discussed here, but the worst offender is Xenoblade X. The fonts in that game were horribly small, and became pretty much unreadable if playing the game on the GamePad (partly because of the lower resolution screen, but mostly because of the ant-size text).

Welcome aboard, Jon!

Wow. If you can't beat the competition, buy them.

Is there anyone from Fire Emblem that uses a sword that isn't in Smash? Then that's my pick.

In all seriousness, I think it would be awesome if the Ring Fit Adventurer made it into Smash.

Claimed. Thanks NL.

Skyward Sword. About 40-something hours into it now, working my way through the Fire Sanctuary. I miss dungeons like these - hope we get some like these in the new Zelda.

6/12. I only dabble in indie games, so this isn't really a surprise. I'm proud to say I got the WiiWare question right (I think I still have the demo for AYIM on the Wii U). So glad I went in Wii mode and downloaded the games I wanted from the Shop Channel before it closed.

I wonder if they're producing enough Ring Fits to meet demand yet. I've seen it once in a store since March. Once. I use it 2-3 times a week as a decent in-home workout method, especially since I suffered a knee injury - it has a nice "Knee Assist" option that allows me to get a workout in without hurting it more. Everyone in the family plays it. It's truly paid for itself.

Never change, Nintendo Life.

I'll take any Direct format over the quiet darkness of the Covid-19-induced white noise we got from Nintendo last summer.

Yep, this would go on the want list. Another game on the Wii U backlog coming over to Switch.

Great review. I'm not sure which method I'd use to play the All-stars version of Galaxy, but I'm definitely looking forward to revisiting it and Mario 64 (and playing through Sunshine for the first time).

Galaxy 2 as DLC please!

Guess it's better than no game at all...maybe...

11/18. Given the difficulty of the quiz, and the length of time it's been since I've played the Mario 64 and Galaxy games, I'll take it.

Your sales are so shiny and beautiful!

Pretty much already banking on having to get this digitally, as I'm sure I'm never going to see it in a store after launch day.

Ignore the microtransactions. I'll probably ignore the entire game until it's marked down to $4.99 next summer.

And why do they have to mess with the jump shot controls? It's been that way since Double Dribble. Leave that alone. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Well, this explains the reissue of the champion amiibo. I like (but don't love) the Warriors games, but I loved Breath of the Wild, so this is a must-have for me. Looking forward to revisiting this world.

This was the highlight of the Direct for my son. He's going to love this. The download shouldn't be more than a couple GBs, and really, you're going to have to have home internet for this to work anyway, so buyers shouldn't complain too much about having to download. Plus, I've learned with children and the Switch, the fewer tiny cartridges to go missing, the better.

I'm going to say it's a combination of running out of time and internal politics. The Rona probably has the most to do with it, but Nintendo always sets the value of their franchises very high. It could be that internally Nintendo thought that including SMG2 would push the MSRP above the $59.99 threshold based on the value of the Mario games included in the package, so SMG2 was left out. It would be very Nintendo if that's the case.

Either way, there's a lot of Mario in that package already. There's tens of hours to fully complete each of those games (even if someone has done it recently, moreso if they haven't since the games were new). There's lots of content here already. I'll be very happy with this pack.

Nice to see a new Splatfest coming up that's not a rematch. Will there be a Splatfest between now and January?

Ahh, Super Mario All-Stars. I remember buying this cartridge for my Super NES at K-Mart the same summer I bought my Nintendo 64. I'm young at heart.

It's amazing how they were able to keep this a secret for so long! Anyway, count me in for the 3D All-Stars, and the addition to 3D World will make that a purchase for me as well. I'm excited for the SMB 35 game (and a little disappointed it's a limited-time deal). My son will love the Mario Kart "AR" toys (though a little expensive) - that's a very cool, "Nintendo"-y idea.

I'm guessing the cost of such a machine was what pushed Nintendo to rethink their next console. This thing probably would've had a price tag on par with PS3.

My son played Pokemon Go on an iPhone 5S a little last summer, and he hated it. It "worked," but everything was slow. To this day he complains that the only reason he joined Team Blue instead of Yellow is because of that phone. But that phone was very old - I believe we bought that 6 or 7 years ago. I don't know how many people this will affect, but I doubt the number is very high. I don't blame Niantic at all for wanting to cut support for such old, unused devices.

7/15. I don't know Rare as much as I thought I did.

Great idea in theory, but what about motion controls? Even Mario Kart Wii had the steering wheel that you shook to do tricks. Where's the infrared sensor? Is all aiming handled by the right stick?

I'm sure all of these questions are answered in his video, just too lazy to watch it.

I don't think I cried, but I didn't see it coming when I first experienced it, and I remember being sad about it for several days afterward (probably clinically depressed). I remember I changed my FF7 window colors from green to red in memory of her. To this day, it's the saddest moment I've ever experienced in a video game.

Now I need to go Google Robert Pattinson.

I'm happy with the service so far. It's been nice having all these games that I would've paid for plus others that I can try out if I want. Plus online play, plus cloud saves, etc. And it's less than $3 a month for the whole family. We pay 4x more than that for Netflix, and we probably use NSO more.

Not trying to be mean here, but if you're missing VC so badly, go grab (or reconnect) a Wii U. The Wii U eShop is still open, and VC works great on that system. If you need portable, there's 3DS. Problem-solve, people.

One of my favorite game series of all time. If I had to pick one, it would have to be FF7, but FF6 is very close. FF4 is the game that got me into the series, and FF5 (a game I originally played on an emulator with a fan translation) was also good. FF8 is the last game in the series I played (never finished), but it's still a good RPG. I have FF9 and FF10 on the Switch, and I want to play through each of them one day, but there are so many games out there.

Finally forged the final sword in Muramasa: Demon Blade. With all the talk over Zelda: Skyward Sword being ported to the Switch and and how awesome (or not awesome) that would be, I decided to make playing through that my next project. And that's where six hours of my Sunday went.

Unrelated sale, but NBA 2K20 is only $4.99 now in NA (if you have the 41 GB of room to download it).

What I think of when I think of "Raji":

Still, that looks like it could be an incredible game.

Stop, just stop. BOTW 2 is not coming this year. Do not get my hopes up like that. There's no way that's true. It would be wonderful and glorious if it was, but it's not. No way.

Realistically, I feel like this retailer is just trying to get some extra eyeballs on their site by throwing a "speculative" item on their site.

I had stopped shortly after launch because of a lack of stuff to do. I may pick it back up one day.

I also really enjoyed Goldeneye 007 on the Wii. It didn't have the same impact - I wasn't in college anymore, so the only multiplayer I played on it was online - but the single player campaign was very enjoyable.

Goldeneye took over my life during a semester at college. My friend and I would play it for hours. He was so hellbent on unlocking all of the multiplayer cheats that he worked for days on the missions required to unlock them. The four player multiplayer was the best, though. Paintball, one-shot kills, and the automatic weapon set. We had the respawn locations memorized. Good times.

Super Mario Bros. was the game that brought me to Nintendo, though. Before that, I wanted an Atari. Silly kid.

11/12. You got me on Gooigi.

I played this for a couple hours, but just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll pick it back up at some point. I'm glad that it's getting a second chance on a more popular system, though.

I liked the game, but I didn't love it. My wife played it to death on the GBA, though. I think she liked the more laid-back approach to the Mario formula, where she could be hit by an enemy but still recover, and could explore levels at her own pace.

I'll admit it - I already have all of these games. Nice sale, though.

Wrapped up Momohime's story in Muramasa: Demon Blade, and started Kisuke's story. I'm very glad I've circled back around to this game - it's not deep, but it's fun, and the story and art style is unique.

I’ll admit I’m biased, but I chose 1987. That’s the year I played the neighbor’s Nintendo and decided I needed to have one. It’s been all downhill ever since.

I'm still confused as to what this thing actually does. It sounds like a cheap PC with an Atari joystick. I'd be more interested in the games they're planning to make for it. No one bought the Switch just because it's a cool gadget - it has great games to play on it.

Is it just me, or does Skully sound a lot like Link's Awakening?

"...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Curious stuff, but still, it's Nintendo's stuff. Releasing it into the wild, and the method in how it is presented, should've been left up to them.

That is amazing. Talk about above and beyond.

I started playing Muramasa: Demon Blade last weekend. I'll be playing that more this weekend.

5 / 15.

"0-5: Look, I even wasn't born for half of these, okay?!"

I wish I could use that as an excuse. I think Nintendo was still making Hanafuda cards in a hotel when I was born.