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Ooh nice! Even more third party craziness.

@DonnieTACO

Well it's almost like the SNES. It's slightly bigger, the + shape is a bit thicker and it sticks out a bit more, avoiding the mushiness of the SNES dpad and giving it a bit more travel if that makes sense with a nice soft clickiness to it. Basically it's a refined SNES dpad.

The NSO version though is even better. It is flat out the best dpad out there imo and even though I think the pro 2 dpad is nice and much better than the pro 1, I really wonder why they did not just copy paste the NSO N64 dpad.

Holy crap that poster is pretty awesome!

I'll die on that hill I don't care. I love this pad to death, it's great, it's very well thought out and it has a hidden perk : its d-pad out of all things is excellent!

I've got my nso version right there and try it out with various stuff just for fun and I'm loving it.

@Markatron84
A man of taste I see.

What the heck is an armatus.

Definitely waiting for the NS2 version. I won't be buying physical though since it's a gkc.

YES! Longer King Zora. Come on do it Nintendo!

Even just 1 second longer just because you know people are going to check which is longer.

The guys from Crawl? Color me interested.

Pokopium. That made me laugh

The War of the lions content is not necessarily a must have in my opinion although if I had to chose I would have at least chosen the FXII characters which were the bonus characters from War of the lions instead of Cloud since you know, at least these guys are from Ivalice.

To be totally honest I happen to be playing Ocarina 64 because it's a game for which I, since it's been released, ALWAYS have a playthrough of that I regularly get back to between other releases. So I voted that I'm replaying it but actually I stopped my playthrough when I learned about the remake so I'm somewhere in between.

Nobody wants Ocarina to be as large as Breath of the wild. That being said I really don't think they can just copy paste Hyrule field without it feeling incredibly bland to pretty much anyone nowadays. Unless they make the whole selling point of the fact that it's a faithful recreation. In which case it becomes an incredibly more niche title.

Well, it would be very strange and kind of insane to delist the original. People would go crazy over this. They're going to be two very different games.

Both are good but I have to say I really like the gold one in that case.

There should be as many challenges for the old school games as there are for Bananza. And also it would be nice to have challenges more akin to what we had in NES remix and not just "finish that level" and it's not even a particularly challenging level. Just for the record some of the challenges in NES remix were directly inspired by speed running tricks.

As it is, it is good fun though. I mean it's practically free.

I think of course people are going to over criticize this, I mean what people wouldn't do for a click, right?

As for me, he looks very faithful to the original artwork and I think that's what they're going for. And yes that's what I want and yes I can't wait!

The best of all Vanillaware efforts as far as I'm concerned. I am very happy about this.

Next Odin Sphere, come on make my life complete!

Torna was so much better than the base game that might actually make me get the upgrade.

When I'm done with 1 and 3 that is.
In a billion years it seems. Looking at the release schedule.

The third party support is...
We haven't seen that on a Nintendo console since the GC days pretty much.

GC had good third party but also only for a time unfortunately. If it keeps going on NS2 and does not die out the way it did with the GC not selling well enough, if it keeps going it'll be more comparable to the SNES days!

Yep! Loved it!
There was so many games for me I'm so happy right now. And that finish was legendary!

Let's gooooo!
I am SO excited for this!
I can't believe they are actually going for a remake of one of the most important games in the history of the media. It looks awesome too!

Never got into that series though I always thought it looked interesting. The artstyle is very different in this one.

@silver-crescent
Why is it good in your opinion?

France 1 - corporate greed 0

It is absolutely a Switch game trough and through. This game is so nintendo. It's a 2d metroidvania that revives a series that has 80% of its best and most well-known games on Nintendo. Not having the NS2 version an absolute priority is kind of insane. Then again they might not like money I don't know.

YAYAYAYAYAH!
Hey why not the original is still a classic in my house.

I think 8 will forever remain one of the high points of the series. That does not change the fact that World is a great game in its own right though.

What it needs is more tracks of course and more than anything more OPTIONS damnit. It's insane this aversion nintendo has with options. It's slowly getting better in some series but World really was nintendo at its worse on this particular point.

But yeah, tracks and options. Also the open world should get online events. Once it has this World will absolutely compete with 8 in terms of quality since there are a couple things it does better in its very basic elements. Driving physics. New playstyles. Music. Advanced speed running with insane tricks, for example.

Hey! A good reason to dust off the old Mater System that's brilliant!

Brand new fighters? Damn was not expecting that!

Will it have the GC version's added content?

I am very happy about this. Capcom is on fire.

There is some work with optimization considering the game on other platforms. But I trust Capcom, they've been great, Pragmata is great, RE9 is great, Stories 3 not so good though but hopefully this one ends up being well optimized.

Also I love MonHun and though I used to criticize new school MonHun (since World pretty much) I also have to admit a more story driven more adventure like MonHun, less grindy and let's say it more casual, well let's just say it's going to work better within my current life. I don't have infinite gaming time like I used to.

@9_10DOH64
Absolutely agree on Bananza, I couldn't have said it better myself. It really was just okay and I don't think I'll ever play it again. Nor would I 100% it. The fact that it is a DK game is even worse. Honestly I guess it would be a 7 but as a DK game, it really knocks it down a notch.

I'm glad it's not 1st here though it should be way lower.

I love it, it really feels like a continuation of the first one. The one thing that has been a bit disappointing though is the first party output surprisingly for a Nintendo console. While I loved Mario Kart World and really liked Metroid Prime 4, DKB was very lackluster for me and I did not even bother with Yoshi. Third party though was great. What a strange timeline.

I smell entire completely optional areas à la Dark Souls.

Why does she look Asian in this game?

I'm very interested in this.
I love the look of it.

@Donutman
Is it good? What is your main takeaway?
If you'd like to take the time to answer of course.

Nice!
I'm a big fan of the original and its first remake on the Wii. Excellent game.

And also the third party situation on the NS2 is solidifying. If this keeps going it pretty much confirms Xbox is going down (in its current form at least) and playstation 6 is a handheld.

I would really recommend the video version of this review as it has Alex's thoughts at the end of it and he really is spot on when it comes to the open world. It's not good. It feels tacked on and it's absolutely a ubi kind of bloated and uninspired open world.

Now people are going to think that I have a personnal vendetta against this sequel trilogy since I have been caught here and there on this site saying the marketing campaign was shameless and effectively misleading, and that the story for the sequel trilogy is very unfaithful to even just the spirit of the original and that I don't understand why they would waste ressources doing this. If they did not want to tell the story of the original game, they should have done a real sequel that would not compromise what is, you know, just one of gaming's iconic best ever.

But yeah. Anyway, reading the review I thought that I had to say something at least about the open world. Thankfully Alex got it right in his personal thoughts.

An fps without gyro?
Putting that out and trying to sell it to the nintendo crowd without gyro is a little baffling. Especially an arcade fps like this one. I mean it's effectively admitting that it's less playable than the tons of other fps on the system that actually do use it.

Elliott, Starfox, Rhythm Heaven and Splatoon. Summer is packed already!

Kudos to these guys for making a patchnote actually fun to read.

@Ralek85
I think Nintendo life's preview said that it's actually not holding your hands and that the level of chattiness of the terrible terrible fairy companion can be adjusted.

That being said I'm also waiting to see how true this is in the real review since the option isn't there in the last demo.

Elliott and Starfox let's gooooo! I haven't been this excited for games in a while

That quiz is basically how well do you read nintendo life. It feels like being at school!

This is not accurate. I have it right there on my European shelf and it is the blue design. The NA design is an NA/EU design and the EU design is an alternate EU design.

Shouldn't Yoshi's Island DS be higher than Crafted World?

Also, no mention of the Yoshi puzzle games? You know, Yoshi for nes and Tetris Attack. Man that game is brilliant!

@Samalik
You mean I could have had FUN? With this FUN game? Just by opening my mind a little? Naaah

This looks so incredible. I'm playing Indiana Jones and Yooka Replaylee right now so I decided to focus on that but Pragmata is absolutely next whenever I finish one of these two.

Let's say I'm not exactly the target audience.

I never really liked this game. It's good not great and is overdoing the collectathon thing.

But anyway some will be super happy about this so that's cool. I would literally like any of the remaining Rare games better but hey.

EDIT : On that note and now that DK is out of the way, there are only Diddy and Conker that are left and I really wonder if nintendo is going to release Conker in its original form again. I definitely think they should it's a terrific game and it's absolutely part of the console's history.