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@Olliemar28

Ohh, had no idea it was 120 elsewhere thus not feature parity on Switch - that makes it good to include. A note mentioning that it does exist with 120 might be worth it for the sake of comparison for those having the choice to buy on multiple platforms (I do, but only care about Switch 2 nowadays anyway 😂). Cheers for the clarification

Great review. Only frustration: now that we finally get things running at a steady 60 FPS (awesome), do we really have to point out that the games are not 120FPS? 😅

Cute little backpack in the last pic

"we're in the steering-assisted-Mario-Kart, giggling-and-shouting-"Ooh, ba-nana!" phase right now" - @dartmonkey this made me laugh out loud since I'm literally living through exactly both of these too, a steering assisted 3rd place and plenty of "ohh banana" yesterday evening including some vigorous chest thumping 😂

@PJOReilly

Thanks a lot! ⭐

That settles it: I trust this is a fine game worthy of emptying my wallet somewhat "Doesn't suffer any sort of blurriness from resolution" is music to my ears since blur/smudgy resolution as per old Doom is the only red flag I'd care about (as long as frame rates are somewhat steady).

Keep up the mighty good work 👍

Anaheim is a stretch. Cool that also Toronto get some love, I'd expect more locations to get this playable then in the near future.

@PJOReilly

Echo Aussie comment! Much appreciate the review, but especially following up with clarifications in the comment section when speculation is abound 😅

Any relevance to the below comment? It doesn't mesh with your review, so wonder if this is for real or a troll comment 😂 Especially the blurry picture complaint. (I'm not sensitive to frame rates, but I did find Doom on Switch 1 too blurry for my taste - the only game I can remember feeling that way about)

"This game is unacceptable, frame rate is all over, weird glitches like the helmets looking like a lumpy potato and an overall blurry looking image"

Might try! I know very little about American football 🏈 but it can be entertaining to play all the same.

I sorely miss NHL and a good Konami footer on my Nintendo consoles though, please bring more sport love game makers ;D

Lol, that looked kinda funny. Thanks for the weird share, I will fs not invest into Pokémon bikes for the time being

@cvrator

Haha, you're correct!

@somnambulance

Good Q, my pessimistic interpretation would be that it's easier to move/delay a vague 2025 into 2026 Q1 than a fixed date like Nov 23 2025 🙈

Hope I'm wrong, but when it comes to Nintendo I would venture it's not yet at the highest quality standard / ready to go gold just yet and then they can't commit to a date. That, or they just keep their options open and I'm being overly speculative

Glad to support this if I was into fighting games nowadays. MK II got more than a few rounds back when though, so maybe a future discount would trigger a nostalgia purchase

@Orwellian87

It's a new game so we'll have to see ⭐

I think it looks really good and atmospheric. I don't play horror games or similar since RE4 and a bit of SH2 back in the days, so a pass for me but really hope this game gets a lot of support from genre lovers!

I'm quite sure that among the 150M sold Switches globally, parts of their core audience exist. And of course, if they cared to make an effort to expand that core audience, they might wanna consider releasing somewhere with "new people" to try it out. But hey, if they don't want those people's money (yes, I would buy this 😂 Guess they're too scared of not reaching enough new peeps for the effort.)

"A Dream about Parking Lots" XD Will personally be my first dream about those

@RasandeRose

Hey, I got that too.

And I heard scientists believe the Switch is now more stable than most people, and I believe them; I see emotions running wild on here what with this update alone ;p

Wow, divisive so far; only 7s and 10s, not a single 8 or 9. Guess many either love it or think it's okay.

Realise it might only be like 7 votes though haha, got tricked by the "29%" looking like more votes

Not great art, but it's all a nostalgia vote for me - good game!

The memory is full. I guess you'll never know my memory

Cool idea, bet it'll be part of the game.

@Friendly

Sorry for off topic but... best Fire Emblem character! 🥰 ;D

And ofc Mario & Peach will be an item, she's just playing annoyingly hard to get - my take anyway haha

@Lizardkingy

Okay, I kept this comment section open for way too long before posting 😂🙈😆

I think this golden statue can almost be considered an Easter egg

Had no idea you could actually die in this game

;p (seriously though, so far it's almost a joke on challenge level, not even losing a single heart to the first 3-4 bosses... 🙈 Love the game still though, so fun!)

That sure read like a 9/10 review to me!

I loved two wrestling games back in the days, talking Pro Wrestling on NES and another wrestling game on the SNES - so yeah, ages 😂

It's always been a fun genre even though I don't follow wrestling, and this review made me wanna kinda dip my toe in again. Will see, but cheers for the review

Since the early playstation days I could never get into these games' gameplay; there's just no "weight" behind the fighting. It's really quite frustrating since I wanna experience all the new lore/story stuff (and not through YT), but I can't get myself to spend the time and money on any of these games. Jealous of those of you loving this - have tons of fun with it!

@MatthewTaranto

I tried to figure out that second screen for awhile haha, even zoomed in I just saw a blurry mess. Of course it's that scene!

This is nice!! My first ever console was a NES with 5 pre-owned games (all of us kids got it to share):

Mach Rider
Soccer
Excitebike
Ice Climber
Duck Hunt

Not long after I got to borrow Golf and Tennis for serious amounts of time from a neighbour, and also tried Baseball and short stints of fun with Balloon Fight and Clu Clu Land. All of which are on this list.

The year after we got our 6th game (1st new game = not pre-owned), which was Super Mario Bros, and I also got into The Last Ninja, California Games etc on the neighbour's Commodore 64, but for that first full year those games tided me over with my first strong gaming memories.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

"Oh, and feel free to smash the place to pieces on your way out."

Lol to this and Jack_Goetz comment 😂

@RaGe22

Still stuck at, "This issue is being investigated." :/

(But some people seem to be able to luck out and get through the game to the end with few enough crashes, but most seem to keep getting crashes that prevent progress - beside the annoying graphical glitches.)

Waluigi is the most impressive, but Lakitu made me laugh a lot so scores highly too 😁 All of you featured here have done a swell job though!

Agree that a Switch 2 edition would be nice

I'm waiting for Nier Automata here... no love yet!

@Lizuka - thank you 🤗

@Baker1000

Like others mentioned, it's very different.

Personally, I'm in the "oh my gd what did they do to my fav karter of all times" camp 😅 I so wish they had kept the mechanics, kept the tighter tracks that required perfecting turn/drift techniques and didn't have long stretches of nothing happening on super wide straights.

The new techniques aren't that interesting to me since I've always been more in the pure racing camp over what I see as gimmicks of a sort. While seamlessly implemented, they are nothing compared to perfecting cornering (again, to me).

For that crowd, there is always Beetle Adventure Racing and the likes (And I kind of kid with that one, so don't hang me NL gang )

I do think a lot in the game were good progressions, like free roam, knockout tour, etc, but the tracks and how to most efficiently get through them seem to be far removed from my preferred cup of tea so to speak...

I'm not into the visual novel segment just yet, and not sure I will be 🤔 But if I would glance towards Kaname Date, is it mandatory to go at the series in order you'd say? (I saw that this game wasn't suitable as a first at least!)

I'm travelling (on vacation), but looking forward to sink my teeth into this one asap when back home. 38/40 eh, can't wait for more reviews to drop in.

I like how Metroid 4: Beyond has been improved so much according to fellow NL votes

@kkslider5552000

Worked on me. Can't help but wonder if I've been played

I never got to play 4 when young. Seems I won't get to do so now either.

On the fence regarding this package! Enjoy if you got it.

I actually think it could be a stupid business move; I estimate these vouchers have made me purchase at least 7-10 titles I would never have bought otherwise.

Me: Oh, I am gonna buy this game..
Oh, it's voucher eligible!
I'm sure I'm gonna buy some other game within the year so might as well get the discount. Purchases vouchers
Some game is released that I'm not quite willing to pay up for.
Oh, I have a voucher left. Hmm, this doesn't sting really, there's nothing else I want either.. hmm.. click Sold.

Well done, Nintendo. But why don't you wanna continue tricking me to buy more games? "Play less" isn't what I thought you were about

I liked how this developer commented on it; first time I felt I really got a grasp of the technical capability and where strengths and potential bottlenecks may lie. Cheers

@Misima

Not sure about millions, but here's one 😂 (Well, unless it'd be ludicrously overpriced like 799 by itself.)

I was filled up and beyond at startup transfer here.

Looking at this graph I realise I must be grossly underpaid

Whirlwound, the bots part was mainly made as a joke to make a point about how different the posts in this section are, and from so many different posters. I get your worry, but I think it's way too early to say. As some mentioned, how would you support something you don't yet have devkits for (why the rampup of devkits is this slow each generation is another question however that I don't have the answer to, but seems a recurring pattern for launches).

@Keman

"the difference will be much greater between PS6 - Switch 2 compared with PS5 - Switch" - is this from a source and if so which or your own speculation?

@Rosona a voice of reason in this oddly negatively dramatic comment section, thank you 😅 We're just starting out. I mean, most launches on all platforms are usually way weaker for way longer.

@cedarhyped I take it you're being ironic vs all the negativity

Overall, this comment section started to make me think about fake AI bots posting, hope that's just me being overly dramatic instead

I love the screen in the right light conditions, far better than my Switch and Switch OLED imo. None of them do well in sunny conditions however, so a brighter screen would indeed be a nice upgrade once battery power can be improved at the same time.

Love the last email 😂

First email was top notch, as were the rest. Glad to be part of this little (or not so little) community!

As for Wind Waker, I had hoped for a remake but the GC version will do for now. Give me Twilight Princess too, pretty please 😘

GameCube will always have a special place in my heart; it was the first console I attended a pre-launch event for (travelled to the UK/London for The Nintendo Show) with my at the time new gamer girlfriend (who couldn't attend since not press though) and it was kinda magical. Being surprised by Luigi's Mansion, exploring space in Star Wars and riding the waves in Wave Race in a dark night-club like atmosphere and getting kitted with a nice Nintendo bag and press kit, while at the same time signing my first international gaming job, that trip will forever stay with me. Thank you for the memories little lunch box.

Cred to lonelygoomba 😁

Wow, Daisy in the lead was unexpected (to me)! My main was myself as a Mii character, both for the looks but if I recall correctly also for it having the right mix of heavy and speed? I mixed it with racing tires and a golden kart.

Seeing no Mii support (yet?) unless I've missed it makes me sad 😅 So I've stuck to Mario so far, but I'm not "feeling it" so open for mixing it up...

Didn't watch it to avoid spoilers, but yeah was too curious not to read this article 😆

Since it's the "new Mario Odyssey" I was already betting on buying it blind. Glad the direct seems to have had a positive impact on many previously on the fence though!

I'm with everyone saying there should be a prompt asking if to have assist on or off. I only noticed this by having played MK8 so recognised the antennas on user select screen = could turn off before my first race. Feels like surprisingly dumb UX or is Nintendo knowing something I don't, e.g. over 50% preferring these options on? 😁

@BenAV

What you said! I love the teaser directs with actual news, but these one-game directs are more like spoiler territory for me and something I'll try hard to avoid but will likely succumb to sneaking a peak at 😅