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@durga2112 It's a dumb "joke" (I guess) NL keeps trying to push, forcing a doomsday narrative into Nintendo's plans for some Mario things.

Nice, I had no idea this game existed. Added it to my wishlist.

Call me crazy but I think the game as-is looks better than this. The lighting is off where shadow areas look too dark, the cell shaded like art style is lost, this looks more like Assassin's Creed Odyssey which to me looks like every other game.

It's a cool experiment, but I think Nintendo does have its priorities right in the tech and art department. A more consistent frame rate would be good, but for a Wii U game BotW is still a technical wonder in my eyes.

I had this with Undertale recently, I get that many people love it and I get why, It's the reason I decided to play it, but after 40-ish minutes I realized I would never be able to finish it because the gameplay was just not fun to me, I would end up hating it if I continued.

@1UP_MARIO A fighting game doesn't require moderation. User created content does. You will still be able to play SMM1 courses after 3/31, just not upload new ones.

Of course it's coming to Switch, unless they hate money.

Also, this one game I hope gets a physical release, and I don't usually care about that. If history is any indication, it'll only be available for a limited time.

Whatever they do, I hope the OS remains as fast as it is. Every time I boot up my Xbox and see how sluggish it feels and how convoluted it is to find simple things in it, I appreciate my Switch more and more. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I find most of the things people keep asking for in the Switch OS unnecessary. I just need my games console to open up the games quickly. EDIT: And update them quickly as well. Seriously Xbox, why does it take so long just to check if a game has updates?

Still don't understand why the game media and so called "fans" insist on making such a big deal out of this, like it's some sort of apocalypse. Specially when most of these removals don't affect the people complaining about it.

@AG_Awesome Runner and Beat IMO are definitely worth a try, specially at this price. The rest I didn't play as much, but if you like Beat, you may like the others as well. The music is pretty good in all of them.

From the headline I assumed it would be just garbage games. But then I saw the Bit Trip games are included. Definitely double dipping on those, specially Bit.Trip Runner.

EDIT: Also, this is a good way to spend some gold points.

I don't care at all about reviews and scores, but IMO any Zelda games ranking that puts any 2D Zelda game (even A Link to the past) above OoT and WW is immediately invalid. Specially handheld 2D games. Not because 2D is bad, but because WW and OoT are so much better in every possible way. But that's just my opinion.

Really wish it was out now, can't wait to play it in HD, and the usual QoL updates TP HD and WW HD got.

@ShadJV It did? I honestly missed that, or perhaps didn't pay attention. Since it took me a while to die for the first time, by the time I did I had forgotten.

Oh, so that's what coins do? Maybe I'm dumb, but I didn't understand what coins did, nor what penalty loosing coins had when you "lost a live" so to speak, it seemed meaningless. I saw that Bowser Jr sometimes randomly got a new power up, but I didn't made the connection that it was because of coins. Again, maybe I am dumb.

I was never into Zelda games, until OoT turned it 3D. That game changed everything for me, it was the first game I played that felt epic to me, and I've played and loved every 3D Zelda game afterwards, BoW is probably my favorite game ever, WW a close second. 2D games not so much, they feel non-canon for me.

This is the only Zelda game I only played once (at launch) and never revisited. I still liked it a lot, but I hated the Silent Realm sections, so much so that just thinking about them made me forget about ever wanting to replay the game at all. They combine 2 things I really hate in games: Arbitrary time limits and janky insta-fail (ish) stealth.

Here's hoping those sections get updated somehow kind of like how WW and TP HD streamlined certain aspects of the originals. Just removing the time limit would be enough for me, because it is completely unnecessary. But even if Nintendo doesn't, I can't wait to replay it anyway, it's been so long it might as well be a new game to me, and in HD it must look glorious.

@kaffepapu No Hotel Mario either, it totally sucked (though seriously, I might actually buy Hotel Mario if it came out)

Splatoon 3 and Skyward Sword are all I needed, only wish they would come out sooner, specially SS. The rest is just bonus. Fall Guys in particular was nice to have confirmed, my daughters really want to play it.

I played this game via Gamepass on Xbox, and IMO it's severely overrated. I'm glad I didn't pay for it. It's a cool concept, but with a lot of issues with how it's implemented and its mechanics which are unnecessarily unforgiving. And the ending is the biggest indie artsy-fartsy nonsense I've seen yet in a game.

I time traveled yesterday so that I could play the event properly in the weekend, not worrying about work. It was ok, but not that much to do really. I got every item in every color, but it wasn't as fun as say, fishing events which at least require some gameplay, not just catching random feathers. Also, I wish Pave didn't require you to get the "ultimate prize" every so often even if you already got it.

I really liked the original, will definitely watch this. Here's hoping the chemical plant appears in some form in this sequel, Sonic 2 for me is all about that chemical plant.

@Noid I agree, it's just distracting. Plus the game looks too dark and less colorful, I prefer the original look so much more.

That said, it is an interesting experiment to look at just for amusement, probably one of the better "fixes" people keep adding. I'd like to see how the other levels look.

Maybe it's just me, but I think the original sounds better. Perhaps it's an audio balance issue or something, but this version has some parts of the music kind of obscuring other parts of the music that you could hear more clearly in the original (like at 00:39), and to me not hearing those parts makes me feel the song is "wrong".

Invert the company names in the title, and I'll buy your entire stock!

I have nowhere to put this in, but I'm probably still going to get it.

@VoidofLight I respect that, but for me that was a divisive feature that no everyone enjoys, and I personally think any feature that requires you to constantly play the game and/or do certain things for the game to work "as intended" (so to speak) is restrictive and at least for some people like me it works against the game.

In general, I'd like to quote an amazing reddit comment I recently saw on the subject: "Disagreeing with their method is fine, but at least recognize that sometimes the developer is just making a different product than the one you wanted, not failing to make a good game."

@Anti-Matter I agree with you. Villagers not moving out is a huge deal for me, I couldn't even imagine having to explain to my daughters why their favorite character suddenly left.

I keep hearing the same complaints from ACNL "fans" who keep repeating the same tired arguments about how Nintendo "gutted" ACNH. They don't seem to realize a lot of the things "removed" are for the better, at least for some people. I personally wouldn't even be playing an Animal Crossing game again were it not for how much they streamlined and removed unnecessary features that only made you a slave to the game, while making what is in the game a lot more polished and just satisfying. I'm glad Nintendo does their own thing and doesn't just follow what some "fans" think they want.

@nessisonett I respectfully disagree about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. For me that game did require a ton of grinding to meet the expected arbitrary levels of certain enemies, or else you get one-shot-ed. If you just want to advance the main quest, at several points you do need to grind, and I'd say even the side quests require grinding as well (remembering Medusa gives me PTSD)

BotW is so far the only game I felt bad for completing it, for reasons similar to this post. And specially because I first did it by mistake, went in looking for the Hylian shield while still pending to beat one divine beast, and accidentally went in that room that triggers "the end".

Might as well be named "The Legend of Zelda: Breathe, You'll buy it and love it no matter what we name it, which is Wild"

@WhiteTrashGuy 100% agreed. The first one had such an awesome style, I particularly loved the stage intros. That game is the only reason I keep my Dreamcast around. The headline got me all exciting thinking it was getting ported to Switch, something I've been waiting forever. Sadly that's not the case.

"they think most fans would settle for the 3DS version"

I'm one of those fans. I think the 3D effects enhance the low poly visuals way more than a resolution or FPS bump ever could. To me the 3DS version of the game is the definitive one, don't need it on Switch as well. EDIT: And I'd rather they spent time on a new game rather than a remake of OoT.

This list needs Street Fighter Alpha 2 on SNES. Killer Instinct as well probably. I could not believe them at the time, that they were even possible. Seeing the intro in Alpha 2 alone completely blew my mind.

@Ganner Same here. Btw, would this be the exact magazine where you first saw it, https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_079_February_1996/page/n21/mode/2up ? Because it certainly was my first glimpse of it, way back in the day. Love at first sight

The list is invalid without the N64, the obvious choice for sexiest console probably ever out of all of them.

Looks good, but to me this only proves Nintendo was right in their technology choices. As nice as this is, it's not really any better in a significant way that would justify the added costs. I'm still amazed at how good the lighting looks in ACHN as is, not to mention how pleasant the different materials look. It's one of the reasons I keep playing it, the world just looks (and sounds) so soothing.

@Octorok385 I love the 3D effect, and I love every single so called "gimmick" Nintendo makes, but even I have to admit the 3D puzzles in this game are gimmick-y in the sense that they don't add anything. The 3D puzzles are just puzzles that require 3D to perceive them, but aren't any better because of it. Almost any other Mario puzzle is better than the 3D ones in this game.

I remember being really disappointed at how easy this game was...until I finished it and got the harder version of the levels, which are significantly more challenging. That's when the real fun started. I'm glad I didn't skip it.

Also, IMO this game has the most epic Bowser confrontation in all the Mario games, 3D or otherwise.

For me what gives it away is the mere thought that Splatoon 3 could possibly be announced and launched by summer this year. There's just no way (nor need) for that to happen.

But I'll give them the Zelda subtitle, "Echoes of the past" does sound awesome.

Why did they have to include my daughters 2 favorite characters? Now I have to buy it for them

Hopefully this means an HD port of Wii's Punchout. Also, that the next Luigi's Mansion game gets more play testing before release, I found so many frustrating parts in both 2 and 3 that ruined my experience with it, so much so that I'll probably skip the next if the trend continues. I don't understand how anyone could play that game and not be annoyed at chasing the darn cat or most of the bosses.

The one thing I don't like and I hope gets addressed in the game is getting new furniture and furniture variations. Relying on balloons or the daily 6 items in the shop is not enough.

It just feels like hitting a wall when you know you want a specific item (like when you see it in someone else's dream) but RNG-esus doesn't give it to you. I've been playing daily for over a month, have a 5 star island, and I still can't find the simple panels or that one Ironwood furniture that is required to build the others, and there seems to be no way to get things other than pure luck. It's even more infuriating when you do get something but it's in a different color and you can't customize it, you have to rely on luck again to get the color variation you want.

Came here looking to see if there was any "Top Gear" game somewhere in the list, I guess I'm just old in that that's the only franchise I think when someone mentions Kemco.

@Wilforce 100% agreed. This plus the fact that Nintendo doesn't usually require day one patches as much as others is the reason why I can very safely pre-order Nintendo games, but very rarely do so for Xbox where I know a better version of the game will definitely be available later at aa lower price. I'm looking at you Cyberpunk, see you in 3-6 months.

Obviously it will be Rasputin from Psychonauts, with that game shadow dropping on Switch as part of the character announcement.

@Cptn_Alex I've never heard of Controller Chaos, but after a quick google search and trying their online tool to build joycons, maybe because they don't put a trademarked name on it?

@RupeeClock "It's shocking because this sends the message the name "JoyCon Boyz" is not permitted by Nintendo."

No, it send the message you should not sell things using someone else's trademarked name in it, even if you think it's for a good cause. Why is this so hard to understand for most?

I really hope this childish made-up drama blows over quickly, it's getting tiresome.

I'm amazed how well Kakariko works as a holiday song. Definitely goes into my Christmas playlist now

I saw people making a huge deal about this on reddit, like it's a big issue. I thought the concept of analytics was something most would understand by now, but apparently that's not the case.

Analytics like this have nothing to do with privacy. It's not about "what can we learn from user1234" but rather "are people IN GENERAL clicking on button A? Do we need to move it so it's more useful?". Every web application uses them, my own system would not be as good if we didn't have a way of telling whether people are using the features we build, or if they are using them like we think they will. But alas, such is the internet.