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Switch has already treated me to some super management in Amazing Superhero Squad, but to have a similar game from someone with such a portfolio is definitely promising to be a doozy.

The comments are definitely rich. Nintendo's bad decisions are evident with NS2 being outsold by a "five-year-old console", but by a mystical coincidence it took several months and a steep discount on the five-year-old console in question (which, comparing the PS4 sales, not everyone had previously hurried to transition to after these five years either) for these bad decisions to take effect. The Nintendoom works in mysterious ways.😲

@Jeff2sayshi a legit complaint about one of these games? What portal did I fall through?

With my finger on the trigger for the discounted trilogy these holidays, I'm still finding Arkham Knight an ironic situation because I wouldn't be compelled to move it to NS2 for La Performance™ but its 26 Gb (the entirety of Borderlands 3 is barely 22, Carl😳) aren't the easiest to cram on the Gen 9 hybrid either - heck, if I found myself with so much freed up on the latter, I'd probably use it to do justice to guiltily shelved playthroughs like Astral Chain and FFXII. Then again, it may well be a bridge to cross when you get to it as the third game in the aforediscussed pack. Asylum is below 10 Gb, at least.😏

I don't believe getting pure technical upgrades even for free is reasonable, so the Switch version will remain in my wishlist instead. Then again, if the DLC never goes crossgen by the time I get around to buying it, I may eventually end up with a reason to upgrade indeed.

But I'm already playing Fire Emblem Shadows, you don't need to sell it to me further.

FWIW yesterday's title was Retro Drive Revamped, but I suppose everyone interested is keeping an eye on the NGG event page rather than this post anyway.

Today is Bubble Trouble Adventures. Peculiar that they didn't start with the (seemingly) preceding trilogy unless the latter is the very three games we're getting on the last event day.😄

Expecting to focus on Deck and the hybrids this weekend as the latter have soon-expiring Speedstorm and NMS events while the former just saw me finally replace Death Stranding with its Director's Cut (almost "bloodlessly" as well, but I did have to begrudgingly shelve Hand of Fate in the end) and even audaciously decide to restart the game rather than upgrade the previous save - that'll be some 16 hours of making deliveries and tiptoeing around explosive ghosts to regain.😄 The aforementioned Switch/NS2 "live services" won't necessary be the extent of my hybrid sessions either; various playthroughs from Skyrim, XCX, Yumia, P3P/P4G/P5R and Xillia to Ball x Pit, Dying Light, BotW, Little Noah and Smash Bros continue to beckon. The bottomless backlog itself gradually moves on (I recently finished JackQuest, although the insistent crashes drew me to forego the first chapter altogether, and I'm almost done with Little Inferno except for the DLC I've yet to procure and mop up the added combos in), but it continues to grow even faster, what with the ongoing NGG giveaways and two more recruits (Ala Mobile and Greak) that - knock on wood, folks - just saw the main account's eShop finally resume adding funds straight from my bank card again. A gamer with spending habits like mine probably can't talk much about thriftiness, but paying up to 50% extra for the gift cards wasn't the most enticing experience last month.😏 I still hope to invest in my second and last voucher pair before the end of January, so I also hope there won't be any such SNAFUs in the visible future.

Zombie apocalypse survivors needing brains to level up is a bit sus, but the overall description sounds like one of those genres you can never have too much of on portable hardware. Neat start.

Rare TGA W, as it seems fashionable to phrase these days. And while they didn't even nominate Bananza's Ingramlicious songs, at least even E33's music was acknowledged instead. If Keighley & Co can't resist the JRPG hype anymore, perhaps justice will be done to Xenoblade 4 among this bunch in due time as well?😏

As long as co-op is not obligatory (games like Secret of Mana, God Eater and Wolfenstein Youngblood have long proven it needn't be), shut up and take my money.

Capcom is really cooking with gas on the hybrids as of late. At this point, an Ace Attorney 7 trailer should be around the corner as well, right? And yes, I already want Hugh and Diana in Project X Zone 3 as well.

Localized mini spinoffs are certainly no horse to look in the mouth, but it's admittedly odd to be getting these two here before Baroque itself which has been on Japanese eShop for years and has already seen English releases in the past.

Shows what I know about Gamecube, Wario having any 3D platformers at all is news to me.😅 I even managed to overlook it in the upcoming line-up. And a Treasure work at that? Speaking of which, I still want to believe in an eventual Successor of the Stars port (a Wii NSO app would be a fatality move upon the console's storage space this side of affordable MSDE era).👀

@Lizuka confusing a collection of in-depth trivia for an instruction manual is a much more deserving idea in this regard, although it's not like the industry hasn't had other competition squashers this year.

More Rayman on Switch is always welcome, although I've yet to sink my teeth into the series (I don't even have Legends to this day, but what do you expect from a blasphemer who still doesn't have Mario Kart 8?😏), so it would be even neater to see the first game's port follow suit in the GBA app. Tonic Trouble went all the way below my radar (I only had so many N64 roms for years and wasn't enthused to dig for more because they were bulkier to pile up on memory cards AND almost impossible to emulate on most portables I've owned), so I'm curious about it as well.

I know that Nintendo seldom acquires third party studios, but given the situation and the possible alternatives...👀

"An obligatory peripheral for a Classics library launching in all regions is available in select regions"

Nominally including that of my main account, but what are the odds of NoA (or any other region like UK) shipping that stuff to Belarus? Yeah. Like I said before, seems like the one NSO retro emulation offering I'll skip, and not for lack of interest.

@TMG44 well, I reckon we'll know for sure by the time I finish the Ezio trilogy and AC3/Liberation.

@westman98 that's what I'm talking about. The "visual fidelity" of Assassin's Creed Shadows is of no value to me even in Assassin's Creed Shadows, especially when it results in 61 Gb of data to install. Rebel Collection is at least 19 Gb, which would probably leave half of that for Black Flag when you omit Freedom Cry and Rogue (before likely having to download them on top as "DLC" later on, but still). So why would I pay extra money just for 50 more gigabytes to try and cram on a different machine whose memory expansion options remain costly and limited? I might scratch my chin if some actual new gameplay, exploration space or story content got involved, but otherwise...

I've been avoiding even the base update that came alongside the first "Anniversary Edition" release whenever the game tries to download it on the home screen, and the upgrade itself, while wishlisted, has yet to indulge my gaming funds even on sales. This version doesn't sound like it will impact the situation much.

If that's another bunch of "enhanced visuals and improved framerates", I'll stick to the already owned Switch release in wait for portable Unity and Syndicate, bundled or otherwise (Origins onward would likely all be standalone ports, but I'm also in the market for the sidescroller Chronicles re-release).

"he "didn't consider the feelings of the users" at the time and wanted to provide his own vision for the sequel"

I get that a creator is their own biggest critic, but how is that remotely a bad thing, especially in the medium widely known for many standalone followups per franchise? Heck, as a user myself, I remain hopeful to see more of folks like Sherry as well, but I'd be haunted by the image of a monkey paw if I knew my feelings outright overwrote the creators' differing vision. I have enough imagination to fanfic up any desired followup in my head, but neither my brain nor those of my fellow no-names in the audience can supply me with what the creator wants to make. Although I can't deny it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand something so simple, too.🙄

According to eShop, they have 13 games not yet in my library and the event promises to focus on the stuff not featured in previous "Switchmases", so this should be interesting. And what would the local first world commenters do without an annual opportunity to publicly turn down "shovelware" giveaways?😄

So the Japanese voice option, not being in bold, isn't supposed to be the new edition's exclusive? But the previous one that I'm playing now has no separate voice settings to speak of - only the "language" one that insists on changing the voices AND all the text to Japanese.🤔

"he cares that Age of Imprisonment runs at a smooth 60fps, that the Switch 2 Edition of Breath of the Wild would look great in HDR mode on the upstairs TV"

Well, there goes another generation. Then again, he does still want a Switch 2 over a PS5 (unless the latter name shall not be uttered in a Nintendo Life staffer's household), so perhaps I'm not being entirely fair.😄

Unciv has been a mixed experience (I've really come to prefer the franchise with the physical cursor controls that allow highlighting a tile and the info about it without the game thinking that you went and selected the damn thing), but it has brought Civ 6 back on the backlog "disk tray"... and promptly kicked out both Baten Kaitos games off the latter after a mysterious update (seriously, I can't even google up the resulting version number🤔) asked for almost 8 Gb and then ate almost half of it with no visible changes or additions. Unless it really just downloaded some duplicate DLC, seeing as some of the packs are now displayed in "enabled"/"disabled" pairs, a predicament others have reported fixing with a full reinstall but persisting here even one.🤔😏 Or should I have reinstalled the base game separately first? Ugh, screw that for now, might as well cram Ghost Trick into the remaining storage space (and by "cram", I mean 19-Mb-left "cram"... I don't look forward to next week's scheduled Warframe update, boss.😞😅 FWP-influenced session possibilities aside, Switch may also see more Xenoblades, Personas, Tales, Rune Factories and Ateliers alongside high odds of more Train Life, Deliver Us the Moon, Bioshock 2, Ball x Pit, Great Ace Attorney, Metroid Zero Mission, Powerwash, Gnosia, Dying Light and Terraria.

NS2 will likely be in for more Cyberpunk and possibly NMS (if the next expedition rerun begins, although the hybrid port schedule seems to differ from the other platforms this year), with Immortals, Amalur and PoE on the table as well. Add some Gran Turismo and more Tales across Deck and Vita, more train rides in Resonance Solstice and perhaps even more Civilization stuff on 3DS (Civ 6 may be much meatier, but Revolutions spinoffs retain their own charm) on top of some Endless Frontier, Valentia or Chase Begins - and there you have another weekend guaranteed to leave its share of neat gaming memories regardless of what part of the aforelisted ambitions come to fruition.

I have yet to properly play the old Carmageddons, but the new entry is a definite headturner - coincidentally, I was just wondering about the odds of seeing more vehicular roguelites earlier this week, as it doesn't seem to be a particularly saturated niche. Starsand Island and Grave Matters are going to my wishlist as well - no matter the fandom snark, there unironically can never be enough farming sims on a portable console. Speaking of the fandom, how long till Nintendoomers on YouTube start counting down to a lawsuit upon the Tamer Town devs? That's allegedly how Nintendo rolls, after all.

Same Switchness/10 I rated it six months ago. Cyberpunk is a blast, NGC offerings (I'll never get used to the official abbreviation) are fun, the wishlist is growing steadily and the storage space awaiting investments in said wishlist is handily keeping a fair few Gen 9 backlog mammoths in use for the time being. Heck, that's where I stuffed the newly procured House of the Dead remake back in summer, and by now it's officially the first game I have finished on the new console!😄 Even though I don't care much for mouse controls and the increased screen size/resolution is a predictable liability (more gigabytes of data to find room for and nothing of practical or aesthetic value I'm gaining in return), but overall it's the expanded hybrid gaming goodness I've always been in the market for. Although Switch would have still kept me covered for many more years by itself (I went for the early adoption primarily for combined factors of having the funds and lacking confidence in the console's local availability down the road), so it's ironic how I'm enjoying the machine now while the loudmouths who spent half the last generation coughing and wheezing in wait for an added frixel injection inbetween their joycons have shifted to equally dramatic (and often equally monetized) sulking. Truly the My Little Pony Movie all over again.😆

If the "use case" is ye olde procedural generation from a dedicated original asset pool by the devs themselves, nobody has questioned these cases' appropriety for decades. It's up to the higher-ups to know the difference and not feign ignorance here, then.

@garfreek it's not just about "never enough", the main problem with investors (and the CEOs who embrace the same philosophy in their wake) is that they treat investments into commercial fiction as a "get rich quick" scheme. Nobody cares about the long term consequences for the given company and its output because nobody is there for the long haul. Après moi, les déluge.

@MatthewTaranto I look forward to playing MK8 (I mean, beyond a couple races I once tried at a local convention), but MKW is the only new entry I'm actually motivated to get and play beyond the franchise binge queue that already consists of purely stage-based racers. I even look foward to the intermission routes the notion of which partly sends me back to NFS The Run. I'm a sucker for free roam but don't mind linear races - it's going in circles that I like least about the genre. Video game driving feels best with a variable sense of travel.

We need a Direct, NL headlines are talking with themselves again.

The only question I had was about possibly added gyro in contrast to the Switch version. Alas, as reported elsewhere today, the answer is no, so that's yet another "upgrade" to skip on my end.

We can't air ride here. This is football country.

@OldGamer999 Nintendo has enough "AAA bangers" that tend to yield evergreen full price sales at that. A diverse portfolio matters in the big picture as well, and if you don't have money to fund a niche game from the guy behind one of your most prominent bangers, then what do you even have money for?

You know TV set makers are eating good when a gamer from a generation preceding my millennial own unironically dreams of things like 4K and 60fps (instead of, at least, some actual QoL tweaks like sorting by merc mission nodes on the blade deployment screen or footnoting field skill checks with a full requirement chain on the map), but personally, I'd rather see the studio resources going towards something new like XC4 or Project X Zone 3. For all their respective facelifts, XCDE and XCXDE were largely topical in their transitions to where they could be accessed more easily (and, in the recent years, purchased at all); "upgrading" Gen 9's native XC2 and XC3 can sound about as enticing as the infamous TLoU Remastered on PS5.

The familiar hybrid RPG salad (Xenoblade/Atelier/Tales/Persona/RF/Castlevania with decent odds of Skyrim, Cyberpunk, TWEWY, Kingsgrave and Void Terrarium mixed in), potentially accompanied by a variety of other playthroughs from Gnosia, Ball x Pit, Sakura Dungeon, Powerwash and Saints Row 4 to Wall World, Carto, Layers of Fear 2, Children of Morta and Train Life. Might "celebrate" MP4 release with more progress in Zero Mission as well, which always has a chance of extending the emulation session towards other runs like Yoshi's Island or Super Mario Kart.

On not so hybrid but still portable hardware, the weekend's itches include Horizon, Payback, Fallout 3, more Tales across Eternia/Innocence/Zestiria/Arise, Valentia, Pursuit Force and Gravity Rush. Mobiles like Resonance Solstice and Phantom X are also on the table with a chance of finally trying Unciv.

Neat to see one of my fave horror series packaged like this but, long done with Legacy and deep into the sequel I don't expect to share the save data, I'm on the fence about this collection myself. The "brand new chapters" do put it on the radar, though.

"As you defeat enemies that stand in your way and jump to jump, the pit will travel through a vast world."

Jokes aside, quite a lineup. Battletoads and Kid Icarus are largely left missing just the more modern entries on Switch, while having Ninja Gaiden 2 and at least one incarnation of Bionic Commando is pretty neat as well.

@judaspete Heat and Unbound aren't delisted to my knowledge; at worst, I could sail the high seas for them on Deck as well (and FWIW I actually own Heat on PS4, grabbed on a sale from my pile of salt over having missed out on the game's PS+ distribution prior), but I'd still rather access them properly AND on more dedicated portable hardware. If I cared for mods, I wouldn't still be playing my vanilla Skyrim on Switch either.😄

EA did dust off HP2010 and Burnout Paradise last gen and continues supplying the hybrid scene with neat stuff like Split Fiction, so hope springs eternal. All the easier money since the open world racing has never been overly crowded on Switch, the console coming out during a relative lull for the subgenre. Still waiting for Solar Crown and Resistor, by the way.😆

I had a blast with Most Wanted myself, but it only ranks among my faves in the series, not as the top one. I have yet to experience Unbound or properly play Heat, and the earliest stuff I've beaten so far is OG Hot Pursuit and the GBA version of Porsche Unleashed - but even inbetween, the Rockport saga shares its tier with The Run, Rivals (aka everything awesome about HP2010 but with proper free roam) and Payback, with MW2012 and the currently (but sporadically) attended NFS2015 not far behind. Carbon and Undercover were neat as well but marred the "See that icon? You can reach it" groove that had sold me on U2/MW with different interface oddities and left me just going through the event list like in U1. Thankfully, I regained the feeling with Criterion's oh so criminally eponymous 2012 game back on Vita, and it's been a fair share of similarly enjoyable experiences since. Payback particularly feels like a blend of many things I've liked about the respective Black Box and Criterion approaches, so I'm always in the market for more where that came from. But not in the right Steam region for it these days, so... #portbegging

I mean, I can't redownload my 3DS games at all, at least without changing the linked Switch account's region back to Europe.😅 And the only ones to redownload (outside long uninstalled double-dips like Xenoblade, VLR or RE Revelations) are a couple match-threes and item finder mysteries IIRC.

Bank card hijinks continue with tech support on both sides scratching their heads, so this weekend may have seen the last eShop splurge (begrudgingly propped by several gift cards and their extra cost which I've only had to do with PSN before) for the while it can take me to test other solutions. I have even pushed Dragon: Marked for Death onboard (Deku isn't very informative about it, but getting Frontline Attackers alone already netted me the other two characters as well, with the extra side quests left as the only DLC to pick up later), and I'm rubbing my chin about the possibility and storage tradeoffs of diving into Ghost Trick (a classic I only ever played the beginning of back on NDS) whereas the Cotton series binge got boosted by two more titles yet still awaits an investment in Cotton Reboot before I start tending to it all. A few other backlog boosters (Loop8, Trinity Trigger, No Place Like Home, Spells & Secrets and Necrosmith) are warming the bench for storage-related reasons as well, and so is the "complete edition" of Transformers Battlegrounds, a tangible price cut I found myself compelled to use after checking back with Delisted Games calendar which reports the game going poof before January 1 alongside a couple more of the publisher's licensed IP works.

Now wait, a whole paragraph in, and only one potential weekend session item mentioned? I'd be lying if I claimed to have no other whims and plans, after all. On Switch it's a variety of genre itches to scratch among RPGs (Xenoblades/Tales/RFs/Personas/Ateliers, Fuga and Bastion, TWEWY and Phantasy Star, Hogwarts Legacy and Pillars of Eternity), roguelites (Ball x Pit, Wall World, Little Noah, Undermine, Skul), shooters (Bioshock 2, Borderlands 2, Doom 3, Duke Nukem), variably vehicular stuff (NS2-provided Cyberpunk, GTA 3, Saints Row 4, Train Life, Truck Driver, Mudrunner), other beckoning playthroughs from Gnosia, Tinkertown and Jump King to Echoes of Wisdom, Wuppo and PowerWash... all in all, another unrealistic pile that any portion and combination of is guaranteed to make a gamer's weekend regardless. And that's before gluttonously glancing over at other platform offerings - Watch Dogs and Fallout 3, FFXIII/FFXV and Xenosaga, Valentia and Endless Frontier, Eternia and Virtue's Last Reward... oh, and Resonance Solstice which is proving to be among the most fun mobile freemiums I've experienced as of late.
Business as usual, and very nerdy business at that.😄

@Suketoudara I'm impressed we even had Miiverse after some of the rumoured user designs in Mario Kart DS.

The vampire crawlers heed their calle-

gets dogpiled

I'm all for crazy crossovers, but I like them as actual character interactions (Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Disney Heroes, Project X Zone or that Madoka Magica event in SMT Liberation) rather than virtual dance cosfests with guns and regressing living spaces.

Forget cartridges, I'd have to shelve either Cyberpunk or pretty much all the installed BC items to cram this in as a download. All the more reason to stick to other Roman numbers in the FF binge queue for now, I guess.

@OmegaX83 "1TB mSD Express card" can honestly sound like a welfare flex in itself.😅 I was lucky to get my Switch's 1 Tb (mSDXC) with a discount but have since balked at anything larger (once in a blue moon when it's even stocked here) because you can literally buy a good-shape used Switch Mariko or even OLED at those prices. And the only available expresses here are still capped at 256 Gb for the aforereferenced price of my aforementioned 1 Tb card.🙀💀👻 Not to mention the distracting double takes you have on every new check thanks to almost trollish designs like this:

Like I said after the Direct, the genre-mixing gameplay immediately had my attention. The "multiplayer only" part almost lost it right away, although at least some of that is local, so time will tell.

Unlike the case with the Dawn port, at least we know Xillia 2 is in the works indeed. In fact, I was getting lowkey worried the whole "remaster" theme might curl a finger on the monkey paw and leave Switch without Zestiria/Berseria/Arise which are too recent to encourage any literal remastering. Looks like that first world fear was unfounded, so I'll definitely be double-dipping on this one AND likely stall my Zestiria/Arise playthroughs on Deck in hope for the respective hybrid ports to come.😼😸

@Serpenterror "just play the mainline original and avoid the sequel"

@Vyacheslav333 and amen to that.

@Vortexeo I reckon Berseria mostly doesn't feel that old because almost a decade later it still remains the penultimate main Tales. That's what Bamco got for putting all their chips on mobile once.

And better yet, not limited to Gen 10 either! Assuming content/feature parity, I'll definitely be homing in on the Switch version, even if it might yet end up getting installed and tried on the successor for storage space concerns.😄 Hopefully this trilogy won't hit the porting brakes on the first entry either (looking at you, Dark Souls👀).

@Flashlink99 a Gen 7 game should always be considered for both Switches as far as I'm concerned. A few extra frames and Hair Fidelity™ don't make an exciting tradeoff for having to accommodate 5-15 more gigabytes of promptly bloated filesize.