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@OHB123
Bruh's only 1/3 done.
You gotta play the Drageaux redemption arc my man.

@OHB123
So did you merely beat world 23 or did you make it through the true final world 69?

Kirby is not #1, therefore, this entire list is invalid.

I already earned the Santa Hat using the airplane mode exploit!
But I'm glad the event is happening again for real, and I LOVE the Christmas decor in-game.

I'm of the opinion that using gen AI for simple things (trees, natural terrain, in-between animation frames etc.) is fine.
Or if you're building a meta level that is supposed to be a cringe ai-generated zone.
But that's basically it.

@Nintendoh
I know what it requires.
Predatory microtransactions, daily FOMO challenges, and the likenesses of all the current most popular players.

Dear Brits:
Put down the Football Club (it's the EXACT SAME as last year) and play Kirby!

Shadows is a good game.
Nothing spectacular, but not the common thread in all of the above comments: The people who dropped essentially only played the (bad) tutorial.
Once you actually start playing the game and understand the strategic depth it offers, it's a very fun time.
And it isn't a predatory gacha like Heroes.

@BaldB3lper78
Perfect time to buy

@PJOReilly Something is wrong here, Cappy and Gooey have the same conditions listed.

That System Transfer bug happened to me. It sucked. Took a month and shipping both consoles to Nintendo to get it resolved (Nintendo covered shipping, of course)
Thankfully, I lost no save data.

This is another reason that I hate game key cards.
Normal game cards, even with a game that requires an update or has major DLC still save ~1-32GB of storage space apiece. Even dumb incomplete titles like the Switch 1's BioShock collection save you quite a bit that way.

Way better for this to be public beforehand instead of having someone book a flight just to visit and find out that they can't participate.

Translation: It's cheaper, so our executives like it and project this mentality onto our userbase.

Wow, even a pre-rendered trailer has pop-in when it's Pokémon!

@BrewsterTea
I'm pretty sure the books and blocks are launching globally in January.

@SwitchplayerJohn
I've tried it with Bananza and was disappointed, but haven't tried a game like Clubhouse Games or (obviously) Age of Imprisonment where the Switch 2 generates two full separate screens.

Not a single review discusses the GameShare functionality for single-game-card separate-screen local multiplayer.
Sigh.

@PJOReilly
PLEASE add a section about local GameShare Co-op.
I really want to know if it is functional (meaning at least 30FPS on both systems with minimal lag) to run my Switch 2 on the television and have a second player in the same room on a Switch 1.

The interesting thing here is that the 'Expansion Pass' wasn't mentioned.
Does that mean that if a Gamecube or N64 item is included that NSO (Non-expansion pass) subscribers will get access to a single game on each of those?
Will the GameCube game be the original Animal Crossing, which would then allow you to spin up NES games inside that?
How deep can the inception go?

@Bolt_Strike
I had friends to play with.

@dr-gorgo
$25/disk?
That's about standard for vinyl releases nowadays.

My vote goes for X&Y.
A bunch of the C-gear features from BW were dropped (including literal video chat), and felt like a first major step down for me.
Don't get me wrong I still really enjoyed X/Y/ORAS because the mega gimmick was just so good.

My main problems with the game, and the reasons I uninstalled:
Win streak challenges in an RNG-heavy game
Misty still can auto-win
First turn still can't attach an energy
No 6-prize format.

You realize this update launched two weeks ago, right?

Why are there time-limited time events in a single-player platforming collecathon game?

I just hope the frame rate for local wireless GameShare between a Switch 1 and 2 is tolerable.
Playing dual screen co-op Hyrule Warriors on Wii U is great, and the fact that Koei Tecmo is attempting thr same thing here excites me.

My only contribution to this is that I think DLSS is fine for added resolution, when well-trained on a particular game.
Not a fan of artificially adding full predictive frames via neural net techniques.

The heart tip is not quite true.
A partially damaged yellow heart can be restored with an apple, but once it is gone, it's gone.

I'm very glad she's an internal hire with nearly 20 years at the company.

@JimNorman, could you please update this with a list of which games give each player their own screen vs. which ones just mirror the main console?
Captain Toad, Clubhouse Games, and FAST Fusion for sure do, but I'm pretty sure Split Fiction, Mario Odyssey, and DK Bananza show the same thing on each console.

Games like Captain Toad, Clubhouse, and FAST are amazing in GameShare, since you can actually play card games without seeing other players' hands, do Toad co-op without fighting over camera control, and of course, race in FAST with your own screen.

@N00BiSH
For me, Galaxy 2 is perfection of Galaxy's gameplay. It reuses a couple places and bosses from Galaxy 1, but when they show up it feels like a reward as opposed to a rehash.
TotK is partially crippled by using the same overall map, and also by setting itself up as a story sequel while simultaneously being incredibly inconsistent with BotW.
Yes, Galaxy 2 also appears to throw out Galaxy 1's story, but it's far less important to begin with.
Plus there's Yoshi, Cloud Mario, and you can play as Luigi much earlier.
Not really sure where I'm going with this, but while I finished all four of the games we're talking about, Galaxy 2 felt like a game where developers thought of every missed opportunity from Galaxy 1 and made it into something fun, while TotK misses in almost exactly the same ways BotW and even exacerbated some things that were tolerable in BotW into fullblown problems (prevelance of Blessing shrines, additional tedious progression system that is the battery pack, extreme rupee costs for clothing upgrades).

I guess I'd say Galaxy 2 respects the player and his time more than TotK. They dropped the Luigi second quest and replaced it with 120 entirely new stars, the world map is less charming, but easier to traverse than the observatory, your girlfriend has more fun as a luma than a mere star cursor, etc.

@dartmonkey
I think this list is missing the new 'My Mario' block set for babies, which doubles as amiibo.

Both existing Hyrule Warriors Switch games need this.

@Bobb
Bandana Dee deserved either an evolved moveset or an alt moveset like Parasol or Waddle Doo.

Why would a series designed to be played and beaten by 8-year-olds not have any toys in the $10-$30 range? Seems like a huge mistake.

None of the additions in this pack fix the major issues with the game that have existed since day 1.
It's also sad that the mega being worth three points is basically irrelevant, because 3 points is the score needed to win. For instance, KO two normal mons and a mega and it still took 3 KOs to win. An ex and mega is 2 kos, just like two ex mons before.
As long as you don't lead with the mega, it isn't a downside at all.
You'd need a 40-card, 6-point format for it to matter.

It is weird that people compare it to Halo when it has much more in common with Half-Life.
Giant underground research facility,
complete with living quarters
accidental aliens
Helicopter boss
Final boss completely different from the entire game to that point.

Heck yeah. I finally played the first two games on Switch and now adore this series.

"We introduced the Game-Key Card because game file sizes are larger on the Switch 2 compared to the Switch 1."
Bruh, that's why I want normal game cards, so my internal storage isn't maxxed out day 1.
Updates are big enough on their own!

Nintendo's lack of clickable sticks makes PowerA's wireless GC controller work better with Switch (2) games generally.

I appreciate that they brought the recent Eevee-ex gimmick from the physical TCG to Pocket.
That being Eevee-ex can evolve (unlike most ex-mons), so that you can essentially have 4 Eevee (and their evolutions) in a deck (the usual limit is 2).
In the physical card game you can run 4 normal and 4 ex Eevee for a really silly time.

But does the Labo steering wheel work?

@EarthboundBenjy

While in first-person, the camera stick is un-inverted, and while in third-person, it is inverted, and there is no way to change this.

This is how I like my games.
BotW/TotK bother me because I can set the camera to horizontal invert, but the moment I use Magnesis/Ultrahand, I don't feel like I'm controlling the camera anymore, but rather, the object Link lifts.
But there's no setting for that. Left on the stick moves the object right.
Ticks me off.

Heathens.
Wind Waker (GC)'s camera direction is the way it ought to be experienced.
You tilt the stick in the direction you want the camera itself to move.

But does the Switch 2 version have Tingle Tuner support?

"Preem"
Is this a new word the young people are using?

I've only played Dream Drop Distance on 3DS (it's neat that the c-stick works on a N3DS because the original release supports the circle pad pro).
I'd probably play KH 1&2 on Switch 2 if Squenix did a physical bundle.

@Pigeon
But I don't have any money!

Ring Fit Adventure for me