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As someone who got ridiculously serious about the global leaderboards in Horizon Chase Turbo (1, not the mess that was 2), Time Trials has me very tempted.

...and changing it's name to TAT, to accurately reflect what occupies most of it's shelf space.

My 15 year old eyes could deal with what a strobe-fest this game was but at 43 I need a lie down just from watching the trailer

I definitely would in theory - my 1st gen Switch only reads about half my cartridges at this point anyway for some reason.

In practice, the issue surely comes down to space. Assuming switch 2 will be capable of playing games that get close to 100gb, you’d be looking at needing, what, at least a 2tb hard drive and the option to expand…in a portable?

And because it’s Nintendo who think it’s still 1993, they’ll get it wrong. It would have like 500gb with a 500gb expansion limit, and then after 6 months they’d be releasing a direct explaining to people how to save data to the cloud so you can uninstall and reinstall games as needed

So, yes I would, but I doubt it’s a thing.

I've 100%'d it. If you like the first one, you can probably overlook the frame rate issues and occasional crash (it only ever seems to crash when docked). The biggest crime at the moment is that Switch players can't access the global crossplay leaderboards - this has been confirmed by many players on Discord. But under the bugs, for me, the game is an 8 or 9.

I'm glad I bought it but I'm looking forward to doing it all again with a much smoother experience when it drops on the next gens (all but confirmed).

Horizon Chase Turbo ftw!!!! Once the sequel is patched it will be just as good; there's a great game under all the bugs (Still wondering if Epic stopped you and everyone else from reviewing it in it's current state, as literally no one has).

Hot Shot Racing didn't get the attention it deserved in my opinion, such a great game!

Nothing about this feels underhand.

It doesn't feel like it is something that was sorely missing or worse, withheld from the launch.

DLC like this is a good way for smaller companies to maintain cashflow between major launches; to call it greedy is unfair.

If all they'd done was simply release Usagi as character DLC it would have been £3-4, and and fans would have lapped it up, so £6.50 for 2 characters and a new mode with new artwork feels pretty fair.

Does this only cover drift or also if they keep randomly disconnecting?

Serious question.

@Serpenterror I love all the late-life stuff on the Master System - stuff like this and Street Fighter 2 - barely playable, but incredible feats of engineering.

@Pointy59 That was Alex Kidd. Magnificent but all too brief.

@Type_Trubbish Agreed! I still dive back in occasionally in what will ultimately be an unsuccessful attempt to 100% it.

I never played Spryo as a kid. Now, my kids love it, but I just can't get on with it, and I've tried.

I love old box art that bears, at best, only a vague relation to the game, so I went with Mr Dream.

I mean, if you think about that image in terms of the game, that's the weirdest official painting of Mario you'll probably find.

Just watched some vids on YouTube. I don't think my 42 year old eyes can deal with this, sadly

Master System (yeah I'm one of them weirdos) but I got a better idea:

Release an online enabled console called Sega Ages that can emulate all of them well (because to natively run all of them would obviously be very expensive). Then sell me the games I want through a Sega store front. Slap on a fancy UX and take all of my money.

Yes, I know I'm dreaming.

I haven't "known about this for years", but I'm here saying I have so a bunch of people I don't know think I'm smart.

Have they finally answered the call of every Sega fan ever and remade Transbot?

This is so, so coooool!!!!

But it it should have used the hand-glider from SMS Sonic 2, so in the spirit of it being on the internet in 2022, I have decided to hate the whole thing.

Oh man pleeeeaaase be as good as you look!!!!

I think I'm going to get this, because I completed the game in it's clearly unfinished state back in the day and have never had time to go back.

Can you use the touch screen for battles, dialogue trees and menus?

@TheBladeOfRoses that was my immediate thought too. What a game that was! In hindsight, I think it was constantly trying to better how far each of us could throw a cow, that kept me and the girl I was with together for far longer than we should have been

@Dimey You can use a gamecube controller if that helps. And because NGC controllers are so well moulded you can play for hours without wrecking your hands.

An hour on GRID on PS4 and I have the hands of an 80 year old

I had Expansion Pass anyway, so it's not so much a complaint, but maaaan the new tracks are underwhelming. I don't think I appreciated how much the crazy elevations and hover collisions in the base game (incl, the original dlc) add to the excitement.

When they announced these waves it felt like they were giving this game the love it deserved given it's still a massive selling point, but the reality is, it's lip service.

Is there an online racing mode, or at least online leaderboards?

@Riderkicker no

The Playground scene on Horizon Chase Turbo is lively enough and there's a good community on discord.

Stabability? I just updated and don't feel any more likely to be stabbed. Did I do something wrong?

No SMS 1, 2 and Chaos makes me sad. Those games need some love.

@Coalescence THANK YOU! I thought I was entirely alone with this opinion. They're clearly labours of love, but sadly I mean that for both the devs and the players.

I got excited when I saw that white and grey grid - I thought we were getting SMS on NSO for a second. Make it happen Nintendo! There were only about 20 good games anyway so you wouldn't ever even have to update it

SMS Sonic 1,2 and Chaos deserve some love

@TnightStarsRevolt Is it just me or does it seem beyond weird that there isn't a Lego Racers every gen?

Kart games - biiig sales, Lego games - biiiiiiiiig sales.

Do people not like money now?

On my third right joy con and second left. Only the left one was drift though, the right two were both connection issues and the shoulder buttons not working when used as a single controller (joycons are rubbish).

Cartridge slot requires pushing games in and out about 5 or 6 times for them to eventually work.

I'd get a new one but it's a first world problem. It reminds me of my temperamental NES, and anyway, with my luck they'd then surprise launch the Switch Pro later that same day

I sense a "you spoke, we listened" announcement some time before launch. Sometimes these things are even planned into marketing strategies, these days.

0:30 - "matricide and special abilities are the key to victory". Ok noted. I gotta go see my mum, about....something...

@Maulbert

Ken: Hey Ryu, do you want to be in that Brawlhalla game?

Ryu: A dooo Ken, yeah.

Forget N64, gimme NSO SMS and take all of my money.

It's brilliant, albeit brief and not that challenging.

Online leaderboards as per the main game are a notable absence though

@SwitchedOn_Games Thanks for the tip! I've just realised I've watched loads of your vids in the past and haven't subscribed, so just did.

It's funny you mention Art of Rally at the end because when I watched the vid and saw the attention to detail I straight away thought, "it aint looking like that on switch". Switch is my preference for indies but I'll wait for PS4 on this one.

Tbh if it was the current £18 a year just for online play and cloud saves with no retro collections, that would be reasonable - I pay Apple £3 a month just for cloud saves.

I think since they are tiering the subscription anyway, I think the sensible thing would have been:

NSO: online and saves
NSO+: online, saves and retro collections

They will no doubt have looked at this so would be interesting to know why they decided on the model they did.

Yeah but....When64?

I'm all over this!!!!!

@masterLEON what's odd about this is it gets worst the longer you play, then goes away if you shut down and start again. It makes record attempts virtually impossible when it starts.

@SpringDivorce I've only ever watched it be played on PS(4) but have never seen it stutter.

I really want to play this and I know my kids will too, but I have a feeling it will be on PSNow in no time, so I'll wait.

@Riderkicker Summer Vibes is a good (short) time filler until this comes out, and the car you get makes 100% - ing World Tour a little easier if you plan to

I read this site every single day, but I had to create an account today just to say OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! Honestly this is possibly one of my favourite games ever.

I had a feeling this DLC would be a tribute to Super Monaco GP, but I thought it would be a few tracks to gage interest in a full game. Looks like they've gone straight out and given us the full game for about a 1/4 of the price I'd happily pay for it. Woooooo!!!!!