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We have one, def the "Nintendo Music Streaming" function mentioned above would be great, why not also YouTube Music, even better. The only thing we disabled is the sleepy sounds. It starts randomly whenever we enter the room in the evening.... Needs fine tuning....

Well that isn’t great Nintendo, and it is an “inconvenience” I was using the JP eshop to purchase Joysound Karaoke vouchers….

Great now I won’t be able to watch it with my daughter as planned …. We’re in Japan ….

Just a little update that a new free DLC was released called Elemental Temples.

Thank you NL for the added line / paragraph on top of the article that provides context regarding the update and additional content for the game. Hopefully more people will give the game a chance.

Windwaker and new Baldo DLC

Little update: Baldo just received a free additional update following the Three Fairies: The Elemental Temples. Will check it out but that's really impressive. The game now has three chapters:
Three Fairies
Elemental Temples
Guardian Owls (main quest)

Sifu but not much time to play lately.

Here is an idea for NL find a way to also display the list of related games that commenters mentioned.

PS5 gets Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, and we get... that? ok i'm out...

They'll also have a date for Baldo 2

I have t finished windwaker on WiiU so…

Don’t know which one is the cheapest but for sure the most expensive got to be where I live: rip off Switzerland

just booked my inperson seat! can't wait

Another issue not mentioned is how difficult it is to keep the cars on the track. This is an arcade game no? Can’t have too realistic physics otherwise it kills the fun (same as Art of Rally)…

Same as everyone else, except for my 8 year old cousin, Star Allies was a big disappointment… didn’t really play much of the game as got bored so quick (it feels so easy). Forgotten land is a great and fun game. And I’ve almost completed the game. However because Star Allies was so lackluster I hesitated to buy FL.

@Ilovegames really big Thumb Up to SwithUP, for sure they got a subscriber in me. I just finished now the three fairies, it's indeed simpler than the main game and much quicker, but it was fun. The devs have told me they are working on Baldo 2 and can't wait to see it out. Day one buy for me

@harouhiko it's baffling that NL refuses to take another look to Baldo. It's my best game in 2022, I've played 70 hours to conclusion and another 8 hours in the free DLC.

Bafling... Listen to your community NL, the game was updated, improved, and expanded. Your peers (SwitchUP) have revised their grade.

It's a gem of a game, one that anyone who likes Zelda games should play. But if people go to NL, they see it's a 4/10 game!!!

this makes your website as a whole difficult to believe for other grades.

Take another look. If you still hate the game, then so be it. But you need to react to the updated version.

Waiting for a discount

Big problem for me are loading time it takes a good 30 seconds to load any tracks or more. Don’t think this was mentioned.

You mean autumn right?

i'll have it and use both. saves me from having to buy a gaming PC!

And

“ It is also not possible to charge the Steam Deck while it is outputting video to the TV, ”

This statement is completely false

@twztid13 I agree, they should revisit the game and give it a new grade and say what works now...

the issue is that NL is stubborn as a goat and won't admit they reached a conclusion too fast. So the impression of the game is bad, due to one bug in Savoca prison which prevented progress at launch. Apparently, that was a death sentence for an otherwise excellent game.

Guys the game is great and has been fixed long ago with improvements to the mechanics, it’s a difficult game (and not because of design errors) in that it doesn’t give you obvious cues on how to solve the many puzzles that exist. The original review by PJ Oh-really was in my view pretty short sighted. Anyway I’ve played through the original story and will enjoy the new adventure. Let’s have an open mind about that one.

It cannot be the Switch guys, yes that’s the console we are playing and enjoying at the moment. But did it have a game changing impact on the world of video games? No, it’s all ports ports ports ports, it’s severely underpowered and cannot run the best game of the moment (Elden Ring it makes me ohhh soooo mad). It’s probably on top 3 but not first. I put NES as this was the moment when video games was reborn into peoples home and away from Arcades. It was a ton of fun and had millions of original game changing games. SNES is second because it was better than the NES but did not change the landscape as much as the NES and GB.

Bandai Namco HR: Konichiwa thank you for your time and coming to the interview. So how many years of development do you have?
Applicant: 10 years

BNHR: Great, so we have this IP, Elden Ring…
Applicant: hahahahahahahahha …. (Slams the door)

Pre Ordered for the first time and it was Kirby, convinced by the demo…

And didn’t buy or preorder Metroid Dread for the same reason…

Bought it on JP store 20 USD cheaper

@BenAV do you mean suck into it?

Shouldn’t the quote read: “those who’ve never understood the appeal of Kirby in 2D are unlikely to be convinced by his move into 3D”

Instead of 3D, 3D?

Yes but did he play Baldo?

Apparently, an expansion pack with a new adventure is planned for later this year. Baldo fans rejoyce!

Two regrets: selling my beautiful purple Game Boy colour, and the games. What was I thinking. The other is reading NL review of Baldo. It made me ooo so mad haha.

I'm playing this game now on Switch and for the life of me cannot understand how this game gets a 9/10. Are we playing the same game? I find it boring, confusing what I should be doing next and laggy controls make fighting difficult. //edit: also it's pretty dull graphically, everything is so greenish. I should like it, I'm green you would say, but not with video games!!! And you give Baldo a 4. I'm signing out of NL.

Ok after a few patches to the games let me provide my unbiased (ok I love the game lol) corrections to the listed 'Con's' of the game as listed near the score:

Core gameplay is excruciating on almost every level

it's a very vague statement and should never have been there in the first place, but as this is subjective, I can tell you that no, it's not excruciating anymore thanks to a lot of improvements to the gameplac

Awful map, clunky UI

• maps are great now, Clunki UI yes...

Combat is far too tough and even basic traversal will see you die countless times

• Yes that's fixed, the game was made easy for all you gamers who have trouble with tough games. I liked it a little bit hard, but if that's what the masses want, easy games...

Obtuse solutions to puzzles and dungeons make progress insanely difficult without help from external sources

as mentioned in the third comment, this is actually a game's plus. Agreed sometimes the solution to a puzzle are far away from where you are and require to remember you saw 'four statues facing that way, so place them in a similar pattern here'. Sometimes it will strike you as obvious and sometimes it won't, in this case, just ask the community will help you.

Still lots of bugs to be found, even after the latest patch

no more bugs

In 2022 a DLC or additional content seem in the work. I demand the gaming community to get a grip and forgive the game it's early bugs and see the game with an open mind

Then you guys have to try Baldo it’s a great Zelda like

The best video game of the year for me was Baldo and it received a 4 from NL so I take their score with a pinch of salt I’d say

No need to shout and the bugs have been fixed so you can all buy the game now

Most played game: Baldo the Guardian Owls with about 80 hours...

@HamatoYoshi #sodesune! another reason not to send Merch, they have been bad, especially Oreilly...

I’m in Osaka and I would send you some merch if you hadn’t been bad lately

I’m in japan and I have yet to see an OLED in the flesh in any shop...

Yes I'm 70 hours into Baldo, the best game for me this year and I'm almost at the end last two dungeons... Might try Death's Door after...

I am definitely for Cloud Gaming, we already do it for Films and Software which we no longer 'own' past their shelf life. Bit it needs to work.

You'll like Baldo

45 hours into Baldo almost at the end of Dungeon 4 (Maluna Abandonned Royal Mansion) collected the Bomb Owl finally which apparently opens up a lot of places in the game. Patch 1 has now been released which brings a lot of quality of life improvements such as faster walking while holding jars, vastly improved map system, better difficulty management (those spiders no longer can kill you from the ceiling) etc.... another 40 hours to go and I am already sad when it will be over. I tried Metroid demo: it’s a bit meh. Need to go back on Skywards Sword and Luigi Mansion. Oh and I’ve been promised to visit Super Nintendo World in Osaka for my birthday since I’m in japan so for that I’m super hyped!

@Warioware did you notice the scratch on the floor for the boxes that should be moved?

@Outlander999 absolutely spot on thank you ... I think people got comfortable with hack and slash games too much

@AtlanteanMan are you serious that boss was tough but easily beatable go to the library to get a tip on how to beat it...

Dread is a short game deal with it. Too expensive compared to other longer AAA games

Still Baldo 20h in and I’ve only touched the surface. Guess with that amount of hours I would have finished Dread ...