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Why so much, randomly, all at once? Pokemon Scarlet & Violet video, Mario movie trailer, and now Pilotwings. There's still time Nintendo! Give us more today!

just annoying how little they want to make progress on the visuals. I am not a stickler for graphics, but some of what was shown looks like something that could've been on the PS2.

My dream Avatar: The Last Airbender game is an HD-2D RPG made by Square Enix

are you all reading this as tears (synonymous with rips) or as tears (like crying, sadness, etc.)?

I want the latter, but I feel like it's more of the former. A translation of the Japanese title might/might not inform this (if there is a difference).

I don't want them for me, but I want them for everyone else who would be into the games

@RupeeClock good shout. I also love that they concealed this until the direct.

Please give me an HD-2D Avatar RPG

This legitimately feels like the best $60 value on the system in awhile.

The MK Tour tracks look a little graphically deficient. I remember Paris and Tokyo getting a bit of criticism for the low quality visuals, so I am sure that'll be the case here. But my gosh, Waluigi Pinball looked fantastic.

I am not a stickler for graphics, so I'll take it!

I love Picross, I just wish we could get physical versions.

Honestly very pleased to see this. I am not into these games, but I am excited for the audience that is.

Okay, Nintendo. Now let's focus on Splatoon 3.

waiting for the negative comments asking why anyone would pay $60 for just DLC 🙄

I'm super hype for this game. This is a day one buy for me, and I'm getting super excited just playing through the Octo Expansion on Splatoon 2.

MK8DX is very technical when you remove the items. The kart set up, racing lines, drafting, drift+boost, and avoiding mistakes are critical for winning without items. The time trial mode is an excellent example of how you have to learn the course and the fastest ways to push the kart through the track to beat the staff ghosts. And you're alone in that mode. If you race other karts without items, you have to employ all those technical skills to win and it's way more challenging.

this looks so incredibly wholesome

@N8tiveT3ch
"real sports" lol.
There was a Mario Hoops game on DS. But there should never be an American football Mario game.

First, I play the game and enjoy it.

Not to be cynical, but I have seen a lot of comments in multiple places about people saying that they had a bad experience at first, so now they're waiting for the update before playing more. But what do people expect? Truly curious. Will the addition of Daisy (or other characters) really change the game for you? Nintendo gave zero promise of changing the solo/story mode, and I doubt they would do that since it would make the picture seem worse - "they updated the story later, this really was a half-baked game."

I just find it hard to believe that any updates are going to make the experience better for those who didn't enjoy it at launch.

@Kiz3000 the Japanese one definitely had some hard fights. I'm looking forward to it as well, but might have to wait until it's on sale.

@Beaucine interesting, thank you!

I had not heard of this game up until today. I have long been interested in Astral Chain, and this may actually influence me to pick that game up or else just try this one out.

@HefHughner @nessisonett
I didn't know that! That's so cool, but now it just makes me angry because I definitely agree Gamefreak would never do that. Rather, they'd just make a different game and sell it separately (I can't blame them).

I am sure it would be incredibly difficult and probably not pay off, but this makes me dream of a Pokemon game that has two visual modes for the player to seamlessly chose between - a full contemporary 3D overworld version, and then a sprite-based 2D version.

Interesting that this is NOT within the NSO bundle automatically. At least right now. Maybe in like 5 years.

@moodycat Yea, I mean the games themselves aren't much at all, but that just means the discount is even smaller (relatively speaking at least).

For anyone criticizing Splatoon 3 as just DLC...just don't buy it. It's apparently not for you.

Why is Digital Foundry significant enough to have its own video covering this game highlighted on nintendolife?

@abdias are you sure about that? https://www.serebii.net/presentations/nintendodirect/

This is great news. This means hopefully that our next Nintendo Direct will tradeoff any "Pokemon time" for time spent on highlighting other games.

I expect the results would be reversed for the Strikers Charged (Wii) artwork. The Euro art was so much better than NA on that game.

This looks great so far. Anyone who is disappointed by any lack of features can just skip it.

I’m quite content and will thoroughly enjoy this.

@tanaka2687 To be fair, they've really only shown in-match gameplay. It would be concerning though if there's not much else to extend the single player mode beyond 8-10 hours of content.
This is a for sure meant to be a multiplayer game.

@YoshiF2 That link isn't definitive. It doesn't say that Nintendo confirmed these are the only 10 characters.
"Mario Strikers: Battle League is set to release next month, and Nintendo has now revealed a list of the 10 playable characters that will appear...At this time, it's unclear if there will be more players unlocked over time, or if we'll see more additions through post-launch content."

@CANOEberry yes, both of the earlier games were just this aggressive.

The roster list hasn’t been confirmed as released yet. They’ve only shown a limited gameplay video and the intro video. Let’s not make assumptions (there’s a small roster, only new characters via DLC, a small roster wouldn’t be good, etc) until we have more information?

I’m sure we’ll get more gameplay videos super soon. They’re still just coming off of Switch Sports.

Very excited for this and will play the heck out of it.

For anyone who had bought it before now, would you have rather had it back when you originally bought it and got to enjoy it at that time instead of now? Or would you have rather waited if you knew it would be free later?
Honestly curious. I picked up Splatoon 2 only last year and I'm really enjoying it. Had I picked it up in 2017 or 2018, I would have been more tempted to buy the DLC then and I would have been pleased about getting to play it years in advance. We all also buy things at certain times due to different factors. So I'm honestly curious.

Adding octo expansion to NSO is huge. I’m excited for that and what it means for the future (could we get free BOTW DLC before the release of BOTW2?)

all I see is "Pokemon - Trade"

@Teksetter do you mean NES Open? The one with Mario on the cartridge? If so, I am right there with you.

but... please in North America.

I don't understand the criticism and skepticism of Splatoon 3? For anyone who played S2, you know that the story mode (minus onto expansion) isn't THAT great. The gameplay is fine, but the story-telling side is quite interesting. I expect that this will update the story gameplay in new interesting ways, and will also build on the story (which makes sense for a sequel...).
The multi-player will get updated weapons and maps, and build upon the existing. Would it have been okay just to port Splatoon 1 to the Switch with no updates? I don't think so, and I'm pleased a Splatoon 2 was made (in 2017).

This looks mighty interesting. I'll stay tuned.
With the growth of Formula One lately, I imagine it's only a matter of time before there's a right proper Formula One racing game made for the Switch. I know the last official F1 Game was for 2021 and came out for PS4 & PS5, but I'm really hoping we'll get something for the Switch sometime soon (regardless of graphics). I think the only thing close to a right proper realistic racing game on the Switch has been GRID? And we're not getting the newest iteration that just released this year on other systems. Of course, though, I still find Mario Kart entirely enjoyable and and consider it to a right proper realistic racing game...

@ModdedInkling ahhh fair enough. that's really annoying on Nintendo's part.

Not to be critical, but wouldn't Switch screenshot captures be a better way to take photos?

I always go with fire because it's a guarantee for a diverse party that will include a fire type. I know I am going to run into grass types and water types early. I know I will probably run into fire types down the road, there will just be relatively less opportunities.

@MostHandsieBoy Right?! Gamefreak gets shade (and often it's deserved), but this is a very calculated brand. If they are incorporating much of the Arceus mechanics and gameplay, they made this decision long ago.

@BTB20 That was my reaction!

I have never played this game, but it's giving me heavy Cloud Atlas vibes.

To be fair, I'm not surprised given the content of the first two games. There wasn't a lot going on in Strikers Charged outside of the few main game cups and the online mode. Assuming a similar pattern, I still won't be disappointed. Even with its "limited" content, Strikers Charged was one of my favorite games of all time because (like all Mario sports games) it was best played with others - either local or online. They're not meant to be a FIFA or MLB career campaign game.

I think MK8DX was something north of 6GB? This seems like it will require much less detail than the sprawling tracks of a racing game, and as others have mentioned, Nintendo are compression wizards.

Regardless, I'll be buying a physical edition on day one.

Is this game still relevant? It seemed like a very popular peak pandemic thing.

Never played any of the Earthbound/Mother games, but I feel like I would not enjoy them because of how much the spirit challenges on Smash for these character trophies annoyed me.