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Played the demo; loved the demo. Can't wait to get this one.

I'm guessing that this game diverges from the likes of Cyberpunk the Witcher 3 mostly because it's an animated/cartoon-looking game and parents don't bother watching what their kids buy anymore beyond a cursory glance (I am a parent, and I am definitely guilty of this!)

When something looks like it was obviously made for adults, it's fine. When it looks like something that belongs on Saturday morning cartoon time, that's maybe a whole separate deal.

Indiana Jones and South of Midnight would be my top 2 had I not already played them elsewhere. That said, I wouldn't necessarily guess they'd have been my top 2 prior to playing them, so there's that. Of the first-party stuff, I only care about Yoshi I guess. I can't imagine Mario Tennis being any better than it has been for the past 20 years - that's right around when it peaked, though I insist Nintendo owes me a free game after I bought the Wii U Mario Tennis garbage.

MIO is great, but admittedly I played it on Xbox because its on GamePass. I'm strangely tempted to buy GRID though. I really can't stand any of the racing games I have on my Switch 2. Neither MKW or Kirby really stuck with me.

I feel like I could've easily waited another year or two to bother with Switch 2 - if anything could've benefit from a delay, it's definitely the Switch 2. See also: PS5, Xbox Series consoles. So far, nothing this generation has done anything to live up to the hype. In fact, the only thing this generation has brought us is delayed games and a ridiculous number of remasters.

I would buy Pandora's Tower and The Last Story for Switch day one, even if there were no enhancements. My Wii U died before I got a chance to finish the former and I never got around to playing the latter. They're really the only games left from that era that I want to play through that aren't already available in remastered form.

@Dm9982 THIS! Its been bothering me that this really reminds me of something but I couldn't figure out what. You nailed it.

Regularly hearing that the Switch 2 is capable of PS4-era performance is refreshing. The performance gap between PS4 -> PS5 (with the exception of a few more 120FPS games) has been so disappointing to me that I feel like a portable PS4 is really good enough.

"Kojima loves the smell of his own" - truer words were never spoken.

And I agree with the above that the Switch (2 in particular) feels like the best console out there to have EVERY Final Fantasy game available on. I've bought them all so far, despite having them on PC and other consoles. Let me be the completionist I so long to be!!!

I suppose this means we'll never see the 3DS Sonic games on an eventual 3DS Switch 2 emulator. Bummer. I really, really liked them.

The absurdity of thinking 60fps is going revolutionize your Animal Crossing experience is ALMOST as absurd as thinking anything in this package could possibly justify $4.99.

That said, the idea that Nintendo doesn't want to upset the S1 users (this being a huge system seller after all)? That's even more absurd. If you're smart, you add all manner of stuff that you couldn't do before on S1, don't charge dime one for it, and place your bets that the diehard AC players finally go out and buy an S2. In an era where MK costs $79 retail (if you didn't get it as a bundle), you bet Nintendo owes a few freebies here and there.

I mean I liked the game ok but what is a Switch 2 edition really going to offer that the original did not?

@Drnsnsr 100%. Every 3rd game I play on my Series X is a 360 or OG Xbox game, mostly because I just never had time to get to that backlog back in the day.

I feel like Sony and Nintendo are anti-consumer in a LOT of ways. Case in point, it'd be wonderful if I could play my Virtual Console games on my Switch 2, but of course I can't, I have to subscribe to a Nintendo Online service I use for absolutely nothing else. Annually.

I can't see the wisdom in releasing this without Switch 2 enhancements at launch. If it were some sort of indie game that'd been in development for a while, sure, but this is a remaster of a fairly dated game. I don't see an excuse.

That Nintendo finally has a game in the wild that caters to most everyone's accessibility needs is phenomenal. It's the one thing Xbox has done really well over the past decade or so – and sadly, pretty much the only thing tbh.

Finally F-Zero GX has some competition on my SwitchCube 2!!

It's a shame that so many of us waited years for Metroid 4 only for it to land with a thud and quickly get bested by....Little Nightmares 3(?!) on the sales chart, only a month in. Ooof.

Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and what else? Oh right, nothing much at all.

SNES had the most solid launch line-up of all of them.

@Jhena I was just thinking the same thing over the past weekend. When I look at the backlog of stuff on my Switch 1, particularly the remastered or rereleased older stuff, AND my backlog of Xbox 360 backward compatible games, I pretty much have a lifetime of games already that I haven't gotten around to even trying, let alone playing in earnest.

Nintendo is still the most consistently creative company in the business; I can't imagine them ever needing to use AI, let alone having the stupid corporate business goals (ahem, Xbox) that would necessitate such a move.

I’ve gotta take issue with the Cyberpunk love. Is it competent? Sure. Is it technically impressive? Absolutely, but the thing most holding it back from great is the controls. Cyberpunk via joycon is an absolute nightmare. I’m never very good with gyro aiming so I leave it off, but the joycon, however more advanced they might be since the first switch, are terrible in this game. I was so looking forward to cross-save mobile cyberpunking but I haven’t bothered more than twice. Thankfully I got it during the sale.

So far, Octopath 0 is the way better game of the two, so no surprises there for me. I'm about 8 hrs into each so maybe that changes at some point but I feel like it isn't likely.

I'd have put Dread in the number 1 slot, followed by Super, but otherwise this is a solid list.

Eh. I don't regret buying it because it was a decent Pokemon delivery device but aside from DK and a fancy remaster of Bravely Default, pretty much everything I play was working just fine on my Switch OLED. It's sort of like getting a 4xxx --> 5xxx graphics card upgrade for your gaming PC. Patience pays off. At least that's my hope.

Isn't this sort of a perpetual ask at this point?

Think about it - the OG Xenoblade Chronicles got a pretty ok 3DS port back in the day that made it almost as good as the Wii original. Then we got a pretty ok Definitive Edition on Switch that could STILL benefit from some Switch 2 enhancement. What's to say that that (admittedly hypothetical) Switch 2 version won't push Switch 2 a little too hard and still not be the "definitive" version? Maybe it's 60fps but stuck at 1080p or 4K but has a 60fps target that never quite sticks? It feels like we're all constantly chasing some illusion of "definitive" or "enhanced" on these games, and I'm no exception, but it dawned on me that sometimes you just gotta go with what ya got. I can just see us all rocking a Switch 4 sometime in 2035 and wondering when our Xenoblade Chronicles X re-re-remastered definitive (really this time!) edition is going to land.

Great game but yeah, I don't give Limited Run Games money anymore.

I have had the (mis)fortune of having owned every last one of the NFS titles on one platform or another, dating all the way back to the original on 3DO. Most Wanted is most definitely the one I've spent the most time with, and every new NFS purchase I've made in 20 years has merely been attempting to recreate the fun I had with that game.

What I wouldn't give for some proper GB or GBA Pokemon titles in NSO.

Not mad at this update whatsoever. In fact, given my recent love for GB games, this is quite the fine update.

Here we are, 8 years after that trailer dropped, and graphics on modern consoles still wouldn't be able to render what they showed here in real time anyway - at least not at a reasonable frame rate.

@Dr_Corndog VERY shallow, yeah. I do wonder how much it would change things if I was actually able to use more than 1 and 1/2 buttons to play. Seems very unintuitive to have the boost, drift, and power up buttons all on B. Even the kids are annoyed by that.

I'm an idiot. I picked up a 256GB card on day one, not even thinking that these games were going to be much larger on average. Now I get to play that stupid game of trying to move games from card to card at some point, without having to reload. 7 years of Switch ownership and I've STILL never successfully done that.

5/10 - it feels like it does a lot, or tries to, but does none of it particularly well. The races are either overly chaotic or rather dull. I'm pretty surprised at how much I don't like it.

@kal_el_07241 Thanks - good to know I’m not alone.

I really hope that I just need to give this some more time because man, I REALLY want my $69.99 back. 3+ hours in and I genuinely loathe this game.

Still my favorite pokemon game, all time, and i'll die on that hill (and many will attempt to kill me I think). I don't have the physical version because my switch 2 console came with the game bundled in but i ceased to care about physical games a few years ago now.

It's DEFINITELY better than Battlefield. I try to hard to love that game but it just feels "off" to me compared to past entries.

Wait, so the same company that'll allow all manner of hentai shovelware in the eshop takes issue with user created bikinis? Make them make sense!

I love Kirby, like really really love him and his games, but this does absolutely nothing for me.

@KayFiOS Sadly I think Metroid will release too close to this years awards show to have a shot at 2026 - see also: Indiana Jones this year/last year.

Death Stranding 2 is the obvious winner here. It wouldn’t be the game awards without Geoff’s nose firmly up Kojima’s butt.

I can’t think of a less-fun thing to watch than a Digital Foundry video. To be honest, I thought the NL article on all of this more than covered it, and did so more as fans of the series with critical eyes than fans of gnomes like Mark Cerny.

On one hand I want to question the sheer number of SNES games so high up on the list – I mean, I get that the SNES era was a big deal for a lot of childhoods but c'mon.

On the other hand, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom as 1&2? Please. No way. We don't have history on those yet to tell us if they really stand the test of time. I didn't like either one, to be honest, preferring the older style Zelda games where I didn't need to eat, craft, and run out of breath every 13 seconds, but I get they need to be on the list somewhere.

And Mario 64 at 25? Nah. I hate that game but it's SO beloved that it deserves top 10, if not top 5.

All of that and my boy Fox McCloud below Toad's silly treasure tracker? Criminal.

Meh. Kids love it. Not everything in gaming is about my middle-aged white male self. Sometimes these companies make things for other people too.

I can’t see the need for a lackluster box next to my television when I already have a couple of others. If the tech bits are true, this is a Series S-ish console to play my Steam library on. What I want is a great performing box with recent tech.

Is it better than the first one? Sure - in performance alone. Is it better than Hyrule Warriors? Maybe? It's close.

Is it the best Musou game ever? No, but it IS a solid 7 or 8/10 and I have zero regrets about picking it up.

Happy birthday to my favorite (and pretty much only) Nintendo coverage site!

I've been playing Hitman games since the beginning and always wanted to like them but never really did. I always credit Absolution with breaking that – I genuinely love this game. Probably not going to play it again as I already have it Xbox if I ever wanted to go through it again, but it's solid. Not modern 1-3 solid, but definitely solid.

@nhSnork Agreed. I love that game, even more than I love DQ's 1-3.

You know its a great week for gaming in Japan when the weakest title in the top 10 is Mario Kart World (just my opinion but I'm sticking with it).

YES! I was holding out for this – day one for me plus I just got notification that my Yakuza Kawami upgrade preorder just went through ahead of launch next week. SEGA rocks.