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8/10 isn't bad. Didn't know Ganondorf even had a last name, so I guessed. And I didn't know Majora's Mask released in 2000, for some odd reason I figured it was Wind Waker.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition on Switch has got its teeth into me, so I'll be busy making a gory mess of demons and angels with my comically oversized sword.

Downloaded immediately. I will literally never turn this off unless I have to. Thank you Nintendo Life, this is amazing for studying (or maybe not since I'll just think about New Horizons instead of working).

It's looking like it's time for me to break the promise I made to myself about not buying games until I beat more of the ones I already own. Really eyeing Darksiders Genesis (and also Darksiders II). I own the first on Switch and I'm gonna play it once I finally achieve 100% completion on Smash Ultimate (so close, less than 10% left on a NG+ WoL run, and beating every century and all-star smash with every character), but man I wish they'd bring Darksiders III to Switch. Also Animal Crossing is a day 1 buy for me, absolutely cannot wait for it.

I'm excited for Byleth, don't get me wrong. But UMMM, where are the Sword and Shield spirits. I missed the starter trio and Zacian/Zamazenta spirits, and are now the only two I lack. Dude, its stressing me out so much.

My personal game of the weekend is called HomeWork. It's awful, a massive grind, and has little payoff at the end. And yet, I can't seem to stop playing it.

@Torn Its so strange they released DQ11, an outstanding port of a PS4 game, and yet DQ 1, 2, and 3 are all super mediocre if not bad. Really shows they didn't care about the old games, and only released them for a quick buck. Sucks that they've desecrated them that way, guess I'll emulate the first three then, which is my least preferred method to play games.

Like many here, normally I'm down for a game inspired by other more popular games (see: Oceanhorn, Ittle Dew 2) but this is riding a fine, fine line between inspiration and plagiarism. The animations are a little too close for comfort, and it's rather obvious the animation was not done in the traditional style like Cuphead. This was obviously done in Flash/Animate, with keyframes rather than frame by frame. It looks good, but I would rather they develop a game with its own style rather than trying to riff of Cuphead. But if it turns out to be solid, I'll eat my words. But somehow I don't see that happening.

@Torn It's not the frame rate problems or anything that bothers me, though those are certainly rather large issues. It's the graphics. The art style clashes so hard. The map looks like a SNES map, but the Hero has a crappy looking "high-res" sprite, and the enemies look hand-drawn. If it stuck to one of those, than it would be fine. And the fact it has frame skips at all means it is terribly optimized for Switch. So if it gets patches to fix the frame rate issues and the way it looks, then maybe I'll consider it, given that it's a lot more money efficient, but I'll be waiting a bit before it gets to that.

I thought about picking up the classics, but reading through these comments about how awful the ports are, I might just pick up the GBC ports of these later. It's gonna cost way more money, but I'd rather pay more money for better versions of these games than $5-$10 for crappy mobile ports. They don't look that great either, I'll just stick to my GBA SP and its weird front light, thank you very much. Probably won't play DQ11 anytime soon, like I have time for that.

That's pretty cool, all things considered. Never played this one, but I have played the first two and those were amazing. Not sure why they weren't remastered instead.

Except, as the above commenter pointed out, this is false. GameXplain confirmed that Super Mario Party never had DLC in the works, that's code from Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle.

@BerendJan Gooseman: Bread Money

I've been so excited for this. Speaking as a rather large Zelda fan, Link's Awakening will wait, because Untitled Goose Game is going to be the game I buy this month. I cannot wait till Friday, this game's animation, music, and gameplay are just so charming.

How, in the name of all that is good, is GTA V still in top 5? I know its profitable, I know its pretty good, I know Take Two is milking it for all its worth, but like, it's still beating games that I consider to be far better than it, like BotW, RDR2, SSBU, and Spider-Man.

Gotta say the Japanese version, mostly because it has the whole crew. Star Fox isn't just about Fox, ya know!

The road to SSBU 100% completion just never ends. I keep getting distracted from it, but if I have time in between homework and a terrifying AP Chemistry test approaching, I might grind a few more spirits. Besides that, might continue playthrough #3 of BotW is my endless quest to 100% all the games I own, a task that is far harder than it seems.

I guess I'm going to start buying the Arcade Archives Fatal Fury games. Gotta see what Terry is all about.

I didn't see an EA logo attached to this, given I thought they had exclusive publishing rights to this franchise for games. That makes me incredibly happy. Might get it.

This game looks so good. Looks like it mixes a bit of XC2's artstyle in with the original, and it looks so much better than even an emulated XC1. I cannot wait for this. Here's hoping we get an XCX port to complete the collection.

Imagine being actually excited for Devil May Cry 2.

Hopefully these aren't too terribly limited, I need to start getting the Shovel Knight amiibo.

@Elvie they made a ton of flash games in the past. I don't remember what most of them were called, but they were surprisingly high effort for flash games.

@Klunk23 woah holy crap! Sweet! Guess I'll wait till Christmas to pick that up, along with the amiibo too. $40 seems like a steal for how much content is in the game. Shovel of Hope, Plague Knight, Spectre Knight, King of Cards, and the fighting mode. I can't wait, thanks for letting me know.

Sweet, Yacht Club are great devs, though ashamedly I still haven't played Shovel Knight, I've really been holding out for the physical version on Switch, but man, it's been a while since that was announced and even longer since this game was released, so I might bite the bullet, but chances are I'll just wait a bit longer.

This series has always looked really appealing to me. I've been watching a lot of fighting game videos lately, and games like Street Fighter, Tekken, SoulCaliber, Samurai Shodown, Fatal Fury, Marvel vs. Capcom, to name a few, all look like a lot of fun. Anyone got any suggestions for which games to play first? I know most of the games are available via ACA NeoGeo, it's mostly just a matter of Switch vs PS4, as I prefer to have all the games of one series on one system/system series. (e.g., I own every Devil May Cry game on PS4, I have every Dark Souls game on PS4, etc.)
Edit: I don't have much interest in competitive play, I just enjoy playing them as something for me to get good at, for the single player if they have them, and the occasional online match.

Another excuse for me to jump in and start grinding out Spirit battles for that 100% completion that's been in the making for 8 months now. Guess I'm playing Smash this weekend, since its a 3 day weekend for me.

@1UP_MARIO God, I forget how old MK8 really is. We really need a new Mario Kart, I get there's usually only one per console, but MK8D hardly stands as a new Mario Kart game. I'll play MK Tour, but I don't play games on my phone often despite how many I have downloaded, so it's likely to get shelved quickly.

Oh man, I forgot this game was a thing. Was this game good? I bought the knock-off version of this, Urban Trial Playground, but it feels really shallow with its physics and the graphics are not too pleasant to look at, so I've been eyeing the Trials series to scratch my 2D motorcycle platformer itch (an oddly specific one, but the Trials series just looks like fun). Though it's good to see Ubisoft still supporting this one, I love it when DLC is released this late after a game launches.

AHHH I just bought the PS4 version for $15 because it was on sale and I didn't want to wait anymore for the Switch version. I was planning on playing it in the coming time, and I probably still will, but now I want this one too because the Switch is made for platformers and also it's physical. I should've waited to spend my money, but I'm glad it'll be on Switch in a few months.

This is neat and all, but if you're going to stuff microtransactions in remasters of 20 year old games again, no thanks. I'd rather you not touch beloved franchises and ruin them with your corporate agenda.

I'm a sucker for simplistic and artistic box art, so the clear winner for me was the PAL versions. It would've been a slightly harder choice between the three if it weren't for the Japanese and North American covers using a white outer glow, completely decimating any sense of artistry. Leon looks like he was just slapped onto the covers of those boxes, and it frankly doesn't look that great. Though the NA Wii box art doesn't look all that bad, that's actually the version I own.

I've genuinely been debating getting DOOM on my Switch for so long. I have it on PS4, and I'll finish it one day on that, but I don't use my PS4 nearly as often as my Switch, and despite how DOOM runs on Switch, to me, it seems tailor made for that system. As Arlo said, It's the most Nintendo-like non-Nintendo made game on the Switch. (That's not precisely what he said, but it was along those lines). I also remember his great quote, "Graphics are great and all, but so is playing DOOM in bed."

I've already got a massive backlog as it is. Still plugging away at that (unsuccessfully I might add, I've dubbed my issue "the 20 hour curse", get 20 hours deep in a game, and moronically stop playing). Currently getting back to 100% completing Team Sonic Racing, and I can wholeheartedly say that is not a good idea, the ring and daredevil challenges are testing my patience and degrading my sanity.

Boy I sure am glad I paid full price for this. That was not the brightest move on my part. Regardless, I guess if you wanted to play this but didn't want to be an idiot like me and pay $60, this is cool. It won't take you long to finish. 7 days is more than enough to get your fill of Mario Tennis Aces.

Haha cool thanks I didn't need to sleep tonight anyways. Yoshi does not work with the Minecraft horse proportions.

@JayJ @YagaMaki that's fair enough. That was a little unfair of me to compare the two, and also be a little too harsh towards Xenoverse, they are two different types of games. I might try the free to play Xenoverse myself. I've not watched DB yet, but the games seem like a fair bit of fun. Good to know you enjoy them, YagaMaki.

That makes sense. I mean, flat balance is boring, and so is wild imbalance, so striking a nice middle ground is the way to go. Just cater to different play styles and don't make anyone too over or under-powered, and you're good. Regardless, I hope this game runs well on Switch and also doesn't look terrible. 60 FPS but also preferably not aliased 480p, hopefully it's optimized well.

They look neat, I guess. No team honestly beats Team Skull for me though. They were the perfect mix of cool and slightly intimidating, but also over the top and silly and they made the perfect team. They weren't a billion dollar organization who wants to disrupt space and time (that was the Aether Foundation), just a gang of people who cause trouble because they can. I'm not too keen on the name "Team Yell", but I guess it's a British thing so it's fine.

Woah, this is actually really neat. I love 3D platformers, and I wish I could play more of them but my backlog is pretty big, but I do have a soft spot for PS2/Gamecube era games. I'm genuinely tempted to back this, for the sake of supporting something cool. I can't imagine this being a hard port, so maybe I'll bite the bullet and throw Krome Studios $20 of my money.

Smashing a PS4 is a really weird way to show protest, but okay. I don't know why this game looking inspired by Breath of the Wild is a bad thing, but maybe that's because A) I love BotW and B) I live in the US. Game looks neat, hadn't heard of it before this dude smashed a $200 console in protest, but if I find it for a good price, maybe I'll get it.

I suppose this is a neat thing, the free-to-play trial version or whatever, but I can't imagine it being too widely played now, what with Dragonball FighterZ being out and being considered a far superior game.

EA lost everyone's trust and goodwill years ago. Their Switch games don't sell because they're half-assed, watered-down versions of their already microtransaction filled garbage on other systems. Their other games on PS4, Xbox One, and PC don't sell because they're half finished games filled with microtransactions. EA, if you just made a half decent game, with no microtransactions, no roadmap BS, no grind, and no lootboxes. Just a normal and complete game, may it would sell. But of course it wouldn't make the money that FIFA and Madden do, so they'll never do that. I mourn for all the good EA franchises that we'll never get more good games of. Command & Conquer, Burnout, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed, and Skate, to name a few.

Because of course they are. Activision and their shoddy reasoning of "it's all so the player has more options". It's just like how it was with COD: Modern Warfare Remastered. Never played it, but I know they added microtransactions to a re-release of an older game. I've heard the remaster of CTR is good. It looks good, plays well, and serves as a nice update to the original. But damn, adding microtransactions to your cool remaster makes it that much worse. It's wholly unnecessary, and they say it's a "fast-track" also known as "our game is really grindy because we made it that way so just give us money instead of playing our game". I feel for the developers, I'd like to think that they didn't want this, I hope they didn't. Screw you, Activision.

I might actually pick this up. I played the second Ultimate Alliance on Wii, and I don't know why, but it never clicked with me. Maybe because it felt too much like button mashing at the time, but I stopped playing before I ever finished the first or second mission, but this one looks like a lot more fun.

Capcom, if you could stop giving your licenses to Paul W.S. Anderson, that'd be great. Give them to people who actually know how to direct a good movie.

Persona 5 all the way. Finally found a physical copy at my local GameStop (yes I do still shop there, it's the only game store in town), and it's sucking me in, the battle system is so much fun!

I know there's a few comments about this already, but seriously, not even Texas? Like, you could bring it to Austin or Dallas, or maybe, just maybe, finally bring something to San Antonio. It feels like not much video game related comes to San Antonio.

@Skalgrim What made it so overwhelming? Personally, I thought it was just right in the way it introduces new things to you, but that's just me.

Might get in a little Resident Evil 4 (the best version, on the Wii), along with more Tetris 99. Just started God of War (on PS4) so I'll try and get through that. This weekend is probably the first weekend I haven't had any homework in months, so I'm definitely going to be busy with my games all weekend.