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I’ve got a lot of picross games; between the 3DS and Switch it must be a couple dozen. If they’re going to jack up the price by 50%, then I’m done with them. Once I finish the last of the games I have, I can circle back around to the oldest games for more if I need to. It will have been years since they were played and they’ll feel new again anyway.

i'll get them because I love these games and I want them on the system I actively use; i'm looking to minimize the stuff I have and endless game consoles just add to my option paralysis.
The amiibos are radically overpriced- I want them, but only if their prices are lower in Asia (where I live). They usually are- what with the impact of tariffs not factored in.
Still. The prices Nintendo charges for these games stings, and I'm skipping other games because of this, and just buying fewer overall.

the fact that you have to pay for a peripheral to access at most 14 games that you only have access to via subscription is absurd. the fact that the cheaper CARDBOARD option is still $25 is preposterous.
Install Red Viper on your 3DS- you'll have free access to the whole VB library instantly in full 3D, and you can change the color from that harsh red hue. Don't reward Nintendo's greed.

I'm living in Taiwan right now, and I picked up the new DK/Pauline amiibo for about the equivalent of $17 new. the jacked-up prices are for America, part of the inflationary pressure on everything.

Their earlier moves in Taiwan were a farce. There was no local hardware until the 3DS. Before then Taiwanese bought Japanese consoles. If one bought the region locked Taiwanese 3DS, one got no eshop and about six TOTAL available games with traditional Chinese translation.
All first party switch games have Chinese language options in the software (but you have to change the language at the system level to see it)- so it’s surprising that it took them so long to make them readily available here.
Better late than never…

So, what’s the verdict, owners of the Switch version? Has the reported lag and drops in frame rate improved with this patch, or does switch still suffer the same in comparison with PC?

Bye bye Eshop. Time to move on down the alphabet…. Gimme an H!

they're pretty wildly overpriced. They should have been 40-50$ for the pair. sadly as Switch and Switch games being in high demand is still generally good, it means Nintendo feels little pressure to play fair with prices. All these remakes are jacked up like new games, and I'm never going to support that.

If it's true that a proper full direct is on the immanent horizon, then this is the direct that had to happen now. If Nintendo has a collection of Mario 3D remasters or other large games for the Christmas season, then they would drown out these indie games. This is a good window for them to get some attention- especially with almost half of them dropping immediately and being part of a sale.

Nintendo has been way to cagey with its plans this year and onward, even considering greater circumstances, but as we've already waited this long, waiting a week or two more to spotlight smaller games is probably the right move... just so long as that big direct IS coming soon...

@Handy_Man Couldn't agree more; it's been quite a while; the game has been discounted several times- the DLC, to my knowledge, not even once. Groove Coaster is even more fiercely pricey.

I am SO happy that this is going to make it to the Switch in 2020! Who'd have thunk it, eh? Even sans an official VC, the Switch is quickly becoming the go to machine for the games of the past....

@AG_Awesome It's substantial all by itself; 3 full very different playthroughs that can range from 40-70 hours each are part of the main game. Most of the DLC is extra features/ quests threaded throughout the game- nothing necessary, but enhances everything and gives you more chances to earn gold/renown.

This last bit of DLC is an additional 10 hour story that also adds new battles (paralogues to the main game) and expands your hub world. It's again- not required, but nice. You'd probably want to start the main game and see how much you become invested in it before you decide to get even more of it.

This'll probably be the first Fire Emblem since the debut on the GBA that I skip- at least for this year. I loved the 3DS entries, after being lukewarm to the GC and Wii games- but between the art style and the school setting and the threat of 80hours x3 playtime- I just don't have it in me to invest in this thing. I might have time to play two or just one long RPG type game/year, and this year I think it'll be DQ11.

@SmileMan64
That is the conventional telling, and not wholly wrong. But for the amount of content on offer, and in the mobile market, Mario Run was not good value for money. Half that price and it would have sold a lot better. There is a smaller, but still extant, market in mobile for premium, pay-once games, but the price range is usually 2.99-6.99. Nintendo’s bite size games could have lived there.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter, the Switch alone has more first party content on it than I have time to play, and every one of those games is infinitely more palatable than the mobile offerings, so it’s just as well that they’re so easy to ignore.

Dual currencies and stamina systems; Nintendo learned fast what fuels the mobile market and bowed right down to it. Every mobile game they’ve released so far feels like a scummy mobile knockoff, and this is no different. This rise of this kind of stuff is why I quit playing mobile games essentially, sad to see Nintendo contributing to it.

I am astonished at what people will spend money on- this was a competent and pretty and utterly unremarkable mobile RPG. Nintendo has before and will again release genuinely good adventure games- and hopefully they'll continue to be complete experiences without incentives to pay threaded throughout their systems. What need is there for this pap, from any publisher, but from Nintendo especially?

@eripmav i was a bit on the fence with this one (I've got way more games than I could ever play already), but damn if this doesn't hit me dead center in the nostalgia cortex.... Looks very much like you've caught the essence of the old games- and I've got two daughters of my own who I hope will enjoy it as much as I'm thinking I will.

I've been living in Taiwan and hacking at Chinese for the last couple of years- I've been really pleased that so many Switch games are getting traditional-character localizations- playing video games is guilt free if I do it in Chinese. and now, from nowhere is a game from Taiwan- and somehow it's also good! I hope this is a portent of things to come...

I bought the Cave shmups some years back on iOS, only to see them rendered unplayable by OS updates after being abandoned as unprofitable by Cave. It happens so often that I just quite buying any games for mobile--- I'll be happy to have this genre represented on the Switch, where I know that it'll work as long as my machine functions...

Holy heckfire, but does this sound like some super-predatory whale hunting. Those prices are insanely high, and it sounds like the game is designed so that you could burn through 75 bucks worth of orbs and not collect 1/10 of the variably-starred heroes on offer.

If the rate at which one collects orbs via gameplay isn't pretty generous, then this is a game to skip entirely for the safety of one's wallet. Thankfully Echoes is coming soon enough to scratch anyone's FE itch.

with the New 3DS coming early this year to the West, they're probably positioning it to last at least until 2016- the fall of which year is a good time to also release an updated console--- or console/handheld hybrid machine...

I WANT very very much. I will buy thrice- one for me and two to foist on friends...

Well I'm glad I got to pay full price for what was the beta version they called the first game. Instead of charging full price for an expansion of the first game, why didn't they go with music from any of their other properties?

why exactly did we need MORE Final Fantasy music after the 100 songs of the first one? Doesn't Square-Enix have dozens of other RPGs, Dragon Quest not the least amongst them, that they could have crafted a Theatrhythm game from?

Are any owners of the first game (of which I am one who enjoyed it plenty) excited for this retread?

i bought all of the DS and PSP games while I was in Taiwan; even modded my Wii solely so I could play the Taiko no Tatsujin. still, one taiko game is is good as another, basically. I cannae justify the expense of continuing to import MORE drum games, love them though I might. Especially as I'd have to buy a Japanese 3DS.

they'll never release these games intact in the west- the cost of licensing the tracks outweighs the profits in issuing a niche music title. we get Rhythm Heaven and Project Diva only because the music is original. only about 1/5 of the music in any given taiko game fits that description.

they've released these three games on GBA, DS, Wii, and iOS already- if not on other platforms I'm not up on. a slight coat of 3D paint and no other changes does not an enticing package make.

I'd be more interested in a theoretical Volume 2- with Ace Attorney 4, and Investigations 1 and 2. Those have never been ported, and the last has never been localized in English. That I'd buy.

I don't know about anyone else, but I've owned plenty of Apple products, and their minimalist design, while it works- is wearing on me. The LAST thing I want is for a company like Nintendo to start aping the look of an iPhone like every other handheld electronic company has.

I'd like to see Theatrhythm: Dragon Quest before another heaping helping of Final Fantasy tunes. Actually, I'd like to see anything Dragon Quest on my 3DS...

now we just need Club Nintendo Picross and we've got 'em all. I dig picross just a wee bit more when the pictures are all Nintendo iconography.

@WiiLovePeace: thanks for the correction. let me get a bit more specific- this is the first Zelda ever translated into Traditional Chinese (the pre-1949 character set) which means it's the first for Taiwan/HK- countries that still use it. At least, that's how Nintendo is advertising it over here.
I've seen a few of my students playing Zelda in Chinese, but those were always fan translations from mainland China. Most people here know Mario, but far fewer have ever even heard of Zelda (even when I write the name in Chinese).

Sad to say, but the five games named are also the only ones released in Chinese to date and the system has been out for over three months. Thanks to stringent region locking these are absolutely the only five games you can play (the Wii at least let you play Japanese games). And there's no eshop of any kind. So though I feel a bit burned that I can't play the new Taiko on my American 3DS, I can at least be glad that Nintendo isn't treating me like the Taiwanese. oh well, upside: first Zelda officially translated into Chinese ever.

any idea if they're going to offer more tables as DLC? between Zen Pinball on PS3 and Pinbal FX on 360, they've got better than a dozen tables designed. I'd love to play the Rocky and Bullwinkle or Nikola Tesla tables...

any idea if they're going to offer more tables as DLC? between Zen Pinball on PS3 and Pinbal FX on 360, they've got better than a dozen tables designed. I'd love to play the Rocky and Bullwinkle or Nikola Tesla tables...

I like how ambiguous it is. It asks me to find Alhambra. Alhambra is a Muslim fortification in Spain (I now know), but I'm thinking of Alhambra, the city in California. So I'm wrong. In the same set of questions I am asked to find "Salem", I think of Massachusetts, it thinks Oregon so I'm wrong. the names are unspecific and arbitrary- and the game is boring as hell.

this kind of game would have been an ok addition to an atlas program that taught you about countries and cities- but as an information free standalone, it's an utter piece of garbage. 5 is very generous.

As smiting humans from atop the heavens has been a long-standing fantasy of mine, I will be day-one downloading this little number.