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@hisownsidekick no one cares. Not everything is about you. I’m addicted to nicotine and Ball X Pit and I’m not boo booing.

Excellent game! The best time waster since Balatro for me! I really love the randomness of it but also the fun rogue light elements keep you on your toes. The village building mechanic is sort of dull for me, but it’s thankfully short. I spend about 3 minutes on it between runs. If you like slay the spire, play this! Great bang for your buck.

Can anyone please recommend a game to play that has the old survival kids / lost in blue appeal for survival games? I already tried don’t starve and it was a good B for me. Thanks!

@Dm9982 I totally agree. Maybe the right of first refusal for current switch owners with NSO? Pre-order code given a day in advanced.

Pre-ordered immediately! Very excited for the mischievous problem solving. Zelda often zig then zags. From OoT to Majoras Mask. From BOTW to ToK. This is a cool zag from links Awakening. Trust Nintendo.

Great questions!

one of my top 5 video games of all time! Cannot wait to play with all of the quality-of-life improvements, music, and new graphics!

Top 5 games:
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door
Tales of Symphonia
Hogwarts Legacy
Pokémon Emerald
Zelda Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Love this video game! It is the perfect game for grab-and-go play or endless hours on the couch! I am so glad I have it for my upcoming flight. I will be playing it the entire 6-hour flight.

It is extremely rewarding to come up with a game-breaking strategy on the fly. It's all about adapting to what tools it gives you and honing in on that strategy. It's a true delight. It truly stands among the greats like Slay the Spire and Cobalt Core. 10/10. It's also a game of great value. I've put 200 hours into Slay the Spire over the past 3 years. I can easily do the same for Balatro. 200/$15 gives me a $.075/hr price. That is value! For another example: Breath of the wild (2x playthroughs) = appx 200 hours/$60 = $.30/hr price. Which is also good! Forgive me and my justifications and love of numbers.

I played 10 hours of Balatro. God help me.

Cannot wait to download this tonight!

I love rouge-like deck builders. Loved Slay the Spire, Dicey Dungeons, and Cobalt Core! I go to Vegas at least once a year and love me some table top card games, so this is a match made in heaven for me! (Shout out to the Aria Resort/Casino)

@Arawn93 you check out the Crystal Legacy fan game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJBVY3z_uE It's really good.

Id rather get GSC on Nintendo Online than Let's Go remakes.

The best case scenario: full remakes or a legends style game of gen 2.

The worst case scenario: a chibi remake ala BDSP.

@-wc- unfortunately you are right. Hopefully Nintendo fixes this with switch 2. They generally learn from mistakes. I’ve never had an issue with any Nintendo controller before the switch. But they learned from the mistakes of Wii U pretty damn well!

@JohnnyMind on wednesdays we play pink.

@aaronsullivan Ive played about 3 hours now. It's extremely fun! The gameplay loop is similar to Slay the Spire. I love the combination of looking at your cards but also the battlefield and positioning yourself and your weapons. I am also pleased with the trading of the party members. You choose 3 party members, each supplying you with their starting cards and their deck options. One may supply defense, another robotic turrets, and yet another focusing on movement and evasion. Really fun!

@aaronsullivan that is news to me! I played a good 20 hours of the game, but couldn't get anywhere due to crazy difficulty spikes. I lost interest. I may have to give it another go now! thanks

@Wisps I wanted to like WildFrost, but I just didn't like it nearly as much as Slay the Spire. I'll for sure try Colbalt Core and see if it fills that itch!

@jorel262 I really hope that they match my memories of playing them day 1. Odds are yes they will! It’s like when people tell you that Chrono Trigger is a must play. A staple in the GBA days.

Hot damn. The overlords at Nintendo have listened to us and have blessed us with what we want: all of these remasters and ports! What a happy year already. Paper Mario Thousand Year Door and golden sun. Incredible start to 2024. These are games that are pivotal to replay for me. These games are what got me into JRPGS and RPS outside of Pokémon. I quickly followed it up with tales of symphonia and got me ready for the powerhouse that was PP TYD.

Thank you Nintendo, and I really mean it. More please! I’ve got disposable income.

@rjejr unfortunately due to the direction of the series since thousand year door, this the direction that Nintendo has chosen to go.

While I could be upset about this remake, I would rather get the remaster of the best game in the series than another color splash.

Yes this is from a huge paper Mario thousand year door stan.

Always wanted to play this! I had it in my moms cart at Kmart back in the day, but she looked at the back and saw that it was rated E for “use of alcohol” and had me put it back. Always been sour about that. Thankfully I got wonderful life on GameCube a few years later. I’m going to be playing this on the plane today.

My boyfriend and I regularly play Mario Party online with family members. 2v2 in Super Mario Party is outrageously fun.

I had a blast playing Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and Towerfall at a bachelor party a few years ago. Jackbox games are always a crowd-pleaser as well.

I desperately want a new Mario Party though. I was hoping for more DLC for Mario Party Superstars, but the old games being on the N64 online expansion pass fits the bill quite nicely. Please give us a new MP with lots of maps and lots of fun!

Excellent game. It was worth every penny to purchase it on switch.

Sad day. Loved his review video of the game.

@Astral-Grain WWG1WGA

@HeftyLaces eerie that we sound pretty similar. Master's degree and formerly worked in a clinical lab (research scientist now). Funny how being a scientist who questions the narrative gets you hate and vitriol.

@EaglyBird you forgot Hogwarts Legacy.

@Jhena I agree about the family category! I decided on Mario Wonder as it is a little bit easier of a game with the addition of Nabbit and Yoshi easy modes. I fully enjoyed both games!

Hogwarts Legacy being denied even 1 nomination is a joke. At minimum, it should have been nominated for score/music seeing as it was nominated for a Grammy. It also has the second highest sales for 2023 (Tears of the Kingdom is at #1) and Hogwarts Legacy hasn't even been released yet for Switch.

We all know why.

While I am not a Sonic fan, I am a game chops fan! This album is very good. Perfect for my bus commute.

@blindsquarel Here's where I got the data. The source did not include Color Splash. https://www.vgchartz.com/game/226196/paper-mario/

The ONLY reason why people like me are so vocal and argumentative about the series and its direction is that while the games are liked by part of the fanbase, they are not well received by others. Big N has left my side in the dust. They are continuing to push out these games that divide the fanbase, yet don't appease both sides by creating one for each side. All of the anger and resentment goes away as soon as they make one for us. TTYD remake is a step in the right direction for sure. Notice how the internet reacted when that was announced. Nintendo really is seemingly going in the right direction by giving us TOK AND also remaking Legend of the 7 Stars and TTYD.

I want us all to buy TTYD remake in droves so that big N can return to the OG formula. Unfortunately, the newest games have outsold the OG games:

Paper Mario - 1.37 million.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - 1.91 million.
Super Paper Mario - 4.23 million.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 2.49 million.
Paper Mario: Color Splash.
Paper Mario: The Origami King - 3.47 million.

Let's make TTYD remake the highest selling game in the "franchise"

@the_beaver Played TOK. Bug Fables was more enjoyable.

@ChromaticDracula Bug fables for sure scratches that Paper Mario itch. It is not as good or as polished as TTYD or N64 PM, but it is a good RPG. I never truly connected to the characters or the party members like I did with TTYD or N64 PM, but most likely that is due to me not having 20 years or so of love for Mario!

@the_beaver LMAO. NO. There is no way that Origami King is better than N64 Paper Mario. They aren't even in the same genre to me. TTYD and N64 PM are the only two TRUE paper mario games out there big N ruined the series.

Last thing I need is to spend $$$ on another paper mario clone that sucks. Bug Fables was great! But the outbound ghost on switch was a travesty. I'm done simply buying a game with a good preview from Nintendolife before the final reviews come out.

I've played quite a few games in the series, but it all started with Symphonia on the gamecube. One of the best and most memorable games I've ever played. I still consider it in my top 5 games ever played. Every game since has been a slight downgrade in some fashion ever since.

I've played the following: Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia, Xillia, Zesteria, Berseria, and Arise. I couldn't even finish Vesperia, as I got tired of it.

@Polvasti This is exactly why I said my piece. I'm openly criticizing the feminist anti-man bashing and political pandering of this game so that people can have a well-rounded view of what the game is like before purchasing.

Seeing "sisterhood" in the title did not automatically ring "feminism" in my mind, and there are probably others that would feel the same. I'm simply letting others know that this game has a misandrist message.

As to my other point, if a game was calling out the problems of "Bidenomics", there would immediately be a wave of angry people in the comments.

Once again, I'm pointing out that this game has a heavy political/sexist agenda. People may LOVE that and this game would be right up their alley. There are many people that could see my thoughts and think, "Nah, this game isn't for me".

The reviewer clearly didn't want to point any of this out, which is reasonable (much better than the utter bias found on Kotaku or IGN), and I am wanting to point out the political nature and sexism found in the game.

My thoughts:

Interesting concept. It was a visual novel where your tarot card readings change the direction of the story, which could mean multiple play throughs to see different stories.

The good: fun to dive into the lore and learn the rules of the magical cosmos. Interesting characters. Great visuals.

The bad: not happy about the man bashing. I’m sorry but my litmus test is to do the reverse and see if that would be offensive. I doubt people would be praising this game if it was blaming women for the problems of our society. It was pretty pompous in this regard. Also, they had to throw in a “make American great again” = fascism joke. I wonder if this game would have been received well if they made a joke instead about “build back better”?

Great game, but the creators think that they are arbiters of reality and wish they could read tarot cards to change the conservatives into blue haired feminists with subservient male slaves.

Final review : 7/10. Great idea and great storytelling, but polarizing.

I finished 100% of the game and am close to getting all platinum medals for the Dandori challenges. It's the perfect game for playing on the bus. Getting the platinum medals are so rewarding. It usually takes me 3-5x of practice on the hardest challenges to get the rhythm down.

Great article for a Sunday. ToTK is definitely the “scariest” game of the series to me. First Zelda game to make me just go “nope!” In a very long time. OoT has the redeads and the dead hand (the kakariko well?! 😱). Majoras mask has the Gibdo mask story line and the alien abduction. Skyward Sword has the ancient cistern depths. All great moments we all remember, but ToK has so many scary moments. From the panic you get from the gloom hands, to the first spotting of a Gleeoks or a Frox, there are many times I was just scared to begin a fight. Excellent game and some major nightmare fuel for sure.

So damn excited. My God just reading the pros/cons at the end (the only thing I read) was enough to draw some tears of joy. Thanks Nintendo for creating a masterpiece.

Both trailers are great! But my God, the BoTW trailer can still make my tear up. The music and the grandiose of it is just epic. It really draws the emotions out of you. BoTW wins for me. It made me so proud to be a Zelda fan.

Hopefully by Seattle, they mean Bellevue or Redmond.

9/10 for me! Very happy! Loved the music! I laughed out loud a lot of the time. Very cute and charming. The story was slightly better than a typical Mario game, as it fleshed out some characters a bit more. No complaints! I’m really hoping that the sales are high so Nintendo green lights more movies!

I have the switch version and it runs HORRIBLY. it’s incredibly difficult to time the action commands due to lag. It also takes a 10+ seconds to load between the overworld and a battle. It’s basically unplayable.

Also, if they included a "story creator mode" that would be killer.

Fun game, but not worth $15. $5-$10 seems more fair. I finished it in about 2-3 hours. Great fun, but honestly it felt like it could have been a free flash game on addicting games.com back in the day. I would be more willing to recommend it for the $15 price tag if it eventually comes out with free DLC chapters.

This is fantastic. I will probably buy a set

Never played the 1080 franchise. I played SSX tricky on the GameCube a lot though! Love the snowboard genre. I played so much that it convinced me to go snowboarding with friends in high school. It’s now a favorite sport of mine! I in fact just came back from Park City, Utah on a snow trip. So thankful that Nintendo made these games to inspire many to get outside and try it IRL. Whether shredding the gnar IRL or digitally, it’s so fun.