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I think it's a... fun choice to make a brand new From game exclusive to a Nintendo-console. But seeing as Sony never did anything more with Bloodborn, I expect a Nintendo stewardship can't be worse. Hopefully it sells well.

Sure. I'll bite, I guess. I'd rather have a third game to follow Tropical Freeze, but it looks fun enough.

Can't stand the visual redesign of DK, though.

I have to believe this is an inside-joke between team Cherry and those of us waiting for the game at this point. The first acknowledgement in quite a while, and still no date beyond "2025" made me crack up at least. Why even show it if not to poke the metaphorical bear of fanboy-entitlement?

Unsurprising announcement. I love the games dearly, but I really hoped that if they were doing this they'd also add a bit more story-content. Or in a dream-world, somehow remix them into one single, epic adventure.

If BotW includes the DLC and has all content on-cart, then I'm sure I'll pick both of these up as collectibles, but overall this is an underwhelming update saved by the stellar quality of the games they're based on.

The smartphone-stuff is white noise to me. Any gameplay feature relying on apps will be deprecated sooner rather than later, so they're a novelty at best.

Biggest fist-pump moment of the show for me. I loved Age of Calamity (although the plot eventually turned a bit too fan-fiction-y). I get that most people don't find this as exciting as a proper new Zelda, but the BotW/TotK-games are some of my favorite games of all time - so any excuse to further explore that incarnation of Hyrule, Link and Zelda are welcome in my book.

I'm torn on this. Getting old forgotten games from the GameCube era available on Switch 2 is great, but this probably means the dual WiiU Zelda remasters will always be locked to that console. And the great games they're built on will be locked behind a subscription paywall for the forseeable future..

I really wanted a Luigis Mansion 1 remaster on my shelf to complete the set on modern Nintendo-consoles. Oh well. This is still a good thing overall.

Got a good chuckle from me. The added joke of.. uh.. "Navn Mann" himself not exactly being super fond of his own product if you ignore the subtitles and understand Danish is a fun easter-egg for us Scandinavians out there. Great stuff.

Loved Hollow Knight, and I´m gonna pick up Silksong on day 1. Until we have a release-day, I´ma play something else and not think much about it.

The announcement was obviously too early, but Team Cherry were kinda painted into a corner, since Silksong is basically a mutated stretch-goal from the original Hollow Knight Kickstarter. They were - at the very least - obligated to tell their backers why the final piece wasn´t coming.

I hate to sound like a Nintendo-fanboy, but this is folly.

Nevermind that Nintendo has systematically wielded their excellent exclusive output to pretty much obliterate any challenger in the handheld space for as long as I´ve been alive...

Casual players will gravitate to their mobile phone App-stores, and PC-master-race-players already have a Steam Deck. Playstation might get some traction with a 2nd gen Portal that also works without a PS5 connection, but Microsoft? I play most 3rd party releases on my Series X these days, so I´m not inherently against Microsoft making hardware, but this seems... misguided.

Honestly I´d rather see Valve make a Deck 2 and a proper Steam Console that can just live under my TV.

I remember when the "live-action" remake of the Lion King came out a few years ago... I didn´t care for it, thinking that all the amazing filmmakers, actors and CGI-artists could probably put that talent to better use than to remake something that was already so close to perfect.

And intellectually I know that this logic can be applied to the idea of a Chrono Trigger remake as well. But I also know that if Square-Enix gets the Octopath Traveler team to remake CT in the HD-2D style, I will buy it a minimum of three times across the PC, PS5 and Switch 2.

Admittedly I mostly play Switch on my TV, and I've never felt the 720p screen of the retail model was lacking in a way that made my experience notably worse. It's a neat hobbyist "because we can"-type of project to me.

The only mod that would genuinely excite me for the Switch Lite is to restore docking-capabilities to it. I vastly prefer the Lite for handheld play over the OG/OLED, and sending savefiles back and forth is a real pain.

Few companies are as belligerent when it comes to protecting their own creative work as Nintendo, and this is an open-and-shut-case as far as I can see.

The e-shop is really turning into an anchor around Nintendos neck, what with their stubborn refusal to actually do anything to improve the thing after 2017.

I suspect the next generation of Switch will have a lot of "physical" releases anyway. Codes-in-boxes and license-to-download-carts. So if the boxes are larger, they still probably won´t eat up as much real estate as my current Switch 1 collection. I´ll buy a lot fewer games - mostly sticking to exclusives and playing everything else on PC.

As many have mentioned already, the PSVita covers were a perfect size and should absolutely be the template for Switch 2 in my opinion.

I loved Harvest Moon back on the original Game Boy Color, and I got my parents to help import the N64 game (since it didn't initially release in Europe), but the franchise peaked with Harvest Moon DS and the GBA remake of the PSone game for me. After those I completely fell off of the entire genre until Stardew Valley.

I have no idea how these games hold up - or how close they ever were to what I loved about Harvest Moon back in the day - but I doubt they'll be a better purchase than Stardew Valley for anyone with a passing interest in this type of games.

But these games were someone's first foray into cozy farmlife sims, so I´m happy for whoever is looking forward to revisiting them now.

I´ve never been a die-hard completionist in the Pokémon games, but I have over the years mostly kept up. I have Pokémon in my HOME storage that goes all the way back to my original Ruby/sapphire cartridges.

But GameFreak apparently doesn´t count most of them, because they need to have been caught in the actual Diamond/Pearl remakes apparently? So I guess I´m going without these freebies.

Not a huge loss to me personally, but still profoundly stupid to not honour the monsters players have caught in such an arbitrary way.

I loved Hollow Knight, and I'm very much buying Silksong on day 1 - whenever that is. But I think the fandom has a few bad apples who feel very entitled to... "something" from Team Cherry just because they happened to make a game they liked quite a bit.

I will admit that every now and then after a big industry stream/direct/whathaveyou, I like to stop by the Steam-forum and chuckle at the various stages of the Kübler-Ross model that are represented in the fanbase over there. Those guys have been on a real mental journey these last 5 years.

I can imagine the "restrictions" on backwards-compatibility is mentioned because stuff like Labo and Ring Fit might not work with the new Joy Cons. Hopefully the hardware is more than capable of giving a 1:1 or better experience of Switch software.

I´ve seen the argument that the second is somewhat lesser than the first, but honestly I think they´re both equally good. I´d buy the second one again if it got the same treatment that the first did last year.

Fingers crossed someone kept the original .wavs for the sequel, cause my only real complaint about BS1:reforged was that the voice recordings still had a bit too much compression-crunch to them.

I've enjoyed quite a few of UbiSofts games in the past, but I wouldn't consider it a personal loss if they went under.

I will say, though, that its a headache to me that after many credible accusations of poor working conditions with crunch, poor leadership and sexual abuse, the house of cards falls down at a prime time for the worst gamers out there to say "Yeah! That's for attacking your customers [by trying to make us play as a woman or a black guy]!".

I don't think Ubisoft deserves any sympathy, but some people are going to have utterly asinine takes on the why of it all when/if Ubisoft falls apart.

It's because the games they've made in recent years haven't been all that good, and the few good ones they've made haven't been marketed all that well.

I hear the argument in the article, and I respectfully disagree. If the industry could live through the brown-gray-shooter-era of the PS3/360 generation, I'd be more than happy to have a pocket of it carved out for me and my people with the HD-2D style for years to come.

Chrono Trigger is on my shortlist of best games I've ever played. I agree that it still looks good, and it doesn't need a HD-2D remake. But we're talking about a medium of premium-priced entertainment here - if we're gonna start greenlighting only the games that are "needed", it would all crumble overnight.

So I'll take one Chrono Trigger HD-2D remake with an orchestral soundtrack, achievements, and maybe a few more endings, please. But by all means, please keep making new stuff as well. I have money I've earmarked for Octopath Traveler III as we speak.

The original OT was such a breath of fresh air paired with the classical style of SNES-era JRPGs. Bought it, finished it (eventually) and loved it. The artstyle and visual direction is rightly what most people talk about first, but the soundtrack really deserves to get some high praise as well.

Funnily enough, I just started playing the sequel yesterday, and so far I’m loving it just as much as I did the original all those years ago.

I vastly prefer the form-factor of the Switch Lite over the original, but no I won’t get this. It looks gorgeous, but I shelled out for the TotK OLED upgrade last year (moving on from my launch-day model) and I have a regular Lite for travel.

The two reasons this is a non-starter for me is the Lites lack of TV connectivity, and the premium the Zelda-branding adds to to the cost at my local retailers. I’m good until the Switch’ successor next year.

I started out with the SNES, and like to consider myself fairly good at seeing retro-games through the lense of their time. I have a hard time playing early 3D games from the N64 and PSX-era at their native resolution, but I think the recent HD remasters that have mostly just upscaled those graphics are very charming. Pixelart from the NES/SNES-generations can be basic, but I adore that stuff so that's seldom a problem.

My pick for this particular question is easily Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. You can certainly write a thing or two about Ubisofts numerous sandbox-games, but I always had a soft spot for them. Black flag was where AC peaked for me. I never replay these games, but I somehow finished Black Flag 3 times over a few years. Sadly, I feel like it just wouldn´t hold up graphically, narratively or mechanically if I tried to boot it up today.

I´m excited at the prospect of a remaster. Hopefully one that weeds out the present-day-sections and leave us with just the pirating adventure.

I loved Hollow Knight, and Silksong was on my watchlist for what felt like ages. But this draught of information has cooled my enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong, I'll buy it day 1 when we actually do get it, and I'm sure I'll love it. But I'm not thinking about it, speculating about it or waiting for it anymore.

I will say though, that after this wait, I'm basically expecting the endgame to rip off the reveal from Pokèmon G/S at this point; Take us back to Hallownest for a semi-remake of the original with Hornet and her new abilities.

Obviously I jest, and I realize trailers are carefully curated things, but it looked so polished and "ready" ages ago

TotK is my personal GOTY as well - in a year where both Baldurs Gate III, Spider-Man 2, Starfield and God of War Ragnarok are in contention (I was a little late to the latter).

I don't think it's objectively better than Breath of the Wild. That game felt "cleaner" in it's narrative and presentation, and Tears has a handful of missteps that I wasn't too jazzed about. But TotK was such a welcome return to my favorite incarnation of Hyrule, Link and Zelda that I'm really bummed I don't get more.

Honestly, I'd even take a new Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamities' non-canon copout story irked me a lot, but the setting, presentation and gameplay was so good. And I do like the notion that a grander story could be told across multiple genres - even if the Breath-of-the-Wild/Age-of-Calamity/Tears-of-the-Kingdom trilogy ultimately failed to do that.

I´m in awe of how good SMB3 looks and plays on the limited hardware of the NES, and there is something to be said for the "original" being the "purest" form of any work of art.

But I was just too young for a NES of my own- so I got a SNES, and All-Stars is how I beat the game originally.

I´d give it a 8 or 9 at the time of writing (currently on w-2).

Growing up with Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World as my favorite games, I recognize how perfectly Wonder slots into that legacy. But personal tastes have shifted over the last 20 years. It´s miles better than the New Super Mario Bros-games (which never really grabbed me), but the purity and simplicity of a classic Mario 2D-platformer aren´t really what I come to videogames for anymore.

I miss the Koopalings as mid-bosses, and the original Toad as a playable character. Yellow and Blue toad just don´t have his sass.

That's dumb as hell. There is still a guardian atop Purahs' lab, isn't there? So why didn't that disappear with everything else?

Reads very much like a non-answer with the subtext "We didn't have a place for the Sheika Tech in this game, so we took it away. We didn't bother to think too much about the narrative reason, and neither should you".

Which is... eh.. it's fine. I wish they had bothered to put some effort into it, but Nintendo have always been a "gameplay-first"-kinda gamedeveloper. The published Zelda timeline always struck me as something they released just to get the fanbase who revels in such things to shut up. They don't really care about this stuff half as much as some of us do.

It's fine. Doesn't satisfy my itch for narrative cohersion at all, but it doesn't weaken the game to leave this as the official word on the matter either.

Oh I got wishes comin' out the whazoo - every tick of a Thousand-Year-Door or Super-Mario-RPG leaves 10 unfullfilled pipedreams.

Its unfathomable that we got Bioshock and Borderlands collections + The Outer Worlds and Skyrim, but not a Fallout 3+NV duology. That entire generation of games should be so easy to lightly remaster and bang out on Switch. How did those two games get left out? We're even getting the Arkham Games now.

My Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection is a Super Mario Galaxy 2 short, and why not make a 3rd in that series while we're at it? And Odyssey needs a sequel too. Seriously.

Mother 3 needs a release outside Japan. But spruce it up a bit. GBA games are... "fine" on the Switch and TV if there is no other way, but you've kept us waiting so long you might as well go all out and up the production values with a proper remake at this point.

A cartridge with Donkey Kong Country 1-3 and Returns+Tropical Freeze. And get Retro to make a 3rd "Returns"-game.

If Mario can get all-star collections, Link and Zelda should too. Windwaker and Twilight Princess are already good to go from the WiiU-days, and the 3DS releases of Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time fills it out nicely.

All the Professor Layton games in a nice cartridge. They already started upscaling the earliest games for mobile-releases. Time to finish the job and bring it all to Switch.

For the love of God, Square-Enix, you struck gold with the Octopath Traveler HD-2D-visuals, and you've already dipped your toe in Live-A-Live. Chrono Trigger is right there. Don't make me connect those two dots for you!

I could go on and on and on...

I absolutely loved every second from the moment I started the descent underneath Hyrule Castle until the credits had rolled. I was at the perfect level of skill and preparation at the time, and had just a few hearts left when Ganondorf went down. It created a truly memorable last fight.

Obviously the fight up above the castle is a smokeshow that´s designed to look and feel epic rather than challenge you, but I was all in at that point - way too caught up in the spectacle of the thing to care if the game had its training-wheels on.

Diving down towards Zelda as we both plummet towards Hyrule below - while the music swells into the main theme of the game - was an image I had in my head from the first trailer, and I kinda mentally put it away when Zeldas fate was fully revealed. At that point, I just wanted her to be returned to normal, and obviously the final boss is going to be in the depths so... I can´t really overstate how oddly emotional I got when Link opened his eyes while in a freefall during the last 20 seconds of gameplay. Absolutely indescribable.

Back to Nature on the PSone is the best game in the series to me, and it hasn't really been topped.

But the N64 version has a special place in my heart as well. It didn't release in Europe, and became one of the first games I imported through the weird world of online webstores ca 1999.

It's just a less complex version of the PSone in some ways, but yeah. I've dabbled in most of the Harvest Moon games, but the N64/PSone generation was the last time I was truly hooked on the farming sims until Stardew Valley came out.

I mean… The GameBoy Tower is right there in the games menu-plaza. Originally used to play the GB games on TV through the transfer-pack. If they hacked the rom to allow booting up Red, Blue or Yellow through it: Stadium would be the ultimate collection of Gen1, we would get the Gen1 games on switch, Nintendo gets more money cause we’d all need the expanded subscription to play them, and transfering functionality would probably be a lot easier to do as well - realizing the full potential of Stadium itself. Everybody wins.

At $100 a pop, I'd never go for the complete Kanto set. But there are quite a few designs I like.

Shame that some of them are just marked "Sold out" and they don't ship to my country anyway. Oh well.

Bought it, played it, loved it.

I'm baffled that S-E hasn't done more with this "2.5D" artstyle since it came out. I'll be buying "Project Strategy whateveritsname" based on these visuals alone.

But damn, S-E has never been shy about remaking their older games, so I fail to see why they haven't already churned out both FFVI and Chrono Trigger remakes in this artstyle.