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@The_Nintendo_Pedant I am re-playing Hollow Knight and I love the voice acting, such as it is. Ahhhh, bapanada.

Now that this game is out, let's all lose our minds waiting for Haunted Chocolatier. Chocposting, make it a thing let's goooo

It's decent! It doesn't match the Switch 1, which had the best launch year ever with two exclusive masterpieces (Odyssey and BOTW) but I'm happy with my purchase so far. Just really would like to know what Aonuma and co are up to on the next Zelda...

Played this for like 30-40 minutes. Well, it's more Hollow Knight! Can't complain. Looks and sounds great. Now I have to decide if I will play more of this or finish my run of HK1 first. Happy for Team Cherry and I hope they take a break.

Hilarious how much mayhem this launch caused. Can't wait to see the sales figures. Team Cherry, please enjoy the win and take a long vacation.

Can't wait! I don't think this game will change my life or anything, but I expect it to be a solid, fun Metroidvania and I love the genre.

Lord help me but I started playing Hollow Knight again. It's fun! I find the souls-ish player ghost mechanic to be more annoying than tension-building, since it means that I am forced to go back where I died (sometimes a long way from any bench) instead of beingn able to explore freely. I also really wish this game had better map markers custom notes (or better yet, screenshots built into the map like Prince of Persia: Lost Crown) because I always forget where to go next. Of course, the combat is fantastic and satisfying.

Occasionally playing Mario Kart World.

Playing Cyberpunk also. Enjoying it but I have some complaints that I explained in the Cyberpunk thread.

And, I tried Return of the Obra Dinn after hearing people rave about it for so many years. It just... didn't pull me in. I'm not a fan of the Macintosh-style visuals - it makes it hard to determine what things are sometimes, and gives me a bit of nausea. I can't even tell if it's supposed to be night or day. I have a feeling this game is something you have to be in the right mood for, so I will have to give it a go again when I have more patience.

Not really sure how much I care about this game. Metroid Prime is a bona fide classic but I don't know if I need another one and this game doesn't seem to bring much that's new to the table. I'll wait to see how review scores are.

Aaand less than an hour after posting that I probably wouldn't play it again I ended up playing it for a couple hours. I had forgotten how good the sound effects were in this game. I especially love how weirdly cute the grub things are. Of course I will save them! I doubt I will play this all the way through again but sometimes it feels good to play a game you've played before as comfort food instead of something new like Cyberpunk which is currently frustrating me with it's stupidly unreactive, bullet spongy enemies and follow-the-yellow-path, checklisty gameplay. Bapanada everyone.

@Ziondood wow a response from the man himself haha! Keep up the good work

I loved this. OK, most were duds, but it was so exciting and fun when you found actual art that took some effort. Makes me sad to think that in a few years all the save data will be gone. I wonder if there is a copy out there with some amazing original art from like, Akira Toriyama or someone like that, and what that would be worth.

It's interesting to see how many people bounced off this game. I loved it and it's probably my favorite Metroidvania. It doesn't really do anything radically different - it just takes the basic formula and does it very, very well. The combat feels really punchy and reactive. Controls are super tight and responsive. The world is absolutely huge and filled with mysteries. The music and atmosphere are perfect. The art is unique mix of cute, gross, and somber. What's not to like? Well, to each their own. That's how I feel about From games - just not for me.

Doubt I will play this as I have enough other games to keep me busy for a good while. It's kinda tempting to fire it up now, though...

Well, this sounds... really interesting. Much more interesting than I had thought. Maybe I will try this!

For a minute this headline confused me and I wondered if Killer Instinct was included or something...

Deserved! It's my favorite Metroidvania, which is one of my favorite genres. The combat is so satisfyingly smooth and reactive. I also love the detail in the Bloomberg article that their lifestyles haven't changed that much. “I live in a very basic two-bedroom apartment,” he said. “Sometimes I think, ‘You know what would be better, is a one-bedroom apartment.’ Because then there’s even less to maintain.”

@sketchturner Yeah, from the bloomberg article.

“Launching it is obviously quite exciting,” Pellen said. “What comes after for us is equally as exciting.”

“The most interesting thing now is what can we add to it next,” Gibson said. “We got a plan. Admittedly, some of the plans for that stuff are kind of ambitious as well, but hopefully we can achieve some of it.”

This is the most elaborate Silkpost ever, what with the Youtube stream and so many simultaneous news articles from multiple sources. I can't believe y'all fell for it.

In seriousness, it looks good. But it sounds like there is a lot of DLC coming, like in the first game. If so, it makes me want to wait 2-3 years to get the Silksong: Ultimate Edition or whatever with all the stuff so it is a complete game.

Somehow I always get this confused with Custom Robo. Bring that one back too! (Haven't played either.)

It makes sense, but I changed it back to B, because a) I was more used to it from Mario and so on and b) I found it too hard to push Y and A at the same time to jump and punch, something I do constantly.

JP is of course the best here! It's amazing how many characters they cram in. Although I actually like NA as well.

Claire Obscure please! I keep hearing so many good things about it.

I beat Majora's Mask on NSO, collecting all the masks (but nowhere close to all heart pieces.) I beat it on the N64 25 years ago but never finished the Anju and Kafei quest. Experiencing it again, I don't blame myself for that, because it's quite annoying how the easy it is to mess up the final part and have to start the whole damn 3-day cycle over again. So much better with save states. Amazing, legendary game but there were some frustrating choices made there.

I also finished DK Bananza. "Finished" with quotes, I should say, because I only got some ~430 bananas. I guess there are hundreds more to go?! I'll probably play this here and there when I am bored but I doubt I will 100% it. Great game with an amazing ending. Doesn't quite beat out Mario Galaxy or Odyssey for me in terms of sheer platforming joy.

Picked up Cyberpunk. It's neat! I kinda wish I could experience it on a huge screen running on a high-end PC but for now in my life it will need to be hand-held. I'm enjoying experiencing the world even if I'm not picking up on every subtlety of the plot just yet - there are so many people and places and factions and the in-game encyclopedia is absolutely nuts (do I really need detailed descriptions of the history of EVERY car and weapon?)
In my mind this game was more of an immersive sim like Deus Ex but so far it seems more like a GTA-like with a few story choices here and there. The style and atmosphere is extremely impressive.

Bananza, of course. I'm 300 or so bananas in and enjoying it a lot! It's not quite at the level of Mario Galaxy or Odyssey to me yet, but it's very fun.

And I'm still getting through Majora's Mask. I am 90% of the way through the Stone Tower Temple and I'm on the night of the third day. I've given up hope of getting all the fairies on this one and just want to finish. I enjoy this game a lot but on this play-through I've found some of the temples a little tedious. Especially in Stone Tower Temple there is a lot of inventory switching between using all three masks, hookshot, ocarina, and light arrows. Still, I'm driven to finish it and I will.

Also, I'm finally done with Monster Train 2, I think. It sucked me in for nearly 200 hours, after roughly the same amount going into the first game just a short while ago when I discovered it. Incredibly, incredibly addictive, and the perfect game to play while listening to podcasts or YouTube. I was able to defeat the Titans and get to level 10 of Endless using a really crazy Rage build maxing out Rage at 9999 and now I'm ready to say goodbye.

I love bookstores big and small, so I love this idea. Cozy games aren't really my cup of tea so I probably won't pick this up myself, but I'm happy it exists.

Absolutely love the art style here and I love Metroidvanias, so this seems up my alley!

Game looks good, but I kinda wish Yacht Club would move forward a bit to SNES-style games...

These are both terrible. But I guess JP is slightly less terrible? The art style clashes so much with the book's tone. From classic children's literature to a cheap and crappy mobile game.

Having finished the gmtk game jame now i am free to relax and will play DK Bananza, Majora's Mask (stone tower!) and maybe a little bit of Mario Kart World!

Can we stop telling people not to compare tjings? I can compare whatever I want. If I want to compare a washing machine with the concept of death I can and you can't stop me.

Got a Switch 2 a couple weeks ago. Still slowly working my way through DK Bananza. The latest world I've found is very neat! I have Mario Kart World too but I've barely played it.

Also re-playing Majora's Mask. Got to Stone Temple so far. What a game.

And, I've stalled a bit on Suikoden II. I want to finish it but a certain fight destroyed my a huge part of my party, appaprently with perma-death. Yes I can reload to an earlier save but it's still aggravating and I have too many other distractions.

Mario Party is just not my jam. But happy for those who like it!

I have to go with DKC1 as my favorite. DKC2 is amazing, but the original's soundtrack just barely edges out the second one for me. DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze are also great, but for some despite having beat Tropical Freeze three times I find that it doesn't have the same staying power in my mind and DKC1 and 2 (probably because I played them at a more impressionable age.) Bananza I am playing, so I can't rank it yet, although I'm enjoying it.

Yes! I loved Ori and I've heard a lot of good things about this one.

On SL400. Can't give it a rating yet. So far I'm enjoying it but not as much as Odyssey. I hear it gets much better further along (or I should say, further down) so I will keep at it!

A ton of people saying they aren't competitors. I disagree. Yes, they have different target audiences, but those target audiences intersect a lot, and most people in the intersection won't get both of them. Like me. I am interested in the Steam Deck, but I have a Switch 2 now so I'm not getting one. There are plenty of people asking themselves "Hmm, should I get a Switch 2 or Steam Deck?" and it's worthwhile to breakdown the differences for those folks. So, everyone chill out.

Man the perspective on this is very weird. At first you think he's trying to stab the monster in the chest or something, but actually the sword is going behind him somehow.

@Dhaladog Silksong coming out soon (I can only pray it's true) means it's a great time to play Hollow Knight if you like Metroidvanias. It's difficult but fair. The controls are very smooth and the combat is quite "crunchy" and satisfying. By crunchy I mean that you always feel the impact of each hit. It has some of the best and most satisfying boss encounters of any game of this type - and a LOT of them, especially with all the DLC.

Agreeing with everyone else that SteamWorld Dig 2 is amazing. I have no idea why Dig 3 never happened. The loop of going down - digging up a bunch of stuff and coming back up to buy things when your pockets are full is very addictive, and I'm not entirely sure why.

I finally managed to get a Switch 2 yesterday (woohoo!) so I'll be playing DK Bananza and Mario Kart World. But ironically, what I really want to do is finish Majora's Mask that I started on Switch 1 since I couldn't get a Switch 2. It's just a phenomenal and addictive game.

Finally got a Switch 2! Found at Wal-Mart. I asked yesterday and they said they had a shipment coming in tomorrow (now today). Went to go look today and there was nothing on the shelves but an employee was able to grab one from the back for me! So, recommend checking Wal-Mart. Nice job Nintendo on the supply logistics this time around that they more available than the Switch 1 was near launch.

I loved Odyssey so I can't wait to get my big furry ape paws on this game. No Switch 2 though! But I heard Wal-Mart is getting restocks so I will check tomorrow. Don't tell anyone.

I love hearing all of the stories of how ideas were generated for games. Fascinating to see such a rudimentary scene that still contains the root idea of the whole game. Gives me inspiration for making a game of my own!

Still don't have my hands on a Switch 2, but I'm satisfied for now with enough to play on Switch 1 so I don't need it yet. In fact I kind of hope I don't see it on shelves because I might be tempted to grab it and then I might not finish the games I'm working through now. That is,

Suikoden 2 - this game is fun. Much better than Suikoden 1 because the inventory is more manageable. It's not afraid to lock you out of content. I'm using guides but somewhat sparingly. I will definitely not be able to get 108 stars but I'm OK with that.

Majora's Mask - For some reason I've been itching to play this again. Actually, I know the reason: it's because I watched some video essays praising this game and I wanted to revisit it. Well, it's pretty great! It can be frustrating at times due to the puzzles which can be a bit opaque at times and the having to repeat them over and over until you get it right. I've beat this before so I remember the broad strokes but not every detail. This game is chock-full of strange, missable details, and it seems kind of magical when you go to a place you've been before many times only to find something different and interesting there. It's much better to get the Mask of Truth ASAP so you can get a lot of hints - it's a neat feeling to read a stone and suddenly have an inspiration to go and try some weird thing and have it actually work and reward you. Out of all the Zelda games, this one is the closest to an old-school adventure game. I'd love to see the next Zelda to be a bit smaller and more interactive like this one.

This interview confirms my guess that the cheese from Odyssey inspired this game. "We actually had used this voxel technology in some areas of Super Mario Odyssey previously where for example, you could dig your way through cheese in the Luncheon Kingdom or you could plow through snow in the Snow Kingdom. So this programmer was engaging in various technical experiments where you might even throw voxels or make a hole having done so."
Called it! (see my comment from an old thread https://www.nintendolife.com/previews/donkey-kong-bananza-dks-getting-his-own-odyssey-and-its-a-helluva-trip#comment8717995)

Still don't have one. Hopefully stock will be better soon. I'll try to pick one up if DKB is a 10/10.

I have no idea if this is good but that cover and few pages do not impress. Just pastes from Nintendo official art.

Would love to see a new Mega Man. How about a 3D one? Capcom has been on a crazy success streak lately so I'd be very interested to see what they could do with the franchise.

Honestly hard to pick, they are both pretty great. But the JP one is interesting and stylish and a bit different from the usual Star Wars flavor so I picked that one!

@Thomystic It also reminds me a lot of the rubble in the caves from Tears of the Kingdom. That could have also been an inspiration.

This game was entertaining enough on PS1 but the random encounter rate was very high and the load times before each of them was atrocious. So I could never get through it. Maybe with a pretty remake I'll try it again.

Watching some of the footage reminded me a lot of the cheese stuff that you could destroy in the Luncheon Kingdom of Mario Odyssey. Prediction: I bet you'll see that mentioned in an Ask the Developers as an inspiration in a few days.