Nintendo Switch: The First Five Years In - Scott The Woz Compilation

hail Scott here and welcome to 2014. we're hitting my Peak is just the start of what I can do thank God I finally found a use for my profit alert rope because I predict that come 2017 Nintendo will release a Home console handheld hybrid alongside 3D Mario and Zelda games within the first year and ridiculously expensive control predicting the future sure does Boost an ego what once was simply nothing more than a bitter tasting cartridge player has now blossomed into a bitter tasting cartridge player that did far better than anyone could possibly imagine the Nintendo switch has been on the market for a whole entire year and has done extraordinarily well so what better way to celebrate than to look back at its big foray into the existence Market in 2017 and the first few months of 2018. the games the accessories the announcements the news stories let's talk about everything or at least everything that I can talk about based on my experiences I'm gonna go through each month the switch was on sale and talk about the games I played possibly mentioning the more notable ones I didn't play Let Me reiterate I'm mainly focusing on the titles I played I played far from everything and just because I didn't play something doesn't necessarily mean I don't want to I just haven't gotten to it yet anyways the Nintendo switch was unveiled on October 2 20th 2016 being a Home console you can take and play on the go it garnered a pretty positive response just about a week later Nintendo detailed plans to talk more about the system during a live presentation in early January and thus the Nintendo switch presentation 2017 was set free on January 13th it detailed various things about the system notably the price being 299 the release date being March 3rd the lack of region locking the two different skus coming with either gray or neon red and blue joy-con controllers the eventual introduction of a paid online service the capabilities of the joy-con controllers including motion control and IR camera and HD Rumble and games games games Nintendo basically revealed their entire lineup for 2017 that night the only games they had their hand in that weren't revealed then were pokken tournament Deluxe and Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom battle but those have various other companies involved so it was understandable arms one-two switch Splatoon 2 Super Mario Odyssey Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Fire Emblem Warriors and revealing the Legend of Zelda breath of the wild was a launch title Nintendo really did bring the goods first party wise third parties were the weakest element of the show I felt that the section showcasing various third-party developers dragged on and on I mean some of them didn't have anything to show at all all they did was stand up there and say yep that Nintendo switcher is something right some reveals like the new shimagami tensei Game No More Heroes making a return in Project octopath traveler were definitely highlights but it was the weakest part of the show for me but overall in terms of if I pre-ordered the system that night or not I'm a sucker I was excited it was great to see Nintendo bring in the goods and finally making games that people actually wanted keep in mind this was coming off of a time in which Nintendo fans had to settle for good enough at the tail end of the Wii U generation I mean at least we got a Star Fox game again guys and hey Paper Mario Color Splash is okay I guess no the biggest 3D Mario wins all the games ever being slated for the same year a new fighting game IP was super fun character designs a sequel to his smash hit on the Wii U Mario Kart Xenoblade a new Warriors game with Nintendo IP all in the same year Nintendo was finally back in the swing of things the lead up to launch wasn't the worst in my opinion I mean the system was unveiled in October of 2016. this was the shortest time we've had to wait from console unveiled to release Nintendo held an Indies showcase just about a week before the system launched which highlighted multiple Indie titles hitting the platform steamworld dick 2 stardew Valley Blaster Master zero ukulele the Indie support on the switch definitely showed some promise and then it happened March 3rd 2017 came out a honk and nowhere should have paid attention to the calendar More the Nintendo switch launched alongside five physical launch titles and four other downloadable only ones definitely not the craziest launch ever however I will give Nintendo this they knew Nintendo fans were really the only people who were picking up the system day one the biggest Zelda title of all time was launching alongside it the Wii U was decomposing at the time so everybody wanted to play the switch version of breath of the wild and when you have a game like breath of the wild at launch we're the only other place to play it as a cemetery you can get away with a light lineup on day one I personally picked up breath of the wild one two switch super bomb man R fast rmx and snipper clips at launch and overall I was pretty happy with that haul breath of the wild was phenomenal and it actually got me to beat a Zelda game for once I've always liked and respected the Zelda series but was never fully compelled to play a title all the way through until breath of the wild the open world was fully realized and while I think the game was absolutely fantastic and amazing I can't wait to see how they act upon the groundwork they laid out with this title in a sequel one two switch well that was fun for an hour Nintendo positioned this title as if it were the switch's version of Wii Sports a casual game anybody can pick up and play that shows you exactly what the system's controllers are capable of the difference is Wii Sports was packed in with the Wii one two switches packed in with crippling debt 50 bucks for this game now that's what I call giggle worthy the game comes with 28 mini games but don't be fooled most are finished within 15 seconds and at the very longest a minute it's kinda cute to play for the first time and see what wacky shenans the game puts you in but after that there is legitimately no reason to go back to this game there's no replay value here no reason to keep playing once you play a mini game there's no incentive to play it again unless you're showing it to somebody who's never seen it before the game's barely worth even 20 bucks but I will say a few positive things I found it to be an interesting release like it didn't feel like Nintendo forced a bunch of developers to make a Wii sports like game for the switch it felt like the developers had the idea first a party game that focuses more so on the interaction between the players rather than the screen and the game also made some cool use of the joy-cons tech other than that the game blew super bomb man art was the big third-party launch title the First new Bomberman game in years Nintendo did have a big hand in getting this game out the door they basically asked Konami for something like this and it is definitely Bomberman and that's about it I felt the production values were a little too low like animations looked super cheap it also released at 50 which was a bit too high honestly however Konami has been supporting the game with consistent free updates so now I'd say it's worth it if you're in the mood for some Bomberman fast Tara Max a whole baby I see I was actually interested in this when it was a Wii U game fast racing Neo I just never picked it up however I did pick up its sequel enhanced Port remake whatever I'm still completely confused as to what this thing even is doesn't matter because this is a really great fast-paced racing game and it definitely filled the f-zero shape void in everybody's life and can't forget snipperclips an amazing Title co-produced by Nintendo and Indie Studio sfb games where you and a partner control snip and clip and must cut each other to solve puzzles I adore this title it's such a blast and a great Co-op game my main problem with it though is the a single player campaign it's basically the exact same thing as the two-player Co-op but you just swap between the two characters I mean yeah that works but a bit of a disappointing Discovery after seeing how the rest of the game is just filled with creativity the rest of the month was a bit lacking not a ton of crazy huge titles but just enough to suffice nothing huge mainly more Indie releases and the introduction of the arcade archives line of games released by Hamster bringing some beloved Neo geotatos to the platform in terms of the games I played Blaster Master zero a really fun Revival of the Blaster Master Series by inti creates Little Inferno a guilty pleasure of mine from the Wii U you burn stuff it perfectly combines fun puzzles with fun arson The Binding of Isaac afterbirth plus the first release by Nicholas who would later publish loads more Indie titles at retail for the switch this was originally planned for launch but was pushed back a few weeks and I gotta be honest only play this one for a few minutes it's a very dark game you truly have to be in the mood to play this one in points and finally snake pass man I have so much respect for this game it's so cool you control noodle the snake and you actually have to think like a snake can slither the control stick I think it's so cool to have a platformer that does something so new like this gave me loads of 90s rare Vibes but can also be incredibly frustrating since its controls are so wacky Nintendo also popped out the Splatoon 2 global test fire something they did with the previous game where you were allowed to play the game for free during specific times to give the game a try I also popped out my thoughts on the Nintendo switch after three whole days of owning it overall I like the system saw a lot of potential with it and that's about it a month after launch we got less games but man a lot of Stellar releases Lego City Undercover jackbox party Pack 3 Mr Shifty Wonderboy Mario Kart camico and hamster is back with the arcade archives that's nice surely they must be running out of titles by this point Lego City Undercover report of the Wii U exclusive from 2013. I did recently pick it up at a price of 15 but I didn't pick this one up originally because it was 60 bucks at launch the original launched for 50 in 2013 so I consistently said no to this re-release while backing away good game but I already had it for Wii U and wasn't dying to play it again at that price I adore Poyo Poyo Tetris it actually did The Impossible and told me what the hell apoyo puyo is I love the way it combined with Tetris and it included a freaky story mode now that's cool also online playing loads of other ways to play the game with different modes definitely give Poyo put your Tetris a spin Wonder Boy The Dragon's trap is an expertly crafted remake of The Master System classic Wonderboy 3. it doesn't do too much to modernize it outside of the beautiful graphical facelift though it still definitely feels like an 80s platformer I found it really awesome that you could switch between the new art style and the old graphics with the Press of the button that is slick Mario Kart 8 Deluxe man this one ended up kind of disappointing me not so much in terms of quality it's Mario Kart 8 it's fantastic I was just expecting to play this one a bit more it's Mario Kart 8 with all the DLC and a new refined battle mode with a few extras like land play new characters and a few gameplay tweaks here and there I mean the title basically spells it out it's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe it's just for some reason I got really excited about it as if it were a new Mario Kart and when I got a hold of it it comes completely said in that it was just Mario Kart 8 again the same game I played for 50 plus hours on the Wii U I think just a few new racetracks would have gone a long way great game didn't play it as much as I was expecting or wanted to I love the idea of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe though it's nice knowing that I can play Mario Kart on my switch whenever I want so early on in his life they also released joy-con Wheels to go alongside the game but I didn't pick them up because I'm just not into that kind of Lifestyle Nintendo held a Nintendo Direct on April 12th detailing updates on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo switch games with an emphasis on arms and Splatoon 2. it was actually the first direct to Showcase a new format going for a more rapid fire headline approach I actually quite like the style Nintendo announced neon yellow joy-con to correlate with arms and a double A battery pack for joy-con to correlate with obscurity to be honest the switch announcements were pretty weak in this direct the highlights were limited to Namco Museum Payday 2 and a crowd pleaser of the Year Monopoly the rest of the games were titles we've already known about or even at that games that were quite old like Rayman Legends Minecraft and Street Fighter 2. yikes May was one of the more vacant months a handful of big names but I personally didn't pick anything up Minecraft made it to the switch that's always nice you see it was good having this so early on in the system's life the Wii was being cremated by the time it got Minecraft NBA playgrounds was a bit of a lackluster title from what I could tell like people were expecting a new NBA Jam and they got a new mediocre title instead unfortunate at least hamster came to the rescue with more arcade archives thank God the biggest release of the month debatably was Ultra Street Fighter 2 the final Challengers it was Street Fighter 2 released on a cartridge for forty dollars now that is just disgusting fundamentally Ultra Street Fighter 2 was a repackage of Super Street Fighter 2 turbo HD Remix a game released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 digitally in 2008. it has a few extra features that are admittedly cool but come on this is worth 20 bucks at the most Nintendo held yet another direct this time focused on arms with the Splatoon 2 trailer at the end and honestly this got me incredibly excited for arms it looked like it was going to be the next big Nintendo IP showcasing loads of awesome characters and mo it's also detailing plans to continually update the game for free with new character stages and modes with an armed global test Pawn trick into the Splatoon test Fire coming as well yeah May was a bit lame but hey next month we got arm surely aim to not disappoint me arms disappointed me June was another May in terms of quantity however definitely bump up in quality's favor some really great titles made their way over in the form of Shantae half Genie hero and Cave Story plus I actually own both of these but haven't gone around to playing them and would you look at that there's a bounty out for me oceanhorn was a mobile Port that was kind of a Zelda clone to appease the people who didn't get their Zelda fix on the console somehow with Mighty gunvolt burst being one of the few June releases I actually played so far it's a really fun game if you're a fan of Mega Man definitely give this game a look-seize that's honestly the most I can say on it it's just a solid fun little retro title and hamster is back again with even more arcade archives they heard the demands people but arms Nintendo's big release that month and also the first Nintendo made game that was developed from the ground up for the Nintendo switch that didn't involve ass and around arms came out to relatively solid reviews and sales it sold over a million within the first two months of release which is pretty solid for a new fighting game IP however I have very mixed feelings about the game it looks great has a kick in soundtrack The Character designs are phenomenal and the overall gameplay concept if fleshed out could be something super fun the problem is I personally didn't feel like they fleshed it out at all it feels like all you can do in the game is play multiplayer matches and then play more multiplayer matches against the computer and that's about it there are other modes in the game that people will surely point out like hoops and v-ball but come on those are more Mini-Game than mode arms felt like a casual fighting game that is presented like a competitive one didn't do much for me I really wanted more single player content akin to Smash Brothers to keep me coming back and thus if I keep coming back I might have been more encouraged to play more competitively I felt like the lack of content at launch really burned this one for me Nintendo continually updated the game for free with new stages characters and modes but honestly I lost interest pretty early on however it does have a following and that does make me happy I know it's a quality game just wasn't presented in a way that interested me that being said I would like to see a sequel with lots more to do doing it Zelda breath of the wild received its first piece of DLC this month and man people were not happy when this was first revealed they revealed they were doing DLC and were offering a season pass for the game right before it launched very unintendo if I do say so myself I never picked up the DLC honestly nothing offered really made my foot thump E3 2017 was held this month and Nintendo decided to cram all their big switch announcements in a 20-minute spectacular that was all right in my opinion I felt like people hyperbolize how great the event was I thought it was good but it definitely had some pacing problems rocket League was officially unveiled for the switch alongside a new Kirby game later subtitled star allies a new Yoshi game a new trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Fire Emblem Warriors and Super Mario Odyssey alongside statements that a new Pokemon game and Metroid Prime 4 were coming I was totally way into the Mario Odyssey trailer I thought Kirby looked pretty but a little basic and the new Yoshi game looked fun and that was about it it was nice knowing Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon were coming but nothing was shown or really said about them so I was happy just not crazy excited so July came around with a few you more solid Indie titles but I only got two games from this month those being Splatoon 2 and Namco Museum platoon 2 was just a bit too similar to the first Splatoon to get me wholeheartedly invested I played Splatoon 1 to the point where I got my fill on it personally so when Splatoon 2 came I don't know it didn't do much for me it's still a good time and definitely better than the original but I think the original was more exciting simply because it was completely new Splatoon 2 was just a bit too similar to the first one for me to play it for dozens of hours still liked it though and we'll get back to it sometime soon to check out all the new content they added Namco Museum is a really good compilation title in terms of quality you have some Mainstay Namco Classics like Pac-Man galagon Dig Dug and also some obscure ones even titles that were Japan only and hey it also included Pac-Man versus that's nice the game also offers challenges and loads of customization so the game displays just how you want it to there's only 11 games which is disappointing but hey at the price point of 15 I think it's worth it never mind it's thirty dollars and I bought it got him a joke in terms of news Splatoon 2 had its own direct where they finally unveiled that the game was fundamentally the first game again also the Nintendo switch online app came out alongside Splatoon 2 and all it basically did was come out and nothing else nobody liked this thing now this is where it starts getting wild the switch was already doing well at this point but it obviously took developers a while to pour everything onto the platform August was the start of this as we got loads of stuff the first two Jack box party packs Minecraft story mode Retro City Rampage DX use your words lots of stuff the big release this month was Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom battle across over surely somebody asked for the title was rumored to be in existence for the entire year until it was unveiled to be real at E3 2017 after having art for the game leaked on the internet I recently picked this game up for around 30 bucks but I gotta be honest the title never interested me all that much it wasn't the Rabbids I wasn't offended by the crossover or anything it's just the gameplay didn't look interesting to me and hey I love me some Pikmin I do like strategy games even though that's real time compared to Mario and rabbit's turn-based style it's just it didn't look all too entertaining to me however I do have a solid feeling that once I pop it in I'll probably enjoy it I also have Azure Striker gunvolt Striker pack but haven't played it as well I definitely want to get to this one soon it's a spiritual successor to the Mega Man Zero series surely a good time Sonic mini also came out this month and wow what a game Minion was a love letter to Sonic's pass and revitalized the franchise it's just a really fun 2D platformer with spec tacular references and nods and an obvious passion portrayed by the developers Nintendo also held another nindy Showcase with the big highlight being the formal reveal of Travis strikes again no more Heroes a bit weird considering this an indie title but I'll take it and it was on September 28th the switch was finally Justified with the release of picross s other than that little gem September was a pretty popping month for the switch with loads of big names coming to the platform not just Indies NBA 2k18 Lego worlds Lego Ninjago FIFA 18 Rayman Legends Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and of course including Indie titles like steamworld dig tooth and beweed park so on and so on a big month on the switch token tournament Deluxe came out to a very mild woo I wasn't interested in this one I already tried out the game on Wii U and basically came to the conclusion that it wasn't my thing the only time I care about Pokemon in a fighting game is when it starts with s and ends with Super Smash Brothers and of course our friendly neighborhood of hamsters back at it again with those classic arcade archives we surely don't have enough of these things surely Nintendo actually partnered with hamster to bring out classic Nintendo arcade titles most of which have never been re-released and I gotta say this is great who doesn't love spending eight bucks for these games Jesus Christ never mind the only games I picked up this month were pit cross s arcade archives Mario Brothers Rayman Legends and steamworld dig two I love me some pick Ross and pick Ross s came out to critical Acclaim from me and that's good enough arcade archives Mario Brothers is Mario Brothers broken controls and all I actually downloaded Rayman Legends digitally I owned two copies of this game on other platforms so I thought yeah I want this game on the switch but don't desperately need a physical copy I'll just grab this meaningless code I don't actually own for 40 bucks it's a solid platformer definitely worth your time if you haven't played it yet I'm not head over heels in love with it like others are but I definitely really like it and I have steamworld dig too I just haven't played it yet Nintendo hosted yet another Nintendo Direct on September 13th and this one was way better than the April edition three switch games were given the spotlight Xenoblade 2 project octopath traveler and Super Mario Odyssey the Xenoblade section just dragged on and on it was horrible I know it's a great game but I'm not an RPG guy and Xenoblade isn't necessarily a game that's gonna sell you on RPGs if you already don't like RPGs they showed a trailer and then had a full overview of the game that lasted nine minutes my God they showed off an expansion to snipperclips snipperclips plus which was really nice to see and also announced that doom and Wolfenstein 2 were getting released on the switch and that was huge like Bethesda was already supporting the switch with a Skyrim release but that was an Xbox 360 game Doom and Wolfenstein 2 were current gen games with a massive following the fact that they were coming to switch proof that with a little bit of determination elbow grease and an uncomfortable amount of Blood Sweat and or tears I'm not picky any game can come to the switch project octopath traveler got a free demo on the eShop and Mario Odyssey continued to look spectacular they also announced the Mario Odyssey switch bundle releasing day and day with the game in addition to a Splatoon 2 bundle launching exclusively in Walmart in September the big end ladies and gentlemen the moment when all switch owners Rejoice the weight was finally over the month of noon around the world is the switch release of Monster Jam crush it and a close number to Super Mario Odyssey now we're talking one of the most joyful experiences in all of gaming for me Super Mario Odyssey encompassed pure fun it was an absolute joy to play through controls were perfect and the exploration and platforming was spot on but just a week before that Nintendo released Fire Emblem Warriors a really weird time to release it I would have put this out in September personally I think putting this right next to Mario Odyssey kind of did it to service I didn't pick this one up but from what I've heard it's a really solid Warriors game with a dash of Fire Emblem strategy but a bit lacking in the Fire Emblem fan service department some indie hits like stardew Valley Axiom Verge and vulgar the Viking came out which I actually bought all of these but just haven't played them yet I did play night terrors a fun arcade style endless Runner there was still a lot of quality here but October was really when the switch started to become a pigsty in terms of shovelware like everybody started releasing anything they had and we started seeing that more and more and more each and every month hey I'm not dogging on the switches library and saying that the games are trash I'm saying log on to the eShop right now and you'll see some Mega hits like about the difference Ultimate Edition and some Bear game November was a huge month for third parties Nintendo basically let them take over this month rocket League came out and my God it was rocket League unbelievable it's truly awesome to have a version of Rocket League wherever you want of course it's not as pretty as the other versions out there but it plays perfectly Rockstar Games took a whack at the switch with a port of the classic L.A Noir I really do enjoy LA Noire it's not everybody's thing but I think it's a really fun experience and it works really well on the switch I also downloaded this one because I owned a physical copy on PS4 and also the switch retail version required a download which oh boy we'll get to that Sonic forces stumbled onto the switch and it's a fairly competent version of the game of course the PS4 and Xbox One versions run better but the switch version runs at a pretty stable 30 frames per second compared to those consoles running at 60. doesn't hope that the game is lame it's all done to the level design and controls for me man like very few levels are interesting at all and all the playable characters control like garbage Skyrim and doom came out within a week of each other and I still need to pick these guys up but they cost 60 dollars man that's a lot for repair of older titles I did pick up vvvv and man it's such a fun little indie game I definitely recommend it worms wmd kid trip Resident Evil Revelations 1 and 2 Batman The Telltale series Super Beat Sports Uno a great month for the switch there is a direct focused on Xenoblade 2 which I never watched I'm sorry guys but like I said I'm not an RPG guy and Xenoblade 2 is more of an RPG fans RPG Nintendo Walter released this Explorer's edition of breath of the wild just in time for Black Friday what a deal Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I didn't play Xenoblade Chronicles too WWE 2k18 a broken Multiplied on the switch that's always nice to see a bunch of shovelware like a bunch of shovelware December was a bit of a month for me personally on the platform I did pick up mutant mud's collection which these are really fun games to have on the switch and there were some pretty solid titles in there like brawl out the end is nigh and I haven't played ukulele yet but it came to the switch a bit too late for me to really want to play it maybe if it gets a discount I'll pick it up arcade archives vs Super Mario Brothers at the eShop which allow allowed you to play a wackier harder version of Super Mario Brothers from the arcades on your switch for 8 US Dollars why did I buy this steamworld Heist floor kids Tesla grads some good stuff but it was kind of getting muted out by an overwhelming amount of garbage in my opinion I think Nintendo needs to start doing more curation on the eShop also Nintendo announced ports for Bayonetta 1 and 2 at the game awards alongside Bayonetta three coming exclusively to the switch while also giving a trailer an immediate release for the final piece of breath of the wild DLC with the start of a new year came more lame developers flocking to the switch with really lame mobile game ports but hey I picked up Super Meat Boy and Celeste and both are really great game so I can't complain too much right Super Meat Boy is really great to have on the platform and Celeste is a fantastic 2D platformer with some really great art styles and story I will say this the switch eShop has become a treasure Trove of so bad it's good games but come on Nintendo you said at launch you wanted more quality on the platform rather than quantity yet now they're letting anything with the title screen on here after constant teasing Nintendo released a Nintendo Direct mini on January 11th and it was uh yeah they had way too many re-releases and I'll talk about that in a bit but I kind of wanted a bit of a better balance of new and old games and we got way too many old games I like old games on the switch but not when there's way more old than new world ends with you Hyrule Warriors Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Dark Souls basically the only new thing we got was Mario Tennis Aces cool but man that's a lot of recycled content at least a week later Nintendo revealed Nintendo labo such a cool use of the switch Hardware turning it into a platform for DIY construction kits where you build Contraptions out of cardboard it's so neat the final month we're looking at here Nintendo decided to release three ports of games Bayonetta one Bayonetta 2 and Dragon Quest Builders I already have Bayonetta one and two on Wii U so I might pick them up on switch at a discount and I'm actually interested in Dragon Quest Builders it actually looks like quite a bit of fun I gotta admit but all these pale in comparison to February's true gem Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 plus I adore this game I loved it on PS4 and got really good at one of the mazes now having it portably it's a blast the frame rate dips a bit sometimes which is unfortunate but still completely playable it's just a really satisfying addicting game give it a shot if you haven't and that's it for February's pickups for me I still want to give Faye owl boy Zeo Drifter and typo man a try though alright so that was the switch's first year on the market and also my experiences with the platform overall I really do quite like the system but I do have a few glaring problems with it so to run this all out I'm gonna go over what I like and don't like about the Nintendo switch after owning it for a whole year so the switches library is quite strong a year and I think what I like most about it is the variety the Wii U's library in comparison was very oversaturated in my opinion with 2D Platformers and Mario titles the switch doesn't have that issue we have adventure games racing games fighting games puzzle games Platformers Shooters RPGs single player games multiplayer games all in the first year there's something for everybody here it's great I also love the steady amount of releases Nintendo stuck to a major release almost every single month however I'd like to see them pump out more smaller titles like snipperclips like there's been a few months where the big Nintendo game doesn't appeal to my taste so it would be nice if Nintendo threw out a few smaller eShop only releases is from time to time of course now we have third parties in Indies to kind of fill the gaps if the Nintendo release isn't your thing but I'd still like to see more smaller experimental Nintendo made games overall the switch's year one library is pretty solid like I've had loads of fun with the titles I've played and there's always something new I can play that being said I think Nintendo and other companies need to pump the brakes on the re-releases not stop overall but throw out more new games instead of brand new titles most companies are just re-releasing older titles and there's nothing wrong with re-releasing older titles the switch truly is a special case being able to play these older titles on the go is crazy convenient and great I just think we need to see a higher percentage of new games like the first half of 2018 on Nintendo's release calendar is a bit too filled with ports and re-releases compared to new titles I personally like to see the re-releases spread out a bit in an extra new title or two thrown in there especially considering when they're putting Hyrule warriors on the switch so close to Fire Emblem Warriors I know game development is complicated and we can't force Nintendo to pop out a few new games at any given time I'm just saying what I would have preferred also enough with pricing re-releases that such gnarly prices Donkey Kong Country drop go freeze for 60 bucks it launched at 50 on the Wii U that's just wrong it's also a bit annoying that Nintendo is basically positioning these re-releases like their new releases now of course re-releases that would not be positioned as big titles or be ludicrously overpriced or take any development time would be Virtual Console re-releases Nintendo's Legacy content I know I just dogged on Nintendo for re-releases but it's just because there's so many in 2018 so far in comparison to brand new games and they're being positioned like their new games I honestly want every Nintendo game ever made on this system so Nintendo bring over your legacy content I think the Virtual Console branding is dead like it made sense back when it was introduced on the Wii because Nintendo wanted to make it seem as if the Wii was backwards compatible with every single system I think it would make more sense to just brand them as Nintendo Classics or something now my biggest pet peeve with the switch revolved around a few select third party releases they decided to smack this ungodly thing on the forehead of their boxes and require downloads and sometimes more space via micros d card for The Full Experience for example NBA 2k18 LA Noire and WWE 2k18 needed to connect to the internet and download the rest of the game since it couldn't fit on one cartridge Capcom required it with the Resident Evil Revelations collection and the Mega Man Legacy Collection OnePlus 2 where you get a download code for the second games in both collections now NBA LA Noire and WWE it's annoying but understandable those are big games and they don't want to lose money in order larger capacity cartridges to put the game on annoying but I mean it's better than not getting the games at all some of them that is Resident Evil Revelations collection and I mean you can't fit both of the games on a single cartridge they're both too big passable but I would have liked the option to buy separate copies of each game for 20 bucks a pop instead of this Mega Man Legacy Collection one plus two this game has no excuse they just got lazy and greeted you could have to totally fit both games on one cartridge these games are so small but instead of doing that download code for Legacy Collection too this just defeats the purpose of a physical game to me not only is it less valuable to sell after you're done playing it not only is half the game not on the cartridge so you don't physically own the whole thing but you still have to download games and in these cases you have to download the larger one of the bunch it takes up almost the same capacity as buying the digital versions it's just annoying man but Nicholas comes to the rescue with their excellent packaging on the physical releases they publish retail copies of indie games and they almost always come with extra goodies it's always a treat I love the boxes on switch games too they're so different from other consoles probably most comparable to the PSP boxes but still their own thing Hardware wise the switch has definitely held up a year later it still looks like a modern piece of tech not some blocky video game toy for kids I will say though the switch is absolutely begging for a second model hopefully within the next two years or so there are just some definitive problems with the hardware design that need to be tweaked the duck is super cheap feeling has supposedly scratched the screen in Warped consoles and the material on the switch doesn't play well with some decals I think the joy-con work fine but I really would prefer a more ergonomic feel like there's nothing to grip onto here I also hate using the joy-con directional pad for actual movement on these controllers I definitely prefer the Pro Controller the HD Rumble in the controllers is pretty cool when it's used properly many titles have the rumble make more noise than actually Rumble but games like Super Mario Odyssey actually utilize it in pretty cool ways it's not a game changer but I definitely say it's pretty neat I like the hardware but my eyes are on the user interface this thing is a godsend I really love how fast it is it truly makes things a breeze and actually encourages buying games digitally with how quick it is the capture button is like the snappiest thing ever and just hopping from game to game makes the switch one of the most user-friendly consoles out there however it definitely isn't the most stable I run into a few instances where I have to force reset the switch and I've never had to do that with any other Nintendo console while the interface is great and some personality squeaks through in the form of some cute sound effects that play overall it's pretty bland doesn't have that Nintendo charm there's not fun little things to burn time with like on the 3DS or Wii or Wii U the Wii had the photo Channel the 3DS had Face Raiders the Wii U had Wii U chat the switch has news the hardware and software of the switch console is pretty good but could definitely use some updates like the Esha man we need a home page on this thing where Nintendo curates the releases I said before that more and more shovel war is popping up on this thing and games people actually care about are getting harder and harder to find because of it and speaking of updates the Nintendo switch online service better be effing beautiful online isn't the greatest on this system and the fact that Nintendo wants to charge us for it in the future well they aren't making the greatest first impression like playing Mario Kart 8 online on Wii U worked great eight Deluxe on switch constant connection problems friend codes instead of usernames voice chat being limited to a damn smartphone app the online service needs to be way better and offer a much better experience fans I know I may have sounded a bit negative at Parts but I truly really like the switch and want to see it improve if Nintendo not only continues to re-release their old games in addition to revving up the engines in terms of new releases and fix some issues with the switch with software updates and Hardware redesigns we could be looking at the best console of all time let alone Nintendo console in the future like 2017's lineup was really great I want to see that momentum continued throughout the Nintendo switch's life and just like that's got caused a blood clot epidemic for 30 minutes worth of Nintendo switch retrospective and review but we can't forget that I totally predict that the Nintendo switch so step back because I'm going to predict the Nintendo switch a software lineup for 2019. oh yeah hey y'all Scott here oh look at me I'm the Nintendo switch I sold over 32 million units yeah big whoop uh how many units did the human race sell hmm try seven billion units that's right you Nintendo oh hey it's been two years the Nintendo switch is two years old only 23 years until it can rent a car now three days after the switch officially released I talked about my opinions on the system at that point in time one year after the switch officially released I talked about my opinions on the system at that point in time and I think we all know where I'm going with this I'm gonna complain about Mario Tennis Aces and talk about year two of the Nintendo switch I'll be taking a look back at the switch's second full year on the market month by month from March 2018 to February 2019. I'll be talking about the main games that released each month and the news that came out as with last year I'll primarily be focusing on the games I played and or the more notable games on the system so buckle up let's see how long it takes me to start whining Kirby star Elise wasn't what I wanted March was a pretty busy month all things considered the only first party Nintendo title that shot onto store shelves was Kirby's star lies and homeboy Kirby star lies was Kirby's first traditional Mainline game in HD so I guess they wanted this one to be as basic Kirby as basic Kirby can be Starlights isn't a bad game but even when it was originally revealed at E3 2017 I championed the opinion that I looked too basic fast forward to March 2018 and oh man do I have an opinion for you star allies is focused on Co-op multiplayer and because of that level designs are incredibly simplistic to accommodate for it now Kirby games are generally pretty simple but this one took things too far in my opinion these levels rarely have anything of note in them no fun stage gimmicks or ideas or themes nothing and calling the puzzles in this game puzzles is an insult to puzzles everywhere sure this makes the game more accessible for multiplayer the complex 2D platformer levels can be a nightmare for Co-Op but even then playing in multiplayer doesn't make the game that much more interesting now I love a good Kirby game I've enjoyed every game before star allies they use the same gameplay lifestyle this one just did not do it for me I'm sorry like I said it isn't bad I know tons of people who had a good time with it but it seems like even the people who enjoyed it say this definitely isn't Kirby's finest outing not worth the 60 price tag that's for sure at least at launch star allies received a handful of free updates throughout the year adding new playable characters from previous Kirby games and a bunch of new things like an extra mode yeah that's cool but I'd rather these things be in the game from the start simply because by the time they were added I was long past the point of caring about star allies the game already kind of burned me with its like a content and overall gameplay plus guys yeah they added a ton of characters and some of them are awesome callbacks to Old School Kirby games but the lack of playable characters wasn't my problem with star allies so while I guess they give the game more worth it's nothing that's really going to change my opinion in terms of other games from March Scribblenauts Showdown came out and it was a triumphant return of the Scribblenauts franchise never mind I was somewhat intrigued by this game when it was first announced uh Scribblenauts party game sounds pretty fun but after seeing one trailer and reading reviews iconomically ran way the original Punch Out arcade game finally got a re-release through the arcade archive series which was cool to see a lot of people were talking about that indie game mulaka I didn't play it my eyes were mainly on Bingo for Nintendo switch fear facts Senna Shantae and the Pirates curse tokitori there is definitely stuff to play but not the greatest overall month in terms of games what made March worth it was the Nintendo Direct on March 8th honestly one of the better directs and recent memory so much was shown Okami HD Sushi Striker was announced for switch project octopath traveler was renamed to get this octopath traveler Dark Souls got an amiibo and was confirmed for a May 25th release day can't wait for that a captain Toad treasure Tracker re-release Crash Bandicoot insane Trilogy Splatoon 2 got paid DLC and holy yeah Smash Brothers was announced for the switch I wasn't expecting that to happen during this direct but right when we saw both koizumi and the Splatoon producer standing together I gave off a hearty oh yeah Smash Brothers is about to be announced with inkling's playable characters what do you look at that later in March a nindy showcase premiered it detailed a bunch of indie games but it was only 10 minutes long so that was pretty disappointing some sounds stuff in there definitely though luminous remastered in Mark of the Ninja just the name too March also marked the first time the my Nintendo rewards program actually meant something starting this month if you were my Nintendo member you could build up gold points by spending money on the e-shop and then redeem those points for a certain amount of cash you could use on digital games yeah I'm happy this is here sometimes I'll be buying a game digitally and go home man I can use some of my gold points to pay for this you have to spend a lot of money to get even a little bit of cash back through the gold points a 60 game will then you three bucks back that's not a ton again I'm happy it's here but Nintendo sure ain't running a charity April was another month in terms of games again there are definitely things to play and just nothing huge came out this was the month of Nintendo labo it was initially revealed earlier in January and I thought this concept was absolutely brilliant giving you cardboard and instructing you on how to make your own switch accessories to play mini games using the joy-con to help make these things function one of the most creative things Nintendo's come up with in recent memory it's obviously aimed towards kids specifically those with an interesting creativity or engineering but I think plenty of us looked at it and said yeah this is pretty cool in general the first two kits released on April 20th haha toy gun won the variety kit in toy con 2 the robot kit I just picked up the variety kit and almost a full year later and I still haven't touched these things since I didn't dislike labo but there just wasn't much to it if you weren't looking to customize and make your own label Creations the build process was a ton of fun I like that but afterwards there was just nothing to do with these things the games offered in labo are peon shallow there's just nothing to them you play around with them for 10 minutes and that's about it I wasn't expecting anything I'd be playing for hours but more so expecting something along the lines of a minigame in Wii play or something like sure those aren't massive games but they're quick short bursts the fun they're enjoyable to replay for a high score I wish they just added a Time attack or arcade mode to these games they have promised they just weren't presented in ways that made them fun or replayable I already took a look at the labo Variety kit before my opinions haven't really changed it's a really awesome concept and it's more about the journey than the destination building these things is half the enjoyment and the most memorable experience I had with labo and if that doesn't interest you for cut sake stay away after I built them all there's nothing to do I didn't have any interest in going into the toy con garage to program my own labo toys all the games I was done with after 30 minutes Nintendo labo in its initial state was made for a very specific kind of Kit one that wanted to make their own machines one that was going to get a lot of use out of the toycon garage feature but it could have been for so many more people if they made the games more replayable and fun as it stands these are overpriced and take up too much room considering how much use I got out of them the robot kit doesn't seem much better at all you get one robot suit which sounds kind of cool and the game portion of it seems more in-depth than anything in the variety kit but it's ten dollars more and there's less you can do with the robot the variety kit offers a lot more and lends itself to customization what the hell are you gonna do with this thing other than labo Don't Starve South Park and shelter Generations came out am I the only one who can't tell if this game's visual style is kind of cool looking or kind of ugly Sega confirmed they were bringing over their classic games to Nintendo switch via the Sega Aegis label and Dark Souls remaster got delayed to Summer 2018 while the other platforms would get it in May as originally promised yes the platforms where they actually had to upres Dark Souls were getting the game first while the platform that's more in line with the original consoles Dark Souls released on was getting it later that made sense now may was a fantastic month for regurgitation Nintendo re-released 2 games for the switch Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze and Hyrule Warriors not only your first day my opinion on Wii U ports of games many are for them many are against them I'm in the middle I love that they happen because people who didn't play these games originally can finally play them and I love that they allow me to play good Wii U games on a platform that is in the Wii U however it annoys me when Nintendo overprices Wii U ports when they try to pass them off as new games when they're the only thing Nintendo releases for like two months we'll get to you later ports aren't fun for everybody they have some Merit but they can be annoying but hey at least Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is one of the greatest Platformers ever crafted so that's one point in its favor this game is Godlike it is so good why is it 60 tropical free is released in 2014 for 50 dollars and then in 2016 was permanently reduced to 20 via Nintendo select so please explain to me why this version with one new character added four years later is sixty dollars I'm not saying that if Tropical Freeze was a brand new game in 2018 it wouldn't be worth 60 dollars but it's four years old and Nintendo officially valued the game at 20 up until the switch Port was announced so I don't think there's much of an excuse here they were pulling a fast one on us with this game's price I kind of think Nintendo forgot they originally priced tropical freeze at 50 on the Wii U because Captain Toad originally retailed for forty dollars and lo and behold it retail for that on the switch too oh my Tropical Freeze is great definitely worth it if you never played it but I picked it up on sale a few months later I already did it on Wii U I didn't need it right away and I usually do that with the Wii U ports wait for a sale at a later date which is exactly what I did with Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition now this was also sixty dollars but I'm personally more okay with this price point than I was with Donkey Kong this game includes all the DLC from the Wii U version all the characters and gameplay changes from the 3DS version and all the DLC from that version as well plus extra little bonuses like breath of the wild costumes This truly is the definitive edition and is quite a good deal All Things Considered now I've never been a huge hyper Warriors guy I enjoy my time with it on the Wii U but didn't play for hundreds of hours like others did however I still think it's a fun shut your brain off kind of game just mow down enemies with tons of Zelda fan service the timing of this port was weird to me though the Fire Emblem Warriors just came out in October and that game kind of came and went so instead of trying to give that game more exposure Nintendo just revealed Hyrule Warriors for the switch which I'm sorry Fire Emblem fans is way more appealing and interesting to most people than Fire Emblem Warriors even if it is a four-year-old game both original Mega Man Legacy Collection is released I love that these games are on switch but I would have preferred if they combine them into a Mega Man ultimate Legacy Collection rather than sell both of them separately another Capcom collection released the street fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and oh my God this thing includes so many Street Fighters had to retail for the same price as Ultra Street Fighter 2 retail for a year ago well what's going on here this has 12 games on it including five Street Fighter 2s and Ultra Street Fighter 2 has one Street Fighter 2 please explain that 40 price point well some of the biggest releases in May were just older games the month still had some solid original titles bloodstain curse of the moon was a surprise release it was developed by inti crates and was a precursor to the upcoming bloodstain ritual of the night while that game plays like a metroidvania style Castlevania Game Chris of the Moon plays just like the classic Castlevania titles on the NES and gotta be honest curse of the Moon looks way more appealing to me I did pick this one up yoku's Island Express though I haven't yet this was a big one for a lot of people being a pinball Adventure game I'm definitely still interested in trying this one out runner 3 finally released too but I have to say this visual Style just does not do anything for me I do have Runner 3. I got it on sale but haven't played any of these games yet I did play ikaruga though which is one of the greatest 2D shoot em ups of all time it's harder than hard but it's just so good but we can't forget the biggest game Capcom announced for the switch Resident Evil 7. what cloud Edition what Capcom randomly announced and released Resident Evil 7 this game came out in 2017 for PS4 and Xbox One and I personally never imagined it would run on switch well it was sort of right because this game requires an internet connection at all times it's streamed to the console this way they can just run the game on much more powerful Hardware stream it to the switch and bada boom you have yourself the worst possible way to play Resident Evil 7. I have to admit though this was a fairly creative way to to get a crazy demanding game like this running on the system without redoing everything and putting a lot of development time into a port now this only released in Japan and we have yet to get a fully cloud-based multi-platform game in this style here in North America it's still just really weird this even happened well I said yeah this was a creative solution to get the game on switch I don't want to see this happen all too much having an internet connection required for single player games is really annoying and it makes it almost impossible to play these things on the go which is what the switch is best known for Nintendo also started to offer a switch bundle without the dock in Japan coming in at 50 cheaper than the regular bundle well that's stupid docs retail for ninety dollars plus you don't even get the charging cable with this bundle I get this is a Japan exclusive thing why would you buy this sure plenty of people play their switch predominantly in handheld mode but you are literally getting ripped off by buying a dockless bundle a Pokemon company also finally gave everybody what they wanted the official announcement for Pokemon on the switch the first traditional Pokemon title on a console and what they announced were games that gave a lot of people a case of the what the hells Pokemon let's go Pikachu two Navy were full remakes of Pokemon Yellow on the Game Boy with a lot of elements from Pokemon go present this was definitely a bit surprising and not what a lot of Pokemon fans wanted they wanted a full-on new game one that didn't look this simpler one that wasn't so focused on the first generation of Pokemon or one that didn't look like a console version of Pokemon go this game is gamely meant for different people lapse Pokemon fans people who loved it before but fell out of it people who liked Pokemon go but never really played a real Pokemon game or people who just never played Pokemon hey it's me Scott I think this was a smart game for them to make and they did confirm that a true Mainline traditional Pokemon game would come in 2019 so really it wasn't a huge deal fans were still getting a main title they also announced and released Pokemon quest for the eShop a free title that literally just felt like a garbage mobile game they shoehorned onto the switch that's exactly what it is I downloaded this and played it for two minutes and said yeah I'm not into this Nintendo finally disclosed more details on their upcoming paid online service for the switch Nintendo switch online this thing kept on getting delayed and delayed but they finally were able to shed some light on it Nintendo revealed that their online service would not only force people to pay for online multiplayer but offer Cloud save for certain games and a selection of 20 NES games to play online with more at it every month NSO was initially met with relative positivity people were excited to have Cloud saves old Nintendo games on the switch and just actual details on the surface in general but after thinking about the service more and more things got more critical Cloud saves are locked behind the online service then NES games app meant no virtual console that smartphone voice chat app isn't going away it wouldn't launch until September but people were already critiquing the service before it even came out the great month of e3 Nintendo was ready to let it all out with an E3 2018 Nintendo Direct on June 12th and for all you non-smash Brothers fans I am so sorry yeah that wasn't that great uh Smash Brothers ended the direct as in the last 30 minutes of a 45 minute presentation were dedicated to it Smash Brothers switch was revealed to be Super Smash Brothers ultimate including every character from Smash Brothers history and a wealth of gameplay changes I freaked out this was amazing but outside of Smash Brothers which looked great this presentation blew they started things off with the reveal of Daemon X Machina a game everybody in 2019 refers to as oh yeah the game exists this has got to be one of the most forgettable games Nintendo has ever revealed it doesn't look bad but they presented so poorly every time they show it off like why start E3 off with this Mech game with a title most people don't know how to pronounce I always say I guess it looks good but I don't really know what this game is gonna play like I don't really know exactly what I'm looking at most of the time and then they went on to show off the Standalone Xenoblade 2 expansion like why Cold open showing these two games first these aren't like a media crowd Pleasers these are fine games and all but they're pretty Niche you think throwing them in the middle of the presentation would work better moving on Super Mario party was officially unveiled in the presentation Mario party isn't a crazy amazing E3 announcement but it looked like classic Mario party which is what the series needed after it did a bunch of stupid Fire Emblem three houses was shown off we know a fire emblem switch game was in the works for about a year and a half now so it was nice to finally see it in action that's all I have to say because once again I don't care for Fire Emblem either Jesus I probably don't even like video games right Guys fortnite released immediately after the presentation which was pretty big I mean it was the hot game so to have it on switch was a big deal I just didn't really care I've said this before but fortnite runs on smartphones should a switch release really be that amazing overcooked 2 Hollow Knight Killer Queen black all really cool indie games and then 30 minutes of Smash Brothers that was it yeah that was a very underwhelming lame Nintendo Direct it was a pretty good Smash Brothers direct but a general Nintendo Direct yeah that wasn't that great switch third party wise wasn't the most amazing at E3 either you'd assume we'd see more support for the console this year but there wasn't a ton fallout shelter came to the platform it's a mobile game who cares trials starlink revealed the Star Fox collaboration which was pretty cool but other than that there wasn't much switch content at E3 surprisingly Splatoon 2's octo expansion released during E3 though I still haven't played it or bought it Splatoon 2's base single player campaign was pretty lackluster in my opinion but from what I've seen octo expansion fixes that and offers a media experience it looks way better arcade archives Donkey Kong came out during E3 too which was one of the first times the original arcade ROM of Donkey Kong was re-released which was pretty cool we also announced that the ultra rare Nintendo arcade game skyskipper would be released via arcade archives in July outside of e3 Nintendo actually released some games this month so it was a pretty busy time all things considered Mario Tennis Aces pulled a Kirby star allies for me it wasn't a bad game the core gameplay I'd show here is absolutely phenomenal building up the meter in the top left means you can slow down time use a Zone shot special shot it makes Mario Tennis way more skill based than ever before which is a huge improvement from when Nintendo released body odor on a disc with the last game however while Aces gameplay and visuals are great everything else falters which is weird to say how can a game have great gameplay but not be great overall well there's barely anything to do with that great gameplay you can plow through the adventure mode which Nintendo really pushed in this game's marketing and it's nothing special it just feels like a four hour long time waster and not much else but that's it with this game there's no other modes to play other than just playing tennis or playing tennis online again it's weird to say that because it's Mario Tennis you might ask what else was I expecting and just look at all the other Mario tennis games these things were act with fun little extra modes awesome gimmicky courts mini games you could play with Mario Kart desk items but in Aces it's just tennis and now this game is obviously built off of ultra smash from the Wii U and that game was literally just tennis too no crazy Mario spin just tennis on one type of chord it was if you had to pay Nintendo 50 bucks for the right to go to hell at least with Aces the gameplay is pretty damn solid and it at least has multiple themed chords I will say though these chords are pretty lame like if they even have gimmicks they're usually kind of annoying or just straight up boring look I'm on a pirate ship there's a giant rod in the middle that can sometimes interfere with the ball yeah my favorite chord if all you want from a Mario tennis game is a tennis game Mario Tennis Aces delivers but in my opinion it doesn't have nearly enough to it while I really appreciate the smart changes to gameplay that really improve the core game I don't know I kind of prioritize wacky multiplayer fun in a Mario sports game compared to how smart the gameplay Loop is I'm not necessarily looking for a game with the deepest mechanics when picking up a Mario sports game through free updates Mario Tennis as primarily has been adding new characters and again like I said with Kirby star allies this game's problems had nothing to do with the lack of playable characters these updates really don't do much for me here's a quote you can smack on the back of the box Nintendo the game plays good but the game is not now most people will say the game they played the most in June was Mario Tennis but the Nintendo published game I played the most in June was none other than Sushi Striker the way of sushido oh this game happened didn't it Sushi Striker was originally announced as a 3DS game at E3 2017 but was later revealed to also be coming to switch day and date with the 3DS version this is a puzzle game where you just have to link up similar Sushi plates moving on the Bell eat the sushi and then throw the empty plates at your opponent I always kept an eye on this game I thought it would be a fun little puzzle game that looked like it had a lot of heart put into it and I was kinda right I was addicted to this game for a few hours linking up the suit she plays at such a satisfying feel to it specifically while playing with the controller while I think using a touchscreen is how it was intended to be played I really preferred using the analog stick automatically snapping to a plate it made it crazy fun to link up a ton of them and the sound effects just made everything crazy enjoyable I thought it was really cool how the game featured loads of tongue-in-cheek cut scenes and dialogue despite being just a puzzle game it really felt like the developers cared immensely however that's kind of where my Praises end because the game just goes on and on and on and doesn't really switch things up the story mode just feels like you're doing the same thing over and over again you constantly fight against the same enemies these guards are whatever appear Non-Stop and the visuals barely change at all it just feels like you're doing the same thing for 10 hours sure some random power-ups are thrown into the mix but it doesn't help things that much in my opinion most of the time each stage feels the same to the last also while I said I appreciated the cutscenes and the humor at a certain point I stopped caring the story wasn't interesting really it was more so Charming that the game story didn't take itself seriously and the fact that this game even had a story well that didn't mean I cared enough to see it through it just slowed everything down and honestly I just started skipping most of the cutscenes this thing retailed for fifty dollars and oh God it is not worth even half of that the 3DS version at least started at forty dollars but still download the demo for it and play that 30 times in a row and you get the exact same experiences playing the full game in my opinion it's a lot of fun for a bit but it's just the same thing over and over again outside of those games fortnite and Hollow Knight were some big releases alongside inside and limbo Shack full Legend reborn happened blaze blue crosstag battle uh Crash Bandicoot insane Trilogy and Wolfenstein 2 came out on the same day don't want to get them confused both really impressive ports on the switch I have crash and it ran perfectly fine of course it didn't look as good as the other consoles but by and large this is the insane Trilogy it still looks great and being able to play the original Crash Bandicoot games remastered on a Nintendo platform is really cool now I haven't played this one yet but Wolfenstein 2 is more so impressive with just how well they were able to make it work on switch this is far from the definitive version of the game but it's definitely more than playable and looks pretty good all things considered now the Octo expansion wasn't the only thing to cop DLC Mario plus Rabbids actually got a full-blown expansion as well entitled Donkey Kong adventure and from what I've seen it looks like so much love and care was crammed into something that should have just been a simple expansion it's really admirable whatever Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got labo support I thought wow this actually makes my label Creations useful and then I realized never mind why the hell would I want to do this July is usually a dead month for new game releases but Nintendo decided to break conventions as this was the month many's most anticipated switch title released octopath traveler finally came out do you really think I played it yeah I don't really play RPGs if you don't already know it's not that I'm heavily opposed to them or don't get them it's simply just far from my favorite genre I'll still play a game that intrigues me if it's an RPG it just doesn't happen that much I will say though that octopath looks beautiful and so unique I'd love to see Square Enix make a sequel just because I've seen how so many people adored this game I mean it didn't weigh better than I think anybody thought it would there were shortages of it in Japan it did that well I'd love to see them put out more of the series just continue with this art style on the same day as that game Nintendo published the re-release of Captain Toad treasure Tracker and it actually came out on 3DS as well at the same time treasure Tracker was a good Wii U game and that's basically all I have to say about it it's just a fun little concept a game where you have to Traverse these 3D puzzle boxes and you can't jump I didn't pick the switch version up just yet mainly because it's not a game I'm particularly dying to replay but I will eventually if I see it for a good price however I'm tempted to say that this isn't the definitive version of Captain Toad I played the switch demo and have seen a good amount of footage it plays perfectly fine on the platform don't get me wrong but man was it way more tailor-made for the Wii U than I remember so many things in Captain Toad need to be touched via the touch screen so playing in TV mode means this pretty annoying cursor is on screen all the time this isn't a problem in handheld mode but if you're looking to play on the TV the original Wii U version feels a bit more natural treasure Tracker feels kinda shoehorned onto the switch to me it's a bit odd they ported this game to the switch so early on in its life I feel a sequel would have been a better fit just because they wouldn't have had to work around all the touchscreen requirements for TV mode Nintendo also published Go Vacation a port of some Wii game Bandai Namco made to the potential person that predicted Nintendo would Port go vacation to the switch when the system was first revealed you have my respect I think this was an effective nail in the coffin to a potential Wii Sports follow-up by Nintendo on the switch it seems like they're more interested in just publishing games from other companies that appeal to that more casual demographic rather than making the game themselves Mega Man X Legacy Collection one and two oh yeah it's great to have some of these games on switch but it is incredibly annoying that they're separated via two volumes I got it with the original Mega Man Legacy collections those were created years apart so while it was irritating that they didn't combine them for the switch release it still kind of made sense the X Legacy collections need to go laid down they have no excuse to be this way they release the exact same day and are literally the same collection with the same extras just with different games plus X Legacy Collection 2 is undoubtedly the worst collection it includes the latter half of the x-series which stinks while Nintendo announced a new labo kit the vehicle kit and everybody was kind of like oh but it was also kind of like eh we already knew what to expect from labo at this point so I wasn't suckered into this one as much Warframe was announced a port being done by Panic Button they brought over Doom rocket League Wolfenstein 2 these guys are Wizards Mario Kart 8 Deluxe randomly got a new update where link can wear his breath of the wild attire nice but why 2K announced that WWE 2k19 wouldn't be on the switch this year uh definitely because WWE 2k18 was garbage on the switch like no wonder the series doesn't sell well on the platform Nintendo also made a statement that they like to release 20 to 30 indie games every week on the eShop alright guys the Nintendo switch eShop has officially become a breeding ground for Pure garbage literally anybody can release a game on the switch eShop it's so bad releasing that many games a week isn't a good thing Nintendo I haven't been playing as many indie games on the switch as I was back in 2017 because there's like a dozen that release every day I can't keep up with them and for every good one there's four calculation castle games August was automatically great because we got a Smash Brothers ultimate Direct on August 8th this was way better than E3 3 the reveals of Simon and Richter Belmont all the stages King K ruled there were no negatives with this Direct in my opinion it was just pure Smash Brothers for 30 minutes just like E3 but at least with this direct it was completely warranted to be just Smash Brothers dead cells was the hot indie game of the month on switch it was apparently so good it's worth losing your job over I didn't pick this one up just yet but I did buy Okami HD and it's beautiful it's such a good game but hell yeah pick Ross has two more pick cross man it's so good it's so pick Ross Monster Hunter Generations ultimate overcooked 2 a pretty quiet yet solid month for games not a ton of stuff overall but a good amount of great titles and Night Trap there is another nindy's presentation a bit longer than the last one but nothing really stood out to me outside of Untitled Goose game they revealed into the breach at the end which I know is made by the same guys behind FTL but it didn't really excite me at all to be honest Diablo 3 was officially announced after being rumored for months the I mean that's cool that blizzard is back publishing games on Nintendo platforms and OverWatch would have been such a better fit and would have been so much cooler to see Doom eternal's gameplay was shown off and it was announced the game would be coming simultaneously to everything including Nintendo switch that was awesome it was great to see a modern game get announced for switch day and date with the other versions and they didn't make a huge deal about it it was like it was just one of the other consoles but brace yourself folks because development on steep for Nintendo switch was officially halted no this game was shown off in the original January 2017 presentation and then they never really said anything about it for a year and a half and now they'll really never say anything about it September 2018 was my favorite month to hate Nintendo switch online but first a Nintendo Direct premiered on September 13th after being delayed from a September 6th date after a tragic earthquake in Japan that was perfectly fine waiting especially considering the circumstances and it was well worth the wait this was a pretty decent direct Luigi's Mansion 3 was revealed right off the bat and it looked okay one of the things that makes Luigi's Mansion so memorable for people is the atmosphere and overall aesthetic people Mega dig the family-friendly yet still a little creepy unnerving haunted house look and the original nailed that but with Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon and three it doesn't look dark enough and the aesthetic feels more like haunted house clip art to me I don't know not saying it looks bad it just looks okay so far I need to see more new Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe was announced and somebody was probably happy this was a port I would have never guessed they would do a year ago it just didn't make any sense why not just bar about a new new Super Mario Brothers game come on they can't take that many resources but hey of getting a part of the Wii U's new Super Mario means we aren't getting a brand new one and Nintendo's teams can work on way better games I'm okay with it civilization 6 was supposed to be announced in the direct but due to the delay was revealed beforehand then the direct acted like it was a big surprise I guess this was supposed to be the big third party game we weren't expecting for 2018 like how Doom was for 2017 but I don't know it's cool that it was announced but it wasn't jaw dropping or anything the Yoshi title from last year's E3 got a final name Yoshi's crafted world and was slated for spring the game freak showed off a new RPG called town a remake of the original Katamari damasi and non-stop Final Fantasy games Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition HD a port of a mobile version of Final Fantasy XV that's all we're getting Final Fantasy 15 related isn't it I mean look at 15. you really think they could make that work on switch immediately it would have to be a substantial project to Port that original game over and the original consoles also got Pocket Edition HD so it doesn't feel that lame like they got it too it wasn't like they just did this for a switch but no this wasn't the greatest news this was the lamest possible outcome of getting Final Fantasy XV on switch but hey at least they announced Crystal Chronicles HD chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Final Fantasy 12 10 10 2 9 and 7. they're actually bringing seven to the switch they came famous for not being a Nintendo game that is pretty historic Smash Brothers ultimate got a bundle I thought the dock looked pretty good but those Troy con man right joy-con fans I'm sorry it came out a month before the game officially did and came with a code for Smash Brothers which unlocked on December 7th and the November release was a bit odd I guess they wanted to get it out before Black Friday then they announced Isabelle for Smash Brothers and that led into a tease for Animal Crossing on the switch in 2019. it didn't show anything but hey what are you gonna do Xenoblade 2 torno the Golden Country was the main Nintendo title published this month while it was DLC for the original Xenoblade 2 you could purchase a physical copy by itself for 40 bucks it had a new battle system and basically could be considered a new game which is pretty cool yeah I didn't buy it I did play a fair amount of the Capcom beat em up bundle but beat em ups aren't nearly as fun on Console because you can just infinitely play a game you don't need to keep pumping quarters into an arcade machine so I flew through final fight in an hour by just matching buns and not thinking at all these games are way more fun in the arcade environment but it was still nice to have a good amount of capcom's Legacy playable on switch Sega Aegis games finally released starting things off with Sonic 1 and lightning Force quest for the Dark Star right after the Sega Genesis Classics Collection was announced for switch second what the hell were you thinking right before you try to sell a copy of Sonic 1 for eight dollars you announced a collection of like 53 Genesis games including Sonic 1 for only 30 bucks yeah I did pick up lightning Force because it wasn't in that collection and it ran pretty well there's a lot of options in these Sega ages releases they're structurally pretty great but I am not paying eight bucks for Sonic 1 when I can just get that collection reliable vehicle okay release and what do you know barely anybody talked about it I think we might be in for one more labo kit maybe two but I don't think it's going too far past that unfortunately Scribblenauts redeem themselves after Showdown by releasing the mega pack featuring Scribblenauts Unlimited and Unmasked A Dragon Ball fighter Z finally came out for the platform undertale valkyria Chronicles 4 South Park the Stick of Truth wander song NBA 2k19 this was a really good month for third party and indie games but hey you look like you want to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey Cloud version on your switch do they really give off that Vibe yep same deal as Resident Evil 4 it would launch alongside the other consoles in Japan only nice but we Gotta Get Down to What September was really known for Nintendo switch online officially launched and people were not happy it basically felt like all they did was push a button and made us pay for online multiplayer nothing really improved it was the same old thing we were getting for free since launch the cloud saves were nice but titles like Splatoon 2 and Pokemon didn't work with them to stop cheating who cares these are games that people would actually want Cloud saves for games people spend hundreds of hours in they don't want to lose their progress Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo switch online rolls right off the tongue this is a service offered free to online members where you can play a selection of NES titles 20 games are available at launch 2-3 at it each month after that this was the replacement for virtual console with that you just buy whatever old games you want here it's set up more like a subscription service where you can just open up the app and pick any game you want to play now this whole setup is kind of what a lot of people suggested for the Virtual Console to evolve but for this to work well there needs to be more than a couple dozen games why is this thing locked behind the online membership do you really think half the people who play Splatoon 2 online give a piss about baseball on NES the game selection at launch was rough sure I was happy to see they offered some third-party NES game and we got games like Mario 3 but this library was what I feared the NES classic edition would have when that thing was announced to have 30 NES games I was like oh great I can't wait to play Urban champion in tennis but no they did a legitimately great job piecing together 30 of the greatest most iconic NES games of all time for a Nintendo switch online Nintendo had no problem throwing pro wrestling and soccer onto the service seriously these garbage early Black Box NES games make up a good chunk of the game's offered it's gross you played these games for five minutes and you never have to play them again now in terms of playing the games they run and look pretty great hopping from game to game is instantaneous online multiplayer is offered across all games and it works alright but it is annoying how you can't remap any buttons or turn off this control layout or turn off or change this border if only it was blue or just purchase any of these games separately outside of the app if you want to play Kirby's Adventure on your switch you have to subscribe to the online service why can't I just buy for five bucks on the eShop Nintendo would make more money that way this is a fine way to play NES games they load crazy fast and there's a decent selection now but man is it hard to get excited about NES games nowadays Nintendo's been drip feeding us NES games over the years on other platforms and now they're doing again with the switch they had a bunch of filler here too with these Special releases of games where it's literally just a Save State later in the title I'm sure since this is basically a subscription service that makes adding new games so much slower than it would be to just offer them all separately on the eShop like instead of just asking Capcom if they could put Mega Man 2 out through the Virtual Console on the eShop Nintendo definitely has to pay them something up front or Capcom will get a certain percentage of money from the online membership subscriptions or whatever I think throwing a game on the eShop is way easier to do for most companies even Nintendo this is just making things more complicated for everybody and because of that we get less NES games than we ever did on older Virtual Console Services seriously Nintendo 2 NES games per month you would release two NES games per week on the Wii U sometimes well hey at least with this service if we pay for Nintendo switch online Nintendo gives us the right to buy NES controllers for the switch 60 that is a little high for NES controllers I must admit I'd rather be able to buy the NES games I want to own on the eShop and have the service as an option outside of Nintendo switch online the service is only 20 bucks a year which is totally manageable by most people but instead of making a great service for 60 bucks a year Nintendo opted to make a mediocre one for 20. it was just so annoying that this was what we got after waiting a year for Nintendo switch online they always kept saying we'll have more to reveal about this service later if Nintendo delayed the service just to get the online multiplayer for NES games working right oh God if a billion dollar company had problems getting NES games to run online we're as a society Dark Souls remastered finally released in summer of 2018 if you can October of Summer but the game I was more intrigued by this month was Super Mario Party Super Mario Party proved that ND Cube knew what people wanted for Mario party but really didn't know what people wanted for Mario Party compared to recent Mario Party titles that were just the definition of not very very good Super Mario putty reverts to the formula of the first Eight titles and that definitely makes things super tolerable this is a fun multiplayer game but it is nowhere near as good as the height of the N64 in GameCube Mario parties it feels like they went for quantity over quality when it came to the modes in this game there are a ton of things to do here but each and every one of them is gimped there's just not enough to them there are only four boards in the standard Mario party mode I'm sorry but that is unacceptable even worse is the fact that each board is grid based they just don't have the most interesting layouts plus they're really small there aren't enough different Pathways for you to go on and most of the time there's a path that is undeniably the best one to go on so really in the end each board just kind of feels like you and your friends are constantly going around in circles with how small simple and undeveloped the boards are also this game just has so many things that are unbalanced about it now have the fun of Mario Party is the fact that a lot of things are luck based I'm not talking about that the main goal in a standard Mario Party game is to get as many stars as possible which you primarily get by collecting and spending the coins you earned from playing mini games and landing on good spaces but you get so many coins in this game that they lose so much value stars are so cheap to buy like who cares if you lose coins and that's a major problem there needs to be weight to the things going on now the mini games are perfectly fine and while the boards are a step in the right direction compared to Mario Party 9 and 10. they definitely needed more of them and the boards themselves need to be of higher quality the other modes in Super Mario Party are kind of cool only the first time around River survival is fun you have to travel down a stream with your friends cooperating to win mini games to gain more time on the clock it's actually a really fun idea but there's only 10 different mini games that can appear in this mode they're gonna repeat fairly often also it's way too easy maybe if they started you off with less time it would be better but overall this was just a mode that was a good idea but kind of ruined with the execution they got so much right with the concepts in Super Mario party but in the end they just needed more game boards and better ones at that or they just needed to put more effort into all the modes every single one of them is lacking in some way it's still definitely a fun time with friends but honestly after I've seen everything this one has to offer I'd rather just play the GameCube games from now on with my friends now I know not everybody has access to the older Mario party so for them Super Mario Party is perfectly fine it does the job of supplying a fun enough new Mario Party it just could have been so much better I'm really hoping for a Super Mario Party 2 with better and more boards or more of a focus on quality over quantity with modes the world ends with you final remake a remaster of the DS title for 50 bucks that was a little steep and from what I've heard this really isn't one of the best consoles to play world ends with you on playing in handheld mode seems okay but playing on the TV it really doesn't work well this game definitely requires a touch screen which makes me think this remaster would have worked a lot better if it was released a few years ago on the Wii U Dark Souls remastered finally came out and after playing it I don't think I'm a Dark Souls guy all those delays for nothing it didn't grab me immediately I'll definitely try it again for sure but I don't think it's the game for me but really though it's great to see this game on switch but all those delays were kind of ridiculous starlink released and reception was a bit mixed I wasn't really interested but it seemed like people either loved the game or found it really boring regardless the switch version was the only one that did somewhat okay definitely due to the Star Fox content but this game really didn't sell well overall it was put on sale almost immediately after releasing Mega Man 11 though did fairly well and I really enjoyed it it controlled like a dream and has a great look to it music was pretty lame by Mega Man standards and I wish there were more checkpoints pages are long and dying somewhat far into one and having to Traverse five minutes of the stage again isn't Fun other than that this was a solid return to form for Mega Man in the new double gear mechanic where you can slow down time or power Mega Man up for a brief moment was awesome I hope for future games they get a little riskier and try more new things like this with the series 11 did feel pretty vanilla Mega Man overall still really good though guacamelee Child of Light the original valkyria Chronicles Windjammers October was pretty decent overall definitely something for everybody here now November's big title was Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Eevee the first main Pokemon game I ever owned and played and I'm sorry but this game was kind of boring it was obviously made for people like me or people who fell out of Pokemon or Pokemon go fans but it was just too simple there was nothing that kept me engaged I wasn't like oh man I gotta keep playing it felt too basic probably due to the fact that it was a pretty faithful remake of a Game Boy game I've seen a lot of people praise let's go for trimming the fat of the newer Pokemon games and keeping things simple and I don't know man I think they took it a little too far and I really lost interest fairly quickly I think for a Pokemon game to really grab me it has to be more in depth than let's go but simpler than the newer games I'm in Pokemon Purgatory also can we talk about how this game requires you to use one joy-con and motion controls in TV mode there's no reason for doing this you can play with a standard button layout with no motion controls and handheld mode why can't I just use a Pro Controller on the TV November was a big month for the third parties we got Diablo 3 Civ 6 Warframe and Arc nice Port guys I was surprised to see Miss slogan man release on switch it was originally a Microsoft published game for 360 but I guess the developer parted ways with them and we got splishment for switch now Heaven carnival games guys it's back for Wii sensation made its way to switching Jesus Christ you see I think he could get away with Graphics like these on the Wii but here even I'm embarrassed with how this looks the Final Smash Brothers ultimate direct debuted on November 1st and it wasn't that great the announcements were pretty subpar overall and just felt like they already revealed all the cool stuff and had like a bunch of really small whatever things to talk about and they just spread it across 40 minutes games still look great though it just was a bit of an under overwhelming way to end off the announcements there was a rumor floating around that aegeanuma apparently hinted at a Skyward Sword HD remastered at a Zelda concert in Japan and even though Nintendo made a statement saying yeah it's not happening I mean it's probably happening why else would enuma say that now I picked up a ton of games over Black Friday I got a box copy of bandana 2 on the switch for like 30 bucks but I also went berserk on the eShop I finally got doom shadow of light undertale Sonic forces for some reason all those board game and game show games from Ubisoft were on sale so why not yeah Smash Brothers came out this month let's talk about that Super Smash Brothers ultimate single-handedly turned a pretty lame year for first party Nintendo releases into a pretty lame year for first party Nintendo releases that at least ended with a really good Smash Brothers and that's all I really say whenever somebody asks what I think about Smash Brothers ultimate it's a really good Smash Brothers the gameplay is better than it's ever been oh my God these vigils are so good the soundtrack goes on for centuries the character roster and Stage list are mind-boggling Paris still stages in this game that'll pop up and I'll go oh man this stage is in the game I forgot it is a great game to put it lightweight however at single player offerings aren't the greatest in the world and the fact that some Smash Brothers Staples were cut entirely is a bit puzzling ultimate single player lacks a lot of variety while the classic Mode is really cool this time featuring character specific routes for each fighter it adds to the fact that single player wise it's basically non-stop Spirit battles ultimate features these Collectibles called spirits over a thousand pieces of character art from other games they're the basis of spirit battles which take a character in a specific costume or color on a specific stage with specific conditions that are supposed to invoke the spirit of the character is representing these are the basis for the mode world of Light which is fundamentally just roaming around on a JPEG fighting Spirits these are all new things that are meant to replace various Smash Brothers Staples from the past trophies events and the adventure mode however they all just feel a bit underwhelming Spirits are just images and compared to Trophies which were full 3D models and had descriptions and told you up to two different games that character was from and they're pretty lackluster in comparison spear paddles are crazy Charming at first but they lose their luster after a while considering there's over a thousand of them plus half the drama of a spirit battle comes from understanding what they're referencing and if you don't know the character it's hard to appreciate the spirit battle which is a problem considering none of the spirits have descriptions of any character information like Trophies did and then the adventure mode world of light it's fine it does the job but goes on far too long but now I have to ask where all the things from previous Smash games like home run contest it's a little weird they're not here considering so many of the things missing from Ultimate were present in Smash for Wii U and ultimate was built off of Smash Wii U so it doesn't seem like these things would be hard at all to bring over into ultimate now most of these complaints are honestly nitpicks I'm still playing Spirit battles in Smash ultimate I 100 in world of light not because I was over the moon in love with these things I just really like smash ultimate and these things well not the most fun things in the world were fun enough to play in short bursts I found myself playing 30 minutes of world of light before bed to feel I accomplished something that day one of the most negative things I can say about a game are just yeah this part about the game is a little mediocre but not bad or anything and everything else is pretty spot on that's when you know it's a good game however I do have to say with this match happening so quickly after the last one I didn't have the same excitement I had for brawl or smash for 3DS and Wii U when they came out I feel like myself and countless others were asking for smash for switch not because we were tying for a new Smash game but because as we literally just wanted to play Smash Brothers on the switch a year or so ago I would have been perfectly happy with an enhanced smash for Wii U port and to see we got ultimate I'm more than happy with this even if I do have some nitpicks here and there on the same day as Smash Brothers Katamari Damacy re-roll in Sega Genesis Classics came out that was a mistake Katamari re-roll is fantastic just the same old Katamari Damacy from the PlayStation 2 but now in beautiful hd I love it how it was hard to find a physical copy of this game I believe it was a GameStop exclusive and I didn't know that until after copies were selling for crazy amounts of cash but thankfully they were stocked it and it's hanging out on my game shelf now Sega Genesis Classics is a great deal for only 30 bucks I'm not a fan of the overall menu aesthetic it looks really cheap to me but other than that it has a great selection of titles for a great price I know Sonic 3 and Knuckles or Echo the dolphin though so nowhere near the ultimate collection but still a no-brainer for 30 bucks gotta be honest not a ton of other notable titles came out in December but hey we got four gallons of announcements at The Game Awards this year Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 has announced as a Nintendo switch exclusive published by Nintendo and developed by team Ninja and on these games I have a fan base but this was an odd game series for Nintendo to revive Joker from Persona 5 was announced as a DLC character for Smash Brothers ultimate yeah that means Persona 5 is coming to switch it hasn't been announced yet but yeah that means Persona 5 is coming to switch crash team racing Nitro fueled in Mortal Kombat 11 were announced as multi-platform switch titles the CTR I totally get but Mortal Kombat 11 nobody expected that they showed the trailer of The Game Awards and I don't think anybody was saying yeah it's coming to switch but no it is there's a Lego in everything there were lots of rumors about the Metroid Prime Trilogy coming to switch and being unveiled at the game awards but that never happened oh I mean who knows maybe they'll unveil it alongside new information on Metroid Prime 4. that was uncalled for after being announced at E3 2017 and nothing else Nintendo announced they were not pleased with the development status of Prime 4 and decided to restart the project now being developed by Retro Studios the original Studio behind the Prime Trilogy now a lot of people were upset about this and I totally understand but honestly I was pretty okay with this overall first off we knew nothing about Metroid Prime 4 other than some Jank logo hearing that the game we knew nothing about was still coming it was just being restarted didn't really bother me because you know we knew nothing about it the rumors were that various segments of Bandai Namco were working on the game and I felt Bandai Namco could probably be trusted with Metroid Prime but I have way more faith in retro sure the original team that made Metroid Prime has long gone but retro still makes really good games I don't have any worries concerning primeval many were expecting a Nintendo Direct for January but that never happened we got random Spritz of information like Yoshi's crafted world's release date and an indie showcase on Nintendo UK's YouTube channel well that was about it really though who cares because new Super Mario Bros you Deluxe release so I played enough new Super Mario Bros U I didn't want to contract anything again so I haven't picked this one up if anything this version is worse than the Wii U release later releases of the game already included all the DLC plus it had boost mode which relied on the Wii U gamepad and challenges associated with it they took all that out and they added Toadette as a playable character but with that they made it so then if you're playing four player multiplayer one player will have an advantage because Toda and Nabbit have special abilities he can play as just Mario Luigi blue and yellow toad altogether anymore you're either blue or yellow toad and then the fourth player is Toadette or nabit that's dumb also just reading this title gives me a hernia Nintendo also published Fitness Boxing another sign that we ain't getting a new Wii Fit Style game from them they just published some developers Fitness game but apparently this is a huge hit in Japan and I gave the demo world and it does offer a decent workout we think games are more fun but if you're looking for a fitness game this one is fun enough and we'll get your arms squealing Travis strikes again no more Heroes finally release and it really wasn't what a lot of No More Heroes fans wanted it was basically a top-down Hack and Slash and a lot of the No More Heroes charm is lost by getting rid of the third person perspective yeah it wasn't the craziest month the lack of a direct was really depressing just because what else were Nintendo fans expected to talk about new Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe ah holy all right we're here the last month and it was a pretty packed one for news a direct finally happened on February 13th and that thing started and ended great Super Mario Maker 2 opened the show up and I don't think anybody could come up with anything negative to say about this it did everything I wanted for a Mario Maker sequel beautiful The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening ended the show a full remake think of the Game Boy game I'm a little worried this may be like let's go and be a little too simple considering the world map is from a Game Boy game so you know everything's based on a grid but I'm not too worried it looks fantastic so far and everything else on the direct kind of wreaked the middle was just filled with games that didn't not interest me all too much a lot of RPGs I wasn't into and just plain bad looking ports Rune Factory 4 special was stated to be fully remastered what dead by daylight and Assassin's Creed 3 remastered looked rough like why did they look this bad for some reason hellblade is coming to the switch I mean cool Astro train was a new Platinum Games exclusive title which looked fine but man I think that name is kinda dumb Captain Toad is getting DLC why just make a sequel a new box boy and they literally played a four minute long trailer for Dragon Quest 11. I get it Nintendo wants to push Dragon Quest this is the definitive edition it looks great on the system but could caught four minutes for a game that released last year but all was saved by the announcement that a free game was coming after the direct Tetris 99. you against 98 other people playing Tetris there's not much to this game it's just Tetris with 99 players but it is such a fun pick up and play game plus it was free finally a reason to get Nintendo switch online there were loads of rumors going around that Microsoft was planning various XBox games XBox Live and Xbox game pass for the switch and if that's true which it probably is my God that will be amazing just so many more games on the switch including games I would have never pictured playing on a Nintendo console this is so cool later in February Pokemon sword and shield were unveiled the true Pokemon games to be released in late 2019. I mean they're Pokemon games that's for sure I saw a fair amount of people Express disappointment with the fact that game freak seemingly isn't doing much to push Pokemon in a New Direction I mean sword and shield look like perfectly fine new Pokemon games overall just nothing crazy they do look like HD 3DS games I think they look pretty good visually overall but there's obviously areas that could use a lot of improvement and graphically it doesn't look mind-blowing or anything well that took about four years off my life but we finally got through the switch's second year on the market and overall I hate Nintendo really though the best way to describe this year was disappointing 2018 was just not the greatest follow-up year to 2017. this felt like such a filler year in terms of Nintendo's offerings I mean really think about it how many in-house Nintendo made games came out like other than labo and older games nothing really they just published second and third party titles they obviously just rode this year out and banked on Pokemon and Smash Brothers to save it and they were completely right because they did while I love Smash Brothers ultimate and throughout the year the upcoming release of the game made things interesting the year itself was pretty lackluster overall I feel like Nintendo used 2018 to quietly work on a lot of future games because it's obvious 2019 is going to be filled with a lot more heavy-hitting first party titles Mario Maker 2 Animal Crossing links Awakening there's so much coming 2019 feels exactly how 2013 felt for the 3DS games wise and that was one of the handheld's best years Luigi's Mansion Pokemon 2D Zelda Animal Crossing Fire Emblem even little eShop titles all games the switch has coming in 2019 that the 3DS had in 2013 I'm pretty stoked but still in terms of last year Nintendo support for 2018 was in one word underwhelming to me each of their big new games were either unfinished at launched just plain lacking in content or underwhelming sure we got a lot of the Wii U's Greatest Hits but those are old games I already played them now of course I don't speak for the people who never played games like tropical freezer Captain Toad and we're able to play them for the first time they're great games they deserve to be played by everybody but they're also old ones for a lot of people including me I still like ports on the switch but I want them to supplement new games coming out not fully replace them and ports are fundamentally 90 of the switch's library don't get me wrong I want every game ever made on the switch too it's incredibly convenient to have so many games from different kinds of consoles and time periods on an all-in-one portable Home console there's always something to play on this system but the fact that the vast a vast majority of this library is old makes the system less exciting sometimes it gives the system less character since it's primarily characterized by titles that it can't call its own which is weird to say about a Nintendo system like I said I like having these ports in older games on the switch but that's almost all that comes to the system I want to see more new original titles released for it both from Nintendo and third parties well within tendo they're almost out of Wii U games to Port over and thinking about some of the games they have left I think Mario 3D World will make the jump this game would feel way more at home on the switch than it did on the Wii U especially with the two joy-con instant Co-op multiplayer I'd be more than okay with the Paper Mario Color Splash Port just because ditching the Wii U gamepad would make this game way better Wonderful 101 would definitely benefit from one uh Yoshi's woolly world it would be nice if they pulled a Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition and combine the content from the 3DS and Wii U versions Pikmin 3 is probably gonna happen I'd prefer a Pikmin HD Collection though or better yet Pikmin 4 for God's sake and I'd prefer much older games remastered compared to Wii U ports I just played a lot of these games a few years ago and that remastered some much older titles obviously because that would be a lot more work but still I would rather see some remasters of course you may say with all this old game talk but Scott there are loads of original games on the switch not everything is a porter or an old game well yeah there has to be some great original games but I can't find them in this Minefield of shovelware the Nintendo switch eShop is horrendous every time I log on it lags and stutters more and more because too many games are releasing on it now that must be a good thing right no of course not most of these games nobody has ever heard of and nobody wants to play I think this is just porn the eShop desperately needs an overhaul Nintendo added this featured tab but it doesn't really do a good job highlighting games you might not have heard of it mainly just showcases games we all know are on the system speaking of the eShop I already said this last year but I really wish Nintendo would put out more smaller games on there like they used to do on the 3DS just throw out random things on there like pushmo or another snipperclips or better yet completely original games that would have definitely helped things out when there wasn't a ton coming out I was itching to play I feel like sushi Striker would have been the perfect kind of eShop game but unlike push mower sticker Clips which were downloadable titles at a low price Sushi Striker came out of retail for 50 bucks and had some major problem in general with switch content there has rarely been a great deal when it comes to switch accessories or games this has been a thing since launch but it's been especially noticeable this year when something like Kirby star allies comes out for sixty dollars when Kirby planet robobot for the 3DS came out a few years ago for forty dollars and had more content Capcom recently revealed that Resident Evil 1 0 and 4 would cost thirty dollars each when they cost 20 on the PS4 and Xbox One why I guess Publishers are pricing switch related items crazy high just because they know they can and it's just ridiculous I've recently started playing Resident Evil 4 and I adore it I was gonna buy the switch version on release but I guess I'll just wait for a sale now I do quite enjoy the switch and while I finally remember and someone missed the days of 2017 when we only got 20 games a month I'll be a good games I'm happy that it's been this Monumental of a success I want to see it succeed and become better which is why I'm very critical of it right now this isn't the Charming little console that could from 2017 anymore this is a legitimate platform with thousands of games ranging from retro to Indy to AAA releases which makes the problems that are still here after they could have been fixed since launch that much more irritating we're still waiting for a better eShop experience a much better online service more new original games from third parties a better lineup of Legacy content from Nintendo a more robust operating system for God's sakes this whole we're focusing on games at launch was q but it's been two years in Nintendo this is ridiculous no internet browser no way to browse social media you can post to it but not browse it no menu themes no folders still no Netflix oh my God I want the switch to be the best console it can possibly be so when Nintendo does something that I find underwhelming or just plain bad I'm gonna talk about it in a tone that'll make any grandmother faint I didn't personally find 2018 that crazy exciting on the game's front but that doesn't mean the system is bad far from it the last year was sort of lackluster for me but 2019 is looking to definitely be an improvement and I am legitimately excited for the future of this console the Nintendo switch has potential to be one of the greatest systems of all time it just needs to fix a few things the eShop needs a better design the overall quality of the online service needs to be improved the releases of newer and older titles should be much more evened out needs to refrigerate food better kill 99.9 of germs eat my vegetables tell me ghost stories drive my cousin to school and if it does all that then I think we have a winner on our hands hey y'all Scott here it's amazing to me that the Nintendo switch is already three years old and they still haven't fixed the console's biggest issue the t is backwards the Nintendo switch is only 17 years away from being one year away from Legally being able to drink so this is a thing now I guess the Nintendo switch aging we're already three years into the system's lifespan and I've cataloged my experiences with it and you'll lead this entire time I see no reason to stop and also not complain about something so it looks like we're going to be taking a look back at the Nintendo switch from March 2019 to February 2020 and see just how whiny I can get of course this is Nintendo talk I have to reiterate that while I'll try to mention most of the major things that happened this year I'm mainly going to be focusing on my experiences believe me that's best for everybody if I had to give every single game the same amount of attention we would have five straight minutes of me trying to figure out what each of these words mean remember March 2019 the month Yoshi's crafted world came out oh Yoshi's crafted world was Nintendo's first big release of the year if you don't count new Super Mario Brothers you Deluxe in January but a it was a seven year old game and B it was new Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe so crafted world it is crafted world was the first big 2019 game and it came out at the very end of March Nintendo my God yeah the first half of the year was pretty bleak in terms of big new releases on switch and honestly crafted world didn't make things that much better it's not a bad game not at all but I keep forgetting it ever came out this game is a follow-up to Yoshi's woolly World on Wii U and that game was phenomenal nothing groundbreaking it was pretty much another Yoshi's Island Game but it was such a lovable comfortable experience and I'd consider it to be the best Yoshi game since the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo crafted world is done by the same developers as woolly World good feel it does the same real world materials art style shtik as bully world it's still a Yoshi's Island Style game at heart but it tries to be something new and different compared to past games in the series and for that I commend it instead of being a straight-up 2D platformer levels are designed with a 3D perspective in mind and not only do you go left and right but towards and away from the screen you gotta keep the foreground and background in mind when traversing a level because you might just have to knock something out with a negative I gotta say it's the most original and unique Yoshi game in a long while but because of that it is so much less refined than woolly world woolly world was basically just another Yoshi's Island Game that may have meant it wasn't anything special in the gameplay department but hey at least it was really fun crafted World honestly gets kind of boring after a bit the fact you have to scour the entire environment and sort of not really 3D is novel but gets a bit tiresome after a while it doesn't help that the game wants you to play through its levels multiple times to collect everything one of the game's major gimmicks is that you can play the levels backwards with everything turned away from the camera the original reveal trailer at E3 2017 made this seem like an integral part of the game get ready for this it's not just when you beat a stage you get the option go through it again backwards to try and find some poochie pups that's it I don't know about anybody else but when they advertise this feature I assume they were going to have like way more clever things to do with the stages flipped around it feels like they thought they would come up with interesting uses for this mechanic eventually they didn't but still acted like it's a selling point I guess it's cute to see like oh there was a butterfly moving around and on the flip side you discover a shy guy was controlling it or something great cool 60 will spend now the art style is absolutely beautiful with this game I think it's better than woolly World however in I think one who has problems with how Yoshi looks and moves in this game something about his animations look unfinished especially the eggs just look at how they move look at how they pop out of this box and his model still looks weird to me it's literally just a regular Yoshi model with a faint fuzzy texture like why not make this an origami Yoshi to fit with the Arts and Crafts Vibe it would probably fit better if they put the yarn Yoshi from woolly world in the game but no slightly carpet Yoshi the music's not too great in this game which is surprising coming from the excellent soundtrack of wooly world it's not even a lot of bad music they only put like a dozen or so songs in the game and they range from nothing special to what the hell was going on here okay bottom line crafted World overall it's okay it's fine it's a decent game I just wasn't Blown Away by it and didn't have the desire to beat it I played like four to five hours of it too and still don't care to finish it off to wrap up my thoughts can't wait for a remake Yoshi's crafted World HD alright what else released in March Captain Toad treasure Tracker DLC why why did they make new levels for an 8 month old Port of a five-year-old Wii U game at that point just make a sequel to Captain Toad I heard nobody talk about the captain Toad special episode and at the same time I don't know anybody who bought it these levels should have pen in the Nintendo switch version from the start well we did finally get Final Fantasy VII I still love the idea that the game that notoriously never came to a Nintendo platform came to a Nintendo platform for what it's worth I played it for a bit and there is a reason why not an RPG guy is up in front of my resume but I'm really happy it's here and it did come with some quality of life improvements that sped up the game a bit the Nintendo 64 classic with a question mark made its way onto the eShop this month Turok I believe this is the first Nintendo 64 game officially made available on the switch and its NHD has better controls it's still a shooter from the mid 90s I don't think it's gonna win over any new fans but it's still great to see Lexi content like this get a bit of an upgrade in terms of news I mean Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was announced by Sega the switch has been validated I'm not the biggest fan of the Mario and Sonic titles I was pretty happy to see a new one come over just having that feeling of all these past Mainstay series being available on the platform is it's a good feeling speaking of which Konami finally did something for once and announced some collections their arcade games Castlevania and Contra and Nintendo themselves let out one lone tweet One Night in March it's good to have hobbies yes the Nintendo switch was getting the ability to play Virtual Reality content in the form of the fourth Nintendo labo kit the VR kit the switch is simultaneously the best platform for VR and also the worst Pokemon with this form factor VR is a shoe-in but also this screen is just not good enough for VR you might as well just stick your head in front of the TV and turn off the lights many people had their doubts and questioned if the Nintendo switch would be a capable enough VR device my response was that it was never and will never be thought of that lab OVR is a toy to mess around with not a legitimate platform for VR games Nintendo hosted another nindy showcase that revealed it's about time cuphead was announced after numerous rumors of Microsoft being more open to bring in their titles to other platforms specifically the switch this game always felt like it'd be more at home on Nintendo than Xbox yeah this game based on 1930s animation exclusive to the same platform forces on same audience that same presentation ended with the announcement of cadence of Hyrule a crossover between Crypt of the necrodancer and The Legend of Zelda sure that is absolutely insane to me that Nintendo was willing to let an indie developer tackle the Zelda franchise even if it's a non-canon spin-off even if it's just a crossover on the eShop whatever that was so crazy to see and really exciting March was also the month more rumors started to pop up about new revisions of the switch releasing in 2019 one for more high-end users and another that was focused on handheld play while also being smaller and cheaper yeah right April was definitely better than Marge I mean anything is automatically better when it has Donkey Kong 3 in it Nintendo's big releases of the month were the Nintendo labo VR kit and boxboy and box girl see I would have bought a VR kit at launch but these things were sold out across pretty much all stores the kid had a different pricing structure compared to other labo sets forty dollars would get you just the VR goggles and the Blaster toy con to create you could buy the extra VR toy con separately or just buy the full-blown VR kit for 80 with all the VR toykana Scott could ask for I mean I saw the 40 sets a few places and I could have bought the extra one separately but I'm no I wanted the full Nintendo libel VR kit now why did they release the kit this way well one Lambo didn't do nearly as well as Nintendo expected I still see various kits on clearance how that's how I got the vehicle kit the stores can't move them so offering one at a cheaper price definitely helps but two they wanted to make the VR goggles cheaply available without all the extra Mouse to feed because some games were updated to take advantage of labo VR specifically breath of the wild and Super Mario Odyssey did you know that's all it takes to get people interested in labo again yes updates for two of the switch's best games offering VR modes to play around in Mario odyssey's is just a simple 10 minute romp it's a fixed camera and you just collect instruments it's like I'm really there breath of the wild though they let you play through the entire game in VR Nintendo you are disgusting Zelda opens things up for more headaches in my opinion the fact that you're basically playing the game as you normally would this time feeling self-conscious the camera doesn't change all too much it's basically just playing breath of the wild normally but a bit more immersive and a lot a bit more stomach trauma but let's dog labo VR itself you put it together like any self-respecting labo kid and actually popping the goggles on it's not great but it works better than you'd expect it to I think it's pretty low resolution in the fact that it doesn't come with a head strap and you have to hold it up to your eyes the entire time yeah not great but in context of the lab of VR kick games it works pretty well it's obvious Nintendo isn't serious serious about VR they would have put more than just a 10 minute minigame in Mario Odyssey or they would put better implementation in breath of wild if that wasn't the case but it's a cute little novelty you can mess around with on your switch it's not bad but level VR box boy and box girl released this month finally finally Fox boy and box girl is a continuation of the boxboy series on 3DS you know the series that ended you can't call a game bye bye boxboy and then throw up box boy and box girl like nothing happened these are perfectly serviceable puzzle Platformers made by the Kirby developers I understand the lack of art style is this game's art style but I wish there was a bit more going on here like I feel like box boys gameplay mechanics where you make more boxes to solve puzzles and Traverse the stage there aren't clever or interesting enough to Warrant such a boring look don't get me wrong it's a fun game but I don't think it's clever enough to warn everything being just white like there's some color in there or something you could afford some nice Blues either up the yard style or up the gameplay because as it stands I like box playing box girl but it is really hard to find the motivation to keep playing sometimes plus my God playing this on a big TV just feels off this is definitely the kind of game that feels better in handheld mode again I did like the game but I think it either needs to be more clever or more interesting to look at and can find so many more puzzle Platformers that are more interesting visually and mechanically than box boy but box boy gets more attention because it's made by the Kirby devs well at least third party wise April was pretty packed I think the one most were interested in at the very least seeing was Mortal Kombat 11. like they barely showed the switch version running up until its release I think a lot of people were pretty concerned it would be a botched Port but no it turned out pretty okay I mean it looks ass ugly in some cases but it runs well and it's still Mortal Kombat 11. I also found it pretty commendable it released on the same day as the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One and PC versions so many other third-party multiplats on switch get delayed like Assassin's Creed 3 remastered we'll get to this one Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy all right I'm very happy to have these games on switch I love Phoenix right but I would have loved this release even more if they put the other games from the series in here I feel like all they do is constantly just release the first three also I don't care for how the HD artwork looks this stuff was drawn with the intentions that it would be pixelated on the original Game Boy Advance in DS when you take that pixelization away it all looks a little off to me but no worries it's still Phoenix straight and having these games on a TV on a current console is really nice hellblade made its way over and just how good it looks and performs is astonishing this is running on a switch quite well in fact this was a weird pick for the platform though hellblade is a really good experience as a video game it's not really my favorite so having this game that's so good at being this immersive experience on the switch then I don't know it's a weird choice but it's whatever Darksiders were mastered game over finally one of the last Wii U games ever released a sequel to one of the first Wii U games ever released is on switch it's about time more Final Fantasy ports 10 10 2 12 the Zodiac age it's right to me how Square Enix decided to release so many Final Fantasy games within like three months of each other these are long games give people a chance to actually play them cuphead was one of the bigger third-party releases and it is pretty much a one-to-one port with the Xbox One version having this on switch feels almost too perfect I've always loved that this game looked and while I do wish the gameplay and art style worked off of each other a bit more it's still a great fit for the system and I'm so happy it's here now Smash Brothers ultimate received an update this month finally we got our first paid DLC character Joker from Persona 5. he looks real weird next to Mario stage Builder was added as well and while it's not perfect or nearly as in depth as I'd want it to be it has enough going on here to make it interesting to browse what other people were making but everybody still had one thing on their mind we know next to nothing about Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo foreign just give us more information they announced the release date this month that's not what I meant but I'll take it it was a fairly steady month there was definitely enough to play albeit with no true star of the show team Sonic racing was probably the most prolific release because it was a brand new game and I always have Team Sonic racing money in my wallet but I just can't bring myself to buy it just every time I looked at this game I would say this looks quality and I'm sure I'll have fun with it but there's nothing really pushing me to take the plunge I know I'll willingly by Troll and I but team Sonic racing is where I draw the line it's just a me it always felt like the past Sonic racing games but with less to it they can make up team racing didn't really appeal to me and I just don't really feel all too much desire to play this one at the moment now Pollo Pollo champions for ten dollars you know I had to pick it up I'm no barbarian I was always intrigued by this one because in Japan it was called Esports I had to buy for that title alone ever since boy you pull your Tetris I've become more interested in the Boya Boya series I gotta say it's a really fun Puzzler the problem with Poyo Pollo Champions though is it's basically a strip down Pull you pull your Tetris so this is pretty much worthless to me but here we have the talk of the month for switch owners the red Resident Evil games sure Revelations and Revelations do hit the system back in late 2017 but these are the originals the classics and they were sold for thirty dollars a piece oh my God all these games are twenty dollars each on other platforms but for some reason Capcom decided to charge ten dollars more on switch did they add anything to them did they look better run better by me asking these questions you already know the answer Capcom just barfed the PS4 versions of these games on switch and charge them more for them who would have killed for motion aiming with re4 I played the Wii version and that's how I like to play the game the re4 has kind of clunky controls but that's not a complaint it makes the experience so much more tense and the controls don't fight against you because everything is designed with them in mind oh my God pointing where you wanted to shoot was a dream on Wii and it stinks it's not here on switch especially when motion controls were in the revelations games and this is priced higher than usual I feel like Capcom priced the games this way because they knew some people would buy them for thirty dollars but for those who refuse they constantly put it on sale for 20. so either way they're making good money off of this doesn't make me happy but at least somebody's smiling they also released Resident Evil 1 and 0 at retail for sixty dollars and one isn't even on the cartridge you have to download it news right now after Capcom released overpriced old games of theirs Capcom announcing an overpriced old game of theirs now you want to duckling four tier's Assassin's Creed 3 remastered all right let's be for half Lane out of all the Assassin's Creed games support to switch first gotta be honest this was an interesting pick I'm not the most into the Assassin's Creed games but I do know three isn't generally the highest regarded I would have expected four or the Ezio Trilogy to come over before three but three it was and and it has consistent pop in and frame rate problems this game released on the Wii U why is it having problems here also why did they delay the switch version by two months the game's seven years old Plus it's same as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions now at the very least they did Implement motion controls in HD Rumble which is nice and from the hour and a half I played it was tolerable just find it weird how this game of all games has this many little issues far from unplayable it's fine but like come on I was pretty happy to see Saints Row the Third come over it similarly had performance issues but if you've played Saints Row before you know performance issues are its specialty it is the perfect Grand Theft Auto substitute when you don't have Grand Theft Auto in the Castlevania Anniversary Collection so first up Konami revealed the first couple games in this collection a month back the original Castlevania Castlevania 2 Belmont's revenge on the Game Boy Castlevania 3 and Super Castlevania 4. the fact they omitted the original Castlevania The Adventure on Game Boy and Castlevania 2 on NES to me said they were only going to focus on the best of the best from the classic era of the franchise these two are either bad or controversial titles in the series so I was interested to see what games they would round out the collection with they later announced those two they did reveal Bloodlines and kid Dracula which were great inclusion but why did they wait to reveal these anyways this is a fantastic collection it doesn't go over as much of the series as I wish it would but hopefully we'll get a volume too that includes even more news wise well the labo VR support didn't stop at just Odyssey and Zelda finally they added it to smash see I knew something was missing from this game this is basically just a quick little distraction you get to sit up close and view the battles happening right in your face it's neat for five minutes moving on the Pokemon company announced the detective Pikachu story from the 3DS game would be finished on switch does does that mean a sequel and expanded Port of the original Tetris 99 DLC what the obviously the Mario Maker 2 direct was the highlight of May for me they went over so many amazing things here there's so many new items and options a story mode a online multiplayer get out of here of course this direct came with some questions where are the mystery mushroom costumes from the original and those were really cool you could effectively put all these different characters in the game even if they were just simple costumes can I play with friends online instead of just strangers will there be new content added later down the line well the game was coming out in just a month so we didn't have long to wait but I had a good feeling about this game where do I begin quite a bit happened in June but we'll get to all that after I give this thing what for Super Mario Maker 2 is a great game you should absolutely buy it because there's Limitless value here but for like every two amazing things Mario Maker 2 added upon the original there was like one thing they up that took away a lot of that oomph in the end it's a game where I can say this is really good but it's missing a lot of the magic from the original so Mario Maker 2 you can make your own Mario levels it's a dream come true again but they added a ton of items features and new game style and making levels themselves isn't as enjoyable as it was on Wii U that level Builder felt tailor-made for the Wii U gamepad but when you translate it over to switch it feels oddly clunky and cramped there's this new layout for all the items you can place and I just do not like this in the original everything was laid out in a grid sure it was a bit unorganized but you got a good look at everything you could possibly put in your stage here you have to go through different pages and not having everything in front of you makes it harder to find inspiration on what to put in your level and honestly makes it feel like there are less possibilities now the pants emphasized by the fact that now when you click on an object that can be made bigger or have wings added to them it just tells you pretty much everything you can do with that object right then and there in the original game you'd have to shake them or literally add a mushroom or wings to alter it and by doing that it felt like there was so much more mystery and Discovery involved well there were less options than the original there was this sense of wonder where it really felt like there were infinite possibilities here it just tells you everything you can do yay woo fun couple that with the fact that making levels on the the TV is miserable having to use a cursor with the analog stick why isn't there a gyro pointer like in Captain Toad or the ability to connect another switch to your docked one to create levels just like in the Wii U game or even the ability to connect a mouse to use the cursor handout mode creation is far better but like I said it feels claustrophobic using your fat stupid finger to place objects plucks so much more of the screen than the Wii U stylus and even getting a stylus that works with the switch it still feels off to me creating stages that still leagues better than many other level makers out there but I'd be lying if I said I preferred it to how it worked on Wii U now Mario Maker 2 has a pretty beefy single player campaign with levels made by Nintendo gotta say these are some top quality stages lots of fun to play through though I will say I feel like they didn't go far enough with the concept of this being a story mode you have to rebuild Princess Peach's castle excellent setup right there but all you really do is go up to toad click a level play it and repeat sure you do some minor exploration in the Overworld but I would have liked more of this because as it stands story mode is basically the same thing as Mario Maker one single player campaign the 10 more year challenge where you just go through Nintendo made levels and that's about it I'm fine with that but I wish they went a little farther with the Overworld concept it was really cool to see I'm playing levels online and that's why you buy Mario maker and I'd say since the Mario Maker 2 level Creator is more cumbersome than the originals it seems like only the people who really want to make levels are making them because it's surprising how many good levels I've played I haven't noticed nearly as much garbage as with the Wii U version multiplayer was added which is a fantastic addition in concept but it's so gimped in so many ways originally you would have to download levels to your system in order to play with friends locally get in the corner that is a total buzz kill it just makes multiplayer so much more cumbersome and makes you wait around in menus far longer than you have to now through an update you can thankfully now just play multiplayer levels straight from the course World level browser but even then I wish I could just play a string of levels with friends there's the endless Mario challenge which is fundamentally a playlist of random levels to play but it's a one player only mode just like the single player why can't I play the with friends well at least there's online multiplayer that's right the first Mario platformer with online play ever since new Super Mario Brothers Wii I've wanted this and it's Dreadful so I launched Mario Maker 2 wouldn't let you play with friends online only rendez yeah that makes sense Nintendo's reasoning for this was because playing with friends could help you sort of cheat at the online leaderboards all right Nintendo first off I found it odd that Mario Maker was the first time you decide to add online multiplayer to 2D Mario look they put out new Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe earlier this year okay with that Nintendo knows every single level playable in that game there's no surprises they know how each and every stage is designed and runs but they decide to add online multiplayer to the game with status they have no idea how they're designed and there's more room for and because of that and other people's connection problems [Music] yeah and with this why does online rankings matter sure I like that leaderboards are here but even the greatest 2D Mario player of all time they'd probably be in last place on the leaderboards because online multiplayer gives you random stages that could be unbeatable they might not be designed for multiplayer or you just get terrible lag leaderboards don't mean in this game because the online multiplayer runs so poorly and is the farthest thing from skill based if they edit it here why is an online multiplayer in regular 2D Mario games everything Nintendo did for Mario Maker 2's online multiplayer makes less and less sense to me the more I think it's a great game I like it but I have loads of problems with it at least online multiplayer with friends was added later and that works fairly well but I won't forgive them for removing the mystery mushroom costumes though that was a huge block well at least E3 happened alongside a Pokemon Direct going more in depth on Pokemon sword and shield June will be forever known as the time in which everybody should piss more details on sword and shield came out which honestly did not painted in the best light the game looked passable graphically but far from what a potential original HD Pokemon game could look like and in addition to that the game would not include the national decks that was somebody who doesn't play Pokemon if you came up to me and asked what are your thoughts on the lack of the national decks in Pokemon sword and shield I'd just go uh-huh well this doesn't affect me you wouldn't be able to transfer every Pokemon ever into the game they had to cut certain ones because they were focusing more so on creating new models and animations for the Pokemon already in the game see that's an understandable reason but have you seen how this game looks Pokemon look identical to previous titles on the 3DS and the game itself doesn't look all too great graphically it looks okay but that's really the best I can say about it I don't know my stance is voice your opinions but don't be a jerk and that goes both ways don't be a jerk to people who thought this game doesn't look great sometimes the people saying stop complaining about this Nintendo game are being far more ridiculous than the people complaining well when E3 officially kicked off at least Nintendo showing was good E3 2019 just sort of happened and most companies didn't have that many great games on display especially for switch bethesda's porting over an iPhone game to the console good for them but if the audience is reacting like this to Elder Scrolls blades how do you think sex makes them feel the Nintendo directed E3 2019 started off strong metal was Contra Rogue core and ended with a bang we got the hero from Dragon Quest as the next Smash Brothers DLC character and Nintendo made damn sure we knew Dragon Quest 11 was coming out as well I wonder if these two are related Luigi's Mansion 3 looked far better than how it did when it was initially revealed back in September there was so much more detail lighting was way better it was looking like a true HD Luigi's mansion Game the lynx Awakening remake got a new trailer with this one showcasing some kind of new dungeon maker my God what else could they add to this game oh we'll talk about this we finally got a look in Animal Crossing for switch New Horizons and it looked beautiful everything Animal Crossing should be on the platform and then some slight delay it was supposed to come out in 2019 I reacted accordingly but we're all good the way Witcher 3 was coming over which is a pure indication the past three years have been a fever dream how will that work at last collection of Mana was localized that was awesome it's been a Japan exclusive ever since early on in the switch's life and it included the third game in the Mona series which never officially left Japan and this was the first time we could play it and it was made available during the direct and got a physical release later that was great plus that third game was announced to be getting a full-blown remake at Resident Evil 5 and 6 were announced for the system in a trailer that advertised Resident Evil one got to Rogue corpse that looked bad but the Contra Anniversary Collection released that exact day and it had the same level of quality as the Castlevania one it was some good stuff Panzer Dragoon remake some Dark Crystal game I don't know who the cares because at the end we got this massive Sizzle reel of all this stuff coming out the spiral reignited Trilogy Nino Cooney alien isolation Banjo-Kazooie is the third DLC character in Smash Brothers ultimate that's right you Damon ex machina and then we ended things off with a teaser for a breath of the wild sequel no big deal I've been drained I don't know if it was a parent with the 100 plus Wii U games I own but I like Nintendo and this direct made me happy well isn't perfect I mean what the hell was this trailer who remembers this why was this featured some spotlights in there didn't make a ton of sense but it was a solid showing all around later that week Cadence of Hyrule officially released now I haven't played this one nearly as much as I'd want to but this is a really cool game it has excellent remixes of Zelda music and the core gameplay being an adventure game where you have to move an attack to the Rhythm is really interesting it does make me want to try out the original Crypt of the necrodancer but this one has Zelda stuff in it it has been more interesting to me Greg team racing Nitro fueled came out day in date with the other consoles and it's a solid racing game I mean I'm more of a if it's not Mario Kart it scares me kind of guy but CTR is beautiful it has good mechanics it's just not replacing Mario Kart anytime soon from it Devil May Cry release the first one the one that was a part of the Devil May Cry HD collection on other consoles that one the one that I can always find for under 20 dollars but this is just the first one for twenty dollars at least it wasn't thirty dollars like the Resident Evils this is pretty much capcom's strategy on switch stripping out games from a collection and forcing you to buy them individually for an overall higher price at least Devil May Cry is finally available on a Nintendo platform it's crazy this was the first time that's ever happened bloodstained ritual of the night the crowdfunded spiritual successor to the Castlevania series came out about a week after other platforms and the switch version was the worst version by far it just didn't run well didn't look great the game itself is pretty good but playing it on here was less than ideal which blows because it was the best-selling version but thankfully various updates have come out but for some reason the developer didn't initially realize that a good chunk of castlevania's audience was on the switch and wanted to play this game portably way to read the room classic July of 2019 home to such games as yep a video game Fire Emblem 3 houses the first Fire Emblem game on a Home console since the Wii this was a big moment for Fire Emblem fans and from what I could tell it was an excellent game and I will emphasize from what I could tell Fire Emblem has just never really appealed to me personally it's not a bad franchise far from it but to any Fire Emblem fans who get on me for not caring about the series I'll start caring when you start caring about wheat party thank you a week before three houses released another Nintendo published title finally came out Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 the black order I also didn't play this one just never really appealed to me and while I thought the game looked kind of bad prior to launch it apparently turned out pretty alright I know many miss these types of games just shut your brain off and have a good time in the Marvel Universe well this was always just a weird series for Nintendo to revive though like of all dead franchises to resurrect and make a Nintendo switch exclusive this I'm sure it did well enough Marvel's Big now and the game itself turned out to be alright just of all series why this one well a week before Ultimate Alliance three another Nintendo published game released Dragon Quest Builders 2 can you take a guess if I played it or not I actually bought the original Dragon Quest Builders last year but I still haven't played it so I just can't possibly play this one now what game did I play this month Doom from 1993 randomly on July 26 which was also the day Bethesda released at Wolfenstein Youngblood the company decided to release Doom 1 2 and 3 on the eShop one and two were only five bones three was ten capcom's pricing hurts even more now I only played Doom 1 and it honestly holds up remarkably well even though it looks like it would feel outdated it's not a chore to play through like other older Shooters I think it's probably because one that Doom's pretty well designed overall and two it doesn't feel too similar to Modern Shooters and because of that you never really get this feeling of I wish this was dined up a bit or oh Shooters today are so much better like you would get with a shooter on the N64 for example but all of your life accomplishments crumble when you start asking people to make a Bethesda account yeah this was a bit of a controversy these games initially required players to sign in online to play you'd only have to log in online once didn't make it aimless stupid however to everybody screaming about forcing you to have an internet connection and what if you weren't connected to the internet you have to have an internet connection to download the game in the first place I felt like that argument was a little dumb but forcing an account yet that's even more dumb thankfully that got removed in later updates but that little controversy didn't compare to what Nintendo was experiencing this month the joycon are great stupid controllers they get the job done but are far from my favorite things to use they're a bit too small I don't like how clicky the buttons are and for some if not most people the analog sticks start to whack out after a while and make unwanted inputs and games this was coined joy-con drift and while I personally haven't experienced it yet I'm prepared to this blew up big time and lawsuits were threatened the Nintendo ended up quietly offering joy-con repair services but only in specific regions unfortunately see this was perfect timing for Nintendo to have this all happen because they ended up just revealing new switches that's an an easy way to fix your joy-con problems just buy a new console the Nintendo switch light often referred to as the switch mini beforehand was the first ever new addition to the Nintendo switch lineup of systems it's smaller and more compact the controls are a core part of the system you can't remove them so if the sticks out your entire system needs repaired good announcement during the Fiasco it actually has a d-pad instead of gum drops and it couldn't connect to a TV ever can't even buy a dog for it or anything for 100 less than the regular switch that's a pretty big Omission most people I know who wanted to switch think to themselves well that 200 price point is more attractive but I'd rather wait and save up an extra 100 so I just get the definitive console well if you had that mentality great Nintendo made a new regular switch too so like a week after the light was announced Nintendo also announced that the regular switch would be getting a new revision and nothing would change except for the battery life holy that would release in August while the switch light was ready to release in September and while we waited Nintendo hosted a live stream featuring Smash Brothers director Masahiro Sakurai showcasing the second DLC fighter hero so hero is definitely one of the less interesting DLC Fighters simply because in my opinion A Dragon Quest character was kind of an inevitability in Smash Brothers the series is very at home on Nintendo platforms and it is the original jrpg franchise so comparative to Joker and banjo Hero's inclusion was never really this huge pipe dream for fans but this is a pretty fun character he has a whole lot of I'm a big supporter of like Super Monkey Ball banana Blitz HD being announced why why this game why remake this game they could have done one and two the games people actually like this one's just all right nobody goes oh man you've never played banana Blitz you've gotta try banana Blitz it's just okay the outer worlds was announced to be coming to switch if you asked me to name 20 PS4 and Xbox One games I would predict to become switch titles this would never come up I was not expecting this but that was an awesome announcement it may not have been coming at the same time as the other consoles however just incoming in general was pretty crazy Captain Toad got a VR update just make a new game and I'm cool with this this is kind of cute and VR fits Captain Toad very well it just blows my mind I keep updating this Wii U game from 2014 instead of actually trying to make a new damn Captain Toad game a Disney Tsum Tsum switch was announced too I'm sure somebody wanted to switch when it came out but said I'll wait for the Tsum Tsum one as usual August was a bit lighter in terms of pure content but it did end with astral chain a platinum games title published by Nintendo and after hearing such a good word of mouth I decided to pick it up and I mean it's good but I just don't think I'm a huge Platinum Games fan I have tremendous respect for their work but most of their games that I try they just don't really click with me I don't know again this is a good game I can tell it just wasn't really for me I guess maybe I need to try some more however Dragon Quest 11s demo came out and I decided to finally succumb to how Nintendo wouldn't shut the up about Dragon Quest 11s and I gave it a try and as somebody who doesn't like RPGs this is a great game I love its style it's a jovial and nice and just an overall enjoyable time I'm just not willing to put 100 hours into this thing so yes this is also a good game but I'd rather play 10 10 hour long games instead of Dragon Quest 11s that entire time Gerard 2 came out in similar style to the original earlier this year except the multiplayer was missing which is what a lot of Turok 2 fans liked about the game interesting tactic all the Nintendo switch revision came out this month and only a stupid dumb stupid idiot would buy one when they already have a perfectly fine switch from launch yeah I got the new Switch pretty much this is the exact same thing as the older model except this this time it has acceptable battery life and a red box you can't forget the red box it is so nice to not worry about charging this thing nearly as much as the old one while I wouldn't say it's completely worth the headache of upgrading and transferring everything over I'm pretty happy I did however after doing the system transfer my play times for most games got reset which really blows come on I didn't play Kirby star allies for that long an indie World presentation happened this month where they got rid of the name nindies I kind of like that but the big announcement here was that Ori and the blind forest was coming over published by Xbox game studios little weird considering this Indy one Xbox game studios is publishing it but whatever this alongside cuphead were rumored quite a bit this year and while Microsoft said they didn't have much more Nintendo switch support to announce I find it hard to believe it when adhere but forget Xbox games on switch because Nintendo tweeted this render of Mario eating a watermelon and had the word sunshine in it what the does that mean nothing put an OverWatch Nintendo switch case appeared on Amazon what the does that mean what do you think September definitely had more games than usual what do you think I have 20 fingers I can't play all this at the very least tried multiple games out but my main focus this month was The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening this is an amazing game with absolutely gorgeous visuals that should 100 not cost 60 dollars so Link's Awakening is a remake of the original Game Boy title it's a beloved entry in the series no doubt but it definitely was held back by the hardware it was on the graphics make it hard to go back to Now you kind of have to guess what certain Sprites are supposed to represent traversing the map can be a pain with how the screen transitions work and how tiny the screen size is in general it can be hard to remember where certain areas are and how to get to places and the overall lack of buttons on the original Game Boy made swapping between items a nightmare for some reason Link's Awakening wasn't designed with button limitations in mind so the player had to constantly go into the menu to swap out items to solve puzzles and progress but the world of Link's Awakening the dungeons the story the overall gameplay is so good that it really did deserve a remake it's hard to go back to playing games like this in 2019 even disregarding all the hardware limitations that plagued it these more complex Game Boy titles just make you wish you were playing this exact game but presented in a more appealing light and Link's Awakening on switch does exactly that it takes the original game and spruces it up in a way that's more approachable in the current Day Without Really changing it all too much sure its presentation got a massive overhaul and certain things have been tweaked for the better but by and large this is the same game see that shows out while Link's Awakening was originally designed its fatal flaw was pretty much just the fact it was on the Game Boy they didn't have to do too much to make it good because it was already really good it just needed to exist on anything but its original platform but see that's where my problems come in with the game the fact that they really didn't add anything of note this is pretty much Link's Awakening again and because of that I feel like charging full price is a bit much they ended the chamber dungeons that dungeon Ranger mode revealed at E3 but really this Edition is a fairly worthless one you just take different rooms from dungeons you've completed and make your own custom dungeon where all these rooms have to connect it's all right it's kind of cute the first time around but it's just not that engaging it's not like Mar maker where you can truly make your own thing this is literally just putting random rooms you've already played together some people have complained about not being able to share your custom dungeons online and to that I say what would the point of that be you can't do much with this it's just random dungeon rooms if there were more possibilities and you could add items and customized layouts for sure they should have added the ability to share online but as it stands I feel like sharing your dungeons online would only reiterate how lackluster this mode is how it's literally just a dungeon shuffled up with none of your own personal creativity attached I just wish they would have taken this idea farther would have put more time into adding things maybe an extra dungeon or something but nope and while we're on the topic of grips I had with this game and I'm fine with link being locked to eight directional movement but they couldn't have animated some in-between frames so he doesn't immediately jut from direction to Direction Just animate him moving between directions for like a frame or two also yes they made link Shield sword and Pegasus boots a core part of his moveset in the remake you no longer have to equip them like in the original but why couldn't they have made Rex feather a permanent part of his his moveset as well I can use that throughout the entire Adventure more so than the Pegasus boots then why does it have to stop and tell me when I get a piece of power or a guardian Acorn 10 hours in I know what these do and for a remake of a Game Boy game I think it's a bit ridiculous how much Link's awakening's frame rate dips it's far from that big of an issue it never impacted my enjoyment of the game but I just think it's a little weird how a top-down Zelda game has this much of a problem running you know don't take this the wrong way I love this game its world was so much fun to explore the puzzles were great the story was so good even with it being so simplistic and non-intrusive this is a phenomenal game and a necessary remake I just would have liked if they went a bit further and added more to it well a week before Link's Awakening Nintendo finally released Daemon X Machina and somebody probably cared this game was just not talked about which is unfortunate because I can tell it was at the very least the quality product definitely didn't help that the Japanese publisher and developer marvelous kept copyright claiming videos of the game online so even if you wanted to talk about the game you barely could so that ended up making a game barely anybody was interested in a game pretty much nobody was interested in I'm sorry I'm so Brash about this but ever since this game was revealed at E3 2018 you know the game Nintendo cold opened with and made everybody confused it's just consistently been a game that looked alright but never left an impact and a year and a half later that is my exact opinion of the game see I was this close to picking this game up alongside some others like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 just stuff I never got around to buying I grabbed them at Best Buy and I just couldn't stomach bringing them up to the register so the demo it is it's graphically okay but the color palette while stylistic and cool looking ends up making everything kind of look samey the city looks pretty similar to these mountains after playing a bit I will say this game has a lot of potential mechanically I found its ideas to be a lot of fun but the story I couldn't care less and the overall Missions at the start weren't anything to write home about and don't take my word to heart though I only played the demo one it's free for everybody so if it looks interesting to you by all means try it out I will say it was much better than I thought it would be though I don't really have much interest in playing any more of it for as many people online I saw saying this game looked interesting but never played a second of it I will say say that demon X Machina will go down in history as the game that most people said it doesn't look bad but Nintendo's just showing it off poorly we need to see more about it when in reality they meant I don't give a piss about this game I don't know why and don't want to put energy into figuring out why but don't want to piss off the 12 people who are interested in this game I'm sorry Dragon Quest 11s Echoes of an elusive age Definitive Edition Jesus Christ did you really need both the S and Definitive Edition released a week after Link's Awakening Nintendo what the hell was up with the schedule I bought it to support the game well I got my feel from the demo I wanted to support the series because I did like what I played and I want to support quality games I have at least some interest in on the switch I will say that while this is a good game I was pretty happy with it releasing so the Nintendo would shut the hell up about it literally they talked about this game in every Nintendo Direct this year and I kept saying this is an old game alongside 11s where Enix put out Dragon Quest one two and three on the same day why these are RPGs they take forever to be why not spread the release date sour at the very least put one two and three out on a different day than 11. I mean these were fairly cheap but they are based on the mobile phone remakes of these games and I do not really like how they look they just look like online flash games I really would have preferred if they just stuck to the original 8-bit Sprites from the NES but whatever they're still the game so if you want to check out some Dragon Quest history you have that option now now on the same day as Link's Awakening Nino Cooney came out stop I've always thought Nino Cooney was one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen and it was always a shame it only released on the PS3 originally but thankfully it got a remastered version on PS4 and PC with the original one coming to Nintendo switch now for anybody wondering why I may give Pokemon sword and shield a hard time in the graphical Department it's because of this this game is nearing a decade old yet it looks 10 times better than Pokemon it has good voice acting great animated cutscenes amazing music and overall I just think Pokemon can be so much more than what it is right now and Nino Cooney is evidence of that on the same day as Nino Cooney and Link's Awakening there is no God Untitled Goose game came out on the eShop one of the major Indie releases everybody was keeping their eyes on and it's great I'm sure it's a funny haha game but it's a really enjoyable puzzle game where you have this list of Anarchy to complete and you have to wander around the environment trying to figure out how to pull these things off it's really well done and while it's a short game I think it's an experience that fits the length and deserves the attention it's gotten and four days after that Contra roll core I don't get this so Konami revives the Contour series and this is what they put out a slow top down game most similar to the dark ages of Contra you know games like Legacy of War on the PS1 why didn't they just hire anti-creates or way forward to make a 2d spray-based Contra like that's what the series needs right now and would have done so much better than rokor this is just a really ugly sloppy game that feels the need to swear every two minutes for no reason it's slow and a bit clunky I don't think it's terrible but it's definitely not great for maybe like 10 bucks it's worth it but I'd recommend checking out the demo in your priorities first three days after rokor and on the same day as the Dragon Quest outbreak Ori in the blind Forest came out and oh my God whenever I dream of making a video game I always picture it being in the style of Ori in the blind Forest it's such a beautiful and emotional game I'm not far in it at all but so far it's a wonderful Adventure game a metroidvania that I will eventually beat slash probably not and it will haunt me for years to come and Tetris 99 got a physical release why did I buy this because it's the best switch game of 29 teen I'm not joking Tetris 99 is the switch game I fire up the most just for one or two quick games before bed it is so much fun and throughout the year they've added a ton to it new modes via DLC why did I buy this because it's Tetris 99 you these modes aren't anything special they just kind of rounded out to make it a full Tetris experience like the ability to play just regular games offline but what I love most is the addition of new themes my favorite being the Classic Game Boy one I've become so used to how this theme looks and sounds I can't go back but there's loads of other Nintendo based ones or just generally cool ones to buy via in-game ticket to get for playing regularly you get themes for participating in special events based on games coming out at the time guys it's amazing they finally did it they perfected video games and this stuff isn't even scratching the surface of the switch to September as Spyro reignited trilogy there was a bit confusion whether or not you'd be forced to download parts of the game or not with the physical release that's unfortunate but at least the switch games that require a portion downloaded now just have a tiny little notice on the box art instead of whatever the hell this was but Lego Jurassic world got a re-release weird but I won't complain Final Fantasy 8 remastered came out but we did have some stinkers Devil May Cry 2 isn't the hottest crayon in the Box NBA 2K 20 was a bit iffy alongside FIFA 20 Legacy Edition the subtitle Legacy Edition denotes that this is literally just FIFA 19 but with the roster of players updated EA couldn't even get three fifas in without giving up but even with all of these game releases Nintendo still held a Nintendo Direct on September 4th and I've noticed that if you weren't over the moon positive about this Direct online you got blasted so what better time to say I thought this direct was pretty mediocre than six months later it wasn't bad or anything there just wasn't really anything no I could open up with an OverWatch announcement which would have been a lot more exciting in 2017 and it ended with the announcement of Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition which is a good thing I'm happy that's coming out xenoblade's obviously a good game but it's only been on platforms that can barely run it so it's nice to see it be able to run with some extra legroom now but it's still an old game and a game that's been re-released before and it's a series that's already been represented on the switch Tokyo Mirage sessions sharp Fe Encore got announced a part of the Wii U game surprising this made the jump before games like Mario 3D World or Pikmin 3 but still I welcome games to get a second chance on switch I like having these ports but it feels like that's all we're getting on switch sometimes you know Deadly Premonition Origins was announced and released alongside the direct a port of deadly premonitions which is one of the most polarizing games of all time either people absolutely despise it or love it unconditionally and the sequel was announced to be a Nintendo switch exclusive never would have guessed that super Kirby Clash released after the direct a free-to-play Kirby game uh Team Kirby Clash was a mini game in Planet Rebel bought on the 3DS and became a free-to-play eShop title later on that system and super Kirby Clash is basically just that it's pretty much team Kirby Clash deluxe from the 3DS ported to the switch God would have really been that difficult to create a new Kirby Clash game kind of my same thoughts with why they ported new Super Mario Brothers U like would it have really been that much trouble to make a new new Super Mario Brothers sometimes it feels like Nintendo doesn't even want to put effort into making new lazy games so they just get lazy and re-release their old lazy games it's a super grippy Clash is fine I mean it's free might as well check it out but it's nothing special at all if you want a multiplayer Kirby game where all you kind of do is fight bosses here you go banjo released for smash after the direct as well alongside Terry from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters getting announced which was leaked beforehand or at the very least the next DLC character being an SNK rep was leaked beforehand I'm fine with Terry being in here but people need to calm the hell down this character may not be the most widely known but he does have historic value and a large fan base and everybody's shaming people for not knowing who Terry Bogart is or not caring about the character please zip it I never heard anybody even mention SNK characters in Smash Brothers before the leak of an SNK character being in Smash Brothers happen and now people are acting like he's the most deserving character to be in Smash Brothers ever I don't dislike the character it's just meant you know who I hate the most when the new Smash Brothers character is announced now everybody SNES games were finally added to your Nintendo switch online subscription for no extra fee as a few NES games were added every month prior to September and with the handful of SNES games added I think NSL finally has value I don't think it's amazing or anything but you do get access to quite a bit of content just on the SNES side alone there's some real winners here the NES games are far more hit or miss but they've added some interesting and obscure ones and blows most of the best NES games are already here so in my opinion you get what you pay for however what I'm paying for is good online multiplayer Nintendo doesn't give me that and instead gives me any as an SNES games instead I mean yeah I'll take those but are these supposed to distract me from the piss pour online controller this one oddly doesn't connect to the switch like the NES controllers did last year I'm both pleased but also slightly disappointed that looked so stupid that I liked it after the direct app Nintendo posted a mysterious video showing people playing with a ring and leg strap later on it turned out to be a fitness-based adventure game ring fit adventure and also this month Brain Age got announced hell yes the casuals will have their day September was absolutely packed and Nintendo released a new system that I completely forgot about the Nintendo switch light finally released on September 20th alongside Link's Awakening and Nino Cooney and Untitled Goose game it was 200 and it's definitely worth it but you might as well save up an extra 100 for the regular model here's the thing I totally understand why this exists some people just want to buy a cheap Nintendo console they don't have to leave plugged into their TV just to play Pokemon or Mario or Zelda I get it and the switch light is the perfect system for that it's super light and Compact and you can play pretty much all switch games you'd want to play on it however with some of them you're gonna need extra controllers as the non-detachable controllers on the system won't work for local multiplayer games focused on motion control so stuff like Super Mario Party or one to switch Yeah those work but they're a bit clunky on the light want to switch a bit clunky yeah nuts it's crazy to me that Nintendo didn't design the system to be more accepting of those types of games there's no kickstand which means you have to prop it up against something for these things it also really bugs me Nintendo took out the ability to Output to a TV and I wouldn't mind it if they sold the dock separately to connect to but this thing just will not work like that it is handheld only and if you want that functionality well do I have a switch for you it's really unfortunate because this is a far better feeling system the buttons feel amazing soft and comfortable yet insanely responsive I hate the clicky Buns of the regular joy-con and these are way more my speed having a traditional d-pad is really nice and the smaller screen makes games look a bit sharper and the smaller size kind of reignites that wow feeling of playing these big budget console games on the go let's be honest it's been three years I've officially gotten used to seeing Home console games play on a portable the switch light brings back some of that magic and plus I just think this is a nicer looking system overall if this set the ability to play on the TV this would be my go-to switch but the lack of that alongside some games that are annoying to play on here and no Rumble make this system more of a novelty I wasted money on rather than a core system I'll play a lot unfortunately a slightly better battery life than the original switch which made it seem like a cool extra system to pick up originally but then Nintendo updated the regular switch and it has supremely better battery life than the light so I'm running out of Pros for this machine I know some people like using this as their handheld switch they just leave the regular one in the dock and whenever they want to play their games they transfer their save data over to the light and then transfer back when they want to play on the TV see I don't do that because a more elegant solution in my opinion is to just take the switch out of the dock October was definitely a bit lighter than September but still had quite a bit of content and the headliner this month was none other than Luigi's Mansion 3 releasing on Halloween October 31st I love that release date but I hated to yeah it's perfect this game ended up releasing on Halloween but you only had one day to play until Halloween season was over I wish it came out a week prior but I feel like they must have been working on this game up till the last minute they kept saying Luigi's Mansion 3 is planned to release this fall and it'll release when it's ready they didn't specify October for the longest time I feel like if it could have they would have released it a week earlier potentially but hey the game came out on time and it's really quite good I actually fully beat the original Luigi's Mansion for the first time around 3's release and comparing and contrasting these two is really interesting I feel like one is thematically better like you remember every single room in this Mansion where everything is the atmosphere the little details but the gameplay is pretty unremarkable just go room to room sucking up ghosts Luigi's Mansion 3's style isn't nearly as great in my opinion the art style is a bit too cartoony which I know is a weird complaint but we just mentioned one had this faint sense of dread to it like this felt like an actual haunted house while it was still cartoony it still felt legitimately haunted I don't really care for the exaggerated and pointy look to a lot of Three's environments or characters the Dark Moon had this art style too and it was a bit weird to me that they didn't redesign the Mario cast to slightly fit better in this style all the other characters in the game look like they belong and one felt like it fully took place in the standard Mario Universe the hotel having different random themes on each floor makes things more varied but makes it feel like less of an actual building like the original and more like each floor is just another world in a regular Mario game or something it's not bad but I do like how the original setting felt more connected like this was an actual Mansion however the gameplay here feels to me like they really validated Luigi's Mansion being its own series with how three is designed and how you use Luigi's Poltergeist to interact with the environment and solve puzzles there's really nothing else like this series focusing more so on Clever puzzle solving really worked out in its favor I haven't played much of Dark Moon and while a lot of Three's elements started there Everything feels perfected in three it is visually gorgeous and a ton of fun to play like I said I do like one style and atmosphere more but three is definitely the better overall package but that wasn't it for October as ringfit Adventure came out earlier in the month coming bundled with some new accessories for the switch the Rincon and joy-con leg strap disconnect one joy-con to this and slide one joy-con into then we have no more excuses if Nintendo tells us to exercise we'd better do it ring fit Adventure is a fitness-based adventure RPG G you run through a level by running in place and use the Rincon by moving it around squeezing it and pulling it out to perform actions when you run into an enemy you have to do various exercises to fight off against them this game is no joke and is a legitimate exercise I love how it incentivizes you to play more by contextualizing exercise as a grand Quest listen I dig me some we fit but what I kept coming back to were the balance games and those were just kind of quick fun uses of the Wii Balance Board they weren't really great workouts ringfit does a better job incentivizing you to keep playing by taking some of the fun in the non-exercise games in Wii Fit and turning them into actual exercises it gives you more of a reason to legitimately exercise because everybody knows the worst part of we fit was the actual exercising who wants to do yoga when you can ski the problem with ringfit is it's still exercise so if you stop playing for a bit it is really hard to feel motivated to play again but I really liked what I played and I hope to consistently get back into it soon now Super Monkey Ball banana Blitz HD came out this month and my God it's banana Blitz like I said this was always a weird one to remake because it's far from the best entry in the series it's fine but this was where the series started to stumble we took out the motion controls and now it's just controlled by the analog stick which is a blessing and a curse I do prefer Monkey Ball being controlled this way but banana Blitz was designed with motion controls in mind and thus the stages are pretty simplistic that makes the game way easier and a bit more boring I assume they picked this game to be remade because it didn't need a ton of work done to it to look good nowadays the art style still looks really good today on the other hand the GameCube games while they don't look bad do use those classic early 2000s character models and would probably need a bit more done to them for a re-release also I hate how Sig is basically saying if you want more monkey ball buy banana Blitz HD these companies have to stop putting out games we don't want to then say buy this to get what you actually want it's such a bad practice like don't be surprised if your game doesn't sell well it's not because people don't want a new entry it's because you re-released an entry not many wanted however I think banana Blitz HD is a fine enough Monkey Ball Game it does scratch the itch I had for one it's just is unfortunate because I know they could have remade one or two instead speaking of remakes and re-releases Disney classic games Aladdin and Lion King was a cool one a compilation of many of the different versions of these games there's a lot of neat features they included and I like that licensed retro titles are able to be re-released like this Resident Evil 5 and 6 alright well these are once again overpriced at 30 each but Capcom at least made things better by adding motion controls still not to Resident Evil 4 what is wrong with this company the motion controls actually work really well they're capable of doing it but why were they added to these and not four five is pretty good albeit not as good as four and six took the series into a brave New Direction called bad Resident Evil game but if you wanted quality action game and not a quality Resident Evil game six isn't half bad if you grab it on sale OverWatch release but it was during the Great Blizzard controversy of 2019 and it barely got any coverage and I didn't feel like buying it assuming I should have released it back in 2017 when people were actually asking for this game to be on switch The Witcher 3 came out all on one game card which is insane many of these bigger ports to switch require extra downloads or are digital only but they cram the entirety of this game on a single cartridge and playing this game on a TV oh my God it's a blurry nightmare textures constantly pop in it's more than playable but not a great looker playing in handheld you can truly appreciate how insanely cool it is they were able to make this game work on the platform this is The Witcher 3 in its entirety on the go that is unbelievable and time came over which is weird because it was never supposed to but this is such an enjoyable little 3D platformer it's a shame the switch version doesn't run better though these cute little title cards that appear before each Act are so pixelated for some reason and the game itself runs alright but has fairly long load times and looks really blurry again it works it's just unfortunate this version isn't the best I think it could be Little Town Hero actually released developed by the Pokemon developer game freak originally just titled town when it was revealed back in September of 2018 that I was always a bit interested in this game just because I thought the style looked really nice looking forward to Little Town Hero HD ukulele and the impossible Lair I wasn't super into the original ukulele it felt like the scope was too big for their team and budget impossible Lair changes things up and is a straight up 2D platformer in the vein of Donkey Kong Country this game is so damn similar to Tropical Freeze but that is not a bad thing Tropical Freeze gets better every time you play it when I first initially played it back in 2014 I thought it was good now after recently replaying it for the third time I'd consider it to be one of the greatest 2D Platformers of all time this game is another really good one I wouldn't say a tops Tropical Freeze but if you like that game for the love of God give this one a shot Ghostbusters the video game remastered and Killer Queen black Cane Mountain while I did pick him up and antenna given them a go I unfortunately haven't yet October was a pretty packed month with releases but not much happened news-wise Mario Maker 2 finally gave you the ability to play with friends online over three months after it released give me a p give me an aesthetic that was pathetic but at least I only multiplayer with friends Works fairly well it just took a ridiculous amount of time to happen and to round things out Doom eternal got delayed to March 20th with the switch version being delayed even further to an unspecified date you know that's fine but they were planning to release Doom 64 alongside Doom Eternal in November and push that to March as well come on why I get it's a pre-order bonus but it can stay that way you just get it for free when you get Eternal why couldn't you just release that in November what else am I supposed to play in November son of a what do you want me to say I gave Pokemon Shield a try and it just did nothing for me I assume that it's because I never grew up with Pokemon and when you don't have a childhood connection to Pokemon it is a lot harder to start getting into it in your early 20s just nothing was doing it for me the story was completely nothing the battles weren't interesting to me I was just incredibly bored but people like this game so I'm not gonna say it's bad or anything I'll just stamp this one with not for me it's a good thing I bought both versions when Pokemon bores me to tears Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 comes around to save the day it's just all right Mario and Sonic titles boiled down to just being simple Sports minigame collections with some zany Flair thrown into a couple of them and this one is no exception this is definitely better than the series offerings on Wii U but that's not saying much my problems with the sports minigames is that they're longer than something like a Mario Party minigame but they're not long enough to have a whole lot of substance to them so at the end of the day I'm usually left a bit unsatisfied with these games but I mean once here is quality enough they have these retro mini games which are cute but to me feel like a way to pad out the game with simpler cost effective content I mean instead of more Dream Events where they do crazy Mario and Sonic theme stuff they focus more so on the Retro events but overall if this kind of game sounds like it appeals to you it probably does Layton's mystery Journey an enhanced version of the 3DS title released I really need to pick this up I love me a good Professor Layton game and this seems to be exactly that new super Lucky's tale was a quality 3D platformer it originally released on the Xbox one as an exclusive but now we have this version on switch I personally have no clue exactly how much newer it is I know they changed up quite a bit but this is still a pretty solid time nothing mind-blowing but worth it if this genre is your thing Smash Brothers ultimate was updated formerly releasing Terry to the world a Nintendo surprise released an eShop multiplayer game the stretchers and I'd be lying if I said I knew anything about this game and OverWatch 2 was announced and I'd be lying if I said I knew anything about this game November was surprisingly light but Black Friday happened so good for consumerism I picked up quite a few titles I just didn't get around to buying earlier in the year and Nintendo was offering a switch bundled with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as their big deal this year it was still 300 and it also wasn't the new switch with the better battery life it was the old switch who bought this oddly enough at this point I'm pretty happy that barely much happened after November remember that time when I wouldn't shut up about September 2019 for the switch yeah that was hell here's Assassin's Creed Rebel collection Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag actually released on switch which was nice and it ran a whole hell of a lot better than three ever did it came with Assassin's Creed Rogue thus they had to give it a stupid dumb collection name instead of just calling it Assassin's Creed 4. come on these look stupid next to each other now sadly Rogue wasn't on the game card which is pretty lame you had to download it and equally as lame Call of Juarez Gunslinger released but digital only they were common enough to release at a retail but with just a download code inside I really want to know if anybody actually buys these download code only cases like what's the point brainage Nintendo Switch Training launched in Japan this month with Europe getting it on January 3rd and yep it was brain age but many reviewers noted how it felt a little unevolved from the DS iterations and because of that it felt a little out of place on the system like just the fact that it came with a bonus stylus to use it just makes the game on switch not feel as organic as it did on DS or 3DS this is a series they showed released on smartphones it feels a little out of place here but for what it is it's pretty good no North American release so far sadly which plus I want to play this but I just might have to import it Mario Maker 2 actually got an update with new items and a power up that turns you into link with his own full moveset listen really cool but they put this out way too late like come on nearly half a year after the game came out we got our first substantial content update the original Mario Maker got stuff out way quicker than that and by this time many have moved on from Mario Maker 2. well at least there was another Indie World presentation nothing massive revealed except for Axiom Verge 2 and the sequel to golf story also the game awards happened after following up last year's reveals of Joker and smash and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Nintendo revealed Square enix's Bravely Default 2 and that's it thank God December was like thank God outer the next few months have been some of the driest in Nintendo switch history remember the switch while Nintendo barely did for the first few months of 2020 Tokyo Mirage sessions sharp Fe Encore released I'm happy that happened the game is good and deserved more of a chance than what it got on Wii U it just doesn't appeal to me so I skipped out on this one I bought it on Wii U damn it I did my part other than that nothing much of note to me released but we did get some updates the fifth and final DLC character in the Smash Brothers ultimate fighters pass was revealed in a lineup of third-party characters most of which nobody would have ever expected to be in Smash Brothers the final character in this pack was some set from Fire Emblem the playable character from Fire Emblem 3 houses by lith was the character revealed via live stream hosted by Sakurai so I actually had a thought crossed my mind right before the stream happened I mean everybody was going crazy speculating but I thought while I was pretty sure it would be another third party character this was a live stream dedicated to a specific Smash Brothers announcement and what characters get announced a lot during Smash Brothers dedicated live streams Fire Emblem characters I mean I don't care there are characters I won in the game game but the raster is so huge at this point they can add whoever they want in my opinion also side note this is just a random thought I've had lately as much as new characters getting announced for Smash Brothers is such a big event in gaming that I love I almost would prefer if they focused on adding stuff via DLC that ultimates lacking in like more single player modes and mainly because the one thing the game is for sure not lacking in is the character roster anyways yeah sure go ahead add this character but I sure do not care I mean the fact that this is the eighth Fire Emblem character is one thing but they couldn't have picked a more uniquely designed three houses character Violet just looks like a slightly tweaked Marth and Lucina to me now the character itself plays differently enough I don't personally like playing as them but I can at least appreciate how different they play compared to the rest of the Fire Emblem cast but still this wasn't my first pick for a Smash Brothers character this wasn't my pick in general but oh well many people were pretty upset you have the people who want to Non-Stop about it and then the people who were annoyingly rubbing it in other spaces that they wanted biliff both needed to calm down but of course with me being critical I will definitely be associated with the whiners so might as well let this one out I keep seeing people say how three houses is huge now so Nintendo's capitalizing on its success with a three houses character in Smash Brothers well there's an over 2 million copies that ain't small that's great to see for a series like this but I wouldn't consider that huge like Splatoon 2 is the second entry in a five-year-old franchise and it sold nearly 10 million copies why haven't we gotten another Splatoon character as DLC Kirby starrelli sold over 2 million copies got I don't know I don't mind this character but they definitely did not excite me at all and a lot of the reasonings people gave for why they were included a Pokemon Direct was held announcing a remake of the first Mystery Dungeon game with a demo releasing right then and there after that Violet talk I am scared shitless to say my opinion on this I didn't like it but the RCA was cute for the love of God move on Pokemon sword and shield DLC was announced I mean at least not enough it's effectively replacing that third version we'd get with titles which I think is a good step in the right direction it's just a little iffy considering one of the complaints many had with sword and shield was a lack of content and to see this getting announced so quickly after release I don't know man thank God we're here and thank God Nintendo forgot February existed so not much happened this month either we got some game releases like Mega Man Zero ZX Legacy Collection Devil May Cry 3 which actually had some additions to it unlike the first two games but I bought Sega ages Sonic 2. I could already play Sonic 2 via the Sega Genesis Classics Collection for switch but I'm an idiot you saw you spend a good chunk of my life whining about DLC for Smash Brothers I had to pick this one up this is actually a pretty solid version of Sonic 2. it has Knuckles playable and the emulation is great but my God Sega why don't you just release the mobile phone version on consoles it's the best version also why doesn't Sega re-release more stuff in General on switch like they are but it's the non-essentials like they ported Sonic and Sonic 2 when the switch already had these games in this giant collection we got Sega Aegis Pollo Pollo 2 when there's already an abundance of Poyo poem on the system start releasing Sega Saturn or Dreamcast games or even Xbox 360 stuff I would kill for Sonic Generations speaking of re-releases Platinum Games launched a Kickstarter to bring wonderful 101 to switch PC and PS4 I liked wonderful 101 on Wii U it definitely deserves a second chance but this entire Kickstarter kind of gave me weird Vibes Nintendo offered to publish Wonderful 101 themselves but wouldn't allow Platinum to release it on PC or PS4 which makes sense but no they went to Kickstarter when they didn't need to Nintendo was willing to fund the port and all of these ports seem to be pretty much done considering they're releasing in May 2020. to me this Kickstarter seemed completely unnecessary but I guess it's pretty much a form of pre-ordering and it got them some pretty decent publicity so whatever finally Nintendo held an animal crossing direct covering New Horizons and yep it looks really good but other than that there wasn't much happening in the first few months of the year normally this wouldn't be much of a problem but nothing much at all happened in the gaming industry as a whole and Nintendo's 2020 lineup is completely up in the air right now other than Animal Crossing Mystery Dungeon Xenoblade and Bravely Default what's there to look forward to so that was the switch's third year on the market I really enjoyed taking a look back at the year because it reminded me that Yoshi's crafted world came out overall be good definitely a lot more original first party titles than in 2018. that year was a little too Port heavy for my tastes although I would like to see more original titles overall on the system when one of the most noteworthy titles in February is a PS2 game from 2005 I don't know that's not to say Devil May Cry 3 isn't a good game but it's an old game it's just not exciting to me I love that the switch gets these Legacy titles but it feels like that's all it gets most of the time now while 2018 was definitely worse off for titles I still felt more of a passion for their releases I had a lot to say about tropical freezer Captain Toad on switch and while 2019 was undoubtedly better I didn't feel that as much and if I had to guess why it's probably because we are legitimately very far into the system's life I'm just not as excited about the system anymore it's not that I don't like the system far from it it's just that it's not the shiny new Gadget it used to be and most of my problems with the switch have been constant throughout its life my biggest problem is that it has barely addressed any of my problems throughout the years the operating system has barely changed I'm not getting as many original experiences as I would want to from Nintendo and Mario and Sonic 2020 has one of the worst box Arts I've ever seen in my life it looks unfinished I have no idea what to expect for 2020 considering the fact that we are three months in and barely know anything about Nintendo's plans or lineup I already know that I'm going to get a lot of people saying that I'm being too negative and well I did whine a lot I like the switch I'm just more prone to point out the things that bug me about it I'm also not really one to freak out and adore every single thing Nintendo does but I'm willing to give it a try what the box boy what the the stretchers what the the switch still exists hey y'all Scott here it's been four years since I felt Joy the Nintendo switch has worn me out so much during each and every one of its birth months I can't look at a game called snipperclips the same effort again I'm ruined why is the Nintendo switch not exciting me anymore why is the way I am the way I am why does this have a bitter aftertaste oh that explains two things the Nintendo switch is officially negative one year away from turning three four whole years of a device that can play flip Wars let's celebrate it's tradition for me every year around this time I I have officially talked about my experiences with the Nintendo switch annually for well over three days so let's discuss everything Nintendo switch related that occurred from March 2020 to February 2021 and when I say everything I don't mean it this is primarily based on what I played what I experienced everything through my eyes so you know what that means whining all right let's start talking Nintendo switch March 2020 to February 2021 which month are we starting on well I'll be damned March was a month of pure chaos I mean Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and we just made some three DLC I only have two hands of course the only thing that mattered was the release of Animal Crossing New Horizons on March 20th after 100 hours I got bored this game no I think New Horizons is great I just think when I fell off of it I really fell off of it I played nearly every day for two months I stopped playing for one day then my eye twitched whenever I thought about playing again see the game starts off wonderfully you take part in Tom nook's getaway package and get to live on a remote island that starts out looking disgusting but you start prettying it up pick where your neighbors go upgrade and pay off your digs by making money through various means finding it in rocks selling rocks every day is an adventure Animal Crossing is a game about life and collecting you're supposed to take the game at your own pace and do whatever you want but just like life you have lots of limitations but I think those limitations are what makes Animal Crossing so unique if you could legitimately do whatever you want in this game it would just be the Sims in Animal Crossing you need those little annoyances those neighbors you don't like the fact it takes so long to pay off your house how you have to talk to characters get anywhere yeah this isn't great but it's Animal Crossing they want to bring you to their world not show you a debug menu when you want to travel to a different Island it takes time to make your Island the island you want it to be and in my opinion that makes Animal Crossing Animal Crossing collecting efficient bugs and fossils is a lot of fun donating them to the museum and seeing everything fill out making friends with digital goats it's hard to describe animal crossing and make it sound fun because it's not but I think the idea of collecting all these different items and constantly working towards something makes it a rewarding and addictive experience this is my town I built it this way and it's just as optimistically pathetic as I always wanted it to be now this is all nothing new when it comes to Animal Crossing this is par for the course New Horizons is set up slightly differently it's more focused on grinding you need to take this island and build it up to what you want it to be rather than showing up to a town that already exists and settling down there like in previous entries you have to really make the most out of your surroundings and constantly pick up supplies and materials to craft items which is a new mechanic you have all these DIY recipes you can collect which then tells you the quantity of what materials you need to craft new items it's kind of a cute idea but the way it's implemented more so annoys me now whenever a character would give me a special thing and it turned out to be a DIY recipe that's stung I think I'd rather have all the recipes available to me from the get-go rather than having to unlock most of them once the fun in getting a recipe card oh thanks for this pile of work you just gave me to do now I have to find all the materials needed for the item if I want it crafting is a fine idea as it gives a huge purpose to nearly every minor little thing you pick up in the game I just feel like it's implemented in a way that almost makes me resent it because on top of that your tools accident fishing pole these can all break after a certain amount of time due to the crafting mechanic that they want you to keep crafting stuff so let's force you to constantly craft new equipment due to your equipment breaking all the time this is just annoying it's not like in breath of the wild when your weapons break that makes sense it's to force you to improvise and constantly try new weapons here it's just a waste of my time to get me to use some new gimmick which I honestly barely use if my ax breaks I'm just gonna go whatever I'd rather go to the store and buy a new one rather than gather materials to craft one for free there's a Nook miles program at play here which gives you points you can exchange for certain items by doing whatever if you collect a certain amount of fruit or sell a certain amount of items you get Nook miles and I love this Edition it gives purpose and incentive to the smallest things you do which animal crossing involves a lot of smallest things the world does run dry after a while though Nook miles are a lot more fun at the start of the game as you're constantly making progress and it's super satisfying as time goes on though you unlock less and less now they've been updating this game a ton since it launched new content new items new things to do but oh my God Nintendo stop doing this come on Nintendo just do what the 23 year old white boy said I'm not a fan of how Nintendo will launch a game with minimal content just to end up releasing free updates to reach the quota of what's acceptable Mario Denise is Kirby star allies arms platoon 1 and Splatoon 2. all these games released with honestly not enough content so they basically hide the fact they're finishing the game by saying you're getting free updates holy that's a steal I'll buy nine copies New Horizons launched with a fair amount of content but so much was missing you compare New Horizons to New Leaf on the 3DS and it's crazy how much stuff New Leaf had in comparison at launch and then they acted like adding deep sea diving and the ability to visit others Islands via the Dream Suite to the game in July lie was like wow we're really putting the cherry on the top of this complete sundae first off no these are features that were there since day one in New Leaf and pretty much all of these updates Nintendo is doing to New Horizons is adding back stuff that's been in Animal Crossing before no new stuff the secondly I fell off of New Horizons in early June and it's really hard to go back especially with the updates you think the updates would incentivize me but no honestly I'm terrified of opening this game they've added so much I'm worried about missing something they added or being overwhelmed with how much they added but my main problem with these free update games when I'm done with the game it's really hard to pull me back in cool Mario Dennis Ace has got new characters it's a shame I stopped playing you turned me off by not having this stuff at launch but by the time it shows up in the game I don't care anymore I'm Sorry by June I would open up Animal Crossing Isabel would give me the news for the day and pretty much every day she'd say oh looks like nothing's really going on I started seeing a lot of repeated stuff hearing the same things over and over again from my villagers nothing new was happening it was time to call it quits after 100 plus hours I got my fill I know I just complained a ton about this game but I obviously enjoyed it I just wish I could keep enjoying it but all those things kind of added up to why I stopped playing but I really liked New Horizons so don't take my criticisms as it's a mediocre or bad game or something no it's a good one it's just when you really care about something you want to see it be the best it can be plus I think Animal Crossing fans all hate Animal Crossing to some extent had a great time with New Horizons don't care for either doing updates holy this game is pretty you know a week before New Horizons launched a special edition Animal Crossing Nintendo switch released thank God it didn't come with the game that would be a deal the other physical release Nintendo had this month was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX what do you think I think I'm a simple man if I see a Pokemon I'm going to squint this is a remake of The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS game the first entry in the series I don't see anybody outside of existing fans really getting much out of this yeah it sounds cute I just can't get into this gameplay they modernize this game and at the same time they really didn't this is a 60 20 20 release I ordered it on Amazon and they sent me a European copy do I look French no you I'm polish can't forget about the Luigi's Mansion 3 DLC because the census sure did this was such an odd release like who asked for this costumes for the online multiplayer and new multiplayer minigames to play cool but it's like everybody who bought Luigi's Mansion 3 bought it for the single player why not try to add a story expansion or something just another thing to release as pay DLC outside of that Doom 64 release but nobody noticed what we did Mansion 3 got DLC it was supposed to be a pre-order bonus you got with doom Eternal but since the Nintendo switch release got delayed while the other platforms got both games at once switch owners just got Doom 64 on launch day it's all right though it launched on the same day as New Horizons I had enough on my plate it was only five bones and was a pretty solid re-release of the Nintendo 64 original I like that these companies are really digging deep into their archives to re-release random little Oddities like did anybody really look at the Nintendo switch in 2017 and say can't wait till Doom 64 is on it Cooking Mama cook star released at the end of the month just to be taken off the eShop immediately for not having the rights to use the cookie Mama brand you need rights so many rumors floated around about this one how it mines Bitcoin steals your credit card info could ruin your switch of course I had to buy one none of them were true but they definitely added to the physical copies of this game being expensive for a second there and the worst part of about it is it isn't that good and it's exactly what I expected it to be a motion controlled cooking arcade game like most of the other cooking mamas it's not great but I don't think it's nearly as bad as others have said that's right I'm brave enough to stick up for cooking mama cook star they should draft me even though this month has already been pretty busy in terms of new releases it was oddly quiet on the news front and it has been for the year up until this point I mean there hadn't been a full-blown Nintendo Direct since September of 2019 and we really didn't know what Nintendo's lineup looked like after Animal Crossing well thank God that all changed on March 26 with a Nintendo Direct mini oh it looks like we have a hearty dose of real world issues affecting pretty much everybody's ability to work starting in March of 2020. so many people had to start working remotely from home that it definitely affected plans for the year I just went outside and realized that oh my God because it's such a thing I think it's fair to lower expectations just a bit as so many things prevented this year from being everything these game companies wanted it to be of course a lot of issues reared their heads in 2020 so I will be referring to all of them each and since they get brought up first up is jaundice because of John does Nintendo have to settle for putting together a Nintendo Direct mini in March but I still find their silence on games after Animal Crossing puzzling many pointed out that because of the lupus they weren't able to discuss new games but they've been pretty quiet since September when that wasn't a worldwide issue I also don't really care for their info delivery style level we're only focusing on Animal Crossing until Animal Crossing is out because let's be honest Animal Crossing is Mega popular but it isn't everybody's cup of tea would it have really killed them to at least give Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and release date beforehand just to give fans of other things something to chew on instead Nintendo was only talking about Animal Crossing whether you were an animal crossing fan or not I'm not gonna act like it didn't work it just made things a bit less interesting as a fan well this Nintendo Direct mini was uploaded just under a week after New Horizons release and detailed Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition coming on May 29th XCOM 2 Bioshock and Borderlands collection coming on that same day Shin Sakai Into the Depths by Capcom releasing right alongside the direct which was an iPhone game beforehand cool I understand mobile games can be hugely detailed in legitimate experiences but if it used to be a mobile game and it's coming to switch to that does knock it down a few pegs for me a Nintendo published game released after the direct though good job I really like the amount of smaller reshap games Nintendo would release for the Nintendo 3DS and I wish to see more of that kind of junk come to the Nintendo switch we got snipperclips which was wonderful but after that well flip Wars the stretchers name for people who cared good job it's an interesting physics-based puzzle game where you have jobs to do and you have to manipulate the environment to get them done it's really cute and pretty fun I think it was very quickly forgotten about though and honestly I kind of get it I don't know why but this game feels super similar to countless other games it's Co-op so it kind of feels like a lot of other wacky couch co-op games like moving out or overcooked it's 100 its own thing but it kind of Blends in a bit Catherine full body got announced by Atlas after everybody asked them to bring over Persona 5. ring fit Adventure got an update adding a rhythm game mode the next Smash Brothers fighter was announced to be announced a fighter from arms okay we'll find out who it is in June I'll be damned you saved us all from immediate disappointment foreign character being announced I love the character designs and as much as third party characters are fun having DLC be so third party Centric someone devalues it when a new third-party character makes it in the more Nintendo characters to balance it out was a bit necessary uh Bravely Default 2 got a demo yeah yes Clubhouse games 51 worldwide Classics Angela was shown off this was a Splatoon s game that originally looked intriguing to me and still did though the fact it was revealed to be a free to play game kinda killed a lot of my interest ah just kind of told me this wasn't the game I would have wanted it to be Panzer Dragoon remake got released right after the direct did Jesus they a ton of games out after this if anything needs to be re-released or remade it's Sega Saturn game so I was interested in this one and could have been better it just lacks a certain amount of Polish they obviously rushed us to meet the deadline of being in this Nintendo Direct so many features were added in later as an update it still Panzer Dragoon it just could have been a bit better like why is this aiming reticle in front of the Dragon there were a few more announcements showed in a Sizzle field like Burnout Paradise remastered I was ecstatic to see that and also Mr drill adrenaline coming back ending makes off with a look at the Pokemon sword and shield expansion pass I think we already knew pretty much everything they talked about here I personally didn't mind this direct mini I got Clubhouse games that's all that matters in addition to this an indie World presentation occurred on March 17th detailing games like exit the gungeon and Baldo another nerve shattering the Lego Mario sets were announced but first tease with this video and many people assume this screen was a Nintendo switch and Lego Mario was going to be a switch dock I have no idea why people thought that I know the switch's screen is slightly lower resolution but it's not this bad but right at the end of March a rumor that loads of Mario remasters and a new Paper Mario were coming the rumor initially stated how pretty much Mario's entire back catalog of games were coming his entire back catalog in reality this just meant most of the 3D games were getting remasters and that got my mind racing could this mean that Mario 64 will get a fully orchestrated soundtrack in Mario Odyssey level visuals and sunshine gets reworked and they fix up all of its little issues and Galaxy and Galaxy 2 get retool to be perfectly playable with just button controls but also feature motion as an option as well and maybe Mario 3D Land gets prettied up and has changes to accommodate the lack of 3D and 64 DS gets full analog control for the first time it was a fun five months before none of that happened a new Paper Mario though apparently it was going back to the series RPG Roots yeah and I'm not sitting well after such a busy start to the year Arc systemworks decided to release as many eShop games that were already available on switch as possible that'll give us something to talk about I don't know they just decided to put out five dollar versions of Double Dragon one two three super dodgeball in River City Ransom on the NES separately when most of these games were already on NES online or a part of the Double Dragon compilation that released in February God I've been wanting to play Double Dragon on my Nintendo switch separately separately Square Enix put out Trials of Mana which was a full 3d remake of second and setsu 3 the sequel to secret Amana that game never came out here until last summer when it was fully localized as Trials of Mana in the collection of Mana compilation alright super cool we got both a full localization of the original Super famicom game and a full modern remake of The Thing but getting both kind of devalues each one of my opinion though like yeah the Remake is really neat but we just got the original so it's like cool but not nearly as groundbreaking as it could have been I guess that's more so because Square Enix is the best possible thing in release both titles but yeah I'm happy to see Square do more stuff like this well though the companies are damn near petrified at the thought of remaking a japanese-only game in a relatively dormant franchise they're willing to put this kind of stuff into production because of that I played the demo and then moved on to Pixar's S4 come on I had to it's a fourth pick cross game indivisible finally released on the platform and it was about time I mean this game came out for PS4 Xbox One and PC in October 2019 and took this long to release on switch even the developers were surprised Streets of Rage 4. made by the same guys who did the Wonder Boy dragons Trap remake these people are so good at Sega reboots with hand-drawn art styles everybody has their Niche so Sega has been doing a fair amount of Licensing recently letting some developers remake some of their games or create sequels to them without a ton of their involvement like they didn't developer published Wonder Boy The Dragon's trap the Panzer Dragoon remake should I move three or this I really like that Sega willing to let others continue their franchises for them but it is a bit depressing they aren't willing to do it themselves but it barely matters because streets rage 4 is amazing it looks and sounds so good fantastic modern beat em up in every way I think both Streets of Rage fans and newcomers to the series will have a blast with this and honestly that was about it for games released in April it was a bit of a light month if you weren't playing Double Dragon 2. but news-wise Mario Maker 2 received its final update can it really be called the final one when you've only done two a ton of power-ups items and the ability to create your own world maps this was an insane addition to the game it's a shame I haven't tried it yet I don't know much like Animal Crossing I definitely fell off a Mario Maker too but that shouldn't take away from the fact this update was amazing the fact that Super Mario Bros 2 was incorporated so much within power-ups and items tells me that potentially they were working on a full Mario 2 game style but because of Mario Maker 2's lower sales they just push it all out via this final update oh lower sales 6 million ain't nothing to sneeze at but considering this is an endless Mario game that has infinite possibilities and is Taylor Made to go viral that number is definitely lower than you'd expect when twice as many people are willing to spend 60 on Pneumonia there's something wrong here I feel like to most people the idea of this being an endless Mario game doesn't really cross their mind when you look at this next to New Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe this looks like a 2d Mario game this looks like I have to make the 2D Mario game myself it's not immediately obvious this has an entire 2D Mario game in here via the story mode and you can play all these different levels and to be fair even if you you didn't know all of that sometimes a traditional 2D Mario game is just a bit more appealing you really have to dig for the good levels in Mario Maker platoon 2 came back from the dead as Nintendo announced that in may they would be doing another splatfest after they stopped doing them last year they probably decided that due to the eczema going around with so many stuck in doors and then pulled another splatfest crisis was revealed for the switch you know this was the premier PC game back in 2007 if your computer could run this thing you were tough my Nintendo switch can barely run a WWE game but now crisis has come into it let's Revolt the Nintendo switch's firmware was updated to include button mapping you can basically make whatever button registers whatever you want you can make a B and B up for all I care this is actually quite a fantastic feature and it's system wide which means it'll work across all games you can do something as simple as swap the L button with the ZL button or go Hog Wild and make a game completely playable via One controller it's such a cool feature but in the anals of this Nintendo switch update like code that hinted at the future announcement of a new Nintendo switch model a Nintendo switch Pro if you will and Nintendo switch pro has been a pretty consistent topic almost as consistent as topics itself I should see all these people say that because new consoles are coming out that the Nintendo switch isn't gonna be able to keep up with them you know it won't get any ports from the PlayStation 5 third-party support will dry up all right Poindexter what am I thinking right now damn it listen I would buy a Nintendo switch Pro in a heartbeat you really think after I bought a card binder for Mario Sports Superstars amiibo cards a switch Pro would be where I draw the line I think Nintendo could greatly benefit from having a switch with slightly more horsepower one that would primarily just increase potential frame rates and resolutions in games rather than having to switch Pro exclusive games or whatever I mean we're seeing issues with Nintendo developed games when those have small frame rate hiccups and can't reach 1080p I think an upgrade is definitely welcomed but the idea that we need a pro because of the new consoles like the PlayStation 5 so that Nintendo can keep getting modern ports honey please 99 of third-party support on the Nintendo switch are games or games that are graphically simple enough to run sure we got Doom Wolfenstein 2 The Witcher 3 but those are few and far between the switch isn't selling because of those games those are bonuses the people buying Nintendo switches are buying them for Animal Crossing Smash Brothers Mario Zelda Pokemon a switch Pro isn't necessary but I wouldn't mind one at all and think it's gonna happen just stop acting like third party supporters in trouble in the switch because of a new generation of consoles oh no the PlayStation 5 is coming out we aren't going to get such Nintendo switch games as Doom 64. what else happened oh Nintendo network IDs were compromised some hackers got a hold of them but not all Nintendo switch users have Nintendo network IDs if you created a Nintendo network ID on Wii U and then use that to log into your Nintendo switch then you should be worried May 2020 was the month Scott didn't play Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition a remaster of the original Xenoblade Chronicles from the Wii which was later ported to the new Nintendo 3DS but this version doesn't include the sound test amiibo supported 3D model viewer of that version so thanks for calling it definitive I needed that it's great the original Xenoblade is now on a platform people give a about it on it really is too late here in North America on the way for most to pay attention to it and it was only available in specific 3DS models so do have it on the Nintendo switch with multiple improvements and in HD is definitely a good thing though this version is still a bit lacking in various ways for being a Wii game at its core Definitive Edition has a pretty low resolution going from 720p to 504 P I didn't even know that was a resolution it's even worse in handheld mode and not to say this isn't a good game and you shouldn't pick it up but don't take my word for it I have no idea what I'm talking about with a game like this how about a game I know slightly more about the wonderful 101 remastered so first up this game was originally on the Wii U published by Nintendo what do you think happened this game definitely deserves a second chance on the switch but I think it deserves served it in a different way so the developers of the game Platinum created this port for the switch and asked Nintendo if they would be interested in publishing it they said yeah but it would stay exclusive to Nintendo platform so Platinum decided to publish it themselves what did they think would happen why even asked Nintendo to publish it if no matter what you were trying to bring it to other platforms so Platinum started to Kickstarter to fund the remaster the remastered they already completed and this Kickstarter money was mainly just to publish the game slash get pre-orders for it it's fine it's just a little iffy to me you start a Kickstarter when you really don't need to like I think crowdfunding is great for artists creating something they couldn't do otherwise Nintendo offered to publish this game for platinum but they thought no our fans can fund this for us and on top of all that when the game came out I didn't like this version I think the Wii U release is far better and honestly I really would have preferred if Nintendo published the switch version because if they did I'm sure they would have forced Platinum to do a better job for reworking the game for one screen Wonderful 101 used both screens on Wii U it was built around them it's not like it couldn't work on one screen but the dual screen use was baked into the game at its core it would have taken a bit more work to redesign it here and there so they clunkily added a subscreen that is annoying and looks gross and it's even there when you're buying upgrades like you couldn't have reworked the shop to not require a second screen this is when Wii U ports are at their worst in my opinion when it's painfully obvious this was made for a different console than what you're playing it on Captain Toad has a blinking blue orb on screen at all times to use as a pointer to click certain objects you would have touched on the Wii U gamepad yeah the way it was always meant to be also calling this remastered is like calling a stick a tree this is the same as the Wii U version but worse the dual screen setup is clunky you have multiple options for it but it's still less than 90 teal they didn't really go in and change problematic elements from the original like the fact that tutorial isn't great this is the same game and I feel these features would have been fixed if Nintendo was publishing the game but Platinum crowdfunded the release themselves to ensure they could release it on PC and PS4 so the game could be enjoyed by as many people as possible firstly it would have been even more enjoyed if they put more care into the sport secondly nobody talked about this game being on PC and PS4 I'm sorry but most of the people who were interested in this game were Nintendo fans I don't think this game made a big enough Splash on the other platforms to Warrant this wonderful 101 is a great action game it's adrenaline pumping super fun once you get a hold of it I just think the Wii U version is better if you only have the newer consoles it's not ideal but it's still the wonderful 101 Bioshock The Collection Borderlands legendary collection and XCOM 2 collection all launched on the same day as Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and I only bought the Bioshock games and buying them gives you all three on your home screen it was so nice to have these games on a Nintendo platform for the first time they're such a welcome addition to the switch's lineup and it was so cool seeing them playable on a portable uh Borderlands 2 was on the Vita but I think that's considered more sleep paralysis than actual game Shantae and the Seven Sirens forget that even came out they released this on iOS first because Apple paid the mob to be a part of their whole Apple arcade stick and I think that really hurt the talk around this game it's like oh it's finally out again the Elder Scrolls blades as any mobile game that Bethesda was acting like it was a big deal it was coming to the switch I don't care bug fables was an indie game taking heavy inspiration from the first two Paper Mario games and if modern Paper Mario doesn't do it for you then maybe give this one a try because you sure as hell aren't getting what you want from Nintendo so out of nowhere Nintendo decided to announce Paper Mario the origami King one morning on Twitter oh this has some credibility to the rumors from Marge we're getting a new Paper Mario game featuring oh my God a more epic narrative characters with actual character what is this Paper Mario is back because I feel the need to eat up anything Nintendo releases for the switch because I can't think for myself see paper Mario's been in a weird place ever since the third entry the first two games were typical RPGs with the Mario spin Super Paper Mario was more of a platformer sticker star was back to more traditional Paper Mario gameplay but with an incredibly poorly thought out gameplay mechanic of using stickers to battle topped off with the fact they removed any interesting characters and settings and replace them with generic toads and typical new Super Mario Brothers locations and copy and paste the same issues over to Color Splash but dial them down a notch I kind of like Color Splash but the origami King was looking to be somewhat different what the hell is this well I didn't enjoy my time with color splash it is not perfect but I thought it was decent enough to see through to the end this game was already garning a ton more interesting Color Splash or sticker star ever did so I think regardless this was a step in the right direction but also the Fang Nintendo just announced this game randomly on Twitter terrifying I live in fear now Nintendo also updated the NES and SNES online apps with yeah panel they Pawn on switch featuring online multiplayer via the SNES app this is all I ever wanted attack is one of my favorite Super Nintendo games this is the localized version of panel they Pawn in Japan instead of Yoshi's we get small fairies it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make I do prefer the Yoshis but this is still Tetris Attack gameplay it's one of the most satisfying and addictive puzzle games out there they couldn't do standard Tetris attack due to the tetris license I'll take the fairies damn it Clubhouse games 51 worldwide Classics is phenomenal if you're not in the 30 hours plus Club get the out of my face ah a good game Crawling Back to The casuals Clubhouse games 51 worldwide Classics is a sequel to Clubhouse games on the Nintendo DS but it doesn't really feel like much of a continuation of that game rather an excuse to put a more casual minigame collection on switch something for that Wii Sports we play audience with many of the card and board games included via the original Clubhouse games this one is developed by ND Cube the developers of modern Mario parties yep that's vomit however they seem to do a tolerable job with games of the not Mario Party variety and a new example of that is Clubhouse games now again anybody say Nintendo's release schedule was light this year they released 51 games on one day it's just so nice to have relaxing and simple pick up and play games like these on the switch that never get old I may not always be up for a game of Luigi's Mansion 3 but I'll never get tired of Heron hounds where's the sequel I really like Mancala dots and boxes four in a row hit and blow hex hair and Hounds go moku Chinese checkers last card it's just Uno and I'm a big fan of electronic Uno Uno if you will matching is great pigtails fun golf Billiards bowling darts air hockey Shooting Gallery I like a lot of the games here and they're the full-fledged things these are mostly card and board games they're gonna be just as fun 10 years from now as they are today and Nintendo decided to put in online multiplayer for nearly all of them between both strangers and friends this is what I'm talking about it also looks really good the visuals are quite nice the sound design is good too the sound effects of the game pieces or cards sound so satisfying and the music is generally very very relaxing and peaceful of course there are some drawbacks I think everybody got really excited when they saw bowling was here like oh my God we Sports is back and they include a tanks game a shooting gallery fishing this is obviously trying to replicate a lot of what we play in Wii sports did unfortunately I don't think any of the Wii Sports play games Clubhouse games does is better than how Wii Sports blade did them link bowling is fine but I don't know the controls are way more like come on just let me flee the controller as hard as I want golf is like this tabletop version and it's still fun but compared to Wii Sports this gets old way quicker which is weird considering these are the exact same Maps which were the exact same maps in golf on NES just the fact that it's all miniaturized makes it kind of feel like I'm doing the exact same thing every time I play it I'm always gonna hit the ball over here and it's always going to go there at least with Wii Sports the camera angle and motion controls made it feel like there were way more possibilities I really like Billiards but really this is the exact same thing as eight ball pool you can play on your iPhone for free also it's weird to say this but this is honestly not a great party game it's really only meant for two players there are few three and four player games but like mine isn't bowling more than two players why isn't darts why isn't golf you're just passing off between each player in those games why isn't this offered it's obvious Clubhouse was meant to satiate the desire for the Wii series to come back but I don't think Nintendo really wanted to do that and would rather push a franchise that doesn't have a dead console's name in its title they would rather not do that doesn't mean they won't so they wanted to do a Wii Play Type game again dug in their archives and realized they made a game called Clubhouse game said that'll do and made another one but it's a damn good one I love this game it's just simple casual fun and I like games like this damn it I would still like to see Wii sports or Wii Sports Resort return someday they did their own games better and had a lot more personality but even if they do come back I still think Clubhouse games has enough Merit to Warrant a purchase and if you think otherwise all you have to do is play for over 30 hours and I'll believe you but that wasn't him for Nintendo out of nowhere they released a free game on the eShop jump rope challenge holy yeah this was a free limited release to be taken off the eShop at a later date a game that Nintendo employees made in their free time due to working from home because of dermatitis now hold the dude joy-con in both hands and pretend you're jumping rope it works pretty well and counts even better kind of reminds me of we playing WarioWare like remember how imposed me the background would change when you would reach different levels bam and just the simple aesthetic does give me why you wear Vibes it's a cute little freebie and it was popular enough they added a bunch of random costumes for the bunny character and extended its availability on the eShop until further notice however the big game I was looking forward to this month was embarrassing SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom rehydrated a remake of one of my favorite childhood games so I played this guy in the GameCube constantly it's a pretty good 3D platformer not unlike Mario 64 Banjo-Kazooie now one of the greatest games of all time that's pushing it a bit I've heard so many people talk endlessly about this game being such an amazing title and then when those who didn't grow up with it try it out they're like it's pretty good not that much more than that though I think this game stood out to all of us who grew up with it because it was incredibly faithful to a cartoon we all loved being a collect-a-thon where you explore all these settings and complete objectives meant we got to be in the world of the show and talk to all these different characters and on top of that it was just well made it had good music visually I always thought it was pretty top-notch for a licensed kids game and that's what I think makes this one stand out so much it was really good for a licensed kids game as a standard game it was good I just don't think it would wow anybody who a didn't play it as a kid in 2003 and B isn't a fan of the source material but I think everybody can agree this was a quality game that accomplished everything it set out to do and just the fact that it was getting a full remake that's insane this is like the last game I would have expected to get that kind of treatment but here it is as I was always pretty skeptical about this remake on the lead up to release any footage I saw just looked slightly off like it looked pretty good but animations in some designs just didn't look right SpongeBob's arms were too short there's always this lack of polish that permeated throughout anything I saw in the game but regardless it came out in late June it was okay I played him beat it on Xbox one because I wanted an excuse to use the thing June 23rd was when I remembered I owned another rectangle but I still bought it on Nintendo switch because the idea of playing Battle for Bikini Bottom portably was just too amazing now the game itself is just fine I can tell the developers really cared and were quite talented they just didn't have the same level of appreciation for the game the fans did like they knew it was a beloved game and had a ton of respect for it but weren't like fans who grew up with the game themselves I feel like they just didn't think some things through like why did they change this picture in the bedroom SpongeBob had a picture with his favorite superheroes before that made sense now it's a screenshot from a random episode in fact he has hair here because this was that gag where the viewer thinks that SpongeBob in a wig but it turns out to just be somebody who looks like Spongebob In A Wig Because the actual SpongeBob in a wig comes by right after this so this isn't even SpongeBob it controls fine the original feel better though your standard attack is SpongeBob just floats so well with your movement and now it feels a lot slower and not as satisfying a lot of animations still feel unfinished like they should look smoother than they do none of the music or voice acting is redone which is fine but a bit disappointing there's really I think it looks quite nice but sometimes it just feels like they went for that typical what would Mario or Zelda look like an Unreal Engine fan made approach it looks pretty good albeit unofficial the boss fights have been severely worsened in my opinion and they feel lacking compared to the 2003 version when you're fighting a giant robot in the original it felt like it the camera angle made it feel like they were towering over you now it feels super lame and on top of that glitches are pretty prominent here overall it was really cool to see my childhood game remade from the ground up these scenes that are burned into my brain reanimated in HD it's seriously awesome and warmed my heart these developers are really talented I just don't think they have the time or budget to make it as good as they wanted it to be at the end of the day though it's fine is completely serviceable I just think the original is still my preferred version and honestly would have favored them just putting the GameCube game on Modern platforms and widescreen and call it a day but at least I have the game portably now yeah the Nintendo switch version is pretty lackluster like it's all here but the frame rate is cut in half and it's so much slower there's this sluggish feeling to the controls now for some reason the attack button is here on switch with the jump button being over here why that makes it a to jump and attack you have to move your thumb two counties over that's a pop in and distractingly jaggy shadows are all over the place here it's not ideal it does the job I guess but like this was on the GameCube I know this is a much prettier version but I just think it's a little ridiculous with how mediocre this runs on switch especially considering they just released this game on mobile devices and it runs perfectly I don't know I had my fun with this game but it has its problems and I would advise against getting the switch version honestly I need a cigarette the outer worlds was the latest PS4 Xbox One game you wouldn't expect to see come to switch to come to switch they initially wanted to release it in March but due to melanoma They delayed it to June and were able to put it on a cartridge it was originally going to be one of those digital only physical releases you know you get a box but nothing's in it I worry about people who buy those but here it is the outer world's on switch not great but can be a lot worse like they got the game to run it just can get pretty bad sometimes though they have updated it since and I think it's not too bad on switch perfectly playable but there are 100 better options now Burnout Paradise remastered that was a good Port of course it's an Xbox 360 game at its heart so obviously it would work but it runs so well in its portable full-fledged burnout it's great Namco Museum archives volumes one and two where collections of namco's NES and famicom games so basically the NES versions of Pac-Man and Galaga that kind of stuff an interesting collection to do I mean these are far from my favorite versions but I think it's cool when companies bring over these different console variations of games give me one good reason why the Game Boy Color version of Grand Theft Auto 2 hasn't been re-released I think the best thing about volume 1 specifically is the NES D make of Pac-Man Championship Edition it plays so well and it's so damn fun now why they split these across two different volumes I don't get and I don't like when these both release on the same day I find it completely ridiculous to separate them like this and Angela finally released I didn't play it because I honestly stopped caring but that didn't stop me from also not giving a about the Pokemon presents presentation this month so I guess Pokemon has their own things separate from Pokemon directs and they just call them Pokemon presents now they're the exact same thing but now the Pokemon company discovered another page of the dictionary here they announced Pokemon cafe mix for switching mobile devices a free-to-play game that was available a week later it's a really cute art style and I don't understand how strategy is involved here I'm just swirling icons around and hoping for the best that's about it he also again played in dock mode only in handheld see Pokemon company does these mobile games they just make playable and switch because get but then they announced new Pokemon Snap revisiting the concept of the original Nintendo 64 games they waited until it made the least amount of sense he had a whole ass Wii U gamepad that would have worked perfectly for this I'm honestly pretty happy this was such a fun idea that for some reason they only did once I feel like this is a Pokemon game everybody can enjoy both Pokemon fans and non-fans alike and finally the first part of the Pokemon sword and shield DLC released after the presentation it sure did I picked the monkey when I played Pokemon shield and got about two hours in they had another Pokemon presents a week later and announced a MOBA I don't know I played Clubhouse games for 30 hours a free to play game Pokemon unite for switching mobile devices people weren't happy they hyped up another Pokemon presentation and this is all they announced thank God Pokemon cafe mix launched the same day the Kingdom Heart series finally got announced for switch via a rhythm game I'm so annoyed I can't be confused on the go the new Smash Brothers character from arms was revealed to be min-min a good choice she seemed to be the best candidate as spring man was already an assist trophy I don't care that people say there are no rules that say assist trophies can't get in I'm pretty sad in my way saying assist trophies can't become characters in the same game just wait until Senate passes the bill only two whole months after reveal Paper Mario the origami King released to reception the general consensus on this one is that it's okay I'm perfect but definitely a step in the right direction compared to the last two games interesting way to say a ruined my lunch I thought it was okay it's just very frustrating to see these developers get so close but never get there each and every time with modern Paper Mario modern Paper Mario has been plagued by poorly thought out battle systems in barely any unique characters they are limited to using existing ones from your typical new Super Mario Brothers games and not much more origami King is kind of better but not really so the story here is that the origami King is transforming everybody into origami oh no why is that a bad thing like when you want to be 3D instead of flat is it hell to be three-dimensional is real Mario depressed you team up with the origami King's little sister Olivia to stop him by traversing a fully connected World which is pretty cool sticker starring Color Splash had a world map where each location was its own separate level here if you want to go from one place to another you can just walk there which does help make this feel more like an adventure the writing is as Top Notch as ever it was good in Color Splash too but origami King isn't afraid to get more serious and have a quiet moment here and there which I appreciate the visuals and sound absolutely wonderful it's sort of more of the same from Color Splash but that is far from a Bad Thing exploring these worlds is great they're so big with seemingly something new to find every step you take but when you enter a battle with an enemy you get this ring set up you have to align your enemies up in a perfect liner Square to try to take them out and as few steps as possible honestly lining up enemies is a fun little puzzle and afterwards it's just basic paper Mario RPG gameplay like the first two games but the problem is you don't get any experience points for completing battles you just get confetti and coins which you can find anywhere else in the game and after a while you start to notice similar formations to line up via the Rings it's like yo I've seen this puzzle before yay I do like the puzzle aspect if this was its own game I think they could have gone a lot out of this but after a while it just feels completely worthless here what's the point this has no nothing to do with the rest of the game at least with sticker star you use the stickers to battle they were the main theme of the game what the hell does a ring have to do with the origami King what does that have to do with paper Mario or paper in general for that matter it's not paper themed it's not origami theme there's no story reason as to why you have to line enemies up now what is the point of this In Color Splash the battles could also feel pointless but afterwards you get Hammer scraps which eventually would expand the amount of paint you could hold it was something it made the battles feel slightly worth it in origami King you don't get any of that if I can avoid a battle I will because if you find yourself in one Not only would it feel pointless if it was just battling but now you have to line up enemies beforehand this is a cute fun little gameplay element that they just ruined here there's no point to it I liked it for a bit but then it just got monotonous and you just ask yourself why am I doing this and then the boss fights they're against office supplies and Paper Mario was so much better now because of it I'm sorry this is incredibly lame if this was the first time they did this sure fine but it isn't they used Real World objects for comedic effect in sticker star and color splash here it just feels like an incredibly lazy way to design original bosses disguised as a joke like if the office supplies were designed as legitimate characters maybe but no this is just a hole punch however when you fight against them it's not the standard ring format instead now they're in the middle of the ring and you have to get to it via various arrows and commands you step on this is completely different from the normal battles again I kind of like the puzzle aspect but this is basically a different game during the boss fights and also this barely matters because at the end of the day each boss has this very specific weakness you have to figure out and if you know it then there's no challenge here it's just do the thing that this boss is weak against and you pretty much win so this whole lead up puzzle to attacking the boss to me it feels like a giant waste of energy considering many times the boss will regenerate its Health if you just keep attacking it after multiple stages of solving its stupid navigation puzzle just because he didn't do the one specific thing he needed to do which can be somewhat cryptic sometimes it's just kind of weird that the boss fights are so different from the regular battles you'd think with a battle system like this they would want to incorporate boss fights that are like the ultimate test of what you've learned by winning in normal fights that would be at least a slave motive to get into more battles now they just went for something completely different it's obvious after reading interviews with developers that they don't really want to make paper Mario and RPG anymore then stop putting in these turn-based battles this game would be so much better if it was just an adventure game where you explore these environments and solve light puzzles to progress you don't need these stupid ass battles Super Paper Mario was basically a platformer with RPG elements it's not like you need turn-based battles but no you keep trying to incorporate them even though you don't want to make an RPG so don't make an RPG I don't understand what they're trying to do here I don't need another paper Mario like the first two but those were the two most consistently good it's easy just to point to them and say hey do something like this again because they didn't have not well thought out bullsh crowding things up they had unique characters and memorable stories this one is getting there but it's still held back by using typical toads you get a partner named Bobby the Bob bomb and just the fact we got so excited by the fact that this character that looks like any other Bob bomb has the most basic name of all time is telling here we're desperate for actual characters in these games I don't know I did enjoy a decent amount of origami King but about halfway through it was really starting to drag for me and I put it down I do think I kind of enjoyed Color Splash a little more that game has its own dog but at least the battles felt more worthwhile as annoying as they were and it never really got boring I think origami King's Highs are much higher but its lows are much lower I still think it's a better overall game I still think it's okay but I had a bit more fun with the previous entry all right well let's talk about something positive Deadly Premonition too this was supposed to be my Saving Grace yeah the sequel to the classic game that polarized critics was exclusive to the Nintendo switch and released this month it was riddled with technical problems and generally labeled as not as impactful as its predecessor by Deadly Premonition fans to everybody else it was just garbage crisis remastered released and it's a fine version It's crisis and if you want an FPS on switch this suffices Catherine full body came out just 12 more years until Atlas puts a Persona game on this thing there was this rumor going around the Spanish dub breath of the wild 2 was complete which implied the game was close to releasing yeah and I'm still not sitting I think around this time everybody was getting a little antsy for Nintendo news I mean we haven't gotten a full-fledged Nintendo Direct yet our last one was a mini and basically all the major games announced or dated and that one had come out at this point we didn't really know what the rest of Nintendo's schedule looked like after Paper Mario but thankfully a Nintendo Trias live stream was announced before the origami King's release this would show off the game but also a new title by Way Forward in a franchise they haven't worked with before Oh my God what it might be metroid or Kid Icarus maybe Kirby Miller land they had to clarify its third party franchise castlevan It's gotta be Castlevania or Bakugan yeah this was stupid Nintendo hyped up a new game announcement for agenda being a Bakugan game and a bad one at that hey wakeboard can make some excellent stuff but they still got to do some licensed kids games to pay the bills so for every Shantae or Ducktales Remastered or Contra 4 they do there's a Smurfs too right around the corner obviously the publisher of Bakugan paid Nintendo to show this off but I just think Nintendo needs to be more willing to I don't know say no to stuff like this it devalues when Nintendo says they're going to announce a new third-party game because chances are becoming increasingly more likely it's gonna be some garbage like this later on in the month some high profile leakers said hey there will be a Nintendo Direct soon don't you worry and on the exact date they leaked boom Nintendo announced the night beforehand that they'll be debuting a new type of Nintendo Direct a Nintendo Direct mini partner showcase what wonders await using they showed real company what the hell was this much like the Treehouse stream this felt incredibly tone deaf and basically told us nothing they showed Cadence of Hyrule DLC and announced a physical release that's kind of cool talked about Rogue company I really don't care showed an entire trailer for WWE 2K Battlegrounds for the sympathy vote and then ended things with the announcement of an HD remaster of shimagami tensei 3 Nocturne and then saying that shimagami tensei 5 is still in development after being announced at the switch presentation in 2017 and that it will launch in 2021. no gameplay shown but it's a thought that counts that was it it was eight minutes long that was pointless and shows off a bit of a problem I have with Nintendo presentations lately it is so much more obvious now when Nintendo just gets paid to show something Nintendo directs feel way more commercially than ever before I mean they just showed a full ass trailer for WWE Battlegrounds with like no narration by the direct announcer do you really think Nintendo said you know what our Paper Mario fans would really like to see that Bakugan they're working on over there I mean Nintendo presentations are always supposed to be advertisements but back in the Wii U era or even near the beginning of the switch one Satori watan other company reps made them feel like they were showing up to your living room and just casually telling you what Nintendo's been working on they made Nintendo employees almost feel like you're friends now these are just patronizing commercials that have no idea who the audience for Nintendo directs and Treehouse streams are me's it's the morning of August 5th 2020 you wake up with the faint feeling that something is wrong picking up your phone you see the announcement of Pikmin 3 Deluxe future Generations will never understand what we went through announcing the exact same way Paper Mario the origami King was Pikmin 3 Deluxe was randomly announced via Nintendo's social media in August I was just happy to have this get announced so then people could stop wondering when Pikmin 3 was going to get ported here it's here right here and the trailer showed nothing this trailer is bad like when you go to the Pikmin 3 Deluxe website it said all this new stuff like an exclusive prologue and epilogue and extra features like why wasn't this included in the trailer also this was when the Great Nintendo price point debate started to really come into question as many didn't think Pikmin 3 Deluxe was worth 60 dollars and I mean yeah this is a seven year old game that on Wii U with 60 at launch and was later reduced to 20 which is the price you could buy it for on the Wii U right now but at least they were adding some things yeah it would have been way better if they remastered the first two pikmins and added them in here for a full Pikmin Trilogy or something an indie World occurred this one featuring games like Hades a short hike Spirit Fair card shark wasn't anything crazy though but rumors were pointing towards a Nintendo Direct happening after Indie world see all these industry insiders constantly run their mounts based on whatever they hear many getting word that an indie World presentation was happening and shortly after a Nintendo Direct listen you know you're playing with fire saying that a lot of these rumor guys complain when people get pissed off at them for saying a direct is going to happen and it ends up being a direct mini partner showcase oh yeah that's uncalled for who cares that much but at the same time to the people who leak this kind of stuff what's the point these announcements will be made regardless of if you leak it or not if anything you potentially May force them to not announce it because you leaked it but you aren't doing anybody a service by leaking when a Nintendo Direct is coming all you do is set expectations too high and then yell at people for having expectations so high well then don't leak Nintendo Direct info wow you get all this Fame from telling people you heard other people tell you that must feel so gratifying now wait right here as I research the history of Wii U rumors and leaks another partner showcase occurred this one featuring Kingdom Hearts Melody and memory the Tycho RPGs World of Tanks Blitz big Rumble boxing Creed Champions which looked bad the collection of sagoch had this disgusting border around all the games yes I'm just throwing it out there this is my year ended this partner Showcase with the scissor reel of stuff that wasn't important enough to give full headlines about what an ending yeah this was a bad start to the whole partner showcase thing but I got probably Tetris too and I'm gonna brag about it outside of news this was a sparse month and I'm not talking about jump Force Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remastered finally came out after being announced two years ago this is a remaster and Jesus Christ PGA Tour 2K 21 and Samurai Jack battle Through Time another rumor came out about a Nintendo switch Pro releasing in 2021 dear God let's move on to September it was not a fun time to be a Nintendo fan when you have to look forward to is paying 60 for Pikmin 3 Deluxe in October its obvious announcements had to be made of course throughout the entire year many sources were claiming those Mario remasters were coming in all in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers Nintendo always goes all out for Mario's anniversaries remember the 30th Anniversary when they shoot horned and Mario maker is the 30th anniversary celebration and admitted it wasn't really supposed to be it just kind of all lined up and the 25th anniversary when they sold this an SNES game on a weed disc for 30 Nintendo hates Mario and to a greater extent us well we finally got what we wanted Nintendo announcing games through a Nintendo Direct on September 3rd Nintendo uploaded a Super Mario Brothers 35th Anniversary Direct online that detailed all their plans including Super Mario 3D World finally coming over to Nintendo switch via an updated version titled the Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury you know after Nintendo brought over Captain Toad before 3D World and included Mario 3D World as a game style on maker too I like the concept that 3D world would be the only Wii U game Nintendo never ports to switch for absolutely no reason because Nintendo does stupid things only they understand every other week I would have assumed during a developer interview when they would ask why did you never bring Mario 3D World to switch it would say something like the game doesn't belong on switch you had to use the microphone sometimes it got announced thankfully alongside a mysterious edition of Bowser's Fury Super Mario Brothers 35 8 Tetris 99 style version of Mario 1 Mario Kart live home circuit a game using a real-life RC Mario Kart and a camera to turn your living room into a Mario Kart track the final major announcement was Super Mario 3D All-Stars a compilation of the first three 3D Mario Platformers releasing in two weeks on September 18th so let's discuss Super Mario 3D All-Stars one of the quickest reveals to release I've seen for a physical release I assume Nintendo wanted to go wild with the 35th Anniversary as something like E3 but you know athlete's foot so they just announced that at seemingly the last possible minute and after I saw that announcement in the direct I went the rest of my life knowing I was disappointed by Mario 3D All-Stars those rumors didn't do it any favors when you say Mario 64 is getting remastered I'm kind of gonna expect more than this but disregarding the rumors let's evaluate this package as a whole you get three games Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy oh no they didn't include Mario Galaxy 2 Mario 64 DS Mario 3D Land why would they do that I mean my obviously could have done more here I assume they kept it to these three because they're all the most distinct of the 3D Marios if they're a Galaxy 2 in there and half the collection is about Mario Galaxy however these were the main three that needed to be here I think we can all agree on that but oh my God what budget did this project have I don't think this menu looks too hot I get the fun choices trying to replicate Mario All-Stars on the Super Nintendo but why not go all the way and just have like a nice modern Recreation of that menu why is the year the biggest text I like that they include each soundtrack separately to make it seem like there's more stuff in this package the only bonus feature is the inclusion of each game's soundtrack cool but it's like who's actually gonna use this I think it's kind of neat how every time you go to this menu a different song from one of the game's plays but it would have been nicer to have original music made for this collection also maybe in art gallery concept art for crying out loud these are games I would kill to see development history on also quick nitpick why does Mario galaxy show the Wii's white game case but sunshine just has the box art no black game case onto the titles and each game has been upgraded in some ways fire 64 is still 4x3 which is fine I mean I personally think widescreen N64 games look weird but it would have been a nice option considering the other two games in this set are widescreen it plays incredibly well and looks sharp they smooth out a lot of text and used higher quality art Assets in some places but this is still the same exact Mario 64 we all know nobody's gonna catch a glimpse of you playing and go no game huh they did use the updated Rumble pack version of 64 only released in Japan so it's kind of cool we got that in our neck of the woods for the first time ever yeah Rumble is included but this version removes some glitches that speedrunners use in Mario 64 so that automatically makes this release an inferior one for many it would have been nice if they included both the original original version of Mario 64 and the rumble version but nope other than that it's Mario 64. it's one of the best games of all time but we've seen it enough at this point it looks really nice for just being Mario 64 but obviously I would have liked it to be more than just Mario 64. Super Mario Sunshine this one was upgraded the most of the lot full widescreen and they had to adjust the controls to work with the joy-con and Pro Controller see the original game used the analog triggers of the GameCube controller and they had to rework them a bit here since we don't have anything close to that it works fine and the game still looks really nice but they had some cutscenes in Mario's Sunshine that they just zoomed in on to fill the widescreen display and I hate when that happens we're losing out on a good bit of the image everything's more clear now but in the original release I could see more shoes then Mario Galaxy my favorite game of all time it's a powerful feeling to play at portably so this is what elected officials feel like this one was weird considering it used the Wii remote nunchuck in the sensor bar when I use the gyroscope for the pointer and it goes off center a lot it works but you have to recalibrate it to the center more than I'd like to admit and Min that offers even more depth to Mario Galaxy game play formula now you have to play the role of a level they also gave you the ability to just hit a button to spin instead of shaking the controller though I'd shake the controller anyways because it's damn muscle memory at this point playing with the Pro Controller was weird I can only do two joy-con this feels pretty natural just like the weave the Wii controllers were choking hazards now in handheld mode for all the pointer stuff you use the touchscreen what the is their problem I don't use the right stick or something to control the pointer what if you don't want to use the gyroscope at all in Galaxy why not offer that as an option because they still force you to use the gyroscope pointer to make menu Selections in this game why they couldn't have reworked it a little more to make the pause menu option selectable with just the analog stick that's what makes Mario 3D all-stars so weird to me it's obviously a pretty low effort project but they put some effort into this enough where I think if you're gonna put so little effort in why not put absolutely none in why even smooth out the visuals of Mario 64. why even put Mario Sunshine in widescreen but they do those things so at that point I gotta ask why not go a little further why not make it so you don't have to awkwardly use the gyroscope or touchscreen for Galaxy's menus or not just straight up crop Sunshine's cutscenes or put 64 in widescreen or damn anything more than just adding the soundtracks as a bonus feature obviously I'm incredibly happy these games are on switch they're some of my favorites and it's the first time Sunshine's ever been re-released and it's not like these are bad versions of the games far from it Galaxy is my favorite game of all time of course something addict I have it here and looking better than it's officially ever been I do think it's all worth 60 dollars but you can't just deny the fact that so many other companies have put so much more effort into their Collections and charged significantly less this is Mario he 100 deserves so much better and it's not like I can just not buy it to tell Nintendo what I think I'm a but one of the stupidest things about this is that it's a limited time offer after March 31st 2021 this puppy is not going to be manufactured anymore and the digital versions being ripped from the eShop this is Nintendo creating artificial demand everybody ran out to buy this in fear that it would be rare and they couldn't get it in a few months I mean I feel so special I was one of the few 8 million to buy this game it's not even a special box for the physical release at least with Mario All-Stars on Wii for the 25th anniversary this is a classy as hell collector's set here I think the inside is just a collage of screenshots this would take you 30 minutes at most to put together no booklet or soundtrack CD or keychain or anything it's a total budget release for sixty dollars Mario 3D All-Stars makes me happy mad and lonely at least WWE 2K Battlegrounds came out this month Hades was kind of the surprise Indie hit here being nominated for Game of the Year by so many Publications I had to see what the deal was am I just bad Hades is a roguelike and the main thing I hear everybody say is I've never played a roguelike or I hate roguelikes but Hades is excellent yeah it's a really quality time pretty much you want to blast through the game without dying each time you die you just start back from the beginning but you become wiser and more powerful but since it's a roguelike the levels are different now they're procedurally generated every time and the combat's really good and satisfying I'll say it's better than Mario 3D All-Stars because it doesn't force you to use the touchscreen in Galaxy there was another surprise Nintendo release this month Kirby Fighters too for 20 bones you get a pretty decently sized creepy fighting game based on a 3DS eShop game that was based on a mini game and Kirby Triple Deluxe basically imagine Smash Brothers not as good but all the different Fighters are either Kirby characters or Kirby with different power-ups it's not too bad but I unfortunately kind of have the mentality of yeah of Smash Brothers is right there I mean it's different enough if anything Smash Brothers takes a lot from Kirby superstar in terms of design so if anybody can make a game like Smash Brothers It's Kirby but Kirby Fighters 2 is just alright you'll get a decent amount out of it but always go Crawling Back To Smash Brothers but that wasn't it for Nintendo this month out of nowhere they announced Hyrule Warriors age of Calamity a successor to Hyrule Warriors but this time being an official prequel to breath of the Wild again this was announced like Pikmin 3 and origami King just randomly on social media one morning which does take away a lot from it sure you get that rush but I do miss the Showmanship of the Rex oh joy another burner showcase well what the do you have this time a brand new Monster Hunter Monster Hunter rise coming exclusively to Nintendo switch on top of Monster Hunter Stories 2 Fitness Boxing 2 Disgaea 6 and or in the will of the whis available that same day this is better I thought Evolution was a myth crazy to see will the Wisps running so well on switch does it add some performance problems that launch on Xbox but hey it's here it's lovely and it shows that Microsoft still considers the switch to be a legitimate platform for their games they're allowing so much wiggle room that makes me so excited for the future some of the future a fortnight limited edition Nintendo switch got announced the Pokemon DLC was further detailed in the presentation For the Love of let me talk about Mario 35 Super Mario Brothers 35 is a free Battle Royale for Nintendo switch online members you play the original Super Mario Brothers through a random string of levels and try to be the last man standing of 35 other players this is a lovely idea that could be phenomenal but in the end it's just good well then I'm pissed for some reason you have to unlock different levels to vote on for what everybody starts playing but since most people are only gonna have one one unlocked that's pretty much what you're gonna start on every single game and 80 of the time on a complete a level it turns me back at one one or one two it gets pretty old then there's just the potential this concept has it could be like Mario Maker where you have different Mario game themes imagine a Mario 2 or 3 or World theme what about completely unique characters like feature toe playable also a problem I have with these Battle Royale games is once I get first place I kind of lose a lot of motivation to keep playing come on I beat it I just think Mario 35 has so much potential I want to see it grow and improve it's super fun but I'm tired of playing the first two levels constantly and I can see how this game could be so much more but as it stands that probably won't happen because much like Mario 3D All-Stars Mario 35 is set to expire on March 31st after that it won't be playable anymore well that stinks at least with 3D All-Stars there are physical copies out there so no matter what you'll be able to find the game and play it and if you already own it no worries Mario 35 is an online game and when it's gone it's gone nobody can play it ever again this one I have a harder time understanding there was definitely more work put into this than 3D All-Stars it has unique music and a really good online multiplayer system and to just throw all this work away after a few months of being available this doesn't seem like a way to heighten the celebration as Nintendo put it this seems stupid well the next part of the 35th Anniversary release this month Mario Kart live home circuit how does this celebrate that it just fell into place you can't tell me Mario Kart live is supposed to be an anniversary title a little weird this witch hasn't gotten any word on having a Mario Kart to call its own I know people keep pointing to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling so unbelievably well of course they're not gonna make a new one a game selling really well is why you make a sequel that's Super Mario Brothers are selling so damn well of course we can't make a second or third or World obviously Mario Kart's a little different where each entry isn't super different enough to release on the same console and this is kind of a one game persistent franchise that gives them an excuse to go Hog Wild for a new one do something weird do something different they did what I asked Mario Kart live home circuit I would not consider a full-fledged game it's pretty much a toy with a Nintendo Switch app to go alongside it for a hundred dollars you get an RC Mario Kart with your choice of Mario or Luigi you connect it to your switch and now your living room is a Mario Kart track but when will it learn to love this is honestly a super cool feeling like wow not only is it fun to see your house from this perspective but controlling the RC car with your controller and the way it turns and accelerates it feels like Mario Kart not one to one but enough for this to be a really cool experience for the first hour and this is definitely something I don't need to go back to ever again I think everybody should try it out at some point but there's not much meat to it if you have one don't have a ton of living space or two don't have a huge desire to set up elaborate physical courses because they have a lot of visual themes for courses here though the track setup depends on how much you're willing to do in the real world most most of the music is completely recycled from past games and playing with multiple people that's gonna cost you two Mario Kart live home circuit sets at the very least really neat idea novelty it's just kind of not much more than that but that's not really at any fault of the developers it's just a cool little toy and that's all it should really be viewed as since it needs wi-fi to operate you don't get a game card with the settings that you have to download a free app off the eShop which means anybody can get in on the fun even if you don't buy the physical set oh yeah I got Mario Kart live show us the car then an account for that question Pikmin 3 Deluxe boy that just kind of released didn't it why did they announce this two months ahead of time I feel like that kind of made people forget this was even coming out I mean like a week afterwards the next-gen system's releasing I just don't think this was a great announcement to release strategy for this game but hey we finally have a Pikmin game on switch and it's still Pikmin 3 and very little else I adore Pikmin 3. it's one of my favorite Wii U games and I consider it to be the best of the Pikmin series one is still my favorite but looking at each game as a whole critically three is the best and three deluxe is the best version of it the controls on the Wii U version are still a little better because of the Wii Remote and nunchuck three deluxe has tons of control options and I personally prefer using two joy-con to replicate a Wii Remote and nunchuck the gyro pointer works pretty well but I had to recalibrate it a ton like with Mario Galaxy performance wise it's pretty much the same as the Wii U really sadly it's still 720p at 30 frames per second and sometimes that frame rate dips come on I would have loved to see better performance and the extra features added to this release aren't crazy substantial and I'm happy they're here but the prologue an epilogue aren't that deep though two player co-op in story mode is a super nice addition I would have liked online play for the Bingo battle mode and maybe reassurance that Pikmin 4 is still coming we can't have everything but we can't have Pikmin 3 Deluxe for 60 dollars I still fully recommend this game it's wonderful in one of my favorites the switch release could have been better but I still think it's the definitive version the Eva 21 Legacy Edition who's buying these IA gave up on FIFA for switch long ago and just re-releases last year's game with updated rosters which they did for FIFA 22 so this is not only a reskin a FIFA 20 it's a reskin of a reskin big month for news though a Smash Brothers character was revealed this one being Steve from Minecraft it just makes sense I mean Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time Steve is an icon more so than pretty much any of the other DLC characters Nintendo announced that the original fire emblem for the famicom was being localized in English for the first time ever as Fire Emblem shadow dragon and the blade of light it would release in December for six dollars and be unavailable after March 31st Nintendo what is your problem I mean that's when their physical year ends they can get more money this way by forcing everybody to panic and buy a fire emblem even if they don't want it but again this is a digital only game when it's gone it's gone they released a physical collector's edition but it only came with a download code which is stupid what if I get the collector's edition and don't download the game before April oh yeah Fire Emblem downloaded show us the car at least they reduced the price of a single joy-con down by 10 I don't even see single joy-con in stores oh look Nintendo reduced the price of a dodo bird they updated 3D All-Stars with more options for the camera controls uh they care enough about a game that will refuse to exist in a few months then we had a few presentations one Treehouse live stream on Pikmin 3 and Hyrule Warriors and one final direct mini partner showcase God help us all Bravely Default 2 gets dated for February all right fine looking game and all and here's just my thing so many times Nintendo just plays like a five minute long trailer for games like this during Direction I don't know I feel like you already know if you're interested in Bravely Default 2 the second it got revealed I don't really think a five minute trailer is gonna change your mind or four minutes into a five minute trailer you go no well now I'm interested Hitman 3 is coming oh my God talk about out of left field it's a cloud version talk about out of bluff field Jesus control is coming too God version and today well let's see about this no more Heroes one and two got boarded the switch dropping this exact day and then Nintendo decided to release part-time UFO in a Hyrule Warriors demo in the eShop at the same time how are these from the same series they've really improved the partner showcases as time went on I hope Nintendo realizes that if you're gonna make an eight minute long direct make sure half of it is in WWE Battlegrounds while part-time UFO is a cheap little eShop game made by Hal laboratory the Kirby devs one of their latest eShop only non-kirby ROMs was box boy and box girl and I definitely like part-time UFO a whole lot more this was originally a mobile game but was upgraded for switch and it works really well here I know I said mobile games coming to switch is Anthony well this was done by Hal it already feels like a Nintendo game it definitely takes more away from the reveal like I already knew this was a thing before but I'm still happy about it you have a set of missions to complete as a UFO with a crane so you want to stack things carefully or meet expectations as well as possible it's really cute and fun and addictive and I want to see more Nintendo published eShop stuff like this if it happened to be an older game for phones no more Heroes one and two play pretty well on switch does anybody else have this weird feeling with the joy-con being Weir month substitutes where you feel like you have to shake them a lot harder to get some controls to work like the weirdmo would just register smaller movements as a shake I think because the joy-con are more precise when No More Heroes ask me to flick them up I literally have to throw them in the air control Cloud version one of two Cloud editions of modern games announced in the same direct this is what I fear a lot of games will be on switch in the future just Cloud versions because they don't want to go through the trouble of porting it natively to switch it runs fine but like it's not exciting it's not ideal I totally get it controlling Hitman 3 probably wouldn't have made it to switch otherwise this way at the very least people who only have the switch have an opportunity to play them if they're willing to always be connected to the internet it's just one of those things where you can say controllers on switch but I'm gonna squint when you say that I think most Publishers understand the worth of porting their games to the platform it results in more money that way you can sell it to everybody not just people with blazing fast internet and in stores too if this is the only way these certain games can come to switch fine I just don't want to see it become too much of a trend two months have passed it's about time major Calamity released can I just say what a great idea for a game you already had Hyrule Warriors which was a fun idea taking the warrior style and applying it to a giant non-canon Zelda Fan Fest then you have breath of the wild which detailed this giant battle for Hyrule between link and friends and Calamity Ganon and friends that took place before the game so make a sequel to Hyrule Warriors about that it's perfect it's a little weird to have a non-can spin-off get a sequel like this but I'm not complaining age of Calamity is still a Warriors game at the end of the day fighting off against hordes of enemies there is some strategy to the combat but you can still just Button Mash a way through even when you take the game seriously using all the characters moves and abilities it can still be fairly repetitive like you just kill all these enemies go over here kill these enemies go over here however unlike the original hybrid Warriors this one feels so much more like a Nintendo game the last game yeah and Nintendo's input and approval it's a Nintendo game but it still felt like it was made by a third party which it was age of Calamity feels like it was made by Nintendo this looks just like breath of the wild they nailed it it's so so much fun to see elements of breath of the wild be reworked to be move sets in a Warriors game it's cool to see what once was a huge open world reconfigured to be this however while I think it is cool to see these environments on a different context I do feel like the design was a bit held back by the conventions of Warriors games and just the fact I can't jump over this small step and I'm this restricted going over here or there it feels weird with this being an official prequel to breath of the wild it's like that game revolutionized the open world genre so here's a break will that feels like a game I'd play on the Xbox 360 in terms of gameplay limitations but I still had a lot of fun with this it only got annoyingly repetitive to me near the end they have you fight the same giant enemies like three times in a row and there's this one moment where like 20 different powerful enemies were swarming me I just about blew a gasket my biggest problem with this game though is the story I don't think it's a spoiler considering this is in the first two minutes but time travel is involved and right there that automatically devalues a lot of this game's worth I got this because I wanted to see what breath of the wild said happened 100 years prior instead I get kind of that with some extra really tart sauce like okay time travel is involved so this is a variant of what happened like I already know what happened because I played breath of the wild so that's a plus I guess considering I had no idea what's gonna happen now but I wanted to see what I knew happened in front of my eyes I think breath of the wild fans should still give this a shot it's still a Warriors game at the end of the day so I don't think it'll make anybody run out and pick up Warriors or roach 3 hyper but it's an awesome supplemental piece to breath of the wild and I had a good time with it I didn't buy Bakugan champions of estroia though I'm sure even the developers are happy about that Need for Speed Hot Pursuit remastered I like that EA is at least kind of supporting the switch with decade old driving games these are still pretty fun and it's giving the platform some good racing experiences and really enough this came out a week after the PS4 and Xbox One versions even though it leaked on the eShop and was fully playable months beforehand so it wasn't like it needed extra time Family Feud I love Family Feud games I don't love this Family Feud game you can't skip any of the cutscenes or dialogue I don't need this much animation just give me the damn surveys why is it so hard for developers to make game show games should be pretty simple but they keep them up Kingdom Hearts Melody and memory released at sixty dollars this is coming from somebody who bought Mario Kart live so kuna of rice and ruin was a bit of a sleeper hit it always looked excellent and those who played it seem to really enjoy it there was a supposed leak that Metroid Samus returns was coming to switch as this promotional image for a switch accessory showed a high-res screenshot from the game running on switch this was the last thing an intern Ever Saw 3D All-Stars was updated again this time adding support for the controller and sunshine why do they care this much surely do nothing at the same time what were the priorities with this game a sequel to the world ends with you was finally announced Neo the world ends with you not Neo Neo it was really strange to me how Square Enix kept hinting at a sequel to this game for years pretty much right after it released on the DS they were talking about a sequel and only 13 years later it finally got announced there was concern whether Doom Eternal and switch was canceled or not oh my God that's still not out yeah people's pre-orders were getting axed but it turned out that was merely due to the fact the physical version was being canceled and Bethesda was simply going for a digital only release while everybody let's band together and buy Doom Eternal on switch to show Bethesda we want more high quality switch but red button yes the Nintendo switch firmware was updated to include a new icon on the menu the Nintendo switch online Hub this is pointless but kind of fun like I get to see the release dates of all the NES and SNES games online and it even tells me that natsume championship wrestling released close to my birthday this is at least evidence that Nintendo plans to do far more with Nintendo switch online in the future I assume more pricing plans will become available like a 30 a year one where you get more retro systems included like Nintendo 64. but in the meantime this is just a really red wart Fire Emblem shadow dragon in the blade of light the very first fire emblem for the famicom got an official localization for the first time ever what else do you want me to say you know it seems like this release may have been planned for Wii U I mean look how nice and vibrant NES games look like on switch's online surface then look at how stupid and dumb NES games look like on Wii U now look at fire emblem definitely definitely a little closer to how NES games look on Wii U if you ask me and I'm pretty good at knowing what's a Wii U Virtual Console game and what's not this is all I have it's really cool this finally made its way over and for only six bucks at that I really hope other games that were never localized finally make the jump this was neat but to be fair the first Fire Emblem was remade on the DS so we sort of got an equivalent before let's see some Fire Emblem games that never made it over here in any way or completely different games please God completely different games Immortals Phoenix Rising what's that it's always nice to see Ubisoft make something that's not totally driven by Trends or just what will make them the most money Myrtle seemed like a passion project basically Ubisoft developers wanted to make their own breath of the Wild they did it's not as good but it's a high quality breath of the wild type game if that's your thing I really don't like the name though you could have just called it Immortals or Phoenix Rising putting them both together I think most people have no clue what this game is the original name Gods and Monsters I think was a much better title but you just run into some copyright problems sometimes at least they're talking to me Doom Eternal release digital only it runs pretty good but it's a bit too little too late it doesn't even include the DLC you'd think they would at least throw us a bone there for waiting so long and yeah it's impressive that Eternal runs well at all here but I don't know I think some of the magic of these current gen games running on switch is sort of gone I just end up asking was this really worth it was it worth the wait and honestly no I'm so happy it's here it's just more like I guess this is impressive but I'm just not wowed anymore Empire of sin came out it's about damn time everybody remembers this one right the game that Nintendo showed at E3 2019 and made everybody go what was the significance of this game why was it a title Nintendo hyped up at E3 and in one of the Nintendo Direct mini partner showcases because I didn't see it then and I sure as hell don't see it now collection of saga again why this border this is so stupid looking this really only appeals to those who grew up with these titles and their old school Game Boy RPGs and they're truly a slot to go through oh my God it's the man brave enough to talk about Saga 2 hi ho then setsu that's right Double Dragon Neon the big trip series all came back on Christmas day which was nice these are some of the most iconic we wear games and Bishop winner is super simple fun I like it but of course we can't ignore Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm and exercise Nintendo publishes these games for some reason but they're pretty good I really like ring fit Adventure but it is a bit of a hassle to set everything up in this game you just use your joy-con and punch the air ring fits higher quality in nearly every way but Fitness Boxing is cheaper and easier to jump into and play for just a bit I don't really see much of a reason to buy this if you have the first or buy the first if you have the second though it's so good it's so good this is one of my favorite puzzle games I mean you get two of the best ones together in one package and they're both firing at all cylinders like this is a full-fledged Tetris game this is a full-fledged Boya one story mode is a treat and there's this new RPG type 1 where you have party members and online is a blast and get my ass kicked by anybody who picks the fish from Poyo Pollo you can make the argument you don't need this game if you have the first it's pretty much more of the same with very little improvements but that's because there wasn't anything to improve in any world presentation dropping Among Us on the Nintendo switch that day plus it showcase Super Meat Boy forever which also released in December it's okay I really like the original Super Meat Boy but this was just supposed to be a mobile only spin-off and they decide to Beef It Up to be a console game the level layouts are randomized and it just doesn't work as well as the original I can commend the idea like wow infinite levels but it's not as tightly laid out because of it and after waiting a decade for a new Meat Boy game this one just comes up short at the game awards it was announced that a new Smash Brothers character was to be revealed my money was on Jeff Keeley and it was sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 more or less the same thing I feel like they added him because one is one of the most iconic villains in gaming but also two it actually gave Final Fantasy 7 representation in Smash Brothers for some reason Square Enix only allowed two songs to be included and no Spirits so to have actual content released alongside Seth that makes me not pissed Frenemy would prefer they pick a different Square Enix character to just get more diverse series represent and but I'm all right with this it's time it finally happened Hitman 3 Cloud version released yes another thing about it unless these Cloud versions makes sense so it gives switch owners the opportunity to play these games but I'm sorry if you were ever interested in playing Hitman 3 or control you probably have a Playstation or Xbox and you're gonna need high-speed internet to enjoy these games on switch and if you have high speed internet I doubt you only have a Nintendo switch Scout Pilgrim Vs the World the game finally came back the notorious game lost to time due to being digital only on 360 and PS3 after getting de-listed a physical release was announced it launched on Nintendo switch all is well that was about it for games released in January nobody wanted to go face to face with Hitman 3. but we got a few demos like for blonde Wonder World a new game By Yuji Naka and naoto Oshima creators of Sonic the Hedgehog it's a Square Enix game but gives off massive Knights into dreams and Billy Hatcher Vibes it's dog at least the Nintendo switch version Look at this it's controlled with one button even in the menus they all do the same thing it looks horrible it doesn't play well I'm happy they did a demo so people will save money not buying this but from their perspective why did they do one Monster Hunter rise got a demo as well and Nintendo revealed a Mario edition of the Nintendo switch this looks really Sleek though it's literally just red it's not much of a Mario Edition it's just a red switch Red Dot red joy-con with a blue joy-con grip good color combinations but if you wanted to make this specifically Mario themed you could have added more to it and finally the Bowser's Fury portion of Mario 3D World on switch was revealed oh my God finally I can play Super Mario 3D World 8 years later 3D world is back in one of the best Wii U ports I think I've ever seen on switch it feels like they included and improved every little thing something as simple as the Luigi Brothers minigame is still here the stamps are now fully colorized the game's saving after every level is now in the background rather than writing your face they even ensured you could still tap and manipulate the environment like you could with the Wii U gamepad now you just have to hit the R button and move the cursor around every character is walking and running speed has been significantly increased which makes the game feel legitimately fresh if you already played before online multiplayer it could be better but it could be worse there's no multiplayer in the captain Toad levels which makes a lot more sense it was always really weird in such a multiplayer oriented game they just said your friends you've got Captain Toad it runs at a higher resolution it's on a console that just flat out makes sense for this game I almost feel like 3D World makes more sense as a switch game and Mario Odyssey would have fit the Wii U as the exclusive 3D Mario more like 3D world is all about multiplayer put it on the system that has two controllers right there coupled with the shorter levels it makes just as much sense as a portable game as it does a console one then with Mario Odyssey I feel like with the map screen you could bring up and a lot of the enemies you could capture that just feels Prime for the Wii U gamepad at the end of the day though at least both are now on switch and 3D world is better than it's ever been back on the Wii U I thought it was a good game albeit underwhelming as the only 3D Mario on the platform now that we have the big open 3D Mario on switch 3D World just makes a lot more sense now and it's way easier to appreciate it for what it is rather than what it isn't but that's only half the story here I think 3D World switch release would have been worth 60 alone they made a ton of improvements to it to make it worth it in my opinion nonetheless we have a bonus experience Bowser's Fury it takes some mechanics of 3D world but puts it in a Mario Odyssey type environmentally controllable camera wide open areas you collect cat shines by completing objectives just like the more open three Marios it's almost like they took a bunch of 3D World type levels you know obstacle course type stuff and spread them around this small open world and it's just really cool every so often Bowser's Fury is Unleashed Christ he's pissed you always have this fear that Bowser's gonna come out at any minute and when he does it makes things a lot more hectic either wait it out until he Retreats or you can collect the cat trying to scare him off but if you collect enough shines you awaken the Giga Bell I knew this sounded familiar then you fight all Fury Bowser as my worst nightmare this is such a cool new and original take on 3D Mario it combines pretty much everything 3D Mario's been in the past and crafts this lovely smaller game out of it it's only about three hours or so but were you really expecting much more 3D world is the main attraction though Bowser's Fury is the more interesting to discuss as it gets your mind racing Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury is an incredible deal I wholly recommend it I'd recommend it without Bowser's Fury with this game needs to be available to all Nintendo also published Bravely Default too moving on I just don't care I played the demo it didn't grab me but people seem to be liking it and that's all that matters whenever a game like this comes out I am happy because that means Nintendo will move on to talking about other things damn it before we get to that Persona 5 finally released on Nintendo switch you can tell by the inclusion of the word Strikers Persona 5 Strikers is a sequel to Persona 5 that is not a turn-based RPG rather a warrior style action RPG so only three months after Hyrule Warriors we have another game similar to it the Persona 5 Strikers does deviate quite a bit from the Warriors formula combat similar but this feels more like a Persona game than something like age of Calamity feels like a Zelda one it's a solid title though I do find it odd how Atlas thinks that people don't want their core RPGs on switch if there's an exclusivity contract between them and Sony sure I get it but it seems less and less likely there is for some reason they think regular Persona 5 wouldn't do well on switch but it's sequel that's a hacking slash RPG oh yeah that'll do well you can think that way doesn't mean I get it ghosts and goblins Resurrection is a solid return for The Ghost and Goblin series I think the art style looks nice so the animation is a little too Adobe flashy for me like you just see a lot of Animation tweens and a natural looking movements but I think the actual art looks quite good for the series and if you want to see where ghosts and goblins started looking your backyard Capcom spits a series on and everything they can including the Capcom arcade Stadium these kind of compilations don't really excite me anymore as Capcom has done a ton of stuff like this in the past not only that but many of the top games in here are available Elsewhere on Nintendo switch like the street fighter Anniversary Collection and Capcom beat em up bundle they do this thing where the game download is free but then you have to pay for pretty much all the games via an in-game purchase which is fine it just it just that works for mobile phones I feel like people would rather have the game just flat out say its price on an actual game platform like this as any as an NES online got updated this month foreign Nintendo Where do you get off every now and then we get a good month with some solid titles but now that these apps are updated like every quarter of the year we wait and wait and get garbage I'm personally feeling Nintendo switch online has proven its worth for 20 bones a year we get more than enough NES and SNES games but if they want us to maintain excitement for the service adding the title screen of Fire and Ice to NES online alongside the rest of the game's box Arts isn't gonna cut it I've been down for just flat out original Game Boy games at this point I think everybody's yearning for Nintendo 64. I agree but overall I just want to see more Legacy Nintendo content come over faster than this and for an affordable price damn it well it's time after nearly a year and a half we got our first full Nintendo Direct on February 17th you know I always see people freak out at others for being disappointed in or critical of Nintendo the same people who scolded others for giving Nintendo a hard time for not doing a full Nintendo directs in September by saying what even is a full direct you gotta direct mini be thankful we're these same people who were overreacting and filming at the mount saying yes a full Nintendo Direct Nintendo my feet I just get kind of annoyed seeing people freak out about Nintendo announcements acting like this is the greatest pleasure this is the best sex I've ever had and all I did was watch a Splatoon trailer anybody criticizing them as just being nitpicky and how they shouldn't go in having such high expectations well then maybe don't hype up Nintendo announcements like they're the 15th coming of Christ now with that being said cheapy robot six is coming it was good to have these back just that feeling of excitement we were all watching the announcements at the same time rather than waking up at 1pm to Pikmin 3. it was time to be excited for a Nintendo Direct again so what did I think I bought this you know my opinion doesn't matter this direct was all right no matter what I don't think Nintendo was going to live up to a year and a half worth of build up but I think it was okay though it had a lot of elements of Nintendo directs I really don't like the first announcement was of pyra and Mithra from Xenoblade Chronicles coming to Smash Brothers he could have said this was Tweedledee and Bernie from Xenoblade 2 and I would believe you I don't care this is fine I mean were we really not expecting Xenoblade 2 characters here if they decide to include the characters from Fire Emblem Warriors that's when I think everybody should have drawn the line the Xenoblade franchise only had shulk as a fighter in Smash Brothers the second or technically third these characters transform into each other like Sheik and Zelda that's fine to me of course the typical anime style has been crowding up a lot of the Smash Brothers DLC slot so it's totally fair to be like all right I don't want pointy hair key man I want the raisin brand Sun damn it however pyro and mithr's inclusion doesn't annoy me that much considering Xenoblade only had one rep prior if they already had like five or six characters and this was the seventh that's when only be like all right stop falling guys is coming to switch that was a really popular game over the summer and then a lot of people stopped talking about it so it's a good thing it's coming to the switch in four months the famicom detective games are coming over which is pretty cool these are remakes of these old famicom visual novels by Nintendo back in the day I love how companies have just given up trying to localize things for English instead of calling this the super sleuth detective club or something Nintendo of America just said we're just calling it famicom detective Club this is such a neat obscure part of Nintendo's history that's being fully localized for the first time and I'm all for it a monster on a rise system and Pro Controller and Mario Golf super rush I've been waiting for a game with that subtitle forever so this looks lovely it's about time something other than Mario Tennis happened no more ears 3 looks promising but really low resolution no idea what's going on here DC superhero girls teen power published by Nintendo it's fine Nintendo's publishing this just why is it in a direct Nintendo made it clear that games like ringfit Adventure Nintendo labo and her mobile titles those don't belong in traditional Nintendo directs because they were for a different audience so why is this here miitopia from the 3DS is coming over sure my game was fine it's just like why they're putting loads of effort into this too like it looks excellent now I think it's awesome to see Nintendo still cares about me's it kind of felt like if they didn't have to include Meez in a game on switch they wouldn't like they were distancing themselves from the brand but I think miitopia is a good sign of things to come these are great they're way better than the stick figures in Clubhouse games project triangle strategy right when I thought we were out of the woods a successor to octopath traveler in graphical design only really if this one is a strategy RPG instead of a turn-based one same sentiment I had towards Bravely Default 2 in that Nintendo Direct mini looks good but do you really need to have a full five minute trailer for this anybody who's interested is going to know they're interested within the first minute of this trailer No One's Gonna perk their ears up four minutes in knockout City not a bad looking game basically an online multiplayer dodgeball game what killed it in this direct was the trailer Nintendo stopped playing full trailers for games just have your narrator explain it and move on after a minute instead games like Plants vs Zombies battle for Neighborville Star Wars Hunters knockout City DC superhero girls team power project triangles strategy they all have these full-blown trailers shown and it's kind of sort of annoying it doesn't help that their presentation style is kind of weird sometimes age of Calamity DLC here's a two second still frame of everything it comes with and then moving on what Ninja Gaiden Master collection great to see that that included his Ninja Gaiden 3 razor's Edge so that marks one more Wii U game off the list Devil's third your day will come AJ enuma appears and says that breath of the wild 2 info will come later this year and to me this says that game is coming in 2022. if it does it's pretty crazy we waited about as long as we did for the first breath of the wild that game got its first trailer at E3 2014 and came out a little under three years later well breath of the wild 2 was first revealed at E3 2019 and we'll probably get it a little under three years later that's fine but I think it means my expectations are a lot higher here breath of the wild one they had to create this entire thing from scratch two is obviously using a lot of one as a base and it's taking just as long to produce you'd think it would come out quicker but I'm kind of expecting to be blown away here in the meantime we have Skyward Sword HD to hold us over yes Skyward Sword is being remastered for Nintendo window switch good for it it looks clear now but very little else looks much better the wind wanker and Twilight princesses HD versions felt a lot more dramatically different and improved I think I've overestimated how much better wind Winker HD looked in the past uh playing the original it's obvious they did very little outside of Bloom the out of the game though it still looks great Twilight Princess they did a ton more to the game but it inherently looks worse because its art style doesn't age as well as wind wakers Skyward Sword being a colorful late Wii game it does age much better so there really wasn't a ton they could have done to it so that's whatever it just doesn't look dramatically better it's similar to how Mario Galaxy and 3D All-Stars looked comparing it to the original of course it looks a lot better it's so much more clear but if you're just seeing footage of the new version by itself it's not immediately obvious you're playing the upgrade they really told the game to work via standard button control which is good to preserve this game and make it more readily accessible discovered sword's emphasis on motion controls definitely didn't sit well with some so having the option no matter what is a good thing but the thing is this game is 60 dollars and that's just the bit ridiculous sure Nintendo knows they can sell the game at that price because we're all stupid in hate savings but it's just weird they value this game at the exact same price as breath of the wild and breath of the wild two in that releases and a remake like Link's Awakening that also shouldn't have been 60 but had a lot more apparent ever put in than something like Mario 3D All-Stars were as low effort as that game was it was three games in one with one of them being a Wii game as well with similar levels of changes made of course this being at face value Skyward Sword HD will probably have more quality of life enhancements but even with those this should be 40 max it's more expensive than it was on Wii at launch 10 years ago when it was a brand new game it sounds like I'm really not digging any of this but I'm not mad it's just kind of lame to see Nintendo take advantage of the fact they're at the top right now instead of pricing things fairly they think because Zelda's hot right now they can price a game like this at 60. and they'd be right it's a weird situation to be in because the same people complaining about this are the same ones who are gonna buy the game I think it just stings because I love Nintendo I want to buy their games and just because they know that they're gonna take advantage of it it's kind of lame the final announcement was Splatoon 3. okay Splatoon is great but it feels odd to have more than one entry per system to me it feels somewhat redundant to have two splatoons on the switch with what being well Splatoon three seems to be taking things in a post-apocalyptic Direction which seems cool but at its core it looks like more Splatoon which is fine it's just I'm not crazy excited considering I can already play Splatoon on the switch right now of course I just said how Mario Kart needs a new entry but that's because Splatoon 2 was a new game it had a whole single player expansion I don't really think the switch was desperate for more Splatoon Mario Kart 8 came out in 2014 and we've been nursing on those tracks ever since cool announcement but with Splatoon 2 readily available it's hard for me to get that pumped up at least a single player seems to be more open Adventure Style with Splatoon feeling they need to make their world feel as lived in as possible it was always odd to to me the single player stages were simple obstacle course designs I felt like an exploration styled story mode would work well for the series and we might just get that with three that was all right at least we had a Pokemon presents later on showcasing remakes of diamond and pearl brilliant diamond and Shining Pearl they look very simple and aren't developed by Game Freak surprisingly I wish they would have gone crazy they did the Link's Awakening remake and are working on miitopia for the switch I just feel like while the style is cute it could use some better detail and lighting effects like with Link's Awakening but while game freak isn't working on these remakes they are working on Pokemon Legends Arceus and open world take on Pokemon it's cool to see them try something legitimately new and interesting it's terrifying to see this frame rate and that was the Nintendo switch's fourth year a lot of people seem to really hate the lineup this time around uh considering the circumstances I personally thought it was all right I think what's the most concerning is the near future 2021's lineup looks pretty bad it's pretty much entirely re-releases outside of Mario Golf and the bigger games Nintendo's hyping up right now are sequels the games we already have on the switch which is great but it does feel a little Bend there done that compared to how these games felt when they first appeared on the switch I mean we're officially in the five year mark of this system that's crazy to think but that's generally the expected lifetime of most platforms it's not going to be the end of the switch but most consoles have a five-year lifespan if the switch is going to continue past that Mark I think a small revision at the very least is needed I want to be excited by the switch again but at the moment the hardware is just starting to show its age and it's not as magical as it once was in 2017 and 2018 and plus Nintendo's getting a bit too egotistical they've always done whatever they felt like doing but at least during the Wii U error in the beginning of this one they felt a lot more humble and now they'll charge 60 for anything with a leg on the cover just some concerns from the future but Nintendo is still working harder than a lot of other game companies they put out more games than both of their competitors even at their worst at their worst hey all Scott here the Nintendo switch is five years old big whoop I can turn to hard drugs in two I for one am not impressed by its long-standing success if I can leave bread out for five years who says Nintendo can't pull for six the Nintendo switch is still not old enough to date five whole years and not a single not stretchers I think we're pretty used to this by now every time the Nintendo switch reaches its anniversary you let's take a look at everything Nintendo switch that occurred from March 2021 to February 2022 and see how much I can stretch the definition of the word everything of course this is all from the perspective of myself there are some games I care about and some games that are games so with that being said let's start by committing to blatant false advertising he didn't even talk about switch games he talked about March March was a big time for third parties on switch with Nintendo themselves taking a bit of a back seat the main title this month happened to be capcom's Monster Hunter rise the big new Mainline Monster Hunter game that just so happened to also have been a Nintendo switch exclusive and the first thing standing between you and me bitching about Mario Golf you know I don't think I can understate how massive of a deal this was after Monster Hunter World released on PS4 or Xbox One and PC only I thought the only type of Monster Hunter we'd get on switch would be more so like Generations ultimate which we got in 2018. that game was a remastered 3DS title while world was a big new step for the series being available on the current gen consoles taking advantage of their hardware and being a more easily accessible monster owner for the mainstream so I bet hard that if the switch would get anything it would be more classic styled monster hunter games like Generations while the big bad consoles got the mainline entries from there on out yeah well it hasn't been a good year for me monster hunter rise is without a doubt one of the most impressive look talking switch games it looks like a less vibrant detailed PS4 game which sounds like an insult it's not you're just a bit worse than Jesus Christ you're welcome most of these PS4 type games ported down to the switch look impressive yes but they just have so many obvious compromises whereas monster trying to rise I mean this looks great and shows what can be done with a project made from the ground up specifically for switch now I've never been a huge monster hunter fan you ever tried to play the older titles the do I do they were notoriously difficult for newcomers to get into though ryze is definitely a different story far more accessible not only on the tutorial front but on Mobility as well being able to zipline around with your wire bug abilities while riding along some mutt it makes ryze feel so much more fluid than previous titles yep still retain what makes Monster Hunter Monster Hunter good game though I'm still not a mega fan of the series I'll leave that to the mega fans but I can definitely see myself heading back into this one and playing some more it has a distinct not blonde Wonder World quality to it March 26th Judgment Day both of these games released on the same day sulfur X but on Wonderworld was the latest creation from in collaboration between Yuji Naka and naoto Oshima the original Minds behind Sonic the Hedgehog and nights into dreams the latter being what blonde Wonder World felt the most like at least from trailers this game initially looked to be a return to Classic Sega platformer so now published by Square Enix and square did the best and worst thing they could have done for this game release a demo great for fans bad for square you know some people actually like this game and they'll never get hired because of it the only thing I can really say about bullon is that it feels like a student mobile game boarded the console it's just so primitive and amateur if this was made by an indie team in high school maybe but no it's from industry veterans published by one of the most well-known companies in gaming nothing about how this game came about makes any sense to me so that was a bust but hey Crash Bandicoot 4 it's about time made its way over to the switch this month after debuting on PS4 and Xbox One in October of 2020. anytime they board modern crash games to the switch the results are almost always Stellar these games look and run great on the platform and crash 4 is no exception let me very rarely have I noticed major downgrades in the switch version by all means this is Crash four it runs looks plays great well those three games were the main standouts this month I could up it to four with stubs the zombie but what is there to gain I mean one of the handful of interesting ports this month and that was a unique original XBox exclusive releasing alongside kingdoms of amalore Reckoning Tales from the Borderlands in two EA Games Plants vs Zombies battle for Naperville and Apex Legends getting EA to release anything on switch is like pulling teeth so either this was a miracle or a hostage situation Plants vs Zombies yeah who cares I mean good quality game but that frankly just should have been on the switch sooner yeah you really initially thought this wasn't a good fit for switch then what is at least Apex Legends release which is a more in quotes hardcore title though it being free to play releasing two years after the other versions and running significantly worse than the other versions does Tartan it a bit I think he has waited too long to bring most of their games to the platform if Apex released in 2019 I think we'd be singing a different tune but in 2021 don't think these kind of ports feel nearly as impressive anymore even if they if they are technical achievements this was the sweet this is worth year Market it's no longer exciting to see a PS4 game running on it at half the resolution and frame rate because we've seen it before so if you're gonna do that it has to be a unique game like The Witcher 3 if you're releasing it so late after its initial launch and if it took you this long to realize people would want to play your games on the platform well that's your own damn fault the new geopocket color selection is pretty cool the fire and myth or DLC for Smash Brothers ultimate release this month alongside of Mr Sakurai presents video presentation after being revealed in the February 2021 Nintendo Direct I mean their fun characters to play as it just doesn't fit in my painted Nintendo fan give a tray I'm always gonna be interested in new Smash Brothers characters these ones are obviously in the Lesser interesting tier of additions and I don't think that should be controversial to say what I'm trying to get at here is my mom has yet to ask me if I heard they added pirate Smash in terms of news this month the main rumor floating around was that a 4K switch turning a 7-inch screen with an updated chipset would be releasing in 2021. yeah it's all that to reality this was pretty much the start to the ongoing talk for months about a Nintendo switch Pro releasing this year I mean I can't blame people for wanting this the system is getting older and games like Apex Legends releasing on it that should be this cool moment end up being lackluster it's no longer as exciting to get a modern game ported to the switch because as technology evolves Nintendo puts Captain Toad on sale and very little else the final bit of news for March was the inevitable on March 31st Nintendo delisted Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Fire Emblem shadow dragon and the blade of light from the Nintendo eShop alongside shutting down Super Mario Brothers 35 after both series ended their anniversary celebrations from the previous year Nintendo bowled them as they were limited time products hey 3D All-Stars you can still find rotting on some store shelves Fire Emblem I mean if you find the collector's edition of the game the download code should still work Super Mario Brothers 35 that's gone forever and I made damn sure I got first place One Last Time see the server stayed up for a little bit longer after March 31st and one by one users were getting booted I was able to play for an extra day or two and I'm glad I did I didn't want to live with regrets damn it April the month Christ rose again new Pokemon Snap launched being one of the most requested games for Nintendo to bring back I was surprised how much I forgot this game even came out ever feel like some people don't actually want certain games to come back they just latch on to the next big franchise that hasn't had a new entry in a while and demand we get a new Melbourne cup where's Pokemon Snap Nintendo you could be making a new Pokemon Snap that's all fine and good but what about Pokemon Snap where's Mario Strikers well at least new Pokemon Snap came out excellent at least as excellent as a new Pokemon Snap could come out I don't know what more they could have done with this title absolutely gorgeous visuals with numerous environments and gameplay additions to modernize the experience without making it not Pokemon snap it's a good game but definitely not for everybody you have to be in the right mood to enjoy this game at least I do because when the game blade doesn't hit I have serious questions about my goals however when you just want a calming simple experience new Pokemon Snap definitely delivers it also helps to inherently enjoy the concept of Pokemon oh see that's my problem tell me more about that urge to kill yours you've been talking about new Pokemon Snap is good just not for everybody I personally didn't get to invested into it doesn't mean I didn't like it just never play a game that you were interested in then you're like this is good and what I expected but you just don't care to play more than like two hours yeah Horizon zero Dawn earlier in April though many were speculating since Super Mario Brothers 35 was shut down what would replace it as a retro Battle Royale exclusive to Nintendo switch online members my money was on Brutal Paws of Fury we got Pac-Man hey wasted no time announcing a replacement for Mario 35 only roughly a week after shutdown Pac-Man 99 was announced and released that very next day this was a game that made perfect sense it made me feel like a putz for not even thinking of it it falls right in line with Tetris 99 and Super Mario Brothers 35 being one of the most popular games from the 80s simple to learn hard to master pick up and play Nintendo Associated checked all the boxes and me being the pack I am I was very interested in this title and yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it until I didn't see pac-man99 was very popular its first week or so but I didn't try and play it and it's a ghost town it takes a while to fill up a room worth of 99 players and at the time the game gives up and uses computer players to reach full capacity the thing is it's 99 is a bad game the replay value of Tetris or Mario those felt like every you had numerous strategies to attempt and random elements thrown at you by other players to keep you on your toes Pac-Man kind of always just plays the same there's less craziness happening other players can send these Jammer Pac-Mans some just slow you down others can kill you but that's pretty much it other than that you're just playing a souped-up version of Pac-Man I initially thought it might have been cooler to have 99 Pac-Man's all on one board though they already had a Pac-Man multiplayer game in the arcades called Pac-Man Battle Royale where it was for Pac-Mans and Pac-Man Mega tunnel battle was that but with 64 players all on one huge board and that wasn't all too exciting so I guess this was the best way to go about it and I'm glad they did because it's fun but it was just a little too easy to get first place for me I felt like this wasn't nearly as difficult as Tetris 99 or even Mario 35 to win which Honestly made those games as addicting as they were the lust for one more game stems from getting so close to winning the last one and when I won my first Pac-Man 99 game within the first hour of downloading and I just won another an hour ago it's obvious the game isn't as difficult as it should be there's I don't know if the 99 players can do to a each other bottom line the game kind of disappointed me I bought all the DLC I don't even like xevious right alongside the game were DLC Packs altogether totaling 30 Bones the main mode was always free but if you wanted to play Private matches with password unlocks CPU battles score attacks or play with a variety of themes based on different art styles and Namco arcade games throw up your car insurance uh yeah for everything you get I think 30 is kind of pricey I honestly think it should be half that but the fact is the core mode of the game the mode everybody's gonna play with the theme that I use regardless of the fact I own all the custom ones so take that for what it's worth is accessible to all and buying the DLC doesn't put you at an advantage it's merely here just if you want it I just don't really feel like it's anybody's fault all the DLC costs 30 other than myself why don't they use some of their own game titles with these themes a lot of them are just Amco classic one and Amco classic 2 when galagas and xevius is a name like that and you can't name Mappy or Sky Kid you name Sky Kid right there it's a fun time just not as replayable as I wanted it to be but thankfully April had the best game no wonder this game dropped off the house in fata Morgana dreams of the revenant's Edition one of the highest rated games of all time on Metacritic oh the light is ready game at 2021 in general 96 one point away from breath of the wild and Mario Odyssey in NFL 2K1 well bye let's see what it is holy a video game yeah from what I could gather this game is so well received because it has 10 reviews by people who very much are invested in this type of game it's a visual novel and when I say that please take me seriously it's literally just clicking a button proceeding through text there's barely any interactivity your choices to make so the high review score is really just based on The Narrative of which people absolutely adored so sure but to me a visual novel that has an amazing story but barely any interactivity is kind of like a movie with the greatest plot of all time being told through still images yeah sure it's still entertainment and it could be great but you're not taking advantage of the medium a movies supposed to move in a video game is supposed to be interactive that's why you make a video game and not a book but I'm not here to debate anything like that if you're into visual novels you might be into it I don't know 10 people were Shantae the original Game Boy Color game received a switchboard for ten dollars who'da thunk it I only picked this up recently because back in April I spent 300 of my Shantae funds to buy Pac-Man DLC but playing this now it is the best way to play that classic game though it is very surreal playing a game boy game on such a big screen like this like right if a Game Boy game can get this big why can't I Saga Frontier remastered picross S6 I'm sorry it's just you know these only come around twice a year what about news about the blue Nintendo switch light was announced and released in May wait what the hell is this see this as more of a GameCube purple as well does everybody else which you know what that means you're two in any world presentation on April 14th you know I like Indie worlds but I kind of wish indie games were given the same attention as games like it's weird because so many games are in regular Nintendo directs some mini games featured in Indy World hardly feel Indie even if they're independent teams they're still backed by Mega franchises I don't know I just feel like continued to relegate Indie Games to their own showcase while cool and great they're showcasing them at all kind of feels like you're labeling them as just indie games like they're not as important as the stuff they show in normal Nintendo directs like have you seen some of the stuff they talk about in those these enjoying this time around Ali Ali World Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's revenge The House of the Dead remake and oxen free too which is a sequel to a game I bought on switch in 2017 because the icon looked quality and it was really really cheap and I still haven't played it sign me up Pez was announced and released right after the presentation which was pretty slick the overall solid little showcase though Indie world's like I said I do like they never really feel that substantial for me to make them a priority to watch live alongside those announcements this month the great Ace Attorney Chronicles was announced by Capcom which was great this was a compilation of two japan-only 3DS entries in the Ace Attorney Series games that were deemed too difficult to localize outside of Japan finally came out which was so exciting to see hey these are new games to us so bring out more 3DS games that were never released in North America hear that it's me not saying I wouldn't some rumors and leaks as per usual a new Super Monkey Ball game was rated by the Australian classification board titled bananamania they are horrible at titles similarly Borderlands 3 director's cut was rated for Nintendo switch by Peggy sure what next Nintendo label is finished we were talking about impossible abilities yes the Nintendo labo website basically turned into a redirect link sending you to the Nintendo store page for the VR kit which implied there was nothing left for labo I'm mainly just disappointed from a potential standpoint I think what released of level was okay the hopefully undercooked the game portion just had nothing to it putting this stuff together was where the fun was but there wasn't enough to any of the whole packages to Warrant that kind of price however it was reported that there would be one last lab osk announcement which ended up happening that very next month but who needs that when we have Animal Crossing New Horizons updates for the spring they're the exact same thing as last year you sold 40 million copies and can't just offer like a new hat or something New Horizons update strategy was very bizarre I understand these kind of updates take time but a lot of content that was sort of a standard for the series wasn't there at launch and some of it still isn't here at all so for them to position holidays in the game as free updates every year was intriguing yet still very worrying there's of course the fear that the holidays were weren't finished and they would just gobble together something every season however if the holidays were updates to the game there was the potential of each year having something different for this Easter compared to last Easter you know instead the second year of New Horizons was kicked off with Nintendo saying go home that's just Bleak man like I think it's ridiculous to act like none of us got our money's worth out of New Horizons the people complaining have spent hundreds of hours in the game but I Justified when you position your game to be supported with worthwhile content for years especially when it still didn't have serious Staples at that point in time uh Super Mario party was updated with online multiplayer I really want to see that board meeting yeah nearly three years after the game initially launched it got online multiplayer it technically had online multiplayer because bad online multiplayer counts as online multiplayer that was just a play select amount of mini games online oh this was playing the actual modes of the game with the boards and the turns and everything I don't know why Nintendo has been so picky about Mario Party Never having online multiplayer until April 2021 again I'd want to see that board meeting but a free update adding an incredibly worthwhile option to a game no matter how old the title is is something I will never Decline and with that we enter May the month was a blur me Topia one letter away from a license plate what a strange game for them to remaster for Nintendo switch originally 3DS came from 2017 me Toby on switch is fundamentally the same game which is a few added features and comically enhanced graphics like why does this look so good it kind of bums me out that they put so much effort into remastering this 3DS game when so many others would have been better picks because at the end of the day not really into metopia this was always a very simple RPG that took a lot of elements from the Tomodachi games Tomodachi life was incredible on the 3DS it was just dumb fun you put any me you want in an apartment on an island and you give them a voice and personality and just watch how they interact with the other Mees and how relationships Bloom it's not that deep but it was genuinely really funny and addicting to checking on how things were going miitopia is similar but just doesn't have the same appeal it's more of a game because it's an RPG but it's such a simple RPG that requires you to give it your all if you don't have an idea for a million silly looking me's to put in the game I don't think this is for you because the personality and the quirkiness of seeing your friends and family or favorite celebrities and fictional characters in the game is the main appeal and even then I feel like Tomodachi Life did that so much better that game the me is all talked via text-to-speech program and it made all the ridiculous things they said so much more impactful it elevated how bizarre and surreal the game could be at times metopia doesn't have this all dialogue is just conveyed through text which is unbelievably lame in comparison yeah I can just take a picture of myself and write something I would never say in a speech bubble why do I need this game for what it is it's fine but I just feel like metopia doesn't necessarily succeed at anything it's not a great RPG but that's because the entire appeal is putting your friends in silly situations but Tomodachi Life did that 10 times better due to the text-to-speech aspect alone I assume they boarded this because miitopia is still pretty unique so it does have its place in the switch lineup so does sushi Striker so that's a null argument well also in May Nintendo had a door release in the form of famicom detective Club the missing air and the girl who stands behind both on May 14th Marie makes a visual novel adventure games for the famicom disc system that made it outside of Japan for the first time via this release and it took the World by storm famicom detective Club wasn't trying to win over a huge new audience if that were the case it wouldn't be named this but you don't have to be an old school Nintendo history fan to enjoy these these are just good visual novel experiences that are now more accessible than ever before it would have been one thing for these two games to have finally been translated but with the upgraded presentation it helps convey what's going on that much more it is for sure aren't for everybody but at the very least you gotta respect the fact that two classic Japan exclusive fam com games are finally officially playable elsewhere that is really cool and it helps that the games are good in their own rights on top of the Nintendo releases shin Megami tensei 3 Nocturne HD remastered launched I need a breath fine version of the game though not really trying to be anything more than just a way to play smt3 on Modern consoles oh for an absurd price fifty dollars for this remaster on its own I mean sure maybe but they took content out of the original PS2 game offered it as paid DLC of which you could get it in the digital Deluxe bundle for seventy dollars and we're debating if Pikmin 3 was worth it World's End Club I don't know knockout City and super bummer man are online where are free to play multiplayer titles this month both decently fun but it was primarily filled with news the definition is getting stretched thin yeah new games are added to the NES and SNES Nintendo switch online catalogs that's why I'm not happy this is getting pathetic straight up no updates to either one of these services for months and this is what we get after what we got in February listen I get it it's hard to get the big boy titles from third parties to be a part of a subscription service like this especially when they know they can sell it on their own and make infinitely more cash like there are games that Nintendo themselves wholly own that aren't on these Services yet we get Spanky's Quest did we upset them and I'm able to be released alongside Skyward Sword HD was announced Zelda and the Loft wing with its in-game functionality being the ability to go up to the skies to fly whatever you want what would you spend 25 on a personality trait so here's the thing Skyward Sword had these bird statues you'd go up to them to go back in the sky to travel to whatever destination you please and this amiibo's functionality just kind of forgoes the bird statue portion it sounds like a quality of life Improvement to be able to go to the sky whenever you want there's a lot of these damn birds around never in Skyward Sword did I ever go cut the just give me the damn bird and even if you're not necessarily close to a bird statue the act of getting this amiibo out scanning in and going through the menu options it it's really not that faster than just powering through and walking to the nearest statue so I burtoner highly requested new feature behind a paywall but I still most certainly do not like this Skyward Sword HD was seen as a pretty light remaster at the time with very few new features discussed by May of 2021 so for one of the only major additions of the game being locked me on a figure for 24.99 while the game itself was already 59.99 10 more expensive than what the game caused when it launched back in 2011 which is only ten dollars less than a bundle containing a special edition controller whereas in 2021 there were special editions covered sword HD controllers though they were being sold separately for 79.99 some brand new turned out to be out of nowhere Nintendo announced game builder garage a 30 title to be released that very next month and this is what One Last Breath of labo looks like everybody this is pretty much an expanded upon spin-off of the lambo garage mode included in all those titles where you can program your own games though in Lambo it was more in there to program uses for the labo accessories even if you could still straight up make your own simplistic games game builder garage is way more focused on teaching you the basics of programming and making standard simple video games listen I was nursed on worry word DIY which is why my teeth are crooked but that game was an incredible teaching tool it taught me how programming generally works and I feel like people needed to look at game builder garage as that you weren't gonna make a masterpiece with this thing but you very well could in the future with actual programming software and game builder garage could be that stepping stone for many budding game designers and for only thirty dollars I think there's not a lot to risk at that price you think Pokemon brilliant Diamond shining Pearl and legends Arceus release dates were announced amazed on how both of these games looked when they were initially revealed back in February that's the scariest goddamn thing I've seen all year these Pokemon titles looked rough they had potential no doubt but I don't think I was the only one that winced when I saw that Legends Arceus wasn't that far away January 2022 just seemed too soon the game looked like it had a ton of promise but that doesn't mean it was easy to look at Sonic the Hedgehog had a digital event prior to E3 2021 announcing Sonic Colors ultimate the Sonic Origins collection and the next big Mainline Sonic title release in 2022. the solid event Sonic Colors finally being playable on something other than the Wii was definitely exciting I mean Sonic Colors itself isn't that exciting but I guess the days when Sega would put everything on anything sure but hey I hope Sega continues with this kind of stuff I know Sonic Lost World isn't the greatest but I would take a port of that to Modern platforms Sonic Origins oh yes Sonic 2 3 I am getting sick of the classic Sonic re-releases but hey happy they're doing three Knuckles and CD because those have been kind of stuck on the previous generation of consoles and Sega has been avoiding three and Knuckles like the Blake probably due to the background music being subject to licensing fees maybe so I'm very pleased this collection includes them I just kind of wish there was something new and different from this collection the games that have never been re-released before like Knuckles chaotix or Sega Sonic the Hedgehog I know these games would be tricky to bring over but it's more than possible and I think would be worth it and then the 2022 Sonic game features running very brief teaser that show damn near nothing and followed a very similar format to the initial Sonic forces teaser and because that worked however some leaps came forward implying this was an open world Sonic game either titled Sonic Rangers or sonic Frontiers that sounds really hard to pull off but if there's anything intro Sonic team with God have mercy on us all rumors spread about the Super Mario Odyssey team working on a new Donkey Kong game and how the Nintendo switch Pro would feature a better kickstand an ethernet port on the dock and be announced any day now and if there's anything I trust more than gaming journalists it's the quality of Mario Golf super rush I'm tired another June of 2021 another Mario Golf super rush fails to impress me and I thought this year was gonna be different I had high hopes for super rush I love me some Mario Golf in the previous entry World Tour on the 3DS was excellent the developer of these games Camelot when they make the Mario tennis games as well and with the last three being apocalyptic Horsemen I just assume that maybe tennis isn't camelot's favorite thing to develop but it pays the bills golf is where camelot's passion's at baby or they hate it Mario Golf super rush is the culmination of all the problems with Mario sports games these days I wouldn't call it bad in the same way a game like right to hell if retribution is bad it's bad like the knife game because wow I just myself over buying into this stairs nothing to this game it's just a nothing special arcady golf game with Mario characters but gameplay has barely changed from previous Mario Golf titles in fact they dumbed it down even more the courses are just generic golf courses for the most part very few Mario elements are actually at play here which when you compare to World Tour on the 3DS that came out of course based entirely off of Yoshi's woolly World a year before that damn game even came out even the most basic courses from that game still had a marioesque art style the super rush has a more realistic Direction with how these environments look which isn't like bad but it doesn't look like Mario these look like basic ass generic golf courses with like one Mario element thrown in there like grass that's from Mario these aren't bad golf courses to play on but they're most certainly not interesting or exciting or fun the game launched with only six available to play with half of them being grass-based which all kind of Blended in with each other like bam why couldn't you do something cool like rain I thought I was worried for a second there I thought I thought this game was bad four grass-based courses one of them it's raining a desert course and a Bowser lava one that's it now leaper rush comes with an adventure mode baked into the experience but my God this is the most lifeless and boring story mode I've ever played it's basically just an overly Toronto tutorial in Disguise as a story mode which hey that works tutorials have a lot of dialogue so make that the story these Adventure Mode missions just go on and on and on they make you play like nine holes in a row which can last quite a while maybe like half an hour and I could be doing really well the entire game and then the last hole I botched guess who has to play all nine holes again this is a tough one and the adventure mode likes to do a lot of this fake ass World building which makes no sense like hey go into your room to rest up for the next mission so I just go to my room hit the sleep button and then I go right back to where it was originally like what was the point of that if there is something to do new information to learn by going back to the lodge maybe but no this just feels like they created an adventure mode and padded it out with pointless junk like this when no character has anything of note to say there's nothing to do out side of just play the next mission and it's just the same thing over and over and over again like they included it just to say they included it without having a legitimate Direction I would have just preferred them doing a simple missions menu rather than waste all this development time on a useless Hub world and characters to talk to maybe they could have spent that on more courses or better modes I don't know let's about speed golf so this was the main new attraction with super rush hey your golf ball and race to it before the other players it demo is extremely well on trailers like it looks so fun and creative and then you play it and realize this is incorporating the part of golf that video games always removed for a reason walk into your ball oh yeah speed golf might not actually be faster than regular golf considering when I hit the ball it would just take me to where the ball landed now I have to walk all the way to it not run because running takes up stamina I understand this is to balance the game but God damn does walking have to be this slow well speed golf is something you play in all the regular courses Battle golf is a special version of speed golf taking place in the this Arena and this is way more fun the environment is Lively and exciting power-ups and enemies make the terrain ever chain and you want to get the most balls in different holes before everybody else to win this is what I'm talking about there are only two battle golf courses and they're aesthetically the same that's just what I wanted Mario Golf super rush came up short in nearly every way it's not a bad game at its core but I'm not really into making excuses for this one Martin Tennessee shipped with similar problems but at the very least the gameplay was significantly improved from previous entries it was a great enough leap where even though I wasn't a big fan of that one as well I could see the argument that the core gameplay excuse the lack of content in mediocre single player super rush doesn't have that it's just more Mario Golf but dumb down World Tour launched for 30 dollars with more courses with actual Mario Aesthetics and gimmicks and not just a random enemy and pipes in the background and they had a season pass for 15 which increased the character and course count tremendously coupled with the story mode in that game which wasn't much to write home about but that's better than super Rush's Ransom note for 45 dollars in total you got significantly more with a legitimate feeling of love and passion behind it than what you got for 60 with super rush this was inexcusable in my opinion it's a tolerable golf game sure but my God it's depressing this title follow Nintendo's trend of free updates for their multiplayer games launching with a severe lack of content to later be rectified via updates finishing the game though they mask it as if they're giving you free updates out of the kindness of their hearts no honey they're releasing a game with barely any actual content they're gonna make their sales no matter what because people like me are idiots and then they give you the rest to the game over time because then that helps Market the game well after launch and keeps players invested but what actually happens is the game launches with a lack of content and I get bored and have a bad taste in my mouth and don't want to play the game ever again and when free updates come out I don't care I mean Nintendo's probably thinking we can make this game for half the budget by shelving content for later updates launch it make a ton of money via initial sales then use that money to fund more content and if the game doesn't sell well we'll just abandon it and we ended up spending Less on the game's budget in the long run Mario Golf super rush updates ended in November yeah because people aren't playing the game because they had no reason to you launched it with an abysmal amount of content and when you start to update the game everybody had already moved on tennis Aces got far more support for far longer super rush got a few extra courses which bums me out because some of these are actually good the new dunk City course is great this All-Star Summit one I mean it's kind of cool some of the new characters are fun but again like really you saved Toadette for an update when she was already in the story mode like your model is right there she's playing golf why hold her back for a free update that's it I'm selling one of my copies why did Nintendo release this game when they did it just feels rushed it wasn't like they needed a big June release because they already had this DC superhero girls teen power published by Nintendo published by Nintendo can't wait for the prequels The Big Three all do this publish a licensed kids game from time to time for every last of us too there's a Muppets Movie adventures and I guess Nintendo just had the net DC superhero girls as an exclusive due to threats of violence and you know what it's okay better than what I have to say about Mario Golf I mean this isn't some kind of surprisingly great time for kids who are fans of the TV show this is a video game and based on the status of licensed kids games recently that's incredible it looks and sounds nice and has actual mechanics in combat and missions and everything it's a typical game but looking at the box art that's a miracle I think it's nice to see games that are definitely targeted a bit more towards young girls that aren't completely brain dead in execution games like this and Style Savvy which is another Nintendo published joint that actually put effort into creating a decent to good experience I don't know it's just nice to see now why Nintendo revealed this in a Nintendo Direct well with projects like lab ringfit Adventure they refused to considering them to be for different audiences I'm sure we'll finally find out why they did that once I'm done buried quick should game builder garage it was a good month for Nintendo projects nobody gave a about this game had quite a bit of potential though is for a very specific Market mostly younger kids interested in creating their own video games anybody else I'm not sure how much they'd get out of this the entire game consists of game design tutorials guiding you through the steps of creating the default games included in the package the game design mode itself which you can just do whatever in and finding custom games online to play for what it is I think game builder garage is an excellent baby's first game design program the tutorials are lighthearted and fun though after just a small bit of time you kind of get the idea on what to do to finish a game without the need of the tutorial and the amount of unnecessary dialogue boxes there to just add personality fluff while initially welcomed it can become a bit overbearing then actually designing a game for yourself outside of the tutorials there's no music it's creepy I mean look at Super Mario maker and WarioWare DIY they have really Lively and nice background music while you create I think this game could have benefited from that because the personality is here I just wish it was in more of it building games is pretty intuitive they even support USB mice to control things a bit better but while you can definitely make some impressive stuff with this it's never as impressive as something you'd get out of dreams on PS4 for example and even then fighting games to play is cumbersome you upload your game and receive a code to share for others to play it I don't understand this if anything is more dangerous for kids this way what you're not going to offer them a safe platform to browse Builder garage games and instead force them to look on craigslist yeah this guy told me it shares level code on kick that is one phallic looking level code The Best Thing game builder garage does is introduce basic game programming principles I don't think it's a great platform for custom games I don't think you can make the most amazing stuff with it but it's only thirty dollars and I think it's a good teaching tool for Bunning designers a decent way to repurpose the tools of Nintendo labo though it's a bit too specific in who it targets for me to truly recommend it to anybody big month for third parties here with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater OnePlus 2 coming to switch after releasing on PS4 and Xbox One back in September of the previous year you know when I saw footage of this game on switch and trailers I thought it looked rough but after playing it this is an incredibly competent version of the game it works much better than I ever expected and right alongside that the Ninja Gaiden Master collection I bought the deluxe edition which came with the digital art book which is its own icon on the switch menu I did say at my high school reunion I had big projects in the works a collection of the modern ninja gaidens but various specific versions of them not the original Ninja Gaiden from Xbox or Ninja Gaiden black the updated version Ninja Gaiden Sigma the PlayStation 3 remaster it's all pretty much the same in the end though there are differences and some people prefer the original releases in comparison to the PS3 updates which were what was used here hey I'm just zapping ninja getting three razors that made the jump so we can knock one more Wii U game off the list oh don't worry it's coming Legend Amana remastered and Zombies Ate My neighbors and ghoul Patrol were crate remastered slash ports the Destroy All Humans remake which made its way over and it's fine this was not made for switch which is when remakes of games from the GameCube PS2 and Xbox era come out for PS4 and then switch and the switch version is crusty as hell yeah that kind of irks me because in some regards I would have preferred just a straight Port of the original Xbox and PS2 versions of the game like you're telling me and Destroy Humans could only run like this on switch I mean it's playable it does the job but to me I see games like Tony Hawk coming out on the same platform and that didn't have the same issues I'm sure it's because the developers ensured the game was optimized for switch I'm not saying the Destroy All Humans developers didn't do that however there's just an obvious difference in quality Tony Hawk feels optimized Destroy All Humans feels like you're playing on PC and just decrease the graphics quality look I just made a switch version of course E3 was this month Nintendo held their usual Nintendo Direct on June 15th but right before that Ubisoft announced via their own presentation a sequel to Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom battle Sparks of Hope right after getting leaked on Nintendo's website this series just can't catch a break while I'm happy to see such a high quality third-party switch game getting an excellent looking sequel I do feel like Mario plus rabbits as a franchise feels a bit odd I think I would have preferred seeing Ubisoft take a full-on whack at one of Nintendo's other series they proved their worth with the Star Fox brand via the Starling collaboration I think they have a lot of potential to do more than just a new Mario plus rabbits what was shown looks good but I just think I needed to see more to feel like this game was fully Justified outside of being just another good Mario plus rabbits game no the Nintendo Direct was very solid tekken's kazuya was announced as the next Smash Brothers DLC character give it to me straight doc well it seems that you don't give a listen I'm cool with Tekken being here but this was the second to last DLC character announced and when they started pulling out some obvious choice characters like a new Xenoblade rap and a Tekken rep since band dynamco developed Smash Brothers as some of the last few picks before DLC ended for good I wasn't upset just a little underwhelmed to know that the trailer is one of the slowest Smash Brothers Trailers pacing wise it just wasn't exciting a fine announcement I'm happy the character was in here and he launched later this month right after another Sakurai present presentation I just think I would preferred him being announced earlier the life is strange series and Danganronpa decadence were announced along with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy coming to switch which was just announced for all the other platforms that square enix's E3 event oh my God the Nintendo switch is capable of nothing that was completely unacceptable how Nintendo didn't clearly specify that Guardians was a cloud-based version of the game they just said Guardians of the Galaxy is coming to Nintendo switch with text at the bottom denoting a persistent internet connection is required that is an impressive a 25 fire stick can run Cloud games well that may be true but can you do this damn we don't deserve the switch Monkey Ball banana Mania was fully revealed to be a remade collection of the sages from one two in Deluxe Mario Party Superstars was announced being a collection of boards from the Nintendo 64 games alongside some of the best minigames throughout the series Metroid dread the first original 2D Metroid in nearly 20 years and finally bringing one of the most elusive games ever to fruition cruising blast and who are you wear get it together the Fatal Frame made in a black water from the Wii U getting a porn Advanced Wars coming back with a remake of the first two by Way Forward one plus two reboot camp and finally the sequel to The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild getting its first major Gameplay trailer a good E3 no doubt though definitely a bit more franchise care focused giving games in series that haven't had new entries in ages the Limelight for once which I personally loved though I can see why some weren't as excited while getting a new breath of the wild Dude trailer was fantastic I felt it didn't leave much of a lasting impression like it looked excellent but nothing thing really that groundbreaking you know but man I was feeling good after this presentation definitely not like the best E3 Nintendo's ever had but a very solid one no doubt might have been Nintendo's best if they showed off Hyrule Warriors age of Calamity Falls of the agents DLC wait yeah the first wave of age of Calamity DLC launched this month I stopped nobody talk about this can't blame them because I didn't care either I mean I really enjoyed Asia Calamity but I didn't really have an urge for more of it I guess the game was already decently long with that same warrior style repetitive gameplay and while I liked it I don't know I felt like agent Clementi didn't lend itself nearly as well to DLC as the original Hyrule warriors did with it being super open to including damn near any character possible age of Calamity was just about breath of the wild and even then it's like a what-if scenario due to the use of time travel in the game so I don't know DLC just wasn't enticing to me personally the Doom Eternal DLC the ancient gods part 1 released this month over half a year after the other consoles got it Doom Eternal on switch launched after this DLC came out I don't blame anybody for not being interested it took nearly as long for this DLC to hit the switch version as it did for the DLC to launch for the initial game that's ridiculous I think this launched far too late for many to care I mean thankfully the second part followed just two months later but man we're in a weird spot with a lot of switchboards like this I think this marked a point where developers and Publishers start to really turn to Cloud versions like what we saw with Guardians of the Galaxy because that technically brings your game to switch for a fraction of the cost and everybody loves them John everybody specifically and everybody hates him after E3 some fans are questioning where many titles were specifically Bayonetta 3 which was announced in 2017. good night I'll build Trend enough Nintendo clarified that bo3 was progressing well after four years Pokemon unite got a new trailer and was to be released next month because death is inevitable so Pokemon unite is too a game titled the Castlevania Advance collection was rated which meant potentially the GBA castlevanias were coming to switch which was exciting those are fantastic titles and more Gameboy Advance games on switch is always welcome to which Nintendo doesn't agree so many fans ran to the Wii U Nintendo eShop to download The Game Boy Advance Metroid games to prepare for Metroid dread this was reported upon mainly to highlight Nintendo's lack of drive to put most of their legacy content on switch to some extent they've been doing more than they ever have to put their old content on their Modern Hardware into another they're pissing their pants hey I myself downloaded Metroid zero Mission on Wii U in June and blade and beat that game after getting in the mood with dreads announcement and to think there was a chance I wouldn't have to relive trauma while doing so it's every man's dream well Nintendo has been putting a lot of their legacy content on switch just in the form of full price retail games speaking of which The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD also known as why would I a Nintendo fan indulge in Nintendo overpricing a Bare Bones remaster of a flawed game Point made a lot of people use Skyward Sword HD as an example of Nintendo being too greedy with their products these days this was where you drew the line listen they aren't in the right but I just find it strange how people act like this is New Territory for Nintendo or how other companies don't do this as well this isn't the Nintendo I grew up loving yeah because you weren't paying attention back then now Skyward Sword HD being sixty dollars yeah that's absolutely ridiculous Wind Waker HD on Wii U cost fifty dollars and receives so many more improvements and a much more significant graphical upgrade the Twilight Princess HD on Wii U was 60 but came bundled with an amiibo and also received numerous improvements in facelifts Skyward Sword HD looks like he ran Skyward Sword through a Wii Emulator and increased the resolution and most of the improvements discussed prior to launch felt like basic ROM hacks all the cutscenes are skippable it auto saves I could do that in an afternoon it's 9 p.m I'll just start tomorrow to be fair closer to the game's release Nintendo's starting to share new information on legitimate improvements to speed up the game's pace which was very reassuring why did it take them five months well regardless I was right there at launch buying my 60 game with my 80 controllers and 25 figurine it's a good thing I've been saving up since 2011. Skyward Sword HD a remaster of one of the more controversial Zelda titles to be fair there is that fabled Zelda cycle where a certain game becomes the punching bag for a couple years and then it's reevaluated and is now the hip game to like at least that's what it feels like and skyroad sword is honestly one of the easiest zeldas to dislike I mean motion controls required linear design backtracking too many tutorials saying Skyward Sword is your least favorite Zelda is like saying you don't care for Stalin not having motion controls required isn't automatically a bad thing with the linear design the backtracking the amount of tutorials but the Skyward Sword was the fifth 3D Zelda over a course of nearly 15 years people understood the rigmarole at this point and because of that a lot of these elements felt like downgrades this almost felt like a dumbed down Twilight Princess or Wind Waker with how linear things were and how hand holy it could be and the motion controls just did not help things I've seen so many conflicting reports of people saying the controls didn't work in the slightest or they worked perfectly I personally didn't have a problem with them but the amount of people who did that shouldn't be overlooked maybe they were controlling it wrong maybe their controllers were malfunctioning but those problems still add to the game's Reliance on motion controls being problematic the fact is there was always room for problems to pop up with this control scheme with that being said I personally never had much of a problem Skyward Sword the module controls always worked well for me and I didn't mind the linear design in my opinion if a game is linear that doesn't mean it's bad it's just another form of video game on linear isn't the future it's a different way to design your game that's not to say there weren't actual issues with Skyward Sword but thankfully I think the HD version helped address many complaints as subtly as possible see the improvements here aren't really in the form of new content I guess like the other versions in a Wind Waker HD introduced the Swift sail line to make the boat sections faster a Twilight Princess HD strap introduced the new dungeon Skyward Sword HD has Auto saves let's see full camera control yep it is certifiably insane the original didn't have that but I'm happy it's finally here you ever tell somebody you're playing a game without camera control it's embarrassing I mean this is fun as tutorials and decks have been streamlined a bit and by streamlined I mean they aren't mandatory pop-ups they just remove some bits and Bobs from dialogue in the opening the original would stop you in your tracks for your guide 5 to tell you something when you collect an item even if you've already collected it before to describe itself the opening tutorial dragged on a bit it definitely turned off some people now fi's appearances have been greatly reduced and they basically made most of them optional once an item is described to you never again does it come up and the tutorial they basically just cut a bunch of Superfluous dialogue that timely makes this not a definitive version it ain't Skyward Sword without the word the auto saving wasn't a complaint I ever had about the original game but I'll take it I'm Auto saving and controlling the camera like some sort of anti-bitch the frame rate has gone from 30 frames to 60 frames per second which is definitely a considerable upgrade but it pales in comparison to the addition of traditional button controls they stink yeah I like it or not Skyward Sword was designed around motion controls and while you can still play with them via two joy-con you can also play with with standard sticks and buttons using the right analog stick to control your sword this just feels clunky and unnatural to me plus that camera control you now have while playing with buttons you have to hold down the shoulder button to move the camera it's a nuisance so I always play this game with motion controls but even then God I think they're worse than the Wii version the joy-con d-sync constantly and I have to recalibrate especially when using items motion controls and Skyward Sword are already only necessary for the combat using any of the items they show horn motion control in those just to say they did it motion control is the theme of the Zelda game so everything has to use it yeah like this is the optimal way to play practically anything outside of combat I wish over to button controls which I think it's nice you can do that on the fly but the amount of times I've gone into this damn menu may make me think otherwise I wish you could customize the controls a bit more motion for Sword Play buttons for items in The Loft wing sections and that's all I want it but in the end both methods of control falter in my opinion the original Wii version had its problems but the Wii remote plus was much more consistent than the joy-con so yes I do think the original has better motion controls for the love of God play this one and the button controls may be lackluster and the joy-con may be mediocre Wii remote Replacements but more options is always better like I said the items in loftwing sections got motion controls for these are putrid you can't tell me you can join the Loft wing with motion is better than sticks like I get swordplay it's immersive and one to one I'm not a bird how does this equate to that having options is important for a game like this yes motion is a big part of Skyward but not everybody can do motion the way the game wants them to whether it's because of a disability or having like a space I don't know the button controls ensure that no matter what anybody can play this game and it can be played on countless pieces of Hardware if a Nintendo system in the future for some reason ditches too much controls well Skyward Sword would now be capable of playing on it it's important for the future of this game in the end it's a good and necessary addition regardless if it goes against the original design philosophy of the game and I want this on future pieces of Nintendo Hardware because the game is good it's not the best Zelda game but it's an immensely enjoyable one I think the HD version helped me understand a lot of the more questionable design decisions in the original like the lack of camera control and the Very linear design it was designed with the Wii fully in mind having a second analog stick well that'll make camera control difficult so let's just make the entire game linear where you basically just have to keep moving forward and there's no need for camera control just a straight shot to the end this game has some of the best dungeons puzzles stories characters in the entire series I actually enjoyed the backtracking because when you had to go back to a previously completed area usually a newly acquired item would open up A New Path and it's so large it's like where were you hiding this whole time kind of feels a little like Metroid because of that I think this game is really quite excellent and the HD version as flawed as it may be at times it is the best way to play and makes it easier than ever to appreciate the game for what it is I do wish more was done to it this doesn't feel like Skyward Sword fixed and remade to be the best game it could possibly be it feels more like just a way to play Skyward Sword on switch but that shouldn't stop you from giving it a try it may not be the best Zelda game but it's a damn good one and the best version of it alright uh what's next on the docker for this month I hate months be free to download Pokemon unite the multiplayer online battle arena or MOBA game you lost me at free here's my issue with Pokemon unite I don't like it so this is coming from somebody who doesn't care for Pokemon and mobas so you know my opinion matters I found this game to be way too simple boring slow like the running speed of your character just irritated me of course this game has an abundance of micro transactions that caused a lot of controversy due to their pay to win nature that's not really why I dislike the game I just don't think it's fun yeah the microtransactions are abhorrent but like I don't really know what else there is to say about that yes microtransactions are lame they're exploitative ways to get more cash even the people who buy into them would admit that you think they like spending money on this the game is riddled with them but what were you expecting it's a free to play game developed by tencent the leader in this field you weren't expecting it to be this bad I just don't know what else there is to add to that conversation I'm just gonna say it I don't care for murder I know a lot of people generally enjoy it and still enjoy this game and hey more power to you I wish I could like shitty games too it I get why people would like this but it combines two things I couldn't care less about so put this quote in the next trailer not for me on the third party side of things just a few months after Monster Hunter rise we got monster hunter stories too wings of ruin a sequel to the 3DS game fundamentally this is Pokemon but with Monster Hunter and it gives Pokemon less of an excuse this is a really well made fun RPG with tons of charm and love poured into it if Pokemon isn't grabbing you anymore I'd seek just trying out stories too as it feels like a more ambitious and Justified game than something like sword and shield seems like Capcom was pumping out gold this month considering just three weeks later we got the great Ace Attorney Chronicles there's not much you can really say about a new Ace Attorney game outside of it's a new way it's a tourney game of course it's gonna be a good time if the story is up to Snuff though I think the great Ace Attorney Chronicles is one of the coolest directions for the series to take as we're no longer focusing on Phoenix Riot or any surrounding lawyers but his ancestor from the late 1800s I think it's a fascinating take on the series even if it's just a spin-off and turns out it's pretty damn good a welcome return to a series we in the states haven't gotten a new entry from in five years so how about returning to a series we haven't gotten a new entry from in nearly 15. Neo The World Ends With You released the same day as Ace Attorney and I'm proud to announce that a year later did everybody forget about this game like even the world ends with you Mega fans who have been clamoring for a sequel I didn't even see them talk about it I think Square Enix did a pretty poor job marketing it because there's no reason why there shouldn't have been more Buzz because I think it's pretty fun the combat is really satisfying and he's better than playing the world ends with you final remix on switch the style is great there's no other game that makes me want to drink Monster Energy more than this one it's a really solid return for the series though it makes me think the world ends with you was just another new Pokemon Snap situation we need a sequel damn it Mario Strikers where is it but we got bigger problems to deal with in July like managing my money and spending it on worthwhile products there's always August yes the Fable Nintendo switch Pro was announced this month and it was anything but on July 6 2021 Nintendo switch OLED model was revealed it had an OLED screen like any other Nintendo switch OLED model has so some rumors got everything right about this device except the fact that it isn't more powerful no increase to the specs just the Nintendo switch with a slightly bigger OLED screen a wide kickstand and a dock with an ethernet port what a waste of an upgrade everything about the system announcement felt odd like there was no real point to its existence I wouldn't doubt that Nintendo was planning for this to be a switch Pro but couldn't get the components in time and thus just made it all about the OLED screen but it's like what's the screen of the original switch really in need of an upgrade don't get me wrong OLED is definitely better but not necessary the kickstand is a very nice Improvement in addition to the Lan port on the dock but these all feel like Nintendo taking note on all the nitpicks and reviews rather than legitimate problems the switch is facing the joy-con aren't good the specs are becoming a bigger and bigger hurdle for developers but thank God it has 64 gigabytes of internal storage now just for good measure it's good to be a Nintendo fan I stand not corrected it took four years but we finally got jelly boy on switch August the month No More Heroes fans existed what a ride going from Nintendo switch presentation in 2017 where I knew no more Heroes game was announced to later that year where it was revealed to not be a new No More Heroes game and instead oh what the is this game Travis strikes again no more Heroes released in ass crack early 2019 and I really don't understand the point of this game like No More Heroes it was a hack and slash unlike No More Heroes it wasn't no more Heroes played from a top-down perspective slow as dirt that's pretty slow this wasn't the third No More Heroes game anybody expected after the tease at the 2017 event but thankfully at E3 2019 No More Heroes 3 was announced actually looking like a damn no more Heroes game after a few delays and getting jerked around with Travis strikes again in August of 2021 No More Heroes 3 finally released and by God it shouldn't have Okay so this game got a fairly polarizing response many critics didn't like it many critics did many No More Heroes fans liked it many No More Heroes fans didn't it mainly came down to the performance and anything but the combat which is Stellar absolutely what no more Heroes does best every encounter is frantic and fun it's also smooth and addicting easily the best part about the game which was the best part of the first two games which does kind of get to one of the issues that being how the game is just kind of another No More Heroes game which is what you'd want but I don't feel like it necessarily pushes the series forward the 11-year wait after number Heroes 2 doesn't feel all that justified especially when three takes a step back and brings in elements from one that people didn't like all too much the open world portions where you're traveling around finding odd jobs to complete welcome back this was one of the points of criticism from No More Heroes one and they put it back for three without improving it at all this is basically the same damn thing in this portion of the game always felt tedious finicky empty and here in three it runs pulley looks bad it just feels like something to make the game longer rather than better way too much of the game is spent in these areas and you get to the combat it's awesome but not like significantly different or improved from one and two it's better but not week two console Generations better visually I think the game has a good style though it looks like a game ported down from the PlayStation 4 to the switch which doesn't make any sense considering this was a Nintendo switch exclusive at launched not even a PC release like why wasn't this game more optimized for the only system it was on but hey this is me looking at the whole package with a critical eye I think no more Heroes 3 is a solid follow-up and overall good game with some very noticeable hiccups it's a game made for No More Heroes fans that's not to say you won't enjoy it if you've never played the games prior but fans will get the most out of the experience I think the polarizing reaction to the game does show how No More Heroes really strived being an exclusive for the Wii it truly stood out gameplay and style wise especially in 2008 when it released I mean it was M rated utilized the motion control as well was a fun hack and slash with silly memorable scenarios and characters fast forward to 2021 and no more Heroes 3 is still all of this but I don't think it pushes the series any further than it's already gone and at the end of the day this is just a welcome return to occult classic but not the must-have game the original two were on Wii Baldo this was featured in an indie World presentation back in 2020 and it always stuck out to me with its gorgeous art style reminiscent of Studio Ghibli films which reminded me of Nino Kuni which is one of the few combinations of anime art style and RPG I can tolerate but being an independent game I think Baldo garnered a lot of attention I mean an indie studio is making a game this good looking that seems so charming and full of life just a quick adjustment here man what happened this was a game that most were incredibly interested in a game that got numerous spotlights from Nintendo themselves and it's not just disappointing it's bad bad user interface bad design bad controls bad difficulty bad text if you're gonna tell me to off at least use impact thankfully we got Axiom Verge 2 in August for our good Indie Fixins however this one I feel like didn't leave as much of an impact as the first game maybe it should have used Ariel the original Axiom Verge was the new 2D Metroid game we were all begging for now we have that plus a billion other games of this style so action Verge 2 well good isn't as necessary as the first one I guess yes Axiom Bridge 2 wasn't necessary neither was I pit cross s Genesis and Master System Edition pick crosses Sega references and characters I personally adore this release as a resident user of picross these hands weren't just made to about Baldo to be honest I do love picross but you only really need to play like one the rest of the games are all the damn same though this second version is great because it's taking Sprite art from old school games and making puzzles out of them which is absolutely perfect not only does the final art make more sense this way but it makes the puzzle more exciting I wish they did more of these especially if Nintendo wants to get back in bed with picross I'd love that Spelunky one and two Quake remastered and the Doom Eternal ancient gods part 2 DLC launch this month I've been searching for people who care for years though I always consider August to be a slower month there was an ample amount of games and news in Hindi World presentation with loads of solid titles at play here Loop hero bomb Rush cyber Funk Tome Shovel Knight pocket dungeon metals like tactics and Tetris effect connected which I know is technically Indie but like come on a Pokemon presents just going over new info on brilliant Diamond shining Pearl and legends Arceus and rumors Game Boy and Game Boy Color will be added to Nintendo switch online Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was in the works and the Grand Theft Auto trilogy from the PlayStation 2 will be remastered on Nintendo switch my god do you leakers none of better are things to do with your time take me for example I'm spending it waiting for war you'll wear September the month Warrior fans wasted two hours in oh I can get behind a warrior word too and why we're getting together was the first major new series entry in over a decade because this was mostly just a compilation of old content this wasn't War you wear this was a game creation tool this stunk the last one that was a full-blown new WarioWare was why you wear smooth moves on the weed pack in 2007 so we were definitely overdue for this even though looking at the Timeline it's not like we've ever gone that long without Warrior related content and even when we did it we weren't alive for it so bring on war you wear get it together a pretty standard Warrior at its surface five second micrograms pop up and you have to complete them before time runs out and then we move right on to the next one and the further you get the farther and harder they are on previous titles each micro game would be completely different from each other playstyle wise this entry features all the core Warrior characters you'd previously only see via cutscenes playable some for the first time ever character has their own unique movement abilities weaknesses play style all that and you use them to complete the micro games now the game will oftentimes Shuffle which character you're playing as between micro games which makes the experience undeniably hectic as not only do you have to figure out what to do to beat the game but how to do it as your character every micro game is beatable as all of the 20 characters and many of their abilities can change how the micro game is beaten how easy the micro game is how you can help a second player since the entire campaign is playable in Co-op I gotta say this is such a creative concept and it really does feel like a worthwhile Endeavor for the series just doesn't have as much staying power as previous entries for me I feel like the micro games aren't as crazy and wacky and unique as they once were considering they have to accommodate 20 different characters playing them on a 2d plane in older titles each micro game could be more and more different from the last but here they're a little more restricted due to this new gimmick it's not bad by any means it's actually quite entertaining and interesting but it felt more enthralled by other titles because of the sheer variety of micro games while no two micro games feel the same here they also can't be nearly as different to one another as they were previously now to be fair you have to approach each micro game differently with each of the 20 characters which has dozens of variants to each game completing a micro game is Wario was an entirely unique experience compared to completing it as nine volt so it's not a huge deal or anything it's not like this is worse by any means I love this concept though I do prefer how a game like Smooth moves was with its micro games and hope this is a one and done with the next Warrior being something else I had fun here but like most other warioers I wish there was just a bit more the story mode is over in two hours and everything outside of it isn't much the right home about multiplayer is a big Focus here and there's loads of modes to try but none of them really have a ton of staying power they're cute distractions for a bit but I think I'm really ever gonna come back to the main appeal of gets together is going for a high score and while that is fun I think this game doesn't have enough meat on its bones in general playing through the campaign and trying out the multiplayer I felt like I did everything I wanted to in the game and that amounted to roughly three and a half hours of play time I enjoyed my time with it as short as it was not every game has to be 20 plus hours long especially not a Warrior game I just kind of wanted to see more pull me back in rather than the urge to just beat my high score you know great to see wari we're back with a fun New Concept I just think like for fifty dollars you could do better it feels more at home as a downloadable game for half that amount that's right I'm thrown in the towel and I'm only gonna be playing games worthy of their price tag first up Sonic Colors ultimate I only have two towels I'm not giving this one up Sonic Colors ultimate what can this company do right come on man I asked for water this should have been the easiest win for Sega at re-released one of the more positively received Sonic titles of the past few generations and somehow someway they pulled through they found a way to not only make the game worse but lie as well this title couldn't be farther from the truth there are no colors that'd be a mean problem though Sonic Colors ultimate is still Sonic Colors from the Wii which is okay this was my first time beating Sonic Colors I know it only takes like 30 minutes to do so but I was busy I was waiting for war to wear yeah it's fine but it shouldn't be looked at as one of the best Sonic games of all time in my opinion the game switches between 2D and three perspectives with the 3D being really fun and also 10 of the game the other 90 are the 2D portions which have the camera pulled back so far you're basically just a speck on the screen and the controls aren't optimized well for 2D platforming in my opinion I feel like they were made for the 3D areas and then for the 2D ones well this will work 2D Sonic in this game feels stiff and weird and just not fun to control it's manageable the controls aren't broken but I don't find this enjoyable and when this is the majority of the game that's a problem weirdly enough I find Sonic colors and forces to have far more in common than people act like they do and everybody hates this game but what Sonic Colors has that forces doesn't is a vision and some heart the theme of an Intergalactic amusement park is really cool and colors has a lot of fun ideas with the Wisp power-ups and some neat level gimmicks I know a lot of people dislike the story and dialogue immensely in this game due to how juvenile it can feel but for me I don't mind it this was one of the first signing plots in a while to be mainly light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek and while it does go too far sometimes and could have far better writing I personally think the overall tone fits just fine for the franchise and it never became insufferable For Me overall I think Sonic Colors is just okay it's not my favorite and I have problems with it but it's harmless at the end of the day and is at the very least a quality enough product but that's Sonic Colors Sonic Colors ultimate ah damn more Sonic Colors how dare it this is a perfectly tolerable method to play that original Wii game but this remaster stumbles in a good handful of areas that just raise some questions higher the loading times significantly worse than the Wii version why does the switch version only run at 30 frames per second why are there so many glitches why is this called ultimate when most of the additions are literally just new save file icons Alderman doesn't really bring much to the table there's some new remixes and music tracks but initially they full and replace the originals in some levels and many times it was fair to say they were worse not bad songs but they were called remixes for a reason and felt more like something by a fan you'd look up on Soundcloud rather than what the official background music of the game should be the increased resolution is nice but not worth that much praise that's the bare minimum I'd expect from a Sonic Colors re-release the cutscenes look like they were just run through the wash like it looks like they smooth them out to make them more HD but it just looks bad like you just applied a filter to the whole thing there's only a few extra things like rival Rush mode which is super tacked on addition where you race Metal Sonic through a level the Jade ghost whip from Team Sonic racing which doesn't really change anything there are no lives anymore a couple of other tweaks here and there but nothing massive nothing at all deserving of the subtitle ultimate and like I said there were numerous glitches at launched some people were experiencing game crashes that would then wipe their save file some people were experiencing epilepsy I do feel that this was more so what people heard about that game rather than what most people experience though I'm not trying to take away from anybody's Misfortune experiencing this thing but I think those problems weren't nearly as widespread as it may have seemed I mean the game reviewed quite well overall and the fact that none of the reviewers really experienced anything that problematic should show that some of these problems may have been a bit overblown anyway Sega has addressed many of these issues via patches including the music you can now switch between the originals and remixes which is great but that doesn't really take away from the fact that this was a very underwhelming remaster glitches are not and I think it wouldn't have been such a thing if they didn't advertise it as anything but you really didn't have to use the word ultimate Sega you could have just called it Sonic Colors remastered or hell just regular Sonic colors but no they had to make this a bigger deal by advertising all these enhancements in a digital deluxe edition for a 10 year old Wii game this is a fine way to play Sonic Colors though I was very underwhelmed by the additions and improvements and think they actually detract from the game in some ways though I don't think it's nearly as bad as much of the internet made it up to be it's a good thing I still have this towel so we got WarioWare get it together and Sonic Colors ultimate out of the way what else came out in September colors live anybody ever see colors 3D on the Nintendo 3dsd shop we're all for two with titles here decent little painting application with the added bonus of making stereoscopic 3D art I played around with this back in the day so when a Nintendo switch successor was announced it at the very least garnered some attention from me even though no excitement was involved it's a drawing application for switch I already have an iPad what do I gain from this empathy this is just an art application for Nintendo switch it's not really that deep though it does have some charm with the adventure mode and especially the sonar pendants bundle with a stylus that plugs into the headphone jack to instill pressure sensitivity into the pen as it reads for certain audio cues interestingly a cool novelty but it's really only worth worth it if you want to get into digital art but only have a Nintendo switch because it is a fairly limited application I didn't know the switch wasn't powerful enough for a paint bucket tool cruising blast released the board of the arcade machine from 2017. Nintendo does have a stake in this series as they own the license to it that they didn't publish this game that makes sense I can tell maybe why they didn't as cruising blast isn't the highest quality looking game I mean I think it just looks a little too low budget and amateurish sometimes for Nintendo to really put their full support behind it but that shouldn't stop you from thinking I don't like this game because I love cruising blast damn it I just wouldn't sleep with it it's more of an emotional connection this game is just fun it's hectic Adrenaline Rush inducing arcade goodness unlocking new tracks and cars is addicting in the soundtrack pumps me the hell up the only things I think are problems are the presentation and the lack of online play the presentation isn't bad it's just obvious this was of a lower budget even the user interface looks a bit cheap overall it's a solid little game and I highly recom Amanda as long as you don't spend half your cruise and budget on this arcade archives Pac-Man because we needed Pac-Man on switch again but what we didn't already have on switch which was a welcome addition was the Castlevania Advance collection finally releasing after being rumored and leaked about for months all three Castlevania titles from the Game Boy Advance and Castlevania Dracula X from the Super Nintendo hey I got a new car and they threw in some beans for free it's strange how this was done with such grace and elegance excellent emulation with superb extra features giving these legendary games a collection worthy of their presence all by Konami a publisher known for murder and they may barely make new games anymore and when they do their recent collections are pretty good and how odd that Konami had a great September with their old IPS while Square Enix answered a ransom note the publish actor is a Renaissance if you're being held hostage call the cops act Razer Renaissance is a remake of the SNES classic x-raiser opt inside it is one of the best games on that console it obviously lends itself to be remade as a worse game I don't understand why they even waste their time with remakes like these hacked razor holds up tremendously well both gameplay and presentation wise this remake feels more like an excuse to create something pseudo new with the x-rayser brand while keeping it to being a remake of the first game to save on budget and development time because why not just do an actuator collection at that point there's only two games Super Nintendo games at that this would have been so easy to fart out and make fans happy but instead we get this whole hum remake that still basically actors at the end of the day but just kind of gross looking I'm definitely not one who thinks all games like this should be pixel art but this is definitely a step down to me it only looks cheaper without the Sprite work when you have more detailed characters but they still move like this yeah I'd rather take the character designs that I expect that kind of Animation from it's almost like this was a mobile game that they put I'm not even gonna finish that sentence not a bad game as all I mean if you play this its actors are enough to say you've played actraiser but definitely a downgrade from the original I think they would have gone more out of a simple collection like I suggested Delta Rune chapter 2 alongside some big boy ports like Nino Cooney 2 and Darksiders 3 NBA 2K as per usual Diablo 2 resurrected Tome looked like a really cool ending title about taking pictures big Rumble boxing Creed Champions released a year after being talked about in a Nintendo Direct mini for some reason and I made one a hell of a prediction you'd think I was magic that looks bad we're gonna have to wrap this up soon I don't want to be late to being burned at the stake active life outdoor Challenger released like from the Wii who expects me to have an opinion on that obviously the big news this month was the Nintendo Direct on September 23rd many of the games I talked about were announced and released during the presentation which is always a rush but the direct started out with a teaser trailer for The Monster Hunter rise expansion sunbreak how do I know that because my town has never been the same it wasn't I get it Monster Hunter rise is big feel like an announcement for an expansion releasing nearly a year from this point with no gameplay footage and said announcement for a game I think is good but I didn't get invested in just doesn't do it for me is there something wrong with me voice of cards the owl dragon Roars I wonder what Scott thinks chug up a GP that's kind of cute the final fighter in Smash Brothers ultimate is to be revealed next month Kirby and the Forgotten land we've all been there when a Kirby and the Forgotten land is announced and you forget entirely about voice of cards the first true 3D Mainline Kirby game wow this immediately looked solid going for a more Super Mario 3D World approach to 3D which fits Kirby quite well after all Kirby's star allies Kirby star allies was it's so great to see the Kirby franchise being pushed forward rather than following the same template returned to Dreamland on the Wii set 10 plus years ago oh boy an animal crossing announcement foreign was that an announcement or a cry for help I'm sorry Animal Crossing conditions are not something you can tease yeah the Rouge coffee shop is back just say it this type of thing doesn't work we have to wait another month for more info on that and October is already looking to be a big month for month users a Mario Golf 3 update the divorce is final Disney Magical World 2 from the 3DS getting a switch remaster out of all damn games what is dual pin Sports next what about Netflix the original Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic which was definitely interesting considering a full-blown remake was announced for PlayStation 5 around this time and at the time I looked at that game as it definitely had room to mess up at least we have the original here for emergencies only Dying Light 2 is coming over which like Jesus Christ I just wish Nintendo would stop advertising these Cloud versions in direct like I get it come on you're an enabler project triangle strategy gets its final name now that's an easy tattoo fix Metroid dread and finally an update to the Nintendo switch online service Nintendo 64 games it's about damn time I can't even be that excited for it considering it's about damn time there were rumors of 64 games coming to the subscription service but I assume Game Boy and Game Boy Color would come first considering those would no doubt be easier to emulate but this was a welcome surprise the game lineup looked Stellar even with Banjo-Kazooie coming over that's awesome in addition Sega Genesis was announced to be getting a lineup of games available to NSO subscribers sure nearly all the games they showcased here were already playable and switch via other means so this wasn't exciting at all to me regardless Genesis and Nintendo 64 were announced to only be available as a part of a new tier for Nintendo switch online the expansion pack so you have to pay more to get access to these systems honestly I didn't have a problem with that the Baseline NSO with NES and SNES games I mean that's already quite a bit of value right there Super Mario World linked to the past and Super Metroid alone I think Warren's 20 a year and he had claymates that was set to launch in October with more info like pricing coming then in the meantime Shadowrun Trilogy Castlevania Advance collection act razor Renaissance deltarune a Splatoon 3 Chiller which I completely forgot about my God I mean listen I don't care for the marketing of Splatoon 3. I find it hard to get excited over this game because it feels like they're just repeating the exact same beats of the first two games with how the trailers are structured oh this one's a single player one so we're gonna have up close shots of this enemy we're gonna show multiplayer matches like this which makes all multiplayer matches look the damn game is obviously good but it doesn't look different or unique enough and when I 100 even forgot Splatoon 3 was even a part of this Nintendo Direct that says my opinion of the game right there however that wasn't the last announcement no no no no no after four years of nothing Bayonetta three was finally shown it looks okay am I the only one that was somewhat under one with Bayo 3 showing here I mean it looks fine but I don't know I'm still more visually and aesthetically impressed with Bayonetta 2. it's a bit unfortunate that the Bayonetta Series has kind of been stuck on Hardware more akin to an Xbox 360 throughout its entire life and Platinum Games definitely makes the most of it plus there's so much more to Beto 3 we didn't see here however I just played through a ton of Bandit 2 on the Wii U and I felt more impressed watching any random bit of gameplay from that title than anything we've seen of this game right here both in terms of the gameplay itself and Visually that's not to say the game looks bad far from it I just wasn't blown away especially after waiting so long that was a decent Nintendo Direct not their greatest out there but still all good fun it's always nice to get all the important Nintendo news in one single place you're just gonna try to hide that from me Big Brain Academy is back yes brain versus brain we'd agree as some of the best multiplayer on that platform now this one has online support art I think it finally happened I'm happy gotta keep the good times rolling stay positive not cynical Nintendo issues an update to the Nintendo switch line for Bluetooth headphone support that's so cool after nearly two decades a brand new from the ground up 2D Metroid game release the first metric on Nintendo switch the first non-remake non-spinoff Metroid game since 2010 the first Metroid released on October 8th 2021 and more than likely many players first met your game entirely Metroid red finally launched and it was good I don't think I can consider this to be a landmark title a perfect game for anybody to play a game that evolves genres but what I can call Metro dread is an expertly crafted experience it feels exactly how you'd expect a modern 2D Metroid to be this is such a masterfully designed game it may be a giant maze but the only times I really got lost were when I came back to the game after being away for a while the control trolls feel great the story was well done the music was unmemorable it's a fantastic experience especially if you're deaf but was it really worth the wait the Metro dread project has been known to exist since the early days of the Nintendo DS but the game was canceled or put on indefinite hold to wait for better Hardware that could fully realize its initial vision and yeah I do think the 3D environments and characters really helped to bring this world to life and while they could have done this years ago on the 3DS or Wii or Wii U I think the Nintendo switch was the best option to reignite 2D Metroid a game like links Awakening sold nearly 6 million units this platform has encouraged so many players to try series and games they've never played before this was the right time to bring Metroid back the was this the right game see I'm conflicted on whether or not Metroid dread is a good starting point for the Metroid celibate oh anybody can pick this game up and boom start playing but this is one of the toughest titles in the franchise not unfair just really really hard and if you're not into that then this one may not be for you unlike me who loves a challenge that's called a criminal offense in some states but God damn I can't count how many times I died in this game just deaths left and right especially during the boss battles but my God they were satisfying these bosses are crafted to Perfection and require good reflexes and memorization but all attacks are choreographs there's no cheap stuff here I really enjoyed my time with Metroid dread but it drained me with its difficulty I'm happy looking back at it as a great memory but man I I don't think I can do another playthrough for a couple of years this wasn't a reinvention of the Metroid series rather a refinement you don't need to play the previous games to play this one believe me I saw numerous people begging Nintendo to put the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy games on switch because well how can we play Metroid 5 all the other ones aren't here listen I know why you're doing that and I agree with you but you all sound like kids trying to convince their parents why they should go on vacation while menstrual stories are connected you can very easily get the gist and understand what's going on playing one in a vacuum I'd say give it a try at worst it won't be for you at best it'll be your favorite game of all time is that worth 60 dollars to you yeah now on the same day as Metroid dread Nintendo launched the Nintendo switch OLED model for 350 or 110 were lost that day and I also spent another 410 on these sometimes I wish I would have just lost the whole 820. is the Nintendo switch I'll let an upgrade from the standard Nintendo switch yes is the screen better oh absolutely is the internal storage higher undoubtedly it's a 32. the kickstand is better the dock has a built-in ethernet port obviously it's better than the 300 model I mean a rat's better than a mouse but the improvements made to this system feel more like they were addressing nitpicky criticisms found in journalistic game reviews that are supposed to find any possible negative to point out not that these things shouldn't have been addressed more so these were the only things addressed come on Nintendo no built-in ethernet now that you have it I'm sure you use it for everything my point is this system is obviously better but an incredibly Superfluous ways I'm sure they couldn't do much considering they wanted the joy-con to be the same across all switch units so you couldn't add a button or change the design or make them better in any way and these things are like half of what makes the switch the switch so if you can't change them you can't change much but everything they did change all adds up to a very confused product in my opinion like the name Nintendo switch OLED model implies that this is the same Nintendo switch we know and love but now with an OLED screen but the improvements go further than that a better kickstand the speakers were a bit prove that design was altered this seems to be an entirely handheld Focus redesign the dock has ethernet now why if the dock output in 4k as well and included another USB port or something I feel like that would round out the improvements but in the end the Nintendo switch OLED feels like a bit of a directionless product one that I don't really know what they were trying to say with other than it's technically better now and that's perfectly fine but I think this was meant to be much more the fabled Nintendo switch Pro if you will and without difficult it was to secure computer chips in 2021 I wouldn't doubt if this was supposed to be more powerful but in the end just became a luxury model it's a solid product just almost entirely unnecessary the screen is absolutely gorgeous now the original wasn't bad at all and was completely serviceable my final thoughts the micro SD card is impossible to get out now I'm so happy I spent money to do this well October was a packed month on the switch with Nintendo not only releasing a new Metroid game and Nintendo switch model but apologizing for ruining my breakfast for 10 years in a row Mario Party Superstar is God I'm so happy this series is just okay again while Super Mario party was a step in the right direction for the franchise going back to the core gameplay before Mario Party 9 it was far from ideal the game the game boards were so lifeless planned and stilted they were based on a grid making their layouts too simple and boring and on top of that there were only four boards in general to play on which was frankly unacceptable couple that one bounds the Mario Party gameplay wasn't that tight on it safe to say while Mario party was back it was still wrapping up rehab Superstars focuses on bringing back and remaking mini games and game boards from throughout the series but oddly enough I don't care too much about this from a Nostalgia point of view seeing this classic content remade is great don't get me wrong but Mario Party Superstars does something far more important be good the traditional Mario Party gameplay has been fine-tuned to near Perfection hotline complaints from Super Mario Party have been addressed the game is so much faster now the amount of coins you get from mini games and the amount required for certain items feels just right the board designs are great because well but just because these are old boards doesn't mean they didn't do a ton of work and tweak them to flow much better and all the extra additions they include to celebrate the Mario Party series are just so much fun to go through and unlock while playing the game the fact that the main menu Harkens back to Mario Party 1 and how you can even do something as simple as play the original music tracks on each of the boards Mario Party Superstars feels like it was crafted at a sheer love and passion for the series let the bitching commence this is a fantastic party game one of the best Mario parties frankly even compared to the original series everything is just so refined but only five boards that is not nearly enough and that's not even considering how this is all old content I don't want to take away from how good of a job they did remastering everything oh come on the bulk of the design work is already done five is a pathetic amount especially when it's not even five brand new boards if Nintendo isn't funding the Mario Party developers with a big enough budget to make more than five game boards per entry for God's sakes Nintendo at least let them meet in the car I also feel that they severely limited their options by only focusing on the Nintendo 64 games for the board selection I mean the mini games are taken from throughout the entire series why couldn't the boards be as well and while all the boards are at the very least fine some of them I would have definitely picked other Classics from the 64 games instead plus only one board being for Mario Party 3 is strange it's more of a reason there should have been at least six boards so we got two from each of the original Three games but other than that I don't really have any other problems here the character section is a bit more limited than I would have preferred but that doesn't really matter I found it weird I was setting the rules before the game have been tweaked quite a bit there's no 50 turn option but to be fair the game is paced differently compared to other games in the series so the maximum count of 30 turns is more than enough though a custom tournament would have been very welcome online multiplayer is now a standard you can play with more controllers than just the single joy-con on its side that Super Mario Party forced on to you the fact that's a pro for this game shows just how bad things were but outside of the limiting amount of content Mario Party Superstars does everything it's set out to do it's a fantastic party game made out of pure love this is a Mazda multiplayer game for Nintendo switch one of the best in the entire franchise and that's not the Nostalgia talking Superstars is just a flat out good game and a previous Mario part is there anything to go off of we can only go down from here however Superstars wasn't the only remaster on the Block because earlier this month we got Super Monkey Ball banana Mania put me in a room with the one who titles these games similar to Mario Party The Monkey Ball series just hasn't been nearly as good as the first few entries and it's not because of Any Rose tinted glasses no those are just better design games so for the series 20th anniversary Sega put it all into banana Mania being a compilation of the stages from Super Monkey Ball 1 2 and Deluxe remastered and redesigned for the modern era and after the franchise has been fairly mediocre for over a decade banana Mania was set to be monkey balls Redemption entry going back to the classics while pushing the series forward much like sega's other Mania game Sonic mania this was looking to be literally the perfect monkey ball game and now that it's released it's okay I wouldn't say this is the definitive Super Monkey Ball or anything rather it's a solid enough return to form that could have been better my main issue is banana Mania uses the default ass Unity engine a powerful engine no doubt but when it comes to replicating the feel of the original games I personally feel that they chose Unity because it was cheaper and easier to use rather than it being the right fit because of that bananamania's physics feel fine but not ideal I'm not even a purist of this series but blame the originals they just feel better not that this feels bad just not as satisfying to control and when these old stages are played with controls they weren't designed for they're just not as fun visually everything's an HD now which is great but artistically I don't know I feel like these older stages look more interesting back on the GameCube it's still monkey ball at the end of the day and works just fine though this remaster isn't as grandiose as I wanted to be and feels a bit cheap in some areas oh they replace Monkey Ball 2's story cutscenes with these paper cutouts and I honestly prefer if the cutscenes weren't here at all I don't remember a single one of these they all look the exact same they all start the exact same they all end the exact same what's the point however I'd be insane to act like this isn't a game worth your attention that wasn't made with passion it's a great value with hundreds of stages of cool unlockables like other Sega characters costumes and other features all the fan favorite minigames are back and while monkey Target got a bit butchered on the way to Modern platforms everything else Works quite well this is a good game held back by the limitations of the engine used and more than likely budget and time constraints it's not bad by any means and they jam-packed this title with content and settings I just wish the overall quality was given just a bit more time to bake as early as the same week as Metroid dread in the Nintendo switch OLED yeah sure I got time Tetris effect connected and absolutely glorious modern edition of Tetris originally launched on PS4 as just Tetris effect back in 2018 made its way over to Xbox as connected in 2020 and now is finally on Nintendo switch I always say it's weird to have this game without the VR functionality that's how I played Tetris effect quite a bit on PlayStation 4 but it's complete Tetris effect connected stands on its own as a beautiful and mesmerizing Tetris experience and launching the same day as the OLED model and that was no coincidence I didn't know the color black was this dark one of the best versions of Tetris and honestly one of the best experiences period it's lovely but does it have Garfield I know you're probably expecting me to say what my are about to give but sadly I never gave much of a I love classic Nickelodeon it was my TV channel as a kid but knowing how anything Nickelodeon related published by gaymill entertainment goes I've had to never make that bet again though this game was being developed by ludiosity known for a previous Smash Brothers like fighting game that was actually quite good and yeah playing Nickelodeon All-Star brawl it's functionally all right though I think problems come into play with the lack of character which is a pretty big problem for a crossover Fighter the game launched without voice acting not even grunts from these iconic characters every one of them feels soulless and it doesn't help that while the game looks fine the models and animations just look a bit off like they're fine but cheap and a bit rushed looking the music is all generic the roster is a bit too full of SpongeBob and Ninja Turtle characters in my opinion and the gameplay while decent in its own right will never meet the standards of Smash Brothers but overall the game is much better than it ever had any right to be I just wish it were even better because a concept like this has so much potential in the end it's a cute distraction for a bit but you know just go back to Smash Brothers much like Fatal Frame made in a black water this one more Wii U exclusive off the list Fatal Frame made in the black water was an oddball 2015 digital only release that was forced into a free to start model you could download the game for free and experience the first few chapters until having to pay for the rest of the game I've never been this excited to just pay full price for a game you know what I think was a huge missed opportunity with this release the lack of a physical addition in North America I was hoping they would Rectify that problem with the original Wii U release but nope it kept the tradition alive at the very least you can get an imported physical from Asian countries that contains the English language option so at least the game is preserved that way it's just a bummer you have to jump through some hoops to get it the game itself I mean it's the same game from the Wii U now without the need to move the GamePad around in most regards it's for the better and makes the game much more accessible and feasible in other platforms which yeah this is no longer a Nintendo exclusive I can't blame Nintendo for not holding on to the Fatal Frame IP for dear life because what do you gain from that though while a multi-platform release could have garnered more attention for the series I just feel like they shut themselves in the foot by passing on a physical I mean a physical release goes a long way in terms of maintaining prominence as a big game you should keep your eyes on there's not as many physical switch games as digital ones and with this one being digital only it was honestly really easy for it to get lost in the shuffle like iron nobody talking about this release now I don't really care for made in a black water it just didn't really click for myself horror-wise to be honest it did nothing for me but please if you're interested in more unique horror games that are decently well produced I implore you to check this out and maybe FIFA 22 that checks some of the boxes they're still doing the Legacy Edition stick this is FIFA 22 Legacy Edition which is the same damn game from three years ago just with a new roster that's because EA doesn't care enough to put time into porting the actual FIFA 22 to the Nintendo switch so they'd rather just reuse last year's FIFA and update the players and teams and how dare they I mean look at FIFA 22 compared to FIFA 21 on Xbox and now Nintendo switch it's the same game why doesn't Xbox get the same game Dying Light Platinum Edition launch being damn good Port of Dying Light which I forgot this was only on PS4 and Xbox One not PS3 and 360 which makes us all the more impressive Lego Marvel's superheroes from 2013. I wanted Lego Marvel superheroes from 2014. as dumb as this may be I do like when games like this get Porter does there's some of the last I generally think about when it comes to which game should be playable on Modern consoles hey just because there's loads of Lego games doesn't mean it's any less valuable to have access to specific ones on your system this is great to see and it's cool that they're doing this with a good chunk of these titles Guardians of the Galaxy I don't know what's wrong with that cloud version this is getting annoying it's not like every game is like this but more and more third parties are just saying to forego an actual Port that runs natively on Nintendo switch in favor of a cloud version requiring the internet at every waking hour Guardians of the Galaxy is a massive PS4 and 5 game okay I'm not trying to claim it would run on Nintendo switch but I just feel irritated when I see that subtitle and then game listings have the audacity to claim that this game released on Nintendo switch this is not a Nintendo switch game this is a way to play the game on Nintendo switch I never thought there would be a distinction between those two things but here we are it's just like it's really hard to comment on these because like yeah Guardians of the Galaxy probably was never going to natively come to Nintendo switch so it's either this or nothing but these Cloud versions just go against everything about what makes the switch so unique so popular so beloved you can take it anywhere in the house what's even worse is that these aren't even good Cloud versions like this is horrible and the fact that this is the same price as the other versions of the game on ps4 PS5 Xbox PC this is unacceptable make it cheaper make it better just put something like a cloud gaming service like Amazon Luna on the switch as an app and have these games playable through that I don't know just stop doing this another batch of Hyrule Warriors age of Calamity DLC released this month because fan was clamoring for it but obviously there was bigger DLC news this month the final Fighter for Smash Brothers ultimate was revealed and I'm still trying to figure out who it is Sora from Kingdom Hearts was the last character a really cool and to an amazing roster even if I'm not well versed on Kingdom Hearts at all I can seriously appreciate an inclusion like this though it does feel a bit odd I mean Kingdom Hearts is all about being a crossover between Disney and Square Enix so it's pretty fitting to have the last character in your crossover fighting game be one of the biggest faces of crossovers in game but did not have any Disney characters present is strange but also not see if they had Mickey Donald and Goofy appears somewhere and sora's moveset or on a stage I would say okay so you obviously don't care about non-video game characters being in Smash Brothers and you have the most iconic thing of all time in your game yet he's not playable so yeah it makes sense for sword to not have any Disney characters appear alongside him but them appearing I feel is necessary to fully represent what kingdom hearts is you know I don't know it's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation and for what it is I think they did a good job with Sora they had a full presentation with the DLC launching later this month and with that Smash Brothers ultimate concluded it's bittersweet I'm gonna miss the character reveals but they can't go on forever there needed to be an end if more and more characters kept getting added it would start to undermine what it takes to be a Smash Brothers character and honestly I was starting to feel that by this time so wrapping things up with 88 characters and kazuya it just made sense and even the character editions I didn't care for all too much I'm still gonna be looking back at them with fondness there's nothing quite like a smash reveal even the ones you don't like it's fun to discuss what you think that character was picked what character you would have picked instead and eventually go to accept that character as a part of Smash Brothers history it's been a fun three years of Smash Brothers ultimate but all good things must come to an end and ending with Sora was pretty damn cool and hey Square Enix was prepared because right alongside sora's introduction it was announced that the Kingdom Hearts games were coming to Nintendo's switch thank you cloud version you oh we'll get to this in due time it doesn't release until February so I've got time to prepare a face Grand Theft Auto the trilogy The Definitive Edition was announced for all consoles and Nintendo switch marking the first time the traditional console GTA games are playable on Nintendo well a big deal no doubt and I will gladly take any opportunity to play San Andreas on the go with buttons and sticks the mobile phone release was cool but like come on when I got my first laptop I played San Andreas in the backseat on road trips and would just dick around with cheat codes the whole time I love this game in a portable format so to get that in the most comfortable way possible there's no way this can disappoint me Advanced Wars OnePlus 2 reboot Camp was delayed from its December 2021 launch date to Spring of 2022 which hey it was supposed to launch the same day as Big Brain Academy I'd be worried too rumors popped up this month of Microsoft and Nintendo collaborating on a re-release of GoldenEye 007 which coincided with the launch of Nintendo 64 on Nintendo switch online all right what'll make you least uncomfortable to talk about first this all happened the day that Animal Crossing direct air showcasing all kinds of new additions and a brand new free update the final brand new free update gotta say too little too late I can't complain much considering I got more than enough time out of New Horizons but man how did it take over a year and a half for these things to be added to the game all of this stuff has been in the game's code since launch you're telling me it took a year and a half to add a bird who sells coffee these editions are all cool Brewster Captain growing your own food but the fact that it's here in the form of an update means they don't add much to the core gameplay like cool you can grow crops but why that's fun I guess but is there any reason to do it other than doing it how do you think that's a weird complaint to have about Animal Crossing considering you could ask that question about the game as a whole but I'm serious here if Brewster was core to the game design at launch if farming was if gyroids were I feel like there'd be more to do with them there'd be more Purpose with them instead it's kind of like here's some stuff to check out rather than here's a new core element of our game they waited far too long to introduce these new features and what's even lameer is most of these aren't even new paper standards in previous games I greatly enjoy my time with New Horizons but it's obviously relied too heavily on the free update approach while proceeding to do barely anything with it and by the time they did they just kind of puked it all out in one go in this direct I'm happy this stuff is all here it's just I would have preferred it in like late 2020 you know but that's only half the story as New Horizons received a paid expansion happy home Paradise basically it's taking happy home designer from 3DS where you design homes for villagers based on their interests and desires and makes it a part of New Horizons which I am not against the Animal Crossing spin-offs are a lot more tolerable as side modes in the core Mainline games and this totally makes sense as one it wouldn't launch until early November but was detailed to be a part of the NSO expansion pack if you had that tier of the membership you'd get access to the DLC free of charge and right after the Animal Crossing direct Nintendo detail more about the serpent foreign switch online expansion pack launched on October 25th 2021 now regular Nintendo switch online costs 20 a year and includes access to online multiplayer Cloud save special store offers and any SNS NES games yeah it was fun to nag about this back in 2018 but as it stood at this point in time I think it was more than worth 20 a year I mean this is a lot of content for what equates to less than two dollars a month now I think the issue came in without Nintendo switch online was sneaky with its branding as the value came in with the Retro Game Library not accessing online multiplayer which I find strange considering that's what the service is named after you'd think they'd focus more on that it almost felt like Nintendo just wanted people to subscribe so they could play online and they kept adding SNES games you weren't playing until you looked at it and went okay 20 a year is fair but for thirty dollars more you get the expansion pack tier where you get Nintendo 64 Sega Genesis Animal Crossing DLC am I missing something I feel like the bass here you inherently got far more stuff stuff that would appeal to everybody since it's more generalized like Cloud saves and online the expansion pack caused more than double the base tier and this is all we get let's see if it's worth it Nintendo 64 Nintendo switch online firstly four years into the system's life and this is when we get 64 games what made you say no three years in hey Nintendo 64 games can be quite a bit beefier than SNES and especially NES games so adding those into the mix definitely adds to nso's Value the launch lineup wasn't the biggest though we got Mario 64 the regular version not the updated one included in Mario 3D all-stars so it's cool we have both on switch now Ocarina of Time Yoshi's story Star Fox 64 Mario Tennis Mario Kart 64 Dr Mario 64 sin and Punishment and win back a smaller yet effective lineup usually more than 50 worth of content right here though keep in mind that prices annually still I think this is pretty alright if the games ran correctly there's a funky little problem with some games for a while here Ocarina of Time didn't run all too well with input lag and environmental effects not showing up see a lot of Nintendo 64 games used to fog effects but I guess the emulator Nintendo used thought fog was bad so it was removed which yeah sometimes fog can be used in games due to Hardware constraints but fog was there to hide imperfections and also add Ambience to environments like they're supposed to be fog in Mario Kart 64's choco Mountain it's a mountain this was the big issue surrounding some games on N64 online some worked perfectly others like Zelda struggled a bit though I do think while this was a problem it was a bit overblown I think 95 of players wouldn't be able to tell when emulation is quote unquote bad I think it was serviceable yet obviously problematic needed some work and was rushed out however people were acting like this was absolutely horrendous and I have to ask these people did you play N64 games on the Wii U I'm just gonna say this is a step up I think this was a completely fine way to play N64 games though the quantity troll issues were definitely concerning especially considering the higher price tag and just how long it took to get these games on switch but that's not the entire story we got Sega Genesis games too off I love the Sega Genesis I love the game selection here this is a waste of everybody's time and money Sega already released a Sega Genesis collection and if the Sega Genesis games on NSL aren't in that collection they're in other collections like the Castlevania or Contra anniversary collections well yes the emulation here is brilliant everything runs looks and sounds outstanding this isn't exciting Sega has made the Sega Genesis the most overly accessible system of all time if you want to play a Sega Genesis game well first they pray at Sonic too but it's incredibly common to get collections individual game releases Plug and Play consoles All That Jazz and I understand why Sega Genesis is the first third party system Nintendo offered on NSO it's the most well known the most popular it just makes sense but there's barely a reason to actually care if Sega Genesis games excite you you already have numerous means of playing these games not only in general but probably on switch I hope licensing fees with Sega didn't make the expansion pack as expensive as it is because God damn that is stupid listen I think it's cool to have third party systems here I think it's cool to have Genesis but this fits better in the base tier for the expansion pack I'm sorry you gotta put your big boy shoes on I'm expecting far greater experiences more bang for my buck and when I get the third way to play Sonic 2 on my switch I'm gonna buy it but still the expansion pack definitely launched a little rough don't get me wrong great to get the N64 games though that's like the Animal Crossing updates it would have been better a year or two ago waiting this long I'm not in the honeymoon phase with this console anymore the idea I'm playing 64 games on the go would have been a dream come true in 2017. now I'm jaded and I've seen so much on the toilet Sega Genesis is quality on the service but it's completely unnecessary and if that jacked the price up I am fairly concerned they're gonna charge 70 for Atari at least we got new controllers for the systems exclusively available to NSO members the Sega Genesis controller was fifty dollars check out the obituaries this week I don't know Pokemon brilliant diamond and Shining Pro release but you all know that it was the reaction heard around the world you what the hell was this easily the most cobbled together Mainline Pokemon experience I've ever seen it's obvious this was rushed and outsourced to meet a holiday 2021 deadline as this was developed by ilka not game freak for the norm and I'm all four Pokemon games being outsourced like this I think considering the rate they want to release these titles at it's just something that makes sense and I have no doubt ilka is a skill developer capable of good stuff they just didn't have the time for this animations look unfinished in overly simple textures are sometimes non-existent when they shouldn't be came as a huge step back from the amount of effort and changes that went into previous Pokemon remakes this is reason to say they changed your edit nothing but this just doesn't feel like a modern Pokemon game similar to how to remake like Omega Ruby felt I mean looking at this at face value it's not obvious it's a game from 2003. if you wanted to keep it top down that's fine but give it some Pizzazz if it had the extra polish a game like the Link's Awakening remake head I wouldn't be having this conversation but it looks incomplete the gameplay itself is Pokemon it's not my thing and I understand that it will more than likely never be my thing though I'm always willing to try the latest one out but this one was just putting me to sleep I don't know man I mean it sold nearly 14 million copies in less than two months so I'm wrong but you know I see complain about this series the most pokemon fans it's obviously because hey people love the core of Pokemon but it's frustrating to see its stagnate or even regress in the case of brilliant Diamond I don't think this is a bad game per se but it's definitely not for me and is an undeniably weak and underwhelming experience not only as a remake but as a video gaming General and it's definitely because Pokemon company commissioned ilka to make this in a short amount of time as gamebreak were busy with other projects and with Pokemon being the multimedia conglomerate that it is they can't delay games because they correlate with trading cards and movies and TV shows and merchandise and tie-ins and I get it but I hope they look at this game and see how this business model is stopping the focal point of the series from being anything more than just Pokemon Arden can keep doing what they're doing because it's obviously working out well a brilliant diamond and Shining Brill disappointed you and you're in the mood for a more mature and refined pokemon-like experience shimmy gum intense A5 finally launched after being revealed that the Nintendo switch presentation in 2017 even if you're not into this franchise it's cool to finally see a release and be as good as it is smt5 is far more expensive and ambitious than any other game in the series being a huge step up from smt4 on the 3DS the best way to describe shimagami tensei to a newcomer is that it's like Pokemon with demons so Pokemon I think anybody who's been wanting to see the Pokemon series expand and grow up alongside them and get a lot out of this game I definitely recommend it far more so than the Nocturne remaster from a few months back and you know what speaking of underwhelming remasters it's supposed to be like the arcade game by Nintendo from the 80s it counts nobody can shut the up about Popeye so say big limited follow the trend and released a Popeye game on the eShop this month it's 800 megabytes Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic great to see all the classic Star Wars titles get re-released consistently alongside a boy in his blob the Wii game coming over this is my way forward and it's such a Charming game with Gorgeous 2D art World War Z received a decent switch Port the Disney classic Games Collection was re-released now with more titles the Animal Crossing PLC release twitch launched on the eShop a full remake of the original Metroid Prime was rumored easily the most controversial release of 2021 Grand Theft Auto trilogy Definitive Edition I was so damn excited to play these games not only with improved controls and graphical enhancements but on the go via my Nintendo switch and not to take away from those first two things like yeah the controls are better taking cues from Grand Theft Auto 5 with its weapon wheel and aiming graphically at first glance they look pretty much the same but every now and then the lighting texture work it all looks quite good I wish they went further but as it stands I'm fairly happy with the improvements made but oh my God the performance is abysmal while driving in San Andreas the frame rate tags frames are skipped and makes the whole experience laggy and disorienting glitches are abundant in many enhancements ended up looking like a joke this is ridiculous I mean these are PlayStation 2 games and these remasters are kind of based on the mobile Port so why are they having such a hard time on this console it was also Discerning how the physical release requires a download when really all three of these games would have fit fine on one cartridge no problem they just didn't want to spend the extra money for a larger cart which is indicative of how this entire release fell they didn't care oh my God like I could look the other way on a lot of these changes but genuinely driving in these games ran and fell so bad and that is frankly unacceptable this is one of those remasters of remix where I would have preferred a basic port in 4x3 if that meant it was going to run better because as it is well the GTA Trilogy worked on switch for the most part it was a very messy introduction of the mainline series a Nintendo hardware and that really disappointed me so obviously I was looking for a pick-me-up what I got was a one night stand Big Brain Academy brain versus brain I was ready okay we'd agree is one of the most underrated titles on that console it took symptoms and turned them into a high score base layer was fun but multiplayer was where it was at I mean sleep the brain teaser faster works so well in a competitive environment you genuinely want to succeed to be labeled as the smartest ass they know so when brain versus brain was announced for switch with an emphasis on multiplayer I was pumped one of my favorite multiplayer games was back as something submitted into evidence okay Big Brain Academy brain versus brain is okay it's more Big Brain Academy which is fun but my God there is nothing here most of the mini games are taken right from we degree and frankly there's not much to do here other than play each game until you get a high score worthy of a medal you unlock accessories for your avatar but this is yet another instance with modern casual Nintendo games where I have to ask why not use the me's these little guys are cute but they just can't capture how you look as well as a me can the local multiplayer aspect is the worst part here it's literally just one mode you just play against the other person in the same brain teaser and see who wins the longest you can go for is five matches which literally takes 10 minutes we degree had a handful of different modes with all kinds of visual identities and quirks there is one where you'd pick cards and try to win the set of games to challenge you with to claim that card on the board and oh no you got an expert difficulty one like that's interesting and fun in a party setting there was so much more going on in weed agreeing to see the multiplayer modes dumbed down to the state they were in brain versus brain especially considering the title highlights the multiplayer aspect it's a crime well I guess brain versus brains mainly referring to the online elements of the game which this game doesn't have online multiplayer rather unlike ghosts to battle against you connect to the internet and can face off against other people's scores and times which is a smart idea especially considering you don't have to be playing at the same time to face off against somebody my problem is that's the only thing this game really does outside of playing against online ghost there's nothing really new here nothing to keep you playing outside of unlocking Cosmetics for your doodle the games are almost all directly ripped from the Wii game local multiplayer so basic and uninteresting and while I commend the increase to four players they needed to have so much more here to win me over it only retail for thirty dollars which does make this less really really lame and I did have fun playing through all the games trying to get medals for all of them but in the end while Bryn vs brain isn't bad it's very obviously a product done with very little passion as an experiment meant to see if more Wii and DS era games have a home on switch I mean it worked the game sold pretty well all things considered but man I mean tell me if I'm wrong tell me if I'm Nostalgia blind but doesn't this game look so much more compelling brain versus brain is serviceable though very disappointing you know what else released on the same day no wonder it got scared away Disney Magical World 2 Enchanted Edition the most obvious 3DS game Deport to switch playing this one for an hour my Lord this is a life simulation game akin to Animal Crossing but nothing like it they hold your hands so damn much which for a life simulator where the entire point is to live your life your way to force you to do things their way like this even if it is for kids and you'll want to make sure they understand how to play this is undeniably frustrating and a massive bore like if part of this to switch because Animal Crossing did so well remind me of that scene where Tom Nook forced you to follow him to the next area by slowly watching over there for a minute straight and also he was a rat this is obviously for very young Disney fans and it's polished I'll give it that it's just not enjoyable in most cases I just go with Animal Crossing in some cases I would make two Danganronpa decadence brought the Danganronpa series to switch which has been a long time coming since the game's debuted over here on the PlayStation Vita though the first two games were actually on the PSP originally in Japan only and it's great to see how widely available this Series has gone after being banished to the PSP and Vita for so long well now the entire franchise is available on switch and then some with abortion from the third game being expanded into a special extra Standalone Adventure Danganronpa s it's definitely cool to finally have these games on the platform as they've been a very consistent request from players so now I don't have any excuses not to play them foreign Monster Rancher one and two DX wasn't the main gimmick of these games putting a CD in your Playstation to make a monster out of your music now on Nintendo switch you have to search for predetermined CDs online to use to create monsters well that stinks life is strange True Colors Shovel Knight pocket dungeon lupiro chicory a colorful tail a bit of a slower month but after October November that's definitely to be expected though we got some news in the form of an indie World presentation detailing some new indie stuff nope massive announcements though the game awards 2021 happened I think we all know that considering everybody yawned at once [Music] we get shows and that's not even considering the lack of a Nintendo announcement though Metro dread did win best action adventure game and of course the president of Nintendo of America accepted the award by selling us on Metroid dreads saying how metric dread is the ultimate 2D Metro game like goth I have the actual development team accept the award the next Mainline Sonic game was shown there though after being teased months ago titled Sonic Frontiers an open world Sonic the Hedgehog game it's coming to Nintendo switch which um definitely hesitant about considering the apparent scope of the game I'm intrigued for sure the trailer showed very little Sonic related scenery a lot of it looks like any other Lush open world however I'm cautiously optimistic they hired Ian Flynn who was written for the Sonic comics for years which tells me this game may have a more intriguing concept plot and characters compared to the norm for Sonic as of late the fact they're willing to do something this risky with Sonic rather than go with what works like a Sonic Mania Sequel terrifies and annoys me but I have to give them some credit for doing something with this much potential there have been a few Sonic fan games with large open environments and they've shown that if it's done right it can be something special I'm all in Paper Mario and a few Genesis games are added to the NSO expansion pack with paper Mario having a game breaking bug included at least we got altered based and the GoldenEye rumors wouldn't stop this month it may have been a lighter month for releases but there was definitely enough going on especially for Paper Mario players New Year no very slow month all things considered a few pieces of news and just as few major releases though we did finally get Windjammers too that's been announced for God knows how long SNK versus Capcom card Fighters Clash from the neogeo Pocket color got a re-release which is pretty awesome I love obscenely obscure games getting loved like that but obviously the main course for January was the launch of Pokemon Legends Arceus this was a big deal a brand new style of Pokemon game that wasn't a spin-off this was developed by Game Freak it's a part of the main series and it looked modernized Breaking Free of many Pokemon conventions to deliver a truly new experience that at its core still delivers most of the fundamentals you'd expect from a Mainline Pokemon game and this obviously all worked as Legends Arceus sold nearly 7 million units within a week the game received high scores across the board with many fans wanting this to become the formula for Pokemon moving forward but what if you don't like Pokemon well then you're a Pokemon fan or you're me somebody who continues to buy these games and continues to complain about them so a Pokemon fan I think the best word to describe Legend's Arceus is potential this is a great step forward for the Pokemon series with loads of new ideas and repurposing old ideas and new contexts it's exactly what the franchise needed but it's not perfect obviously the main complaint is with the graphics now the art design is fine I love the user interface and overall presentation with the text it's really quite lovely outside of everything else it's just really pixelated and choppy looking with overly simplistic architecture and terrain the Nintendo switch's Power in the amount of time they likely had to make this game along with gamefreak's lack of experience with HD games on the scale of this definitely all added to why this game looks as it does though in action while you're playing the game most of these issues kind of Fade Into the background as the core gameplay is engaging enough to distract you from the visuals most of the time the gameplay definitely isn't perfect though with an incredibly boring first bit of the game being overly tutorialized though that's fair are considering this is a brand new thing for Pokemon but it's pretty fun to roam around these worlds and just throw a Pokeball at the Pokemon to capture it time hasn't wasted nearly as much as it is in standard games the story is interesting the battling when it happens is far more gripping and fun I'm not sure if this is full-blown converting me yet though I've never been really that compelled to keep playing it but like I said with another entry or two like this things might change this is a great Foundation to base new games off of and while it didn't hook me I was impressed and can't wait to see what's to come for the future Pokemon what the is this yes the Kingdom Heart series finally came to Nintendo switch this month as Kingdom Hearts Instagram Masterpiece for cloud good for you honey Integra Masterpiece is just the name Square Enix used for buying the bundle of everything but you could buy each game individually Cloud versions for games like control Hitman 3 Dying Light 2 Guardians of the Galaxy I'm not a fan but I get it you know these are games that run on Xbox One and PS4 and aren't going to obviously be slam dunk hits on a Nintendo platform so to bring switch owners a method of playing these games they wouldn't normally get I understand it's not fun but it makes sense half of the Kingdom Hearts games were on Nintendo platforms and most of which were exclusive Melody of memory came out for Nintendo switch just one year prior and this isn't an issue of oh all these games wouldn't run on switch 1.5 and 2.5 remix were PS3 games 2.8 is a re-release of Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance a 3DS game Kingdom Hearts 3 is the only one I would understand being a cloud version but even then I think it would be more than worth it to invest in a port and on top of all of this it runs like piss Square Enix has made numerous questionable decisions throughout the past year this definitely being one of them I feel that this was cobbled together to have the Kingdom Hearts games playable on switch in some form quickly after sore became playable in Smash Brothers but the thing they didn't already have these games in development for switch prior is mind-boggling to me you just thought about making these playable in this console within the past year and you still couldn't get the cloud versions of these games out within a month of sores inclusion in Smash this entire debacle is ridiculous to me and shows that Square Enix would rather do something half-assed for some money than do it right for more Assassin's Creed the Ezio collection released this month thankfully not cloud-based alongside River City girls zero a localized version of an Old River City game on super famicom that never released here that eventually led to River City girls in 2019 which is really cool to see and Puzzle and Dragons Nintendo switch Edition topped off the month a light month for those looking not to it was all about the news this time around the Nintendo switched to pass the Wii in sales selling over 103 million units absolutely insane it's crazy to think about because the Wii was huge Back In The Day news reports Word of Mouth it all added to the weed being as popular as it was however that popularity felt more like it was due to it being a fad everybody had to have it because it was the new Big Thing the Nintendo switch doesn't feel like that it feels more like a smartphone or a tablet in the sense that everybody eventually goes yeah I'll get that soon people want a Nintendo switch to play games they want to play rather than because everybody wants a Nintendo switch which I think not only is the reason it surpassed the Wii but may eventually become the most popular game system of all time then the Batman Arkham collection was rumored this month so that's why the switch hasn't sold 400 mil the big thing this month though was the Nintendo Direct on February 9th first thing announced was Fire Emblem Warriors Three hopes a successor two both Fire Emblem Warriors from 2017 and Fire Emblem three houses from 2019. definitely following the format of Hyrule Warriors age of Calamity being a Fallout to both Hyrule Warriors and breath of the wild you gotta be honest after so many warriors cross over titles recently especially on Nintendo platforms the last thing I really wanted was another Fire Emblem Warriors sure the original was disappointing and this could be much better but I'd rather see a completely new series get the Warriors treat me now Xenoblade would fit well I mean cool it'll be a quality title but not exciting in the slightest I've seen nobody talk about this game it was one of the most forgettable announcements in the direct no man's sky was announced for Nintendo switch which Bravo for getting it to run I'm happy to get more stuff like this on the switch though I'm kind of over getting excited or being impressed at some of these games on the platform if this was 2018 this sport would have been incredible now it's just like sure Mario Strikers battle League where's Golden Sun super fun to have this series back but man this reveal made this game look like another Mario Golf super rush with the lack of content like I'm not seeing much here other than this just being more Mario Strikers which is cool but for this series B wait for 10 plus years it doesn't feel like it's grown much at all since then not saying it had to but I just feel like there's so much more you can do to evolve Mario Strikers and this just looks like Arya Strikers on switch it's awesome to have it back but the trailer here did raise some concerns in mind on the amount of content in the game and how much new is being done here Splatoon 3's Salmon Run mode my God like they just keep showing this game in the worst way this just looked like salmon run oh man new enemies it still just looks like salmon run I'm sorry a sequel doesn't have to change everything that's not what I'm asking for and I understand core Splatoon fans can find a lot new and a lot different with these modes but for a casual fan such as myself yes I can tell this has been updated but it hasn't been updated enough to excite me personally the new bosses and mechanics like being able to throw eggs are fine I see no reason to dislike them so I'll say sure I like them but this was a very odd trailer to show off overall I want to see more of Splatoon 3 being Splatoon 3. it doesn't have to reinvent the wheel more so show me something that as a casual fan I can't already do in Splatoon 2 which I can play on my switch right now I probably said something stupid there a remake of Front Mission by forever entertainment the studio who did the Panzer Dragoon remake which got so-so reviews listen forever entertainment may be a b grade remaster Studio but they're the reason these games are even coming back if it wasn't for them we wouldn't even be talking about Panzer Dragoon or house of the dead so even if they could be better I think they're passable and from Mission seems to look pretty good Chrono cross Kirby and the Forgotten land with mouthful mode MLB the Show clinoa remakes a portal collection live alive a japanese-only RPG from the super famicom coming over in the form of an HD 2D remake looking just like dragon strategy and octopath traveler well listen I'm gonna hate myself for saying this but this game looks really good the concept is really cool of seven main characters across different time periods live alive holy yeah what the is that so Nintendo switch Sports a follow-up to Wii Sports where do I begin oh it's really cool Nintendo's doing this I mean everybody loves Wii Sports so to have that in a more pure form on switch compared to Clubhouse games bowling or something it's definitely welcome though I feel like with this game there's a lot of identity issues the memes are no longer the Stars bring in the sports mates you it's not like the me's are like oh my God these perfect creatures but for what Wii Sports is they were perfect creatures for that they're cartoony and unbelievably simple yet everybody can make a me that looks like them iron cannot say the same about the sports mates at all all the rides are the same there's only like a handful of hairstyles it's not that their designs are bad they look fine as characters but as avatars they're horrible they're obviously not meant to represent you or me because they all look the damn same they're just painfully corporate friendly feeling like these are characters you'd see in an HR pamphlet you can still play as your me's but you're obviously an afterthought the sports mates are the only thing shown on the box and in advertising it's just weird and the sports they chose tennis volleyball Batman they're all too similar not that they're the same but when you have to pick a collection of six different sports why the hell would you pick these three they're on that b Sports and Visually they look too similar the bowling is great to have Tom bro which was sore playing Wii Sports Resort is cool to have alongside soccer for the first time with golf coming as a free update which was included at launch in Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort and Wii Sports Club why is this not done already failed an online play test this month that anybody could sign up for that they also forbade anybody talking about so I won't say anything about my experiences but some lunatic on my street was running around and chatting random stuff last night of many worries I had with using joy-con for games like bowling and the island multiplayer world I hope we get more Sports in the future but at the time this was a conflicting announcement for me that I was excited for but also very concerned about at the same time Metroid dread gets a free update with new difficulty options in a Boss Rush Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings are added to NSO God I'm tired of them dangling Earthbound in front of us like this you know how Beloved the series is there's something like putting the games on NSO requires very little effort don't act like we should be thanking you for this actually do something with the franchise make a new game a remake bring the third game outside of Japan anything Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets DLC son of a so 48 remastered courses from across the series are heading to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe why because Nintendo hates me now let's get this out of the way yes these courses look noticeably less detailed than the courses in the base game obviously this is because the reasoning assets from the mobile game Mario Kart tour in fact many have pointed out similarities to tour versions of the tracks these are basically polished mobile game courses I don't personally have a problem with this though it is underwhelming however I heard numerous people complain how so much cool stuff was being added to Mario Kart tour I wish this stuff was in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so then when Nintendo actually does that then they're stupid dumb stupid and dumb it's okay to be excited it's also okay to be underwhelmed and annoyed at the decision nobody's right and nobody's wrong nobody is nitpicky for thinking this is a bit lame these are mobile game phone tracks ported to an HD console but nobody's being a sheep for liking this either these tracks are all labeled as remastered tracks from across the series and that's exactly what they are so what if they've been in a mobile game maybe personally I find it kind of hard to complain about getting 48 new tracks playing mka for only 25 or included as a part of the NSO expansion pack which yeah that definitely increased the value right there there's definitely points to criticize with these tracks but I think having 48 of them and more Mario Kart content in general is enough to Warren picking the DLC up Xenoblade Chronicles 3. oh God I hope there's new user profile icons to talk about instead Bingo after two hours of babbling I come to the conclusion of it's been quite a ride for the past five years and I'm always going to eagerly anticipate Nintendo's next move with the system or any system for that matter for me personally it's getting harder and harder for me to be excited for the switch and as to be expected with game consoles you're not going to be as excited about the thing as you were in the first few years of its life however I feel like a lot of that modern gaming Funk that we as Nintendo fans were so proud of not being involved with years ago like micro transactions and a focus on online multiplayer has kind of overtaken the switch in many ways I feel a distinct lack of true Nintendo in-house software on the platform lately you know games that are developed specifically by Nintendo rather than just published by them and many times the content that is developed by Nintendo is lacking content in of itself so many games are releasing with just not enough meat on the bones and it's just not an enjoyable experience and then third-party support I mean there's not much to say about it other than it's nice this old game is coming to switch because that's all that's happening it's just old games releasing on switch so I guess I'm just a little tired of how things are going right now and it's not that I'm saying they're bad I mean looking at sales numbers it's obviously not true but I guess I'm just coming into the state of oh that game's coming out rather than oh hell yeah that game's coming out in conclusion happy five year anniversary to me up [Music]

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Published: Thu Jun 01 2023