The Nintendo Switch

its a shamanistic style of play

a hero appears from a demo. they lay down bombs, turn around to face the direction they came from, and blow themselves backward through the secret zones in a maze forest. they lay down a fish and jump down into a pit

I nominate that guy's room for r/malelivingspace.

they/them

they truly are a wizard, that was crazy

Let’s goooooooo

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gimmie da zelda

Gonna be all Labo.

it's cardboard ocarinas the whole way down

chrono cross!!!!!

kirby eats a car and turns into a car

not a fan of the octopath style being used on every jrpg remake but live a live is genuinely a better octopath than octopath

yes finally xenoblade 3 im so happy

3d kirby and xenoblade 3 and more splatoon this is gonna be the best year for switch since the launch year even if zelda doesnt make it

I love the octopath style so give me all of them
Front Mission remakes was a surprise, also SD Gundam wtf

the combat in xenoblade 1 left me cold - is it any different in the sequel?

they added some more layers to it but its still fundamentally the same mmo-esque system with autoattacks and cooldowns

i think i am fairly alone on this board in my love for xenoblade 2. it's a very messy game but entirely in ways i like

Cool about Portal (loved both but didn’t finish either). What’s earthbound?

seminal SNES jrpg, big influence on tons of stuff (moreso for its tone and writing style than its gameplay which is basically just dragon quest with some tweaks)

This is the good stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5R8pAYlwA

they correctly identified that they don't need to make a new mario kart when they can just double the number of tracks in the current one instead

xxxp no I love Xenoblade 2 as well, a mess yes but a glorious one. The battle systems in Xeno games tend to take a long time to ramp up though, they’ll be adding in layers of systems like 20+ hours in, it’s all part of the madness.

i love the grotesque "mouth mode" kirby stuff

So basically nothing to look forward to except Cuphead content and (I guess?) Portal.

Kirby wearing a skin car was some Patrick Bateman shit

its mouth mode time baby

"dad, can we play Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece for Cloud after dinner?"

what does "YOU will repay my loyalty...IN DEATH!!!" mean?!

yeah i had a full on body horror reaction to the Car Mouth animation

Trials of mana a few years ago and now Live a live. Those are games i thought were never going to get released outside of japan.

Chrono cross looks like an upscale on an emulator. That game has major problems and needs more improvements.

i thought there was going to be a surprise mother 3 announcement but alas

very excited that i've already paid for 48 new mario kart tracks

Very grateful for Metroid Dread rookie mode, now I can actually beat it instead of "gitting gud"

heh, I like tough games but I have yet to play anything that involves "gitting gud" that did not result in me having to repair one of my abused controller sticks afterwards.

Trials of mana a few years ago and now Live a live. Those are games i thought were never going to get released outside of japan.

Are we the boomers now?

xp I like tough games too, but I'm coming to realize that I prefer mental or strategic challenge to challenges of manual dexterity

I'd be very surprised if Mother 3 got a proper release in the US. Fassad is pretty un-PC. You open presents and they fart on you. You can make the monkey smear dung all over itself. Among other things.

i could see it happening but they will surely rerelease other GBA games that actually have english versions before it so wait until that happens before you get your hopes up. like you'll be able to play golden sun on switch well before mother 3, and yet there's no indication that they have plans to do golden sun atm either

Live A Live is one that I made sure to put in my rom library (fan translated) some years ago, but I never actually got around to it. Is it good?

yeah it owns. one of the best 90s squaresoft games

the new kirby game looks fun. basically super mario odyssey but with kirby instead of mario.
pumped to play portal and portal 2 again.

yeah i had the same thought watching the trailer yesterday, they must have realized that they had stolen from kirby's game mechanics niche for odyssey and decided to make right

Also Mario has a gag reflex so that limits him a bit

Light Bulb Kirby looks like a pink Doraemon.

for anyone that wants a botw / short hike hybrid, "lil gator game" looks promising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diMQ6HNaV8U

About An Elf certainly has a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUigqcnJyU

Majora's Mask, which I've never played, is out on the Switch N64 today, so I finally gave up and bought the expansion pack. Ocarina is... fine? I know there was a new patch today, but it plays fine, looks fine, controls fine, I guess there's some very, very minor lag but I wouldn't notice if I hadn't read about it. Unless the patch today made massive changes, I'm tempted to say the complaints were OTT. I'm a v. casual gamer though so I imagine there's lots I wouldn't notice/care about. Excited for Majora though.

The mapping of controls for the Switch N64 emulator really messes with me. Kinda wish I'd gotten one of those overpriced Switch N64 controllers while they were still available.

there's gotta be an 8bitdo or something clone controller out there