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Digital Foundry tech review is absolutely glowing: Currently sitting at an 88 on Metacritic and a 90 on Opencritic, which is super exciting to see! I never put too much stock in review aggregation other than to get a general idea of what the general consensus will probably end up being (I'd rather make up my own mind based on my own time with the game!), but man, that's a well-reviewing game if I've ever seen one!

A Disney Galley for Mando S3 has just been announced, and will be dropping next Wednesday (28th): Phil Tippett hype!

It's really odd. It even being announced was blink-and-you-miss-it in the Direct, tacked on to the Pikmin 4 update before quickly being moved on from, and the US version of the Direct only mentioned the digital release (so I'd assume they aren't getting it), whereas the UK version details the digital version shadow dropping today and the physical release in September. But still, blink-and-you-miss-it. They might be very successful but Nintendo sure don't make it easy for themselves at times

Considering it's the first time these games are getting re-released in a minute, figured they deserved their own thread, following their shadow drop on the eShop after today's Direct and their planned physical release on 22nd September. £24.99 each or £39.99 for both. I just scrubbed through the US version of the Direct and it doesn't seem like they're getting the physical release? Which is curious. Anyways, now, with all the Pikmin games assembled on one console, think I'll finally dive in myself once the physical version releases!

That was a whirlwind of a Direct. So many announcements. October was already stacked, and now it's just stupid. You definitely get the sense that things are winding down for the Switch, but it seems like it's being set up to go out with a bang. Best show of the summer once again for me (not that the bar's particularly high), unless we count the XVI event, in which case it's the best more traditional E3 showing. I'd give it an 8.5/10. No massive surprises, a lot of long-rumoured and long-fawned-over games, and a consistent reel of games I've now either got an eye on or will be picking up for sure. Again: just a shame how stupidly stacked October (and September) is, and it already was before this Direct!

As announced in today's Direct, Zelda and Ganondorf are getting TOTK amiibo: Welp, guess I'm getting those too. They look fantastic, especially Ganondorf!

Goodbye generic art style of New Super Mario Bros., and hello Wonder! Looks gorgeous and like it has a fair few fresh ideas!

Oh it looks wonderful!

Volume 1 is arriving October 24th, and will also be on Switch! @Ashley any chance of moving this thread over to Nintendo Gaming once you get the chance, if it's possible please? Appreciate that most interested on here would likely be playing on Switch EDIT: thanks @Ashley, appreciate it!

Vampire Survivors?! Potentially a huge get

YES WE HAVE A DATE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

Not surprised MGS Master Collection is here But give us a date please for the love of Eve (oh and for Suikoden too please)

Wow, did not expect an update on this so quickly! The Dark Prince arrives 1st December 2023:

The Dragon Quest Monsters game we only heard about like three weeks ago?! And with the Hero from IV?! AAAAAAAAAH

The little snippet we saw has been shared on their Twitter: Doesn't seem like it's going to get a dedicated YouTube release (I mean, it's only 26 seconds, so )

That Peach and Luigi's Mansion 2 "so, uh, yeah there'll be info at some point and they're coming next year"...was odd Switch is definitely winding down, reminds me of the last few 3DS announcements we had

AHHHHHHHHH IT'S HAPPENING Can finally get around to checking it out!

The reviews are flooding in! Looking good

woah, they started with the Pokémon DLC when it's normally not ever at these things maybe there is hope for Detective Pikachu 2 to turn up here after all?

ONE. MORE. DAY! Reviews should be dropping this afternoon.

Unfortunately, it does seem that it's been confirmed, but outside of the context of the trailer (which I guess only implies it). I've just done a little digging and here's what I've found. From an updated excerpt from the February 8th Q&A on the Bandai Namco site: I don't recall this answer from when I first posted about it (otherwise I think I would've mentioned it), so it seems they've updated it on the down-low since then. This page is the only official source I can find for the Japanese-only VO (the Nintendo site doesn't list VO languages, only text languages) on any of the sites you'd expect to get official details from, but the following question in the Q&A focusing on specs also then highlights the Japanese-only VO and text languages for the game. It's a shame, and while I'd love for them to update it with the English VO, the 'Answer has been updated to reflect comments from fans. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.' portion of the Q&A response seems very non-committal to that ever coming to fruition. I feel they would have said something completely nondescript instead of apologising if they even had the slightest inkling of getting around to it. But, I will say, stranger things have happened in updates before, so who knows? I'm kind of curious to hear what the English VO was like and hate random little pieces of gaming history like that falling into the aether with re-releases, so fingers crossed they can update it at some point! Inevitably like two years from now, but still, Namco gonna Namco

Trailer is now up on the NoA channel as of an hour ago - yeah, got to imagine it's a case of someone over at Bandai Namco SEA jumping the gun. I suggest this because even the linked website for the game doesn't yet have the release date of September 14th; imagine it'll be updating tomorrow. Hope whoever might have pulled the trigger early doesn't get in too much trouble

Available now for pre-load for those going the digital route...

Hmm, I wonder if this could be pretty DLC heavy? Wouldn't be shocked if TOTK gets DLC announced here (even if I think it'd be a bit too soon; I think plenty, myself included, are still playing through the game!). Then there's Splatoon 3. And the next wave of Mario Kart. Curious to see if they just throw out a bunch of ports too, like the long rumoured Wind Waker and Twilight Princess ports, or even ports of Prime 2 and Prime 3? Probably be more basic than the Prime Remastered effort, but might as well cash in if it's in the works I suppose? I also think this feels like a potential last big Direct for the Switch (disclaimer: we're going to be saying this about every Nintendo Direct we get from now up until we hear about the Switch successor, sorry), obviously depending on what Nintendo's plans actually are for its successor. Which I think begs the bigger question: do we finally see Metroid Prime 4 here? Or is that now just Schrödinger's Metroid Prime 4 until we finally learn about the Switch successor?