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Good news! I've got a press accreditation for Gamescom so it'll be fun to visit the Nintendo stand as well. I'll probably be there on press day (Wednesday) but tempted to book a night there and stay for two days.

I don't have any particular plans, will just see how it all pans out! I'd say on Thursday ideally I work from home to collect the system from my My Nintendo pre-order, never pre-ordered from them before so I have no clue what time I can expect a delivery. I usually have plans on Thursday night (band practice) but both me and the singer are big Nintendo fans so maybe we can move rehearsal to another night for this week. I don't have off on Friday but will be working from home as well. I'll probably take that time to set the thing up, see what is needed for a system transfer, download Mario Kart and the GameCube app. I'll be writing some reviews for the TOTK and BOTW upgrade so they'll get some playtime, and maybe Street Fighter VI as well. That's probably my gaming sorted for June until the Kirby DLC comes around.

Thanks! Yeah, I always check if there's a topic here so I went back and read the Little Nightmares and RE3 thread, always fun to read and compare opinions in hindsight. 😁

I haven't been gaming that much but have dabbled in a couple of things. But there are at least two games I can talk about that I've completed recently: Little Nightmares (Steam Deck) I've played through this game as I was looking for a short experience and had it in my Steam backlog. Little Nightmares is the first game in the series and it's easy to call it Limbo/Inside but 3D. There is a similar vibe going on, with the premise of a kid in a hostile adult world and a narrative that's told by the context of the situations you get in. There are plenty of difference though. As mentioned Little Nightmares is 3D, which gives it an extra layer of depth although I sometimes had trouble navigating, for example when crossing a narrow pipe or plank and I would just walk off. The game has a lot more colour as well, with the yellow raincoat of your character standing out. Most of the gameplay is some light platforming, being stealthy and solving puzzles. Nothing too complex, but it has enough variation to stay interesting for the ~4 hour the game lasts. Here and there it's a bit tricky to see what you can climb or pick up, and being detected by (quite disturbing looking) enemies felt a little cheap sometimes. Nevertheless it's a fun short little game and it definitely made me curious about part 2 and the upcoming part 3. Resident Evil 3 Remake (Steam Deck) Another game I played on the Deck and this time it's a pledge game! I've completed Resident Evil 3 Remake somewhere last week and loved it, in fact I'm currently replaying it again (shame there is no official Mode B this time like 2 has) just to blast my way through with some weapons I got from the shop. It runs amazing on the Steam Deck by the way, kudos to the RE:Engine for running these type of games. The city with all the shops and neon are pretty to see. It's just a matter of time before these come native to the Switch 2 right? Anyway, it's a lot more action focused than 2, but I definitely enjoyed my time with it. The Nemesis was less of a pain in the bum than I expected, especially after the horrible tales of it and the Tyrant in 2. A bunch of satisfying boss fights, and fun to return to a couple of familiar locations. I've never played the original so don't know how it compares, and no it doesn't last that long but that fit me perfectly as my gaming time is quite limited. 4 Remake is already on my wishlist but I'll tackle Village first. And with that, I can finally cross something off the list! I'm currently also making some progress in Hyrule Warriors and StarCraft Remastered, so hopefully I can cross these off this month before Switch 2 arrives and probably kills my pledge for the remainder of the year. Other gaming stuff I've been doing is softmodding my 3DS so I can now install homebrew. Took the occasion to try out the Virtual Boy emulator which is fun to dabble with. But I've also spend too much time using NetPass to play StreetPass Mii Plaza games and collecting puzzle pieces haha. I just love the 3DS and all its gimmicks, what a shame the Switch and Switch 2 (for now) are a lot more bland in that regard.

I've had a Doublade on my team in X for ages before I found out the guy actually had a third stage and it requires a stone for evolution.

Yeah same. Being a student at the time I sold my GC stuff to fund a Wii and my Wii stuff to get a 3DS. And lost so many titles in the process that are now worth a fortune haha. It kind of puts my mind at ease to see some people here getting rid of their collection. Makes me think it's just stuff and selling these things early at least let me experience stuff like Wii and 3DS in the moment. I think the only stuff I still have that holds some value are the Pokémon games from GB/GBC/GBA era.

Not on the American stream, flooded by DROP THE PRICE comments again. Love seeing cameos such as the SMB3 Piranha plant blowing a spike ball. Missions in the overworld are a welcome addition as well! Only fear is that the jump mechanic results in everyone hopping all the time for that speed boost, that's not going to be a lot of fun.

A friend of mine did some digging to check if a Nintendo area is plausible. His conclusions what will be there at opening: 007 (stuntshow) Paddington (kids area) Lord of the Rings area Minions (including a coaster) Jurassic Park/World (including the VelociCoaster) Back to the future (with a Delorean coaster) Harry Potter excluded like Cube mentioned because a rights issue with the Studio Tour located 40 mins away. If they can get the rights Harry Potter will probably be the first big expansion, otherwise Nintendo. Maybe Wicked if that gains a lot of popularity in the coming years.

Got my pre-order in as well at the Nintendo Store, woop woop! Seeing messages on discord though of people not receiving their verification code so looks like it's not a waterproof system, but at least they have a system to prevent scalping or at least give a lot of customers a chance to pre-order. Didn't realize the GC controller was available already, thought that was coming later. So logged in again and pre-ordered the GC controller as well.

Dutch preorder site says preorders start April 8, €469,99 for the Switch 2 and €509,99 for the bundle with Mario Kart.

Yeah this was a weird one. Stuff I really expected like Kirby, Zelda Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, Metroid 2&3, Fire Emblem Remake are all M.I.A., while we see the return of other long-lost franchises like Rhythm Paradise and Tomodachi Life. Coming 2026! Glad to see Rift of the NecroDancer shadow-drop, and the DotEmu Marvel game looks great. Metroid Prime 4, the new mechanic looks cool but if this comes around when the Switch 2 has already launched without any update that would be a really weird decision. But hey, it's Nintendo and weird decisions are what they are all about! Such as coming up now with the digital cartridge system, or giving us yet another app that could have easily be integrated in the Nintendo Switch Online app. It really makes you wonder what they are going to show next week. Will we see all the expected remakes/remasters there but in 4K?

They are! And the frames are from IKEA, they're cheap and light ones as they use plastic instead of glass for the window. So I could put them up without having to screw something in the wall, I just used sticky hooks.

My 9 years old pc was due an update. And a colleague was selling an NVIDIA RTX4070 for a good price, so I figured let's go and build a new pc around it: Loved putting the thing together, and was pretty happy that it booted on first go. 😁 It's been a while since I built a pc and the whole RGB stuff is new to me so had to see how that all worked. Luckily modern cases have plenty of room inside and a great layout for cable management so that made it a lot easier. So specs-wise I now have: Ryzen 7-7700 / NVIDIA RTX4070 / 2TB SSD / 32GB DDR5 RAM Played a bit of Doom Eternal on it with ray-tracing on and it looks pretty damn good!

Haha that looks amazing. I did watch the show, in fact it was one of my favourites growing up. Like the direction as well, being an RPG with random encounters but they are action bits instead of being turn-based. Shame it's still a year or so away.