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  1. My Nintendo ( Club Nintendo Successor )

    Indeed, by playing. Gonna cycle the carts since I only have a handful of icons across those Mario games and get off the NSO free trial since you aren't eligible for icons on it.
  2. My Nintendo ( Club Nintendo Successor )

    Additional rewards (icons) you can get by playing: - Mario Kart 8 - Mario Wonder - Mario 3D World - Mario Odyssey
  3. Vampire Survivors

    Nice to have the chance to try this on game trial. Did three attempts and got done in by the screen filling with skeletons every time. I suppose you have to just take the Ls and grind it for better starting abilities/ power ups/ characters. Not what I'm looking for right now.
  4. My Nintendo ( Club Nintendo Successor )

    It's the "hit me, Mario" look.
  5. Metroid Dread

    Metroid Dread is real and is coming out later this year, October 8th.
  6. Turns out there are ??? Mini Prixes as well as individual races. Had no idea until it did the glitch/flicker right in front of my eyes. There's a webpage with the time of the next one (have yet to test if it's accurate).
  7. Football Season 2023/24

    You'd think it's been a quiet season with the lack of threadage. That lot sodded off to Saudi in the summer. Kane gone. Salah kept. The search for a reasonably priced well rated defensive midfielder. From Postecogl-who to loving Big Ange instead. City with an early blip. Does Arteta really know what he's doing with his goalkeepers? Plucky Luton Town living the Premier League dream outside the relegation zone. The Toon Army in the Champos. Emery's Villa picking up where they left off last season. Talk of an Everton points deduction. VAR roulette. Toney serving a betting ban and Tonioli now joining him. If that's not enough, there putting a fixture on Christmas Eve for the first time since '95. And that's just the Premier League!
  8. My Nintendo ( Club Nintendo Successor )

    Wonder if they are building up to bigger rewards for people with longer streaks on certain games? Or the Mother 3 icons will be made available globally and only those with JP accounts will be able to actually get them.
  9. General Switch Discussion

    Maybe best give it a weekend then to see how you get on with it.
  10. General Switch Discussion

    Party A: We want to profit off our platform for playing the latest Nintendo Switch games. Party B: We want to profit off our platform for playing the latest Nintendo Switch games. Which is?? I hadn't factored in for another big one this Tuesday too. What is known is Peach Showtime, Endless Ocean, Luigi's Mansion 2, Paper Mario TTYD, Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Prime 4. Far as I remember, this time last year there was nothing on the slate post-TotK so I'm sure the back half of the year will take care of itself once again. Maybe Prime 4 for Christmas and with a smaller game or two in Oct/Nov and another in Jan. Maybe a Kirby. Maybe a Yoshi. Maybe give Mario 35 another run on NSO. Maybe Prime Blast Ball. Maybe got Rare checking over a DK game. As for Fire Emblem, at this rate, they'll be porting the 3DS games while mining that library for anything else to shore up the calendar with. Aside from Peach Showtime which I'm curious about as it's something new, I don't know what Nintendo themselves could wheel out that'll have me there on release day. At least there's still two or three of their games I wouldn't mind circling back for if there's a dry period.
  11. My Nintendo ( Club Nintendo Successor )

    I noticed it has been tweaked now so that you have to actually open the related games before you can redeem platinum points for icons. For example, open SNES NSO Mario World first for 50 points before you can get the newly added icons, and for the Animal Crossing icons (still on monthly rotation) you have to have been on the game three times, 24 hours apart. Interesting stipulations.
  12. Endless Ocean: Luminous

    This is £40 on the eShop and can already be pre-ordered for £33.61 on Amazon.
  13. N-E Mario Kart 8 DX Get Together

    Mario Kart: Double Ragequit!! by the host this week. Thanks for the races.
  14. Pokémon Legends: Z-A (2025)

    Announced at todays Pokémon Presents.
  15. Pokémon Presents 27/02/2024 @ 14:00 GMT

    Happy Pokémon Day, trainers. Here are the Pokémon Presents 🎁 : - Scarlet and Violet Tera Raid Battle Events - Go x Horizons (cartoon) collaboration. - Sleep getting Entei and the other two legendary dogs - Masters Ex characters and photo mode - Café receiving Scarlet and Violet Pokémon - UNITE getting Miraidon, Phalinx, Ceruledge - Trading Card Game Pocket on mobile phones ("immersive") - Pokémon Legends (2025)
  16. It'll be a bitter pill to swallow if it isn't compatible with all current your Switch games.
  17. NIS bringing this game from the JP showcase to the west.
  18. No worries. Couldn't keep it to myself when I saw it was legit. I'll definitely be referring to it whenever I'm going on the game from now on in case I'm close to one. Total needle-in-haystack stuff from Nintendo—stroke of luck three came up for me (one repeat) when you see the scheduling.
  19. Football Season 2023/24

    Couldn't let myself believe it was a goal until the match actually kicked off again. The young boys got shrugged off the ball a bit but they didn't shy away. Amazing the way the fans sung them on and then that group rendition of YNWA at the end.
  20. https://beckabney.com/fzerosecret.html Came across a site with the times of the upcoming ??? races. Just tested it and it was accurate. Got a Mute City variant with a massive jump section (similar idea to the arrow jump zone in Red Canyon II) where I crashed out by failing to land on the ramps for a much-needed second jump. One floated jump dropped me plum in the gap between the ramps and the track. It's hard to take everything in on these races—need them in practise mode and ??? GPs in the rotation.
  21. He doesn't call himself hear no-, see no-, speak no EEVILMURRAY for nothing. Know more. Metroidvania = to the discard pile with it. Played the Pepper Grinder demo. We've got a live one here.
  22. Unicorn Overlord (8th March 2024)

    Well, well. This seems like it'll be a good one. Unfortunately, it's another of those that's a poor demo because it's the start of the game—I had it on for about 90 mins and the gameplay to watching scenes ratio wasn't the best. I'd rather it dropped you into a few scenarios minus the excessive storytelling. I could definitely get immersed in managing these troops. The menus and customisation look pretty overwhelming at first glance so there must be a good bit of depth to it. The knockbacks, stamina, toggling which of yours will act when you've more than one bearing down on an enemy, the way it forecasts the outcome before you commit, the valor moves. Not that any of this matters in the early going as encounters take care of themselves and it starts you off with a lvl 20 character to fall back on. I didn't use him as soon as I had more characters than I was allowed to deploy and they still waltzed to victory. I just plumped for the middle difficulty. I don't care about the story or setting but I'm sure I'd get into it as the game unfolds. Very interested in this from the small taste I got of how the gameplay works. My main question would be the length because I'd be worried it's going to overshoot the sweet spot by 100 hours.
  23. Contra: Operation Galuga (Early 2024)

    Demo gives you the first level. It feels decent enough! Otherwise, it looks cheap, I ducked and fell through the ground to my death at one point (couldn't replicate) and the music cut out during a stretch when I replayed it with a different character. Don't think silence was their perk. Seems to chug momentarily in the same spots too. Can't see the graphics getting a touch-up but the other stuff needs ironed out. I flubbed a few times and thought it was down to me, but seeing input lag mentioned above, I'm gonna use that as my excuse.
  24. Shin Megami Tensei V (Switch)

    Fair play because I wouldn't give Pokémon an inch in this regard either... but it's the biggest thing in the world and should be held to a standard reflecting that. I'm one of the people who bought the original SMT V and I think more SMT in any form (on Switch) is a good thing. So it looks like you're just bitter about Vengeance as a late adopter of a not-evergreen title, as is your wont. That's the way the cookie crumbles as, for instance, I put off getting MK 8 DX thinking a new one had to be imminent. Sure you can "eh, whatever" it soon enough on your souped-up backwards-compatible Switch successor and it'll be the same diff. So we all agree Atlus has previous in this area. With and without SMT in one way or another. Late 2021-mid 2024 isn't a bad stretch for SMT V—longer than IV to IV: Apocalypse which I easily disregarded. Be less favourable if they took Vengeance multiplatform and left Switch as is. If it was DLC and this definitive edition elsewhere, I'd personally dismiss it as something for a rainy day (perhaps you two wouldn't) but because it's a "new" game for everyone, I'm a bit torn for some reason this time. Not that it's an exact science because there are a couple of games I sometimes wish had DLC expansions that don't.
  25. N-E Mario Kart 8 DX Get Together

    Thanks for the races. Not for the first week, I held B on the start line of the first race then it took me a few more to remember to swap over to the joystick which I've been trying to get the hang of for a while. Both lapses likely down to F-Zero 99. Not that you'd know it from the standings—pretty much a steady Eddie there. DK Snowboard Cross, the one pick of mine that made it in this week, was by mistake. I meant to go one more to the right and select Yoshi's Island. Wouldn't you know it.
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