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Always glad of a rec myself so I'm adding those to the list. 🏖️📚 If you're still on the lookout for something in a similar vain, take a look at Life After Life by Atkinson. Read it years and years ago through a Kindle promotion and it pulled me in. There's also 7 1/2 Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle which I'm yet to get around to so can't vouch for one way or the other. Same goes for All You Need is Kill. On the King front a couple of shorts spring to mind: That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French (collected in EE) and Afterlife (collected in BoBD) if you have access to them.

A gem. Finding different routes, seeing the sights (perhaps imagining your own story about what's going on in the stages as you uncover more areas) and ultimately deciding what route you thought was fastest made for something that held its own pretty handily against the other N64 racing games. I speak from memory so its reassuring to see @Cube had a fun time with BAR nowadays.

The map similarities are interesting. Just checked the Thousand Year Door ESRB page out of interest, and it doesn't mention who is playable. So stating "as Link, players use a sword and arrows to defeat enemies" could indicate something beyond just losing an intro battle. Time will tell.

It's good it isn't a random occurrence, but still, pretty much no chance of seeing it without this knowledge! Sounds like the Spooky Wall thing is the only one of those you'd have a reasonable chance of spotting. AC is full of little flourishes.

Was hovering over Pokémon Snap on NSO yesterday evening. Would have hopped on it for a refresher had I known it was next in line for this thread. Well you see, most people just don't understand it's basically a Star Fox game.

There was a result at the Centenary Stadium too! Check out o.g.'s contribution at about 30 seconds into the highlights. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cyx5pepd6dgo

Wrapped up the festival in a week. Gold Capt Falcon was the final gold icon for me and was a rival that only came up in the last GP I needed, so that was a nice way to end it. Played it normally during the week. Doing five races a day (to qualify for the lucky slots) and hung about for a festival GP if one was close to starting. Then this weekend I specifically hit a few more festival GPs since there is basically one on the hour every hour (or two if you crash out quickly... ). Once I noticed a GP was giving ~1,500 gems sparks, reaching 20,000 was a done deal—definitely the way to go. Just glad the numbers are so lenient since you are at the mercy of track rotation in the other modes. Cool event. Can't remember how it compares to the winter one but I remember it was a good time too. Next year it'll be spring and autumn, then...? I was going to give up on a non-festival race but it said it'd count as a defeat against my rivals so I chickened out. Were you taking the losses or pulling the plug on your internet connection?

I remember one of these mentioned something eerie happening on your in-game TV in the wee small hours on Animal Crossing. Whatever it was, I never saw it.

Require: 2 NSO apps. Check. Acquire: Smash Bros. Err...

Relive the ultimate underdog story of a bully and a cheat. IGN have this to say: I was shown that scene after Cobra Kai came along. Fun. Credit where it's due. Johnny Lawrence > Daniel-san. Handy to know. I've looked at those on the eShop from time to time when Cobra Kai's been on but never took a chance on one. No doubt be looking at them again soon enough when the programme starts again.

Was able to pick it up on DS too. Had a bit of charm to it. I'll probably get around to these next year when the NSO sub is coming up for renewal.

Sadness and Nibris were two things that had completely slipped from my memory. Back when Nintendo "needed" mature this and mature that. Happy Bag Salesman until proven otherwise! Slightly more interestingly, the NintendoAU vid is age restricted. The disclaimer and classification gives an idea of the content that can be expected:

Got it. I just let the video run because that wall of images and text was a bit much to take in. Yeah the part where they regurgitate the info from 4gamer.net mentions it.

Is that screenshot from a different source to the video? The onscreen caption at 20:06 is saying you can use the chimera wing (same function as zoom like you say) to travel to previous areas and that you can use it indoors. Just for anyone that wants to see proof for themselves. It's been possible to zoom directly from indoors in more recent titles so they are probably just bringing it in line with that. As well as the other tweaks and ways it is being streamlined.

Blast from the past reading that again. Out of curiosity, I looked Nibris up on Wikipedia and it says that after ceasing game development "remaining Nibris staff and projects were also reported to have been handed over to Bloober Team, another game developer."

If you want to see it, it's at 20:06 in the video @Julius shared.

There's a backlog everywhere. Was unable to turn up an individual thread for Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale and this is where a good bit of the chat for it happened... a decade ago. It was interesting to read back through that just now. With Natsu-Mon coming out in a month, it seemed a good reason to unwrap the Friday Monsters. After taking the above snaps, I cranked the 3D and got stuck in. There's linked content if you have qualifying save data from Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter or Crimson Shroud. That's out of reach for me now so I started a new file without it. It opened with a nice little song, there's not much love lost between your parents in their scene-setting exchange and then you're in control. Word to the Wise tells you to head for the map marker anytime you're unsure where to go. The first marker was just around the corner, so naturally, I went the opposite way. And it got weird. The game is divided up into episodes, and while looking around, it said I'd started into episode 11! So, I legged it back to the original marker and took it from there. After a little progress, no matter how many times I talked to people again, the episode would not complete, so I gave in and headed to the next marker: episode 3 was underway. I soon started thinking of these episodes as quests because there was little rhyme or reason to the ordering of when they'd begin and end. My initial worry when I saw episode 11 had started was that I'd bypassed almost half the game—not something I wanted to happen in my first file. That didn't seem to be the case. Nevertheless, from then on, I didn't deviate much from following the markers. There's not a great deal to it. No brain teasers to solve though I suppose I opened a gate to make a shortcut. Just follow the marker and see what's going on. There's some card battling (janken!) between the kids but it isn't the main focus—which is good because retrying battles is pretty slow. Cards are obtained by collecting shiny orbs (glims). Some are in plain sight, others are tucked behind the foreground, you get a few for completing an episode. I still ended up not getting some cards despite being fairly thorough. It's all about the scenery, character interactions and their relationships. Your dad worries if you've seen the mail, your mum worries that you found her stash of cash. You get a feeling of what other people have going on in their lives. It's charming how the other adults play along with your childish investigation into the monsters and how it plays out. The kid's perception of the monsters, what the adults want to keep from them, the secrets you keep, what you're oblivious to. The truth is an amalgamation. Unfortunately, the credits did not thank me for playing. When they're done, it puts you back into a bonus stage: Saturday. Basically to do a victory lap and talk to everyone again. After several retries, I got a card win against S-Chan at which point I was everyone's boss and took it as a good point to save and quit. I'd recommend it if the eShop were still open for business. But if you're someone like me who's left it unplayed on your system, give it a whirl. It isn't a big commitment—I spent less than four laid-back hours on it these past evenings. Fridays will never be the same again.

Hard to keep up with this thread. Fair play to you for not treating Castlevania as a laughing stock. Obviously, it's no classic and it didn't make the jump to 3D as well as Mario and Zelda, but what did? Plenty of games had similar teething problems—some still do. It was a decent attempt (nothing more) at a 3D follow-up to IV with some memorable things like the skeletons and being chased through the hedge maze. Other aspects are memorable for the wrong reasons. Vigilante 8 provided some fun multiplayer but I won't argue that it's nothing special overall.

It's a new character for Smash Bros.

Hmm. Wasn't clued up enough to know that. I'll be giving the Daybreak demo a go (a review called it a "passable" starting point) so I'm looking forward to seeing how it feels to play. I remember the battling in the Cold Steel III demo felt all right but obviously being numbered three I wasn't going to follow through with getting the full game.

Skimming the GameSpot list, I was going to be cheeky and do one game per phrase in the category descriptions. I'm sure Mario Party will be bang average, but say what you want about it, it's a known quantity and a sound purchase for those who are into it. Arranger caught my eye in the Direct it appeared in... I think it'd be cool if Funko Fusion is a surprise package... I'd like to be reasonably positive about Epic Mickey but I'm not so sure how it'll end up... early murmurings suggest SCHiM and Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus could be style over substance... and we're spiralling beyond just naming three. Be glad I knocked it on the head when I decided I don't know enough about Fantasy Life i to place it with any confidence—same would go for Zelda and M&L:B, actually. Stuck to what I know with the two I've tried plus one I'm genuinely iffy about. Fantasian and DQ speak for themselves. Full transparency on my part is I only clicked into the thread to report it as advertising spam. If not for the bolded descriptions I was .gif-ing back out to leave you boys to it. I'm sure it'll have its fanatics. I just have a feeling if you take a step back from the NEStalgia and assess it on what it offers as a whole, it'll be another lacking Nintendo game.

Deserves more attention: Reynatis Wool pulled over eyes: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Certain will be left satisfied by: Ys X Whatever your view, no one's going hungry.

Is there a snooker minigame.

Probably somewhere in the 10-15 hour range. I'd estimate days average out at ~30mins depending on what you get up to. From what I understand, since these games are open-ended it makes them replayable so one go through shouldn't be excruciatingly long. It will be €40/$40 so we will have to see what they are asking when the eShop page goes up—maybe £34 like Shin chan? Hosepipe ban and a quiet village fête for those not in Ibiza. Could very well be that I happened to be exposed to less savoury episodes of it. Exposed being the operative word because that little cartoon dude couldn't keep his shorts up! Plus other vulgar aspects caught me off-guard and have forever coloured my opinion of it. Kept his summer vacation game from bubbling up to the top of my must-buy list so I'm unsure if I ever looked into it to find out if it's any more innocent. Here's some video messages about Natsu-Mon: There's some more info on the site: https://www.spike-chunsoft.co.jp/natsumon/en/ The option to have your fish prepared at night reminded me of Dave the Diver.

Almost picked up Azure or something a few weeks ago. Looked up on my phone whereabouts in the series it falls and set it back down again. Keep meaning to untangle this series but since they're split between eShop and physical it's a bit of a messy one. Often looked at it on GBA but never picked it up. It'll be nice to know the option is there again.