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This is on game trial from 8th-14th July. Don't forget to download it and give it a go or fire it back up again if you already have it, to get 100 platinum points. I could do with carrying on with the game but I'll probably just claim the points and shelf it again.

https://www.n-europe.com/news/natsu-mon-20th-century-summer-kid-announced-for-nintendo-switch/ Nice to see Natsu-Mon getting some coverage on N-E. Maybe we've an audience for it...? It came out a year ago in Japan and this surprise one months heads up on the western release got me poking around on the demo over the weekend. What you see is what you're gonna get—it's a chill game that controls fine. You just fill out your book (choose your comments, add an icon), catch bugs, meet people to learn about things you might want to look into and generally put your days in as you see fit. As long as you aren't expecting high-octane action adventuring. Stamina feeds into how much you can climb so that's a mechanic that'll be familiar to everyone. It's set in August 1999 so the August release is perfect for anyone that gets in on it immediately. Even though there's no physical announced at this time, I kind of want to hold fire and see. You may be familiar with these games from the Shin chan Summer Vacation game that came out on the eShop a few years back (we had a thread for it too). If that's anything to go by, a physical edition won't be forthcoming. I didn't get around to it yet due to that and because I find Shin chan pretty vile, so Natsu-Mon will do nicely.

That's really good going. Spotted someone with the golden Capt Falcon icon. I'm still yet to get a chance at a Samuari Goroh rival. Got the other three pretty much immediately. I'm just aiming to polish it all off over the course of the month which is why I was trying to gauge the rate of it. The only thing is, I hadn't taken into account that you aren't guaranteed to be racing on festival tracks! For all the good they do with it, if only they would let us choose the races and race types we fancy instead of this random aspect. Got a 5-way win in the team race—there must be a strategy to these because some teams rack up a heap of points. Definitely did more than five team races to get that one win. You'd think they'll carry these 99 games over to the next console, along with everything else on our NSO accounts... but it's Nintendo, so until it happens, I'm not expecting it.

Harvest Moon 64 and Ten Eighty released on the JP NSO + Expansion Pack on 08/12/2023. Harvest Moon 64, Ten Eighty and Jet Force Gemini released on the UK NSO + Expansion Pack on 08/12/2023. The JP SNES Harvest Moon, however, was out over a year before we got it last summer.

This is a quality update. Just the evening tracks with fireworks and an additional collectable raining down refreshes it a lot! The past couple of weeks there was no weekly limited event and the bounties were repeating so I thought it was a natural time to ease off. Not so with this July festival. It's great, and it looks like the unlock rate is similarly paced to the previous weekly challenges so not a grind in the slightest.

@WackerJr did you see it out? I did the NSO GBC version last summer to wander back among the animated flowers. Now that was playing with portable power. You can reaccustom yourself to using A and B rightly. Was both unsure about starting another file this year and looking forward to it in equal measure. There's a part in TOEM where a ghost follows you and I think that's what pushed me over. Pity they kept it to three save files in the remake as I had to kiss goodbye to yet another one, this time from 2022, before I could wash up on Koholint once again. It starts out so quaintly. Shipwrecked in a storm (okay, that's not so ideal... maybe has something to do with why Link doesn't leave Hyrule too often). Get your shield. Sword on the beach. Play the trendy game, get terrorised by the physics of it. A spot of fishing. Embed yourself in the community, why not? Get the trade sequence underway. Catch up with the inhabitants. May as well get on with a few levels, start seeing the island with a view to getting back on the high seas. There's my new mate from For the Frog the Bell Tolls. Out and about with Marin, a dinky rendition of the overworld tune plays as I try to show off to her on the way to Animal Village. Delightful. Fall down the quicksand three or four times in Yarna Desert. Oops. It's cool to see characters crop up in different places except when it's Papahl in the mountains in need of vittles, as he promised he would be. This is going the same way again, isn't it? Into Angler's Tunnel where the music is pensive with a sinister Game Boy undertone. Starts you wondering. Those eerie conversations with the islanders, cryptic messages from the owl statues, the owl's role in egging you on... My old mate Mr. Write's getting catfished and I'm getting into Catfish's Maw. Eat some apples. You can put off noseying around those ancient ruins that speak of the Wind Fish no longer. Much you learn there and it's a one-two sucker-punch as you head across into the Face Shrine knowing full well this isn't right, will never be right. The music puts it beyond doubt. Chills. The hairs on your arms and back of your neck are up. Even on your legs. Goosebumps. The final stretch is numbing. It gets more puzzly in an attempt to engage and distract you. Bosses warn you, are helpless to stop you from relentlessly mastering the island. Not enough secret seashells this time for the L2 sword. The Wind Fish wakes, but at what cost. Special game. Could do with: - infinite files - animated flowers - d-pad movement - harder-hitting soundtrack? - SimCity on SNES NSO - a Marin Zelda game instead of a Zelda Zelda game

Yeah. For what, though? Come on, get down off the fence, man. You'd be coming at this from an interesting perspective. Like, when you report something that's not Nintendo exclusive, that's obviously going to stir up some Nintendo discussion...? Would you like to see the N-E news roundups divided between a Nintendo-exclusive board and a multiplatform board? You've likely bigger fish to fry and couldn't care less. There was always a bit of a buzz around the appearance of an official thread. So many options now, we barely ever converge on the same thing. Mario Wonder had a bit of convo. All these rereleases aren't doing it for us long-serving Nintendo gamers. Right, that's the thing. If anything like what's being suggested is followed through on, the only chatter left in the Nintendo board will be the online meet-ups. The rest will be X posts. At which point the forum is obsolete as if it hasn't been on the brink for a long time already.

No need. I was just returning the joke. I have my own issues with Nintendo but they are separate from how I feel the forum should be organised.

Did this not make any waves, then? Since one of those emails came through about (more!) games from my wishlist being on sale*, I redownloaded the demo and gave it a proper play this time. Seems a very good game. When you see the fish on the loading screen you realise they're 3D models made to look 2D with the pixel-style texture mapping they went for. It makes for a pretty cool look. I wasn't prepared for the underwater layout to be randomised but it seems to serve it's purpose well enough. You're limited by your oxygen and the amount of weight you can carry so you can't spend hours down there collecting everything in sight. Catching fish is surprisingly violent. You get two dives (morning and afternoon) then it's off to waiting sushi prepared from what you caught in the evening. Looks like there's plenty to do and unlock which goes a bit towards alleviating my worry it would just get boring after a while. There's already a good sense of progression in the demo alone. Pouring the green teas is the worst part—no idea how the controls are working for that. Need to read up on it a bit to consider taking the plunge on the full game. * Could do with pruning the wishlist as it still doesn't know to remove games when you get them. Reckon I'll unheart Hades off it when I'm at it because I don't think I'll ever get it.

Grey areas! So you're willing to click into the Nintendo board for a multiplatform game that started out as a Switch-exclusive? I thought you wanted those prised out of the filthy Nintendo section.

Also gone are the days of needing a Zelda board and a retro board since basically everything is current nowadays. I don't think the goal is to make the Nintendo-related discussion as barebones as possible, we should be encouraging it to thrive. Sure there've been cases like Octopath and other timed exclusives on Switch. Those threads would have to be moved in the other direction with this proposal.

I don't see any issue. This is a Nintendo site, after all. The Playstation, Xbox or PC threads don't get to call dibs on what's discussed where. As the situation evolves, things move. Sounds like the way people are suggesting taking it, the fair thing would be a Playstation-exclusive board, an Xbox-exclusive board, a PC-exclusive board, then a multiplatform board for anything on more than one.

It's pretty clear-cut, for me. If a game's on the current Nintendo hardware, I expect it to be discussed on the Nintendo board. Other Consoles is for anything current that isn't. I'd venture it might be worth considering adding the online board back in to get that stuff out of the way, er, I mean, give it somewhere to flourish.

Not a lot of frame-perfect, pixel-perfect gameplay on show with those parameters. Like the driver of the Macbeth forever train in Lylat Wars said: "step on the gas... no! Hit the brakes!" Coins!

You cannot be serious. Make us Miis of players. Do a draw for who's gets to be who. White outfits only. Players arrive at Sunshine Airport. The London track. Grass tracks. Sweet Sweet Canyon for strawberries and cream? Who's in the royal box on Royal Raceway? Tick Tock Shot Clock. Recovery ice bath in Squeaky Clean Sprint then collect @BowserBasher from creche at Baby Park. Lightning bolts for that SW19 weather. Fire Flowers as a tennis ball barrage. Banana skins discarded at the change of ends. Plenty of potential for a seasoned theme maker like yourself. Could even go above and beyond and check if there's sporty vehicles! Will speedrun track selection as best I can.

Even though I know what he means with these, it still sort of sounds like it'd be a criminal offence to hook up the (official) N64 to play Smash Bros. 64 (official cart) with the old (official) banana yellow N64 controller. Just wouldn't be an official Nintendo CRT telly I suppose.

⚔️ ⚔️Probably closer to seven for me. I'll see if a game's going and jump in if there's a spot for me to noob around before Mario Kart. After the three Mario Kart GPs I'll be done getting humbled for one night.

Nice to get confirmation on this coming out of JP. Looks like a ton of fun. Young Girl @ 0:16 sounds like Colette from Tales of Symphonia. Selling your two playthroughs a bit short there. @Happenstance there's a demo on Switch for Ys IX so might be the same for Steam if you want to see how it feels. Also, consider Baten Kaitos I & II.

Hoping the forum stays online long enough to see the Wimby 2024 theme.

Just getting in. Every time I've checked this week it's been Error 500 Connection Refused but since I saw on N-E the forum would be down I knew you were up to something. Looking good. Will the classic theme be making a return or have themes moved? Going to need sunglasses if not. This is how the entire forum becomes a General Diary thread and a Gaming Diary thread.

Excluding demos and game trials, here's my half-time check-in before the end-of-year stats thread comes around. Ordering by last played, I'm guessing where December became January. Monster Hunter Rise (back on it to get the Sonic stuff) Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA (purchased and finished) RingFit Adventure Super Mario Maker 2 Animal Crossing / 3D World / Mario Odyssey / Mario Wonder (fired up to meet the prerequisite number of plays to unlock the NSO icons) Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island (GOTY!) Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (started in December, finished this year) Fortnite Lego City Undercover Theatrhythm Final Bar Line Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Chico and the Magic Orchards DX Mario Kart 8 DX Tetris 99 F-Zero 99 TOEM: A Photo Adventure Various things on NSO (don't think you can order these by last played...?) Bit of a paltry list since I feel like I'm never off the Switch. Ongoing: Baten Kaitos Origins GOTY to beat: Shiren the Wanderer (it won't be beaten)

These are Nintendo games so the buck stops with the Big N. DKCRHD is up on the UK site now with a download size of "9000.00 MB (estimated)" and M&L:B "10240.00 MB (estimated)". If the latter is indeed being handled by ILCA, well, Pokémon Diamond/ Pearl was ~7GB which there was no need for them to be. It's just a lack of care.

Very nice theme even if I kept expecting F-Zero 99 things to happen with the sound effects. Swapped over to it and hope to crack the top 30 sometime with it because when I was on for this event it was pros only.

When I saw about Zaccagni's winner it reminded me of Quagliarella a few tournaments ago when they were doomed at the group stage. The writing was pretty much on the wall this year but you'd still have thought they could have eked out one more win before bowing out. Be interesting to see how long it takes them to figure it out again.

Basically any evening with a bit of a heads up.