darksnowman

I'll see you on court first.

Three or five full sets format is good for me. If @Dcubed needs to go to get himself tucked into bed at a civilised hour we can do a 2 min match to warm up. I only have 4 star characters so far. Will volunteer to host when I have them all. I'd like to think my fibre can handle a bit of N64 online but you never know how inefficient Nintendo have made it.

I'll be on in about 90 mins too then.

Which Thursday or Friday? @BowserBasher?

That'd be great to get three knocked off the list so quickly, @BowserBasher and @Helmsly, if you's don't mind parting with them! I'll visit, I'll fling the gates open, I'll accept post. Whatever works. I thought @Hero-of-Time had been painstakingly maintaining the player list but it appears he dropped the ball! Mine is Stevo @ New Gilead (Pears). Got any vegetable starts or am I pushing my luck now? I forked out for a storage expansion (and to get Redd on Harv's Island) so at least I've been able to stash the surplus fish I caught last summer while finishing that part of the museum. Hope the model maker shows up frequently. Can the new items in the Nook ATM be customised or do I need to mooch additional colours off you?

Don't want Epic to know about what happened that one time at Bandcamp, huh...

Went to Colony 9 at night and there was a quest to get in the residential area so I started there and combed through the colony into the wee small hours. Then changed it to daytime and went again. Still nothing for Shulk. I was thinking surely that clown hasn't sent me on a wild goose chase, and changed back to night to begin the sweep once again. Lo and behold there was a ! on the map. Shulk's pessimism acquired.

It ended up not being as binary as those ads made out. I think I did all those things and still won the day.

Yeah, I think it could be a case of lightning striking twice as Advance Wars on GBA was delayed due to 9/11.

The island will call those back who belong there. A slumber that has endured since the end of August has come to an end. The winds of change have been blowing strongly in the interim because immediately Isabelle was telling me about how we got ordinances, and we got boat tours. I was called for an urgent meeting with Lottie down at the airport where I learned the biggest change of all. Old Tom is now President Nook. (That wasn't always the case, was it? ) I have to get scrubbed up to do some work for Lottie now. All of a sudden, that amazing string of reveals in the Direct seems to be of zero importance. In fact... pretty much everything is paling in comparison to the prospect of being sucked back into this. Send help. And by help, I mean art. At a quick check, it looks like I'm lacking these: Amazing painting Detailed painting Proper painting Warm painting Wild painting left half Wild painting right half Familiar statue Informative statue Robust statue

https://www.destructoid.com/mina-the-hollower-yacht-club-games-guest-composer-koshiro/ The man, the myth, the legend himself, Yuzo Koshiro (Etrian Odyssey, 7th Dragon) will be contributing a pair of tracks to Mina.

Weekly Famitsu has rated it 8/9/9/9 (35/40). I haven't seen the comments from the reviewers yet.

You heard the man, Nintendo! Push it! Flip it! Add waggle, stat!

No doubt there will be a whole range of croqueta Pokémon and I'm sure they're working around the clock trying to work out how to put in Pokémon based on tortilla de patatas and francesinhas rather than focusing on the game itself. Pimiento de piquillo is from Navarra which is where Pamplona is located so maybe that starter is all they will draw from that region but if not... The bulls that run every morning never see the light of day again. The destination of the course is the bull ring and every evening those bulls are sliced with methodical precision by pirouetting toreros so they bleed out slowly in the name of putting on a show. It may well be considered an honour for those noble creatures to meet this fate but I'd say there's no need for something like this to be cutefied and glorified in a game that will be played by millions of kids. But that's just what I think. And Pokémon is already about battling animals you capture so who knows. No, no, I wasn't referring to ETA and their IRA buddies. I meant the Spanish Armada of yore. Conquistadores! World domination! All that stuff they can't let go of and face that nowadays all they offer is tikitaka and a place to go on holidays. Must've been nice to go in without needing a ticket!

Those cheeky chappies in the barn in Twycross knew how to get around the censors and keep the rating down. Higher ESRB rating but have you played Conker's Bad Fur Day? Now that's what I call platforming. Rare weren't above that themselves...

Just had this appear on my Youtube feed. No gameplay tricks here, just 19 facts that I'm sure we're all well-versed in already but it nonetheless serves as a decent reminder of the work that went into BotW. Hard to believe it's been five years. I had to pause the video and check that and right enough Wikipedia says March 3rd 2017. Time flies. Personally, I found point 14 to be of particular interest as I hadn't encountered it in the game.

Is the Breath of the Wild sequel set to be yet another Zelda game caught in the Venn diagram between generations?

Ludiculous, @Ashley.

I want in on this. I'll take you on at Super Tennis and Smash Tennis too.

Tried to redeem some platinum points for these and it says you need to be an NSO member to proceed. And some of them are already set to expire in 6 days! I was intending to pony up for a year of online for the Mario Kart expansion but they might be forcing my hand here...

I was checking recently to see if they had any Xenoblade options so it would be nice if they add them through this. Hopefully it isn't too much busywork to unlock this stuff within the time limits. Looks like I have two Animal Crossing birthdays coming up judging by the pic. Must get back to it... EDIT: Missions & Rewards is on my NSO app on the Switch, so it's available on this side of the pond!

If they really want to lean into the animal cruelty aspect then sure... Look out for characters wearing all white and a red bib in future trailers to see if "The Running of the Tauros" will be present. Maybe a Hemmingway NPC. Pokémon Gyms could be bull rings. ---------------------------- There's Las Fallas in Valencia, the paving stone thing in Córdoba, there are local festivals and celebrations for saints all over they can draw from. Maybe you'll be able to buy chulapa gear. Will the evil team be the moors coming back for revenge or will that be kept for the back-in-time version? Maybe this team will be trying to bring back the glory days of the armada. Don't forget there's a desert in the north as well as Alméria. There's skiing. The trailer hints at La Mancha, perhaps Puente de Segovia and Salamanca will feature, too? A Basque-style region along the north and a celtic area in the northwest? Never mind all the coastline areas (and potential island hopping). How much did Sword and Shield draw from England? Can that be used as a barometer? Replace curry with paella. Will the early-game bird Pokémon be based on those green woodpeckers? I just hope that on the Portugal-side (will it be a different timezone! ) they don't overlook that quaint little seaside spot with the coloured houses and bakery that does killer pastéis de belem. You know where I mean, @Jonnas. They can leave out the Harry Potter bookshop in Oporto because that franchise is deader than a dead thing from deadland to me. There's plenty of rich and varied geography for them to draw from and siestas to incorporate... but... what about the game...? People thought they had the uno, dos, tres thing sussed but clearly not. Doing that event at the moment was a blatant hint that no one cottoned onto!

https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/2022/missions-and-rewards-added-to-nintendo-switch-online/ Posting here as I'm pretty sure we don't have a "General NSO Discussion" thread and this doesn't seem to apply only to Expansion Pack members. I didn't see anything about this on nintendo.co.uk but hopefully they bring it over! Maybe folders...

Totally agree. This one plays a rock-solid game of tennis first and foremost with the Tennis x Kart in a separate mode. Only thing I'd change about it is longer matches in the tournaments. It's all over so quickly.

Don't think there were any quests to be currently had over there but I'll go check and see.