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Nintendo, NEVER USE THOSE HOSTS AGAIN Otherwise, love it!

Wow, stunning trailer, I'm in!

71 on Metacritic based on 26 reviews. General consensus seems to be that the visuals are great, the storyline is very in your face and a bit meh, customisation is huge but ultimately a bit pointless, but bosses are cool. Gameplay wise it's decent but a bit repetitive.

Nothing is "necessary" about the width of this track, nor many others: And even on the slightly narrower ones, the 12 racer track is no excuse. It's so dumbed down and "accessible" which Nintendo are getting more and more guilty at. Look at the recent Mario Kart Tour footage and how braindead the driving looks. Then play any of the Mario Circuits in SMK. I've already said the rubber banding and AI is dodgy. You're not writing anything I haven't already said here. I stand by my point that MK8 and other more recent Mario Karts, whilst great fun, are more like party games than hardcore racers. CONSTANTLY getting hit by items, a lightning bolt every 30 seconds, blue shells 3, 4 times a race to punish those in first place, red shells that follow the bends of any track, rubber banded item collection. Then play SMK and notice how you might get hit by item once, maybe twice a race. And clever use of the feather for shortcuts in SMK trumps any item management in MK8.

Super Mario Kart is as fantastic as it's ever been. Sure the rubber banding and AI are a bit dodgy but apart from that it's everything I love about Mario Kart, and unlike modern entries, it's much more skill based, and way, way less chaotic and random. I hate the modern trend of super wide tracks with almost no challenging turns, a lightning bolt going off every 30 seconds and red shells that are piss easy to use. It's why I tend to play MK8 with items off, or shells-only, as otherwise the series has just become a party game. SMK is much more challenging, and way more rewarding to play, IMO.

Beautiful

Small thing, but Gamexplain do great work so thought I'd post that the touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy visual bug fixed from SNES Classic has been sorted

Great opening thread @Hero-of-Time For me... Software: Link's Awakening - A visual treat, but I'm still a bit gutted it's not a new game Luigi's Mansion 3 - Looks fantastic. Planning on only playing this at night/past midnight in bed Tetris 99 - Love the addition of missions to earn themes. Hope they have the GB theme cause I missed it at the time King of Cards - Expecting greatness, they've had long enough The Touryst - From Shin'en, looks great Bubble Bobble 4 Friends - Adore the NES game, I'll wait for reviews of this one. Art style is a little off (Hollow Knight Silksong - Maybe this year, but probably not. Easily my most anticipated game) All pretty much Day 1. There's certainly more eShop games but the above stick out for now Hardware: Yellow Switch Lite - Don't need it. Still want it. IF (big if) it's easy to duplicate my main Switch library and progress can easily transfer between devices Shovel Knight x3 amiibo - feels like I ordered it years ago. Yacht Club certainly take their sweet time LA Link amiibo - because, well, just look at it!

I wonder if Jason Schreier will have his 5 minutes and tell everyone exactly what it is before Nintendo can reveal it themselves, properly.

Thought this deserved its own thread. I can update when they show it off properly next week. Switch Fit seems to be the obvious theory doing the rounds but it looks a lot more gamey than that guess we'll find out on the 12th I like them doing a tease like this, gets a bit of buzz going before the proper reveal. EDIT: Reveal Trailer:

Whoa, legit forgot Super Mario Kart GPs were 5 tracks long. The music in this game is so, so good. MK8 has an amazing orchestrated soundtrack but chiptune tracks will always be catchier. Also they need to bring back the podium finish in the next Mario Kart, complete with floating giant cheep cheep. Way better than just a floating trophy.

Oh my god they finally got rid of the controls text at the bottom of the screen!!! (well, made it an option in the settings at least)

I think this thread should just be renamed "NES and SNES" rather than start a separate topic EDIT: Oh, never mind then. !!! Speaking badly of Mode 7 graphics is a bannable offence, probably.

Nintendo are so W E I R D !! Love it

Whenever I thought back to Totally Rad I'd think to myself there could never be a game called "Totally Rad" in the modern day industry... And then RAD came out from Double Fine Yeah it's sad. Hey that rhymes. That's why in cases like that I look to other methods, to keep those games alive and playable to me. Especially with what you can do to those NES and SNES minis.

Unirally would be amazing, loved that game too. So colourful and fun. Still waiting for the Adventures of Rad Gravity on NES too.

Amazing list of games, some all time classics/best games ever made in there. I cheered when I spotted Pilotwings. One of my favourite ever games, I was constantly firing it up on Wii U, so much fun, such a great vibe. Nice to see them keep the same price, the service gets even more worth the cost.

Not much of an update, but I thought the cover of the Art of book is pretty cool...

Could be but I don't think many if any mobile games are in their Directs tbh

It speaks to how Nintendo struck gold with the Switch when people are trying deperately to find a reason to get a second one.

I know you're joking but Directs have been packed full of content for years now, hopefully the trend continues That said, I really hope they don't spend long on Pokemon. We don't need to see every plasticy looking gym leader, or every Z move dynamix gigantasaur megaton evolution whatever for every single 'mon.

They always say that, but there's amost always at least a couple of games past the dates they write down. It's just them managing expectations which is pretty important these days.

Woah, wasn't expecting this early in September!

Similar sort of download numbers as Fire Emblem got, but 1/50th the revenue!

Well, yes. They talked about every character in detail, almost every mode, the settings screen, rule options, how many music tracks there were, all the stages, the order the menu goes through when starting a Smash battle, new weapons, new assist trophies, and a hundred other things. So yeah, when I said they spoiled everything, I meant they showed 99% of the game.