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Yeah the reviews for this have been really good. I have to admit, as much as Streets of Rage 2 is one of my all time favourite games, I didn't think this would be good. I wasn't sold on the art style and something just seemed off about it to me but I watched a review today of someone that had similar feelings to me who is blown away by how good this is. It sounds like they did a tremendous job.

I attempted to make a Hoverboard from Back to the Future pattern: I think its too big though so I'll probably redo it at some point. (I didn't make the hat and jacket in this picture)

Today is one of my villagers birthday, which I knew before hand, so I tried to see what happens if you send them a letter the day before wishing them happy birthday. I’d assumed the game would just fire back the normal kind of letters you get from NPCs and not take note of what I’d written, but It actually does:

Thanks for the heads up, I just got in to sell my turnips. It's pretty funny seeing so many people come and go. It took me about five minutes to get to Tom Nooks because of the game halting every time someone joins lol

There's a handy guide that shows the differences in each art piece that has a fake version of it: http://www.nintendolife.com/guides/animal-crossing-new-horizons-redd-how-to-spot-fake-paintings-and-statues-and-unlock-crazy-redd Nintendo have made the differences between the Real and Fake art pieces very subtle for a lot of them this time. For example take a look at the difference between the Real and Fake Solemn Painting: One positive thing if you have bought a fake, is that there is a Nook Miles Objective for buying one piece of fake art. One thing I noticed today that I hope they patch is that, I'm pretty sure in the New Leaf once an Art piece was identified as fake, it would be renamed with the word 'Fake' before its name when you looked at it in your inventory. This was important for trading Art with people so that you knew you were getting the real thing. That does not seem to be the case at the moment, so the 'Scary Painting' I bought yesterday which is fake, is still just named 'Scary Painting'.

I’ll open mine if you want. Not sure if we’re on each other’s friend lists, my friend code is 7441-4734-3710

Well that’s annoying: I got to go onboard Redds boat for the first time today but all four pieces of Art he had were fake. On the plus side, I just read buying one fake art item ticks off a Nook miles objective.

Looks like I can’t do much today, both the Nooks cranny store and the Museum are shut for refurbishment. Can you sell Turnips on a Saturday?

oh man. It was raining for me at that time too and I must have used 12 lots of bait trying to get Tuna (it is the last fish I need for the museum that I can currently catch) and i didn't get a single one.

New update is live. On top of the stuff we know about, there's a couple new shirts and a rug for sale in the ABD machine. Also:

Well how about that, they’re bringing back/redoing a Splatfest there's also going to be a demo soon as well as a discount on the game:

Very happy to see the return of Crazy Redd and the Art gallery. I can’t wait to look around the Museum section for artwork, as Nintendo did such a great job with the aquarium and bug sections.

Nintendo just announced the "Final Major Update" for Mario Maker 2, which is due to be released on the 22nd of this month. It looks like it contains a ton of stuff:

I wasn't expecting something like this in the game:

Genuinely made me happy seeing all this in the game today. They also give you some cupcakes, which you can give to each of the villagers and get a present from them.

There is a Mario Odyssey Theme up for 100 points. It plays the Jump Up Super Star theme music on the menu. https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/8d8db57ab54f28b2

remapping controllers and being able to transfer data from the systems memory to SD (and vice versa) is pretty great.

Full patch notes https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22525/~/nintendo-switch-system-updates-and-change-history#v1000 Edit - Joycons also have a firmware update,but you have to download it manually from the system menu.

I’ve got these today as spares if anyone wants them Left Megelo side plesio body ophthalmo skull Not sure what I need so I’ll take anything in return

Sorry for having to leave so quick @Sméagol, no sooner I landed on your island something came up here and I had to leave

Yeah I just noticed you can customise most of the items, like the fish rack and the fish print to show different fish. I’ve gotten over 100 points but I think I’ll stop here for now, I seem to have gotten most of the items. It was fun doing this while listening to a couple of podcasts.

Same here with not being able to decide on what kind of bridges. However, the river that goes across my island has generated in such a way that there are almost no places I can set a bridge outside of a couple of spots that are useless, but I've actually found this problem a good thing because I already can't decide which kind of bridges I'd use once I can reshape the land with terraforming. Speaking of which, apparently KK Slider will show up tomorrow so I should unlock terraforming soon.

Same. I've mentioned this before but Miiverse was at its best when it was integrated directly into a game, such as the comments popping up in levels in Mario Maker, the graffiti in Splatoon, people helping each other out in Mario 3D World, or finding messages in tingle bottles from other players in Wind Waker HD. I am still surprised they didn't continue Miiverse in some way for the switch, it would have added value to the service and loads of games would have benefited from it. Its a shame.

Nintendo Japan has launched a Customization Program on their site where you can choose what colour Joycons you get with your Switch bundle, among a few other things: https://store.nintendo.co.jp/customize.html Would be interesting if this option showed up in Europe and America