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Hint: Try rubbing the badges while playing in handheld mode

Liam Robertson is back! Fascinating video. Such a shame about what happened to Vicarious Visions… Hope that Nintendo keep working with their descendants (Velan Studios) going forward. They’re good peeps.

This is gonna be one of those cases where strong arming isn't gonna have the effect that Sony are looking for...

This game is a surprise little multiplayer gem. I can't imagine it being much fun on your own, but it's a cracking little multiplayer platformer racer! It's also drippin' with 90's 'tude, which just adds to the charm in my book. Seriously! We had a great time with it when me @Glen-i, @BowserBasher and @S.C.G played it last week, and it's also been a hit with my other friends too. Give it a shot if you've got the NSO Expansion Pack! I reckon you'll be pleasantly surprised, as there's nothing else quite like it In case you want an idea for how impressive it is, it has over 100 stages... despite being released on the smallest N64 cartridge possible (just a mere 32 mbit/4MB!), and even a fair amount of voice acting too! Iguana simply didn't miss back in the mid 90s, and it's not hard to see how this talent would eventually transition over to Retro Studios a few years later.

If we’re getting a port of Rainbow Paintbrush, it’ll probably be handheld mode only. Wouldn't be the first 1st party game to ship without supporting a specific Switch configuration. Brain Training Switch is Handheld only; and Switch Sports is Docked mode only. They’ll surely have to ship physical copies with a Stylus though, even if it’s an el-cheapo one like what came with SMM2 and Brain Training. It’d be unplayable with finger only. PCJ is an excellent example of game that should’ve just been handheld mode only. The Docked experience is utterly woeful.

I don't think this is actually the NES ROM on NSO... the description makes it sound like a new take on NES Remix instead! That would be very cool! Edit: Looks like Pyoro is confirming! Awesome! I wonder if we could potentially get a SNES edition or a Game Boy Edition later on as well? Edit 2: Will cost $30 (So, same price as NES Remix 1&2/Ultimate NES Remix)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7191713903104450560/ There goes another one... Shame, Good Job was a decent game.

I've got the cartridge of this game and I can totally see why it was skipped over for localisation. It's basically a glorified demo/prototype, with only 40 Pokemon being useable and no real single player content of any kind. Barebones doesn't even begin to describe it. Supposedly this game was originally meant for the 64DD before being hastily ported to cartridge... which would certainly explain why this game is so utterly bereft of content and why it was supplanted by the Pokemon Stadium that we know here in the west so quickly (just 8 months after the release of the original game in Japan). In fact, we can verify this is true, because if you play this game with a 64DD attached to your console, you get a special error message saying that the expected 64DD disk is missing! FWIW, Mario Party 1 also has a similar error message... I can only assume that our Pokemon Stadium 1 is basically the game that this was supposed to be, not unlike how Mario Tennis Aces was basically the finished version of Mario Tennis Ultra Smash. It's a neat curio, but really, we didn't miss out on much here. Its successor makes this game completely redundant.

Wouldn't surprise me. Resident Evil is a well oiled machine at this point. I just hope that they don't try to pull another Dragon's Dogma 2 and that they've learned from their mistakes with rushing that game out the door before it was done.

Sorry guys, I had to post these highlights... ... There Was Nothing I Could Do...

Because there was nothing you could do.

Ahh!!! @BowserBasher!! Glen can’t join in tonight all of a sudden! You have to host! SAVE US ALL!!!

Uh oh... ... looks like Project Bloom might be in trouble...

Looks like Private Division are on the chopping block too... ... wonder what that means for Game Freak's Project Bloom?

Well. The next Nintendo Earnings Release/Investors Meeting is due to happen next week

I quite like Balatro’s soundtrack (however small it is), but if you want something more upbeat that fits this type of game? How about the Dicey Dungeons soundtrack?

I’d imagine that’s probably the intention. You’re likely expected to unlock this stuff over a long period of time as you dip in and out of the game casually; but of course, in such a small crunchy review period, you’re gonna need to binge the game and plough through the grind as fast as possible to see as much of the game as possible in order to get your review out in time.

Reading a few of these reviews… a lot of them don’t seem to get the appeal of the series in general… I’d take some of these opinions with a grain of salt if you’ve enjoyed the previous games, because the lack of overarching story/objective is kind of the point here? It’s supposed to be a bit of a meandering “virtual aquarium” and the people asking for more of a guided “action game esc” experience are kind of missing the point here. That being said though, the complaints about the grindy progression system being tied to unlocking new areas and the lack of handcrafted level design making areas feel samey and bereft of interesting landmarks seem like valid enough complaints.

Never heard of Chico before, looks cool. Might need to check it a look while the interminable wait for Mina The Hollower continues

Looks like the next balance update is coming out pretty soon

Fun fact, this is the only other game that Dan Hess ever scored after he did Pilotwings 64's soundtrack. And while the soundtrack isn't as memorable as in Nintendo's title, it still has a few choice cuts that show that the guy had some real talent and range to him... Real shame that he quit composing afterwards. Real waste of some proper music talent.

Ehh... not as good as their usual licensed wears. The only one I reckon is even remotely classy is the Korok pocket one, but even that one feels a bit kitschy. Their Animal Crossing range was so much better.

Self explanatory really

Bravo @RedShell, you truly outdid yourself with that masterpiece. And like any good Miyamoto approved solution, it causes multiple problems all at once. Brilliant