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Runbow is out now on Switch and based on a quick go, it seems to be an excellent port! An absolute must buy for anyone looking for a great party game! One of the Wii U’s absolute best now on Switch!

Mario Odyssey uses it in certain points for gameplay purposes (hidden objects underground, the scooter etc), Golf Story makes great use of it, Kirby Star Allies makes use of it really well in one specific portion of the game, Labo heavily relies on it to work at all, and Mario Tennis Aces makes great use of it too (individual footsteps can be felt, along with different effects for each kind of shot; certain puzzles in Adventure Mode make use of it too!) Plenty of other games use it in neat but subtle ways to enhance the experience (like feeling the doors open and close in Octopath Traveller, or hitting the left and right walls in Thumper, or feeling the tornados spinning around your car in FAST RMX. MK8dx also has some subtle use to feel different kinds of surfaces that you drive across as well), but the ones I mentioned previously are the biggest standouts.

Black/White is so damn good! Easily the best in the series (along with its sequel of course). The pacing, the story, the new mechanics, the music; everything is just pitch perfect! It was brave, bold decision to soft reboot the series, but they did a brilliant job! It's just a shame that the two gens following on from it have just failed to recapture the same magic. They just don't have the same bite, despite introducing some good new mechanics along the way.

My current living room setup includes... 2x Wii Us (One PAL, one US NTSC model - the latter having my full US Wii VC library) Gamecube (With GCHD Evo HDMI mod) Switch PS3 (Doubles up as my blu-ray player and my PS1 game player) N64 Alienware Alpha PC Not a single wire is visible The rest of my consoles are hooked up to my bedroom TV in a beautifully messy, makeshift setup though!

Lovely stuff! NiSA have done a great job of completely bungling this port! From its poor performance, to its late release, to its myriad of bugs and patches to fix said bugs. They're making a great case to not trust them with other developers' games!

I've only had the chance to watch the Sonic Adventure DX run so far, but it was hilarious! Now watching the Skyward Sword run! (RIP My dude, we hardly knew ye...) Edit: Oh! The Skyward Strike gets super powered in Hero Mode? Never knew that!! Edit 2: DAT EXTENDING BLOW DEEP FARON WOODS SKIP!!! Edit 3: The back-in-time glitch manipulation...

Same, but I don't think it'll happen... Tetsuya Mizuguchi has previously spoken about how much he hates Nintendo platforms (and he has no involvement with this remaster), so I doubt that he'll want to see his other games come to Switch sadly... A shame, because Tetris Effect looks amazing!

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but me and Glen-i might already have some ideas cooking here...

Oh @Glen-i... http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/47617/mario-kart-8-deluxe-receives-support-for-labo-in-software-update I think we might have to do another motion controls only night...

I'm enourmously disappointed at the lack of content outside of Adventure Mode! There's basically nothing! You can't even set the number of games/sets to play in local multi! You can't even directly choose a court! There are actually fewer options for local play than in Ultra Smash, somehow!! Where's ringshot? Where are all of the special game modes!? Are there really only 7 courts in total!? The CPU Tournament mode isn't even worth playing! You don't get any victory cutscenes for each character and you can't even earn Star Characters like before!! (beating one cup just unlocks the next for every character), you get absolutely nothing for beating it (except for a pointless crown jpeg next to each character who beat Star Cup), it's a total waste of time! There are no unlockable characters either as far as I can tell, just the extra ones that will be added later on in the months ahead! There's nothing to do outside of Adventure Mode and local/online multiplayer! Yes the core gameplay is absolutely top-notch (leagues above Ultra Smash!) and the new mechanics are fantastic. And Adventure Mode does seem to be fun and fairly substantial (I've only done the first two challenges so far and they were pretty good), with some interesting challenges scattered throughout the 7 courts, but there's practically nothing outside it! This is a killer multiplayer game for sure, Camelot really nailed the core gameplay (both in Standard and Simple mode) and they've done a great job with the Adventure Mode (I also appreciate the little touches that echo Golden Sun more than a little ), but I'm hugely disappointed by the lack of content outside of it... You can actually block a zone shot without using zone speed (it's really hard, but you can do it!). You can also choose to purposly let it go, take the point loss and save your energy for later. There's quite a few options available to you here!

Sweet Jesus! It looks amazing on 3DS! (Well, New3DS at least) I can't believe they got it looking and feeling so close to the Wii U version!

I suppose because they were built on a different engine? SM3DW was a Wii U game anyway, so plonking then into the original Captain Toad was a literal copy/paste job. To get them working on Switch/3DS though is a much more involved task. So they probably figured, screw it, they were the worst levels anyway.

New overview trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR7EDhT2CJ8 A demo is out now on the JPN Switch and 3DS eShops... ... And it looks like the new content is a lot more substantial than we thought... I’ll happily take an all new book, thank you very much!

https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/311519-square-enix-not-releasing-dlc-for-octopath-traveler No DLC planned. Nice to think that in an age where developers are carving up their games to sell piecemeal after launch and trying to fix their broken and incomplete games/stories with DLC (ahem, Square Enix...), that we can just get a game that offers a complete experience from the get-go Hard to believe that it’s coming from the same publisher that brought us FF15 and Deux Ex: Mankind Divided!

Finally got myself one of those GCHD adapters! (They're widely available on Amazon now!) Also got myself a spare US GCN with UK Power supply and US Action Replay/SD Card loader - so now I can try out cheats and fancy GCN homebrew like the Game Boy Interface! Been meaning to get kitted up for ages! I can't currently play my GCN on my main 4K TV since it has no analog inputs whatsoever (HDMI only), so I'm keen to get my Gamecube game back on! Just gotta wait for it to arrive now Also got myself a US Wii U, to replace my busted US Wii (And get all my downloaded content transferred onto it), so now I finally have all my Wii VC and Wii Ware content back! It also meant that I could get the outlying Wii U VC games that were 50hz only on the UK Wii U eShop, like DKC2 and Majora's Mask! I was also able to get VS Excitebike on the NES via the US Wii U eShop too! (It was never released in Europe), so I'm keen to give that a go when I get some time to play! Feels good! I was itching to play Majora's Mask again, but it looked like buttered arse on my TV and crashed partway through, so I gave up and just decided to wait until I had my VC versions back! Now I can play it again! Feels so good to have it back!

It's not bad, but it does have some issues. There's a hell of a lot of "dead air" time where you're just running around looking for stuff/other players and I also really struggle to make out who are team members and who are bad guys (the game really doesn't make it very clear who's on the opposing team in 50 v 50!). I am having fun with it though. I can see myself dipping in and out of it from time to time, especially if they add gyro controls! The microtransactions are also entirely cosmetic and not very intrusive, which is good.

Looks like a pretty damn good port! Holds up really well! (900p is also better than expected!) No doubt it'll also get better over time, like the other versions have. It's a great bedtime game!

Just finally got round to watching the Treehouse Live segment, it looks the tits! Can't wait!

It was never gonna show up here. It was just a logo last year, that means it's like at least another year (or even more) out from release.

Dual screen gaming lives boys!

Looks like Gungho hit the post button a little too early! https://www.resetera.com/threads/ninjala-gung-ho-switch-exclusive-pvp-game.48542/ Looks pretty cool! Apparantly the director was the lead planner on The World Ends with You and director on Dissidia: Final Fantasy!

I'd kill for a new REAL Zelda game (not that BOTW, Ubisoft Open World game in disguise shit). 3DS, Switch, whatever (not mobile though!) I'll take it how I can get it!

I agree. Microsoft have positioned themselves really well going into next gen over the last couple of years and during this E3 conference too. Sony have to be taking notice and I doubt that they'll want MS to get the jump on them. Sony always beat MS when they get in first, but have struggled when playing catchup. Not to mention that Bethesda have already announced a "next gen" game in the form of Starfield, so whatever "next gen" is, mustn't be too far off now.

I do reckon that Sony is winding down their PS4 output as well. The fact that they had not a single new unannounced first party game to show for PS4 speaks volumes. I fully expect a PS5 reveal (and likely release) next year, just in time for Playstation's 25th anniversary. And I expect Death Standing, TLOU 2 and Ghosts of Tsushima to be their big launch window titles for the PS5 too.

Here's my rankings list so far... God tier: Devolver Digital Great tier: Ubisoft Good tier: Microsoft, Bethesda WTF Horrible!! tier: Sony, PC Gaming Show Sony's show did have some good demos and interesting announcements, but the show itself was utterly horrible. I don't know what they were thinking with the format, but it was a complete disaster! An E3 show is more than just a list of game announcements, it's... well... a show! And any show that features a whole 30 mins of complete dead air is an absolute crime! Never mind how all of the games shown there just start to blur into one another with how similar they are... A problem that Sony has had for quite some time now. I went into the PC Gaming Show, hoping for some more of that glorious cheese and cringe that made last year's show worth watching, but ended up being massively disappointed with how it turned into professional mediocrity. So utterly boring that I actually fell asleep halfway through it! Microsoft's show was pretty good all around really. Good pacing, good announcements and some nice surprises. Good vibes, but it did lack the creative magnifiers that make for really memorable E3 shows (like the New Cars from their last shows). Overall a good show, but not the most memorable one. Bethesda's show was also pretty solid. The Skyrim Very Special Edition video was hilarious, the pacing was pretty great, there's a good variety of games shown, the presentation was well crafted with some fun swagger that wasn't really pretentious and the crowd's enthusiasm was pretty genuine. Good stuff! That being said, a lot of their announcements came without much gameplay, which is a shame, but it's hard to be disappointed with their output (the prospect of Doom Eternal in particular is pretty damn exciting!) Ubisoft however managed to continue their recent trend of really well directed, paced and laid out shows and they had plenty of interesting games to show too. Genuinely entertaining all throughout and some fantastic surprises too! And then there's Devolver Digital. I honestly didn't think there was any way that they could possibly live up to the absolutely glorious God Tier stunt they pulled off last year, but the madmen actually managed to put out a worthy follow up! And on top of that? Bloody hell! They're actually reviving Metal Wolf Chaos!? That's completely insane!! Absolute A-grade stuff all throughout!