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A lot of good stuff in this Mini, and wow I know it's probably at least partly because of Covid pushing games' release dates back but early 2021 is looking jam-packed for the Switch now. Bravely Default II: Glad to see some news since a 2020 release seemed unlikely at this point. Also glad that they are once again taking fan feedback to heart since the demo definitely had some rough edges. Immortals Fenyx Rising: Looks like exactly the kind of Ubisoft game I like, looking forward to trying it out. No More Heroes III: Still looking amazing and can't wait to play. Re-releasing the previous games is a nice touch too (not sure I'll double dip on those just now though). Hitman III Cloud Version & Control Cloud Version: Whoa, did not expect to see these games on the Switch, even through a cloud streaming service. I actually just picked up Control on the PS4 and am looking forward to playing it, it looks really cool. Griftlands: This looks kind of cool, though "rogue-lite deck-building game" kind of scares me a bit. Part-time UFO: This looks adorable, not surprised to see it came from HAL Laboratory. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity: Totally agree that it's awesome to see the Divine Beasts in action. It's so satisfying to see the champions and the beasts really put up a fight against Ganon's forces since, yeah, the original game kind of made it seem like they got rolled over pretty easily. The original NMH was also released on PS3/360, so maybe they just have a normal controller set-up for handheld mode? Hopefully they don't expect you to swing your Switch around to execute finishing moves.

Since Isabell, Nook, the Nooklings, the Able Sisters, and Orville have started getting into the Halloween spirit (Go check out their new looks if you haven't yet).... What's everyone going as for Halloween in ACNH? Betcha can't guess what I'm going as! Here's my costume: Hint: Look at the face paint A:

Here's a clip compilation video:

I caught shiny Blacephalon last night!

Is @Chrom going to play Fire Emblem and finish it this time? I call dibs on Merric again.

It'd be nice if this was just part of NES Online but since it's translated to English and has some bonus features I guess I don't mind ponying up $6 for it. It'll be a neat little piece of gaming history to have on my Switch. Nintendo had better cut it out with this limited time availability for digital downloads though. Really no excuse for this for digital games aside from a marketing ploy.

The 9 nice throws....f that

In all the recent direct madness, I forgot to post that my pins arrived today. Well there's the late October for me.

Anyone up for Halloween theme this Thursday (Use spooky characters like, King Boo, Dy Bones, Dry Bowser, etc.)? HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :

They’ve gone full Final Fantasy with Bravely Default II. Subtle. But, finally No More Heroes on Switch!

What about Paper Jam?

Nice to see Nintendo is listening. I didn't have any issues with the camera controls in SM64 (I've yet to play the other 2 games), but it's nice to see the option being added and especially, an option for inverse controls when using F.L.U.D.D. in SMS. I still wonder why they felt they needed to remove the inverse controls in SMS that were in the original GCN game...? Now if only we could get true GCN controller support for SMS (analogue trigger support with GCN adapter).

Sableye as Litwik.

I already have a Glaraian Farfetch’d fom last year. Now, I’m just trying to get enough caddies to evolve him. Caught a Galarian Ponyta!...

Update: I didn't miss it.

Mario was $60. ----------- $50 is fine for a bunch of collectible trinkets, but this "limited time only for a digital game" shit has got to fucking stop.

This is funny, I can actually see each of the characters doing that in a Zoom call, lol.

That was fantastic

I played the demo. I won’t spoil anything, but definitely give this game a shot. In my opinion it plays more like a Zelda game than even Hyrule Warriors, so far. So if that part was a turnoff for anyone... I think you should give it a go.

Looks nice and sounds nice and what sparse writing there is can have its moments occasionally. Puzzles can be clever but a lot of them border or cross over into being obtuse, and having to get more thing stickers if you fuck up is infuriating. All in all I wouldn't just call it a bad Paper Mario game, I just think it's not a great game in general. It's a bunch of terrible ideas and what good is in there is often tripping over itself. Like I'm not even a "PLEASE GIVE US THE FIRST TWO GAMES FOREVER AND EVER" purist like some of the babies out there and I fucking adored Super Paper Mario. I'm fine if a franchise diverges or experiments, I just want the game to be good and Sticker Star just has a bunch of minor shit that adds up to just getting in the way of itself.

Woot! For the last Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase, that was a banger way to go out. Definitely getting NMH 1+2, let's see if I qualify to play Control on Switch I am curious. BD II looking great, like that Part time UFO, I have Hitman on my PS4 but haven't played much of it. Just gotta see how Control works. Griftlands looks interesting. My path as not changed with Immortal Fenyx Rising as a game purchase on Switch. I'm gonna try this in handheld mode and see how this goes for Zora. I read all of the fine print before DLing, like I said curious to see how this works for me or not. Wasn't sure if anyone posted. Great list of QoL stuff they got from the feedback. Really looking forward to the release of this game next year.

Ok, gate will be opened shortly. Open for all friends, will try to stay active in case anyone else wants to sell.

FWIW, Desperate Struggle supported the Wii Classic Controller, and otherwise had basically the same controls as the first game, so there's probably some way to play both games without the waggle.

Spike at 504 for turnips if anyone needs to sell.

Wow! This was way better than I was expecting! Pretty cool seeing Hitman III coming to Switch and Control shadow-dropped, but too bad their both 'Cloud Versions'. No More Heroes I & II shadows-dropped on Switch?! ...Like Travis said, "HELL YEAH!" Part Time UFO is a neat little game from HAL Laboratory. It's been on mobile for quite a while and I always wondered why it never came to something like the 3DS. I just hope there's enough extra content in the Switch version to warrant the price of $8.99, because it's only $3.99 on mobile. NIce to see a Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity demo shadow-dropped. I never got into the Hyrule Warriors games (I played a demo on WIi U), but I'll admit, this looks pretty cool with all the story elements. I might have to check out that demo. EDIT: Seems with Control they are letting you try the game for 5 mins. before you have to buy the game. I guess this is so you can see if your internet can handle streaming it...? 🔗http://nintendo.com/games/detail/control-ultimate-edition-cloud-version-switch/ *Click to Enlarge*

There will be 2 Comm. Days this month...

The only other question I would have then is are you doing endless raids? Apparently you can’t catch legends or keep anything during that.

It's my mom's b-day tomorrow. I'll let you guys know tomorrow evening if I'll be on tomorrow night.

Finally hit 150,000 for the HHA score! Gold house acheived, now I can clear the house out of stuff.

I wasn’t able to complete the Drifloon tasks but I did get some shinies. Also manage to evolve a Galarian ponyta and got Sirfetched.

Last night i finally got around after weeks/months finally got around to beating the epilogue of the main game... not really sure if one could call it a post-game, though... All that's left is to finish the last 11 entries in the Pokedex.... Which im most likely going to have to trade for through Home since i don't have an Online subscription currently so can't exactly do it in game because i have had no luck with any of them so far That's aside from the DLC expansion pass that i'll get around to buying....at some point edit: right after posting i noticed one area was the right weather conditions and was able to catch Drakloak and knock off the Dreepy line, so... that knocks it down to 8 left

The Regis is probably the easiest Pokemon in this game to shiny hunt, no soft reset required. Just one shot them everytime till you get a shiny. If you have Pokemon that are not Lv.100, it is a great way to level up, while looking for a shiny. The reason it is so easy is when you beat them the statue you fight goes dormant and you just have to light up the pattern for them to fight them till you get a shiny. It is faster that way than soft resetting, I heard. Obviously you get it faster if you have a shiny charm, of course.

Almost wrapped up the Crown Tundra content. Just have to do the Dynamx Adventure and the Galarian Star Tournament, then I'll be done. Here's something I thought wouldn't happen to me so know the 3 Galarian Legendary trio Pokemon you have to catch as a part of Peony Adventour thing? So I'm finishing these legendary hunts with them and when I finally found one of them, Zapdos and I try to throw a Ultra Ball, the game tells me Box is full. I'm like come again?!? I run from the battle and check my boxes and they are indeed full, all 960 Pokemon full of 32 boxes with 30 Pokemon each inside them. Man I didn't know that all my bank transfers from Isle of armor and crown tundra cause my box to be filled faster than I expected. I think what contributed to the fullness was my multiple catch of the same Pokemon from max raid battle and catch the same pokemon over and over again on Isle of armor. I didn't do that much repeat catch on crown tundra. According to the last box and last slot, the Pokemon that took that spot was Nidoqueen. Never raised Nidoran female to that stage so I never caught one before now. So I caught that in the Giant's Bed in the Crown Tundra. So I went through all my boxes, releasing duplicate Pokemon depend on lower levels and duplicate abilities. I don't know how much I released but to me it still seems like I have a lot of Pokemon in my boxes so I still have to mindful what I catch. I eventually caught the Galarian Zapdos and Moltres. The hardest Pokemon to get in the crown tundra was definitely Articuno. The rest you can see and work around to catch but Articuno, you gotta ride all over the crown tundra and just see it randomly in place. Let's say your in the Giant's Bed, there's a lot connecting area from there, the graveyard, the 2 snowy place another giant place and the place where one of the regis are even if you ride thru all those place, there's no way knowing when it will appear so you gotta ride every nook and cranny multiple time till you might see it. Luckily when i eventually saw it, I was able to keep track of its afterimage trick to find the real one. If you don't gotta chase it down down again and hope you can figure out its trick. Sorry for the long post but my boxes full and that Galarian Articuno was a trip. Just had say how unusual that was. Just be mindful of Pokemon Boxes, I should of really seen this coming. If anyone had massive collection like did, watch out but even so still lookout when it looks like you are getting close to being full.

Yeah, it isn't new about the animations but I was believer that wasn't everything why SW/SH came out the way they did. That was a small part. Seeing all the above makes me a believer with all the borrowed assets that eventually turned to SW/SH. Sorry, if that differs but it takes more than just similar animations to say that product is fraudulent in my eyes. That and you can see outside of crunch, it wasn't possible to put all those Pokemon in that game to be optimized properly so cut had to be made. To make sure a game runs fine, requires time. Yes, TPC have a timetable for releases, I don't know how they made the decision to cut Pokemon or the better question why they thought they could put in all those Pokemon. But ppl will just look at the surface of what was cut and not deeper into why this all occurred.

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https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/10/nintendo_is_permanently_reducing_the_price_of_switch_joy-con Price drop here coming

A game I backed on Kickstarter like 2 years ago releases in December! Coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, XB1. It's a Metroidvania Monster Training game.

Galarian Farfetch'd has returned. Can now evolve IF you set him as your Buddy AND perform 10 Excellent Throws. Galarian Ponyta is now appearing in Pink Raid Eggs.

The limited edition stuff is pretty dumb, especially for digital items. Nintendo's been prepping themselves as the Disney of videogames for a long time, with how they've handled most of their legacy content over the years. I will give them credit for how they've been handling emulation recently, with translations of FE and SM64 Shindou, showing they have the capability of updating ROMs with their own tools. The 3D collection atleast shows promise for Nintendo 64 and Gamecube emulation. My girlfriend and I have started watching Card Captor Sakura. This show is pretty fun and cozy to watch. It feels like something I've needed recently.

See what I mean, I got mixed up again. Like I said I'll remember this stuff in a few months. Thanks, Krazy.

Pokemon SW/SH expansion pass Pt 2: The Crown Tundra is now live!

I had some hope for mother 3 when they put out mother 1 and earthbound... but now? lol

I'm gonna be so sad if I miss the preorder window for the 30th Anniversary Edition.

i mostly dislike this fire emblem release because next to super mario 3d all-stars i'm tired of this "GET IT FOR A LIMITED TIME" bullshit on digital games FOMO is such exploitative bullshit

This is neat, and $6 is a solid asking price given the QoL changes and localization (coding English into old games isn't an envious task), but wtf is this digital only game available until 3/31? Please stop with the Nintendo vault. Anyway, do we know the details of the 30th anniversary collection? If it's a decent asking price, I might consider it, but if it's over $30 I'd probably only consider the standalone game, if that.

Pretty exciting news. I hope this doesn't take away from this news but does that mean Mother 3 have a chance of being translated for real or Itoi not gonna let Nintendo or who else to translate the game?

I just hope this MK game opens the door for custom tracks in future games. Even if we just pick a layout and basic design and auto generates something like this does.

WHO DARES SUMMON ME FROM THE BEYOND? I don’t own smash for switch so it was not me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

took the kitten to his first (with us) vet appointment in his snazzy carrier