Yours doesn’t allow you to pay exact amounts of money for what you’re getting on the eshop? Mine does.

I didn’t realise there was stuff missing. That’s a shame. I just mean that when you take a low-fi game like that it won’t be running any worse on the Switch, so then the portability gives ot that edge that the other options can’t touch.

Why wouldn’t you want every good game to be on your favourite console?

If it’s a choice between versions of a triple A title with some mad production values then there are absolutely pros and cons to consider, but if you’re looking at a lo-fi indie title (which the Switch is getting a real nice selection of) there’s no discussion. Games like Stardew Valley and Shovel Knight are their…

Just replayed Ocarina of Time. Won the bottle of Lon Lon Milk from Talon at the ranch, then noticed it was still in my inventory after getting to the Temple of Time and waking up seven years later. Drank that shit anyway. Restored my hearts and still tasted as fresh as the day it was serenaded out of the cow. Great…

I’ve had two or three Switch dreams as well. I am kid-at-Christmas levels of excited for this thing. I know it’s over the top but I primarily play games to chase a feeling I haven’t experienced since I was a child and Nintendo hype is the closest I can get to that feeling. I’ve got it all preordered and I’ll be in…

This is technically a story about me rescuing somebody else, but it was a lovely moment all the same. It also probably happens ALL the time, but hey whatever.

It’s not quite the same but in a way I played Fable 2, and all the DLC, and sometimes even revisit it BECAUSE I hated it. It was this cathartic experience where I was just sitting there, daring the game to be even worse. Everything was disappointing in the most satisfying way. The morality system was unbelievably…

I sunk soooooo many hours into Tactics Advance, man. Often on toilets. I got so serious about 100%ing it a few years ago that I ordered a second copy and a GBA link cable to trade myself the one item that I’d neglected to hang on to for one of those…

I absolutely adore the Vita and Sony’s mishandling of it is heartbreaking. Not enough people know how good it is over the 3DS in terms of long-term value; yes, you’ll start off needing to buy the system and forking out serious money for an adequately-sized memory card, but after that initial investment you can just…

Huh! Well that IS (literally!!!!!! sorry) a gamechanger. That makes things easier because that shiny thing in the Limited Edition pack is miiiiiighty tempting just on its own. Many thanks information warrior <3

Still really annoyed that all these new characters are only in the 3DS game rather than DLC for the Wii U game. I already bought and really like Hyrule Warriors, and it’s so fast paced that I can’t imagine it’s anything like comfortable to play on that little rectangle. I’d buy DLC. Got me all peeved.

Juuuuuuust gonna keep holding my breath for that EU release.

FUCK YES!! I’m so overjoyed. I’m in Europe so that gives me a decent heads up to get on with my replay of chapter 1. Argh. So excited <3

Oh yeah, definitely. Resi GC will always be the poster child for how to do a remake. We can only hope.

At some point Greedo will shoot first and purists will rampage.

... version of Spiral Mountain, which answered some questions for me from the first game. Back then, games were just getting to a point were 3D graphics could be incredibly detailed (NOBODY could render a rusty pipe like Rare) but still so basic that absolutely everything had to be there for a reason. Or else why…

A SECRET PASSAGE TO a subsequent or previous level, which provided a great taste of things to come, or a great resolution to a puzzle from ages ago that you thought you’d hit a wall with. The levels were just really intricately designed in that regard. And it was made even more satisfying by the fact the that many of…

... even though BK felt like it had done everything it could with the controller bynthe time it was over, Tooie kept ALL of those moves and let you access them from the outset, then somehow piled on a ton more. None of this Metroid-style “oh no, I sprained my ankle and now all my powers are gone” nonsense. Tooie…

Oh my fucking god I hate trying to type on a tablet.