Link’s Awakening was my first Zelda game - I got it for Christmas a year or two after it was released and it captured my imagination right from the beginning. It also blew my mind that something like it was possible on the GameBoy - not many GB games had a plot, much less the ability to save your progress through it,…

Yes, that would be great - although Square Enix seem to be all about ways to charge you again for the same game. I don’t think any of their games have thus far appeared on Switch Online or similar services, but if they can come to an arrangement with Nintendo we could see the first six games on Switch easily (except…

Yeah, I’ve now read that apparently it’s been ported to the XC2 engine, so it will have had new models, textures, etc. made while still looking pretty close to the original! And thanks for the comparison screenshots - I was trying to make some but haven’t had the chance to dig through footage yet.

From what I’ve now read, it seems it’s the original game running on the engine of its sequel, so I guess that makes it a remaster. I hadn’t heard about the cut content being added, so glad to hear that.

It just said Steam <-> Switch. Hopefully other platforms will get on board but, Sony being Sony, they’d probably be the last!

Thank you! Yeah, not sure why it’s not a bigger deal.

Yeah, there’s a few games like that on the Wii U - Splatoon, Mario Maker, Smash Bros, Mario Party, the Winter Games - where the successors on Switch are basically the same games but better, so ports would be pretty pointless except for completion’s sake.

I loved it so much.

Please, no more terrible FFVI ports/remasters/remakes.

It’s definitely not a remake. Might be a remaster, but to me it looks like a port running at a higher resolution. It’s easy to forget how good it looked on the Wii, because everyone remembers it as an underpowered console, but it was one of the better looking Wii games - and if you look at some footage of it running…

Ahem, Xenoblade Chronicles X is not available on the Switch.

Yeah, that would be an instant purchase for me. I keep wanting to replay the first two but at the moment that would mean setting up my Wii U again and either playing them in widescreen but with motion controls via the Wii version, or running the original GameCube versions via Nintendont (although then at least I would…

The Wonderful 101, Star Fox Zero and, I guess, the original Splatoon.

Some great announcements here! I guess everyone knew about Overwatch already and the SNES games were inevitable, but great to have those confirmed. I won’t be playing Overwatch but Super Mario World, Super Metroid and Link to the Past will be getting some love.

I almost bought Divinity Original Sin II on Steam earlier, because I got a notification that it had gone on sale. Then I saw it announced for Switch and was torn - do I get what is arguably the better version on PC (due to graphics and mouse controls) or do I get the version I can play on the sofa while watching TV,…

I’m going to do the UK version of that.

Yeah, I thought it was always Ian Gillan!

I always felt like the song was based on or at least inspired by Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man (the book that the animated film The Iron Giant was based on), as that was first released two years before the Black Sabbath song.

It’s always time for Green Man!

Don’t they have a Star Wars trilogy to make?