Enjoy yourself on Breath of the Wild. It's definitely the freshest, most engaging game I've encountered since the original Dark Souls, and I'm always excited to hear about folks encountering new areas in it for the first time. Your comments on the flying Guardians is spot-on; I don't think I ever got that used to…

Me too! Well, the music and the sidequests featuring Kass and the kids.

It was such a bold choice, and ultimately one of the most effective decisions in establishing the game's tone.

The issue of music in Breath of the Wild is an interesting one - it's used sparingly, but it's beautiful (and perhaps even more resonant) when it appears. This may be the only time I've kicked myself over not having picked up a special edition for the soundtrack.

I like the look of Slime Rancher but know next to nothing about it. Let us know how it is if you pick it up! Also I agree wholeheartedly about Star Fox Guard - it's effectively a multiplayer game in my home.

That's intriguing - I would have pegged Zelda 2 as significantly more contentious than Skyward Sword (but I fall firmly into the camp of loving the latter and not particularly enjoying the former as anything other than a curiosity).

Oh yeah, Dolphin's Skyward Sword is the only way to play that game. It's among the prettiest games I've played, which certainly stands in stark contrast to how it looks in its native form.

I don't know, it didn't hold Wind Waker back from being beloved (ahahaha).

Indeed. The jump from 480p to 720p is striking, but moving up from there is comparatively less impressive.

Totally agreed. In fact, I have this maddening wish to continue playing Breath of the Wild but have effectively no content left in the game (outside of Koroks and a handful of sidequests that didn't interest me), so I'm eagerly looking forward to playing the DLC in 2018 and also doing a replay of the rest of the game.…

You're the first person I've encountered who thought it looked significantly different on Switch. I wonder if the updates altered it in some way, or if most people just don't ever see the two side-by-side. On the plus side, if you do get a Switch at some point, and then revisit the game for its upcoming DLC content,…

D:OS is easily my favorite entry in that particular sub-genre (isometric fantasy CRPGs). Perfect combat, excellent writing, and cool riffs on environments that could otherwise feel rote.

Kudos to you and @avclub-669e3876ba6dab37e11e5237f2c8017e:disqus. I'd heard a bit about Nier: Automata over the past few months, but this exchange is the first one that's gotten me interested. It's been added to my Steam wishlist for purchase (I hope) during Steam's Christmas Sale.

What do you mean by Revival Tour aesthetic? I remember liking how that game looked, but when I just looked up Revival Tour, all I got were results related to Selena Gomez. Presumably you're not referring to that.

I'm looking forward to more software and UI features, because the Switch is a slick-as-hell bit of hardware. Even playing something as old-school and technically lighta s Shovel Knight feels fresh and new with the lovely visuals of that screen and the device's form factor.

Issues aside, if the Switch version releases without the significant technical issues plaguing the Xbox and PS4 versions (but not the PC one), I will be buying it Day One.

I like picturing the person who reads that and thinks "shoot, I need to reevaluate some things."

That's an amazing disclaimer.

I know of at least two consoles sold specifically for my neighbors to play Sun and Moon. So it definitely happens.

I probably would if I wasn't super-sensitive to motion sickness. Like, if I read a single page from a book in the car, or play a game, I'm pretty much doomed. For this reason, I fear that VR will never quite work for me either, and I'm disappointed by that. When the 3DS was first introduced, I was afraid that it would…