Just rolled credits on Breath of the Wild. Damn that was a long, challenging, yet fun journey. As much as I did enjoy it, I don’t think I want to play TOTK for a while.
On one hand, a Pokemon GBA game coming to Switch is long overdue. But it's a bummer it isn't on NSO (not surprised), and it's kind of insane that it costs $20
I do think it should be on NSO but if they’re going to charge for it I think $20 is a fine price. Physical copies of those games go for like hundreds.
despite quietly pulling mentions of it, i think it's probably not the worst idea to release these separately for the sake of Home integration. i think the audience who would play these would love for the chance to port whatever they catch over to Home, and unless they could find a way to create a Home integration system within the GBA NSO app, this probably feels like the better option (not to mention that i imagine that The Pokemon Company probably wouldn't like the idea of players using suspend points to try to catch Pokemon they missed out on/didn't defeat in battle). $20 isn't the best price if you compare it to the value of the GBA NSO app, but it's reasonable enough.
There's a whole section of people that actually want the games to not be on NSO because then they can "own" the games instead of chancing them being pulled off the service.
The price isn't what should bother people honestly. What should bother people is that in 2026 you have to buy the game multiple times if you want multiple languages. I think Nintendo gets shit on fairly for a lot of things but then it just makes everyone make blanket statements like "it's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games" which is frankly a childish and uneducated way of viewing things. People complain that older games aren't readily available to purchase on modern consoles and then people get mad when they finally do that. Even if they made it $10 or made it so all languages were in one game people would complain that it's not as good or as updated as fan games and just hate because it's the easiest thing to do.
Why anyone would want to work in the games industry right now with the bitchiest gamer culture is beyond me.
I need a couple years between the open air Zelda games. I want to revisit BOTW but it’ll be a while. I’m one temple and the endgame away from completing TOTK
Playing through A Link to the Past again since I got Retro Achievements set up. After 30+ years of playing this game, I am just now finding about the golden bee.
Reviews for RE9 are looking good, currently the highest original RE game since RE4 in 2005. The switch 2 version seems to be really good as well. That RE engine is a blessing.
So I’ve only played Pokémon Yellow back when I was a kid and Let’s Go Pikachu on Switch (I know it’s the same game) but is Gale of Darkness similar to Let’s Go? If so I’d be interested in playing. I’ll also add I never had a GameCube, PS2 was my console at the time.
Gale of Darkness is not really similar to Let’s Go, it’s pretty much a traditional pokemon game with catching/battling but not as open world. And no wild pokemon, there’s a weird mechanic where you can only catch “shadow” pokemon from other trainers and then have to cleanse them somehow.