Not to be confused with She Sees Red, which is also available for Switch (and worthwhile, if you like FMV games).

It’s after Tri-Force Heroes and before the decline of Hyrule Kingdom and The Legend of Zelda, on the “hero fails” branch from Ocarina of Time.

https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/zelda/en/history/index.html

It links to Eurogamer. Good lord is their site pure cancer without an ad blocker. Here’s the seven-sentence article without the dozen ads:

After 31st March 2026, the digital store will no longer sell games, plus free trials will no longer be available. Then, from 15th May 2026, Nintendo will stop all download and code redemption services, meaning DLC will no longer be redeemable.

All other network-related services will also end on 15th May 2026.

Nintendo has not stated why it’s ending these services in the country.

However, it is launching a reward programme providing users with up to four Nintendo games for free for WeChat users. These will be redeemable between 27th November 2024 to 31st March 2026.

Users can choose between:

• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Super Mario Party
• Mario Tennis Aces
• Yoshi’s Crafted World
• Flexible Brain School
• Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Exercises
• Kirby Star Allies
• New Pokémon Snap
• Pokémon Go! Pikachu
• Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee

Fire Emblem for Famicom (the North American release for Switch). I like the series, but this is the first time playing the original. It’s surprising how little the core gameplay loop has evolved in that time, but it started off great.

Grand Theft Auto for DOS. I went in with the idea of finishing the original game, but I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it up. It really hasn’t aged well. When I played it back in the day I just screwed around for half an hour at a time, which I think is probably what most people did.

Your character and every vehicle control like tanks, the camera zoom is bad, the cars are nearly impossible to control at high speeds (never mind the motorcycles), it’s incredibly difficult to accurately aim, there are no characters to speak of, the timers are out of control, the directions are all “as the crow flies,” and (perhaps as a result) the cities are often frustrating to navigate.

Are you me? Honestly, just finish it. You’ll forget all about the collectibles a week later. And if you don’t, you can always go back (you won’t).

Gonna try to finish my first-time play through of The Last of Us (PS5) today or tomorrow so I can start on Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Xbox). Excited to jump in after the decade since Inquisition.

This is basically the last important game from Wii U not to make it to Switch, right?

Online gaming is a cesspit that everyone should either avoid or play with everyone perma-muted

Physical only for all systems, unless it’s a short indie game, in which case I’ll wait for a digital sale.

If Xbox and PlayStation ever try to force digital-only, I’ll probably wind down my game buying. I’ll definitely stop buying new games at full price and just wait for steep discounts for the digital versions. Meanwhile I’ll play through my unplayed physical games.

They built their own internal emulator

This is what Nintendo hardware engineers do to fill time when the Switch 2 is just a scaled-up Switch 1

“A The Lord of the Rings Game”

I’d love that, but that isn’t really the pattern with these remakes. They do them because they’re way cheaper than making a new game.

I’m not going to make a big deal about it but it would be nice if they remastered Blood Omen also

The Dreamcast was released almost exactly 25 years ago. That’s the difference between the end of Gerald Ford’s presidency (what would have been Nixon’s second term) to 9/11. So I don’t know what time warp you fell into.

In real time it’s been longer than it was from NES to Super NES. For the teenagers clearly doing most of the commenting on these Nintendo posts, they were in elementary or middle school at launch. Now they’re in college.

Buy Astro Bot

There was a multi-year animated series on Netflix just a few years ago, and evidently it must still do well given this announcement.

the publishers note that a live-action Carmen Sandiego movie is also in the works at Netflix

Yes, but it’s very unlike Nintendo to just do a hardware bump with similar form factor; the closest I can think of was DS to 3DS, and that added stereoscopic 3D. So I’d expect some kind of new feature to go with it.

It’s a Kemco game. They basically merged the interface of early Ultima and Wizardry into a retro themed game. No animation, just a map, static images, and numbers.

You should not buy this on Switch. I owned Civ 6 on Switch, and once the game reached a certain state of play near the end, the game just gradually became slower and slower until it would hang completely, every time, in the same place. This happened to me in two different campaigns before I gave up.

I reached out to their customer support and included tons of context, but they basically just stopped responding because there was nothing they could do; the game is just too hungry to run properly on Switch except for small, quick games, and those game styles just don’t feel like Civ to me.

I bought all the DLC before this happened. Lesson learned.