Nice! 🎉

There are different objectives in some stages, some of them you’ll realize are for branching. You might already know this but just in Corneria, there are two routes. If you go through all the archways on the water when Falco says something like “Those make a good obstacle course”, he’ll guide you through the waterfall on the right. Otherwise you keep going straight.

Last week I said I missed couch multiplayer of Mario Kart. Well, I had the chance to play Mario Kart World with 2 other people that weekend. It’s so much fun! It’s a whole different experience and I wish I could do it more often. We also played some Marvel: Cosmic Invasion, something less competitive to make up for all the shells and other items in Mario Kart.

I keep playing Star Fox, already done all the routes I think. I’ve definitely been to all the stages. I also played some more challenges and battle. I think I might try to do all the challenges and get all the badges. @[email protected] do a barrel roll! I use the somersault and U-turns a lot in battles with Star Wolf. Like James McCloud once said “Never give up, trust your instincts”.

I started River City Saga: Journey to the West. I played the first two River City Saga: Three Kingdoms (Next is still on my backlog to finish) and this one goes rogue-like. It doesn’t lean as much on the roguelike part, at least I found it less annoying than other games in the genre. It’s still silly beat 'em up fun.

Finally I’m playing Denshattack! for a review, still under embargo so will just say try the demo for Nintendo Switch 2!

It could be a game that was initially designed for Switch 1, like Mario Kart World or Donkey Kong Bananza. And then they made it Switch 2 exclusive but didn’t really upgrade the graphics.

It’s not for me, but I see how it can appeal to Splatoon fans as a one player adventure.

I was playing Star Fox last night and came to the conclusion this game is a 10/10 for me. I love Star Fox 64, and this is that plus incredible graphics, music and cool cut-scenes. I keep restarting the campaign, done some challenges and played a bit online. It’s all super fun!

I really hope it does well and it kick-starts a saga on the Switch 2. They can take from all previous entries and build a cool new thing for the modern era.

Star Fox Assault is really underrated. The third-person shooter parts weren’t great control-wise at the time, I guess they were still figuring it out. But I’d love an updated take on that same format. You can get on/off the Arwing in stages, they expanded the story, it was an amazing game. Hopefully it’ll be added to Nintendo Online soon so more people get to enjoy it. Star Fox Adventures is more of a Zelda-ish game, there’s very little Arwing shooting. It was being developed by Rare as an adventure game for the Nintendo 64 called “Dinosaur Planet”. It’s pretty good too.

I’ve done three or four runs now, got the proper ending and now trying to get to all the planets. I’m only missing Titania. I’ve played Star Fox 64 so much, that I find it an ok difficulty in normal.

If you get to Andross through the hard route, you get a different ending. I don’t remember what the exact rules are, but I think you need to arrive to Venom from the leftmost side and beat Star Wolf before facing Andross. That’s all I can say without spoilers.

Star Fox!! I’ve already finished two runs, I want to go through all the planets. I wanted to get the proper ending on my first run, but I messed it up in one of the later missions. Then I’ll check out the online and battle modes. Might even try my webcam to have fun with it 😁

I haven’t tried mouse mode at all on Switch 2 yet, I think this is the time!

I’ve had Super Hydorah on my backlog for too long… I am glad I wasn’t the only one finding it hard 😁

I miss that too! 😆 I mostly get to play with friends online only these days…

I miss couch multiplayer Mario Kart 64 😢

Indeed! Nintendo is really good when it comes to reliability. I’ve found all of my consoles to be very reliable. The only thing I’ve had to do so far is change the 72 pin connector on the NES for better reliability when reading games. Other than that, all of them are still going after decades.

But then there’s the issue with the N64 analogue sticks…

Last week I finished Yooka Replaylee on the Switch 2. It’s such a pretty looking game. It’s a shame the final boss battle is a bit boring and tedious. Like they ran out of game design ideas.

I got High on Life Switch 2 Edition to play now. But this weekend has been very busy and I haven’t had time to play at all. Hopefully will do some gaming during the evenings this week. Next weekend is busy too! Have to take advantage of the nice weather and sunlight while it lasts! Hopefully I’ll play some Star Fox on Thursday 😁

This sounds similar to Tiny Bookshop and it looks nice. I might get it to see what it’s like running a virtual plant shop. Might prepare me for when I finally rage quit my tech job 😅

I only played a bit over an hour and didn’t notice any performance issues. I’d assume the PS5 version looks better though. But it works fine on the Switch. It’s a Switch 1 game though, now I want all my games to have a free Switch 2 upgrade 😆

I finished Bubsy 4D and moved on to Yooka-Replaylee. Initially Yooka-Replaylee hadn’t hooked me that much, but I’m having fun just now. It looks so good on the Switch 2 with the latest updates. I’ll (try to) finish it before Star Fox comes out. I played the Star Fox demo and it looks amazing, it’ll be my main game once it comes out on the 25th.

I got NieR: Automata The End of YoRHa Edition for the Switch after so many recommendations (and seeing it was low stock where I buy my games). I only played for a bit over an hour and enjoyed it. But it’s going to my backlog. I’ll save it for when I can give my full attention to it and not have to play it along 6 months or a year.

On the retro front, I’m playing Rockman & Forte for Super Famicom.

Horizon Chase Turbo is great. I got the physical version and really enjoyed it. The music by Barry Leitch is incredible. I used to play Top Gear on the SNES a lot, a friend used to have it. It’s definitely made with lots of love and respect for the original Top Gear (it was massive in Brazil!). Barry Leitch also wrote the music for the SNES game, and he pays homage to some tunes in Horizon Chase. Now I feel like going back to playing it 😁

Horizon Chase Turbo 2 I only got digital on Switch. I don’t think there was a physical release at all. Unfortunately, it didn’t come out in a great state and didn’t manage to hook me as much as the first one. I think it never got an update to fix some of its issues, I never went back to playing it. Unfortunately, the studio Aquiris was acquired by Epic and apparently everyone was put to work on Fortnite stuff (not sure if this is true, but read it on the community discord).

I hope Star Fox is something similar to what Metroid Prime Remastered was for Retro Studios. They used it as a project to get a new team to learn how to make a Metroid Prime. This could be a project to learn how to make Star Fox on Switch 2. So it’ll hopefully be a new beginning with more titles in the future following the same style.

I don’t think we’ll hear about new 3D Mario this year if we didn’t hear anything around the movie. Like Zelda, it’s probably taking ages because they’ll make something proper and big. Mario needs to implement some new game mechanic, who knows what they’ll come up with.

There might be a Nintendo Direct specific to this game soon. Remember they did a Star Fox Direct out of nowhere to present that game.