James

Did a small advertising campaign (for Nintendo Link) via Meta the other day, and all it really did was give scammers an opportunity to pretend to be meta and e-mail me fake cease & desists from Nintendo.

Can anyone recommend anything much better?

Saw a complaint about a review because it was "clearly written by a fan".

Like... yeah? What's the point in getting someone who dislikes or only has a mild interest in a subject matter to review it?

Long as the person is good at their job, it'll be well written and contain valid criticisms.

There's going to be a delay to Pokemon Legends: Z-A coverage over at @nintendolink.net - but I'll get it done in due time with a full review soon!

I barely accept that I turned 30 a few years ago.

I'm not ready to accept Pokémon turns 30 next year. Nope.

Looking forward to jumping into Pokémon Legends: Z-A at some point once I finish up with Digimon.

What a time to be alive.

Honourable mention goes out to the SNES and GBA F-Zero titles as well. They are super good and well worth your time if you want to explore the series.

I've played some fantastic games this year. Not all released in this year, but groundbreakingly good nonetheless.

- F-Zero GX
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger
- Monster Hunter: Wilds
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Sonic Racing Crossworlds
- DK Bananza
- Mario Kart World

I've read a couple and scanned some more, but it seems like they were all played on the Switch 2 versions.

Can't say definitively as I didn't check all of them.

Agreed! They’re incredible to go back to. Replayed them both in recent years and they both genuinely surprised me at how good they feel.

oops I actually meant F-Zero GX but X also lands in this argument somewhere

honourable mention for F-Zero X. It has aged a bit but it looks sublime and runs a solid 60fps like 95% of the time.

I don't have an actual answer yet.

Some stuff might just be concept or ideas being thrown around. We get excited for things that may never come into fruition. Then it'll feel disappointing when they aren't revealed.

Misinformation spreads if some of the information was missing context, too.

As interesting as the Pokémon leaks are, we'd have been better off without them.

Pokémon Presents haven't been great recently anyway... but now any "big" news has been spoiled so they'll feel more underwhelming.

Is there a possibility some later plans just get dropped now to "discredit" it?

Looking forward to your review 🫡

Such a good episode overall! Honestly my little girl has made me such a Bluey fan I love watching it even though it makes me cry in like 90% of the episodes.

“The Sign” basically ruins me every time.

Oh that’s awfully quick. Guess I better get reading even quicker.

If I can sign in with retro achievements on this then it will save me trying to work out a dual screen attachment for my deck

Ugh I haven’t even caught up enough to start it yet! When’s the end of their new one?

Sometimes it feels like a safe episode and then a one-liner comes out of nowhere and hits you in the feels HARD.

Starting to think about what I can and will complete by the end of the year.

As a minimum I am thinking:

- Digimon Story Time Stranger
- Yooka-Laylee (original)
- Pokémon Legends Z-A

I can see myself pumping a lot of hours between Digimon and Pokémon on extra stuff.

It's cool of them to do it, but I think transparency would've helped immediately.

They surely know what happens when you spark a fire on the internet, right?

Nintendo need to learn to manage expectations better.

Doing a two day tease campaign just to say "look at how good Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd is" isn't a good way of doing that lol.

What a bad day to know how to read.

I don’t mind the DLC plan, happy to jump into it. Understand not everyone would be happy with that.

But I’m talking about the core aspect of the gameplay. For me, personally, CrossWorlds feels a lot better and rewarding in that sense.

Can't disagree with this. CrossWorlds for me ultimately does what MK World set out to do... but better.

It's also just shy of 4 minutes meaning Mother 4 is close.

PIKMIN 5 LET'S GO

So have I slipped into an alternate dimension where Nintendo are making Pixar-esque animations now or did everyone else get that Nintendo Today thing

Time Stranger feels like the RPG that Digimon always deserved to receive but didn't until now.