VideoGame_Discussion

KCPenguins wrote:

ordered on walmart.com since they had exclusive trading cards. I'll keep those sealed and packed in with the game. I'm playing crisis core but I'll take a break for a week to beat mario wonder, for sure.

Someone over at gfaqs (In case you're thinking "What are you doing over at gfaqs? A middle aged man on gfaqs? Seriously there are mostly middle aged men on gfaqs so gimmie a break, lol).

Nintendo removed the original switch announce trailer. I didn't think of this but someone posted, of course they won't want people searching and finding the original switch trailer when they announce switch 2. Which got me thinking, maybe they are actually planning on having a reveal trailer for switch 2 soon? It makes sense why they would remove the OG reveal trailer if you think of it that way.

Unless it is getting a surprise holiday release, why would they cannibalize their potential Switch 1 Christmas sales by announcing it now?

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/7891039...

Trailer still up on twitter

benstylus wrote:

just hopeful thinking on my end.

Nintendo Life has posted several reviews for Mario Wonderful ....

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/10/round-up...

93 on Metacritic too. 💪 Ninty flexing.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/super-mario-bros-w...

80 Reviews to boot. Might have to stop by Walmart Friday...

As of this edit:
22 Perfect Scores
38 90+
1 Sub 80

I have read that despite the developers claiming it to be real difficult in spots, Wonder is actually real easy. So if the difficulty was something you were apprehensive about, this is probably sorta bad news.

Personally not a deal breaker for me, because even those acknowledging the easy difficulty are saying the game is just so purely fun that it doesn't really matter. I'm still hoping for a level of challenge, at least toward the end of the game, but won't be TOO tiffed if it isn't there.

Sounds like the difficult parts are skippable which makes it easy. I'm not expecting the best 2d Mario, and honestly not even expecting it to be better than NSMBU. If it's better than the rest of the "new" series it's worth it. If the kids enjoy it it's worth it. It looks like a great game for my youngest. I'm guessing the older two go back to Minecraft pretty quickly.

I’m not expecting the best 2D Mario - Super Mario World still exists, after all. But it’d take a fart in the wind to be better than NSMB imo.

I like easy games, and Mario Wonder looks intriguing to me. So if it's easy, I'll enjoy it all the more!

Gargoyles Remastered is out today. Anyone planning to check it out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9VAlvDMnc
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/gargoyl...

I liked the Genesis one quite a bit. Happy to see a $14.99 price tag, I was expecting $30 to $40

theJaw wrote:

I generally like more challenging games, but some games are just so charming and fun to play, that I can overlook them being easy. Most Mario games come to mind, as well as Yoshi's Woolly World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. I can tell just from the little bit I've seen that this game is going to be a blast to play. I'm so pumped. Me and my kids are camping out in the game room tomorrow night and are going to stay up as late as we can playing it.

KCPenguins wrote:

I enjoyed NSMBU, but come on, there's no way this game isn't going to be way better than it.

Scott wrote:


Opinions, but the reviews are promising.

KCPenguins wrote:

Of course it's an opinion. I was just calling out how crazy of an opinion it is!

Mario wonder will be better. I bought nsmbu for switch and couldn’t finish it. I think I love it on Wii U because of the excitement and newness of the controller screen at the time.

I really hope we get some DLC for Mario Wonder. It would be awesome if they released a set of really hard levels, like they did for NSMB2!

I bit for Wonder and used a voucher for it, pretty excited honestly for this game it looks trippy as hell.

I don’t know if I’m “excited” but I’ll put crisis core on hold to beat it.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

I never played the OG game so I'm very interested in snagging this, but will probably wait until I'm done with Wonder and need another "bedside table" game for the Switch. Looking forward to it though. Between this and the news that a live-action Gargoyles show is entering development, I'm getting that Gargoyles itch that I felt as a kid back.

MrBean wrote:

That's pretty badass. Would probably make me sick after a while irl, but still a neat novelty.

Way too early to form a solid opinion just yet, but so far SMB Wonder is freakin' fun and I don't expect that to change. I'm not finding some of the music to be as catchy as past games, but maybe it will grow on me over time. Super easy, but hopefully that's just because I'm only an hour into it. Also if you want to play with the ghosts of other players in real-time, you have to enable it in the options menu. I don't think they bothered to explain that part, I thought it'd be on by default. But yeah, it's been fun so far but I'm gonna stop here for tonight, around 10-ish levels in (but that's including two of what felt more like bonus levels/mini-games).

I sorta (definitely) want that Bluey game for Switch, if only to play with my nephews and nieces (to play by myself).

theJaw wrote:

It looks charming as hell. The best children's show of my kids' and even my generation. My youngest, of 8, is showing signs of getting out of that junior age level, but Bluey is one she still goes back to. I'm hoping the game will make for a good Christmas gift.

It's honestly a great show. Like... actually good. It's definitely a kid's show, but there are elements of it that you'd never pick up on unless you were an adult. And not in an "edgy" way or anything like that, just little bits and jokes that resonate with the older crowd. They definitely took into account that parents would need to sit through the show WITH their kids haha

Bluey is amazing

theJaw wrote:


I had never heard of it until Johnny Gargano mentioned it in a promo (might've been when he returned on Raw). I'm out of the loop on children's shows post Yo Gabba Gabba.

This new King Kong game is looking like a real contender going toe-to-toe with Gollum as 2023's biggest turd of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWdF7jJYvM

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

Hah, Yo Gabba Gabba, I'm not going to say its the best, but it's definitely one of my personal favorites. I put it right behind Bluey.

theJaw wrote:
It's a great show. The writers definitely had adults in mind.

Now you made me curious about the game.

It's been so hard to focus at work today. I just want to get home and play Super Mario Wonder!

Scott wrote:

Would really wanna know what you think of it since I have it slated to play tomorrow.

@longhornsk57 I'll definitely make a post on here after we've gotten to play a solid hour or so! It will be later in the evening though, like 8 or 9 EST.

Beat the first world. Going as expected for the most part so far. The castle was decent. Wonder is the perfect name for this game as you really do wonder what's going to happen next. There was one moment so far that I totally loved, but another spot I didn't do what the game wanted and got apparently stuck. The enemy that would get me where I needed to go didn't respawn. I had to do a blind YOLO jump air twirling to slow my fall and I was able to make the jump. Unless I missed something that was very unNintendo like. Did a couple stages in World 2 and actually died, so that's a good sign.

If they explained what the heart points are, I missed it. I'm at 01100 currently.

Ah crap. My kids got bored in 15 minutes and went back to Minecraft. I should've used my voucher.

Edit: If you dislike the talking flowers as much as I do you can turn of both their voice and/or captions in the options. Thank you N!

Finally got my copy in the mail. My buddy’s giving me a haircut at 7:30 then I’m gonna jump in. Very pumped.

I'm actually considering buying another switch to play Wonder..