Depending on the definition of “kid”, I never watched it as a kid either 😅 (am auld…)

It does look good and the previous Spongebob games I’ve played on the Switch are silly fun. They will look so much better on Switch 2 as well.

I finished the main story in Donkey Kong Bananza. That was wild and fun! Of course there’s still tons of stuff to do and bananas to acquire. I think there might be something more post main story, I’ll keep playing and see what happens, don’t want to spoil anything. I played a few times but for a lot of hours in a row, so I’m taking a break before I come back to DK Bananza.

I had an online session playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection with my cousin. We finished TMNT the Arcade game and Turtles in Time (SNES) once in Normal Mode and once in Hard Mode. We also played but gave up when we game over’ed The Manhattan Project and ended on Hyperstone Heist but it was way too late and we had to end it there. Such fun timeless games!

I alse played a little bit of Mega Man 11, I’m thinking of going through the different Mega Man games chronologically on the Switch collections soon…

I don’t know if a patch is planned, but I played it on my Switch 2 and there’s a massive difference in performance. Particularly the stages where you drive the divine beasts. On Switch they drop down to like 15 fps or something, on Switch 2 it’s super smooth and feels like a completely different game. Here’s a video.

It’d be nice to get a patch for extra FPS and more enemies on screen for the Switch 2 though!

Yeah, I collect physical games too, and game-key cards (or the even scammier “code in a box” physical releases) are terrible. I really hope they don’t sell well and publishers reconsider. The only games I have so far for Switch 2 are Mario Kart World and DK Bananza. I got Fast Fusion Neon because it was rather cheap. It also reminded me of playing the Wii U one which was also one of the first releases and digital only.

The only two third-party games I’m considering to get are Cyberpunk and Hyrule Warriors which I hope is also a proper physical release since it’ll be published by Nintendo.

Personally the only thing I was really interested in was Hyrule Warriors, but we already knew about it. I was disappointed they didn’t have a release date yet, which makes me think this’ll be released in 2026.

I could be interested in Star Wars Outlaws if they weren’t releasing it as a game-key card. Expecting Ubisoft to complain again after it doesn’t sell that well on Switch 2 either (release the full game on a cartridge!).

Fortunately it looks like some third parties are seeing we don’t really buy game cards. Sega for instance is releasing the Sonic racing game full on a cartridge. But yeah, I expect the same disappointment…

I’m hoping this means you don’t get so many red and blue shells hitting you when you’re first and most of them a few meters away from the finish line on the last lap 😅

Potentially some XBox ports will be shown, maybe Doom Dark Ages! 🤞

Yeah I’m not trying to collect them ail, but any excuse is good to go back to playing Tetris. So I play for a while when I find out there’s new themes to get 😅

A new Astérix game sounds exciting, but Slap 'em all was such a missed opportunity. They had the license, amazing art to go with the game, yet it turned out to be mediocre in gameplay at best.

Finally! I hope Nintendo brings back the Mario Artist series from the 64DD. It’s such a good match for Switch and Switch 2, and it would be really fun.

I’ve had that thought about “growing out of” gaming several times. Even when I was younger, there were times when I would just play my old consoled a few times a year and thought about getting rid of it all. But then something new comes out that catches my eye and I will get right back into it, or I just rediscover some game.

I turned 40 recently and I’ve been enjoying gaming as much as ever. Sometimes life just gets in the way or we lose interest in gaming for a while. And it’s also completely fine if you just grow out of it. But you can always come back to it if it’s something you enjoy. Anyway, enough rambling, back to my cave…

I might go for 100% after I’m done with the main story. I’m sure now that I’ve been playing for longer, I would find way more stuff when going back to the initial layers. I’ve been having this happen a lot where I say “I’m just going to do one more thing” and then I do another, and another, and by the time I realize I’ve been playing for hours 😅

BANANA!

It’s been 100% Donkey Kong Bananza for me this week. I just got to SL 800. I’ve been having lots of fun! Not even close to getting 100% on each layer, but I spend a lot of time exploring, breaking stuff and getting bananas. So much fun!

I agree with most of that. The worst offenders are the ones which have all these warnings about digital codes and such, but I’m not planning on buying any of those. I think there was a comparison with the Switch 1 and 2 boxes for Pokémon, where on the 1 you can see the whole cover and on 2 it gets trimmed or resized for that red bar. I guess that could be better.

I do appreciate they’re the same size as Switch 1. They also look really cool next to each other with different designs, instead of plain red. You have to find the positives 😬

And one last thing: I had no idea Switch 2 game cover art wrapped around the spine of the box. They haven’t done that since the GameCube and I missed that so much! The Wii, Wii U and Switch 1 games on my shelf are so boring to look at, I’m so glad to have some colors back!

Now that I have 2 Switch 2 games (Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza), I appreciate how much better they look than the all red Switch 1 boxes 🙌🏻

They have plans to release it on consoles eventually yes.

I’ve been playing Gaucho and the Grassland on Steam for a review. Really nice game inspired by Zelda but with it’s own Latin American fantasy twist.

Today I got Donkey Kong Bananza delivered, so it’s on like Donkey Kong for the rest of the weekend. Like you, I only played a little bit. You can definitely find the “Mario Odyssey” dna in it, but it’s different enough. I had so much fun just destroying stuff, I didn’t advance the story at all. So far seems pretty fun!

I don’t recognize any of the games, but I’m a sucker for beat 'em ups. I’ll definitely get it if it comes out on a physical edition.

What a great game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs was! I hope they manage to re-release it one day, I think it’s in licensing hell, that’s why we’ve never had it on modern platforms.

Yeah, I really enjoy reading these “Ask the Developer”, there’s always interesting stuff to learn about the games when they interview the people who made them.

The screenshot of the Switch 1 DKB prototype was cool.

I love seeing stuff like this and the development video of the Goomba!