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Played the demo, got really into it, went to CDkeys and got the full game for over half off. I love CDkeys so much.

I guess I'm getting a Switch 2! Having skipped the first system means I'll have a hell of a launch line-up available to me, so I figured I'd start building the library early. I'll probably grab a few more between now and June 5th.

It was kind of an impulse purchase. I'd typically want to catch up first but I'm also way more interested in this one than the others. Since it sounds like the modern day narrative is very minimal in this one (and from what I understand, not even included in the actual game), I figured I'm safe to just play this one now and go back to the others later.

Hope you manage to get hold of one with all the issues, else that's a lot of games to sit on your shelf!

Still don't know how to feel about the new magnetic Joycons, release button also looks like it'd be kinda easy to accidentally press while playing. Mouse controls could be cool (specially for games like Metroid Prime), but my desk doesn't have room for it lol. Funny that after all the speculation, the C button ended up being for online chat. Console MSRP is $450 for base console, $500 for the Mario Kart bundle. Games are apparently meant to be $80-$90 which is a big yikes for me, specially once that price is adjusted to MXN, wouldn't be surprised to see them going for more than 2,000 pesos lol, that made me lose a lot of hype for it. I might still get one, eventually, but those game prices hurt. This was the biggest surprise of the direct (for me at least): New FromSoft game, close enough, welcome back Bloodborne. Except it's apparently a PvPvE multiplayer game.

I was lucky enough to get one of those RG40XXV's for Christmas (for the playing of legitimately owned ROM's of course), and it's opened up an entire world of games I was too young to enjoy when I was a kid. Punch Out, Super Mario Bros (yes, I know), Rocket Knight Adventures (hard as fuck) and the absolutely wonderful Drill Dozer being the first four games I've chosen to play through since getting it. Does anyone else have one of these handhelds, and if so, what are you using?

https://ggapp.io/danielholt/lists/my-favourite-new-games-of-2024-YQy3oCHz So I'll admit that I played Astro Bot in 2025. I wanted to play it desperately, but well.....my eldest was getting it for Christmas and I chose being a solid Dad over my need to curate a kick-ass GOTY list. I'm still not convinced I made the correct call. I'm saying this because, if I made this list now, Astro would have walked it.

Zenless Zone Zero is neat.