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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by Evan_B on January 15, 2026, 09:12:50 AM »

I played 95 games this year

It was a lot of returning to already purchased games, particularly a number of Switch releases on my Switch 2, in hopes of seeing base performance enhancements on the new hardware. But yes, I own way too many Switch games.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by Khushrenada on January 15, 2026, 03:38:10 AM »

As for what I'm playing, January is becoming what should have been my Backlaugust. Wrapping up some games this month already. Just completed Super Mario Bros. Wonder by beating the Final Final test and getting the last badge. Once again, I have completed every game in the Mario platformer series both 2D and 3D. Now the Mario sports series.... that's a different story. However, doing that kind of got me amped up last night and probably stayed up a couple hours later than I should have. Also now feel less enthused about jumping into a couple of the other games I was thinking of going back to wrap up like XCX:DE. So, it's high and low feelings combined! Woo.

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by Khushrenada on January 15, 2026, 03:24:31 AM »

What games do you recommend for a beginer who has never played anything? 

I recommend playing all the NES games you can then. With the NES, the videogame industry was still in its infancy so a lot of games are quite simple and controllers didn't have the amount of buttons that they do now. Since the games are simple they are quite easy so you should have a great time playing them, Mr. Spambot. A few good choices to start would be Metroid, Zelda II, and Ninja Gaiden. Happy gaming.

Just perusing this thread and had a nice chuckle. Profound perspective here.

Appreciate the comment.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by broodwars on January 14, 2026, 10:54:07 PM »

Tried to put some more time into Switch gaming this past year, especially once I got my Switch 2 and had a more pleasant way to play them.

19 games. 367 hours.

Action was my favorite genre, which is rather perplexing considering the games I played on Switch this year.

January - Kirby & the Forgotten Land - 20 hrs
February - DKC Returns HD - 15 hrs
March -> June -  Nothing
July - DK Bananza - 14 hrs
August - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 39 hrs
September - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 21 hrs
October - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 14 hrs
November - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 77 hrs
December - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 75 hrs

As you can probably guess, my main goal in the latter half of the year was to get to Xenoblade 3 by finally completing my 8 year odyssey to force myself through the (total piece of ****) Xenoblade 2.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on January 14, 2026, 06:23:18 PM »

I played 95 games this year

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on January 14, 2026, 06:22:44 PM »

My top genre was “Action,” which is incredibly vague as a descriptor, but okay.

Based on your games, your top genre should be RPG right? I am curious what the possible game types are.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by Evan_B on January 14, 2026, 11:03:10 AM »

I’m almost embarrassed to admit my numbers.

Almost.

I played 95 games this year with a total 964 hours. Gross!

My top three game play times this year were:
1) Pokémon Legends Z-A: 163 Hours
2) Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition: 98 Hours
3) Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma: 91 Hours

My top genre was “Action,” which is incredibly vague as a descriptor, but okay.
January: Korg Gadget for 8 hours.
February: Crypt Custodian: 10 hours
March: Xenoblade X: 23 Hours
April: Xenoblade X: 51 Hours
May: Xenoblade X: 23 Hours
June: Mario Kart World: 17 Hours
July: Rune Factory: 48 Hours
August: Rune Factory: 36 Hours
September: Daemon Ex Machina: Titanic Scion: 18 Hours
October: Pokémon Legends Z-A: 69 (acceptable) Hours
November: Pokémon Legends Z-A: 73 Hours
December: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: 46 Hours

I’ll have to upload my stats somewhere so that I can do a direct link.

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on January 14, 2026, 10:29:57 AM »

The 2025 Year in Reviews from Nintendo summaries are in!

I played 19 games and played 253 total hours on Nintendo Switch this year!
The three games with the most play time are:
Splatoon 3 - 38 hours
Advance Wars - 23 hours
Donkey Kong Bananza - 21 hours

My top kind of game was Action!

Going by month, here are the most played games
January - Super Mario Party Jamboree
February - Starlink: Battle for Atlas
March - Dawn of the Monsters
April - Mega Man X6
May - Owlboy
June - Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
July - Mario Kart World
August - Advance Wars
September - Donkey Kong Bananza
October - Tunic
November -Tunic
December - Paper Mario: The Origami King

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What will Nintendo release in 2026?

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on January 13, 2026, 06:37:50 PM »

Let me go ahead and get these out here so I don't forget.

• Next mainline Xenoblade game is announced for Switch 2
• Luigi’s Mansion 4 announced for Switch 2
• Nintendo Acquires Good-Feel or Grezzo
• Pokemon gen 10 releases for both Switch and Switch 2
• Mario Maker 3 announced for Switch 2
• Splatoon Raiders releases 2026
• Super Mario Galaxy Movie has better review scores but lower box office earnings than Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gets a Switch 2 version
• Remaster/remake of an older Zelda game
• Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios Singapore

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by Evan_B on January 13, 2026, 05:09:11 PM »

What games do you recommend for a beginer who has never played anything? 

I recommend playing all the NES games you can then. With the NES, the videogame industry was still in its infancy so a lot of games are quite simple and controllers didn't have the amount of buttons that they do now. Since the games are simple they are quite easy so you should have a great time playing them, Mr. Spambot. A few good choices to start would be Metroid, Zelda II, and Ninja Gaiden. Happy gaming.

Just perusing this thread and had a nice chuckle. Profound perspective here.

Well, I might as well make this a worthwhile post, so… I’ve been playing Spiritfall. Essentially, it’s “what if Hades was Smash Bros. Classic mode?” Above anything, it has great movement, and the inputs are very intuitive. I am very happy with the movesets that you obtain, which essentially changes the entirety of your inputs except for a light ranged attack and air dodge. It really does not feel like anything is directly ripped from Smash, which is admirable given how many characters exist in Ultimate. Lots of escalating difficulty modifiers and quirks that add to the complexity of your run, but the “rooms/floors” are truly just waves of enemies, with a special instance that can be pure 1v1. My main complaint is the aesthetics, actually, as learning how some enemies move and attack was a bit strange, though the playable character is painfully generic. It can be modified with new “masks” and skins, some of which are based off of other more recognizable properties, but the game feels aesthetically more in line with Brawlhalla, or at least, what I can conjure of that game in my mind.