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I think it's luck of the draw with Amazon. When I ordered Burning Crusade and The Lich King (World of Warcraft expansions), they both arrived 1 day late. My copy of Super Mario 3D World did arrive on launch day though (12th).
I'm 43 this year and I'm rocking Mario Galaxy and 3D World
I like the 2D Marios, but like you said, I prefer the 3D Marios. Weird really because with Sonic the Hedgehog, it's the other way round for me - the 2D Sonics better than the 3D Sonics imo.
Back to Super Mario 3D World - I'm a first-timer here and I'm loving it. The artwork is great and there is plenty of variety in the levels. The biggest fun element is that I'm finding numerous secrets in the game, which are the green stars. Quite often, I tend to find the 1st and 3rd green star in any given level but I miss out the 2nd one. I'm also finding secrets on the world maps too. You can play as Mario, Peach, Luigi etc and Rosalina becomes playable too when you have reached a certain level but not sure which one it is. I'm now on day 5 and already part way through World 5. No idea how much left of the game there is. Also, the power-ups are awesome! You have different sizes of your character and that basically tells you how many hits you can take before you lose a life. You have different suits as well, the cat suit being the one you'll see the most. There is also a brown suit which I think is a raccoon, and then a white suit which I think is a bear? The white one seems to be an invincible mode (without a time limit) but you can still fall off ledges which I have a nasty knack of doing!
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Ah - that's probably it then!
Back in my Warcraft years, I didn't have Prime but I do have it now.
Back in my Warcraft years, I didn't have Prime but I do have it now.
I talked about it a few pages back, but I took a punt on a cheap Pro-style controller from Amazon for £17 before Xmas and have been impressed with it. I wanted a 'proper' controller for the Switch I was buying our son - figured he might end up preferring the JoyCons (he does) but that I would prefer the 'real' controller (I do)
I've not used, or even seen in the flesh, a legit Pro controller, but I come from using Xbox One (and 360) official controllers and this one was, whilst not quite on the Official Xbox level in terms of quality, very good nonetheless.
Anyway, it was this one, was on offer when I bought it but still cheap enough:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diswoe-Wir...&keywords=diswoe+switch&qid=1613568438&sr=8-1
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Having not played mario since a kid on n64 its absolutely epic coming back to them as an adult and playing with my daughter.......and on my own when she goes to bed.
They really are so well made and just pure fun, feel good gaming.
3d world is great, not quite as good as odyssey but great in its own way.
They really are so well made and just pure fun, feel good gaming.
3d world is great, not quite as good as odyssey but great in its own way.
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As far as I have figured out, the medium sized and smallest sized characters have to use ground pound by pressing A (or B) followed by the left shoulder button ZL to kill enemies. Make sure that your shadow is over the enemy in order for the ground pound to get a direct hit. To break up blocks that look like brickwork, or blocks that are embedded in walls behind you, I don't think it is possible to break them with your small or medium character. You have to get one of the upgrades e.g. cat or squirrel and then you can use your tail to attack them.
Edit: If you are on World 5, there is a level with Bob-ombs and you can make them follow you. Lead them towards the walls that have breakable parts and they'll blow it up for you.
About cat/squirrel upgrades, this is something I haven't figured out yet, but sometimes, if you press LEFT on the d-pad, a bell appears and then you can turn into the cat/squirrel. Sometimes LEFT doesn't work, so I think you only have a limited stock. Maybe once per session. If someone knows how that works, then that would be really helpful
Wasn't the last one pants?
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I'm hoping for a new wave race or even wave race 64 on switch online, one can dream.
Zelda collection would be nice, but hopefully a few new games that are suprises.
Zelda collection would be nice, but hopefully a few new games that are suprises.
As far as I have figured out, the medium sized and smallest sized characters have to use ground pound by pressing A (or B) followed by the left shoulder button ZL to kill enemies. Make sure that your shadow is over the enemy in order for the ground pound to get a direct hit. To break up blocks that look like brickwork, or blocks that are embedded in walls behind you, I don't think it is possible to break them with your small or medium character. You have to get one of the upgrades e.g. cat or squirrel and then you can use your tail to attack them.
Edit: If you are on World 5, there is a level with Bob-ombs and you can make them follow you. Lead them towards the walls that have breakable parts and they'll blow it up for you.
About cat/squirrel upgrades, this is something I haven't figured out yet, but sometimes, if you press LEFT on the d-pad, a bell appears and then you can turn into the cat/squirrel. Sometimes LEFT doesn't work, so I think you only have a limited stock. Maybe once per session. If someone knows how that works, then that would be really helpful
Thanks for the tips. Im slowly getting accustomed to jumping and stomping enemies. Im still world 2 trying to find all the green stars and joysticks even though l dont know what the joysticks are for lol
New Metroid would be nice. I know they've had a bit of a development hell with it, but I just played through Super Metroid recently and am jonesing for some more.
Although I've never played another Metroid game, so it's possible I won't like the more modern ones anyway
Although I've never played another Metroid game, so it's possible I won't like the more modern ones anyway
Lol, what a junk direct. They literally showed us Splatoon 3 to try and make it have something big and thats coming at some point next year so potentially 22 months away. No idea why they bothered with a full direct for that. Should have just stuck to small mini directs.
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Wasn't entirely to my taste either. Pretty varied and dense though I'll give them that.
Would have liked to have seen something of MP4 or something more about Animal Crossing that we hadn't already been told would be coming.
They MUST be planning a separate Pokémon Direct as there was nothing about Pokémon Snap and that is only a few months away, let alone anything else.
Would have liked to have seen something of MP4 or something more about Animal Crossing that we hadn't already been told would be coming.
They MUST be planning a separate Pokémon Direct as there was nothing about Pokémon Snap and that is only a few months away, let alone anything else.
MP4 won't be out for years still by all accounts, Bayonetta 3 doesn't seem likely for this year and BOTW2 has me worried for this year as well. Giving us more information "later this year" doesn't bode well for a 2021 launch.
Nintendo is making bank on the Switch and they don't seem to need to do much to keep the gravy train rolling so I guess none of this is surprising. Chucking out remasters and lazy ports seems to keep a lot of people happy and its a cheap and easy way for them to print money. Not sure why I expect anything different from Nintendo at this point.