Garwoofoo

Apparently you CAN lend people in your "family" your digital games now but you have to have both Switches in the same room to do so. It's supposed to replicate lending the cartridge to your mate, which I guess is fair enough. So sadly unless you fancy popping in for a coffee you will have to source a copy of Dread for yourself.

I’ve got Dread digitally, can I “lend” that to you as you are part of my Nintendo family? I have no idea how these virtual Game Card things are supposed to work.

That sounds like the same control scheme as Kid Icarus Uprising and it was indeed agonising. Shame because that game would have been a 10/10 all time classic if it had actually been possible to play it without causing yourself physical pain.

Metroid is such a weird series for Nintendo, they invented such a strong gameplay loop it helped to name an entire genre yet they keep fucking around with it like they’re ashamed of the series or something. Other M in particular might be the worst big game Nintendo has ever released. Prime 4 looks like they just wish they’d invented Halo instead.

They all do, I think, even Metroid Dread had a bit of that.

Zero Mission's pretty much the best one of the whole lot though, like Alastor says it's a kind of bitesize distillation of the whole Metroid experience that barrels you through bosses and upgrades at a tremendous pace. Fusion's OK but it's extremely linear and I remember one of the bosses in particular being an absolute bastard.

Play

I'm still playing Final Fantasy VII Remake and it's really the most amazing thing. I can't imagine how daunting it must have been to take on the task of remaking such a beloved classic, and they really went for it: the combat system is entirely different, huge amounts of the game have been expanded upon, and even the plot is far more interesting than you'd expect. Taken purely on its own merits, it's also probably the best pure Final Fantasy game in the last 20 years. A towering achievement.

Also been dabbling a bit with Against the Storm, which as a roguelike city builder is quite unique and is scratching a certain itch while I'm waiting for a discount on Anno 117. This really wants to be played on a PC with mouse and keyboard, but it works decently well on the Steam Deck - I'm less keen on the console conversions.

Want

Keeping an eye on the Steam Machine but it's looking like it'll be a little less powerful and a little more expensive than I would ideally like so until full details are released I'm on the fence about this one.

Bin

I haven't yet abandoned Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment but it's very repetitive and I rarely feel the urge to play it. When I do, I tend to quite enjoy it though. Maybe I just need to devote some preoper time to it.