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This episode's brought to you by ORAFrames and Sundays for dogs, but we'll tell you about that later. Welcome back to the kind of funny games cast for Friday, December 5th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Gettys. I'm joined today by blessing at ayoje Jr. Good day, Tim. Greg Miller. Good day, Tim. And Andy Cortez.

Great day, Tim. Oh. Because we had such great games daily. You know what I mean? TGIF. You did. That was a good one. Big news.

Big news, everybody. Yeah. Crazy stuff. Sad times. Oh, I think you're going to cover it. I can't believe you got soul choking it announced. Huge news. Everyone, this is the kind of funny games cast.

Each and every weekday, we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews, and topics and video games live on YouTube, Twitch, and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the kind of funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts to get all of our shows ad-free and a daily exclusive show. For a chance to be part of this show, submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube superchats as we go. What did you think of Nintendo's 2025? What do you think of the first six months of the Nintendo Switch 2? Do you have one?

Do you not have one? Are you thinking of getting one? I want to hear all of it. YouTube Super Chat away, just like Joey Radstone already did, saying Switch 2 has become my main console since launch. I had a blast with D.K. Now I'm spoiled with new games like Hades 2,

Silk Song, Airwriters, and Metroid. So yeah, get them superchats in, and we'll get through them throughout the show. Remember, we are an 11-person business. about live talk shows. You already got Games Daily. That was Greg and Andy, a killer show talking all about Netflix buying Warner Brothers and what that is going to mean for the video game industry at large. After this, we got an episode of Kind of Funny Game Showdown. Do you have anything to tease there, Bless? Kind of a few days back. We're doing it again, baby. Let's fucking go.

Beauty, baby. Then after that, Bless and I are going to kill Slim, Shady, and Hitman, and I can't wait. Cannot wait. I just want to see how deep they get with the references. How much are we going to notice? I'm looking forward to it. I hope that is filled with Eminem shit in there. Yeah. If you're kind of funny member, today's Greg weighs 20 minutes on Greg's first night with Metroid Prime for Beyond until Roger honks at him and ruins it.

Fucking Roger. I'm so happy that it seems like you like this game. That warms my heart. Did you get to start it yet? Blesser, Randy? Yeah, I started it last night. Yeah. Well, I got to the same part of the preview.

Yeah. Okay. But still, like, it was much cooler this time around than the preview. although Miles annoying factor did go up a little bit for me but the music was much better because I think at the preview we had just like kind of speakers playing at us

and it was like now I was getting everything that was awesome. Hell yes. Thank you to our Patreon producers Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm twining for now. Let's start with the topic of the show.

The Sprintz, the Sprint had to run in there. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that too. you there. I thought I saw him do a dodge roll in there too. Like I was saying, we were talking about Nintendo's 2025 last year. Bless Andy and I sat down and graded Nintendo's 2024 just around this time in early December. So we're going to do that again here. But with the framing more of our review of the Nintendo Switch 2 so far, obviously the system is something we've all been looking forward to for many years. And we've now had it for six months. So we're going to kind of give our updated thoughts on it,

because it's always kind of silly to review hardware, like when it first drops. Of course. We still do it because it's fun content. But I feel like now it's a little bit more like we're reviewing our time personally with the first six months of this console. But before I get into your thoughts on all of that stuff, what I want to do is go through some of just the top headlines of Nintendo in 2025. We'll talk about that. I'll give some key things out there. We'll get our thoughts.

And then we'll talk a little bit more in depth about the games and everything that happened this year. So starting off, on March 27th, 2025, Nintendo Today was released. Oh. Can you believe that was this year? No. It seems like a last year thing. It has changed my life. I really can believe it was going to.

Oh, yeah? No, it feels, I feel like it hasn't reached its peak potential yet. You know what I mean? I still feel Nintendo today is trying to find its flow, trying to find what it is. And we've gotten like a few headlines that are like, oh, this big-ish thing got it. here, that's crazy. But I feel like the best is yet to come with Nintendo today. Oh, yeah.

I feel like they're going to drop a bomb in there one day where it's like, oh shit, Nintendo bot Warner Brothers. I think the best is yet to come and the weirdist has yet to come as well. Yes. There was a couple very funny things they posted, but nothing as wild as I expected from Nintendo today so far. Not yet. Not yet. It'll happen. But yeah, obviously March 27th, that was right around their kind of directs leading into the announcement of the Switch 2 or the reveal of the Switch 2. And then they're also talking about their movie projects and their theme park projects. So there's a lot to talk about every day on Nintendo today. And then on May 15, 2025, the Nintendo store, San Francisco opened. We were there for the debut of that. We did

an episode of the Games cast where we brought our halls back and showed them all off. How many times oh yeah, you're wearing it right now? How often do you go to that store, Greg? Way more than I thought I would. I really thought I would not be there often. And I am there. At least I would say once every two months, maybe a little, maybe once a month I walk through there. And it's always a delight. Yeah. I can't. I'm so stoked to go back now for the Christmas stuff that they have there.

Yeah. See the Christmas decorations and see this Christmas sweater. I probably won't buy the Christmas sweater. It's like a, it's like a, well, it's not Christmasy or Nintendo-y. Oh, no, trust me, that's not the problem. I don't mind. They keep adding Animal Crossing shit when I'm there. I'm like, oh, fuck, okay.

They got a whole Metroid line now. I know. Well, they had it before, right? They had a Metroid corner, and that's being generous. They had a shelf, a Metroid's shelf. But now they have a lot more Metroid. Because I'd like to apologize, I may have, I may have made a little bit of a boo-boo. I think I added every Nintendo calendar event to our kind of funny calendar from the app from the Nintendo Today app.

So can you check just maybe to get a little double check just to make sure. The calendar. Just to double-tick. Like where would I see this? Like, it should be all over the fucking place. Um, like ranked battles three, Metroid 2,

Return of Sammas monthly mission. Nothing. It's probably like, because you have, there's a kind of funny calendar, but under your kind of funny email, though it may have been, that may have been it.

Can you imagine the level of blunder? Well, just go ahead, delete the last 30 seconds. We don't need it yet. It seems like it got added still to his, uh, calendar.

Yeah, but that's his thing. You can just undo it. I've been loving the Nintendo store down here. Haven't had too many opportunities to go down there, but it's been where I've been trying to relegate myself to buying my Nintendo physical games. Nice. Just to make a little event out of it.

You know what I'm saying. You feel like you told me you see it, so I don't know what the difference is. But like, I feel like they could be better at advertising stuff. Me and Ben showed up there November 1st. And they were like, oh, yeah. Well, like yesterday we had a whole Halloween. Gangar was here. First off, shout out to the employees there.

you know, you go to certain places and you're like, I don't want to throw shade against anybody, but like, the Nintendo employees are like video game fans. I get recognized by them every time I'm there.

I'm like, oh, hey, Greg Miller from kind of funny. Or just, oh, you used to work at IGN, like, not even like they're fans,

but like they know what's going on in the industry. I think that's cool. Anyways, oh, yeah, Gengar was here, and he's showing me the fixtures on the phone.

I was all bummed out. I would have brought Ben to that, you know what I mean? But I didn't know what I was happening. And so I'm always, But now I'm trying to figure out the best way to know what the fuck. I asked you, did they do a midnight launch for Metroid? It would have been cool to go do stuff.

Yeah, very, very cool that it's here and we're very lucky. I'm very unlucky that I'm not in Orlando, Florida, in some ways. Because on May 22nd, 2025, Super Nintendo World opened at Universal Epic Universe, featuring Super Mario Land and Donkey Kong country, something that the Super Nintendo Land does not have in California. They also have Mario Kart Bousers' Chavez. challenge like we do here, but they also have the two additional rides that used to be Japan exclusive, DK Mind Cart Madness, and Yoshi's Adventure.

One day we'll make it over there. Oh, yeah, I see what you mean, Greg. It's not, it doesn't give holiday. I'm going to toss into that. A little cardigan sweater they made here. Can I just say right now? Can I say something? You can say whatever you want.

It's no judgment Friday. Oh, that's my favorite kind of Friday. Bless you look so good in that color. I've said that as well. I know. I know. It's like the blue and the red. I need to like get more colors. I think that's, I wear a lot of like black shirts.

But now since Greg said no judgment Friday, I'm going to make, I was going to make that same way more sexual. It doesn't. And it would be okay. You have my permission. It would be okay. You want to do it again. Make more sexual. What?

What do you wear? I don't worry about it. Tiny Tina. Tiny Tina. Oh, because I thought it was Ball and Wonder World. No. I mean, that would be. That would be the best thing of all time.

Yeah. That's a statement. No, I just like the color of the sweatshirture, which is why I wear. This is their Christmas cardigan? Well, I mean, it's their winter essential. I mean, I would rock this, though. Oh, I thought this was like a little baby's thing. It looks like a baby's sweater.

Why is it a comedy who's talking about Nintendo? Why is it a proportion like that? This is a big blanket. It's a big blanket behind it. No, but the sweater just looks so tiny. For fucking babies. Say baby one more time. I do like the hat.

I like the beanie. I like it with a star on there. and then the Mario and Yoshi Snowman. You know what the Beanie does look like a baby beanie though? Thank Melissa with the Wye says the Andy Dry looks like a pregnancy announcement. Thank you, but like it just looks like a little baby sweater. I don't know why.

Maybe the buttons are so big or something. I'm hoping there's more merch when you get there. That's more wintry. Yeah. On July 16th, 2025. Because I'm so in the Metroid tank, I'm like, do I need to buy an amoebo? Yes, you do.

That fucking motorcycle. Come on now. What are we talking about? God. That of me, well, that's what, $900? Ah, come on July 16, 2025, Link and Zelda's actors were revealed for the live action legend of Zelda movie, Benjamin Evan Einzworth and Bo Braggison. They look awesome. We've since seen pictures of them revealed in full costume, and there's been some like set leaks and things like that for the movie coming out in 2027.

On September 25th, Doug Bowser announced he will step down and Devin Pritchard will be the new Nintendo of America president as I. of December 31st. Wow, as soon. What you got, Andy? What's you smiling at? I was thinking of a little dumb joke I did on games daily one time where I was like, Doug Bowser responded,

right, right, right, I thought you're going to reference the joke Nick made when this news came out, where he said, in other news, Mario's villain is now being renamed to Pritchard after the news. I thought was funny.

Nick sometimes, but I like your joke better, though. Thank you. On October 7th, 2025, Nintendo Pictures first animated short film close to you based on Pickman released, and no one was confused at all. I like Nintendo. I love it. I like, they just do weird shit sometimes.

Was there nothing in between that? I feel like that just happened, and the Doug Bowsy News was like so much earlier than that. Less than a month. Less than a month. A couple weeks. Yeah. I mean, you're rocking like a month. September 25th to October 7th.

You know, that's not a month and a half. That's not even a month. close to you was in October And then on November 12th 2025 We already earlier in the year Got the Mario Galaxy Name reveal and teaser

But on this day We got the trailer and cast reveals Of Breer Larson as Rosalina And Benny Softie as Bowser Jr. I'll never forget You being so taken aback And you were convinced for a second That Greg and I were fucking with you

I legit thought Like because Benny Softie as Bowser Jr. Makes no sense And I had to stop and think Like how do they get Jack Black to say those things. It was crazy. I saw this somewhere on social media.

Andy will appreciate this. Chat, you might have to confirm. Apparently, the cast for the Japanese voice acting for Bowser Jr. Is the Japanese voice actor for Deku. Oh, cool. Because the voice actor for Bowser is the voice of Allmite. Shut up. That's tight.

Which is really cute. But, Chad, I might need you to confirm that one for me. so I just like that idea. The internet has ruined the Decu voice for me. There's been a lot of like TikToks of people that are like. Cren shit. Yeah, Cren shit doing the Deco voice. So now I just associate that voice with Chris.

Just get off TikTok. Ah, I'm addicted. On November 27th, everyone's strapping for this one. November 27th, a new Mario balloon based on his Mario Galaxy appearance, debuted in the Thanksgiving Day parade. I didn't see it. It was a big deal. He was all like.

like but what was there anything galaxy about it it's kind of like it's his pose from when he's like doing the like epic fly yeah uh just looking at it though doesn't scream galaxy to be obviously that is a huge galaxy guy but he was up there in them skies uh and then on november

28th 2025 Nintendo purchased Bandai Namco Studios Singapore renaming it Nintendo Studios Singapore and then on December 3rd 2025 uh Greg just added Mario Kart at's loud volume.

Oh my God, what a great moment that was. Normal? Wow. Jumping through some quick little stats before we get into your thoughts here. Talking about Game Awards, Game of the Year stats for Nintendo. Three out of six of the Game Awards game of the year nominees are on the Nintendo Switch. And two out of six of them are Nintendo Switch consoles exclusives.

Nintendo released eight. new first party games. There's an energy. There's no judgment Friday. 8 new first party games, six first party DLC slash new content expansions. So for that I counted any switch two

additions that actually added new stuff to the game as well, like a plus star crossed world or whatever. Three to four first party re-releases with Xenoblade Chronicles X, Super Mario Galaxy, one and two. And then Donkey Kong Country returns HD. we had one third party console exclusive

Hades 2 If there's any more let me know I was trying to do a deep dive And I don't think that there was Delta Rune Come on, I'm locked in He's fucking locked in Come on, I'm locked in

He's locked in I guess I didn't find that Because it didn't like Maybe because it was just It's not the full game, right? It was like episode At this point Like I just fucking

associate the episodes As their own entries In a series Cool It wasn't coming up on anything I found Thank you for that. So then two third-party console exclusives and 32 third-party games over an 80 on OpenCritic. 32 third-party games over an 80.

That's where I want to stop all that stuff for now because I want to get into our reviews six months into the Nintendo Switch 2. Who should I start with at this table? Who wants to go first? Greg, I choose you. How are you guys doing? Good. I love the Nintendo Switch 2. I think, you know, obviously, we talk all the time about your mileage is going to vary.

I think my Switch 1 became a criminally underused console. It started off strong, obviously, but then as the years wore on, the quality of the visual fidelity of games on there, my life and what kind of games I was looking to play, I wasn't finding those on Switch anymore, or maybe I wasn't making the time for them. It might be a better way to put it, right? And so with the Switch 2 launching and having this jolt of excitement, I think having a incredibly sexy device that feels great to hold has a great screen. I know it's not OLED, but it's not a problem for me. I was wild with it at launch.

Mario Kart wasn't the jam for me, but I was able to partner the launch with an updated Pokemon, right? To jump back into Violet and continue to go and to go fucking off as the new voice of Pokemon here. Yeah. Altaria, level 100, right? Altaria. Yeah, remember him? Everybody was impressed. Everybody was impressed on my street.

Who is that? Who is that? He's the fluffy bird, dude. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. But then to roll from that into Donkey Kong Bonanza, a game that I fucking adored, sorry, and still do, and, you know, my holiday

break. I am, I just miss them. You know what I mean? I'm excited to go back to his furry arms, uh, this break and finish it off for a game of the year and top 10 and all that jazz. Um, and then, yeah, for me personally than to go from there to Zah, right, and have that Pokemon game that I love so much and have had so much fun with to have that DLC here.

And even right now, it's fun to be doing this conversation where I'm at personally, right? Wrapping the Octopath Traveler Review, it was cool. My next big thing is the Pokemon DLC next week, but I get to insert Metroid here to connect with Metroid the way I did yesterday. I'm like, holy shit, I really like this, I want to play more of it,

to have Pokemon next week, and then to theoretically finish those two, and then go back to Bonanza, right? You're talking about the Switch 2 getting a whole lot of use, not to mention that once I'm done with those, it then becomes cool. Animal Crossing is on the horizon, no pun intended. That January 15th update is right around the corner.

I want to get my island whipped into shape a little bit, so I'm ready to jump in and really see if that can get another couple months, double-digit hours out of me, hopefully, of what I find and making all the new stuff there. So I've had a real banner year with Switch 2 and thinking about it, honestly, since it released, which I know is, you know, half a year now, six months. The shocking stat is that for sure with me, Greg Miller,

it goes most played platforms, PC with that ROG ally, that Razor laptop, and then Switch 2. Like that would be like how it's netted out in terms of like, these are the two handheld, go with me, plug in the dock, be wherever I am with the game I want to play systems that have been rocking it from this year. If you were to give it a score on the kind of funny scale, what would your first six months with the Nintendo Switch 2B, Greg? I mean, right now I'm going from feelings, not from facts.

I think as we go, you know, you've listed all this and you have all these open critics and you have all these scores and you have all this different stuff. I can only speak to my personal experience with it. And I am nothing short of amazed by this. And I would say a nine, a nine out of ten. And I understand why other people would be down. It's been fun to see the chat, go back and argue and do all these different things. But for me, Greg Miller, the man with no Nintendo nostalgia, right? Like, I don't begin until N64, really.

like I have fallen in love with the device and as you see with Metroid with Pokemon like I'm falling in love with IPs that I've never been before so I get for people where it's well-worn territory or whatever but as someone who had a switch and I've had every Nintendo console since N64 right well we you I had through you having it around or whatever and you know whatever but like I

for my entire life cycle of being a Nintendo fan or owning Nintendo consoles I'm only ever turning to them once maybe twice a year for an exclusive, right, a Mario game or something to that effect. So to have something that I'm getting this much use out of, to have something right now that I'm so excited for the future of, to have something where it's like, again, there are three Nintendo games right now that I wish I could just stop time and play.

Like, that's impressive for me. Yeah, and yeah, so you're reviewing that from your perspective, your experience for the first extent. So Andy, you bless, like that's the context here that I want you guys to kind of score your experience. So, bless, what is your experience? I mean, that changes my score. then because I... You can explain both scores if you want

if you want to have two different ones, but I do want to hear your score about your experience. I mean, my score with my experience would be like a 6.5 or a 7, right? But I do think that is underselling what is on the page for the Nintendo Switch to.

That's me just purely talking about my own interest on the game that they're releasing. And then also just my own happenstance of where I'm at as far as experience. Because when I look at the Switch ones first year, for me, that is probably the best,

the greatest first year of a console period. As far as in my experience, and what I look for out of a console, when you're talking about 2017, getting games like Mario Cardi Deluxe, getting Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, getting Mario Odyssey, and experiencing that indie rush, the indie revolution that I'll call it on Switch when you're talking about games like Dead Cells, Goff Story, and the amount of experiences that really made that first year special. I look at Switch 2 and I look at the circumstances around the Switch 2, things like just how my gaming life has evolved, playing the Steam Deck and being more involved on just playing PC

games in general and how that's affected the amount of time that I want to put on Switch 2. Because when I look at the indie games that I'm playing, when I look at a Hades 2 that we're calling a console exclusive, I played that all on PC because I had the Steam Deck because I had this, you know, my Ultra Wide that I wanted to play off of and all this stuff, right? And if I had a Steam Deck OLED, that would just double down on that as well, right? The Switch 2 not having OLED, I think really does a lot as far as me going, ah, then why would I play this here instead of on there? So for me, that's a big factor.

I looked a list of games and really the one big banger for me this year has been Donkey Kong Bonanza on Switch 2. For me, that is a game that I'm looking at as, oh, this is one of the best games of the year. And that's an experience that I can only have on the Switch 2. When I go down the list of other first party games or exclusive games, Mario Kart World was the one that I liked a lot. I really enjoyed that game, but it came and went for me, right? A Kirby Air Riders, I was just talking to Roger about it, of like, you know, he came in, He was like, yo, you like air riders? And I'm like, what does the word like really mean?

You know what I mean? Like, what does calling the game good, bad? That's a game that I experienced that I, you know what? I did like. But also, it's not like a game of the year. It's not like something that's going to stick with me as, damn, y'all all got to play Kirby Air Riders. You got to play Kirby Air Riders when you're interested in a fucking weird ass video game. But that's a whole other conversation.

I then go down the list of Pokemon Legends, Z.A. Not really being for me. Hyrule Warriors, not really being for me. Dragon Drive Come, that was for nobody. That was for nobody, honestly. Yeah, I was like, you know, I look at this compared to,

I guess, just switch one. And I'm like, ah, man, this doesn't bring what that brought. But if I'm to look at the full scope on a piece of paper as far as what the games are,

I think it's an eight out of ten, right? Like, they did have those expansions. They did have the switch two additions that I think really brought those games up, made them run better, added new content. And I think that's an exciting thing

on paper. But, yeah for me as somebody who grew up as a Nintendo fan I'm playing Switch 2 this year just wasn't the most exciting thing for me if I could interject not go for it's something I want to bring on to my conversation again of you know okay behind the Rog and the Razor

you know PC gaming is my I think it could have usurp those except for you could have flipped those if we lived in a different world again one of the benefits for PC gaming for all of us is that so many times the codes that we get for review are available on PC and all the other platforms are going to come closer to launch.

And I think Octopath is a great example, where Octopath 1 and 2 were, they were only, I guess, at launch back then Switch games, right? But Octopath Traveler Zero, I would have gladly played on Switch to have what I want out of my, you know, PC handheld to Xbox, Xbox Play Anywhere experience, right? Of just having one system docking it.

It's so nice with Metroid, with Pokemon, pick it up. We all know this, right? But if I could have had Octopath at review on Switch, I would have done it on Switch. And I think there's a few other games you go back, indie things, Hades 2, whatever, where it's like, oh, this is what came in and what's available. Let's go right away. And I want to jump in that way.

No. Andy. Which two? Six months in. Your personal review. My personal review, I'd put it around an okay to a good, you know, six to seven. I don't, I'm not using it as much as possible. Oh, God.

I'm not using it as as much as I thought I would be. and you know I applaud them for doing the you know switch two versions and updating but it's such a misopportunity to not do it more and there's so many games that have just been kind of left out to dry and like maybe they're working on those things

for the future but it's like it would have been so awesome if you plug this in and everything that you that you had played like all the big important games that you'd played just ran better and looked sharper and it's just such a bummer that that that's not the case. That some things still are trapped in 30 frames per second land. And so that's kind of a big bummer for me.

And I'm not a fan of that. Don Kong Bonanza kind of came at a weird time for me where it just wasn't, it's something that I was mildly interested in that I just kind of just largely skipped. And I'm not quite sure why. Mario Kart World, I think a really big missed opportunity. I think that it had so much more potential and largely underwhelmed when it comes to what we thought it could be, and maybe a lot of that was just us projecting

what this sort of like forts of horizon-like world could be, but it ended up not being for me. And then I think of, as much as I'm enjoying Pokemon Z-A legends right now, I don't know if I'd be enjoying it if I wasn't streaming it. I don't know if I would be sticking with it

if it wasn't to stream. I think it's like a content goldmine because of how silly and fucking absurd these guys, games are. Like, they're, they're, they're, they're inherently, like, good video games, like, a lot of the more recent Pokemon games, whether it'd be just be for a silly dialogue or funny moments, weird visuals, whatever it may be. But I don't know if I'd be sticking with it if it wasn't to stream and make content and

do jokes and voice act and whatever the hell. And then Metroid Prime 4 booted that up last night. And, you know, I'm, I'm super in after. playing through a decent amount of Metro Prime remastered and going to the preview event in New York to play Prime 4. I think it's pretty awesome so far. And I can't wait to stick through it and continue through that adventure. Because it's, you know, already I got the vibes of what we were hearing, you know, Logan Plan and you mentioned on the review regarding this sort of Zelda-like nature and rhythm. And I think it's awesome so far.

but the I mean it's like Tim if I told you hey you got this 4K OLED TV in your bedroom or in your living room everybody comes by they love this 4K OLED

they love it and they go we're going to replace it with an updated model it's 8K but it's LCD and you go no no no

give me back to OLED and it's still like as much as we've talked about being disappointed with it I'm I'm of the mind that like I think I'm harser on it than I should be

because it's like I don't even think it's like good-looking LCD anymore. And maybe that's just me, like, being really salty about having an awesome screen with, not only with a Switch 1 OLED and how that looked, but my Steam Deck OLED, I just don't want to really play this game handheld unless I'm traveling somewhere. And that's kind of a bummer.

Barrett? Whenever there's an opportunity, I would love to jump in and kind of add on to Andy's thoughts because I share a lot of his sentiment for the first six months as well. Go for it. I think, like, yeah, the first party stuff hasn't hit as much as, like, the first year of Nintendo Switch 2, which feels like an unfair comparison. I think on the opposite side of you, Andy, like I am really happy with the hardware. And I think that's, you know, for 2025, I think it's not where I wanted to be, but compared to what the Nintendo Switch was, which was such a primary source of gaming for me for so long. And then I kind of like went away from it once I got a Steam deck, right?

like I was kind of missing being in that Nintendo ecosystem. So I was really looking forward to the Switch 2 to like get back into the Nintendo ecosystem. I think the hardware upgrades compared to the Switch do enough for me to like want this to be like my main console choice. On top of a lot of what you said, I think the other thing that has kind of catch me from it being my main console of choice is, you know, Tim, you have this like third party games at a glance. and it's like so many of these don't have Switch 2 versions in this list, right? That like, you know, Absalom, I think, only has a Switch 1 version.

Shinobi Art of Vengeance only has a Switch 1 version that looks not good. And like the main third party stuff that I had there was just Soxong and Hades 2 and that's really all I got out of it in terms of it being like a main console choice this year. So I think their decision to, weirdly, this weird rollout of dev kits, kind of like stunting, um, support early on feels

like such a, I don't know, weird choice compared to what the launch of the switch one was, um, that I, I just don't feel like I was, I've been really naturally grabbing for the switch two in the last few months, uh, like I would. Um, yeah, and it's so bizarre, Baird, because leading into this, with all of the reviews, like, I remember just being so blown away. by the fact that on the reveals we're seeing 120 hertz and like numbers you're like Nintendo doesn't talk about numbers like well this is a fucking digital foundry what are we doing and but being so giddy about that stuff and going wow developers are going to be so unlocked with the power that this thing can put out and and I know how capable this machine is

and we've seen what it can do but the fact that there's just so many devs going yeah we don't have a dev kit yet it's like what's why and it's it's why it's Especially with like, I know Silk Song is a different story, but like to give like one indie team, like obviously like a dev kit to be able to like have a Switch 2 launch and to not give like, I don't know, spread the love. Especially in the indie scene, which I feel like was such a big boon for what the Switch 1 was. I don't know. I need Jason try to get to the bottom of this. It's just a weird decision. It's a W&D.

Yeah. And it came from Japan. Guarantee it. Yeah, and that's one where it's like six months in, I'm at like a seven. I think it's been a good experience so far. I want it to be more, though. And I want it to be the reason I keep, like, I want there to be more reasons for me to keep going back to this console outside of just the big first party releases every few months. Now, that being said, the Nintendo Pro Controller 2, Best Feeling Controller, I've ever held in my hand.

It's like silky. What? What? Here's the thing. Oh, no. Here's the thing. We have one pro controller in the apartment right now. That Michael Hiann.

Clayton's his. And I swear to God, it's mine. But he said, he was like, I think this is mine. I'm like, hey, that's what he is. And I haven't been able to find another pro controller. I'm 80% sure that was my pro controller. Do it with a dexter meme, though? It's the dexter meme.

Me, sit in my car. I'm like, I know this is my rope controller. but I can't prove that is my pro killer. And so like, even yesterday from Edray Prime 4, booted up and I was like, I gotta play on this fuck-ass switch one. God damn.

Yeah, that Coachella feels amazing, though. The battery life is so damn good on it. It does still, it feels like they're the only company to have this patent on this. Battery power? Oh, no, the way to feel. Dude.

I don't get it. I don't know how they decided on that and why nobody else has like had, like it feels like they got the, like they got the shit. from like Wakanda. It's like a weird space rock that they molded it from.

It's crazy. It's awesome. I love the way it feels. The buttons are great. It really changed the game for me for how I played Silk Song, right? Like that downward diagonal like thing that you really only have access to

at the beginning of the game was such a weird thing to get used to with just a thumpstick. But having those back paddles to like help with that and to have like my back right button kind of be the another input for down on the thumbsick. was like such a big, like, helpful moment for me that I've, I really adore that controller because of stuff like that.

And being able to remap in any game by holding the home button to the back paddles. The fact that it has back paddles, fucking awesome. Or, you know, the two back buttons. Love it. Love the ease of use there. It's, there are so many WNDs,

which is weird Nintendo decisions, in the opposite way, where it's like, oh, that's a really helpful thing. That's kind of crazy. And it sucks to say, that, but, you know, we know how they can be sometimes. Tim, what are your thoughts? I'd love to tell you them after a work of our sponsors. Tees!

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Terms and conditions apply. Tim. Yes. I want your thoughts. I have so many thoughts, Greg. Obviously, I'm me. I'm Tim Geddes. It's interesting talking about, like, our kind of consoles of choice over the years and, like,

where we, where we choose to play things and, like, when that change is based on, oh, I'm going on a trip, so I need it portable. So I'm going to take the graphics hit, you know, and play on Switch or whatever and how different that is now. And I sell this because, like, I was just thinking about it with Greg saying how little he's played PlayStation, really. And it's like, the only game I played this year on my PS5 was Metal or Solid 3. Oh, wow.

The only one. everything else was on South of Midnight was on Xbox and then it was either a Nintendo game or his PC and it was if I had the choice between it being on my Nintendo Switch 2 or my Steam Deck every single time I went Steam Deck Hollow Night, 80s, a plethora of other ones

so just like just putting that out there before we even get into it and just giving context to my thoughts and my time with the Switch 2 because I almost want to give No nuance score I mean, I almost want to give two scores, and that to me is the docked experience versus handheld experience,

where my docked experience, my personal Tim Getty's review of my six months with the Switch 2 that I'm not trying to sell anybody on. I don't give a fuck what you have to say about it. It's a 9 out of 10. I had an amazing six months with this thing. On the handheld side, it's an 8.5. It was great because most of the things are still there,

but I really, six months in, can't get over it, not being OLED. It really takes down my experience. and Hades and Silksong are two games that I probably would have played on the Switch instead of the Steam Deck because of just how portable the Switch 2 is compared to even the Steam Deck. How thin that tablet is,

how little space it all takes up. Like, it is incredible hardware. It's just they made some decisions that I'm like, for me personally, it's just non-starter. Like, looking at Metroid Dred on a Switch 2 versus a Switch 1, it looks better on Switch 1.

That sucks. The screen's huge though, and comparing it even Steam Deck 2 Switch, it's like that 8-inch screen, I didn't think I was going to care about it. I thought that was even too big. It's not. I think that it is like a stunning screen for the size. It's just there's a couple things holding it back for me that I just literally cannot get over. But as somebody that loves Nintendo games, loves 10 out of 10 ones and loves 7 out of 10 ones, I'll even love a 5.5 one sometimes. This year just kept delivering me things to do throughout the year

before the Switch 2 and especially after the Switch 2. And I really can't find it to myself to recommend anybody buy a Switch 2. Like I don't think that it's like something that I'm like, you need to get one of these like for the either exclusives or even just for the best place to play games that are cross-gen with Switch 1. This year in a very weird way, Metroid Prime and Pokemon ZA both seem to run excellently on the Switch 1. If you have a Switch 1, you can play those games there.

That's great, you know? I had a friend of mine who really, really hated the way Harry Potter source, what's it called? Hogwarts, Vegas? Yeah. And it was like, is the Switch you're going to make this not look like ass? And then I sent her a video of how,

and she was like, oh my God, I got to get a Switch to it. And that was like a game changer for it. That is a big difference though, because that's one of the rare third party games that actually they put a lot of time into making essentially a different version for Switch 2. And you have to do the paid upgrade thing there. But we talked for years about a Switch Pro and what we want from it. I am that

the perfect Venn diagram of wanting Nintendo games and wanting, I don't even want to say the highest tech, although I do. I just want modern tech. I want the menus to be in 4K. And I got that now. And I'm a cool little colorful borders. I'm super in.

And like so many of the things I've wanted, the Switch 2 just checked off, checked off, checked off. I can't believe we're getting 120 frames per second, but we are. I just played Metroid Prime that way. It was amazing. I love that. So many games have delivered for me.

And in some ways, maybe not blown me away. Mario Kart World is something that I know I'm way higher on than it seems like everyone on the planet. But even with that, it's like the game didn't over deliver for me. It's not Forza Horizon 5, but to me, it's like I spent 40 hours with that

game. I'm probably going to spend another 40 hours if they do DLC the way I think they're going to over time. And I love it's Bonanza, Kirby Air Riders. What a joy. What a weird thing. The GameCube era of Nintendo is one of my favorites. We're back, baby. We're getting that type of stuff.

and I just felt like I was constantly having some reason to pick up my Switch 2. A lot of those reasons were old things. Those old things are Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, playing and looking better than they ever have. I'm not complaining there. Tears. Kirby Star-crossed World, you're telling me I'm getting more. Kirby in the Forgotten Land? Sign me the fuck up. Give me an excuse to play a game that I loved a couple years ago, but it's even better now. And there's new stuff. I've loved the Switch 2 editions.

There's been some duds. I think Mario Party was a major mistake. I think the way that they handled the Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wilds, clearly they're selling that as an NSO update. They're not like, it is literally a $10 thing, but like that's the laziest of the Switch 2 edition so far. But also those games are perfect and now they're more perfect.

And I love that. And I'm definitely on a different side than Andy in terms of the like, I just wish that it would like make all the games run better. In my opinion, it does. Like I think that there's like a 10% of games that, There are still some games that I'm like, oh, man, I wish those would get an FPS update or those would get a resolution bump. But the amount of games that already are covered there, the Link's Awakening's, the Mario Odyssey's that didn't get proper Switch 2 editions, but run the way I need them to, I am shocked at how much coverage we already have, six months in. And when it comes to Switch 2 editions for any of the weird games that's like, why aren't they there?

Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, whatever, Super Mario Wonder, we're starting to get those answers, right? I do think that we still very similar to the Switch 1 from Wii U era of we got we had to get through all those ports. I think we have a handful of Switch 2 editions that are still going to be coming up. We already know Animal Crossing Mario Wonder. We're going to get a Smash Ultimate Switch 2 addition to some extent. And that thrills the hell out of me. I totally disagree though, Tim. There's a massive, massive game missing from the list.

And it's only one that matters in its astral chain. Yeah. There are examples. I mean, that's the only one I can really think. But, like, I put that one up and, like, ah, still looks like Duky. Wait, for Mario 1000. Dred didn't get a 60. Wait.

Dred was 60. But Dred didn't get, like, the higher res or nothing like that? No, the loads are a little faster just because of the nature of the machine. But it's like, no, there's not like a resolution bump. There's not like the Nintendo patch update. Unlock it. Yeah. Exactly.

Like, there are, there are examples for sure. Fire and three houses being. You pay me minimum wage and then? I'll go in there and I'll just unlock it. He'll do it. Yeah. I'll go into the engine and just put like 60 instead of the-. Wow.

You do that? Yeah. 720, 1080 now. But yeah, and just with even like all the DLC packs coming out, there's been like a big range on are they good or they not. Don combinations, trash. I put that in the trash category. The fact that they charged for that, garbage, nonsense.

Pokemon ZA mega dimension, I'm excited. It's way sooner than a DLC's ever been for a Pokemon game. Like, I think that's a good sign that, like, they're continuing to give us things that we want to do. So, yeah, as somebody that all the game, all the first party games that we're talking about, I enjoyed. I don't care about Dragon Drive and Welcome Tour should have been better and should have been free.

But it's like everything else. I'm like, yeah, I had a great time with it at the very least. But a lot of my experiences were amazing. And especially massive just talking about how it goes up against the other consoles where you still, you can't play Hades 2 anywhere else except for console except for the Switch. And that's still like what a massive W that is. Yeah, sure.

And shout out for them like having that like very ease of transferring saves right at the jump too. Like being able to, again, wanting the Switch 2 to kind of be my main source of gaming handheld wise and other, right? Transferring my early access save of Hades 2 that I hadn't touched in a year a half over to the Switch 2 was so easy and just picking it up from there

was just like so good. Yeah. I mean, just going back a year and talking about all of us predicting how they were going to handle the upgrade additions or whatever that was going to look like, in my opinion, this is beyond best case scenario. I know there's some pricing discrepancies that are egregious and they're bad. But overall, it's like, yo, Mario, Link's Awakening, you didn't need to pay anything. And it just runs the way we wished that it would.

That's crazy, you know? And you multiply that by the Switch 2 editions, giving a chance to go back to games and give them DLC expansion packs. When Loving Care is put into that, it's amazing or it's great. Like, StarC crossed worlds, I want more of that new Animal Crossing content. Like, you wouldn't have gotten Animal Crossing DLC otherwise. No, no, no, no. So, yeah, will it be good? That's, we hope, right?

It'll be more, right? Yeah, it will it be enough to engage me re-energize this audience that was so massive? Will we wait and see? Yeah. And then the last thing I want to say is I think Nintendo's done a really good job of announcing games and releasing them in a timely fashion. Like so many of the games that were announced, granted it is the launch console of a system. But like the things that they announced in the last couple directs this year, we either have

or we know the next couple months what we're going to be getting for like the next next wave into spring and I don't think that that's going to slow down. Like I don't think that we're going to have nearly as much of a drought like we did with the switch one after the first like year and a half and then it kind of just halted for a bit before we got into that second swing. Like I think that we're like we're pushing through. So where are we on the cycle of directs or indeed, you know, are we kind of mid cycle? I kind of forget where we are and what the last one was.

Usually like September and February. Okay. And like what, June for the big ones? Got some stats for you here We had 11 Nintendo Directs in 2025 Three were full Nintendo

Three were full Nintendo Direx One was pre-Switch 2 If you remember That was the one Where they No Switch 2 2

was an indie world showcase. Two were Pokemon presents. And four were single game specific. Andy, can you name them? Yes, I can. Airwriters, got two of them. Yeah, there you go. That's the big secret.

That's the big way. Catch him, but you can't catch Andy. But I don't know the other one. So, hold on. Do I have it? Yeah, you got it. It's not that hard. but my memory just doesn't really

Warnia. Bonanza. Yes. Yes. And then Metro Prime. Shit fuck. Mario Car World. Marri Car World.

Oh. Yeah. I thought you were getting caught up on the fact that there was two Kirby over there. Just once. God bless, Zachari. Yeah. So amazing. Marri car world.

That's right. I did get one. Yeah. So we'll probably be getting another one in probably February, maybe early March, somewhere around there, talking about a lot of the games. There's dustbloods. Where is the question? Right?

Like looking at some of the announcements, made for games coming up. We got Mario Tennis Fever in early February. Wait, that's early February? February 12th. Why do I think that was summer? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, they have a whole rollout plan that they're sticking to. We have Pokemon,

Pokopia, March 5th, Yoshi in the Mysterious Book, Spring, 26. Tomodachi Life is in fall. And then the games that have 2026 a year, but no more info there is Fire Emblem, Fortunes Weave, Professor Leighton in the New World of Steam, and Rhythm Heaven grew,

and the one game that they have announced that doesn't even have a year attached is Splatoon Raiders which is the single player Spatoon game. Dude, I'm pumped for that. A ton of stuff to look forward to there. Also, shout out to the Splatoon 2 version

where it just did get the download there wasn't like any extra purchase and like, oh, it looks so good. It's so sharp and 60 perfect, like no frame. Oh, amazing. This is kind of unrelated, but like February 2026 we're going to have a conversation soon because it's getting fucking crazy.

because that's Romeo is dead is a dead man which we just talked about the release date on KHD that comes out the 11th Mario tennis fever comes out the 12th Neo 3 is the 6th reanimals the 13th fucking Resonie evil Requiem is coming out that month that's all a lot of stuff

that is a lot of stuff and new first party content expansions we have Animal Crossing New Horizons on January 15th so that's very soon and then Mario Bros. Wonder Switch 2 edition plus meetup in Bell Bell Park coming early 2026 imagine that'll be tied with the movie probably.

We have third party console exclusive. The Dusk Bloods coming, 2026. That's all we know about it. Do y'all think we see the Game Awards? Yeah. I mean, I was thinking of the February Direct, but Game Awards does make sense. I would feel like February direct.

What about the statue? What about that statue? Dust Bloods are related? That's interesting. I don't want to look at this fucking statue anymore. I know you hate it. Yeah, he said this on Gabe's daily. He's over the statue.

Please take the statue down. Please take it down. I know he hates it, but we just have to acknowledge it a little bit. Also, how have you lived with this name for so long and he hasn't played any of the goddamn Batman games? You don't think of me as like, I'm not a Batman guy, you know?

But again, you just, every no- You live with the biggest... You beg for money. This is such an easy win for your audience. It needs to be a series, him playing them for the first time. You dress as Batman. Similar to my Metal Gear Solid series,

we should have Andy play through the Arkham series. Do you want to peek behind the curtain right now? Yeah. A little peek behind the curtain. When we did Batman Begins in Review, Kevin lied about seeing it. That's me going off the record. He didn't watch it.

He didn't watch Batman's the energy. He said he forgot. Throw it out. We got to do all the Batman in review again. Great redirection. A reveal for what, 2020. Five years ago. And then I'll do third party.

We got a title of this as a big reveal at the end of this episode. the games cast. Third party points we have coming up. We have Final Fantasy 7 remake Intergrade January 22nd, rebirth coming, but we don't have a date for that yet. Eldon Ring Tarnished Editions, 2026. Hopefully they figure that out and fix it.

Indiana Jones in the Great Circles also being ported next year. And then Resident Evil 7 and Village coming out on the 27th of next year, alongside Resident Evil 9 Requiem. So that's kind of wild. And it seems like most of the big third party games announced so far, including 007 First Lights, Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight, and the more obvious ones like Dragon Quest 7 reimagined stuff, will be coming to the Switch 2.

Barrett, what's up? Sorry, I didn't see Dragon Quest on the list, and I just wanted to shout that out, because that's an exciting one I remember from Rogers' preview of him saying, like, damn, that actually runs and looks really good on the Switch 2. So I'm just, I'm excited for to have that as like a handheld experience. Tim, yes. What are the odds that Nintendo?

at any point decides we don't really like this switch to design fucking box text box at the bottom we don't like it either we'll put it somewhere else do that ever happens

because I fucking hate that thing no I don't Andy I think we're fucked I think it's there and I think it's gonna stick to the end even like okay but but only for games that also run on both right

yeah but there's also just game key card ones that have an insane amount of text down there. Oh, go to hell. Yeah. Ah! Yeah. So one of the sections I did put down here is, uh, just discourses. Discourses of the year. I love that. And some of them I had game key cards. That was a big one. Just prices in general. How insane they were, whether it was for the console itself, the controllers, the games, the tariffs, the amibos. And yeah, just ugly box art. God awful ugly box art.

Was Mario Kart world still the only $80 video game? Mario Kart World is the only $80. Remember when Outer Worlds 2, we tried it? Yeah, they're like, no, no, we're good. Sorry, sorry. I haven't played Outer Worlds 2 now? That's crazy. You can't charge $80 for that game.

If you didn't own Tiers of the Kingdom and you want it on Switch 2 for the first time purchase, that's technically also 80. Yeah. But that's kind of like a game plus DLC. But it doesn't have DLC, though. What, the tiers of the Kingdom DLC? No, the note stuff. Oh, gotcha, got you.

Like comparing that to StarCrossed World. It's like, no. And then in Breath of the Wild's case, they took away the DLC for Switch 2 version and charged more for that game. Oh, that's crazy. Wait, it doesn't come with the DLC? No. The DLC is not supported for Switch 2 upgrade. Oh, wait, really?

Yeah. So if you have it on the Switch 1 and then you update to the Switch 2 edition. The Switch 2 edition, I believe, does not have the DLC in it. If you want to play the DLC, you have to play the Switch 1 version. No shot. From my understanding. Interesting. I could be crazy.

That can't be right. Chat, prove, chat. Let's figure that out. Prove if I'm crazy or not. I could be right. Because to me, I think the craziest thing is the fact that Donkey Kong Country HD was a full price game. Because that's just like insane. Donkey Kong Country HD returns?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's the most egregiously priced game in the year, in my opinion. Then just random cool things on the opposite side. Switch 2 edition cartridges work on Switch 1. So if you plan on buying a Switch 2, you can buy Metroid Prime. play that cartridge on the Switch 1 Pokemon Zah by the Switch 2 version

Play on the Switch 1 that's kind of nifty And in opposition to ugly Box art, fucking awesome spine art The science is so sick Not just the same looking text All over it's so nice to him Very very nice On the hardware side of things

There was a shit ton of amoeboes A lot of surprising ones But the biggest problem is still price And quality I feel like the quality of amibos Has went down the toilet Over the last 10 years Chat is correcting me here There is an upgrade

But you have to re-buy the DLC Like you don't get the DLC through Like the Nintendo Switch online upgrade or whatever it is Yeah Which is still kind of Tim What if What if you and Greg and

And Nick in a founder's meeting said Andy we don't We don't see you doing this for very much longer Just remember what's happening in January on the anniversary Oh, you're firing Nick That's right. Okay.

Well, what if you said, Andy, you know, we appreciate everything you've done, but we see a new future for you here at the company. We're going to hire you to full-time paint, miniature paint,

my amoeboes. Yeah. Oh, wow. I like that. Just think of that. Because I, like, because here's what happened recently, Tim.

I have my little, uh, Link's Awakening keychain. Uh-huh. And it's all scuffed up. And then I bought some paints and I was like, oh, let me paint.

And it's the same miniature paint. And, And it, blessing, let me tell you. Like, this is going to be, this could be a couple of problems. The free time you guys have. I can't even fucking imagine. I can't even imagine anymore what that's like. This could become a problem.

Yes. I, I painted it. And I was like, I want to paint minibos and make them look sick as hell. So if you all could like just take my whole career. Because if I end up buying a Samis amoebo for no reason other than I just like her now, I need you to paint. I'll paint it on stream. Because there's a, there's a color way I like a lot in the game.

Oh. Okay. Greg Miller, biggest metric fan. I'm the voice of the new Metroid generation. Is there a way for us to like kind of like take off the the paintings of the amoebo? Like take the color off to get you like the full

Power wash it. Yeah, power wash it. And this is give you fucking full white amoebo that you can just dip it into like Jenda's pottery. So she could make me a Metro, a Samis pottery statue that you paint.

I was thinking, are you doing like a fucking and what's the poetry where you're like slam poetry? Jen does pottery so she can make me. First of all, don't slain her to slain poetry. I did a lot of slain poetry.

Bandera sent and a couple of people in the chat were calling out me saying the quality of Amoebo's gone down. I want to be very, very clear. I think the quality of the designs is incredibly high, and I'm very happy that we're getting as many as we are as the D.K. Bonanza wines and the, like, Viola from Metroid Prime and, like, the Kirby Air writer stuff.

I love the designs. and stuff. It's the quality of them themselves. The paint? Yeah, the paint, like their eyes, like, I bought the tiers of the kingdom ones and, like, Zelda's like, all stuff and stuff. She's goofy looking, dude. She's goofy looking, dude. She got hit in the head. She got kicked by Emuole. Yeah, she kicked by Emu. Like, that's the thing.

And let's just be real. That's what I'm talking about. But no, I am thrilled. Like, the problems and then, like, good things. On the good side, I love how weird they're getting with the Amivo's. And, like, we're getting streetfire amoevos. We are. We're getting so much shit. And I think that's very cool. So, I may be mis-merement.

mis-memoring this. Misremembering this. That was tough. That was a struggle. But when I went to the Metroid Prime 4 event, they were like, I remember, you can only take photos of this, but you can't take pictures of this and that, or you cannot take pictures of those amoeboes. I was like, oh, okay, fascinating.

And then after the event, I went to the Nintendo store, and I was a guy buying the Metroid Prime 4 Amoebo. I was like, why can I take pictures of the Amoe? There's for sale right now. It was a very odd thing. I mean, weird a thing at that event was they had the book, the art book. And they're like, you can't talk about the art book. You can't talk about anything in the art book. I literally have the art book.

And then one thing that I wanted to talk about in my review, but I forgot to that I really want to touch on is we got GameCube. We got Nintendo GameCube on NSO. And that means so much to me. And of course, I wish that just like the NSO always is, I wish they were a little better about consistently putting things out. But so far on GameCube, we got F0GX, Zelda Wind Waker,

Soul Calibur 2, Super Mario Strikers, Chibi Robo, and Luigi's Mansion. And like, let's just be real, that is a good chunk of the GameCube library that you want to play. There's many more to come. They already have teased, Fire and Boom Path of Radiance,

Pokemon Coliseum, and XDGale of Darkness, and Super Mario Sunshine. Those are all other ones that I can't wait to play. Want them to keep doing this, but I never thought we were actually going to get GameCube games on NSO. And we did. And now that's just an added thing to the value of NSO that I've been harping on for years at this point. Also joining Virtual Boy coming next year, the entire Virtual Boy Library.

If you want to get into that, I like Weird Nintendo. I like that they're doing that. Nobody is asking for this. I am not asking for this. Virtual Boy fucking sucks. You're going to buy the thing, though, right? I have all the other ones. Yeah.

You got it. But it's like for archival purposes and just for the, history of video games. That's cool that you'll be able to play all these games on that starting in February. Have we had any massive pricing increase or just any price increases on NSO? Well, they added the expansion pass that includes, you know, but there hasn't been like a, you know, how every year and a half Netflix hits you with a $2 increase or whatever. No, nothing like that. Um, and then NESS, we had some highlights. These aren't every single game that they put out this year on NSO, but Battletoads and Ninja Guideon 2. We had Mario Paint

on July 29th, which I was really excited about. They added mouse support from the Switch to JoyCon, which was awesome. And what a great way to celebrate such a special game. Game Boy had Donkey Kong 94, one of the greatest games of all time, and Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters. GBA, we finally got Wario Land 4

and Fire Emblem, the Sacred Stones. And 64, kind of a dud year, gonna be real. Ridge Racer, 64, Killer Instant Gold, and Foraken 64. I don't know where it is. I don't know what to tell you. you. Where is it? It's in a year where a new 3D Donkey Kong game comes out. You don't want to be like,

let's celebrate 3D Donkey Kong and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's vast history. It's wild. It truly is. fucked up. And then streets of rage. I know why. I know why. Why? People will play 64 and be like, oh. Oh, this is better. This is better. It's better than Bonanza. I'm with you, Barrett. Then on the Sega Genesis, Streets of Rage, uh, one was added. So overall specifically because the GameCube stuff I really enjoyed the NSO offerings and I'm excited for more things to drop as a lot of the old libraries, jokes aside,

are kind of finishing up. We're running out of things to put on them with the exception of DK64. But is there anything else y'all want to touch on before we get out of here? I'm just Googling how do wired mice connect to the switch and how do the buttons map and stuff like that? Because I keep hearing

he can just plugging a wired mouse into the switch too for the mouse controls. You don't believe them? But I just don't know how all that shit translates and I can't imagine it's very friendly. Yeah, we should get to the bottom of this. Are there any surprises we think are going to show up next year for Switch 2?

We finally get... Ocreen of Time remake. That's what I was going to say. God. Ocreen Time remake, yeah. I would fucking love that. I would lose my... We're getting a Zelda project.

We get a Zelda project every year. So this year was the weirdest one with the breath of wildeers. I mean, yeah, I am... I've been the firmest supporter of O'Carend of Time remake at some point. going to flip out of so much fun. My one thing that I didn't talk about in the, you know,

my nine and my six months with it, Barrett, I slacked on to assets if you want to toss it up. Well, me, I don't know. I think it's the best one I could find in the middle of a show. It's just Ben,

you know, getting to experience the switch alongside of me. Yeah, that actually is my rock. Sorry, I was moving too quick. I was trying to find the vacation photos of me and him playing Pokemon together

on the porch of the Airbnb arena or whatever. But like Ben's love. for Nintendo and Switch has also obviously greatly influenced mine, right? Because I ran through the games I love, then I've been playing a ton of times. But you go down there and it's like the amount of time somebody will hit me up, like not somebody, Dan, our friend Dan, not record, but the pooch, uh, hits me up and is like, hey, I saw you're on playing this. I'm like, that's Ben playing.

That's Ben playing something. You know what I'm talking about. I do. I do. I do. I call him pooch. What do you want me to do? I can't help it.

Uh, anyways, uh, but it's Ben being on there and Ben making me play wonder with him, right? Like Amari Brothers wonder didn't, what I wasn't. craving it when it originally dropped. I showed it to Ben 1 when he was super, super small. But, like, he loves playing that with me. He wanted to go play Galaxy. He's the one reason we went back to 64. Like, his love of Nintendo.

And even last night, you know, I was reading him his books in bed and then giving his back scratches as he drifted off. You know, he's three posters above his bed, right? It's Superman. It's Donkey Kong Bonanza. And it's the Halloween Pokemon one that we got up to Nintendo. You know what I mean? Like, that's this.

Are they going to take E-Gone? And last night, when we were reading the book, books at his little table. He was like, he gave me Hal Lucci. He's like, you can have Hal Lucha? And he's like, cool, can I take him to work? And he's like, no. He's got to stay in the hot, but I want to yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Like Nintendo on that vibe and getting to live that Nintendo

childhood through him is very exciting and cool. I want to get to some super chats to close out the show here with y'all's reviews of the first six months of the Switch 2. Kabob says for me, it's like the new 3DS or a Switch 1 Pro. It supplants the original and it's nice improvements, but it only has a handful of exclusives.

Yeah. As a Switch 1 I think that's a great way to put it. Like, I love it. Like, that's why I'm so high on it is. That's how I kind of see it. And that's all I needed. Jeff Bull Jr. says Kirby Air Ride and now Metroid coming out has dramatically increased my Switch 2 usage. Banderas N says love the Switch 2 so far.

Non-stop games since launch. First parties range from great to game of the year contender. Indies cooked, Silk Song, Hades, Pip Estrello, et cetera. This Pip Estrello, man, a lot of love for it. I've been seen in the last couple days. and 88 on OpenCredit. Street's fuck with it. I played the first few hours.

It wasn't really hitting for me, but it does, like, it brings me back to that Game Boy Advance era of just like really cool, weird games that you wouldn't expect to be as good as they are. But yeah,

people are really fucking with it. But I'm glad, I'm sad that I wasn't fucking with it more than I was. Was Pepper Grindr this year? No, that was last year. Okay, good, thank God. I played a decent amount.

I think I played like four hours of Pee B. Trello and kind of, kind of fell off. Peepi Strello. Peepie Strello. What do you say? Pipestrello? Pipestrello.

I feel like peepistrello is suggestive. Yeah, maybe. Embrosia jam. Strello at Peepie. Embrose and Jambs, the Switch 2 has been amazing. Seems like a lot of games media has become very jaded because it's their job, and Nintendo doesn't get enough credit

for how much quality content they released in 2025. Samson XP says, I love the form factor, but I wish it got new releases faster, like dispatch. been enjoying Pokemon but not much else the paid Switch 2 upgrades still irk me the wrong way games are now 115 Canadian dollars This Amibo Metroid Prime 4 soundtrack thing is crazy

I didn't know that was real I thought I was being rolled But the thing with it is that There are ways to unlock it in the game too Okay So there's just a lot of misinformation Okay got you Thank you

He's bringing the truth Tavin Balthill 5158 says Got my Switch 2 for Hades 2 since I've played catch up playing DK and MK and though those are good to great games. I can't recommend this console to Friends due to the price. They may as well get a PS5 or PC for more bang for the buck.

Devon Colbert says my girlfriend brought me a Switch 2 for my birthday in October. I've been playing Pokemon Zah, Donkey Kong, and Absalom. Very excited for everything in Nintendo's future. King Ryan says more Joycons and where are the GameCube games? Yeah, what is up? How are we six months in and haven't gotten a single JoyCon variant? That's crazy. I mean, not for

no. Well, it's because they dug themselves into a hole with the way the colors match up. With, like, how inside of the hardware, the blue and the orange are there. Like, they, they fuck that up. You should have left it all black or monotone or whatever. It will be fun. But, like, you got to, like, that goes, you introduce new colors and, like, you got the design leads being like, well, now you're fucking up my thing.

Like, that color inside for a reason. Sky says Switch 2 has been good for me, 85 plus hours into Hades 2 and restarted by Elk Crossing Island. Haven't played many new games due to lack of personal interest. I give Switch 2 a 7 out of 10 so far. the mental fortitude it takes to restart an Animal Crossing Island. I just can't do it. Joey did it.

They did it. Hats off to you. I got to go in there and weed the entire fucking place. Start throwing some dirt bags off the island. But I'll get it whipped into shit. Don't you worry? Good for you. Tuesday's the kingdom on Switch 2 made an incredible game even better at 60.

He says Luke Gondos Condor says, I know this is right before the Switch 2 drop, but has anyone at KF gone to Universal Super Nintendo World yet? No. You did? Oh, wait. No, that's not California. Yeah, yeah.

It's land, yeah. Whole thing. Well, everybody, that's been our look at the first six months of the Switch 2 in the whole year of Nintendo in 2025. Of course, we will be doing prediction episodes about the next year. We'll be doing a whole bunch of looks at all the games coming out because we got a bunch, January, February. We've got dates for Nintendo, baby.

But we have a whole day of content for you. We have kind of funny game Showdown next up, and then Bless and I are going to go hunt Eminem. So until next time, I love you all. Goodbye. We're going to