Age of Imprisonment is the first miss of the Switch 2 era for me. Probably not gonna see this one through. I find the plot so weak, its presentation even weaker, and while the action is satisfying the context weighs it down. But Nintendo's year is so packed we're onto the next big game in 9 days!

Imagine if the community was half as outraged by something that actually matters as it is by game key cards

Started in on my replay of Prime 3. How good is the Bryyo cliffside track www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTx...

I have something of an affinity for the Mario Movie insofar as it's diverting and colorful and has a lot nice gags and details for fans. But it's also as thinly plotted and meaningless a children's move as you can make with a good conscience. How can I get hyped for the Galaxy movie. be for real

Age of Imprisonment is really really fun to play but MAN does the plot (and its presentation) just have no aura. 2 hours in, the goings on feel super boring and reliant on me being intrinsically interested in seeing *more* of these characters doing stuff. I'm not that kind of Zelda fan I fear

This clip illustrates how Dread Samus and Prime Samus are different. In Dread, Samus steps into enemies for a counter & kill. In Prime 4, Samus steps back and has her missile swatted away. The former is about feeling indomitable, the latter is about overcoming great odds. Two awesome interpretations

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This is goofy all around but I unironically love hearing how people varying degrees removed from our enclave at the heart of video game bluesky feel about games. My favorite is when my friends who play games very very casually fill me in on which are hot enough to break into their TikTok fyp

I would like that rumored Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga Switch 2 port ASAP please

A few very very brief thoughts on this trip through Echoes: backloggd.com/u/AbramBuehn...

Prime 2 replay finished!! Still my least fave of the trilogy but I enjoyed it a lot more this time :))

Ok this is a bit nostalgic for me! Christmas 2011 when I got my 3DS. One of mg best Christmas memories

That said I now have 4 Nintendo apps on my phone, I wish I just had 1 that contained the features of Nintendo Store, Nintendo Today, and Nintendo Switch Online. I suppose Nintendo Music could be its own thing

The Nintendo Store app is super fun. I love that it has playtime data back to the launch of 3DS!! Here are my most played games, Pokémon Y topping the list at over 400 hours

I made a casual video talking over & about today's Metroid Prime 4 trailer to try & explain what this game is signaling to me about how it sits in conversation with Prime 2 and 3, games I think have become entirely misunderstood but are instructive for reading 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Sh...

I love this new Prime 4 "Survive" trailer. I feel like it's working to marry the oppressive sensibility of Prime 2 with the action-focused ethos of Prime 3. On the whole tho, it seems like Retro is travelling in the more cinematic direction Corruption took us in, which personally I really like

GRAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH ONE MONTH UNTIL PRIME 4

Looking for work! Do you want features on Pokémon Legends Z-A? Write-ups on the latest Warframe update? Kirby Air Raiders discussions? Coverage of Magic: The Gathering's new Avatar set? Or do you just want news, reviews, and guides? Whatever you want, I'm your gal! Contact me: [email protected]

As we enter GOTY season properly and begin signaling the superiority of our individual tastes, I'd like to just save everyone the hassle of listening to me: My GOTY is almost always whatever my favorite Nintendo game of the year is, unless there's a Star Wars game then that sometimes takes the cake

You can play games on the Wii U even when someone is using the TV!

1. Let's Go 2. Legends ZA 3. Scarlet & Violet 4. Sword & Shield 5. Legends Arceus 6. BDSP

This doesnt fit into a post neatly but I really like how ZA situates the player. Most Pokémon stories are about leaving home for the first time to discover something about yourself. ZA lodges you in a community and asks you to help out towards a common goal. And to reflect on why you do that.

I finished ZA this morning! Awesome. Love how it bravely re-examines the relationship between ppl & Pokémon, there are a lot of great story and mechanics opportunities downstream from that. Less sold on its last few hours that pivot awkwardly in XY fan service!

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its amazing how red he can get

Continue your adventure with Tunic: Design Works! 🦊 @finjico.bsky.social Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️ Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic

On this podcast Jake and Peter talk about how they are so happy with Switch 2 and I gotta say, I don't think I could possibly be happier. So many wonderful games and a great piece of hardware. And bc of the continuity with Switch 1 the ecosystem is already so bustling!!

Has anyone in the US preloaded Age of Imprisonment? I got my preorder in, but it's not downloading yet. Really not sure why

The Animal Crossing team is so funny, man. They will stand defiant in players calls for even a little crumb of an update during a game's peak popularity and then 20 years later be like "We have added macroeconomics to Animal Crossing: New Leaf."

What if we kissed on the Big Man couch

eeeeeek I gotta be honest I am sort of a New Horizons hater BUT partially bc I think the game is stranded between Minecraft sandbox god game and friction-ful life sim. I love that the new update is going all multiplayer Creative mode!! Feels like the natural conclusion of where modern AC is trending

I'm sure Ball x Pit is perfectly good but I only have room in my heart for one "wow look at the numbers go!" game and that's Nubby's Number Factory

How cool is this!! Not every day you have the privilege of announcing a physical edition for one the year's great releases. Awesome!! Check out our newest EDITIONS:

Sometimes youre really stressed and then you remember Luigi's Mansion is coming to NSO at 9pm and you're still really stressed but at least you have something to look forward to

I'm always confused about why most remakes are followed by a chorus of complaints that some old design decision has been revised. Why are we so protective of a classic game's integrity, were these creative choices so sacred? Is every modernization necessarily a compromise? My answer to both: no!

There's literally 1 good battle royale game and its f-zero 99

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Delighted to announce Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo, and equally thrilled to be working with @hollynielsen.bsky.social, @nadiaoxford.bsky.social, @illogicaljoker.bsky.social and Christian Donlan, who will be contributing essays to the book. Preorder at the link below!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SIMOGO!! What an honor to be collaborating with such a creative, curious team. Check this out :)))

Gotta say its hard to overstate the value of gamecube games on NSO for me. Im planning my week around the Luigis Mansion drop! And I've already played that one! When Path of Radiance or the Pokémon games show up... they'll be like my most anticipated games of whatever month lol

I think the way Legends ZA sequences and progresses the main quest is great. I'm on Mission 24 and am enjoying how the game introduces new factions (like the Rust Syndicate) or Wild Areas that keep Lumiose feeling alive, while also rotating me through Royale Promotion and Rogue Mega battles.

I think seeing The Weeknd and Carti perform Rather Lie is the best thing that's happened to me all year

I'm nearing the end of Make Us Whole: The History of Dead Space published by @lostincult.co.uk and I must say that I really like the author's approach. He obviously talks about the development of the three main games, but he doesn't forget the whole transmedia concept, and it's really nice to...

I wrote about Madden, the passage of time, how nostalgia for past sports games prevents people from appreciating the present, how I'm afraid of wasting my life, and trying to figure out how to live after spending a lot of time wanting to die. I hope you'll read it. TW for mentions of suicide.

MY FIRST SHINY IN ZA!!

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It is amazing how much more focused and motivated I feel after sitting outside for 30 minutes and reading

Kind of driving myself crazy right now because I keep trying to fit the name of this old PC games system, the Acorn Archimedes, into the tune of the Katamari Damacy theme song and it just is not working no matter how hard I try

In honor of a new Katamari game coming out tomorrow, I'm going to roll as many Bluesky games discourse buzzwords into one post as I can: Game pricing, review scores, release calendar, embargoes, game of the year, Pokémon graphics, pre-release DLC, framerate, "system sellers", um,

This is a big one and a MASSIVE labor of love from the whole Lost In Cult team AND all the lovely people at Kinetic Games. A big, huge, AMAZING Phasmophobia board game :))) how cool is this!