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Great stuff!
Pedro Pascal fits Mario better than Chris Pratt.

This game is very nice if you are a car enthusiast and grew up in the 80s, especially in Europe.
Plenty of cars in it which filled the streets around here back in the days. Just a pity the game doesn't have the licences to give the cars their proper names, but on the other hand there are a few references to pop culture.

This game caught my attention in different upcoming games videos on YouTube.
I guess I better wait until its issues are fixed before I buy it.

A Pink Floyd fan?
I didn't know these came that young. 🤣

"Best End-Of-Year Arrival That Dropped Too Late To Make Our GOTY 2021 List"

Why can't media wait until at least the 1st of January to make retrospectives of the former year?

To give an answer to the question in the video:
Out of the showcased games Axiom Verge 2 and Eastward.

@HammerGalladeBro You can at least keep the charcoal and use it for a BBQ in summer.

Blasphemous is missing on the list.
It's got that 16th century Catholic vibe we all need for Christmas.
🤣

If the question were "How was your year with Nintendo?" I'd answer with a 10/10, because I purchased the Switch in January 2021.
It's been a long time I had this fun gaming.

Arf, I hoped to get the retail version today, now I'll have to wait until the 2nd of December.

They'll release the first games that smell.
Perfect if you play a game where Link is in the woods in morning dew, not so perfect when you play a game with Wario unless you like the thick scent of freshly chewed garlic.

€40 for Peppa Pig?
I prefer to invest that sum in bacon, ham and chops.

I don't need the Expansion Pack for NSO.
N64 games don't interest me much and if some games might eventually I can play those at my brother's who owns a N64 collection.
As for the Mega Drive, I own roughly 120 games for that machine, I'm covered.

By the way, how do Brits pronounce Celtics?
Keltics or Seltics?

Pity, I was looking forward to that game.

Finished this game today as part of the Sega Mega Drive Classics on Switch.
A solid 7/10 to me.

OK, this man had to struggle to get to his position, but not everyone can be the CEO or president of a company.
The economy wouldn't turn right if everyone was an executive.

@RudyC3 Yeah, I'm also a bit worried about the upcoming Astérix & Obélix brawler. It'll be published by the same company.

I like the humour of that game and its hat swapping mechanic.
I'm less a fan of its performance issues and its camera that goes mental sometimes.

@Stubborn_Monkey
Nintendo didn't have a problem to celebrate Super Mario's 35th anniversary. He changed also a lot these last 35 years, while 35 being a rather awkward anniversary to celebrate.
Donkey Kong on the other hand is turning 40 and is the company's first real global success in the video game business. Not only that, as you point out it contains also the first appearance of video game's most prominent character.
I'd take some love for DK, like an official celebration video on YouTube.

D'oh.
I was hoping for a quality game with Gru and the Minions...

(Although, there's already Capital Bee in the Yooka-Laylee games, he looks like Gru.)

Kind a punch in the gut for me.
I was hyped for that game.

SkateBIRD looks chill.
I might get that.

I'm hyped as long the guy in my avatar is in it.
Bring it on!

@ludotaku Captain Tsubasa aka Olive et Tom was one of the rare reasons for me to tune in to the Club Dorothée. Otherwise I wasn't a fan of that French children program.
(Coucou du Luxembourg!)

@nhSnork Yeah. Street Racer has a football game with cars, it's like a distant predecessor of Rocket League.
Though it's quite abysmal on Mega Drive. I heard the SNES version is way better.

Nintendo Switch GTX 3000 (with a 3 litre petrol engine).
xD

@robe Indeed, here it says 93.17€. Those aren't exactly 55 quid, by far.

@SkyArcher
I recently bought three games from Amazon.co.uk, I didn't need to pay extra handling fees for customs to my mailman (which are usually 15€ per order plus the custom fee itself). I paid all necessary fees directly while ordering, which weren't high. In fact the bulk of fees were shipping (2.87£ in my case), while the British VAT was replaced by an EU one.

On the one hand I don't care about Pokémon Snap.
On the other I'm glad MK8D is still selling so well, I'll be able to play it online for a longer time.

The writer of the review deplores the missing of Super Turrican II.
I deplore the one of the C64 versions of the two first games, after all this franchise was born on that machine.

This software offers quite a lot with the five games it has nowadays:
Shovel of Hope (the original Shovel Knight), Plague of Shadows, Specter of Torment, King of Cards and Showdown.

@Crockin Why not have the Minions in a Mario game, when we already had the Raving Rabbids?
I'd like to see that.

Luckily I'm just part of the Sicilian Mafia.
xD

@w00dpecker Did you change your avatar extra for this comment? Or are you a royalist all year long?

So are we also getting the obligatory Hitler Miis?
Met some of those already in Mario Kart, but once we were racing against someone who switched between Soviet dictators (Stalin, Lenin and Brezhnev), ancient Greek philosophers (Plato and Socrates) and a modern German one (Nietzsche).

It's quite a stretch to link Phrygian caps directly to guillotines, that's why I agree seeing a woke aspect in this text.
In every French town hall there's always a picture, a bust or a statue of Marianne de France wearing such a cap, even the standard post stamps and the French Euro cent coins show her with the cap.
In France she's just as common as the Queen in England and the Bald Eagle in the US.

It's currently on sale for 14,99€ at the eShop, at least in my region.

If you are a fan of the Italian duo this game is worth a try, it's full of references to their films and it has a soundtrack which is of better quality than in the actual movies.
If not, there are way better executed brawlers on the Switch, like Streets of Rage 4.
Slaps and Beans has too many flaws to give it a really high score. Like that one boss battle against this guy on stilts on the fun fair, which takes ages for no reason. Then some dialogue that disappears too quickly, not even giving you the time to read it fully. And finally the AI of the CPU controlled character during the last boss battle, it's more like AS (artificial stupidity).

6/10 from me, mostly because I'm a fan of these two guys and own most of their films on DVD.

If Nintendo would release a Switch with sturdier parts, consumers would have to cough up a chunk more than +/- 300€ for it.
You can't expect sturdiness the likes of older consoles, while having more modern and sensitive parts, paying basically the same price (without taking inflation in account).

The selection of classic Rallye cars might make me weak, especially the French and the Italian ones.

My mum (RIP) used to play the original Moorhuhn on PC.
I guess she would've liked its Kart spin-offs.

@echoplex More Hoon Kart Tsvy ^^

Oha!
I'm clearly in the minority of the 20% this Pachter guy mentions.

I prefer this game to the original ones on the Mega Drive.
Almost alone for the fact you have an extra button to pick up items, you don't pick up things from the street by accident when you actually want to hit the bad guy in front of you.

Although you get plenty of gold in game. I'm at the end only the last secret chapter and the last few challenges to do and I have a surplus of 20k coins. Find out which characters suit you best, for me the starting trio made most of the job, there were only two challenges where I needed Rabbid Mario, one battle and one challenge where I needed Luigi. You don't have to have every character up to date in equipment.
By the way, my avatar shows my favourite character in this game.