Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 26th)

It’s Saturday (unless you’re reading in this in a future, of course) that means that it’s time for nonetheless another weekend Talking Point. As always, we’ve dull adult several members of a Nintendo Life group and forc- *ahem*… pleasantly asked them to share their weekend plans, so make certain to give them a review before removing concerned with a check and criticism sections below. Enjoy!
Austin Voigt, contributing writer
This weekend, I’m indeed headed out to London for a gaming meetup with friends, so I’ll be once again admiring my Switch’s unstable capabilities in airports, planes and trains. I’ve got a crony with me, so it’ll expected be some good aged fashioned Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash Ultimate and Splatoon 2. Maybe even a small two-player Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!. I’m certain we’ll presumably provoke a heck out of a other passengers on a moody opposite a pool or start some cold aeroplane-wide Mario Kart contest with everybody else – who knows!
Jon Cousins, Japan correspondent
Intentionally avoiding a horrors of a certain classical reconstitute (because I’m a large wuss and can’t be personification that kind of malarkey during a moment), I’m delving into a splendidly dumb universe I’ve had my eye on for utterly some time: Pikuniku. Trying to stay divided from footage and reviews as many as probable (apart from a large whitchcraft Alex’s video) it’s as if George Orwell done a Mr Men diversion and we positively venerate it.
It indeed desirous me to revisit a Switch launch diversion – Snipperclips. Of course, a commune and rival multiplayer are hilariously brilliant, yet we again conclude a singular actor with a charm, moments of process meditative and fun nonplus solving.
Dom Reseigh-Lincoln, reviewer
This weekend I’ll be returning to a platforming gem roughly no one seems to remember from a sixth gen, Sphinx and a Cursed Mummy. It’s been given an HD makeover and it’s headed to Switch so of march I’m going to see if it’s got what it takes to live again in a new epoch of consoles. I’ll also expected doing be doing my common thing of lively between Warframe and Paladins because, presumably, I’m usually truly happy when I’m sharpened things to genocide in a game!
Ryan Craddock, staff writer
This weekend looks like it competence be a flattering busy, time-consuming one for me, so my gaming time competence be sadly limited. Having pronounced that, I’m certain my new rediscovered adore for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will make an entrance during some indicate – I’ve never unequivocally played Mario Kart online before, as we don’t tend to like personification anything online really, yet I’ve been enjoying a combined tragedy that actual, real-life humans can provide. I need to get out more, we know.
Elsewhere, we still haven’t found a time to play GRIS, notwithstanding a fact that it’s been sitting on my console for over a month now. Hopefully we can get a small bit of time to start that shortly as I’ve usually listened smashing things.
Liam Doolan, news reporter
Earlier this week we bought Mutant Mudds Collection, Xeodrifter and Soccer Slammers in a Atooi sale on a Switch eShop. So this weekend my devise is to play them all. Mutant Mudds is a diversion I’ve been definition to revisit for a prolonged time to try out a additional modes Super Challenge and Mudd Blocks. When I’m not personification presumably of these, I’ll be spending time in a Metroid-inspired diversion Xeodrifter, while perplexing to come to terms with a fact a growth of Metroid Prime 4 has been reset.
Gonçalo Lopes, contributing writer
Moe weekend! It will be all about Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for me; we acquire all this Suda51 stupidity with a passion and notwithstanding meaningful full good no one will remember a diversion by a year’s end, we am certain this is one of a 2019 Switch GOTY candidates. Elsewhere a bit of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and as many as we can presumably fit into Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition. Hmm, we got a bit of a sniffles… hopefully not a G Virus.
My diversion of a week goes to Pikuniku! What a delightful, minimalist tour where a drifting flog solves many issues. If usually genuine life were this simple…
Gavin Lane, contributing writer
This weekend we shall be mostly personification Downwell, OlliOlli: Switch Stance and When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, all for your reading pleasure over a entrance week(s). It would be good to make a hole in a backlog, too – Dark Souls Remastered isn’t going to play itself! – yet I’ll also be knee-deep in IKEA furniture, so many of my time will be spent spinning teeny Allen keys and shooing cats out of dull packaging.
Don’t feel too contemptible for me, though. Without wanting to spoil anything, that Downwell is still per-ritty good.
Which games are we personification this weekend? (14 votes)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Splatoon 2
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Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!
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Pikuniku
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Snipperclips – Cut it out, together!
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Warframe
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Paladins
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GRIS
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Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
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Dark Souls: Remastered
Mutant Mudds Collection
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Soccer Slammers
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Xeodrifter
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Something else (comment below)
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As always, interjection for reading! Make certain to leave a opinion in a check above and a criticism subsequent with your gaming choices over a subsequent few days…