Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (9th November)

Another week with a sliver of official ‘Switch 2’ news? Gosh, Nintendo, you really do know how to spoil us!

Yes, accompanying Nintendo’s quarterly financial report this week, company president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the Switch successor will be backwards compatible and the Nintendo Switch Online service will carry over too. It ain’t much, but it’s something.

The financials themselves were expectedly mehwith Nintendo lowering its sales forecast as it reconfirmed its upcoming slate. The week also brought some brightness, mind you. Stardew Valley’s long-awaited 1.6 update finally arrived on Switch (and we had a chat with its creator, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone), Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket celebrated 30 million global downloads and we took a peek at a gorgeous (but expensive) Castlevania LP collection.

It was also time for a new Nintendo release. Mario & Luigi: Brothership is finally here! And we reviewed it! After that, we shared our thoughts on Vampire Survivors’ excellent new ‘Ode to Castlevania’ DLC, STALKER: Shadow of Chornobyl, Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: Reforged and more.

Now then, what are we all up to this weekend (aka, how many of us are playing Brothership)?

Top Stories Tamfitronics Jim Norman, Staff Writer

Yep, it’s going to be all about Brothership for me this weekend. I’ve only scratched the surface so far, but I really like what I’m seeing! It hasn’t quite reached the heights of Superstar Saga for me juuust yet, but I’ll keep going as long as I have this stupid big grin on my face.

Maybe I’ll speed through another stage or two of Sonic X Shadow Generations if I have time, but, honestly, I’m all about the other Olympic champ this weekend.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Kate Gray, Contributor

This weekend I’m slicing my way through Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which is not quite all I wanted it to be, but still a lot of fun. I am also keeping a note of all the lines that make me roll my eyes, and it’s reading like a list of Hollywood’s worst clichés — “well, that just happened”, ” we’ve got company”, “it’s quiet… too quiet” — I genuinely can’t believe that they’ve put this many bad lines into a game series known for its good writing!

I’ve also been playing [REDACTED] ahead of its (still unknown) release, and oh my GOD, what a game! You’re going to love it. I have absolutely zero idea if it’s coming to Switch, but I hope it does.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Gonçalo Lopes, Contributor

“Water damage”. These are about the most terrifying words in the dictionary when you’re filling out an insurance claim for what used to be the contents of my living room, aka the game room where over forty years of my life as a gamer are stored and displayed. But at the start of this past week, the rain pouring outside became the waterfall pouring down from the ceiling into my video game collection. A tragedy? Surely. Yet when you look around the world, eventually you realise it was “just stuff”. No water, fire or alien invasion will ever destroy the memories of the things you grew up with, even if their material form is gone. It is time to move on.

My game of the week is obviously Mario & Luigi: Brothership (hilarious translated in the country next door as “Conexión Fraternal”). Just another quality Nintendo first-party Switch game on the shelf, right? Well, this one comes with a somewhat “heavy” bonus: Brothership is the 1000th physical video game in my collection. As I look back on nearly eight years of my life, I can’t help but be humbled by how lucky I was to go through unbearable hardships in the company of Nintendo’s hybrid cultural phenomena. Video games, eh? How many lives have they touched and, yes, even saved? Let us continue on this journey together.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Craig Reid, Video Producer – Pure Xbox

I think there’s only one game for me this weekend, and that’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Honestly, I’m so keen on this style of Mario game. I adored Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga back in the day — heck, I still play it from time to time. So, to have a new Mario & Luigi game? Oh boy, I am spoiled.

Someone should probably check in on me Sunday evening, though; I might need to be peeled off and away from my Switch by that point.

Anyhoo, happy gaming, folks!

That’s what we have planned for the weekend, but what about you? Let us know in the following poll which games you’re planning on booting up over the next couple of days.