{"id":102554,"date":"2019-10-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/talking_point_what_are_you_playing_this_weekend_october_26th"},"modified":"2019-10-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T09:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-october-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/26\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-october-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 26th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7fe780bc01550\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7fe780bc01550\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"RFA\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7fe780bc01550\/rfa.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7fe780bc01550\/rfa.900x.jpg\" alt=\"RFA\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Here we are once again, seven days later, as if by magic. It&#8217;s been a week game-packed with video games of all shapes and sizes. This week we&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/rumour_buster_sorry_you_wont_be_getting_a_usd149_switch_lite_from_walmart_this_black_friday\">Black Friday &#8216;leaks&#8217;<\/a> which were too good to be true, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/japans_finally_getting_its_first_ever_nintendo_store_next_month_heres_what_you_can_buy\">news of a Nintendo Store opening in Tokyo<\/a> (no, amazingly there wasn&#8217;t one already) and Nintendo President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/nintendos_dev_teams_need_freedom_to_experiment_according_to_president_shuntaro_furukawa\">Shuntaro Furukawa giving a rare interview<\/a> to western journalists. Now, though, it&#8217;s time to sit back and relax with some of them vidya games.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As ever, Team Nintendo Life has gathered to discuss our weekend plans and we&#8217;d love for you to get involved via the comment and poll sections below. Enjoy!<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Liam Doolan, news reporter<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;ll be continuing my adventure in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\">Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;ve absolutely loved every single second of this game so far, so I&#8217;m looking forward to jumping back in for another prolonged session.<\/p>\n<p>If I manage to rip myself away from this, I plan to spend some more time with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong>, as I&#8217;m not ready to leave Koholint Island just yet. I&#8217;ll also be revisiting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/wargroove\">Wargroove<\/a><\/strong> (which is a game I <em>really<\/em> need to play more often) and if I get the chance, I might even play some <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\">Rocket League<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Gon\u00e7alo Lopes, contributing writer<\/h2>\n<p>No points for anyone guessing that I\u2019m placing (again) two of my GOTYs into my weekend plans: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astral_chain\">Astral Chain<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/daemon_x_machina\">DAEMON X MACHINA<\/a><\/strong>. Feels like I\u2019m purposely not finishing both but the real blame lies with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/witcher_3_wild_hunt_-_complete_edition\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a><\/strong> which has naturally taken over most of my gaming life. Some multiplayer bouts of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/river_city_melee_mach\">River City Melee Mach!!<\/a><\/strong> and kaiju-kicking provided by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/override_mech_city_brawl_n_super_charged_mega_edition\">Override: Mech City Brawl<\/a><\/strong> round things up nicely for another explosive gaming weekend.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U0vFWbkMXWk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Game of the week is another essential fighting game that arrives fashionably late to the Switch and marks my first time with the series: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/skullgirls_2nd_encore\">Skullgirls 2nd Encore<\/a><\/strong> feels like an Arc Systems Works fighting game with the animation of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cuphead\">Cuphead<\/a><\/strong>. If that is not enough to pique your interest, perhaps the incredible soundtrack by the one and only Michiru Yamane might, or the fact my main is a wrestler who fights with a folding chair (clich\u00e9!) and an amputated, possessed arm of a giant demon (OK, that\u2019s fresh, even for me!).<\/p>\n<h2>Austin Voigt, contributing writer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend, my little brother will be visiting from out of town &#8211; so, of course, we\u2019ll be continuing our eternal sibling gaming battle that has been going on since our childhoods &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Smash Bros.<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart<\/a><\/strong> will be the deciding factors. After that, he\u2019ll be playing Link\u2019s Awakening for the first time, while I watch and cheerfully withhold any helpful tips from him (I recently received my UK Special Edition in the mail, so I\u2019m bequeathing my Dreamer Edition to him &#8211; and he has yet to try it out). I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll also cave and pick up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\">Ring Fit Adventure<\/a><\/strong> as well, because it just looks like too much fun. Should make for an entertaining weekend!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i6YSQ-emYQc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Gavin Lane, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>I picked up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/xeodrifter\">Xeodrifter<\/a><\/strong> for the teeny tiny sum of 99 cents last week, so I&#8217;d love to dabble with that if I can wade out of the backlog. I also have a pile of <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> games that have been sitting on my desk for a while in preparation for a feature I&#8217;ll be cooking up on a month or two. I suppose I should really get started on them. Bit of a shame there are so few decent games set in that universe, really. You could even say that I&#8217;ve been hoisted by my own&#8230; <em>wait for it<\/em>&#8230; Picard.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much &#8211; I&#8217;ll be here all night. Don&#8217;t forget to tip your waitress.<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, thanks for reading! Make sure to leave a vote in the poll above and a comment below with your gaming choices over the next few days&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are once again, seven days later, as if by magic. It&#8217;s been a week game-packed with video games of all shapes and sizes. This week we&#8217;ve seen Black Friday &#8216;leaks&#8217; which were too good to be true, news of a Nintendo Store opening in Tokyo (no, amazingly there wasn&#8217;t one already) and Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}