{"id":104292,"date":"2019-11-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/talking_point_what_are_you_playing_this_weekend_november_23rd"},"modified":"2019-11-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T10:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-november-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/23\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-november-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 23rd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cb2e836115a7f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cb2e836115a7f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"TheTouryst\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cb2e836115a7f\/thetouryst.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cb2e836115a7f\/thetouryst.900x.jpg\" alt=\"TheTouryst\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been an eventful anniversary-filled week! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_is_the_fastest-selling_switch_game_yet\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield got off to a sterling start<\/a> despite its mixed reception, we reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/gallery_this_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_bedroom_mural_is_absolutely_stunning\">a stunning Zelda Breath of the Wild bedroom mural<\/a> that had us looking at our dreary walls in envy, and a remarkable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/feature_the_story_behind_new_super_mario_land_the_homebrew_marvel_intended_as_a_christmas_gift\">&#8216;New&#8217; version of Super Mario Land<\/a> that popped up on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Nintendo Life team have gathered to discuss our plans and we&#8217;d love for you to join in via our poll and comment sections below. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Gavin Lane, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>I shall be perusing the sales this week in my usual way, and doing my best to resist any spicy deals I come across. Should I get the time I plan to continue my journey through Galar in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword<\/a><\/strong>. Perhaps it has something to do with diminished expectations and the fact I haven&#8217;t played a Pok\u00e9mon game for a <em>long<\/em> time, but I&#8217;m finding the game utterly charming. Technically, it&#8217;s hardly bleeding edge, but I&#8217;m really enjoying almost everything about it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be starting something for review and have a few retro games I\u2019d like to catch up with on the SNES Classic Mini. A little DK, perhaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kk3dkROyWLk?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>Gon\u00e7alo Lopes, contributing writer<\/h2>\n<p>I have been working on-and-off on a particular challenging music album for the past two years and the release date is quickly approaching. I would love to kick back and let it happen but there still remains a ton of work to do, so this weekend gaming time will consist of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/daemon_x_machina\">DAEMON X MACHINA<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astral_chain\">Astral Chain<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/river_city_girls\">River City Girls<\/a><\/strong> and the ridiculously addictive <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rekt_high_octane_stunts\">REKT! High Octane Stunts<\/a><\/strong> sessions. <strong>In The Hunt<\/strong> is now part of the Switch ever-growing stellar shmup library, so I will give that one a proper playthrough for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Game of the Week is Shin\u2019en latest effort <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/touryst\">The Touryst<\/a><\/strong> (not a typo!). It immediately took me back to old ZX Spectrum \u201cFilmation\u201d isometric video games for some reason, a reality-check to remind myself I am indeed very, very old&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Austin Voigt, contributing writer<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m beginning to feel like a broken record, but I truly will just be playing <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Shield<\/strong> this entire weekend. I\u2019ve only found the time to put a couple of hours into it so far, so I\u2019ll finally be able to really sink my teeth in this weekend; however, after even just those few hours, I can easily say most of the negative hype surrounding the games pre-launch was completely misguided and ridiculous. Is it a perfect game? No. But it\u2019s very rare that I find myself unintentionally grinning as I progress through a game these days &#8211; and that\u2019s precisely what I\u2019ve caught myself doing each time I play. I may just be biased as a (nearly) lifelong Pok\u00e9mon fan experiencing their first full-fledged HD installment in the series &#8211; but I am really, thoroughly enjoying this thing, people.<\/p>\n<h2>Liam Doolan, news reporter<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;ll be continuing my adventure in the Galar region. I didn&#8217;t make as much progress as I hoped I would last weekend. In saying this, I still managed to collect all eight badges over the course of the week and catch more than 100 pocket monsters. With this out of the way, I intend to take on the Champion Cup, so I can prove I&#8217;m the very best, and then go and catch a legendary Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5eZ1GmizSoc?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><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>It&#8217;s been an eventful anniversary-filled week! Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield got off to a sterling start despite its mixed reception, we reported on a stunning Zelda Breath of the Wild bedroom mural that had us looking at our dreary walls in envy, and a remarkable &#8216;New&#8217; version of Super Mario Land that popped up on [&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-104292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104292","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=104292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}