{"id":123333,"date":"2022-03-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129353"},"modified":"2022-03-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T10:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/26\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 26th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d9fa59a1640e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d9fa59a1640e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Kirby\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d9fa59a1640e\/kirby.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5d9fa59a1640e\/kirby.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" alt=\"Kirby\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Happy Kirby Week! It&#8217;s another busy one here at Nintendo Life, with the launch of not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/kirby_and_the_forgotten_land\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land<\/a>, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/rune_factory_5\">Rune Factory 5<\/a>. We loved Kirby, giving it a solid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\">9\/10 in our review<\/a>, but were a tad more critical of Run Factory, slapping a score of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/rune-factory-5\">7\/10 on our review<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the news side of things, we&#8217;re about to see the release of not one, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/despite-the-impending-eshop-closure-this-dev-is-bringing-seven-new-games-to-3ds-and-wii-u\">seven new Wii U and 3DS games<\/a>, which is just bonkers. Activision\/Blizzard are once again in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/activision-blizzard-hit-with-new-harassment-and-discrimination-lawsuit\">spot of bother<\/a>, we learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/yes-the-house-of-the-dead-remake-does-have-gyro-and-its-getting-a-cowboy-mode\">The House of the Dead: Remake is getting a &#8216;Cowboy Mode&#8217;<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/samantha-robertson-has-left-nintendo-of-america-after-11-years\">NOA employee Samantha Robertson has left the company after 11 years<\/a>. Phew!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now it&#8217;s time to chill out and<\/em> <em>discuss our weekend gaming plans.<\/em> <em>A few m<\/em><em>embers of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Tom Whitehead, deputy editor<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>Like everyone and their ma&#8217; (and my mum is actually in this camp) I&#8217;ll be playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land. It&#8217;s so darn cute and innocent that, frankly, it&#8217;s pretty much perfect for a bit of weekend gaming at the moment. Elsewhere on Switch I&#8217;m currently banging my head against a tough battle in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/triangle_strategy\">Triangle Strategy<\/a> and stubbornly refusing to grind my levels up. I&#8217;ll crack and do that eventually!<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere I&#8217;m still woefully behind in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/elden_ring\" class=\"external\">Elden Ring<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll play a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/mlb_the_show_21\" class=\"external\">MLB The Show 21<\/a> as a warm up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mlb_the_show_22\">MLB The Show 22<\/a>; the new one will be almost identical, to be fair, but it&#8217;s an addiction.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"3Ok3FtBmp0Q\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Kate Gray, staff writer<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>On Monday, I will be getting an Xbox Series X. It feels a lot like introducing a new baby to a household, and my Switch is the older sibling who is afraid that they&#8217;ll be forgotten when the new arrival comes. Don&#8217;t worry, poppet \u2014 I&#8217;m forcing my partner to play through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword_hd\">Skyward Sword<\/a>, and he&#8217;s only just gotten to the Earth Temple, so we&#8217;ll have plenty of time to hang out.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I&#8217;m not playing Elden Ring and waiting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/outer_wilds\">Outer Wilds<\/a> to come out on Switch (COME ON), I will be playing more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/earthbound\">Earthbound<\/a>. I think I just got through Fourside, and according to the very cool guidebook I bought, I&#8217;m really not very far into the game. It&#8217;s bloody hard, though, innit? (And yes, that probably makes me the only person in here to not be going Mouthful Mode on Kirby this weekend. I HAVE A BACKLOG, I&#8217;ll get to it eventually.<\/p>\n<h2>Ollie Reynolds, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day in the UK this weekend, so I&#8217;m going to be spending quite a bit of my time making sure my wife is having a fun, relaxing couple of days, as it&#8217;s her first year as a mother. With that said, I&#8217;m not sure how much time I&#8217;ll be able to dedicate to gaming, but I would like to spend a bit of time with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/olliolli_world\">OlliOlli World<\/a>, as I kinda fell off it after a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>This means, of course, that I won&#8217;t be playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land. I don&#8217;t know what it is about the Kirby series, but it&#8217;s one of few Nintendo IP that I&#8217;ve never really got along with. I tried the demo recently and even that wasn&#8217;t quite enough to convince me.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"0dp3HVxY-YU\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Liam Doolan, news reporter<\/h2>\n<p>Like a lot of Switch fans, this weekend I&#8217;ll be playing Kirby&#8217;s latest adventure. It&#8217;s actually been quite some time since I <em>properly<\/em> tried out a Kirby game on release. In fact, the last one I was <em>really<\/em> excited about was the 2008\/09 Nintendo DS entry <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/kirby_super_star_ultra\">Kirby Super Star Ultra<\/a><\/strong>. Yep, it&#8217;s been that long.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what I have played of Kirby and the Forgotten Land so far, it&#8217;s pink puff perfection. I would go as far as saying this is up there with the best of the series&#8230;it just might be the best. Sure, it won&#8217;t be much of a challenge for any video game veteran, but it&#8217;s hard not to love the quality and flow of the 3D action and platforming. The team at HAL Laboratory has done an outstanding job! So, that&#8217;s likely it this weekend &#8211; I think I can knock this one over before Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<h2>Gon\u00e7alo Lopes, reviewer<\/h2>\n<p>Sweet <em>shmup<\/em> weekend ahead with both <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/andro_dunos_2\">Andro Dunos II<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tempest_4000\">Tempest 4000<\/a><\/strong> being utterly brilliant for different reasons and absolutely mandatory. Along with further <strong>Triangle Strategy<\/strong> drama I decided to stop putting off the original <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/valkyria_chronicles\">Valkyria Chronicles<\/a><\/strong> for long enough. Keep you head down, Alicia!<\/p>\n<p>No need to take a guess at game of the week: Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a HAL Laboratory triumph on all accounts. Get ready for the suck!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><em><em>As always, thanks for reading! Make sure to leave us a comment below with your weekend gaming plans!<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"zOZ_Qj8_L6k\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Happy Kirby Week! It&#8217;s another busy one here at Nintendo Life, with the launch of not only Kirby and the Forgotten Land, but also Rune Factory 5. We loved Kirby, giving it a solid 9\/10 in our review, but were a tad more critical of Run Factory, slapping a score of 7\/10 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-123333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123333","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=123333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}