{"id":125629,"date":"2022-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-132849"},"modified":"2022-06-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-june-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/11\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-june-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 11th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bcc75bc326db0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bcc75bc326db0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bcc75bc326db0\/super-mario-sunshine.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Super Mario Sunshine\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Well folks, it&#8217;s been another jam-packed week at Nintendo Life, with plenty of highlights to mention! First up, the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_strikers_battle_league\">Mario Strikers: Battle League<\/a> launched on Friday and we thought it was a great sports game for the Switch in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/mario-strikers-battle-league\">our review<\/a>. Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic_ii_the_sith_lords\">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords<\/a> launched digitally on the eShop, but Limited Run Games confirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/star-wars-kotor-ii-receiving-limited-run-games-physical-switch-release\">physical release of the game later this year<\/a>, along with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/round-up-every-physical-game-from-limited-runs-summer-showcase-coming-to-switch\">boat load of other announcements<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Elsewhere, we got our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/flashback-returns-in-long-awaited-sequel-on-switch-this-winter\">first glimpse<\/a> at the long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/flashback_2\">Flashback 2<\/a> at the Summer Game Fest live stream, bringing an end to an agonising 30-year wait. We also got a release date for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_shredders_revenge\">TMNT: Shredder&#8217;s Revenge<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredders-revenge-launches-next-week\">lot closer than you might expect<\/a>! Finally, in a bittersweet story, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/twitter-users-rally-for-young-cancer-patient-who-dreams-of-playing-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet\">folks over on Twitter rallied together to help a young cancer patient connect with<\/a><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/twitter-users-rally-for-young-cancer-patient-who-dreams-of-playing-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet\">The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/a>.<\/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!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Ollie Reynolds, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m still playing through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic\">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic<\/a>. I downloaded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic_ii_the_sith_lords\">sequel<\/a> ready for when I&#8217;m done, but I may hold off on it until the additional DLC is added. I&#8217;m very much enjoying my time with KOTOR though. Once you get past the admittedly slow start, it&#8217;s a great world to get lost in.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, there&#8217;s not a whole lot else I&#8217;m playing right now. I&#8217;m right in the middle of <strong>Stranger Things 4<\/strong> at the moment, so no doubt my wife and I will put some time aside to polish that off at some point.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Bf7o2Qv_Ji4\">[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>Gon\u00e7alo Lopes, reviewer<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>Can you feel it? The excitement of the non-E3 E3 season? Sometimes from our side as journalists the fear of missing out some important news. Madness is here and all we can do is hope our wallets can handle it. Great week for my Switch with physical copies of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/redout_space_assault\">Redout Space Assault<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/gearshifters\">Gear Shifters<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/narita_boy\">Narita Boy<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/axiom_verge_2\">Axiom Verge 2<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/demon_slayer_-kimetsu_no_yaiba-_the_hinokami_chronicles\">Demon Slayer<\/a><\/strong> all rubbing elbows to get my attention this four (!) day weekend. But they do have some top tier competition&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Game of the week is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_strikers_battle_league\">Mario Strikers Battle League Football<\/a><\/strong>. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re all thinking \u201c<em>Ah yes, the obvious choice<\/em>\u201d but you would be disregarding the amount of time I had with this franchise all the way back to the original GameCube outing during college. Play ball!<\/p>\n<h2>Kate Gray, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend is my five year anniversary (woo!!!) but we don&#8217;t really have many big plans, other than eating good food and playing <strong>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/strong>! I&#8217;ll probably be playing a lot of [REDACTED] for a review, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/return_of_the_obra_dinn\">Return of the Obra Dinn<\/a> for Backlog Club, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hollow_knight\">Hollow Knight<\/a> in anticipation of next month&#8217;s Backlog Club choice.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"5dlhAOZPOUY\">[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>Alana Hagues, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend, I\u2019m going away with my partner, but that doesn\u2019t mean that video games are entirely out of the equation! I\u2019ll be making time to check out the demo for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/yurukill_the_calumniation_games\">Yurukill: The Calumniation Games<\/a>. That game has strong <strong>Danganronpa<\/strong> vibes, but with even more visual novel elements <em>and<\/em> some shump segments? Sounds wild. I\u2019m totally in.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the docket is \u2013 weirdly \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_mario_sunshine\">Super Mario Sunshine<\/a>. Don\u2019t ask why I\u2019ve randomly decided to pick this up again as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_3d_all-stars\">Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/a> bundle. I\u2019ve just had a sudden urge to play some. Maybe it\u2019s the lovely weather? Maybe I just really want to be at the beach on an island covered in goop and paint? Maybe the camera controls won\u2019t annoy me that much this time? Ah well, we\u2019ll see. Happy gaming!<\/p>\n<h2>Felix Sanchez, video producer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend I&#8217;m planing on playing some Wii games with my little brother. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/warioware_smooth_moves\">WarioWare<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/mario_kart_wii\">Mario Kart Wii<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/wii_sports\">Wii Sports<\/a>, the whole bunch! My wii has been broken for a couple of years, so it&#8217;s gonna be nice to finally be able to play it again!<\/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=\"0BNlhLRZpaI\">[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 Well folks, it&#8217;s been another jam-packed week at Nintendo Life, with plenty of highlights to mention! First up, the excellent Mario Strikers: Battle League launched on Friday and we thought it was a great sports game for the Switch in our review. Similarly, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith [&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-125629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125629","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=125629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}