{"id":127059,"date":"2022-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-135538"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/06\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 6th)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been a busy week for Nintendo fans, and for us at Nintendo Life! Not only has Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Wave 2 finally dropped<\/a>, but Game Freak and The Pok\u00e9mon Company gave us plenty of news on Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet & Violet<\/a>! Nintendo also delivered its Q1 financial results, where it reported a drop in over sales<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

And while some of us really want more Mario Kart DLC tracks like Baby Park<\/a>, others of us are feeling very enthused by the new Pok\u00e9mon details<\/a>. Lastly, we all have a few games on our Switch that are hard to categorise, so why not check out our list of the best games that don’t really have a genre<\/a>? Or have multiple genres? They’re just hard to categorise. Unique, let’s say.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now it’s time to chill out and<\/em> discuss our weekend gaming plans.<\/em> A few m<\/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

Alana Hagues, staff writer<\/h2>\n

It’s been a week of full-on Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/a>, and that’s set to continue this weekend. At 40 hours, I’m a little ways into chapter 4, and I’m not bored one bit. The sidequests are brilliant, the combat has almost fully opened up at this point, the characters and the story are fantastic, and the music is so<\/em> good. Every time I start up a Chain Attack, I want to jump out of my seat and cheer thanks to this music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, Xenoblade 3 is phenomenal and pretty much impossible to put down, yes, but I think I’ll also challenge my partner at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>. The new courses are pretty good, so I’m excited to play them online with him (and beat him, of course).<\/p>\n