{"id":135482,"date":"2025-12-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195345"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:00:00","slug":"opinion-wishlisting-games-on-switch-eshop-is-a-game-in-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/opinion-wishlisting-games-on-switch-eshop-is-a-game-in-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Wishlisting Games On Switch eShop Is A Game In Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love browsing the eShop, and the clicky sounds as you scroll across it.<\/p>\n

The pleasing crispness of the chick<\/em>! sound goes so well with the Joy-Con button feel. There\u2019s that camera shutter snap!<\/em> if you scroll across a game\u2019s gallery in quick succession, and on Switch 2 there\u2019s a thumb-cheek pop!<\/em> when you hover over a 2-wide box. Genuinely, big fan.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s partly why I even liked OG eShop \u2014 or at least found it absorbing \u2014 with its weird Y2K modem lag every time you moved and that old-school anticipation of waiting for things to load or change, wondering did I even press the button?<\/em> but not daring to re-press in case I did. You might overshoot!<\/p>\n

I do<\/em> like the new one better, obviously. Now nicely responsive as I scroll down the Coming Soon section with OCD completionism – middle down, left right right left<\/em> (and the reverse obviously for the next line down, I don\u2019t want to unbalance the universe) – click click click<\/em>, and everything is tactile like digi-brail, everything touched like I’m thumbing across book spines. I think this is fun?<\/p>\n

But even more fun (!) than all this is then adding things to my wishlist.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t just add games I recognise and would like to buy or play, but \u2014 I\u2019ve now realised \u2014 use it as a sort of scrapbook; of thumbnails I liked, weirdness I was intrigued by, a repository of ideas, nostalgia triggers, or more. The wishlist heart is my eShop \u2018like\u2019 button, and I try to not self-censor if something catches my eye (barring blatant anime boobs, etc).<\/p>\n

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What can we learn from this silly habit, from the patterns and trends?<\/p>\n

For one thing, I seem to really, really<\/em> like hand-illustrated fantasy art overlain by serif font and a vaguely wistful title.<\/p>\n

Why else would Harvestella<\/a> (bucolic name, tree in thumbnail), Trinity Trigger<\/a> (illustrated artstyle, tree-adjacent thing in thumbnail) and Various Daylife<\/a> (nonsensical\/wholesome name, treeless thumbnail but appealing screenshot of characters walking through gamecube era grass-textures in gallery) be in my wishlist?<\/p>\n