I played the DX release on the Gameboy Color, which had the extra color dungeon. Loved that game to death as a kid; can't wait to play this again.

I said it once and I'll say it again... while these titles on their own might not be considered system sellers, the fact that Nintendo have been creating a stream of games each month or two in the 80-90% range is going to get more eyes on the product and more eyes staying on the product when the next title is arriving, their delivery of first party games this generation is amazing and I can't wait to see how the rest of the year goes with Luigi's Mansion 3 and Pokemon S/S

The unification of handheld and home console development has helped them out so much imo, it's no longer a 2 month wait for a 3DS title and then next month it's a WiiU title... every single month it's just been BAM BAM BAM SWITCH SWITCH SWITCH..... WALLET WALLET WALLET. Nintendo... pls stap

I really, really want to play it. But Dragon Quest is like... right there around the corner. Maybe next month...

Yeah releases are stacked over the next week. Zelda, DQ and Ni No Kuni! Good week for me.

Also Witcher 3 drops in the middle of next month, the Switches main problem for me right now is too many amazing games on the way, already pre ordered Witcher from amazon though so hopefully I'll sink into it this time, have the goty ed on the ps4 but never really got to play it since the system is static

Nintendo has four of the top ten games on opencritic for this year so far. That's pretty damned good. Luigi's Mansion 3 has a decent shot at getting up there too. Poke'mon doesn't really deserve it with the dex taken out so hopefully some reviewers are harsher on it.

And Luigi's Mansion 3, Overwatch, Pokémon Sword and Shield... on other more modest titles like Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Little Town Hero, Digimon Cyber Sleuth, Trine 4, Ori and the Blind Forest...

This so ridiculous. The first half of the year was absolutely lacking for the Switch. And since Super Mario Maker 2 arrived on June, this has been a non-stop flow of tons and tons of amazing titles of all kinds xD

Well, let's be honest here: Sword and Shield may lack the National Dex and lots of Pokémon. Pokémon Sword and Shield may not have cutting edge graphics. Sword and Shield may reuse every asset Game Freak can recycle from Sun and Moon. And Sword and Shield may lack things like Megaevolutions or Z-Moves.

But it will most likely also be a very, very good game. Just like every main Pokémon RPG has been. Pokémon has been recieving criticism since X/Y (maybe even before those) for various reasons. Including Game Freak, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo's unwillingness to do a game with the quality standards that corresponds to the biggest media franchise in history. But no matter how simple its graphics are, or how very little they evolve the core structure of the game, or how it's essentially the same thing we got on the Game Boy... Pokémon games are always very good games. And I would be very surprised if Sword and Shield turned out to be any different. They will probably score 85 on Metacritic at least.

Don't get me wrong: I absolutely hate how Sword and Shield are being handled. I think a lot more effort and a lot more passion should be put on it. I think every Pokémon should be in the game. And I will not buy the game at launch because I don't think they deserve my purchase. But... whoever buys Sword and Shield will surely end up having an amazing time.

Right now a game has to score an 87 to stand a good chance of being in the top ten, for games this year on opencritic. I expect Sword/Shield to review about as well as Gen 3. That puts them just out of striking distance of the top ten games of the year. 

MTX riddled games get about the same treatment. Apex Legends, Gears 5, MK 11, etc. all could have gotten higher scores if they hadn't gone the MTX route. 

I knew critics would give it a high score the minute they put the word "Zelda" in the title.

lol jk.
I mean, I knew I was gonna get this game anyway the minute they announced it. Its one of the best Zeldas ever.