I've beaten Shantae 1 on Nintendo Switch - which is also my 16th game I finished overall in 2025.

Game: Shantae
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Wayforward
Publisher: Limited Run Games
System: Nintendo Switch (NS) via Switch OLED (NS)
Year of Release: 2021
Date of Completion: August 15th 2025
Length of Playthrough: 11 Hours

Score: 76 out of 100

+Choice of playing original GBC version or GBA version
+Save states
-No tutorials for moves or item usage which can be confusing
-Higher learning curve than other platformers

Score wise comparison...

Shantae (NS): 76
Shantae: Risky's Revenge Director's Cut (PC): 81
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (PC): 87

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Next game I will be playing on my Switch OLED will be Persona 5 Royal.

Am I the only one who's concerned that Nintendo may be the only console maker left soon?

Tried Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. Jesus these games are brutal. I did 40 levels and I think Im done. So frustrating.

Maybe.

I personally dont care as long as I can still access my games in one way or another like the rumored Xbox method of making a Xbox PC like platform.

How I play a game dont care as long as I get to play it.

The thing is, competition breeds variety and quality. We won't have as much variety with only one console maker left.

Gloomy Eyes comes to Switch on the 12th of September

Competition can still breed variety and quality in software despite having a dedicated physical medium piece.

The only thing you wont have variety on is what piece of physical hardware you'll have on your desk or table which shouldnt affect the quality or variety of video games in the first place - that depends on the people who are making them and how they make them.

And to say there being only one console maker there wont be much variety doesnt make sense, I guess you havent seen or been part of the PC gaming scene in the last 15 years - technically you cant call it the "PC gaming scene" anymore since all the platform makers pretty much almost all have all of the third party games from PC with more coming as time goes by. Companies that used to be stingy in the past (i.e. like SEGA with Yakuza for an example) dont exist as much anymore. Its just mainly Vanillaware and a few other smaller companies lol.

Genres that use to be PC centric like Visual Novels and RTS/Strategy games are releasing outside of the PC Platform which is a win for everyone imo.

Did beat Banana Mania. Its fun, but some of these levels are just cruel. lol

DragXDrive is one of my favorite releases from Nintendo in many years! Absolute gem. It takes a very simple concept and makes something really fun and digestible out of it. Not overwhelmingly full of content, it is genuinely challenging, and employs a very unique gameplay style (via motion control/mouse). Maybe this’ll sound weird…but it is for these reason why it reminds me of games like Pikmin or Luigi’s Mansion (GCN) which simply expanded upon an addictive and unique gameplay loop. Nothing more.