What's hilarious is that the same reviewer who scored DK a 6 gave Mario 3D World a 9 the year prior

This shouldn't be the case for "professional" reviews like these. The whole point of running a website that pays people to write "official" game reviews is to provide consumers with that "educated opinion" that can be taken more seriously than just any random gamer's opinion.

I know better than to take any reviews as gospel, and consider the reviewer's background and all that, but the average consumer probably doesn't. They see these scores as valid measurements of quality, which is what they're meant to be in the first place.

I know this is old news, but can someone explain how this isn't blatant console bias?

For it to be worth the effort, they would need enough cutscenes in the game to scare off anyone but the most diehard PS gamers.

To be fair, gimmicks are what set most Yoshi games apart from one another anyways.

I know that up to eight players can connect switches to play together, and that two players can do co-op online with one switch. But my favorite way to play Smash is with three friends, four controllers, and one system, which also means one game.

Will this still be possible? Or will four people need to spend $800+ between themselves to play Smash Bros together?

Link's Awakening, except the "Wow! This looks pretty heavy! You won't be able to lift it with just your bare hands!" does get old until you get the power bracelet.

Try Parashoot Stan from amazon store. It was made by ex-Rare devs, in case you're familiar with them. The graphics look modern but there is also a retro-style version, and the gameplay in general feels retro in a challenging way, if that makes sense.

Kind of knew the Wii U would flop hard, so that wouldn't have stopped me.

The only impressive leaps that can really be made at this point are in VR. We've done all we really could (that matters anyways) on regular displays.