FUCK YEAH DIGIMON TIME STRANGER ON SWITCH FINALLY LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been waiting for this for sooooo long! Took them long enough! Definitely the highlight of today's Direct for me for sure!! I'm also excited about that new Tokyo Xanadu game called Kyoto Xanadu. I liked the former a lot more than I thought I would, even if it was rather cliche. I'm glad Tales of Arise is coming to Switch 2, but I already own it on PS4, so I don't think I need to revisit it. I do want to check out that old Doraemon game on that Console Archives thing, but it's Switch 2 exclusive. Boo. Still, this Direct was a good one!
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