If we're counting it as a new release and not a late port, and I think it has enough new content to qualify, Dragon Quest XI S for Switch.
If not, then Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Those two games stood out for me in a year packed with great releases.
Nintendo actually believed that the soundtrack was covered under fair use laws regarding parody. There's a lot of other stuff in the game itself that they would probably be kind of antsy about releasing over here without bowdlerizing it heavily and drawing an outcry from the 8chan crowd, even though they're actually more lax on content than Sony or Microsoft these days.
At one point I think a Tetris movie was under discussion.
That's pretty neat.
One of the weirdest things I found in recent years was that the NES version of Ultima III had J-pop versions of two if its songs, with full Japanese vocals.
I was seriously hoping that Twitter would complete its visit down the drain it was circling and die forever. Then it became the White House soapbox.
In the Wii U version you can get an upgraded sail that changes the wind's direction automatically so you always catch wind.
You can. That's how I first played it, in the CV collection on Switch. Contra: Hard Corps is likewise on the Contra collection. Those two games kind of killed some of the impetus for me to get a mini Genesis.
I don't think it was deliberate on Nintendo's part, but it was silly of him to expect Nintendo to rearrange its release schedule to accomodate them. DKC didn't happen overnight, after all, and Nintendo planned its release months in advance. Doug TenNapel and Dave Perry are both kind of prima donnas anyway.
I picked up DQXI on Switch. The game was already great, but the Switch version is a truly sublime experience. I'm having a hard time deciding between it and Fire Emblem: Three Houses as GOTY.
I have Cities Skylines. It's pretty much the de facto city sim since EA released the complete disaster that was SimCity 5.
