Alrighty we got another awesome WAYP. Been an interesting week of all sorts of games all over. Really fell in love with some Mario Kart World this week that’s honestly the GOAT. But also played some WWE and Indiana Jones and all that. This weekend mostly featured a game beaten alongside my wonderful girlfriend. That being AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative. Honestly it was really cute and charming seeing her reactions to where the game goes towards the end of it. It’s a great game and I can’t wait for No Sleep For Kaname Date towards the end of this month. Rest of the weekend I think is gonna be taken up with a pretty marathon session of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to beat it. Just wanna do the last Fieldwork and then wrap up the main story. Then I can reinstall stuff like Doom The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Or even better I got my grandmothers birthday gift of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach this week and I am chomping at the bit to install it and start it. Wanna get back to and beat Assassin’s Creed Shadows before Ghost of Yotei comes out as well. Most of the week I think tho is gonna be full of some Switch 2 fun like Mario Kart World for my Girlfriends birthday with her family or some Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma to scratch that farming itch. Gotta try to get back to Raidou Remastered too. That game has a lot of charm. Can’t wait for Donkey Kong Bananza too. Wrestling thing of the week has to be the absolute buffet of things we got from WWE this week. On top of the regular shows we got NXT The Great American Bash, Saturday Night’s Main Event, and the all women’s PLE EVOLUTION. All in all a absolutely banger lineup. Anime of the week gotta go to My Hero Academia Vigilantes, Guilty Gear Strive Dual Riders, Gundam Gquuuuuux, and Sakamoto Days. All excellent as always. Podcasts of this week gotta go to Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax, Jeff Gerstmann, Kit and Krysta, Punching Up, Easy Allies, Second Wind, Nextlander, Cultaholic Wrestling, Weapon Wheel Podcast, Let’s Anime and Remap Radio. As always yall stay safe, be cool to each other. Have a totally safe and cool weekend. And of course Happy Gaming.

This is probably unpopular opinion but there are times when it's best to just let things stay in the past. Given the current state of games, all the over bloated budgets, all the politically charged hijinks, how the current gaming "media" stokes the fires, etc. I could go on and on. Sadly, after all us gamers have been through anytime I hear about of anything from the past being rebooted and/or remade I get...nervous (I've already lost so much there's not much left to be burned to the ground).

Sell Rare back to Nintendo.. No evil corps like Microsoft just horde everything.

But...can it run Crysis!?

This was back when anything Star Wars was cool. Miss those days. Anyways (before I go on a rant), the NA/EU version all the way. This is such a lopsided win this may trigger a mercy rule in my opinion. I'll never forget getting this game along with the expansion pack and just having my jaw drop to the floor with all its presentation.

Box Art Brawls Current Total:

Europe: 104

Japan: 98

North America: 118

Australia and New Zealand: 1

That was the best Final Fantasy, and the last one that was truly superb from start to finish.

The animation looks fantastic. Sonic hasn't been this popular since the early 2000s.

Now now, I think all of us know the true best Mega Man game is Mega Man 6 🔥

PS4 CPU. Maybe this is why No Man's Sky runs like ass.

The force was strong with the western box art. The Japanese box art would not get Yoda’s approval

30+ hours so far. Mostly play single player, I love the free roam mode but also play a lot of Grand Prix and Knockout Tour. It may not be quite as good as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe but I still enjoy this game a lot. Look forward to seeing how it expands in the future.

Stop teasing me with that Star Fox image. I kinda don't see the Switch 2 surpassing its predecessor because of its price & little kids have a tendency to break things so I can't see a multiple Switch 2s per house hold. I feel like spiting Anti-Matter a bit by buying Street Fighter 6 because Mario Kart World is asking for too much price wise, I'm just here playing either GameCube (Soul Calibur, F-Zero GX & Strikers.) Or going back to ToTK with the Switch 2 upgrades to find Koroks & voice memories.

Now you see what I mean when I say that there's just one system seller and that's DK Bananza.
Maybe Wild Hearts S could be an exception, but that's unlikely as it's prequel was pretty average. Besides, I doubt Koei Tecmo will keep it as a Switch 2 exclusive.

I don't care much for performance as much as good and quality games. But in comparison to a PS4 and XBOX Series S makes me feel like the Switch 2 should be slightly lower in price. I'm happy with the original Switch and will enjoy my gaming on it for now.

Code-in-a-box is the worst way to sell a videogame. It's an insult and I won't ever purchase a code-in-a-box.

I might actually look into Tony Hawk on Switch 1 (if reviews well)

@Thomystic
That was BEFORE Microsoft even thought of entering the video game industry, and furthermore, that was under the request of a US Senator at the time. Plus, that was merely around 1/8 of a billion-dollar acquisition. Microsoft could have bought the team for well over a full billion.

Interesting times. Interesting variety of user comments. Interesting to see what games get announced over the next couple of months and how the hardware sales figures look in September.

As much as I'm quite satisfied to have held off buying one, it could just take one game to change my mind. I'm sure Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are great, but my arm just hasn't been twisted yet.

It's interesting that Ninja Gaiden is so much more expensive than Shinobi. That Ori collection is a steal. Why is Terminator so expensive?

I love Free Roam. I'd give the game a 10 if it:

• had a music player and maybe discs to collect for tracks instead of Peach Medallions
• didn't weirdly connect costumes to dash food
• had a better character roster (more Kongs and fewer babies and drivers without hands)
• had more canonical tracks

Just let the Xbox 360 remaster go multiplatform so I can finally sell my N64 and those 4 controllers that take up a huge box.

@88NickC They bought the Mariners, so...

@Maxz You get the game ball for best comment.

@Coalescence I always say, "That's alright that you like that one. You can have your wrong opinion."

@Splash_Woman hehe

@UltimateOtaku91

you didn't see Dumbo, then 😂 i watched that again when i was ~20yo and i was like WTAF
🚬😳

@Jack_Goetz IT IS MEGA MAN 3

CHANGE MY MIND

Marvel Invasion had better be more like Shredder's Revenge than Rita's Rewind. The latter is such a disappointment.

Also, so many of these will have full physical releases on Switch 1. I think until key cards are resolved, the cross gen overlap will be like 4 years.

There's no justice in an industry where studios are folding left and right and Forever Entertainment and Game Mill aren't among them.

@SpecialStreamCannon
So how does this compare to the original? Were the frustrating combat mechanics already there? It seems an omission that this wasn't stated.

@Anti-Matter there's like 24 of them, 25 if you include detective Pikachu. And I would not be surprised if I missed something like some Japan exclusive movie or spin off movie.

There's something to be said for the vibe of the Japanese cover, but that NA/EU cover is an all-timer.

I have one in my garage and is used only for my n64. Just doesn’t look right no matter what use to play it on a 65” flatscreen, looks terrible. but on a 27” crt, looks amazing. I force the family into retro gaming every couple months by unhooking the other consoles and only having nes/snes/genesis/n64/atari 2600/or our arcade cabinets to be used, instead of the switch’s. Sadly the wii/u has become retro to us as well the last few years. Switch killed it in our family. But we rather play Wii sports over switch sport for some reason…
Btw, next week is retro week, and I think the n64 and snes will be the console of choice, going on vacation and it’s easy to only have other things hooked up instead.

Switch 2 is loaded with racers like Mario Kart World, F Zero GX, Fast Fusion and Kirby Air Riders, so I’ll pass on sonic racing. I’ll watch the animation though!

I just finished watching it, and I had a memory of watching it when I was sick once so a lot of the scenes took me back to that time.

I do remember crying watching Pokemon the Movie: I choose you! I should give that one a rewatch.

Pipistrello and the Cursed YoYo is what I played most in June, since it didn't come out until the VERY end of May.

@Sambuc Rebel Strike is also my favorite. The variety of missions, land vehicles and multiplayer modes were a blast.

Heaven forbid the Sega Ages line actually have representation from different Sega ages!

Studying philosophy taught me when a rationale does not justify its conclusion. Studying PR taught me that when this happens, there's often another reason. I think they've already planned to put it on NSO.

Tony Hawks and DK are essential to me. As a mega fan of both franchises, July is like Christmas for me this year.

Might get a PS5 and Switch 2 version of Tony Hawks. So I have the best version and a portable version

While the controls and visuals for Rouge Leader were the best, I felt that overall Rouge Squadron was a better game.

Great list! Though i’m waiting on physical releases for some of them. Some of these games feel too big for eShop only games.

Or maybe I should fully switch to digital, but then I expect to only buy like 1/4th of the games I used to.

This reminds me a ton of Lollipop Chainsaw.

90% of this company's games are wrestling games, and they used to own a majority stake in a wrestling league, but yes let's only mention them in association with Earth Defense Force.

@Joeynator3000 Your avatar fits your comment perfectly in this case.

The one Xbox game I was really looking forward to 😢

Use the surplus funds to buy the rights to Xenogears and/or Xenosaga.

@HugoGED As soon as I saw the announcement, I thought, "Here's the kind of idea that the gamepad was invented for, and yet..."

@The_Nintend_Pedant I was thinking it would be feral or saber interactive. These guys don’t have a very good track record as far as I am concerned.

So it should be able to play GTA 4 then, and yet it's nowhere. Does Rockstar hate money?

Fantasy Life i looks like a great game, but I'm too busy with other games at the moment to even consider picking it up... maybe in 5 years... 😂

@DTfearTheBEARD Oh please. Nintendo has allowed you to redownload purchases on previous systems for roughly the same amount of years that Steam has existed. And considering Nintendo just did a major maintenance update for the Wii/DSi/WiiU servers last year to keep them accessible, I doubt they plan to shut them down any time in the near future.

Valve are notoriously a disorganised company, I mean Steam OS is still a glitchy mess after all these years. My brother and I laugh off all of my Steam Deck's little annoyances. I almost had enough of it though when it BSODed on me and I had to RMA it. As much as I love Steam on my actual PC, it also wouldn't surprise me if one random day Gabe is like "Welp, we're broke now" and randomly shuts the site down.

The NA one here is one of the great box arts of all time.

Only played one of the listed games, so my opinion is therefore severely limited! That said, really enjoying Fast Fusion, impressive and fun to jump into every now and then since launch. Of the other games, most interested in trying Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.

Sadly John Romero could only make so many people his employees for such a brief time.

Japanese one is pretty but the North American is iconic