The_Nintendo_Expat

@Sindayl

not everyone was lucky enough to have it on DC at the time. ✌️

"He may look ‘armless," 😂👍

While I agree with others here that this is not an overlooked game, i really enjoyed the article and really love this game, as well. ✌️

for me, it will always be a DC game, and emblematic of that magical year in which i had the machine that played "the good version" of every crossplatform game and arcade port that came out 🥰 i was a lucky kid.

@BlackenedHalo

"is this really a port or just demake made from the scratch?"

I'm 1999, this was a distinction without a difference.

(or not, as the case may be, as i had never heard the term "demake" at the time 😂✌️)

@ImpromptuR @Jeff2sayshi

I really regret all (ALL) of the free games, demos, and $0.09 discounted games i purchased in my early Switch owning days, before I realized they would clutter up my "redownload" list (the only actual static list in existence of all the games in my collection) for eternity with no ability to delete, return, hide, or otherwise purge them. yes, there are some (utterly terrible) No Gravity games in there.

...yada yada downside. 👍

@Exerion76

in my haste to make a dumb joke, i missed it!

well, I'm genuinely glad for that 😊 and thanks for pointing it out to me! ✌️

only 3d games, seems pretty biased to me.

when i see an Avatar i immediately think we are talking about a c.2008 game. this is the longest running, most financially successful "dead" series I've ever seen, and in my experience the ratio of "avatar fans" vs "yeah, the first film was ok IIRC" people IRL is something like 0:1.

(EDIT - also the couple times i ever heard someone say "I'm an Avatar fan," i automatically assumed they meant the anime, and they didn't even think to make the distinction, and we were both right.)

@Aki77

i appreciate your candor 👍 we can agree to disagree about the definition of the word "grammar," though i hope its clear that as with most of what i post here, i'm attempting a bit of tongue in cheek and I don't really care about grammar, or what it technically is or isnt etc etc. it is definitely possible that it's all for my own amusement and no one else thinks im funny (alas.)

I hope i havent personally offended you along the way, though i will take your continued interactions with me as a sign that we are on decent footing, or at least that I havent been blocked yet 😅✌️

@Aki77

Technically, capitalization amd punctuation are writing mechanics, not "grammar," per se.

...

(additionally, who says im not irritated? 😂)

@Aki77

"Why don't you start sentences with a capital letter?"

i have always typed this way in informal communications, going back to the days of email chains and AIM.

when smart phones became a thing, i disliked the strict, stifling formality (and too-frequent inaccuracy) of autocorrect, so i turned it off right away and simply never looked back 😅 i like what I put out there to be exactly what I typed.

@MarcelMaigre

your comment reads like poetry, it is my privilege to be so thoroughly called out in this way 😅 you are right, my comment had a "you people" tone and that is regrettable 🥴

EDIT - choosing the stain of cowardice over light bigotry, I have edited my original comment with your notes in mind. ✌️

seems like every JP cover is the same, all the characters just kind of floating around, most without feet or only their torsos drawn. seriously wtf is with that?

what do the japanese publishers of the era have against utilizing composition, setting, context, perspective, light sourcing, storytelling...?

anyway MM6 has long been my favorite MM cover, i still have my childhood cart (purchased new AFTER I'd already gotten and beaten MMX) and that cart just SHINES. great looking label on there. 👍

(edited for tone ✌️)

@Krull

"is the Steam Deck really superior to the Switch 2?"

i will come back to respond fully to your thoughtful comment (thank you) but i thought id get ahead of this part. 👍

to clarify, im happy with my choice, but im not making any claims that one is better than another ✌️✌️ they are very different, was kind of closer to where i was going.

@Faruko

"You are missing one point tho, the term exclusive is just not a thing anymore. Gone are the times that console manufacturers would pay a lot of money for them and with that, third party developers would just put their games on everything."

thanks for responding to my extemporaneous, meandering utterances! 😄👍

so, to choose a random example, where's Tekken on Switch? 🤔 is someone besides Nintendo (Sony, I suppose) willing to pay, but Nintendo not?

you are saying that third party games aren't a thing on Nintendo platforms because Nintendo decided they were no longer important? they would rather save the money than court third parties?

During the N64 era, the excuse was that they no longer had market dominance, missed the boat on the new cdrom format (i was typing 64 but thinking cube, fixed it -ed.) so the third parties went elsewhere. (though in hindsight, i actually think N64's perceived lack of third party support was a bit unfounded, as with many of that console's "shortcomings")

Then, it became that PS2 had such a bigger user base than gamecube, third parties naturally preferred ps2 if there was only going to be one platform.

obv third party support on Wii was understandably... weird, even though Nintendo was finally selling competitively again.

I don't know why then, using the contemporary logic, Nintendo would be less willing to "pay for" something like Tekken Switch Edition than they were roughly a decade ago. especially considering they finally have a console that is both a living room staple and close to having a conventional control/display arrangement again. 🤔

anyway thanks for listening to my ramblings 😆✌️

@Aki77

"Hopefully there is a Steamdeck equivalent site to this one where you can share your wit and wisdom about something you enjoy."

"So you think it's a nonvite?"

"It's an unvitation!"

😅✌️

increasingly, im loving having a Switch for modern(ish) Nintendo games and a Steamdeck for "everything else."

i know its a "must be nice," but the choice was between a deck and an S2 and so far im extremely pleased (and saved 130 bucks too.) if Switch 2 gets some bangers* I'll upgrade but ill still likely use the two in the same way.

*this is an opinion obviously

PS - this is a tangent but i never understood why switch 1, for all its sales dominance, didn't get more 3rd party exclusives.

maybe im just not remembering (i can think of... astral chain and bayonetta maybe?) but in a world where GameCube got the resident evil remakes, Rogue Leader, and Baten Kaitos, and Wii U got Tekken Tag 2 somehow, what actually gives?

tldr 3rd party sucked, on Switch 1, from my perspective wth. 😮‍💨 thank you.

borrowing a bit of the silhouette from the steamdeck, here. im not complaining!

i wish someone would make something like this, but with both sticks at the top, U Gamepad style. or just go full hog and make a steamdeck clone i can slap a switch into 😂

@DaftSkunk

"To list "Without the Terminator licence it's fairly shallow" as a con is a little odd, to be quite honest. Like, that may be true, but considering it does have the Terminator license, it's just a hypothetical. Do better."

yeah if it's shallow, that's all you have to say.

i also find this odd. 👍✌️

@Gamecuber

Linear and simplistic? I thought the idea was that the game changes with multiple playthroughs

yeah im a bit confused about this as well. how could a game with branching alternate universes be "too linear?"

I will play it for myself for the answer... when it goes on sale. womp, womp.

2025 has been the year of games I'm REALLY excited about turning up "meh" by the time they come out.

OTOH, it has also been the year of reconnecting with the past, playing games I hadnt played in years thanks to steamdeck making PC gaming including emulation finally accessible for me again 😊 and I'm so pleased about that.

@Otoemetry

again, its a matter of tolerance.

i prefer games to have zero chatter or verbal guidance. I dont even like voice acting in games. this is how i honestly feel, I have no reason to lie to you or myself about this.

I specifically do not want the game to "nudge" me in a direction because it thinks im lost, that is a complete nonstarter for me in a metroid game.

i can appreciate that some other people are making a bigger deal out of it that you think is necessary, and i respect that, but i can guarantee you that after i play this game i will be part of that chorus and i have none of the conflict of interest that youve mentioned. it's really just a matter of degree (and i truly can appreciate that there are people out there exaggerating the reality of it. ✌️)

i recognize that its all subjective, which is why i framed and padded my comment with language like:

"...to some other people. 👋"

"...but speaking for myself..."

quite frankly im not sure what it is I'm supposedly trying to tell other people to do or think. 👍 respectfully.

@MamaSymphonia

we dont agree as much as i thought! and that's okay 😊 thanks for sharing. It's all subjective afterall, and I would never try to claim that the switch era was straight up bad. 👍

(though it is a clear beginning of many things I do not like about Nintendo's general trajectory, to be honest with you.)

@eldersnake

Expertly sabotaging their best franchises is among Nintendo's many talents.

@MamaSymphonia

a couple random thoughts for you ✌️

i dont think people here realize just how genuinely offputting chatty npcs are to some other people. 👋 or they would stop insisting that it isnt "that" annoying.

it is that annoying. 😂

I do believe that some people here don't have a theoretical limit to how much they'll pay for a Nintendo game, and that scares me a little.

I'm not sure that I know what a "70 dollar experience" even looks like, as far as videogames go. i know that historically, people have paid even more for games (especially factoring in inflation) but speaking for myself, Nintendo 2025's biggest competitor by far is Nintendo <2015, and they are losing that battle every day in terms of quality and value.

@michellelynn0976

im sorry, im realizing i may have misinterpreted your comments in response to me:

"Please, I've seen your comments."

"but I have seen your comments."

if you meant something besides "look who's talking 🙄," then I take back my last comment and sincerely apologize. comments sections are an often fun but sometimes tricky thing. ✌️

@michellelynn0976

so your point is that you can't be defensive now, because i have been defensive in the past. 👍

it's whatever. i've had my moments, here. but lashing out and calling everyone a troll that disagrees with you is not the way.

@Oldstalk

im sorry for the confusion. ✌️ my point was that "good sales = good thing" is a fallacy. i was specifically addressing the logic in user's comment.

@michellelynn0976

1) i meant outside of the conversation you are having with others, here.

2) i never said the switch 2 was bad. i was making a specific point about the other user's logic.

anyway im not trying to rattle your cage, clearly youve got your hands full as it is. have fun with all... this.

@BaldB3lper78

i think youve understandably over-interpreted what i was saying.

strong sales itself are not a good indicator of anything else. bad things sell good, good things sometimes sell bad.

like i said, ive no horse in this race but sometimes good sales are corrosive to vision, artistry, or even just plain good taste. not that this is whats happening here per sé. ✌️

i hope im making sense.

@michellelynn0976

you are about 5x as defensive as necessary for this conversation. honestly, from an outside perspective. ✌️

@BaldB3lper78

"For a failure of a console - Switch 2 is doing not too shabby eh?"

i dont have a horse in the race (i own s1 but havent sprung for s2) but i keep seeing this sentiment expressed here, and I always wonder if the person realizes that "bad things selling well" is how the games industry got into the mess it's currently in. 🤔

(I feel like my meaning is not carrying well.

as an exercise, try inverting the logic: "well, I thought this was a good console/film/song et al, but the sales are weak, so now I'm not sure.")

"Real" is dead because no matter how hard humans work at it, itll always look like AI slop, forevermore.

Everybody's gotta pay the bills, but Jeremy is obviously too good for that company and they don't deserve the credibility that his name lends.

@KaiserGX

i confess, i don't know what you are talking about, or I just don't remember 😅

im a bit confused though, as i tend to post on here like a dozen times a day for years 😂✌️

anyway hi, hello! 👋

@Smithicus

he said he "fixed it," but the article still reads like a preview for a new Rtype game and not a re-make/ster. 🤔

@PJOReilly

thanks for the writeup! this is incredible news, i never thought id see my favorie game in the series given any attention, at this point.

"R-Type Dimensions III sees players return to the franchise's signature side-scrolling bullet hell warfare"

Rtype 3 has no "bullet hell warfare" whatsoever, and pre-exists that subgenre by years, afaik. id add also that rtype games in general have fewer "bullets" per sé than even contemporary shmups. ✌️

additionally, no mention was made in the article (and only extremely vaguely in the quoted PR) that this is a remake of Rtype 3. newcomers would read this article and think that "Rtype Dimensions 3" is a new entry in the series. ✌️👍

@ShadLink

"It doesn't play worse than the Switch 1 version, and looks better."

almost everyone but you is saying that it does play worse.

fwiw, they aren't reviewing the game, they are reviewing the upgrade, hence the low score. 👍

now that i have a console with actual performance settings, i can switch back and forth between 30 and 60fps and i can no longer lie to myself that it doesn't matter to me.

@ButterySmooth30FPS

"I thought Nintendo players didn’t care about resolutions or framerates?"

that is a vicious rumor.

@USWITCH64

"...for me."

But your inability to distinguish your own opinions from those of others is duly noted. 👍

@SillyG

"Would you expect the average Tom, Dick, or Harry to be able to make any sense of it if Nintendo were to release exhaustively detailed notes on every little update that they make? I'm sure their work is tedious enough without also having to write up a press release that is of little interest (or relevance) to the public."'

it's not for everyone, it's for those interested, and it's very normal stuff outside of Nintendoland. even small studios and one person operations manage it. ✌️

why shouldn't paying customers know what they are getting? (seemingly important stuff has happened, like BC for more games or ppls ethernet ports "magically" working again. how is this not relevant information to the "average" user?)

incidentally, my work can be "tedious." perhaps I should just be paid for not doing it. 👍 thank you.

@KayFiOS

FWIW and you may know this and/or disagree, but this game is a poor imitation of mode 7 F Zero. If you havent played OG F Zero in a while you might think its close but if you go straight between them it's very obvious ✌️

btw ive been playing X and GX, this time on my steam deck (relax, everyone 🚨 i own both physically, and more than once) and WOW 😲

suffice to say, if i produced these games I would be SO proud of them!

if this game played like Fzero I'd have been playing every day since launch. tied with TOTK for biggest disappointment in the switch era, for me.

@Bootlicker333

"You people still rate it 10/10 because you are 8 years old and dont have any selfrespect."

We assume user is 9 years old.

The real question is, how much is Paramount willing to bribe Donald Trump to get the deal to go through this time?

@Tayrailbridge

thanks for taking my silliness for what little it is worth 😆✌️

@Tayrailbridge

"both boxes literally show the same amount of the table. JP just has brighter lights + metroid, which honestly makes it too busy."

you used the word "literally" incorrectly (i think the word you are searching for is "actually," or, just leave the word out completely,) and you are wrong about the amount of table shown on each, look again.

but you used punctuation correctly. 7/10. 👍

both horrible. what a mess, and with samus statically looming over it all like a ghoul. (and on the wrong side of the table 😂)

both covers look like someone's first rough idea, on a monday morning so to speak. the only difference is one is under baked, the other, over.

i voted JP for the extra effort and im using that term lightly. NEXT!

@Thomystic

"Their diehards will just complain about the extra step that they didn't take. Offer no manual, "make a manual." Make a manual, "translate it." Etc."

manuals? in the language the buyer speaks? 🫨

next they'll want the labels on the games to be self adhesive so they dont have to glue them on themselves!

do those die hard fans want Nintendo to go out of business?

perhaps as a cost saving measure, Nintendo could print the covers in color-by-number, and the fans can provide their own crayons. let the "diehards" find some way to complain about that!

@sportymariosonicmixx

yeah they expect their fans to just eat 10-20 bucks a game when i can get more interesting games in general these days for 10-20 bucks a pop elsewhere. 😵‍💫 so else is where i went.

@Chlocean

"Kinda reminds me of Metal Gear Solid."

i was a MGS pre-orderer (or, my mom was 🥳) in 1998 and I still never knew that! so cool, what a game, yada yada. cheers! ✌️