@Shiryu

'The one true definitive shmup, the 5 out 5, the 10/10, the alpha and omega one the genre?

It is not. "Truxton Extreme" is an extremely accomplished package, but it plays safe gameplay wise."

so, no sequel can ever get a 10/10 because it's "con if you do, con if you don't."

I'm just trying to follow along. ✌️

PS - i'm curious, have you ever given a 10/10? what game(s,) if so? thanks!

@Shiryu

"plays safe gameplay wise."

there, you composed an actual con 👍 thank you.

"After unlocking and seeing everything, only high score chasers will keep coming back

Puts similar reboot projects to shame?"

i know the second one is kind of a joke, but these are the worst 'cons' I've ever seen on this site.

how about make a game when you have a good new idea?

so tired of remakes. I never play them but the signal to noise ratio in trying to follow new games is getting insane.

I'd like to see a direct followup to Megaman 9 + 10. if Capcom is too busy REhashing old stuff they can give it to yacht club and have kaufman do the soundtrack 👍

@LXP8

whoops! what an ironic ending that I just didn't see coming. that makes a lot of sense, actually 😶‍🌫️ carry on.

@LXP8

Not very funny. 👎 If you're gonna be pedantic you have to start by being factually correct and forthright.

This is the Pedant's Way. ☝️

"Now he's grown enough to be leading Nintendo's first live-action adaptation in yonks, and we feel very, very old in the process."

@shikadi

I've read your comment a few times and I still don't know what your problem is or what you are driving at.

@Aquinas

Yes!

the frothing demand for Old Link increases ...

tbh we've had young Link, and "adult Link" (not really sure which this guy is) but i'm ready for "old Link."

this movie could be good, so long as this kid has no spoken dialogue. 👍 (nothing personal, he looks pretty much like Link)

@dew12333

You started us off saying "Dreamcast ruined the industry by putting looks before gameplay," and now we have moved on to "low sales turned the consumer against innovation(?)"

My best guess at what you mean is Playstation and Xbox are boring black boxes now because Dreamcast put a screen in the memory card. 🤔

not sure what your point is but blaming Dreamcast for the ills of the gaming industry is just a non starter, man. 👍

@Spider-Kev

yeah, I bought one of those games only to find out Nlife lied 😂✌️ Nintendo fans just want a new Fzero so bad, they are ready to declare just about anything not on wheels the spiritual successor.

@Drago201

Well he's no George Clooney but I'd say being a little famous in more than one country qualifies 😅

Honestly I have nothing else against these games at all and if one scampered across my desk I'd try to catch it and give it a spin 👍

@gazamataz

"the colour coded thing really does kill any enjoyment in Fast."

Thanks for saying so! I felt very alone in this opinion, but I do feel it strongly. It is 100% a distraction which is the opposite of what I want from a game like this (what I want is "flow.")

"I agree with most of your points but I did have a great time playing F-Zero 99 despite it playing differently to the snes one."

I enjoyed my brief time with fz99, but ultimately I reverted back to OGFZ as it's just a better game on every level. particularly the sense of speed, difficulty balance, and control feel. I also think the graphics just look better with the real Mode 7 and more consistent "texture," for lack of a better word. something to do with the pixel art I think.

"I buy all of the hover racing games and they are mostly very disappointing."

I dont buy every single one but I generally try them if I can and yes, I'm invariably disappointed at least a bit. There hasn't been one that I feel compelled to do TIME TRIALS and try to beat my own best time since GX, and that's been a very long time of course. on the upside, I'm quite good at GX now and I still manage to beat my old times on a regular basis somehow!

"This one looks like it’ll be fun for an hour or two."

I hope you are right! I plan to give this one a spin as well, with expectations essentially on the floor starting off.

let's try to check in again after we play it, eh? ✌️ thanks for the reply!

the main thing i remember about these games is it was the first time i saw a famous actor "in" a videogame.

no sir i did not like it, still don't.

the "fast" games only look kind of like fzero, but they don't play the same at all. more like wipeout with an arbitrary color coding mechanic that has nothing to do with racing and completely sucks the joy out, for me.

that aero gpx game was a bore, totally lacked the tactile feel of a real fzero game and was not compelling to me in the slightest.

Fzero 99 is slow and floaty, if you go immediately from it to FZERO on a SNES there is no comparison. they did not get it right.

this game "star racer" looks a lot more like Hyperzone than Fzero, its really not even close.

I dont believe there is a developer in business that has the chops of EAD in 1998 or AV in 2003 to make a worthy followup to fzero GX, "spiritual" or otherwise, and that includes Nintendo and SEGA and all of their various studios.

@TheRealKyleHyde

what about the ones that have just the in battle sprite with the "no." and japanese name below?

I'm about subtle branding and designs, too, and I think these are just right personally. 👍

edit - not the pikachu one obv lol

OK some of these are sick ❤️

@JohnnyMind

Thanks JM! I didn't know about the demo, that gives me a good reason to turn on my Switch soon! You are always full of positive vibes and useful information 👍

Not enough people seem to talk about about pico 8! There is a surprising amount of quality on there, and it is reassuringly easy to get to the good stuff.

any "old school Nintendo fan" should be enjoying it, in my opinion ✌️

@JohnnyMind

are you liking RHG pretty well? I've been thinking of getting it, and it would be the first in the series for me, too. would be the first Switch game I've bought this year as well! Times have truly changed again. (even my relatively new Steamdeck already feels like a legacy device, fwiw!)

Thanks for asking back! I've been playing games on my RG cube XX almost exclusively for the last few weeks, mostly old stuff but with retroachievements which is new for me. Pretty neat! I am playing through FZero on SNES for the 100th time, but with achievements on it feels markedly different! I couldnt care less about achievements in modern games but they really can kind of add a little spice to the old faves!

I've also been playing Pico 8 on there, which is amazing! The nice controls, cozy comfy shape and 1:1 screen make this really seem like a "Pico Machine." also, the "Splore" app really scratches a particular itch for an old timer like me, who grew up on Galaxy of Games shareware compilations on PC. If you like digging hidden gems you would LOVE Pico 8! ✌️

I'm a fan of Kaufman's work, but I do find the sort of compressed, brickwalled sound a bit fatiguing and I end up turning it off.

The really great composers use dynamics! ✌️ thanks for the interview, and thanks to Jake and the rest for such an excellent game.

@Spider-Kev

I dont care about these kinds of things generally but im a sucker for a good super poseable figure I must admit. if this Pink is as good as my 90s spiderman figure I might have to part with... 27.99?! lol nvm 😅

lol Link*

@JohnnyMind has the biggest backlog in all of Nlifedom 😂✌️ what are you playing lately, good sir?

anyone know if this game was enough of a hit to save yacht club?

i did my part, anyway. very worth full MSRP, don't wait for a sale on this one of you can afford it! ❤️✌️ really nice on steam deck too, fwiw

ps - is the thumbnail a send up of the Kermit sips tea meme? 😆

xenotilt is very good! would be a great flip grip game on switch. 👍👍👍

still waiting for a new Starfox game.

nobody knows this game is a BBTAN clone with a city builder minigame bolted on. Nothing wrong with that but BBTAN is a classic that never gets any recognition. ✌️

if there was a game before BBTAN with this style of gameplay, then I apologize profusely and beg forgiveness from the community.

PS - i went on a nostalgia trip just now and downloaded the latest version of BBTAN on play store ... this is NOT the game I fell in love with all those years ago! they added constant ads, changed the look, and just kinda ruined it.

anyway I'll be trying to find an old APK for posterity I mean "preservation" 👍

Physical copies for some, miniature American flags for others! 🇺🇸

@demacho

lol that's a good point! I've made a similar one about Sonic the Hedgehog kart racers 😂👍

the NA one is the only one that made me feel anything at all so it won. call it nostalgia, though I've never cared about Digimon per se. ✌️

@SabreLevant

"Wait who is actually wondering about this? The article asserts that 'fans are wondering whether it's too much'. The same fans who would've been clamoring for said OoT remake for a long time."

different fans want different things. 🥳

I thought this sounded like an awesome videogame idea, then I found out its just a bunch of cards. tears in the rain.

@SuperBro64

I've also heard good things about those games 👍

is this an argument that you "generally believe that remakes age better than original classics?"

@Jeronan

"I can go on and on.....So many great Nintendo IP's that have gone dark."

fzero
pilotwings
waverace
excite(bike)
kid icarus

I stay perpetually 10 years behind in my gaming almost as a rule, so the future is starting to have that Kurt Vonnegut "pitch black with a green haze" feel to it.

mark my words: I buy 90% digital, but I will never buy a console that does not support physical media.

@dew12333

"They focused on the looks rather than gameplay and forced the industry on this path to where we are now. (maybe add the dreamcast in there too)"

that's maybe the most misplaced critique I've ever seen on this site. Dreamcast was probably the most pure gameplay focused console ever made, which is my opinion but I mean, ask around 😂✌️

@norwichred

I had my first eyeful of Ollie's "bum gravy" about a week ago, and I had to comment as well 😂 I figured it was a UK thing but I guess it's just an Ollie thing!

In that context, it was "looks like bum gravy" which may have been a little more apropos than "runs like," as you've keenly illustrated 😅✌️

@Expa0

"The game looks like it is taking more notes from stuff like Hollow Knight and going moreso for that 2D souls gameplay rather than really going for the Castlevania style."

Have you played Dead Cells, another game made by this developer?

@N00BiSH

whoops I edited my comment before I saw yours 😂✌️

several humans! Noted. I kinda suspected as much, thanks for expanding on that.

btw are Nintendo still withholding credit on the app? shameful 😔

this is called being a "contrast gainer."

I guess we can assume Nintendo went behind a mountain and found this OST transcribed on stone tablets.

@N00BiSH

"Y'know, I'm the only person here who believes SF26 will age worse visually than the original did."

well, that makes two of us. ✌️ but yeah, I know that lol.

I played Starfox 2026 at a friends house, on a huge OLED tv, and it was just... blah. boring cutscenes, bland 'modern" graphics with less legibility than the original by far, and beyond boring gameplay that literally felt like "going through the motions." we were all gathered together, excited, and intended to beat it that evening but we got about 3 levels in and put it down.

If you've never played a Starfox game, you might pick this one up, but without the historical context or charm of the low poly graphics, I feel like it will "hit" like a standard modern game, albeit a short one with relatively simple gameplay.

personally I think you'd be better off enriching yourself with the classics first. 👍

(JUST MY OPINION everyone, in case anyone is taking my comments as some kind of "untrue facts" lol.)

serious question, do you all generally believe that remakes age better than original classics?

do you think people will be more interested in talking about "STARFOX 2026" or the SNES/64 games in 10 years? how about Ocarina? do you anticipate that it'll be a classic that stands alongside the original, or remembered as a footnote mostly for the way that it contrasts with the first game?

do you think we will look back in 15, 20 years, and say, "thank god we remade Starfox and Ocarina, because in 2026, videogames were finally "good," and we have these remakes to play instead of the original, inferior games?"

do you believe we will even still be talking about these remakes in 2028? are they truly a simple stopgap to keep the money flowing until they come up with some good ideas for theoretical future games, as some nominally pro-remake people have articulated here?

I haven't set foot in a Game Slop (yeah, I said it) in over a decade. have you?

@Ristar24

YES! we are of a mind, I think.

I like to think about the classic original Metal Gear Solid trilogy. part of what made those games "cinematic" was that the player/viewer was not in control of the camera, so as you run around you would get essentially cuts to wide angles, dutch angles, closeups, sweeping panoramas, etc etc. Newer games which are actively TRYING to seem "movie like" cant really do it, because the camera is under absolute control by the player, which ruins any possibility of artistic "photography" so to speak and is completely unlike the experience of watching any movie.

I feel like with modern games I'm playing camera as much as im playing a videogame, sort of "riding" the right analogue the whole time. consequently they all sort of play the same, regardless of how complex the controls and systems are, or even whether they are in 3rd person or first person.

anyway cheers 👍 thanks for replying!

@Tempestryke

I'm sorry. I dont see how your response correlates to my original comment, then. but no worries! ✌️

fwiw, I agree that not every game has "aged well" in the sense that some were deeply flawed from the beginning. 👍 but I also think that if we are going to pick from flawed games then in the context of this convo they should be games that are either getting remakes, gotten remade, or we think are worthy of getting remade, or else what are we talking about here?

Nintendo may or may not have invented the remake with all stars (I'd argue it was a remaster,) but to be fair that was also a compilation of some of the best games ever made, for the price of one game. kind of a different beast than just selling the same game again only "better."

(i also am straining to pick up on the relevance of All Stars or "who invented the remake" to this conversation to be frank.)

@Tempestryke

are we calling clu clu land and ice climbers true classic works of art that are in need of remakes?

my thing is, if it's "worth" remaking, it's already good and you should just play the masterpiece the way it was made the first time.

@nomither6

YES! if you are going to remaster a game, why not SSB and Melee?

And a new F zero for cryin out loud! Some part of me will never give up on that one though I doubt they can even make a game like X again. they don't seem to have it in them, sadly.

@Tempestryke

sometime who, does what? 😆 sorry i can't seem to put it together.

are there clu clu land and I've climbers remakes in not aware of?