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Re: Review: Bubsy In: The Purrfect Collection (Switch) - Limited Run Cleans Out The Kitty Litter

AStupidID

It's great that even terrible games are being preserved like this. That being said, I will not be picking this up unless it goes on sale for very cheap, and I have mates coming round I wanna play a drinking game of dying in Bubsy 3D with.

Also, what are people talking about? This review seems very fair. It sounds like without the emulation and things surrounding the games being so good, this would have been a 1. Reviewer mentions all this. A collection of anything is about what's in the collection most of all. If I buy a collection of rubbish books I don't rate it a 10 because the binding and cover art is nice.

Re: Talking Point: Is It Time For HD-2D To Take A Break?

AStupidID

I think it's a great way to introduce younger generations to older games. I think for that reason it encourages Square to bring back these old games more than they would without it. Of course I want the OG versions (well the DS version for Chrono Trigger) of Xenogears and Chrono Trigger on Switch as well, but think it's much more likely for them to come in HD-2D form, and that's amazing too.

Also, I think the article understates slightly the evolution of HD-2D. Octopath Traveler I looks very distinct from Dragon Quest 3 Remake in my opinion, and Live a Live does as well - I think they all keep their distinct personalities despite all being HD-2D, so to me there's no danger of them all looking "two similar". It reminds me of how the pixel art of Square and Enix evolved over the SNES generation - each respective company had a style of pixel art they honed and changed over time for different games, despite still being distinctively their own. I want HD-2D to keep going and changing and evolving as it has done since Octopath first got revealed.