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Expired brand licenses?! In MY Pikmin???

Ouch, right in the stifled innovation.

Nintendo's bizarre internal fight where they released this game on 3DS but not Wii U.

Similarly Earthbound Beginnings on Wii U but not 3DS.

I personally don't care about this game, but when I was a kid I always wanted to play all the games featured in Smash Bros Melee. So I guess others who were introduced to this game with Smash4 would want to do the same but will find they have no official way to play it.

That is until Sonic Mega Superstars Plus is unveiled, and Shadow, Blaze, Silver, Cre-- Omega become playable characters again.

This is just PR talk, Iizuka doesn't care about the lore, you already saw with Frontiers, anything goes, anything is canon.

Pretty jarring, like giving Classic Sonic the soap shoes. Not my cup of tea.

Ohh, this one stings, FE is definitely the kind of game you want to own, not rent.

It's too bad Nintendo goes to such lengths to patch things up in many of these old games but they don't offer the bonus items from the Mario Kart DD bonus disc.

There are some weapons you can't get otherwise. Plus, the soundtrack mode will never be at 100%.

@westman98 Naka was just a face to market the game, he was off the project during development, wasn't that why he sued SE?

I don't really care about the developer as long as the game is fun.

Dimps made some of the best Sonic games imo: the Sonic Advance series, Sonic Rush, (and some really wonderful anime tie-ins) but they also made the 3DS version of Generations, where Sonic plays like a tank, and stages have long empty environments on top of the halved fps.

I hope Sege looked hard at Sonic 4 and realized wtf.

Sonic 4 Ep.1 was like, specifically designed to be mediocre to appease non-Sonic fans who didn't understand the charm the series has.

As NL's review of Ep.1 says: "The fans who clamoured for a "proper" Sonic adventure will be thrilled by Sonic 4: there’s no dialogue, no cutscenes and no sidekicks."

"8/10" "Great"

@Agent_P vba gx has nicer sound quality but it was called enhanced mgba, I think it's the only homebrew app that allows using the 3DS as controller.

I remember there is a homebrew app on Wii that allows connecting a 3DS to play this game, but it's a bad experience because the controls are imprecise as heck. Just a wiimote worked fine, though.

Still feels like the kind of game you only play a few minutes and move on, perfect for a subscription service.

I know the connection is faint but when Naka left Sega in 2006 is when the Sonic series started to fall apart (for me at least.)

In that sense I will always respect this guy for his involvement in my favorite games.

This error is dumb and embarrassing, but like, no one's dead or damaged. No harm no foul.

2 years is a bit excessive, though, since he is a family man, those kids will have a fractured childhood.

I was expecting pretty art from Super Mario World... not boxarts and a neon red bg.

Look, 10 minutes in PS and you can fill your phone screen with your preferred games instead.

Nintendo will probably think it stifles innovation but.

7 uses of 'Rouge', 9 uses of Rogue in the comments. Not too bad.

Bad timing, Dolphin is edging closer to getting GB Player support, if this escalates the project could shutdown in ProjectM fashion.

On the other hand this could be like AM2R again, and they want to release GameCube titles in some form. Though, it's hard to say this without a chuckle.

GBA multiplayer always felt like a feature that was sealed away so that when these games get a re-release decades later the multiplayer feature becomes more accessible. Except, in the Switch's case it's tied behind a subscription and that's epic.

I always wanted to trade skill cards in Sonic Battle. I will keep dreaming because SEGA only understands Genesis or OpenZone.

We talkin' 'bout the same company who sold Super Mario World with direct button mapping of the SNES controller to the GameCube.

It didn't work Nintendo, I never bought the stupid classic controller. But I did get good at SMW with my index finger over the Y button.

This really translates to: "we needed to get botw out on the switch late in the game's development, so we ran out of time to develop X thing for the game."

Yeah, the switch is more powerful but didn't it still drop frames and resolution when playing botw?

+Melia, she's the highest of all Entia.

But I voted for Daisy since I like the characters that no one likes.

@MegaVel91 I don't see how that's any different from acknowledging your own OCs, using phrases from the 90s cartoons, and mentioning a character from Boom.

It's cool when they compare plot details to previous games like they did when they namedrop Tikal, but surely a line must be drawn when they have to pull outdated character profile info just for a cheap nod (i.e. Amy's fortune-telling.)

If you like this stuff, I respect your opinion. I'm not trying to ruin it for others, just hearing Sonic saying things like "I knew a time traveller once" which contradicts at least 6 previously established facts is enough for me to disregard the story altogether.

If I say this stuff in Sonic circles everyone would go bonkers, but criticizing Sonic stuff on NL is accepted and encouraged.

Oh, Flynn is writing? Prepare for every character to speak in the form of callbacks and winks to obscure Sonic content that has nothing to do with the games.

"Hey Sonic, look at that cat-shaped giant robot!"

"A cat? So, it's like that girl I saved from Metal Sonic back in the day."

"Who?"

"Tails, you don't remember Sara? She's the president's daughter."

"Is this from like, when Chris was around?"

"Uhhhh, no."

"Great talk, Sonic."

I remember this one was the last GBA game I hunted for at Babbage's and eb games after falling in love with Sacred Stones, but I never found it.

VBA solved that problem, though. So I always consider this game like my personal gateway to emulation. I've never actually finished it, 'cause playing on PC sucks and I later lost interest.

Too bad the Wii U release didn't come with the bonus items from the Mario Kart disc.

@SpaceboyScreams As someone who has played only the SNES (Wii), GBA version, and a bit of the DS remake... I cannot suggest a "best" way to play it since every version introduces improvements... and flaws.

But I don't regret playing the Wii VC version, it's the same crappy translation as SNES but they patched out some flashing effects on top of making the whole game dim. But playing on Wii is nice because The After Years is there too.

Then I would suggest GBA, it has worse quality audio but a better translation, better pixel art and a unique intro animation that's not found anywhere else afaik. It also has some slowdown that SNES doesn't have.

Then finally the DS version, it has 3D visuals so it's a very different experience IMO, but has multiple difficulty settings, an epic cgi intro that looks 'ok' on the DS screen, but it also has probably one of the more accurate translations you can find of the game.

The PSP version is decent but I wouldn't bother with it, it's the same feel as the Ace Attorney Trilogy on 3DS, you get the same visuals... but without the iconic 'pixel' look, it just looks ugly and muddy. Like using the scale2x filter on pixel art. Not my cup of tea.

The Wii VC release of pulseman was super dark, glad to see they don't care anymore about making games dark.

I wonder who at Nintendo was like "wait, maybe it's not a good idea to make the visuals look terrible."

Internet has gone a long way since 2017's bent-over-Zelda.

This was one of the first N64 games I played, having rented it from blockbuster back in the day.

It was the coolest thing to send off random pokemon but I think the magic vanished pretty quickly.

It's definitely a N64 game, that's for sure.

But you know, I can't help feeling that this game wasn't selected for VC during the Wii or Wii U era because of the lack of GB support. Now, in an Iwata-less Nintendo there's no need to care so they bring out this incomplete re-release.

Maybe the feature will come later, like the fog in Ocarina of Time did.

@Samalik Sonic saying "Let's do it to it!" is 100% from SATAM.

Either way, point is the same.

I miss Cream, even in Sonic Rush she played an important part in the story.

After that, Sega was like "off to the vault of forgotten characters with you!"

I know the dub of Frontiers mentions her, but like, they also mention SATAM, these callbacks are as useful as Sonic is underwater.

Someone already beat me to it but there's that relatively obscure version of the Wii VC version that changed up the question blocks with [25] and gave it a more unique icon on the system menu.

That's my pick, since it's pretty different to everything and Wii VC plays really nice with the wiimote. The dark colors aren't as offensive as on WiiU. And goes for the unfiltered look.

After 16 years, Sega finally did something I wanted: make Amy playable again.

The fact that it had to be in a "Plus" version and not there from the start is laughable, because featuring these games that we've had access to since forever does not make this package serviceable, if it didn't have Sonic in the name it could easily have tanked.

If anything though, it sucks how fragmented the characters are now, why isn't Amy in Mania? Why isn't Mighty and Ray in Origins?

Why not Metal Sonic? The sprites are already there! Yes, I just want more playable characters.

There's not much you can do to change up the original games, this is the best way to re-enjoy them. That's why the Advance games are so incredible, you have options and the game never gets stale.

OG black/turquoise which is great, I love the black on the front top screen makes it feel like the screen "adapts" to the various aspect ratios used by playing older games.

Link Between Worlds XL which has the triforce on one side and the lorule ver. on the other. Never beat the game but hey DS looks great on the way bigger screen.

Missed out on NEW models but SNES games aren't much of a selling point, and Xenoblade was better on Wii, evidently.

The Wii version doesn't have Fist Bump, therefore it's the superior game. Don't at me, Forces sucks and everything that comes with it.

@MythTgr The term "native" gets thrown a lot when talking about GC on Wiiu, but it can't even use the original clock speeds of the GC.

Getting Wii games to run without the disc and with gamepad support does not compare to getting GC games working properly in Wii mode.

The homebrew methods are not 100% compatible, look at the source code for nintendont, there are game specific fixes for over a 100 games.

Devolution most certainly does something similar, because F-Zero GX works, but F-Zero GX from a demo disc... doesn't.

Not to say Nintendo couldn't do anything like this, but it's certainly a lot more complicated (i.e. costly) to implement.

Plus, the GBA ambassador method on 3DS can run any GBA game with nothing special (besides the knowledge of what save type the game uses) and Nintendo still didn't sell GBA games on 3DS.

Nintendo works in mysterious (and dumb) ways.

I get buyer's remorse for buying used copies of the games I like.

@zemahon Any proof of this?

I mean it's Nintendo, and we already know quality emulation is possible with pocketnes.

Can anyone here really see Nintendo porting +20 NES games consistently, which is probably impossible without rewriting the whole thing anyway.

Why go through that pain when you can save money by just throwing the ROM on an emulator?

DS for me, oh... my bad, I guess I was thinking of another console.

Something different surely, I didn't like the cast nor the characters.

If it weren't for the gross redesigns I'd say this movie is pretty forgettable.

Mystery Mushroom that turns Mario into Sonic or a jpop group.

I don't think I have a favorite Sunshine glitch, but I have experienced the "Noki Bay blue coin freeze" very strange issue, that I think has never been figured out.

I can only assume it has something to do with the type of memory card used. Not the block size perhaps, but the r/w speed.

Need to finish it on Wii, backlog shows no signs of decreasing.

If I ended up finishing the game I find it hard to mention since I think "eh it wasn't so bad". So, I'd rather mention games that were so frustrating I never bothered finishing.

Panel de Pon
Thracia 776
Batman Forever
Return of the Jedi

Heh, all SNES games, they don't make em like they used to.

To me Sacred Stones is the best due to the excellent characters and cool as heck monster designs, the game keeps throwing ya new content all around but doesn't feel as messy as Radiant Dawn.

PoR is great, but yeah, it's always less interesting when there are no monsters.

I haven't played FE after the hyper-anime reboot but seeing that Awakening is top spot I'll have to finally give the game a look.

I still play 3DS a lot, my DSi screen edges started fading so now I have more reason to play on the 3DS.

I still would like to get the bulky 2DS, if only to have a sturdier version of the console, the clamshell feels like it will snap and the trigger buttons make it so that pocketing the thing could break them, which is mostly the reason I don't do streetpass anymore.

I have fond memories of playing KH:DDD and Smash, but it's the backwards compatibility that really made this system for me. Whether it's DS or 3D Genesis games there is always something to play on the thing.

I like the aesthetic but I can't fool myself into thinking this is like Sonic, it's a silly game about a boy in a chicken suit who rolls eggs around like a growing snowball.

I mean, SEGA doesn't even re-release most Sonic games even after the movie craze.

It's still just the odd Genesis title and barebones Sonic games like Colors.

No.

I would never recommend the Genesis Sonic games, or the NES Mario and NES Zelda games as starting points.

For Sonic I think the GBA did the best job at portraying the series as a whole: action platforming with charming visuals and neat unlockables.

For Mario, you have to start with Super Mario World, it's not just a Mario game, it's the game.

For Zelda, ALTTP is right up there with being the game so I feel like I have not much to say other than OOT changed things too much so if you want a feel for what Zelda is ALTTP is the best option to start with.

Then, after playing I would suggest trying the originals. Preferably from a collection or something.

I always found Sonic Mega Collection (the GC one, not the dull "Plus" ver.) the best at creating the illusion of a time way past gone and trying desperately to hold on to it somehow. Beautiful presentation.

For Zelda, the Collector's Edition or GBA release.

For Mario, the GBA release, or to keep things interesting the Animal Crossing version which ended up being more vibrant than the VC releases, thanks Nintendo.

Well, gee. I hope this doesn't impact free game offers.

I'd like to be kidding but I truly only use the EGS for free games. Got Sonic Mania and Celeste from them.

I'm on ep 2, I can/can't believe they don't allow switching to the Japanese dub so I've had to watch it in Mandarin. It's the only language that doesn't make my skin crawl with these unfitting voices.

I was starting to like the Latam dub but they keep every single Sonic term in English, and sounds too awkward sometimes.

I strongly feel Shadow should not have been part of the generic Green Hill world Sonic is introduced in.

Leagues better than Boom, but doesn't hope to reach Sonic X's excellent storytelling and care for the characters.

Okami Wii boxart flashback.

Oh, and Sonic & Sega Racing too with accidental fanart... of the wrong character.

I used to like this concept for Sonic but then I realized this is Sonic Boom 2.0, instead of changing the characters' personalities and designs once, it's now going to be every x amount of episodes.

I'm so tired of the default designs not being good enough for a TV show, this is why Sonic X is and will remain king. Leave it to Japan to make a show next time.

As a Sonic fan I hate that Colors is the worst title on this list, there's hardly any 3D gameplay in it and when there is it's the most basic thing you can imagine. Terrible Sonic game.

Overall, the Switch is a bad platform for Sonic it seems. With Mania being the highlight, but I mean even the original 3DS could probably run it and that's saying something.