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This. THIS is how you compile retro games. What an absolute ripper of a line-up. Such warm Dreamcast vibes I’m in love before I’ve even seen a trailer.

Those folks behind the recent Taito and Neo Geo comps need to take note.

Aw was hoping for this when the 1st was announced. Best one by miles!

They were asking for people’s money? Jesus Hammer Throwing Christ.

That cutesy “Hey y’all!” in their statement brings my piss to a boil too.

I played this for the first time very recently and it made me want to swear off bloated RPGs for life.

Such a slick, compact, beautiful template for a game. So ahead of its time and full of warmth, heart and DOPE JAMZ.

You can breeze through it in the time it takes Brothership to let go of your hand. I wish Nintendo would look to it’s pace more often to build more short form masterpieces like it.

@Antraxx777

Elevator Action Returns. An absolute masterpiece.

Chase HQ and the Ninja Warriors sequel on SNES spring to mind too.

Seems like all Taito had to do to win back jaded hearts is put progressively better games on the compilations. It’s still a meager collection of roms massively overpriced compared to previous console generations, without any of the attention to detail capcom, M2 and the like put into theirs.

One mark shy of perfection is pushing it a bit, especially when the reviewer mentions better examples of a genre in some cases.

Taito Milestones 4 on track for a perfect 10.

The acknowledgment in the credits is abrupt and corporate sounding. It’s a shame.

Let’s all pause for a moment before we lose our minds and think of just how many millions of people in countless fields of work don’t get to see their name swish along a screen for their hard work. Starting with the actual hardware designers, do we see their names each time we power down our Switch? It’s thanks to them we’re playing anything at all.

@Andy_Witmyer I know it’s just an arcade style attract mode, fella.

Just felt odd that not one shell was flung, nor a mushroom inhaled. Gran Turismo Sunday Cup vibes.

I think it points to a new Donkey Kong in that style in the not too distant future. As does the weird timing of the DKC returns port.

I also think it seems a welcome shift towards classic Kong and that it’s too early to claim it as hideous based on brief glimpses with 1st gen webcam fidelity. Let’s all just chill till we’ve seen the big chimp front row and center, yeah?

No power-ups to be seen?

Yeah I heard from a few industry top dogs that Nintendo were kind of jazzed to reveal it themselves…

Genki’s been sent an angry text from Nintendo so they’ve had to say they’ve designed and manufactured products based on looking at pictures. Lols

Hooooo boy are Genki’s days numbered

At this rate, all these wonderful internet sleuths are going to suck every last drop of surprise out of the actual console reveal.

Pulstar and Blazing Star on two separate collections? I didn’t know SNK were evil.

@Zuljaras I want this to happen, both for your benefit and for there to be a game out there called Slug Lord Selection.

If ever I see Moto Rush GT sitting at the top of the new Switch 2 releases page, I’m nailing my console to a frisbee and flinging it into the sun.

I mean, there’s truth in it but it doesn’t carry any weight as an excuse to NOT have a female lead. For starters maturity is so widely varied from person to person.

Maybe they feel that having a male high schooler lead just presents more material for the social development side of the game.

The social aspect in an all salaryman cast has too much chance of being depressing! Blue collar workers or a cast of drag queens would be far more colorful socially!

Capcom are giving their fighting library the absolute royal treatment and it’s a shame SNK aren’t capitalizing and doing the same.

There’s so many franchises or at least genres that deserve Capcom’s level of love and beyond. Not to mention SNK’s untouched character/box art

It’s a real shame to see these no frills releases with genres or franchises calculatedly spread across volumes so fans of a specific series feel more compelled to buy them all.

I’m alright, ta.

The Ryo in my world is still titting about in that cave.

I entered cynical at the game count.

I left wanting to play these 10 carefully curated bangers on Christmas Day.

It is indeed sold out everywhere here. The upside of having to hunt for it is I found Super Mario RPG for 8 quid instead.

8 QUID.

Played the GBA collection, Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, Dead Cells and then the VampSurv DLC.

I’m in some sort of mad Castlevania haze and I’m tempted to keep it going with this. Hope it’s not a load of chuff!

@phartsy

Hand on heart here, Phartsy…my comment was snarky and unnecessary, you’re right.

It’s fair to criticize reviews too, but it’s also easy enough to find info on the story and the reviewer here didn’t feel the need to go into it and that’s their choice.

You’re maybe after a thorough rundown of mechanics and the like in a review. I just like to hear a summary with a more personal take (dunkey being the most popular I can think of).

Not trying to win anything here, sorry I made you bring out the ALL CAPS

@phartsy it’s also pretty tiring to hear gamers thinking that a reviewer has to expand on every area of a game in the interest of someone’s free time, not write the review they want to write. But here we are.

@phartsy why not spend 5 minutes of your life looking at another review? Or does the writer have to change the article to suit your needs? That’s 20 minutes of their life we’re talking here.

@Rees

I really love The Origami King. It didn’t wow many people but I’d personally rank it close to the games you mentioned. Brothership isn’t in the same tier as Superstar Saga. SO FAR!

So far, I think this game is a bit rubbish.

I couldn’t give a solitary fart about performance. It runs fine…but there’s a limit where guiding the player scrubs out the fun of exploration, puzzle solving and progress in general.

I just had a little puzzle moment where I hit falling seeds with a hammer to make a flower bloom. There was an NPC right before it to tell me exactly what I needed to do. It would have been so much more entertaining to not have any dialogue, press L for Luigi to get in place and figure it out myself.

It’s really old-fashioned, insecure game design.
If they did away with moments like that, the PS2 pace cut-scenes when a gate unlocks, and yes, even the map (big objectives are always north), it’d be a much better game.

The current sailing is crap too…

Combat is so fun though.

@Samalik

Over exaggerate much?

I know well enough that there are themes of equality in the game… but as soon as you include what’s being ‘debated’ here, it contradicts or detracts from the messages of the game and that’s not even opinion, it’s FACT.

You call me insulting when you were rude and belligerent about an issue I mentioned way, waaayyyy more serious than this and you also have me painted as some sort of campaigner for sexism, when my only real issue is that this is a NINTENDO published game. I have relatively little idea of the horrors that lie on Steam’s NSFW pages, and have no strong opinion on them either, but let’s not have such superfluous features bleed in to a game affiliated with Mario, yeah?

This IS a waste of time and energy though, that’s a great point.

@Samalik
“”Edit: Also, mysteriously omitting the part where I said men and women are treated equally in game.... That's only adding to the suspicions...””

Equally? Ah so there’s a slider to adjust how much heat the male characters are packing?

You’re conveniently leaving out or shunning the points I’ve made too, m8

You’re obviously passionate enough about the series that your mind is completely closed on the topic, but sure I’ll play a 100 hour RPG so I can legitimately continue this thrilling debate. See you next summer!

@Samalik
“relating that kind of behavior to what is essentially it's own universe with it's own rules and relaxations is still nuts of a relation and you know it”

They are clearly, CLEARLY, both issues of sexism.

@HeadPirate
“Men in Japan shouldn't be making decisions about how woman in the UK and NA should see their own bodies.”

Oh it’s men who made the decision is it?

@Samalik Sexism is sexism, even in Sci-Fi, my dude in christ

@JohnnyMind what IS your point exactly? Where will ‘censorship’ on these points (haha) bring us?

Because it’s not even censorship at all. It’s a badly needed, conscious decision to remove things that are embarrassingly out of step with reality and the modern world. My wife works at a company where guys can wear any suit they please, while the women wear a stuffy, set in stone uniform. THAT censoring sucks, not a tiny, insignificant omission from a video game.

@JohnnyMind yeah a world without breast sliders doesn’t bear thinking about does it.

To the people saying rabbit costumes have no sexual connotation in Japan. I used to live up the road from a snack bar where all the staff sometimes wore rabbit costumes to attract customers passing outside. They were not of the all covering onesie variety.

“Ah, FML.”

Says the person who can’t have their adjustable mammalian protruberences.

Sounds like it’s taken a leaf from Signalis with its tactile, varied interface puzzles. What a treat that game was.

This game plays so much worse than a lot of the Castlevania knockoffs with zero pedigree. Even when I tried it on Steam Deck.

A big bloated mess with all those ugly features like backer cameos and stretch goal gimmicks that shaped early Kickstarter games.

Couldn’t bear it. By comparison I played the GBA collection recently and my first play through of Aria of Sorrow was a 10/10. Magic.

@Thirteen1355
Metroid Prime 4 will likely release at a similar time, maybe sooner?

Nowt wrong with a little ROM hack but I guess to just grab a franchise’s identity along with its mechanics, art and music and build your own game seems a bit…less groovy?

Felt like something you’d come up with in English when you’re 13 and on a transcendent first three Resi game bender.

I think 5 has aged worse, to be fair. Call me over-sensitive but it’s setting doesn’t sit right with me, that and it’s a shallow husk of a Resi 4 regurgitation.

Why do people waste their precious creative energy on a property that isn’t theirs? And why is that property always Metroid?

@YunoboCo

This article is just as, if not more valid than the “preorders open for ‘stunning’ Charizard statue” type articles that pop up here.

I think a scroll wheel would be cracking for the equip menus in BOTW/TOTK/any inventory heavy game, and I trust Nintendo and other devs would use them quirkily and creatively too.