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This too is a short game. I enjoyed it but I felt like it was a little too expensive for what it is, however I did appreciate the game being fully voiced. I think this series would have been better if it had been a compilation of three or four different cases than being sold separately.

@Rooty I played the first stage of Gradius yesterday and quite enjoyed it. And Star Stacker is a good game to me that I enjoy playing. I’ve not played Sword of Hope 1 yet but I enjoyed playing the second game on 3DS years ago

@KingMike Yes, and their Real Ghostbusters game was a Garfield game in Europe and a Mickey Mouse game in Japan. Same game with different characters.

@ohhaime CEX shows the UK release Stranded Kids as £65 unboxed and £85 unboxed. I’d rather play it on NSO. It’s not worth paying £65 for imo, but it is worth adding to NSO.

I’d also like Mario & Wario.

I’d like to see a remake on Switch 2. I like the 2D art, characters and story but the 3D graphics and gameplay is so rough to go back to now.

@GameOtaku ” Why pay $50 every year when you can buy a game or games you like once and just play indefinitely?!”

$50 a year is cheap compared to the amount you would spend every year to buy the games you want. Theres over three hundred games now, which you can play for only $50 a year. How is that not a bargain? And you get to play the games you are unfamiliar with and wouldn’t want to spend money on without risk of wasting money.

@father_noo people can rank N64 games they played on NSO even if they hadn’t played them originally

@Mana_Knight I’m really not a fan of Iggy’s Wreckin’ Balls. Never played it before it came to NSO so I don’t have any nostalgia towards it but I found it rough to play.

No, it’s not “a bit much” at all. $50 a year to play hundreds of retro games is an amazing awesome deal. Especially now that they are adding GameCube games too. And who doesn’t have internet at home now? Nobody. The weekly check-in is literally a non-issue.

There should be a separate Mature app for Gamecube games like with the N64.

No Skies of Arcadia Legends?

@Pigeon I’d recommend the SN 8BitDo controller. I have it and it’s great for fighting games. I can’t use the regular joycons for them either.

I could turn my Wii U on right now and start playing Wind Waker in two minutes if I wanted to. I will be playing Wind Waker on NSO but if I did want to play it again seriously, I’ll play it on Wii U.

I wonder how many novels The Great Ace Attorney would fill. Now that game is many novels at least.

I passed on the two games until a few months ago when I saw them on sale as a bundle on the eShop and decided to buy them. I wasn’t familiar and I don’t have much faith in new modern RPG series. I started with the second game and chose Throné. I didn’t understand the battle system at first so I didn’t play past the first save point initially and stopped playing. Some weeks later, last week, I started playing again got the hang of it and quite enjoyed it.

The stories of those characters I’ve played so far are actually good. My favourite is Osvald’s. I appreciate the important scenes being fully voiced, and the writing and voice acting is quite decent. I caught on quickly and accepted the game is eight different and separate stories taking place on the same world. Every character has their opportunity to be the focus character with every other party character being relegated to being support in battles during the story. That’s fine. It’s different but not bad. Given the structure of the story, I wouldn’t want every character to join in on other characters storylines. The graphics look great, perhaps too good - the first game now looks terrible to me in comparison, having only played the Scholar’s first chapter of the first game.

@wollywoo I don’t think of the storylines as being disjointed nor how they are structured as being a flaw. You choose a character whose story you want to follow then continue that character’s story or choose a different character’s story. I don’t call that being disjointed or flawed. I appreciate that each character’s storylines are clearly shown on the map and are optional so you’re not stumbling into being forced to play through a story you don’t want to play through yet. And my favourite music in the game is the boss theme.

I don’t know why developers would make copycat games that would be difficult for players to find on the eShop among all the rest of similarly titled games. I had nothing against there being a [shop] simulator until there were twenty or however many similarly titled games on the eshop

@ElkinFencer10 “The "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was always a bit of a joke”

The Seal of Quality only applies to the physical construction of the cartridge the games were on and has always had no relevance towards the content of the game on the cartridge.

@Papasears1982 The graphics look rough to me on my TV. I can’t find a filter that I like. MvC2 looks terrible even with the update patch. The game does look better in handheld mode though so I think they prioritised undocked over docked. I should download it on PS5. I think it would look better and cleaner. No I’m not expecting super clean high resolution graphics, just something that resembles how it actually looked in the arcade and not a bad port.

I felt like the original was too short so I’m glad it’s getting a new story.

Oh sweet spongy loaf, I think I’ll get this. I quite enjoyed the original but thought it was too short.

I think Stanley the Bugman from Arcade and NES Donkey Kong 3 (not SNES Country 3) should return as a protagonist.

@Member_the_game the classic games are an incentive for NSO subscribers to stay subscribed. They wouldn’t be much of an exclusive bonus if they were also sold separately without having to subscribe.

Plus it works out cheaper to subscribe to NSO than to buy the games separately. Retro games released on Switch are incredibly overpriced. Felix the Cat is one NES game and one GB game for $25.

I wonder how many players wanting to buy retro games on NSO individually would still want to do so when faced with $15 SNES games.

Nobody likes Monty Mole?

What about Monty On The Run?

Or Auf Wedersehen Monty?

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune “ 2) Drip feeding the games out at a glacial pace; going with weird leftfield choices and ignoring the titles we're all crying out for”

1. It costs money to get the games rated so they aren’t going to spend a lot of money in a short period of time to get several games rated at once
2. They want to save some big name titles for later on
3. Not every publisher is willing to support the service

I think we get some obscure games over big name games simply because some publishers are more protective of their big name games. We still don’t have Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for example and only Sonic 2 as a obligatory support.

Fall damage prevents or discourages shortcuts. Sure some games allow it, but some other games want you to find another way down. Or is perhaps a reward to unlock later in the game by falling from a high place and surviving with your increased health.

I played Vampire Survivors yesterday for several hours.

I hope Nintendo goes back to accurate time played they did with previous consoles, and with NSO games on Switch. I like to keep track of how long I’ve played games and “you have played for about one hour” type statements don’t help me at all. Worse, when sorting by time played, some games are placed as having much less time played than you actually have; perhaps if you have a lot of games, it can’t keep memory of them all.

Good. I find MvC2 to look terrible on my tv on Switch.

Already have on PS4, but willing to double dip on Switch 2. I’ll get the dlc characters bundle.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'd much rather pay less than £3 a month to get access to the whole library than the prices they charged on Virtual Console for this amount of games. I don't care if I don't own them forever, I don't intend to play most of these games for the rest of my life.”

I agree. And shopto.net sells the expansion pass for about £26, about £10 less than Nintendo does, which is where I buy my pass from.

@DollyrotsFan1 and Game Gear games too.

I want to be able to attach two Switch 2 game screens so that you can use it in a DS formation. And you would also be able to have one game screen docked and the second can be used in the same way as a Wii U Game Pad.

Only one screen would be supplied and there would be games that only use one screen, but to get the most out of the console, you would have to buy two.

@Tempestryke you likely wouldn’t play it for longer than the rental period.

Why bother buying a cow when you only want one glass of milk?

@MeloMan I imagine it’s only because it’s Thanksgiving / Black Friday.

@Zeebor15 ”Super Donkey Kong" as I call it to annoy Anglo centric Demeechs

I mean you could, but why would you want to?

I only pay the equivalent of $31 USD (£25) a year for the expansion pass because of a deal an online shop has (shopto.net).

Five games in one month is good going for the NSO. I think there may still be an update on Friday too. The three MD games are not what I would have chosen but can’t complain.

these games wouldve been cool if nintendo didnt take nearly a year between every game drop no matter how big or small it is.

Nintendo is only responsible for their own games. Publishers have to approach Nintendo if and when they want to put their games on the service. If Sega or whoever doesn’t bother doing so, there’s nothing Nintendo can do. They certainly are not going to go chasing Sega to make them continue supporting the service.

I would be interested in hearing an interview with whoever it is who decides what games to put up on the service. There has been some odd choices and noticeable delays. Where is Sonic 1?

I imagine they want to keep people coming back to the service later by staggering releases. If they release all their good games first, people will play them and then not bother continuing to subscribe when there’s only bad and obscure games left to be added.

It’s odd that they release a game today so soon after DKL1. It makes me think there may still be a release on Friday.

They’re not going to make a new game just because it’s the anniversary. They’ll do so when they feel the time is right in their development schedule.

think about all the games celebrating their 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th or 35th anniversary every year.

While I agree that a new Donkey Kong game is wanted, I don’t want them to rush out some crappy attempt just to say they did something.

So hopefully Donkey Kong Land 3 on Wednesday and Donkey Kong 64 on Friday?

I’m hoping for more Donkey Kong games next week and this is just the start of a larger celebration

@vio because it’s a different game to Country. Land 2 and 3 were just Country 2 & 3 cut down to fit the Game Boy though. Land 1 is its own thing.

Maybe so, but that’s what Amazon’s return policy is for.

I had planned to swap cards back and forth with different games on each when I got my second SD card over a year ago but in practice, I don’t bother doing so. And now my larger second card is full too.

Okay I ordered this today. I use a SN30 8BitDo controller but it’s not suited for N64 games, not really. The N64 controller was too expensive to buy full price but I don’t mind at a discount.

@Medic_alert shopto.net has a discount on NSO subscriptions

@Yosher they should have allowed you to play the GB games on Pokemon Stadium

@Mommar “They changed some of the artwork.”

They attempted to hide the original artwork from modern day eyes, but as a result they caused the original art to be spread across the internet.

I’d like to see Final Fantasy I & II HD-2D made with the same type of style. Sure the original NES games were basic and flawed, but a remake would correct what you don’t like about the original games.

Japanese box stands out more.