@Moistnado They did on Wii U but it did not prove to be successful so they had to change their tactics. If Wii U had sold more, maybe they would be selling crappy NES games for $5 like you wanted.
@JohnnyMind for what I said to have relevance as a spoiler, someone has to have completed the game to understand the context of what I said. I said enough for it to have meaning to those who know, and to be meaningless to those who don’t.
@Don presumably the Virtual Console didn’t do so well on Wii U hence why Nintendo had to change tactics. There are several retro compilations on Switch for those not subscribers to NSO.
The game shows the second time that Ray asked Sissel to help him. The first time Sissel turns him down and goes off on his own. We don't see the consequences of this.
What happened after turning Ray down? What does he do? Who does he meet?
The ending is pretty neatly wrapped up. So a direct continuation of the story after the ending isn’t really possible.
What was the deal with the listed upcoming games if they were going to release a whole other bunch of games not listed? The press release made it sound like that only the listed games would be released rather than only being a few of the upcoming games.
Mystery Tower may be a simple game but what is noteworthy is that the title has been translated in the game. Which means they can go into an edit a game’s graphics.
@Andee They simply weren’t releasing the games in order of their original release. Presumably SMB3 was released last due to the e-card reader feature they were developing for it.
Other than that, it's pretty similar to the All-stars version of Super Mario Bros 2 on SNES
No it’s not. Play SMA1 and find out. They added a bunch of new stuff that makes it worth playing. Of course it wasn’t going to be completely new but neither is it a straight port of the All*Stars version.
Being able to play SNES games on GBA was quite special back in the day. Even straight ports.
@DaniPooo If you actually have play SMA1, you would not have posted such an obvious factually incorrect comment. There are major changes to SMA1 right from the start, which you say to the best of your knowledge it doesn’t have.
Years ago I wanted a remake of Zelda 1 reusing Minish Cap graphics. It would bring life to a generic looking NES games with a variety of visually different locations making up the same areas of the NES game. Link starts out on a village for example with the ”mountains” being replaced by buildings and blocks in that area replaced by people.
@samuelvictor Which reminds me, I still haven’t watched Magical Talruto-kun. I first read about the show when Super Play magazine did a feature on SNES games based on anime thirty years ago.
Did they alter E. Honda’s stage to remove the “racially insensitive” imagery? And alter Guile’s stage to remove the Air Force logo? They did for other modern releases of SFII.
It bothered me that the hero in DQXI was silent. There would be a huge emotional reveal for the hero and he would just stand there emotionless saying nothing in response.
@Scapetti I think I’ll have more enjoyment and play time from the Final Fantasy bundle than the new Zelda. I’m going to buy a “two games for £84” voucher on the eshop and get the new Zelda and Fire Emblem Engage with it.
@Scapetti I do too. I get to play games I wouldn’t buy if they were sold individually. And it actually costs less to pay for NSO for a few years than to buy all the games you want if they were available individually.
@Scapetti hey people complain that they don’t want to rent NSO games and demand they be sold individually. And so Square said “okay, now you can buy these old games without subscribing”, and then people complained that they are too expensive being sold individually…
Papa Mario and Grandpa Mario had the most to do of the Mario family. Mama Mario and Uncle Mario didn’t really do anything. Grandpa Mario was only memorable for me as he kept trying to eat but couldn’t. And I forget who else was there.
@andyg1412 I knew there would be all kinds of articles, threads and discussion for it so I made sure to watch it day one. The Mario Movie is one of those things where if you don’t want to be spoiled, you have to stay off the internet until you’ve watched it.
Worst point for me was that the music is way too loud in places.
Voices were okay. Storyline was okay. Action and CGI was good. Loved the references… but no Wario? Not one reference or cameo in the entire movie. The kid who bullies baby Luigi should have been baby Wario but it wasn’t. And only the briefest of Yoshi cameos.
@mrMike it’s become common that female heroes in movies don’t get stronger, they just “lower the difficulty setting” of the male characters around them. They’re playing on easy mode so they can win instead of fighting and overcoming a difficult opponent. And that’s just an insult towards female characters in movies. Tearing others down to win instead of becoming stronger yourself is not empowering.
@Slinkoy1 She had personality in the old comic books and cartoons where she was a likeable character, on equal ground to Mario. Whereas here she seems to have a toxic superiority complex to show up Mario as being the dumb male.
@Zelda_01 No sorry. Peach is Peach. She’s not Samus. She’s not Lara Croft. She’s not Bayonetta. I don’t want her turned into something she’s not. Part of having diversity is that there is a variety of different character traits, yes even for the same gender. The “strong independent woman who don’t need no man” trope works for some characters but not everyone. Peach’s strengths lie in her kindness, gentleness, compassion, intelligence and being respectful. She is not one to bark orders and charge into battle spear in hand. Diversity includes such character traits as being valid. Or do you want to pretend that such positive traits are a unbecoming of a female character. Not every woman has to be physically strong to have strength. Peach is one such woman.
You go around fighting monsters and exploring new areas to find ingredients to make food to sell in your restaurant so you can buy more food which you can eat to get stronger enabling you to fight stronger monsters and explore even further.
@Uncle_Franklin “With Nintendo apparently able to release Tetris on the Game Boy, there is no excuse not to release Tetris Attack on the SNES.”
The Tetris Company really do not like the Tetris name being used on games that do not have anything to do with the actual Tetris and deeply regret having allowed Nintendo to use the Tetris name for Tetris Attack.
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Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color Library With Two Zelda Classics
@Moistnado Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are also rental services. Subscription services are just the new normal now.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color Library With Two Zelda Classics
@YoshiF2 the teleporting technique of the original is the main draw of the original Link’s Awakening which was removed for the Color version
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color Library With Two Zelda Classics
@Moistnado They did on Wii U but it did not prove to be successful so they had to change their tactics. If Wii U had sold more, maybe they would be selling crappy NES games for $5 like you wanted.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color Library With Two Zelda Classics
Should have thrown in the original b&w Link’s Awakening too today, just for preservation.
Re: Gollum Publisher Daedalic Entertainment Shuts Down Internal Development
They were never going to make any more Deponia games again anyway. Their best days were behind them even before Gollum.
Re: Four Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
How many games do we have for the NSO this year? It’s got to be a ratio of more than once a week.
Re: Poll: What Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 5 DLC Racer Are You Most Excited About?
@mariomaster96 same, but Donkey Kong replaced Kamek in MK64 which was a better choice.
Re: Capcom May Consider A Ghost Trick Sequel If There's Enough Support
@JohnnyMind for what I said to have relevance as a spoiler, someone has to have completed the game to understand the context of what I said. I said enough for it to have meaning to those who know, and to be meaningless to those who don’t.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library Next Week With Fire Emblem
@Don presumably the Virtual Console didn’t do so well on Wii U hence why Nintendo had to change tactics. There are several retro compilations on Switch for those not subscribers to NSO.
Re: Capcom May Consider A Ghost Trick Sequel If There's Enough Support
@ComfyAko Capitalism is how and why games get made, yes.
Re: Capcom May Consider A Ghost Trick Sequel If There's Enough Support
SPOILERS
The game shows the second time that Ray asked Sissel to help him. The first time Sissel turns him down and goes off on his own. We don't see the consequences of this.
What happened after turning Ray down? What does he do? Who does he meet?
The ending is pretty neatly wrapped up. So a direct continuation of the story after the ending isn’t really possible.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
You neglected to include the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance versions of Donkey Kong Country. They had different box-art images.
Re: Soapbox: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom's Busier Hyrule Is Making Me Miss BOTW
TotK fixed all the issues I had with BotW including minor stuff like menu navigation. I can’t go back to BotW anymore now.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color, SNES & NES Library With Four More Titles
What was the deal with the listed upcoming games if they were going to release a whole other bunch of games not listed? The press release made it sound like that only the listed games would be released rather than only being a few of the upcoming games.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color, SNES & NES Library With Four More Titles
@romanista
“harvest moon is sort of curious since the new gaems can't have that name anymore (now story of seasons)”
There is a new Harvest Moon this year that has the Harvest Moon name.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color, SNES & NES Library With Four More Titles
Mystery Tower may be a simple game but what is noteworthy is that the title has been translated in the game. Which means they can go into an edit a game’s graphics.
Re: Soapbox: How Zelda's Bad Economy Made Weapon Degradation Great Again
Remember when Link fused an arrow to a Rupee every time he used it?
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Three Super Mario Games
@Andee They simply weren’t releasing the games in order of their original release. Presumably SMB3 was released last due to the e-card reader feature they were developing for it.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Three Super Mario Games
Other than that, it's pretty similar to the All-stars version of Super Mario Bros 2 on SNES
No it’s not. Play SMA1 and find out. They added a bunch of new stuff that makes it worth playing. Of course it wasn’t going to be completely new but neither is it a straight port of the All*Stars version.
Being able to play SNES games on GBA was quite special back in the day. Even straight ports.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Three Super Mario Games
@DaniPooo If you actually have play SMA1, you would not have posted such an obvious factually incorrect comment. There are major changes to SMA1 right from the start, which you say to the best of your knowledge it doesn’t have.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Three Super Mario Games
@DaniPooo You’ve not actually played Super Mario Advance 1, have you?
Re: Round Up: People Can't Stop Torturing Koroks In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
These videos need the Danganronpa execution music being played.
Re: Review: LEGO Worlds (Switch)
@ricklongo That’s all the review I need to read.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For A Zelda 1 Remake, Please
Years ago I wanted a remake of Zelda 1 reusing Minish Cap graphics. It would bring life to a generic looking NES games with a variety of visually different locations making up the same areas of the NES game. Link starts out on a village for example with the ”mountains” being replaced by buildings and blocks in that area replaced by people.
Re: Advance Wars English Voice Actors Officially Announce Their Characters
@HeeHo Arin does other things than YouTube. Voice actors can do things unrelated to voice acting in their career.
Re: Four Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@samuelvictor Which reminds me, I still haven’t watched Magical Talruto-kun. I first read about the show when Super Play magazine did a feature on SNES games based on anime thirty years ago.
Re: Four Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@Sinton one game every month would be far less than what we are currently getting. Unless you mean one game every week then yes i agree.
Re: Four Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
Did they alter E. Honda’s stage to remove the “racially insensitive” imagery? And alter Guile’s stage to remove the Air Force logo? They did for other modern releases of SFII.
Re: Talking Point: Which Nintendo Franchise Should Illumination Tackle Next?
Super Princess Peach.
Re: Talking Point: Should Link Have Voice Acting In The Next Zelda Game?
It bothered me that the hero in DQXI was silent. There would be a huge emotional reveal for the hero and he would just stand there emotionless saying nothing in response.
Re: Talking Point: Should Link Have Voice Acting In The Next Zelda Game?
@1UP_MARIO Silent black and white movies worked great too until technology moved on to allow for talking movies in color.
We can’t limit progress in modern games to stay true to what the NES was incapable of back in 1987 when the series started.
Re: Talking Point: Should Link Have Voice Acting In The Next Zelda Game?
Needs a further qualifier. It shouldn’t be
“Should Link have voice acting?”
but
“Should Link have good voice acting?”
Re: Peppa Pig: World Adventures Lead Producer Explains Random Queen Tribute
@Maxz Also bridge jumper.
Speed would be a whole different movie if it was set in London and had the Queen driving the bus.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster File Sizes Seemingly Revealed
@Scapetti I think I’ll have more enjoyment and play time from the Final Fantasy bundle than the new Zelda. I’m going to buy a “two games for £84” voucher on the eshop and get the new Zelda and Fire Emblem Engage with it.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster File Sizes Seemingly Revealed
@Scapetti I do too. I get to play games I wouldn’t buy if they were sold individually. And it actually costs less to pay for NSO for a few years than to buy all the games you want if they were available individually.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster File Sizes Seemingly Revealed
@Scapetti hey people complain that they don’t want to rent NSO games and demand they be sold individually. And so Square said “okay, now you can buy these old games without subscribing”, and then people complained that they are too expensive being sold individually…
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster File Sizes Seemingly Revealed
@Captain_Toad That’s not what she said.
Re: Mario Movie Used Unreleased Nintendo Designs To Create Certain Characters
Papa Mario and Grandpa Mario had the most to do of the Mario family. Mama Mario and Uncle Mario didn’t really do anything. Grandpa Mario was only memorable for me as he kept trying to eat but couldn’t. And I forget who else was there.
Re: Video: Jack Black Performs Bowser's Mario Movie Song 'Peaches'
@andyg1412 I knew there would be all kinds of articles, threads and discussion for it so I made sure to watch it day one. The Mario Movie is one of those things where if you don’t want to be spoiled, you have to stay off the internet until you’ve watched it.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Series Launches On Switch Later This Month
@Tempestryke How would you know if you’ve only ever brought two?
Re: Video: Let's Discuss The Super Mario Bros. Movie
@Olmectron The cameos and references were part of the fun for me.
Re: Video: Let's Discuss The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Worst point for me was that the music is way too loud in places.
Voices were okay. Storyline was okay. Action and CGI was good. Loved the references… but no Wario? Not one reference or cameo in the entire movie. The kid who bullies baby Luigi should have been baby Wario but it wasn’t. And only the briefest of Yoshi cameos.
Re: Video: Super Mario Bros. Movie 'Princess Peach Training Course' Clip Released
@mrMike it’s become common that female heroes in movies don’t get stronger, they just “lower the difficulty setting” of the male characters around them. They’re playing on easy mode so they can win instead of fighting and overcoming a difficult opponent. And that’s just an insult towards female characters in movies. Tearing others down to win instead of becoming stronger yourself is not empowering.
Re: Video: Super Mario Bros. Movie 'Princess Peach Training Course' Clip Released
@Slinkoy1 She had personality in the old comic books and cartoons where she was a likeable character, on equal ground to Mario. Whereas here she seems to have a toxic superiority complex to show up Mario as being the dumb male.
Re: Review: Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition - A Fair Port For Chrono Trigger's Follow-Up
@dluxxx it’s on sale now
Re: Funky Monster-Fusing Pokémon-Like 'Cassette Beasts' Hits Switch This Spring
Cassette Beasts, eject! Operation: Nintendo!
Re: Mario Movie Directors Explain Their Take On Princess Peach
@Zelda_01 No sorry. Peach is Peach. She’s not Samus. She’s not Lara Croft. She’s not Bayonetta. I don’t want her turned into something she’s not. Part of having diversity is that there is a variety of different character traits, yes even for the same gender. The “strong independent woman who don’t need no man” trope works for some characters but not everyone. Peach’s strengths lie in her kindness, gentleness, compassion, intelligence and being respectful. She is not one to bark orders and charge into battle spear in hand. Diversity includes such character traits as being valid. Or do you want to pretend that such positive traits are a unbecoming of a female character. Not every woman has to be physically strong to have strength. Peach is one such woman.
Re: 39 Best 3DS eShop Games You Should Get Before They're Gone Forever
Adventure Bar Story is a good small rpg.
You go around fighting monsters and exploring new areas to find ingredients to make food to sell in your restaurant so you can buy more food which you can eat to get stronger enabling you to fight stronger monsters and explore even further.
Re: Countdown: 3DS eShop Spotlight - Attack Of The Friday Monsters!
I like this one. Sure it’s nothing big or special but it has its own nostalgic charm that’s worth experiencing
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online Game Boy, SNES & NES Service With Four More Titles
@Uncle_Franklin “With Nintendo apparently able to release Tetris on the Game Boy, there is no excuse not to release Tetris Attack on the SNES.”
The Tetris Company really do not like the Tetris name being used on games that do not have anything to do with the actual Tetris and deeply regret having allowed Nintendo to use the Tetris name for Tetris Attack.