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I actually don’t think the solution to all the dross is to add in better filters but to try and drive it off the platform entirely.

I’ve long felt that the solution to all the shovelware is to mandate a minimum price of something like £15. My thinking is this would discourage developers from listing stuff they know no-one sane would pay that much for. A solid refund mechanism for any poor souls who get suckered in would help too.

It took me a second to realise what those extra buttons on the back of the new Joy-Cons are for. At first they looked like the world's most inaccessible buttons, then I realised they're ZL/ZR buttons for when you're playing with a single Joy-Con held sideways. 😅

The more realistic you try to draw Megaman, the worse he looks. He works best as an anime character, this design is basically one step away from the old NES covers that looked terrible.

I bought it on Steam last week, the stiffness of the combat is quite frustrating and it's not very good at giving you health or magic refills to offset any mistakes. It's OK in the earlier areas but the later sections can be quite annoying when you're punted miles back to the checkpoint again. I didn't find the giant mech battle controls much better either.

It's a shame, it's a great premise but it's let down by being a bit simplistic and annoying to control.

20 years? No way! 😭

I remember importing launch DSes and PSPs for myself and my brother from Lik-Sang. You only had to look at the versions of Ridge Racer on the PSP and DS to see the DS was doomed... and then the DS games started coming out. Endless innovative and inventive titles that constantly found new ways to use the two screens, the microphone, the stylus, etc. The ideas just didn't stop coming.

The PSP might have had all the power and style, but the DS just didn't stop with the amazing games. I enjoyed both systems, but there's a reason the DS printed money.

Those early years of mobile gaming truly were amazing, so many unique and innovative titles. Looking at the endless ocean of exploitative tripe on the App Store now, it’s hard to believe there were once good mobile games.

Probably not anytime soon, I'm still trying to finish of Metaphor ReFantazio, after that I want to go back to Zelda which I hadn't got very far into.

@Haruki_NLI That’s impressive, but then the Switch has always been great at surpassing expectations. I wonder why Sega didn’t go that route. Maybe it’s better on battery life at 30fps?

@Haruki_NLI Does it run at 60fps on original hardware with the 31.5 cap removed or just on overclocked devices/emulators?

The app is pretty good, the lack of SNES StarFox is a bit of a shame though. Hitting the extend button on the end credits music would be nice! 😉

CRKD stands for crooked, right?

@TheBigK Yeah that’s right, Mario Kart and Ocarina of Time usually have it the worst with the visuals finishing before the music because there’s no slowdown on the emulator.

@SillyG If only! 😂 Sadly when it came to PAL games we got slowdown instead of speed up, so Mario probably sounded more like Lou Albano than Martinet in that version. 🤣

@AstroTheGamosian Yep, I remember when Mario 64 first came out and I was appalled at the castrato voice they’d gone for after Mario always having a deep, gruff voice. It didn’t take long for me to get used to the new voice of course and these days it’s just how I naturally expect Mario to sound… and then of course they went back to a deeper voice in the CGI film! 😅

Bought the first one on sale yesterday and it was a huge mistake. The tank controls do not properly match the originals as there’s no way to side-step like the original. It doesn’t even let you remap the lower to L/R buttons to that. I’m glad I still own the originals.

That's some weird choices, I do like they've got the very original in there to see how it all started, but no GameBoy Tetris seems like a major oversight. I guess with it on NSO they either couldn't include it here or decided it wasn't worth it.

Personally, you've got to have Tetris DS to get my attention, that's by far my favourite version.

Japan is better. It doesn’t have that giant grey GBA logo taking up a quarter of the space and shows more characters from the game.

ALBW basically already solved this with a quick select menu where you add your most used items. It’s weird how Nintendo forget how they solved things in their own games already.

Personally I didn’t think there was much wrong with the old Zelda format outside of the constant reuse of the same items over and over again. “You got the hookshot, “You got the bombs”, “You got the boomerang”, etc, etc.

Unique, new weapons would have made the games feel fresh and original. ALBW was great because of the wall merge puzzles (and because it basically gave you all the other weapons right away instead of slowly doling them out).

Give me a classic Zelda with new items and new puzzles and I’d be very happy.

Japan looks way better than the others.

I think Nintendo are going for the PS2 record with all these bundles. They want to shift as many consoles as they can before the Switch 2 needs to be launched.

@Qwiff I was going to mention 40fps as well. Like you, I find it looks much smoother than 30fps and doesn’t feel like a huge drop from 60fps like 30fps does. For some reason anything below 40 tends to look choppy to me, but 40fps+ always looks decent.

Japan by a mile for its lovely anime-style art and because it highlights all the key characters rather than randomly picking the level 2B boss like the US one does. The Probotector one is pretty cool as well considering it had to deal with all the characters being changed to robots.

I hope this comes to the UK, I really want a physical copy of the game with all the tracks, I don’t want to lose them when Nintendo inevitably turns the servers off one day.

@Apogee90 SNES Doom was low-res but it filled the screen. It was the 32X and 3DO versions that reduced the window size.

I’m quite keen, but why the US shaped cart? It won’t fit in Japanese or PAL region consoles.

I still use the original Splattoon theme as my default as it has nice vibrant colours and no distracting background image. If this is the same I might be able to vary which theme I normally use!

@Lady_rosalina Never underestimate the ability of devs to take an ancient game and somehow end up with it running worse on modern hardware! 😉

Oh what a surprise, greed killed it. While I'm not interested in these games, I'll bet they were a lot more polished and well made than whatever soulless rubbish full of NFTs and micro-transactions the IOC will come up with.

I wish Nintendo would release a new physical version of MK8DX including all the recent DLC tracks. I don't want them to all disappear in a few years when they switch the servers off...

GAME are more likely to stock the figures from the game than the game itself…

7/10 is winning. We could all work for IGN!

I was a SNES Remix and an N64 Remix. I hadn't thought of a GB Remix but I want that now too, but they need to be more like the old NES Remix and less like the World Championships style they've gone for.

That's a pretty good list, I think I'd put Fall of the Foot Clan and TMNT II on the NES higher, but other than that it's about right.

Oh yes, hook it up to my veins! Any time Inti does pixel art it's awesome and this looks really good. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long for the release!

The "NES Edition" postfix gives me hopes of SNES and N64 Editions!

It all sounds a bit too online focused for me, I loved NES Remix but I'm less keen on trying to beat the time of someone who's been obsessing on the same mini-game over and over all month to shave a second off their time.

I always play Zero Mission on easy, I enjoy the Metroid games for the exploration and trying to find hidden items and routes, I don’t really play them for hard boss fights.

I think it’s because the first ones I played were Super and then Metroid II and neither of those had particularly hard bosses, so tricky combat isn’t what is go to these games for.

Also, when it comes to getting good at a game, I think people learn in different ways. I do not get on well with doing the same thing over and over endlessly. I tend to prefer beating something on easy until I’m really good at it and then bumping the difficulty up. That way I have a good idea of what to expect and don’t need to keep dying over and over as each new phase of the fight starts.

Hey hey! It's time to lose some kerrrazy money making a beloved single player game a live service multiplayer one!

Nah nah nah nah nah....

Japan’s is waaaay better. There’s nothing going on in the Western cover, it’s just Samus three times for some reason.

Hooray, Turok... which I already own and with gyro aiming. Why would they release this when there's so many other games they could have picked?

Japan, because Violence Killer is an epic name.

The map is the killer new feature for me. I couldn't find my way back to various places in order to complete quests and the map in Mario Odyssey definitely spoiled me. I'm definitely going to get this. I'd guess they used updating the original game as a means to update their engine and tech and will work on a sequel after this.

I always get to the super giant puzzles and run out of steam on them. I don't think I've ever fully finished a Picross game. 🥵

Luckily I got the email from Nintendo telling me the limited edition was available for pre-order, so I managed to get it. I'd have preferred the Japanese version but they're sold out everywhere and already on eBay for £200+. 🙄

Interesting that it says both sides filed for it to be dismissed, that usually indicates some sort of out of court agreement has been reached. Maybe Nintendo offered them a crate of joy-cons so that they would just go away?

Dammit now I want the Japanese version. What's the betting this will be triple the retail price on eBay? 😩

What the what?! If this is anything like NES Remix I’ll be all over it. I’m actually replaying NES Remix on the Wii U at the moment, trying to get rainbow on every challenge is hard work! 🥵

I just wish Nintendo would let us buy/unlock missed Tetris 99 themes. I've got them all except one I think I missed while I was on holiday. 😢

@PikminMarioKirby Very true, plus Paper Mario tends to have "jerky" animation anyway as the characters are meant to be a series of paper cut outs. I'd be interested to know how many frames are in Mario's walking cycle. If it's say 4 frames then there wouldn't be any visible difference from 60fps to 30 as the number of frames where he changes is less than the frame rate anyway.

Admittedly, scrolling/movement could be slightly jerkier, but even there, if the scroll speed isn't high then there wouldn't be much difference between 30 and 60.

The only place where frame rate could really hurt I think will be the timings in the battles. Hopefully Nintendo have mitigated that with some looser timings in which case it should all be good!

@PikminMarioKirby In fairness though movies and TV shows are different from games. Games draw each frame like it's a stop motion animation, the more frames there are, the smoother the animation seems.

Films and TV shows capture motion blur from the exposure level which smooths the motion between frames. Plus of course, you're not playing a TV show so there's no downside to on-screen events taking longer to get to you.

Even with films though, higher frame rates can be desirable. The action scenes in Avatar 2 are 60fps and unlike something like Transformers or the Bourne films where the action scenes are smeary and hard to comprehend, all of the action in Avatar was very easy to follow.

I’m only interested if it’s got a good single player mode. Not interested in multiplayer at all.