ChromaticDracula

Does anyone get the feeling they’re being “odd” about the Switch version because there is going to be some sort of announcement that Symphony of the Night is finally coming to Switch? Like they’re going to have a Direct where they shadow drop symphony of the night and also announce something Belmont’s Curse? That’s my gut instinct. Or maybe I’m just really hoping… they would have to announce Symphony sooner than later so as to not eat into their Belmont’s Curse sales/hype.

@Aquinas I’m in the same boat. I will read 100 articles before I watch a video, especially if it’s YouTube. In fact, I’ll read 300 articles before I watch a YouTube video.
Only time Ill even consider watching a NL video is if it’s my boy Alex.

Because we be asking for them!

Next 2 Sega games I buy are Shinobi (Switch 2 version) and Metaphor.
I can’t stress enough how excited I am to finally play both of these titles.

About Crazy Taxi, I’m happy they were upfront about the use of AI during the design phase of the game. They said no AI assets are in the final game. Honesty should be bare minimum, 100%, but they should not be penalized for being honest. Conceptualizing is probably one of the better uses of AI, and that’s coming from me, someone who utterly despises anything AI.
I’ll support the game if it turns out no AI is found in the public release.

Oh wow, this one reads like it’s made pretty well. Some things that shouldn’t be negatives for me, but are, are that the colors and text make it look like an Animal Crossing ripoff or like an AI attempt. I mean, if it works, it works, but that lends to the fact I’d have overlooked this game otherwise for that very reason— like it was a cheap cash grab. Still, it reviewed well enough so on the wishlist it goes!

I want to tell my wife about this game so bad because she loves these kinds of games BUT if she gets wind of this, we’ll be …erm… fighting… over the Switch 2 again LOL. Might “rediscover this new game” in a few weeks after I finish blasphemous 2... 🤫

GIVE IT TO MEEEE…
I‘m just a smidge sour there isn’t a Switch 2 version solely because we know it’s coming, but I can feel they’re trying to make people double-dip and just release a SW1 version first.
Normally I’d just wait it out (I am with Shinobi and it’s killing me) but this is a new freaking mainline Castlevania! NO WAY am I waiting this out.
Only way I’m going to be mad is if it runs like poop and is severely downgraded. However, if it runs well like the other consoles and comes all on the game card, I’ll have no complaints whatsoever.

This looks so cool. I’ve resisted any and all Lego things so far though and I plan to keep it that way. I sadly just don’t have the room for these sets. I would’ve got the NES one, this one, and probably the Zelda one. Oh and the Gameboy one… AH … and the Sega Genesis one… ok, I wanted them all.

To be clear, I have no problem with voice acting and/or Faie’s voice acting, it was just the cringy lines and over enthusiastic hint dropping and all that. It also made me mad how tropey it was towards female characters. I love when games have voice acting but this one was just annoying for how often and hand-holdy it was. I’ve actually decided to not play some games because of lack of voice acting. Give us more voice acting but just less child-like and hand holdey!
I’m so glad they listened and released this patch for folks. My only other issue, as @Broch83 said, some of the areas are reused across eras. Like you conquer a dungeon or cave in this era and then visit another era, and there it is again, almost unchanged, visually the exact same. It got a little lazy. I do wish I kept my copy now though haha

Oh, NOW they decide to release this patch!
I got 8 hours in and just couldn’t handle the fairy voice anymore so I sold my copy. …. Maybe re-buy digitally in the future to finish it out. Her voice and dialogue was grating, and not only that, was giving away unwarranted hints and tips.
The game is so good though, really. With this update, it’s now especially worth a play if anyone’s on the fence!

Why didn’t anyone tell me Troy Baker did the voice work in this?! Sorry but this just became an insta-buy.

Ooohhh wow this looks really good. Hot take but I sort of prefer this gameplay loop over the direction fire emblem has gone. What I mean is I really just want to play the levels and command my units; not spend time dating and running around in between missions. I prefer the older fire emblem games: story beat > gameplay > story beat > gameplay. This looks to keep that intact and that’s what I prefer. Not knocking on fire emblem, I understand why they went that direction and all that, but I just want to play the game! It just plays to me like a lot of fluff to pad out the real meat of the game with the in between stuff. So with that being said, this release timing so close to fire emblem doesn’t really affect me.

I’m buying this new one for one game: BOWLING.
I’m certain I will play the others once I try them and all that but if this was just bowling and bowling alone, I’d still fork over the $49 for it. All the other games are a nice bonus to me. I enjoyed that so much on Wii and my Dad and I played it for hours and hours and laughed. It’s going to be really fun.
I haven’t played bowling since Wii Sports with my Dad and I skipped over that newer one for Switch so I’m pretty excited here!
Hopefully the controls are as accurate as they were with the Wiimotes, or at least close enough.

THIS IS A VERY GOOD UPDATE.
This is maybe the best update in a long time even.

@Jade37 I actually have not played ZX but I just read about it and now I want to give it a shot. I think you’re spot on! The metroidvania upgrade formula fits right in with standard Mega Man and upgrading and having a structure where you don’t have a level select screen would be sort of a natural progression. In my head, it just makes sense to move to that formula. You’re right, filling in the space between with actual meaningful content would be the challenge.

Isn’t he like their defacto mascot?
I’ll tell ya what would jive with more folks: actual ducking, aiming, and dodge rolling mechanics in new games. The existing formula works, but I feel like the old NES mechanics where you can’t duck or aim, which felt like design limitations, are starting to grow long in the tooth. Well, I for one would love to see an expanded moveset for the blue bomber. I’m going to get a lot of folks angry with this next one, but I’d LOVE a metroidvania style Mega Man. I can’t believe we got a metroidvania Pac-Man before a metroidvania mega man!!

Time to get that Evercade, folks! Won’t necessarily help with new games, but you’ll have your pick with the oldies.
I spent a lot of time buying up n64, gb/a/c, ps1, ps2 games over the past few years. I have a PixelFX modded ps2, 2 analogue systems, and a switch 2. YOU WANNA GET NUTS, PS!? LET’S GET NUTS!

@N00BiSH this is one of the most unhinged things I’ve ever read and I love it. 😂

How sure are we that this might not be a super Metroid remake? How do we feel about that? I thought Ocarina was untouchable but here we are. I also feel Super Metroid is untouchable but for as strongly as I feel, I’d love to play that in an updated form. I think it would even be cool if the next game had flashbacks and you play segments as memories or something but with updated graphics. Truth be told, that would make me want a full fledged remake even more though.

I wonder how this will play, in terms of lag etc., on Switch 2? TV limitations aside, I wonder if input delay would be improved.
I also wonder how this would be running on a projector. Our friends have an outdoor projector that we’ve played Mario Kart on (so much fun when it’s that large!) and I’m already seeing us laughing our @$$e$ off playing this outside on it too.
If anything, this review made me a definite buyer—I totally forgot about this one with the recent Starfox release!

Huge fan of Turok 1 and 2. Wasn’t really digging this before, but with this new trailer and new details, it’s looking more likely I’ll get this someday. So it looks like you can switch between first and third person? I’ll be rolling first person all the way for sure.
Where are the guys with blow darts? Is there a Primagen? A Campaigner? A CHRONOSCEPTOR TO ASSEMBLE!?

Something looks very Xbox/Xbox 360-era about it (not graphics, but design or colors or something), which is not good thing in my eyes, but I’m cautiously optimistic… Sort of reminds me of that game Brute Force 😕
Well, I’m interested at least!

@aardvaarkchi it was really fun but I ultimately sold it after about 5-7 hours. The fairy voice was sooooo annoying to me and I started seeing the map being reused across the time travel. Like some caves and dungeons were more or less identical and it started getting repetitive. I just saw myself start skipping all dialogue and just trying to beat the game rather than enjoy it. So I sold it while I could still get most of my money back.
It’s worth the price and absolutely worth your time but it just started getting a little repetitive for my tastes.

I’m still miffed they didn’t call it “Super Switch” ala “Super Nintendo”.
Switch 2 is cool and all but it’s so non-Nintendo in the naming. Or so I thought anyway.

I don’t even know why I came down to these comments. I guess I’ll be in the camp of enjoying my new game based on my favorite game where talking human-sized bipedal animals are flying spaceships around a make-believe solar system in hopes of destroying a giant ex-scientist monkey head.
That’s how I’m going to unwind after my work week, enjoying it, not criticizing it.

Omg the tagline... 😂😂
Thanks for the review! My copy arrives today!

Just read the review- I’m so damn excited right now and it’s not even 8am yet where I am. I have to get through this wretched work day first and then head home and utterly tear the plastic off this bad boy.
I too was hoping for some sort of hidden mode where you play as Star Wolf or play in the prequel or something but I’m betting that’s coming in the next release. I’m willing to bet they’re putting this game out there to build hype or whatever and see if there’s interest in a second or another entry.hopefully this does well enough and the next one is a true sequel to this storyline in some way, since this really does show the beginnings of the whole thing anyway.

Well anyway, don’t let me stand between you and your time. I’ll see y’all out in the Lylat System later tonight! Can’t wait to meet Bill again!!

Bought this on PS5, used, for very cheap where it actually runs as intended (versus the highly graphically degraded Switch version).
I’m not one for graphics but the pop in was distracting enough for me that there was no way I was playing on Switch.

I won’t be double dipping but I’m glad this is getting a proper switch 2 version for folks so it can be enjoyed as it was meant to.

@LikelySatan I think you and I would get along quite well based on your take of 3D Sonic vs 2D Sonic.
2D is where it’s at — I could never get into 3D Sonic because of exactly what you said.

I honestly never understand how Sonic 2 always seems to end up higher on lists than 3 (and Knuckles).
Personally, I think 3 and Knuckles is superior in every way! Music, level continuity, power ups, … I don’t have a single negative thing to say about it.
Don’t get me wrong, 2 is great, but after playing 3 and Knuckles, it’s hard to go back to it. If 3 and Knuckles never existed, yes, 2 is basically perfect.

I’ve been hitting Elliot hard this weekend so far. It’s so enjoyable and fun!
I will say, your fairy’s voice got me so irritated I’ve completely shut all voices off now. The gameplay is fantastic so I’m going to keep playing it but god d*mn, as a late 30’s human, the fairy voice is cringy as hell, especially when I keep thinking it’s an adult acting like a child for the voice acting. It’s been so irritating even after turning the chattiness setting to “reticent”. I wish you could just shut only your partner off completely because the rest of the voice work is pretty solid. She’s also way too clue-giving. Let me figure some of these puzzles out myself!

Other than that, I’m hitting Pikmin 4, and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness and Perfect Dark on my Analogue 3D. Castlevania, along with Starfox 64 are my summertime games! I absolutely cannot wait until Starfox this weekend!

This is actually really good news but it’s also bittersweet: I finally got a Switch 2 and have been waiting for this game to go on sale since then and it hasn’t. I’m a huge fan of Shinobi 3 on Megadrive/Genesis.
Now I see why it probably hasn’t gone on sale… so although I’m probably going to just bite the bullet and get this on launch at full price, a part of me really wanted to save some money and get it on sale lol. Oh well, good news is good news.

I have it on my eshop wishlist now- thanks for the link!

I’m buying this Friday! Glad to see it reviewed well—it really is a stunner for the eyes and ears.

@Tibob the goldeneye disc!

What’s the saying? “If you starve your home… something, something…”
Actually I don’t even know if this is a real saying.
Point being, I feel we were lacking news and excitement so they delivered and we all witnessed the full force of Nintendo.
It was a wonderful Direct indeed!

For as much as I want to get this, I will not be supporting Bethesda going forward. I had loads of fun with Skyrim, Morrowind, and even Oblivion back in the day but after the mess Starfield released in and even Oblivion remastered, I just won’t do it again.

I want a version with streetpass

Yeah the title screen is great and all but a wise prophet/scholar on this site by the name of @Erigen made a comment that I absolutely agree with: I feel the thing that cannot change is King Zora slowly scooching to the side.

For as much is I despise AI, and how lazy it’s making people, I can’t think of an argument against this. My sister in law does this to conceptualize things just to see what it looks like before tossing it and creating it from scratch. Purely conceptualizing something before it’s actually created is a pretty good use case… it’s just so hard: where do you draw the line? Are people still then building it from scratch after it’s conceptualized…
I hate that I can’t think of an argument against this… still, you’ll never see me pro-AI. It’s dumbing down society and I hate watching it happen.

I voted 3DS but really there isn’t really enough to go by at this point. I have confidence Nintendo is going to knock it out of the park on this one.
We had more than enough information to determine that first Sonic movie design was horrendous, and we knew James in Silent Hill 2 remake needed some tweaking, but this one there’s not quite enough info.
What I’m hoping is that the loud majority don’t cause Nintendo to delay the game to redesign Link based on a 4 second clip.
We shall see! I’ll be buying regardless.

Last year or so I was really hoping this game would come to Switch so I’d have a handheld option. I had completely abandoned hope and forgot about it but here we are with a Switch 2 version which is even better!
I’m absolutely buying this one day one! I tried the demo on PS5 and ever since wanted it on Nintendo’s system so I’m very happy about this announcement.

If Ocarina is announced/teased/mentioned tomorrow I’ll be ecstatic, just like Link in Link’s Awakening. I have a feeling it’s coming in some form or another to supplement the upcoming movie. I have no evidence or anything of substance to go by, it’s just a feeling purely because I know it would make so much sense from a marketing standpoint. But we know Nintendo sometimes doesn’t make sense so who knows.
In any case, there better be a gold cart special edition too!!
One other final thing I will say is that Starfox is coming and that’s a remake of Lylat Wars/64. Koji Kondo did the soundtrack for that as well as Ocarina and they even used the same sound font if I remember correctly. There was also that Starfox asset thing going on in Ocarina if you looked in the beta code or enabled some kind of cheat or something. i recall small arwings flying round Link in Kakariko Village, I can’t remember how though…. Point being, the 2 games are connected and share some of the same DNA and so that also makes me think there will be some simultaneous action between the two releasing around the same timeframe.
LET’S GOOOOOO!!!!!

This is one of the best things I’ve ever watched, EVER. This is insanely incredibly spot on and funny.

I can’t believe how long this took to come out!

Been playing my yellow cart on Analogue 3D! Never got too far back in the day but I really still enjoy this one years later. Lots of padding with the collectibles and having to re-traverse with different characters but that’s my only complaint. Some folks differ but I think it aged pretty well when you consider the era and hardware this was designed for. It’s a solid 3D collectathon.

High quality game (playing on PS5) but I still can't beat the first Vegeta battle. Makes me a bit discouraged to even keep with it. I was doing great up until then and then HUGE difficulty spike with Vegeta haha
I get a few hits in but then I just get massacred. Definitely not an easy game but the controls are pretty nice for a fighting game. Doesn't seem to be too difficult on that front.

I'm very familiar with the Tree of Might, Dead Zone, and World's Strongest movies and the original Dragon Ball Z series from the beginning all the way through until you meet Trunks and the androids. After that, I don't know who is who and how we got there and I see some of these DLC characters' names popping up a lot. I was hoping to have this game sort of get me up to speed in an interactive way so I'll stick with it!

@Gamer_Griff 😂 turns out it’s not easy getting rid of “upper management” LOL

Fine by me. Nintendo is consistently great about shipping “complete” products anyway. Seems like most other companies are forcing bigger downloads on day one or shipping half the game on the disc and requiring the remainder to be downloaded, etc.
In all honesty, I don’t care what I have to do to play this game ASAP. Downloads, patches, organ donations, sell my wife… you name it. I’m so fired up for this game and I’m so happy it’s releasing in time for the summer because that’s when I played through SF64 the most. In the dog days of summer vacation I switched between Castlevania 64 and Starfox 64, so nostalgia is hitting me hard on this release!

@DollyrotsFan1 nice! Yeah that’s such a good game and the music invokes adventure it’s just a solid game all around.
And with that, I leave you with ….. :: ahem :: clears throat ::…..

MAAAARRRIIINNNNNAAAAAA!!!!

Getting Mischief Makers/Kirby/Smash Bros vibes.
WELCOME BACK, ACCLAIM!

Haven’t played a lot of these on this list but Yooka Replaylee is so darn good. It’s overflowing with character, charm, good writing, etc.
I just got my Switch 2 and so far this has gotten the most play time ✌️ 10/10 recommend for anyone reading this article’s Switch 2 library.

@Metazoxan well that sucks! I remember Turok 2 for N64 being like $70 or something at the time.
I was saying $80 because I converted €79.99 to USD and it threw back $92.74 USD. Seems WILD of a price though and something doesn’t seem right but that conversion.

@JohnnyMind ah thank you! Yeah I’m really loving it so far, and last night I realized I get the breath of the wild and tears upgrades for free with my expansion pack subscription. What a difference!

It sort of turns my guts thinking this is some sort of market test to see how many people preorder at that price. The more people that preorder, the more “they’ll” say “we can charge this and people will pay it.”

It’s Pokémon so it’s not a test to see if there’s interest. They know there’s interest. It’s either a wild placeholder or a test. Or a nothing-burger.
Anyway, can’t wait to play a shiny new Pokémon on my shiny new switch 2, but let me be clear: I’m not paying $80 or $90 for it. I’ll gladly drop back and finish FireRed and wait for a sale!