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I believe Nintendo's YT channel got a bunch of the trailers, not much need for them to do anything beyond that, Square Enix seems to be pushing it pretty heavily themselves

Just wish Groose's was set to his Theme, best song in the game!

Just hopes this doesn't mean they're sidelining Samus. Especially not killing her off - her becoming a commander/mentor for a future protagonist could be cool, actually! But she absolutely should stay around in some form; I think she's much more crucial to the Metroid brand than the Metroids themselves are. (Though I guess they could always bring her back from anything with clone nonsense.)

@Chamver yeah, I've got an unhealthy SNES fixation so... these remain right up my alley.

@rushiosan Just like when they hired a western studio to make a 3D Metroid and then make another Donkey Kong Country and those totally flopped and didn't get any followups?

Can't wait for Neo TWEWY, a heavily voiced little VN with a whole action JRPG in between 😛

TWEWY definitely had more direct VN roots, but even those bits could be more dynamic than you might expect... which was an important lesson: full VNs can and do still look cooler than I'd taken for granted! I do still tend to prefer other gameplay on the side, but there's a lot I've overlooked.

Neo TWEWY's another stepped removed though, more pushing the TWEWY style even further, and it’s absolutely sick. The comic frames get sketched out and wiped from the screen (quick enough to just be cool instead of a distraction), there's so many more unique reaction shots (even if the main characters get literally no more, I think they're already as expressive as you could possibly need), anyway, I'm so hyped!

@BloodNinja Ha. Those are rookie numbers! I've played 3 Zeldas at once (ragequit Twilight Princess for a while after I just couldn't get the second mandatory motion control fishing done, finally started Link to the Past since NSO made that easy and liked it enough to get several dungeons in, then got Link's Remakening for more 2D Zelda goodness, beat that, and then went back to beat TP, still need to finish up LttP sometime), and another time 3 Final Fantasies at once (VI was my first but I hit a point where I needed to grind, picked up IX on sale after recommendations and got absolutely hooked, XIV the MMO is far more game than I could possibly finish and I'm still well in the bits under the free trial.)

Anyway, been enjoying the demo so far, as someone who never played the original.

@Gamepro500 There’s been Legends of Zelda with Link but no Zelda to be found, pretty sure they can always make more Metroids without needing Metroids!

And even so, "marking an end to that story arc" about "the uncanny relationship between these Metroids and the heroine Samus" doesn't even imply an end to the Metroids themselves! It could just as easily mean no more starring Samus (dumb), or simply that they're less central to the plot, or at least less connected to Samus personally. And even if they are finally ended, totally for real this time...
... they're games, they can absolutely find an excuse to bring them back.

The end of a story arc isn't the end of a series, it's a possibility to start new arcs. Or fill in the rest of the timeline. Who cares? If people are actually buying them again and the developers want to and Nintendo okays them, there's nothing stopping them from making more later!

I feel like it's already the one that feels the most like a (great) show. It's cartoony, yes, and there’s plenty of comic relief, but it’s a surprisingly dark game under there; I hope it doesn't get toned down too much for the apparent audience, but I think there's room to pull it off - that's the vibe of a lot of kids' cartoons these days. So I'm tentatively very exciting.

If nothing else, at least it's an excuse to get to talk to more people about Final Fantasy IX, which I love to bits.

Turned it off and on again after rebooting a few times, pressing the continue buttons dozens of times, clearing the cache, and changing all the settings.
After half a dozen more continues it seems to be working again for now?

I will absolutely throw $60 at a complete version of Fantasian, the not-Final-Fantasy made by the ex-Final-Fantasy people at Mistwalker. It looks so absolutely my jam!... and I have literally no way to play it. Not throwing hundreds at some Apple device exclusively to play this game. But I'd happily give them more money myself!

All I heard up to release was "awesome, shame I can't play it, please let it get a port" and I've heard nothing since. Feel like it needs to get ported to literally anything else (Switch seems like a great fit though!) for it to have any impact, any discussion at all. And if it fades into obscurity because no one could play it, and Mistwalker goes out with a whimper, that'd be terrible. It sounds like it deserves better, but it absolutely needs a port to get it.

I recently beat Final Fantasy IX for the first time - a whimsical, colorful, slightly cartoony game that gets to some pretty dark and existential places what with the war and mass destruction... and best boy Vivi. But it doesn't wallow in angst for its own sake, and it's broken up with (very good) humor throughout.

So I have hopes it can be pulled off.

Was hoping for some enhanced stability to improve the user experience, but I'll take what I can get.

Was shocking enough when I found out Nintendo Switch Has Games, now you're telling me it still Will Have Games!?!?!?!?

I just wanted another DKC game to cap off the Retro Trilogy, honestly. With some nods to DKC3, the way DKC Returns mostly referenced 1 and Tropical Freeze brought in some more 2 callbacks (and a great, heavily David Wise soundtrack.)

FF9 at the sale price is absolutely worth it. Just an excellent game, plenty of content - it just kept going, and I wasn't even finding everything! - but still not painfully long, lots of references to the older games but still unique and holds up on its own, more of a classic fantasy setting if you're into that but with lots of huge machines still.

It's definitely aged some, but once you get used to it, it's absolutely beautiful for a PS1 game. The pinnacle of that era, IMO.

But it'll definitely go on sale again, if you don't want to pull the trigger just yet.

What is this, a Non-Fungible Cabinet?

@Harmonie I'm very impressed by all the FFXIV controller players; my brain's too small to wrap around anything but the ol' row-of-number-keys.

It has its clunkier moments for sure - and just a ridiculous number of items - but it's a very good send-off to the classic 3D games, and I really liked most of the dungeons.

It's hard not to see Skyward Sword as a direct evolution of it, one that definitely "went too far in a few places" (making the overworld a linear dungeon the whole time instead of just on your initial wolf visits, and so on) and demanded BotW go an entirely different direction, but also just made some improvements! (Fewer, more interesting items that could do most of the same stuff; tear vessels becoming an intense, satisfying stealth game testing your knowledge of the areas; and so on.) And I love TP's designs, but I'm glad they immediately flipped course on art direction to SS and BotW's more colorful compromises.

@Figaro Zidane absolutely sucks at the beginning, but once he mostly chills out a couple of discs in, I like him. Mostly.

Dude's a teenager so I'm probably grading him on a curve here.

Been playing more of 9 lately. What a good game, all the characters are so great and then there's Amarant

Still need to play more of 6, I hit a bit of a wall before the halfway point but I was really enjoying it. It was actually the first FF I played myself, to be a hipster when 7 Remake came out and people were replaying 7.

Heavily medieval fantasy but with a lot of technology in the background is right where I prefer my FFs, I think.

Also got suckered into the FF14 free trial by some friends and I've... actually been really enjoying it?

I really hope this one gets a Switch port if it's any good - I absolutely love everything I've heard about it so far, and I'd be willing to throw tons of money at it. But I can't do that when it's an Apple exclusive! I know plenty of Apple Arcade games came to consoles or PC eventually, hopefully Mistwalker picks up the ball this time.

Keep in mind, this is also the man who's thought he wasn't going to make another Smash at least twice.

I'm not convinced the GameCube would've done much better if, say, something that looked like Twilight Princess got released in its place. There were so many other problems with it! I wonder, though, what conversations we'd be having in that world.

I'm guessing people hyping up Twilight Princess, with how the games took a hard shift in style afterwards, since people clearly didn't want a more realistic Zelda. Maybe they'd eventually back off of it a bit, and settle for... more or less the same compromise as Breath of the Wild. There's still some toony shading on its characters, but they don't feel like cartoons themselves.

I hope Zeldas besides BotW2 find a slightly different art style just to set themselves apart, but the vibrant color is definitely a keeper. It doesn't need to be absolutely everywhere, but it should still exist!

It's a very enjoyable, relaxing little experience, definitely worth what I paid for it on Steam, though I'm in no rush to play more.

I love him!!!

man how many extra characters does it take to make a comment

Aren't pomegranates a bit acidic? Hope he's being careful not to hurt his fingers too much.

I think I prefer Mario in the dub

@MidnightLaces $30k (minus Kickstarter's cut, minus the costs of making and sending out all the physical rewards, and minus taxes) really isn't gonna last a team of three all that long, I'm hoping they've got plans for that if they don't end up getting way too much money

The games weren't that great, but the Sonic Boom show ruled and it's sad getting confirmation that it's dead and being replaced.

Exact opposite for me, personally. Eventually just wanted to push ahead and finish the damn thing, then after that I didn't want to go back and complete more stuff. Seems unfair to the residents of Hyrule to undo my world-saving, just to get more stuff I clearly didn't need.
It'd rule if BotW2 had a postgame for once.

I think Arlo's guesses of "Breath of the Void" and "Breath of Malice" were good. It's not like they'd make any less sense than Breath of the Wild.

Could be [Something] of the Wild instead, of course.

@Clyde_Radcliffe Some of them put on a more serious front, but they're absolutely still full of weird fun.

@Jakiboy You know what's really safe? An XCOM-like featuring characters from a Rayman spinoff to start off the generation.

GB Studio is just getting the ability to make games that don't play mostly like Pokemon walking simulators (and also GBC support), but from everything I've heard this is one of the best games from the earlier versions.

10/12. Xenoblade was dumb luck though - no such luck with Pikmin or Banjo.

@Desrever I mean, he is the final boss of Super Paper Mario!

Oh wait, that was Mr. L. Totally different character. Looks familiar, though!

Weren't there items that slowed down the dice roll?

They're finally able to make it more or less look like the old box art! Which is cool, but, yeah, it just doesn't look right in motion to me. But I was never a huge fan of the series anyway, so I'll just be happy for the people who ARE excited.

I just want gloves!

@RendellDraw Ribbon Road in MK8 sort of did that, at least with the toy look. Could use some cats.

Gotta spam "I'M USING TILT CONTROLS!" in the chat before a Direct starts, but then I hide it.

Can one of them be tournament legal?

@Clyde_Radcliffe You're looking at a blurry low-res cropped picture from a video of the new game, versus, I think, a high-res shot of the 3DS remaster. The new game will probably look better than this in motion, and OoT could never have looked that good on the N64.

Yeah, modern Zelda never got quite as bright as Wind Waker again, but Twilight Princess lasted all of one game! Skyward Sword already eased back from that into plenty of bright colors and more watercolor-y textures. BotW amps up the terrain detail, yes, but it might even get more vibrant - the characters even get a bit of WW-like shading to make them stick out! It just seems like a weird point to complain about, to me.

Some of the music discs would've nearly worked already! So I think it's gotta be a licensing issue, not just a matter of it not fitting.

Bummed we couldn't even get Pigstep - you'd think if it was just a C418 issue, we could at least get that.

Arguably lacks focus? Europe/NA clearly puts the focus on Diddy Kong, then one classic gator enemy who's actually threatening them in this one, then Dixie. Then there's plenty of space for the background to actually be in the background.
While a lot of the ship levels had blue skies, I think the dramatic yellow sky leaking out suits the entire game more.
DK is sad and being taken away in the background, instead of being right there and not fitting in at all.

@Nemesis666 I never said that all of the 10 million were all at launch! I just figured a lot of them came earlier on, which you've confirmed. (And that's pretty typical for games anyway!)
It was pretty hyped up, disappointed some people, and probably won't end up quite as evergreen as Mariokart. Sequels might not do as well because of that. But, yeah, on its own it was pretty successful, there's no denying that.

@Friendly I enjoyed Mario Party 8 on the Wii a heck of a lot more than Super. Granted, I was a lot younger, so I probably gave it the benefit of the doubt a lot more.

Most of the boards were very gimmick-based, which I know some people didn't like, but they all felt really distinct and some were pretty big (and I think there were a couple more of them.) It felt much more chaotic, but with the boards taking longer to loop and the gimmicks, there was still a bit more long-term strategy.

Also, I had a lot more fun with the single-player, which even had a whole campaign. And the standard multiplayer was fun enough with two players that I played it more than... once.

@Nemesis666 Yes. Because a whole bunch of people were excited for it at launch. I wouldn't be surprised if it's tapered off significantly since.

It's the only Nintendo game I got that I slightly regret buying. Not terrible at all, just not as exciting as I hoped. But that might be mostly because I've never really gotten the chance to play it.

I totally get Square not putting up all their SNES titles up on NSO, but I feel like they've gotta be leaving a ton of money on the table by not just dropping the original versions of them on the eShop for, IDK, maybe as much as 25 bucks apiece? Maybe small quality of life additions or options to use the later translations if they wanted to be real fancy, but I'd definitely buy some of them anyway.

Putting Super Mario RPG on NSO alongside that would be a nice gesture. Unless they're saving it for a collection.

Anyway, DKC2 was about the last game I wanted - so much better than the first! - besides the Earthbounds. Hopefully they get to those so I can return to just wanting to play Square's back catalog.