Whirlwound

Japan. Easy. I don’t know what the brief was for the western release, but I think I know where at least some of the budget might have gone.

Looks alright, but it’s Turbo Golf Racing I want to see come over…

Hope there’s tech-priest options in there, Severine will get built first chance I get. Servo-skull and all.

4 years old, GKC, eighty bucks.

Um, yeah no, screw that.

How about the GBA version in NSO Classics nearer the time? Don’t even need to translate it, I’ve got Silver to crib from (and the original before anyone gets twitchy)…

Here we go again. 💨

Next step: sawn-off content.
After that, cancelled.

I just started on Spell Disk, after tripping over it on Steam a while back. Still getting the hang of how stuff connects, but I’ve found a disk and spell I will jump on every chance I get. That bugger was lethal - just tore straight through two bosses before I got cocky and didn’t protect myself.

Gets a 6 out of me. Not awful, but a way off of great. Felt like a sketch show, some scenes barely connected. Fox pulled expressions we’ve never seen before, hardly in keeping with the stoic, swashbuckling sidereal vulpine we know. And the ending was not just very deus ex machina, but really abrupt.

Going again to hunt Easter eggs - got a few yesterday, but keeping eyes peeled next time. Plus I need to throw a pal some gear from the Japan trip.

JP for me. It’s Star Fox Team - it ain’t all just about your boy McCloud. He is The Star Fox as much as Samus is The Metroid (although admittedly, given the end of Dread…)

Totally called the post-credits scene. Had to be her, didn't it. Welcome on board, Red... 🧡

And if we're getting a less-than-serious Fox here (Glen Powell was definitely in Hangman mode here), we better be getting some serious Samus for the threequel. The borders between worlds are cracking...

...though there's a point. What if it hadn't been Fox they ran into - but his father James? That would explain where he wound up after getting lost in the Black Hole zone...!

The games are a profile in fun and joy. Soon as weekend times are up, I'm sorting tickets.

I'm 54 in 2½ months.

Looking at this by way of how those involved fare in title sequences - hardly front and centre names on the NA version… Kyosuke (bit of a stoic persona lost In the ensemble of more, let’s call it, vocal Rival Schools characters), Kim, Sagat and (I assume as a sizeable Big Bad) Geese Howard. Only the latter gets any real titles time that I can think of, falling to his demise in Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

Meanwhile we’ve got three regular title-sequence leads on the EU/JP one: Ryu, Kyo Kusanagi and Haohmaru.

This one goes east.

That said, @HammerGalladeBro is right - the non-EO Chun-li cover kicks them both up in the air.

@Moistnado I’d be amazed if she did. They couldn’t even be arsed to include her on the window decors at Nintendo stores in Japan - and that was right when Prime 4 was freshly released.

Lefty/righty versions? Put the directionals on the right (where the cursor keys are ⌨️) and I’m pretty sure I could melt a biøtch.

@JohnnyMind Don’t forget the anime as well - both the 2007 original and the Netflix one. Mileage may vary, but it’s more lore to work with.

I would say yes. It’s like the bike in Prime 4. Keep that stuff quiet so it hits bigger when you see it.

Still no Tron?

I’m alright with this; quite the coup actually. Glen Powell has been a reliable name of late - while I haven’t seen How To Make A Killing yet, he’s been really good in everything else I have seen. I wasn’t expecting to like the reboot of The Running Man, but I quite enjoyed it.

Way things have been going for him, it almost feels like his path is being guided as a new Tom Cruise - just without the e-meters and stuff. (I hope.)

@JohnnyMind I’d go with the original to start with. It’s still really good, and it’ll give you a baseline for how the series has gone since.

I can’t be the only one seeing Dante played by Tom Cruise in this one, though. You’d think his demonic heritage might have staved off a couple of decades - guess not though, huh.

Does Maradona celebrate by screaming into the camera, looking hopped-up to the eyeballs on a five-… erm, ‘ingredient’ cocktail?

And the best game of the lot? Not even mentioned. Rhythm Tengoku. I lost DAYS to that game back then. Still do.

Managed to find most of my targeted JP cartridges online already, to the point that I struck out completely looking for new stuff in Akiba.

And what of us who went for it in the first 9 months? Do we get to upgrade?

@nessisonett Except not. They’re collectible cards, not trading cards. I don’t see any option to trade them, or an indication of any market value.

@MamaSymphonia I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - no parent wants THAT conversation with little Tommy or Millie about what those words mean. It’s actually surprising that the usual pearl clutchers haven’t plastered such things all over their hateful carcinogenic pages. Report and Block is the way forward.

@DennyCrane I’LL heckin dae it!!

They want to avoid a slop fest? Sod off. No they don't. If they did the NS1 iteration wouldn't have wound up the way it did.

Looking through the eSLop for something I might actually want to play - or an actual game half the time, there's that much 'relaxing games you can play with one hand' bollocks on it right now - is so ridiculously depressing, I doomscroll the socials for an hour to take the edge off. I will personally walk them through just how much sh💩💩💩💩💩te there is floating around the eShop like it's that giant fly-tip in Oxfordshire.

I could also walk them through a branch of Melonbooks to teach them the actual meanings of [cough] certain words. Couldn't believe that was in a prominent Akiba arcade's basement.

Let us block developers and/or publishers we don't want to see. It ain't rocket science.

No contest. Europe.

Much as I’m a huge fan of Kōsuke Fujishima’s work, and I love the hand drawn Japanese cover, Sheena’s presence alone wins out. I knew a ridiculously cute cosplayer who did her back in the day. Sparks many a fond memory.

C’mooooooooon, Kartball…

Already pounced on Blue Prince - lining up Denshattack, Inkonbini, Woodo, Blighted, Ratatan, My Little Puppy (it’s not Omar… it’s not Omar…), Blighted, Deadzone Rogue, Rotwood…

…and I’ve just had to save that pic so I don’t forget because for the first time, I just maxed out my wishlist… 💧

My main hope for this Indie World is that now one of the gaming world’s darlings of the past year or so has finally emerged on Switch 2, others may follow suit. Balatro was a big move when it dropped, but Blue Prince is even more so. Clair E33, I’m looking at you right now - among many.

That was the best showcase I’ve seen in quite a while - and that’s before the big drop at the end. Quite a number I’m going to dip for here.

FREAKING FINALLY!!

The show was fair to middling up to this point, but the way BP was introduced had me wake the hell up after a busy couple of shifts at work. ‘Taking notes, is it now? Come on… c’mooooooon… COME THE FRICK ON!!!’

Cards on the table here - I’ve barely been on either of my Switches since I got back from Japan. Been drained AF by work being out and out a-holes. After one of our moronic stocktakes (who the balls does a stock count while the damn store is still open‽), this is exactly what I need to jump back in.

Sorry mine was a bit long, but it really was that epic.

And yes, Matt Mercer really is that nice.

Welp, that’s the need few weeks spoken for.

• Capcom vs SNK 2 (see if I can live up to that 3rd on the high scores at Hey! in Akihabara - not bad for not having played it in 15 years)

• KIrby’s Dream Course
• BS Special Tee Shot
• Surprise Attack
• Uridium
• Azumanga Donjara Daioh
• Flipnic
• R•Type

The series has a cornerstone of my gaming life for almost three decades now, but it first blipped on my radar with the Game & Watch version during a school trip to France in 1984. That was my very first brush with anything Nintendo-flavoured, now I think about it.

After that it wasn’t until Link to the Past that I got back into it; never had a NES, but once I’d sold my C64 to get a SNES, I never looked back.

Nope. Nuh-uh. Not believing it until it happens. And even then it'll be a bloody GKC.

Expecting cancellation after any announcement. Been burned too often.

Nice to see wholesome opinions of Rosalina’s poster. I’m not even going to dignify the first ones I saw by repeating them.

Pumped for this one though. Galaxy is far and away my favourite Mario game.

How many anniversaries has Parodius had now?

Oh, sorry - how many anniversaries SHOULD Parodius have had now?

Poor Toad. Always gets the short end of the stick.

I wonder if they’ll have - and share - analytics on decisions made in-game, and how far above 80% it’ll be for players keeping Tuvix (beloved character, get shot of Neelix…)

While I’ve done pretty well out of Ake-Aka and its Neo•Geo sibling in the past, that has dropped off a bit recently. Nothing in that opening lineup that grabs me just yet, but there’s bound to be something down the line eventually, right?

…riiiiiiiiiiiiight?

Diana biting an update chip to upgrade is, no shadow of a doubt, just straight up THE single most adorable process I’ve seen in my 45 years of gaming.

@ChessboardMan I think you mean Hi-Ten Bomberman, which wasn't on any commercially available console - it was custom hardware for a show in 1993, running on two PC Engines working in tandem. Interestingly, it was one of the first games running on a 16:9 hi-def TV.

It's a 32-year-old game, neither Switch should even break a sweat - the only caveat would be for Game Share or players connecting their phones as controllers, since you can only connect eight actual controllers at once.

[ker-download]

And that’s the translation romhacks I got last week for 4&5 rendered obsolete. Well, sorta - they’ll still go on my Miyoos and RetFlip. But at least now I can read the menus.

Don’t suppose they fancy throwing Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus & Gribbly’s Day Out in there as well, do they?

Yeah, adults aren’t too keen on it either.
[cough]dispatch[cough]

I was always more about the lore of OW and watching the league while it lasted. I’m not exactly sthuper with MOBAs as it is.

Might have a crack at the reboot, I dunno.

Out of the listed stuff, Blue Prince, Clair E33 & Layton.

Turbo Golf Racing would be nice as well, but that’s probably disappeared over the rear view mirror horizon. The aforementioned two ports are in danger of the same happening before too long.

Welp. Saw that coming.

Nintendo consoles are never going to be taken seriously by devs until they’re on a par with or, heaven forfend, ahead of the rest.

@Hanniebis Any F thrown at Fat Mike Ashley or Fraser Group sure as hell ain’t out of respect.

He is a pox on this country. Even a Mackem such as I, who dined mightily on his comedically disastrous run as Newcastle Utd owner (those custard cream away strips still make me chuckle), can see he’s done far more damage than that to the high street.