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At best this makes me want to replay Arceus. The cityscape doesn't feel adventurous to me.

I really wanted to like this game. I might give it another try sometime next year, but it didn't grab me at all.

At least I was able to turn off the voice acting. I know I am an outlier here, but I truly loathe the current trend in voice acting. Honestly the only game that had passable to good voice acting, as far as I can remember, was Final Fantasy 12. Same with the script. The script and voice acting in this game feels anachronistic and juvenile.

@Tetsuro Respectfully disagree. Yes, rose tinted glasses, but they are both great. In way different ways, mind you, but both great. II has a more evolved, more fleshed out story, but I has some truly amazing moments as well. Also, II is great because there is a lot of pay-off from things set up in I.

But yeah, II is more impactful in many ways.

@Kestrel If they remaster 3 and 5, they will also remaster 4. And I would argue it is the one most in need of a remaster. 3 was pretty, 5 was pretty, 4 looked lacklustre but the story was fine. And I personally liked how they wrapped up a very confusing thing in the game in Tactics afterwards.

@Teksette I am happy for you that you will be able to enjoy Suikoden II for the first time. If you loved the first game, you will LOVE the next one. Find a way to play III afterwards. Their stories loosely connect, from I to III.

@RupeeClock Well, my kids are strange creatures so they would probably still enjoy it hahaha. They love Five Nights at Freddy's....

And I became old.

Saw the dev mention this on another site I frequent. Good of NL to feature this. I almost feel compelled to buy the original as a form of support. I am sure my kids will love it.

@-wc- You... seriously voted for Europe? I mean, to each their own, but it is objectively bad. The title looks like WordArt, and the fish are 3D for some inexplicable reason, and clearly pasted in with very little effort to make them part of the scene.

I respect your opinions and enjoy our banter here on this site, but I have to strongly disagree with your opinion on this one here.

@ovelhaeletrica Maybe after Spongebob.

And no, I am not kidding. There will be a Spongebob M:tG crossover. So Peppa Pig might not actually be as far fetched as you think.

@Krisi That is exactly how I feel.

Magic already lost me ages ago, then with crossovers like Walking Dead and Doctor Who I was even more done... and I LIKE those franchises. And now this.

And I wish this was the craziest one. Wait for the Spongebob crossover.

And no, I am not kidding. I wish I was.

They're not outlaws though... are they?

@Duncanballs I am going to guess this is a physical media chart. The retail space comment suggests as much. I am sure if Steam is factored in, the percentage will look very different.

I could be wrong, though.

@-wc- No prob. I REALLY liked Rising for what it is. I like low stakes style stories, and I felt connected to the town as my actions influenced the growth.

It's not a great game by any stretch, but it felt... homely for lack of a better term. I 100% it. And I am a person who spends way too much time on Kairosoft games, so take my opinion on ganes with a grain of salt.

100 Heroes...

Not so much.

I don't want to spoil it for you so I will leave it at that. It didn't click with me the same way Suikoden did. But you and I are not the same, so you might end up loving it.

@GoatFace04 The simplest one too. You can't tell me it's difficult to implement for Nintendo.

After buying 22 Hentai games, I kind of had my fill and don't want to see the new editions in the list. (Joking)

Give me the option to hide games and devs, and we good.

The website gave me motion sickness.

And I agree with the assessment of it containing an unhealthy dose of AI-generated dross.

@Smithicus I played one. DQ8 on PS2.

I hated it.

This is a purely personal opinion, but who knows, maybe it'll give you some insight, and it will be good for discussion, to see how others react to my views, but here is my take.

To me, it felt like a NES RPG with only the graphics and localization as an upgrade. Dungeons took forever, were bland, and combat was extremely sluggish. The world also wasn't much bigger. The characters were very stereotypical charicatures to me.

For me, it did everything early NES RPGs did, in their case mostly because of technical limitations, but now just because. There was no real innovation in anything.

DQ is unapologetically traditional in that sense. The art style also doesn't really do it for me, so I got in very biased to begin with.

I look forward to hearing others pitch in to help you make up your mind whether you should get into it.

Trust me on this, it will mean the eShop will also stay the same.

I cannot wait to be proven wrong.

I do not like the way Wario looks on the Western one.

Boy oh boy did Nintendo drop the ball on that one. Why they ever decided to jump ship to a Dutch company is honestly beyond me. I mean, Philips was a huge company already, but so was Sony. And Sony being Japanese, it would seem it would be the more logical choice in more than one sense.

I rented a CD-I once.

Just once.

@1UP-HUSKY What happens to the money put in? Nothing. The minimum wasn't reached so the money people pledged, wasn't sent over to them yet.

You can pledge money but if the target isn't reached, nothing happens.

Got VI on the cheap a little while back but it is SO SLOW. I'd rather get a slightly updated Civ I. That game is my jam.

Is it me, or have Japanese folks become more crass? In every interview I had ever read they've always been polite to a fault, but lately I see more and more criticism and... well... crassnes.

Just today I read about the inspiration for Star Fox's Falco was someone's big nose. There's a lot more of those kinds of interviews. Is there a cultural shift happening? Or is it me?

Anyways... interesting coming from a Playstation boss. They didn't exactly innovate all that much from iteration to iteration. Just more power.

Ah well...

Had they not done the tear in the map, and show some characters in some other way... But they didn't, and it looks weird.

They could have chosen ABBA - Dancing Queen and it would have been just as fitting. Maybe even more so.

@batmanbud2 Cars are, by definition, kind of boxy. N64 was in that era of transition. 3D models weren't very smooth yet. Just look at the original Final Fantasy 7 character models.

So cars (futuristic ones too) were pretty easy to get to look realistic. And the tracks they are put on aren't too difficult to make either.

Anyways, that is my take on it.

@-wc- Fortunately indies rose to the occasion. But I agree with the sentiment.

@Pally356 I just remembered the box art for Mystical Ninja, and I can totally see how you were confused.

And both are decidedly Western for a decidedly Japanese game, which is why I do prefer the Japanese one in this instance, even if the American one has more details in its art.

@rvcolem1 You are allowed to have a wrong opinion...

Nah just kidding. Sometimes I too have a VERY different opinion than the majority on a piece of box art. In thos case, neither are great, granted, but neither are terrible either... at least not to me. They are both pieces of their time.

@LikelySatan I am a Time Lord.

The Japanese one has the zany animé character art that I associate with those mythical, exotic Japanese games we could only find on illegal xx-in-1 cartridges. Background too, reminds me of Twinbee and such.

The American one is more detailed, but at the same time reminds me of games that had better box art than gameplay, so I am still going for the Japanese one, because of my associations.

@JohnnyMind I would reason it kind of is the same. Brace Yourself were (are) fans of Nintendo, they had a cool idea, they created said idea.

The difference is probably they contacted Nintendo about it and probably came up with a good plan. Also, while they use characters from Zelda, it's still pretty much an original thing. It's not very derived from previous Zelda games.

I am 100% certain the people of this fan movie have not, in fact, contacted Nintendo about it, and let's be honest, creating this after the news that an actual Zelda movie is coming is not the smartest thing to do.

That said, I do agree with you, Nintendo could be more open to collaborative efforst with fans. But the key word here is collaborative.

@JohnnyMind Look, I understand that Sega has been positive about certain mod work, and Capcom licensing hand drawn art to make it official. I get that. It exists.

Sega and Capcom are very different companies though. In our minds they may be just as big as Nintendo when it comes to quality games, but look up the net worth of Nintendo, Capcom and Sega. It's a different league.

They can probably afford the luxury of getting fans involved in their work. Nintendo simply does not have that luxury. Not defending any legal actions they pulled here either. I am also not dismissing them, mind you. It's just not a comparable situation.

And of COURSE they took down AM2R if they were just about to release their own remake. They make those games to make money. They won't make any if people can just download it for free. That is a really simple matter of loss of income, which they are completely in their right to protect against.

And I am not going to look it up, but do you know for a fact Nintendo never did anything with fan creations? I could make a slightly bad faith argument that Mario Maker embraces fan creativity in the same manner.

Not saying Nintendo are good guys here, mind you. I would much rather they were more like Capcom and Sega in this way. But they're not, and they have no obligation to be either.

But even if they did allow a movie like this one, I wouldn't choose it over the actual planned Hollywood movie. I would choose it over the actual Zelda movie if they made something derivative, clearly inspired by, but its own thing.

It would have been way better if these people just auditioned to be an extra in the movie.

@JohnnyMind Should fan creations cease to exist? No, of course not. If my daughter makes a drawing of Super Mario, that is fine. Any employee at Nintendo would probably love it, too.

Should modders practice their craft on games? Sure. Mod away. Especially if the skills you learn can then be applied to a game like Kero Quest 64, as you rightfully point out. And if you have an inner circle of people who appreciate your work, and you appreciate theirs, and you learn from one another, all the more power to you.

Just don't go asking people for money to fund a project like this. There's a big difference here. This would be the same as the creators of Kero Quest 64 instead make a game called Super Mario Quest 64. It's not its own thing, and would not be judged on its own merits, instead be compared to Mario, and that would not be in its favor.

Maybe you misread my previous post. I am not saying they can't show their love of an IP. There are IPs that I love, that if I would have felt so inclined to create a videogame, I would take it as very liberal inspiration. I still wouldn't call it by the original IPs name, nor would I even WANT to recreate the story set out in the original IP.

I would take the original story, the original characters, and create something new inspired by them. I would definitely tell people what IP inspired me, and they would probably see it too, but it wouldn't BE the IP. Because that already exists, and also it has already been done better than I could anyways.

Again, I would love to see a movie like this succeed, just not a Zelda fan movie. I would want to see an inspired by Zelda fan movie about some other fantasy fairy tale land.

I am willing to bet most people here actually feel the same. They're just more vocal in being tired of yet another project pretty much asking to be decapitated.

@JohnnyMind I don't think anyone here is wishing them ill. Everyone here would love to see it succeed.

Just not as an actual Zelda movie.

If they made something heavily inspired by Zelda but still its own thing, everyone here would either think it's cool, or pay it no mind and get on with their day.

They can easily make a movie about a young boy in a green tunic waking up one night from a dream where a princess tells him she needs rescue. This young boy in a green tunic can go up to the castle, hide from the guards, find a way inside and help the princess escape. He may even find a cool looking shield with a cool looking crest on it...

You get the point. It's basically Zelda III, except generic. Which, let's face it, Zelda's storylines are in large generic fantasy, several very specific elements notwithstanding. I mean, we can argue that Navi is to Link what Tinkerbell is to Peter Pan.

So call your character Leoric, having to rescue Princess Zinnesia from the clutches of the evil Gunvad, and you are all set. Make sure people know that your work is heavily inspired by the Zelda franchise, and people will know that your movie will be derivative, because that is your intention.

Honestly though, Leoric, Zinnesia, Gunvad... I am already feeling it. I am getting excited!

Ugh...

Look... the trailer is impressive enough. It won't win an oscar, but passion projects are passion projects.

That said, come on people. Make a movie, have it be greatly inspired by Zelda, acknowledge the inspiration as such, but come up with your own characters. It's not rocket science.

Nintendo doesn't own the basic plot beats of any of the Zelda games. They are all more or less standard fantasy stories. You can easily recreate one of the Zelda stories with different characters.

Call your hero by a different name starting with an L. Give him a cool looking shield with a cool looking crest on it. Give him a green outfit. Just don't make him Link with the Hylian shield and the very distinct green outfit.

Such a shame.

I am willing to bet that they would actually make more money in a fundraiser if they had stated they wanted to make an original thing, just heavily based on their love for the Zelda franchise.

It looks amazing but a little too gamey for me. And that may feel like a contradictory thing to feel with... you know... a game... but I wish there would be a few more games more grounded... a little more realistic feeling.

It also means we are stuck with the eShop.

Happy for backwards compatability, not so happy with this implication. They SERIOUSLY need to implement some improvements, like blocking certain publishers.

24 sounds great, but if the end result is decided before the start, as is custom with Mario Kart, it wouldn't feel very different from 12, so the whole weird rubber banding system needs to go.

If at the very least half of those 24 have a chance of finishing first, now THAT would make it exciting.

It didn't excite me but I am not looking for that. That's an age thing. I will still get it and love it, no doubt. I will say I spend less time gaming these days.

Except Animal Crossing. I got back into that big time again.

I will say this. I am disappointed they didn't go for Super Switch. Yes, I am NES > SNES old.

It kinda looks like he switched party drugs. He was already taking some, and the ones he is on now have a slightly different effect.

The town building is what I wished Arceus had. It also looks almost the same. Hope it'll be good for those interested, but I really dislike the Rune Factory series.

Concept-wise it should be right up my alley, but I really dislike the games.

Ah, they did this a while back in the Netherlands, but it was like... Nook was definitely behind the admission cost.

@poyo_pie I had to give the SNES game a solid 6. Yes, it was an abomination but my goodness did I love the vibe it gave. I have fond memories of it.

Well, that went from bad to worse to absolute worst. EU, but not because it's good.

The Mario range was a huge miss for me. I much prefer what they did with Zelda and Animal Crossing, and moreso the first few Minecraft sets. Those were pretty awesome.

That said, Lego no longer holds the magic it once did for me. Only the Minecraft sets were cool enough for me, but those have been lackking as well lately.

@Fangleman32 Funny. I just finished watching the X Files, which was super intriguing to me when it first aired, but too scary to watch. I was a smidge too young.

It was finally easily available for me so I decided to finally watch it. Same problem. Soft resets. Sometimes, they'd run into something pretty much similar to sonething from two episode before, and be like "That's impossible!" Urgh. And don't get me started on Scully's incessant disbelief at everything.

I liked the last two seasons for at least giving the characters growth and plenty of callbacks to previous episodes. Unfortunately, it had other reasons to dislike those two seasons.

Anyways, I never liked Star Trek. Too much silly stuff going on. This game doesn't do anything to make that better.

@John_Deacon He did the music as well. Used Reason if I am not mistaken, which I also use.

@Zaruboggan Oh crap, shouldve added that too, FFCC with proper multiplayer, but I was too busy with FF6 2D-HD wishing.

I bought it because of the box and cutout and golden cartridge, and I did not regret it.

One of my fave Zeldas, my gateway to fantasy gaming, and absolutely iconic box.

Choice based on nostalgia? Yes. I did, however, greatly appreciate the art in the booklet, which is like the JP box art.