Davestator

About five years ago, I finally 100-percented this game with the animals and all....and in short time. About a year ago, I went back. I had only collected about 96 percent of items, and my time was nearly two hours. It's just one of those games where there is always room for improvement. The atmosphere blew me away as a child. I was about twelve years old. My older brother had rented the game from the biggest video store in town, a Movie Gallery.

In our tiny, little house in the boonies, smell of fried chicken with our Mom cooking in the kitchen, and my older brother playing that amazing game on a tiny CRT TV, with the chicken wafting in our faces. And it still drew us in like moths to a light bulb.

A very vivid memory for me, and I will always cherish the game both on its merits and its nostalgia factor.

@ElRoberico

It's being described as a "reimagining" of the first NES game, so it's a type of remake I guess.

Unicorn Overlord for me. I will get Contra: Operation Galuga physical copy on ps5 if it arrives in stores and not limited run....otherwise will buy down the road.

Death of physical would ultimately be a positive thing for me - I would be devoting a lot more time to being creative, making music and stuff. I could always go through the back-catalogue of classic games instead of spending more money.

But it would also suck. I do buy digital games, but it's usually the small indie games. I don't want to pay sixty or seventy dollars for something I can't have a tangible copy of.

Though I do believe physical media will mostly die, and what remains in the future of legacy formats will also be worth a fortune as time passes.

I'm not trying to state any of this as fact....just gut feelings, so take this all with a grain of salt please.

I had to use save states to beat the turbo tunnel on Battlemaniacs. I'm currently in the snake pit.

I think the snake pit was as far as I got in my youth, before we had to return the game (weekend rental).

By the way, during the title screen, hold "down" + "B" + "A", and press "start" while holding those down for 5 lives and 5 continues. If you're like me, you'll need them.

I did eventually beat the NES Battletoads fair and square, but I owned that one, and it still took me a couple of years to get good enough.

Killer Instinct still plays well - It's so easy to pull off basic combos.

I once got pretty far in Snake, Rattle and Roll, and still own that game on cartridge, but I could barely get past the fifth level on a single take this time.

RARE games are usually very well-designed, and have a steep difficulty curve that requires memorization and pure skill. They really pulled back for games like Donkey Kong Country, which for some people is still considered difficult.

Entitlement.

I would love to see Rare Replay on switch, but expecting it and then being disappointed is just pure entitlement. Nobody owes us anything.

I'm actually surprised some Rare-developed games are on the switch. And this is a really nice drop, too. All of these are bangers. Even Snake, Rattle and Roll is a darn good time once one gets the controls down.

Also, holy cow, the specials and kombos are easy to pull off in Killer Instinct. I forgot how well that game played. Makes Mortal Kombat feel so stiff by comparison.

All the talk of lag is saddening. Hopefully this isn't an issue on the PS5, so I will try that version.

I was a big fan of the first Wii game. I never tried the second one, though I watched a lot of videos. I still remember getting some serious thalassaphobia going in that deep sea trench, especially with that goblin shark at the bottom....though the enemies didn't even attack in the first one.

Okay, though, what's up with the Mosasaurus? Is time-travel involved?

Edit:
Maybe Hayley Westenra will make a comeback?

The gameplay seems really close to Super Mario Bros. 2's, which for me, is a big positive. Hopefully it will be good. It definitely looks fun.

4 and 6 are great, but I really liked 1 and 5 as well. Five is super-good, and has so many ways to out-wit the enemy. Strategy really counts in that game.

I caved in and bought the whole bundle last year.

@gcunit

Don't feel too bad. I preordered the deluxe version for ps5. Paid a hefty fine for shipping too, as I'm in America. Watching the trailer a third time did me in.

Also, I think the text boxes look like fuse/perler beads. If that's what I'm seeing, that's pretty cool.

I played the CRAP out of this game on the Wii, or was it Wii U? I can't remember. Anyway, I did. Found every secret. It's a weird, cool game. I'm stoked out of a sequel. I love that Sunsoft properties have been getting some love. Looks really good too.

@Kirbyo

That was definitely a Phanto. A very big, creepy one.

Anyway, this game looks awesome.

The only two Sonic games I've given a chance since Sonic 4, are Sonic Mania, and this one. I think people are being way too hard on this game. It's a lot of fun. The stages are big and sprawling, the controls and graphics and music are on point. It actually plays and feels like a classic Sonic game in terms of the flow of gameplay, like learning the stages and find the best route, using momentum to one's advantage, etc..

I just don't think it's possible to make people happy anymore. Sega basically earned a bad reputation with a lot of mediocre Sonic games, but I think this one isn't guilty.

(just for the record, I'm playing the PS5 version, so I don't know how far apart the Switch version is. I hear they are similar.)

Wrapping up Zone 13 on Garlic (so freakin' hard) and wrapping up Tales of Arise.....

I'm supposed to get Super Mario RPG remake in nine days, which I will be streaming in its entirety. Yay!

Honestly, Phantasy Star (not online - not a dig on the online, but Phantasy Star like the first 4, or even a reboot).

And Shining Force.

Honestly, those series' early entries, in my little opinion, stand toe to toe with the best SNES RPG's. And I didn't even play those Genesis entries until my late 20's. No nostalgia goggles there.

I really do think that if they poured proper budget, involved some of the original talent and collaborated with new talent, it would be dope.

That said, I'm grateful and excited for what SEGA has already announced. I love Sonic, but really don't want them leaning on Sonic and friends so much. They have so much great IP.

Thank you for mentioning the ahead-of-it's time sci-fi phantasy radness that is Phantasy Star.

This was one of the first songs I learned on guitar, and it threw me for a loop with its use of upstrokes, which are used prominently in ska and reggae guitar playing. It's still pretty fun to play. The whole album "Let's Face It" is really good. Honestly, my favorite from that band, and I have several.

I've never played the Konga games. I had Jungle Beat, after my wife introduced me to do it in a gamestop a long time ago. I've always wanted to get another set of bongos and play through that one again.

Really stoked for this. Looks great. I'm glad I bought a PS5. I would not want to miss out on a new Mana. I guess 2024 will probably be the original Switch's last year. I hope so, because games like this feel so at home on Nintendo consoles.

I would like a new Shining Force (in the vein of the original Camelot games), HD remakes of Phantasy Star games kinda like SquareEnix has been doing.

I know that they cancelled a Shining Force game a year or two ago, and despite being a cell-phone game, it was looking REALLY good.

I will take what I can get, though. I really like the announcements they just made. I'm especially stoked for Golden Axe.

Nice showing and surprises from SEGA. They have so much good IP. Hope they don't drop the ball.

@roy130390

I loved that game so much that I bought it on Switch and PS4, and played both to exhaustion.

I would certainly like a new Mana game in the style of trials, even a proper Secret of Mana remake...but a new entry would be awesome too.

I know that the company announced that a full console game was in development a few years ago, so maybe we'll see something down the pipeline next year.

I really want to try TEVI. Rabi-Ribi is a lot of fun, and I think this one will surpass it. But, I want to wait and see if a physical copy pops up first.

Will support the digital version because Wayforward delivers, and I love Contra. Konami can keep their "physical" switch version - hopefully they rot on the shelf. Might spring for PS5 physical if it comes on disc, though.

New Fantasy Zone entry, Phantasy Star Remake (the original, not online), Ristar 2, Streets of Rage 5....a new Shining Force (not that recent crap, but a Camelot-style one in the vein of the first three).

It's probably a decent Sonic game or another mobile game. I'm just being an unrealistic dreamer to the core. It's fun sometimes.

1,000 Year Door. No contest. There are some great Mario RPG's, few of them are bad, but 1,000 YD takes the cake, the ice cream, whatever is left over of the pizza.

Trying to avoid downloading Double Dragon Advance and Super Double Dragon. The entire collection looks tempting, but those are both very good brawlers with great music and rewarding combat (I still have the original cartridges, but they're just that good).

I'm almost done 100-percenting Super Mario Wonder, and have about 5-10 hours left to 100-percent Sea of Stars. I'm trying to wrap those two up so I can start Star Ocean: Second Story R next week.

I really like Super Mario Wonder. I WISH it was released back in the era when I had gamer friends living nearby. It would be a blast with multiple players.

@nimnio

I didn't know that ages were listed on here. Honestly, I'm in my 40's. This game was at least sixty dollars back then, so it's basically nothing to me by any comparison. I will definitely be getting it once I finish Star Ocean 2nd Story R, and have no problem paying sixty dollars for this.

breathes, wishes we would stop using blanket statements to generalize each other by age, culture, etc.

@mereel

Why would it not be? It's Super Mario RPG. Have you looked up the cost for an SNES copy lately?

I borrowed this game about twenty-one years ago and played on a friend's PS2. I really liked it, but had to give the game and console back shortly after a major plot point, still early in the game - all I had was Nintendo stuff back then.

I played the demo for the new version on PS5 and Switch. Both versions look really good and run well, but I went with the physical PS5 version. It just shipped, so I'm looking forward to this, finishing up Sea of Stars and Super Mario Wonder to make room. This will be my autumn/winter RPG. Super Mario RPG also looks tempting, but I've played that one so many times all the way through on SNES.

Hopefully they take their time with this. This one doesn't look very special - It's probably in a very early stage though. Hopefully Jake Hunter is still as over the top as ever.

Also, I have the original game on Switch. It is very good, lots of fun with crazy moves and characters. Maybe a good Halloween game for tonight.

Can't wait to play this game. It looks so dope. WOWIE ZOWIES.

@epicgamner

Prepare to be amazed. It's actually as good as it is hyped up to be.

I think it all depends if the next console is radically different or not. The switch was such a departure from wii u, that it was understandable after everything was revealed. If the next console is similar in function and form, and doesn't have bc as a feature, it could turn a lot of people off. Then again, a lot of people would buy a turd if it had the nintendo logo on it, for better or worse.

Though, the fact that wii u had excellent bc and still failed is a strong argument that bc doesn't matter, but I'm ultimately inclined to disagree with that.

I think lots of people would appreciate it though.

Thanks for the heads up. I will kalmy wait for the Komplete edition to come out in two to three years for thirty or forty bucks, on PS5.

Sea of Stars on PS5 ("free" on PS Plus rn), and a little bit of F-Zero 99 mixed in for good measure.

Uh....Sea of Stars is just as good as people are saying it is. They seriously nailed it. It feels like a late-90's RPG that went down as a bonafide classic in another universe. Fantastic game, hard to put down. Deep, rewarding battle system, beautiful graphics and music, likable characters, the whole nine yards.

Not surprised. If it makes anyone feel better, I don't really enjoy it. It looks really good, but just isn't that fun to play. I had more fun playing Friday the 13th, on both Switch and PS5, than I did with Evil Dead.

@nathatruc

I believe this will happen, and as cheap as it is, I hope it is so. Maybe they will upscale the graphics and stuff. I'd be okay with that. But yes, I think the odds of this happening are pretty strong.

@Lony85

I have tried the xbox one and series x, and both of them just bore me. There's one at work, and they will let me take it home on nights if I want to, but I took it home just to update for the programs I run for gamer groups....I was underwhelmed.

I thought the 360 was really cool, and they really pushed the industry forward with the original xbox and 360 - I will give them that. Playing whatever music I wanted was really cool, and they forced the rest of the industry to get serious about online.

Everything after that has just felt so basic, or worse - starting with how they were getting crazy with the DRM, but more than anything I just don't see any interest in most of the games. Their online is still way better than nintendo's, but can be said about almost any gaming company at this point.

Though, I will reluctantly admit, that I'd love to try Rare replay. That is the only Xbox-exclusive, bar maybe Killer Instinct (another Rare-adjacent game, go figure) that has stirred my interest in about a decade or so.

But that's about it.

I think it's great that they brought this to the switch, but I'm so waiting two or year threes for the "ultimate edition" with (most of?) the dlc added on the disc, on sale for like thirty dollars, for PS5.

I hope this never happens. I love playing games on PS5, Switch and Steam, but X-box has always bored me to tears. Mostly FPS, sports games, and generic dude-bro stuff. There are a few exceptions, but I find it very homogenous. Nintendo has faults, like mediocre online and stuff, but I'd hate to see them lose their spark, and I'm sure they would lose it quickly being acquired by such a passionless and mundane company like Microsoft.

@cainswo

Yeah, I really liked it too. I had already preordered the physical version for PS5, but I played the demo on switch, and so I'm extra sold at this point. The environments are very beautiful, and I adjusted to the pixel characters quickly. It works out very well for my eyes. The game also feels very polished.

I was honestly expecting this, but not so soon. I was tempted to get the dlc while playing the ps5 version the other day, and still have my switch copy.

Not sure what to do at this point - It's not like I can't afford it, but I'm thinking I'm going to treat dotemu games like I do fighting games - wait a few years and buy the "ultimate" version when it's on sale.

I honestly wasn't expecting anything from F-Zero. I'm really happy to see this. It's not at all what I was expecting, and that's quite alright.

Seeing a new Contra that doesn't look terrible was also ice-cream next to a cake for me.

Thundercats or He-Man, but with graphics that look like the 80's cartoons, with depth of combat like Streets of Rage. Or anything really. All of these are good candidates.

Blue Toad.

Unless Ninji or Shy-Guy or some other obscure SMB2 DLC gets announced, which I'm not betting on happening.

First time in a long time that I preordered a Mario game. Though I will be preordering Super Mario RPG as well.

Anyway, this game is incredibly excited. Incorporating a more "permanent" upgrade system is absolute genius. I can see lots of replay value in it. Also, looking forward to all the stages and musics, especially the beach and nautical-themed ones.

I just preordered this. I'm going to live-steam the entire game. I'm looking forward to all the new ideas, and hopefully they get really crazy with it.

So going to get back into this game next month.

Edit:

So does this mean that the sequel might have Armagon? (wishful thinking I know, but I can dream)

@Circasurviver

You mean, not even punk rock anti-establishment Toad hamming it up on guitar and vocals? C'mon.