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I think this is only positive? Square Enix has kinda sucked (with the exception of some legacy/legacy adjacent releases) and these types of properties feel at home in the Embracer catalog.
I'm optimistic

I restarted Metroid Dread, I still think that is one of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had.
I have almost exclusively been playing games a second time instead of reaching for new experiences. It does something different in my brain and it's just a good time

The title of this article is exactly how you get me.to look into ya game

I love Command even if I can't beat the first (or second maybe?) Level lol. But I replay the training and the first level over and over!

My top 3:
1. Star Fox 64
2. Command
3. Guard!

I restarted Pikmin 3! It's absolutely wonderful, but I do wish I had the option to play 1 or 2. Until that day however I will just play 3 over and over!

I am also beginning Eastward. It's a slow start but Sam just ran away and it seems like it's about to get gooooooooood. Have a good weekend y'all!

This information would be easier to understand if there was a chart that Sega could put out. It could maybe list each version on top and then the y-axis could list the features. Then the grid at intersecting points could have a ring to display which features belong to which version of a sonic statue.

I think this would go a long way towards displaying all.of the versions and all of the ways I am potentially overspending on something so simple

I am more interested in this story from the perspective of what it means for Nintendo's back half of the year.

Maybe it means a summer direct could be packed? Maybe it doesn't mean anything lol

I'm sort of off of big JRPGs I just dont have 80 spare hours these days and I get too antsy to start something else

This is a good article

Honestly it is probably the Switch.
I have SO much Nostalgia for the Wii U/3DS era - it was the directs and simple fun (which contrasted so heavily with what the rest of the industry was doing) that kept me so engaged and made me the Nintendo fan I am.

GameCube/GBA does have a string of bangers though, if I had any nostalgia for that era I'm sure it would be in my top.two

Good morning my dears, this weekend I am playing Triangle Strategy!! Oooohhhhh

It was slow. The characters were kinda bland. The world seemed to big for me to grasp really. But then in chapter 6 things got real! Something happened to my brain and I began to agonize over every choice I was making, never before have the consequences of my actions in a game felt so weighty! I am beyond hooked, and I don't care how much more I have in this game - it is the only thing I want to do

I would love it if they did one last run of Dragon Quest 8 and a few others for the US

Thq Nordic are the best 3rd party devs out there for us single console Switch owners! I own so many of their releases

I can t explain why I am attracted to this. But I am genuinely excited for this

I am super intrigued by this, I will back them when I get paid on Friday

This weekend I'm trying to love Triangle Strategy. So far I definitely like it, but also it's not something that compels me to play it, so it's complicated

I also bought Dead Cells and whew boy I've stayed away from that one for awhile but I'm excited to jump in

Remakes of the Oracle games in the style of Links Awakening????

I literally just caved on the Japanese edition on Saturday

I don't understand why they would expire?? Like having cheat codes in a game is such an inspired old school move. Don't mess it up

I bought this game finally after Super Rare published a physical copy. I certainly get the appeal and there was more than one emotional gut punch. I had to quit at the TV station though, it's just too hard. I know I'm not the best game player anyhow but I cannot overstate how thoroughly this game kicked my butt.
Lovely story though, great music to boot

This past week I finished Contact on the DS, it was a delight but it was far shorter than I had been led to believe. The other game from last week that I had believed I would still be playing this week was Horace, I am not playing Horace... That is the hardest game I have ever attempted and I'm just too bad at it.

So this weekend I am replaying Ori and the Blind Forest!!! It's such a perfect gem of a game

I actually preorder as a way of budgeting. I will.start to slowly pay for a release I know I'm going to like (or think so at least) months in advance as I drop by GameStop on my way home from work I'll dip like 10-20$ in a pay period. Then when it's time to pick up my new game I'm not out any consequential amount of cash

That 2.5d game inspired by Ori sounds incredible

@Greatluigi I just started Contact this morning, and I would never rule out anything... But I also feel like it's one of those games that would be super difficult. Idk if you've played it, but they reference you using a DS to play it and it has a lot of specific DS functionality

What was that about "other recent ports???"

@wazlon Darksiders is one of my very favorite series! And I am excited to see someone else give it a go!
The first one does.start off slowly, with lots of big action sequences, but you do eventually find yourself in the Zelda-esque dungeons. If you enjoy it I hope you dive into Darksiders 2 next, it is even better!

There is certainly a theme with this week's picks for me and that is "games inspired by Earthbound." Lol on the Switch that looks like Horace (the game this site gave a 10/10) and while the gameplay is not exactly something I would typically find myself drawn to, the story has kept me hooked!

On the 3DS it's all Contact - a game I know literally nothing about other than it's connection to Earthbound, and also that it's a Suda 51 game

@wiiware I played through all of the Trine games last year! They were all such a delight - and frankly gorgeous!!! I know 3 has a bad reputation, but you should give it a shot if you can find it cheap! I rather enjoyed it

@Guitar_bard congratulations!!!!!!

Ok so on the Switch Front I think I finally have the juice to finish Skyward Sword, I think all I have left are two dungeons so baring some Wind Waker esque triforce hunt I might make this a priority!

Over with me 3DS though, I'm trying to get into A Kappa's Trial. It's cute and so very Nintendo - but I am so so bad at it!! Lol has anyone else played that one?

I was just wishing on a star for it to land on N64 app last night!

@AugustusOxy your comment on Mercury Steam 's contribution to the Metroid franchise is one of the most measured and compelling games I've heard on Samus Returns vs AM2R.

Certainly both have their merits

I will say, that he worked on my favorite Castletroid of them all in the Ori games so while I disagree I know he has a decent head on his shoulders for design

I love them!! They are the things I remember most about that game, and I love the payoff of the final encounter with them

I think I actually do trust Sega to acknowledge Eggma'am

@Kainbrightside this was me recently (and still now honestly!!! It's just the best genre!!!

I would definitely add the Ori games to your to-play list!!

I did pick up Triangle Strategy yesterday and I do plan on jumping into it as soon as I have at least and hour to give to the dang thing - but I have a feeling this weekend is jam packed so my video game time will be little more dictated by what I can squeeze in

I think I'll likely play more Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (which is my favorite in the series so far! The portrait mechanic is so fun!) and some Stretchmo! The latter is on of the best original games Nintendo has made in the last decade - I hope it doesn't die on the 3DS

I am replaying Steamworld Dig 2 as I continue to evolve and appreciate Metroidvania as a genre. I always loved this game but this is the most fun I have had with it!

If I can pull myself away from that I will continue to chug through Skyward Sword. I had been mostly positive on it up to this point, but I believe I have passed the halfway point and now there is a lot of back tracking that's left a bad taste in my mouth

I lost hours of my life coming home from school and playing Tempest 2000 on my Sega Saturn. I have wanted to relive those memories for years and I couldn't be more pleased by this

Monster World IV is genuinely incredible! But you should all just get the remake

If you change the second "e" in "hidden gem" to a "u" it becomes "hidden gum" which sounds horrible

@Friendly Pushmo is the series that God would play.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Another World (or Out of this World) was on the eShop! There is a lot of history with that one and I'm excited to try it!

I finally have gotten into Skyward Sword and am obsessing over it! Currently I am at the first Imprisoned fight and am looking forward to what's next. I am on team BotW was a disappointment, the strength of the dungeons and lovable side characters in this game has only strengthened that resolve.

"the boulder feels conflicted" was a good choice for this sub heading.
I would have gone with "I threw a rock at him!"

It was fun that so many people got their random "this would never happen" announcement (like Strikers, or Live A Live, or in my partners case Chrono Trigger) but other than Klonoa I'm feeling underwhelmed by it.

The two things I really wanted were those rumored Batman Arkham ports, and am announcement of a Nintendo game that wasn't multiplayer or a huge RPG, and it seemed it was almost exclusively those two

Oh! Also I downloaded Shining Force: Sword of Haijya for 3DS, I am awash with nostalgia and good tidings

Happy weekend you Nintendo Switcheroos!

This last week I played Aria of Sorrow all the way through. I was worried at first that I just didn't get it, because it is supposed to be one of the best and it just seemed... Fine? But I grinded for like an hour and the last two hours of that game really came together brilliantly!

This weekend I'm going back to Skyward Sword. I was a bit drunk last night when I went back to it, but it fit like a glove. Now I just have to get through the work day....

I predict we will.get some new announcements and some updates on old announcements

I'm going with Ty the Tasmanian Tiger!!! This first game is excellent in the way that only game from this era were. I'm looking forward to booting the second one up immediately afterwards

I'd also love to get lost in an RPG. I am technically playing Dragon Quest 7 but it's just... Fun to play in episodes? But then I end up putting it down an hour or so later

Buy Mercury Steam, Nintendo!!!

I just bought this game for 3DS. I hear it's real.good, but also I will probably not play it too too much? I looked.it up and it's one of those things that you can play forever