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As a fighting game, it's a tour-de-force as far as market penetration is concerned (this isn't the 90s*). Believing it has to move Mario Kart numbers to be relevant and/or a success is a pretty massive fallacy.

*Which, having been there as an adult, was a mixed blessing, mainly because it became so all-encompassing that it basically 'destroyed' the NeoGeo platform (for those of us that actually grew up in arcades, it was a nightmare of sorts).

A first pass emergency fix would have the most out-sized impact on performance--subsequent patches would mitigate any potential performance loss.

@FinalFrog

1. This isn't a review (not sure why you think a super short news blurb would cut into reviewing other games).
2. It's welcome news to owners of the earlier rev.
3. It's news about a game on Nintendo hardware on a NIntendo-centric site, so, uh...everything is as it should be??

This week is like a water break during a marathon, and man did I need the water (read: down week to catch up on the backlog).

I may have to, happily, eat my words when I said, some time ago, re: in response to someone boasting that PS4 sales* might beat PS2s: "the days of any console--or handheld--selling as much as the PS2 are dead and gone".

*Never, ever, going to happen, ever.

I loved all three, but please bring more, including the long-rumored (at the time) Jackal and Salamander ReBirth titles.

@Expa0 I'd like to cage it and beat it to death myself, sigh.

With Animal Crossing and Pokemon? Pfft, no sweat.

While I'm not holding my breath, please include a mode that disables the 'awesome' slowdown in Super R-Type. I bough that game, release week, 'back in the day', and played it for all of an hour before putting it away, never to gaze upon its doddering, shambling, visage ever again (to say it's a pale shadow of 'real' R-Type II, upon which it is mostly based, is putting it mildly).

Fix the frame rate, Dodge Roll, it's unacceptable when the other versions (PC and PS4 for sure) run like silk.

(And yes, even in 'speed' mode, it runs poorly-- especially on boss fights.)

Probably removed as it may have had the potential to open up a hardware exploit.

From 10AM to 3PM on Christmas Day, it was basically impossible to stay connected long enough to actually purchase something, in NA.

@Kobeskillz wait until it's on a big sale--you'll thank me later.

The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, for the love of God!

But also:

*Midnight Resistance
*Windjammers (although, since Hamster did Spin Master, they may do this one, too)
*Vapor Trail
*Burger Time
*Night Slashers
*Tag Team Wrestling (it's ancient--and hasn't aged well--but I still want it!)

@Rika_Yoshitake that collection, alas, skipped a lot of DE's better games including everything I listed, minus Burger Time, and much more.

@Anti-Matter it looks even cheaper in motion, alas

(Have had it on PS4 for ages.)

@sarethums ditto, but this is one of the exceptions to that rule (along w/ things like its 'sequel' and the Thunder Force series, among a few others).

@rjejr the biggest shopping day of the year is not "Black Friday" in the US--it's the Saturday before Xmas. This myth is reinforced by the media, endlessly, but it hasn't been true in a long time, if it ever was.

@RaphaBoss you're going to have to do a lot better than that when trying to talk down attach rates in excess of 50%--this isn't March, when that tired talking point first reared its ugly head.

(Of course, perhaps this is just poorly-conveyed sarcasm...)

@crackafreeze how do I get to the parallel universe where a SegaLife would make any sense??

@Freek yeah, I've already checked the Steam Bayo forum and I was not disappointed (with my utter disappointment in humanity).

Next stop, the PS4 board on GameFAQs!

@Fight_Teza_Fight Christmas?

passes out cups of bitter tears fresh-brewed from the eyes of Nintendo haters

Were you already born in 1983?

I was very born by 1983, sigh.

You were warned about dividing by zero, and now that you've breached the dimensional barriers, you better get used to the new normal.

@dystome I tend to agree, except when the game in question isn't seeking to mimic an actual table, e.g. games like Devil's Crush or Mario Pinball Land (wish we got more of those, tbh).

So yes.

The designs for the main character are a bit...awful?

Monopoly! Yes!

sees price

Nope!

@NintendoFan4Lyf classically, SF is more a JRPG/SRPG hybrid than FE, with areas you can explore, towns to visit, etc.--it was, generally, a more full featured experience as opposed to FE's straight SRPG focus.

(I have always vastly preferred SF to FE, even back in the day when importing FE along side SF releases in the West.)

There a comment in that tweet stream saying that one of the Takahashi bros would like to do Shining Force 4...

Skiping [sic] AoF2...

Hooray, as this is easily the best in the series.

How long is it? Unless I missed it--I scanned the article for this information--it's nowhere to be seen which, for $20, is a germane question...

There's something incredibly ironic* about NintendoLife users charging Steam readers with the 'crime' of overrating games...

For the record (as with Neon Chrome), this is actually a pretty good game, in the vicinity of a 7 (or "good"). If you like the genre, it's probably an 8.

*Which isn't to say NL writers aren't entitled to their opinions, obviously.

@faint same as on Switch, or I imagined the two new episodes I'd been waiting, literally, years for...

@faint I said that--I just finished the 100% complete game yesterday, and it does not have $30-worth of content.

Got it for ten bucks on PC, 3-years ago (and just finished it yesterday, @ap0001, as it finally reached 100% completion), and that's probably the correct price point given the brevity of the experience--$15 would have probably been tolerable, but $30 is absurd.

checks Steam playtime

"13-hours"

starts to seriously wonder if most of what NL reviews has any consonance with his personal experience of games

@KingMike Chupa Chups and that was Zool 2 (the co. in question is based in Spain). I have seen them in the US, but not until years and years after Zool 2 was a thing.

As for Putty Squad: have it on PS4 and was seriously underwhelmed.

No matter how cool the light cycle sequence in TRON looked, it just never works out as an actual game.

I'm utterly ambivalent about Pokemon (heresy!) but I do have to admit this looks very slick.

I needed Actraiser to consider purchasing a SNES Mini--as it is, nope! (Not that they'll be missing my sale, of course.)

As for Super Tennis (still the best tennis game ever!), that's in the same licensing hell as arcade Donkey Kong, with the co. that produced it still in existence to some extent, but they left the gaming biz 20-years ago while leaving the rights to their games in limbo.

The upside is these aren't tied to your account, so you can get the code and at least give it to a friend if you're in danger of having your coins expire.

(Which is why one friend is happy right now w/ Runner 2, and another w/ Zen 3D.)

So MVC is as much a dud in Japan as the UK, where Street Fighter on SW did better first week sales in both territories--NA is now Capcom's only hope.

Ten bucks is the magic number for me, so see you next year, Thumper.

I was on the fence--already bought and beat it deeply discounted on Steam--but no gyro aiming=no buy. I've never liked analog stick aiming, going all the way back to its inception on basically Turok N64 and, in 2017, when the option to do otherwise is present to not support it is utterly ridiculous.

Rastan, sure--but GnG? I never got even the slightest hint of a GnG vibe from Vogarr.

It's a great game on PC--I might even double dip on SW if it's under $15.

DO NOT BUY unless you intend to play co-op--it really doesn't work solo.

If this was ten bucks, I'd be in, but given the backlog and upcoming torrent of games (I'm at 30+ Switch games, and haven't beaten half of them, never mind what I have on Steam) I'll wait, even though this sounds right up my alley.

@Shiryu the only thing that stops me from grabbing on Steam is the belief it will show up on SW in 2018.