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@TenEighty You definitely don't have to like these games but saying "this is not video gaming" is weird. These games are just as valid as Mario. I love both Mario and Manhunt, which is most definitely not a family friendly game. (And based on your reaction here I would definitely recommend you NOT look up.)

There is room for both and shunning one or the other is bad. Again, not liking them is perfectly fine.

It's absolute bull that Mario vs DK is $5 extra digitally, but this is still as close a price as I'll ever bite for. Nintendo never puts old games on sale once they move to a new generation, so this may be one of the last chances.

@konicstar I'm still waiting, foaming at the mouth for anything Legends. I've even double dipped on the current collections just to support Mega Man.

Get my boy off the friggin' moon.

This was pretty clearly not using anything Nintendo related, but I also wonder how old the store is? Probably not more than 40 years, but if it was that also should eliminate any chance of Nintendo having a say.

I love Nintendo's developers, but their cancerous business side makes it really hard to like them.

@rvcolem1 At the very least it seems after 3 (ok, thats a given) and Hunters.

@TheExile285 Bamco is pretty weird. Outside of surefire hits they don't seem to advertise much. It's like they place all these oddity projects they do into the word of mouth basket and just expect it to thrive.

It's weird that "it has to be great" is headline worthy, but it's Sonic, so...

I hope they learned their lesson this time. Frontiers did a lot right, but gameplay wasn't one of them. I really hope we don't get another spectacle on-rails game that breaks and falls apart the moment you try nudging in any direction.

I really thought, based on the thumbnail, that was Chun Li. Maybe my glasses need an eye exam, too.

WOW. These are a lot of accomplishments for someone who sat quiet in the shadows! He deserves this award. The Starlight foundation is amazing.

@Dee123 You don't know what these words mean. Terraria has been going strong for over a decade, it's had physical toys on market shelves, and has been ported to everything under the sun, even the 3DS. Terraria is doing incredibly well and has been since 2011, to the point where even when official support ended, it continued to be so successful they came back and continued to update it again.

Palworld has already slipped past being FOTM, we are currently in those "low lows" you speak of and yet they're on a hotstreak with updates and collabs.

Please don't use words you don't actually understand.

Rare: "Banjo-Kazooie is just too dated, it wouldn't work in the modern era..."

Also Rare: "Wanna buy more merch from our ICONIC series Banjo-Kazooie?! Here's a deep cut figure!"

Say one thing, do another. I'm not upset BK is getting merch, but I AM upset that the blockheads at Rare are in charge of it. Seriously, how many figures and how much merch has BK been slapped on now compared to platformer rivals?

Sonic will be slapped on anything with a merchandising pulse, Mario the same as long as they can charge an absurd fee, those are given, but like... Banjo's up there. But they desperately pretend he's not.

Until this moment I believed this was a pure 1:1 port of DKC to the gameboy... interesting. I sucked so bad at this game as a kid I never saw much of the new content lol.

@Bolt_Strike You might be waiting awhile. I don't think TPC would add them without being a separate re-release paid for some kind of premium. Pretty greedy sort over there.

Oh wow, so Kirkhope will be too busy to do music for Playtonic/Yooka Laylee games now? That's a shame, but I look forward to seeing what this team does.

@GravyThief I played a lot of Prime as a kid, some Prime 2 (little in comparison) and I remember 3 being SUCH a jarring tonal whiplash from the first two that it put me off playing it. It felt way more scripted and on rails with all the dialogue and I didn't like it-- in hindsight I realize they were setting up the game, but I can agree it was a REALLY jarring change of pace from what I expected out of anything Metroid.

So, did MP2 walk so Hunters could run? I never played much of 2, but I DID play Hunters to death. This makes me think they took the multiplayer of 2 and tried to flesh it out a ton with Hunters. Maybe I'm dead wrong, though.

I genuinely hope this will get ported to PC/consoles eventually. I know it will not be anytime soon, but once the interest dries up or they look to replace the units in the (probably very far) future? Not that bad an idea to double dip on it, eh? Ehhhh?

...Please?

This is the first potential remake I've heard of that actually makes sense. Good games don't need to be remade, bad ones do.

Not too much in the way of US deals, which isn't surprising. Was contemplating if it was cheap enough, but standard $60 is waaay too much for it.

Hoping some digital sales put the Xenoblade passes on sale...

Boom was so weird. The part Sega wanted to matter, imploded in their faces since they're addicted to sabotaging themselves. The part they didn't, ended up taking off and shielding Sonic's rep by embracing the absurdity. Ah well, at least the show burned bright while it was around. Bright enough to mostly blind everyone from Rise of Lyric.

Yeah. I'm sure Take Two is bleeding money, perpetually circling the drain. Well, I hope the projects do well under the new ownership.

That's a relief. Backwards compatibility with digital libraries is now the bare minimum requirement, but who can tell with Nintendo sometimes..

@Erigen I don't think they want to. It seems after Rare was forced to rock the boat with Adventures and then, Namco worked on Assault right?, this has been the status quo. They're terrified to do anything that isn't chasing the highs of SF64.

Which is a shame, there's so much they could do.

Tempted for $30... I hope this does well enough for Croc 2 to get a remaster. I'd seriously adore a 3rd entry but I'm getting ahead of myself! I grew up with an N64 and Banjo in particular, but I loved playing Croc whenever I had the chance.

I will be interested to see how the Switch handles these... crazy to think of the big library this little (dated) mobile chipset has on it.

@HeadPirate I wondered for the longest time why Rare Replay never even so much as got a consideration of a port to PC. I guess this explains why, which is pretty heartbreaking but makes complete sense. If it'd been released a couple years later during the Play Anywhere push, maybe! (though I realize that would have ruined the 30-year anniversary aspect.)

@anoyonmus in all likelihood they were speaking about the next Nintendo console. Or cloud versions for Switch.

@Mr_Nutz

0 was made ten years after the series initially began, so having played it after Kiwami didn't bother me at all. 0 is great but it's not necessary. It adds to Kiwami, but is not necessary.

I dont care for the changes but also am not incredibly upset about them. It's just another mandate that won't mean anything in ten years when the series gets another tonal shift. I guess I'm just apathetic at this point to idiot execs making decisions.

But, yes, Sonic fans will always complain. Some valid, some not, some 100% insane, but there will always be complaints.

I get his point but every business wants the lowest risk for the highest reward. Even Nintendo. Some devs end up getting so much goodwill and success that they can go on to create passion projects, but that's pretty rare unless you're a self funded indie dev.

This thing seems like a neat novelty gift, but that price is insane. I know it's priced that way because of the name slapped on, but how long could this thing even last running 24/7 with screens like that?

I was pretty confident he was going to land a job at Nintendo, but this is great. I hope he can really deliver something special.

If I'm reading this right, they're not thrilled with the changes but they're more annoyed their comments were mistranslated? I can understand that. They seem to be heavily pedantic here though, but as someone who doesnt understand the language I can't say much on it.

Nintendo Life staff does this on purpose. So do other sites that report on these games while aware Nintendo will scream and roll around on the floor foaming at the mouth if someone even considers doing anything with their creations.

Just hope this article gets buried, fast, so the blood sucking lawyers don't find it.

This is giving me vibes of Pixels. That's not a compliment.

I've only played the first Ryza but I really enjoyed it. The one issue I have with Koei as a publisher is that they rarely put games on sale, and with a mountain of Atelier games coming out at a rapid pace that stings on the wallet. It took them about four years to even put Warriors All Stars on sale again! They're so stingy.

I am over the moon about this. I was unreasonably giga hyped for Shredder's Revenge and played it through far too many times. I yelled when I saw the release date trailer reveal Casey. I loved this, and the DLC, to bits. And now I have an excuse to replay it for the nine millionth time!

@LadyCharlie I think the reasoning is she wasn't in the 80s cartoon series. Then again, neither was Karai. Still, Venus has appeared in recent comics, so if the game can reach a third DLC, who knows? DLC 3 being Irma and Venus as playable characters would be perfectly insane.

@Markatron84 There needs to be a monkeys paw curl to this. They forced the devs to make Mania 2 on the Sonic Heroes engine, or Charmy is the sole playable character. It's not Sonic Team without absolutely bonkers self sabotage.

Sony still owns this, right? Are Namco just doing a deal with Sony similar to how Nintendo is with Sega and Bayonetta? Very strange, but in a good way.

I already own this game, but I'm tempted to double dip... I play a Yakuza game every October as that feels like the perfect season for it (the fall season, colder, gets darker much earlier. Not spooky related lol). Was going to start Like A Dragon, but maybe that can wait till next October..

@Bunkerneath The only reasonable answer as to why they took so long is that they probably pored over everything and checked as much as they could. They wanted as solid of a case as possible. Or, if you want a more cynical take, waited until they were safely rolling in all that cash so Nintendo could come and try to vacuum it up.

I personally hope Pocketpair comes out unscathed, but we don't know what exactly Nintendo is suing for, so maybe it will actually be something justified.

(Also, if you scroll up in the comments, you can find a ton of comments by HeadPirate who was doing a lot of sleuthing last night into the situation. Very informative stuff!)

@HeadPirate I am a massive idiot, and I appreciate your summaries/speculations on what could be happening with this. The peak of my brainpower is "nintendo stupid wtf are they doing"-- not going to figure out much myself.

@LadyCharlie Let's not forget that the original Pokémon Red/Blue had some shockingly blatant and shameless ripoff designs from Dragon Quest..
Jokers? I don't remember the name, but I know it was a DQ spinoff.

The real shock here is realizing Akira Toriyama was such a heavyweight that he even (unintentionally) helped set off the Pokémon craze.

But I agree, seeing TPC get a black eye over this one would be the best outcome. I have to assume though that they have been taking incredibly long and suing NOW because they think they have an airtight case.

@Thomystic If it changes anything for you, Donnie's VA hit puberty between the first movie and recording lines for the animated series/this game. He's a much better fit now that he's not squeaky.

This really looks like it'll be a pretty decent time. When it was first announced, I had no hope after seeing the publisher (and I was one of those that was not much of a fan of the movie, to put it nicely). Maybe they're turning a new leaf, or AHEARTFULOFGAMES is just really good. (Probably the latter. Heart&Slash is really good, I actually bought it due to the announcement of this game way back.)

Iizuka being hard headed as always. It can absolutely work, I remember pining for one during the Xbox 360 era. A standalone Chao garden game as a downloadable? Dude, no brainer. Take the VMU aspects, look at Monster hunter palico expeditions for inspiration without Sonic and pals. It can, would, and will work without having to grind City Escape 50 times for rings and chaos drives.

But no. He wants to stick his fingers in his ears and yell when considering something from outside of ST.

I liked the original, but so far nothing screams "this couldn't have just been an update for YL itself". Games can get engine upgrades now through updates, harder on consoles sure but possible.

I'm glad they're doing this, but I have to see VAST amounts of remixed and new content to justify doing this before a proper followup sequel, especially if its still being charged full price. I backed the original on Kickstarter, name in the credits (one of countless, fair) but this is still kind of a weird choice.

I hope it does well. I want it, but finances, responsibly budgeting.... feh! Someday we'll find the real life infinite money code glitch.

I never played the whole game through but I liked Story Mode. It was trying to build a story out of something that... had no story.

That said, the wolf in the trailer thumbnail looks like it has mini camel humps and that's DISGUSTING.

@BodkinDQ If you go by output, or even just how one company has changed the industry, the two likely candidates to be the Beatles of gaming are Nintendo (no surprise), or Valve. (Their contributions while lesser today were cataclysmic through the GoldSrc and Source eras.)