FirLocke

There really just something wonderful about the original secret of mana.I’ve started playing various mana games for the first time, as I’m looking forward to visions of mana. Jumping back and forth between the remake and original versions of secret makes me wish for a proper remake. While the existing remake fleshes out/corrects the writing, it’s not as cohesive as an overall experience, it’s too low budget and a bit buggy. And slower. Will be continuing the original on the Switch collection!

I’m looking forward to playing Sword of Mana (got my DS Lite ready and waiting 🤩) and might get to Trials a little later.

I tell you what though, Secret has really gotten me in the mood to play more colourful games. Outside of Secret, I’m playing Ever Oasis and Gravity Rush 2. Honestly, they feel like distant cousins to Secret with how vibrant, light and easy going they are! And all with the soundtracks to boot.

RPGs lend themselves better thanks to their more diverse soundtracks, so I'd go with Pokémon.

Still waiting for my Limited Edition order to ship Pretty much my most anticipated game in quite a while...hope they honour the order.

I guess that's the reason why we've seen no marketing since the announcement. More time for Shin Megami Tensei over the holidays then!

Interestingly, there's now back to back strategy goodness in March (Triangle Strategy) and April (Advance Wars).

It's a difficult genre for me to get into, as I do like to do things when I'm in the mood to game. That being said, I often love reading lots of text in my RPGs - Persona, Fire Emblem, the like - but they break up the dialogue with things to do. Quite looking forward to Ace Attorney Chronicles, and I loved Danganronpa 1 and 2 on the Vita (haven't gotten to V3).

But I've found it difficult to get into pure VNs. Tried Fata Morgana, CLANNAD, Muv-luv....I bounced off all of them. I've heard Raging Loop is good. It's still a genre I would still like to try more of.

Yup I've been thinking of topping up the wallet and buying those VC games. There's a nice selection on there. I never played Tactics Advance..

Looking back on it, I actually loved their E3 presence.

Core games:

Shin Megami Tensei 5
Skyward Sword HD
No More Heroes 3
Metroid Dread

Variety/arcade:

Cruis'n Blast
Monkey Ball
Warioware

Visual Novel:

Ace Attorney Chronicles
Danganronpa Decadence

Tactics:

Advance Wars

And then others from around E3:

The Takeover physical from Limited Run. Never heard of the game before their show, it looks awesome.
Metal Slug Tactics. PC only for now and probably quite far away from release, but it'll surely be coming to Switch too.

Das a lotta games.

So glad E3, or at least E3 season is back. Bring on the announcements!

Pre-ordering this one!

Absolutely getting the double special. Played NMH1 emulated last year and loved it. Delighted to see the games get a physical version, they deserve it.

@Absworthy Yoooo! You're Not Alone is soooooo, so good. If I had to pick one song, it would be Sight of Spira/Spira Unplugged from FFX. I love it so much, so chill and yet hopeful. But there are so many others!!

Hey if you want I'll post my friend code, maybe we can have some versus matches!

Played some Theatrhythm Curtain Call yesterday, on my final batch of characters that I haven't gotten to lvl 99 before. It struck me that I've been playing this game for over 6 years now.

3DS will never die.

I honestly only got into the GameCube recently. I always wanted to play Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, since the sequel - Radiant Dawn - is one of my favourite games ever. So I finally ponied up the cash to buy a (great condition) copy off of eBay, and there I was absolutely loving my first GameCube game. Since then, I've added a lot more to my library. Notably, Monkey Ball 1 & 2, Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2, F-Zero GX, the Baten Kaitos duo, Billy Hatcher, and a number of others. Still want to get Twin Snakes someday tho!

I also want to say that Nintendo releasing new GameCube controllers for the Smash games, official high capacity memory cards still being fairly easily available, and easy/cheap to find component cables for the Wii makes accessing the GameCube easier than expected too! The games still look pretty good via component on a modern TV.

Man, a Dreamcast Collection would be awesome.

PSA: For Nintendo Switch games, Limited Run do pre-orders. It's not like you have to wait for a certain time, and if you miss it, it's gone. Right now for example, you can pre-order Dust: An Elysian Tale.

Valkyria Chronicles and Labyrinth of Coven specials baybeeeeee

Will also get TWEWY at some point, Salt and Sanctuary would be nice to get a physical copy of in Europe as well.

MAYO.

Minmin-chan!

I absolutely love it and will quite possibly get one day one. My XL from 2013...Ain't in the best shape. I never used 3D, so this is the best option for me to replace my XL. Thank you very much Nintendo!

Also helps that it's looking like the most well designed DS in the entire line. That cover for the game card slot is a godsend, seriously. So not only is the functionality great, it's also super slick looking. No brainer for me!

I WANT ONE

It's 330 euro in Ireland :/

I liked it too. In fact, I just came here after playing Splatoon online for 2 hours. It also didn't die on me like my PS4 did after 1.5 years of use. It also never sounded like a jet engine.

Favourite game on Wii U. Still play it regularly, and find matches within seconds most of the time. Gonna be a sad day when the servers go down.

I'll be there for the Switch game.

Oof, those staff results. Star Fox Zero above TMS and Federation actually appearing in the top 5 3DS games, when DQVII and SMt4:A came out in the same year. Heck even the gimped Super Mario maker appearing there is lol.

Opinions and all.

The birthplace of Splatoon.
Also Tropical Freeze was so excellent why is it never mentioned :0

.......BoxBoxBoy it is! Terrible sale.

I would replace Fates with Awakening, Yokai with Fantasy Life and Bravely with Devil Survivor 1/2. 3DS is great.

Hopefully comes to Europe. Would like to get Omasse at least

Absolutely loving Splatoon since coming back to it for the last Splatfest. Definitely taking advantage of this! Also levelling up like nobody's business thanks to the exp boost. Hell yeah.

Brilliant! I only own Heist for 3DS (which is fantastic, btw) out of these. Day 1 for both of these. Thanks Nintendo!

Nothing for me this week. Just gonna continue playing Splatoon and Tokyo Mirage.

Came back to the game for this splatfest. Managed to play a fair bit on Friday night and it was beautiful. Missed Saturday but I did my best for team Callie. Have to say though, Splatoon has well hooked me in again. It's such a fantastic game. Hope to hear news of a sequel and the return of splatfests soon enough!

Would be nice if they made a double pack.

Might get Hana Samurai. Heard it's good.

I sooooo miss ONM. 'Twas always fun reading their content and to see what nice goodies they packed in every month. Loved their passion for the more niche games like Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and I still have the Wii Sports Resort frisbee somewhere! I've a number of issues of theirs, notably all of 2010 and on and off since then. It would have been awesome to see their coverage on Splatoon once it was out. The puns that could have been made! And perhaps a curation of every months best Mario Maker and Miiverse posts. Argh!

Coincidentally, I dug up a couple of their issues today after BotW made me hyped for Nintendo again which made me go down the Zelda rabbit hole....which then made me go down the Nintendo rabbit hole. I'm currently looking at the best way to play Mother 3, haha. If only ONM were still around so that I'd have a mini guide towards the end of an issue telling me how to do so!

Shout out to NGamer as well which turned into the awesome Nintendo Gamer for a short while. Miss you ONM!

In for that double pack when it comes to EU.

Really hope Culdcept is localised EU & US. It looks great.

Highly looking forward to whenever it comes out in Europe! Been playing Devil Survivor 2, I'm loving it and bah gawd does it make me want more SMT. Guess I'll go play the other games while I wait for Apocalypse. 😃

Soul Hackers! Permanent discount? Oh god. I hope they're not losing rights to distribute these games. O.O

It would be nice to have a guarantee of Atlus games coming to Europe, like the excellent Persona 5, Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse, Etrian Odyssey 5 and whatever else they make in the future.

That's me being nice about it.

Holy crap! I will absolutely buy a boxed copy. Hope it has a manual too! (In every version of the game)

An optional install sounds like the right move. I remember Birth By Sleep on the PSP even had three types of optional installs!

I bought it.

So pumped for Theatrhythm! Had it pre-ordered a while ago. The physical edition from Amazon UK is cheaper than the digital.

Played the demo for just under 3 hours by now. Love it! Controls are taking a while to sink in, but I reckon by tomorrow I'll be golden.

Can NOT wait for the full game!

6 till 2? Perfect.

I'm really liking the new challengers. It's a tie between Robin, Shulk and Little Mac for me! I voted Little Mac because he's closest to my typical style in fighting games.