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If I ever meet anyone who works in Nintendo’s Switch Software department, I’m definitely going to ask them “how stable would you say the Switch OS is”

@glaemay Yknow how in Ocarina, you can do more damage by doing a leaping strike at an enemy?

Zelda II never tells you this, but a leaping strike (admittedly a bit more complex to execute than in Ocarina) actually knocks enemy shields down, and the hit counts.

It doesn’t make it a whole lot easier, but just know that Link is a bit chunkier than you think with his sword-arm, here.

I was 4 years old in 1985, when Super Mario Bros. came out. A year or so later, I was introduced to it when my sisters asked my folks if we could rent a Nintendo from a local video rental place.

I am not kidding, the first time I got to the end of 1-4, heard that "CHRRRRR" sound effect and saw that orange undulating flame sprite traveling my way, every neuron in my brain fired at once.

I'll never forget the first time I got to Bowser.

• Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
• Final Fantasies III (Famicom), V, and VIII
• Mega Mans 4, 5 and 6
• Everything but the first album in a rock band's catalogue
• Everything but the first film in a series of films
• U2
• Rock music in general
• Action Movies
• Poetry
• Just generally being chill about things
• The original US translation of any video game released before 2000, no exceptions

Add "The Water Temple" to the list of things Internet Groupthink loves to moan about being the worst things ever, I'm guessing because screaming about how angry something makes you gets more clicks than just saying "Eh, it was alright"

@BlueBCA Lizalfos debuted in Zelda II.

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Lizalfos

12 out of 15...and I don't think I've played all the way through since oh... 2003?

It's kind of hard to forget Ocarina. It and Metal Gear Solid slammed the door wide open on 3-D open sandbox adventure gaming.

Wow. It’s just about 1:1, isn’t it?

I wonder how the Geno In Smash Now community feels about this

So, an old-as-dirt NES game that has never yet been released, and features the inspiration for Yoshi as its main character, and a Samurai hack-n-slasher from the olden days of around the time LoZ came out. Awesome!

Sonia who? Seriously, whose idea was it to chuck Legends at us? Put it back in the void, please.

...I can't tell if she even cares that I understand what she's rapping about, and that is just a bit concerning

Meanwhile I'm over here making music with my bare hands like an idiot, but oh well, whatever the market will bear I guess (shrug)

Other People using Nintendo IP to make interesting gameplay stuff gets C+D'd: "Noooooo"

This gets C+D'd: "...Meh."

There is a reason those Levels got Lost.

Somebody better tell GameFAQs to get ready for some traffic, this one is 100% a Walkthru Required Special.

Admit it.

You saw the thumbnail for this article and thought to yourself,

"Hellooooooooo oo ooo oo...! PERSONAPERSONAPERSONAPERSONAaaaa...! SOCIALLINKSSOCIALLINKSSOCIALLINKSSOCIALLINKSSOCIALIIIIINKS!!!!" 😱😱😱

@YoshiFR2 an early episode of the 1987 cartoon had the Turtles fighting bebop and rocksteady in a zoo

Mario has not spent the last 25 years or so going off in 15,432 different directions with its brand identity, therefore Mario wins

I'd love for Sonic to sweep this but I'm just being practical; Sonic fans have been through a lot with Sega. Mario has been mediocre at times but never outright horrific (Sonic '06 and Black Knight come to mind). Or put another way, nobody is hoping that this Mario game finally gets Mario back to being good.

I'm hearing "Sonic Superstars is the game that Christian Whitehead and Sega could not agree on making together, so Sega went and made it anyway" even though I know the actual facts are little more granular than that.

But, we got a new Sonic game that looks pretty f'in sweet, so that's not a bad tradeoff, I guess.

Yes, but can you use the gems to destroy the gems?

Yep, for sure. It's boring as a dog butt once you do see it for the first time, but hearing about Minus World and thinking it's a prank being played on you by the person telling you about it, and then finding out that it's real, is a rite of passage for any Mario player.

There were so many rumors about games flying around the cafeteria tables back then, this sounds right up there with the best of them, but no, in fact, it is real.

Another one of my heroes, Sting. He's been wrestling for years. I don't really watch it, but he does it, and I respect that.

@Uncle_Franklin THAT, YES.

Squaresoft and Nintendo finally bury the hatchet. I never thought I'd see the day.

Consider that when you make a game inside a 3 megabyte cartridge, you allot for space.

Now, when you have about 3 terabytes to fill...

How do you stretch it out? Will it still run on a modern console if you do that? How do you animate the monsters? How many more townspeople are you gonna need to fill the extra space? What will they say? Do you expand the story? What if it offends the longtime fans who wanted you to do a Remake in the first place?

Yeah, it's difficult.

...Idk, the echo effect actually sounds like an improvement, to me. I get the preservation angle, but is it really so important to preserve the Game Gear's sound profile? It sounded like hot garbage.

This looks like the Game Grumps Animated of Mickey Mousecapade

BUHBUHDABUPMICKEY MOUSE

Dan laughing hysterically

Sonic Mania Devs: "We want to be in charge of playtesting and we want to tell you when we think it's done"
Sega: "No"
SMDs: "Been nice working with you"

It’s really not that surprising. The Golden Age of Video Gaming has long since passed away. I wanna say that it began to decline around the time the PS2 came out, and JRPG series began popping up out of nowhere chasing the FF7 trend.

Since then, things have gotten more and more cutthroat and less and less creative. They are farming money out of hardcore addicts and pulling the wool over the eyes of naive newcomers, almost exclusively, at this point.

I think this is crap, too, but I am not that bothered by it, because as someone who was there and stoked when Sonic 1 released, I have kind of moved on from hoping for anything good out of the gaming world these days.

It’s just gotten so horrible…I gave up at a certain point. Not sure why I continue reading news sites for it, even.

Here we GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Am I the only one whose brain did this to him?:

"Infinity's Trash"

Just me? Anyone?

It feels like Nintendo is sitting down for a beer with me. This is one of the most heartwarming and beautiful things I've ever seen on the internets.

Cheers, Nintendo 😀 🍻

Waffling around at the speed of sound... 🎶

Also, when you press down the iron, does it make the Sonic 1-3 'boing' sound from when Sonic gets crushed by something?

So, ...

Angry Birds vs. Flickies anyone?

If you turn off all random encounters, your characters will not gain levels. And thus, when you get to a boss, you are in real danger of being fried.

Basically, these ports are now giving you the ability to LLG any of these 6 games without having to run from every random battle. If you’ve never tried a Low Level Challenge, it’s pretty ruthless. The games’ boss encounters are designed around you being at a certain expected level. If you’re under leveled, it can be …interesting, the kind of tactics you have to employ to win.

Idc SE, just gimme the PR's on Switch already

I don't want to spoil the party but I'm really more concerned that I'm not playing the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on Switch, yet

nothingburger

I would like to start with "When are the FF Pixel Remasters coming out on Switch, can we get an official release date from SE?"

The Italian Dub has a very peppy theme song Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfAn82JoxYg

30 years of defending the Lylat System... GOOD LUCK

@GamingFan4Lyf This is the correct take

Pixel Remasters on Switch WHEN

@Half-ShellHero The PSP port (and all subsequent ports of it) suffer from slowdown issues on the spell animations (patched out) and bad sound effects (hard-coded in, would be nigh-impossible to fix with a simple user-made patch).

To really get a nice, shiny remaster which fixes these issues and includes the phenomenal script and animated cutscenes of WotL, would be a dream come true for me.

Oh by all means, I'd be well prepared for that eventuality! Take my money, SE!!

Best story in the series, no contest.

Well... I mean, at this point, 35 years on from when I discovered them, I gotta at least say that I have to kind of grudgingly respect Nintendo's stubborn dedication to doing only exactly what they feel like doing at any given moment.

"Nintendo gonna Nintendo," as the young people say.

@gcunit If anything, the large number of Metroid games we've seen recently (Dread, this, Samus Returns, and Metroid II on NSO+EP, plus Fusion coming soon) means that Nintendo has realized "Wow Samus is really popular"

They're sitting on a Space Hunting gold mine here... Samus is their newest Nintendo Super Star ⭐

Nice to see Metroid getting some love. We have plenty of great Mario and Zelda games, but for a long time, Metroid was kind of dormant. After Other M's weird attempt at world-building derailed things a bit, I was worried the series might never see the light of day again.

But we truly seem to be in a Metrennaisance here...hopefully its recalcitrant goth younger brother, Castlevania, will follow suit soon.

I mean, we got GB/GBC/GBA Nintendo Switch Online+Expansion Pack, and Metroid Prime Remastered, in the same day...

So, to quote Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "I am singularly impressed."

Great stuff. I'm gonna be the 'well, akshully' guy tho, and say that technically Yoshis reproduce asexually, since no matter what color or where you find a Yoshi in SMW, they can lay eggs. Just sayin.

This is what happens when your CEO is insane.

To A Plan. Toaplan.

Honestly this looks a lot better than I remember GoldenEye007 looking on the N64. It's all slick and shiny and stuff.

No complaints over here. Thanks Ninty

Recall seeing previews for Gaiares in Electronic Gaming Monthly once upon a time. My opinion then is my opinion now: if you need to put a totally unrelated nude woman in the game's art to draw attention to it, then the gameplay probably isn't that interesting