Gradius

The World Ends With You style is enough of a reason to try this!

Trapping enemies by digging holes seems to be inspired by Lode Runner.

Dragon Force would be amazing

@Williamfuchs420 Agreed, Xbox has been making a play on Game Pass for awhile now, completely aware they will not win in console sales against Nintendo and Sony.

Um, a May 25 release date is not next week if today is May 4. Looks cool but overpriced though.

@wuntyme8 Thanks, I thought you might appreciate that! Hopefully using your pun doesn't make too many other people cringe; I'd hate to embarrass myself to a bunch of anonymous strangers on the NL site!

@GuyProsciutto you name yourself after some ham and accuse someone of being cringey? were the other options GuySalami or GuyPepperoni? the irony...
besides @wuntyme8 ain't hurting no wun!

@ohithere thanks for the heads up! some Hot Shots Golf on top of Radiant Silvergun on Switch makes a good day even better.

Easy double dip on this one, like a chill solo Carcassonne.

Looks like a really cool tactics game. Will keep an eye on this!

Yes! M2 kills it with their ports.

Boohoo no Dimahoo. My biggest hope for this collection!

The handling of this is piss-poor as expected if you/re only going to make it available directly on the My Nintendo Store.

When is that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition pre-order going live on My Nintendo so I can completely miss it when it sells out in 2 seconds?

Ah, the annual survey where they laugh and spit on your wishes.

ReMothered 3: Earthbound 2 A New End

I was turned off by the graphics too, but Cotton Rock n' Roll (the Japanese version of this), is a really fun game. In motion, the game actually looks really good and plays smoothly with a good selection of characters that have their own different playstyles. Worth checking out if you like shmups and especially if you liked Cotton Reboot!

@Friendly Yakuza: Like a Dragon comes close with its middle-aged characters

No tate seems like a missed opportunity.

Is that an Ikari Warriors style rotating stick? Then yes.

Combat animations look Fatal Fury inspired. Not a bad thing!

Sup with the joyless haters on here. Have none of you ever tried to dig a hole on the beach for no practical reason except it was fun for you and your friends? Like any other type of gaming is somehow a more productive use of your time. Don't worry, when you tell someone you 100 percented some other game, some jerk out there will think you completely wasted your time too.

I remember how psyched I was when I rented and beat this way back when. The dark setting and cool bosses make this one really unique.

@Hck what are you talking about? Play-asia prices are the same as Amazon.co.jp. their shipping prices now are actually better than Amazon Japan. Source: me, who has bought from both multiple times.

Nice, now if only Hamster provided a release schedule. At best, you may find out a day or two in advance what will come out that week, but keeps every week interesting I guess.

Really hoping they port Futari after DDP DFK.

Psyched that it's a shmup, and bonus points for the play on Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion.

This wasn't really on my radar, but now a day one after my kid and I couldn't stop playing the demo. Loved how the demo gives you a sense of progression by leaking out a couple of the new characters to keep you playing.

I love the genre and buy a lot of shmup releases full price at day one to support such a niche genre, but I have to admit $60 for this collection of games is too much. It would help if Space Invaders Extreme 2 and Infinity Gene were included.

Bummer, well guess at least I can stop refreshing the eShop page all day hoping it pops up.

I first thought the cover thumbnail said Wunderdung 😮

@DrWadsy thank you, just two days away is much better than waiting a month for the demo! If Mario Golf is good too, Friday will be a lot of fun.

Found this on a blog if this helps anyone digest the $12,000,000 amount.
"Apparently copyright infringement involving images that are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office allows for statutory damages of up to $30,000, or $150,000 if it can be demonstrated it was a willful act."
If you do the math for 80 images you'll get your $12,000,000 number. (If curious, the article's about how a company lost $4000 over not licensing a $10 image https://blog.webcopyplus.com/2011/02/14/legal-lesson-learned-copywriter-pays-4000-for-10-photo/)

@Gamepro500 ??? They're her images. It's how licensed stock photos work.

With this and whenever World of Horror comes to Switch you can pretend your Switch is an old school Mac.

The load times after dying are a serious detriment to this kind of game where you want to just jump right back into the action. Emphasized more so where the challenge is packed into short levels, so it's possible to die frequently in a short time span or even right after you respawn. I was considering canceling my pre-order when I noticed this in the demo, but I assumed this would be fixed in the final build, super disappointed to find out it did not.

Bomberman 99

TIL there's a Dragon Quest card game

Yes need some SMT on Switch

Looks promising! Huge missed opportunity if it doesn't come to Switch.

@burninmylight exactly! I feel they run these surveys so they can ignore them

Is there a date on when the western version is coming out? Debating on whether to wait or just get the Asia region version with English from Play-Asia.

As much as I love Ghouls n' Ghosts playing this while I play Nioh 2 on PC might lead to one frustrated, frazzled gamer who ended up smashing his Switch, his PC, or both.

Glad this is settled so they can finally release the expansion!

+1 for Mars Matrix. Surprised it's not a part of the initial Capcom Arcade Stadium lineup but hopefully that will do well enough so they release more packs; such as one with Giga Wing 2! On the shmup tip, Raizing's games would be great, I've always wished for a port of Dimahoo with its kickass bosses.

The 194X series, Forgotten Worlds, Giga Wing, and Progear have me super excited. Plus, from this features video it looks like on top of global leaderboards for every game there'll be a weekly challenge; hoping that those will give these arcade experiences some legs.
Capcom often makes terrible decisions, but have to give them props for these more niche old school releases right before their big Monster Hunter drops in March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ_A7ElEdXg

In this case, does "classic" just mean old? I have never heard or read anyone remembering this game fondly.

"Cave Story is one of the most important games every made and I will 100% recommend you do not buy it. Download the freeware original, then buy Kero Blaster to support the actual developer of the game, instead of these ugly shenanigans."

Ugly is the key word here. So sad to see this happen to one of the earlier indie success stories and such a fun innocent game. So innocent that it was released for free. I've always felt many Cave Story purchasers did so to support the developer. This ***** taking advantage of that good will is just flat out gross.

Obviously I am a fan, but would've preferred arcade Gradius III since as mentioned, II is already in Konami Arcade Archives. Maybe next week!

Been playing this on novice since I enjoy bullet hells but am not the best at them. Close to a 1cc but it's been good practice to work up the original mode. The new arrange modes are really fun too, bummer you can't play as the 4th ship in those but maybe they thought it'd be too OP.