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I would love for a Switch sequel but even a port of this free to play would be pretty cool.

@Cheez lol yeah I was gonna point this out. Like the artist said “no… we don’t talk about the Wii U”

I’m only 2 sentences into this article but I highly appreciate that you specified “sugary Sunny D” I had it recently as a nostalgia trip and it’s full of artificial sweetener now and it’s nasty.

I don’t hate the PokèBall but I don’t have that kind of money. If I did I think it’s kind of a classy looking nerd piece though.

Banjo and Kazooie confirmed.

@Jadamson929 so I just went down a deep google hole because of this. I thought I remember renting this game but I don’t remember ever playing a 2D platformer on N64 and I think I found my answer is: Chameleon Twist. You are a chameleon with a prehensile tongue that you control which seems like a very Yoshi thing to do in a 3D space.

Am I going crazy…. I could’ve sworn there was a 3D Yoshi game on N64. And gun to my head I would’ve told you it was this game with that same cover art.

Didn’t they also make at least one of either the X-Men Legends or Marcel Ultimate Alliance games at one point?
They’re a pretty solid studio as far as I’m concerned it’s rough that they just don’t exist as their own entity anymore. And it’s basically just “this is happening byeeee”

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

@BaronMunchausen third paragraph.
“ The studio has shared the trilogy's first trailer (up above) and Nintendo's updated eShop listing confirms that it'll launch for the platform on 11th November priced at £49.99 / $59.99. A physical Switch release also launches on 7th December.”

That’s a rough price. I heard it rumored it would be expensive but I was still hoping for not full retail of a brand new game. I know they put work but breaking it down to $20 per for 20 year old games…

@Cicero I only recently found out that series was older than the NES and that the fa part of Faxanadu stood for Famicom

I feel like it reminds me of Faxanadu more than original Castlevania but I’ve also never really clicked with the old style Castlevania games (pre Symphony of the Night)

Yes! This was my favorite thing about the Wii Remote & Nin-chuck combo. It’s not AS free as the Joy-Cons but I would sprawl with one arm on the back of my chair and the other on the arm of the chair and wiggle my way through Twilight Princess.

Tight controls for the platforming and combat is very essential. The quality control on Hollow Knight has made me retroactively dislike Metroidvanias that I’d previously enjoyed.
Also, and this may be controversial in this conversation, but having a lot of options open to you. Yes gear gating is a necessary part of the formula but something that I didn’t even know about in Hollow Knight is how non linear it actually is. I was comparing notes with a friend of mine and our maps were very different despite being a similar percentage done. Another time I had put the game down for a few weeks and came back to it and I was lost so I tried a walkthrough and the walkthrough didn’t line up to my play through either so was actually unhelpful and at that point it was clear just how special that game is. It might even be the only one to have that kind of freedom, I don’t know, but it just amazes me that there was standard gear gating and some level of non linearity at the same time.

I got one of these for Christmas last year it was especially made for the Skull & Co. case. I thoroughly enjoy it. Though I’m not the one who paid $80 for it and maybe that colors my opinion.

Necalli looks way better than Ken.

@Bogbupog yeah what’s up with that window? First the stream doesn’t work properly then we have like 24 hours to redeem? I just tried it because I assumed it would stop working later tonight but no it only worked until 11am here on the east coast of the US.

I’m liking Hisuian form but the differences will only really show after evolution.

I love wooden plank I got really into following their Animal Crossing web comic.

@Tourtus I feel like he definitely used the posing as inspiration the “skeleton” of this Pokémon is in almost the exact same pose as that armadillo.

I’ve been wanting this since it came out and there was no hints that it would ever come to Switch and when Tetris 99 came out I figured oh okay that’s it then I’m stuck with battle royale Tetris. I’m so glad this one is making its way over.

I’d pay a bit of a premium if they gave me a Switch Lite+ or something. The portability of the lite is so good but I’d like it to have the “switch” functionality. Also it feels so much more stable without the Joy-Cons wiggling that little bit especially when things get intense. Like I’ll take a Switch Lite that I can plug into my TV and the use my Pro controller.

@bluesun oof those feel really generic from my point of view but I don’t know how to create a video game or understand patent law so.

@CactusMan this mobile game tells you to use a wrist strap to control it on a phone that doesn’t come with a wrist strap? If you click on the link it’s just referencing using a touch screen as a controller not specifically the wrist strap. “ One of these patents is said to involve operating a joystick over the touch panel, presumably referring to the Nintendo DS Wrist Strap which allowed players to use the touchscreen as a joystick thanks to its thumb pad.” that’s the original quote from the other article they’re just referencing the time that Nintendo uses this patent prominently.

@Ham-n-jam yeah this is the part that’s confusing to me. Almost every 3D mobile phone game uses some sort of touch joystick control scheme, what makes this one so similar that they made a lawsuit out of it? I wanna know what the other patent infringements are. They’re probably super technical but it just seems weird how high profile this case got and the “most relevant” patent we see is a control scheme that thousands of mobile games use.

I love it. It hearkens back to those times when 8 but games had ridiculous box art that was barely recognizable as the game that was in the box. Most notable example Mega Man 1 in the US.

@NEStalgia this is what I’m thinking too.

I’m digging the oddball games I just don’t understand why they don’t have some of the touchstone Virtual Console games and/or the ones that were on the, now discontinued, mini consoles. Like it seems to me a lot of the work is done already why put more effort into getting oddball games when you already have the library of the mini consoles running in HD that could be on this service. I know it’s not as simple as copy/paste but surely it must be less work to translate from the mini console to the Switch than it is to start from nothing the way they are with some of these titles.

I was semi excited until that last paragraph reminded me they’re not exporting to America anymore. Womp womp.

Not gonna lie, if I had a front hallway that could potentially be me ready to leave, waiting for girlfriend to be ready so we could actually leave.

As long as they’re good give me more. I’ve heard amazing things about this game. Hollow Knight is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had it’s so good and controls so tightly. I just finished the first Ori game and can’t wait to start the second.
This kind of reminds me of some of the GBA Castlevanias or Bloodstained where certain abilities would summon a creature to do just a quick attack. It’s an interesting idea to have that be the main attacking method.

@r0mer0 this is actually a good point I feel like we’ve come far enough with technology that we should be less forgiving of this.

Is this a “cloud version” or is it running natively?

Apple Arcade was such a stretch for them to begin with that I’d hate to have games locked onto that platform. I’m into Apple’s products I just don’t think they should put a focus on gaming like that.

Pokémon Stadium: Black

@Ryu_Niiyama yea it means expensive but there’s also a certain specificity to it though. Like it’s used foe things that are big flashy crowd pleasers. It’s more of a flavor of game than genre though you can’t just be like yeah this is a AAA game you do need to say AAA FPS to describe Call of Duty for example.

@Heavyarms55 but in that week you could know whether that hefty JRPG was your type of JRPG or one that you just couldn’t connect with.

@Gs69 this is exactly my problem with it. This is my problem with modern gaming as a whole.
I have the disc version of a game I should be able to put that in my system and play it. I shouldn’t have to wait an hour and half for it to install the full game on the system’s hard drive and then another hour or two updating to the latest patch especially if I’m playing a single player experience.

Are they gonna port some of these to the Mii creation on the Switch? I guess it doesn’t matter cuz Miis are literally just for your avatar picture. Oh and I guess Smash.

@ecco6t9 because that would be the demographic for the GBA classic lol

The N64 mini was the one I was truly excited for…
That being said I think the biggest missed opportunity with these minis was making them so closed off. I thought it would’ve been absolutely brilliant if they connected to the internet and had a store where you could buy more games. I’m sure this would open the door to jailbreaks and hacks but those happened anyway. But if they made these into physical Virtual Consoles!? With original aesthetics, original controllers sign me up baby! I would’ve spent double the amount by buying games that they’d already ported to Wii and Wii U.
Edit: I know their online service provides the classic games and you can buy the controllers but they haven’t ported all of the games that were on the Mini Consoles and certainly not the ones that they’d ported to the Virtual Console and that’s what I find most frustrating.

Is explor-action a word they’re trying to use so that people stop saying Metroidvania?

The SNES lights and plays music!?
Also those pixel Zelda ones are very tiny and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Member when these looked amazing? I member.

@somnambulance yeah I think the massive disappointment of the whole debacle overshadowed the game itself, it’s perfectly decent. But decent wasn’t the expectation that was set.

I don’t have HIGH hopes for this because it’s several years old now but Rare Replay would be my biggest hope. Yes xCloud would be great but Rare Replay almost made me buy an Xbox One.

@VoidofLight RIP Brewster (maybe lol)

@VoidofLight ah yes them too. Even if they went with Raymond and Marshall being the most popular it would’ve fallen flat I think.

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