HauntingNostrils

One of my biggest disappointments of the last few years this one. Let's hope they've improved it tenfold over its PS4 predecessor, and not just in name.

Man, them's some bland, empty-looking environments right there. Hey, JRPGs, fewer belt buckles and frilly lapels and more attention to world detail, please.

It's a pretty decent game, but the environments look very sparse by today's standards. I think more could have been done with this.

@Alcovitch It looks from this, and the other photos on the merchandise website, like she has Amblyopia - what people usually call Lazy Eye. It is quite common - there is nothing "wrong" with her.

@Lroy I too have always been partial to a bit of WB and even, the very similar, Adventure Island games. Yeah, check the gameplay out, wouldn't surprise me if it cropped up on Switch pretty soon.

@crashnnburn if you really are concerned you should contact the site that makes the clothing and inquire about the woman in question's health, or call a hotline and offer up the findings of your expert eye, because posting your "concern" here, if it is genuine, unfortunately, isn't helping her and it does come off like you're just passing judgement.

@Lroy I love the remake, the option to flip back and forth between old and new graphics on the fly is so sweet, and the soundtrack is one of the best I've heard.

They also remade the original wonderboy on PS4, it was released a few weeks back. Controls wise it's much the same, and to be fair it's not too bad all-round, but It just feels a little lacking when compared to Dragons Trap.

@Lroy Master System, or Dreamcast are the easiest to go for, they have a "relatively" small list of software in comparison to other systems, and you're on to a winner if something had hard plastic cases because of longevity. NES, SNES, GBA, N64, Gameboy are all rip-offs for the collector as you'll pay triple just to find a bit of pristine cardboard, which is quite often repro anyway. Plus people cover up the condition of their cardboard game boxes in online auctions by putting them in thin plastic outers and dodging any excess light glare while taking the photo.

It's a minefield, which is why I stopped.

Yeah, fire and Ice, Ren and Stimpy (being my two faves) etc. I believe games production carried on in Brazil long after the "death" of the machine. If i'm not mistaken a few games have been made in the not too distant past and given physical releases too, but I put a lid on collecting about 8 years back.

Everything - cards/carts - I even have the Australian HES multi-pack with the gold cover which is rarer than dinosaur nipples, and all the tec toy releases. I admit I don't own Captain Silver North American Version because it sucks compared to the European release. I have some NES stuff but always loved my SMS infinitely more.

@Krull You're right, I'd like to see some uniformity for different company's releases but, being someone who has every single master system release, I have to say that grid pattern on master system boxes is weak. Still, like I said, I concur because I'm a freak for stuff looking all slick and tightly ordered on my shelves.

It's finally happening!

Holy Deep-fried nipple-biscuits! A physical and digital at the same time! This is unprecedented!

Sigh....he has a red hat and a moustache......this could get ridiculous, Oh look she has blue eyes and a pink top - it's Peach! Hey, that guy has bright blue hair and a pair of stretchy mechanical arms with sub-zero boxing gloves attached - it must be Spring Man! Gimme a break!....oh wait.

I still find your view highly reductive, but I thank you for your input and opening up a different angle on the conversation. Best of luck on your way.

It amazes me how many perfect beings have congregated in this very corner of the web just to pass their infallible judgement on the health and morphology of one woman modelling a Zelda robe. How miraculously sad.

@TrumpsHand The game has been on PSN for ages, that's why. Also, I don't think you're that blinkered that you believe any of these systems are for such a slim demographic of the gaming populous, so nice try but no medal.

@YANDMAN Is still may wait and see, money's thin, but thanks for the heads up.

@aaronsullivan I think she has a touch Amblyopia. She wears the product well regardless of anything to do with her physical appearance.

DO WANT! Just have to weigh up if it will ever get a physical release.

Wonder if there will ever be a sweet collection of these games. Also the isometric classic, Dungeon Magic, looks a lot like this - so count me in!

Looks a little flimsy to be wearing up a tree in the middle of the woods. You'll catch your death.

Yup, I'll wait, no problem.

Sentimentality and nostalgia sells, the ad here is pretty effective, but this kind of "heartwarming" thing stepped over the line for me with the Sainsbury's Christmas ad from 2014.
there's something cheap, dishonest and slightly facetious about it that made my skin crawl.
It's a thin line I suppose.

@PlywoodStick A highly enlightened and insightful view. Thank you very much, I agree with you 100%, (especially your concluding paragraph!). It's posts like this that restore my faith in logic, and internet-based communication in general.

I am a huge fan of the ZX Spectrum/C64/Amstrad CPC era of computing, and there are more than a few handfuls of games that would have disappeared into the ether where it not for resources such as World of the spectrum and Planet Emu. These games are not just entertainment, they are an insight into the ideologies of a different cultural era. For me, it is as important to preserve them as it is the paintings of the Renaissance or any other historical artefact - when profit and law infringe on this preservation, and the free distribution of knowledge as a whole, I see it as a crime in itself.

Thanks again.

Prepare yourself for the march of the self-righteous "millennials" annnnnd GO!

Praise the god of gaming value! His name is Marcus, and he loves a bargain.

I agree with you. But if "they" could get money for selling backups they would...and probably will.

@Flowerlark You're talking about a very grey, shakey, area here, and possibly an outdated idea. Owning the game does not entitle you to have the ROM as a "backup" as the ROM is spun off by someone other than the software creator and licence owner it is technically a modified version of said game, and thus hacked, and therefore illegal to own - no exceptions, unless it has been licenced and resold in this format.

I've read this fluffy-logic excuse for emulating so many times, even here, and it just doesn't hold up. I wholeheartedly agree with emulation as an archiving medium, and even as a tool to explore how games are programmed and executed and can be modified. But the pretence that you can get away with this kind of stuff legally is just a load of waffle.

@Mortenb I am not trying to attack you in any way shape or form, but I really do not see the link between creating and "value". If indeed you are able to see through the dense veil of culturally received wisdom then surely you would agree that all creative endeavours should ideally be pursued for the sake of creativity in itself not for the saleable, "value" at the other end of it. In a capitalist society, the goal, for companies like Nintendo, is to tap into and create trends and channel creativity into what makes money. This is not enlightenment, this is selling yourself and tearing the flesh from the earth in the name of creating plastic knick-knacks to fulfil the ultimately empty human illusion of ownership.

Also, Nintendo neither limit or enhance my ability to improve myself, and neither do hackers or pirates or any other entity other than myself. Therefore I see no link, or even need to bring the question of morality or personal amelioration into this at all.

@Mortenb I don't see how giving your money to giant corporate entities has anything to do with self-improvement, in fact, these people will leave us with no environment in which to improve anything, let alone ourselves. Piracy and self-discipline have nothing to do with each other either. You've become so deeply entrenched in the lies you've been sold that you believe products equate to self-worth. I suggest you reassess.

This game is very shallow, pun intended. For it to be better than the PS4 version it would first have to have......content.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Thank you kindly, sir.

P.S. Just read that article and What a bell that guy is! Seems Dinklage nailed him.

Sorry guys but I lost faith in this series long ago, even before one guy made StaRdew Valley, on his own, and topped anything this series had done since the SNES. This looks as unattractive as me first thing in the morning, and I doubt I would derive any pleasure from sorting out this virtual mess either.

Sorry if I'm slow on the uptake here but is he the guy Peter Dinklage played in, that complete pile of bum-biscuits, Pixels?

@Lroy We're reading from the same hymn sheet - Hallelujah, Sing it, my Friend!

I can't believe it's not butter it's been churned out so much.

I may buy this after I've got my ZX Spectrum Next, but scalpers on eBay may kill that idea if games keep going for stupid prices.

I know there where a TON of SNK fighters on the neo-geo, but I'm pretty burnt out with them, I'd like more diversity in these releases. Neo-Bomberman, Twinklestar Sprites, Nightmare in the Dark, Cyber Lip, please.

@Kejomo I'll just keep using hacker as cracker sounds too much like a rotund Scottish detective, or a derogatory term for a white person. Thanks for the update though.

@McGruber ......this is.......sigh.

I'm just yankin' your chain. Thanks not biting and thanks for your reply. You're exactly right - everybody should do what makes them feel right!

Eric and the Floaters was better.

I have this on PS4, and although I enjoyed it, for the most part, it only just held me to the finish line. It felt a little clumsy.

@roadrunner343 You didn't come across as aggressive, at least as I see it, and your points are completely valid and astute. This is a subject that I am very passionate about, so thank you for your post.

@impurekind I too have managed to play a lot of the games that have spurred my creative pursuits via "alternative" means, and it has often been the case that said games have either been unavailable, price-hiked, almost forgotten or the companies defunct.

I really would like to thank you for this insightful and intelligent response. I only hope more people read and understand it rather than have the typical knee-jerk, consumerist, reaction that they neither question nor have the wit or will to explore the boundaries of. Thank you, again.

@brunojenso Yes, "the ones you legitimately own". yes, and just those ones - *wink wink.

Thank god somebody had the nouse and audacity to suggest this. A real maverick this guy.

@rjejr excellent post.

@Spectra Hear, hear! They'd be nice full stop.