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Mega Man, Pac-Man and TMNT are the premium DLC packs I’m looking forward to, the rest I can be without.

Wondeful news! I’ve wanted to play this since the 90’s, but haven’t had the chance as I’ve always been a console gamer.

They should have given that choice to the player by including a performance toggle in the settings. I’ll take an unstable 60 fps over stable 30 fps any day.

@Knightmare2232 Retro hasn’t delivered a new game since 2014, a lot could have changed at the studio since then.

Yeah, I’m not feeling good about this. I feel like Retro is missing the mark on this one. Metroid is about claustrophobic environments, not this…

Also, I think the design is kind of ugly. 😶

I hope I’m wrong, of course.

Probotector > Contra

I’ll most likely get Switch 2 at some point, but I’m not in any kind of rush to get one. The steep price point combined with news about overheating consoles and bad screens makes me confident that it’s a good decision to wait.

Oh, I would really love to have those soundtrack cassettes, but I’m obviously not going to pay $666 + import fees to have them. 🥲

These types of upgrades have been free of charge on Xbox this whole generation, so it seems kind of greedy from Nintendo to charge so much for it in the light of that. But Nintendo have always been greedy, so I’m not surprised.

@SirCarbs As long as we get pixel graphics I would be equally as happy for either the classic sprites and style from the 8-bit or 16-bit eras, or brand new pixel art.

Mega Man 11 is a great game, I’ve just never been a fan of 2D gameplay with 3D graphics, something just feels a little off for me.

I might be a little greedy, but I want both Mega Man 12 and Mega Man X9. And I hope both series goes back to pixel graphics.

Europe wins this one for me. The US and JP boxes are cute, but I I like that the background art of the European box is consistent with the Wario in the front, and shows off more of what the game is about.

I own several games in this series, yet I haven’t even played a single one of them.

For you who are more familiar with this franchise; in what order do you suggest playing Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia, Arise and Graces f?

Both are very boring covers, but I give my vote to JP this week because I’m not a fan of angry Kirby.

While there’s nothing wrong with the Japanese box art, it’s not nearly as iconic or memorable as the NA/EU box art.

That face on the NA box art 🥴😂

I would say it’s underrated. It’s a really fun game in local co-op, much better than RE5 in my (and my wife’s) opinion.

NA wins this one for me, for being the one feeling the least cluttered with different logos and blurbs.

I usually prefer the Probotector art for this series, but for this particular entry the NA box is the clear winner

I miss Ayami Kojima’s artwork for the Castlevania games, this is so generic in comparison.

Yeah, no way I’m paying $60 for a simple HD port of a 15 year old game. I’ll just stick to the 3DS version.

My opinion is the same for this as it was for Tales of Symphonia and Pikmin 1 and 2; releasing ”remasters” of 20 year old games, running at half the framerate of the original versions is totally unacceptable and an absolute dealbreaker for me.

It makes these releases feel like cheap cashgrabs with not enough love and work put into them.

I normally love remasters, it’s great for game preservation and to make modern adjustments to games that can sometimes feel a little outdated, but it need to be done properly.

I miss the beautiful pixel graphics that used to be the signature of WayForward. I’m not a fan of the look of this, or really any WayForward title since… maybe The Mummy from back in 2017?

Please, WF, know your strenghts and go back to pixel graphics again!

The NA and EU covers should not have been lumped together for this one. The european version have those iconic Konami silver boxes that they used for a lot of their NES and SNES titles, which makes the EU box superior over the NA box

I had this game as a kid and I really loved it back then. I even prefered it to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. I haven’t played it for probably 25 years tho, so I don’t know if it holds up today 🐢

@JohnnyMind ”considering it would be on the same system as the original”

No systems were named in this listing. It could still be Switch exclusive as you say, but it could also be an enhanced version for Xbox/Playstation and not coming to Switch, or it could even be for Switch 2 for all we know. We’ll just have to wait and see.

@Serpenterror Well, according to the article it’s going to be more like a complete version of V rather than V’s equivalent of Apocalypse.

I haven’t played the Switch version but I heard the framerate is awful so I hope this complete edition gets released on Xbox and Playstation too.

I always liked the first Donkey Kong Country better than the other two for the simple fact that you can’t play as Donkey himself in the sequels.

Different colored cartridges are much more fun than uniform grey ones… with that said I’m forever done with physical media and would go 100% digital for Switch 2 no matter what the cartridges will look like.

Both are terrible, but still an easy win for NA/EU for featuring Mario and Peach instead of just those generic characters.

I will never understand NoA’s need to make Kirby angry on every single cover. Easy win for EU/Japan this week.

How do they get away with releasing bare bones ports of 20 year old games running at 30 fps? These games should run at 60 fps.

Both are bad, but the European is slighly less bad.

I’ll stick to the originals because I’m not a fan of the redesigned graphics. A lot of this series’ charm lies in the great looking pixel graphics IMO.

WayForward have done fantastic sprite work in the past, so I’m sad to see they didn’t honor the series legacy with updated pixel graphics.

Don’t forget about the Game Boy games! One can mistake them for NES ports, but they are completely stand alone titles only borrowing robot masters and some music from the NES games.

Especially Mega Man 3-5 on Game Boy are wonderful games!

Maybe they could release a ”Mega Man Portable Collection” or something?

One such collection could include some or all of these;

• Mega Man 1-5 (Game Boy)
• Mega Man (Game Gear)
• Mega Man & Bass (GBA)
• Mega Man Powered Up (PSP)
• Rockman & Forte: Mirai kara no chousencha (WonderSwan)
• Rockman Battle & Fighters (NeoGeo Pocket Color)
• Mega Man Xtreme 1&2 (GBC)
• Maverick Hunter X (PSP)
• Battlechip Challenge (GBA)
• Rockman EXE WS (WonderSwan Color)

And they could throw in a translated SNES version of Mega Man & Bass as a bonus, since it’s much better than the zoomed in GBA version.

I’m so bummed that this isn’t on Xbox, because I have all the other Mega Man compilations on there

Mario Kart Wii is actually the only mainline game in the series that I have never played.

@SunDownSamurai Pizza dough.

Sad to see Zelda II rank so low on the list

I love Wario Land 1-3, but I could never get into 4 and Shake Dimension/Shake it even after giving both several tries.

@Bunkerneath It did not come with the Gameboy player, though. It was a separate purchase, and I think it was only released in japan. I imported one of those back when they were new, and I wish they would have gone with a different button layout, because the GC layout is horrible for Gameboy games. At least the d-pad was way better than the tiny one on the GC controller.

1. Master System
2. Saturn
3. Blast City (with a tiltable screen like the Egret II Mini)
4. Non-micro Game Gear
5. Mega Drive 3
6. Dreamcast

The Japanese cover is great, but I have a soft spot for the European box art. Can’t stand the American apple cheek design.

I voted NA/EU because it has less focus on the terrible character design, but they are both really bad.

Wow, 13 out of 13 games looks awful. I already have very low expectations when it comes to Eastasiasoft, but that was way worse than I could even imagine. What an embarrasing showcase.

@silverninja I’m sure they could solve that problem in some creative way. Maybe Donatello has managed to reprogram lots of robots like Mousers and the ones with electric whips? Or maybe lots of Neutronos from Dimension X have come to help or something.

First; release a compilation of all the previous CvS and SvC games.

Then; Capcom vs SNK 3!

@Corvus96 because not everyone likes the Gamecube controller?

Super Metroid was my first in the series, and it’s still my favourite

Can they announce the european version soon?