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TG-16 Ys 1&2 is my all time favorite. Played it through many times back in the day. Never liked Wanderers. Played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys some when they were new, but don’t remember much about them. 30 years ago I never would have thought this series would have as many fans in English speaking countries as it does now.

Cool. Enjoyed XC:DE. Still need to play the others.

This reminds me of that scene in Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low where the police bring in a big group of reporters and tell them what’s going on. Then they ask them to publish a false story to help them out and they all agree. The modern audience chuckles at such a quaint idea.

@cedarhyped That’s cool. I don’t buy digital so vouchers don’t really help me. I see deals from Wario64 constantly on those Mario titles, and I got Mario Wonder for $30 last November or December in a QVC deal I saw from him. I guess I just assumed that they had been more widely discounted. BTW, Echoes has already been $51.99 on Woot, but I held off.

@cedarhyped I’m not sure about 2 months, but Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, etc got discounts pretty quickly. A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but I expect this game will sell ok, not amazing and get discounted. I could be wrong. Normally any actual Zelda game (not Warriors stuff) would be a day one for me, but I’m just not sold on this new mechanic and I’m willing to wait it out.

Holding. I think this one will be discounted by Black Friday. I’m skeptical of the echo gameplay mechanic, but as a Zelda fan going back to the beginning I will give it a shot.

I thought I was going to get the Konami store one again, like I did with Contra, but I’m not paying $5 more for a different piece of paper.

I want it to be backwards compatible and play Switch games a bit better than the switch does.

Zelda is my favorite game series and one of my few day one purchases. This one hasn’t ever made me excited to play it, and the fact that none of the gaming press that I saw expressed anything but excitement makes me write off their impressions. I’ll definitely be playing this game for myself, but I’m waiting for a sale. Conjuring objects just doesn’t sound like a fun game mechanic. Hope I’m very wrong.

They should have offered the other 2 on a cartridge along with this. I don’t buy digital games, but don’t want to jump in on the 3rd installment.

If Nintendo follows what they’ve done the past 2 generations they’ll pick a price and stick with it for the entire generation. I think it’ll be $349 or $399. They’ll make a profit on it from day one, but that margin will increase over the life of the console.

Would I pay $499? Yes. I would hope that price would be because it’s a powerful machine, but the problem for me is I’m a Nintendo gamer and I want to play Nintendo games. Since they don’t do price drops anymore there really isn’t a reason for me to hold out. Is it too much? Yes. Can I afford it? Yes.

Games on the other hand go on sale. And I’m perfectly content to wait for good deals.

I’ve been ready to move on for more than a year. Not that I don’t use my Switch, but my game purchases really, really slowed down. I bought way too many new and classic RPGs this generation that I’ll probably never start due to their length and my lack of time. At this point I’m culling and selling off quite a few games, although there are probably 150 or 200 that I’ll keep going forward. A much more massive library of games than I’ve ever built for any system before. But I want a new system powerful enough to play the types of games we have been getting without issues. Hopefully it will play current games a bit better too.

I think I’m the only person who finds Wonder and Odyssey disappointing. They both have their moments, but overall I feel like they fail to live up to the best 2D and 3D entries in the series.

Waiting on this one. Regardless who you play as I'm just not convinced the new mechanic will be fun. Hopefully I'm wrong and I pick this game up on sale at some time and have a blast with it.

It’s been a great run, but my body is ready for a new console! With backwards compatibility because the Switch library needs to stay playable.

Still rocking my day one switch. I see no reason to buy another. Day one for Switch 2 though.

Looking forward to this! I played the original Ys 3 on TG-16 when it was new. Not one of my favorite games, so it will be nice to play the remake that I missed on Sony hardware way back when.

If they do go cross platform that will be a good way to get those of us with discounted preorders on this game to cancel them. I know I’d definitely want the Switch 2 version.

@Yoshif3 That’s a good point. As much as I liked ToTK it really did change up the core gameplay and feels really different. This new game almost feels like an attempt to bring that new gameplay to 2D.

@Yoshif3 Changing up the gameplay so dramatically feels like a spinoff to me. Like Mario Party. It may have all the characters, but the gameplay is different. But semantics isn’t really the issue, I’m fine calling it whatever (unless it’s a cringe word like “shmup”, but I digress) and I hope they’ve hit on something fun, but I’m not going to get excited about it until they convince me.

I’m surprised at all the positive reactions to this. My own is more guarded. Zelda is my favorite series, but this gameplay doesn’t strike me as fun. How do you choose which items to echo? Are we going to be hitting L and R a lot to find what we want? If anyone can pull it off Nintendo can, but when it comes to spinoffs their track record is mixed to negative. Normally any Zelda game is a day one for me, but I’ll be waiting for reviews, and probably a sale.

I got a WiiU super cheap back in 2019 when my local shop just wanted them gone. I picked up Windwaker right away, but this week I finally broke down and got Twilight Princess. So they’ll probably announce those, lol. Time to offload my excess switch games on eBay before switch 2 gets announced. This is probably the best window for that.

@wiiware Agreed. We need more 16 bit or even 16 bit+ games.

This is a cool idea, but not interested at that price. If it had controllers like the Japanese release maybe, but a bunch of collectible junk does nothing for me.

I’m not much of a fan of western style games. I generally prefer Japanese games. I’ve tried many of the big titles that have come to switch over the years and haven’t finished any really. I’d try a demo but at this point I’m not willing to do a blind buy.

Cool, I’ll buy this on sale at some point ~$30. I’m patient.

I’d like a fresh start at a new studio. It’s not that the movie is bad, it just feels like an Illumination movie. Thoroughly mediocre.

I’m not buying the 2025 narrative… yet.

Disappointed it’s not a regular direct, but oh well. Maybe we will get info about the DQ3 HD 2D remake. Not excited for Contra because I’m going to have to wait a long time for the limited run cartridge that I believe is inevitable.

@SilverM I believe in the U.S. Toad was $35.

It was fine. Like @Clyde_Radcliffe said it reminds me of Captain Toad but at a much higher price point. I’d only pick it up at half what they’re asking.

Sega should never have let their old IP lapse in the first place. So great to see them finally continuing something other than Sonic. Hopefully they’re great.

If it weren’t for Nintendo 1st party titles I probably wouldn’t be a gamer anymore. After owning a PS2 and an XBOX during that generation I was just not into any games. I modded my Xbox and really got into Ocarina of Time. It was glitchy though so I bought a $99 GameCube with the Ocarina disc and I’ve never looked back. I’m a Nintendo gamer and I know it. Everyone else can keep their western AAA titles. Not interested.

The price increases make a lot of sense with the crazy inflation we’ve had. I mostly wait for deals anyway and use various reward points to get my must have day 1 games. I’m fine with a $400 price point if it will do 1080p/60 consistently for a new generation of games and have backwards compatibility. OLED would be great but I’m almost 100% docked.

Makes no difference to me as I don’t care for Rockstar’s games. But it would be nice to have as many hits as possible for the next system to be successful. More success, more 1st party Nintendo games (which is mostly what I care about).

I’ll wait for the Limited Run. As others have said, Konami has worked with them quite a bit. way Forward has too.

Nintendo first party games are 95% of the reason I game. But I can’t wait for a performance boost. Waiting for switch 2.

@TotalHenshin Shiro is in the other game, but not too much. He will come and get you before dinner sometimes.

I wanted to love “Me and the Professor,” but I put about 8 hours into it and moved on. It got really repetitive. Glad others enjoyed it though. I’ll pass on this new one.

The idea of DLSS making lower powered Nintendo portable hardware compete with the beefier systems is really exciting. I hope this is what we will get. What the others do just doesn’t appeal to me, so having something with comparable output running Nintendo games would be amazing.

Didn’t like anything about the new movie. No character development of the turtles, Splinter is just a pathetic character, they learned to be ninja from watching Kung Fu movies? Then they don’t know what they’re doing (which actually makes sense) but in the space of about 2 minutes they work out how to be ninja.

Finally there is NOTHING serious in the movie. Every single scenario is played for a dumb laugh.

When they announced the games weren’t on the cart I knew my wallet would remain closed. It’s fine. I have a huge backlog anyway.

Glad there are so many games out there for people to look forward to. For me none of those titles have anything on TOTK or Pikmin 4. But I don’t need my favorite games to win awards. I’ll enjoy them just the same.

This is scary. I have a lot of unopened games that I’ve had for too long to be able to return them. I’ve heard the horror stories and try to remember to shine a flashlight in there to make sure there is a cartridge, but often forget to.

I’m going to hold off a bit and see if the Konami store gets a custom cover like they did with Contra. Although I think I have a 5% off a Konami game from Limited Run coupon around here somewhere.

That’s too bad, the first one is decent and definitely more than worth the $10-15 you can get it for.

I think they overcomplicated it. I don’t enjoy the depths/gloom or having to upgrade battery in addition to stamina/hearts, etc. BOTW is still my favorite game. This is 2nd.

I'm a patient bargain hunter for the most part, but Zelda, Metroid, Mario (2D and 3D), and Pikmin are exceptions to this rule. I saved up my Best Buy points to get this one for $5 on day one. In a way I appreciate that Nintendo doesn't give deep discounts, because that means I don't have to wonder if there will be a deep discount on this after a few months (for the most part). After I finish TOTK, PIkmin 4 will be next.

Had my copy up on eBay and it suddenly sold yesterday. Then I noticed on Deku Deals it seems to be going out of stock everywhere. Maybe it’s going out of print.

@FawfulDX LOL, came here to say this (about Mario Sunshine)

Bought Ryza 3 physical the other day. It had its deepest discount to date ($50) and Walmart and Target no longer carry it. Makes me think it MIGHT go out of print in the next few months. And then get reprinted by VGP as per usual.