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@Diogmites no love for Ketsui? That‘s usually in everybody’s top 3. ^^

Wow, US and JP look terrible this time.

So, Q3 of their FY lasted from September to end of May the following year? That’s a 9-months quarter…
Mistakes like these really shouldn’t happen in an article like this.

@shgamer How is SOTN a Sony exclusive? There’s already a Saturn version.

I doubt that years later Sony suddenly spent money to then keep it off of other platforms going forward.

@Tsuchinoko Hi, just wondering: Did you reach out to these guys?

@dkxcalibur Thank you for the passive aggressive sarcasm. Appreciate it.

@dkxcalibur
Gears is not an FPS, though, as you are not playing in first person.
More on topic: I recommend trying MySims Racing on Wii, if you are still open to trying alternatives to MK. I was genuinely surprised by how good it was. The racing itself is fine, but it adds a meaty adventure mode similar to Diddy Kong Racing.

@Frogspree gamefaqs.com seems to still be going pretty strong.

How can so many here call the US one generic? Please point me to any other cover that's even similar. Featuring a pile of items? That's bold, and I love it.
Also, to me, the JP one is the actual generic cover. Just another case of Anime characters lined up. On top, the framing is terrible. Why limit the art's real estate that much? That's a sin usually commited by Western covers. Lastly, I am sorry, but I never liked the Toriyama style. It's nearly as bad as the One Piece style. Look, I've enjoyed manga/anime for >25 years now, but Toriyama's drawings simply aren't nice to look at. I liked OG Dragonball not for its drawings, but despite them. I guess Toriyama was good at telling stories.

@AndyMcDonald At the time, sprite graphics were also just born of technical limitations. If they could have done more realistic graphics, they would have done so.
No difference, really. Just, you happen to prefer one over the other.

Quite surprised by the result. Just zoom in on Firebrand‘s face on the JP cover. That looks terrible. Not in a scary demonic way, but just derpy.
Whereas on the EU/US cover, Firebrand looks like Western demon depictions of yore, which is way cool.
Also, the JP cover is just…barren. It has nice ideas, but overall is just middling.

@Kirbyo No, it was never on WiiWare.

@N64-ROX Wasn’t that in Aero Gauge?

„Re-Sparked is a collection of all three of Sparkster's games“
What? There were 4 games with Sparkster. You forgot the XBLA one?

@Zeebor15 I‘d argue that by that point it had long since simply become its own genre (paddle and ball game), and Breakout was even a copy of an earlier game itself. So yeah, I think Alleyway was perfectly ok.

@Zeebor15 Genuine question: Why? Because it’s similar to Break-Out? There have been so many Break-Out clones at the time, so why would this one’s existence confuse you?

„but we'll update this review with comments on online performance in due course.“
Yeah, apparently not.

Saw this on the last AGDQ and thought it looked quite cool. Nice to see it coming to Switch.

And after these there are no other Nintendo games left announced (except for MP4 and Pokémon Legends 2, both of which will not come out anytime soon). So, Nintendo, how about a Direct any time now?

Crazy. I was just yesterday thinking of Iggy‘s ‚Reckin Balls. I love that game. And the first Extreme-G as well.

@Moistnado You are completely ignoring the point: Jools and his team (if he has any) were not involved in converting Dementium 2 to the the PC. For them, it’s a first time.
And the port also does not work well as an example to learn from, because it’s a bad port. So it makes sense that „this guy“ had to think about how to bring Dementium to a single screen.

@Moistnado That PC port was made by a different studio, and it was allegedly quite a bad port.

It‘s shmup, not shump, as it‘s short for shoot em up.
And stop using „notorious“ synonymous with „famous“. Notorious always has a negative connotation. Just check Cambridge dictionary.

I don’t think you know what the word „underrated“ means. This game always got glowing reviews and plenty of praise from most played that played it.
It might have sold badly and might not have been played as much as it deserves. But this game is about as far away from being „underrated“ as a game can be.

@Burning_Spear Never had any issue with this or any other theme before.

@Kilroy It‘s a blatant copy of an Android game. That’s why. It’s rather sad that an outlet such as Nlife doesn’t even acknowledge the history of the game.

@Tasuki It has always been a subsidiary of SE. This isn’t much of a change.

@PipeGuy64Bit How can it be the „second and only“? For it to be second, there must also be a first one, I.e. another one.

Yo, Keiji, you still owe me a key for Mighty No. 9.
Every backer who chose the 3DS version got screwed. They should just offer us Steam keys, and it's ok, but they just kept quiet for the past years, and the 3DS version basically has never been cancelled, and we never got to change our choice.
Scummy guy.

Never had a problem with the Water Temple. I hated the Fire Temple back in the days.

And my account is at least nearly 16 years old. Joined the old VC Reviews site in January 2008.
Had been using it a lot longer before that, but only then decided to create an account.

That’s sad for me to read. Zelda used to be my absolute favorite series, starting back with the original on NES.
But now this series has lost me entirely, and Nintendo will not even care.

@Arminillo Genuine question: How so? I played it and thought it was pretty fun. Not outstanding, but certainly not terrible.

@Poodlestargenerica I suggest you also try Barnyard on Wii. That one always felt to me like the perfect family-friendly GTA-like.

@TheMegaMarshtomp „it all felt empty and meaningless“
Funnily enough, that’s exactly how I felt about BotW.
I am happy for all the people enjoying that game, but I think I will never be able to see the appeal.
Interesting to see rather many people here now apparently felling about TotK the way I already did about BotW.

@TotalHenshin DK64 came before BT, though.

@scrubicius I read your post multiple times and still have no idea what you are trying to say.

On topic: Wow, Zoid worked on MP and also on Q2? That’s quite the resume, I gotta say.

Meanwhile: cries in Wave Race

Insfune stills owes me a key for Mighty No 9.
I backed it on KS and chose the 3DS version…which never materialized. They didn’t even have the dignity to officially cancel it. Just radio silence.
They should at least then have sent me a key for the Steam version or let me choose again.
And of course I am not the only one. Anybody who chose the 3DS version is in the same boat.
Really shady behavior on Inafune‘s behalf.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed Definitely not. I attended E3 2005 and the Nintendo press conference myself as a member of the media, and I have been following the E3 closely before and after. Definitely, back then, the exhibition itself and the publisher shows were not open to the public. If anything, it got more open in years after.
At the exhibition itself, you could also see e.g. Gamestop clerks or other people from the industry, but at the publishers' press conferences (as they were called), you would obviously only get in as a member of the press. And they would even limit the people per medium. We were three guys travelling to LA from Germany, but we could only get 2 tickets for the Nintendo show.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed The shows were always exclusive to press.

@NEL83 Oh, really? Does NIS publish Persona Q and some of the SMT games in EU? Really difficult to keep track. ^^

@Midge In Europe we‘re having an Atlus sale, but no Capcom sale. I believe Capcom has held no sale for years over here…would love to buy the AA games, but not at full price.

@NintendoByNature Not in Europe. There is no Capcom sale in sight over here.

How does it have good 3D? Doesn’t the top screen just display a map?

@Shambo Severed on 3DS has never been free in Europe.
Currently it’s on sale for €3.74. The price has never dipped below that.

I don’t understand why Capcom never has these sales in Europe. I would be happy to buy a couple AA games.

You’re not gonna do an article on how Digger Dan DX is being given away for free now? They lowered the price -100%.
Now that is newsworthy.

I‘ve just been there in December. Looks like I should have waited just a tad bit longer. Oh well. ^^

Where‘s Master Detective Archive in this list?