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That title would completely lose the double meaning (tear as in crying and tear as in tearing apart). So, TotK is definitely better.

@CupidStunt Never feel sad for what we enjoy. I might follow in your footsteps here as a 40-year old man.

@CupidStunt Oh yeah, I have been to Japan probably more than ten times, both privately and for business, as I work for a Japanese company.
USJ is in our list, and our son is too young for the rollercoasters, so I guess we will be mostly fine, as rides for kids tend to not be as crowded in all of these kinds of parks.
I will consider getting the Exprwss pass for the Nintendo part, though. Thanks for the recommendation.
And I have also been checking the status of the DK ride again and again, alas to no avail yet. They keep the opening date really secret after the delay. ^^

@CupidStunt Thanks. Yeah, that’s what I am hoping for. Let’s see. We are rather flexible within roughly 2 weeks, so hopefully we can still get a ticket there.

@CupidStunt Congratulations!
No, none of my three entries was chosen.

I wonder why so many people like the pixel cover of the US, saying that it helped show what the game really looks like…that’s what the screenshots on the back are for. The front cover is supposed to look nice, and those pixel covers sure don’t achieve that. Just pointless.

@WiiWareWave I know I’m late, but: Ironcore wrote „poblem“, dropping the „r“. Seems like you had missed that punchline.

What is „xPM“ supposed to be?

@betterthanvegas CS:GO never had NFTs. Just plain old digital items that could be sold and traded.

@AndyRogan Look closer. It‘s the four (correct) colors on the cover. Red, orange, blue and purple.

@piecez They have four different colors on the US cover. It‘s not the original „all are red“ design.

@Daniel36 Interesting. I thought the beehive level was the clear highlight of the trailer, and to me it doesn’t even remotely look „silly“. Bees, wasps, hornets can be genuinely terrifying. So walking through an oversized hive sounds like proper horror material to me.

These are lowkey great games. Loved MySims Kingdom and Racing on Wii. The latter has an adventure mode similar to Diddy Kong Racing.
MySims Party was terrible, though…

@rough-machine01 But two of these were on the Mega Drive / Genesis.

@CupidStunt That is so kind of you! Thank you.
But I am going with my wife and kid, so a single ticket wouldn’t help. I could not possible go by myself. XD

@CupidStunt I am also in the drawing for 13/Nov. what a coincidence. XD

@wolvesboy „It might’ve not been a PC game as I had Pandemonium on it as well.“
Pandemonium was a PC game, though. It was officially released on several platforms, among them also PC.

It‘s it’s own platform, as it has games playable only in it.
Problem is it was never a good platform. I had the original GB since 1990, loved it, but then never felt compelled to get the GBC because pretty much all good games were also playable on my Pocket. The GBC severely lacked worthwhile exclusives. I couldn’t care less for Nintendo‘s slight DX updates of the time.
The GBA was magical then. Having an F-Zero on the go at launch? Incredible.

People like this Dredge suit? It looks like a sports jersey. Worst design of the bunch by far.

And there goes all interest I initially had.

@Ryne-Gaia You didn’t say which one you had in your childhood. How are we supposed to know which part of the world you are from? ^^

@rotekps_aniger Now I am curious which games you had a hand in. Is it possible to disclose it?

„Why would anybody want to go back from playing a video game to playing with Lego bricks? From a perspective of nostalgia, I guess I can sort of understand.“

Even though I own the Japanese version, I gotta vote for the Western art.
The drawing style on the Japanese box just looks surprisingly simple and cheap.

If this is what Aonuma has to say, maybe it’s for the best he was cut short at the TGA…

@RadioShadow I‘ve been ardently collecting N64 games from all regions, diving into different versions and obscurities for over 20 years, and I can tell you there was no PAL version of this game.

@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.