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Came here for the Atari Lynx comments. I had one and it was fun when I could hook up the AC adaptor and didn't need to use the batteries that lasted five minutes, lol

This doesn't make sense to me because I could never get my US Paypal or card to work with either the JPN or EU eShops. Have always had to buy gift cards (from Play Asia), then add directly to my Nintendo account.

@Gryffin Yep. Comes in both English and Russian too. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will say there is something wrong with the recreation, but to my knowledge, it's as close to the original as you can get.

@Gryffin Electronika 60 was an unexpected gem. No music, no sound except for faint beeps, black and green terminal used for graphics, no line scoring. On paper, it sounds awful, but it's so relaxing and easy to focus on. The change in scoring also changes the meta of the game which I love.

I'm happy so far with these updates. Welltris is an objectively bad game, but really nice to see for history's sake. Also, very glad they fixed the leaderboard in Electronika 60 so it properly displays the entire score and not just the first three digits.

@Sylamp @Clyde_Radcliffe Look at the devs and publishers of the titles included in Forever; it's pretty much all BPS (Pajitnov's/The Tetris Company's own company). It sucks that some legendary titles are missing, but when you look at how the game was put together, it makes sense why third parties were not really involved in the inclusion of games. Same thing with any Nintendo-/Sony-published titles, especially Nintendo; do people really think that games exclusive to Nintendo systems and published by Nintendo will be allowed to go multiplat? Look at the original publishers, then ask questions; not the other way around.

I'm not saying it's right or that it was a good direction, but I imagine Digital Eclipse had a budget they needed to stick to.

@Diowine Considering the large number of leaks that were proven to be real after the official Nintendo reveal, it stands to reason the Hall Effect sticks leak is also real, which would mean stick drift will be a non-issue.

Regarding release date: Genki is releasing their accessories in April. It would make sense that Switch 2 is therefore also releasing in April.

About the joycon connectors: they appear to be flush with the system. I think even with kids rough-housing, you'd have to be pretty unlucky to break it. Considering Nintendo went through the trouble of fixing the faulty pin setup with current joycon, I doubt they'd go ahead with a different flaw that would see mass repair tickets being sent out.

@EarthboundBenjy As much as I'd love to see the games you listed, I really doubt Digital Eclipse would want to alienate everyone who bought the game on other platforms by offering exclusive Nintendo titles (since we all know Nintendo would never let their games on other platforms).

Oh, this is a nice surprise! I knew the remapping was coming as I saw Steam got it a while ago, had no idea about Welltris. Hopefully, they are also working on adding bots/online to Time Warp and expanding the eras, as well.

@SuntannedDuck2 "sad no showing of the Planet/Space transition"

1:08-2:05 in the video

@WhiteTrashGuy I have hope that one day, Rogue Leaders (official name for the cancelled trilogy game) will get leaked. As it is, Dolphin's compatibility with Rogue Leader (the second game) still needs work, unless I'm missing something. It always crashes during Battle of Hoth. I haven't tried Rebel Strike on Dolphin yet.

@Yosher https://x.com/balatrogame/status/1821184855876804841?s=46 First content update was announced a while ago, but not until 2025.

@miwa Ugh, this is going to make me feel bad about buying it, if I do. Thanks for the game's history lesson. I want to support great gameplay in shmups to keep the genre going, but just like games that go heavy in loli anime, I want nothing to do with this game. :/

Good, stay in Japan. Maybe this dev can learn to focus on gameplay instead of trying to profit off being yet another amateur, boring-looking Touhou clone.

Close to Prime 1, but doesn't supplant it and Spider Guardian is a great boss, you can't convince me, otherwise.

@Danrenfroe2016 I doubt 90 minutes of Youtube videos would yield the same financial return. As for the older games, that is very subjective. Tetris 99 effectively only has one mode, Effect has a ton, but it's been out for six years. Axis on 3DS has Bombliss just like Forever, but every Bombliss version I've played in Forever has been better than Axis's.

I haven't even touched Time Warp yet.

@LinktotheFuture I only played the first chronological version of Hatris, but you have to stack five of the same hat consecutively.

Never got around to playing Tetris Party Deluxe, so the only Bombliss version I've played is the supposedly easiest one on Axis, yet I still love it. Really interested to try the older versions.

@Supervideoman22 No, sadly. We can only hope and voice our desire for a Mudds editor in the next entry for Mudds.

@Krambo42 Someone doesn't read their emails or keep up with Kickstarter, lol. OG Chicken Wiggle is in the game, you have to unlock it by beating Hatch's campaign or entering a main menu cheat code.

@gmnvdr Hatch Tales uses an updated version of the level editor on Chicken Wiggle, so all the levels that were available to share online before the 3DS eShop shut down are available again now, which is well over 2,000 levels.

You can make 64x64 tile levels
119 unique objects
21 biomes (art/music swaps)
6 objectives
5 environment/meta options

Sharing online is fairly easy and standard (you have to beat it 100% yourself to verify it can be done first). There's room on your save file for 60 custom levels (your own and downloaded total). Pretty sure I have numbers correct, did a quick runthrough in the editor to check.

@canaryfarmer You can't judge a platformer on screenshots alone. It's not a cinematic narrative driven game, so the graphics of still images are the least important thing to analyze here.

@Ogbert @RupeeClock "A large amount of the side quest content in Hatch Tales is also just recycled Chicken Wiggle levels."

To clarify: Only the Chicken Wiggle campaign itself is recycled, any CW bonus levels in Hatch's campaign are brand new, unless my memory is crap.

@Savage_Joe I was a backer and despite the wait, am very glad the game came out because the gameplay is fantastic. But the HD visuals have 100% gone in the wrong direction; this is Flash art and it's not good. If I could play Hatch's levels in OG pixel art like with the CW levels, I absolutely would and never look back.

"Demise is complete"

Nice clickbait title.
Star Fox Zero is my top Wii U game, Nintendo was foolish for not looking at how they could adapt the dual screen play to a single screen (it seriously is not that hard to figure out) and if you're someone who doesn't drop games at the drop of a hat, you could easily see the quality in the gameplay. Motion controls are not that bad and not nearly as required as the impatient people want you to believe.

Thanks for the review. About what I expected from the publisher UFO Interactive.

I'm a backer of Hatch Tales and am legit excited it is finally releasing. I've been playing as backers get it early, gameplay and level design is very polished; Jools still has his platforming skills honed well (hopefully this bodes well for a presumed Mutant Mudds 2, eventually).

@Dom_31 It's got everything a smartphone is capable of. Someone just needs to build an app (probably already has lol) that responds to movement and you've got a potentially free Alarmo app on your phone and watch.

@Lightsiyd Yeah, having an illuminated keyboard is sooo much better for the eyes.

No mention of Neo: The World Ends with You? Is that content coming later because that's literally all I care about.

Version releases on his discord are at least 1.0. I'm impressed, dude refused to spill the beans that he was working on this until he completed the 1.0! Very smart. Very dumb for the way he made it (DCMA no doubt coming), though.

@NeonMullet IIRC, just buy a JPN eShop card off of PlayAsia, make a JPN account on Switch and add the funds. M2 ShotTriggers historically only publishes in Japan, so I would not hold my breath for any localized versions.

Am I the only one who immediately thought of Burger King's "have it your way" commercials and jingle?

I wish the grinding between unlocks wasn't so absurdly long, would've made the repetition not as bad. Going straight for a nutcracker/freeze build every time since it was so OP got old fast, too. Stopped playing around 20 hours.

@RR529 It's not about the material, it's about the potential use for it, lol. Have you seriously never used plastic utensils!? You can cut a lot more than butter with a plastic knife utensil.

As much as I love the idea of a Metroid maker, the assets and player movement do not jive with me. I fully understand they might be at the alpha or even prototype level, but still.

@Chapapa A secret about Kickstarter funding campaigns for game developers, specifically, is that while the funds are fully intended to be spent on development, they are not meant to act as a measure of "this allows the dev to work for x amount of time", but instead meant to be a gauge for public interest and engagement during development (and also potentially allows backers to steer the game in a certain direction).

If a KS fails to secure funds, devs may either abandon a project or shift focus to a vision with smaller scope. A successful campaign simply encourages them to continue on knowing that people are legitimately interested and the funds allow them to do what they possibly couldn't have done before.

Give me Dig 3. Give me Metroidvanias. Nothing else because I'm not interested in anything else.

This looks as boring as could possibly be. Felt the same way when I played NES Remix, but I'm also not someone who has parties or nights where we all drink so much we can barely press a button on the controller.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Fusion Suit is a weird exclusion, but not including a game that's offered on a paid subscription makes perfect sense.

@NintndoNik Silksong is still part of the Kickstarter rewards for the original game. Meaning, Team Cherry is obliged to tell backers (and only backers) about the progress of the game often and consistently because backers donated money to them in good faith (this is quite literally what Kickstarter tells backers and creators). They are NOT obliged to tell the public anything.

I suppose it is possible that backers are being made aware and everyone is being tight-lipped, but I highly doubt it.

@GrailUK Might have something to do with social media rising since then. People today care a lot about what they think they should be playing and that means if something is trending, then it should be played. No one who cared about what other people think were playing 3DS after the Switch released.

It's a dumb mentality, but that's today's world.

@Porco @Yodalovesu Remember when MercurySteam released Castlevania: Mirror of Fate in 2013, the third (and so far final) game in the rebooted universe? It had middling reviews from actual players and I personally thought it was the shallowest, blandest, most uncreative metroidvania I had ever played in my then 25 years of gaming.

And yet, Nintendo gave them the reigns to remake Metroid II. It ended up being a great decision because they made Dread, but Samus Returns wasn't exactly perfect.

@Savage_Joe common != everyone knows it, lol. You can't seriously be asking that question. Anyway, thank you for actually answering vs EDIT: the one I pinged never answered and someone else was an ass with no details.

@Ruthchild Do you have proof of anything you just said?

Since Forever is involved, people should automatically be concerned about middling performance and a soulless feel. As a Switch owner of Panzer Dragoon Remake, even after all of the updates, it feels like a half-hearted attempt by people who only watched videos of the original. The initial release of PDR was so riddled with bugs and performance problems that it felt like they were selling a first iteration beta before anyone had playtested it.

Has anyone managed to make Zelda 1 in the style of the prototype Nintendo made to see if BotW's mechanics could work? Feel like that could be fun to play as a full Zelda 1 remake.

@smolsauce On one hand, you're right. On the other hand, the devs shouldn't be releasing a trailer at all and keeping this as quiet as possible. Nintendo can't shut something down if no one besides the devs knows it's being developed.

I know game dev is hard, but this looks very clunky and that first puzzle before the sword is just bad design, especially the clunky movement being very careful to not fall into the pit.

@Olliemar28 Is this actually set in Shinjuku? Because the characters in the trailer (and the setting) keep showing Shibuya. NEO is set in Shibuya, NOT Shinjuku. Shinjuku is mentioned, but you never see that area.