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I'd be down for it, though admittedly I already feel tempted to replay 3 rather than trying out 4 as it is and this wouldn't help.

@molkom I do feel like the story very much starts slow. I really kind of had to force myself through the demo and kind of just decided, "Yeah, sure, why not," pretty last minute on getting the full game but it picks way up after that.

I have the Switch 1 version, don't think I'll bother grabbing the upgrade. Never a game I've been able to develop a taste for and while mouse controls might help it won't resolve my other hangups with it.

I really just want the Steam version of Chrono Trigger ported to consoles, maybe a Switch 2 port of Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2.

The Invincible Collection is routinely on sale for $18 so even if you did want to pay potentially double digits for Space Invaders (which is a pretty big if) there are better purchases you could make.

Never been able to at all develop a taste for Stardew Valley, and the controls are a significant part of why (though not the entirety of it). Might give the upgrade a look given that but not really chomping at the bit to so I dunno.

@shonenjump86 Kodaka's been very open about wanting to do DLC at some point so hopefully that pans out.

@GoldenSunRM V3 isn't actually a direct continuation anyway, it's doing its own thing. The only actual followup to 2 is the 3 anime (and Killer Killer and the OVA but those are their own whole things).

Kind of surprised they've never done a modern port of Kirigiriso. Can't imagine it'd take any real budget or effort to port and there'd probably be at least a few people willing to drop a few bucks on it as a curiosity.

Let's see, all four of the Switch games, 1 + 2, V3, and Ultra Despair Girls on PS4, 1 and 2 on Steam (keep meaning to get V3), so I've contributed to that count 9 times myself. No regrets here (well, maybe some regret for Ultimate Summer Camp) and 2 x 2 will definitely be another I pick up.

Also for anyone curious about Hundred Line it's on sale at a good price right now so consider buying it.

It isn't mentioned in this article but at the moment on both Switch and Steam Hundred Line is only $42, so very worth getting a look for anyone on the fence about it.

I grabbed Cyberpunk during the screw-up there, otherwise probably not going to get anything for now.

I wouldn't be shocked if a ton of the stuff that was planned for the very start of the year gets pushed back a bit now that they're clear from GTA.

@Axecon I'm sure Metaphor will. Soul Hackers 2 was a flop both commercially and in terms of reception so I think they'd rather just ignore it.

@ozwally No, held off on getting it and even if I had I would've put it off since by the time I was done I was VERY ready to be done. I might give it a shot at some point but it's not going to be for right now.

@molkom Debatable what the best is, but if you're starting the series now then start with P5R. It's got a lot of quality of life improvements even compared to vanilla P5, and while P3R came out afterward it kind of has a lot of areas where it does these weird half-measures that are partially modernized, partially still pretty archaic, and it makes it harder to see it as a good jumping on point as a result. I'd say give P5R a shot and if you enjoy that enough then wonder about checking out one of the versions of 3 or 4, and then worry about 1 and 2 after that since they're very different beasts (even from each other) anyway.

I had to glance back and forth for quite awhile to even discern what the difference was.

Bloober Team's had a very impressive glowup the past couple years so hopefully they can keep it up.

The primary thing I know about Wii Party is that the sequel was the only one of the free Mario Kart pack-in games I wasn't able to wheel and deal to get on the cheap when I was first filling out my Wii U library, so no clue what to expect out of this soundtrack. Think there might've been a song from it in Smash Bros.?

@cedarhyped Thanks for the tip. Even the PS5 version has only ever been that cheap one time and it didn't include the DLC so this is almost definitely a mistake.

I finished it up about a month ago so not in any hurry to play it again any time soon but neat to hear. I mostly played it docked and generally thought it ran fine that way, but you could definitely see the struggle handheld even if I don't really think it actually matters too much in a turn-based RPG.

Hundred Line is undoubtedly my favorite game this year and nothing else comes anywhere else.

Generative AI should be completely eradicated.

Bundle is how I got my Switch 2 and benefit of hindsight I would've just gotten the console on its own, but better to have spent an extra $50 on a game I didn't care for than an extra $80 I suppose.

I went for Europe, I think the art looks better against the black than it does the grey of the Japanese one.

Glad to see they're going so heavy with this lately, guess Christmas is a powerful motivator. Hope they fix Kill la Kill at some point, only thing I can think of I have that isn't compatible at this point.

Probably try and wrap up the runs of the original SMRPG and HeartGold I've had going for a bit. Would like to try and clear off those and at least one or two other things before the year's out.

Been increasingly in the mood to replay SMB3 but at this point probably just wait for New Year's to stick it on next year's list.

Been playing the game daily for about a month and a half and it's been going great for me. Unfortunately been very sick the past few days so not had the chance to dig into this update yet.

Not really related but probably should put up something noting that they put up a pretty meaty update for Fitness Boxing 3.

I really need to actually get around to playing the game. Used a voucher on it back when it came out but I'd just played through Pikmin 1 for the first time right before it so I wound up not really being in the mood and I kind of just never got around to it. Even now feel like I'm kind of more eager to replay 3 than I am to get to it.

Anything with card battling is very firmly not my taste so I'll stick to the original, but do hope folks enjoy it.

My only real stance on this is that ever since the 4 remake came out I've been wanting a Revelations 3 with Ashley as one of the leads.

@the_beaver I imagine it'll be fine, was originally a PS4 game and all. Rebirth's going to be the trickier port.

They should've included the Ambassadors of Funk song.

@Troubbble Forgot about Vivillon, only forms of it you can get are Garden and Marine.

I'll grant that I hated Engage, but Three Houses was fantastic and Fortune's Weave looks a lot closer to that so I'm not inclined to completely write off the series at the moment by any means.

The game already has patches on PC that haven't made it to consoles yet and thus it was never going to be feature-complete on cartridge on first print, so I really don't actually see the harm here.

I way prefer the Japanese one, lot more fond of that art style.

Kinda-sorta forgot one in that there's Marvel DLC for Pinball FX.

@Zachuratedphat A few weeks ago one of the system updates apparently broke compatibility with it and caused some issues. I had a bit at the farm where the game had been running perfectly to that point then suddenly locked in place; I was still able to audibly open menus but Leon just endlessly jiggled back and forth in one place.

Glad it didn't take long to fix RE4, been wanting to do new runs of both it and the remake soon. Might try and knock both out before the year's up.

For what it's worth the eShop page for Resident Evil 4 now says it's Switch 2 compatible so I guess they fixed it at some point.

Mario Tennis, Fire Emblem, and Death Match Love Comedy are really the only things on my radar at the moment. Might shell out for Resident Evil just due to the bundle of 7, 8, and 9 being a good deal but not really super interested in 9 itself.

Yoshi's kind of a firm, "Ehhhhhmaybe." I'd never get hyped for a Yoshi game because they're wildly inconsistent in quality, though usually doesn't feel like you get two bad ones in a row and Crafted World was terrible so maybe that's a good sign for this one.

The Dreamcast one looks great, the blue Sonic one is okay, the others are too garish I think.

@Shade_Koopa He's also talked about how he'd like to see it ported at some point. In general Sakurai says a lot of things and you can't really take anything he says seriously because every game the dude makes is his last.

My primary opinion on this is hoping that Sakurai's next project is a Kid Icarus port.

@Yoshi3 The only newly obtainable Pokemon in ZA at all is AZ's Floette. Everything else is just new Megas.

Though there are a ton of previously event-only things that can be gotten from the DLC. Now the only ones not permanently obtainable from some game or other are Victini, Zarude, Walking Wake, and Iron Leaves, though you need a 3DS to get Celebi, Deoxys, Battle Bond Greninja, and Spinda.

@AussieMcBucket It's probably because, "Just throw a time limit and random item spawning on an existing map," is a very cheap, low effort way to pad out content. Be it this or the DK DLC they're both just minimum budget nonsense designed to waste your time.

@ThatOneLevel "I don't recall other games doing other than the enhanced editions and remakes for the next console generation."

It certainly happened in places. Look how many versions of Street Fighter 2 there are after all, plus you have stuff like the alternate versions of Persona 3 and Shin Megami Tensei 3, there being two separate SNES versions of the first Final Fight one of which was a rental-exclusive, and how a number of the early Harvest Moons have separate boy and girl versions.

@ThatOneLevel Silksong's already most likely sold more copies than Arceus, which ZA does not appear to be selling as well as, and DLC tends to have a pretty low attach rate compared to the base game. There is zero chance this DLC outsells Silksong.

@NintendoByNature Don't see how on earth that's a contradiction in your book - Dan is a Japanese man and they have him being played by a guy with a history of blaming Asians for COVID - but thanks for letting me know you're someone better off on my ignore list.