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Agreed that it's a bit too easy for a shmup. I played through it on my Steam Deck last year, and it's very good though. Highly recommend it!

I wouldn't change anything. It was perfect as is. I loved the loop of always improvising by using whatever I could find in the environment as a weapon. It forced that kind of play style, and it was awesome.

Very good game. I played it on my Steam Deck last year, and it is indeed one of the best shmups of 2022. Though my personal favorite new shmup of 2022 was Andro Dunos 2.

Ike's games are definitely best in the narrative department.

If it has rumble, gyro, and can wake up the Switch with its home button, I'll give it a go. Without those features, then it's a pass. I saw someone above post an image that seemed to confirm gyro and rumble, but I can't find any of that info from an official source on their website or the product page, so I don't buy it. Those are major features, and if you don't mention them in the product description, then I don't believe that they're part of the product. And if they are, it's extremely baffling that they wouldn't mention them, so that in itself is a concern.

Also, there needs to be a definitive version of this game. After all these years, there still isn't a definitive way to play Skies of Arcadia. You either play the Dreamcast version for the vastly superior audio, or you play the GCN version for the extra content and slightly upgraded character models but you're stuck with awful compressed audio.

Not just Sega's best RPG, it's Sega's best game period. Unless you count F-Zero GX, but they don't own that, they just developed it.

About damn time!

I've caught some footage of the game on Youtube, and it seems to run at only 30fps now? The previous game was 60fps on Switch. What the heck happened? That's a huge performance drop for a sequel with the same visual style like this.

I have the PS5 version, and I'm shocked by how poorly it runs on that console. Looks like it's just under 1080p, it has extremely long loading times (by far the longest I've ever seen on PS5), and the frame rate drops. It's hard to imagine the Switch version runs smoothly.

If you're trying to mimic F-Zero, and aim for 30fps, you have already failed.

@Sinton They probably never bothered since it's included in Bubble Bobble 4 Friends.

The loading times absolutely killed Touhou Spell Bubble for me. So bad that it just made me never want to play it. Hopefully this game doesn't suffer from that problem.

@steely_pete It doesn't matter who did the port. Nintendo was involved because it includes their IP. That's why it was censored. If it was strictly an SMT Atlus game, Nintendo wouldn't have touched it with censoring. They would have done the same with Mario + Rabbids if that game included material they would censor. Doesn't matter that Ubisoft developed and published the game.

@steely_pete Doubt it regarding Tokyo Mirage Sessions. That game was censored because Nintendo was directly involved with the game. Nintendo doesn't censor third party games (and really hasn't since the early 90s), but when it comes to their own games, they often do.

Gamefreak really needs to hire some new developers. The old guard at the company clearly don't know what they're doing from a technical standpoint. A billion dollar franchise like Pokemon deserves better.

Been playing the series since 1998, and have literally never named one of my pokemon. Never will either.

Sadly this falls right in line with what I expected from Sonic. I honestly don't know if it's even possible for a great 3D Sonic game to be developed. And no, none of the previous 3D Sonic games have been great. Neither of the Adventure games, not Generations, none of them. Average is the best they've ever gotten with 3D Sonic.

Would be nice to know how it runs on Switch. I definitely need to get this game though.

I am so hyped for this game. I've a huge fan since the original released on the Xbox 360.

I would buy this if they didn't mess up the sprites so badly. Until they offer an update that allows you to use the original sprite artwork, this has to be a pass from me.

This is heartbreaking.

Ha ha, it's similar to a Dark Souls/Elden Ring Basilisk.

@Miu Because a good game is a good game regardless of the source material. You don't have to be a fan of the source material to enjoy a good game and review it on those merits. It legit blows my mind that some people just don't understand that.

@Vortexeo I played the first two Sky games, and I agree that you should skip the first one. It's aggressively average. The second game is much better.

One of the biggest issues I had with Sky 1 is that you spend massive portions of the game without a full party (maybe 70% of the game if I remember correctly), and the enemy encounters are not tuned based on the size of your party, so battles end up being a slog.

Regarding the story being slow, that part didn't actually bother me as much, simply because it was fun to spend time with these characters.

Always has been cool.

I still have my copy of issue 1. It's not in great shape though, because I read through that thing like 500 times when I was a kid. Still have every issue of Nintendo Power actually since I was subscribed from day one to the end.

Has a bit of the SquareEnix HD-2D look. Only without some of the lighting/texture effects. I'll keep an eye out for this one.

Already have it on my Xbox Series X, so hopefully they do something more with this version to justify me buying another version. Otherwise I'll just stick to the version I already have.

Blue Storm is easily the best in the series. As a huge fan of Wave Race 64, Blue Storm only improved on it in every way. I'm genuinely shocked how many people are voting 64 over Blue Storm.

What a massive letdown for the western version. None of the heavy hitters for Sega CD that people want.

The original NES game. It was the first video game that I ever bought with my own money. Been a huge fan ever since!

@somnambulance You can remove the boarder thankfully.

My most anticipated game of the year! Can't wait for Friday.

Seeing that it has multiple endings actually makes me not want to give this game a try. I just don't have the time to play through RPG length games multiple times anymore, so that's a deterrent for me personally.

I really didn't like the first game. So this is a pass for me. It feels like we will never get a worthy F-Zero replacement.

If he is going down the stairs, he is falling down them because of his position. Also, if he was going down, the window is sideways. So he is obviously going up the stairs.

No idea. I've been playing games since before I can remember. It must have been an Atari 2600 game like Combat, Fishing Derby, or Pac-Man.

A masterpiece of a puzzle game series. It's right up there with Tetris as the best puzzle game series of all time.

Taking the Sonic series narrative to a new height is a pretty low bar to cross...

Stupid is as stupid does.

Mischief Makers and Bangai-O are my favorite Treasure games. Particularly the Dreamcast version of Bangai-O.

The visuals are absolutely stellar in this game. Fantastic pixel art and animation that out does most of the classics.

That said, I also think the one credit thing is a really bad design choice. And the game has some super cheap stage hazards, which only makes the single credit issue even worse. I was in stage 4 on my last life and with full health, and then suddenly a huge crate drops on top of me out of nowhere...instant death...game over...start at stage 1 again. Ugh...

Yikes. Huge red flags there.

A real shame the Switch version is a mess. PS5 version it is then. Retro style games like this should run perfect on the Switch.

@Rambler Seemed fine to me, and I was absolutely one of those beat 'em up addicts back in the early 90s.

Grandmother

I may still give this one a go. I usually enjoy laid back 2D action RPGs like this.

@ArcticEcho When they gave it a positive review and didn't mention a thing about its performance issues, yes I did expect it to be good. It's not rocket science.

@SteamEngenius I mean, in this case it is literally Nintendo related because the article is about a Flipnote Studio player app. Is that really so hard to understand?