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@HexagonSun
Oh. Someone else who owns every console except the VB?
If you count handhelds, I'm also missing OG Gameboy, GBC which I gave to my bro, and is no longer functional, OG DS, cause I went with DS Lite, GB Micro, and varying variants.
I did almost get a VB at $19 years ago though! Unfortunately, I thought I was being told it was $70 something and declined.

@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho
Ehh. I saved up for like, multiple years for this one. But had to ask family to cover tax.
Even the employees at my local gamestop have told me never to do trade-ins there. You never get good value.

@premko1
That aspect is good, yes. But the premise is essentially just Sony/Microsoft physical.
You get your disc from the store, put it in, and the console spends lord only knows how long installing the game from disc, then downloading every bit of the data from the console's online store. For me, it can take days to download.
It's scummy practice that Nintendo just decided to open up to devs on their end as well.

I'm only just recently playing the OG Bravely Default release here, and don't feel like purchasing a key card.
Nice to know the new features are limited to exclusions, and two minigames.

Huh. Nice to have a list of releases to avoid, or at least go digital only on.
Though, "digital only" gives me alarm bells as it is. That, in and of itself, may be the only reason to support this insanity.

Welp, it's riding the switch 1 hype. Time to see how long that lasts.

@Princess_Lilly
How much of the mythology makes it into KH?

I imagine most of these sales are gonna be for Tulin.

Establishing New Hyrule in style, with maybe a nod to the end of timeline games...
Having said that, I REALLY like the mechanics shown here, even if some of the game models are blatantly ripped from Hyrule Warriors.

Honestly, there are far too many musts here to simply pick three.
So I went with the two obvious multiplayer games, (Melee cause of the degree to which it is excellent, and Four Sword Adventures, cause really, who had four GBAs with link cables to match?) and Kirby Air Ride cause it's getting a sequel.
Otherwise, there are so, soooo many I'd pick. The classy, the classics, and the too expensive, with honorable mentions to the few online games the console had.

Ah yes. The Shield Hero.
Btw, note to editor from person raised by grammar fixator, i generally comes before e, not the other way around, with some weird exceptions.

I still remember the one time playing Double Dash when managed to do a mini-boost away from something.
I THINK it was a blue shell, but only cause I vaguely recall doing it to red shells too.

@wuntyme8
Honestly, an F-Zero Adventures would be amazing.
Captain Falcon is a bounty hunter canonically, and we rarely, if ever, get to see that.

@MathByThePixel
Honestly, don't fret about that.
I actually did beat story mode, and some low level GP stuff. And I'm still not quite on the level of doing very hard story, or master mode. And I need to do some of that to play the AX courses.

@Ganon821 Ehh. I try to stay out of it.

@Overzeal He did? Well hopefully they go down!

Honestly, Nintendo? I'm impressed. That wasn't a tentative price point? You were gonna go straight ahead with that price for the console?

Slow claps Well done.

I initially wanted to go with DK, but for some reason, couldn't not go with Mario Kart...

Given recent events, is it too cynical of me to notice, the pricing isn't shown in the graphic?

@SuperBro64
Grats on getting faster than me then!
I'll admit, I took my sweet time looking at the percentage of what others got right.

Multiple choice made this too easy. Stuff like the Z2 question, and specific names and titles woulda stumped me otherwise, as it's been too long.
Only thing keeping me down on the rankings was time.

Yup. It's too much. I was already bothered by $70 price points.
Worth giving a slightly amused chuckle at Bravely Default sitting among giants, as a giant itself sitting at $50 though.

Also, @inflation, yeah. Inflation wouldn't be so much of a thing if we didn't have ppl up top giving us debt all the time.
Honestly, I'm impressed that game prices stayed between $50-$70 for some 35 years as it is!

I sadly, cannot rate it, as on a scale from 1-10, it is simultaneously a 10, AND a -10.

@Jack_Goetz
I have genuinely missed Reggie sooo much since Wii U died.
For reasons like this exactly.

@Waluigi451
This was my reason for being upset with how the OG switch handled things.
Like, I bought all this stuff, and you want me to buy it again?

The excuse back then was that not many ppl had a Wii U, thus these games could get better light. That doesn't fly now.

Smash Ult here. Not cause performance issues primarily, but cause it just didn't have the modes or functional online play to make it as engaging.

Oh lordy. The perfect group for "you need to get comfy with not owning your games" ubisoft to partner with.
This is gonna get messy.

Relatable. I still need to finish Genetc Apex. The only pack I got all standard cards for was Mythical Island.

Well, the DS version exists..
But, 5 mil? Not much tbh. Chrono is part of the apex of JRPGs. It deserves more.

On another note, reading this, I realized, if "beyond the world of the game" applies to all the projects, we'll probably get neither rerelease nor sequel nor spinoff.

Huh. Well, I've yet to get the timeline page translated unfortunately. There are definitely a few things I'd want acknowledged by Sega, even if not canon. I did not know the Rivals games weren't canon, which is interesting.
It'll be interesting to see how some of this fits, as well as what Sonic's world officially ends up being.

It's been a bit too long since I finished this one. Backlog awaits though!
There's no chance the next Legends game will have the same theme. But it does bring the series a massive step closer to what I wanted back in 1999.
As for Arceus being God, there's no chance he's displaying his full power. The Arceus you get is a mere fraction of him for one, and for another, the fight with him is more of a trial.

Hey, so in light of the Square Enix sale, I tried looking at better eshop. There's no option to sort by publisher/developer?

Welp, time for yer regularly scheduled leaks from ye olde aaa gaming corporation.
Seriously though, this probably is from the digital preorders.

Heh. Well, now that I finally got the striker pack, they come up with this.

"Beyond the world of the original game". So uh, another Chrono Cross? A pachinko machine? Another sequel? No telling I guess.
As for remake or port material, yeah, having it available would be neat, DS additions and all. I also liked Radiant Historia, as well as a number of others.
Hopefully it won't be getting the FF7R treatment....

Gotta catch em all. (Nintendo does anyway.)

@MTMike87 How was Vexx? I remember seeing the game name back when Gamecube first came out, but never got an impression.

Also, Mary Kate and Ashley mentioned? Wow it's been so long.

@Erigen Am curious what the Japanese Wii version had that was different.

Weird being possibly the first comment.
Anyway, just noting how Legends Arceus and SwSh aren't listed at all.

This pick is so hilariously lopsided, I'm genuinely tempted to be the troll and vote for the European art. It does at least get the fishing part right!
But nah. The larger roster of characters in the others genuinely intrigues me. If this were like, an enjoyable RPG or something, I'd be tempted to pick it up to find out about the world, as well as who and what those characters are.
Like, is the fox eared person in all three arts a kitsune?

Huh. Looking good!
Gotta wonder though, will there still be that one combo that's incredibly broken from the OG? (Forget exactly what it was, but it includes that ghost walker tech.)

Weird finally seeing a game not need a day 1 update. Also weird seeing an update rolled out much later.

Huh. This list is an interesting one to have as user voted. Not every day you see one with a VB game on it.

Personally, I liked Wario Land 2 better than 3 because of its unique story based branching paths. Shake It is one I still need to finish. Or perhaps start fresh.
I still want a copy of Wario World, and I'm still furious at myself for thinking I was being asked if I wanted a $70 something VB instead of the roughly $19 it actually was.
I could have played them all by now if not for that.

Okay. Am curious now what that dude's fave, and least fave Indy movie is.

"Most of the game"? Yet to finish Okamiden. So far, I've gotten the impression that it's almost entirely separated from where Amaterasu herself would be, leading to branching paths. In short, they wouldn't need to acknowledge Okamiden because Okami 2 would follow Ammy, who is somewhere else.

Honestly, imo, the N64 version gets the win on account of both the OG rustic feel, and more importantly, the difference in physics.
It's much harder in the 3ds version to do hops as a Deku, and the Zora swimming is pretty different. For all the significant improvements the 3ds version made, changing that which did not need be changed from the OG absolutely brought the experience down.

@wuntyme8
All of this, all the way.

Am curious, what are the roguelike elements in this?
Are they more along the lines of Starfox 64 requiring you to restart the set of stages if you run out of lives? Or is it harsher?

@DollyrotsFan1 I dunno who Lady Shiva is. Also, worth mentioning is that I'm pretty sure that where Origins sets up Harley Quinn, Asylum is her actual first role as a villain, cause she seemed to be staff immediately before the game, with her taking over security being her big betrayal.
I'd love to see a bigger, better Gotham. But the big name villains aren't particularly there. Maybe a game leading up to Joker's capture at the start of Asylum?
Either way, if Rocksteady is out of it now, then I have little faith.

@kfflscnt Why would Troy Baker as Batman ruin it?

Honestly, I have to wonder who the devs for the different games were. The Arkham trilogy, Suicide Squad, and the prequel games.
Anyway, I don't see how they could have another Batman Arkham after the ending of Knight.