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Alright! Mayhap there be hope for a Golden Sun 4 yet! (Insert deluded fan of a probably dead franchise here)
Yeah, I know Dark Dawn wasn't the best, or best received, but as a game that came late in the DS life cycle, as well as being a sort of experiment... They can absolutely redeem themselves. Bare minimum, a remaster of the existing games.
To leave this series off how they did was just cruel, especially since an interview referred to the first two games as "the prologue to the main event".

@N00BiSH Not even implied. In the first game, the fortuneteller, I think called Madam Clairvoya, explicitly states "Bowser has been defeated", as well as showing signs of shock occasionally with a reaction like he should not be here. This is not possible. meaning the final battle actually does make it look like you're fighting Bowser's corpse.

Huh. Reading this is a bit weird tbh. Aside from the way LM1 established it's set in an era where Bowser has already been defeated, it is worth mentioning that the atmosphere actually has the original up above both sequels imo. In 2 and 3, you don't really get the vibe that the first game gives you. Only a couple floors in 3 managed that.
Having said that, an abandoned Bowser's Castle would be neat. Cruise ship for the isolation, village removed from society.
LM1 did well in part cause Nintendo wasn't afraid to really push it.

"These days it's hard to see anything but two choices: stick your head in the sand, blanking and blocking anything negative in the name of self-preservation (and at the risk of appearing frivolous or ignorant); alternatively, get involved in the daily discourse, which inevitably devolves into knee-jerk snark, ill-informed takes, accusations and awfulness."
Yup. Sounds about right. Increased media and chatter has also reduced ppl's ability to interact about it civilly imo.

As for Miiverse itself, I enjoyed the first few years of my time there. Yes, artists were a big deal. But there were also chatrooms, and more importantly, you could always ask a question about a game and get a proper answer, or just post a funny. I actually ended up making the start of a sort of fanfic out of grinding Smash.
As for that pic, uhh, Pika doesn't look hot from that angle. If It were like, Charizard, or Incineroar though, I could see it.

@Lightsiyd Huh. Good to know.
I have been at least a little interested in NGB 1 and 2, but my Xbox doesn't have the storage space, and I'd want to play classic NG first.

Huh. Neat! Honestly though, Tales games weren't my go-to for multiplayer. The fact multiplayer only occurs in battle was a detriment.
As for Arise, I hear it was originally intended to be a different IP, so multiplayer Tales could easily return.

"Dumbledore said calmly"

Yeah, all jokes aside, this is good news. I'm looking forward to the successor! (Partly to find out if I should wait before buying certain switch 1 games...)

@Lightsiyd I'm curious, which ones were those?
The Master Collection has caught my interest. I've yet to see a collection of the classic games.

Interesting. I'll be blunt and ask, is this genre like the Final Fantasy kind of RPG dungeon crawler? Or is it closer to point and click?
If point and click, what're the main draws?

@wiiware
Except, the lead director for Bayo Origins was stated to have left, yet that game is still there, and similar deal with Astral Chain's director, though that's listed as a rumor.

Huh. I got SF Zero relatively recently. It's been in my Wii U for a bit now, waiting for me to start. But have been swamped with games, so it might be a bit longer.
Interestingly enough, I'm just a couple chapters into Revengeance as well.

I remember seeing MadWorld around. I can't figure on why they'd remove these games.

Anyway, for me, another reminder of the tragedy that was Wii U not having enough marketing effort put behind it for it to gain as much traction as it should have. (Among other things)

@Liam_Doolan @anubisvel Yup. I'm curious which it was too.
It never fails to impress me just how much the meaning of a statement changes if legit anything is different.

Having said that, as a completionist sort of gamer. Uhh. The adventure missions... They kinda reach the point where they, if not the normal ones, then absolutely the expert ones, reek of I need a guide type of bs. Kinda like the stages themselves could get in Super Monkey Ball 2... (Remember that one with all the switches? Iirc, 6-something or another. I've been curious for a while now how a vet like ProtonJon might pull that level off without a guide...)

@mlt
Uh. So, in Euros, the game DLC basically costs the same as it does in dollars?

Anyway, having been playing the game, I respectfully disagree with the notion the battle minigames are bad.
I don't know about all multiplayer. Never played multi adventure. At the same time, as of yet, I do not know if you can pick a minigame when playing with friends/family.
But the minigames themselves? They don't have as much variety as in older games, but, I can clearly tell the reason is because they didn't want to leave anyone waiting. Every minigame is action focused. That doesn't make it bad.

"As you might have seen earlier this week, the new trading feature went live in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket on mobile devices and a lot of trainers are particularly happy."

Yes. I'm adoring how "happy" everyone is about the result of how trading launched.

@AllieKitsune Ohhh. I see. Well, honestly a shame. At the same time though, the latest remaster seems worse than the ps3 version, from what I've read.

What'll be a big draw for me is what the map screen looks like. Buncha boxes for rooms just doesn't cut it.

Oh jeez. This is messed up. Though I do appreciate the fact you don't have to go out to collect cards, or pay a hefty sum. It's a shame, I keep getting the special arts for some cards I want the normal variants for, and normal for ones I want special art for. In excess. Was hoping to be able to trade some of my extra EX cards and the like for what I'm missing.

Also, did not know about the PoGo to PoHome issue. Makes me glad I never got super into that. Though I may someday try to get my gen 6 teams to modern gen, if possible.

I'm genuinely impressed by how bad it looks. Obvious ripoff with several key features. I'll be oh so disappointed if it doesn't have a Yoshi-alike gulping down a ball to lay an egg to do some massive shot using every part of its body except the hands.

@FX29 From what I understand, Tales of Symphonia's "remaster" was pretty poor. Speculation is they lost the original source code....

Graces F was one I sank a lot of time into. Still gotta finish it on ps3. But I don't think there's anything extra enough to get me coming back for Switch version.

@dr-ghost
Honestly, yeah. When switch came out, I saw this clearly, and was very upset at how they were handling things. When Wii came out in Europe, they ran a promo campaign with a significant reward. When they price dropped 3ds, people who bought it from before the drop were compensated. From Wii U's collective loss from their mistakes to switch? Nothing. Absolutely nothing, with the added bonus of "oh here, we made most of our library for the immediate future out of Wii U games, but we added extra features that you can't get on Wii U, so you gotta buy them again.".

@shoeses Tbh, this was my big issue as well. Too much of a grind to satisfy the not as much game time spent.

@SakuraHaruka What sorts of features? Also, I was sure I saw the Chinese version was discontinued.

Looking back at this is kinda funny tbh.

Okay, this article deserves a comment from me just for referencing one of my favorite holiday movies.

@JohnnyMind While tbf, I dunno your exact views on stuff, yeah. Things have gotten insane.
I'm increasingly frustrated with this kind of thing.

@John_Deacon
Ah. And it was the OG.
I do have a ps3, and I got it there, just to see the differences from the PSP version.

@MirrorFate2 Ahh.
And the OG SotN is on Xbox? Not sure which incarnation of Xbox, but at least it's something.

@BrazillianCara I think the redub is basically all current gen versions too?
And, I still need to finish the Wii VC version of Rondo to find out if that even had an English dub.
@mlt True, but, that's sometimes the way of things. Also, are you an alternate me? (I don't want to explain here, but that username is closely tied to me.)

@smolsauce This. This would be wonderful. Granted, I already effectively have 3 of the 4 games, but it'd still be nice.

@mlt This is almost certain to not happen unfortunately. Apparently, Sony themselves took part in getting the rondo and SotN games onto more modern platforms. To an extent, they have the right to deny a possible collection to others if true.

Just curious, what were the FF 1 and 2 releases on PSP?

@SalvorHardin
Eh. It's what I've been doing. Long and tedious process, especially since I want to 100% the game.
And yeah. One stage, 5 dollars. Like, Wii U era, DLC bundles were more $20 for immense amounts of content. A fourth of that now only equals one stage?
It reminds me of the Pokemon DLC, and how I can't help but compare it to the special edition games back in the day.

@Jamie64326
I enjoyed Frontiers, for a while. Those affinity tokens kinda ruined it for me by the end though. I still can't finish the last island cause I need to collect a bunch of them one at a time, and I've already filled out the map.
Don't forget, there've been other good games too! Mania for one.

Huh. Interesting takes. It's just one stage though?
I'd expected more.
Sonic fans have had at least half decent games for a little while now, but precious few have been truly great. Especially ever since Heroes introduced the trend of every enemy having an HP bar.

@Bigmanfan
Personally, I also appreciate the XSX Digital Edition numbers.

Some of these games have truly poorer sales figures than they should though.

@batmanbud2
Which movie was that?

@Spider-Kev Aww. Shame. Guess best anyone can hope for is it got recorded and uploaded to youtube or something.
Maybe they lost the master?

@Spider-Kev I never could find it. Was it a case of, you had to see it when it aired? Or is there some place it can be viewed?
And I think there was one other.

@-wc-
Heh. I played it much later on, as a Wii U VC type game. The far north thing was like, iirc, in lategame, I foolishly chose to fast travel to where, I think Jeff started out. And uhhh. Getting back was a bit much. There wasn't enough room to actually fast travel back. I still need to play Origins, and am contemplating how might play the elusive Mother 3... As much as I want an official English release, they've had plenty of chances and provided nothing. But I also don't want to just grab it off the internet.

Honestly, interesting tidbit. I was rather late to seeing the English version of it myself.
I'm still curious, as iirc, the wikipedia page had listed multiple episodes I could never find, which I would presume were live action. Iirc, one of them was supposed to feature the Ghostbusters cast.

@-wc-
I don't recall Earthbound that well, except the diffculty spike you mentioned, as well as a mistake I made going to that one far north area at a poor time, and genuinely suffering trying to get back.
Also, ZSNES classics? Lol

@VoidofLight
Ironic since it's about bonds.
Imo, it beats out Paper Jam though.

@VoidofLight Which reeks of irony given Broship used some of the same stuff as the movie. (Well, in one scene.)

Yeah. Unfortunately, I've not played as much Ultimate as I'd have liked. Most friends who played moved on to other games, and I just sorta burned out I guess? I'd love to see returning modes. That may well be one of Ult's weakest links.

@FirstEmperor What do you mean by that? Sorry. Haven't fully kept up with Ubisoft news. Also, that whole "Get comfortable" thing was a Ubisoft quote about not owning games, right?

@SalvorHardin Am curious, what actually is an X input controller?

@Andee I actually went and did it, with a bit of help. It was absolutely an interesting addition, if you bothered. With the new parrot update, it might even be doable now! (Without guides)
I'm interested in the next dlc myself.
Still curious which of the two endings is considered canon.

@Andee Honestly, similar here, but not same.
In my case, it was by and large the collectathon.

@JohnnyMind Honestly, yeah. The censorship has gotten really bad here.