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Still doing a summoning circle for the original six games, along with Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, to get a re-release.

Free Time: chuckles I'm in danger!

@PikaPhantom It might not have been at the start, but Banjo-Tooie was shown as an upcoming game during one of their teaser rolls for N64 games. They showed the box art and everything.

Battletoads & Double Dragon is a good one, though I ACTUALLY prefer the NES version, just because it's what I grew up with. Hopefully that one'll come soon.

Kunio-Kun games are usually good adds, but the other two feel very random.

I still remain in the camp that Nintendo just needs to dump their available catalogue (meaning the games with the licensing rights and the like) on NSO, and maybe work with third party partners of yore to get their games on there. God knows I'm STILL waiting to see the return of the Road Rash trilogy from Sega Genesis. Especially Road Rash II!

Also Mischief Makers for N64.

And Banjo-Tooie. It was announced with N64 NSO up front! It's LONG overdue!

Never heard of him. But I also don't play or follow competitive, so...

keeps edging out the CPU... barely

@Ryu_Niiyama That's fair, though I do wonder why they don't just do codes on cards like they do for other digital games. It's gotta be way cheaper than producing full boxes.

I saw this earlier in the week, but I'm so glad to have seen a bigger detailing. I missed a lot the first time through. If this didn't win, I'd have boycott all of Lego as a consequence... for all I could have done. ^^;

I genuinely wanna know what the point of a "code in a box" is. If you wanna sell to people who want something for their shelves, let them order it separate and not charge full price. If they're buying for the game, they might as well just buy off the eShop itself.

Or are publishers afraid people won't be able to FIND their games because Nintendo has done such a poor job of maintaining their storefront with all the AI art-flip games or the thousand versions of AAA Clock they've allowed on there?

Nice! I rather enjoyed this version of Carmen Sandiego, too.

And, like so many others here, the song is stuck in my head again. DO IT ROCKAPELLA!!

Hmmmm... tough choice. I'm gonna have to say... yes. To all. :3

Okay, okay, top three?
1. Final Fantasy VIIs
2. Baldur's Gate 3
3. Eldin Ring

Bring on the Shantae icons!

Also, Tifa, Plague Knight, MegaMan.EXE, Chun-Li, Hollow Knight characters, and Ryu Hayabusa.

This was good just for a pro-active, action-oriented Princess Zelda who wasn't afraid to get involved and jump into the action. Actually my favorite Zelda until the Tears of the Kingdom incarnation. Sure, she still got captured on occasion, as was the plight of boy-focused 80s cartoon shows, but this was still way better than a lot of what we'd gotten at the time.

That female Merchant is giving me HUGE Marle (from Chrono Trigger) vibes. I love it. <3

Probably for the Switch successor (I'm still not convinced it's called "Switch 2." Maybe "Switch Neo" or something else completely while maintaining the Switch principle?). I'd be totally on board for it, though! I love that game. <3

Ecclesia is probably the one for me too, but Portrait of Ruin makes a respectable showing in my considerations (but all three are EXCELLENT).

Of course, we /might/ also get all three in whatever super deluxe ultra chocolatey fudge-coated mega ultra super expensive collection they offer too, so, there's that to consider.

Pam would totally drive the Battle Bus... into the ground. Because she's drunk.

Honestly? It's his own fault. He was well aware of the motion he was making.

sigh

Have we learned nothing from Bomberman: Act Zero?

$400 is the price I'm thinking it'll be, $350 would be ideal, $300 would be a pie in the sky for me. $500... let's face it, I'll buy it, but I'll be actually unhappy with that price point. Unless it's a huge, PS5-surpassing, power upgrade or something, WITH the portability AND backwards compatibility out of the box. THEN the $500 price point would sting less.

Also, bundle it with a Super Metroid Armorless Samus Statuette.

Just because.

Wow, more decent prices from LEGO. Have they learned their lesson?

Probably not, but, we shall see.

I totally want that Donkey Kong set, tho!

Wow, and those prices are surprisingly not entirely terrible (though the Able Sisters' shop seems a touch high, considering it's just the front of the store).

Speaking of the Ables, though, I really wish the second figure was Sable instead of a villager. I mean, come on... she gets virtually no love already, at least give her a LEGO figure!

Say hello to a new policy of "no refunds on packs of cards" and "packs must be purchased from behind the counter" if this keeps up.

@CaleBoi25 Actually, Marie IS my favorite of the seven, but her and Marina’s mannerisms just didn’t seem like they would mesh well, and I really love Callie too! So, I chose her over Marie. ^^;

But no, I DEFINITELY didn’t intend to pick that little wanna be football, Pearl. She’s easily my least favorite of the lot.

"Go beat up the world, bro!"

Still love that line from Jimmy from the first game. ^^;

Love the River City Girls games! Marian's still my favorite character from RCG2, and that probably won't change here, but... hoo boy, it's gonna be fun seeing her "catch up" with the two nerds who took so long to rescue her that she decided to start rescuing herself. XD

What if we wanted Callie, Marina, and Big Man and just have an ensemble with a member of all three? :3

You sit on a throne of lies, Capcom. No Mega Man 12 news, no Mega Man X9 news, Legends 3 cancelled, Bad Box Art Mega Man included as a joke that nobody wanted to endure, World cancelled, Mega Man forced to play second fiddle to Street Fighter during his anniversary, Mega Man Fully Charged was... a thing... Capcom likes the iconography and nothing more. They'd rather spend more time on Monster Hunter and Resident Evil.

My condolences to the acquired studio. Under Warner Brothers Discovery especially, it likely won't end well for many. :'(

I’ve been begging for it all generation, but please… The Disney Afternoon Collection!

I’m still waiting for the update that gets rid of the “update required” glitch when the physical and digital copies of the games don’t match. I want to be able to play my digital versions of Coffee Talk 1 and Skellboy Refractured again!

Apparently, this happens with N++ too.

@SpaceboyScreams I dunno, man, passive aggressive hate, slights against his bank book, and reminding the world what a scumbag he is sounds like a good idea to me!

Shield Knight: Frisbee of Protection!

@TheBigK Preaching to the choir here, friend. I enjoy playing, and my friends wanna play with me, but I've been stomped into the ground far too many times, I retreat into my shell at the mere ask if I'm "around."

@RobTheIII Sure! I'd be down for Dr. Robotnik/Eggman or Knuckles. Heck, Shadow'd be an easy echo fighter once those two (and possibly Tails) are in.

Well, we know Square Enix wasn't happy with the sales on Sony exclusively, so, I'll buy that the older games could come to Switch 2. But it HAS to be natively.

And while we're at it, bring over the FF7R trilogy after the exclusivity window ends.

And an HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger.

And Final Fantasy XIV.

And the actual Final Fantasy XV.

And... okay, sorry, I'm getting wish listy here. >.>'

So, I'm probably gonna get it anyway since I'm a big Picross nut, but looking at that list, it shows me just how... thin... the Namco Bandai library is when you strip away the licensed IPs like Gundam, Dragon Ball, and One Piece. Which is a shame for a company boasting Pac-Man, Tales of, and Galaga (look, I like Galaga, okay?). I'm happy they found something they're good at, leveraging popular anime into at least decent games, but... I dunno. For a company so ubiquitous with the games industry, there's so little that's their own, it feels like.

That's the ultimate goal of any fighting game. Some can have some superiority over others, but if that gap isn't insurmountable for a lower fighter, then that's the sign of good balance.

If Little Mac can conceivably beat Sonic or Steve, then the balance is achieved. Even if one does win far less.

EDIT: ALSO! Tifa, Shantae, and Shovel Knight for the next Smash!

I'd have just flipped Adobe the bird, the AI-peddling, subscription-hawking, use-limiting cretins.

@BoilerBroJoe This was basically my sentiment. I snagged the Xanadu one and found out that... not only couldn't I read most of it... IT DEFINITELY PLAYS LIKE AN OLD TIMEY COMPUTER GAME! ^^;

Something like this is good, though, for the sake of preservation. But, I don't see myself really investing money on the titles I'm mostly interested in, namely, the text-heavy ones.

Fitness Boxing: Final Fantasy when? Tifa, Yang, Sabin, Yda, Zell, the Monk, Zangan, Amarant, and others would be great instructors for that!

@Sisilly_G Still gonna need way bigger ones, I think. If the rumors on the Switch 2 are even close to true, and the games are gonna be approaching PS5 levels of size, and those games are hovering around 80GB each, Nintendo can't skimp on the standard card size, even if they have to eat those costs themselves with their licensing partners. A size of 128GB should be the standard going forward for card size, with bigger ones available as needed, with Nintendo offering to eat the cost of issuing the cards to use if they need to go bigger.

I hope the next Switch cards are bigger than 16gb each, though. We can't keep having retail games take up boatloads of storage on-system or on-SD card.

Very nice! Love how Billy is totally chill, Jimmy is a rage machine, and Marian is just there in the corner wondering “what the heck, I thought I ditched these guys?”

“Go beat up the world, bro!”

That's kinda dumb, tbh. Weren't those posters kinda a reflection of Lara's flirty personality? It's not a big deal in the end either way, so... why do it at all?

I should go check on my uploads and see where they stand before the end day.

I see a barrel launcher there. I trust it's to launch Harry Potter world out of the park? :3

@Lady_rosalina I never liked her out of the gate. She was annoying, she was rude, and frankly a terrible friend to Marina.

@MsJubilee That was a fad? I honestly thought I was in the minority with that.

Off The Hook:
Pro - Has Marina
Con - Has Pearl

Deep Cut:
Pro: All three members are at least likeable.
Con: Is in Splatoon 3

So, yeah, tough one, tbh.

From the Smash line, I'm only missing Pyra and Mythra. From the Splatoon line, I'm missing Deep Cut. But my golden geese are Box Boy and the Monster Hunter Stories 1 amiibo.

Aspyr at it again with the Star Wars-related nonsense. Between this and the KOTOR 2 DLC debacle, I'm wondering if someone else should be on the legacy Star Wars stuff.

Great! Now can Raji go back to its old icon?