I was a little hesitant about the graphics but honestly they’ve grown on me, same scrappy spirit of the original. And, the gameplay & music is excellent. It feels just like the original game but modern and more fleshed out. Seriously though, the main Fillmore music has been popping in and out of my head since I was a kid. Hearing it again like this was pretty rad.<3
@moodycat I can promise you with 100% certainty that this game is VASTLY better than Zengeon. I played that for about 2 hours and said “nah”, but this one is top to bottom excellent. 🤘🏻
SO glad this one is reviewing so well! I’m a massive roguelite (I’m sick of the genre tags too) fan and this one has VERY quickly become an all-time fave. Thing is, I don’t care about the long levels because I enjoy the hell out of the gameplay so to me that’s actually a benefit. Don’t sleep on this one folks, we want them to keep making more awesome games like this, and I promise- this one is worth your time.
These were ALL I wanted to hear about yesterday so when they didn't get mentioned or shadow drop I was super bummed. HUGELY stoked to get my hands on these soon!!!
@beepboop368 They’re my most-hyped games right now, like “stalk Derek Yu’s Twitter account five times a day” level. I’m hoping they’ll both shadow drop tomorrow, and based on a couple of his tweets it seems pretty likely! Fingers crossed!
The only thing for me was Metroid Dread, but I’m stoked for everyone who’s excited about stuff like Advance Wars, etc. I’ve got some killer stuff I’m looking forward to though: Tony Hawk, Spelunky 1&2, Curved Space, SkateBird, Dreamscaper, The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, and Diablo 2 are gonna fill out summer/fall VERY nicely for me.
Man, I’m a cheap date- all I want is “Spelunky 1 & 2 available RIGHT NOW!”. That’s it, that’s all I want. I doubt it’ll happen but I feel like there might actually be a chance too. We’ll see!
Pre-ordered as I’ve been stoked on this one for a LONG time now! BTW- it’s reviewing extremely well everywhere else and this review didn’t even mention the infinite mode which kinda turns it rogue-ish.
@PhilKenSebben Absolutely! I’m pretty well-versed in the modern stuff but I’ve avoided the OG ones for some reason. I just completed the first dungeon and I think I’m really gonna like this.
@PhilKenSebben I’m doing the training house right now and I dig it, it’s more fluid than some of the others and it’s gorgeous. Plus, I like to dive into the real *****- trial by fire!
@bmumble Yep. It was the same drill for Hollow Knight back then too. Refreshing my browser like twelve times a day to see if there was news, and there never being news.
@PhilKenSebben True story! I honestly need to stop buying stuff like MH, Saints Row, etc. cause I always end up just going back to my roguelikes, indies, etc. I have a feeling once I have both Spelunkys that they’ll be consuming my gaming time exclusively until Repentance comes out. 🤘🏻
@PhilKenSebben Nice! I actually dropped off from MH Rise for a little bit, just one of those random mood shifts back into roguelikes and such. The Spelunky games are my latest holdouts for Switch indies right now, after them anything else is bonus. I’ve never played them so I’ll be going in 100% green.
@PhilKenSebben Hey buuuuuddy! Battle Axe is my next “most-hyped” but that one’s already got a release date. Spelunky still seems to be saying “Summer 2021” but I’m REALLY hoping they drop both games tomorrow. After those two I’m pretty much all out of wants at this point, and I’ve recently been getting back into backlog stuff so I’m pretty well set. I’m ALL about Immortal Redneck and Steamworld Dig 2 right now.🤘🏻
Monster Hunter: Rise is gonna be the default for a LONG time to come, but I’ll TRY to tear myself away here and there to keep up with my farm in SoS too but it won’t be easy. I love every single thing about MHR and I easily put in like 12 hours yesterday and could have played more. Darn kids & responsibilities!😉😂
I know there are VASTLY more important things to be annoyed by in the world, but it’s super annoying that I blocked out the whole day tomorrow to play this thing and now I’m not sure if it’ll even unlock until halfway through the day. This pre-purchase stuff is great and all, but I feel like I’m rarely “one of the first to play it!”. I know, it’s not earth-shattering but annoying nonetheless.:/
@JasmineDragon You won’t regret it, and BTW- I was hyped for Sakuna for a year and a half but I put it down after a few hours. Everything is great EXCEPT the controls while you’re farming the rice. It’s AWFUL, I’m not sure why nobody’s really mentioned it but it completely ruined the game for me. It’s gorgeous, and a killer idea, but I like my farming much less “bite my controller” rage inducing.
MHGU was my first foray into these games and I fell in love with it, but that sheen of 3DS jank kinda dulled the shine for me after a while. This? I’ve worn that demo OUT and I’ve got Red Bulls ready to roll for midnight tonight to get started on the real deal. I’m stoked, it’s gorgeous and it plays SO much better than MHGU so I’m excited to finally get sucked into crafting rad armor & beating the s$&t out of these poor beasts who are clearly just trying to go for a stroll through the woods.
@SwitchVogel Pioneers of Olive Town has quickly become my favorite farm game/sim out of them all. I’ve tried to like Stardew Valley like 9 times and it just feels stressful. Rune Factory doesn’t have enough farming even though I love the combat stuff, Friends of Mineral Town is great but I’ve enjoyed this one WAY more- I don’t know, something about this one just really works for me. My life is crazy, and I play a lot of intense games, so I actually prefer a little bit more simplicity and being able to just farm and take my lady presents lol! Plus, I’m TOTALLY playing in Seedling Mode, cause I don’t care about being “hardcore”, I like that money is a little less scarce so I can mostly just do what I want with a little challenge coming from trying to manage it all.
I think it’s a fantastic game man, I’m with you 100% on this one- considering I’m a huge fan of farming games I have zero idea why there’s so much hate for this one on the internet other than this- people spend more time these days tearing things apart than just LIKING something. So, I play what I want and screw the trolls. Plus, I turned 40 last year and I’m married, with two kids and a business to run- my brain doesn’t have room to care about what a bunch of strangers think I should be playing.
Nice to be back, I haven’t hopped into the rooms in a WHILE!
I'm having to suspend my gaming spending for a while due to the COVID-19 situation, I took a pretty gnarly pay cut at the day job and life is pretty dicey right now. I was hoping to pick up Trials of Mana but it looks like I'm gonna save that $ for Minecraft Dungeons cause I've been CRAZY hyped for that since last year. It's not a huge deal, I'm still getting stuff to review AND there's Animal Crossing so I'm all good. Might give me the motivation to check out some of my backlog too!
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Re: Best Nintendo Switch Roguelikes, Roguelites And Run-Based Games
Just logged in to stan my all-time fave NeuroVoider. Best twin-stick roguelite ever.💎
Re: Actraiser Renaissance Hits Nintendo Switch Later Today
I was a little hesitant about the graphics but honestly they’ve grown on me, same scrappy spirit of the original. And, the gameplay & music is excellent. It feels just like the original game but modern and more fleshed out. Seriously though, the main Fillmore music has been popping in and out of my head since I was a kid. Hearing it again like this was pretty rad.<3
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@PhhhCough I’m stoked, took Thursday AND Friday off for the occasion!
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@BlubberWhale Yeah, it’s fantastic. It’s a completely rad game.
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@PhhhCough Yeah, I’m playing both at the same time. And like 5 others, AND Diablo 2 drops on Thursday lol. 😂🙌🏻
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@Primarina Me too! I’m gonna stick with that for a while, unlock a bunch of stuff and then mess around with all the others. SUCH a rad game!
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@Primarina And not low budget at all, it’s a gorgeous game and it runs flawlessly.🙌🏻
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
@moodycat I can promise you with 100% certainty that this game is VASTLY better than Zengeon. I played that for about 2 hours and said “nah”, but this one is top to bottom excellent. 🤘🏻
Re: Review: Metallic Child - A Robot Smashing 'Roguelite' Anime Adventure
SO glad this one is reviewing so well! I’m a massive roguelite (I’m sick of the genre tags too) fan and this one has VERY quickly become an all-time fave. Thing is, I don’t care about the long levels because I enjoy the hell out of the gameplay so to me that’s actually a benefit. Don’t sleep on this one folks, we want them to keep making more awesome games like this, and I promise- this one is worth your time.
Re: Arietta of Spirits Demo Arrives Today, Launches Very Soon
Just finished the demo, it’s really good! Definitely gonna get in on the preorder now, I think it’s gonna be a great game.
Re: Switch eShop Lists Spelunky 1 And 2 For Release At The End Of August
These were ALL I wanted to hear about yesterday so when they didn't get mentioned or shadow drop I was super bummed. HUGELY stoked to get my hands on these soon!!!
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 11th August
@Williamfuchs420 I think you’re 100% correct, it’s no coincidence those prices finally got added yesterday. I’m SO stoked!!!
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 11th August
@beepboop368 They’re my most-hyped games right now, like “stalk Derek Yu’s Twitter account five times a day” level. I’m hoping they’ll both shadow drop tomorrow, and based on a couple of his tweets it seems pretty likely! Fingers crossed!
Re: Axiom Verge 2 Update Data Has Apparently Surfaced On Nintendo's Servers
Calling it now- Indie World presentation is coming in a couple weeks. This, and Spelunky 1 & 2 are gonna shadow drop.🤘🏻
Re: Tails Of Iron Is An Adventure RPG With Heroic Rats, Arrives On Switch Soon
Ummmm…so, this totally looks like “Salt & Sanctuary But With Adorable Rats” and I’m HERE for it. 💎
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Delivered An Excellent E3 Direct For Fans Old And New
The only thing for me was Metroid Dread, but I’m stoked for everyone who’s excited about stuff like Advance Wars, etc. I’ve got some killer stuff I’m looking forward to though: Tony Hawk, Spelunky 1&2, Curved Space, SkateBird, Dreamscaper, The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, and Diablo 2 are gonna fill out summer/fall VERY nicely for me.
Re: Devs Discuss Their Upcoming Switch Games 'Dreamscaper' And 'To The Rescue'
Dreamscaper looks stunning, I forgot about it somehow so thanks for the refresher!
Re: Poll: How Hyped Are You For Nintendo's E3 Direct?
@darkswabber I actually kinda think that might be a thing today, keeps coming to the front of my mind the past few days.🤷🏼♂️
Re: Poll: How Hyped Are You For Nintendo's E3 Direct?
@bluemage1989 This guy knows how to party.🤘🏻
Re: Poll: How Hyped Are You For Nintendo's E3 Direct?
Man, I’m a cheap date- all I want is “Spelunky 1 & 2 available RIGHT NOW!”. That’s it, that’s all I want. I doubt it’ll happen but I feel like there might actually be a chance too. We’ll see!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (June 5th)
Currently completely obsessed with Earth Defense Force: World Brothers. It’s SOOOOOOOOO fun. 🤘🏻
Re: Review: Battle Axe - A Battling Throwback That Doesn't Land All Its Hits
Pre-ordered as I’ve been stoked on this one for a LONG time now! BTW- it’s reviewing extremely well everywhere else and this review didn’t even mention the infinite mode which kinda turns it rogue-ish.
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben Kicks you on the pants when you lose a run, but the getting a little better every time rules.
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben Whoa man- sooooo I’m completely hooked! I fear for all other games in my backlog cause I think I’m stuck in here for a WHILE.
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben Absolutely! I’m pretty well-versed in the modern stuff but I’ve avoided the OG ones for some reason. I just completed the first dungeon and I think I’m really gonna like this.
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben I’m doing the training house right now and I dig it, it’s more fluid than some of the others and it’s gorgeous. Plus, I like to dive into the real *****- trial by fire!
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben I’ve had a hard time getting into these before but this one has had me intrigued for a while now, we’ll see if it sticks!
Re: Review: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate - Repetitive, Tough And Addictive As Ever
@PhilKenSebben I’m buying this right now, I’ve been on the fence but if you’re vouching I’m in.🙌🏻
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
@bmumble Yep. It was the same drill for Hollow Knight back then too. Refreshing my browser like twelve times a day to see if there was news, and there never being news.
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
SKATE BIRD! I forgot about Skate Bird!
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
@the_beaver I completely forgot about Hazelnut Bastille, I’d LOVE for that to come out tomorrow, or at least soon!
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
@PhilKenSebben True story! I honestly need to stop buying stuff like MH, Saints Row, etc. cause I always end up just going back to my roguelikes, indies, etc. I have a feeling once I have both Spelunkys that they’ll be consuming my gaming time exclusively until Repentance comes out. 🤘🏻
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
@PhilKenSebben Nice! I actually dropped off from MH Rise for a little bit, just one of those random mood shifts back into roguelikes and such. The Spelunky games are my latest holdouts for Switch indies right now, after them anything else is bonus. I’ve never played them so I’ll be going in 100% green.
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
@PhilKenSebben Hey buuuuuddy! Battle Axe is my next “most-hyped” but that one’s already got a release date. Spelunky still seems to be saying “Summer 2021” but I’m REALLY hoping they drop both games tomorrow. After those two I’m pretty much all out of wants at this point, and I’ve recently been getting back into backlog stuff so I’m pretty well set. I’m ALL about Immortal Redneck and Steamworld Dig 2 right now.🤘🏻
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air Tomorrow, 14th April
Keeping my fingers crossed for a Spelunky/Spelunky 2 shadow drop. 🤞🏻
Re: Video: 11 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In April
Stoked for Rain on Your Parade and Battle Axe, been looking forward to those two for a while.🤘🏻
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 27th)
Monster Hunter: Rise is gonna be the default for a LONG time to come, but I’ll TRY to tear myself away here and there to keep up with my farm in SoS too but it won’t be easy. I love every single thing about MHR and I easily put in like 12 hours yesterday and could have played more. Darn kids & responsibilities!😉😂
Re: Poll: Monster Hunter Rise Is Out Today On Switch, Are You Getting It?
My poor farm in Olive Town.😂
Re: Monster Hunter Rise 2.0 Update Scheduled For The End Of April
I know there are VASTLY more important things to be annoyed by in the world, but it’s super annoying that I blocked out the whole day tomorrow to play this thing and now I’m not sure if it’ll even unlock until halfway through the day. This pre-purchase stuff is great and all, but I feel like I’m rarely “one of the first to play it!”. I know, it’s not earth-shattering but annoying nonetheless.:/
Re: Video: Here's A Sneak Peek Trailer For The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum
@SwitchVogel I was thinking the EXACT same thing!!!😂🙌🏻
Re: Review: Story of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town - Enjoyable, But Unremarkable
@JasmineDragon You won’t regret it, and BTW- I was hyped for Sakuna for a year and a half but I put it down after a few hours. Everything is great EXCEPT the controls while you’re farming the rice. It’s AWFUL, I’m not sure why nobody’s really mentioned it but it completely ruined the game for me. It’s gorgeous, and a killer idea, but I like my farming much less “bite my controller” rage inducing.
Re: Review: Monster Hunter Rise - A New Apex For Capcom's Beastly Franchise
MHGU was my first foray into these games and I fell in love with it, but that sheen of 3DS jank kinda dulled the shine for me after a while. This? I’ve worn that demo OUT and I’ve got Red Bulls ready to roll for midnight tonight to get started on the real deal. I’m stoked, it’s gorgeous and it plays SO much better than MHGU so I’m excited to finally get sucked into crafting rad armor & beating the s$&t out of these poor beasts who are clearly just trying to go for a stroll through the woods.
Re: Review: Story of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town - Enjoyable, But Unremarkable
@JasmineDragon Don’t listen to the noise, it’s a wonderful game. I’ve been playing for 3 days straight now and I only love it more. Promise.
Re: Review: Story of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town - Enjoyable, But Unremarkable
@SwitchVogel Pioneers of Olive Town has quickly become my favorite farm game/sim out of them all. I’ve tried to like Stardew Valley like 9 times and it just feels stressful. Rune Factory doesn’t have enough farming even though I love the combat stuff, Friends of Mineral Town is great but I’ve enjoyed this one WAY more- I don’t know, something about this one just really works for me. My life is crazy, and I play a lot of intense games, so I actually prefer a little bit more simplicity and being able to just farm and take my lady presents lol! Plus, I’m TOTALLY playing in Seedling Mode, cause I don’t care about being “hardcore”, I like that money is a little less scarce so I can mostly just do what I want with a little challenge coming from trying to manage it all.
I think it’s a fantastic game man, I’m with you 100% on this one- considering I’m a huge fan of farming games I have zero idea why there’s so much hate for this one on the internet other than this- people spend more time these days tearing things apart than just LIKING something. So, I play what I want and screw the trolls. Plus, I turned 40 last year and I’m married, with two kids and a business to run- my brain doesn’t have room to care about what a bunch of strangers think I should be playing.
Nice to be back, I haven’t hopped into the rooms in a WHILE!
Re: Review: Totally Reliable Delivery Service - Return To Sender
@Lordplops You've won the internet today, congratulations.
Re: Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For April And May 2020
I'm having to suspend my gaming spending for a while due to the COVID-19 situation, I took a pretty gnarly pay cut at the day job and life is pretty dicey right now. I was hoping to pick up Trials of Mana but it looks like I'm gonna save that $ for Minecraft Dungeons cause I've been CRAZY hyped for that since last year. It's not a huge deal, I'm still getting stuff to review AND there's Animal Crossing so I'm all good. Might give me the motivation to check out some of my backlog too!
Re: Review: Animal Crossing: New Horizons - An Accessible And Addictive Masterpiece
I'm not sure if I'll ever play anything that makes me THIS happy. Spectacular game, I'll be on this for a LONG time.
Re: Amazon Is Delaying Shipments Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Nevermind, it refreshed. "Tomorrow by 11 PM" which typically means I get it early afternoon when they send it via UPS. Fine by me!
Re: Amazon Is Delaying Shipments Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Mine shipped but now it says it won't arrive til Saturday. :/
Re: Nintendo Download: 19th March (North America)
ANIMAL CROSSING!!!!!