MontyCircus

Getting:

• Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
• Arcade Archives LEAD ANGLE
• Celestia: Chain of Fate

Probably Getting:

• Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
• Besiege

Waiting for Reviews, and how the Switch Port is:

• The Plucky Squire

These polls are always puzzling to me, because I wait for sales on nearly all games.

I'm definitely getting it, so..."Day One" then?
Really my answer is: "The Very First Sale Offered I'll SNATCH it up!"

The Switch OLED is $350 USD. So Switch 2 is going to be more than that.

I see LCD Steam Deck on sale right now for under $500 USD.

$400 would be around what the original Switch was at launch, adjusted for inflation today. That would be an incredible price.

$450 would be accepted if the specs are impressive.

$500 or more and it's a less "WOW"-level compelling "sweeping the Internet" sort of price.

But if there are similar "Lite" versions launching at the same time, at $400 or lower, that might work.

$400 though, if they can do it. It would really be something. "Half the price of PS5 Pro!" (with disc drive and stand) would be great marketing.

Same here. Got it on GOG, will get it on Switch.

Waiting to know for sure it plays well on Switch.
You can't be too careful nowadays!

MetaCritic reviews are dire overall...

Ninja Gaiden was Tecmo. You might have meant Shinobi, luckily those are available.

But yeah, they pulled the plug so fast on their Sega Ages line of games.

I want to play Zaxxon!

Good call! Xbox is sharing all their franchises now (with apparently a "one year old" rule). I could totally see the Forza games on it. Forza Horizon 5 was on Xbox One. Maybe they could squeeze the newest Motorsport on it somehow?

We'd need analog triggers though!!!

**Adds all games to cart**

I'm just kidding of course. Switch 2 still won't have a cart.

Sounds like a lot of this book is "the making of"? Like a documentary in book form? That is interesting to me.

I skipped the "Hyrule Historia" because it sounded like chronology to a series with no real chronology or story.
I skipped the others because they sounded like art books.

But this and "Creating a Champion" sound interesting, if they focus a lot on "the making of" Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

I run a weekly retro video game poll on Reddit.

For the NES era (including Master System, Arcade and Computer games), Sunsoft was a Top 6 developer:

• Batman: The Video Game
• Blaster Master
• Journey to Silius
• Gimmick! / Mr. Gimmick
• Batman: Return of the Joker

Getting these 2 with former Japan exclusives:

• Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
• Sunsoft is Back! Retro Game Selection

Getting this one as a solid sequel to an NES classic (well, so says one glowing review so far):

• Gimmick! 2

Getting this one because of a couple of glowing reviews, and about 2,400 Steam users giving it their highest possible rating:

• Shogun Showdown

I count 4 "must-have" games in the first collection, and 3 in the second collection.

I don't think these collections will be good value unless they are $15 or $20 (individual games are around $5 on sale).

Unless you just are reeeally interested in checking out a bunch of mediocre-to-bad NeoGeo games.

As soon as the Direct says: "fully backwards compatible with every Switch game, physical and digital"...

I will SMASH that pre-order button so fast!

"Officially unveiled in October 2016, the Nintendo Switch launched worldwide simultaneously in March 2017."

If it's an early spring release, then an early winter reveal makes sense. As you can see, it happened before. In fact, it happened last time.

Especially if it is backwards compatible.

"Everything you buy for your Switch this Christmas, will be playable on your Switch 2 this Easter!"

That would go down pretty well. And would not hurt sales of games.

Would there be less Switches sold this Christmas? I guess? But would affect only a few naive people living under a rock that don't know that the new one is coming very, very soon.

It would be cool for this kind of thing to come to the NSO.

In one of his videos, Sakurai said if you release a sequel to a hit game, that is very similar to the one before, you can expect it to sell about half as much as the previous one (without a new, innovative gameplay hook that makes it fresh).

For me, a good example is Sonic Superstars.
I've got Mania, I've got Origins. Why do I need this?
It felt like they just pumped out another 2D Sonic game because it tested high on fan questionnaires.

(I'm not disagreeing with you, these are just "last article of the night" ramblings from me).

I thought I'd read before that Nintendo workers often brought games in development home with them to see what their families thought of them?

"This is fun. That not so fun." etc.

I'm not into anime visual novels generally, but Nintendo's first "M-rated" game had me intrigued.

Then the reviews were "good-ish" but definitely not "great" so I passed.

Seeing the headline, I immediately wished that Princess Peach game had a hard mode, as hearing it was more for youngins scared me off...

When I was younger, "story" was what happened for a couple of seconds between a game's levels.

Now, in a lot of games, "gameplay" is what happens for a couple of seconds between "story".

Pretty fantastic month of little indie games!

You had me at Super Famicom exclusive.

Getting:

• Castlevania Dominus Collection
• Pizza Tower
• BAKERU
• Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn

Interested, but waiting for reviews:

• Gundam Breaker 4
• WitchSpring R
• Valfaris: Mecha Therion

The original NES game is on the NSO, not sure if you know, but maybe others don't!

The NES version recently made international headlines because that kid "beat Tetris". So it's very cool that it is being re-released for the first time.

Don't let the whiners fool you. Nintendo could announce the NSO is adding Chrono Trigger, the entire GameCube library, and they're paying off all Nintendo users' student loans, mortgages and credit card debt in full.

And they would still just moan and complain. Day after day.

I prefer the old Tetris like this, without those modern assist lines to help you prevent dropping it in the wrong place.

That frustration was part of the fun.

I rated it a "7", "Good"

At the same time, I added 13 games & DLC to my DekuDeals wishlist...

And that's just the older, classic stuff proven to be good already.

This was the "...but does it run well on Switch?" announcement of the day.

I already had it on Steam, and of course it would come to Switch, but oh well, gonna get it here too!

I don't think the Direct made it clear that this was one of those Digital Eclipse interactive museum collections. At least I didn't catch it at the time. Great to learn that now. I'm in for all of them!

Already have them on GOG, but will scoop them up on Switch too.

Almost 600 GameFAQs users shared their Top 10 favourite PS1 games, and they were compiled into the list "The Top 100 PlayStation Games of All Time".

Suikoden ended up #23
Suikoden II ended up #10

That's what the poll results do?

The top 3 most popular this week:

• Sam & Max: The Complete Trilogy
• Crypt Custodian
• Arcade Archives KNUCKLE HEADS

It has been a barren few weeks, but there's usually still a game or 2 worth a look.

I think the point of it is to prevent people from hogging the experiences. So it will give you like a "game over", and you'll have to "sign in" with a different access card to continue, forcing you to go do something else in the museum and letting everyone have a chance to have fun.

**insert smiley face here**

As long as it's backwards compatible I will pay any price.
Especially if it is more powerful, to play PS4-level games.
And more disk space would be nice.

About $22.50 USD adult entry fee.

A little googling of Reddit says it's the first, and 2 sources on Wikipedia:

"...the first M-rated title developed internally by Nintendo."

"...a Mature-rated title developed by Nintendo...an unprecedented thing for the company."

"Could you do it slower and...more intensity..."

SILKSONG CONFIRMED!!!

In AdventureGamers' 2011 list of the "Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games", this was #4.

A rare "Nothing for me this week" from me.
But they should have listed the Arcade Archives release Tecmo Stackers, a Puyo Puyo clone...but a fun little twist on it.

For anyone wondering, the developers, WayForward, made the Shantae series, River City Girls series, Dawn of the Monsters, etc.

They announced recently they will be adding new modes, drip-feed-update-style (like with Nintendo sports games).

I'm hopeful that eventually the multiplayer will be good?

Most will rush to play MvC2
I'm going Punisher! One of the greatest '90s beat 'em ups.

@whitespy12

Yup, loving all of old Japan-exclusives getting re-released!

I have everything you listed except I didn't get the Great Yokai Battle collection because I just wanted the old games, so I got the other collection without the new one.

But did you get the Ninja JaJaMaru: The Lost RPGs collection? I don't believe that is included in the Great Yokai Battle Deluxe collection.

Hmm...maybe I should give the new Great Yokai Battle game another look. It was just 80% off, that would be enough to entice me.

A Japan-exclusive that's a bona-fide classic? Nice!

Will Buy:
Cat Quest III
Best reviews of the series
Arcade Archives THE FINAL ROUND
I love boxing, so surely some fun to be had
JALECOlle Famicom Ver. Yokai Club
A former Japan-exclusive!
Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse
It's Sam & Max, you just can't go wrong.

On the fence:
SteamWorld Heist II
Reviews aren't great so far, but better than SteamWorld Build anyway...
Fate/stay night REMASTERED
Waiting for reviews

"You know...I used to work for Nintendo..."