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Really dig it. If only it appeared physically too...

No Nintendo game beyond 33%? You don't say!

They're definitely taking their time, but I still see it more as a remake than a second part. Anyone else?

Parts 1 and 3 will be included in the Renovation Collection on Evercade next year. Mega Drive versions. Too bad they skip Valis II, and for that I'll consider getting the Switch collection, if it ends up being released in normal stores at some point physically, like sometimes happens with LRG games.

@SigmaNoire Then let's hope they do release those collections to catch up!

I wish they released a collection of I-VII. Even if they have to do it in 2 parts. But VIII is too expensive on Switch due to the small number of copies and IX turned out to be a bad port apparently, so I guess the Switch won't be the system I'll play the series in.

@CodyMKW Yes, I can read. I'm just saying it sucks.

You can't stream from the Switch? A shame. It's a hard pass then.

@TryToBeHopeful @masterLEON You're right, but it was the only (or almost the only) exception. Hamster games or retro games in general are overlooked and rarely make the Top-put a number here digital sales ever.

@BooJoh Damn! LOL

@Gwynbleidd Of course, this is what I meant: nobody reads it, but with poor sales that possibility is even smaller.

Unfortunately I think poor sales of these games are the main reason for this mistake to have escaped the eyes of people. Because if it sold 20 digital copies, it's perfectly possible that none of the users has read the manual.

Would have been in some of all those digital best-sellers that are available in physical form too, the thing would be different.

They did take their time to confirm all of this. Well, I thought it'd be worse. Nice to see there are only a few themes missing. Anyway, not all in the cart, no buy from me. Portability isn't enough reason, so I'll stick to the originals on Xbox.

@RupeeClock Well, it remains to be seen, but I hope you're right and arrives to everyone even if it has to be digital.

Anyway, I understand your point about small companies, but many times super niche games have been released without any problem, like obscure visual novels, yet popular titles remain digital or have physical releases only by LRG-like companies.

@RupeeClock Well, I do prefer physical releases and lament how a lot of times they're limited. But I also meant I didn't count on a general release at all.

Not that they can't do whatever they want with their products, of course. If they want to limit their audience by honoring the backers, which is how it usually works, it's fine. I was just pointing out that the news piece is of little use, considering the target has been achieved and people outside it won't probably be able to get the game in any form.

@RupeeClock OK, my point.

@RupeeClock I'm just saying that being a Kickstarter campaign it will probably only be available there. Am I wrong?

@Zero_0 I know, but I like to play the games legitimally.

But I guess the only way to obtain it on Switch will be having backed it on Kickstarter, right? Otherwise I'll wait for a normal release on standard stores.

This Ratalaika people is really committed to bringing back some 16 bit classics, and at an amazing price at that. Been enjoying Gleylancer a lot. Don't think I'm getting this one, though, because I own it on Mega Drive, but I salute the release.

Great, but I don't understand the delay of Breakers Collection, due to release in 2020 and probably digital only.

I'm a dad and don't like to dance, so it's a hard pass from me. LOL

Three personal wishes:

1. Additional games not being 100% the ones we already have available in collections and mini consoles. Musha is a good start here, but sadly the only exception.

2. Regular additions in all platforms, NES and SNES too, not 5 games now, 2 more in several months and then 3 more, and months of silence.

3. More platforms, of course. Game Boy (classic) is predictable. I wish PC Engine was another one.

You don't say...

I understand it. They couldn't ask for 32GB cards because the 60 (insert currency) they will charge aren't enough to justify this.

Great, I already had many of the games in other collections, and having some beat'em ups twice on Switch really hurt. I'll be picking them up individually. They should have let us buy them 25% off too, though.

Streets of Rage as half-decent. Wow.

Debut on Switch. We only had NES version in Namco Museum Archives.

Still, whatever happened to the games that were in line before the arrival of Namco to the Arcade Archives?

It would be great if they focused on console games which re-release had meaning and was helpful, like Japan-only extremely expensive Saturn titles, but please don't stop bringing us arcade titles, especially big ones such as Undercover Cops or Chase HQ, some examples of feasable games still to be ported.

I always thought, comparing NSO NES and SNES with the respective minis, that they shared almost all games because the license included both releases.

Mega Drive Mini was cheap enough, so I didn't think third-party games had been that expensive to justify Sega charging Nintendo so much now.

Anyway I think they shot at their feet, because NSO games were always a perk, not the main reason to subscribe. Double the price and many people will pay, but not as many as you thought.

Yeah, but what about the licensed music?

What if I'm not interested in AC DLC? Not justified.

Anyway, I didn't expect it to be that much tbh. In which eShop is it the cheapest anyway? Is it still South Africa or Poland this time?

A shame, but it looks like they're looking into it and we should get a patch at some point. Sadly this won't be updated in many reviews, and people will go home with the bad impression they're left with today. Wouldn't be the first time.

Would be great if this time around they DO include the original ROM as an unlockable, a missed opportunity in Toki. But I'd settle for a Mega Drive version, which is known as the superior one apart from the arcade original.

Nice, this game isn't included in all Namco Collections. In fact, it's been a decade since last time.

I'm glad they've released, as of now, 3 Namco games (out of 4) that weren't already on the Switch in their arcade version. Pac-man has been the exception, but it's totally understandable.

Strangely enough, this game got a 7 from Nintendo Life when it came out on Wii's Virtual Console. The Wikipedia reception section doesn't make us think it's an excellent game either, so maybe the reviewer rated it too high, but I'm going to buy it eventually. It's cheap, and will be cheaper at some point. And all shmups seem difficult to me anyway, so as long as I can advance a good chunk I won't feel my money is wasted.

I currently don't have a subscription, because it expired on October 3rd, and not knowing how one should upgrade an existing yearly subscription I didn't want to take any risk. But it's mid-October and they didn't explain squat.

Glad to see a Namco game that's not the typical we see in collections over and over, but this one seems to be one of the weakest, for what I've been reading.

Glad to see Namco in Arcade Archives too, but they're cutting the line here, with several games announced for months having to wait even longer now.

Of course it's going to be less appealing graphically on Switch, but I wonder what will happen with the soundtracks. I mean, real life songs use to be a license hell, and I get that, but Vice City (specially) without those masterpieces would be a bummer...

Ha! What if you want to sell your current Switch in order to finance a rather good chunk of the new one? You can't transfer files with the two units together...

So it doesn't apply to individual fighters purchases? A shame, really. I'm only interested in three of them.

And I guess they'll all be released before the pending Arcade Archives.

It could have been done years ago and it would have arrived to the West like all previous main entries, though.

Didn't know about this, it wasn't previously announced either (although this is classic Hamster), and I'll definitely consider buying it. After all, it introduced the first female in a fighting game!

What does it mean Pac-man takes the Japanese ROM for most of the game?

Anyway, I have it on Namco Museum, but Xevious arcade version is a game I don't own in any form, so I'll get it eventually.

Good thing that Namco has joined Hamster, but those games have actually been available many times even on this console, and make the scheduled ones come even later.

What I'd like to know is "what happens if your subscription ends before the arrival of the new one? Do we have to wait until that day without an active subscription?"

Why calling it Advance if there's Castlevania: Dracula X there too, regardless of which version ends up being? Why not just releasing a Castlevania Anniversary Collection vol. 2 with several games, of course GBA and SNES/PC Engine but also DS, Game Boy's Legends and Symphony of the Night? I'm not asking a crazy thing here.

I guess we'll never see the Nintendo 64 entries collected, though. And those would be really useful (as GBA rereleases are) due to their current market value.

I don't know how they're going to manage physical editions. Even if Cotton 100% and Panorama Cotton stay in Strictly Limited Games.

The Saturn collection is a standalone release, and not a SLG exclusive (let's hope it comes to standard stores as Cotton Reboot did, and at a similar low price), but what are they going to do with the SNES and Mega Drive entries? A Cotton 16-bit Collection? I wish! As long as it comes to stores too. That would leave Rainbow Cotton (Dreamcast) as the only title in the series not re-released.

Up to 75% as long as it's not a Nintendo game. They should just say "in this week's sales there would be some Nintendo games". It's not a Nintendo sale with hundreds of sales.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I know, but there was a lot of press coverage of SOR4, yet Cruis'n Blast didn't even have reviews ahead of its launch for people to 1. know about it and 2. Make an informed decision. So yes, they can still buy it, but without preorder bonuses, discounts, et cetera.

People are loving this game, but it's certainly weird how Nintendo hasn't made any marketing. And I see very few reviews out there, and the ones that got published suffered some kind of review embargo, unexplicable with a game like this. I think that hurt the sales a lot.

People that has played it loves it, and a lot of comments they get go in the lines of "wow, it looks interesting, didn't know about it". And that's a problem.

Besides, the physical version is really cheap, even cheaper than digital! (well, that's what always happens day one, at least)

"All versions of Jungle Book"? Well, then I guess my copy of Master System's version is an unlicensed one.