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@KingMike They also released the original Theatrhythm, remakes of Dragon Quest VII and VIII, Bravely Default and Bravely Second, and Kingdom Hearts: DDD.

I have most of the S-E titles I want on Switch physically (except FFVII/VIII, FFIX and Legend of Mana), and the only digital-only title I really want just released a few days ago and doesn’t apply to this sale.

The real question now is will RTD be able to do what he wants with the forward progression of the series, especially given his pedigree and influence since he left over eleven years ago, or will the big wig execs at BBC strongarm him into safe, easily digestible derivative garbage?

Another thing to note, DW has literally ALWAYS been political; to cry foul that recent DW has been too PC, SJW pandering, or whatever, I always ignore these outcries.

Calling foul for Chibbs simply being an awful writer and terrible show runner is acceptable, however.

Sweet deal. Now we just need Capcom to update Megaman Battle and Chase and Konami to update Krazy Racers on Switch and we’ll have nearly every important VG franchise kart racer on one home.

God is real once a year and today was his day.

My biggest concern was buying digital-only titles only to rebuy them when they were certified physical a year later. Now I stay my hand a little longer on certain digital titles in the hopes of just being a year late to the party with that sweet, sweet case.

Calling it now: PS5 exclusive.

Prove me wrong, S-E.

No Game Gear versions?

The real test now is to just coast for another four years and try to hit that coveted 155 million units sold number.

Sonic lives, but he does not learn.

Top tier.

It easily sits next to Melee, Wind Waker, Sunshine, Pikmin, Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, The Thousand Year Door, Resident Evil 4, and Rogue Leader in my top ten GCN games.

@VoidofLight The toys to life craze is still alive (however much life support it may need) in the form of amiibos and will continue to be alive until at least the last Smash DLC amiibo is released.

Also, given the recent Mario 3D World, Zelda Skyward Sword, and upcoming Metroid Dread amiibos, I wouldn’t be surprised if Breath of the Wild 2 gets an amiibo, and I doubt that game will come out until 2023, so cheers to two more years of sluggish amiibo releases!

Does this thread need a link to Jay Exci’s incredibly in-depth critical review https://youtu.be/o8_A7n83Rh0 of the Chibnal era? Because as far as five hour honest reviews go from a transgender media critic, it doesn’t get much better than this.

Edit: the game looks dope as hell, though I’ll wait for a sale.

Because then people could readily play Metroid 4 leading up to the release of Metroid 5, and Nintendo ain’t about easily obtained continuity.

I don’t even play fan games, but I watched a play through of Prime 2D and thought it was stunning.

With the Switch being as dominating as it is, especially with Dread releasing soon and it’s obvious crazy pre-order numbers, Nintendo has nothing to lose from a dedicated group of fans making an incredible fan game for people to play for free.

Now, if they were developing their own AMP2D game, then I’ll shut up, but that ain’t happening.

In conclusion, blah blah legal rights blah blah every right to shut it down blah. I don’t mind Ninty’s legal team going after for profit rom dumps, but a dedicated fan game that looked that good just seems unnecessary.

No Jynx episode, I presume?

Hey.

Don’t write yourself off yet.

@Jmjfrank if you have any desire to purchase physical indie games, many of them actually have manuals in the case.

Not to diminish his work on Streets of Rage, but Yuzo Koshiro’s soundtrack for ActRaiser were the earliest definitive arrangements I heard that really made me appreciate how orchestral sounding MIDI music could be. Still one of my favorite VG soundtracks to date.

If Nintendo was Amazon Prime, they’d have relocated from New Zealand to the U.K. before season one of Lord of the Rings even began.

@Aerona
...may I meme it?

If Nintendo was the BBC, they’d have intentionally lost all those Doctor Who episodes from the sixties.

Masahiro Sakurai?
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of the country?
Localized entirely within the internet?

I finally made it to the fifth and final island in the Deadlands expansion of Kingdom: Two Crowns. I defeated each of the Greed lairs in the previous four islands and with any luck, will be finished within two days.

It’s nice to see some love for poor Other M in the comments. It’s definitely not without its problems (especially the first person BS, the story, and Samus’s characterization), but for a different angle on such a prestigious legacy, it really did a lot of things I liked, too.

Definitely the weakest of every Metroid release since Super, with the exception of Federation Force. Pinball was dope as hell, though.

I got the super cool collector’s edition, which I don’t regret, but it kept me from getting the super cool collector’s edition for Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2.

The MM3D changes still baffle me. Like, seriously, what were the complaints that caused these changes? I honestly didn’t mind the Stone mask location change or even the boss battles, honestly (except Twinmold, eff that mess).

But Zora swimming and Deku hopping were the most intuitive and easy to pick up and utilize aspects of reach of their respective mask transformations. There was simply no good reason to change what not only wasn’t broken, but became worse because of meddling.

If Nintendo were ever in need of a re-remake, Majora’s Mask 3D is it.

Obligatory Chibnall is Chibnullsh*t and should be ashamed of what he’s done to this franchise. Jodie Whittaker had such promise and he robbed her of her potential to go down as one of the greats.

Maybe series thirteen will be marginally better, but I really hope he steps down afterwards.

Can confirm Claymates is a solid side scroller.

Despite this, NSO is a joke and should be treated as such.

@AlienX Came here to post this too. I never unlocked all the GG games in SADX, but it was probably one of the coolest bonus features of any game.

I’ve this sneaking suspicion that DQXII is gonna be PS4/5 exclusive.

I’d love to be wrong, but enough of my gut is leading toward this prediction.

Time lines in Zelda are ubiquitous in nature because of the simple retreading of the major overarching storyline.

Time lines in Donkey Kong are jokes because of English localizations. Much like Mario no longer being a plumber, modern Donkey Kong’s heritage is not tied to an instruction manual from the mid nineties. How can a single time gap of specifically thirteen years be the only prominent space of time to age arcade DK into Cranky Kong while nothing ages Mario and Pauline? How can Tiny Kong outgrow her older sister Dixie Kong?

None of this matters and the only thing we need is the return of Swanky, Kiddie, and Chunky, all of whom will be reintroduced after twenty-five and twenty-two years, respectively, as corpses to show what happens when a prominent Kong goes MIA for more than a decade.

Just played through Fusion again on the GameBoy Player attachment for the GameCube in preparation for Dread. Might run through Zero Mission and the GBA Castlevania trilogy next...

I wouldn’t mind this release so much if it weren’t for the pressure of top tier Nintendo anniversaries ending in “5” making me think a collection (and one that isn’t limited to a G&W) is what we should be getting.

It’s one thing for SS to be the main focus of Zelda’s 25th anniversary, but to do it again for its 35th is just insulting.

The final confirmation that PSASBR fighters are banned from Smash as full fighters.

... I mean, unless Raiden somehow makes it in as the final FP...

@xxx128, I’m interested to hear your elaborations, because I feel the exact opposite.

Good lord, I was getting closer and closer to the top spot and was afraid, “there’s NO way Sonic ‘06 is this high up,” until I realized this was a Nintendo-only list.

I’m gonna keep my CIB GBA Castlevania Collection, but I would definitely pick this up physically. Though I guarantee it’ll be a Limited Run release or some such other hindrance.

It took over a quarter of a century, but we finally got another 2D Metroid game releasing on the big screen, albeit also a small screen simultaneously.

@Ghostchip I certainly didn’t hate the DS Zeldas, I just thought that the forced implementation of touch controls not only felt tacked on at the time, but made the games that much harder to go back and fully enjoy after the whole “touch generation” gimmick fell to the wayside, especially given that even the 3DS backed off a considerable amount with its first party efforts to force the stylus.

Which poses an even bigger threat for potential proper rereleases of these games in the future. Granted, the Wii U was an appropriate device to give them a second chance, but if anything, it just proved to me that the game shouldn’t have been locked to a touchscreen to begin with.

If there was ever a future remake of them, all the unique stylus control methods could be replaced with proper mapping of both analogue sticks. Skyward Sword HD is evidence enough that Nintendo is willing to recode its gimmicky games with traditional control schemes, but I feel that they would never bother to do so with any of the DS/3DS games...

My biggest disappointment in ALBW is that for some strange reason, it led to Triforce Heroes.

When the second Zelda game of a specific console comes out, it’s usually a much more streamlined affair for the developers to pump out because the engine is already there, waiting to be reutilized.

Majora’s Mask, Oracle of Seasons/Ages, Twilight Princess, and Spirit Tracks all reused assets from their predecessors to push out some incredibly fun and innovative titles (except for Spirit Tracks for me, but I’m very biased against the DS outings), and yet when the time came to finally get a wholly original Zelda game on the 3DS using ALBW’s engine, we got what was essentially the Federation Force of Zelda and I will forever feel disdain towards Nintendo for killing new 2D Zelda games with that half-hearted Four AdWords mockery.

It took awhile for Collection of Mana to make it out of Japan, maybe S-E will do the same for the Dragon Quest Heroes Switch ports...

But only if they finally localize DQX for Switch first.

Hell, give us the DQV PS2 remake in HD ON Switch/PS4/5 while we’re at it.

Star Wars suffered greatly from the new trilogy. It being as high as number 12 is thanks to the Mandalorian and the legacy of the originals.

Imagine if the Swift Sail was locked behind an amiibo back when The Wind Waker HD came out.

Now imagine that all of Zelda’s 35th anniversary is spent celebrating a decade old mediocre game, only now it’s slightly more expensive.

It took six and a half years, but we’ve come full circle; a regular amiibo now costs twice as much as when the line launched.

Zelda’s 35th anniversary is looking suspiciously like its its 25th anniversary...

In non-Nintendo fashion, if they had released a compilation of all 22 games as a stand alone game on the 3DS for forty U.S. dollars, I’d have given it a go.

As it stands, I have access to Galactic Pinball, Mario’s Tennis, and VB Wario Land; all of which are terribly uncomfortable to play.

Once in a lifetime do we get a Metroid trilogy.

I have no experience with any of the Battle Network or Star Force games.

64 (Legends) and its sequels were decent for attempting 3D.

The Zero and ZX games were a fun continuation of the X series.

Most of the X games hold up (I’m mean mugging you, X7) really well.

All of the Classic games are at the least still very serviceable games.

But the first X game is the unequivocal king of the series.

A game whose title is reminiscent of Earthbound that gives of Sieken Densetsu vibes from the team that made Celeste?

Fantastic. I genuinely hope the story deals with more depressing human existential dread.