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@silver-crescent if Raidou is coming, so will they. The PS2's SMT Golden Age was partly because SMT3, DDS, the two Raidou games and the two and a half Persona games all used the same engine and same demon models.
This also means they can all be ported using the same tools and resources.

Death Stranding.
A) It has that bizarre Kojima appeal to maybe sell well in the East as well as in the West
B) It is semi-ready for bite-sized play on the go
C) It has a the usual Kojima time-based shenanigans for things to happen when you don't play so you'd be compelled to take pauses between sessions / see how the worldstate changed between your commutes to and from work
D) Its reference overdosed nature can easily accommodate adding Nintendo ones (like MGS3D has Yoshis added in place of the Kerotan and Saru stuff)

First Descendant is also a valid option, given how okay Warframe runs on the Switch.

Definitely getting it on Switch after having the original two on PC, gotta explain all these robo dinosaurs to my kid somehow.

My big issue with the original game was having to redo each mansion 5-6 times, so you go through N rooms, then N+2 rooms where the first N-1 play out EXACTLY THE SAME with the same scripted cutscenes, enemy layputs and having to re-pick-up gems and coins.

Basically it's like you have to replay a demo of the same level at least four times before they let you do the whole thing and it irked me bad enough that I finished the first mansion and the first level of the second, realized this is gonna be the way till the end and put the game down never to return.

@Mommar X-Men Mutant Apocalypse is about the X-Men fighting the mutant-oppressing original government of Genosha and then going up to Avalon to fight Magneto.
X-Men Children of the Atom involves fighting the mutant-oppressing original government of Genosha and then going up to Avalon to fight Magneto.

War of the Gems involves Spidey, Hulk, Cap and Iron Man taking Wolverine along to stop Thanos from assembling the Infinity Stones with a mechanic revolving around using tge Stones you've already recovered to aid you.
You'll never guess what the roster and plot of Marvel Super Heroes the fightening game look like.

@JR150 all the more amusing since CotA grew out of X-Men Mutant Apocalypse and MSH out of its semi-sequel Marvel Heroes War of the Gems, both SNES exclusives.

On the one hand, I'm salty AF it didn't get released as a patch as it doesn't function fundamentally different and the new content doesn't look like it weighs a lot, plus the Switch is no stranger to patches replacing the entire game (doubly funny for cart releases - Bloodstained, Witcher 3, I'm pretty sure MK11 and No Man's Sky are in the same boat by now) so it can't have been the consoderation for the update size.

On the other hand, review bombing a game will ruin it for newcomers and we want more people playing SMT than Persona. It already got us negotiations returned to P5. Just imagine, maybe we'll get affinity-based Persona switching returned for 6!

Wait, no docking points (or even commenting) how the people that bought tge original game only get the "bonus" of importing three demons from their party into the new version and that's it, no discount no nothing?

@LikelySatan it's poker on LSD, it's got randomness baked in from beforr there were comp00ters.

I'm both amused and glad that one of the better recent WH40k games is getting more stuff and that it is loved more on the basis of NOT taking itself all the way seriously like most WH40k strategy games do.

Losing the undercurrent of "it's all supposed to be tongue in cheek, yeah?" is always the first sign a dev misunderstands what Warhammer is about.

Also, navigation aid is good. Not often, but more than once, I got lost in the canyon levels because of how samey everything was.

@CutchuSlow delisting means you can't buy them. If you already got them, you can still redownload them (same with the game, if you got it digitally).

So it would only lock out people that had tge game sitting in their backlogs all this time and people they would resell the physical copies to

As someone with a CE of SMTV, I am pretty miffed that an upgrade isn't even up for consideration.

I've been singing praoses to The Missing for ages, it is good enough on its own as a Prince-of-Persia/Flashback style "climbey" puzzle platformer, which is a rare genre by itself, but the David Lynch style narrative told through creepy moosemen, years-old text messages and backmasked phonecalls just makes it shine.

I just hope they didn't actually tear JJ's voice actress to pieces to record all the suffering she emits whenever she loses and arm.or a leg or an everything (one of the puzzles requires you to use your head as a bowling ball, literally).

Also SKUL was amazing on its own but the devs keep adding new stuff, and it's pretty fun if a bit derivative. The varied pixel arts of your possible forms and their increadingly redonkulous attacks makes it stand out in my eyes.

It's an amazing fun game, although it can get samey at the halfway point as you coast into town, grab what the adventurers dragged in, buy your regular prime components from the shop, flirt with your chosen love interest, then go tossing ingridients into cauldrons for max stats.

Repeat for more cutscenes to happen.

That said the jokes are pretty funny and as mentioned above, the animations are basically "what if Pixar made a videogame".

Wait, wasn't Saber's actual own development/porting arm primarily housed in Russia? No word on how that's going to be handled?

Friendly reminder that the killer robots from The Mandalorian Season 2 finale came out of this game, so it's not entirely gone.

Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor of Rogue One which replaces this game's story in the Disney canon also very obviously serve as replacements for Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn.

There's a legacy that survives to this day in there.

But do I get a discount and a steelbook guarantee for owning a steelbook of the original release?

We still reserve the right to be pissed we gotta buy it again to play the new stuff. And this doesn't even have the advantage of being like Devil Survivor or Strange Journey expanded versions when it's a port to a new platform.

Wait, there were more than the NES game? I played that one religiously, even completing it once during a bout of insomnia, seguing into Saturday morning cartoons, but making it into a Collection sounds pretentious.

@Aurumonado she is, but both her and Akechi are paid DLC.

https://youtu.be/LCjzQsaiDdw?si=5_7M00RflSQVUBos

I wanna be excited for it like I was for Strikers but... It's not Q3 or Q1+2 package for Switch with improved visuals I would have preferred.
It looks like a me-too of Mario × Rabbids, a game that sounds swell on the surface but spends WAY too much effort hiding the actual tactics behind fancy jump-related gimmicks.

The way most reviews of this game actively avoid commenting on whether is something more than just a knockoff of a game I somewhat regret buying in a franchise that is already infamous for spinoff fatigue also worries me.

Gonna have to wait for heavy discounts with this one.

(Also, no mention how unlike Strikers, this actually has Kasumi BUUUUT she's a paid DLC character?)

I don't even need themes, just give me 3DS style icon movement and folder organization, with or without custom icons.

What a weird way for me to learn it was announced for the Switch at some point. I had it pre ordered for the PC the moment I let go of the Steam demo.

@Lizuka I play on PC and the only issue it has is atrocious load times if you aren't using an SSD. I don't even have a high end graphics card, a baseline 3060 has been Steam's most common card for over a year now.

The argument about PC piracy is nonsensical. It doesn't impact Nintendo's sales at all, because those kinds of people never would have bought a Switch to begin with, so whatever they do with their illegally obtained software DOESN'T COUNT, but it does promote the game's brand in a pleasant way so if anything it may effect the mid-2000's conundrum of "more piracy = free advertising = more sales" when pirated games were often used as demos because the publishers cpuldn't be bothered to make their own.

The Switch 2 having or not having backward compatibility is not in any way related to Switch 1 piracy levels.

Most excited for Phantom Fury. If Ion Fury was Shelly's Duke Nukem 3d, this is her Duke Nukem Forever, and I want a proper Duke Nukem Forever.

Of course what I really want is for the original Bombshell to come to Switch because I think it would play nice in handheld mode, but we can't have everything.

@ParadoxFawkes many modern boomer shooters have precision aiming even if they use sprites for enemies (e.g. Ion Fury, Prodeus and yes, this game). Headshots matter, if that was your concern.

Loved it on PC, but will not double dip, it's not THAT magical.

@LikelySatan it's because there has been zero footage released prior to release day. All we had was some offscreen footage from a leaker which was ew. They knew it would be contentuous. (People with the legit release recorded the same Fatalities as in those leaks and they look WAY better, so it may have been a smear job)
Hence the day one patch is basically upgrading the game from the beta version the PS players could access for a while to the retail one.

@Vash0125 well, they did eventually patch 11 from a muggy mess to at least playable without stress, so maybe the same will happen here. Or maybe they too are hoping that Switch 2 will save them.

@Vash0125 according to YouTube videos, it takes a while because the transition is actually a hidden loading screen but the Switch can't load everything in time while the characters banter so it's a 20-30 second wait while they're done talking, but like in MK11 it looks like the devs did everything they cpuld to make the in-fight FPS to hover in the vicinity of 60.

One of the best Star Wars games ever made, definitely in my Top-3, gimme gimme gimme.

Your last entry is a doublepost of Karateka. Someone oughta fix it.

Bloober clearly nade this game to show they could make a Silent Hill game. So they went from "Silent Hill 2 the walking simulator" of Layer of Fear to "Silent Hill 2 without combat" of The Medium, to "actual remake of Silent Hill 2".

Every other thing in the game is a blatant reference to SH2 or SHSM, and everything in between is filled with a Soviet aesthetic one wouldn't normally expect from a Polish game (they do so very much loathe any reminders of having been part of the Soviet Bloc) to make a solid 4/5 horror experience that has some pretty neat ideas due to the two-world mechanics which were the main bane of running this game on any machine lacking at least a GeForce 3080 or equivalent.

As a cloud game, however... Yeah, I get that it's the only way to get it unto the Switch but how many people will dip into that?

A question the review ignores:
Are the DLCs included or not? The Raziel and Kain mode and the Kane and Lynch mode for the original basically gave you two additional campaigns due to all-new dialogue, upping replayability exponentially.

Same question for the sequel, because some of the extra outfits you get from them were hella shmexy.

@Blofse you do know you can spin the car in flight with the analog sticks (remember to use the right one) to set up a more advantageous landing position, yes?

Loved the original and played it obsessively to the exclusion of everything to get all the Season Pass cars, so I fear I will be compelled to do the same with the sequel.

I love how deftly you dance around the fact that Megami Tensei predates Pokemon by almost a decade and was very much likely one of its core inspirations.
(Shin Megami Tensei III has been available on Switch for a while as well, maybe you should mention that somewhere)

I sank an unhealthy amoubt of time into Unleashed. I don't even normally play racing games! Yet I ground oit all the normal game's cars and most of the seasonal ones.

So if there's a sequel, I'm getting it, no second thoights.

Hopefully this includes all the costume and character DLC because the Kane and Lynch pack basically gives you a whole new game with the same level geometry and the Deus Ex costumes for the second game were bangin' hot.

What I want to know.more is why these are the DS and not the 3DS versions. Are they plannijg to sell the Untold version separately or pretend they didn't exist?

If Link was allowed in, so should be Pit from Kid Icarus and Samus and a Metroid from Metroid. Search your feelings.

This is awesome.

How does the review manage to complain about P3P's weaknesses without mentionijg the obvious reason it was chosen over FES confuses me.

The female protagonist story, who was brought back to semi-canonicity via Persona Q2, basically double the game in size: while you have the same boring Tartarus bits, the school stuff is almost entirely new, and some of the Major Plot Twists play out differently for the girl, so even if you played FES ten years ago, you can get a fresh experience here if you've never owned a PSP. It's pretty much THE reason to choose one version over the other.

In no real order
Nier Automata
TMNT Shredder's Revenge
Signalis
Persona 5
Alan Wake (yes, it's a weak port, but it's a game that runs slow on EVERY platform it's been on, and it's not on the Cloud!)

I feel like Papers Please was actually the trend starter for this sort of "you don't actually have to refuse or agree, there are more options than you think and it DOES change the story!" hidden functionality. Hence the Obra Dinn example, from the same author.

Ender Lilies was an interesting look at how somewhat derivative gameplay (Ori's "separate characters for traversal and combat" + Castlevania Sorrow duology soul collection) can still be fun and unboring. Let's see if they can do it with an otherwise generic looking Dark Fantasy TTRPG.

@nimnio there are games that deserve a 5/10 and there are games that got 4/10 that I enjoyed more thab some 9/10s. The issue is specifically with the disbelief that this particular game deserves so low a score.