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It had a really amusing honor of being one of a few games where the Saturn version was the superior one, so the fact that it apparently combines all of them (odd that they do not mention the DOS one?) is a plus.
As the last of the Big Four BUILD Engine games (alongside Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior and Blood) it is an important milestone in old game rediscovery.

Now give me Blood HD already.

Ifrit, Ramuh and Shiva as racers? Sounds... Like they have to stretch a lot. Also, I am seeing a bunch of FF9 characters, but where is some older game rep?

Didn't a different rumour source list Persona 3 Portable as coming to all platforms Golden was ported to late in '22 or early '23?

Point for more obscure Mario characters to appear: I want to play as Fawful so badly it HURTS.

Point for more crossover characters to appear: Samus Aran. Nuff said.

Why do these Humongous re-releases always miss Spy Fox? It was brilliant and stylish and - oh yeah, randomized plot points so that no playthrough would be the same at least for three or four go-arounds.

Sadness. ZX games were a great step up in what the gameplay of a Mega Man game could be, being full scale Metroidvanias that nobody ever puts on lists of Metroidvanias worth playing without any significant justification.

Mega Man Legends 3 was recycled into EX Troopers which was quite awesome. I wonder how much of ZXC got recycled into other stuff?

Wasn't the game also in a scandal over how several late-game tracks of the soundtrack, maligned as it was, were straight up pinched from OC Remix? Something something crunch time, BioWare didn't have time/money to make their own?

(Also, for those watching at home, this game shares some of the codebase with Mass Effect Galaxy, an old iOS prequel to Mass Effect 2 which most of you have probably never heard of, which tells the story of how Jacob joined Cerberus)

@TheFox there are also seasonal holiday free DLC drops. There was one for Thanksgiving and now thete is one for Christmas. So you do get some extra cars even if you don't want to pay a dime beyond buying the game.

This list, like many others on the site, suffers from an acute absence of Hot Wheels Unleashed. Sure, the Photo Mode is locked away in the replay menu, but it is still fun to capture the zany stunts you see during a race.

Played the Steam Early Access version to death, first the one level version, then the two. Pre-ordered the Switch version (yes, a physical release is available!) on Play Asia a while back, and happily waiting for it to arrive, it is en route already!

Is there any specific reason Hot Wheels Unleashed isn't on this list?
Rock solid FPS, ridiculously robust track editor, jawsome single player campaign and lively online play. What's not to like?

Much like the crocodile/dinosaur mouth shaped rock formation you have to ball roll through when entering Kraid's zone of the level.

@Bydlak I think it depends on the type of game. With C64 you can get Laser Squad, for example, from which all modern tactical strategy games vaguely related to using firearms descend but NONE of which use action points anymore, opting to go for the Fire Emblem approach after XCOM went for it (which is technically X-COM 7, and X-COM was technically Laser Squad 2, and Laser Squad was technically Rebel Star 4...).

If you remember Rebelstar Tactical Command on the GBA, it was made by the same people specofically to bring this sort of game forward from the past. If you don't, they failed.

The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters sold and performed way better than the previous HD renovations. P'raps Chrono Trigger is about to get the same treatment.

Working on unlocking the Mini Cooper in Hot Wheels Unleashed. I wanna know if there's a custom livery for the real car I own and if not, I am totally gonna draw it and race it exclusively.
(Also, the Batman DLC levels are ridiculously hard)

@JustMonika they are Etrian Odyssey games through and through (hence the Q, it's a stupid pun in the original Japanese), 200% brutal dungeon crawler, but the story is pretty great, even if it rather oddly combines a traditionally dark Persona core plot (I cried my eyes out multiple times during the original Persona Q) with whimsical fanservice in sidequests and incidental events.

TLDR: You played 4 and/or 3 to completion and want more with the characters without ruining the plot of those games, you can play Q.
You played 5 and 3 or 4 to completion and you want more with the characters, you can play Q2. But in both cases, be prepared that there are no Social Links, lots of fanservice and difficult grindy combat is 99% of the gameplay.

You're missing Death's Gambit Afterlife. It may not be a 2021 title on Steam, but it only came to Steam this year.

Yes! Persona games gave terrible female protagonist ratios despite the formative prequel having its variable gender protagonist canpnized as female (SMT If was more than a precursor to Persona 1, as Tamaki is an NPC in both 1 and 2).

Give me Barette Girl back! Her inclusion in Q2 in what amounts to a deuteragonist role was a wonderful gift.

Loved the Steam version to bits but the price is rather steep. Much like Necrodancer, I feel it will SHINE on a portable platform, so I will inevotably get it. Just... A bit cheaper.

I also have questions for the review because that PC-88-ish visual design is to die for.

@iaLgan Animus gets a lot of flak as a mobile phone game. Is it actually any good? I don't think I've seen a single review looking past that.

If old games are fair game, Demon's Crest, from the Switch Online SNES library, is also an okay fit.

Punishing combat, the occasional kaizo trap, gothic ruination, a run-down world that some (censored) is all to willing willing to burn half to the ground just to put himself on its throne. Except that (censored) is you.

Throw in giant pattern-recognition bosses and ability absorption (as this game is pretty much Mega Man X: Dark Fantasy Edition) and you get most of what makes a soulslike tick that is obtainable from a januwine 16-bit game rather than a modern throwback. Except, you know, sort of permadeath.

Death's Gambit is a WAY better "2D Souls" than Salt & Sanctuary. It has the same "dying cursed city where nobody can die" vibe of Lordran, but with a twist; a very similar freeform progression system and zany equipment options, and pretty much if Blasphemous is "Soulslike Metroidvania with more Castlevania in the mix", this is "Soulslike Metroidvania with more Souls in the mix".

Any new discovery options are good options.

Back when it was new, its appeal was trifold:

• One of the first games to show how bump mapping, then a new technology, could be uaed to make clothing look nicer, primaroly via the creases in Rayne's outfit
• Sexy vampire lady on the cover art who didn't look half as sexy in the game
• Spinoff of semi-popular Nocturne which was the last true fixed-camera survival horror of The Olde Schoole,

Alas, sex sells, scandal sells, Uwe Boll movies ruin the rep of games they are based on, and thus nowadays everyone remembers BloodRayne and nobody remembers Nocturne or the Blair Witch Trilogy which used the same engine and some of the same characters in the episode made by the same devs (it was a gimmick that a different dev made every game, only one sold okay).

DS for sure. It had the charm and longevity of the PS1 in your pocket, some of the best Call of Duty games, a metric ton of JRPGs vying for my personal Best JRPG Ever Made, a myriad Metroidvanias, the Last Good Castlevania, an army of amazing first party titles, and its only real shortcoming was that it didn't have enough online features because Nintendo still hasn't learned how to do them by now.

I could list games everyone must play that you have never heard of that are on the DS for a day or two and not get tired.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Question is, with a demo available, who will ever ever buy Rogue Corps?

PC: Subverse is a surprisingly decent bullet hell/TTBS/VN combination attached to a mildly funny sci-fi parody even if you skip all the h-scenes
Switch: SMTV, and will remain so for the foreseeable forever
3DS: Wrapping up my replay of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, it is too fun to stay away for long

@Rich_Uncle_Skeleton fair fair. Perhaps my opinion is coloured by the fact that I find the Moon theme grating on the ears.

Either way, this article is not about Duck Tales.

Do you have an opinion on Secret of Evermore?

Having played this on Steam, I must say the following: it plays a lot like Symphony of the Night and feels like Symphony of the Night, because a lot of it is plagiarized from Symphony of the Night (some of the protagonist animations are literal traceovers from Alucard and several enemies look like sprite edits of Castlevania enemies) but it is still a very solid and fun Metroidvania despite that .

I wonder what other flash attacks are possible?

But yeah, it's counterintuitive since this is a dodge move, not used for attacks anywhere else. Or is it?!

@Rich_Uncle_Skeleton yes? We live in an era where anyone can learn that there was a Duck Tales 2, buy Capcom's Disney Afternoon Collection (or pirate it, or the ROM, I don't judge) and play it and embrace its goodness.

For whatever reason, Chip'n'Dale 2 which came out AFTER Duck Tales 2 is a lot more widely known. How does that work, exactly?

Every time I see a game that works and/or looks like Secret of Evermore being compared to Secret of Mana I gnash my teeth. Has NOBODY played that gem of a game? (incidentally, a game that Jeremy Soule wrote music for that doesn't recycle the same theme for everything like his work on Elder Scrolls does).

This is similar to the odd blind adoration American gamers have for Duck Tales despite the existence of the vastly superior Duck Tales 2.

Battletoads 2020 on my PC
Shin Megami Tensei V on my Switch
Gundam Breaker Mobile on my phone

All during the hours taken out of sleep because too much work

Shattered Memories is my second favorite Silent Hill game after 3, probably because both take tge raw potential of 1 and do WAY MORE with it.

Tatsunoko vs Capcom was the first Capcom vs game to move to 3d (it was specifically done as a proof of concept on an unrelated console in case it failed), but it was bonkers and I love it.

And for the third game I would pick Fragile Dreams, as the officially prettiest Wii game ever made and the fact that in a few ways it's Death Stranding For Kids and both of these facts can't just be lost to time.

I love how you fail to brng up that Dream Mix also featured Solid Snake and Bomber Man (also Power Pro Kun, but who cares about him, right).

It was a FUN game and I don't regret hunting it down.

@KBuckley27 SMTV is kind of old-school in modern trappings though. At its core it's still got those early-ninteties gears churning.

Perhaps they thought competing with Smash is useless so why bother?

My Shin Megami Tensei V Fall Of Man Edition has just arrived. I'll see you all next year.

I gotta say, it it one of the most graphically impressive games I have sedn on the Switch so far and that's on top of the usual goodness of soundtrack and gameplay.
SMTV is awesome and that's a fact.

@RupeeClock okay that was a weirdly specific brainfart on my part, I was certain it retained the GC control scheme for multiplayer purposes 😨
I shall recuse myself bebeath a waterfall abd meditate on this.

@RupeeClock but they were all updated to the same scheme in thr Trilogy for the Wii which supported both controller and WiiMote controls - so, attached OR detached Joy Cons (or Pro Pad idk)

Oh how easily people forgot Steamworld Tower Defense.

@patbacknitro18 not until there's a third story locked behind paid DLC.

@NoTinderLife Unity may get prettier?

Also, Unreal Engine has been in use for Virtual Production for a while now, most famously The Mandalorian is entirely done using it.

I have been playing my Black Wii since the color's debut (and I still have a backlog of games for it), and my White o3DS as well (Persona Q2 why must you be so punishing).
I have faith in Switch's longevity.

Snipperclips for sure.

Also, Blizzard Arcade Collection, because Rock'n'Roll Racing's four player mode is too fun for words.

I love how I have read every word yet still don't understand what the machine DOES (apparently completely silently).

This Glory system sounds like a replacement of the COMP upgrades from 4 in a new context.

The biggest question the trailers left me with and which all reviews are refusing to answer: are all demons now really drawn to scale? Finally giants are huge and pixies are hella tiny? Because Nocturne tried a step in that direction but ultimately still didn't deviate much in demon sizes, same for Persona 5.

It also notably was one of maybe five games to actively use POP-OUT 3D rather than the pop-in used by most games from third party developers.

Gonna try and get back to 100%ing Metroid Dread. Also, I have Tokyo Mirage Sessions to wrap up before SMTV releases.