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I remember this game! One of the better Metroidvanias on the DS, and that console had THREE whole Castlevania games on it. I absolutely loved it there and I am thrilled for it to finally make a comeback.

Ah, the days of yore when Rainbow Six was PRIMARILY a strategy game focused on planning door breaches and room sweeping and sitting back and watching your virtual dudes play the plan out rather than the hero shooter it became nowadays...

@Mr-Fuggles777 the GameBoy Final Fantasy games looked kinda like that too. Heck, all JRPGs up to a certain point around 1993 did.

I love how you mention Fido Dido offhandedly and then ignore the fact that he had his own game on the same platforms as Cool Spot, making 7•Up the only brand to have two games dedicated to its mascots.

@Riptidre Control offers ray-tracing on a Switch too

Firstly, the 3DS Epic Mickey Power of Illusion was an amazing throwback, casting a crapton of Disney characters, modern and classic, into adorable pixel perfect little sprites and gameplay most reminiscent of Megaman Zero's Metroidvania-but-not style. Your loss for not having played it.

Second, if the SD resolution is your one turnoff in the original Epic Mickey, the WiiU or the mClassic is an easy way to get some upscaling done. The mClassic shows itself best in games with clear solid edges and Epic Mickey is one of a handful of games that SIGNIFICANTLY transform under its magic.

(Yes, yes, I bought that doodad and am now trying to justify it, but it turns Super Mario Galaxy into a whole new experience and Fragile Dreams just... Blows your mind for the graphics the Wii can actually produce)

The original was pretty much Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne as reinterpreted by the Kingdom Hearts dev team.

Small wonder its sequel would look like the same, but with Persona 5. I see no issue here and still love TWEWY to bits and squeed like a little chipmunk when I saw the teaser site.

Rock Band 3 and Guitar Hero 6 are finally on the list, thank you!

Even though both covers are hideously generic, the Japanese one is less bland, so it gets my vote.

Your list is woefully incomplete. You're missing Rock Band 3, which was an AMAZING porting achievement, graphically. You're somehow missing Guitar Hero 6 (aka Warriors of Rock). You're missing Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 which I wanted to give a 10.

(You're also missing Obscure 2 which makes me wonder whether you're deliberately stiffing multiplatform games which were okay on the Wii)

@graysoncharles the transition from DS to DSi increased the RAM dramatucally. From 3DS to New 3DS also. Nintendo doubles the RAM on its handhelds on gen upgrade, we know this for a fact.

Sounds like a more SFW variation on JJ Macfield which felt fresh and gnarly with its approach to dismemberment-based puzzle solving. But that was a Prince of Persia-style platformer, no point and clickery involved.

Gonna put this on my to-do list, your review has me intrigued.

But what if... Remake like Seiken Densetsu 3?

How does this relate to Super Robot Wars?
Front Mission Gun Hazard sounds like a more apt comparison as a run and gun spinoff of a TTBS about giant robots?

Every time someone brings up "mainline Persona game on the PC", I am compelled to remind them that Persona 1 had a Windows port before it was cool.

Does "all" DLC include ALL DLC including weird collabs like Hey Ash Whatchu Playing?

Inasmuch as the Burch siblings have gone from viral video bloggers to gaming industry household names, this is the game where they appear as themselves in, after all.

@Fazermint F2P FPS/TPS almost universally are pay to win. Warframe is surprisingly unique in this regard.

Guys, Snatcher isn't from 1998, Metal Gear Solid is. The SEGA CD version of Snatcher, the official English release, came out in 1994 (just when Policenauts did!) and the MSX original hails from 1988.

@bert0503 it had two sequels on the GBA and at least one more on the DS, Lunar Knights. It's just that only the first was broadly marketed (even though Solid Snake shows up in the second one).

@Gwynbleidd no I'm not. It has zero third person view horror games I'm aware of, and neither of the Resident Evil games counts because all post-RE4 games are shootahs, not horrors.

@xxx128 it tells an interesting story in a never-before-done way (there are, like, five second-person view games in the entire universe, two of which are on the Amiga, but this is the first fourth-person one EVER), it retroactively justifies the existence of the blight on humanity that is ASMR, it is visually gorgeous despite being made by a twenty-person team counting the four people acting as most of the characters, it is the best Silent Hill game of the decade, and it also is probably the first game ever to treat schizophrenia as a condition that doesn't mean writing a person off.

And let's not forget the part where we get a strong female protagonist that is genuinely strong in spirit, and not due to marketing hype.

TLDR: it checks ALL of the Tumblr 'good deed' checkbox boxes, looks good, sound great and tells an interesting story in an original way.

Me: "They wanted to make Silent Hill when they grow up!"

Also me: "The 3DS doesn't actually have any games of this sort, let's hope it's good."

You omitted the part where the social networks later exploded with butthurt over the fact that a lot of these consoles promptly ended up on the local Craiglist equivalent with posts of "why didn't I get one for free" or equivalent.

@sandman89 as someone who lives in Moscow I have to say that it's quite livable, but then Moscow is vastly different from the rest of the country

I think the part that everyone is missing is that the Switch itself still works despite the damage. Pity about the game though (and the card slot, apparently).

Guys, Chaos Engine already has a modern remake on Steam and last-gen consoles.

What we need is Speedball 3 and a Z sequel that doesn't suck.

World Tour version tho, not Megaton. This means better visuals and new exclusive levels, but none of the classic expansion packs which is a bummer since Duke In D.C. was pretty rad.

I've used unofficial gamepads for the GameCube and the Wii and I can't honestly say they were any worse than the native ones.

Sure, Joy-Cons are a more complex piece of tech, but just dismissing stuff out of hand because it's not first-party feels kinda... Dumb?

So howzabout you actually review them, including on a bang-for-the-buck scale since a few of these cost as little as $15 on AliExpress? Perhaps there is a diamond in the rough hiding out there among all the "here, have a D-pad" sets?

The saddest part about the rerelase of this game was that while the original was a fun if derivative romp that made you think "hey, this is the best unofficial Duke Nukem game since I don't remember when!", adding Duke Nukem to it actually made it worse as he's shoehorned into the story awkwardly, most of his lines suck ass compared to what the original dialogue does for the same scenes and I'd honestly more eagerly accept that the Duke is dead and prefer all future games inheriting his title to star Bombshell.

@ms1021 that's for the PS2 version. The PSP one (wherein the FeMC debuted) came out much later.

Is Hellblade not on the list because it wasn't yet released on Switch when this was compiled?

Lord of the Rings turned out several movie-based games on the GBA, but The Two Towers and Return of the King were very solid, multiplayer-capable Diablo II clones.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was a very good JRPG.

If we're accepting animated series, the SNES Biker Mice From Mars was one of the must-haves for split-screen racing games collectors.

SWAT Kats had a pretty good platformer incarnation.

(All of CAPCOM's Disney outings were great - Duck Tales 2, Darkwing Duck, The Little Mermaid on the NES/Famicom, and Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow on the SNES come to mind)

Well, we probably have Devil Survivor 3 to look forward to, with an even more integrated Social Link system and 29 endings?

@ms1021 nine years. P3P is dated 2010.

Suddenly, I feel vastly justified in having played Persona 5 with the Japanese VO turned on.

Just as P5 paid homages to the old Persona games (alas, outright references are off the table it would seem), the fact that this game puts Minako front and center is an extra reason for me to buy it.

Now, if only we had a proper all-games-encompassing tribute game...
(Playable Tamaki or GTFO)

Well, I started gaming on the PC back in the early nineties. I got a Famiclone for my sixth birthday, and thus Bomberman, Duck Hunt and Contra entered my life.

Since then, I've amassed a boxful of pirated and genuine Famicom carts, worked that Famiclone to death, got another one, bought a Super Famiclone and am now collecting a second box for SFC carts.

In the interim I bought a DSi, a PSP, a Wii, a 3DS, each with tons of games, but each time a crisis hit - be it in 1998, 2008 or 2014, console game prices went up while Steam's stayed sane. And now I'm 31 and I can't afford to let Switch take a bite out of my family budget, because a brand-new AAA game on PC will set me back a couple thousand Rubles at best (~$30), maybe less with smart couponning/promotion/pre-order discounts, while a Switch game costs twice that. I've long since moved to getting my 3DS games used off eBay or on discount days on the eShop - Nintendo is probably the only console maker that doesn't give Russia regional pricing boons.

The trick is, which really revived PC gaming in the early oughties, is when the game publisher must choose - do they want to sell the games at $30 but see the stock move or offer them at $60 and watch as people pirate their stuff while hardware sales flag because you can't pirate for this console? Dropping prices to compete with the mass-produced cheap bootlegs of twenty years ago was what helped 1C and Buka cement their hold on the PC gaming market, wresting control from for-money pirates. These days, only for-free pirates are left. Sony's decision to make a cheap budget PSP, the E-1008, made it sell like hot cakes, along with cheap reprints of various reliable sellers like football and racing games. I hope Ninty will do the same eventually.

I still want to get a Switch though, because Shin Megami Tensei V won't play itself, I already skipped the WiiU and Tokyo Mirage Sessions (good riddance on the WiiU, sure, but TMS may not get ported forward?), and I don't want to miss out on more demon-gathering goodness. That, and my 3DS is worse off than my DSi by this point, its age is showing. I need a new spiffy console unmarred by being dropped on the asphalt, snowed on or taken to where "cell reception" sounds like an STI.

Super Robot Taisen plz!

I'm still miffed it skipped the 3DS, the game's semi-pop-out sprite design would have been spiffy in 3D.

I guess it's time to save up for a Switch, because I loved this game on PC and playing it on the go would be a godsend.

What utterly baffles me is that both this and the NES Mini are limited runs instead of being a permanent Nintendo Store fixture, stealing money and sales away from Famiclones, which are sold in thousands every month by people who want the oldies, and don't want the new stuff. Granted, the average Famiclone costs $15 or less, while the average Super Famiclone begins at $60...

Still confused why not Metroid 5.
Also hesitant because Mirror of Fate was by no means a good 2.5D Castlevania, it was a decent Metroidvania-lite, but... Not standard-setting, yes?
Let's hope they got the job on more than the simple merit of "we already made one half of the genre founders, let us make another".

I always thought this game's main claim to fame that the final boss battle theme is LITERALLY "Eye of the Tiger" played at double speed.

Yurop when? =[

More MegaTen for the MegaTen gods, more RPGs for the RPG throne!

@DESS-M-8 the Mini actually uses a customized build of Linux. The hack people learned how to add extra files to the filesystem before (to add more games) and now how to replace that shell for something else entirely.
It all running Linux made things way easier, as I understand.

Switch Mini? Backwards compatible with 3DS through a clip-on lower screen (sold separately) and runs Switch games but sells without a dock (but one will be made) and cannot separate joycons (but can use external ones).

Justifying and designing such a device is not difficult, really.

Available in Russia but drops with a network error between tutorial missions =[

Be forewarned: after the initial 50MB download, there's an extra 80-something MB of in-game download! Do all that before you leave your Wi-Fi coverage!

Guess I'm aiming for late summer, right when I'll be able to actually afford it!

Punch Club! I skipped it on PC, so why not get it portable?

@kobashi100 But they ARE porting it! To Steam, where I will mos def be picking it up.

@thehoppypoppy I'd rather count all N3DS->Switch portingand multiplat options reasons for me to skip straight onto the Switch, whichI intend to use mainly as a portable.
Plus, it's Tegra, so when it's inevitably hacked, gives me a portable N64 and Playstation emulator worth the cost.