OldManHermit

Nice! Love the Baki manga and anime, it's just so wonderfully over the top. I think i'd prefer a 2d versus fighting game, but this looks like it could be fun too. No doubt Yujiro will be the final boss and be impossible to beat.

I'd also like to throw out a recommendation for Guns of Fury. Very fun game with some gorgeous Metal Slug inspired pixel art.

Amazing! Looks like something you would've seen in arcades back in the 90s. Do RoboCop next!

I am a ninja game fanatic, but even I think this one is a bit pricey for what it is.

Fighting Collection 2, Onimusha 2, a new Shinobi AND Ninja Gaiden, gonna be a good year!

I still have this game, it's great.

I went with NA. I like what they were going for with the gold brick, but it'd be much cooler if it were actually embossed, as opposed to just a print.

@abbyhitter Sure why not? The third one was in a hotel, which isn't exactly a mansion. Luigi's Mansion is just kind of a brand name at this point. And you can always have sub titles,

Luigi's Mansion 4: Theme Park of the Damned or whatever

An isolated Toad village where the resident Toad population has succumbed to some kind of fungal infection, like the Last of Us. It's about time Luigi moved on from ghost hunting to zombie blasting.

@BigRadical I think the Lords of Shadow series has it's own continuity separate from the rest of the Castlevania games. Anyway, I always loved the twist at the end of the first game with Gabriel Belmont eventually succumbing to his own darkness and becoming Dracula. Reminds me of the opening scene of my fav Dracula movie, the Coppola version from 1992.

Very curious where they'll take the series next. It's had quite the evolution over the years. Anything's better than a pachinko machine honestly.

Lords of Shadow 2 was incredibly disappointing, but I absolutely loved the first one. Not gonna lie, it's probably one of my fav Castlevanias.

@-wc- "Hee hee, Thank you!"

Definitely an over saturated sub-genre, but this one actually looks good to me.

@Serpenterror Same here! It's a great game, but my personal fav is still the original Onimusha.

Cannot wait for this. CvS2 might be my fav crossover game.

Jeez, about time. It's been like 6 years since the remaster of the first game.

Anyway this is a fun hack and slash with rpg elements and lovely pre-rendered backgrounds. It has a weird system that's not present in any of the other games involving giving gifts to your party members. I just remember giving Ekei a lot of food and booze and he was my bro for life, haha.

This looks great, but man do I suck at bullet hells.

@Samalik Nice, I like the guitar in that.

Really enjoyed Blade Chimera, although I felt it ended too soon. But I suppose a game leaving you wanting more could be considered a good thing.

Ugh, Limp Bizkit. I feel like Dante would probably be the kind of guy to listen to them though, haha.

Love the artwork in this one, but sounds like I might find it more frustrating than fun.

Oof, the JP one looks like an assignment I would've thrown together the night before graphic design class in art school.

Excellent, hope we get a release date for Fighting Collection 2. Also looking forward to the new Onimusha, always enjoyed that series.

Been Jonesing for some Casey!

@Otoemetry I wouldn't say I hate new trek per se, but I don't think any of the recent stuff has really come close to the greatness of DS9.

Haven't heard of this comic before, I dig the artwork. I have a Code Veronica manga I grabbed years ago which is pretty cool.

For anyone who's interested I've been drawing RE monsters for fun. I'm on RE5 now,

https://www.deviantart.com/zombpunk/gallery/91103246/resident-evil-bestiary

@Ultimapunch Surprised it hasn't happened already. They really should've been part of the Origins collection we got.

I might grab this for those gorgeous visuals alone. Guess I should probably check out the first game first though.

I just want super adventure island. The only version I have is tucked away in the wii menu of my wiiu.

Still waiting for a remaster of Shadows of the Empire.

North America because Wario.

It was a fine trailer. Nice to finally see it in an official capacity. I'm only really going to get excited once we learn the system specs and the games lineup.

Definitely looks like my kind of castletroidia.

Soma has me intrigued, somehow it passed me by. I'd like to see how it runs on Switch before buying though. Otherwise I might grab the ps4 version.

I have the first Lunar on PS1, it's a great rpg. Don't think I ever actually beat it though, got stuck on some really tough boss near the end.

Looking at the screen shots I just remembered how much I loathe that chicken boss.

@zeromission80 Yeah, I really don't know why they omitted that sequence. Besides the Verdugo, that's probably my fav boss fight in the original. They kinda bring back that creature in the Separate Ways DLC, but it's not the same.

Big fan of the books and films, but I don't think I've played any of these, besides the Two Towers game, but that was the ps2 version. It was okay. Besides that, I've played Shadow of Mordor, which I just couldn't get into. I like the concept of an open world game in Mordor, but that nemesis system just didn't jive with me. I did enjoy War in the North on ps3. That was more of a strait up hacky slashy type affair.

@SearchingS Would much prefer a Code Veronica remake personally.

Yep I remember picking this up at launch at this awesome little game shop in a mini mall, that is sadly now long gone. Still a masterpiece to this day, one of those rare games that I immediately started replaying after beating it the first time.

I do remember though while most people loved the game, there was a small but vocal minority of hardcore RE fans online, who took it upon themselves to constantly deride the game and claim it wasn't 'real RE' because it lacked item boxes, fixed camera angles, etc. While I do still love the older games, that's not to say a series can't change and evolve with the times. And the old formula was becoming a bit stale at the time, RE4 was the shakeup the series needed I think.

That being said, I am glad there's a bunch of indie developers still making games inspired by the old RE style.

I still play Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 on my xbox360 from time to time. Still some of the best action games around.

Would love a collection of the nes trilogy on the Switch. It would be extra sweet if they included the og versions, as well as remasters with pixel art done by the folks working on Ragebound. But this admittedly seems doubtful.

@Mach_Rider While I wouldn't say Yaiba was a great game, I do recall having some fun with it. The combat is fast and frantic, and it has some fun platforming sections. It also looks great, love the colourful cell shaded style. But yeah, it's definitely not up to the standard of the previous games, and the effort to be overly edgy can be a bit grating.

Castle of Dragon actually looks pretty rad. I'm always down for an old school hack 'n slash.

Tea, earl grey, not one I'll be picking up.

This easily could've been just one collection.

@Pally356 Rastan Saga 3 was last week's arcade archives release.

Glad to see Shogun Showdown here. Amazing game I keep finding myself coming back to.

Both aren't bad. I think I prefer the softer lighting and colour palette of JP so it gets my vote.

Not sure if that 'monkey' is just very badly drawn or ai generated. Could go either way honestly.

Wow, been awhile since we've had a new Ninja Gaiden. Looks dope.

Are Bulk and Skull playable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPTAL5xk18