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Two eyes but with a dollop of sunscreen at the top of his nose that video games of the day didn't have the fidelity to portray, which has been misinterpreted in other media.

Yay! I've been holding out because playing Final Fantasy on the PC just never feels right to me.

Fire Emblem fans have become accustomed to Day 1 DLC, for better or worse. I'm getting the Divine Edition, so you'd better believe I'll be getting the DLC pack. I want every ounce of available Fire Emblem.

Also, that FE1 remix at the end of the Japanese trailer is awesome.

I had some good times with that game. It never demanded much of my real-life money, it was fun to play, the multiplayer was solid, and the story was exceptionally well-written. There was a perpetually optimistic tone to everything, and the messages underneath were often empowering and encouraging.

I tapered off when I found it was taking too much time away from other games but checked back in when I found out it was closing so I could check out the end of the story. Glad I could get that closure.

Wholesome until players figure out how to get past first base.

Only Nintendo can be Nintendo. Sega tried and got pretty close, but they ended up being Sega, which is generally just fine.

I don't think that's the right description for The Oregon Trail.

I will say that the remaster of Wind Waker is the best version that will ever be able to be played. They can make it look prettier on Switch, but they can't give me a world map in the palm of my hand that I can access without having to pause.

I look forward to "Star Lord's Guardians Party" and "Emmet's Lego Party," "Owen's Jurassic Party," and "Andy's Party and Recreation."

I have been a customer service representative, and let me tell you, they need this stuff. Being yelled at and berated and threatened and insulted all day long, 5 days a week, takes a toll. And when the companies say, "Well they get to do that. Do your best to make them happy, but you can't give them what they want" it takes an even larger toll. I'm glad that Nintendo is giving employees an out from being abused all day long.

Miner 2049er!? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. A long time...

I was prepared to have to get used to Pratt as Mario, but I really didn't mind. It seems right, even though it's different.

And Jack Black was actually a really good Bowser. Like I forgot it was him and not just "Bowser" (Who never has much dialogue in the games anyway unless it's an RPG or Sports game) until partway through the trailer..

It's weird. I can't see anything wrong with it, but my brain is telling me it is.

More unrealistic body expectations from Hollywood!

It's promising that Nintendo is taking ownership of this movie and not just giving it to Illumination and saying, "Do your thing. We disavow any connection with this movie."

I decided to make good on my previous post and booted up the game to finish the last 8 chapters. Took a while, and I had to upgrade a bunch of stuff to take on the last few bosses, but it was worth the journey and I'm glad I have closure. It was always the writing that drove me to this game. There's an optimism underneath it all that you don't see often. Felt good to close the book.

I've never understood why Konami, which has a history of good relations with Nintendo seems to never want one of their biggest Castlevania games (A franchise which ALSO has a good history with Nintendo!) to come to a Nintendo system.

I liked Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I know it's no Thousand-Year Door, but it's a lot of fun if you just accept it for what it is. Really all the Paper Mario games are pretty good if you don't hold them up to Thousand-Year Door.

Crossroads Inn is a really fun Sim on PC. Hope it made the jump to Switch unscathed.

"I don't really need it right now. I'll pick it up for cheap when it's used," I said...

I haven't played in a couple years. I really should poke my head back into the game and see how it ends.

I wonder if that's just pronounced "Fram" and "Cram" or if it's "Fram-Ay" and "Cram-Ay" or "Frame" and "Crame."

So starting with the start makes sense, but if you've made it this far without playing the original, chances are you're not ready for the full thrown-in-the-deep-end Zelda experience. You could go with the most recent, but it's hard to appreciate it without being grounded in Zelda's history.

Link to the Past, though, is timeless. Accessible even to today's picky audiences, and a solid representation of what to expect when you're Zelda-ing.

I dunno if they can unring the bell that has been sounding for the last 2 years. "OK. You guys have been doing a great job of promoting your upcoming contact through direct streams, but- hear me out here- what if you spent an extra 2 million dollars to do the same thing, but with a live audience!?"

I laugh, but I'm part of the reason these games keep coming out. I can't get enough of House Flipper, PC Building Simulator, Train Station Renovation, and their ilk. I wish I could explain it. These games sounded ridiculous to me, too. But then you get one as part of a games bundle, you try it out, and before you know it you've spent a full month virtually restoring run-down old houses so you can turn them over for a profit.

There are MI fans that have seen the art and imagined the game that must result from that art, and decided not to take the return. My heart aches for those fans because they're missing out on the true-blue, perfectly-in-spirit, wonderful, challenging, brilliantly puzzling game they've been longing for for 20 years. They think they're making a stand for what they think is an affront to the series, but they're only hurting themselves.

I hope there will be an option to turn it off. When playing one Picross game (Either Murder by Numbers or Super Puzzle Makeout League), I found that my fingers tended to graze the edge of the screen while playing with the controller, which would move my cursor and mess up my Picrossing.

I heard it was cut because Columbine happened and suddenly the idea of shooting your friends seemed less fun.

@Grail_Quest So far, no. As advertised, it does nothing and interacts with nothing.

As a long-time fan, I am SOOO happy with this game. They just don't make them like this anymore and I am in point-and-click heaven.

Secured my Divine Edition by walking into a Gamestop and asking. (Not on their website yet, but it appears to be in their systems.)

Konami really isn't kidding about bringing back some fan favorite franchises. As someone who gamed back when Konami made GAMES (darnit!), I hope this bodes well for a full-on Konami revival.

Well there it is. All of my "Work a real job and have more fun than you do at your actual job" simulators now live on the Switch. I should just retire so I can pretend to renovate houses, clean things with power washers, build PCs and run a gas station.

UPDATE: Or maybe not? Just tried to pick up A-Train and it lets you TRY to buy it, but then I got an error page.

You can still buy straight from nintendo.com if you link your 3DS. No point exchange needed.

Gotta buy Monkey Island before Monday so I can get the preorder-exclusive Horse Armor!

It sounds weird, but I've been hooked on games like this lately. House Flipper, Train Station Renovation, Gas Station Simulator, PC Building Simulator... I don't know if I want a new job, or if I just like simulating doing something actually productive.

Chrono Trigger, Romancing SaGa, Live A Live, Bahamut Lagoon. Square has never ever been good at releasing titles that sound natural or tell you anything about the game.

I've had this on my Steam wishlist for years, but never quite wanted to pay full price for it, and it never goes on sale. On the Switch, though, I'll be happy to drop full price.

Tee-Yars of the Kingdom

I feel like Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered is getting lost in the shuffle. Now all we need is SaGa Frontier 2 and Unlimited SaGa, and we'll have every SaGa game released in the west on Switch!

It's a good time to be a Farm-Sim fan! And I'm jazzed about Fire Emblem: Engage. And Octopath 2!

I have gone from pure excitement to "Wait. How's that going to even work?" I hope it's not waggling the joystick just right. I was never good at Guitaroo Man.

They're all based off of tapestries hanging in the real life Nintendo eShop.

I am naming my Klawf "Rock Lobster." (I know. He's a crab, but it's RIGHT THERE.)

The thing about backward compatibility, in the unique case of Nintendo, is it locks down design. In order for Wii to be backwards compatible with GameCube, you needed a set of GameCube controller ports. In order to make Wii compatible with Wii U, it needed Wiimotes. If they were going to continue backwards compatibility on Switch, we'd need a Wiimote, a second screen controller and a disk drive. AND all those things would have to interface somehow with the Switch Lite, if you wanted THAT to be backwards compatible.

In order for Nintendo to move forward the way Nintendo moves forward, they have to leave the past behind.

Gradius? Dance Dance Revolution? Do they still own Frogger?

I wonder how much of this game's coverage is due to bear-pun opportunities.

Amazon shipped my copy out today. Can't wait to delve back into my childhood tomorrow!

On Talk Like a Pirate Day, no less!