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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!

OK. Comix Zone has good potential, but Space Channel 5 is gonna need to be a really weird one.

I mean TECHNICALLY, ultimate means "Final," which is something to consider when getting ultimate nachos.

It can be correctly used to mean, "The last version, because there's no reason to even TRY to make it better," but most people don't mean that either.

Captain N: The Game Master! My parents would rent me a different game every weekend, and I made it a point to play everything that showed up on Captain N. (And that show had some great taste in video games. It rarely steered me wrong.) Since the big-bad of the series was Mother Brain, I eventually tried out Metroid. Been a fan ever since!

Don't know if it will be good or bad, but I'm gonna have to get a ticket.

"A later date" is more promising than, "Coming to Xbox and PlayStation!"

There was a brief but wonderful period of time where THE way to make a licensed game was to turn it into a beat-'em-up, and I wouldn't mind at ALL if Shredders Revenge brought us back to that place.

Heck yeah. All we need is the Legends games/Tron Bonne, and we'll have just about every Mega Man game ever available on the Switch!

Note: You can go straight to Nintendo's website, search for the game, buy it there with your credit card or paypal, and it will automagically show up on your linked 3DS. It's the best way to buy 3DS games in this post-points world. (Unfortunately, does not work for WiiU.)

Ooh. "Before We Leave" is a good time, and a perfect match for Switch's portable mode.

Neat! What's an Uzboross? Wikipedia turns up nothing and a web search doesn't pull up anything but press releases for this game.

Where's North America? (I mean, I know where North America IS. We're not THAT bad at geography here. But where's the North America Nintendo Download?)

Bad Words List is the new stability. We update the English language constantly with whole new bad words.

"Y'know, "slow news day" isn't just a thing that happens to journalists."

But- to be clear- "slow news day" is absolutely something that happens to journalists! Just sayin'. No reason.

I propose that Mario is running downstairs backwards.

Oh dang. My estimated release date went to September. Looks like it will only be KINDA Radical.

Cool. That's when my Shredder's Revenge physical copy is supposed to come out too. Gonna be a radical day.

Game everyone's always wanted + Manage your expectations = Mobile game!

Yay! Snagged! Hot tip: It doesn't seem to be linked from the rewards page yet, but following the link in Nintendo's Twitter post did the job.

FYI, the original Arcade Stadium has all the individual games on sale for $0.99 each.

LOVE Touch Detective. I'd buy a collection in a heartbeat.