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It's sad, but I get it.
The worst thing is, my personally curated virtual console library (that costs me nothing per month) is still profoundly better for accessing classics than their subscription. I should go through the store while it's still good and see what else I want to track down.

Good for Sony, they've had a good run supporting dedicated single player when multiplayers of varying monetary demands were being pushed harder than ever.

Excellent idea. They were a fun use of the characters that felt right.

They didn't before? Oh that's right! Their club was never awful and gave their members awesome swag.

I wonder what it would be like if ports like this added in some sort of gibberish language you're not supposed to understand in time with the text? Then it's less this game never had voice acting than the game is a in foreign world and subtitled.

I could see the goose in Animal crossing as a random guest/menace.

I LOVED the original. I don't know what black magic the composer was using, but that short upbeat tune never got grating.

I almost loved the DS version, but it insisted on terrible limitations like continues in honor of old-school/arcade design.

Game addiction is terrible, and they do have a point that anything with addictive design as part of their business model should be clearly marked and shouldn't be rated for children; who have a lot of free time, are expected to be conditioned by the world they interact with, and traditionally don't have their own money.

That being said, while I doubt this case will go anywhere, there will be more cases. Whether it's a store, passes, or loot boxes. Any game that has content to make money after purchase is designed to keep them playing and prod them into paying. Games designed to be perpetual, like battle royale, hero shooters, or even MMORPGs, have cranked up that design to aggressive levels.

We're probably at the forefront of the same battles that made governments ultimately decide smoking and drinking are so dangerous they needed regulated access. Sooner or later, the right plaintiff is going to say the right things the right way about the right company.

Very cool. It's like they reverse engineered what the game adventure from the Super Show universe would have looked like.

Cute, but she's only in the saddest version of them all.

I just got one. I don't recall the size I originally got but I know it was near full.

Nintendo's been bad a communicating when it isn't in support of their products.
YES, admitting "there was a problem and we fixed it now" IS supporting the products, but that would still be speaking ill of their prior work. I don't think they ever officially announced they were going to absorb stick drift repairs to the public.

Did they ever retool the thumbpads so that wear issue doesn't happen? They're handling of the actual Joy-cons was not encouraging.

Now I need a snack.

I get it, but outside of road signs, the term cross has too much connotation to the religious symbol for me. When it's equally proportioned, X is the clearest descriptor that comes to mind. [As for their salty response, I've heard O, but personally I use circle because it's still the clearest descriptor.]

However, Japan (which doesn't use X as a letter, and isn't overly christian) has no problem using it as shorthand for cross, like Project X Zone (which I just pronounced wrong in my head, again).

I wonder if the Labo VR was literally just a proof of concept before they bothered with a full version. IIRC, it didn't have much content beyond the little Labo games (ready made demos), and Mario and Zelda support to prove they could integrate it with game design they know (yes, I KNOW that's not the best way to VR, but Nintendo's very... sheltered about new things).

Very nice. Looking forward to it.

As long as you don't have weapons degradation I'm down for it.

Golden rule of horror #1, the less said the better.
Golden Rule #2, the MVP is the setting.
Europe's box may be simple, but it establishes You're in a place YOU don't want to be. Not showcase the highly capable sod who's canonically going there.

That's nice. I'm sure this is entirely out of their love for the community and not the threat of investigation and potential lawsuit.

So.. the they won't pull the plug on the store just yet. Good, since their current online thing is still awful 3DS is still my classics library.

The great thing about Nintendo was the power of smart design. Each device was so recognisable that throwback styles are super effective at evoking your first/favorite. What's Sony got? Grey for PS1 and then black.

Built-in buttons fix the biggest source of system fragility, so that's good. But I'm a touch saddened it only adds a half hour to the run time.

This kinda hurts my interest. When the handheld is an entirely separate thing, it's okay, but when it's literally the same machine, I don't want to split up my titles between the two. At least they're talking transferring saves and not gutting everything from one to the other.

Oh snap, that's right, Nintendo has been crap with on board memory.

Like the rush to jump on 4K TVs, until you have that tech in your house, it's an extra you still have to pay for.

That said, as time marches on and 5G becomes more ubiquitous, it would be smart to have your machine ready for it. And Nintendo's network does need all the help it can get.

Very nice. I like how they tweaked the dialog around the fact it's a ROM Hack.

@RainbowGazelle Rather than make the service worthwhile and interesting, Nintendo's been quietly relying on the strength of their multiplayer game to weaken resolves until they're desperate enough to settle.

Splatoon and Kart were already there and pretty old now, so getting them back wasn't a big impact, but then came Smash and Maker, with freaking Pokemon up next. People gonna crack.

MAN, if they had this when I was little. I was SUPER into collecting little figurines too. A series like this would have fueled many a christmas. Now I'm older and totally spoiled by figuarts and...

Figuarts Bowser would be good in here next to a 2.5" Mario... hmm

Quite the turn around. Nintendo used to be the king of cleaning up games.

I did think it super weird there was all of one frame where his head was in profile enough to see a nose. I didn't have that problem with other character designs.

Is there a specific reason for all the Neon aethetics in games right now? It went from a unique look to a common thing pretty quickly.

Astral chain catches my eye because I have no idea what is going on or how it plays. The concept is interesting, beautiful anime cops summon robot buddies they are literally bonded to in order to fight monsters.

I hope Daemon X Machina cleans up the experience. I felt it's demo flip-flopped. The basic controls felt kind slow, in part because those worlds where huge (read: empty), but the action was often so busy I didn't really follow what was going on or what I was supposed to do.

Expectation is the precursor of broken hearts.

@napabar
Shmup = Shoot-em-up
TATE = (actually not an acronym) "tah-teh" is the japanese character for vertical; refers specifically to vertically scrolling shoot-em-ups.

As for the device, I'm more interested in this being a way to accurately preserve DS and 3DS games. It's a lot of expense for a couple libraries though.

They did not give Superball Mario a unique color scheme. Missed opportunity.

Do not like his design. Nobody should have approved that.

The action (when it got there) was alright, but yikes. Good luck finding a diamond in this rough.

It's a pity there won't be new toys, but it was doomed from the start. First off it cost too much, the point to get people to buy a lot of these things. I loved the model of actually being swoosh-able multi-component toys, but still waited until the prices dropped by half. I'm no expert, but whoever felt the original prices hit the balance point people were willing to pay sucked at their job.

Compound the unappealing prices by also having a digital only version that had less fuss than physical insertion AND costs way less so the gear was essentially free. I won't argue toys to life is probably dead (TBH; the time was decades before the tech was ready). But don't point to Starlink's line as proof. That was being set up it to fail by a company that either wanted it dead or tried to have it's cake and eat it too.

I figured we would've gotten a dating game where everyone was underwear before this.

They say it's hand illustrated, so who illustrated it? I swear I've seen that style before. Pic 002 (her hand up in a cavern or something) is ringing a bell.

I'm sure policy is to send repaired gear if they can but you'd think they'd just eat it and send him new Joy-cons if the delay was egregious enough to split it.

Whoever they got for these shorts know their action and comedy. I'm sure Switch will get it soon. Until then I need to get off my duff put some real play to see if I'm any good at it.

It's always a toss up. On one hand, an artist should be free to express their vision, but on the other the people pulling the reins are there so he doesn't do something stupid that would damage him or the company. If he didn't feel the balance was good for him, then he should find somewhere else to support him.

Have they? Yeah, It's not like there weren't signs with Mario & Rabbids or Fox in Starlink. Doing it with an indie (after careful vetting) was a logical next step.

Yeah, sure. But half the time Smash comes taps a character nobody expected. And with only 4 slots it's unlikely he'll get the nod.

Crypt of the Necrodancer has probably just seen a huge jump in purchases. I know I've been thinking about checking it out but it never quite grabbed me (some titles just need a demo). But a nod like this from the Big N? Super down with that.

Isn't the nudity the point of these kind of games? It's been a sub-genre for ages.

Gotta admit, that GC purple still pops.

If the drip feed was dripped weekly I probably wouldn't mind (more than two at a time would be nice, but still).

That thing is so beautiful. If I were Nintendo I'd commission a real version somewhere.

Oh look; holding a game for ransom to boost an unrelated one. I guess with other third parties acting like scum and releasing flops, Capcom didn't want to look like a nerd.