Reprise

@Samalik Same. I am a huge Sonic fan, been there since the beginning in 1991 and even still own all my original Sonic games right from the Mega Drive original right up to the latest releases. I thought Frontiers was fantastic.

I love Sonic Frontiers. I honestly felt it was one of the best 3D Sonic games I have ever played (yes, I know to many that doesn't say a lot) and I thought the open zone direction they took was a great idea.

It sucks it's a game key card though. I honestly thought with Sonic Crossroads being a proper cartridge that Sega was going to support them more going forward.

That's a shame. I have played through Ocarina of Time multiple times (including on N64, Gamecube and 3DS). I don't have a lot of interest in replaying the game if it's just a 1:1 recreation. I was hoping they'd go the Resident Evil and Final Fantasy VII route...

@molkom It's the same basic game, but it does run a hell of a lot better. The framerate is smoother, there is less slowdown and pop in loads much quicker. Marketplace add ons are also less glitchy and less prone to crashing.

@DennisReynolds What are you basing that on?

Hope they fix the issue where you just see the same cutscenes over and over again...

Will it even include regional variants though? Because the Japanese Mega Drive version of Ecco 1 actually came out later than the Western release and included gameplay tweaks, new content and I believe some new music too. Interestingly, those changes were exclusive to Japanese MD release and weren't added into the Sega-CD/Mega-CD port.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage is fantastic and what I am playing inbetween bouts of Resident Evil Requiem and Minish Cap. I have nearly beaten Minish Cap (never played it before) and hope to finish it this weekend.

I really enjoyed Frontiers, but I opted for the PS5 version as the Switch version seemed to have quite a few issues. I wouldn't complain if they do decide to port it to the Switch 2. It's a great game and I am looking forward to seeing what direction they take the formula in with the next release.

With Resident Evil Remake. Duh? Then just play them in release order. If you can't face all of them, then the skippable ones are probably 0, 5, 6 and the Revelations games and other spin offs. I wouldn't personally skip Code Veronica, but I am biased as I love it and it was the first one I completed.

@Uncle_Franklin I was thinking the same thing!

@Zuljaras I am right handed and can do it just fine, but I grew up doing it on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark etc, not to mention the various FPS games on Dreamcast, so maybe that's why. Or maybe I am just odd lol.

@Zuljaras Personally I always used the c-buttons for movement and the analogue stick for aiming. I know it's technically left handed compared to modern schemes, but it always seemed natural to me.

@CaptainQuo Yeah, the price increase on it is insane. Amazingly I managed to pick up a copy around Christmas time for £75 (complete with the manual too). I could have flipped it at that price, but I kept it for the collection.

Yeah, mine is out for delivery and should he here soon. Not sure why they sent them out early, but I guess they wanted to make sure people got them in time and it's not like when a company sends a game out early and people can play them before the "street date".

This is just silly. Just let them put the full uncensored game out, Nintendo.

@Stormkyleis Eh, ok. A lot of people use the word "average", but the disdain seems to suggest people think otherwise. Why would people be so passionate about their dislike for the game and want to so badly decry positive opinions or reviews if they believe it is average? Average games can still be enjoyable and, to some people, they can still be great games depending on what you like and how much you are able to look past their flaws. Some of that is subjective.

@KingChiliPepper Agreed. I am also surprised by the comments. I am aware that it was considered a bit of a disappointment, but if you judged the games purely by the comments here alone, you'd think people absolutely hate it and think it's an awful game. I haven't finished it quite yet (I am maybe around 70% of the way through), but I have been enjoying it so far. There are plenty of great moments.

I don't believe for one moment that all these people claiming that the 4 face buttons work fine in place of a d-pad actually play any difficult shmups or fighters...

I agree. I don't understand why they stick so rigidly to this design choice. The benefits of a d-pad far outweigh the benefits of having 4 individual buttons for split individual joycon play.

Ouch. Glad I didn't get this. I had wrongly assumed that by owning the original cartridge, that I was eligible for the "free" update. I hadn't realised that I didn't own the "anniversary edition" and nearly paid the £18 for the upgrade (or whatever price it is). Glad I held off to read the reviews.

Someone explain it to me like I am three. Why the hell is there suddenly a chip shortage and price hikes?

Nothing makes any sense anymore. It's like we globally broke something around a decade ago.

@julia_silverlining @JohnnyMind Thanks guys, just watched it 😃

It says the trailer is private for me, for some reason?

@Jeronan Firstly, that's really good to hear. So thank you for explaining how the game expands as you get more into it, because I must admit that after a few hours of the game I was kinda left thinking "is this it?" That said, I still maintain that the trailers and marketing material I saw still didn't really sell it to me and that (in my personal opinion at least) it looked less interesting than Arceus.

I am glad that a lot of new areas unlock and open up and there is plenty of content. I will stick with it.

I think just going off of the initial pre-launch materials, marketing and trailers, that Arceus looked far more interesting than Z-A and having now played the latter a bit, I think my scepticism was warranted. The gameplay loop of going out into big open fields to explore and search for Pokemon was far more interesting than the small town/city location of Z-A with its small wild zones. It just feels a bit boring so far. So I am not surprised sales of Z-A are lower.

@Anti-Matter It says it's 60fps on Switch 2... 30fps is the 4K mode by the looks of it.

Do we know if the physical version is out the same day as digital?

@YoshiTails Utter hyperbole.

@AG_Awesome I was shocked they never brought out Fire Pro World for the original Switch. It seemed like the perfect platform for it.

Meh, the 2K WWE games are boring as hell in my opinion. All style and no substance as far as gameplay is concerned. I miss the fun, accessible wrestling games from the days of the N64, PS2 and Gamecube etc. The wrestling games we got in those two generations were so fun. And I know people often say that's just nostalgia talking, but I disagree. I still regularly play them on the original consoles.

Here Comes the Pain and No Mercy were my favourites (I know, predictable choices), but the other Smackdown games and Day of Reckoning games were also great fun. Raw 2 on Xbox is underrated. Even Royal Rumble as bare bones as it is was a lot of fun on Dreamcast thanks to the crazy 9 men in a ring Rumble. The Giant Gram games on Dreamcast were also good. I have to mention Fire Pro wrestling as well. Good times.

@JohnnyMind It runs well on Switch 2 and seems to run better. Take this for what you will, but some of the add ons were crashing and glitching the game on our Switch 1, but when we tried the game on Switch 2, the same add ons work flawlessly without any issue.

No Super Bubsy!? Noooo

Haha nope. It's just a conceptual design they have knocked out. Probably even an intentional marketing stunt.

"We sought all over the controller for a way to tiptoe about and hear that double bass, but it seems the “discreet” mood has simply vanished"

I am pretty sure you can still sneak around. I haven't played the game yet, but I have watched videos and I swear I saw Twinsen sneaking in some of the footage I watched...

@Zeebor15 100% going to be LRG, isn't it? Let's be honest 😔

@Kiwi_Unlimited I feel the 3D ones are incredibly underrated. I have had so much fun with those ones, particularly the first 3D one which I played to death on the Gamecube. I recently picked up Worms 4, which I am looking forward to playing.

I swear some of these haven't even been out that long. The Larry and Morton Airships were fairly recent releases I thought.

Battle For The Grid really should be #1 to he honest... The SNES movie game is ok, but fairly unremarkable and not as good as Fighting Edition. Battle For The Grid and Fighting Edition are the closest the series has gotten to games that are good on its own merits regardless of the licence. Both are very good fighting games.

@shonenjump86 I had it for Saturn (still have my copy) and I don't think I ever beat the arcade mode 😂

@Speedo Yeah, I never had many issues either. And I still own and play the original games on PS2 too, so it's not like I hadn't played them in two decades and had forgotten what they "should" play like.

@Kruegerino I was much the same. To be honest, I was incredibly disappointed when they announced that they were abandoning their plans for LBA3 in favour of a reboot, particularly since their reasoning was that they felt LBA3 would only appeal to a niche audience and that they would struggle to attract a wider modern audience. I felt they were a bit naive. They might pick up the odd impulse buyer or curious person with a reboot (or indeed this remake), but let's face it, 99% of people buying this will be fans of the original game. And then if it flops or "fails to meet expectations", where will that leave LBA3?

@Kruegerino I might be wrong, but I think that was discussed at one point, but was considered too big of a project for them. I have been subscribed to their newsletters and in the Discord channel since the team announced a few years back their intentions to revive the series. Unfortunately it has been a rocky road and they have struggled to attract a suitable publisher to come on board. They have had to change the project a few times. There was talk originally of LBA3, which sadly was scrapped in favour of a reboot, which then got cancelled, so they continued with plans for a remaster of both games. It seems like they finally have a publisher on board and we are getting a remake of the first game. I just hope it's successful enough for at least a LBA2 remake, if not LBA3 to finally happen.

@PikminMarioKirby Well Metroid Prime is an infinitely superior game, so it makes sense it received a higher score... They also didn't half the framerate...

"According to Mobapad's blog post, the Switch's successor will be a "conservative evolution" of the current models; more akin to a "refined Pro model". As previously rumoured"

A waste of time if true. It will have been 8 years since the launch of the original Switch by the time this comes out. If it isn't w significant step up from the original after that amount of time, then what is the point?

@betterman Yeah, exactly. I would not be expecting the exact same version of 'Rare Replay'. As you said, a special Nintendo edition would be nice and I would have said it would be something that is fairly likely to have happened if Nintendo wasn't trying to push the Online Service and Expansion pretty hard. I get it, from a business perspective they make a lot of money from the annual subscription and to push it hard, they need a strong selling point. These old games and Rare games in particular appearing on a Nintendo platform for the first time in decades is that strong selling point. It probably gains them a ton of subscriptions. But it still sucks as a customer. Oh well.

I don't know. I do feel that Rare Replay (or at least some kind of Rare collection) would be possible on the Switch, but that Nintendo and anyone else involved (MS?) would rather use their library to drip feed releases to push this overpriced Nintendo Online and Expansion subscription programme. So yeah, I am not going to apologise for the fact that I am not a big fan of that, as a consumer.

No, I don't cry about it. No, I don't run over to Twitter to moan. But are these titles a little disappointing? Perhaps. Would I rather pay £35 per year in order to play a small handful of Rare titles that get drip fed to us or would I rather they would just release Rare Replay or some kind of collection that I can own and play? The latter please. Not sure why that makes anyone a bad person or whatever issue some people seem to have with it.

Dumb decision to not get it out in time for the holiday period 2024.

@Pillowpants To be fair, I am pretty sure all these combined quite easily exceed a 32gb cartridge.

They should have just released Kotor games as a physical pack and forgot the rest, since they have all been done before.