Ridley

I don't think new Region Dex with mix of old/region-variant-old scattered in is unreasonable but Black and White's PokéDex was an unsubtle redo of the first wunfifty.

I'd argue more for a change to the formula like not having three starters, or have one version 's player begin on one side of the map and the other version on the opposite. Or do Opelucid City across a whole generation - one game Pokemon Past, the other Pokemon Future.

But wheel ain't broke etc.

@ShadLink If it's a question of which company I'd want to be the only --eugh-- game in town, I'd choose Nintendo every time.

Ah reckon if Nintendo went to other platforms the audience would just drift off to PC or PS depending on their preferred flavour.

Maybe the Xbox strategy is to plant FOMO on rival consoles while making up for expensive acquisitions then slam the shutters back down later but its destiny seems to be as a cloud gaming hub thing for other systems. Then Nintendo chugs along as the family friendly alternative to Sony consoles.

@StewdaMegaManNerd Maybe they're holding off on him for The Super Wario Bros. Movie. Certainly enough in the evil doppelganger thing to carry a film.

Perhaps some form of Lylat style gibberish?

Or all the words are just "human" each said in a different language.

The Black and White games were the Gen 1 remake. Locking off the Pokedex to 150 was a conscious recreation of that first set.
Frillish is Tentacool
Timburr is the Machop line
Trubbish to Koffing
Hitmonchan and 'lee / Sawk and Throh
and so on.

Heck, that junk about B2W2 being direct sequels as new when they came out. Gold/Silver already did it.

It just seems so odd to make the peripheral at all when the original hardware tanked and was a headache generator.

If anything it's a meeting of the DK '94 and DKC designs dancing to the tune of the SMB movie.

The redesign is fine, they clearly wanted something more expressive.

Seems like a self-own to do all this in the midst/wake of the Donkey Kong expansion at the theme parks though.

Hey now, you're a Rockstar
Get your gam

@Jack_Goetz Ah, but do you copy-it-and-call-it-something-else-for-money love it?

That's opinion, not news!

(growls)

People are jerks but I'm always fascinated that Japanese xenophobia is excused because it's polite.

in theory, games should be aiming to tell the story with/during gameplay for the most part.

Haven't played Suikoden without Murayama's involvement (I-III) but if Eiyuden's world is as expansive as that, the background ripple effect across games is part of the charm.

Rising's a curious one as a prequel/prologue as its gameplay risks, in my view, either putting people unfamiliar with Suikoden off trying Hundred Heroes or misrepresenting the Hundred Heroes' gameplay.

I liked Rising but I was treating it as a drop in and out casual experience. Doing hours back to back would have gotten old fast.

@Rainbowfire Yeah, nipping at the heels of the multi-platform, national sport sim is nothing to be ashamed of.

@johnvboy Your comment lined up pretty well next to the
"NEWS Bill & Ted’s Excellent Retro Collection Just Shadow Dropped On The Switch eShop"
related column.

@shoeses Thanks for the heads-up, I'd missed the news that Xbox was getting the game after all.

Met said NPC when playing tonight and had wondered if it was based on a real person as the character portrait seemed off. More photo-realistic somehow where the statues in the Crypt fit the game's aesthetic. Wondering no more it is.

Just Ristar 2, plz

Clutch Tales, Atooi

A reaction to the proactive Peach of the Mario movie (and its $1 billion) perhaps?

Neunundneunzig Blau Falcons

Where did this find the funding after the Kickstarter(s?) tanked?

Comparing the original trailer with the above, it looks like the step away from trying to look like Cuphead has made it a lesser version of what it already was.

Better to have been an unashamed Cuphead clone than an ashamed one methinks. At least with the former they can go "Like Cuphead? Here's more like that" cause Cuphead 2 isn't happening anytime soon.

=

"an adventure like no other"

Okay, mostly ashamed!

If you can't read the question in English, you don't get to sneer about the answer.

France is too content with settling for serviceable Asterix games.

Wasn't enamoured with the game myself but Japanese-interpretation-of-the-Bible was one heck of a hook.

Sometimes, a cigar is just a Pokémon.

Sorry, 2016 Ridley, Assassin's Creed was not the one to get the ball rolling. Maybe the TV shows will get it. Sonic gave it a decent go though.

Some people have since convinced themselves that they could listen to Charles Martinet for 90 minutes cause Chris Pratt has possibly maybe dodgy politics or is over-saturated it's not quite clear.

Sony doesn't seem to have learned much.

Gosh, they've accidentally taken on all the trappings of the Peter Jackson movies that are legally permissible without a licence from Warner Bros even down to the absence of gameplay.

Florence just likes the Switch, guys. He even said so on some gaming website once.

https://www.nintendolife.com/features/gamesmaster-host-robert-florence-on-succeeding-dominik-diamond-and-why-switch-is-the-greatest-console

"3rd parties titles (Konami, Capcom) are also being licensed for Genesis NSO."

Hm. If accurate, future-proofing good but potentially another rise looming then?

Although I assume this is all largely aimed at the Japanese market.

(Put Mother 3 on there.)

Gosh, I wish the Mega Drive thumbnail was SEGA blue or summat.

Not wanting it to look like the console's a Nintendo product is understandable but it'd be nice if it followed the same pattern. Presumably a Master System variant will have a black grid on white?

How much of the original soundtrack will make it?

Religious and/or cultural gatekeeping doesn't work against A MASSIVE KEY!!!

The original material uses "Toutatis" though, PR.

(16-bit Asterix bundle release, please, someone.)

Less embarrassing to have in my play history than Kemono Friends, I guess.

Most gamers don't see the end of most games (easier to observe that with player percentage trackers on achievement/trophies on rival consoles™).

Dropping an experience cause you're not enjoying it is entirely sensible but seeing a game to the end should be normal practice generally, I feel. Not that I do that.

Personally I swore never to quit any film ever again when I managed to get to the end of a particularly lousy one a few years back so I wish I had the gaming equivalent of, um checks notes The Human Centipede.

You're mainly paying for the binding and paper quality with these things but the TMNT ones are excellent.

Enough for me to give the Transformers ones a go and might be willing to dabble with the GI Joe collections as well if I can hold my nose long enough to buy the digital versions.

(Totally down for a Archie Sonic or Sonic the Comic archive collection as well.)

The gameplay footage looks like any other serviceable TV-tie-in to my eye. Where's the style of the episodes this is reliving?

There's a potential Donkey Kong kill screen coming up, if you're interested.

Look, is Enchanted Portals coming out or not?

After Yooka-Laylee and this, maybe Team 17 could publish Enchanted Portals as well.

The audience that's being asked to pay for it is allowed to say no.

Enchanted Portals' problem might be that other developers aren't tripping over themselves to take advantage of Cuphead's USP the way the industry does with others hits.

That's a shame. The DuckTales reboot is great and has a lot of love for all the previous Duck stories that have gone before, including the games, so you could take the QuackShot name off and stll tie-in to it with Donald.

@Bolt_Strike You click where you want B to go rather than control directly, and those cubes with the circles on manipulate the environment.

My experience of the game is the Xbox version when it's clearly optimised for touch screens but it works as a cheap companion to Captain Toad for those that want a similar experience (in my opinion).

What a Meowth.

Ultra Wario Iliad on the Nanica Smitch.

@Damo Sure, I'm just surprised that there's nothing indicating that people can play the original, by whichever name, right now.