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@Ryu_Niiyama Wow, I thought I was the only one who liked those two equally. Most of the time they wind up on the opposite end of people's scales, but VI and XIII have been my best times with FF. Both awesome games.

The only theory I have as to the baffling absence of Super Mario Land on the service is that the game doesn't use wholly original music. But the melody it uses for the starman theme (I think it's the Galop Infernal by Offfenbach) is surely, surely in the public domain which would avoid any copyright wrangling. Beyond that I'm stumped as to why it hasn't arrived.

Hopefully this is more Puppeteer than Balan Wonderworld on the whimsy scale, but I have my doubts. What they've shown so far seems worryingly sparse in terms of actual gameplay.

@moomin You honestly can't see how someone who put time and effort into creating something for a living might be slightly peeved to know people were helping themselves to their work for free?

It's weird. The Switch has a library of over 11,000 titles and nearly all of them I'd prefer to play on my Playstation. This isn't to knock the Switch, heaven knows I genuinely adore the console and credit it with rekindling my love for Nintendo, but rather a quirk of my own gaming habits. The Switch is for those sacred big N experiences and little else around these parts. But boy have those experiences been sweet.

Might download this just to 'ooh' and 'ahh' at the pretty Pokemon images. Seeing that adorable Slowpoke card art brought back some nostalgic feels at least.

Bought 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim since it was on sale in the Switch shop and have wanted to play it for an age. Then discovered it was 'free' on PS Plus and realised I could have been having horsey solitaire adventures right now instead. D'oh. Ah well, I can probably still justify the spend as supporting the publisher. Plus it'll be nice to have it for on the go since I'm fairly certain it'll warrant more than a couple of replays to see everything.

Wow. Did not see this coming in a month of Sundays, but I adored the first two so this is wonderful news. Not sure there's going to be enough of an audience to make for a healthy multiplayer headcount mind, fingers crossed it sells well.

I heard the game is just so good the development team decided against releasing it for fear of collapsing society as we know it overnight.

I'd have said Nintendo's ninja lawyers might come sniffing around this 'pastiche' but I doubt they want the embarrassment of legally admitting the CDi games exist.

That's the spirit.

If you don't come down hard on illegal activities that have the potential of turning into entire underground industries then how do you stop the problem from growing?

Good gravy, what a waste of effort on something that was never going to fly in the face of the Nintendo ninjas. What possesses people to forge ahead with these things?

Wait, were these people dismissed or suspended? The article uses both without making it especially clear.

Come on, 'fess up. Who are the 4% giving this masterpiece 1/10 in the poll? Have we been infiltrated by Microsoft X-Bots again?

Like a lot of people, I'm surprised Game is even still a thing in this country. Really can't see them lasting the year, and perhaps this is a sign of them prepping the ground to pull out of the highstreet completely. Surely the only future for these guys is online or bankruptcy at this point.

@LastFootnote I remember somehow, someway getting stuck in the tutorial section of the first game. It was definitely Twilight Princessque in its leisurely opening section.

I would love, love, love that Prime 2 remaster that you all seem to think is a dead cert to be released but truth be told I really don't see it happening. The Prime Remaster was wonderful, but I think people underestimate just how much work had to be put in behind the scenes to make it happen. I just don't think there's enough profit in it for Nintendo at the end of the day to do the whole series like that, and surely we'd have heard by now if they were aiming to stagger the trilogy in the run up to Metroid Prime 4. On the other hand I will happily indulge in baseless optimism for a Xenoblade Chronicles X port, since that series has really picked up steam on the Switch.

I'm glad joining the Nintendo family has been such a positive experience for him so far. Hopefully there's more lifetimes of dreams ahead of him to look forward to, too.

Smash itself should be retired, honestly. It's a fool's errand trying to top Ultimate if they've no plans for further DLC, and honestly I'd love to see them do what Squaresoft did when it replaced the Dissidia series with the Theatrhythm one. Nintendo are the kings of invention, surely they can come up with a new form of crossover celebration for their franchises.

@Steel76 You're wrong, Nintendo do allow fun. All the Nintendo-brand fun you could possibly want for prices as low as $49.99!

@epicgamner This is exactly the sort of anarchic hilarity Nintendo doesn't want us enjoying xD

@SwitchForce I'm sorry, it seems you're clearly passionate about the subject but I legitimately haven't a clue what you're talking about there.

Nintendo would gain nothing out of this except the potential to get embroiled in any drama that might befall the game in the future. They'd also be authorising their IP appearing on rival consoles which is, to my knowledge, something that's never happened in the past outside of incredibly niche fringe instances on basically unheard-of tech.

Gotta make room somehow for the real stars of the show, the ads.

I feel like if this was released today the punishing difficulty would be seen as a praiseworthy stylistic choice rather than an anachronistic holdover from a darker age. I remember completing it as a kid, though I probably couldn't replicate the feat now. What I chiefly remember though is that it ends bizarrely with a vocal impression that's aged like milk in the UK. I wish I was joking on that point.

The tedious modern-day segments in the vast majority of Assassin's Creed titles. Baffling they kept up with them as long as they did, since I don't think I've encountered a single person who found them remotely enjoyable.

I know this is an insane take in the eyes of most, but the amount of love Thousand Year Door gets has always seemed bizarre to me. It's a good game, sure, but I don't think it'd crack the top three for me. Top five, maybe.

@Sisilly_G Yes, but can you behead ewoks in any of these 'other' games? No, no you cannot.

The fact Animal Crossing has outsold Mario Kart by such a margin in Japan is eye-opening.

@PtM Pretty sure eleven o'clock is an Undertale tableau, with Undyne as the 'fish-man' in question.

Looks like Black Friday did wonders for Jedi Outcast.

No surprises the Song of Storms is dominating the vote. The order of this list is mind-boggling, even from the point of view of someone who has no musical talent to speak of and would put the Requiem of Spirit on top >.>

Is that the American version of the cart for Jet Force Gemini? I have no recollection of it being that horrific. Juno's dead eyes will haunt my soul tonight.

Always nice to see Charles doing lovely Charles things. Wonder if he'll be discouraged from doing his Mario voice for fans now he's no longer the officially sanctioned performer? You'd hope not.

The game spent 78 consecutive months in the top twenty and here people are acting like it's a lack of quality in the DLC that's 'killed' Mario Kart. How many more Switches do you think are out there waiting for Mario Kart to be installed on them?

This "third party" was Palpatine, right? It's always that chuffing Palpatine.

I hope whatever he's doing now he feels better in himself. Working in any career that demands an exacting amount of skill sounds like my idea of hell.

I'm fairly sure she's just saying this to signal her appreciation for the role in general, as well as to (perhaps unsubtly) hint she's open for another Hyrule payday whenever Nintendo want to open their chequebooks again. Gotta respect the hustle, right?

I don't envy them having to somehow come up with something that builds on the stellar world they created for themselves in Hollow Knight. They can take as long as they want to get there as far as I'm concerned, and it certainly looks like there's been enough progress to disabuse the idea that it's 'vaporware'. I think it'll poke its head above the parapet again at the Game of the Year Awards.

But Antz came out two years before Road to El Dorado ._.

It's-a-me, profit-o!

Poor Mallow. He'd be a much cuter Amiibo but nobody will ever campaign for him, ever.

Kirby looks way too much like a pink hoodlum in the NA art.

19 out of 25. Nice to finally be made aware of how pretty Zelda's boots are, less nice to find out that Lucario and Toon Link both have nightmarishly mutated leg stumps.

These stories are always painful to read. Smaller studios with passion and heart for what they're doing rarely stand a chance in the f2p sphere without the depth of funds necessary to keep the game promoted in the public eye. I understand why they keep trying their luck in the hopes of taking off as the next viral sensation but the odds of actually pulling the trick off seem phenomenally small to my mind. Hope everyone makes out okay and their next project yields more fruitful results.

What is it with these lists and people putting Pokemon on them only to immediately write 'X evolution is a better example of the thing we're talking about'?

Also, it's Parasect. Parasect is terrifying.

Banjo beating out Mario? Cheeky! Also true.

I had no idea there were two Ghostbusters II's on the NES, which is why I was scratching my head reading entry #9 and thinking 'Wait, Ghostbusters II on the NES was a sidescroller?' Good to know I had a copy of the actual enjoyable version.

Inscryption is a wonderful mindscrew of a game.