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I bought this on launch day but haven't started it thanks to the comments about it. I guess I'll wait for another patch or two before I give it a go. It was my most anticipated game of last year... :

I wasn't interested in most of Switch's major releases this year - the only one I got was Kirby - but I still had a great year with it. I'm looking forward to getting Sparks of Hope also.

This was a great RPG, but I agree about the pace of battles and encounter frequency. It would definitely need some QOL improvements to make it more palatable.

With that said I love the characters and setting. I think there's a space for this type of game with big, colorful JRPGs like Ni no Kuni, Tales of Arise and Dragon Quest XI finding success in the West.

I just don't think Sega is interested, or has the resources, to bring certain games back or revive them. I've wanted a true Phantasy Star sequel since the Genesis and we've only been treated to PSO for the last 25 years.

Totally against this merger. You can easily cherry pick facts to support or not support the merger, but the bottom line is a console owner is buying the single largest gaming publisher in the industry. There is no way that is good overall for the average gamer or the industry as a whole.

@nocdaes Are you saying you aren't going to watch each day's video? I think it's a fun little promotion, and if they are all under 5 minutes I'll definitely watch every one.

These aren't for the average person. The average person doesn't know what Mortal Shell is, or what a Souls-like is. These are fun little announcements for the fans, and this a great time to do it because nothing is normally announced in the time after The Game Awards.

I'm guessing Day 5 ends with the release of Sports Story, which got a December release window a couple months back.

I don't think I'd buy Grandia 3 again. I remember thinking the writing was bad and it was the first one I actively thought was super easy. I played it when I was in college so I was a bit more savvy.

I might bite on Grandia X though. I never finished that one but I found it super boring after a while. I love Grandia combat but the dungeon crawling has never been the series' strong suit.

Celebration, eh? I'm imagining an orchestral concert in Japan and some 25th Anniversary swag. Maybe Wayo Records will announce the release of Grandia 2 on vinyl? Their release for part one was excellent.

Sadly, I don't think we'll see anything game related. Or, we'll get Collection 2 with Parallel Trippers and Digital Museum 😂

I never beat either of the vanilla versions of these games before finally breaking through and finishing 5. I think I will likely get both, just not right at release, and maybe not even on Switch.

I'm also a bit perplexed that they went with P3P over FES too.

Now please port that Persona 2 remake to anything other than Vita!!

@tabris95 Agreed. I was hoping they'd have a franchise sale when 3 launched, but, we'll, seems not!!

This deal is bad for gaming, full stop. The arguments for each side are fascinating to see play out though.

Microsoft would love to see Sony have to shuffle their business and adapt without literally dozens of prominent franchises that they would own. This is of course after their purchase of Bethesda too.

I like the NA one best. The style ties in with the Genesis trilogy making this a nice bookend to that era of Sonic.

The Japanese and Euro just seem a bit unfinished to me.

I totally got where the reviewer was coming from. Cobra Kai for some people is totally a guilty pleasure. A show you watch and enjoy knowing fully well it's not exactly "good". I've loved a few of the seasons, and I think it did what it was setting out to do extremely well, but it shouldn't be winning any Emmys (for whatever that's worth) in my opinion.

Bummer the game is real garbage. It looks like stupid fun.

I had a 2600 when I was really young so there's some interest to see some of those games again, though I wonder if much of any of it is worth playing today. I always find myself booting up games once in these sorts of sets and then never touching them again.

I finished the first Divine Beast. I intended to go back but honestly found the game more tedious than fun.

I wouldn't call what I've played "barely touching it" or "I'm about halfway", but I likely played 20-25 hours.

The number of comments on here that don't seem to recognize a review is one person's opinion is pretty eye opening. It's also a 4/10, which says it's a little below average, not god awful.

I'm pretty curious to try it myself as a sort of tepid 3D Sonic fan - I love Generations, and that's basically it. I'll wait for a great deal or when it's on PS Plus Extra for PS5 though.

Very few games I buy day one, buy this is one of them. Can't wait.

Sports Story, please, I beg of the!

Pretty curious about this and would enjoy a pocket survival horror game.

I'm playing Odyssey now, trying to clean up moons post Bowser, and while I enjoyed it it's one of my least favorite Mario games - I should say I'm not a huuuge 3D Mario guy to begin with.

Honestly, if we're getting another direct sequel, give me Galaxy 3. The Galaxy games are by far my favorite true 3D Marios, but my absolute favorite is 3D Land.

@Dr_Luigi The official sales figures of Bayonetta 2 on Switch alone are over 1m copies sold. Even if the game was sold $20 a pop, which it is never that deeply discounted, that would be $20m in revenue.

I am not arguing that Platinum is a mega corporation AND I am not saying Bayonetta is a half a billion dollar franchise like the voice actress claimed, but even if the game's didn't turn profits, $4k is a substandard pay rate for your leading lady.

Also, Nintendo IS a mega corporation with tons of money in its coffers. They aren't a charity and wouldn't keep Bayonetta afloat if it repeatedly lost money. Someone could have paid her a fair wage.

Lastly, if Bayonetta isn't a money maker, and even a small one, why did Sega port it to last gen and PC?

Everything I could say has been said multiple times over, but $4k to voice the lead character's role in a AAA game published by Nintendo does seem like a slap in the face. I'm curious what her rates for the first two games were for comparison's sake.

I get that $4k sounds like a lot to an average person - it's like a 1/10 of what I make annually, so it is! - but we are talking about an entertainment property that makes millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars.

Frankly, I find it surprising Jennifer Hale signed on if they also offered her $4k. Isn't she a much bigger voice acting star!?

Dang, how is there not a Super Mario World track on here!?

I picked LttP overworld. Port Town is also a banger.

I think it looks good, but it doesn't sound greeaaat. I think this is the issue with having characters that largely don't have personalities in the games plus slapping well known celebrities behind the Mic.

It's insane that Overcooked keeps getting more and more content. I'd love to see some sales data for the games.

I love this little series, so I'm glad it's clearly found an audience.

First game that came to my mind is Alone in the Dark: Inferno. Second was Silent Hill: Downpour.

With Alone in the Dark it is bad game. It's filled with so much jank, but I really admired all of the systems and ideas they tried. It was a really forward thinking game that just didn't have the budget or the hardware or the time to execute it.

As for Silent Hill, well, I actually don't think it's a bad game at all; I only thought of it because everyone else seems to think it's bad. The thing is I think Downpour is actually pretty good. It doesn't reaxh the heights of 1 or 2 but it's an excellent evolution of Silent Hill gameplay into a semi open world that would go on to be used by Evil Within 2, but not as effectively. The main story isn't one of the better in the series, but the side stories are really excellent and give the town a lot of additional character.

I was thinking Square was dropping too many games this fall on PlayStation. I just feel like the releases are going to cannibalize one another: Diofield, Valkyrie, Star Ocean, Crisis Core, Tactics Ogre. It seems like they're setting some of these games up to fail and almost be a self-fulfilling prophesy, as Square often loves to complain about their games not selling well enough.

@wiiware Totally Colonel Blade from SiN and his default pistol. Really weird, as I have no idea who actually owns that IP - I would have guessed Activision, maybe? I was bummed when SiN: Episodes was canceled. Actually really enjoyed the first one.

Digestible RPG is kind of my wheel house, like Ikenfell, Cosmic Star Heroine. Sub-20 hour JRPGs are a gift to new parents gaming in random 30 minute bursts.

Mostly games that don't appeal to me. I don't love BotW so that is a factor. Probably my highlight was Tunic on Switch, but I kind of see myself getting it on PS5 anyway.

I was drinking the Zelda remake and Metroid Prime Koolaid so my expectations played a major role.

I'd like to see some reviews on this. I love Hot Shots but feel like the series has been stagnant to in decline for multiple generations now. Fore! was IMO the pinnacle of the franchise and Out of Bounds and Everybody's were both good, but lacking. It seems like when Clap Hanz jumped into high def they just didn't have the resources anymore - less modes, less courses, less characters, etc. In a series where the gameplay never changes you need lots of new content to still feel fresh and each release has felt smaller and smaller. Even the online in Everybody's was a mess.

Was planning on grabbing this on PlayStation... Choices!!

I've never played Wind Waker and never owned a console it was released for so I'd like that to be released. I don't have much desire to check out Twilight Princess, so I'm pretty meh on that happening or not.

I honestly forgot it had a 2022 release window so this isn't a real shock. I'll play it when it's ready

Space Channel 5 could be really wild and fun, then I read "a hapless fast food worker is recruited". I rarely understand why we need a new character introduced to a franchise. Do they really think Ulala is an impenetrable character that we can't project ourselves on?

I adore Wave Race 64. I never played Blue Storm and forget regularly that it even happened. I would love to see the series revived, but I'd prefer a new game over some sort of reskin.

The other thing about the Japanese box art is Dracula is rendered in a different style than Nathan and Hugh. He's a lot more realistic looking. It all just seems very haphazard to me.

I generally prefer Japanese box art but not here. The Japanese one here has some pretty egregious design choices. Hugh's face creates a terrible tangent with Dracula - his hairline basically meets up and his nose is poking Dracula's eye out, and in both cases these seem like unplanned coincedences rather than deliberate choices. I also think Hugh and Dracula are too close in palette to Nathanial so he doesn't really read well, unlike the NA box art.

The Japanese one is just very messy and unfocused.

Yah, this is just idiotic. Journalism has had retraction, corrections, etc. These exist because people are not perfect, and allowing people tp improve their work after the fact is valuable, not only to the consumer but also their creators - what would No Man's Sky be without patches?

The Stranger Things comp isn't even apples to apples. Editing previous episodes is a creative choice, while most patches are technical updates. If Netflix crashed every time you watched Stranger Things, okay, I'll bite.

@imgrowinglegs I mean it's not that weird since it came out when the Vita was a current thing that actually had some decent indie cred. Sony was actively courting Indies for Vita because their big games either sucked or weren't finding an audience.

@johnedwin Game Arts made the games and own the rights to them. They're a Japanese company, their inclusion over there is straightforward. Working Designs made the localizations for the West and they don't exist anymore and Game Arts probably doesn't own the translation work they did. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just not a given.

@kingmike Ha, you might be right. Though I don't recall Vic and Sega parting in entirely amicable ways.

I do remember Alundra being rereleased, but I think that was probably outside of my vague decade guess I think it was on PS3, and as of yet hasn't made it back on PS Plus Premium.

If the North American version gets Lunar that makes this appealing, but it seems highly unlikely. Both games were localized by Working Designs and I have no idea who owns their work these days. I can't think of a single Working Designs localization that has seen re-release in the last decade.

Please prove me wrong though.

@GannonBanned Huh, then I guess reissue without the code?

They should reissue 2 this fall as well. A quick search shows physical copies of Bayonetta 2 selling for no less than $72 new.

I got pretty far and then quit at one of the bosses. Maybe I'll try and pick it back up. I think I was close to an ending - definitely not the final or best lol

This is one of the best games of the last gen. Glad more people will get to play it.

Great news. Hopefully once they're all out we can get the Persona 1 and 2 remakes on modern platforms too.

@AtlanteanMan I think some of these games unfortunately are really unlikely. I believe the Western localizations were owned by Working Designs, which no longer exists. I bet to re-release these titles someone would have to commission a brand new localization. People loved WD's work, so they might not even be the games people remember if it happened.

I would love Lunar to be on something more recent than PSX and Saturn.

I have a few of their books and they're mostly great. The Red Dead Redemption one is excellent and the Spelunky one is very good as well. The latter was written by Derek Yu and has some really cool behind the scenes design and incites. MGS is good too.

KotOR is the only I have that I haven't liked. It's mostly comprised of interviews with devs and is very bland. All of the other books benefit from the passion the writer has for the game, but KotOR feels much more clinical from its approach and it suffers because of it.

Guardian Heroes 2.