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@KitsuneNight

SEGA should be blamed for partnering with AT Games to make these inferior products in the first place. If there weren't so many crappy Genesis plug and plays on the market already the potential for confusion wouldn't be there. SEGA is not blameless.

At least Garou is on sale.

Ryu and most of the main SF cast don’t belong in MK, but I could see someone like Akuma or even M. Bison being a good fit.

Zelda 2 needs a remake badly.

SEGA dropping the ball by missing Halloween

This would be pretty cool for a Street Fighter spin off, but not a numbered sequel

Glad they went with Sonic's classic look.

Looks like there might be room for one more hidden character on the character select screen.

@Old_Man_Nintendo

User abuse? The Switch Lite has been out for less than a week.

@Xelha

How could any review meaningfully address the possibility of drift at this time beyond mention it as a possibility.

The Switch Lite is brand new, we don't know if Nintendo has implemented some fix "under the hood" that will eliminate drift or if it will drift just as bad as joy cons over time.

I'm personally going to hold off on the Switch Lite until some time has passed to see if drifting issues emerge. With that said, I absolutely don't fault Nintendo Life for not having the answer as to whether or not the Switch Lite will drift at this time.

@Krisi

Prime 2 was a big step backwards. The dark world was a real slog for most of the adventure and too many bosses were located pretty far from the nearest save point. That's just bad design.

I actually found Prime 1's platforming enjoyable and pretty generous, so to each their own.

@FullMetalWesker

Skies is a wonderful classic JRPG that feels like a 16-bit classic with a 128-bit coat of paint. The game has a colourful cast of characters and a unique, charming world that is fun to explore.

With that said, the encounter rate is atrocious. You get in random battles constantly, including when you're flying your airship. A HD remake that tweaked the encounter rate / sped up battles would be an easy 9/10. As is, it is still a worthwhile play through if you can tolerate constant random battles.

@Krisi

Metroid Prime is much, MUCH better than Prime 2.

Pikmin 1 vs. Pikmin 2 is debatable since they're very different, but I can definitely respect ranking Pikmin 2 over 1.

What about the ability to message someone on your friend's list or invite them to join you in a game?

@Realness

The vast majority of vertically scrolling shmups use Tate monitor dimensions and therefore letterbox on TVs, (especially modern TVs with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio). This is pretty standard for the genre.

In fact, the only vertically scrolling shmup I know of that fills up a 16 x 9 widescreen TV is Under Defeat HD on the PS3 / 360.

@Heavyarms55

Fortnite is an example of free-to-play done right. All premium content is purely cosmetic and offers no gameplay advantages. There also aren't any timers that arbitrarily restrict the amount you can play. Plus you can earn some in-game cosmetic upgrades for free (granted you need to put a ton of time into it).

Obviously, a lot of people still spend way too much on the game, but it doesn't seem all that exploitative compared to most mobile games.

I don't understand why people would say no to this. It's cool if you hate Fortnite, but why would you want to deny the Splatoon franchise the chance to be seen by literally tens of millions of people?

You missed most of September's amiibo

This is great news. It once again shows that Disney is willing to provide the necessary licenses to rerelease their old games. Recently we've seen:

-Capcom's Disney Afternoon Collection
-Castle/World of Illusion on the Genesis/Mega Drive Mini
-And now the Aladdin/Lion King Collection

With that said, I'm not particularly interested in revisiting these games. They were decent for their time, but were always a case of graphics over gameplay.

@YANDMAN

It is $50 USD on Play Asia at the moment. You must have caught it on sale or something. $30 is the lowest price I've heard of for the game, definitely not standard.

No Valkyria Chronicles 1 OR 4?

For shame!

How long until Splatoon 3 is announced? 2020?

@Haywired

People saying this is the worst one haven't played most of the series. The DS and 3DS entries are objectively worse, as is Super Monkey Ball Adventure on PS2/GC/Xbox.

@nocdaes

You're assuming the remake will ditch the motion controls. Both the Switch joycons and PS4 dualshock 4 are capable of motion controls.

@FiveDigitLP

It's actually one of the better games. The problem with Monkey Ball is that the the first two Gamecube games are way, way, way better than the rest of the series.

You could make a case that Banana Blitz is the third best MB game, but it is a distant, distant third.

What's sad is that Konami is releasing an official Contra game later this year that will, in all likelihood, be vastly inferior to this game.

@KIRO

The original Monkey Ball arcade controller was a giant banana!

I'm cautiously optimistic. The last "console" Monkey Ball game on Vita was decent, but still a far cry from the greatness of the two GameCube originals.

In fact, the trajectory of the series quality has been straight downwards over the years.

That said, SEGA does now how to make good games still, so if they truly put in the effort with this one, it could turn out wonderfully.

Yikes. Why would SEGA publish this?

I had great fun with ARMS and am glad I got to experience it. That said, any success ARMS had was largely due to when it released, since the Switch library was pretty barren then as the author points out.

If it came out today, ARMS would likely only sell a fraction of what it did.

There should be a big old asterisk next to Mario + Rabbids. Technically it is third party, but it's also a Mario game (and typically the cheapest retail Mario game on Switch). One would expect it to follow the sales patterns of Mario spin offs more than the average third person game.

Wow, that's a hell of a Q3! Too many games for me to keep up with.

The retro screenshot has a date of 1964, which was the last time Tokyo hosted the Olympics. It'd be pretty sweet if they recreate a bunch of events with sprite graphics.

This looks OK at best. Why didn't they go with a 2D run and gun?

@Wavey84 Panzer Dragoon was announced last fall.

Nintendo gets Cuphead, Banjo in Smash, Love-In, etc. What is Microsoft getting out of this arrangement? Is there any Nintendo content coming to Xbox?

Finally! Virtua Racing is Day 1 for me.

Want to play Sonic & Knuckles? Too bad! You can pay us for a non-functional replica cartridge though.

@Wavey84

Agreed. Eternal Champions and Virtua Fighter 2 are arguably outright bad. Kid Chameleon is decent, but it's nowhere near as good as Ristar, Rocket Knight Adventures or Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Light Crusader is another one I could have done without. The rest of the new games are pretty good, but largely underwhelming compared to what's already been announced. I honestly thought they were saving a big reveal for the final 10 games. Looks like I was wrong.

Genesis Mini is better than the SNES Classic. Twice the games and an incredible lineup.

Marvel has already mixed it up with video game royalty with great results (Marvel vs. Capcom series). With that said, I'm of the opinion that the Smash Bros series should be for video game characters only.

@Silly_G

SEGA has nothing to do with the original design, so I don't think they should be ashamed of it. Perhaps they should be ashamed for licensing out the Sonic franchise to Paramount without any oversight or control though.

Super Mario Maker 1 released in 2015 which was basically the peak of the amiibo craze.

In 2019, amiibos are pretty niche and you have to go out of your way to find new ones (they were everywhere in 2015).

A post release patch is possible, but I doubt Nintendo would bother. I'm sure they have the numbers to show that people aren't buying amiibos anymore. Why bother adding in a function that most people can't enjoy?

Wow, that was fast. At one point in time Arena of Valor was literally the biggest game in the world. Surprising that it failed to gain any meaningful traction in the West, though perhaps not too surprising since the game was virtually unknown amongst Switch owners.

What a weird lineup from Namco. Galaxian instead of Galaga? The only franchise to get two games is Mappy?

@retro_player_22

The fact that you're calling SEGA "beyond greedy" for something they didn't actually or do (or even hint at doing) is absolutely hilarious to me.

We really turned a corner with Sonic Mania, by following it up with Sonic Forces and the amazing Sonic movie. We know what the fans want!

@PBandSmelly

SEGA gets full credit for Sonic Mania. They engaged talented fan developers and enabled them to make something special. Most companies squash fan projects.

Yakuza 6, Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Valkyria Chronicles 4 have MetaCritic scores of 83, 85 and 84 respectively (PS4 versions). Those are objectively great scores.

@PBandSmelly

You're joking right? SEGA's recently released Yakuza 6, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Puyo Puyo Champions and Sonic Mania. There's tons of great stuff coming from SEGA these days.

The problem with the Monkey Ball series is that the director (Toshihiro Nagoshi) of the GameCube games is the same person who is currently directing the Yakuza series (SEGA's best and most consistent modern series). Clearly Nagoshi's focus is elsewhere these days.

Looked better than I expected honestly

They should have just made a Gradius collection. They were half way there!