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@JedRock How would they get the manual/"Diary of Faces" into consumer hands with a mobile release? Manipulating QR images inside its pages was roughly half the point of the game.

Yes, because GX wasn't challenging at all... O.O;;;

If only Sega AGES had focused more on classic arcade releases than on their already-rereleased-many-times titles like Sonic and Alex Kidd.

I remember trying the demo on 360 and being annoyed that it felt like Billy and Jimmy were walking around and fighting while underwater. Just lacked that responsiveness which is integral to a belt-scrolling brawler.

Well, there was dummied-out Spirit data in Ultimate for Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini well before Banjo-Kazooie joined the roster, so it's not like this doesn't have precedent...

@KingBowser86 I just took it to be a cute Chrono Trigger homage, since the swirling in the background looks like when you go through a Gate, and he's not above referencing other games without it going anywhere (like that one screen cap that's arranged as a Golden Sun battle).

His pictures are always so charming, at least until they start inspiring fans to speculate on the roster. XD

Europe for me. The borders are annoying, but the actual image is the most interesting of the three.

But the most important question — is the opium ring in SaGa 2 still censored to be smuggling bananas?

Just went through it. I'll admit that I tended to overthink the puzzles, especially in chapter 2, and there was one part where they suddenly brought in use of the right analog stick that I didn't expect. But overall, it was a very touching story, and the musician in me loved having that as a running theme.

Also, the young lady's name is Eda, if you want to edit the article.

Man. Considering how snugly themed it all looks, I'm having trouble seeing where they could expand, if that Donkey Kong data-mine proves fruitful.

I hope Hamster collaborates with Taito/Squenix sometime to put out Cadash. It's no Capcom D&D, but it's still some solid adventuring.

Watching that Red Arremer zip away in a mini-cutscene makes me think that we might see a new breed of one as a boss. It'd be pretty wicked if it turned out to be Firebrand and he uses his various Crest powers on you.

The Spirit Board for FF7 is so great. The Barret fight, in particular, starts with three Miis playing Biggs, Wedge and Jessie, and I nearly swooned!

Three equally bad box arts for a horrible game. Fitting!

Licensing Jaleco games must be dirt cheap for there to be so many on the SNES Online service. Not that there's many good fighting games on SNES which don't belong to Capcom or SNK... Namco could/should release WeaponLord on it, though.

@Tasuki Flashback on SNES changed the Death Tower to the Cyber Tower, on that note.

In the same vein as Hokuto no Ken listed above, there were two Sega games based on the manga Kujaku Ō (Peacock King) that had their licenses dropped in the west — the Master System game became SpellCaster, while the Genesis game became Mystic Defender.

Also, Mashin Hero Wataru on TurboGrafx became Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, and in a reversal, the NES game Shatterhand was changed into a Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain tie-in when it released in Japan.

Unmentioned requirement: willingness to wade through endless pages of amateur Pokemon doujinshi while conducting research.

So many animatronics in the park, and I hope overexcited people don't break all those interactables. That will definitely be a concern in the California and Florida parks.

I can understand why they're focusing on Mario, though. A) Instantly recognizable even to lay-audiences, and B) properly representing every big Nintendo IP would require their own park, not just an offshoot of Universal Studios.

I hope they rotate in some new spirits. There's still a good number of Nintendo's own franchises that lack collectible JPEGs. StarTropics, Endless Ocean, Geist, Cruis'n, Pro Wrestling...

On topic, it mystifies me how "professional" Smash roster speculators can talk about how much they want Geno, Sora or Crono and say how very DEFINITE their odds of getting in are, and then they turn around and are aghast at how Sephiroth could have EVER made it into Ultimate. Between both Fighters Passes, it's pretty obvious that the doors are wiiiide open for people to come in, and topics such as relevance or deserving of an invitation are totally out the window. Can't wait to see who the final(?) three are.

@faint Hero was 21 minutes, Banjo was 25, Terry was 48 (he went DEEP into SNK/Neo-Geo explanation), Byleth was 38, Min Min was 35, and Steve was 46. So Sephy's is about average length.

And I'm guessing that, in addition to Geno and Chocobo coming back, we'll also be seeing the return of Lloyd Irving's costume.

Nice to see Endless Ocean made it. <3

I wish HAL would revisit Arcana on the SNES. Such a neat little Eye of the Beholder-esque RPG with some fantastic music.

Surprised they didn't give Pikmin some kind of garden decoration or flowerpot saucer; they're little sentient plants, after all.

As long as the internet isn't treated as an essential utility like water and heat/gas in America, ISPs will never be bothered to upgrade their lines sufficiently enough to make cloud gaming feasible here. It wouldn't surprise me if some rural areas still have to cope with dish-based service or — gulp — dial-up. My apartment complex only got fiber a year or so ago, and it's through AT&T of all companies.

Pikmin physically, Fazbear's Pizzeria digitally for me.

A pity Nintendo's visual novels are typically still confined to Japan (at least for the time being). This, the Famicom Detective Club remakes... Digital distribution should make them less risky to localize.

I was really charmed by the trailers, so I might still give this a try, but knowing that you have to fail to ultimately win gives me low-key Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter vibes, and that wasn't the most rewarding game.

I would LOVE for SSSV to make a comeback! Sadly, it doesn't fit Rockstar/Take 2's current MO. :/

@Severian @GrandScribe Alex and Ellia also appear as magazine illustrations in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, and the fight with Psycho Mantis was changed a bit to reference some of the sanity effects.

NA/EU's works for its simplicity. Japan's cover is just too busy-looking.

Hope one of the Endless Ocean games places nice and high!

A combination of Sprung on DS and Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Excellent.

With how much rougher the Switch version looks, Behaviour should release a Nintendo-exclusive killer/survivor to help sweeten the pot to buy that version. Pious Augustus and Alex Roivas are the most obvious choices, but since they co-own the Fatal Frame franchise, they could also do Yuri Kozukata and Ose Kurosawa from the Wii U installment, or Mio Amakura and Sae Kurosawa from FF2.

Somehow, despite not being on the eShop and not being worth MyNintendo coins, they still have a patch update for it on their servers that bumps it up to version 1.02. Couldn't tell you what's different about it from the baseline cartridge, but it can't be much.

I'd probably hide Chattur'gha/Ulyaoth/Xel'lotath/Mantorok runes around the park if I was working construction with them. So... good thing I'm not in the construction biz? |3

Please, Disney and Square Enix... put Gargoyles in KH someday. It fits like a glove.

Right now, the glitch that makes the opponent fall through the ground if they strike two of Steve's blocks at once is the bigger issue to deal with. https://youtu.be/NtOSEo_Mhhk

Would love to see more stuff get off the PSP and Vita. Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins for starters, but also Mega Man: Powered Up, Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter, and Star Ocean: Second Evolution.

Mm, not my first or even third pick, but it'd be neat. Lord knows the stage would be gorgeous.

Would have been nice to see Angry Beavers, ChalkZone and TUFF Puppy in there, but it's definitely a huge step up from the first game as it is.

When this was announced, I thought it was referring to Arabian Fight and was like, "HELL YES, that was a wicked beat-'em-up!" https://youtu.be/TDMCcbn1CKg

Wasn't Family Trainer the Japanese name for some Power Pad stuff, too? I seem to remember Athletic World, Stadium Events and Dance Aerobics having "Family Trainer" somewhere on the packaging.

Seeing as JSR is mostly licensed music, I can't say I'm surprised Nintendo wouldn't hire him for Splatoon. They try to stay away from licensing songs except for their sports titles.

I've had my LAN adaptor ever since the Wii. It's been really nice to be able to reuse it with the Wii U and then the Switch.

@Nemesis666 That wasn't really something worth "UM, ACTUALLY..."ing over, but thank you.

The team at Sora Ltd. really put a lot of thought and detail into this. I will say that Steve looks like he'll be tricky to play outside of his stage, since he becomes limited to the materials newly coded into the stage (like their demonstration that the Great Fox only had iron), so I imagine you'll see him a lot more often in Battlefield/Omega stages where the materials are fixed.

Fatal Frame is always interesting, Tecmo! wink wink, nudge nudge

Please, please, PLEASE make this banner available for sale once all the DLC is complete, Nintendo.

I keep going into a loop from 1-1 to 1-2 and back again, over and over. It feels like I'm making little progress. I must be doing something wrong.