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I don’t know if anyone else uses Howlongtobeat here, but with my limited time as an adult it is a big part of the way I choose what I will be playing, and when.

Well last night I realized that their Fantasian Neo Dimension stat is a lie! Lol it’s listed at like 21 hours. Last night I got to about 20 and realized I was only halfway through the game (I JUST unlocked a skill tree.) I guess their number is based on the mobile game, which was released in two parts or something.

ANYWAY, I switched over to Bakeru and am having the time of my life! This may be GoodFeels finest effort

Star Wars Hunters was on the Coming Soon page of the eshop longer than it has been playable on switch

I realized that completionism was ruining my hobby when I was playing Metroid Prime on the Wii U. I never finished it the first time and the drive to scan everything was a part of that.
James Stefanie Sterling had a really good episode a few months ago about how addictive≠good in games (likely in other instances as well lol) in that video she spends a lot of time talking about how it can have a financial cost for those addicted, but most of these games thankfully do not have that.
I hope you can let go of that drive whenever you want to is what I’m saying! Seems harder than it sounds tho

X 1 Torna 3 2 from
Best to worst.

This trailer was good and cool and also the screenshots look rad. Def keeping an eye on this one.

Also glad it’s not randomly generated. This is VITAL to making a good Starfox game

@EarthboundBenjy you make a lot of good points here!

I think number 1. Phantasy Star 4 is criminally underrated. That should be in conversation with Chrono Trigger, and FF6 as far as the greats of the 16 big era, and maybe the reason is that it’s “just another game on the collection” Square doesn’t do that very often!

Also the I have nothing bad to say about Square’s recent AA efforts with Saga and Mana remakes, but I think if Chrono Trigger got that treatment then people riot. You gotta go BIG for a 3D reimagining and I just can’t see it.

I really liked reading your thought process!

Never missin a beat to say that I don’t care for the HD-2D style. If they remake this thing I’d much rather it look like the Star Ocean 2 remake from 2023.

Do you usually have to pay per themes?

@AstroTheGamosian yoooo!!! I might see you there!!
Do you also go to Midwest Gaming Classic???

In late 2020 I mainlined the at the time entire Trine series, and by the end of the 4th I was ready to never look at them again! (It also probably gave me a better appreciation for 3 too tbh)
Lo and behold, Trine 5 comes out a few years ago and I can’t bring myself to it. But this week…. Oooh this week I was so ready! It’s the perfect game to balance Fantasian Neo Dimension and I am going to feel so very accomplished once I wrap them both up.

I remember seeing a Halo 2 mod in like 2007 that did this similar kind of thing. Warthogs were replaced with Epona, I guess I don’t remember much else about it, but it was formative as far as learning what mod culture was like to a young Console gamer

@Desrever listen, that’s one of the best memes we’ve ever gotten - huge W for gamer humor everywhere.

Also I have my own politics, but catch me talking about them in a NintendoLife article smh

This never would happened if we had finally elected Ace Watkins.

Literally there are 3 games I want as a switch owner (who intends to buy a switch 2) to the point that announcement are a little silly.

1. This
2. Soul Reaver collection
3. Shadow Labyrinth

Contract them to do a new Mario+Rabbids but drop the Rabbids.

Maybe they can have their own studio mascot and THOSE can crossover? Someone make this happen

At this point they are basically just a Nintendo studio as far as I’m concerned. My copy of Bakeru comes tomorrow and I couldn’t be more excited.

The US and Japanese have the reverse situation of the PlayStation 2 version of Dragon Quest 8. I think I actually like the clustered roster with the landscape in the background of the US better

But the winner is Europe’s MS Paint cover obvi

@-wc- woah! Not a single remake? We are in remake heaven!

Samus Returns (switch era, not switch though)
Link’s Awakening
Famicom Detective Club
Advance Wars Reboot Camp
Xenoblade Definitive Edition
Another Code
Thousand Year Door
Metroid Prime Remaster

I’m not insisting your instincts aren’t tuned, but I’m surprised none of that appeals to you

I was surprised that we never got a second Let's Go, particularly of the Silver/Gold variety? But as I say that I do think it is hampered by the naming convention.
Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee as titles don't really denote that they are reimagining Red and Blue. Also those are likely the two most popular Pokemon, and Let's Go Chicorita/Let's Go Suicine don't quite have the same draw.

@Dark_Isatari I had a lot of trouble with Tactics Ogre. On paper it is everything I should love, FFT is the best game ever made, but it didn’t land quite. Potentially because it has like zero charisma, and the tactics are a little dated. But the aesthetic, music, and basic tactical gameplay do deliver

When I get super busy and cannot make time to play video games I tend to purchase a lot more games. I don’t know if that is giving my brain the same chemicals in some way, but it’s an impulse for sure.

So I’m inching my way through Fantasian Neo Dimension and genuinely loving it. But feel like I need to spread the pittance of attention I’ve given it to other experiences, and put in Cavern of Dreams a game I also find to be absolutely delightful

I feel like this may have been the first anime I remember watching, though not realizing what that meant at the time. I’d like to revisit the dub, and I would bet money that it not only holds up, but improves the experience for wester audiences.

This is a must buy

Limited Run Games is doing a physical! I’m there dude!

@-wc- I think I might be the only one who is appreciating the rumble pack advertisement! But that’s very much a personal thing, and really doesn’t please aesthetically does it?

I like your comment though, because it does really seem like we think about these things more than companies do (or at least did - that amazing Arkham City cover comes to mind!)

The late 90’s icon advertisement of the rumble pack is what ultimately pushed me into picking EU/US but both are grand

I started Fantasian: Neo Dimensions this week! So far I’ve only been able to play in 15-30 minute intervals, but I am having such a great time! It has that special sauce that only the best turn based JRPGs can manage, and I’m looking forward to getting lost in its world

BEGGING that this doesn’t take two years. It looks so dang good

I’m genuinely surprised that the remake is winning! I fell in love with the original though, perhaps I am biased

If you look at my comment history you see a lot of me being upset about the prevalence of roguelite titles in the last few years.

This is a good example of why that is! Because Star Fox is my favorite franchise from Nintendo, but the allure is replaying the levels over and again in order to get better each time by memorizing patterns. I feel like even if this game is mechanically similar to Star Fox 64 (a perfect video game) it will fall short because the levels resist memorization!

The state of plays have been really interesting for me as a Nintendo fan!

A) sometimes we get the Soul Reaver/Lunar collections!
B) sometimes we get Concorde lol

Either way I’m having fun!

While I feel like the Japanese cover may be objectively worse, it got my vote for “Powerful Wario Game 2004”

When I get time to play video games I am casually playing Beyond Good and Evil (whatever edition on Switch) it’s as good as I remember it! Though it’s a difficult game to play casually, it was clearly not designed with sleep mode in mind because every time I open it up I forget everything I am doing!

I last played it on PS2 in like 07, after an old EGM covered it as an under appreciated gem.

I Wonder if the 4.2.25 direct will have cross platform games. The rumor about the Feb direct is good for the heart, but it doesn’t quite make sense. Meanwhile this shows they at least intend to support switch vaguely until they don’t

The game with all of the current patches on switch is still sort of rough. The frame rate seems fine for the most part, but their are load times for battles and even opening the start menu.

If was enough to make me shelf the thing, though you can tell there is a solid game behind the flaws. Hopefully Switch 2 helps it run better?

I think it’s market conditions. When it’s a small company like Iron Galaxy and a small round of layoffs like 66… I’m not going to defend them, but I think it’s bigger than this company being greedy. This is systemic

Also just for fun, here is a list of Switch 1 games that are releasing physically in the next two months that I am chomping at the bit for:

• plucky Squire
• Bakeru
• little Kitty Big City
• Elypse
• Born of Bread
• Shadow Labyrinth

That’s not any sort of bonkers line-up but it is certainly sufficient to keep me enthralled until news about new games. Also would be pretty cool to get a general release of the Soul Reaver collection grumble grumble

I’m doing some contract work that is keeping me swamped until LITERALLY April 1st lol. So I’ve played fewer games the last month than I have in years, and when I finally can reclaim some free time it’s all about backlog lol

I feel like Switch 2 timing was specifically for me, so I’m sorry to everyone else if that’s made things tougher for you 😅

I could see a partner showcase! With an Endless Ocean type 2nd party thing maybe?

Growing up my brother and I used to play Mariostro Soccer Legue evey day. We love Soccer Leagey and people who do not like this good game are the haters.
We would wake up early on Saturday morning and Do our chores so that mother would let us take turns on the Mariostro. Kids these days do not have manners. I think that just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it is not the goods. My mother and brother also were loving Soccer Times. Why are you not liking it and being hater here? So what if ai this game is my childhood and all of the good childhoods Xbox gets it and that is why Sony and Nintendo are snoozing right now.

Market conditions need to be addressed:

Inflation may have driven this, though yes while game spending as a whole continue to improve, the physical copy of a game remains more static.

I think that the pandemic also shifted the mindset of companies that they were already inching towards. Digital games only benefit publishers, and in the pandemic we were conditioned to spending that way.

It’s The Shock Doctrine, and it may not have been an inevitably were it not for corporate benefit

This week was a lot on my fragile old lady brain, and honestly it’s been like that since basically Christmas! It’s been difficult to get into games, so really something like Cat Quest 2 has been exactly all I can handle! It’s really fun and low investment, but just consistently entertaining combat with a story that’s mostly just their to be charming flavor

I watched the trailer! It seems interesting enough, I like overhead action games and it is beautiful

Then it says “roguelite progression” and I guess I’m just a hater, but I closed out the tab. It feels like every third game is made up of randomized elements and it burns me the tf out.

Eiyuden Chronicles: One Hundred Heroes finally broke me this week. I was excited to play it, and believe on different hardware that it is a winner. However the problems that plague many switch ports finally became more than I was willing to put up with - there are load times on the pause menu, and before each random battle!

Thankfully another game with similar art has really been exciting me! Star Ocean: Second Story remake has been incredible! I hope to play a good deal of that this weekend!

@NintendoWife I think you answered your own question by your own gaming habits.

I replay games frequently, and many of us do. Backwards compatibility makes 8years of purchases that much more secure, and with potential fail rates for the original console ensures that all time classics from this generation will not fad away or become prohibitively expensive

I imagine the tallies are all due to the wealth of known factors before we saw the dang thing. I honestly think that the reveal could have been better received in a different context

That MKart reveal was lab grown to induce the least excitement possible though huh?

@fenlix yeah that was my list of games that defined my switch experience

I feel like a lot of comments are people who read this list imagining it to be a best games of the generation list.

I think that they basically nailed the list, though the argument for Tetris 99/Mario 35/Smash are valid as all heck.

Also I love to see two Hollow Knight h8rs in the comments! Put me down as a third BB!!!

I appreciate the way this list was constructed. I think you all really did create a list that defines the generation for better and worse and should be proud of it!

My list of console Definers:

1. Mario + Rabbids - held the candle for Mario RPGs and the out of the gate “expect the unexpected” from the console

2. night in the Woods - an indie masterpiece that is hard to go back to, but altered the trajectory of my life and understanding of story telling

3. A Hat in Time - showing the Indie studios could compete with Nintendo itself at their own game. I’ve been meaning to revisit it

4. Persona 5: Royal - switch owners need not do without! The one represents the “and also the switch gets one!” When as a Nintendo fan I am so used to being left behind

5. Undertale - For the same reason that you all used Hades. Timeless and independent gaming bliss

6. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - my most played Switch game! Nintendo brought a classic franchise back, and while for most people that was Awakening, this was my first dive in and was blown away.

7. Breath of the Wild - I do not like this game. But I can’t deny that so much of the systems identity is tied to it, and also that it may have single handedly saved Nintendo. It also represents my personal growth, and that it’s okay to let go of things that meant so much to me in the past, because time marches on.

8. Emio: the Smiling Man - it is unfathomable that Nintendo would create a full length anime visual novel game that would also become my GOTY. Also that it would be so murderful! Nintendo took a huge risk on this and potentially added another series of must play Nintendo titles to their growing repertoire, and that’s why I’m still a fan

I am in the last 25% of Valkyria Chronicles

I played the first few chapters when I briefly owned a PS3 so many years ago, but never did finish it. I did however at the 4Th one when it came to Switch and liked it well enough so when the LRG copy came out last year I finally jumped on the first.

This game is a masterpiece. I’ve cried, I’ve laughed, and I’ve yelled “KISS HER!!” At the screen a whole bunch. Top notch storytelling, and excellent writing and VO. The gameplay is not bad either though I think it may be a little busted lol.

Ender Magnolia has been on my radar, though actually I just recently sold my copy of Ender Lillies when I realized I never wanted to play it again.

I actually don’t think it did anything more special than other Metroidvania titles I desperately do want to replay (Dread, Prince of Persia, Vernal Edge, Guacamelee, or Sheepo.)

Replaying games is underrated! Forget a backlog, checkout that… frontlog!