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It should unironically be illegal to remove or censor content from a game post-release like this.

@LikelySatan You need to get your eyes checked if you can't tell the difference between adult women depicted in a chibi art style and children.
Also, if these outfits are too sexualized for you, then you wouldn't survive two seconds of playing the game series from which the character in your avatar originates.

It's my belief that just about every game that's considered bad could've potentially been better under a different set of circumstances. I'm hard-pressed to think of any bad games that I believe were truly doomed to be bad from the get-go.

EDIT: On second thought, if I had to choose at least three games that I believe were doomed to be bad from the start, they would be Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Chibi-Robo Ziplash, and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival; since, unlike many bad games which feature poor execution of potentially good gameplay ideas, the three mentioned above feature flawless execution of fundamentally bad gameplay ideas.

As long as kids are using TikTok anyway, I'd rather that they watch a cutesy, wholesome Sonic cartoon on it than 90% of the other content on that godforsaken app.

@Mikmoomamimocki I like to think that in this movie's universe, all of the Mario games instead feature the Popeye cast.

Edit: nvm, I just remembered that the Donkey Kong arcade game stand-in in the movie is "Jump Man". I still like my idea, though. 😉

I'm more turned off by the fact that it's Limited Run Games putting this out than by the games themselves.

But yes, bad games deserve to be preserved, too, if only to serve as examples of what NOT to do when developing a game.

@Dr_Lugae If your idea of "innovation" is making games more shallow and bare-bones than their predecessors, then sure. 🤷‍♂️

Don't buy this game, the devs are a**holes.

The Streets of Rage games actually have some batsh*t crazy sci-fi elements beneath the surface. That's something that should make it into this movie if they really want it to feel like Streets of Rage.
(and also the music, but almost all video game adaptations seem to be allergic to including music from the games, so I won't be holding my breath on that one 😔)

@NerdyBoutKirby Either that, or we have another victim of autocorrect on our hands. 😔

Mayhem In Monster Land is an absolute must

As long as the Nazi-punching is limited to real Nazis and not regular people on the street that Antifatards label as Nazis.

I sure hope that that faux-CRT filter is optional, 'cuz it looks like sh*t. Much rather have clean, crisp pixilation.

@RadioShadow That wouldn't have been clickbaity enough, obviously.

Paper Banjo-Kazooie when?

I just hope that they learned from their mistake with the recent Nickelodeon kart racers and make the characters actually have voice clips during gameplay. With how colorful the personalities of these characters are in their source material, it would make a world of difference in terms of enjoyability.

The "3D games are inherently better than 2D games" mindset is the gaming equivalent to "live-action movies are inherently better than animated movies". It's depressingly narrow-minded and I hate it.

There are two simple solutions that Nintendo could implement into the eShop to combat this shovelware problem:

1. Bring back the 5-Star user rating system from the Wii U and 3DS eShops (user reviews like on Steam would be ideal, but just ratings would be an acceptable compromise)

2. Allow users the option to block specific publishers (third-parties might object to this, but since the only people who would use this option on any given publisher are people who never had any intention of purchasing from them in the first place, they would realistically not be losing out on any profits from it)

Is it bad that my initial reaction to this was "Yay, Blaze is on the cover!"

10/10
The only one I didn't know for sure was Kirby's official height, but luckily I guessed correctly!

These "retro" graphics are a special kind of hideous that can only be achieved with modern technology.

And you all rewarded these backward, anti-creative restrictions by buying these games and giving them 8/10 review scores.

Mindless sheep, the lot of you!

9/15
Brawl in The Family's "The History of Nintendo" helped me out a little bit with this one.

I feel bad for that Ryan kid. He's probably gonna grow up to be a depressed alcoholic/drug addict, like many a child celebrity before him.

I had initially written this game off, as to me it just seemed too "dumbed-down" for a fighting game. But after playing it a bit in its current free-to-play form, I have to admit that it has more than enough depth within its simplicity for me to call it a competent fighter.

However, it's still a far cry from the "reboot of the fighting genre" that it advertises itself to be, and I certainly don't think these type of simplified fighting games are gonna be replacing the more complex traditional fighters as the norm any time soon.

This month: Samurai Shodown

Next month: Samurai Jack

I was curious about the exclusion of G-Darius from the arcade collection.

Frankly, the only game on this list that I'd rate outside of the 8-10 range is Brawl Brothers, and even that one's still a solid 7.

I remember playing this one at Galloping Ghost a few years ago. Convinced me to pick up the first one on Switch.

Considering how Contra: Rogue Corps turned out, it's probably for the better that Konami continue to refuse making a new Castlevania.

Whip! Whip!
The Legend of Dark Witch
Castle of No Escape 2
Odallus: The Dark Call
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition
Shinobi Spirits S: Legend of Heroes
Commander Keen in "Keen Dreams"
Heavy Burger
Goonya Fighter
Alchemic Dungeons DX

It's not easy to make cartoonish characters look realistic without them falling into the uncanny valley, but Grassetti really pulls it off! Needless to say, I'm impressed.

@shonenjump86 That one was actually a reverse example; it was a Jetsons game first and then later converted into Yokai Busters for Japan.

The more I look at the North American cover, the less it looks like a video game and more like a low-budget cgi movie for kids.

The only Natsume game I bought last year was The Ninja Saviors, which was excellent. 👍
I might possibly be interested in something not Harvest Moon-related from them this year, but who knows.

Btw, this is probably old news by now, but just in case anyone still hasn't heard yet:
Some time after the 3DS came out, the creators of Harvest Moon broke off from Natsume so that they could self-publish their games in the west, but Natsume held on to the rights to the Harvest Moon name. Meaning that the most recent "Harvest Moon" games are in-name-only, with the original series now going by the name "Story Of Seasons".
So, if you're a long-time Harvest Moon fan who's bummed out by the new direction in which Natsume has taken the brand, or a new fan wishing to see what all the fuss is about, check out Story Of Seasons instead.

I was certain that they weren't gonna ditch Isabelle this soon after her introduction and rise to superstardom, but I suppose it's nice to have confirmation nonetheless.

If there's one thing that can be said for certain about Kojima, it's that he's a highly creative fellow with a wild imagination.

If a new Sonic tv cartoon were to be made, I wonder whether they'd go with the same animation style as the recent YouTube shorts, or if they might try something entirely different?

@Tandoori And performatively liking things doesn't make one appear fun or optimistic

@Tandoori That'd be all fine and good, except that nobody's allowed to simply dislike a mainstream product anymore. Anyone who isn't absolutely thrilled with the latest movie/game/whatever, MUST be either "entitled" or some form of "-ist" or "-phobe", and should therefore be constantly shamed and slandered at every opportunity until the end of time.
If others can't get over us having disliked something, then we're not gonna get over disliking it.

Rian Johnson - the biggest manbaby of them all

I was one of those fortunate enough to be able to pick this one up within launch week, (with the bonus CD at that!) and it's shaped up to be one of my top 5 DS games. I would absolutely buy it again on Switch if given the opportunity.

The Probotector one wouldn't look as bad if they made the key art bigger and had the Super Nintendo logo covering up the barren bottom-left corner.
It still wouldn't be as good as the NA boxart, of course, but it would've stood a chance at least.

I have a couple of ideas, but I don't wanna jinx it by saying them out loud.

I'm probably the only person in this comment section who actually likes Arby's, and I'll admit that their kids meal toys have never been quite up to the standards of McDonald's or Burger King, but these plastic discs they've been giving out as of late are an absolute joke.

These out-of-touch Hollywoodites hating on the Sonic redesign just makes me want to support it even more.

North American cover: Kazooie makes a happy face for the group photo

European cover: After the photo's taken, Kazooie instantly storms off to go kick some butt

@ramu-chan Blazing Chrome gang rise up!

An enhanced port of The Legend of Dark Witch also released on Switch today.
Which I bought immediately, of course.

EDIT: Minor correction, it's actually more of a remaster than a port.

@KitsuneNight Thanks, I'll check it out!