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I was hoping it will appeared on NSO first to see if its worth buying but if this game got physical release I may look forward to it.

Fantastic now I could finally delete those awful mobile ports from my Switch now.

Nice that the indies are doing what the big triple a failed to do. Keeping gaming alive and real.

@Yosher You're not my folks so you don't have to worry about it.

At this point Microsoft are not going the way of Sega, nope not even close. Instead they are going the way of NeoGeo. Like NeoGeo they had the most expensive hardware and they not only make games for that expensive hardware but also porting those games to other competitor's hardware too. Also like NeoGeo which is giving gamer arcade accurate gaming at home, Microsoft is giving PC accurate gaming at home. The similarity is obvious now.

How bout actually put the game on the eShop Nintendo. A lot of my folks recently just found out about this game collection and they want to play it. They don't care how much it cost just make it available.

The real truth is that will future Mario games still retain its quality even after Shigeru Miyamoto retired? If there's any time for Miyamoto-san to seek a protégé to handle the Super Mario series going forward, now is the time. I know Keiji Aonuma took over the Legend of Zelda series and Yoshio Sakamoto took over Metroid for Gunpei Yokoi but we still need someone to take over the Super Mario series for Miyamoto once he decided to retire for good.

I hope we get the Game Boy version of Battle Arena Toshinden along with this. That version to me was the best, those 2D Game Boy animations look fantastic.

All I want is Rare Replay. They can keep everything else.

The probability of me getting this game depends on whether it's real or not.

Cross progression is cool but until it becomes a real game then will I pick it up.

@itsapossum I don't think Palworld give a crap about you either once they trick you into their world. The difference between Palworld and Pokémon is that Pokémon knows to redeem themselves if they ever done you wrong, Palworld may succeed right now but once they screw you too, then they screw you permanently. You won't ever get back what you lost once that happen.

Nice to see Nintendo is winning again this week. I had to say Nintendo got their holiday stuff all warm up and ready to go ahead of everyone else this year. It's looking like Switch and Switch 2 holiday is going to be a big win for the House of Mario again. Everything that needs to be ready for the Black Friday and Christmas holiday are already at store shelves right now: Switch 1 & 2 consoles, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the Super Mario Galaxy Collection, Donkey Kong Bananza, Pikmin 4, soon to release Kirby's Air Rider and Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, Fire Emblem Engage, Mario Kart World and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Complete, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and all the Switch 1 ports of games.

Not only push it to 2026 but put the damn game on an actual cartridge too while you're at it.

Nice to see Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles on number 2 there. Hopefully Square Enix see that and remastered Vagrant Story the same way. Vagrant Story is part of the Ivalice universe so I hope we get that one soon.

@anoyonmus That's fantastic, once that one is finish they just need to remake the first and third one. Nice that they remake the best one first.

Now they just need to remake the first three games and my life with this franchise will be complete or at least until Fatal Frame VI exist.

@Duncanballs They aren't a scam but they are a scummy move cause they are ruining a tradition that doesn't need to be fix. They allow developer to choose whether to give consumer a product or a counterfeit and most often than not the dev would likely choose the counterfeit cause fake is always cheap. The problem is the fake value doesn't apply to the actual customers, instead the customer still gets the fake product but not the value price in which that fake is apply to. I would understand if they only use game key card for just demo and prototype so gamers could try the game before buying the actual one but to put full games on it just doesn't add up and feels scummy at best. Nintendo's goodwill die after the Switch. Switch 2 going forward is just nothing but greed cause everything from there on will just be smoke and mirror and nothing more.

@iLikeUrAttitude The eShop is basically just the Virtual Console under a different name. Virtual Console doesn't necessarily mean it had to include retro games. Remember the e in eShop stands for electronic and something within electronic is digital and digital means the same as virtual.

They only trademarked "VirtualConsole" (1 word), not "Virtual Console" (2 words). This is why it's not what we think it is. We want the two words masterpiece, not the one word wannabe.

Like I said before, why even rush this game to release when we already got Persona 3 Portable? Take all the freaking time you need and polish that turd then release it. Why is that so hard? Nobody needs this garbage right now especially not this soon.

I would love a HD 2D remake of this game for Nintendo Switch. It would had been fantastic. This and the entire Blazer trilogy.

Don't be too excited guys it's likely just gonna be another mobile game.

Got the entire NES library on my 4gb microsd card which I could play on my phone, emulation handhelds, Steam Deck, NES EverDrive, clone console, Analogue Super Nt, modded GameCube, Wii, Wii U, DS, 3DS, GBA, PlayDate, Retroid, GPD, Ouya, etc.

Itagaki-san, you are a great videogaming legend. I will play Ninja Gaiden Black in your honor.

Kinda sad that he is gone at such a young age too. This dude was a heavy smoker, he fought cancer and won several times and then fought again and finally submit. No pain no gain, may you RIP Itagaki-san.

@EVIL-C Yes, Wolfenstein Youngblood was incomplete and required a download which is why it needs a physical cartridge release.

Leave it to Limited Run Games to make another pointless physical cartridge release. If there's any Wolfenstein game that needs a physical edition it's Wolfenstein Youngblood, not the New Colossus. We already got physical cartridge release of Wolfenstein II already.

At first I thought it would be similar to Dragon's Lair where all you do is mastering the art of trials and errors QTE but it seems there's prompt and choices you can make that does allow you to do things differently too so that's interesting. Definitely would check this out once the price is more affordable.

That thing does look cool but not $1000 cool. With $1000 it must be able to natively play the entire Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Steam library in addition to having an OLED screen, 2tb of storage, 32gb ram, a handle so to be able to play Playdate games naturally, a paddle so to be able to play Pong naturally, and a portable grill oven so I could cook my roasted chicken while I'm playing. Now that's $1000 worth of feature for a powerful hungry player, not this Ally crap which is just another ROG Windows device that'll likely failed once its Tesla style battery explode or get infected by malware in less than 2 years.

Tbh I'm still playing Splatoon 1 for Wii U to this day so for Splatoon 2 to still had support now is fantastic.

I may pick this up once it reach the right price for me but for now I'm good with the other horde shooting games that I already had and still playing.

Even with a more powerful hardware they still suck by not improving anything from Legends Arceus. Either they are too afraid to improve or choose not to. There are no excuse for them this time. This game is lazy at its finest. It's not that the visuals are awful but that the main issue is due to the fact that it still has performance issue even on the $450 garbage that was the Switch 2, heck even the $350 Steam Deck had games that looks and ran better than this. The only hope for this game is if the story is decent, if not it's just a cash grab and not really anything special. Pokemon games hasn't been good since Sun and Moon on 3DS.

Looks like fun pinball action. Definitely will be checking this out soon.

@KayFiOS Tbh these games has always had physical releases from the get go, they just were not available in North America. When these games first came out after their Nintendo Direct showing, only Asia and Japan had physical releases of these but those are multi-language release with no tariffs involvement so importing them back then was a non-issue at the time.

While I already got these physical from Play-Asia already, it's nice that they are finally coming to NA in an official capacity. Still at the very least they could had bundle them together into one neat physical package on a single cartridge instead of separating them to two cartridges. All of them together is only 12gb (FFVII is 3.9gb, FFVIII Remastered is only 3.1gb, and FFIX is only 5gb) surely a 16gb cartridge would had work out just fine.

Nice, I remember they use to make a lot of good animated shorts through Nintendo Video when the 3DS was around so I'm glad they are doing it again for Switch.

@Fighting_Game_Loser Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles physical release for Switch 2 in Japan was a code in the box though, not a game key card. The reason why it doesn't sell as well as the Switch 1 version was cause most people would rather just buy the Switch 1 physical release and then use the free upgrade from that for the Switch 2. Those who bought into the scummy Switch 2 physical release were surprise cause there were no game key card message printed on the case like the other ones so those customers who bought it were caught unaware as they were expecting a full game on cartridge, instead it's just a code in a box. Words are already spread and the Switch 2 version will be gone from the chart by next week. They won't be making that same mistake with Dragon Quest I & II though.

Best game I had ever play on Steam this year next to Silksong. Will double dip on this again for Switch.

@Mana_Knight Atari purposely include the game on NSO to help Accolade promote the Bubsy Collection and the upcoming Bubsy 4D game for Xbox.

@NFrealinkling Not only is it Japan only but you'll need mouse control to play it. The game is a point and click game similar to Lemmings, King Arthur's World, and the Lost Vikings.

I mostly try to buy 2-5 new games per year but will get at least 8-12 games (old, new, or retro) during a sales or Black Friday. I also will try to get physical version as much as I could but if digital is all it had at the moment (such as the case with Hollow Knight: Silksong, Fast Fusion, and Onimusha 2 Remastered) then that'll be fine too.

Nice to have Super NES version of Fatal Fury Special here especially since the Super NES version is the only one that had online play and you can also play as the hidden guest fighter, Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting 2 which you can't in the offline only ACA NeoGeo version.

@LazyDaisy Nintendo already mention that they don't care jack about ever beating the PS2 sales figure, they only care if the system sell whether with a price increase or not.

They really should just make this a sequel and not a reimagine of the original cause now it's still just the first game again with mediocre performance like before. You can polish a mediocre game all you want but if you can't fix the performance, what's mediocre will still stay mediocre no matter how good it looks. Better graphics doesn't a good game make.

Hopefully we get an Ogre Battle Collection at some point with Ogre Batte: March of the Black Queen (Super NES, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn), Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (Nintendo 64), and Ogre Battle Gaiden: Prince of Zenobia (NeoGeo Pocket Color).

How bout actually making an epic adventure game starring Mario and Sonic instead? It could be a platformer or an RPG.

@ShadLink The original Switch had tons of horror games, in fact there's too much horror games on Switch than past Nintendo systems. The issue is that most of those aren't popular enough.

I still failed to understand why they need to remastered this for Switch 2 so soon. They could had take their time with the Switch 2 version, I mean it's really not that long ago that we got Persona 3 Portable. It's only like two years ago that we got that game.

Yeap definitely will be picking up the Switch 1 version soon.

Anyone with decent knowledge of Japanese might spot that the very game's title translates to 'Protagonist' and that the three main characters are all named Shu, Jin, and Kou.

Interesting, now I know why Mortal Kombat Deception's new main character in Konquest Mode got the name he did. I knew Ed Boon was hiding some secrets about that name.