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@PtM @KeeperBvK Ah, in that case I'm sorry for the misinformation.

I probably only see it among the sales because it is on sale now, and it mentions that it is free because of this crossplatform deal. Makes sense, because Kid Tripp was on sale forever, but now is no longer among the games on sale because it is free, not on -100% sale, which Severed is, how I see it on the eshop. It's still weird, but there is logic behind it

Severed has also been free for a while now, I remember I enjoyed it.

edit: apparently I'm wrong about this, and it's only free in the eshop because it was a cross platform purchase and I have it on one of the platforms where it applied to, I wasn't aware or forgot, sorry for the misinformation.

@tzahn You made Metroid curl up in a ball and crawl in a corner.

@SwitchForce He did clarify FIRST that it is probably talking about successors of the Switch, which even the biggest Switch fans probably hope to get one or two of in the next decade

@Doomcrow They used to bring CoD to the Wii in my actually preferred versions, WiiU version of Blackops 2 that was great (and still supported Wii pointer controls!), and even versions of it to the DS that weren't UNplayable (but they were outsourced). Not Metroid Prime Hunters (or Moon or Dementium 2, some personal favourites), but not BAD DS fps's either. It willmost likely be fine, for those who want them (I don't really enjoy modern military shooters anymore, unless they dosomething new with Full Spectrum Warrior).

@Aezetz The "market" is a place where liars and thieves try to rob as much profit out of the consumer, willing or unwilling (in taxes and "madatory" social debts and such), but a trader isn't necessarily trying to "win", some are "fair traders" (not to be confused with "fair trade" branding), and just want more variety in what goods and services they have access to by trading equally, or even adding value for both parties involved in the transaction. Capitalist salespersons are liars and thieves, and even if they pretend to be your friend by "giving", they may very well not be just giving. Doesn't mean they aren't humans anymore,or "pure evil" or whatever. It just means they are, as most humans, corrupted, and will manipulate the truth to inflate the value and get more than the actual worth, "benefit", "profit", at the loss of the impressionable and the influenced. So in essence... Lying, and stealing. Just with fancier words that, in today's idea of "normality",makeit seem almost "noble", while it is the opposite thereof, and is definitely not durable, so not an idea that will last.

@Rykdrew All the yes in the whole wide world, from me as well.

Still have an official copy imported for the Wii, which I then had to hack to run with a fan translation, making the step much smaller to run other games as roms instead of importing them or buying them at their inflated prices. Most games I really wanted I did buy, even if it meant importing them, like Excite Bots, Kirby's Anniverary Collection,... But yeah, it did make pirating my Wii almost a necessity, out of which pirating grew on me. My Wii has a massive "virtual console" library now, and so will any system I ever own, once it has "expired" otherwise.

@Thomystic Businesses don't think, it's all human thought. And humans also appreciate a "gift". More than they appreciate an expensive game they never got due to it being too expensive. And humans know that. Short term thinking here is "no price cut because we want all the profit", long term thinking is "make a good name, make some friends,..."

Or it could be. Never blindly fall for what someone tries to sell you. Salespersons are known to be liars and thieves, after all. We may have lived in hierarchical capitalism so long that most have forgotten, or subordinated and surrendered their free thought and -will to the will, the policies, the "law" of businesses, corporations, "governments",... The "greater good" being the market towhich they are all just "human resources" and "consumers", but sometimes even that market can benefit from being reminded what it means to be human. Or to be a living being, because humans seem to have forgotten as well. We literally have to convince robots we are not robots nowadays, or is it admitting that we are "only" human... And we are forcefed spying technology under the name "cookies" for market and political "research".

@FishyS I've had 40.000 euro's saved, twice. Once I bought a cabin in the forest (and a piece of forest) where I live now, the other time I bought a huge plot of forest with a basic stone house in it and a caravan, in the mountains in Spain where I'll start a second off-grid this spring / summer. In between I saved for a camper to move from one to the other and return occasionally. If only I had known I could have saved 1/6th of a pokenmon card instead...

@Lizuka I'd even consider 12 cents double digits here. But yeah, the title made me sigh in relief actually. For once, the human collective has NOT shown to have collectively lost ALL basic brain functionality requiring at least one functional brain cell. A day to remember, as humanity finally steps out of its homo mass hypnosis state into a more autonomous sapiens state again. A long way to go still, but that is always the case, even when you arrive at what you thought was your destination, because goal posts move as long as there is life and changing circumstances, and only the "fit" can keep up and fit in, adapt. Only the intelligent know when goal posts are moving in a direction we shouldn't follow though.

Oh well, enough about that. I know I can go on all day about these things.

It's not sold.

That is good.

Makes me wonder... How does one review a game about corrupted data when it corrupts your data, has game breaking bugs,...?

@Roibeard64 They should be handing them out at 90% off, it is also THEIR last chance to get money from it on the closing eshops. Everyone who didn't meet my price before the shop closes, will still end up on my 3ds through the ways of the pirate. But these games I already have, so there's no irony in one of them being about pirates.

Whether they get 1000 x €0,50, or a 100 x €5 the money is the same, the sales numbers are higher but won't matter that much anymore. After this "last chance", I'll still get them, just without giving them €0,50 (which is simply an example of a price, obviously). So yeah, everyone who has games on the eshop, last chance indeed.

It started slow, but it was the system with the most fun built into it. AR games, Face Raiders, the Streetpass games, even the low resolution 3d camera was fun. Later it got the web browser that kind of could run youtube, early buyers got the ambassador games and many free games like 3d classics and full games if you registered a couple of games from a selected few. And some creative and amazing new titles over time, with the DS's amazing library as backwards compatibility.

Also, as if the name of the system didn't say it, it had 3d. Some games used it so well it felt like you could reach into them and grab the characters on screen. It's still a secondary option next to my Switch to play games, to this day, while my PS4 and PSVR and older systems remain mostly untouched, and newer ones have completely failed to impress me or make me even acknowledge their existence. I's senseless to deny it, but I haven't seen them and don't care. Justcompletely unimpressed and uninterested. GBA on Switch impresses me more, and that's, well, a "virtual console" that feels more real and hasmore potential I grew up with Game Boys.

If only one has Wolf Link on it, the other doesn't exist. Unless it had Midna. But it doesn't, so what am I even talking about?

Having recently finished The Honk Kong Massacre for another 100% run, I have since begun and been hooked by Undernauts Labyrinth of Yomi. I'ma big fan of first person turn based dungeon crawling role playing games, and this is among the better in my opinion. Not as refined as Etrian Odyssey has gotten, and not as deep as Labyrinth of Refrain, but the darker tone and atmosphere is really great. I think when I'm through with this one, I'll get to playing Death Mark, maybe an "in between" game first.

@GoldenSunRM I recently bought the sequel new physical for 5€, and Codename STEAM was also 5. But the latter I already had, another hidden gem that is criminally underappreciated.

@JohnnyMind I'll need to see the final product to judge its value for myself, and my standards are always far below 60 for any game, but in this discussion, we have an agreement. Nice to see that the internet hasn't completely disabled humans to agree or understand different perspectives

@JohnnyMind Here as well, I think we mostly agree, but Ican also see how someone who isn't convinced by the product on offer but does have some interest in it, might just as well feel disrespected by the asking price because they feel it has less value and they are seen as less intelligent or easily fooled and exploited. Not saying it is the case here, but there have been cases where I felt that way - when another remaster of The Last of Us was released at inflated price, or a new Need For Speed game costs 80 € at launch for example. I have no interest in the NFS game, no opinion on how good or bad it was because I never played it and am not even interested in a PS5, I'm not personally taking offense in that price, as it is not aimed at me, let alone personally, but I did feel like one must be really easily fooled to pay that much for it, and the entire marketing team must know very well they are abusing those willing to pay that much. But are they WRONG doing it if it works? Maybe not. But not right either, and not ethical and honest, I would argue. But as I said before, the market in its entirety is unethicaland unfair, and not durable. Profit, loss, and definitely tax have no place in truly fair trade. The first two can be argued, as it IS possible for both parties in a transaction to "win". Tax is always parasitic theft.

@JohnnyMind I understand both ways of reasoning, or at least I think I do. I think this just looks like, say, GTA Chinatown Wars next to GTA 4 or 5. I remember buying Chinatown Wars day one (it was 40 euro's I think, which back then I easily spent on a single game, though it was "cheap" because of the platform and the style and lower development cost I assume, but I prefer it to 4 and 5), because handhelds and Nintendo and topdown GTA are three things I appreciate in videogames, but GTA 4 & 5 I got very late and cheap. Not because I didn't believe they were good, but because I don't like home consoles as much, it wasn't on my main home console even, and I knew they would end up in piles on the used market towhich I had easy access working in a gamestore back then. Kind of like Sparks of Hope as you said, those who know what Ubisoft does, know it will be half price in less then a year, even cheaper with all dlc if you wait a little longer. If that's how they do business, and I have patience and other financial priorities, I am no longer the person who will get it early for a steelbook or something, even though I love Switch steelbooks (this game is getting one as well, with preorders at certain retailers). A new game or look needs to win over the crowd, like Persona needed to do with the SMT fans, and Persona Q needed to do with both Persona and Etrian Odyssey fans. I remember being the only one I knew NOT disliking Windwaker over its new art direction, because I had no N64 before, hadn't seen that early tech demo, and love cartoons and know that that style ages way better. If someone thought the art style was a good reason to only want to pay 10 euro's, or the series it's part of makes it worth 80 euro's, neither is wrong, it's their reasoning for their purchase at the pricethey value it (or no purchase). If I'm thirsty in the desert, or sitting in a bar with friends and would prefer to go home, a glass of fresh orange juice would have a completely different value for completely different reasons, neither are wrong or ridiculous. In one of the two cases I would pour it down to be done with it and know I got ripped off at 3 euro's, in the other it would be the best thing that ever happened to me and I would pay with a kidney if that's the asking price.

@Freek Excite Truck was one of my most played games in the early Wii games. When Nintendo does a racing game, they know how to get those thrills. 1080, Excite Truck (or Excite Bots, but I had to import that one), and in some way Cruis'n Blast (in which you can race as an actual unicorn, or a triceratops if you're feeling more... You know. There's also a hammerhead shark to race with, and you can upgrade it to have lasers and neon lights), for example, are all insanely fun and fast and pretty aggressive yet forgiving (on easier difficulties at least). Deforming tracks, jumps that make you think you're playing flight simulator, some light "combat"... I love them.

Avalanche is probably one of the coolest games ever. I played it endlessly with my younger sister back in the day, the soundtrack is one of the few game soundtracks I actually keep listening to, and when I almost lose balance because one of the dogs is walking in front of me or whatever, I sometimes hear that "wooooow" and imagine spinning that joystick to regain balance. The actual avalanche levels, jumping through the windows of a cabin, sliding across a road with traffic, having some pretty weird "boards",... I must admit, whenever I open the site and see a mention of 1080 my heart skips a beat, only to break when seeing it's NOT a new game in the series.

@TimeGuy Why does anyone need to justify what it seems worth to them? We all have our budget, and your 60 euro's might be of different value to you than mine to me. Or we may have a different approach on getting a deal, a trade agreement... We may have different standards, income, budgetary priorities,... Nothing sad about that as said in another comment, nobody OWES it to ANYBODY to buy their product at the demanded price. We could really use some haggling skills in this society, and less of the idea that "our economy" is more sacred than the people who struggle to get by. The idea that profit does not come at another one's loss. "Fair trade" literally can't involve profit/loss, let alone taxes, the profit of a party completely uninvolved in the transaction in the first place yet still demanding its cut, but that is another story. And value is what the buyer and seller either agree on or don't, in the latter case leading to no transaction. Simple.

I do have faith that to those who think a Bayonetta game is worth 60, this one might eventually seem of equal value. I'm a fan of the series, so I'll be keeping an eye on them reaching my price for it.

To me, no game is worth 60, as 60 to me means A LOT of food for me and the dogs, and when NOT spent on a single videogame, enough to spend on 20 other videogames, or another 60 to save for buying more nature land in the future, as I have bought multiple forests in multiple countries to live in with my pack of dogs, while living on a tight budget.

I recently got multiple games on a "secret" US eshop sale all at below 1 dollar or even below HALF a dollar, that I got hours of fun out of so far and haven't touched the most of it yet. So, what is value, and how do you define it, let alone "justify"? That's up to the individual to define, and nobody needs justification. No agreement, no transaction, move on.

They even added ray-tracing and real time reflections and all that.

I remember seeing both this one and Advance Wars in a toy store I passed when walking home from school, and going in just to look at them way more often than I should have, only to go in a game store a little further and look at the same and other games again, sometimes renting them (which was still a thing back then), and eventually buying them used. I had no tv so I never even looked at anything but the Game Boy games. But damn it, I did look at them often. Further there was another store that had some games, and I remember buying Cannon Fodder for GBC there after looking at it a thousand times. I hope they bring that one to Switch online as well. But they didn't bring the SNES version of it... Or better, make a modern twin stick remake of it.

But I'm getting way off topic here. Also, I ate a fresh coconut today.

When I selected to retry the hundedth time in one mission in Hong Kong Massacre to try and get all the stars at once (no slo mo, within time limit, and 100% accuracy, in a game of bullet dodging and every bullet being an instant death). It was the last one where I didn't get it yet... And I already had all the stars from separate runs. I was definitely no longer having fun since the twentieth or so try, and I hated everything by the fiftieth, and no amount of satisfaction from a challenge to myself was ever going to make up for the frustration by that point. At 100, I literally asked myself why I did this to myself, what I was trying to prove to who, other than that I'm a complete fool for doing what I was doing.

@Grado29 and an infinity to pirate after that. I bought most of what I want but there are games that could persuade me with a big going-out-of-business-sale. If they want some money, now is the time. Better to get 1€ now than 0 because of greed. If they want a lot of money from me, they'll get none, but I will get a copy of the games regardless without them losing anything on it.

I played this back in the day,and having no tv, so no home consoles, this game blew my mind. I was truly surprised they made it part of the day one library, and instantly replayed it. It's still great at what made it great, and still "bad" because it was basically a port that was way too ambitious for the platform. And I love it for that, with all of its issues.

Runs are red,
Violets are Deep Purple,
The King is dead,
and Angus Young has a hirple.

@Friendly @Vexx234 as a long time vegan, even if they were vegan, it'd feel weird... And not just because I don't eat candy anyways. I don't like it when vegan food resembles dead animals either. I can deal with the middleground, where vegan food looks like dead animal "food" that is made to NOT look like dead animals, such as a burger or sausage, just shapes for easy consumption. But vegan steak that "bleeds", dead turkey shaped tofu, vegan "shrimps",.. that is too much for me.

Pokemon Sword / Shield Lite has the coolest colours, with the sticks and buttons in colour. But I have no interest in the games. Pika and Eevee is very cute, so is the Animal Crossing dock. But I wouldn't buy any of them for an inflated price or for the games. I am considering a used Pokemon Lite if I find it at a good price.

I don't know what it is with this genre. I am never drawn to a game when its genre is "rhythm" or "music". But on the other hand, Cadence of Hyrule is nice, Sayonara Wild Hearts is EXTREMELY satisfying and an absolute overload on all my senses when I play it, and they often make me smile or look amazing (like Thumper). Rhythm Heaven on DS is stuck in my head forever with those choir boys and Wario Ware animations, the music levels in Rayman Legends were awesome, Bit Trip Runner and its sequels are fun and hilarious,... It's probably something in the brain that gets intense satisfaction from rhythm based stuff, silly humour, bright colours, and lots of visual feedback. And of course the physical activity in some cases, like when playing Jungle Beat with the bongo's, it wasn't even a rhythm game, and as a DK game it would have been a bad one, but with the bongo's, it's suddenly one of the most fun platforming games I ever played, and have the fondest memories of playing a single player game with 8 people local "co-op".

@EarthboundBenjy Chu chu chudu chu chu chudu chu

I would recommend Victor Vran and Labyrinth of Refrain, both amazing games, though the first would probably fit the "action rpg" cathegory better. Cat's Quest is also a great recommendation you might easily overlook. On the list but definitely underappreciated: West of Loathing. That game is hilarious.

I recently ordered another first person dungeon crawler, because I love Labyrinth of Refrain, and will wait for the sequel to drop in price a bit, and that is Undernauts Labyrinth of Yomi. I really love that specific sub genre, and am glad that Etrian Odyssey will not die with the 3ds now that it's getting the first three remade on Switch.

Just finished Splatter Zombiecalypse six times, and I will be back. 23 cents in US now, it's AMAZING value. I'll replay The Hong Kong Massacre, and started Oceanhorn. I got so many cheap games I'll probably play one of them as well, like Gato Roboto or Not A Hero.

Honestly, why am I still buying games at prices above 5€? I have a massive backlog of big RPG's and such, but I always pick the cheap fun games on deep sales first and they often give me much more fun for the money spent in general. Any disappointment is minor compared to a 20, 30, 40... € disappointment. And those 100 hours + games might get boring before completing them, which is also very unsatisfactory, despite how great they may be.

The Messenger at only 79,99 euro's? That's a steal! Or a typo.

Many great games though, some at incredible prices, but this month I went with the incredible sale of Qubic / Untold Tales games on my US account. Splatter Zombiecalypse Now, for just 0.23, and several other great ones for less than (often half) a dollar each. Insane value there.

@TheBigBlue There's often a long time I ONLY play filler games like that, or just keep replaying them over and over because I find something... Peaceful (?) in them. Meanwhile my backlog of games that cost me ten times the price of one of these games on average, remains untouched... As I'm living on a tight budget, I've very often even skipped bigger releases I really wanted, in favour of a few cheap games among which I usually find a couple of very good ones I can find tens of hours of enjoyment in. A lot less risky, considering I've often gotten bored or overloaded with some of the big releases, or simply got a few hours enjoyment from them but not to the point where I would consider them worthy of such high prices compared to the cheap games. Ironically, Mario and the Rabbids is one I bought pretty early on (the original, the gold edition physically at a sale price lower then the dlc was, AND the sequel, gold edition physical at a sale), and I absolutely love the original, and am waiting to start the sequel, one of the few games I did still buy at a price above the budget prices, until after the dlc is released - I just wanted the gold edition physically. I know it will probably get way cheaper in the future, digitally, but I for one truly loved the original. Admittedly, I almost skipped it because I didn't know what to think of the idea initially. But the Switch was still pretty new, and I "needed" a new game for it... You probably know how these things go

@TheBigBlue I just charged my US account to get some of the "secret" Qubic Games / Untold Tales games deals. Plenty of goodness there, at least if you like replayable simple games (in concept), like The Hong Kong Massacre, Splatter Zombiecalypse Now, and Door Kickers, to name just a few of the many. You can take maybe 10 dollars and get filler / instant action / instant satisfaction games for several years now, less than a dollar each. Less than HALF a dollar in most cases.

After having finished the first game I ever played again (Link's Awakening, although mine wasn't DX but I played every version of it several times), and the game that blewmy mind as a kid with no tv and only Game Boys (Alone in the Dark) and having started playing Superstar Saga and Minish Cap again, because Golden Sun is for when I have both available to play back to back, I now just beat the final boss in Splatter Zombiecalypse Now. I almost bought that game at almost full price because it's hard to say no to a good looking 2d twin stick zombie shooter with secrets, weapon upgrades, tons of destruction and chaos... It's STUPID to say no to it when it's only 23 dollar cents (why I have an eshop account for several regions) and you have even the slightest interest in the genre and have money to spend on a Switch in the first place. That Qubic / Untold Tales sale is insane, if you're in the US and / or have access to it (it requires you to own one of several Qubic games already, which are on sale for 49 cents if you own their free game "Coloring Book", 1,99 USD otherwise). I already had Coloring Book on my EU account so I did have to buy a 1,99 game first, but even then got several games from the sale before I reached the EU sale price of Splatter. Weird stuff, but many good games for some change or even gold coins on the eshop.

@somebread That might be, but just like capitalism, communism would not have me as a slave. As for "politics", I'm completely anti-political. No one is to coerce anyone into accepting their will as "law", their hierarchical "order" as real, their punishments for disobedience as "justice". Not "majority voted representatives of the people" that are neither and weren't justified authorities over the ungovernable and sovereign even IF they were both, not "the greater good" according to any group conflicting with that of any other, not any individual, not any parliament.

Both capitalism and communism are part of the same slave system, that sees living beings not as sovereign individuals with their own judgement, standards, experiences, perspectives, and highest authority; but as exploitable "resources", with slightly different takes on how and why as indoctrination and propaganda. And it's all nonsensical.

And that's just me writing. Nobody cares what my name is. Just the village idiot in a society of idiots. A one eyed king in a nation of blind where eyes are outlawed and the people would stone anyone who they were told has eyes. But well, I'd gladly have a talk with that Marx guy and hear from himself, in dialogue, not monologue. Just as I would with every "leader", and I would follow none.

This list is impossible. Zelda spirit is cool and has a nice ability. Ezlo is the coolest cap ever. Midna has a great story and character. Fi is very important in the legend overall. Linebeck is funny. Navi had a very important role in the gameplay. And just like a talking cap that has more story to it, a talking boat with more story is the coolest in his field, which is boats. Boats are cool. Trains are.

But even though it's just for a short while in one game and its remake... Lets not forget:

had they not framed the Japanese one so that Samus was cut off by the frame, I'd say it's equally good. I think I would. I don't really know because it's not what happened.

@Bratwurst35
A) If he truly is happy to have been part of it, it doesn't matter what happens once he sent it out in the world.
B) He has a reference.
C) Nobody's name really matters if you ask me, pride is a silly thing in my own opinion. I just read his name and I'd have to look back to remind me of it if I had any interest in it. That doesn't mean I don't respect them as living beings with soul, spirit, mind, body, free will,... all with full potential. On the contrary, i don't degrade them to the value of their work and their name. But that is a philosophical point probably best discussed in person, not here.
D) And even so, I think you misunderstood my intentions, I'm by no means hostile towards the guy, just saying how I see it personally. I understand what you mean, and what the "guy 1" means, but he might want to learn to let go, in my opinion.

@Frailbay30
He designed and built virtual doors, I built car doors, helped improve on their design with months of experience in practice because they are not a copy-paste code (without meaning to be degrading towards that code, it's just a different production proces requiring different approaches, in my case many, many uncredited people), and helped to teach all operators (of which I too was one, uncredited) the proces of making them. One resulting in a video game door that was remade, another resulting in a car door that was or probably will be redesigned later (don't know, don't care). But you don't need to like my comparison, it is one, and it is a valid one. Even without considering that YES, you can perfectly compare apples and oranges, you put things side by side and list similarities and differences, both of which apples and oranges have a lot, that is a comparison.

I do understand what he means, but you won't hear me complain that nobody who enters some specific models of Volvo cars gets a reminder that I helped build those cars and introduce the building proces in the factory, specifically the doors they have to open and close each time they enter or exit, let alone complain when they changed something again in later versions.

When I'm done with a game, I want skippable credits. If the people who worked on the original want some kind of reference for a portfolio, I understand, but that note should be enough to refer to the original. If it's pride, and you want the whole world to know your name, know that nobody reads the credits, we all want to skip them and be done with it (and see if there's a hidden scene after the credits maybe).

GBA just opened up so many possibilities, it truly is one of my favourite systems ever, where I also have a ton of nostalgia for, and will happily replay the games without realising my memories of them are better than the games actually were. I do have a 3ds right next to my Switch here, with most of the added games on it, but Superstar Saga is an instant win even then. If they find a way to make Drill Dozer, Boktai, Wario Ware Twisted,... all work on Switch (which they probably can, given that Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble was on the list if I'm not mistaken and that game had an extra sensor in the cartridge), that would be awesome as well. Rumble, gyro, even the light sensor in Boktai's case, should all be programmable as inputs/outputs (or a virtual light meter) I guess, if they want to do the extra work.

Tetris is historically a super important game, and a great one, but Link's Awakening is one of the most refined games I ever played. Alone in the Dark, while I can see (I have eyes) that it doesn't hold up today or even in its own day remotely compared to any other version of itself, I must say it is among my favourite GBC games, and it's not an RE clone when it succeeded where RE failed: an ACTUAL GBC version, that works, was released, and impressed the hell out of me back then. I still have it complete in box.

Someone must have spied on my dreams, and decided "I'll make this manchild happy today".

From GB(C/A) including the Zelda games (probably both my favourite Zelda games, and LA was my first game ever) AND the obscure Alone in the Dark I would have NEVER expected but was one of my favourite GBC games (with Cannon Fodder, Bomberman Quest, and Perfect Dark... HINT, dream spy) AND Golden Sun that wasn't even included in the 3ds ambassador programme... Sadly, for obvious reasons, no Advance Wars included.

To Etrian Odyssey remakes proving it is NOT dead with the end of the 3ds (I'll buy 3 because I already have remakes of 1 and 2), Ghost Trick, a new Fantasy Life, something that looks like a mix of Rhythm Thief and Persona, Metroid Prime remade, new Pikmin, Advance Wars finally getting news (which was visually cool, the animation... Let's hope they add cut scenes like that, like an animated movie with the first two games as gameplay...), Layton, Katamari, Octopath 2 demo, Baten Kaitos 1 AND 2 (that I needed to import and run with a freeloader disc)...

So much great stuff, even the new Zelda getting released on my birthday wasn't that exciting anymore, one of my favourite GC games wasn't even very exciting (ToS), and new Bayonetta was old news already. Sure, most things that excited me are remakes, and probably not that interesting to those who didn't grow up with these games. Like how I wasn't that excited about Goldeneye or Banjo because I never had an N64 in the day. Already playing Alone in the Dark and Link's Awakening DX.

What I did NOT like, was the multiple dlc passes for Nintendo games, makes me want to buy their games less actually, because now they're not full games at premium prices, they are partial games at premium prices, full games (digitally) a prices I would never pay for a single game again.

It took me a bit to let go of my initial feeling that "if it isn't Little Nightmares 3 it isn't what I want. I watched the trailer, and it turns out I want it. Little Nightmares was amazing, but held back a lot by long loading times and often unfair deaths. The sequel took away some unfair deaths and a LOT of the load times, and despite me thinking they couldn't make it creepier than sick meat eaters trying to grab you, they added tv addicts, a school teacher, and a hunter, nailing some of my other worst nightmares. But this seems to have the atmosphere right in a different kind of setting, and with that music, I'm feeling it.

@Kermit1 HONK HONK, that's the sound of the geese.

I'd argue strongly that both in Carrion and definitely in Maneater humanity is at least as bad as the protagonist. I mean, experimenting on a creature, or killing a shark's mother... Humans kill way more sharks (and WAY WAY more animals in general) than sharks do. And if a shark gets a human leg to munch on... Well, unlike in the game sometimes, it's not the shark that got on land, it's humans that were looking for the Darwin award by going swimming where sharks live.