TheWingedAvenger

Anyone who doesn't have Cyber Shadow should get it while it's on sale because it's one of the best games of this era! It's better than the Ninja Gaiden trilogy on NES!

I’m excited to get this!

I could list 50 turn-based RPGs that are better than Chrono Trigger.

Ask your doctor if Xexex is right for you.

This is great news! The missing link in the series will finally be ours! Assuming they translate it into English, of course...

Is that the music that's in the game? If so, there's no way I'd be able to play this game. It sounds like bad eighties Italian disco music, which has nothing to do with a whimsical RPG.

I'm playing God.

@Spiders
Cyber Shadow has everything that made the NES Ninja Gaiden games great, but with slight improvements in almost every category. I played Cyber Shadow without allowing my NES nostalgia to blind me, and I say that the graphics, gameplay, stage design, cut scenes, weapons, music, and atmosphere are all top-notch. The only area CS doesn't beat the NES games in is the soundtrack, but just because you can't do better than 10/10. Cyber Shadow's music does match that 10/10, though.

Cyber Shadow! It's the best action platformer of all time.

Why don't they make a sequel instead? I usually ignore DLC.

@MisterMan Yes, Decay Of Logos got patched and plays well now. I recommend it to any fan of Dark Souls or action RPGs as there is nothing else like it.

One of the best is Decay Of Logos, a game which got demolished in a terrible review on this site but which has a lot of great, unique qualities. While the combat isn't on the level of Dark Souls, almost everything else is better. The setting, the story, the art style, the atmosphere, and the characters are all better. It's intoxicating and addictive. Sadly, no reviewer had much to say about it, and so it will probably always be a hidden gem.

@Tempestryke
So true! I think Domino's is the worst pizza I've ever tried. Actually it's tied with Papa John's. I don't know why people go to American fast-food pizza chains when they can get real pizza at independent pizzerias for just a slightly higher price.

@CharlieGirl
Are you saying that there isn't a worker shortage? Or that the phrase "worker shortage" is wrong?
I'm sure the worker shortage is the result of a wage shortage, but that doesn't negate the fact that there's a worker shortage.

If Prince were alive today, he would do a remake of his famous hit song "Diamonds and Pearls", changing the lyrics so that they talked about Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. The chorus would be "Let's play some Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.... a brilliant game for both girls and for boys.... if I could I would make it my world.... but all I can do is just offer you my gameplay".

This is the best type of remake you can possibly release. People who don't play videogames online (such as I) will finally be able to play this missing link in the series. Also, those who played the MMO can experience a different version of the game. It's good for almost everyone. I hope they release this in English, because this is one of the games I've most been hoping to play!

@Dr_Awkward
Hey, your name is spelled the same forward and backward!

@roboshort @Dr_Awkward
Thanks for informing me of that! And you're right, the problem is largely that Square has done everything to confuse the public. Just read this article. It doesn't say that the game's a sequel. And the Square press release that the article quotes also makes no mention of the fact that the game is a sequel nd not a remake.

Here's a basic language lesson for the geniuses at Square. The word "neo" means "new". When you make a sequel, you shouldn't give it the same exact name as the first game and just stick the word "new" in front of it. That will make people think it's just a new version of that old game, i.e. a remake. If you must use the exact same title as the first game, then put the number "II" at the end, so we know it's a different game. Or at least give it a subtitle that makes it clear that it's a sequel. People are too busy to go to your website and read about whether the game is a sequel or a remake. RPGs are a dime a dozen, so we just go to the next one.

I often call out Square Enix and other companies about the stupid business decisions they make, and my predictions always turn out to be right. This game had no chance to make money.

Why on Earth would anyone buy this? What's the reason to buy it? Anyone who wants the game can buy the DS version and play it on their 3DS. What is the point of this remake?

The Advance Wars remakes will also be commercial failures, because Nintendo is doing the same thing: they're releasing something that already exists. Anyone who wants those games can play them on their 3DS.

The Switch and the 3DS have sold the same amount of units, so we can assume that almost every Nintendo Switch fan has a 3DS. That's why these remakes flop.

I imagine the title will be "Arkanoid: The Completely Unnecessary Remake".
The Arcade and NES versions are absolutely perfect, so I'll just stick to my NES Arkanoid.

So I suppose they're telling us that Ninja Warriors is more of a milestone than Space Invaders!
Let's get one thing straight: Space Invaders is the most important videogame of all time. If you make a milestone collection, that game has to be in it otherwise you'll make me laugh.

@hakjie11
"What's the point in buying a physical copy now?"
The question you should have asked is why companies usually put their game out in an unfinished state. Now you know. They want you to buy it digitally and not physically.

Could 2021 be the year of the Wolf? We want the HD Remaster on Switch!

This looks fantastic! It'll be a day-one purchase for me.

Pac-Man Arrangement is the best maze game of all time!

@Aiodensghost
The fact that you started gaming on the PS2 explains why you only care about pixels at the expense of fun. Anyone who plays a Nintendo console gets used to that high standard of enjoyment and has difficulty switching to a competitor. Personality matters in videogames, and Sony has very little of it.
All Sony has is third-person action games with zero personality, i.e. a generic warrior killing everyone. Nintendo Switch has the best 3D platformer of all time (Super Mario Odyssey), the best action RPG of all time (Breath of the Wild), the best turn-based RPG of all time (Dragon Quest XI), the best strategy RPG of all time (Fire Emblem: Three Houses), the best world-building game of all time (Dragon Quest Builders 2) and the best Souls-like of all time (Ashen). It also has a lot of great third-person action games such as Astral Chain and Luigi's Mansion 3, and they're better than the ones on Playstation/Xbox because they have personality, not just gameplay.
Nintendo is like fine Italian wine - plebeians don't like it but those of us who have acquired the taste for it are happy to enjoy it while smugly looking down on the unfortunates who consume the ordinary stuff.

@theGamerPad
I was about to say the same thing, but you put it much better than I would have. It's both funny and sad that most people think the move is to protect the feelings of gaming channels and such.

"Why include the original Link's Awakening and not the superior Game Boy Color update, Link's Awakening DX?"
Here's why I think they did that. It's because they don't want people to realize how much better the Game Boy Color version of the game looks than the Switch remake does.

@Aiodensghost
Returnal can't be ported to the Switch with the same quality graphics, but it could be ported with a downgrade. Imagine if there were a console more powerful than the PS5 and that had a version of Returnal that was superior to the PS5 version. Would that make the PS5 version any less good? The same applies to the Switch versions of Playstation/Xbox games.

I think the Switch ports of PS4 games are great, and it's a good trade-off to have only the Switch as my current-gen console. I get all the Nintendo exclusives (which are also 75% of the best games in existence) and I also get most of the best Playstation/Xbox games, such as The Witcher III, Divinity Original Sin II, Dragon Quest XI, Diablo III and Dragon's Dogma.

And let's be real: Returnal is a great game but it's anonymous. It has very little originality. The most original games are Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. Sony and Microsoft game designers dream of having even one finger's worth of Shigeru Miyamoto's talent.

@Astral-Grain
I think "Genie in a Bottle" is still Christina Aguilera's best song.

@Serialsid
Sony and MS are having great sales just like Atari and Coleco had great sales when they first launched the Atari 5200 and the Colecovision. They both failed.

@Spider-Kev
Movies were shot in 8K because they were shown on cinema screens which are dozens of times bigger than the biggest TV screen. There's no good reason to have 4K in gaming.

@Nic-Noc20th-C @blockfight @FragRed @Anguspuss @6thHorizion
The main reason the PS5 has even sold ten million units is that it's the successor to a successful console. PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 were all good, so people naturally think the PS5 will be good too. They'll have to think again, though.
You guys believe the PS5 and XboxX will eventually get great games, but that isn't going to happen because it costs far too much to produce the quadruple-A games that the public is expecting. Just look at Cyberpunk 2077. It takes forever to make one great PS5 game. Developers will produce games for the Switch instead, because it's cost-effective and corporations are in it for the money.
Nintendo keeps repeating what I'm saying, because it's the only company that realizes what's happening. Satoru Iwata said that the industry had reached peak graphics, and that was during the Wii U era! Now the company's new president is saying that the Switch is going to stay for many years to come. They know the competition is going to fail.
This won't be the first time that a new console generation gets cut short in its infancy. In 1982, when the Atari 2600 was five years old, Coleco and Atari attempted to launch the next console generation. The Colecovision and the Atari 5200 had far better graphics and sound than the Atari 2600. They offered arcade-quality games that blew the previous gen out of the water. That era was cut short in 1984. The games were excellent, but the industry failed because of the flood of bad games that were released on the Atari 2600 (especially two that were made by Atari themselves) and also because people couldn't grasp the notion that they should buy a new console when the one they had worked fine.
My point is that if the producer of a next-gen console fails to convince the general public that there's a good reason to buy the console, the system and the generation itself will probably fail. Sony and Microsoft are giving people no reason to buy their systems, and they're also giving developers little reason not to focus on the Switch.

I've been saying it for years: there will never be a 9th generation of consoles. The 8th generation (Switch/PS4/XboxOne) is eternal. The PS5 and XboxX will be failures, because they have no good exclusive games, they look the same as their predecessors, and they cost a lot more money. There is no need for a 9th gen, just like there's been no need for a new way to play movies since the Blu-ray disc came out in 2006.

It was one of the best games on the 3DS. The two very best games for the system are Dragon Quest VIII (the best turn-based RPG of all time) and Ocarina of Time (the best action RPG of all time). Super Mario 3D Land may not even be the best 3D platformer on the console - Rayman 3D is just as good.

@WoomyNNYes
You've never played Vice City? I wish I were you, so I could experience that game for the first time. But actually, it has endless replay value.

I can't wait until Thursday. I'm addicted to roguelikes and I've run out of them! I'm going straight to the developers' offices to demand this game immediately. I need my fix now!

@TKOWL
The best Mario sport titles are the ones with RPG features: Mario Golf and Mario Tennis (for GBC), and Mario Golf Advance Tour and Mario Tennis Power Tour (for GBA).

@Specter_of-the_OLED
Yes, the Neo Geo has a ton of fighting games, but I ignore almost all of them and still think the console has a great library. I have about 50 good Neo Geo games and only 5 of them are fighting games. What frustrates me is that most gamers have no idea that the Neo Geo library is great even without the fighting games. The most popular retro-gaming youtubers write the console off, so gamers just stay ignorant.

This is great news! The Switch needed these arcadey Tomb Raider classics! I'm getting both of these on day one!

@MarioBrickLayer
Guardian of Light has a single-player mode that's slightly different from the coop version. I played the single-player mode only and it's excellent. I haven't played Temple of Osiris but I know that the same is true for that game: it's a slightly different game when you play the single-player mode. It got positive reviews on PS4 and XboxOne so I'll be buying this one for my Switch too.

By releasing so many fighting games on the Nintendo Switch, they're perpetuating the (false) notion that the Neo Geo was mainly about fighting games. There are excellent games from other genres on the Neo Geo, but we haven't seen them on the Switch yet. I'm talking about Eight Man, Andro Dunos, Ganryu, and Viewpoint. These games were better than any similar games that were released on the SNES, but people don't know about them. Today, young gamers think the Neo Geo was all about fighting games. Even that kid Scott the Woz on Youtube knows nothing about the Neo Geo because he's convinced it's just a console full of fighting games.

I have a lot of shmups and this one just looks like more of the same same same...

I've never wanted to play a Dragon Quest game online but I certainly want to play all the offline games!

The fact that it's 25 gb means I need a physical copy. If the physical version requires a download, then I probably won't buy the game at all. I don't want to buy a new microSD card just for this one (old) game.

I hope they release classic Saturn and Dreamcast games on the Nintendo Switch! Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon II, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Daytona USA, and abd Skies of Arcadia would sell like hotcakes.

I'm glad I steered clear of this. I have a bunch of SMT games so I won't be needing this one.

I watched the trailer and the game seems over the top and kind of like a student project. The main focus of the game appears to be on blood splatter, gore, and overall disgusting stuff. Yo dude, look at all the blood!
Castlevania is above that. The Castlevania and Bloodstained games don't need to show you blood splattering all over the place - they scare you the hard way, i.e. with atmosphere, sound design, level design and music. Let's not compare this game to the legends until it proves that it deserves it. I doubt it does.

The Switch is outselling PS5, PS4, XboxOne and XboxX put together! I predicted that the "9th" console generation would never happen. The 8th generation is eternal. No more new consoles.

This is great news! There have been so many great indie games on all platforms in the past few years that I have to ask myself whether the indies are better than the "triple-A" developers! Panzer Paladin, Cyber Shadow, Blazing Chrome, the three Bloodstained games, and so many more have enthralled me in the past months.