TheWingedAvenger

I hear it allows you to play in both handheld and TV modes, and that the Zelda game is all open-world and stuff.

Don't you guys just love how every girl in a Japanese videogame nowadays has white hair, a super-high-pitched voice and enormous buggy eyes? It's a great artistic choice which truly speaks to my soul. These are wonderfully talented artists. I used to like games such as Zelda and Dragon Quest, but as soon as I saw the girls with the buggy eyes I knew I'd found the meaning of life.

I would love to play this in English!!!

I disagree with this article. I dip my videogames in orange juice every morning and eat them for breakfast, and so far the only problem I've had is severe dementia and multiple personality disorder. Okey, two problems, but still...

@Vyacheslav333
А Cruis'n Blast вообще не вышел в России

Guardian Force has been taken off the Russian eshop. It was there for a couple of days but then they took it off. The two Cotton games are still available. Weird.

@Tandy255 I'll check out Creature in the Well - I'd never heard of it! Thanks for the heads-up!

@BloodNinja
I also thought there weren't enough screenshots, since Mitch mentioned pinball but there's nothing in the screenshots that even remotely resembles it. I then watched gameplay online and realized that the actual problem is that Mitch doesn't seem to know what pinball is. Just pretend he never called the game "one part pinball game". He should have rather said billiards. If you're looking for a sort of "pinball RPG", as the article's title suggests, the only games I know of are Yoku's Island Express on the Switch and Pinball Quest on the NES.

This is great news as Vice City is one of the very best videogames of all time. Our PS2s are now officially obsolete! (I'm bearing in mind that the Devil May Cry trilogy is on the Switch too and Dragon Quest VIII is on the 3DS.)

I'm playing ducks and drakes with your question.

Maybe they just realize how bad and corny the games are.

If I made a list of my top ten videogame soundtracks of all time, half of them would be by Koichi Sugiyama. Rest in peace, Maestro!

The game is Grey Lancer, not Gley Lancer. Japanese people have difficulty distinguishing between the English sounds "L" and "R", but when they bring the game to the west we can just go ahead and spell the name properly instead of pretending to be Japanese. Similarly, the Growlanser series is actually Glow Lancer.

Having played two of Kemco's RPGs on Switch, I can tell you that they're fun and very similar to SNES RPGs, which is a good thing according to most RPG fans. It seems to me that lots of people post negative comments about the recent Kemco RPG series without playing any of them. If you like SNES RPGs, you'll probably like some of these games.

If this game is offline, how do you guys get so much info about it?

@SMH88
Xexex is pronounced "Zekseks" because the letter X is always pronounced "Ks" except when it's the first letter in the word, in which case it's pronounced "Z". See Xylophone, "exercise" and "Rex".
the NES game Xexyz is a different story, and may throw some people off the pronunciation of Xexex. Xexyz is pronounced "Zeksiz".

This is why the most played football games are still the old PES games. My footie game of choice is still PES 2013 on my 3DS XL.

@Jackpaza0508
When it's at the very start of a word, the letter X is pronounced like a Z. Otherwise it's pronounced as X. So Xexex is pronounced "Zekseks".

I hope they translate this into English, as it's considered an awesome game by those who played it back on the Wii.

Indie devs have already made great sequels to Konami games - they just use different names.

Joymasher is the new Konami. They made Blazing Chrome which is one of the best Contra games ever made. They also made Odallus, a great Castlevania game. On a side note, they made a strider clone called Oniken which is much better than Strider.

Also, the three Bloodstained games on the Switch are really Castlevania games with a different name.

Of course, it's good that Konami is trying to get some good games made.

Okey, this is a clinical case now. Square has zero imagination nowadays, and it shows in the titles of its latest games. Project Triangle Strategy??? Dungeon Encounters???

Imagine if the makers of Sonic the Hedgehog had titled their game "Speed Platforming". Or if the makers of Contra had named their game "Running and Shooting". Do you think they would have sold as well as they did?

We know Square is incapable of designing a good game, because nowadays its good games are designed by outside people such as Yuji Horii. But Square should at least be expected to market the games well. The most important and most elementary part of marketing is the title of the game, and it even fails at that.

This begs the question: is there anything Square CAN do?

Black uses up less power, so I use black.

The techno soundtrack is headache-inducing.

It's really cheeky that the early Dragon Quest games don't include the original (and far superior) NES versions. It would have cost them very little to add them as bonuses. The remakes are the worst way to play these games. They're so bad that they aren't really Dragon Quest games at all.

I'm getting this!

I want a new Bloodstained game, or a new Odallus game. Konami doesn't know how to make videogames anymore.

@I-U
I suppose it's because you took the time to get used to it. The problem I had with Phantom Hourglass was that I had never used a stylus before.

You didn't mention the main feature that attracts me to Zelda games: a beautiful overworld to explore, so that would make 13 characteristics in all. No Zelda game has all 13 of them, but the three most important features of a great Zelda game are

1) overworld exploration
2) fun, simple combat
3) intriguing dungeons

The reason everyone hates on the DS games is that they lacked the simple combat of the best games. Most people don't want to play videogames with a pen. Some people dislike Skyward Sword and Majora's Mask because they have less exploration. The best balance of all the features was probably in Ocarina of Time.

@GrailUK
True, the Namco arcade collection for Switch doesn't feature Xevious, but the Namco Museum Archive collection features the superior NES version of Xevious, in addition to the NES versions of Dragon Spirit and Galaxian which are also better than the arcade originals. In other words, buying the single versions of Pac-Man and Xevious is a waste of money.

Why would anyone buy these two games separately when the Namco arcade collection contains both of them and is more economical?

I'm playing by the rules.

Astral Chain
Breath of the Wild
Cuphead
Ni No Kuni I & II
Baldo

That ridiculous title is actually a deal-breaker to me. I've never read or watched any coverage of this game for that reason. All I know is that it's a tactical RPG. If they can't even think up a decent title, how can they think up a good game? Also there are dozens of great games in this genre, and they're all very similar to each other. I doubt this will be able to compete with the Fire Emblem and old Shining Force games.

If Nintendo thinks I'll be signing up for their online service just to play N64 games, they're wrong. I would gladly pay to download Banjo Kazooie, but I'm not interested in renting it.

Ryan Craddock is usually very professional, but this article is just Clickbait.

The word obviously derives from the Latin "consolari", which means "to offer comfort or cheer". Your Switch Lite cheers you up, therefore it's a console!

I second Gavin's notion that Rare Replay should be on Switch. Actually I third it, because Kate seconded it.

They should release Skies of Arcadia on the Switch! It's a legendary RPG.

I've played Panorama Cotton and it's a great game similar to Space Harrier. It performs very well, better than Space Harrier II on the Mega Drive.

People who don't have a Nintendo Switch are the most miserable bums on Earth.

So did anyone interview it or at least get its autograph?

@Pigrotto
Yeah, Kingdoms Of Amalur has a ton of replay value! One of the very best action RPGs ever made!

I'm playing it safe.

I'll never be interested in the onine service because I want to download and own the games. Why don't they just release the best N64 games on Switch to buy and download? They did it with Turok, Turok 2 and Super Mario 64, and that went well.

I want this right now!!!

I wish I could share everyone's excitement, but the game isn't available on the Russian eshop. Why, why, why???

The Game Cube has a case for best console of its generation. Off the top of my head, Super Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Luigi's Mansion, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime II, Mr Driller: Drill Land and Ikaruga are eight unique masterpieces that you just couldn't play on the PS2.

The PS2 also had some great masterworks such as Dragon Quest VIII, the Devil May Cry games, Vice City, San Andreas, and the Metal Gear Solid and Syphon Filter games, but there's no substitute for Mario and Zelda. Personality goes a long way, and that may push the GC beyond the PS2.

This list is proof that people don't know squat about videogames. Super Mario Sunshine down at number 47? It should be in the top 5. And where are Mr Driller: Drill Land, Gun, and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy?

I can't find Cruis'n Blast on the eshop. Has it not come out yet? Or is it physical only?

@KingMike
Yeah, he often doesn't know how to play the games. Also, he often fails to realize the game he's discussing is an outright clone of an older game. He doesn't know much about gaming before the NES, which isn't ideal when you want to do gaming retrospectives.