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@UltimateOtaku91

i forget that not everybody emulates 🥴 and fair enough! its tough being an honest gamer with limited resources.

(though i wonder about the mobile port that i e only just now learned of... 🤔)

i hope you get access to this game soon one way or another because its as good as we/they say 😊👍

@Supaguy

full disclosure: ive only sampled the DS version and the cursed psx one! the og SNES release is the only one ive beaten. ✌️ and... let's just say it has been a while 😅

I recently committed to playing it again though, on DS this time 😊 so i will try to remember to answer back when the time comes, or maybe ill make a forum post about it 👍

@mikegamer

ill take the sound quality. 👍 its all about the OST for me, as i remember a surprising number of the tunes but almost none of the dialogue.

("wake up crono something something millennial fair" thats about what I've got 😆)

BTW is the script all that different? I'm a little surprised to hear they bothered given the SNES game's stellar reputation, and the fact that re-translations arent generally unit movers (unless the game was already tremendously popular, but with a notoriously bad localization i guess? i cant think of an instance personally. ✌️)

this hobby is looking more and more like a spectator sport.

i cant imagine caring how a game runs specifically in comparison to another port unless i owned both platforms, i didnt care about portability at all, i had no preferences about the controller or other differences between them, and i only had money to buy one version or the other.

@Madrox @Geit_de

metroid from the very beginning was "Zelda on its side." that's always been my take anyway ✌️

its still not clear to me if there is a "switch 1 edition" physical release and if so, like why.

and I read all the comments on this page and if there's a better way to find information i dont want to know about it.

@MJF

nice!

im going to try for the same setup on my steamdeck connected to my tv 🥳

@UltimateOtaku91

"Since it's a game I never played I would love to see it get remade, same goes for a lot of other old jrpgs"

these games are the last games sin the entire world that need remakes, imo.

i highly recommend just playing Chrono Trigger as is, however you can. it's perfect, "updating" it would be an act of pure hubris.

go ahead and play Arc the Lad while you are at it! i just got started with it and i cant BELIEVE it has taken me this long! 🤩😍🥳✌️

@HammerGalladeBro

"without Akira Toriyama, the original Dream Team won't be together again for another go."

sadly true!

my dream has been for a long (long) time (before "remakes" became very common) that they would start remaking these classic JRPGS as close to the source material as possible.

For example, FF6 or FF7 fully in Yoshitaka Amano's illustration style, or Chrono Trigger in Akira Toriyama's.

Obv. with the FF7 remake they went in a different direction (kind of a reinterpretation of the original reinterpretation kf the style) and now that Toriyama is gone, i just want them to leave Chrono Trigger alone!

anyway, i wonder what the steam version is like? maybe it has some of the features of the different ports blended together, as you say. ✌️

"It has arrived on mobile and Windows in the years since, but come on, we all want to see it on Switch (2), right?"

if it were to come out on switch 2, in what capacity would you like to see it? remake, remaster? expanded port?

btw, the best way to play Chrono Trigger is still SNES! The DS version is very well crafted but nothing looks and sounds like SNES 🥰

ive bought a bunch of their catalog and nothing has clicked for me. shovel knight is cool enough but i cant shake the feeling of "i dont care what im doing" while im playing. gamer ennui.

that said im going to buy this game if theyll just release it 😂👍

@rvcolem1

thing is, Nintendo can do "flat!" look at pilotwings. or... brain age? i know there are other good examples. 👍

this honestly looks like a 5 dollar steam game on sale for 99 cents. (is there a blander, worse looking Nintendo game? 🤔)

@Suketoudara

"could my mother Wikipedia have been wrong?"

@Lizuka

OH i thought he just had crazy legs lololol 😂

thanks for pointing it out, super obvious to me now 😅✌️

"not a bad shot Mr Marsden!" guy @ 4:00, on the switch 2 side ..

(someone else please notice, I'm dying 😂😂😂)

EDIT - I thought the guy had goofy "open world game" style glitch legs 😂

but ive been corrected 😅👇 ty @Lizuka !

@AlonditeFE

thanks for that! i didn't know because i can't stand video recipes for whatever reason 😂👍✌️

EDIT: reviews* 😆

@Bolt_Strike

you know what else sucks? murder, death, war, deception, paranoia, disease, and terror. great games have been made around these themes. 👍

(MGS has all of the above 😂✌️)

I'm still kinda hung up on the first thought i had regarding this game:

they're robots in wheelchairs?

why do they have legs? do they work? do they have other functions in "life" besides playing basketball?

seems like a great opportunity to feature disabled humans in a game, in a positive light. are robots just easier to draw? 😮‍💨 i think that's it actually.

is it weird that i like the look of the low poly prototype over the gray on gray nothing they eventually settled on?

@Switching

"Nintendo yet again revolutionized the standards of what games can be, this time the fps genre."

oh please, you haven't even played the game yet and I've seen no one that has played it say anything close to this.

i know you have your agenda or whatever it is but you could at least seem like a real person with genuine opinions. 👍 it would be more effective.

when Zelda went open world, i thought "yeah, ok, that kinda makes sense."

when they took Mario Kart open world, i thought "well that was unnecessary..."

now, i just want Nintendo to stop trying to do open world.

@Lizuka

"For every Galaxy or Breath of the Wild or Mario 64 there's been an Other M or Sushi Striker or Pilotwings."

this is obv the most subjective thing in the entire world but Pilotwings is a masterpiece and one of my favorite games of all time ✌️ and the Soyo Oka soundtrack is among her finest work and that's really saying something in my opinion!

it feels like many "relieved" people on here were more concerned the game wouldn't get a 9+ than they were about personally enjoying the game when they actually play it.

I'm glad Ollie enjoyed the game, but imo, if there was ever a good candidate for a "second opinion" sidebar in a Nintendo life review, this is it.

@ROMhaiku

thanks for that! im looking around, too.. and i do see where people have the opinion you say, finding the game big and hard to get around.

I believe this to be a reappraisal, as i am confident in my memory that the game was incredibly well received at the time, and that the big levels were definitely en vogue and appreciated too. it was one of those late 64 games that still looked impressive even though Dreamcast had come out. I'm sure that it was considered an all around upgrade to Kazooie on release.

Granted, that was then, this is now. i get that. but from any perspective, it's the second best received Banjo game by a country mile, and it's not even close. it is indeed the only sequel considered by anyone ive ever heard from as in the league of the first, if not an outright improvement on the formula.

anyway thanks for chiming in! i may have been a little hot with my take, alas. ✌️

"Banjo-Tooie isn't the most beloved adventure in the bear and bird's series, but it has its fair share of fans."

what an odd take for a series with two games generally known as equally excellent and then a few sequels that are not remembered fondly at all.

did you just write this for "engagement?"

honestly, i understand the concept, but to the people already "engaged" this kind of trolling along with the clickbait headlines and editorializing in news articles is getting tiring, and more frequent over time.

thanks for your consideration ✌️

OMG WHAT PLAYSTATION PLATFORMING SEQUEL?!

(click.)

I dearly miss when Nintendo pretended that things like smartphones and even the internet didn't exist.

NA and it isnt close.

JP has good art but as usual the layout stinks. flat, unfocused, low contrast, and busy.

EU looks like they got to about 45% done and said "f it just do a big blue border."

@Solid_Python

"You've had 15 instances of "this type of game" from this franchise for the past 30 years already, go play those."

oh yeah, we are just drowning in mainline Metroid games 🙄

as if we dont have enough "space marines in motocross gear" games lately 😂

no one is preventing you from enjoying these games. if you just want biased, motivated positivity, youve got all the promotional material in the world outside of these comments to dive into. have at it, hoss 👍

FINALLY! A Metroid game with someone to talk to!

@MJF

Fozzie as Vincent and Rowlf as Jules

@JohnnyMind

I'm almost an FPS hater but I'll vouch for TS2 on PS2 as just a wonderful, fun, great feeling game, in single player and multiplayer. lots to do and genuinely fun the whole time, and IIRC even a level editor 🤯

Hateful 6-7

Reservoir Labubus

Inglorious Minecrafterds

@MJF

actually I'd watch that 🍿🍿🍿🍿🐸

can't wait for LEGO Jackie Brown.

@Nep-Nep-Freak

you can "add" gog games to your steam library, and then launch them from steam and even use steam input to configure the controls for those games. so, without being certain, i do think the answer is yes 👍 (and, "both" 😂)

@Switching

this reminds me of when you said Nintendo was under-charging for mario galaxy 1 + 2, or that their faulty ethernet port was working perfectly.

@GravyThief

i think my (our?) preference stems from being "mario people," as ive noticed that younger gamers and PC gamers dont seem to care where the buttons go, judging by the number of newer games ive played that are like "press triangle to open the door, press Y to jump, press L3 to run or whatever." 😵‍💫

to me, (on a Nintendo controller) y regular attacks and maybe runs, b jumps, a does special/heavy attacks and/or whatever you need to "do" in context, and X brings up a map, or menu, or magic sometimes.

if the controls arent mapped this way to begin with, ill remap them. if i cant remap them, i must be playing a Nintendo game (☺️✌️) but thank god then that I formed my brain around Nintendo default controls 😂

JFC someone please load up retro deck on a Steamdeck and put it in someone at Nintendo's hands.

PS - life gets better once you stop waiting years for Nintendo to "give" you basic usability features. ✌️

@HalBailman

I respect that! I am completely ignoring the discourse besides what's happened in these comments sections (as usual for me.)

a year ago, i had nothing but faith and goodwill for this game, as a fan of the first game from jump. since then, i can plainly see from the trailers that it has become something I dont care to play. (i dont play halo either but its all i could think about when the first combat/gameplay trailer was shown.)

(imo metroid games should have about 3 lines of spoken dialogue max, if that gives you an idea of where my head's at 😆)

for those who always wanted Prime to be more of a space marines action epic with FPS controls, piles of teenage "cool" and broad situational comedy, im smiling through gritted teeth ✌️👍

PS - maybe the dingo ate your baby!

hang on, people are beating games blindfolded? 💀

"This is basically Star Fox with lovely cel-shaded-inspired visuals"

cel shaded visuals are a disappointment. something about them mutes the atmosphere and emotional impact of a game for me.

besides that, is anyone else kinda surprised that Nintendo isnt trying to keep their franchises around, for themselves? millions of kids will think of "spiritual successors" before they think of the originals, if they even know about the originals 🙁

EDIT - thanks for the write up, i will keep my eye out for this 👍

@HalBailman

i agree with your take that the og prime game was a first person adventure (and that's how nintendo talked about it at the time) but it's clear to me that that was then and this is now, and to me this new game hardly resembles our old friend. 😔

i would say more like Halo: Lite though 😂

"but this really feels like it was designed for the newer variant"

too bad. something like this would facilitate a nice post career life for my old Switch.

EDIT - I just looked at the art omg 😆

PS - thank you for not putting "might be too challenging for some" in the cons 😅

also on the "rewind and save states" issue, id say that's what easy mode is for. if you still feel the game is too hard to get started with, then they needed to add a "very easy" mode.

as far as "practice mode," I truly believe that the way to play these games is to put it on easy, play til you die, then repeat. if I cant 1cc the first level on easy I have no business practicing the second, that's my philosophy ✌️👍

@antdickens

thanks! i will do and i appreciate and try to respect the rules around here ✌️👍

EDIT - it now says "unconstructive feedback" on this page, instead of just "removed." so, thank you.

though, I will say that I completely disagree that my comment was unconstructive, i suggest "unwelcomed" to be possibly the accurate term. not sure if ive seen that in the rules.

OK anyway I'm done. ✌️ fire away.

PS - "contact form," I hear you. 👍 many thanks for hearing me out 😅🎉

@Olliemar28 @Damo

if my comments are going to be moderated out of existence on multiple articles, can I at least get a citation of what rules I've broken?

for example:

[Removed - discussing moderation]

I had legitimate and constructive comments, i was reasonably polite, and to my knowledge I didn't break any of the rules that I'm aware of.
At least one of my comments in question had multiple likes, more than the comments leading up to it frankly.

Thanks for your time.

my favorite Rtype games are III, Delta, and Final. I've beaten III and Final long ago, and im looking forward to getting back to Delta!

thanks for the review!

ill probably "lose" a few but in general i believe that the companies ive been ignoring for decades will be the ones that get heaviest into AI.

in other words trash companies make garbage games, AI will not change that either way.