The_Nintendo_Expat

2025 has been the year of games I'm REALLY excited about turning up "meh" by the time they come out.

OTOH, it has also been the year of reconnecting with the past, playing games I hadnt played in years thanks to steamdeck making PC gaming including emulation finally accessible for me again 😊 and I'm so pleased about that.

@Otoemetry

again, its a matter of tolerance.

i prefer games to have zero chatter or verbal guidance. I dont even like voice acting in games. this is how i honestly feel, I have no reason to lie to you or myself about this.

I specifically do not want the game to "nudge" me in a direction because it thinks im lost, that is a complete nonstarter for me in a metroid game.

i can appreciate that some other people are making a bigger deal out of it that you think is necessary, and i respect that, but i can guarantee you that after i play this game i will be part of that chorus and i have none of the conflict of interest that youve mentioned. it's really just a matter of degree (and i truly can appreciate that there are people out there exaggerating the reality of it. ✌️)

i recognize that its all subjective, which is why i framed and padded my comment with language like:

"...to some other people. 👋"

"...but speaking for myself..."

quite frankly im not sure what it is I'm supposedly trying to tell other people to do or think. 👍 respectfully.

@MamaSymphonia

we dont agree as much as i thought! and that's okay 😊 thanks for sharing. It's all subjective afterall, and I would never try to claim that the switch era was straight up bad. 👍

(though it is a clear beginning of many things I do not like about Nintendo's general trajectory, to be honest with you.)

@eldersnake

Expertly sabotaging their best franchises is among Nintendo's many talents.

@MamaSymphonia

a couple random thoughts for you ✌️

i dont think people here realize just how genuinely offputting chatty npcs are to some other people. 👋 or they would stop insisting that it isnt "that" annoying.

it is that annoying. 😂

I do believe that some people here don't have a theoretical limit to how much they'll pay for a Nintendo game, and that scares me a little.

I'm not sure that I know what a "70 dollar experience" even looks like, as far as videogames go. i know that historically, people have paid even more for games (especially factoring in inflation) but speaking for myself, Nintendo 2025's biggest competitor by far is Nintendo <2015, and they are losing that battle every day in terms of quality and value.

@michellelynn0976

im sorry, im realizing i may have misinterpreted your comments in response to me:

"Please, I've seen your comments."

"but I have seen your comments."

if you meant something besides "look who's talking 🙄," then I take back my last comment and sincerely apologize. comments sections are an often fun but sometimes tricky thing. ✌️

@michellelynn0976

so your point is that you can't be defensive now, because i have been defensive in the past. 👍

it's whatever. i've had my moments, here. but lashing out and calling everyone a troll that disagrees with you is not the way.

@Oldstalk

im sorry for the confusion. ✌️ my point was that "good sales = good thing" is a fallacy. i was specifically addressing the logic in user's comment.

@michellelynn0976

1) i meant outside of the conversation you are having with others, here.

2) i never said the switch 2 was bad. i was making a specific point about the other user's logic.

anyway im not trying to rattle your cage, clearly youve got your hands full as it is. have fun with all... this.

@BaldB3lper78

i think youve understandably over-interpreted what i was saying.

strong sales itself are not a good indicator of anything else. bad things sell good, good things sometimes sell bad.

like i said, ive no horse in this race but sometimes good sales are corrosive to vision, artistry, or even just plain good taste. not that this is whats happening here per sé. ✌️

i hope im making sense.

@michellelynn0976

you are about 5x as defensive as necessary for this conversation. honestly, from an outside perspective. ✌️

@BaldB3lper78

"For a failure of a console - Switch 2 is doing not too shabby eh?"

i dont have a horse in the race (i own s1 but havent sprung for s2) but i keep seeing this sentiment expressed here, and I always wonder if the person realizes that "bad things selling well" is how the games industry got into the mess it's currently in. 🤔

(I feel like my meaning is not carrying well.

as an exercise, try inverting the logic: "well, I thought this was a good console/film/song et al, but the sales are weak, so now I'm not sure.")

"Real" is dead because no matter how hard humans work at it, itll always look like AI slop, forevermore.

Everybody's gotta pay the bills, but Jeremy is obviously too good for that company and they don't deserve the credibility that his name lends.

@KaiserGX

i confess, i don't know what you are talking about, or I just don't remember 😅

im a bit confused though, as i tend to post on here like a dozen times a day for years 😂✌️

anyway hi, hello! 👋

@Smithicus

he said he "fixed it," but the article still reads like a preview for a new Rtype game and not a re-make/ster. 🤔

@PJOReilly

thanks for the writeup! this is incredible news, i never thought id see my favorie game in the series given any attention, at this point.

"R-Type Dimensions III sees players return to the franchise's signature side-scrolling bullet hell warfare"

Rtype 3 has no "bullet hell warfare" whatsoever, and pre-exists that subgenre by years, afaik. id add also that rtype games in general have fewer "bullets" per sé than even contemporary shmups. ✌️

additionally, no mention was made in the article (and only extremely vaguely in the quoted PR) that this is a remake of Rtype 3. newcomers would read this article and think that "Rtype Dimensions 3" is a new entry in the series. ✌️👍

@ShadLink

"It doesn't play worse than the Switch 1 version, and looks better."

almost everyone but you is saying that it does play worse.

fwiw, they aren't reviewing the game, they are reviewing the upgrade, hence the low score. 👍

now that i have a console with actual performance settings, i can switch back and forth between 30 and 60fps and i can no longer lie to myself that it doesn't matter to me.

@ButterySmooth30FPS

"I thought Nintendo players didn’t care about resolutions or framerates?"

that is a vicious rumor.

@USWITCH64

"...for me."

But your inability to distinguish your own opinions from those of others is duly noted. 👍

@SillyG

"Would you expect the average Tom, Dick, or Harry to be able to make any sense of it if Nintendo were to release exhaustively detailed notes on every little update that they make? I'm sure their work is tedious enough without also having to write up a press release that is of little interest (or relevance) to the public."'

it's not for everyone, it's for those interested, and it's very normal stuff outside of Nintendoland. even small studios and one person operations manage it. ✌️

why shouldn't paying customers know what they are getting? (seemingly important stuff has happened, like BC for more games or ppls ethernet ports "magically" working again. how is this not relevant information to the "average" user?)

incidentally, my work can be "tedious." perhaps I should just be paid for not doing it. 👍 thank you.

@KayFiOS

FWIW and you may know this and/or disagree, but this game is a poor imitation of mode 7 F Zero. If you havent played OG F Zero in a while you might think its close but if you go straight between them it's very obvious ✌️

btw ive been playing X and GX, this time on my steam deck (relax, everyone 🚨 i own both physically, and more than once) and WOW 😲

suffice to say, if i produced these games I would be SO proud of them!

if this game played like Fzero I'd have been playing every day since launch. tied with TOTK for biggest disappointment in the switch era, for me.

@Bootlicker333

"You people still rate it 10/10 because you are 8 years old and dont have any selfrespect."

We assume user is 9 years old.

The real question is, how much is Paramount willing to bribe Donald Trump to get the deal to go through this time?

@Tayrailbridge

thanks for taking my silliness for what little it is worth 😆✌️

@Tayrailbridge

"both boxes literally show the same amount of the table. JP just has brighter lights + metroid, which honestly makes it too busy."

you used the word "literally" incorrectly (i think the word you are searching for is "actually," or, just leave the word out completely,) and you are wrong about the amount of table shown on each, look again.

but you used punctuation correctly. 7/10. 👍

both horrible. what a mess, and with samus statically looming over it all like a ghoul. (and on the wrong side of the table 😂)

both covers look like someone's first rough idea, on a monday morning so to speak. the only difference is one is under baked, the other, over.

i voted JP for the extra effort and im using that term lightly. NEXT!

@Thomystic

"Their diehards will just complain about the extra step that they didn't take. Offer no manual, "make a manual." Make a manual, "translate it." Etc."

manuals? in the language the buyer speaks? 🫨

next they'll want the labels on the games to be self adhesive so they dont have to glue them on themselves!

do those die hard fans want Nintendo to go out of business?

perhaps as a cost saving measure, Nintendo could print the covers in color-by-number, and the fans can provide their own crayons. let the "diehards" find some way to complain about that!

@sportymariosonicmixx

yeah they expect their fans to just eat 10-20 bucks a game when i can get more interesting games in general these days for 10-20 bucks a pop elsewhere. 😵‍💫 so else is where i went.

@Chlocean

"Kinda reminds me of Metal Gear Solid."

i was a MGS pre-orderer (or, my mom was 🥳) in 1998 and I still never knew that! so cool, what a game, yada yada. cheers! ✌️

@Zuljaras

that's great!
please, keep us updated! ✌️ i love this kind of thing.

I have a Pixel 9, but im looking to move on since I saw how much they bribed ....donated to something that let's just say rhymes with Dump's Ballroom.

Itcs all relative, people!

8/10 isn't a bad score! it's a terrible score for a trans-generational Nintendo first party game in a console launch window, 8+ years in the making.

but it's not an objectively bad score. everyone should try to enjoy the game on their own terms, regardless, but dont act like "just above average" is just fine for this game, at this time.

of all companies, id hope that Nintendo would sacrifice a pittance of profit to include a nice manual in their exorbitantly priced games. or, there was a time when i wouldve bothered hoping that.

this company has jumped the shark, for me.

@Zuljaras

at one point long ago, i realized that small legal pad sheets fit perfectly into gamecube/ps2 style cases, in front of the manual, so i put one sheet in all my favorite games and when i occasionally play one, ill write a little note about it and/or read notes ive written in the past. some of the notes are from over 15 years ago now!

anyway your idea made me think of that, and fwiw i encourage you to do it! 😊✌️

@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 ive only just now learned of... 🤔 i dont normally play mobile games but if it was my only way to play this game...)

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.

EDIT - i suppose if id just purchased some expensive new hardware, and I was feeling uncertain id made a good choice, i guess id care.

i tell you hwhat: when i got my dreamcast, i didnt need to see comparison shots with the psx version of THPS2 to know it was officially "the future" lol 😂✌️

@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 😅✌️