Whirlwound

That was the best showcase I’ve seen in quite a while - and that’s before the big drop at the end. Quite a number I’m going to dip for here.

FREAKING FINALLY!!

The show was fair to middling up to this point, but the way BP was introduced had me wake the hell up after a busy couple of shifts at work. ‘Taking notes, is it now? Come on… c’mooooooon… COME THE FRICK ON!!!’

Cards on the table here - I’ve barely been on either of my Switches since I got back from Japan. Been drained AF by work being out and out a-holes. After one of our moronic stocktakes (who the balls does a stock count while the damn store is still open‽), this is exactly what I need to jump back in.

Sorry mine was a bit long, but it really was that epic.

And yes, Matt Mercer really is that nice.

Welp, that’s the need few weeks spoken for.

• Capcom vs SNK 2 (see if I can live up to that 3rd on the high scores at Hey! in Akihabara - not bad for not having played it in 15 years)

• KIrby’s Dream Course
• BS Special Tee Shot
• Surprise Attack
• Uridium
• Azumanga Donjara Daioh
• Flipnic
• R•Type

The series has a cornerstone of my gaming life for almost three decades now, but it first blipped on my radar with the Game & Watch version during a school trip to France in 1984. That was my very first brush with anything Nintendo-flavoured, now I think about it.

After that it wasn’t until Link to the Past that I got back into it; never had a NES, but once I’d sold my C64 to get a SNES, I never looked back.

Nope. Nuh-uh. Not believing it until it happens. And even then it'll be a bloody GKC.

Expecting cancellation after any announcement. Been burned too often.

Nice to see wholesome opinions of Rosalina’s poster. I’m not even going to dignify the first ones I saw by repeating them.

Pumped for this one though. Galaxy is far and away my favourite Mario game.

How many anniversaries has Parodius had now?

Oh, sorry - how many anniversaries SHOULD Parodius have had now?

Poor Toad. Always gets the short end of the stick.

I wonder if they’ll have - and share - analytics on decisions made in-game, and how far above 80% it’ll be for players keeping Tuvix (beloved character, get shot of Neelix…)

While I’ve done pretty well out of Ake-Aka and its Neo•Geo sibling in the past, that has dropped off a bit recently. Nothing in that opening lineup that grabs me just yet, but there’s bound to be something down the line eventually, right?

…riiiiiiiiiiiiight?

Diana biting an update chip to upgrade is, no shadow of a doubt, just straight up THE single most adorable process I’ve seen in my 45 years of gaming.

@ChessboardMan I think you mean Hi-Ten Bomberman, which wasn't on any commercially available console - it was custom hardware for a show in 1993, running on two PC Engines working in tandem. Interestingly, it was one of the first games running on a 16:9 hi-def TV.

It's a 32-year-old game, neither Switch should even break a sweat - the only caveat would be for Game Share or players connecting their phones as controllers, since you can only connect eight actual controllers at once.

[ker-download]

And that’s the translation romhacks I got last week for 4&5 rendered obsolete. Well, sorta - they’ll still go on my Miyoos and RetFlip. But at least now I can read the menus.

Don’t suppose they fancy throwing Uridium, Paradroid, Nebulus & Gribbly’s Day Out in there as well, do they?

Yeah, adults aren’t too keen on it either.
[cough]dispatch[cough]

I was always more about the lore of OW and watching the league while it lasted. I’m not exactly sthuper with MOBAs as it is.

Might have a crack at the reboot, I dunno.

Out of the listed stuff, Blue Prince, Clair E33 & Layton.

Turbo Golf Racing would be nice as well, but that’s probably disappeared over the rear view mirror horizon. The aforementioned two ports are in danger of the same happening before too long.

Welp. Saw that coming.

Nintendo consoles are never going to be taken seriously by devs until they’re on a par with or, heaven forfend, ahead of the rest.

@Hanniebis Any F thrown at Fat Mike Ashley or Fraser Group sure as hell ain’t out of respect.

He is a pox on this country. Even a Mackem such as I, who dined mightily on his comedically disastrous run as Newcastle Utd owner (those custard cream away strips still make me chuckle), can see he’s done far more damage than that to the high street.

The two educated gentlemen - Indy and the Prof.

And the proper version of Dispatch, when it eventually appears after all this censorship is shown for the hypocritical BS it is.

If I might quote noted parapsychologist Dr Peter Venkman, while being set upon by an in-her-prime-(albeit-possessed) Dana Barrett:

"Actually, it's more of a guideline than a rule..."

Coulda fooled me, what with all the dross that pervades the eShop and the high-end titles we're missing out on.

Just imagine what it could be like if there were more devkits out there.... 🤔

Last man standing: CEX. It’s almost official now.

There is not a sea deep enough for Fat Mike Ashley to get in.

. . . . . and there we go. F*** Ashley.

Told that spotty mook in the Newcastle branch I’d see the back of them. Surprised it took this long, but still.

Still not gonna quiet the voices wanting remasters/remakes for the remaining 2 Primes. And it'll nerf any remaining sales of the Pikmin 1+2 bundle too.

SNES and earlier: VI/III
Post-SNES: VII
Modern: VII Remake.

Do VI in Remake style and I would be all over it.

And next, how about something on stuff getting cancelled on NS1/2 after being announced - or the Nintendo consoles just getting flat-ass-out ignored.

My last non-Nintendo units were an X360 and a PS3. Neither have been on in years; not even to watch a DVD or Blu-Ray. As much as I wanted to play certain games, it really wasn’t enough of a pile to warrant buying anything M$ or Son¥ beyond those two.

Nintendo versions of established classics, both indie and big-dev/big-publisher, are progressively feeling ever more like an afterthought. Before I left for Japan, I visited a mate up the road in South Shields to drop off some Christmas presents - while I was there a copy of Blue Prince landed for his PS5. You can’t tell me that game wouldn’t be possible on a Switch 1, never mind NS2.

I am jonesing harder than a deer in Nara that’s spotted a pack of senbei crackers in a hooman’s hand to play stuff like BP, Clair Obscur E33 et al, but not to the tune of another hefty triple digit sum for the currently required hardware - especially if prices are going to be pursuing a non-downwards vector. Why should we have to lash out ridiculous money just to play a few games? Dunno if you remember, but some of us just luzzed £400+ up the wall a few months back!

When I see the platforms at the end of a trailer, it just feels sometimes like they can’t be arsed to include Nintendo gamers. I would say ‘anymore’, but then again some never could be bothered with us in the first place. It’s felt like that since the OG Switch emerged, if not before. My heart sinks when I see yet another big title announcement with no Switch logo at the end.

I mean, it might partially be down to devkits being as thin on the ground as basilisk droppings, but there’s an easy remedy to that: get more devkits out there! Rocket surgery it really is bloody not!

@kmtrain83 Hell if I know - it's still bloody downloading.

Hi. I’m Whirlwound, and… I am weak.

I had a bit more than I expected coming back from Japan, so I went for FF7 Remake Intergrade.

On… [sob]… on a Game Key Card.

And just to make it extra toxic, it had a free Magic the Gathering FF booster. (F Wizards - and that's paying disrespects.)

I haaaaaaaaaaate that they’ve driven me to this. I would have happily taken a full-to-bursting 64GB True Physical if I still had to download 25 gigs-or-whatever of audio. but kicking on for a good 10% of my µSD-EX? Ow, sir. OW.

So I'm playing Ikaruga on my new Miyoo Flip in protest. Told you I had a bit more; struck out on targets in Akihabara, and that Famicom-coloured GB Micro in Chiba will have to wait ‘til next time.

(I mean, Ikaruga. Dreamcast Ikaruga. Fully working on an emulator the size of a GBA SP. SMOOTHLY. 🤯 )

+1 for both Blue Prince & Clair Obscur E33. Particularly the former; there is no earthly reason that couldn’t work on either Switch.

Also, Pure Pool Pro - but I got very flimsy excuses about that. Surely the drought of devkits isn’t still going on, is it?

YES! FINALLY! Code Vron is the only RE I've ever been bothered about.

Tua probably throws a comedic number of picks anyway.

The amount of stuff I got for folk at Nintendo & Ghibli, it should be something fitness-based.

But I played Kirby Bowl at the Museum yesterday, and nearly got through a whole course before my seven minutes ran out. If I hadn’t flubbed three putts I might have managed it. Still a belting game. Plunk it on when I get back to my hotel in Kanda I think.

Wish they’d add BS Special Tee Shot to NSO Classics though.

Only time I’ve ever seen a thumb go that way is when it was broken. And it’s three times as thick as her other digits.

If that’s not AI, someone on image cleanup had either a Photoshop or caffeine crash. Maybe both.

The number of ads espousing AI over here is horrific. Even on the metro line to Ogura.

If they do the light green one separately, maybe. It speaks to my Dolphins fandom a bit more than the existing blue.

If only they’d promoted it properly. Or at all IRL.

I’m starting to wonder if Nintendo actually likes Samus all that much.

It’s even like this in Japan:

https://bit.ly/4sB9hjM

[normal ol’ linky until I figure out how to embed a short]

@B3RTAY …except for Parodius.

I just saw this today at the Taito Game Station in Ikebukuro, and was intrigued. It’s my first full day here, the legs are still howling at me after the imperial palace queues, so I’ll get a proper look at it next time. That won’t be the last TGS I trip over these two weeks.

Maybe the smaller physicals will lead to some changes. A larger name like Konami going true phys on stuff might encourage others to do the same.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Ha. I'm getting that a lot with my music tastes right now too. Had a lot of albums getting anniversary editions in recent years; everything from Roxette that's hit 30 years so far (up to Crash! Boom! Bang!), the first four from the Lightning Seeds (cloudcuckooland to Dizzy Heights) - Tilt will likely be next from them.

Maybe that's why the middle two Metroid Primes haven't had a remaster, they haven't hit a big enough anniversary yet...? Echoes has missed 18, 20 and 21, and Corruption would hit 20 year after next... can't be beyond the wit of Retro to retool Prime 4's engine to take their content, can it?

@MontyCircus I managed to nail The Last Blade 2 when it was half-off a few weeks back, but the original remains resolutely at full whack. That was the first time either of those two had been discounted as far as I’m aware.

Definitely not going for this though. £6.29 for one iteration? Nuh-uh. I didn’t really feel Space Invaders until the ‘91 game, getting silly later with the ‘95 one - and then the Extremes happened on the DS. Hamster has wildly overestimated things here; even for nostalgia, it’s not worth the asking price.

Bet they don’t put a NS2 version of this out there.

Edit: Welp, I’m sure glad I missed that on the plane. Part II an’all - and that IS getting an NS2 release?! Hamster must have had a hell of a Christmas party hangover if they thought anyone but the most dedicated completist would go for them. Feels like they’re trying to restock the beer fridge there, but it’s gonna be Co-op own label lager if anything, rather than Kronenbourg…

Classy move to let the mistake stand for those who already got it.

Still getting the physical version though.

Think I might’a just found my main, y’all.

Nintendo of America may be seeking to maintain a more family-friendly image.

Horsecrap. They wouldn’t allow all these Hentai, Ecchi & Oppai “games” through if that was the case. Like people can’t find out what those words mean.

Case Tetris.

Ten days to go. Nine if you count the hotel up at Newcastle Airport.

Also got to play Lawson Ticket a little for the Ghibli museum, JR•com for a rail pass and Saily for an e-SIM.

@syrupdash And yet so many devs do. Props to AdHoc/CR for bucking that BS with such a huge title.

So hold up a mo.

Someone’s just swiped CloverPit, name, look and all, stuck the word Gamble on the title and that’s IT?!

Probably banking on it being not worth suing over - either for the cost or any returns from it.

Come o-o-o-o-o-o-nnnnn-AH!

This bodes well for CR’s own planned game with AdHoc coming our way too then.

Also from what I’ve been reading, it could possibly be their next big venture, with a second season, actual animation series and TTRPG setting. It would work well with Daggerheart, given the whole hope/fear basis of any hero/villain themed works.

On iOS/'droid as well, so even when I don't have a Switch on me (sooooo many thieves around here) it's gonna nom on my time like it's a jugular.

Welp, that's my life done I guess.

@Vyacheslav333 Or R•Type LEO. They’re almost physically allergic to doing that.