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I also continue to call them dogs, except for when I call them gerbils as a bit. It just sounds better than cats or beasts.

Anyway, glad to hear they fixed it. Has always been a really strange issue that causes them to be a bigger nuisance than they need to be, especially given this is a game that's pre-Quick Balls.

Will continue to hope in vain for Ace Attorney 7.

@EarthboundBenjy You can get it there, but you can't transfer outside Pokemon into Let's Go and it isn't in any other game, so if you bring an Alolan Rattata into Home then it's just stuck there.

Really hope they stick Alolan Rattata and Spinda in there, it's dumb there are no current games you can transfer them into.

SMUSUM is definitely the bottom of the barrel for me, and then I'd probably put the Legends games directly above those with Arceus maybe edging out ZA but not by a lot. Probably would put ZA higher if not for the DLC but the DLC actively makes ZA a worse experience.

Top ones for me are definitely HGSS and BW2. I'd also move SV way, way higher on the list personally.

I went for gen 2, but shout out to Ultra Necrozma being visible across the two USUM covers.

Game looks nice, though graphics were never really a huge concern for me so that's not like an immediate selling point or anything. Still, it is definitely a step up.

Do appreciate that a decent chunk of the Pokemon shown off are ones that aren't in SV. Some overlap but between the Krabby, Tangela, Ledyba, Corsola, Taillow, Wailmer, Carnivine, Tympole, Frillish, and Sizzlipede lines that's at least 20 Pokemon different right there.

At the moment FireRed mostly, probably either get to Requiem or get back to Death Match Love Comedy when I hit the credits.

@Eel Nope, other than those two you can get them all between FRLG and RSE. And if not for Lunatone and Zangoose you'd be able to do it just with one or the other of Ruby and Sapphire rather than needing both.

Though another thing that sucks about that is that you'd need to play through one of FRLG twice due to the dumb mutually exclusive way they did the gerbils.

@kevinm360 FRLG has the National Dex in it and that's impossible to finish with just these games because they're missing a bunch of gen 2 Pokemon and almost all of the gen 3 ones.

@AstroTheGamosian For what it's worth you can get Mew and Jirachi in BDSP.

Would need to see the final forms, but probably Grass since I usually go for it or Water and this Water one is really offputting to me.

It kept a better clip than usual but it still wound up pretty much being a huge disappointment with nothing I particularly care about. Hoping we get more retro releases later in the year.

@Protion9 There aren't any options or settings menus or anything. The only adjustments made for playing it on the Switch are that X and Y can be used in place of Start and Select making it feel a bit more like the DS games, they don't even have the ability to use ZL and ZR in place of L and R.

I find the Z Megas such a bizarre thing to have even bothered with. Not the existence of them in themselves, but giving them their own individual mechanics but then only having three of the things with one of them being locked behind an event and another postgame-only just makes doing so feel completely pointless.

@Robot99 Mew was only an Emerald thing, but there is also Lugia and Ho-Oh.

Either way I'm hoping, but we'll see, doesn't seem like anyone's gotten that far yet. We do at least know the ROM is edited because I've seen folks saying they added name censorship that wasn't there previously.

Something that's always been kind of a defining moment in the games for me is when you jump down from the ledge between Mt. Moon and Cerulean, just since I think that sense of, "There's no turning back now, the adventure keeps going into new territory," just really felt significant as a kid.

Yeah, ultimately it's just a temporary layover before you get Cut maybe an hour later and can backtrack freely, but at least back in the day on the Game Boy it felt like a really significant moment.

@Broch83 The big differences from usual games with this and Colosseum are that they're centered around doubles battles and mostly (or entirely in Colosseum's case) involve stealing Pokemon from the trainers you're fighting rather than catching wild ones like usual.

I got FireRed, the Resident Evil bundle, and the Xenoblade upgrade. Probably would get the Disney collection but between those, Death Match Love Comedy, and considering getting WWE 2K26 I'm kind of stretched thin right now.

Between not being able to transfer Pokemon out and not seeming to have any kind of single player component don't really see any purpose in bothering with this personally. Can see the competitive appeal but that's not a part of this franchise that at all interests me.

Not being Home compatible makes it an easy skip for me, really don't see the point in bothering.

My main takeaway was mostly just that it not being until next year makes me more hopeful they do more retro releases throughout this year, since there's no way they can coast on just Pokeopia and ZA for another 18 months or so. Kind of hard to have much in the way of opinions on it otherwise given it was just a bunch of panning environmental shots.

Really cannot even begin to imagine spending however much this will cost to get the world's least practical and most impossible to travel with music player playing a bunch of individual 90 second chiptunes, and yet somehow it was also the best announcement in the Presents because at least it was a new thing that will be out any time soon.

Honestly I'd be so much more excited to see news about more retro releases than I ever could be about news on gen 10. Not ruling out getting gen 10 by any means (kinda need to see info on it, I like SV a lot but really didn't care for ZA so kinda mixed) but that'd be just kind of, "Yeah, that's due I guess, eh," on paper while if they announced something like HGSS or BW2 I'd be chucking dollar bills at my screen, find it hard to be excited about an inevitable maybe-it'll-be-good game compared to a who-knows-if-it'll-happen definitely good game.

It really does seem like they did a super impressive job with preserving the look of the game. Side-by-side you can see the places where it's a bit behind the PS5 version, especially the hair, but I don't think it'd really be especially noticeable in the middle of the gameplay.

I do find it funny that they did variants for MOST alternate forms, but Unown, Paldean Tauros, Deoxys, and Rotom only got the one. Guess gotta draw the line somewhere, though does make it stand out that Zygarde and Necrozma got extra.

@hcfwesker It got a 360 release back in the day so it's at least within the realm of possibility.

Does bare keeping in mind that "running" does not inherently mean "running well". Can see where it'd be useful to see if they can get it working, especially with the rumors of their own handheld, but that doesn't necessarily mean it works well enough to be commercially viable.

X-Men and Maximum Carnage are the big draws here but I am curious to see just how bad Silver Surfer really is, this is a definite get.

I ended up picking it up mostly just because the 7 through 9 bundle's a really good deal and it's only available through next month. Trying to decide if I want to play through 7 or 9 first. ... I'll get to Village but it's coming after 7.

@Paychi I like Sonic Crossworlds more than Mario Kart, but people desperately need to stop claiming their opinion is objectively correct.

I really mostly just hope the thing moves at a decent clip with some announcements to be interested in instead of spending 20 minutes rambling on about Sleep and the TCG and the amusement park.

@OmnitronVariant At least personally the main reason I preloaded it is that I bought some discounted eShop credit from Newegg to cover it and Resident Evil together and so long as I was redeeming that I figured I might as well just grab them both.

I bought this but I certainly don't gobble up everything Pokemon-related. The only spinoffs I've gotten post-N64 are Rumble, Conquest, and New Snap (and I didn't even end up particularly liking New Snap, thought it was too overstuffed compared to the original), I was prepared to completely skip ZA and only bothered playing it because my roommate got it, and I found Horizons deeply boring and dropped it like 15 episodes in. And really I'm perfectly prepared to skip Gen 10 if it doesn't look good on paper because while I liked SV quite a bit ZA really did nothing for me, especially its DLC.

I bought FireRed because I like FireRed. If you put Sun & Moon up tomorrow I probably wouldn't bother because they're the low point of the series to me.

I picked up FireRed while my roommate got LeafGreen, probably going to juggle playing both to try and do the Kanto Dex because hey why not. ... Probably only worry about the Kanto Dex because the gerbils are especially irritating in this game.

That said I'm really hoping the success of this leads to more. I'm sure they're already planning for RSE, but I really want BW1+2 and HGSS ports and I'd probably get Platinum if they made it available.

I tend to find Treehouses to be pretty brutal to sit through and the only thing I care about involving either game is if Wonder's single player updates wind up being more substantive than just, "We added seven Koopaling levels," so this is a skip for me.

For future reference on stuff like this you can keep things from redownloading by going to its eShop page and hitting + or - five times. Had to do this with the digital version of BotW because I also have a cartridge of it.

Definitely Japan, really never was fond of the plain gold Zelda boxes.

I got FireRed while my roommate's getting LeafGreen.

Tinkaton though I'm also really fond of Flutter Mane.

I got FireRed and my roommate's getting LeafGreen, though also got the Resident Evil collection coming out the same day so I might prioritize playing RE7 or 9 before I actually play it.

@EarthboundBenjy Given the games immediately shot to the top of the eShop charts I'd say bare minimum they also do RSE at some point. If anything I'm hoping it leads to Platinum, HGSS, and BW1&2 ports at some point, especially HGSS.

I mean, I'm willing to pay it, but the price is 250% what they charged for GBA games on the Wii U despite this being a port they seem to have put literally zero effort into, of course it's overpriced. On the same console you can pay the same amount and get three Castlevania GBA games and a SNES game to boot.

I think I first fiddled with the original on the Wii, but I first actually finished it on the 3DS. Took awhile to develop a taste for the original and though I've played through it several times at this point I'm still pretty, "Eh, it's fine, nowhere near one of my favorites," on it; holds up super well mechanically but structurally there are significant problems with it.

Splitting my time between Donkey Kong Country 2 and Death Match Love Comedy mostly. Since Nintendo seems to be screwing around with the release of the latter (even though it's rated T) ended up grabbing the PS5 version.

@8bit-Man At least you're getting a decent game out of it, I think that puts it over charging $10 for a manual about the system you just bought.

@molkom The differences entirely come down to some changes in which Pokemon are available, and the starters are the same in both versions. The question of which to go with pretty much entirely boils down to which set of exclusives you prefer -

FireRed - Ekans, Oddish, Psyduck, Growlithe, Shellder, Scyther, Electabuzz, Wooper, Murkrow, Qwilfish, Delibird, Skarmory

LeafGreen - Sandshrew, Vulpix, Bellsprout, Slowpoke, Staryu, Magmar, Pinsir, Marill, Misdreavus, Sneasel, Remoraid, Mantine

Spoilers, there is an evil residence and a biohazard.

NieR: Automata - The Actually Nevermind That Wasn't the End of YoRHa After All Edition.

Glad to see the GBC one ranked highly, I wish the story mode in Fever were more like that one.