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It's a game I've kept meaning to check out but not really interested in doing so without a way of moving Pokemon to Home afterward, so while I'll likely check it out at some point it won't be NSO.

@horizonisland It still uses the handheld controls.

Another one I'm really noticing this morning, Fitness Boxing 3. I tend to do it in desktop mode and it's a bigger glow-up than you would think.

So far I've tried it out with Hundred Line, Persona 5, and Danganronpa V3. Think Hundred Line was the most I noticed the glowup but Persona 5 also looked much nicer, while with V3 it seemed to be running a bit better but still had some of the awkward lag and rough edges around the sprites since end of the day it's just a phoned-in mobile port no matter how you dress it up.

All I can say is, "Ugh."

Surprised the NA one is winning because I think the other one looks a million times better.

@MrGawain Given the camera isn't actually included in the first place, it'd likely shave off almost nothing? The microphone was probably relatively inexpensive since it's not exactly professional quality and it's not like adding an extra button is a particularly expensive thing to do.

I remapped mine to just be a duplicate Home button because the only time I could ever actually picture myself using it is if I'm meaning to hit that instead. Really no clue why they thought something you can easily access from the home menu in an instant anyway needed a dedicated button.

Meh. Good for people that liked Bananza I guess, but I took a crack at it because my roommate was interested and the end result was taking a month off after reaching the last layer then when I did get back to it promptly turning it off as soon as I hit the credits and I haven't touched it since, really just not at all for me. Hate its art design (especially the new DK look, it's absolutely hideous), thought the gameplay could be fun in spots but was way too repetitive, and I really just constantly wished there was an option to mute Pauline because she was deeply irritating.

Maybe a future 2D game would sell me on on keeping on with the series, but there's no scenario where I bother playing a sequel to Bananza and I really doubt I'm ever even going to touch it again. Cool it went over well with the people who liked it, but I didn't.

@HauntedMasque General consensus is that X-Men, Captain America, and the Spider-Man & Venom games are great, Arcade's Revenge is pretty bad, and Silver Surfer is so brutally difficult as to be basically unplayable but has a sweet soundtrack.

I'll probably pick it up digitally. Mostly here for X-Men and Maximum Carnage but certainly down to try out the rest of it.

Kind of hoping in the future we get ports of other old Marvel stuff like the X-Men Game Gear games and the Hulk SNES / Genesis game.

I'm very much going to wait for reviews on it. Yoshi games are wildly inconsistent in quality.

I found them more tolerable than expected but could also comfortably live with never seeing them again.

I need to make the time for it, kind of decided to prioritize FireRed when they both came out and even with me now being done with that I haven't gotten around to it yet.

In general I'm kind of getting the sense Nintendo underestimated its appeal, between the key card release and relatively small amount of marketing. Not really on my radar, not my kind of thing, but it seems like they weren't expecting how well it's been reviewing.

Nah, I know my tastes enough to know I'd play it at most for an hour or so before getting bored and never touching it again.

Was always pretty curious about it, might pick it up.

Glad Vac Woman didn't make it through despite the fact I voted for it.

Already own all of these except the Switch 2 version of Jamboree which I'm not interested in. Though bares noting that sometimes other retailers have different digital sales from what the eShop does, offhand that's how I got Luigi's Mansion 2 this time last year.

@CoOokie Almost like when you see two contradictory opinions they're coming from two separate sets of people.

Certainly makes me more interested, really not at all a subgenre I'm fond of.

Also I really wish they'd just call it a Metroidvania. It's the name everyone uses and Action Exploration sounds like meaningless overly broad nonsense.

I don't think they'll do an individual Legends collection because at best you can only put four games in it and that's assuming they remember Roll's Close Call exists. I think it's more likely they just stick the first two and Tron Bonne in a collection of other assorted games that don't fit anywhere else like Mega Man & Bass and Mega Man Soccer.

Personally I'm fine with the 400 that's pretty much been the standard since USUM, having too small of a lineup makes things way too repetitive going through the game and is one of the bigger reasons why I think BW2 is much better than BW1.

That said I do kind of wish there was a way to fix the Nidoran issue, but given how that would upend basically the entire Pokedex's numbering I see why they don't. Right off the top of my head that'd force a redesign of Zarude and would render Gholdengo's gimmick pointless.

Glad to see it's being well-received, hopefully folks enjoy it, though I can tell it's very much not my thing so going to pass personally.

Way overdue for them to remaster everyone's favorite entry, Brotherhood of Steel.

@garfreek I really want an Athena-focused game. Feels the most primed for it of the established cast and like it would really help her character.

Keep hoping for SMB Deluxe, but glad we got something. Though I played through Mario vs. DK on my 3DS late last year and wound up absolutely hating it so not super enthused about it personally, but happy for its fans that don't want to shell out for the remake.

I think that's a fair score but also personally I'm loving having this on the Switch. Definitely some parts of it that have aged - the overall slow pace, Kanto's wonky level structure, not having stuff like Fairy or the physical / special split - but still finding it feels so much nicer revisiting these older games on the Switch than playing the newer ones and really hoping they do similar ports for the gen 4 and 5 games at some point.

@Dom_31 They can be a bit inconsistent on it. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, offhand the Apollo trilogy was a surprise announcement.

That said I'm inclined to think this one won't actually include anything new.

@Warioware Kind of doubt it since they weren't even involved in the Steam version besides licensing it out. Doesn't seem like Killer7's a thing they're really interested in doing anything more with.

@UpsideDownRowlet Oh yeah, I forgot about the existence of Champions. That explains that, though still makes the raid thing a bit odd.

Seems odd between this and the rerunning raid events that they're dropping support for SV when WiWa is still over a year away. Guess there's ZA but it's kind of its own separate beast and it's not like PLA's existence caused them to stop doing SwSh stuff.

@chucksneed Generally more often than not legendary names are left as they are. The only ones changed from Japanese to English are the birds, Mesprit, Azelf, the genies, Silvally, the Tapus, Cosmoem, Eternatus, Kubfu, Urshifu, Calyrex, the horses, the Treasures of Ruin, the Loyal Three, and Pecharunt.

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.