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Pretty harsh, this game is awesome with a mate in co op.

Why the vitriol?

I really enjoyed the Sega mega drive mini HD version with my brother in law at christmas, until the machine itself chugged to a grinding halt as it didn't have the power to emulate it correctly. So I have been looking forward to the Sega ages version ever since!

Great game, terrible review.

Reviews on this site are usually horribly positively biased, guess this is a change. Maybe someone who is a fan of the genre or at least not as biased against it should have done this review? This is just sour grapes. The editor should be embarrassed by this review.

Parents pay the power bill, parents are responsible for their kids. Not a video game.

Parents need to parent better! I am one, no way I would let my kids play excessively. The kids are more addicted to YouTube, so when they get agro, daddy put the tablets away and the kids go outside!

Because you know, mum and dad are the boss, not the bloomin kids!

Maybe Harry should stick to party drugs and super models, cause that's not an addiction?

Wow that's dedicated and awesome!

Ok now I'm slightly interested in vr botw. But I don't want cardboard!

Eh more eh this month. Why did I sign up for 12 months again, I don't even play games online. Post Purchase regret.

I like ff8 more. But this time I may finally finish 7. Already downloaded it to my switch. Come on squenix, bring 8 and 6 now too!

@sandman89 death metal, Vikings, giant sword, gratuitous gore. Outstanding game!

Only game I bought this month is ff7. But I will be getting bmz2, didn't see it on the Aussie eshop yet but might have missed it.

Kemco, no no. Cookie cutter rpg is not fun.

Retro done right.

And I never played it because it went to sony and I didnt have a sony back in the day.

So now its finally released on its true platform, I will finally play it!

I think the kids are gonna love this...

Great, a Zelda skinned crypt of the necrodancer... not interested whatsoever. Could of had a real Zelda game and we get this.

@retro_player_22 you might be on to something there

Lost me at kemco

Didn't buy it on 3ds as no physical cart... same goes for switch.

Waaaaay too expensive.

Nobody ever said is was though. All there was, was a conference presentation where Xbox tried to attract other platforms to use their online services and everyone leapt to conclusions that simply weren't there. Why would Nintendo let a rival take over control of their user base, madness.

@nintendobynature I was interested in reverie but waiting for a good discount.

Wow looks totally retro and awesome!

Oh and uh... Who Pea'ed on my Game boy?

Everyone hated the 80s/90's legend of Zelda cartoon, yeah link was a loud numbskull but I enjoyed it as a kid at the time. It wasn't all bad.
Wonderful Rif they'll remake the Oracle of gbc Zelda games too?

Prince of Persia much? Cool. I don't get the hate for the pixel art here, this looks incredible, detailed and great palette. Look beautiful. Certainly not low res either as some have suggested. I have seen bad pixel art and this ain't it.

Looks great to me, love the prince of Persia style platforming too, really love it because I love prince of Persia, especially the Sega mega cd version.

Hopefully third time lucky for the Tokyo rpg Dev. I really was not enamored by setsuna and just skipped lost sphear. It looks more evolved than those two so I hope it less cookie-cutter and less bland.

Seiken densetsu collection!!!

I love my 3ds, but I can't buy the new Bowser's inside story because I only got the Ds version recently off eBay, and I can't justify $60 Australian for a port of a game that I already have that didn't need a port, as the 3ds already runs it ... Who decided this would be a good idea?

English Collection sounds good!!!

Two, what's the point? My switch travel case holds about 15 and it's still not enough.

They could start by taking the seal off of the packaging for the pro controller.

Will keep saving my gold points to buy entire switch games.

If you like the eo series, get into Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk on switch!

Oh goody, been looking forward to nexus!! Can't wait.

I was going to buy wargroove this weekend but I didn't have time yet. I guess next weekend... I feel like I'm missing out for now though. If a physical edition is made it might just be a double buy for me, if the reviews are any indication.

@retro_player_22 pal and NTSC was simply 50 and 60 Hertz refresh rates of TVs back in the 1980s. The issue hasn't existed since then. I'm in Australia and we've had NTSC TVs since the late 80s, same goes for everywhere that used to be a pal territory. It's only relevant now to retro gaming hardware, and when companies republish the inferior pal version of old games like nes and snes and PlayStation on modern hardware, the pal versions still play slower because of the slower frame rate.
The PS classic mini console got a bit of attention for including several pal games for instance, such a bad decision for modern times when the NTSC version of those games is better, just plays smoother. In 1990 we had no choice, but now it's just mind boggling Sony didn't use all NTSC time on the mini console.

@Anti-Matter ffviii isn't even coming to switch. Hopefully they do it eventually.

@Juanblue85 cool solatorobo avatar!

Wargroove! All day.
Ok, maybe Tales of Vesperia a little too

I still like the look of it, pity about lack of couch coop. Wargroove gets my February gaming dollars.

@Kirby-in-Kirkby agreed. Well said. This is an issue for many of us. As the Wii store goes dark...

@JaxonH I don't think it's unreasonable to prefer physical carts over digital. It's just a different opinion. You can reason and so can I. But I disagree with you. When games go digital only, or become gated behind a paywall of subscriptions to a plethora of different publishers, I simply won't play as many games anymore.

I'm not actually angry and appreciate your discussion but you're not failing to convince me of your argument because I'm inherently unreasonable, I just have a different point of view to you, and it's not really a big issue, it's simple preference.

There's a guy in my office who primarily buys vinyl and has a record player worth more than my car and motorcycle put together. In the same way, I collect games and the boxes they come in, my digital library is small, not even a 10th of what I own in hard copy and most of them are doubles or were so cheap I couldn't resist getting a pc copy, the final fantasy series for instance. This isn't unreasonable, it's consumer preference.

@mazzel I know it feels inevitable. I don't have to like it though.

I very much doubt that it will ever have an entire catalogue if all games. This is Abigail issue for Retro gaming community because even Nintendo has lost original game data and some third parties lost everything from some amazing games. I really like the work byuu is doing to preserve snes games in tact the way they were published. He's rescued some gems from oblivion.

@JaxonH that's cool I tuned you out already! I can choose what I like and what I don't, but you replied to my post so you clearly felt like you had to butt in. Tune out whatever bro, this is a comment section it's literally for people's opinions! Nobody said we have to agree.

@JaxonH SD cards and all rewritable memory is far more corruptible and will fail much sooner than read only memory.

Nobody is claiming sudden disappearance. Gradual slow death is the claim. And never being able to replace. Simple as that.

Enjoy your digital, I wont. Get ready for subscription gaming future because acceptance of that model at the consumer level is what that means. Get ready to never own anything ever again, it will all be tied to a sub. They even want to make it server side processing now so all you will have rights to is to view an image of the game you're playing.

This is part of the physical tangible argument, they cant take it away or hold it behind a paywall, you can make as many backups as you want. If you cant see that the streaming future is bad for consumers then its to your detriment. This is the physical gaming ownership argument, as opposed to "its ok these companies are trustworthy and wont make me pay to play my digital games in the future...". And you aren't even legally allowed to backup a digital copy of a game so goodluck there. If you think thatsd the end of it youre mistaken, the streaming only model is bursting at thge seams to pop out and deny you access unles you pay and keep paying to access that content.

Paywall is the future unless gamers refuse to participate in that market. Simple as that. I for one will prefer physical at all costs.

Wargroove is all that interests me until etrian odyssey nexus on 3ds.

@LaytonPuzzle27 I suspect that your gaming system and sdcard are more temporary than you think.

@JaxonH and yet none of the eshops you speak of have the same content. Those games on Wii have gone dark. Dsi has gone dark, 3ds and Wii U are next.

My original Atari carts still work, and yes I have backed them up. But Atari can't dictate to me how I own them. Digital only is a scary prospect in comparison.

@Peach64 Feel free to buy games and lose them the moment the eshop goes dark for good, you might as well just lease the games. But when i'mpaying full retail price for a game you had better bet I must own it permanently.

Physical software protects the consumer in perpetuity. Digital downloads are fleeting and temporary IP access rights.

Fine, don't listen to me, spend all of YOUR hard earned cash and wait until you lose the lot one day. It will happen and do'nt come running when it does. You've been warned.

OMG this is truly terrible.
Why cant you just let me own the physical game cards??

Well, the switch is far more stable than the Australian prime ministership!

Day 1 buy for me, the switch pro controller dpad is abysmal. I didn't notice how bad until I started playing a lot of Celeste. I can't believe the thing gets a Nintendo seal of quality.

@King-K-Rool I didn't notice any input lag on the Sega collection. I have played it a lot and played original hardware. Eh. Some people are precious and looking for problems that aren't there. If sonic needs "tight mid air" controls then they must suck at video games...

Exactly what they say until the moment they say, here's a handheld only switch, and here's a switch 2.