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@Unblowupable5 8bitdo made the n64 controller for emulation with PC, It is a little strange to make a bluetooth controller purely for emulation and not official hardware at all like the rest of the 8bitdo lineup.

And everyone criticises Sony, yet Nintendo can do no wrong? Double standard hypocrisy! Gives Sony a hard time over fortnite, withholds 40 yrs of intellectual property behind a miserly online subscription.

But this is the Nintendo life trolli mean comments section so bring on the flames and burn burn burn the guy on the internet that doesn't agree with you.

Wake me up when they add Faxanadu!

They borrowed from Nintendo's mini console in theory alone, the execution is more akin to Sega/Atgames...

But it was ea... So nobody cared. Cloud based soccer , what an appealing future. I guess for cruddy annual sports titles sure no worries.

I'm so hesitant to buy any of the mercenaries games, they look too generic to hold my attention and receive very average reviews. I'm still playing through the luminous arc games on DS and they seem a little better than these games from circle. I'm tempted to pickup the physical trilogy of mercenaries saga but I have not yet because I think all 3 games are essentially the same and therefore I won't end up playing them.

I love a good tactical rpg, but these days the genre has moved on and I expect a robust story, being invested in the characters is half the game and voice acting doesn't go astray. I just picked up a physical copy of God wars, can't wait to get started on that one.

I want Sparkster (Rocket Knight) they give us Bubsy...

Day one cartridge buy. Couldn't care less about smash Bros, but totally pumped for Sega collection.

@6ch6ris6 the us site has it, sorry. For australians we get told not to use the EU store and it diverts to the us store.

Nice to see an rpg gets in at no. 10 as the only 3rd party game

@6ch6ris6 uhh lots of jet set Radio items, Goto the website...

This is awesome, I need a streets of rage t shirt, and golden axe for that matter.

@diwdiws oh I'm not whining, as I said I don't like Bethesda games. At least my comment was actually on topic and not against the forum rules as your is, solely to attack me...

Good, I wont be buying fallout 76 then... Also Iw asn't going to anyway, bethersda games are buggy as hell. I couldnt stand fallout 4, I only played for about 10 hrs. Over rated mess of a game.

It says no spoilers and then goes on to do exactly that, I had to stop reading.

@SwitchForce actually he had a valid comment, you on the other hand do not, so who's the troll.

This site used to have good comments sections with good healthy discussion and it's gone really downhill since about the time Thomas Whitehead left.

Now on topic, I don't know how GameStop still exists either, but this is how they earn their coin so clearly people value printed graphics of LE consoles.

I have the atgames megadrive mini released last year, as you go through levels on gain ground the game frame rate gets choppier and choppier until it's unplayable, so underpowered. It's abysmal.

None of the reviews even mentioned that issue because I don't think they played it long enough. Even the modding scene for the damn thing is terrible and hard to do because the unit has so little internal memory.

The best way to play the roms on the mega drive mini is to pull them and inject them into a snes mini with retroarch and use an 8bitdo controller.

Im going to buy the jp physical release

So much awesome!

They need to make a real retro console that plays nes snes GBA GBC GB n64 and GameCube. They need to re release hard copies of all the games in some cool sized cartridge format, probably half the size of snes or maybe GBA size. This would sell like nothing else on the planet, complete with manual art books and posters and a glossy cardboard packet.

Licence to print money Nintendo.

Oooh this looks great! I'm in!

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. Sooooo Goooood!!

It's clearly a case with bluetooth controls for gameboy games on your smartphone. /sigh crap.

Well I really tried to like botw and mario odyssey but played about 8 hrs of botw and abour 15 of odyssey and put them away never to pick them up again. They aren't fun to me and i was shocked. I found the worlds to be barren and very bland.

I did a nintendo survey a while ago and I told them "why cant I choose which mario character to play the game as like in mario bros 2 back on NES, seemed odd to me I couldnt play as anyone I wanted to, why'd it have to be mario? Let me play the game as yoshi, might be convinced to retry it. Just getting it straight that this isnt my only criticism of the game, it was simply a suggestion I made about how they might make it somewhat more appealing.

I just found both games to be very empty and bland. They both had lovely colour palettes, although I really dislike the weird colour hashing effect that pops up in both games which was clearly imposed to keep the frame rate up and lower some settings.

oh this is terrible news. RIP fellow nintendo gamer. All the best to Chris' family.

Glad I already own several 8bitdo controllers.

I recommend everyone else the same over these pieces of console and game-locked junk.

But I want ff8... They skipped my favourite FF game 😭

You had me... then lost me at Kemco... This deserves a 4/10 at best.

PS Metacritic needs an "Ignore Outliers" data option, to remove plainly obvious troll posts like 1/10 reviews posted by angry kids for an otherwise good scoring game. This is done in all areas of academic research because its a relevant and appropriate statistical tool when used to analyse a large enough sample size and in most cases metacritic would have this, particularly for popular games where these troll reviews are generally posted to say, prevent a certain popular game from justly receiving the highest meta score ever (and this from a guy who would actually rate Zelda BoTW a 7/10, as an open world explorer it is vastly empty and there is a distinct lack of graphical variety in say the grass for instance. The questing system is simply better in other games of the genre).

I also agree that 90's magazines had it right by setting out the graphics, difficulty, originality, music/sound, and playability etc and awarding a percentage as a result. This allows visually pretty and good sounding games to receive the right amount of credit even if the gameplay is poor. Heck some magazines even ranked re-playability in the equation.

Plus this way, the composers and artists dont have their hard work rubbished because of sloppy game mechanic design or game breaking bugs, and vice-versa where graphics sometimes fall flat but gameplay is good. This sort of ranking actually supports the industry better and is also fan-forward by giving better, more objective, advice.

Meta aggregating reviews are a popularity contest and while its ok to disagree, you cant ignore when the overwhelming popularity of a game influences reviewers to give higher scores. Take Skyrim for instance, I just don't get it. It did nothing for the genre that Gothic 2 and WoW and even Morrowind and Dragon Age didn't do, the graphics are a hjarry buggy mess half the time and barely animated at others. I cant play more than an hour of it without being completely bored and giving up. Yet its a generational thing for young teens who didnt grow up with the genre already, so its insanely popular with those who weren't already saturated with similar games. Does it deserve the high scores, well yeah of course it does, its a popularity contest despite its lack of any originality - Which I might value more as a mature gamer with an extensive gaming history in the genre.

Yes, but not from Nintendo Life, your reviews are so biased it hurts! You routinely and systematically fail to explain how you score and over-rate average games and games/series simply because they are popular or have popular characters in them.

OMG, OMG OMG OMG Best news this year!!!!

Nothing wrong with this game or anything, but this site has really gone downhill since the editor changed. They simply don't report a serious amount of Nintendo related news anymore. I go elsewehre nowadays.

@Crono1973 Yes, because I liked them, and also because it blends the PS video cut scenes into the snes version of the game. Without the terrible PS loading times.

@Crono1973 its definitely still the definitive version.

@1UP_MARIO although I actually agree with you re resellers benefitting, you should be buying the game card DS version of chrono trigger,not the snes cart the D's version is cheaper and it's the definitive version of the game. Except you can't play it on your TV.

Now I think about it, it really is a travesty this game issn't on the snes mini.

There needs to be copyright expiry on old games just like books. That's what this boils down to.

Plus some of the best games on most platforms, even Nintendo, are third party titles and most of those are now defunct or have not re-released games since their initial release decades ago. Ad revenue for rom sites is one issue, but these companies are not missing out, their old games are effectively abandonwares.

Nintendo is only doing this as it does every couple of years to be able to claim in court that they have protected and defended their intellectual property, which in any other industry would have lapsed in copyright protection by now.

It means nothing, Nintendo already said they only went after these guys because they were making profit and we're not operating as a fan site.

In Australia everyone always calls them Ness and Sness. I thought everyone did except Alex on this site lol

I think I only have one of those games. Guess I'm not a top tenner?

Woohoo Great work Way forward! I love the Shantae games, and Blaster Master!

Sorry, i disagree.

@RailX yes agreed, I also have a bunch of psp games, I like the star Ocean games and final fantasy tactics, and tactics ogre. It's really expensive to get hold of a vita now so it's just put me off, but ai guess a preowned one from ebgames is less than a 3ds so it's probably not that bad.

@RailX vita, nice, I never got one of those. I have busted out my DS though and bought a few rpgs from eBay recently.

@Blizzia I actually think the switch has the handbrake on as well. The line up for the foreseeable future is pretty poor.

Yeah not surprised, for the rest of the year there's basically no new games. Let's go Pokemon doesn't count.

Eh no thanks seems a waste of time, all we want is the same controller as nintendo shipped with the switch but a cross on it instead of the 4 buttons, why is this so hard for them to understand!?

Its wired... pass.

So much yes, let them do this nitneod!

@retro_player_22 oh man Ys strategy probably shouldn't exist if you read the reviews... Maybe they wish it didn't happen.

And yet some of the best rpgs of the last decade are on the DS... But none of falcoms. I mean even the greatest rpg of all time, chrono trigger, was ported to DS, and it's the best version of the game to-date by the way, but that platform wasn't hardcore enough for you?! I call major bs there. I mean this story, between the lines, sounds slot like they met with Nintendo who were supportive and then they flipped them the finger and went with Sony instead, doesn't this kind of reinforce the haters?

Guess you guys missed the DS boat. Just don't miss the switch boat hey? I want your games on my switch!

I just can't find a copy of Ys viii anywhere right now, except ebgames where it's $90 AUD, and even then online order only.