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I actually remember seeing that particular Sonic artwork being used as the boxart for Sonic X-Treme as well!!

@Pungu @Specter_of-the_OLED @AlexanderDaniels @Expa0
For those of yall concerned about the OST, it's not as bad as it's being made out to be. Mitsuda himself said that the "new" OST in this game is simply a cleaned-up version of the original. He said he was happy with the original music so he didn't change it, just rebuilt it from the original, uncompressed source files. The new music people are hearing lately and are concerned about are additional tracks he arranged which he said aren't part of gameplay but are available separately. The music that's in the actual game will be the original OST but cleaner, that's probably why there won't be a toggle. We have nothing to worry about.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/tt7dw4/the_soundtrack_for_chrono_cross_radical_dreams/

And the original tweet if yall can read Japanese:
https://twitter.com/CHRONO_CROSS_RD/status/1507507628955602953

Sooo to the people saying Microsoft is slimy for making Elder Scrolls VI exclusive to their platform, I'm just curious: what were yall's thoughts about Bayonetta 2 being exclusive to Wii U once Nintendo stepped in to help pay for it?

I want Crono or Lucca. It's not gonna happen, but I want it.

Looks like a Target/WalMart store brand logo. Like Mainstays or something.

Awesommmmme ɴᴏᴡ ɢɪᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ʜʏʀᴜʟᴇ ᴘʟᴢ

I'm so, so, so, SO glad to see someone other than me prefers Adventure over Adventure 2. I always see a lot of love for SA2 (which is great to see), but it's usually paired up with the take of it being so much better than SA1, which I just can't get behind. Much more polish, yes, but I didn't enjoy the gameplay or level design nearly as much, and I was really disappointed they dropped the open areas between stages. The story of SA1 somehow felt more alive with the ability to explore the city and the ruins and such. SA1 was rough, but you could feel the love and the ambition of Sonic Team, like Naka and everyone just poured their souls into it.
Then the next game was a commercial for Soap shoes.

@8BitMonet YES. Imagine Dr. Hutchison just gutting people with her hook while grinning. 🤣😂🤣😂

If one of them isn't Quailman then I shall revolt.

Title song from Yoshi's ISLAND, maybe, not Story. I used to keep the YI title screen looping as a kid while I was doing chores. As an adult, I used to do the same thing with the title screen for Xenoblade.
Honorable mention (and one of my favorite songs ever): Stickerbrush Symphony from DKC2

@TyroKith It just helps that their written language is a syllabary with very little pronunciation variance. As opposed to English where each vowel and some consonants have two or three completely different pronunciations depending on context.

Her name in Japanese is written ファイ, which is literally "Fai." Why they decided to spell it "Fi" for the English release is beyond me.

"Did you notice this during the Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony livestream?"
Did I notice? It was my favorite part! 🤣

Is anyone watching the 30th anniversary symphony? The whole intermission was just a 10 minute video feed of a Chao garden. Sega knows.

Just adding to the pile here: SKIES OF ARCADIA

EMERALD HILL LET'S GOOOOOOOO 🌴🦔

Is... is that Kate McKinnon playing Waluigi????
That's my dream casting right there. 🤯

I want Tomm Moore to do a Zelda film. There, I said it.

@ChromaticDracula Plus, Reggie has been joking about it a lot on twitter, unprovoked. It's almost like he knows Nintendo has it cooking and is purposefully stirring the fans up.

@Don You mean President of America Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho? Dude that's pretty much exactly what's happening. 🤣

@MasterGraveheart very appropriate avatar for your comment. 😂👍

THERE'S A MAPPY THEME!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

@JayJ If I remember right, there's a seperate license fee they have to pay to the Bluetooth company in order to use BT audio specifically. Nintendo probably just waited to see if there'd be enough demand for them to be comfortable shelling out.

@Thwomp_Stomper good LORD I miss when DDR was big. I swear it prolonged the life of American arcades by a few years.

Hollow Knight. Mwahahahahah

Seriously though, an Untitled Goose Battle Royale sounds dumb and amazing. Would play.

I really, really, really wanted the returning combo of Naka and Ohshima to produce something magical... I did not want it to go down in gaming history as a dumpster fire of memeable proportions. 😩

@PBandSmelly I wouldn't put it past Platinum to deliberately make an un-funny April Fool's joke. 😅

@Rosona @NintendoByNature The Sigma games were made easier (NG 1&2 were hailed for being old-school hard before Dark Souls made it cool), they added new characters and altered the stories to fit them, and the thing a lot of NG fans in the forums are talking about: they removed dismemberment and blood. So rather than slicing heads and arms off of demons and stuff, you just slash away at them until they fall. The context-sensitive dismemberment and accompanying blood fountains were one of the more notable visual features of the originals, and really made the games feel like crazy old samurai movies. And they removed it for the PS versions. There were other changes as well but these were the biggies.

NGB and NG2 were awesome. The non-Itagaki games (Sigma 1&2 and NG3) definitely suffered without him.

@Kienda They seriously need big plush mascots not just of Mario and Luigi there, but of Miyamoto, Aonuma, Sakurai, Reggie, and hell, for us old guys throw in Howard Phillips as well!

@VoidofLight Good. The world needs more Miyamoto and less.. everything else. ♥️

@Desrever He's been known to step in and sing with the choir during performances of One-Winged Angel, as well. The dude loves what he does.

@gutrippabear I'm ready for it. A Mortal Kombat movie SHOULD be campy. As long as it has great choreography and is shot well (everything tends to be close-up shakycam now, but that rope dart fight with Sanada looks GREAT), then it'll be exactly what I want to see.

I'm kinda afraid the desert aesthetic will get old fast but.. good LORD those graphics are pretty. And that BOW.

EMERALD HILL MUSIC!!! I AM ABSOLUTELY ELATED!!!

Out of all the Sonic VAs, Pollock is the one I'd pick to stay. I know there is a lot of love for the rest of the cast but he's always been the standout of the bunch to me.

@harouhiko I seriously wouldn't out it past Kamiya to pull something like that. 😂

@TheFrenchiestFry Oh I know, I know, I'm just being a dork. I think that bit with Pudi is funny, not that it's an absolute indication that the DuckTales VAs aren't top-rate talent.

Semi-related: Schwartz's interviews with Larry King are fun as well.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I do have a soft spot for Drummond. But let's go even further back! Bring back Jaleel White!!!

@TheFrenchiestFry @Clyde_Radcliffe I've seen others talking about Schwartz being out of their price range but that just makes me think of this exchange with Schwartz's DuckTales castmate Danny Pudi: https://youtu.be/76HijAoXi6k

I was actually wondering if Sega would have Smith step aside so Schwartz could come into the games for sake of consistency. Smith was so good that losing him for any other reason would be too bad. If they announce a new VA for the games and it's not Schwartz, color me disappointed.

@Nalverus yeah when someone brings up Adventure 1 and says "that song" my mind goes right to the power chords of Open Your Heart that play during the title screen. City Escape (and the whole SA2 OST) is a bowl of whatever compared to Jun Senoue's epic work in SA1.

@Thwomp_Stomper I went to a midnight premiere to the movie, and it released the same night as The Expendables. So they set up two lines, and it was the nerds/gamers in one and the jocks/dudebros in the other and the two lines were razzing each other the whole time. And when the 16-bit Universal logo popped up, the entire theater ROARED. One of the best movie experiences I've ever had.

Man, I miss theaters.

@PBNightmare the Limited Run website says the box art is reversible, so you should be cover-ed. 😉

Thanks to this list, I have purchased Horace. I hope yall're happy.

The idea of a "Switch version" of Cyberpunk running better than the PS4 and XBone versions makes my petty, fanboy heart soar.

Also worth mentioning: WildBrain, while owning the series mentioned in the article, ALSO acquired DiC some years ago. DiC is the studio that produced the Sonic SatAM and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog series. There's some actual lineage here.

I can't be comfortable gaming in a handheld position for more than a few minutes, so I'm docked all the way. But I have a friend who doesn't have a tv and wants to play retro games, and we can BOTH play the same stuff, so I appreciate that Nintendo gives us the option. Also there are some fantastic games that likely would've stayed on handhelds if Nintendo hadn't tied the two playstyles together.

@HotGoomba The game was ported to WiiU by a 3rd party, which is not uncommon, but when they ported it they made a ton of changes to the game without the consent of the creator. They completely changed level layouts, changed the power-up system, changed the speed at which the character moves, all sorts of stuff. And to add insult to injury, the Wii release (with the build Yuji Naka intended) was scrapped in favor of the port. Naka convinced them to package the original Wii game with the WiiU release (as it was done already and he hated the changes made in the port) then went on social media when the game came out and asked fans to make sure they played the Wii version INSTEAD of the WiiU version.

It was a messy situation. The Wii version was fun, though. Like free-roam NiGHTS.

People on the Switch subreddit have confirmed the trick didn't work for them until they had unlocked ALL of the stages, so getting into the star levels doesn't seem to be the only requirement.

@Calamity244 yeah and I'm 3 levels above that, that's why I'm wondering why I can't do it. I've talked with some people on reddit who have managed to do it and they have all the stages unlocked, so maybe that's another requirement?

I'm at level 3* and this is nooooot working for me. Tried holding L for the entire duration of the game loading, tried holding L from the game menu, tried holding L from the Switch menu, even.