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@Savage_Joe Great Ace Attorney Chronicles being the most recent release gave all those characters a bump.

Maybe once they're on sale, but I'd rather see a rerelease of Bully.

I had a similar thing happen with my copy of Phantom Hourglass. It fell into a bowl of oranges without me noticing and the contacts got corroded. Zelda and oranges do not mix well. There's a reason there aren't any in BotW!

I'd like it to be $1 per month or $5 annually, but I expect double that.

I was originally worried about the battery life, but now I only use it docked after going through four sets of JoyCons so that's not a problem anymore

Just so people know, the percentage is how much of the map you have filled in and nothing else. Anything that marks the map counts e.g. finding a shrine but things that don't mark it don't count e.g. completing a shrine. About 75% is just the Korok seeds alone.

@Savino It doesn't run your whole Steam library, only the games that support Linux because that's what it is under the hood. They're integrating their version of the WINE Windows compatibility layer into it, but it's very much hit and miss proposition.

@cammers1995 I don't know about this one in particular, but a lot of these sky high auctions are from "investment" services that sell shares of the game. They're just creating a huge bubble, and it definitely feels like a barely legal scam.

@Timptation That was one of the folk theories for what the code could possibly mean.

@The_New_Butler To be honest, a lot of fighting games even to this day have AIs that cheat in certain difficulties/fights in ways that are completely unfair.

@paschott It's an MMO that's more or less never left Japan.

There's a handful of legitimately good and interesting games on the platform, but the time to release whatever is worth salvaging was on the 3DS. Maybe if Labo VR had taken off or maybe came bundled with it, but that time has passed too.

I skipped out on DX since I already had it on Wii U with all the DLC. I really would have expected a 9 by now or even a general Nintendo racer.

I did finish the original version, but it was such a painful experience mainly due to bugs and some odd design decisions. It was even worse finding out that Nicalis was the roadblock to getting patches and was a big factor in never getting anything from them again.

I was very heartened to find out that this new version fixes literally every problem I had with it! Definitely getting this again on Wednesday to show support.

@Enigk This is actually larger than you'd think "franchise" of little mobile games for the developer. One of them is actually My Brother Ate My Pudding!

I always read the manual cover to cover regardless of how long it was even the one for Falcon 4.0 which is hundreds of pages and basically a general reference on the F-16 that happens to include game info.

Manuals got the axe because game prices didn't keep up with inflation, but I wouldn't actually buy one. It might as well be a strategy guide if you're going to fork over money for one.

The ability to flee any regular battle is nice addition. There can be so much randomness to how hard an encounter can be. You could also quick save in the original and soft reset (L,R,+,- in this version) but being able to flee directly is a time saver.

I never got very far in the original, but I'm blasting through this version. If you have access to traveling and 3000 credits, trading gold ingots to buy some of the best equipment in the game ASAP makes it much easier and the credit minimum was greatly lowered and the process simplified. This is actually a much less daunting than any of the earlier games in the series except maybe Romancing Saga 3.

Better 3rd party support for the less directly toylike attachment would have helped. The piano in particular had a lot of potential that was never fulfilled.

I really wanted to like Save Me Mr. Tako, but it was so buggy in sometimes bizarre ways. I still managed to beat it, but saying it was painful and frustrating understates things a little. It does look like this new version fixes a lot of the complaints I have.

@AtlanteanMan They did an Aleste collection that hasn't been released outside of Japan yet. That one included an original game for the game gear too.

Still mind boggling that there's no proper play log after 4 years.

NHK did this poll last year, and this very site also posted it then. Doesn't seem like there was a new one done. The full list of top 30 games including spin-offs and top 75 characters.

Last year's post includes the full list:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/03/japan_picks_its_favourite_final_fantasy_game_and_character

@ZeldaFanboy78 Dragon Sinker and Machine Knight are both pretty good. DS is better than the usual EXE Create cookie cutter games and less daunting that it seems at first. MK isn't as good as some of Hit-Point's other games since it was one of their earliest ones, but I still liked it. Even has multiple endings.

For the ridiculous prices some games go when CIB, I'm starting to kick myself for not buying doubles of some to sell off later since even ~5 year old 3DS games can go for hundreds. I was looking at the price of Dark Arms which is in the recent Neo Geo Pocket collection, and it's around $30 for just the cart but hundreds for CIB. It's not even a good game! Not that quality has ever had anything to do with price since the literally unfinished Virtual Lab is the highest valued Virtual Boy game.

The price of anything collectable has just skyrocketed lately. It's worse than Beanie Babies ever were. I almost imported a Qbby on more than one occassion over the last few years and they were even below the US MSRP most of the time. Now they're regularly hundreds of dollars. It's a giant bubble market right now.

Zelda is an RPG in spirit, but not in the strictest sense. It's very clearly derived from them, but most games in the series lack overt stats and experience. I do find EXP/levels/stats = RPG overly simplistic though because by that metric Kid Icarus is an RPG. Especially on the FC/NES, a whole lot of games got RPG elements added in the wake of DQ. Is Rygar an RPG because it has strength and HP experience?

Bunny Day was so awful I quit playing. Making eggs replace resources instead of having them pop out with them was a huge mistake.

@UltimateOtaku91 I still liked it overall, but Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy has the worst puzzles in the series. The author of the Atama no Taisou series also did the puzzles for Layton, but he sadly died after the sixth game.

Personally, I wasn't all that enthused, but it was a reasonable mix of stuff overall. It felt "Direct worthy".

@tourjeff I finished the whole game (~40 hours), and it runs fine. There's a bit of a weird and very quick swap between low poly and high poly character models when switching areas, but that's about it. Never had any frame rate issues or major bugs either.

I think it's safe to say that the rhythm of development is different right now. I'm assuming they're holding back announcements until games are much closer to completion maybe even until final testing.

I tried this and it definitely does not work on the default setting.

The first SaGa was literally the first RPG available on the GB and the other two are early as well. Of course they're going to come across as archaic compared to Pokémon! Gen. 1 was at the tail end of the systems life.

@Tyranexx Kemco has been around since the 80s. In their earlier days they did do some development work like the excellent Sword of Hope II, but they've always been primarily a publisher. Over time, they've shifted to near exclusively publishing mobile-first RPGs.

@River3636 Most of what they publish isn't that great, but there actually is some good stuff. Monster Viator and Dragon Sinker are both really good and not a huge time commitment.

Best PC game is a console port…

I have zero interest in any Microsoft or Sony consoles or any exclusives that may be on them. I haven't had a non-Nintendo system since the PS2, and nothing since then has even slightly interested me.

@Agramonte I finished it and 66 is generous.

I thought it was fun enough for $2. It'll probably be on sale for literal pennies at some point.

The Saturn and PC ports of 3D Blast are a lot better than the original version. They control better and the improved graphics and audio make it more pleasant to play.

I've only seen one shiny, a Rockruff, right at the beginning of Sun/Moon which I did catch. This is having played since the beginning. I'd say seeing one after hundreds of hours of playtime is too low. I think a good compromise is having the barely different ones be much more common, and letting the truly different ones stay rare.

I liked this a lot when I played it through Apple Arcade, and it makes a whole lot more sense as part of a subscription. It's a sweet and cute game, but asking for $9 is a bit much for the amount of content.

I played this to completion on a Mac and it's still an awful game. The world is bland, the gameplay is boring, and the AI is totally broken sometimes. That last one is fixable, but you're still left with nothing worth playing.

Keen Dreams is okay. It was made as a sort of settlement with their previous employer, the diskmag publisher Softdisk, so it's a small game that needed to also fit with other other software on a single floppy. They used Softdisk's equipment to make Keen 1-3 which is a big no-no; id got off very easy. It's an interesting historical curiosity as the test bed episode 4 and 5's engine, but the size and quality of the levels is all over the place.

I think Keen Dreams originally launched at $10 and even the reduced price is high. $15 is almost criminal even for more levels.

Really a nitpick, but Virtual Lab should be last because it literally wasn't finished before being released! It even manages to misspell Nintendo's name twice in two different ways!

Both Oceanhorn games are beyond dreadful. I somehow pushed myself to finish both, and they a total waste of time.

@RebeccaEdv Forerunner isn't quite right as the original GB Last Bible was developed in parallel to SMT, and the GG version came later. The LB games in general were an attempt to make the Megami Tensei series (as in the original Famicom games) friendly to a wider age range. The expanded GBC version was released in English as Revelations: The Demon Slayer.

Last Bible Special, the dungeon crawler, is very grueling and basically needs to have hacks applied to become reasonably playable.

That's just a quick jump to a feature that already existed in the advanced search. The big problem with that search in general is the price categories are totally fixed and don't match up well with the price distribution at all.

Out of the 525 titles on sale, 0 are in the $50+ categories, 2 are in $30 to $49.99, 78 are in $10 to $29.99 and 444 are in $0.01 to $9.99. 85% are in the bottom category!

$50+ is slightly more useful for not on sale titles, as it's basically a filter for full price retail games, but there's very rarely anything in it for with the On Sale filter. Even for the full eShop (3808 titles), only 3% of game are even in $50+ and 7% in $30 to $49.99. The bottom two are split roughly evenly as indie games fall into $10 to $29.99 but fall into under the bottom category when on sale. Plus there's about 7% in the free category which literally never has anything on sale in it even if it is free for some reason.

Dividing it up in $10 increments with the bottom end split up multiple ways would go a long way. The best option would be to just have a free search by price! It isn't like there's millions of records that need to be searched. This is a very small and long solved problem.

That's my personal pet peeve, and other changes given like being able to sort by soonest ending sale would be very good changes. I end up looking at the full list every week just to make sure I don't miss anything, and I probably still do if the sale runs between Thursdays.

@sikthvash There is an option to sort by price. It defaults to Best Sellers and is right below your user icon.

Played it every day from release until the Bunny Day event which put a real damper on my enthusiasm. Then other stuff started to come out, and I haven't touched it in over a month. I liked New Leaf more overall.

The solution for drift is for Nintendo to spend the extra pennies for a part that that uses a material more durable than graphite. This is not a difficult problem to solve.

Chicken Wiggle's biggest problem was that the story mode did an awful job of taking advantage of the possibilities that the level editor provided. For one example, there's multiple possible level goals, but every level uses the exact same one. It should have been on Switch in the first place especially since the early days were so barren.

I've been playing the Mac version and it's simple and fun. It is basically a touch screen phone game though although that version is exclusive to Apple Arcade so it doesn't have IAP or anything like that.