happydeathman

Hey, I've beaten this. I love Earthbound, of course, but the Earthbound comparisons here, though inevitable, are also pretty facile. However, I can confirm that it IS really good, with stuff that you absolutely won't expect (and yes, there are few parts that are really, really horrifying--but not, imo, in a cheap or gratuitous way). Recommended, on whatever platform.

Dude gets PAID for writing banal conventional wisdom like this? Nice work if you can get it, I guess.

I remember playing Welltris on my parents' old Mac back in the day. I don't think it's a great game, but an interesting diversion.

Serious question: are you required to post a certain number of articles a day/week?

Look: we don't know what this console will be called, but it's a cinch it won't be "Switch 2." So until the official name is revealed, why don't we just call it something cool, like the Nintendo Hypercannon? Plenty of time to get used to the real name later!

As a Mystery Dungeon fan, I played through this; I found the story way more gripping than it had any right to be, but do be aware that the difficulty is MASSIVELY toned down compared to other games in the series. I don't remember any notable challenge.

As a guy with an MA from Carnegie Mellon, I find this extremely cringey.

"Full cast of well-written characters that we saw" is very strange phrasing. That is all.

Interesting idea for an article.

I knew it was you, Matthew Mercer. You broke my heart.

Where's my man Barry?!? I demand a recount!

@Magician Are they supposed to be in some sort of order?

It was very kind-hearted of Capcom to remind everyone to give Capcom money.

I played this back in the day; it was vaguely amusing for a very brief period, but it was VERY repetitive and got old fast. I'd honestly forgotten it ever existed until I saw this article.

Like Bartleby, I would prefer not to. I concur that the ad's kind of cool, though.

Attack of the Friday Monsters is SO GOOD (though, granted, the card game could get a just a bit repetitive...). It's awful to think of it just vanishing when the 3ds store closes.

It's silly, but if it's free, why the hell not? Fragrant Story could've been a fun game, if it had been more than six seconds long.

I seem to recall I bought one at a store. What a fascinating story that was.

For me it's the 3DS Dragon Quest Rocket Slime game. I loved the DS one.

Are we calling rom hacks "mods" now to make them seem more, I don't know, official or something?

I liked Sticker Star. The general lack of much in the way of NPCs or storyline might turn some off, but I kinda dug the vibe. Not a masterpiece, but what the hey. It felt very different than any other Paper Mario, which I appreciated, and it's still better than Origami King, at any rate.

Not gonna lie: after V3 it would be VERY hard to make a new Danganronpa game that didn't feel like a complete betrayal. Or if you think "betrayal" is too harsh a word, let's just say that it would lack integrity. Prove very clearly that the ending of V3 meant NOTHING.

Still, the series has consistently confounded my expectations, so I dunno.

I might buy a Megaman t-shirt for fifteen dollars. Forty-five is ludicrous.

Somehow, this REALLY makes me want to go back and replay the original Zelda. That box is HELLA nostalgic, even if it never made it out of the conceptual phase.

I played the original Harvest Moon when it first came out; I was drawn to the idea, but it was very limited in execution, and I was never able to get into any of the follow-ups. I found the anime art kind of ugly and the characters generally boring stereotypes.

On the other hand, I've played Stardew Valley for over three hundred hours over the course of two playthroughs. I'm not sure if it's my favorite game EVER, but definitely up there. But I can't play the Switch version. Why not? Because then I couldn't install Stardew Valley Expanded, which is an absolute must. Most mods that add new characters and whatnot feel very fanfic-ish and clash in unappealing ways with the base game, but SVE is the exception. It makes a great game greater; y'all should try it.

I say absolutely more power to everyone who liked Bug Fables. You were able to have an aesthetic experience that I wasn't, so clearly you win, and I'm obviously in an extreme minority, but I found the "clever" dialogue so unbearably nails-on-a-chalkboard grating that I had to stop playing. It was just painful.

If you don't want to belittle games that use microtransactions, I'll totally do it for you! No charge!

I'm a big SaGa fan, but please do note that RS1, whether the SFC version of PS2 remake, is more or less unplayable without a walkthrough constantly open. It is incredibly obtuse. And I love most of the games in the series.

You can promise the depth and charm of anything you like, but I say, you come at the king, you best not miss. Word of warning.

Are we really just not differentiating between the North American and European covers? I like the art, but to me (an American, admittedly) the European one looks way too busy with that "pal version" and the unappealing clash of the black on the left and the greenish teal on the right (and also on the far left, for some reason). It's also kinda weird that it doesn't include the Capcom logo, though that doesn't bother me.

I've played and loved all the mainline Dragon Quest games (except for X, which of course I've never played, dangit), but I've had a pretty hit-or-miss record with these spin-offs: I enjoyed Torneko Mystery Dungeon and its sequel (even though I was never very good at them), and Rocket Slime on the DS was a lot of fun, but I gave up on the Dragon Quest Monsters games pretty quickly (not really into Pokemon-type stuff), and I tried to like both Builders games but ended up getting bored both times. So this one is a big ol' “maybe” for me.

Splitting it in half almost seems like a parody of cheapness. How do you do that without feeling embarrassed?

Rarely have I seen clickbait more blatant.

"...equipping all the best doodahs between scraps..."

Is "doodah" the British equivalent of the American "doodad?" Interesting if true; I never knew that.

...okay, clearly Jr. Pac-Man is missing because it includes Ms. Pac-Man in cut scenes. But either way...pretty lame.

Are there also legal rights preventing the inclusion of Jr. Pac-Man? I mean, there's no point in blaming anyone, but I'm just not interested in such an incomplete collection.

Isn't something to do with Four Swords the most obvious speculation?

I think I'm still going to pronounce it "cow." No one can stop me.

I like those 3ds and Wii U Nintendo Selects boxes. They look classy to me. As other have noted, though, those green Playstation greatest-hits boxes were hideous.

"It's continued this run on Switch, with a varied mix of titles but a particularly heavy focus on RPGs, which is undoubtedly welcome for fans of the genre."

I dunno...I'm not sure I'd say "undoubtedly." Or "welcome."

Well here's another clue for you all:
The elf boy was Paul.

Xerox, linoleum, velcro...trying to prevent language from changing is a fool's errand.

I don't know what rights issues are involved in releasing third-party games, but I have one thing to say: Ogre Battle 64. Give us it.

Seems like your game can't feature a catbus and NOT be at least to some degree influenced by My Neighbor Totoro. There are worse influences!

Probably worth playing, but it felt tonally very strange to me. There's one part near the beginning where the story gets incredibly dark, and then that's not even really acknowledged in any way. It sort of felt to me like it was written by aliens, I'm not gonna lie. And even beyond that, for my tastes it went on longer than it needed to. I was at what I'm almost sure was the last level, and I died on some sub-boss and thought, you know what? I just don't care enough to try that again. And that was that.

Is "Dear reader, I redeemed it" meant to be a Jane Eyre allusion? There's no "dear" there.

I have to say: both of these are hideous. Yeah yeah, I have the same nostalgic attachment to the NA one as y'all do, but facts are facts.

King of the Monsters is a pretty fun game, albeit shallow. The sequel, which is more like a standard brawler, is even better. Both of them will leave you with brutal thumb blisters and possibly destroyed controllers, however.