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@Friendly
you got me! I think it was 2nd try, though it's been 26 years. Irrelevant. Pretty sure I died on the castle escape somehow, so we need a "Hero tripped and Fell down the Stairs" branch of the timeline.

@VoidofLight hadn't heard that one, pretty cool. Still, weird to be dragged back to the loser timeline in future games.

I can't stand the concept of a "hero was defeated" timeline. I killed ganon don't tell me I didn't.

thank god, when the seeds of humanity are scattered among the stars and earth has been swallowed by the sun along with the original DK figures, all will be well.

Never played this one but excited to check it out, it's recommended pretty often by shmup players.

god damn you're spoiling us nintendo

2D- SMB3
3D- Galaxy 2

But no way Wonder is better than 64!

I know it's like a mortal sin to admit but I've never finished World. Looking for branching paths is not my idea of 2D Mario fun. Duck behind the white block, that's as complicated as I want it.

@BodkinDQ from that list I feel compelled to recommend you check out Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops

@Borderlineland more for the rest of us commies yay

@BASEDSAKRI you're like 30 years late to that tired argument ha

May it aspire to the profound artistry of the Double Dragon movie

Oh studio executives...Mario and Sonic made money, greenlight everything you'll certainly never regret it!!!

@Yoshi3 I do miss the days of heading into ganons castle with nothing but a fairy in a bottle as a safety net. Or one potion like NES Zelda. The risk/reward of how low should I let my hearts get before I use it, that has vanished.

Haven't played yet, kids are loving it.
"It is more linear, but..."
Funny that we have to defend having a good time in a linear game now. Give me more action less wandering any day.

@-wc- Right? Games used to be tweaked until they ran right on whatever hardware they were for. How many games had arcade, NES, and Gameboy versions, all different? Even SNES vs Genesis, tweaked for the hardware. What happened? Looking at comments (and reviews) I'd say lowered expectations are letting developers get away with it. Hey maybe it'll get a patch, maybe not.

I do hope this gets improved with a patch, my kids would love it. But paying for an incomplete product is bad for all of us.

@NeonMullet
You can buy NA localised m2shotriggers ports of ketsui and dangun feveron...on ps4. They must have decided the sales didn't justify the cost, they haven't localised any since as far as I know. Not Nintendo's fault.
DDP DOJ is definitely worth the inconvenience of creating a JPN account.

Really looking forward to this. My kids currently go to sleep with the Celeste cassettes playing every night haha. Please give us full-time shmuppers an extreme difficulty setting!

@Tempestryke oooh yea ok, forgot about that, it's been...7 years wow

@Tempestryke I missed that nod, where?

All these updated IP would make a great launch lineup for the new Sega console!

lookin good to me

I'd love to see the return of "It's dangerous to go alone" guy, what's his story?

Critics call arcade games too short, dock them review points. Developers of arcade style game have to respond by making their games too long. That's how we get the last few stages of Shredder's Revenge.
These games are meant to be replayed over and over for mastery, the mindset of oh I got through it all once I'm done with it forever does not apply here.
Anyway. Looks interesting.

a 4 hour shmup is not short

They couldn't even reach the low bar of TMNT II style, where the only variation is how much reach the weapons had. I call Donnie!

And then when you beat the game with him you unlock white ranger Tommy, right? What a badass moment in the first movie, good times

@ImmaWario Andrei Rublev is a Tarkovsky film as well, close enough haha

Big fan of the book and movie, excited to try this.

@nukatha Yes, came to say that.

@StephenYap3 Original plays a lot like an old school shmup, fast bullets, not very dense patterns. Maniac mode is actually about the same difficulty but slower, denser bullet patterns.

Anyone with the slightest interest in shmups or arcade games in general should give this a go, high quality port of one of the best shmups ever.

@Wisps I'd expect you'd agree with that profile pic ha, prime examples.
"No way I'm restarting Wily's Castle from the beginning again!!"
Good times.

As far as this game goes, looks cool but I already have ghosts n goblins resurrection in the backlog, I'll wait for a good sale price.

It's like playing Celeste normally and playing Celeste for golden strawberries. The game is fun enough for both, but the player's approach to each is very different.

@Lightsiyd agreed about grinding. But I do think there is marathon difficulty and burst difficulty. Most game these days are difficult in short bursts, like your Dread example. And that can be very fun and rewarding.

Less common now is old school marathon difficulty, maintaining high quality play over long periods. Different skills exercised, different approach, both can be great if done well. Admittedly, marathon difficulty leads more often to rage quitting haha but the next time you play you might change your strat. I don't think it's necessarily the game not respecting your time, just that the game has to be higher quality for that type of difficulty to work well.

@Lightsiyd what else is difficulty for? Overcoming difficulty by honing skills is its own reward. Obviously it should be fun, but it's not like difficult and fun are mutually exclusive

@LikelySatan too true.
I think IDW's #1-50 is absolute perfection. Epic, sprawling turtles vs. Shredder story with closure. Check out the hardcovers with all the miniseries and one-shots inserted chronologically, there are a lot.
Last Ronin is awesome too.

@Spider-Kev
Huh, didn't know she was a trans woman until your comment confused me. Her writing is garbage and so is your transphobia.

@Spider-Kev
Agreed Armageddon Game was super underwhelming. But as far as I know Sophie Campbell was solely responsible for a lot of the mutant town crap like battle of the bands, Mikey's podcast, weird Jennika stories etc.
Waltz came back for Armageddon Game. He and Eastman have "creative consultant" credits for Sophie's run but reading his comments on it seems like it was all her.
Anyway I'm interested in the upcoming reboot. Not so much this game. Last Ronin game, yes please.

@Spider-Kev
Really? I thought #1 through #50 was an amazing run. After that, yea, big drop. And later, huge drop off with mutant town nonsense.

"...a Suda51 fan’s wet dream splashed across the Switch."
Um. Is that really how you want to say that lol

Mexico is in North America

they know that parents know the names donkey kong and luigi so that's what they'll grab for their kids without understanding they're being ripped off

Put hundreds of hours into multiplayer back in middle school. It felt so cool to save my character to a memory card and bring it over to my friends house. Gotta get those stats up, leveling up was quite the grind. Really wish this had an actual online server not just the NSO friend style. Tough to gather the middle school gang up these days.

Makes one wonder what direction they were going in the scrapped version

My first thought was wait when does this happen in Echoes

futari is stuck on 360 emulation, that should be rectified

was hoping it would be a straight beat 'em up without roguelite elements

Played the demo on Steam, this game is high quality, probably the best feeling drift into boost mechanic I've seen. Looking forward to it, and good to see a release after what looked like a long delay after the demo.

they had me up til look at the Mario movie

With the disappearance of instruction booklets, I really don't care any more. Games are inherently digital. The current presentation of switch physical games is so lackluster, may as well just sell me a plain usb stick with the game name on in marker.

What I do not want at all is the way things are going- subscription based, non-ownership. This is one area we may feel grateful that Nintendo is often stubbornly behind the times, but NSO doesn't bode well.