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It's definitely cheap that the expensive headset doesn't even come with the controller. I wonder how it is playing with the cardboard version.

Why can't they output to a TV and just use old school style 3d glasses? I tried that a while back using unofficial means and it worked well. The games were always held back by an uncomfortable to use headset and seems and it seems that's sadly still the case.

At least on my Switch 2 it looks and runs a lot better than on my switch.

@Alex79uk I completely agree. For every title they add the overall size grows and with limited space on the switch 2 they really need to let us choose what we want to download.

@Kanbei go to Digital Press instead. Way better and has community events

Gamestop has been garbage for ages. Close them all down. Leave room for more independent game stores or a new better chain to take it's place.

Gamestop has no idea what gamers want.

There's no excuse to release a game this old on a new system without at least a 60 fps option. As soon as I saw 30 fps I knew this was gonna be bad

I got it on PC cause I wasn't sure if there would be a switch 2 version. I wish they would announce these things earlier.

I have no idea what I would do with this

This looks awesome. Better than the multiplayer fps that was released.

I've had fun with Mario Kart World but it does seem like a step back from MK8 in some ways and they don't seem to fully understand or care what the fans want.

Hopefully the intermissions are better now. I don't mind them that much but it's crazy that they don't make it easy to just have a normal mario kart race without them.

The free roam open world does still seem kinda half baked and hard to find stuff.

The main mode they really nailed is the knockout mode. Takes great advantage of the open world concept, is really intense and is just a lot of fun.

It doesn't NEED more but it would be nice to have one more. DLC was ruled out but it may not rule out a free content update.

Battletoads!

The collection is fun but I haven't been able to find a single online match. Is ranked play ever happening?

They published some popular games but also a lot of garbage

Nice headline

@sethfranum you seem incapable of understanding what I'm saying so I'm done

@sethfranum wasn't really meant to be a formal debate with facts and was my opinion.

But the facts are that there's no reports of this happening anywhere else. Customer satisfaction at gamestop is consistently low. The stock was enough of a joke that people made money buying it and manipulating the market. The employees hassle you to join their paid rewards program and try to get you to preorder. The employees usually know nothing about games besides new releases. They used to give you "new" games that were already opened.

Amazon is better cause of convenience and price. Just cause a store is considered "retro" doesn't mean they don't have new games as well. So yes they do carry new Nintendo products and have better service as well as community events. Gamestop does NOTHING for the video game community and is better off gone and forgotten.

@sethfranum cause they are the worst place to buy games and have been doing terribly and near bankrupt for a while. They took over stores like eb games years ago and made video games stores worse overall. Local retro game stores are way better.

Gamestop needs to go out of business

I feel bad for the employees but happy that the game was a failure. Funko itself doesn't have much of an identity. It's cheap versions of pop culture properties. Not surprising people would rather play a game based on the original properties instead of this.

Seems like they could have added more to the experience and it's missing some things that were in earlier games. However, it still looks like a chill relaxing game to play and multilayer sounds fun.

Thanks for pointing out that the supposed fourth game is just a basic rom hack. They could have gotten away with calling it a bonus mode but calling it a whole new game is wild.

Great review. Might be the only shmup I've seen get a perfect score. I love shmups but in many bullet hell games it's hard for me to see my hitbox while also concentrating on all the bullets. I've considered importing one of the m2 shottriggers before and might end up doing for this release.

I also appreciate the reviewers perspective on Ikaruga. It's a really good game but the mainstream game site's treatment of it always irked me. Every shmup would get compared to it and would get dismissed as boring or derivative if it didn't have some gimmick to match the polarity of Ikaruga.

Aquaventure is a lot of fun and among the best 2600 titles on the collection.

I look forward to trying warbirds

@mikegamer

That was the worst not being able to save. Was such a fun and innovative game for the time but it wasn't exactly short, especially if you didn't know what you're doing.

After patches this is easily in the top 5 of beat em ups available on switch. While something like how visceral a game is can definitely be subjective I don't think the game is lacking in that area and the original final fight is the only beat em up that comes to my mind where that was a huge part of the appeal.

The roguelite focus with many unlocks helps this one standout even though shredders revenge added a roguelite mode. Plus it has it's own feel and approach to the genre due to its developer who made streets of red. I feel like the reviewer left a lot out by not mentioning their previous game as it's basically a prequel to this in terms of mechanics. They've refined their approach here and made it work with the double dragon world. Definitely give it a try even if some reviews are lukewarm about it.

Hopefully a storing mode dlc gets added or full version released cause that's the best part of the series

Great collection. Only thing I really want now is leaderboards for at least the arcade and reimagined games.

The saturn tempest 2000 was decent I think but the ps1 version messed a lot of things up.
Jaguar version especially now enhanced is the best way to go though.

I'm just wondering how the emulation will run on the switch. I've tried emulating Jaguar on nvidia shield tv and it can struggle.

Why can't they transition to the amazon version of the service?

Denuvo just wants to sell their product. It's not going to help anything and if developers fall for it will end up causing issues and be removed later on like what happens with PC games.

I thought it was going to be the other way around

I remember before the switch oled the media kept reporting on a switch pro as if it definitely was a sure thing. It was always reported as coming "from a credible source"

@Tisteg80 but these are new games. Maybe the gremlin collection is more your speed with ps1 titles.

What is with the headline picture with the feet?

Incredibly easy? Not the volcano and last level.

I hate this kind of everything under one company monopoly and makes me want to support smaller devs more. Feel the same way about Disney.

Console manufacturers used to find smaller talented devs to bring under their wing and develop unique games. Now it's just buy the biggest publishes out there and take over everything. Didn't Microsoft have anti trust lawsuits in windows 98 days?

I'll need a puppy and a case to verify

I love the game but performance on switch has always been a bit off for me. Some little hitches or quick periods of slowdown that are noticeable be because of how smooth the game otherwise is and needs to be.

Definitely incredibly overpriced for what you get. You get some old games that you can't keep. Woo hoo. Other services at least offer new games as their freebies. I could maybe see a $10 increase in price but $30 is insane. I already own the genesis collection and the Konami collections with contra and castlevania so the genesis games don't offer anything.

I really can't imagine many people buying this.

Great game. Was playing on my new laptop with a 4k hdr oled screen and looks amazing. I'd expect s bit of a graphical downgrade on the switch but should still be great.

It's funny I played Lumines on switch and thought it was better than tetris. Now the same person remade tetris but possibly even better than Lumines.

I tried the steam version and it's a mess requiring EAs Origin software as drm and crashing constantly. So the switch version is better in that it actually works.

One of the few times I got a race working I realized the whole open world isn't for me. Minimal guidance combined with super fast racing equals me getting lost easily. It's nice they made it a detailed open world with bridges and everything but if you take a wrong turn you're stuck on that bridge and not where you're supposed to go. I prefer burnout 3. I like going fast and not having to worry about navigating.

Sounds fun but nintendo rarely seems to do much to make online play compelling. No ranking or events hurts replay value.

@AvianBlue

Sid Meier's Civilization is the only game you referenced to bear the name of the developer. The only other one I can think of that you missed is American Mcgee's Alice

The others are paid for branding using famous names to get people to play it. Mike Tyson certainly didn't develop punch out. In fact once his licensing deal ended they had to take his name off. Licensing a famous person and using a dev name is completely different. And actually the other devs made or were a big part of making other games before they started using their name in their games. So there was some branding there. Aeriel Knight is right now the only one I can think of that branded his name on his first game. It's a bold move that I'm not completely against.

I feel like the advertising for this is selling the developer more than the gameplay. Indie success stories are nice to see especially a primarily one man game. And at this time I can expect more people wanting this new developer to succeed.

But there just doesn't seem to be much to it. Earlier runners like the original bit trip or canabalt did more with more basic yet more refined graphics. Doesn't bring anything new to the genre besides the style and music. And unfortunately messes up some things needed in the genre like tight controls. It's not terrible. It's a passion project like you'd expect on itch io or steam. Hopefully the dev either continues to work on patching the game to refine it or takes what he learned and makes a better game. There's been developers that have released games that weren't amazing at release but got better later on.

@hadrian I don't get what you were expecting with xenocrisis? The game was primarily designed as a mega drive game and has full dual stick style controls on the evercade plus save states. I'd want the original mega drive version most.

As for other games you're probably wishing you got arcade versions of games and those are in the works.

@BoFiS they're forcing people to rebuy tables on the new version

Tempting but I'd really rather a restock of the snes controllers. At least those work for more games.

@Noelemahc I had the snes version growing up so that was the normal version and the other added blood. So unfortunately definitive is bloodless.

@Noelemahc I'd agree that while it's not as good of an adventure as flashback as an action game this works great and has a feel that I haven't seen in that kind of game before.

The question about whether it's censored or not is kinda off. The snes version had no blood. The 32x had some and the pc version which isn't included had a lot of blood. Those versions are true to the original but definitive seems to be just the snes version with a map and some borders. An option for blood would have been nice and still probably wouldn't have pushed it to an M by today's standards.