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It really was totally different in Japan... some weird problem with my credit card made it so that I couldn't pre-order a copy. I kept trying different things for a few days while panicking that my window of opportunity would run out until I decided to try using my wife's credit card, which is basically the same thing as mine since they're linked to the same account, and that DID work. Sorry to hear it's so messed up elsewhere.

OH EM GEE I CAN'T WAIT FOR my copy of Chickip Dancers: Norinori Dance de Kokoro mo Odoru to show up!!!!!! Also, Xenoblade 3 I guess or whatever.

@SwitchplayerJohn I can't decide if that sounds like it would be terrible or incredibly fun. Terrible because F-Zero should probably just focus on the races. But incredibly fun because the cut scenes in GX were so ridiculous that I would love to spend more time in that ridiculous world. But only if I can play as Octoman.

@jrt87 Thanks for the advice. I absolutely loved Galactic Attack a million years ago and still own the Saturn version, but it's surprisingly hard to play on the train and I don't think my TV-hogging 4-year-old is quite ready for it (though it blows my mind how good he is at some of the games I've introduced him to). I think I might just hold out for the collection because I always wanted to play the sequels. Unless there's a really good sale before then.

@OorWullie Eschatos is definitely on my wishlist. As is Ikaruga, a game I've already played to death on other systems a million years ago, but am super excited to play again in TATE mode. My backlog isn't really recommending that I give in to temptation and buy a million SHMUPS to play in TATE mode, so I need to be selective. That guy is such a jerk sometimes. He's probably saved me a lot of money, though. So, uh... why do we not have Radiant Silvergun on Switch yet???

@Rambler I heard rumors that the programmers typed using their feet. For shame!!

This is like the #4 most-played game on my Switch. If these changes had come out before I declared it "finished", it probably would have jumped up to at least #2. But... no. I'm done.

@jrt87 So.... I finally got a Flip Grip recently but have nothing to play with it. I was playing on getting Layer Storm / Galactic Attack, but should I just wait for this instead???

I've been obsessed with theremins (and that documentary made me even more obsessed) for years, and yet I still haven't gotten around to owning one. Possibly because I can make the same sound with my mouth. Still, I wish theremins got more of the respect they deserve in the public's hive mind. One of my favorite bands uses a theremin, and I'm sure their other tens of fans would agree!

If only there were more comments complaining about this. I, for one, am perfectly okay with it.

No thank you. I don't need MORE games. Unless it's a game that helps me finish my other games. That actually sounds kind of cool. OOOOHH!!!! I figured it out! Nintendo's going to announce a new WarioWare game where the minigames help you finish your backlog!

This reminds me of the twin sticks controller for Virtual On on Sega Saturn... of which I owned TWO (I mean two sets, not two sticks total). And then I probably used them like... three times.

UPDATE: Huh... there aren't any "HOLY CRAP I MUST PLAY THOSE GAMES AGAIN" games in the new list. Suddenly this thing seems a little less desirable, though Silpheed and Shining Force CD alone would probably justify the purchase for me.

Of course I own several versions of the first two games, but I'd really love to play Sonic 3 and CD again (because I only have 1~2 versions of those but not the hardware to play them on), but the lack of save states is troubling... playing through Sonic Mania reminded me of how the maze-like levels in the later Sonic games get pretty tedious pretty quickly. Or maybe it's not as bad as that in the older games.

Must... not... buy... more... games... Oh boy time to get Tetris Effect finally!!!

Oh dang, my son just finished the first one a couple of weeks ago instead of letting me play it (though I had to do the battles for him), and hearing that there's going to be a sequel AND that it features co-op is fantastic news!

"the surprise announcement of an Expansion Pass" Yeah, no, I already knew they were going to trick me out of more of my money long before any details of this game were announced.

I have absolutely no interest in these kinds of games (to be fair, I still read the reviews that appear on Nintendo Life and for the well-reviewed ones I feel like maybe I'm missing out on the fun... but then I remember my backlog), but I would buy Xenoblade Warriors without a second thought out of obligation to the series.

@solarwolf07 That might be the craaaaziest comment I've ever read on a gaming news website!

My first memory of this phenomenon was back in 1999 when previews of ChuChu Rocket! described it as "Lemmings vs. Bomberman". Well crap, I love both of those games!

...it wasn't REALLY like either of those games more than superficially. But holy crap I loved that game, and I probably owe a lot of thanks to that original description for guiding me towards it in the first place.

PLEASE tell me it's a new re-master of Sonic 2!!!!!!!

@BloodNinja I'll be honest, I'm super biased. I only played RPGs on the Saturn and Dreamcast back in those days, and since there weren't a ton to choose from on those systems I played the vast majority, which all seemed to have some sort of mine cart sequence. A lot of the times it made sense story-wise, but sometimes it felt completely arbitrary to the point that it became sort of an inside joke in my nerdy friend circle.

@Ocaz I'm... pretty sure Minecraft didn't exist in the 90's. But maybe sometime in the future it will have gotten so big that it opens a rift through time that makes it influence games that came decades before it. That seems plausible.

OPUS: Echo of Starsong is incredibly slow-paced (and there are some very long segments where you can't save your game and have to completely redo them if your child decides to grab your Switch and play something else), but I'm enjoying it as much as its predecessors. Once again, the world-building is fantastic.

Please give me Radiant Silvergun on Switch, Treasure. Or send me a copy of the Saturn version. You OWE me!

Why is it that absolutely every RPG in the late 90's had some sort of mine cart scene???

This was a fantastic, beautiful game that fits in both my "relaxing" and "stressful" groups on my Switch. Some of the puzzles were ridiculously challenging, but if I could (eventually) get through them with a 4-year-old, then I can't really fault the game for being too hard.

My 4-year-old son is really into Pikuniku, and after playing it a billion times I decided to pick this up when it was on sale so we'd have something else to play together. Holy crap it was difficult (I imagine that even playing with an adult would be
pretty tricky)... but we managed to make it through the entire game together, and it was super satisfying. Not to mention beautiful. Screenshots don't do it justice.

Holy crap, I actually finished Ibb & Obb with a 4-year-old!!! I don't think I need to worry about his English comprehension (it's not his first language since pretty much the only English he hears is from me) because that game would have been just as hard playing with one of my native-English-speaking adult friends.

Now I can spend the rest of the weekend staring at my shiny new Flip Grip because I don't have any games that are compatible with it yet!

Neat! That means I'll be able to buy it on the Japanese eShop (and play it in English, of course)!

From what I've seen it looks just fine to me, but because the internet hates everything conversations like this have to happen.

Did they also eat the metal wires that give support to the characters?

I think they're both kind of ugly.

Why is his introductory image on Twitter basically just a crotch shot???

I totally thought it was the spiritual successor to A Short Hike until I saw that the names of the people who made them thar games don't seem to be the same. It still looks pretty interesting, though, so I'll forgive it for that.

Oh hey, Sonic Jam, Sonic Mega Collection, and Sonic Gems are all collecting dust somewhere in my house. Plus the original cartridges for 1~3 + Knuckles. Also, Sonic CD and Sonic R. And yet, I don't think I've touched a single one of those games or compilations in at least 15 years.

I spent most of the week at home with a sick 4-year-old, and since I was trying to get him to relax I decided I'd rather let him play video games than watch the awful crap he watches on YouTube. So he ended up finishing his 1-player campaigns in Figment, Pikuniku, and Thomas Was Alone. We also made good progress on Ibb & Obb. I only wish I could get through my backlog as fast as he is.

I love that this isn't a back page article. This is serious news, people!

I played the crap out of this game however many decades ago it was released in (what is it, like 5? 7??), but I have absolutely no memories of the music other than MAYBE the title screen. I'm sure if someone played the songs for me I'd be like "oh hey, now I remember", but not remembering the music makes me not mind if it gets replaced, especially if it's by someone with Sonic-cred.

Oh hey, it's Shulx! I mean Rek! Or whoever that guy is with a giant sword/gun/key/hairdo that shows up in every RPG ever!

"the producer of Space Channel 5, Rez, Lumines, and Meteos"

Uh oh... I've owned and played to death every game on that list, but still haven't owned or played Tetris Effect. It's okay, the games in my backlog can always use a new friend.

Oh surprise! The internet hates a thing! I saw the video and thought "okay, sure, it could be interesting but I'll wait to hear more" and then moved on with my life. Apparently I'm a terrible person for doing that.

I bought Ibb & Obb on sale recently and have been playing it with my 4-year-old. It's a pretty fantastic game, but mostly I'm impressed that I can say things like "I'll jump through here and land on the yellow thing, then you bounce through that thing and land on the yellow thing from the other side" and he actually gets a lot of it, even though English isn't his first/main language. Then after 50 tries we finally make it through some ridiculously difficult sequence of jumps and he casually walks into the deadly spiky thing which is impossible to miss and we get to start all over. Thanks, kid.

Oh crap... this is the first mini console that I've seen the games list for and thought "I MUST PLAY THOSE GAMES (again)". I don't know if I'm more surprised by the announcement or my reaction.

@KateGray OPUS: Rocket of Whispers deserves to be on this list because I didn't feel like I was playing a game so much as a game was playing with my emotions. Holy crap it was sad. But amazing.

@tabris95 Spoilers! Or not... I haven't gotten very far into Echo of Starsong yet, but after playing the first two OPUS games I expect to find myself awkwardly holding back tears on the train a lot from here on out.

Honestly I'm surprised Japan doesn't do stuff like this with the Japanese language. Instead, it's kind of the opposite... steal words from other languages (okay, 99.99993% English) and then act like they were always Japanese words to begin with.

@dartmonkey For the record, Japanese people still call individual games "cassettes". Even if they're on discs. Or digital downloads. It's weird. I also bought a lot of import games years ago that I figured I'd eventually get around to, and usually didn't. Years later, I read and speak Japanese and still don't go back and play the ones I kept (I guess they're no longer imports if I live here?) because laziness still prevails.

@gcunit I think that was weeks ago, not years ago. Because even though I own this game and STILL haven't gotten around to playing it, I read these articles about this game and think, "oh man that's cool maybe I should play the game and experience that for myself!" before going off and doing something completely unrelated to video games. So yeah... the last article talked about finding the absolute furthest out-of-bounds edges of the game's map, but this one is about finding an out-of-bounds area that you can actually interact with. As a side note, I think that's pretty cool and maybe I should play the game and experience that for myself!

I have all three scenarios of Shining Force III on Sega Saturn, plus the ultra-rare premium disc. I played through the first several times back in the day, but sadly I never finished any of the others because I didn't have the Japanese skills at the time. I suppose I could try now, but the lack of modern conveniences like being able to take them on the train or put the console in sleep mode sounds painful.

Why am I not playing Power Stone 3 as I read this article???