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I love Star Trek (everything except for that awful original series (though some of the movies were okay)) nearly as much as I dislike the Nintendo 64! Still, these GIFs make me feel nostalgic for a past that could have been.

@KateGray I hope you got a raise and a gift basket of some sort for writing this article. Personally, I'm a big fan of the springy "detach Joy-Con" buttons, but since they don't affect game play I guess they don't count. At any rate, articles like this are the reason I use the internet, so please keep up the good work!

@PhhhCough Oh great, thanks for ruining my lifelong dream of figuring out a way to live in a Groundhog Day sort of eternal loop.

As awful as it would be to be stalked by an awful creature that wants you dead, knowing that if it kills you you'll wake up in a bathtub and get to try again seems like it would be slightly more encouraging than the alternative.

I've always wanted to play Majora's Musk but always felt like I should finish Ocarina of Thumb first. Unfortunately, I've tried to play that game SO MANY times in my life and just can't get past the first 30 minutes or so. Maybe I should just abandon it and buy the masky one digitally on my 3DS before I lose the chance forever.

My 4 year old is obsessed with Pikuniku and Untitled Goose Game. I'm kind of really sick of playing through the same levels with him over and over, but I'm also not entirely interested in adding any new games to my backlog. He loves Yoshi, though (I made him a beautiful Yoshi birfday cake!), so I might have to consider that one...

I absolutely loved this game, but only made it through 20 or so levels before I wasn't smart enough to continue on. I'm not sure why I didn't just look up a solution online (maybe there wasn't one available at the time?), and I'd love to go back and finish the game, but ever since my WiiU decided to refuse outputting to HDMI I don't know if it'll be possible.

It looks beautiful, but that screen shake that happens every time anything happens made me feel just a little barfy.

@xiao7 Yay! I'm a good person apparently!

I'm rooting for the 2 people in the world who will get to play Dread Rush!

Am I the only one who liked playing the House o' the Dead and Virtua Cop games with a controller more than with the light gun? Yeah, the light gun is fun, but it's tiring. Besides, the main draw of these games is the hilariously bad dialog and the chance to rapidly press the fire and reload buttons and turn any weapon into a laser. Especially with House of the Dead 2--I didn't care if I was essentially cheating, I was just happy to make it to the final Goldman scenes as many times as possible. To protect the LOIF cycle!

Ooh, another game to simulate my real-life OCD!

It looks like it would be a cool (and cheap) way to learn about the process, but every session would end in disappointment. "Wow, this one looks delicious! Oh..."

Kingdom of Loathing (which is not on Switch but without it West of Loathing wouldn't exist) did a similar thing this past Crimbo season, though entirely in black and white. Every time I'd try to make something it would usually be gone the next day. And every time I tried to alter something that didn't really fit the overall theme of the event or the game itself, it would get changed back nearly immediately. But I did find a few tiny corners where my artwork would persist, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that after spending who knows how much time inserting one of my original characters, it actually remained untouched for at least a week until the end of the event. Granted, the pool of people playing Kingdom of Loathing is much smaller than Reddit in general, but sometimes it's nice to find that people on the internet aren't all racist, sexist jerks.

Bluetooth audio and groups are nice and all, but what I'm really waiting for is an increase in stability.

...without having read the comments before me, I'd like to apologize to the 6 or so people who already made the same joke.

Wow, it's really been 7 months since the last one??? Countless stars have flared into existence and then gone supernova in that time. Probably about the same number as new Netflix series that have been cancelled.

AAHGHGAGGHHHHH I want all of these, even the ones I never played. I love my Switch, but nothing will ever replace the Saturn that replaced my heart all those years ago (which makes it hard to pump blood and whatnot). But more than anything, Galactic Layer Attack Section will be a day-1 purchase for me.

I was going to say "it looks pretty cool" but my eyes are now bleeding. Still, it sounds pretty cool.

Remember those New 3DS plate things? I saw this and couldn't help but think how amazing this would be as one of those. Or maybe they already did that already maybe.

Well, I've been wasting my life. And here I have a whole room filled with cardboard boxes that I've been too lazy to break down and/or build something with.

@Lordplops Woah hey you beat me to it. Well done!

At first glance I read the title of this article and was excited to find a game about me. Then I read it again and was slightly let down. It still looks pretty good, though.

I'm okay with that release date. I'm currently in a race with a friend to see if I can start playing BotW for the first time before he can finish it for the third time. So far it looks like he might win, but I'm trying I tell you!

Well that sucks. I spent my honeymoon in Indonesia and love to see games coming out of places that I've been to and/or that aren't the places where games normally come from, so Coffee Talk has been in my wish list for a long time. I've also had my eyes on Afterlove EP, but now I'm definitely going to get them both out of respect.

My 3DS taught me to turn the 3D slider all the way up all the time on all of my devices. The vacuum cleaner especially works SO much better than it did before.

Will we ever get a review of this game? Ever since my 4-year-old figured out how to use the YouTube on our "smart" TV, I've found that Peppa Pig is like 800 times better than the crap he chooses. Recently he's started demanding that I let him playing games, and other than Untitled Goose Game and Pikuniku, I don't really have anything at his level. I'd love to at least try this game, but the price is just a little scary.

Making the groups "Demos" and "Backlog" alone has given me hope for the future of my Switch.

I made a bunch of boring groups to help organize my games that aren't worth mentioning, but the part that made me giggle is that immediately after I made "Relaxing" I made "Stressful". Something tells me I won't be visiting the latter all that often.

@Kiwi_Unlimited "About d***** time!" Doodoo? Donkey?? Durian??? For some reason I can't seem to figure out what goes in those asterisks.

Oh wait... I think I finally figured it out, and I feel both dumb and disappointed. It was more fun as a mystery.

I still have this game and even though I thought it was pretty amazing I never finished it mostly because it was so confusing. But also because I didn't want to miss anything or kill anyone off, which only made it more confusing. I did buy the fancy limited edition that included an art book, though. Then I moved to Japan and a box of books that I sent to myself apparently exploded and that book was lost forever.

It seems incredibly unlikely to happen, but I would love any excuse to abandon my backlog in order to play ARMS again.

This can't be right... doesn't Human: Fall Flat sell at least a million billion copies every week in Japan???

@Olliemar28 That is a very good sub-header.

Oh crap, I'm one of those three people!

@KateGray I love the Futurama reference ("why does he not simply eat"), unless it turns out that Futurama was referencing something else that I don't know about.

Also, the only Nando I know is from Guardian Heroes: https://guardianheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Nando

@BullishAnt Ha! Me too! Let's have a race to see who can not start playing it first!

@RobotReptile To be fair, the original Panzer Dragoon on Saturn isn't really all that great of a game to begin with. Sure, it looked and sounded fantastic 27 years ago, but the actual gameplay was never all that great. I played the remake once and waves of nostalgia rushed over me, and then I didn't feel any huge desire to play it again. Kind of like the original.

Dang. I was kind of hoping for a bad review because I'm currently playing Shining Force for the million billionth time, and after reading this review I'm convinced that I MUST buy this game. Mr. Backlogman will not be happy.

I love that A Short Hike and Yoku's Island Express made the list since they're probably both in my top 5.

I wish I could eat a cone.

I'll probably buy this game for the 3rd time for a 3rd game console when it's on sale, but give me a Ho'tD2 remake and I'll buy 3 copies at 3x full price.

@SportyMarioSonicMix Wow, so many questions!

First, let me say that if you've never played a Shining Force game before, the Game Gear games aren't the best place to start. Find a way to play the original (Genesis/Mega Drive collection on Switch is good, though there are plenty of other ways to find it (and if you can find a way to play Shining Force III then do it because it's easily the best game in the series)), and if you like it, then by all means play these games. Now on to your plethora of questions:

1) Maybe 10~20 hours, depending on how much time you waste resetting the game trying to get better stat gains when your characters level up.
2) The setting and characters are related to the first Shining Force, but the story is so bare-bones that you won't be missing much if you don't play that first. Still, you should play that game first.
3) No, you won't feel lost, you'll just feel slightly more attached to the characters. Maybe.
4) I've never played any of those games!
5) I played like 10 minutes of one Fire Emblem game, and the fact that battles take place on a grid is probably the only thing that makes the games seem comparable.
6) If you exit a battle your characters keep any experience and gold/items acquired, and when you re-enter the battle everything resets to the original state.
7) No, every Shining Force game features a set number of battles that occur as the story progresses.
8) Uhhhhhh... not many. And not much. I'm not your Google.
9) That's tricky... Shining Force is in a constant battle with Xenoblade for my favorite series of games, and even though they're both JRPGs, they're also completely different beasts. The first three Shining Force games are absolutely amazing, and each is like 600 times better than the last. Because of the hardware, the Game Gear Shining Forces are probably only good if you liked the original series. Also, Shining Force CD is a compilation of the first 2 GG Shining Force games, and it's SO MUCH better than those games are. A few years ago I re-played the Shining Force games on my 3DS, and because of the nostalgia factor they were pretty great. If I didn't have that, though, they'd be pretty average at best.

The moral of the story is that if you're at all interested in this game, go play as many other, better Shining Force games as you can first.

P.S. Any Shining Force games released after III are crap. Or at least, they don't resemble the first 7-ish games in the series and aren't worth mentioning here. I guess Shining Force Feather was kind of okay, though.

@KateGray This might be the best title for an article ever. You've outdone yourself. Elden Ring which?

The elasticity of that beach ball is amaaaaaazing!!! Too bad her boobs get in the way.

Personally, I'm proud to be part of the Oregon Trail Generation. Also, I'm probably in the best shape I've been in for at least the latter half of my life because working with children has taught me that if I don't take care of my body then the children will destroy me.

@StarPoint At first I read that as "Makes me wonder how much more expensive BOTW 2 will be" and I was a little confused at the point you were trying to make.

I've tried and failed SO many times (okay, maybe like 3 at most) to play Ocarina of Time, but I just can't get into that game. At the same time, I've always wanted to play Majora's Mask because it just seemed so much more interesting, but because of my out-of-control OCD I can't play it without finishing the other one first. Maybe I should go buy it on my 3DS while I still have the time and then never play it. Or the other one.

@KateGray Thank you for today's Wapablo news. Sometimes I feel like that guy just doesn't get enough love.

@I-U There are ARMS shirts? And pins??? And... anything at all???? Wow, maybe Nintendo really does know that that game they made exists!

They should have left the footage in this video in real time instead of speeding it up.