@VoidofLight
Well at least it's the first game where the protagonist doesn't look like she's sixteen.

Crap. It looks good.
My wallet is dying a slow but certain death.

FINALLY IT IS HERE!
INFINITE BABY PARK LET'S GOOOOOOO

@axelhander

Dude sorry but you're not making a whole lot of sense there. Plus I never said anything like you're full of it or whatever, I'm not the one who's being insulting there so yeah just forget it.

I liked FFX more than I originally thought I would actually. That being said one birthday that I really wanted SE to remember was FFXII turning 20 this year in 2026. Apparently they didn't. Pity, my favorite game in the whole series

My god this is terrible looking. Both of them. It's nightmare fuel. The JP one looks a little less uncanny I guess.

@hel105
I imagine because the characters are now well established Tales lore veterans that appeared in many other titles? Seems like a strange decision but that might be why.

No Resident Evil requiem is a real surprise.
Happy to see Pragmata there though!

I'll wait for the NS2 version personally. I've got more than enough Castlevania on my console right now with the 3 collections.

@LikelySatan
What is Saint Slayer?

@schweinebrot @neogyo
I'll probably end up getting this on sale. I tried the demo of I think it was the first game and quite liked it. I watched a video that had Danger Zone and, well, yeah it's pretty terrible. Do I care it is terrible though? Probably not too much. But they should absolutely hire a composer for the next game.

@axelhander
It's a Castlevania game we're talking about. We're talking retro gamers, 2d platformers fans, hardcore gamers and gamers who have a history with your franchise which is you know, 80% on nintendo.

I mean yeah you can of course not target your audience. That sure is a bold move. But as far as I'm concerned I would go 100% pc / nintendo.

Is the music really that bad?

@Ryu_Niiyama
Actually the third one has been around for some time. I've been meaning to get it but it's true that with the new console I was thinking maybe I should wait just in case there's one around the corner.

That being said with the NS2 version being a thing maybe it is safer than I thought to jump in now without being worried that a brand new one might release soon.

This is FF Brave Exvius made into a console game right?
Sort of like what they did with Octopath 0 turning a mobile game into a console compilation of all the content it has to offer.

The cap is tempting. Also I predict the bag is going to be a hit.

@Serpenterror
Rondo of Blood and Symphony have always been hold hostage by Sony for some reason. I think it's because they're trying to make theirs a legacy that isn't theirs. They want Castlevania to be associated with Sony I guess but this is a lost cause if you ask me. Apart from Symphony, none of the major Castlevania games are Sony. Bloodlines and Rondo are not Sony and all the rest is nintendo.

@eldersnake
Symphony of the night is very good and so is Rondo of Blood. Symphony tends to be overrated though, all of the DS games are better in my opinion. My personnal favorite is Order of Ecclesia.

I quite like this ranking for the series :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pGbBr0Iq6hk

Who the f cares.
Who in its right mind would buy an NS1 version not knowing anything about the NS2 plans and knowing there might not even be an upgrade path in the end.

These guys are about to release a new freaking Castlevania game and they skipping the nintendo platform. For Castlevania.

I am so disappointed in this, the nintendo crowd should be priority number one and this is what we get in the end. The same happened with Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden and I still haven't bought either of them, but at least I could understand there was some kind of bad timing because it was very close to the release of the NS2. Here though there is no excuse. I'm not buying this until they get their act together.

Can't wait for this one!

@-wc-
Exactly the same for me actually. I was gaming on a budget so I decided not to get a micro when it released, being perfectly happy with my NES themed SP. I bought a micro years later and I got it for really cheap at a yard sale thingy.

Actually the best (portable) gba player is the DS anyway! So probably the DS lite then for an even better screen.

@-wc-
I think I've got a pink one somewhere. It's fun but I've always preferred the bigger SP. The micro took it a step too far imo. It had a nice screen for its time though.

Same here, I've only heard about these but never really knew what they are so thanks for the article!
I'm a huge fan of Electroplankton which is absolutely the same kind of thing on the DS and very proud to own a cartridge myself!

Hopefully as well others have said, these will come GBA NSO someday!

Yu for Smash would actually be really cool. I've always thought it would be nice to have more Wario Ware/Rhythm Heaven reps in the roster. Because let's face it, it's the same universe. They look exactly the same, use the same humour and even reference one another now (shaving the onion guy? Does that ring a bell? Because it should.)

I used to be all about speed in most games really but now I like blending with tactics a bit more. I never was a strategic mind though and I hate when there's too many parameters but I like a bit of simple tactics based on buff/debuff combination of skills and then unleash massive damage. The type of tactics where you need to count ressources or plan ahead too much I'm still not into. The Monhun series has made me more of a trap placing guy even though I hated it before. So I guess overall I'd mix speed and tactics in most games now.

In the present case though if I need to choose I'd say speed is still my main gameplay draw but really I'd just go for tactics because it's got the big silly fishy thing as a mascot

I'm delving a bit more into the demo and its main advantage compared to other games of the same type is absolutely that it's very fun to play with a good combat system and a ton of characters.

The artwork can be a bit hit or miss though with some characters looking very cool and some others are unfortunately quite fanservicy especially with instances of the revealing female armor trope and a good measure of male gaze. It is not the majority of it but it's always disappointing when you can't reasonably take a character seriously because it's impossible to see her as anything else than fap material.

@Krisi
I tried Bokura and quite liked it though it seems to be very easy. Is there a bit of challenge after a while?
Anyway I wish listed it because I liked the vibe and I'll probably get it at some point.

My absolute point of reference Goemon wise is the second 64 game. Man is it good.

A demo has been released for this.
I'll be checking it out.
Can we expect a review Nintendo Life?

@FirstEmperor
Oh. Nevermind then, though it would still be neat to have it would at least require translation to be released overseas, which I highly doubt they're going to do.

Anyway, Goemon 64 1 and 2 on NSO when?

@Pho @PtM @Cynas
Thanks guys. I don't mind a very story driven game and I really like the art style. I can also be quite forgiving with a little bit of jank here and there especially when the game is so obviously art driven. True though that it's a pity they don't seem to be proposing an update.

What excuse me there's a new Goemon game?
And THAT is not the main news here?

Anyway, NS2 surpassed PS5 in Japan there you go.

So is this like, good?

Ok I've just watched the gameplay preview that you put out on yt and man does it look gorgeous.

It looks phenomenal, words can't even describe it. I am dying to play this and I'm definitely supporting the physical game being on the cartridge. LET'S GOOOO!

@Markatron84

If I may. ahem : "Mlem."

@KingMike
I might have it on my 3ds indeed. Nice little game. I would be interested in seeing how the original looks. This collection is tempting but I need to check the price. The article here says it's got 16 titles in each collection but seeing the details here there seems to be only 10 each. So that's 20 total. I agree with @FineLerv that Sega sort of killed the game with their own collection but even then 20 games from that era should be gathered in just 1 collection imo.

@FineLerv @LikelySatan
Yeah that's what I thought. Seeing it back in the the days I thought it fell in the same category as Bubble Bobble or Rainbow Island and sort of ignored it but then I had the opportunity to try it out a couple years ago and it's a really good game. Nice graphics and presentation overall and clever gameplay.

@FineLerv
Is rodland the game with the magical girl and the ladders?

Can we get some gameplay footage pretty please? I just can't stop watching it move, you know? The animation is just completely hypnotic to me, it looks so good.

Also the sauce in flying saucer, well played sir.

That's cute. So who's getting Pikachu?
Oh the League itself is getting pikachu. Makes sense.

If I'm not mistaken Avenging Spirit is regularly quoted in GB hidden gems lists.

Pirate's curse is still peak shantae as far as I'm concerned.

@BrewsterTea

As I've said I'm not really interested in XV or XIII tbh and I'd rather get XVI as far as I'm concerned. I didn't think of Agito though, that would be neat!

Can't wait to get my hands on this!
This is going to be glorious.

I can't believe Dread was a 9 on this site.
Dread is a 10 no question about it. And if anything history proved it right.

Also some people seem to say putting on Game mode on your TV might eliminate the issue.

@batmanbud2
Right thanks. They mention that in the review but they say you need to be very precise when doing it and even that you might want to repeat the calibration process from time to time, which, that one surprised me tbh.

Anyway between those who say it is TV related and you can just turn off any image processing, and those who say you should do the calibration carefully, it seems to be a problem that has potential solutions.

Can't wait to try these out!

*Hums the Doors - this is the end *

@batmanbud2
Can you elaborate on the imput test? How does it work and how does it help?

That's very cool and all but the absolute most requested feature, classic mode or 3 laps mode whatever you call it, still isn't there and it's a little baffling.

I'm not going to lie, the treasure hunting premise made me hope for more focus on traversal and exploration. And in the end it's just a beefed up salmon run with 100% focus on action.

That being said the direct really made it look good and well it has the splatoon trademark style. It's a maybe for me.

Is Edgerunner the only animated adaptation of Cyberpunk? I love the universe I should really get to it.