Jonnas

Lightspeed Rescue was a cool season for Power Rangers. Shame that it got such a poor game. Blowing up cars in order to rescue them sounds hilarious, though.

THEY CHANGED THE *click* INTO A *clack*! MOTHERFU- *ahem* It looks exactly as unimaginative as the rumours claimed. But I am looking forward to see the mouse joy-cons (mouse-cons? Rat-cons? We'll workshop it later) in action. Nintendo is clearly fishing for some PC ports and their respective players. It's all hands on Deck to assert their dominance. Respect for turning a weakness into a strength, too... ...or something.

Man, these Gamecube-focused pledges look like a wishlist taken right out of 2005. Warms my heart to see them. Looking at your pictures... it's Alfred, right? He was part of a Fatal Fury spinoff that never really took off.

Gotta be honest: Tekken 8 sounds like a far more impressive get than RDR2. A fighting game like that HAS to run well, always. Would be a guarantee that there's no stuttering issues with the new console. Right, the reason I posted here, despite not liking to discuss rumours or alleged leaks, is that this translation from Portuguese is quite incorrect. He's responding to a tweet that asked whether Nintendo was meant to announce it this week, but delayed the event for some reason. Felipe responded: "No, Nintendo is still following a timetable they set a long time ago. No changes. No delays." Also, we are mostly taking Felipe's word for it when it comes to this FNAC leak. The photo is using a codename of sorts, and classifying it internally as a "Nintendo Switch videogame". The photo itself does not confirm Switch 2, only that Take Two has some unknown videogame coming out for a Switch.

The game itself kind of sweeps the historical setting under the rug. Which is weird, because the main villain's tragic backstory is a direct consequence of WWI, iirc. I'm guessing, whoever wrote the game did not want to imply that a vampire was somehow a bigger threat to the world than the war, so they were discreet about it. This does mean that, according to Castlevania lore, two frustrated painters were trying to take over the world at the exact same time. That's worth two nickels.

It doesn't. It takes place during WWII. Only the first painting takes place in the Victorian Era. ... There is a decent chance that Super Mario 64 also takes place during WWII. Just saying.

I predict that Mortal Kombat 1 will not be in it. And also, that either MvC2 or MvC Infinite & Beyond will be in (it would be wild if it was the latter). Other than that, SF6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, City of the Wolves... and Granblue, I guess. That leaves two spots, so there might be a genuine surprise still. Maybe Multiversus But more seriously, I'm guessing Rivals of Aether II

Oh wow, that's really cool to watch!

The Experimental World review is among my favourites in this entire series. What an utterly fascinating find.

Pledges of all various kinds, formats, and priorities. Love to see it. Oh hey, that was quick! Congrats on having the first cleared game of any pledge! StarFox 64 was a game that somehow won me over last year. Wasn't in the cards, but I finally got all the hubbub. I didn't remember the waterfall from a childhood memory or anything, but I did replay that first level a few times to get used to the controls. At some point, I finally noticed Falco was actually going somewhere when he said "Follow me" Revisiting this game a few more times is definitely worth it. It's definitely the sort of comfy game to play a bit when you just want something familiar. Speaking of comfy action games, my first beaten game of 2025 was a replay of Streets of Rage 2. I picked Axel and just spammed the uppercut all the time. Grand peace of mind.

There goes the hope of seeing this in stores... Maybe CeX

I do love reading about hilariously poor games from time to time. This Hercules game sounds boring as sin, but this was a thoroughly enjoyable review.

Oh dear. I didn't know this. I noticed Sega has been acting real uppity and ambitious for the past year or so (from the announcement of multiple IP revivals last year, to the most recent Virtua Fighter direct, where they seemed unusually committed to make that franchise successful), but this is a step further! We can look at this pessimistically: it's going to crash and burn, just like Ubisoft did. We can look at this optimistically: Sega will manage whatever perks they get, and curate their back catalogue well enough to make this work. It might end up going in more interesting directions. Outside of the NSO, this is the first time we see a Japanese company committed to the concept (I think. Didn't Capcom express some desire to do something similar some time ago? Maybe I'm misremembering something), so they might just take a different path, like a few key partnerships. The Mega Drive NSO is already basically that. 2025 is going to be an interesting year for Sega... It's interesting, because Sega is basically the only publisher in this position: they already have their own subscription app with their properties, but they're not the ones managing it, they're just licensing them. In that sense, their perspective on the market is more privileged than most. Also, didn't they express some disappointment or frustration at the revenue from the Mega Drive NSO some time back? If that's the case, and they're still looking to get into the subscription market anyway, is it possible that their frustration comes from the app not being fully theirs? Whether due to limited revenue, or the inability to fully manage/curate their IPs on their own terms, it's possible that the Mega Drive app may, in fact, be the (Mega) driving force behind this new direction.

So, this is a weird year for Resolutions. I'm already in the middle of a lot of changes (career-wise, personal, health...), so I guess the only tangible resolution I can make is to make sure I don't neglect myself or my needs, so that I'm up to whatever challenge is ahead of me. On a smaller, N-E related note, I want to... reply more. There are days where I feel like all of my engagement in this website is to react to a few good posts, but then I don't add anything. So, I want to give more input, participate more in discussions. This is a valuable corner of the internet, and I want to make it better.

So, I just heard of this recently, but it seems Sega has delisted a lot of games from Steam (and other consoles, but Steam is the most affected), about a month or so ago. It's mostly Mega Drive games, but they also removed stuff like Jet Set Radio, Nights into Dreams, and even the ToeJam&Earl reboot. Now, when it comes to Steam specifically, I'm saddened, but it is something that I kind of expected to happen for a while. Sega were a very early adopter of the policy of "rereleases our back catalogue on Steam", and some of these releases were definitely dated, for good or ill (lower prices for each individual releases, but also barely updated or remastered, and many QoL features were in their infancy). I figured it was a matter of time before they decided to essentially redo their PC retro line-up. What surprises me is how broad they made this. They may have a history of re-selling Arcade, Mega Drive, and Master System classics, but it's the first time I'm seeing them include more modern games (by which I mean, Sega Saturn and later) in the redo. I imagine they might be preparing to release a "Dreamcast Collection" volume of some sorts? A remaster of Nights? Definitely another Mega Drive Collection for sure ("HD Genesis", they might call it? ). All I'm asking for is a proper Virtua Fighter collection. Or include the 3D entries somewhere in whatever collection they release. AndalsoSkiesofArcadia. Until then, it's sad to see such a large line-up leave a storefront all at once. I trust Sega to put them back on the market soon enough, but I don't have the same amount of trust for any other publisher.