Jonnas

Gotta say, this looks way better than any of my expectations! Tekken Force mode AND Tekken Ball mode? You can play with stage hazards on!? Blanka has MechaKoopas?!? Street Fighter VI is looking to evolve the genre by reviving some of its wackier concepts. Finally, another fighting game besides Smash seems to be doing an actually fun single-player mode. It's been forever!

Yeah, I thought those were weird, but looking at the joy-cons, I figured that's what it was. Despite me preferring the stylus, the buttons are just as fine... except for those "Hold" inputs that end on a Slide during FMSes. As I move the circle into its final position, the game registers it as an attempted "good" Slide. Do you think it's possible to make it so that one stick controls the circle, and the other one takes care of the Slide at the end?

Alright, two questions: 1. In FMS stages, what is distance, exactly? In BMSes, I get it, there're enemies, and damage, and stuff. In FMSes, it's like... why should I try to improve from 6000m and 8000m, for example? 2. Are there any elemental weaknesses (like WarMech being weak to Ramuh)? I thought it was mentioned somewhere, but I'm not sure if I just imagined it.

Nice trailer. Hard to tell what was dramatic cutscene effect and what was legit gameplay. If the slowdowns show up during middle-of-the-match moves, that's a plus. Story-wise, the awaited feud between Jin and Kazuya is finally on. I'm hoping they redeem Jin's character after botching his character so much in T6 (and kinda in T7). So far, he seems to be mostly in control of Devil Jin, which is new, and a good sign. My only requests now are A. The return of post-KO replays; B. Make customization options robust again; and C. Put effort into individual character endings instead of the travesty from T7

The "tears" may refer to something specific. Maybe it's the name given to the floating islands. Just saying, titles like Twilight Princess hardly scream "gameplay mechanic" when you first hear them. Also, Link to the Past (Triforce of the Gods) is a title unrelated to gameplay in both English AND Japanese. (and getting into technicalities, Majora's Mask is just the villain's name, the one mask in the game that's actually unrelated to gameplay mechanics.)

There is always "a chance", but I'm not going to say it's likely (I mean, is the Gamecube NSO in the works or not?). A shame, because I'd love to play Pikmin 2 as well.

Cloud is also wearing the wrong attire for the time this game takes place in.

Not that in-depth No Not this, either. Curious, I thought I'd have that one Freebie, really No This one paid off Miyamoto's such a tease Tales of Symphonia Remaster almost counts, but it might be a straight port... But regardless, Rune Factory 3 surely counts Tales of Symphonia Remaster definitely counts here No Got renamed to "Pikmin 4", obviously (Incidentally, I legitimately almost put "New Pikmin content" as one of my predictions, but decided it was mutually exclusive with the Mario movie. Fuck, I should've gambled on that one) As for individual opinions: Fire Emblem Engage was a surprise, as I didn't expect it to be real. I posted further thoughts on the appropriate thread; It Takes Two is a great game to get I'll see if my girlfriend would be down for it; Fist of the North Star was the most bonkers announcement Oh, the concept; Great to see Octopath 2. Haven't played the first one, though ; Theatrhythm 3 was a rush of emotions. Hope to see some Chrono Cross songs there; Holy shit, Goldeneye! Bombshell for sure; Holy shit, Pikmin 4! All feels right; Holy shit, Radiant Silvergun! Will we see more Saturn games in the future?; Tales of Symhonia Remastered is the sort of thing I want to be excited for... for God's sake, Namco Tales division, put some effort into preserving the series for once!; Tears of the Kingdom is a good name. Hilariously dark timing with the Queen's passing, though. Overall, pretty cool Direct. Lots of 4 star announcements there. Odd pacing though, felt quite stop-and-go on the whole.

~CLEFAIRY~, ~CLEFAIRY~ ~CLEFAIRY~, ~CLEFAIRY~ Playing that minigame again is a legit reason for me to get the N64 NSO.

I understand the scepticism (I've been holding off on purchasing the Steam version for the those same reasons). I'm happy to see Symphonia again, but this needs to be properly done. And that device on the Triet Base needs to become a Gamecube again.

MFers really locked Melodies of Life and To Zanarkand behind the half-premium version... I was thinking exactly that Maybe a Radical Dreamers track too. Bravely Default III? And on the same vein... Triangle Strategy II?

*four. There's four BD songs as DLC. I noticed the absence too, but I think they're just keeping things under wraps for now.

I never expected the leak to be real. Goddayum. Welcome to the series, PepsiMan and ColgateGirl. Some loose thoughts: I love the graphics, but I'm not too much into the aesthetics. This has the side effect of making Marth and Celica look GORGEOUS, but I'm iffier on the new characters; That said, the artwork is very pretty and good looking, love the colours; Definitely not a fan of the lamps; Hate the name of the game too; Not feeling the stand/persona system. We already have FE Heroes for celebrations, and I didn't like how Awakening handled the einherjar, either. So it's a concept I fundamentally dislike; The mural at the beginning shows Lucina with a bow, as well as Ike with Urvan. Neat; Fell Dragon was already Grima, so what the hell is that moniker!?; Incidentally, the Fell Dragon has blue highlights on the right side, red highlights on the left. So that's an obvious twist; The best FETuber (Faerghast) noticed that there's a lot of pure French nomenclature in the trailer. That's legit fun stuff. As of right now, I'm still lukewarm on the game. I'm fine with waiting for this one right now. But good trailer though. Informative and... engaging.

Well, well, I have successfully narrowed down the amount of DLC music I want to purchase to a mere 25 songs! If only there was a way for me to narrow it furth- the hell's a Final Bar Line?

More like "not announced in this Direct". Either way, yeah, felt like making a bold statement. Mostly because there's only one thing I want to see in DLC, and it's a specific music track. I also just realized I should've just said "some Mole Mania content". If the GB NSO exists, it's bound to have that game.

The games I had as a child, I've mostly been able to beat them. The ones I didn't, was usually because I never had much time with them to begin with (like, they belonged to a friend, or something). But I can think of a few examples that fit the thread: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Played it as a teen, but got so bloated I stopped at some point. I ended up restarting it several years later, and forced myself to play it until the end, crossing it off my bucket list. Turns out, all those years ago, I had stopped playing at about 3 missions before the end! Flight of the Amazon Queen: A charming point&click for the PC, I had a demo of this game, but was utterly unable to beat it... because it was legitimately bugged! A certain item I had to use with a puzzle wasn't working properly. As an adult, I found it for free on GOG (still is) and decided to slay this bad memory by beating the whole game. Theme Hospital: I couldn't beat some of the later levels as a kid... But as a smarter, more efficient adult, I could! Also, I appreciate that the difficulty was fair, and the reason I couldn't beat it back then was definitely due to my shortcomings. This was the most satisfying "slay" of the three titles I'm mentioning, as it reminded me of how much I've grown.

Right, so, predictions/wishes: Bayonetta 3 in-depth trailer; Advance Wars gets a new release date at last; A Switch title that's currently older than a year (except for Mario Kart) will suddenly get new DLC; [EDIT]: Xenoblade 3 is getting DLC; NSO gets Game Boy stuff; No DLC whatsoever for FE Warriors; Mario movie trailer; A classic RPG will get remade; At least one Gamecube game is coming to Switch; Wario Land makes a comeback somehow; "More Moles, More Mania" finally gets out of development hell. Possibly with a title that's strictly lamer than this. Some of them are more plausible than others, as you see, but fuck it.

I'll post predictions later. For now, all I'll say is that the image @Dcubed posted isn't solid proof. There's a good chance they just hacked a ROM for the one event. Similar rumours happened last year when they showed a 3H trailer with beta models in a similar event ("New DLC!?!"), and it didn't mean anything either. More optimistically, they spent a lot of the event focusing on FE4 characters, which is unusual. That's a better sign of things to come (but once again, not solid proof, rein your emotions).

Absolutely the end of an era. She managed to become a globally known symbol for the UK, which is something very few monarchs can do these days. It's going to feel very bizarre, having a UK without THE Queen. My condolences for the royal family.

Using a real life death as an excuse for a "leak" not coming true is definitely a crass low for these rumour-mongers.

Chrono Trigger and Bravely Default are musts. So are the FFIX tracks. Sadly, just that already costs roughly 15€ (Can't believe Advent One Winged Angel isn't in the base game, ffs) Everything else, I'll have to be selective about. For example, as a standalone, I wouldn't mind getting the J-Pop song from FFX-2, but right now it's one I'll gladly cut from the shortlist.

So I started playing this because it seemed like quick fun at the end of the day. And sure, it is. I'm not vibin' much with the RPG elements, but I'm sure the Quest Mode will make decent use of it at least. And then I looked at the LITERALLY 100 DLC SONGS!?! that this game has to offer, and I kinda must weep. Even forcing myself to purchase merely half of them is going to cost me 50€.

Whoa, that's something I didn't expect to see! I didn't know they were making so much new Marsupilami content these days. There was a really well made puzzle/platformer for the Mega Drive that I loved back in the day. You had to contort your tail into various shapes to guide a dumb elephant through the stages. Great to hear the new game is pretty good as well. (Just to clarify, the character comes from a Franco-Belgian comic. The critter was clearly lovable enough for it to grow into a whole franchise)

Man, DYKG has been making some truly excellent videos as of late. Glad to hear about Retro's problems. Like H-o-T, I've been wondering what the hell's been happening with that studio for their output to be so low. This helps answer some questions, but also, this is the second major leadership problem I've heard about them (the first one being the guy who used Nintendo funding to host a porn website in 2002). Anyway, sad that those rhinos never materialized, they look so cool.

"100% there's a coin flip in September, it's that simple. There is still some uncertainty about whether this will be Heads, maybe Tails, there was some talk of it landing on its edges" It's been rumoured for a long time, plenty of leakers are certain it exists. Allegedly. For me, it sounds as real as Starfox Grand Prix. The more they talk about it coming out on the Prime anniversary, the more I disbelieve its whole existence.