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All the polishing in the world won't save this turd. Too little, too late.

Wow! That's crazy generous. Nintendo are practically giving these courses away! The Booster Course Pass DLC purchase is cheap enough on its own, but then they throw it in with the NSO Expansion Pass subscription for nothing AND now they're letting people mooch the DLC for free off of others? Someone clearly didn't tell the accountants about their plans

Yeah, it's surprisingly reasonable. Same with Live A Live, which is surprisingly only £39.99! They could easily have gotten away with charging full price for that one! Seems that someone snuck some Sensible Juice into S-E's coffee when they came up with the pricing strategy for these games... shame they couldn't make it in time for when they came up with the bad joke that is Kingdom Hearts Cloud on Switch

I just recently found out that Puzzle Quest got a Switch exclusive remake (with all new content!) and now I'm horribly addicted all over again. Please send help!

Really nice video interview with Chihiro Fujioka, the director of Super Mario RPG, Tomato Adventure and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga about his life, his history within the industry and his love for Taiko drums. Very fun, well worth a watch

It's more than just a few... Ape.inc directly became the company we know as Creatures today. Pokemon R/B was their follow-up project after Earthbound released for the SNES. Some staff from HAL also helped out on development with RBY and GSC (Most notably Satoru Iwata), who also worked on Earthbound.

Good point. I can see it being a Wheelie Rider kind of thing

Yeah? Well I'm real oldschool. I first heard about Live A Live in Super Play magazine! Always knew it as one of the holy SNES trinity that got away... (Seiken Densetsu 3, Final Fantasy 5, Live A Live). So nerr.

The amount of times it has been cancelled and brought back is ridiculous at this point! I'm a bit cautious about this one, since the series ended on a really good note last time. It would be a bit upsetting if they brought it back again and let it die on a sour note this time; shows aren't meant to last forever... (The less said about The Simpsons the better).

Looks like generic fantasy shlock, absolutely nothing like LOTR at all. As expected. Shame.

No lies detected, I’m definitely one of those guys who reset If it’s good enough for the guys at Intelligent Systems? It’s good enough for me!

Still looks awesome. Still want it

I’ve still got all my original boxes from GBA onwards. Sadly I wasn’t smart enough to keep any of my N64, GB/C or SNES stuff because I was a dumb kid Sometimes I like to look back at the old manuals & boxes for a little nostalgia rush

My focus recently has been about trying to make my retro collection as accessible as possible and the process of playing them as friction-free as possible. I attribute this primarily to the loss of Virtual Console on Switch and my general dissatisfaction with NSO as a Virtual Console service replacement; though I have been impressed with the N64 service as-of late at least (it does provide a notably better experience than playing on the original hardware; or even the Wii/Wii U VC services as bugs are getting fixed). So I've found myself filling out the remaining holes in my various console collections and focused on upgrading my old hardware with things like Everdrives, ODEs, HDMI ports, wireless controller adapters etc to improve the experience of playing on old hardware. I've actually been playing a LOT of Dreamcast games over the past few weeks, since I just got my hands on a heavily modded Dreamcast with a GDEMU and a HDMI port While I have been buying up the original discs for some of the Dreamcast games I still didn't have (like Outtrigger and Seaman), playing them off of the GDEMU is just so much more convenient. It makes the experience much more enjoyable when you're not having to fumble with tons of wires/display adapters and old discs etc. Plus it also gives you access to cool homebrew projects (like Smash Remix) and cool prototypes and stuff too! I've never seen myself as a "collector", I don't collect games that I do not intend to play. I buy games in order to play them. I might not get round to playing them right away, but I will only buy games that I actually want to play; and I do go back and play my old games fairly regularily.

New character trailer

Yeah, this is very true. Unless it's a Nintendo game, games aren't worth buying on day 1 anymore. Not only are you objectively getting a worse game than you would be getting a few months later (after the inevitable myriad of day 1 and post-release emergency patches), you're paying a privilage to do so. Pretty much every non-Nintendo published game gets reduced to about half price within less than 4-6 months these days, sometimes even just mere weeks afterwards; so you don't even need to wait very long! Even worse in this case, where the game retails for £70 on PS5 at launch! I'd just play the original game for now and wait a few months for the inevitable price collapse.

Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

Insane stuff! This mod just keeps going from strength to strength! Really is a must-play if you have the means!

Worth noting that all of the N64 games on the NSO service run in 720p; making them look far sharper and cleaner than they did on original hardware. Some games like Banjo Kazooie hold up remarkably well and still look great today IMO!

When you get to The True Arena, you will understand...

Exactly. Forgotten Land is more of a Bayonetta-esc Stylish Action game than a Super Mario 3D World style platformer.

Well I guess it is now getting ported to Switch in a roundabout way! As for Mario Kart 10? Yeah... we're not getting that until 2025 on Switch 2 at the absolute earliest.

Anyway. I think that this Direct pretty much kills the idea that Switch 2 will be coming out in 2023; thanks to the Mario Kart 8 DLC roadmap. That also means that BOTW 2, Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime 4 will all likely be coming out on the current Switch after all; and that Switch 2 is probably targetting November 2024 now. Yes, that means that I was wrong in my assumption; and yes, that would mean that Switch 1 would be trucking along for almost EIGHT YEARS without a successor (That's almost the entire N64 AND Gamecube lifespans combined!). I still stand by the belief that these games (and Xenoblade 3, Switch Sports & Splatoon 3) are all being wasted on the current Switch model though. The current Switch simply doesn't need these games. They would've been much better utilised as launch window titles for the next console. Now Nintendo will have basically no major system sellers in the pipeline until the next mainline 3D Mario game (which probably won't be ready until November 2024). I think Nintendo is making a big mistake here. They're waiting too long to release a successor, Switch hardware sales will be dead in the water by then, and 3rd party support will peter off into nothing as the cross-gen period comes to an end. If there's anything that's gonna cost them their future, it's this. They're waiting far too long to put out a successor.

You're definitely not the only one who thought that... Yeah, this is pretty much the same mechanic.

The big EU eShop sale has started. Here's a quick grab bag of the most major titles on sale... Otherwise the rest all seem like the usual suspects.