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Oh wow! That’s a HUGE increase in the number of story chapters! The original game only had 12 (including post-game), but there’s a whole whopping 18 this time! (With the potential for more appearing later!) Looks like they’ve hugely expanded on the original game!

Oh no... The Genies are coming back!

3 years in advance too! Looks absolutely bloody amazing!! Love, love, LOVE the art style! Will be interesting to see how they expand on the original game; it's pretty simplistic and limited compared to the later games... Let's Go was the FR/LG remake and SPMD heavily hinted that a R/B Rescue Team remake was to come. Knew that R/B Rescue Team was gonna be the next remake!

It's like an unholy version of The Tetris Effect I love how the donations literally just completely died during that run! Everyone was completely transfixed! That's gotta be the highlight of this year's AGDQ. I don't see anything topping that. Absolutely insane all the way through!

HOLY SWEET JESUS @ THE MUSHIHIMESAMA FUTARI RUN!!!!!! IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT!!

And the DSi... Let’s be honest though, TPC probably think it’s perfect for mobile...

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01/youll_want_to_avoid_importing_physical_switch_games_from_china Uh oh... Region locking has returned for Switch in China!

That's neat, I like that they're all british made games.

COME ON BLUE/RED RESCUE TEAM REMAKE!!! IT’S TIME!!!

Nice! I'm home in time to see the DKC3 run live! Gutted that I've missed everything so far, but DKC 3?

Friendly reminder that AGDQ 2020 starts tomorrow! https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule Quite a few games have been added to the schedule since it was first announced, including Links Awakening Switch, Super Mario Maker 2 and Untitled Goose Game

Very good advice. Animal Crossing is meant to be played all year round (it has a 365 day cycle; with each day of the year having its own little events and things happening). It's meant to be played in short bursts, little at a time over a long period of time.

@Jonnas @Ike Looks like that Dragon Quest theatrical movie is getting a worldwide release on Netflix!

Well now that I am no longer a student and have started my new job, I guess my new year's resolution is that I'm hoping to be able to spend more time enjoying games

Currently, TMS Encore and Animal Crossing New Horizons are the only first party games with a release date worldwide (Brain Training still hasn’t been confirmed for US release), so I’d suspect that an early February Direct is on the cards and will come with a few new announcements & trailers (possibly Bayo 3’s first trailer); but the main thing will probably be a release date for Xenoblade HD. Some long overdue Wii/Wii U ports (Pikmin 3dx, SM3DW and Metroid Prime Trilogy) will probably appear to fill out the gaps in the release schedule as well.

Ok, let's finish off 2020 then... Contra Rebirth When your first level involves you destroying a space station and battling a giant space worm as you fall through atmospheric re-entry? You know you're in for a good time This game is bonkers. Even by Contra standards, it is just pure BONKERS! A white knuckle thrill ride that takes you from space, to land, to sea, to... giant robotic camels? to an active volcano and to... the moon? Consistency isn't this game's strong point and nobody should care! This game was the second of Konami and M2's "Rebirth" series for Wii Ware and it honest to goodness feels like the original Contra GBA game that we never got (no, really, HOW did we never get a new Contra game for the GBA?) and for my money, it's a better game than Contra 4. While there are only a mere 5 stages this time around, each one is just paced absolutely perfectly and never feels like they outstay their welcome. It feels like an arcade-length game and as such, it is an absolute blast from start to finish! As far as difficulty goes though? This is actually one of the easiest games in the series I reckon... well, until you try the Nightmare difficulty, which takes its cues from Ikaruga and has enemies firing back at you as soon as you kill them; making the run & gun gameplay suddenly a lot more strategic and methodological! BTW, special shout out to the absolutely insane story on display here. It is absolutely unintelligable nonsense that involves Bill Rizer coming out of cryogenic stasis, an undercover consipiracy starring an anthropomorphic lizard & one of the robots from Contra Hard Corps, oh and Lance Bean crossdressing as a drag queen to infiltrate a hidden governmental facility for... some reason? Contra doesn't need any sort of story, but this one will at least have you laughing all throughout. And your very own personal helicopter even comes to pick you up from the moon Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth Spoilers: Death's back! This was the final game in Konami & M2's "Rebirth" series for Wii Ware and it was billed as a remake of the first Castlevania title for the original Game Boy. In practice? It's really an entirely new game that only draws very loose inspiration from the GB original (much like Super Castlevania 4, Castlevania Chronicles and Castlevania: Dracula X before it). Not only was this the last of the "Rebirth" series, but it was also the final classic styled Castlevania game to ever be made (coming more than 10 years after Castlevania Legends for the original GB!); and it's a pretty solid entry in the series. It's a well paced, mostly well designed classic Castlevania game, that feels like its own thing; though lacking in polish in some areas (there's some sprite clipping in certain places and some really strange stock sound effect choices that give the impression that the game was rushed out a bit). Despite some minor quibbles, like the decision to lock certain subweapons behind the "modern" control option (that lets you change your jump direction in mid-air; I'll take the "classic" controls, thank you very much) and some levels that go on a bit too long (I'm looking at YOU Stage 3!), it's a good time. Fans of the classic Castlevania gameplay will find a lot to love here. Bafflingly enough though... this rearrangement of the main theme from the original GB game actually went unused! WHAT THE HELL!? Sadly that's all I managed to actually finish before 2019 came to a close. I am currently playing both Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and am right at the end of both games, but I haven't been able to finish them in time... Likewise, I am also currently playing Pokemon Sword and Yooka Laylee & The Impossible Lair, but haven't finished either of them... So expect these to appear in the 2020 Diary Thread soon enough. I have also been setting up some fun randomisers since I got my Super NT, but @Glen-i ended up having first dibs on them and I backseat gamed him while playing it; so expect impressions from him shortly! (spoilers: It was amazing and a huge laugh for all involved ) And with that? Here's my tally at the close of 2019...

Yeah, we defo need to do this more regularily. That was amazing!

Wow! At 1AM!? That's early! No doubt we'll do another one at some point; we've had waaaaayyy too much fun

Yeah, we're still playing. We'll make a new room after this one is done!

We're multi-tasking

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for playing, was great having you!

WOW! That was amazing! Nobody died!

New code is YIUU!

Damn! These questions have been legit hard this time! I actually think everyone is gonna end up dead this time lol