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What year is it!? Talk about late to the party here! Surprised that Switch wasn’t treated as a Wii port dumping ground sooner TBH.

Seems like it’s a collection of all the Bullet Proof Software Tetris (+ Hatris. I like Hatris, glad to see it here) games. They’ve shown only 9 of the “more than 15 titles”, so that means the remaining games will probably be the following… V-Tetris, Tetris X, Tetris S, Tetris 4D, Tetris Blast and Welltris. Sick collection. Well hyped for Tetris Battle Gaiden, have wanted to play that one for years!

So… it’s a remaster of a remaster then? Graces is alright, but it really is basically just a glorified arena combat game, because there’s precious little noteworthy gameplay outside of its (admittedly excellent) battle system. As an RPG, it’s incredibly threadbare; with glorified corridors for dungeons.

Can’t help but feel this is too little too late. Would’ve probably have been better off just porting the whole series as a big collection during the Switch 2 launch window. Let’s hope they don’t use its commercial failure as an excuse to not port the rest of the series afterwards now. Cant help but feel that we’re looking at another Yakuza 1&2 Wii U Set-Up-To-Fail situation here.

Haunted Castle is a hilarious inclusion. That game is so unbelievably shit that it's shocking that it was ever released. It's easily one of the worst games I've ever played. Massively interested in seeing how this remake turns out. It's so rare that a game developer/publisher ever bothers to attempt to remake a bad game, so I'm really interested in seeing if anything of value can be salvaged from this tirefire of a game!

These are all the Naomi/Dreamcast Capcom fighters (except Tech Romancer for some weird reason), pretty awesome collection! Hyped for Power Stone 1 & 2, hope they have online play!

That was a real solid couple of Directs. When you're starting OFF with Balatro? You know you have a strong show on your hands. Pizza Tower is long overdue on Switch! That game is amazing! If you like Wario Land 4 at all? You owe it to yourself to devour that one! Three big-deal collections with Castlevania, Tetris and Capcom Fighting Collection 2; Power Stone 1 & 2 with online play is gonna be rad! Good show, though somehow only getting one Yakuza game announced for Switch still feels like a slap in the face somehow.

Edit: Said something dumb, Magical Tetris Challenge predates TNT.

Ooh! A Double Feature! My quarterly badgering request for a Shantae Advance and Mina The Hollower release date continues!

The New Tetris is actually a pretty important entry in the series, as it was where the Hard Drop mechanic was first introduced; and when the Tetris Company began pushing the series towards the modern Tetris Guideline that we have today. The rotation system and piece randomisation is a weird hybrid of Nintendo Tetris and Guideline Tetris, and while we have the Hard Drop, the Hold mechanic had yet to be introduced. Tetris Worlds was the game the crystallised the modern Tetris Guideline as we know it today (including the much maligned Infinite Rotation mechanic); which governed all Tetris games completely until TTC only very recently began allowing for deviation once again. But that wouldn’t come about for a few more years to come. The New Tetris was where it all started though.

That level of performance is exceptionally good. Gives me hope that 60FPS is not off the table for Switch

Concord is the perfect example of the Sunk Cost Fallacy. Literally everyone knew that it was a guaranteed bomb from the moment it was announced, but Sony/Firesprite had already poured so much money and time into chasing an Overwatch shaped fad that had already died years ago that they couldn’t bare the thought of scrapping everything; especially after Sony bothered to go as far as to acquire the studio. Sure, it would’ve been publicly embarrassing, but the game really should’ve been cancelled the moment it was clear how tepid the public reaction was. To put this into perspective, even SEGA had the foresight and good sense to cancel the release of Hyenas when it was clear that it was doomed to failure. SEGA. Yes, that SEGA; a company run by literal morons. But yeah, the Sunk Cost Fallacy claims yet another victim. And again, the GAAS sector once again proves that it is a zero sum game where it’s next to impossible to survive once a genre king with First Mover Advantage establishes itself. But oh no, that won’t happen to us because we’re SURE to be the ones who will win the lottery this time!

Ok, Glen just managed to get seven stars in SM64 in the time it took you two to join… don’t make it eight!

Yo! @S.C.G @BowserBasher! @Glen-i’s gonna open up an N64 NSO room at 20:30 so we can like, play some PD and junk!

Surprised more developers haven’t treated Switch as a dumping ground for cheap Wii ports. Feels like the obvious thing that these western publishers would do.

Oh! Had no idea that the N64 version of DDG supported the mic! That’s cool.

A great idea in all honesty. China Hero has been one of Sony's most successful projects this generation and one of the smartest moves they've made. Just imagine their console without Genshin Impact or Stellar Blade. Makes perfect sense to extend the initiative to other developing regions.

IT IS DONE!!!! That is now officially everything unlocked in single player mode! It won't be true 100% completion until I've beaten the Special Assignments, beaten every stage/difficulty in co-op and beaten every Combat Simulator challenge in 1/2/3/4 player, but as far as single player unlocks are concerned? We are done! Oh? And just in case you're wondering... No save states used. Done 100% legit!

Thanks to everyone who joined for a fun night Got a couple of funny clips that I’ll upload at some point later.

@Ike! I can’t believe how much that jammy Lightning saved you right at the end of Sunshine Airport there!!!

Right! Room’s open. If for whatever reason I’m not on your Friends List, my Switch FC is 0401-9926-5412

I can host if @BowserBasher or @S.C.G can’t make it in time. I’m off work tonight, so I’ll be IN! Just gonna have to tear myself away from these endless failed attempts at Attack Ship Perfect Agent to do so…

So I’m now up to Attack Ship on Perfect Agent and… uhm… … yeah… this is an endless nightmare… Edit: SOMETIMES VENTING WORKS!!!! Just one more main mission to go!!!

Heads up, Glen-i can’t make it tonight, so @BowserBasher will have to host instead.

Also, not that it’s particularly relevant in this case, exclusives can leverage the unique qualities of hardware/controller input that non-exclusive titles simply just can’t. A game like Astro Bot simply couldn’t be done on any other console for instance. If it were a multiplatform title, it’d lose everything that was special about it.