Let the hackers go rampant.... again.

@Pillowpants. Pokemons will be auto leveled to 50 in Ranked Battles. But you want to be at least progressed far enough and leveled your Pokemons enough to have a full deck with plus moves and Mega Evolution.... or you will be completely destroyed.
Though, with hackers going rampant... you going to get destroyed either way.... so just focus on the items that spawn, that should give you bonus points to still at least progress when you loose.

So then, Square should have enough money now to fix the movement jitter in all the pixel remasters, right?

Right, Square?

Final Fantasy peaked in 6. That is just facts.

Nice pun on the sub-title, hahaha. I want my baby baxcalibur ribs!

I think I've progressed enough to participate in this one. So I'm defintely going to try. What's the minimum level for your 'mon? 30, right?

@Joeynator3000

Nintendo doesn't randomly increase the prices of their games,

Nintendo increased the game prices in my country in 20% last year.

Im just here for Rosa Walton’s amazing music

The DLC is worth it for that alone

@Wewewi To download only 743 MB instead of 44 GB

I think they should have had a separate new cartridge slot that was the same speed as the internal.

And more importantly used the full sized SD Express (Max speed is about 4 times that of the micro ones).

Extra cost for the system I would accept as justified.

I have VI on my M2 iPad but I can’t see me getting the lot on anything until it is much cheaper. (There again I think I prefer DQ for the most part around the SNES era with FFVI being the only Final Fantasy game I really like.)

I think I prefer the DS version of IV and the After Years is also available in the same style. (I have played the Japanese translation patched SNES rom never played the Western SNES FF2).

Thinking about it there is only I and II that I haven’t played at all and I still haven’t played Grandia I&II or the Luna Collection properly although I own them.

@AllBLK
I am one of those Nintendo fans that you feel ignore the failings of a coporate company, but you probably be surprised to know that I can understand some of your complaints. Even from that temple I hold Nintendo I can see they could do better in a few ways. I don't really understand the complaint on game key cards, Nintendo have given people a way to sell your digital games. Looking at the possible digital (or possible streamed) future I think this is a positive in a bad world. I would like physical media forever.
But what are your options, homebrew and steal it all? Or move to another corporate companies offerings. We as consumers are completely mugged off by business right now, they run the show and you either buy in or not, it's up to you. Complaining that one is better than another is merely personal preference, and why we all choose what we choose is a random thing.
I personally, and I would suggest to others, just buy what I like and want and only on things that I either would like to own or that I will give adequate time too.
"With the economy being in trouble, a lot of people are tightening their wallets for more important things such as food, shelter, clothing, etc... A lot of parents definitely aren't spending close to a grand or more on a game system, games, accessories, and a subscription service." - This is why the switch is not selling better, this is not another Wii U.

Knowing Square and their realistic expectations, they're not.

On the next investor meeting, SE’s CFO will probably say „We are unsatisfied with the sales numbers of Pixel Remaster“

Really happy with this collection. I've nearly finished the original and am eager to play FF2 next year!

@FredsBodyDouble true but we can’t really say how much compression affects game performance and production costs. It does just seem as though companies are taking the easy, lazy and more profitable option with game key cards. Hopefully the tide is turning though.

About time. Can't believe it took Nintendo this long to do this, but here we are.

Obviously, this does nothing to address games bigger than 32 GB, but there's a lot of Switch 2 games less than 32 GB that went the way of the GKC.

Wonder how much these will cost though, as that will dictate how often they're are used. Probably big greedy corporations like Crapcom will stick with GKCs no matter what. But hopefully at least AA devs and indies will take advantage of this.

Yeah this is such a mixed bag.

For starters, charging for the new characters isn't a problem by itself, but I feel they should have mentioned that they'd be paid DLC at some point in the process. Even the blog post announcing their release doesn't mention the ability to purchase them at all. From how the update reads it is incredibly reasonable to expect to download the update, boot up the game, and play as the new characters immediately. This is entirely a communication issue.

Then you have the two missing stages. For "New Dark, A Future Unfolding" I could have waved it away as being a performance hog; it has a lot of background characters and little details. But "In the Name of Peace" is the complete opposite, it's one of my go-to stages for both being colourful and performing excellently.

The missing BGM kinda makes sense, what with the licensing issues surrounding it, but still stings to not have it even for a limited time like the other editions of the game.

So, great update, better late then never, but it comes with a big ol' set of questions for ASW that I have a feeling will never be answered.

After reading about Rayman 2 all the time in N64 Gamer magazine I eventually got a hold of it later on PC, and by then it felt dated, restrictive, and a bit lame. But those were the days before nostalgia, when a couple of years (and definitely a new console generation) would render a video game laughably obsolete. Right now I am super pumped to rediscover N64 Rayman 2 on Switch, as well as Tonic Trouble.

The game is not even 6 weeks old and they are already on their SECOND content update?
Same for Hades 2, which now has a completely different endgame.
Why bother with physical copies at this point.

The lowest since november 1995 is weird, since it wasn't as low as then. So it's "slightly above the lowest". But hey, I'm a data nerd and I care about how people say stuff correctly.

Anyways, I guess those tariffs are working for the US, am I right?

@whmchrish this game can also be played co-op

Square soured me on this with their GKC shenanigans and lack of an upgrade path. So I'm waiting for a sale on the Switch 1 physical before I pick it up.

@Drago201 Then I guess most people won't buy the Switch 2 version anyways cause it costs $40 on Switch 2, yet it regularly goes on sale for $15 on PS5 and just recently it started going on sale for $20 on PC.

Hmm... I guess $7 per character lines up with their pricing on other platforms. But I thought for sure they'd at least give us a bundle to get all three characters at a slightly reduced rate. Might just wait for a sale then.

Also the exclusion of the 2 new stages leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Why, Arc Sys?

Still, I'm glad to finally have frame data in training mode. And I'll definitely check out the new ranked mode. I wasn't too fond of the tower system cause I think I lucked into too high of a floor and the hard cap preventing you from ranking below 2 levels of your all time high makes it really difficult to learn characters you suck with online.

@HingryHuppo

Making a noise on social media makes the biggest difference of all.

Oh, it absolutely does, which is why anyone commenting on Nintendo's social media likely had infinitely more impact on Game Key Cards than someone commenting on here did. Then again, I'm one of those people who's sick of hearing about it, so I'm probably biased.

i've been looking forward to starting a new farm as i haven't really played much of the 1.5 or 1.6 updates, will probably try it when this drops !!

Maybe I'll finally get this game once it gets a Switch 2 version. I've been playing loads of Switch 2 versions of games (TotK, Metroid Prime 4, PL:ZA, to name a few) and I've been having a blast!

I am more excited about the Haunted Chocolatier game, though.

They need to add all the translations they forgot, and do a upgrade path switch->switch 2.

@Yalloo Thank you!

It's nice to see single-player games being supported past the release like this, but I hope it doesn't take too many resources away from developing a full DLC-expansion. Looking at the first free update, it doesn't look to be terribly taxing content to develop, so maybe we can have both.

All I know is that the empty space at the top line of possible allies needs to be filled at some point.

I haven't gotten to this game yet, but I did pick up the Switch-version both because it is cheaper, and because Key-Carts can f*** off.

That having been said, Square-Enix are fools for not letting their games have easy upgrade-paths from S1 to S2 software. By the time my schedule opens up for this game, I'm sure I'd feel a lot better throwing another 10 at it to get the best possible experience.

@Morsel 743 Mb

Playing the demo on Switch 2 right now. I can't tell whether the demo is optimized for Switch 2, but visually it looks really good.

Switch 2 is a great platform for PC games because of the large screen and 1080p resolution. I look forward to more PC ports.

Hoping to hear some news about Haunted Chocolatier in 2026. A Switch 2 update for a game that nearly everyone has played isn’t big news

@Tasuki When? Do you have a source? Because a quick internet search greatly backs my comment but I didn't see anything at all about him saying he was done with it.

Lmao they want 7$ for each character, you can't even get a pass or something to save money meaning it's 21$ for 3 characters that are gonna be missing content from other versions.

For the amount of time they made everyone wait for these it should've been free, what's the point of buying characters for a game that is now a barren wasteland online because they took a WHOLE YEAR to update the game and the roster? This is ridiculous, ArcSys can choke on it.

@Contes N64 controllers for Switch are available.

I got mine 2½ years ago.