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They could’ve dropped DK by itself and it’d be an event for me—but no!! A Picross I’ve never played too! Christmas in March baby!

Looks like an interesting curiosity. Just not a $25 curiosity. Seems steep…

@Grumblevolcano unfortunately I agree with you. Many of the posts here seem pretty optimistic about price, but $299 eight years ago is similar to today’s $499.

We shall see…

I think Nintendo’s given enough info that we can get pretty close to an assumed date.

The hands-on event runs from April to the end of May. After drumming up all that hands-on hype you gotta launch the thing either during or immediately after.

Logical guess would be early June.

Wow. The double load times is inexcusable. Certainly the worst offender in the list of issues.

Hope Nintendo thinks twice before teaming up with Forever in the future.

I think I’m more miffed by the wording this remaster is “based” on the original game. Heck—this IS that game.

Legal or not, the design is so ugly and derivative it’s an offense on good taste.
Literally that ape design hurts my eyes.

Blatant and frustrating deception. Nintendo’s hurting themselves in the long run by not even trying to hinder the flood of bullsh*t coming down the pipe on the eshop.

Yea, the more I watch the more I can happily skip this. ✌️

@Dev1024 I largely agree. And almost gave up during a tedious “filling the watering can” segment near the end.

But I have to say, if you’ve come that far the last 5 hours of the game are really good. It knocked my opinion of the game up significantly.

Here in the US tariffs have the potential to mess with ALL electronics pricing. I can’t even pretend to predict the future here.

I tried to watch the IGN video review and it was just too snarky. I don’t believe this is a perfect game but theirs felt like a grudge review.

“Shockingly bad performance”??! Definitely an indulgent statement based off the lot that I’ve seen.

Man. I just wish we could enjoy something cool for like FIVE minutes before dissecting everything it’s lacking instead of the 100’s of things it’s doing right.

@Anti-Matter but you have to listen to ads, and keep your phone screen on unless you subscribe to YouTube premium.

Been listening to Wii Channels ambiance. Already really digging this app. Just the fact it’s from the source, perfect recordings, no ads is making this a big win.

Even details like having Metroid cartridge and Famicom disk versions is going to make me nerd out over the differences.

This is great! Now I can jam my Nintendo songs without YouTube adverts killing my buzz.

One of Nintendo’s best moves in some time!

Kit and Krysta made a good point, they won’t announce something that big that close to an election. The entire US is uptight. A new hardware announcement would make ZERO news waves in mainstream media at this hectic time.

I’ll get it for the soundtrack alone. Some great tunes in this one.

Hope those “kersplat” and “wahoo” texts don’t actually appear on screen during gameplay 😬

I’ve played about 8 hours since launch, got through 3 main dungeons and I honestly can’t give it a score yet. Very conflicted on this one. Every brilliant moment is coupled with some minor annoyances. Though ultimately, I am hooked and will definitely play through to the end.

To put that in perspective the Switch LITE alone sold 4,000 more units than the COMBINED PS5 sales. That…that’s….rough.

Maybe that new Pro model with the power to slightly enhance distant background characters will boost sales 🙃

I used to beat Castlevania’s legitimately back in the day somehow. And as I finished Portrait of Ruin last night spamming the heck out of rewind I wonder how I ever did any of these late game bosses without cheating.

@Taguon yea, I tried playing Starfy. People were saying there’s “not that much dialogue” but man, I could not plod my way through it.

Still convinced Nintendo could spring the cash to translate their NSO games if a $10 Sunsoft collection can.

Definitely interested! But that Castlevania collection JUST came out and it’s gonna keep me busy til Zelda, and that’s gonna keep me busy til Brothership, and then there’s Dragon Quest III…. Feb of next year I’ll get Bakeru for sure 😅

This is actually more than what I was expecting for the remainder of the year. Not sure why people think a 1st party Direct is gonna happen considering we have a Nintendo game per month until Dec.

$10 for a trio of retro games I’ve never heard of but it’s in a slick package? Sure. I’ll bite.

Famicom is my favorite. So much color variety on the cart and ample room for cover art.

As far as an interesting object, it wins hands down for me.

They mainly do it at the end of a life cycle to get one final squeeze from games that are about to exit alongside an outgoing system.

With the Switch it feels like the transition is going to be more seamless, the games will still be playable and they’ll want the games to maintain their value.

So, no I don’t think so.

@Not_Soos honestly, Spanky’s Quest is surprisingly good! It’s got an unusual mechanic of powering up your attack by bouncing a ball on your head, but once you figure it out it’s quite fun.

Been buying these when they’re discounted to half price, as they feel like $20 collections to me, not $40.

That being said, this seems to be the best compilation yet and will happily buy it… once it’s $20.

@carlos82 thanks!

@carlos82 I’ve been looking around for the JP version with no success (except EBay). Where did you manage to preorder yours?

One of the key things I’m taking from this is Forever Entertainment has no clue how to compress (or develop). Their Panzer Dragoon remake was also way too big for what it was (and subpar game to boot)

I’m actually shocked Nintendo gave them the keys to DKC. This should be an easy port but I think it’ll be a bit botched.

Surprising amount of stuff I’m into! Two Tombas, Gex (the 3D games are terrible but a fun novelty) and Bubsy is kind of in the same camp of interesting/ cringey history.

Was on board with his channel since launch but the guy’s such a dedicated worker I couldn’t watch as fast as he created. His work ethic is inspiring and I don’t think he’s wired to take breaks, just shift projects.

I highly encourage people to beat 1 & 2 for the end music alone 👌

5 games is quite the update. Perhaps a premonition for a Mega Man release in the Direct??

I’m basically looking at the schedules of Gamefest, Xbox showcase and Ubisoft only to deduce when the Nintendo Direct might be 😂

Nintendo always goes last with a punch, so we know it’s at least after the 10th. And they probably want to be within the basic range of everyone else, soooo sometime between 11-13th? (Or the 18-20th frame if they’re really building up the hype.)

Besides having Famicom controllers, the cards are also superior in my opinion. Gonna hold off on the US version. My guess is I could get this eventually off EBay for $80/85

@themightyant What’s interesting is your comment lead me to Wikipedia to read the CEO’s background, and before video games the guy lead a Private Equity Firm, pulled an investor takeover, bought a majority share of Take Two and became CEO in 2007. This type of guy is absolutely about the bottom line and maximizing profit.

If an indie company is doing “just well enough” that’s not nearly enough.

Looks so dang good. Rewatching the trailer re-upped my enthusiasm.

Being an animal and nature enthusiast I want to support this type of game but to get me excited it really needs to nail the visual component, and based off what I’ve seen… it doesn’t. The animals move robotically, the lighting’s drab, the environments seem randomly thrown together….This could’ve been a great launch title for the Switch 2 and flaunt some beautiful imagery if they worked on it for a while longer and had some real horse power to back it up.

@LoroTalby nah, no one will fry you. It’s true. Extremely low poly + blurry textures are hard to come back to even for an N64 enthusiast like myself. I grew up on it and nostalgia can’t hide it.

That being said, many of ‘em still play great and no game has ever blown me away like my first playthrough of Mario 64.

Played through this game and had a blast. One of the best indies I’ve played.

Glad to see the tweak with the gatcha machine, I put a lot of currency into it and kept getting the same 2-3 stickers.

Cool update. A bit of a history lesson and always wanted to play R-Type.

As a gamer from the 80’s these updates are genuinely exciting. I still think of these as $60 games, so NSO is a great deal for me.

“64 player online battle”.

Good luck with that… let’s see how long this niche looking game regularly garners 64 simultaneous players 🙃

@TommyTendo agreed. It’s like they’re testing their fan base to see how many hoops we’ll jump through for this stuff.

@batmanbud2 Does anybody actually hate this game??

At $15 and this positive review it’s an easy buy. Gonna score it later tonight 👍

Thursday is a smart move. A lot of people order a new game to play during the coming weekend and with all the shipping hiccups that can happen to a new title, ordering a game online can mean missing the fun first weekend of playing for some folks.

We got Blast Corps today, baby! It’s a thrill just to have access to that one game again 👊

Picked it up last night. Really enjoying it so far, especially the music! Being a fan of more classic style arcade games this game is a perfect complement to a snowy weekend.