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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 12, 2023 16:39:24 GMT -5
Ok, I adore all of this. Like, not even ironically, I love that a team went out of their way to do this.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 12, 2023 17:21:41 GMT -5
Yeah, if it actually PLAYS well, then yeah, this is a great thing to take some inspiration from.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jul 12, 2023 18:15:01 GMT -5
Limited Run Games announced a bunch of releases, pretty much all in the Switch: -Tomba! (for the first time on a Nintendo platform) F*** Yeah!! Love me some Tomba!
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 12, 2023 19:36:36 GMT -5
Limited Run Games announced a bunch of releases, pretty much all in the Switch: -The Gex Trilogy (thank you Scott the Woz) -Tomba! (for the first time on a Nintendo platform) -Jurassic Park Collection (NES, Game Boy, and SNES games from the early 90s, though no Genesis ones) -A formerly canceled Shante game to get a physical Game Boy Advance Release And finally Arzette, Jewel of Faramore a spiritual successor to... the Zelda CD-I games Well, I can't wait to throw all of the money that's ever existed at getting Tomba.
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Post by Ganon83 on Jul 13, 2023 5:51:48 GMT -5
And finally Arzette, Jewel of Faramore a spiritual successor to... the Zelda CD-I games In the darkest nightmare hour, When not moon nor sun has risen. I take Arzette, my power, I shall keep her in my prison
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 14, 2023 2:51:06 GMT -5
So, uh... Kamek's loss animation is a choice.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 17, 2023 12:11:02 GMT -5
Limited Run aren’t just setting to release a new GBA game (or at least finishing one that wasn’t completed) but they’re also releasing the first new GBC game in twenty years.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jul 17, 2023 13:03:35 GMT -5
Limited Run aren’t just setting to release a new GBA game (or at least finishing one that wasn’t completed) but they’re also releasing the first new GBC game in twenty years. That's not entirely true. There have been homebrewing communities and smaller devs that have been making GBC games for years. Not to mention Grimace's Birthday was a fully functional GBC rom.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 17, 2023 13:56:46 GMT -5
Limited Run aren’t just setting to release a new GBA game (or at least finishing one that wasn’t completed) but they’re also releasing the first new GBC game in twenty years. That's not entirely true. There have been homebrewing communities and smaller devs that have been making GBC games for years. Not to mention Grimace's Birthday was a fully functional GBC rom. Ok, wrong about my past statement too so…I don’t know, new GBC title is cool. 😋
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 19, 2023 2:24:18 GMT -5
Chatter going around that... {Spoiler}They'll be semi-soon announcing Prime 2, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Latter two apparently might be a before the end of the year thing.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 19, 2023 9:02:51 GMT -5
Chatter going around that... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}They'll be semi-soon announcing Prime 2, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Latter two apparently might be a before the end of the year thing. I'm excited for them to be announced in a random Direct news segment rather than their own because that's how Nintendo works now.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 19, 2023 9:12:10 GMT -5
Chatter going around that... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}They'll be semi-soon announcing Prime 2, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. Latter two apparently might be a before the end of the year thing. I'm excited for them to be announced in a random Direct news segment rather than their own because that's how Nintendo works now. Honestly probably a good chance Nintendo just randomly announces something on Twitter before too long. Can't see them doing another Direct until September at the earliest but September and December both have no games announced which is unusual for them.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 21, 2023 16:22:06 GMT -5
I've been playing entirely too much Galaxy 2 the past couple days - I started a file up yesterday and am at around 135 stars - but hey, been meaning to replay it for a bit, is good I made the time. Desperately wish it'd gotten a Switch port along with the first one.
That said while I do love the game you can definitely see some questionable decisions made with it. It does feel pretty padded between the Green Stars, the wealth of content directly lifted from the first game, having to do the same final Bowser level over and over again to properly finish it (though the first one did that too), and needing the Comet Medals, and while the heightened difficulty is welcomed it does at times feel flat out unfair, like they didn't really actually playtest it that much. Wouldn't be shocked if it was a relative throw-together by Mario standards given it was only three years after Galaxy 1 and only one after New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I kind of think it hits higher highs than Galaxy 1 but it feels a lot less cohesive of an experience, if only because of how many things are there for one level because they were in the first one and then are just forgotten about from then on.
Additionally Lubba just suuuuucks. Not being Rosalina is one thing, but the constant tendency for him to jerk you away from the next map to go, "HAR HAR LOOK THERE'S A BOO MUSHROOM IN THE CASE NOW," can really badly break up the momentum of the game. At least as you go along there's less and less of that.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 21, 2023 16:24:53 GMT -5
Finally, after years of wait and polite complaining, I have Pikmin 4
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 21, 2023 16:32:14 GMT -5
I got a bunch of games on sale. So, while spending like 100ish bucks isn't a small purchase, it's not so bad when I take into account I got like 9 games out of it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 21, 2023 16:35:30 GMT -5
I used the voucher I got with TotK on Pikmin. Also gone ahead and bought vouchers for Wonder and SMRPG, so my only real game priorities left for the year at this point are Spider-Man, Mortal Kombat, and the Pokemon DLC. I'll probably get WarioWare, but not really dying for it at launch between it coming out sandwiched between a bunch of other things and not being able to play it handheld. Plus it kind of feels too soon after Get It Together.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 21, 2023 17:08:48 GMT -5
I've been playing entirely too much Galaxy 2 the past couple days - I started a file up yesterday and am at around 135 stars - but hey, been meaning to replay it for a bit, is good I made the time. Desperately wish it'd gotten a Switch port along with the first one. That said while I do love the game you can definitely see some questionable decisions made with it. It does feel pretty padded between the Green Stars, the wealth of content directly lifted from the first game, having to do the same final Bowser level over and over again to properly finish it (though the first one did that too), and needing the Comet Medals, and while the heightened difficulty is welcomed it does at times feel flat out unfair, like they didn't really actually playtest it that much. Wouldn't be shocked if it was a relative throw-together by Mario standards given it was only three years after Galaxy 1 and only one after New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I kind of think it hits higher highs than Galaxy 1 but it feels a lot less cohesive of an experience, if only because of how many things are there for one level because they were in the first one and then are just forgotten about from then on. Additionally Lubba just suuuuucks. Not being Rosalina is one thing, but the constant tendency for him to jerk you away from the next map to go, "HAR HAR LOOK THERE'S A BOO MUSHROOM IN THE CASE NOW," can really badly break up the momentum of the game. At least as you go along there's less and less of that. I generally prefer Galaxy 2 just for being such distilled quasi-linear Mario, but in some respects the overall experience is stronger with 1.
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Post by chrom on Jul 21, 2023 17:12:08 GMT -5
I've been playing entirely too much Galaxy 2 the past couple days - I started a file up yesterday and am at around 135 stars - but hey, been meaning to replay it for a bit, is good I made the time. Desperately wish it'd gotten a Switch port along with the first one. That said while I do love the game you can definitely see some questionable decisions made with it. It does feel pretty padded between the Green Stars, the wealth of content directly lifted from the first game, having to do the same final Bowser level over and over again to properly finish it (though the first one did that too), and needing the Comet Medals, and while the heightened difficulty is welcomed it does at times feel flat out unfair, like they didn't really actually playtest it that much. Wouldn't be shocked if it was a relative throw-together by Mario standards given it was only three years after Galaxy 1 and only one after New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I kind of think it hits higher highs than Galaxy 1 but it feels a lot less cohesive of an experience, if only because of how many things are there for one level because they were in the first one and then are just forgotten about from then on. Additionally Lubba just suuuuucks. Not being Rosalina is one thing, but the constant tendency for him to jerk you away from the next map to go, "HAR HAR LOOK THERE'S A BOO MUSHROOM IN THE CASE NOW," can really badly break up the momentum of the game. At least as you go along there's less and less of that. I remember when Galaxy 2 came out, that people were calling him Patrick from Spongebob
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 21, 2023 17:33:40 GMT -5
In, "Yeah, of course that happened," news a bunch of scalper assholes immediately bought up all the Pyra and Mythra Amiibos so if you want them you're having to shell out at least double the price.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Jul 21, 2023 20:53:26 GMT -5
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