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Stunt Race is cool... but if I recall correctly, its framerate is terrible. I'd love to see rebuilds of it and StarFox that had the same gameplay with 60 FPS. I'd also be impressed if they could get some of the obscure games I used to own (Unirally, TMNT IV) on the system... but I reckon that's a pipe dream.
EDIT: I just checked the lawsuit about Unirally/Uniracers and I'm clearly never seeing that outside of an emulator ever again.
I think it might be a super metroid kind of weekend.
Curry is huge in both the UK and Japan, yes. Indian curry (what you get in the UK) is pretty different from Japanese curry, though both are good.
India didn't get independence from Britain until the ...1940s? My (Scottish) mother likes to remind Indian telephone scammers of this.
As I said it would have been a shame to leave it on the WiiU
I'm curious as well.
To put it a different way: in previous Directs that did have things that interested you, what were those things?
I can't take it seriously because nobody is upside down in it for no reason! /s
Edit: Also, Trials of Mana now has a trailer on the eShop which goes over a lot more than the Direct did and it's looking really good. Showing a release date of April 24, 2020.
Since these dates seem to be known, I wonder why they weren't stated in the direct itself instead of a vague 2020 date?
I’m assuming they are like the SNES classic controllers which were nigh identical to original SNES pads, so I’m sure they are great.
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Shit, I would totally buy DQIII on Switch. Bring that shit here.
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That's... wow.
I can finally play Breath of Fire. Always wanted it as a kid, but never got a chance to play it.
The Trials of Mana date was announced during the direct. And so was the TMS date.
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I have heard it was kinda rudimentary at the time.
I played 2 on GBA and while the localization was awful, it was a fun game. And I know 3 is supposed to be awesome.
That’s Nintendo’s anniversary “please don’t unsubscribe to NSO” move.
Holy shit yes.
TMS#FE is a game I only played an hour or so of before selling it since I didn't use the WiiU much and I was moving and needed to clear out some of my collection. I was hoping it would get ported but thought it was a super long shot. So very glad I was wrong. I get to play this and Persona 5 for the first time in the same year! Whoo!
Also I wanted Xenoblade X ported but getting a remaster of the first Xenoblade, one of my favorite RPGs of all time, was a super unexpected surprise. It looks so good and it will almost feel like I'm playing an entirely new game.
Luigi's Mansion 3 looks like you are playing a Saturday morning cartoon. It's crazy how good it looks.
Pokemon continues to looks great and I can't wait for it.
Also SNES games on the online! Yes please! They didn't up the price like many were predicting so that was a nice thing to see everyone get wrong.
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I still am not sure what Tokyo Mirage Sessions actually is, and am concerned I may be incapable of understanding.
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I'm also shocked and amazed that they managed to avoid one problem I was curious of. There's not as much crossover between the list and what's on the SNES Classic as I thought there'd be.
J-pop JRPG where all of the fights are also concerts. Has the FE weapon triangle and combo attacks and big big flashy moves.
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Honestly there hasn’t been a lot in quite some time. Nintendo’s third party support doesn’t thrill me because if I’m interested in those games I’ll be playing them on PS4 where they’ll look and run better. In a lot of cases I already picked up those games a long time ago (Dragon Quest, Doom, Diablo 3). Playing undocked isn’t appealing. That leaves Nintendo’s exclusives. Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild and Smash ended up being great. I was thrilled about the announcement of Animal Crossing and Prime 4 but the delays took a lot of wind out of those sails. Even if they’re games I loved I’m not interested in Wii U ports. Maybe Wii or GameCube ports for the benefit of HD upgrades. Not getting many of those though.
As probably the biggest BoF fanboy on these forums it's...OK. Breath of Fire II feels like a much more fully fleshed-out story, though it had its own problems. The big ones are III and IV.
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In all seriousness: it's a JRPG about a group of young aspirants to the performing arts (not always idols/singers; there's a guy who wants to do tokusatsu (think Power Rangers) and an actress in the mix, and the female lead is more "I want to do everything!") who, by chance, are the only people who can effectively oppose a gang of demons who feed on human creativity. For those who are paying attention, these demons are actually the souls of various villains from the Fire Emblem series who apparently decided to migrate to Tokyo to take another shot at joining the living, and they have also bound various other characters from Fire Emblem to do their bidding. The heroes are capable of fusing with the spirits of the heroes from various Fire Emblems (after un-cursing them) and use their powers to fight the bad guys.
It's absolutely drenched in J-Pop aesthetics, and the gameplay is Shin Megami Tensei / Persona (a venerated JRPG series that goes back to the NES days) all the way through.
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^ this seriously made me fall in love with the game. I highly recommend watching if you haven't seen it
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it's a pop idol-themed JRPG in the style of Persona and Shin Megami Tensai, which also is mashed up with some inconsequential references to Fire Emblem for some inexplicable reason. I guess #brandsynergy or something.
The only BoF I've ever played was Dragon Quarter. Never finished it (it didn't click), but I loved its aesthetic.
How about can Barry go to prison in this version and Maiko is playable instead?
Dragon Quarter had the best music. Don't @ me on this!
Yeah, the other games are absolutely nothing like Dragon Quarter whatsoever.
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I continue to be bewildered as to why the sales turd that was the WiiU got a pile of great ports and thus far the Switch has gotten... SNES games. Which was something we already had on two prior systems. There's a meager handful of Nintendo exclusives, and everything else is stuff I can play on two other systems I own while looking enormously better.
But hey, we're getting a Doom64 port! Exciting, right? Jedi Outcast! Yeah, I've been able to play that for almost twenty years without the Switch. Overwatch! Um, I've been playing that since it came out?
There's a bunch of titles which should've been an automatic part of the BC library (if Nintendo hadn't nuked it), a bunch of old titles I've had for ages, a bunch of titles that are incredibly non-news as far as ports go, and a sliver of new titles that might be interesting. And even the "new" old material isn't anything I actually got the Switch for, because it's dead easy to play the entire NES/SNES library on my phone with just a few downloads.
Yep. That's a cool announcement. I don't think many realize it wasn't just Doom for 64 and instead a completely different game.
So, the Online Service VC games. I figured I might as well keep this up as I've been interested in it, and it's been fun discussing what might show up.
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The only valid first party Nintendo games missing from the NES lineup at this point:
Interestingly...Pinball just recently got an Arcade Archives release on the Switch shop, which is likely why we haven't gotten it for free!
Yoshi's Cookie...I wonder if there's some kind of licensing hangup there. It was developed by Tose but still firmly a Nintendo property. The SNES version was developed and published by Bullet-Proof Software (Henk Rogers, still closely associated with Nintendo). Super Tennis on SNES was also developed by Tose so I don't know what obstacles there might be to Yoshi's Cookie. Upcoming game in the series? Will be hyped up with release of the originals?
Third parties signed on so far, via NES releases:
Third parties on SNES:
Now most of these third parties are represented by one single game, and it tends to be a second stringer. Ghosts n' Goblins but not Mega Man, Gradius but not Castlevania. And that pattern continues! Demon's Crest and Super GnG but no Mega Man X.
After suddenly making an appearance with City Connection, Jaleco returns for the SNES too. And oh joy it's Data East.
Puyo Puyo 2 has a complicated lineage it seems but might indicate SNK support? Or it might be the nothing that Compile is known for.
I have no idea of the situation with Human Entertainment, who currently owns Super Soccer and their other games. But they didn't release many notable things other than Clock Tower so they're not exactly a big "get."
A lot of the companies above released the bulk of their notable games in the NES era. Konami could give us Contra III: The Alien Wars or Sparkster. Unfortunately Zombies Ate My Neighbors has strong LucasArts ties. Sunsoft could give us Aero the Acro-Bat, but Sony owns Lemmings now.
The only whiff of Square we have is that they handled the NA localization and publishing for Breath of Fire, but it's still squarely (heh) a Capcom game. Don't hold out any hope for Dragon Quests or Final Fantasies...or Actraiser.
I don't know about others but I see the 16-bit era as the era of licensed games, moreso than before. So many classics are licensed and probably have significant roadblocks to appearing here: Jurassic Park, Super Star Wars, Goof Troop, Lion King, Aladdin, Ninja Turtles, various Mickey games, various comic games like Batman & Robin.
So sadly there is one particular masterpiece that we will probably never see on the SNES online library:
But what does Nintendo have to offer?
Games on the SNES Classic which are not here yet:
I would expect..most of these? I bet Star Fox 2 will be kept as a SNES Classic selling point as long as they're selling it. Super Mario RPG is probably firmly in Nintendo's grasp despite being developed by Square.
Other Nintendo-published SNES games...the list is pretty long but just to highlight some of what we're contending with:
There are a number of games Nintendo had a hand in publishing, but only in one region, such as Lufia II and Secret of Evermore for PAL. I wouldn't expect those to have a particularly good chance. Harvest Moon was published in the EU by Nintendo and they seem to have a good relationship with Natsume, but who knows...
What on the list can we reasonably expect to see? Well...
Good games, but it's a bleaker situation than on the NES. They're really frontloading what they can offer us here.
Japan has some better possibilities like Fire Emblems...I wouldn't expect localizations of those now, especially since it took homebrew ROM hackers 20 years to just now finish with a decent translation of Thracia 776.