Dang. I was hoping for a SMT4-style graphics update. As much as I liked Strange Journey, the additions to this seem very superficial to be called a full-on remake. I know that 1st person dungeon grinding is the franchise’s bread and butter, but c’mon - the 3DS has the horsepower that deserves more than just a simple…

There was a handful of really solid Squaresoft games released on SNES that never made it to the US. I’m surprised most of them are still gathering dust back in Japan without official translations.

Eh. As someone who’s a very casual HS player, to me it’s the board control that matters rather than hero health. My go-to standard deck allows for Reno to be used at least 3 times (or more if I snag one from the opponent or draw one with Chromaggus). With that said, there have been plenty of times where if your…

I might be mistaken, but maybe io9 posted about him at some point ages ago. I love all of the guy’s work, just wish he’d have something for sale other than a zine he contributed to years ago.

I know that Switch wants to desperately distance itself from Wii U, but on the otherh and - touchscreen gaming has been a huge thing for Nintendo since DS. Having no touch would greatly limit the game selection in the future VC.

IMHO DS is the best thing since sliced bread.

I’d donate all of my body organs for those elderly Japanese men to keep doing what they’ve been doing.

But on the other hand, they’re not doing what people expect of them, and they’ve still managed to hang around.

Funny, after 10 years of heavy use, the hinges on my DS Lite finally gave in a week ago.

I’d agree and disagree with you. With Gamecube it was quality over quantity. While there were some sub-par movie/cartoon games, a few developers came back to developing for Nintendo, their in-house games got better, and I’m sure the the GBA connectivity helped a bit.

I think 90% of Nintendo first-party games always hold up very well. It’s many of the other developers that don’t.

Translating the original Animal Crossing could have been N64's killer app.

This. The system had a fraction of SNES’s library, and the falling out with Square didn’t help either. I don’t deny that Mario 64 and Zelda were huuuuge in extending 64's life, but for the most part it seemed like it was dominated by US developers over Japanese ones.

As usual: anything that is kind of out of the norm, has a different design aesthetic, and tries to look more relevant is branded as "hipstery". Realistically, no man would ever wear spandex, unless he was in a bad metal band.

While the author kept the current politics out of this, I might also add that the practice of putting dissidents away in nuthouses is still very much in use in Russia.

As someone who was born in the Soviet Union, and lived through it's collapse, I can tell you for a fact that the kind of communism (and it was communism - let's not confuse it with socialism) that was going on there, really didn't have much to do with Marx. And frankly, Lenin's ideas and practices were pretty far…