Fantastic! I really enjoyed the little bit of Star Fox 2 I played on the SNES Classic. And I came very close to buying the SNK Collection last week, in part because of Crystalis. So I’m very pleased that they are in fact adding more games, and that these are the ones they chose.

Yes that was absolutely it!  Thanks very much!

While the fifth generation was the post-crash gen I played the least, I did save up for a Playstation for FFVII. I can count the number of games I played substantially on two hands, but I did spend scores of hours with Symphony of the Night and Final Fantasy Tactics. Symphony is the most memorable experience by far.…

You said it very well yourself. I was really surprised that Chris wrote that. If you played Bloodstained but hadn’t gone back since the big patch, I can understand feeling that way about that game. But I can’t think of any other big 2D indie games that had problems running on the Switch. As I mentioned, Hollow…

Another complication of the Switch port of Bloodstained I neglected to mention was that it started out as a Wii U port.  I know because I chose that as my backer’s reward.

Oh right, I forgot RE4 was one of those games. Obviously they have ported that one.

I have a couple quibbles with this article. First is semantic: Until Capcom ports Viewtiful Joe, Killer 7, or any of the other Capcom Five that were actually released, it is not accurate to say that it “hasn’t met a PS2-era game that it didn’t want to port to the Switch”. They may ha e been GameCube releases…

OP was not referring to a “game mechanic” when they referred to “almost quitting”. They were referring to the game breaking its own rules in order to force the player to go a specific way.  That’s not a game mechanic, that’s bad game design.

This makes me want to go play the Ardyn DLC. And all the rest of it, too. I wonder how difficult it would be to get back into the gameplay.

I had a friend over last night who grew up with a Genesis (I didn’t but my best friend growing up had one so I played a fair amount at his house), and he and I agreed that the emulation felt better than any other Genesis emulation we’ve tried. My friend said he thought there was a slight bit more latency than the…

I absolutely do just given the sale price plus the portability of the Switch. If being able to play these on a really great handheld doesn’t mean much to you, then maybe I’d hold off given that you own most of the games many times over. But as I’m going to mention in another reply here in a minute, my friend who…

Slightly OT: I downloaded the Genesis Classics collection as part of the same sale, and I’ve been extremely impressed with the various visual options with pixel scaling and such.  They work really well to give the art a hand-drawn look!

Fyi I did not say that I’ve “literally read nothing”, in any way. My direct implication, if you bothered to think about my comment for a split second before jumping to the most confrontational possible conclusion, was that I have read about the situation. I said it just wasn’t that much.  And I already explained that…

Great question! I’ve become slightly addicted to Dragon Quest XI S, so most of my gaming time will be focused on that. I also downloaded Sega Genesis Classics, and will probably also spring for Mega Man 11, both of which are currently 50% off, so I’ll spend some time with those. I was enjoying Landstalker last…

Well you certainly know much more about it, and therefore rightly have much more to say about it, than I do. And all the little nitpicks you bring up are perfectly valid for all I know. But those nitpicks are not what most of the blowback has been about.

Well that’s not actually what I said. I have read some pieces about it, and my understanding of the situation comports with your description of it. I would think a franchise’s developer should have the right to break from tradition, and also not be expected to make every new game be compatible with data from every…

I haven’t read all that much about it, but everything I have read leads me to believe that anyone complaining about the current Pokémon releases are, in fact, being entitled and whiney.  It’s the sort of complaining that seems to merit condescension.

Ok this is fun and funny and all, but for real this is full of better advice than a similar column that was posted on the Washington Post’s website that was actually talking about how to talk about politics with your family during the holidays. This is some smart shit, Nathan. I assume, since ASFAIK you’re not a…

Great review! I was scanning the review blurbs on Metacritic, and by the time I got through all the scored reviews (before I got to your blurb), I came to the same conclusion that you do here in the first paragraph: That the most interesting thing about this game seems to be that it tries to bring FromSoft-style…

Seems like Views might be currently overvalued.