This would be a delightful bonus reward for having actually put int he time to do those sidequests, haha.

Are there new sidequests?! How have they not publicized that?

I'm so intrigued by Nier: Automata, but I'm steadfastly holding out for a 50% off sale on Steam. I've been a bit reckless with my game-spending, thanks to an uncharacteristically strong library for the Switch, so I feel like I need to cut some corners where I can! Still, it's fun to read about, as I'd assumed until…

WHAT?! Did we play together? I'd seen you on there and wanted to play with you, but didn't realize we had done so. My username is Chrs (I think), so perhaps we did. Hahaha. Well, I'd be up for a rematch anyway, and if I'm being honest, most of my evening ARMS playing is in "a less than ebriated state." Tipsy boxing is…

Gerudo Village is the game's best settlement, hands-down. With that said, do not complete the questline there with those ninjas until you've done most other stuff in the game. I won't say anything more than that, and it's apparently not a huge deal if you do go this route, but I strongly recommend completing all other…

I second this, and recommend following up it with the strategic and lovely Valkyria Chronicles.

I always had a hard time settling on one visual style or the other. Both were quite compelling, and offered slightly distinct takes on the game's setting.

That makes sense. I'm excited for the hard mode, as I really enjoyed that feature in Twilight Princess, and the Master Sword "Cave of Trials" seems very cool too. Plus, someone over at the Switch Reddit put up the following list of rules, which I think would turn the game on its head a bit:

I'm picturing that Miyamoto thumbs-up/down thing, but on constant repeat with his thumb at 90 degrees. Thanks a lot, @doctuar:disqus!

Agreed on the summoner thing. There are certain classes that I'll always use in classic FF games just because they're fun, and summoner is probably at the top of that list (love Red Mages too!).

I guess you can't accuse them of false advertisement, eh? Maybe it's intended as some kind of avant-garde meditation ritual.

Oh my, I didn't realize that it showed that! I'm looking forward to seeing the portions where I just flailed and died repeatedly in the same place.

Wow, this is a bold WAYPTW - 2/3 of the staff entries are not video games at all (but instead reflect the broad nature of our community's take on games). Neat!

Yeah, the art style for the world in Oxenfree, along with perhaps the radio-tuning mechanic (if not its implementation in the narrative) were probably my favorite aspects of a game that felt average overall.

Reagan was a great man in the degree to which he influenced so much of the political culture that came after him. I guess he was probably the single most notable US president since FDR in that way.

They did, and I'm sure it's OK, but it is a remade version that is considered inferior to the original version. The problem was that Nintendo, bizarrely, didn't actually own the rights to the SuperFX chip that powered a number of noteworthy SNES releases. I guess they may have finally gotten the rights back in the…

I never played it as a kid, and it's been prohibitively challenging to obtain ever since; I believe this is the first time it's been legitimately available since the SNES era.

Funny enough, the Japanese version does have Mystical Ninja on it.

It could also have to do with complexity of accurate emulation. That gets significantly harder with each console generation up to the present. Even as early as the SNES, weird proprietary hardware designs - stuff like Mode 7 and then the SuperFX chip - make rendering these games using modern hardware comparatively…

That's my one disappointment with this collection, and it's admittedly a minor one. I mean, sure it would have been cool to get Chrono Trigger, but I have that on DS - Super Mario All-Stars is only currently available as a Wii game, and consequently looks pretty muddy.