The_Nintend_Pedant

"the platformy stuff destroys my suspension of disbelief"

I'm so curious for you to expand on this as I can't imagine what exactly you mean by it 😆 ✌️

a commenter above +1'd you, but then went on to talk about MGS and pixel graphics.. 🤔

I'm not sure if "suspension of disbelief" was ever a big part of my personal enjoyment of games, per se, unless you count getting emotionally wrapped up in the story of Earthbound or Xenogears for example. 👍 its an interesting thing to ponder.

happens to be one in my town, I gave already made plans with a friend to check it out, will report. 👍

type 4 is one of the only games I cant think of for which I really want a remaster. 👍👍

holy ***** what a ***** lineup! 🤩

@Deuteros

I was going to say the same thing: sounds like they did some hiring in the interim, or they are down to -2 employees, surely? 🤔

@The_Nintend_Pedant

"that's possibly the worst looking handheld I've ever seen in my entire life"

came here to say this 😅

"Donald Trump was one of his guests in 2024"

😬

btw - i will beat you with Dan. 👍

"Uematsu is quick to praise the way the company has evolved since the merger between Square and Enix in 2004."

is there anything specific he has enjoyed about this period?

"a new sister company" to Amico that will "adapt Amico games for other consoles and PCs".

he means put them out at all lol. adaptations are when a piece of work is released, then released again in another form.

"other consoles" lol

is 50 a little old for the role? no disrespect.

@Damo

me too! and, im grateful to you and this site for bringing "western" gaming more to my attention, as I was pretty "japan focused" during the eras we generally discuss here ✌️❤️ much love

@Guru_Larry

"look at Smash TV on the SNES"

why this wasnt or hasnt been copied one thousand times by other games has been a mystery to me since I first played this game way back 😵‍💫 totally agree with your commentary 👍

(aaaand now the OST is stuck in my head
"I'll buy that for a dollar!")

@Damo

"Even at the time, I remember the appeal of Loaded wearing off pretty quickly,"

I completely agree!

It's kind of a semantic turn, admittedly: if I play a game for one weekend rental when I was 11 and got my fill, but then remember it fondly enough to give it another shot some weekend 30 years later, is that short or long term appeal? 🤔

anyway sorry to waste your time with my nonsense lol 😆 thanks for the review, and trip down memory lane! (and, I want to check out Hogs of War finally, I think this review put me over the edge at long last 😂✌️)

"The appeal of the Loaded games doesn't last long"

I know what is meant (and I probably agree to that extent) but given the target audience of the package (people that fondly remember this game from 30 yrs ago) I'm not sure this 'con' really holds water.

I get that you are reviewing the game, though, not people's feelings👍

"A new fanmade port of the SNES RPG is currently being worked on"

something in a less passive voice, with WHO instead of WHAT as the subject, would be a lot more satisfying and enriching to read, imho ✌️

"NicoMegadrive and Laurent Crouzet are hard at work" maybe as an example ❤️

or "skilled fans are working on just that" if you didnt want to blast their names in the headline.

@jygsaw
beyond nostalgia or completionism, IDK why anyone including children would play mystic quest instead of one of the "real" FF games on SNES, unless its literally their first RPG and they dont know better.

EDIT - hey, look at that! ✌️ much better

@tameshiyaku

I really like your idea 👍

"It's A Middle Finger To Everybody"

the secret door in LOZ that almost nobody found

@RaeDawnChonglingBay

"Wait, the intro is 42 minutes long?"

i was all, "no way"

then i checked for myself

im creating a bookmarks folder called "later this year."

i cant imagine who this is for... a dig dug game made exclusively for children, in 2025, but they'll have to download an app and presumably subscribe to a service in the next two weeks in order to play it?

bit of a "happy 90th birthday, grandson!" situation.

i bought crazy taxi on there for like 2 dollars a long time ago. it seemed like a fever dream then, and it does now.

Maybe I'll get the shining force in before its all gone. ✌️

PS - if you have an android phone you should have downwell, SOTN, and Huntdown on there 👍

what a ***** sandwich.

@PHEAL

you are welcome to shop around, there are even some alternatives linked here that you may enjoy. ✌️

there are other gaming related websites on the internet?

@Razieluigi

"Can't play a proper game of chess without wood paneling."

Finally, someone said it! It's true for duelling AI, it's true for IRL.

google's ai can't give me the artist and song, based on lyrics I input, to save its life. which seems odd to me, because if I google the exact same lyrics, 99/100 I get the artist and song title, top line.

can't it just like, train some more? i guess i don't get it, still.

the toilet over there
will bring you luck
so give up
i got no time to spare

@KingMike

the big one that I remember was the "All Bonds" code in GoldenEye. That was EGM, right?

I still love my CRTs one year+ later! 😊✌️

does anyone else collect them for the different vibes? I really like my silver 24" wega and 27" sharp xflat (a really good wega clone, imo,) but i also have a 27" RCA entertainment series from the early 00s that is black, and has a big round domey screen, and theres just something about it that feels RIGHT, especially with an N64 hooked up with Svideo. 🥰 if my eyes could get a hug from a tv, this one would offer it.

@Soupbones

i never hear anyone talk about Blackbird! 😊👍👍

that being said I can't stand playing it but what a cool game !! 😅

this is like using a satellite dish in place of two-cans-connected-by-a-string.

@MoriyaMug

I agree! one of the most polished NES games I played as a kid, along with Kirby's Adventure and Mario 3. 👍

My favorite Megaman games are 3, 6, 7, 8, and X. Nothing wrong with 4 and 5 I just didnt play them very much if at all! 😅 and 2 is obviously great but it isn't special to me and if I just throw it in there I'm basically choosing every game in the series lol.

"I LiKe EV-ry BoY!"

megaman 6 is underrated.

these games are more fun if you turn the difficulty all the way down, lives all the way up, and see how far you can get on one credit per run. IMO ✌️👍

I f'n LOVE this game!!

that guy looks like a lot of fun.

WARNING: a tiny battleship - King Fossil - is approaching fast!

PS - do we just call any small model a "minifigure," now?

(there are two generic words for essentially "small sculpture" that I can think of: "figurine" and "statuette." ✌️)

my little brother and i used to pause the game too catch the characters in funny frames of animation

also i remember reading the character bios in the instruction manual and realizing how silly it all was 😂

still, mortal Kombat always seemed far sillier to me, and not always in a good way

@mr_benn

"Dhalsim's stretchy arms used to drive me absolutely mad!"
fireballs are your friend ✌️👍

"Konami was trying to prevent loss sales from people renting the game and beating it too quickly"

I think it's interesting that they thought people would rush out and buy a game with no password or save system and super cheese difficulty after renting it over a weekend.

@Damo

" It feels like less than that when you watch the film tbh"

Totally agree! before I googled it I was ready to guess more like 8 minutes. 😂

i was curious, so I looked it up: Fight Club contains about 20 minutes of actual fighting, according to a random article. i believe it.

honestly an open world RPG with stealth action type gameplay wouldve been a better adaptation IMO. ✌️

cool article! forgot about this game completely

I've needed some genuinely promising news, thank you! ✌️

@KainXavier

"I know I'm just some rando on the internet, but keep being you. I love most of your posts, and you seem like a pretty decent human being."

hey, I knew there was a nice reply that I forgot to get back to! and now I found you. ☺️ the positive feedback is much appreciated! especially coming from a veteran user who rarely comments 👍✌️ thanks, and I will do 🤠

this is why i gave up on collecting (new) games a decade ago. it's only gotten (much) worse.

*"Original script is great for Working Design fans
Original script is bad news for Working Design haters"*

YES! finally a tacit acknowledgement that many, many "cons" cut both ways! 😂 ✌️

great review! I still own my PSX copies of both, but I might get into this if it's as good as the suiko hd collection that I'm currently enjoying 😄

I bought Murtop on some kind of crazy sale (9 cents maybe? not more than 2 dollars for sure) and while it didnt "hook" me, I did appreciate the effort and I plan to try it again, maybe with another person (lol my wife who are we kidding.)

Didn't the headline say "14 months" earlier today? 🤔

EDIT - a day later, i just realized this was also covered on Nintendo life 😅✌️

looks like my very first 3rd party controller ever, a "quickshot" for SNES

@Damo

I understand, more than you'll... never know. 😏

but yeah that's what a six button pad is for! 🥂