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I always saw the char select screen as just. How the characters looked lol. Matches with the rest of the games bonkers visual humor, never liked the more traditional moe anime look the series adopted as it went on lmao.

@Daggot There’s actually footage of the new Shinobi game and it looks to possibly be their best game yet, going for a similar style 3 did with the emphasis on Japanese folklore mixed with a dark industrial atmosphere

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSV1VjcFqa8&pp=ygUQTmV3IHNoaW5vYmkgZ2FtZQ%3D%3D

Can’t be mad cause this is what likely led to them starting that new shinobi game and shinobi has literally been my no 1 series that needed to make a comeback

Plus there’s fingerjet black or whatever being made by the og devs too so it’s not the end of the world

@NinChocolate The Genesis version of caveman ninja is better too since it maintains the ghouls and ghosts styled gameplay of the arcade game making for a more faithful experience than the snes one, but also gets rid of the god-awful adventure island styled hunger system that completely ruined the flow of the coin-op original, thank god😵‍💫

@Sketcz Pocky and rocky too, the og Kiki kaikai is kinda doodoo feces, lmao.
Super Darius 2 is another taito port I prefer to the home game, mainly for having more interesting boss fights and the smaller screen space imo giving the game a faster feeling.

@GhaleonUnlimited Exactly! It’s why it frustrates me when people say the genesis was the best console for beat em ups purely for streets of rage and refuse to look at any other brawler that ISNT bare knuckle or final fight, there’s a really huge problem with shortsighted preferences in online gaming discussion and it’s always frustrated me, lol.

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There is no such thing as not being able to achieve something on a set console, it just takes skill and creativity lol. We live in a world where there’s an entire snes rtx demo for gods sake lmao.

Salamander and gradius 2 on the pc engine, for having better sound, an actual reasonable difficulty with the ability to continue, and extra content like adjustable options and an extra stage in the latter port. The sega cd version of final fight too for toning down the bs enemy ai of the original game and having less overwhelming waves of enemies, as well as having a more pleasing warm color palette and the obviously amazing redbook audio.
I think the best one tho has GOT to be double dragon 2 both on pc engine and nes. The og arcade game is just a weak retooling of the og game with weird level themeing, whereas the console versions(barring Genesis LMFAO) turn it into a completely different and fantastic game with great visuals for their systems, fun intuitive combat and pretty good level variety, especially with the pseudo-platforming stages in the nes game. AND, both games still keep in the good elements from the arcade game, like the creepy shadow self boss fight, the surprisingly dark story, and the lovably goofy boss characters like Burnov and the overweight Terminator lol.

Genuinely Sega is slowly becoming worse than Nintendo at this point why in gods name would you threaten legal action against a MAGAZINE for simply MENTIONING YOUR GAME in an article, like not even Disney is that deranged. Who tf is in charge of sega nowadays, Mr burns? Lmfao

Literally the ONLY thing Switch has going for it anymore in terms of actual games is the stuff Nintendo themselves puts out imo. Everything else is either better on other platforms or is slop like “kids puzzle boobplooza hentai girl waifu puzzle” with ai generated artwork used for the store icon. There are barely ANY non-Nintendo developed Switch exclusive games, and even FEWER that aren’t some of the most miserable gaming experiences ever, lol.

@calbeau as someone whos played a ton of vitors games, don't worry, its not as bad as it sounds. His games are essentially streets of rage 2 brawlers with simple levels that focus on including a ton of villains as midbosses, and the large cast plays fairly similar to eachother like in a typical brawler, think those lego dc games where the large casts all play mainly the same and its moreso just about playing as ur fav character!

It only took then Mighty No. 9 years,,.,.,.,.,.,..

@X68000 I want to like MD ESWAT so badly but once you get the mech suit the game becomes rly irritating since you have a giant hitbox and lose a lot of the agility you had in the first two stages, especially in the 4th stage where you have to dodge constant tiny slime drops jumping at you at seemingly random intervals😵‍💫

I personally think Shadow Dancer on Genesis saught to make a more faithful arcadey bite sized sequel to the original Shinobi while ironing out the weird clunkiness of arcade Shadow Dancer, as opposed to Revenge and 3 which aimed for more home console suited intricate platforming games, and I think it succeeded well in that regard.

Yeah this is like. Generationally bad handling of legacy content Jesus Christ

Between this and Paprium I’d really appreciate it if the genesis stopped being the base for insane money pit retro game scams ran by loonies with weird facial schemes😂

@X68000 Playing Revenge of Shinobi and Sonic 1 with a likely non-microswitch joystick sounds like a valid form of FBI torture

How about instead of making another f&$)ing genesis collection with the same 5 games Sega makes a compilation of their Saturn games or ports that m2 superscaler space harrier 2 remake to modern consoles or at the very least make it so you can actually stinkin GET the Genesis Mini 2 again>:/

@Guru_Larry LITERALLY!!!! like, it doesnt help they're super dickish when it comes to their legacy stuff too, taking down streets of rage remake and that golden axe openbor project, forbidding lizardcube from including joe musashi in streets of rage 4, making the MegaDrive mini 2 a limited release, not to mention how psychotically stingy they are with Sonic writers even ACKNOWLEDGING the classic side cast like The Hooligans in the modern stuff. They're one war-on-emulation away from being just as bad as the likes of Nintendo imo, if not a little bit worse since at least they like. TRY to make all of their console libraries available even if not always succesful. Sega's just been sitting on a majority of their old arcade games, literally the entire Saturn library barring Nights, the entire game gear and master system library barring the sonic games, and a significant chunk of the Dreamcast library for almost 10 years now!

@nocdaes also 5,000,000,000,000 versions of altered beast and kid chameleon for some reason

legit wish it was 2020 again so these mfs could start bleeding money

"We are not a retro company"

Meanwhile, every Sonic thing released since 2009: "WOAH TAILS REMEMBER SONIC "GREEN HILLS ZONE" 1 WOAH THIS REMINDS AME OD FONIC 2 WHEN I WAS IN CHEMICAL PLANBT ZONE GOING 1992 SUPER SONIC (TM) TO STOPP THE DEATH EGG ROBOT(TM) IN THE DEATH EGG MARK I (TM) BACK IN 1992 GEEZ REMEMBER WHEN EGGMAN, WHO IS ACTUALLY NAMED DR. (TM) IVO(TM) ROBOTNIK(TM) TRIED TAKING OVER LITTLE PLANET (TM) OK SHADOW CAN YOU GIVE US THE 500000000TH MARIA GETTING SHOT BACKSTORY WHILE MONOLOGUING ABOUT BLACK DOOM AGAIN OK THANK YOU WOA REMEMBER CHEMICAL PLANT??????111111"

Yeah no wonder they're on the verge of bankruptcy lmfao.

Anyways buy Connie and the essence of Chaos when it comes out on Steam instead of this

Darius content, that means it’s time for my annual reminder to y'all to play super Darius II on the PC engine. Way more than just a watered down arcade port like you’d typically see at the time and stands toe to toe with Darius Gaiden and Darius burst as the best game in the series IMO.

@Blast16 funny coincidence ur pfp is the mega drive because I was about to pop in and say that this looks cool but the m2 genesis Darius port will always be the best way to play the og imo lol.

@bluemage1989 yeah god forbid people want to get paid and be able to keep themselves afloat what a preposterous thought🙄

this isnt just about this one dev, its about how companies and rich pigs in general will start more and more relying on ai so they dont have to pay any of their workers while still being able to abuse them, and choices like this just further encourage that crap to happen.

@axelhander I dont care that he used AI art thats not my focus, I'm just pissed he didn't hire an actual artist to do these for him instead. As someone who may or may not be into doing lewd art myself i can say there are a LOT of us who would love to do similar looking pieces to what he generated for really affordable prices, so him just resorting to a machine that slaps preexisting art together instead of using the money his game makes to hire actual artists who could use the money is incredibly frustrating to see, especially with the way the world is nowadays where ceos and rich people are already trampling us artists under their feet every chance they get.

The ai art is bad enough but those awful clickbaity gooner-bait ad images alone are enough to make sure I’ll never buy this game and give the creator my money, at the very most I’ll pirate it and refuse to spread the word of the game if I DO end up enjoying it.

@PopetheRev28 I mean, fighting back in the courts can work like that too! Just give em’ the good ol’ Harvey Dent treatment if yaknowwhaddimsayin’

This is the first time I’ve seen Peter Molyneux’s name outside of those bits on Oneyplays where they imitate Guru Larry lol

How fitting that the figure line where everyone has no mouth and must scream relies on power hungry trigger happy ai to do its bidding

Buying like 50 copies of this on steam and gifting them to every single person I know like the misfit toys at the end of Rudolph LMFAO

i see this as one of two things

either

A. Some out of touch foreign guy running an account who thinks that this is the hip way to advertise and talk about your product due to the language and culture barrier

B. Some out of touch guy trying to be hip and cool with the kids!!! YEAH. GNARLY LETS GO THROW EGGS AT MRS FINCHFIELDS HOUSE WOOOAAAAHHHHHH RADICAL DONT BE A BABY SEGAGRAFX DOES WHAT NINTENDEGA GEO DONT!!!! not realizing that marketing strategy has been like. out of date for nearly 20 years

cant help but kinda sympathize with em either way since judging by the commercial its clearly a local thing run by some old guy who wants to make his product look fun, the title of this article made me think it would be some "Piko interactive ceo saying all prototypes should be trashed" level a-holery on twitter or smth but this is kinda charming. I'm kinda endeared by it. like yeah you go grandpa stick it to the physical game buyers😭

I’m. Mixed on this.
Gameplay looks near perfect to how the snes version played, no complaints there.
But man, the random metal slug and streets of rage sound effects really take me out of the whole thing, the game was perfectly fine without them and if they REALLY wanted to give enemies voice lines, they should’ve used actual grunts and laughs from the movie.

Also I hope the strongman being at the end of the first screen is just a thing for the trailer/demo and not the final game cause if the levels are gonna be shortened and mixed around like that it’ll be a HUGE turnoff from me

Still super invested in this tho! Cool to see ppl bringing one of the best Batman games to more platforms and the Christmas release date is just perfect😂

@Leynos series has always been a mixed bag. The first two arcade cabinet games were terrible, contra force is mediocre slop, 3 has those awful top down stages, the ps1 games are terrible and despite having fantastic tunnel stages and some of the best boss fights I’ve ever experienced in a run and gun contra 4’s actual level design left a lot to be desired personally. Also having limited continues and no proper save files or passwords in a 2007 ds game is inexcusable, I’m all for making games hard but they should also be accessible, make that a feature for the hardest difficulties, not how the game is just by default.

Like how Konami is doing more with this series as of late. Operation galuga was amazing and I’d kill to see 4, uprising and rebirth get modern updated ports “!

@KitsuneNight This! Sure, it was SLIGHTLY better technically with 2d effects but the system was super clunky to develop for, compared to the ps1 which was not only cheaper, but had a better range of capabilities, had a wide game library in all regions, and was much simpler and easy to create games for. This isn’t even a knock against the Saturn, it’s probably my favorite Sega console, it’s just there’s a very good reason the ps1 trampled both it and the n64 to a lesser extent on the market.

@PinballBuzzbro Well, Whaddya know?😂😂😂😂

@axelhander the problem isn’t that the ai they’re using looks bad, the problem is they used ai to begin with instead of just hiring one of the 80 trillion artists that populate the world to do it

If he isn’t gonna put the effort in to pay an artist for cover art, I shouldn’t be expected to put the effort into buying his game😂

That DK sprite is repulsive but everything else about this is really well made, props to the guy behind it all lol

The PS5 chapter is just a bunch of blank pages

@slider1983 Earnest Evans was honestly ahead of its time, imo it’s the Freddy got fingered of video games since it predicted the recent slew of games all about overcoming weird janky physics like sprint, getting over it, steppy pants, goat simulator etc. always respected it for how weird and experimental it was.

Anne Futatabi just plain sucks though that game has 0 redeemable qualities outside of the cutscenes😂

WAIT OMG I LOVE THIS TRILOGY ITS MAKING A COMEBAC-

“Edia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta-“

…Oh.

@PopetheRev28 Their ceo believes prototype roms should be destroyed and abandoned because they “play like crap” and they use stolen fanart for some of their game releases on top of going after emulation communities so that they’re releases are the only way to play the game.

Also their collections are crap, the Jim power one is held together with sticks and spit and bugged out to the point half the screen was glitched and torn out all because I used the save state feature😂💀

That is the hardest title screen I've ever seen for a video game ngl

praying that SNES the Mask game with the insane pixel art and hyper-cocaine-fueled gameplay gets widespread attention by the internet at some point as well, that whole thing is basically just pizza tower before pizza tower was a thing and it rocks

Epic my GOATS

This looks absolutely perfect omg

I’m gonna be honest M2 should get hired to make games from the ground up more nowadays like with this and haunted castle revisited, imo it’s where they show their chops best especially with how poor their 4th generation console work tends to be unfortunately.

IM GOING TO EXPLODE

And I thought the turbografx box art was bad!

@-wc- no worries, that’s completely valid:>! I’m just talking in the mindset of someone purely playing these games through collections and emulations nowadays. All viewpoints are valid!👍