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One of my favorite SNES games. I loved that you got extra scenes in the ending if you finished in one sitting without letting anyone's lives hit 0.

The thing is I find modern bullet hell type games waaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier than older shmups like Raiden and the like. The bullet hell games' player ships have tiny hitboxes and the patterns are fair and reward smart play. In older shmups there are way fewer bullets but your ship's hitbox is much larger and the bullets will come at you VERY quickly from enemies positioned to steal your quarter.

Gunvein is a recent bullet hell shmup that actually teaches some of the genre's fundamentals, and it wasn't that long ago that Jamestown+ dropped with an approach to, well, approachability which let players tackles levels one at a time with multiple difficulty levels and a great story to tie it all together.

@smoreon They're good and very melancholy games. Sadness abounds in backstories and in-game events both, including some that I still think about to this day, for better AND worse.

BoF4 is not my favorite one, but it's real interesting that it has just been re-released...

@Trundlebug Agreed. There's nothing more annoying than when a review tries to put some controversy on the forefront like it matters for duck all. Do that separately, or not at all.

But but if Nintendo lets Nightdive do it how is Nintendo going to bolt on nuisance features like forcing mouse mode with backwards-ass controls (that cannot be remapped) designed by Miyamoto-san himself?

@jesse_dylan 100% correct. It's a demo, a proof of concept. But hey, can't do anything with AI without the fearmongers throwing a fit.

@Profchaos if you look at the battery and it isn't puffing up like a balloon, you're probably fine. If still in doubt, show it to the staff at a phone/tablet repair shop.

Sometime late last year we had not 1, not 2, but 4 (!) lithium batteries in our household get bloated. One from a laptop, one from a Switch Pro Controller, one from a cell phone, and yes, one from an old PSP.

Though idle lithium batteries blowing up is a rare thing, it's still dangerous. Keep tabs on all the things in your house that use lithium batteries.

Still better than Final Fantasy 11.

I like it.

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I don't wear watches, but if I did it'd be one of these.

@smoreon A true pioneer. RIP though.

Just goes to show that gaming journalism has always been rather mid.

@MARl0 V-sync will only fix one of these things lol

The "Place vs. Place, Japan" meme made manifest.

Oh man I'm a huge fan of Infinity Gene. I can't wait to not purchase or play this because ***** Apple Arcade.

Bring back Pac Man 99

Gotta grab this before Nintendo Nintendos.

@drypaphmrbro Yeah. It's a simple platformer but it plays well. If you need something deeper though, it may not be for you.

@drypaphmrbro It's a great game! But I haven't played it in a while; I don't recall who voices who.

Nah, one is hopeful and the other is just a bitter man's fetishization about the end of humanity.

I liked my Arzette special edition stuff, and am currently wearing said t-shirt under my work shirt. So good on THAT, but yeah, LRG been taking loads of Ls lately.

He makes a very good point.

@slider1983 Here's hoping.

Even though you could, you shouldn't.

This looks like the Amico version of the game, which admittedly looked like fun.

Shame about the Amico. Some of those games looked cool. I hope they see the light of day on other platforms.

You need both: a) to be superhuman; and 2) to be extraordinarily lucky with RNG.

Devils you know and devils you don't. The "sides" only pretend to hate each other as they rile up their demographics against the others.

That said: no, it won't affect the things I'm going to buy, but I'm already pretty frugal with my gaming purchases and prefer to play what I have than yearn for what I don't.

Seems easy to read looks like about 25:80 GM.

@poyo_pie Agreed 100%.

For this alone I hope someone finds a way to rip the models from the PS5 version. Just to piss off these puritans.

Also @poyo_pie is most likely correct; they couldn't port it well so they're virtue signaling instead.

I'm torn because while I do think these companies should provide free rollback when they can AND SNK has been one of them before, I also get that doing so ain't cheap.

BUT some of my sympathy evaporates when I remember how so many people 15 years ago begged and pleaded with Capcom, SNK, and ArcSys to PLEASE use rollback netcode like SF2 HD Remix did so well, and all three were like "lol but what if we don't."

Loads. Just a few:

• Every NES Double Dragon looks worse but plays way, way, way better than its arcade counterpart.
• SNES Turtles in Time is missing 4-player co-op (2 max) and some animations, but has additional stages and bosses, and changes that make it better than the arcade version.
• NES Castlevania is way better than the arcade Haunted Castle.
• PSX Tekken 3 outdoes the arcade original (despite less RAM).

@Razieluigi Maybe it's pirate-themed.

Classic DOOM will never die. Can't wait until someone gets WADs and DeHackEd patches working so I can play Strain in a PDF.

This looks intriguing. I'm not a "buh buh muh CRT blur" purist despite having grown up in the 80s and 90s, so something like this outputting nice crisp pixels and with minimal input lag would be a dream.

I need this season in my mouth.

Not the greatest of performances but you cannot deny the band's energy.

Can't wait for that second season.

Anyone offended by a Punch Out character is in dire need of some real human contact.

The only thing offensive about Punch Out is that the Wii game was a full priced thing instead of a WiiWare title. Oh, and that some people think Punch Out is a fighting game, but that's less offensive than asking full price for an XBLA game.

Love the art.

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Please finish this before the C&D hits...

@PopetheRev28 Ima pump up CHA and win that roll.

I need to secure the rights to Brave Fencer Musashi somehow.

Mighty No. 9 is like Mega Man X6: islands of greatness in a sea of mediocrity. I still had my fun with it and I hope one day it gets the sequel it deserves.

@mganai77 I avoid Kotaku like the plague so I'll pass on reading that.

But Sony's just another evil corpo, so it don't take much to convince me that Nintendo accepting the deal might've been bad for both companies.

Have they added the true final boss?

Good that it didn't end up being a thing back then. The PSX was amazing and we owe its existence to Nintendo being dumb.

That said, I like the look of this unit and a custom shell in its image would be neat.

Why articles need editors.

The gist is that US games were made harder because of our rental systems and return policies, Buster Busts Loose specifically locked out level passwords and made the good ending very hard to obtain on real hardware.