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That's cool that original team members have been helping shape the modern entries.

I was about to unironically comment "That's quite a pedigree!" without noticing the pun, but I caught myself. Crisis averted.

They got the fist-raised jumping right, the most important thing.

I gave the Jumping Flash games a go not too long ago for some 3D platformer history. Super weird, very clunky, but quite impressive!

Man, I'm such a sucker for parallax scrolling, even to this day...

I'm kind of rogue-d out at the moment, but I like the idea. Color me intrigued.

Quest 64 meets Bloodborne, at least visually? How interesting.

Hmm, looks a little underwhelming to me, honestly, but I'm always down for more adventure games in this style, so I wish him luck! I'll be sure to look into it at release.

Damn do I wish they'd re-release the Guardian Heroes XBLA version.

I've only ever experienced this series via the arcades of Yakuza Kiwami 2, which let you play a version of Ontario Tangent. It was a lot of fun.

Edit: Sorry, Oricalchum Tango*

@Damo Just a heads-up, there's a typo in the first sentence: "conicide."

This is very cool. Kando's work is always impressive.

"God, this new movie looks terrible, sure hope I can catch an early screening so I can take a dump in the theater..."

@MegaManFan That's cool, seeing approval in the comments of a site like this is like kind of "recommendation vetting" for me, haha. Lots of retro tech enthusiast channels out there of varying quality.

I somehow haven't heard of Game Sack before. Thanks for the tip!

I'll be excited to check out the EGM documentary when it releases. I had a subscription when I was a kid and bought the last issue as an adult after I heard they were done. Very fun magazine, great coverage, and they (I believe) are responsible for bringing the Famitsu style of reviews to the West, with four reviewers scoring the game separately out of 10, because they wanted to follow the example set by Japan's best. At least, that's what I recall reading.

Video game news is delightfully weird sometimes. Time to do a deep dive on sound novels!

-Edit- Google led to me to Giant Bomb, where the entry on "sound novel" was last edited by none of other than Bowl of Lentils! https://www.giantbomb.com/sound-novel/3015-9258/ if anyone's curious.

So the graze mechanic is kind of like the "near miss" mechanic of Burnout or Crazy Taxi, rewarding risky maneuvering? What an interesting idea for shoot 'em up.

That cover art alone makes me want to pick it up!

Nevermind, the excerpts I just read are terrible, amateurish writing. Furthermore, the author said some racist things and then publicly celebrated "beating cancel culture" after the publisher walked back the action they said they'd take about it. More info for anyone curious: https://www.resetera.com/threads/bitmap-books-under-fire-after-resurfaced-tweets-author-of-newest-book-apology-issued-then-kinda-retracted.1318267/

Great read. I really enjoyed seeing the history of G&W on GameCenter CX.

@rob7979 @mr_benn A G&W collection by Digital Eclipse, perhaps? With the Gold Master Series, interactive documentary treatment? I know I'm dreaming too big, but the idea is very cool to me.

I doubt we'll get an English version of this, but I'd love to be wrong.

Having recently completed Atari 50, I have a better (though still quite limited!) idea of how difficult a project like this is. Very cool.

I used to really like Aspyr, back when it seemed like they did decent work. What a shame.

The name "Phoenix Wright" truly encapsulates how tricky it can be to localize things. We often take it for granted in this hobby, which is one reason I appreciate articles like this!

I love that old games like this get unofficial "updates." I'll have to check out the rumble-fied versions at some point.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant I only discovered the PICO-8 scene and the whole "fantasy console" concept in general late last year. It's fascinating. I hunched over my mobile screen and played a fun little crafting/puzzle game to completion in under an hour!