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Owlboy has peaked my interest, especially since it's getting a physical release at the end of the month .

Isn't shovel knight an 8-bit themed game? .

So I'm in the mood to play something retro inspired. The thing is I LOVE pixel art, but somehow I feel that a lot of indie developers don't exactly get it always right and it can feel very cheap). Notable exceptions that I've played in recent years were Sonia Mania and Freedom Planet (say what you w...

Anybody on this board still watch this crap? I literally forced myself to watch season 8 and missed the mid season finale and had no idea it started up last night. I need to catch episode 8 and last nights, only because I've already invested too much to quit on this show even though it's went downh...

The virtual console didn't get me into retro gaming, but it sure gave me the opportunity to try out gems that I never heard of before. The hightlight for me was definitly Kirby's Adventure, which might have been the best Kirby game I ever played till Tripple Deluxe came out (before that I always tho...

I guess I'm really in the minority with this one, but I really saw Freedom Planet as its own thing. I saw it as a game that's a combination of Sonic, megaman and a beat em up. That's why it didn't bother me that the enemies took so many hits to destroy, I thought of that as a natural part of this ty...

Segata wrote:Japan still has the 1up on the west on robots and those suits they wear to lift the elderly in and out of bed.

And toilets. (and I'm not even joking here)

Seem plentiful. Seen a quite few lined out in the local chain of trade-in shops. Granted, CeX are charging 140e/$173 for the privilege of owning a 2nd hand one, so maybe they're just not shifting. In the Netherlands they come back into stock from time to time (and in Greece they were in stock every...

casterofdreams wrote:As a New Yorker I felt something similar when GTA IV came out. They did a great job with both games for sure.

Well there goes any chance of ever seeing a GTA game in a European city again. The streets were just not made for cars to go fast

MrPopo wrote:They put together a website with PDFs of all the manuals if I recall correctly. I know it definitely had the Earthbound guide in it.

I haven't read any of them tbh. But it's true, they have a QR code in place of the manual in the game

So that is a carry over from the first Metroid; you also had to freeze them and then missile them. It was explicitly called out in the Metroid manual and I don't remember if it was called out in the Super Metroid manual. Since I was playing it on the snes mini anyway and since Nintendo was too chea...