PixlBit

Happy Boxing Day!

I had to cull my collection of necessity when I came to Arizona. :( I still have old stuff in storage and there are certain gaming treasures I will never give up, like my complete-in-boxes Lunar and Lunar 2 for PS1 and my copy of Final Fantasy IX autographed by composer Nobuo Uematsu at Distant Worlds in Omaha. My Switch is turning into an impressive game collection on its own. 

I never finished Vesperie on 360 either, and I didn't realize how much of it was left when I stopped playing. I finished the Definitive Version on Switch.

I've never been a huge PC gamer. A lot of the games I enjoy aren't on PC. I've pretty much used laptops for the past ten years. And after my last Windows laptop croaked, I bought a used MacBook Air instead, and for my purposes, it's the best computer I ever owned, and I'm in no hurry to go back to Windows. So consoles it is.

If we're counting it as a new release and not a late port, and I think it has enough new content to qualify, Dragon Quest XI S for Switch.

If not, then Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Those two games stood out for me in a year packed with great releases.

Nintendo actually believed that the soundtrack was covered under fair use laws regarding parody. There's a lot of other stuff in the game itself that they would probably be kind of antsy about releasing over here without bowdlerizing it heavily and drawing an outcry from the 8chan crowd, even though they're actually more lax on content than Sony or Microsoft these days.

At one point I think a Tetris movie was under discussion.

That's pretty neat. 

One of the weirdest things I found in recent years was that the NES version of Ultima III had J-pop versions of two if its songs, with full Japanese vocals.

I was seriously hoping that Twitter would complete its visit down the drain it was circling and die forever. Then it became the White House soapbox.

In the Wii U version you can get an upgraded sail that changes the wind's direction automatically so you always catch wind. 

You can. That's how I first played it, in the CV collection on Switch. Contra: Hard Corps is likewise on the Contra collection. Those two games kind of killed some of the impetus for me to get a mini Genesis.

I don't think it was deliberate on Nintendo's part, but it was silly of him to expect Nintendo to rearrange its release schedule to accomodate them. DKC didn't happen overnight, after all, and Nintendo planned its release months in advance. Doug TenNapel and Dave Perry are both kind of prima donnas anyway.