I'll be playing The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of the Wisdom full time for the foreseeable future. Also loving it!

This past week I also did a whole Arcade playthrough of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge co-op online with my cousin. Our first time playing SNES ever was TMNT: Turtles in Time together back in the day, so this was really cool. They released the new DLC after our playthrough, so I tested it but I'll have to come back after Echoes.

I had also been playing TLoZ: Tears of the Kingdom while waiting for Echoes. I'll eventually get back to it and hopefully finish the story before Switch 2 comes out 😅

I stayed up late last night playing and I agree. It's such a pretty game and the puzzles with the echos are great. You can solve things in different ways, even with the X thing where you get Tri to hold on to something and follow it with R, that's such a cool mechanic. Gathering new echoes also has a Pokemony kind of appeal for me, gotta catch 'em all and see how they work! As someone else commented I do think there's quite a bit of unnecessary dialog in this one, but other than that it's been so much fun and I'm really enjoying it.

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I've only played a little so far, but yeah, the mechanics with the echoes for fighting and solving puzzles are really fun!

I just got it through the letterbox and I'm afraid to even open it since I have to work 😅

Praise Hylia 🙇

September 26. My pre-order shipped yesterday, I'm praying to Hylia it'll be delivered today 🙏

Yeah, I really like these interviews, it's fascinating to learn about the process! And how an idea can end up into something completely different but at the same time an evolution of it.

The thing is making a game that pushes the PS5 must have an obscene budget. How do you even leverage all that tech? It's "more detailed graphics", "more stuff on screen", "more effects ", etc. You need to create, design and program those assets to a very detailed level, lots of people hours. And you'd end up spending millions for a game which would end up being exclusive to PS5, which gives it less chance to sell to a wider audience and make that money back. It's a big risk.

Yeah, I wish people checked it out before voting. It's amazing!

The Orville Season 4 Reportedly Set to Begin Production In Early 2025: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-orville-season-4-reportedly-set-to-begin-production-in-early-2025/

I really hope they learned that lesson! 🤞

Both, it's part of Digital Eclipse's Gold Master Series, like Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story and The Making of Karateka.

From their website:

More than 15 playable classic games from the series' history are featured, including many being released for the first time outside Japan. Battle your friends in the multiplayer cult favorite Tetris Battle Gaiden, create massive explosions to clear lines in Super Bombliss, and see where it all began in 1984 with an accurate recreation of the first version of Tetris on the Electronika 60 computer.

‍As the next release in Digital Eclipse's acclaimed Gold Master Series, Tetris Forever includes over 90 minutes of all-new documentary footage exploring the lifelong friendship and creative partnership between Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and The Tetris Company founder Henk Rogers, as they share the extraordinary but true story about Tetris.

‍And as this celebration wouldn’t be complete without an all-new Tetris experience, prepare to enter the… Tetris Time Warp! Up to four players will "warp" between different eras of Tetris in real time to experience a variety of classic graphic styles and play mechanics!

I'm hoping for this too. But knowing Nintendo, they'll add some gimmick or innovation to it. It's hard to imagine they'll just release a more powerful Switch. Hopefully whatever they innovate with is fun and successful.

I read somewhere that one of the rumors is the joycons are going to be bigger and there's also a rumor about them being magnetic 🤷

Yes, it's part of Digital Eclipse's Gold Master Series, like Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story and The Making of Karateka.

From their website:

More than 15 playable classic games from the series' history are featured, including many being released for the first time outside Japan. Battle your friends in the multiplayer cult favorite Tetris Battle Gaiden, create massive explosions to clear lines in Super Bombliss, and see where it all began in 1984 with an accurate recreation of the first version of Tetris on the Electronika 60 computer.

‍As the next release in Digital Eclipse's acclaimed Gold Master Series, Tetris Forever includes over 90 minutes of all-new documentary footage exploring the lifelong friendship and creative partnership between Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and The Tetris Company founder Henk Rogers, as they share the extraordinary but true story about Tetris.

‍And as this celebration wouldn’t be complete without an all-new Tetris experience, prepare to enter the… Tetris Time Warp! Up to four players will "warp" between different eras of Tetris in real time to experience a variety of classic graphic styles and play mechanics!

I watched this recently and I'd be really interested in reading different interpretations! Amazing film!

Just preparing for the downvotes 😅

Haha! Here we go... raises Hylian shield

I've liked every single Zelda game I've played and I'm a big fan of the series. I think A Link to the Past is not particularly a masterpiece on its own (just my personal opinion, don't get your panties in a bunch people), but definitely a necessary evolutionary step for what came later. This is most probably because I didn't play it when it just came out. At that time, Link's Awakening was all I knew, and I must have played a Link to the Past even after Ocarina of Time. I'm assuming it must have been more "mind blowing" at the time if all you had played was the NES and Game Boy Zeldas. But in my personal experience, I had to play a lot before it grew on me, unlike the other Zelda games I've played. And that's probably a factor, I've played it after playing Ocarina Of Time, A Link Between Worlds, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild, etc...

I would rate Skyward Sword as the least enjoyable Zelda (again, personal experience and all that...), but I must say I played the HD version on Switch. The story is good, the game in general is great, but the combat with the sword is excruciatingly annoying for me on the Switch. Instead of moving the Wiimote, you use the sticks, and it's as precise and comfortable as trying to thread a needle with one hand while riding a bike on a rocky path. If they had used standard Zelda attack like other 3D Zeldas, I would rate it much higher. But it was an annoyance I never got over, and I was relieved when I finally beat it. That would be the only Zelda I haven't enjoyed that much, I'd rate A Link to the Past higher, I actually enjoyed it and got over the things that annoyed me. I still liked Link's Awakening more (probably due to being my first Zelda, and lots of experiences connected to that game) and others.

I played the demo for the new Contra and it was quite good, seems like it could be fun to play co-op. I had only played the first one on NES and maybe a little bit of one of the SNES ones. Turrican is in that same style, but maybe more exploration involved, which rewards you with 1ups and other bonuses. Did I already say the music is amazing? 😅

I finished The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past before last week's thread, but I didn't end up posting then. I think it became more fun in the end, and after getting lots of upgrades. It was worth it.

I went through my backlog and started playing Turrican from the Anthologies on Switch. I grew up playing Super Turrican and played Mega Turrican when I was a bit older. Now I'm going through every title chronologically and it's been super interesting to see the evolution. They're very fun games, but the music is just incredibly good in every single one. Chris Hülsbeck is a genius! I've finished the first two for Amiga, and playing Turrican III now, about to finish it. I'm looking forward to playing the Director's Cut version of Super Turrican and Super Turrican 2!

Oh, this could be really cool if it runs well on the Switch!