The SNES updates are always going to outshine any NES updates, very excited to finally play a legit version of Star Fox 2 and I'm always done for a run through Kirby Superstar
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Breath of Fire II, Star Fox 2, Super Punch Out!!, Kirby Super Star coming to SNES NSO. Journey to Silius and Cystalis coming to NES NSO 12/12
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Contra 3 is not happening due to the collections but i would kill for mystical ninja
I'd say Crystalis disproves that, it's on the snk40th collection
Were people really still buying them? I thought that bubble burst hard after the NES Classic boom.
Late 94 the ESRB was in existence, Nintendo started becoming a lot more lenient.
Mystical Ninja is a secret killer app. Looking forward to more people experiencing that series greatness.
I figure SNK are more lenient about this stuff than Konami tbh.
Ha, Nintendo manages to kill the SNES Mini and the SNK Collection with one update! :P
Seriously though, all six of these are great, outside of the usual caveats about whether you enjoy each genre or whatnot. BOF2's translation is terrible (though still workable) and Starfox 2 seems to be a love-or-hate game (it's one of the best in the series for me), but I think people will find something to like here (both NES titles are lesser known too).
We...get more than JPN? What? What?
(Seriously, it's not like BOF2 isn't available to them and there's no barriers to Punch-Out outside of it not being as popular over there)
Route-16 looks fun though, I'll have to try that out. Interesting to note that it's Sunsoft, as is Silius. We already have other Sunsoft games on NSO but this is just more reason to expect their catalog (Gimmick!).
Getting Crystalis is also amazing. I wouldn't quite say games in collections are on the table (SNK and Konami are very different beasts), but we might see more of SNK's NES output, though...Crystalis is honestly the best one. If we still got regular updates it wouldn't be much of an issue though.
Seriously though, all six of these are great, outside of the usual caveats about whether you enjoy each genre or whatnot. BOF2's translation is terrible (though still workable) and Starfox 2 seems to be a love-or-hate game (it's one of the best in the series for me), but I think people will find something to like here (both NES titles are lesser known too).
We...get more than JPN? What? What?
(Seriously, it's not like BOF2 isn't available to them and there's no barriers to Punch-Out outside of it not being as popular over there)
Route-16 looks fun though, I'll have to try that out. Interesting to note that it's Sunsoft, as is Silius. We already have other Sunsoft games on NSO but this is just more reason to expect their catalog (Gimmick!).
Getting Crystalis is also amazing. I wouldn't quite say games in collections are on the table (SNK and Konami are very different beasts), but we might see more of SNK's NES output, though...Crystalis is honestly the best one. If we still got regular updates it wouldn't be much of an issue though.
I was innitially excited about the amount we are getting but then I remembered we got nothing for 2 months...
Earthbound will happen eventually, though "eventually" could be anywhere from January to 2023. The others are unlikely but not impossible. Square has not supported the NSO yet but did sign on for the NES and SNES minis.
(Secret of Mana is probably least likely due to the Mana Collection, and Square does have mobile versions of the rest they could port, though obviously the FF games are a bit different than the originals)
Excited for Super Punch Out
But the day the original DKC and Super Mario All-Stars is released...... ohhhh boy!!
Also Super International Cricket would be a blast too.
But the day the original DKC and Super Mario All-Stars is released...... ohhhh boy!!
Also Super International Cricket would be a blast too.
Capcom doesn't really give a sh*t about Breath of Fire do they?
Well, at least this means I don't have to pay for a collection. I just wish there was a way for BoF3 and BoF4 to be re-released somehow.
Well, at least this means I don't have to pay for a collection. I just wish there was a way for BoF3 and BoF4 to be re-released somehow.
you mean I could have been playing BoF I all this time?! I thought that was BoF II on there.
Well fuck.
You would think with Nintendo's partnership with Koei-Tecmo they would throw us niche title lovers a bone and give us Gemfire/Royal Blood...
Great update. The West definitely won this time, but having Famicom Wars is cool. (Reminder, it's pretty easy to get the Famicom/Super Famicom apps on a western Switch.)
Now please give us Earthbound Beginnings so it's not stuck on the Wii U.
Now please give us Earthbound Beginnings so it's not stuck on the Wii U.
It'd be neat if they gave us Earthbound Beginnings and Earthbound in the same batch; that'd keep me busy for a little bit.
Journey to Silius was incredible when it came out. I rented it as a kid and was just blown away by the music and animation Sunsoft got out of the NES. Their 8-bit stuff was legendary, too bad they fell off so hard in the 16-bit era :/
Crystalis was another positive rental surprise. A solid 2nd tier Zelda clone with nice visuals.
I liked Breath of Fire II fine when I played through it on Wii U. It's a solid if generic 16-bit jrpg. It does what it's supposed to and your sidekick is a dog man.
Crystalis was another positive rental surprise. A solid 2nd tier Zelda clone with nice visuals.
I liked Breath of Fire II fine when I played through it on Wii U. It's a solid if generic 16-bit jrpg. It does what it's supposed to and your sidekick is a dog man.
I'm all about Crystalis, so underrated! Never played Breath of Fire II, even though I loved the first one. Going to give that one a try for sure. Overall, all great choices. Hopefully Earthbound comes at some point.
Very excited for Kirby Superstar; I've had the itch to play it for about the 1,000th time with my partner after we finished Dream Land 3 on Switch earlier this year, so this is great timing
Super Punch-Out is also def getting added to the rotation
Super Punch-Out is also def getting added to the rotation
I'm pretty damn excited to finally play Super Punch Out.
Missing the DKC 25th anniversary seems a bit odd. Maybe we'll get the 1-3 combo someday.
Missing the DKC 25th anniversary seems a bit odd. Maybe we'll get the 1-3 combo someday.
Earthbound was on Wii U, don't see any reason it couldn't resurface here.
Big meh on the SNES stuff, since those are games done to death already and they aren't that interesting (though Super Star was the one game I felt was sorely lacking from SNES NSO at launch), but the NES lineup is ace! Eager to play Silius and while Crystalis is on SNK 40th, it's still a good game others should check out and enjoy. Hoping for more obscure gems like those to be in the next quarterly batch of games. Give us stuff like Axelay, Lufia, Cybernator, and Super Valis IV for SNES NSO! No need to rely on the boring stuff forever, surprise people with something new to play. (Especially since Nintendo now has pretty much zero available first party games to release on SNES NSO that don't require another party in play, and they mostly ran out of NES stuff)
Yikes. If I was in Japan I'd be pretty darn upset at that lineup. Famicom Wars is decent but dated, and Route 16 feels like a huge joke when the superior Arcade Archives port is available and when the US gets one of Sunsoft's better gems. This at least means Gimmick is almost assured though. Was hoping they'd put out FE Gaiden over there and maybe Earth Bound Beginnings.
Yikes. If I was in Japan I'd be pretty darn upset at that lineup. Famicom Wars is decent but dated, and Route 16 feels like a huge joke when the superior Arcade Archives port is available and when the US gets one of Sunsoft's better gems. This at least means Gimmick is almost assured though. Was hoping they'd put out FE Gaiden over there and maybe Earth Bound Beginnings.
Shrug look at it this way, better one solid one month dump of quality instead of alternating months with 2 each a month
Nintendo NEVER, and I mean NEVER does VC releases based on game anniversaries. The only games that launched based on their anniversaries have been stuff like Pokemon and Earthbound Beginnings that were made by other companies who wanted to time it with the anniversary. Everything else has just come out whenever because that's how they do things. They didn't launch ALTTP on Wii U when ALBW was out. They didn't launch Zero Mission when it was the 10th anniversary of it. They didn't launch PMD Rescue Team when it was the series' 10th anniversary either, they did so the next year. Nintendo just rereleases their own classics whenever they feel like it, and it's always been that way.
Though for those who think SNK's just being the one that's lenient on the collection aspect, keep in mind RAF WORLD is coming to a Sunsoft Switch compilation set for Japan next year so that one is also part of a compilation, yet is on NSO. I think Konami's stuff will still come out, just later
Awesome lineup of games. I'm really glad they are digging into the more obscure stuff for NES Online.
Earthbound Beginnings was on the Wii U VC. There's always been hope for that game. The shocker will be if it doesn't come over.
Games like Crystalis and Journey to Silius were never released on any Virtual Console service. This is better than VC ever was for both NES and SNES software.
For you and anyone else planning to play this game, for the love of god please don't stop playing after you breeze through normal mode and wonder "wait, that was it??". The harder modes don't just increase the difficulty of the game, they offer much more content! More planets, bigger interiors, different enemies and bosses, more situations on the map, etc! That's where the real meat and fun of the game lies!!
I know, I was just concerned that Beginnings (and SF2) was just a one off release locked to it's respective platform for the foreseeable future (Beginnings never showing up on 3DS VC was always a little weird to me)
But yeah, as far as first party stuff is concerned, this is easily their best offering since the Wii VC days. Shame about the staggered updates, though.
