Man, I think it's great that this is finally getting localized. I never thought it would actually happen, and I'm glad I can have the game without it being attached to NSO when that service inevitably closes. Otherwise, the game would just be completely lost without emulation on another device. It's also not much more expensive, if at all, from an NES Virtual Console game.
Is the vault trend everyone's been talking about really any different than the Kirby and Mario collections that came out for a limited time on Wii? Hell, the Mario collection ended up getting re-printed with Nintendo Selects too. We can argue that was shitty too, but outsidd of these games being availabke digitally, Nintendo has been doing this with anniversary collections specifically for years.
I get that the practice sucks, but the fact that this exists at all is pretty crazy to me, and it's unfortunate that pretty much all of the discourse is now gonna be centered on it being a limited-time release instead of an example of a company actually caring enough to get older games in people's hands.
