PixlBit

I'm really liking the game so far. I've gotten two hours into it.

It was a step down from the original, which is on my short list of recent classics. It isn't bad. I can't even say it's disappointing, because I knew it wasn't going to measure up to the original.

I preordered the CE. Haven't cracked it yet though.

I just started playing Memories of Celceta. I just recently learned that it was patched by Sony to work with the PSTV, so I picked it up today. Apparently that happened back in October.

Still haven't finished it. I got derailed by Fallout 4 and am now working on Valkyria Chronicles for PS4. It's a great game with a lot of Arthurian allusions, but I just have too many good games to play. Where's the First World Problems girl meme?

Loving Nihon Falcom lately. Ys 7, Trails of Cold Steel, and I'm really hoping the PS4 version of Ys 8 comes over.

I got the PS4 version on sale, but I have my PS2 original, and the strategy guide my wife got me for the PS2 version. One of the last great 6th gen games at a time when the 7th gen hadn't really taken off.

I played the second game, which I guess is a sequel to the first game. You're apparently supposed to rescue the same girls you were arresting in the first game.

Metroid really illustrates Nintendo's cultural myopia - to a degree. The series was never popular at all in Japan, so that was a strike against it right there. I'm pretty sure that Other M was meant to appeal to Japanese gamer sensibilities, but that didn't work, either, the game sold worse there than here. The game mechanics were honestly the most troublesome part of that game for me, since I didn't have a lot invested in Samus as a character.  And I always wanted a third-person Metroid. Even the Prime games, though I enjoyed the first and third games, were lacking some of the Metroid magic for me because a lot of Metroid's signature power ups didn't really work with Prime's mechanics.

However, to be somewhat fair to Nintendo, regardless of their half-assed handling of what is considered one of their signature series, even in the US it never sold anywhere close to the level of Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, or even a few of the "lesser" Nintendo properties, particularly given the resources Nintendo sank into it when they did decide to give it a go. I think Super Metroid managed to crawl past just over a million units, which was probably eclipsed by Donkey Kong Country within a couple of weeks.That Nintendo invested in Metroid Prime at all, let alone to the degree it did, was more than anyone could have hoped for, though Nintendo also needed some killer content for the Gamecube which was another impetus behind Prime.

I played Time Crisis in the arcades a few times. My all time favorite light gun game is Battle Clash on SNES.