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- Oh look, it's a Switch Pro Amazon listing, amid more rumors of its imminent announcement
- Why did I wait so long to play Undertale?
- Konami's Time Pilot '84 is this week's Arcade Archives release
| Oh look, it's a Switch Pro Amazon listing, amid more rumors of its imminent announcement Posted: 30 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Switch Pro rumors are on overdrive. I mean...Nintendo rumor mongering is kinda always hyperactive. But with outlets like Bloomberg getting on the train this year, it's been a little more interesting than just random Twitter insiders saying "it's coming" every month and then correctly "predicting" a first-party game announcement. Amid several rumors from the game writing circle that Nintendo plans to announce the Switch Pro soonish (even before E3!), Bloomberg reports that the Switch Pro could come "as soon as September." The newest info alleges that the Pro unit will actually "replace" the original (with it being "phased out over time"), and that Nintendo intends to sell it above the typical $299.99 asking price. Allegedly, Nintendo has secured the semiconductors needed for this massive rollout, and assembly will "begin" in July. Thanks to Twitter account Nintendeal we now have a more active lead, as Amazon Mexico listed a "New Nintendo Switch Pro" model on the site: the listing has since been taken down. No one knows why Nintendo announces things on the days and random mornings they do: it's their way. I've heard numerous stories of the publisher intending to reveal something at X time, only to move it to Y, which might be the next day or weeks/months away. It's very clear that this is an important, delicate announcement, and Nintendo needs to get the messaging right. If Bloomberg is correct and it will "replace" the original model, they need to have some sort of FAQ ready to answer everyone's concerns. Exactly when the original will be "phased out over time" is likely part of that messaging. Nintendeal [Twitter] Thanks John!  |
| Why did I wait so long to play Undertale? Posted: 30 May 2021 09:00 AM PDT Have you ever been too intimidated to play a video game? I think I’m mature enough to say that I have been on multiple occasions. Usually, it’s with a survival horror title. I’m a sucker for the stories of those games, but a massive coward when it comes to the actual scares. To give you an idea of how easily I frighten, I barely made it through Gone Home. I’m sure there are many great games and narratives I’ve missed over the years because the expectation of jump scares and pure dread intimidated me too much to actually give it a go. Undertale was another title that intimidated me. Not because of its content, of course. I’ve known since before it released it was an RPG inspired by the likes of Earthbound and Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, which are both right up my alley. But every time I approached the possibility of popping the game into my Switch, I’d have people giving me a reason not to. Namely, the fanbase. We are long past the point when Undertale was at the center of the gaming zeitgeist, but at the height of its popularity, some fans on the internet took their obsession with it way too far. A cursory Google search of “Undertale fans toxic” will bring up a wide variety of articles and videos on the problem. I was warned that I shouldn’t talk about the game on Twitter if I wasn’t doing a pacifist run, lest I invoke the wrath of strangers with an internet connection and way too much time on their hands. In hindsight, I should have realized nobody gives a shit about my Twitter account and just done it anyway. But at the time, that was enough for me to never open my Switch copy. It’s sat on my shelf ever since, accumulating dust and hopefully, a respectable resell value on eBay. As the years passed and the frenzy over the game subsided, the itch to play it stayed with me. Seeing Sans appear in Smash Bros. only added to that desire, but it was after I went through Moon last year that I realized I'd waited long enough. I made a pact with myself to play the game within the year, and when it was added to Xbox Game Pass back in March, I knew the time had come.  |
| Konami's Time Pilot '84 is this week's Arcade Archives release Posted: 30 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT Another week, another classic shmup from Hamster's Arcade Archives, bringing the quarter-munchers of yesteryear onto today's platforms. This week sees the return of Konami's space shootin' sequel Time Pilot '84, now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Released on the arcade scene in — unsurprisingly — 1984, Time Pilot '84: Further into Unknown Worlds is the sequel to Konami's own Time Pilot, but chooses to switch out the timezone-hopping, jet-fighter gameplay of the original for a free-roaming perspective, a spaceship, and a more structured "futuristic" setting. Players guide the vessel as it fends off hordes of enemies attacking from all directions. A deft hand for evasion and pixel-perfect aiming are required if the player wishes to stay alive, destroy the baddies, and combat each stage's Silver Space Boss. Honestly, the game bears little to no relation to its predecessor, suggesting that this was a separate project adapted to capitalize on the original's success. Time Pilot '84 is available to download now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at around $8. Check out the action in the video below, courtesy of YouTuber Old Classic Retro Gaming.  |
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