You don’t actually get the mechanics that make the combat interesting until like 20 hours in. Once you start doing status combos and chain attacks with multiple party members and and a full party of blades, it actually becomes fun.
Donkey Kong Jr. Math.
Instead of pushing out DKJM, how about pay an intern and a translator for a day's work to translate and patch some Famicom games for English audiences?
I’m shocked it took them this long to put it on NSO. Back on the 3DS/Wii U, they would shill Urban Champion in anything that involved NES games even though no one liked it.
To be fair, the 3D Clasics were pretty neat. one of the only good reasons to have the 3D setting on. For Urban Champion specifically it changed the perspective so you were fighting on a slant. Not always, but sometimes.
There's a secret possibility that Nintendo currently own zero percent of that game. The actual code was farmed out, giving it the same issue as the original arcade DK for ports but unlike DK they don't own the IP either or, seemingly, the game concept. It never gets rereleased on any Nintendo services but did get a really ugly port to 2010 era Japanese phones with nary a "(c) Nintendo" to be found.
I remember reading about that, and allegedly the reason why the NES port skipped the cement factory level was in order to make the game "transformative" and thus avoid copyright issues with that outsourced developer. Even the gimped-ass 1983 carts would have held enough memory to have the entire DK arcade game with no issues.
Thats inaccurate. Though Nintendo did not own the arcade code, they did own the IP, having created it themselves and farmed out only the actual 1s and 0s to someone else. So while they cannot use the DK arcade code (without paying royalties) they can use everything else about the game. With Popeye its different, since King Features owns the characters and concepts, and whatever the dev's name was (blanking on it now, not looking it up, don't think its Tose but wouldn't be surprised to be wrong) owned the code. So all it took was King and "Dev" to get together and away you go with your shitty shell phone port. Fun little thinker here, DK was originally supposed to be a Popeye game, and if it had been it likely would have been just as big a hit in arcades, with Nintendo now owning none of it.
There's a lot of stinkers actually, but it's possibly the worst "real" game (not counting edutainment, mobile, gimmicky shit, etc).
For anyone who knows, is Remastered better than PrimeHack (KB+M mod for the Wii trilogy)?
It's got dual stick controls along with gyro aim, its just as good but with pretty graphics on top.
I enjoy playing different kinds of games (which also includes Japanese visual novels I didn't mention there) and I have an experience in the hobby long enough to sense off if something will please me or not. Not that I'm immune to bad surprises though, last time was Super Robot Wars 30 on Switch back in 2021 and Serious Sam 4 on PC the year before, both of them being severely downgraded entries of their respective franchises I'm familiar with.
