Fantastic sequel in about every respect and peak of the series

Kino to the ends of the earth

Why did they port this to GG? Just to flex I guess

Best multiplayer experience of the year, spent about 3-4 months going back and forth on this with my brother and it's evil, it brings out the demons

Life-changing moment

Byotiful, a fantastic replay to end the year. Unfortunately, I can't speedrun this, and Terri is gonna kick my ass whenever we get around to racing it

Nourishment

Nourishment... 2!!!

i did Crab Rave doubles on this at a fun center and a dad came up and high-fived me, I'm winning at life

I ran through this in co-op with my older brother who never plays beatemups and it was one of the best experiences I had this year. And then I realized there's like barely any other beatemups that even get close to this and I got a little sad.

Best new game I played this year maybe. I want to be hopeful and excited for the future of expansive AAA experiences at a time where 99% of studios are bleeding out at the hands of their corporate ringleaders.

Art

Why is there so many got dang menus? I just wanna play some songs by good-cool

I think this is the only time I've ever heard the N-word used in a japanese video game

Kino

Need more GG stuff like this, please, please please please

ALSO kind of dogshit to play but the ludonarrative power here is immaculate

When I played this at 6 years old it rocked my world, 3D on handheld that went above and beyond its console sibling titles blew my mind. And it's still great today!

I could squeezehug the life out of this game

It made me like Mega Man 4!! It's beautiful!!!!

Beautiful beyond its aspirations, and very underdiscussed as far as its technical achievement goes. Can't believe I didn't play it sooner

When I say gaming is dead I mean no games like this are being made anymore

They do a really bad job of hiding that they wrote this during questionable political times in America but it's otherwise really stellar

The 2nd most I've ever sweated playing a video game (behind DDR)

Peak of the entire PC-E Hu-Card library

But seriously seriously stop putting obscene difficulty bumps at the end of your shmups Hudson

Honestly? This is the best Sonic game to come out of the post-DC era until Mania

shovelware-shaped kino

i remember listening to this OST on my psp while visiting my uncle as a teen. He passed away a few years ago, there's no sentimentality between these two factoids but it's impossible to think about one without the other now. Life is odd.

Man they should make one of these with nothing but sidescrolling, there's no way they could screw that up

Great start to one of the best series I got into this year, wish I knew about mech spam first time I played it

that goofy-ass :0 the enemies make when you slam your head into their stomach

I paid 200+ to import controllers for this and one of them stopped working after a week, fuck you buyee and fuck you bemanituber that shilled for them

we must realize that our people will do whatever we do !

:bottom-eyes:

It's quirky - but with a dark SECRET!! OooOOOOOoooOOooooohh!!

And that secret is MUPPET HOMOSEXUAAAAAAALS!!! OOOOO O O O O OOOOOO O O OOOOHHH!!!!!!!

It has The Vibes and that's all that matters. It's kind of dogshit when you're actually playing it

Damn good, one of the better SNES things I played this year

Thank you konami but also fuck you konami

Solo and 4th Mix Plus in the same place, a damn steal

They took away my jangling keys but they gave me my ball-pop lawnmower thingy instead, all is right with the world after all

GROWLBACKS GROWLBACKS WE'RE NOT DEAD, AT LEAST TRY TO BEAT THIS SPREAD, YAAAAAYYYYYYYY

JaFAR, this actually IS the better one!

Great game, used to think super and IIDX were just superior but this port really shows how its reservations make it shine.

Gorgeous to look and feel, truly out of this world, masterpiece

I think more games should be about skrunkly couples throwing each other at walls

The best game in a PC-E series is the one not on PC-E? Curious!

PC-Engine shmups are dime a dozen but the ones with name-brand recognition really are something special, great game

Kino

Did you know popular games are popular because they are good?

Extremely creative and affective concept, was really happy to contribute to this

Benny hill type beat

I have never seen such a good game drop the ball so hard on the last level, what the actual fuck

We need more steampunkish halcyon shmups... made by anyone but the british

Need more games like this

Very good handheld port, probably one of the best GG games (not a high bar)

Is it sacrilege to say this one beats the arcade version?

crying

Accidental kino

Easy argument for the best kart-style racer if it didn't have such overbearing CPU difficulty

YEAR OF AMY, WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Dig dig a tunnel, quick before the hyena come

In the time since this released I went from loving it to despising its bloated single-player campaign to feeling nothing but animosity towards its monetization. It feels like Capcom is always gonna be the scummiest swine no matter how much they fix up their old franchises

Very good handheld port, pretty recurring theme of the best GG games being Genesis ports. There should've been even more tbh. Where's my 8-bit Bio Hazard Battle and Granada?

Ridiculous and very cool

he's columbo in one of the sonic x episodes and i think that's pretty neat

Great, please let Ko Takeuchi work a new rhythm heaven now

A good, different direction for the series to end on, but it's poorly balanced in the exact opposite way every other AW game is. Very odd.

crying

Was really cool until it buckled down on the bullshit, rounded out to mid in hindsight

Super scaler racers need a comeback

I don't remember if I actually sincerely liked this or if Yoshi's Safari left me all vulnerable and frail, oh heavens

i thought ddr games didn't change up much between sequels, damn iidx makes that series look like a never-ending string of reboots

These games are so fucking hard how do you guys have enough time to learn this shit

I'm not being an N64 boomer, this was actually really solid

:0

A big mixed bag but worth a look if you like MKDS

Amazing sequel, not a big songlist but everything here slaps.

SOUL. The worst beats known to man

Where the fuck is ska a go go???????

Something about playing 'If You Were Here' at home on a real DDR game with a real DDR pad did something special to me. It's the small victories.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

The Blowjob Brothers

Gorgeous, ambient, but not something I'd return to probably

That's some good MS soul right there

Pac-Man... with a GUN!

Evil kino

I was shocked when I ended up disliking this, I think Red/Technosoft kinda overestimated their game design skills here, should've stuck to something more simple and cinematic

Beating this was a herculean trial and I don't know if I'd revisit it but the high certainly felt good at the time

Never forgiving the nintentubers for what they did to this game's price

I would probably punch polterguy in real life if I ever saw him, looks like the nazi teenager from that one Fat Albert scene

Mid iirc but the music was good

I didn't like how this played especially, but it's Lords of Thunder, it's metal, that's all that matters y'know?

Somewhere playing this my brain went 'football is just a turn-based tactical rpg' and I was affected by The Disease

My man Mario, you're cool, but you're bringing too much of your bing-bing-wahoo to my golf, maybe tone it down

Mercs players :handshake emoji: Overwatch players

"Fuck Tanks"

32X kusoge has me acting perplexed and intruiged

Pretty cool

The more time passes the less forgiveness I have towards quarter munchers

Sports games kinda go hard?

games like this make it so confusing how irem pushed out something as poorly-balanced as undercover cops