Analogue Pocket
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There's some good stuff and I'm still playing the season 1 games, some of them are great. Crankin' is definitely the stand out game for me. They also have a curated store on the device now that gets updated with the best games and there's been good stuff on there.
The thing is a lot of them are short form games which is understandable because of the budgets involved. There's also a very pretentious whiff of hipster off a lot of these games. I usually don't mind this, hell hipsters do have the best food, beers, music and make the best indie games, but there's a lot of try hard stuff on there. I mean there is literally a game where you play a moustachioed hipster delivering craft beer to people on a unicycle.
But yeah I'd rather be playing Warioland 3, Astroboy or Final Fantasy Legend on an OLED screen.
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Just don't bother with Golden Sun. As Kevin Spacey said in The Usual Suspects: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that Golden Sun wasn't as awful as the game it is a spiritual successor to, Beyond the Beyond".
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Well it's not Beyond the Beyond bad, that's vying with Legend of Dragoon and Shadow Madness as the worst JRPGs on the PS1 in the West but it's just a really dull RPG. It looks nice and has a fantastic soundtrack but outside that the story is dull and the combat pretty meh. It's not outrageously bad just throw away and forgettable. I couldn't even tell you what the story was about except I fought a dragon on the top of a tower at the end and spend two weeks raging because the 16 page password wouldn't work on my copy of Golden Sun 2 until I found out US and PAL passwords weren't compatible.
I liked it myself at release but it was the first JRPG made specifically for the GBA and looks and sounds nice so there's a bit of misplaced nostalgia for it. Going back it's a bit dull and even worse, people in it don't shut up and repeat the same things. It's a bit like how in retrospect FFX is a bit **** but at the time seemed amazing as the first JRPG that felt like it was made for the PS2.
Golden Sun isn't a total thrash can fire, there's good stuff about it, but Beyond the Beyond is, no pun intended, beyond awful and dull. It's basically Golden Sun without the puzzle dungeons, nice visuals and amazing music.
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Plenty of gems to discover. The Pocket has really opened my eyes to how good the Gameboy, Game Gear and Master System libraries are.
Also I'd highly recommend you install the custom cores on the system as you can then load games from SD card. They're pretty much just the Analogue cores released in a wink, wink, nudge, nudge way. I'm not sure if they fixed the Gameboy though, it defaults to the GBC colour scheme since it uses the GBC core which looks naff on black and white games. Hopefully it's fixed as I've not updated the pocket in a while, I'm on a 3DS binge.
I'm looking forward to Neo Geo Pocket support. That system has an incredible library.
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Well I checked my order and it was 2023 Q3 so hopefully soon but I expect delays with Analogue.
The d-pad is good, not nintendo quality but not far off either. It's a damn sight better than Sony and XBox excuses for d-pads.
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To follow up on this their site still has this release fate. It's usually 3 months before the open FPGA core but I also own pretty much every NGP cart worth owning already.
In fairness to Analogue their site includes all the proper charges in their shipping so no surprises with extra charges. The shipping is steep but it's because it takes this into account.
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