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OP, you've never heard of Blaster Master? You don't know much about the NES then... it' easily one of the best games on the system.

That being said, two games is disappointing. Especially since we still don't have Punch-Out!!, Castlevania I, II, III, Final Fantasy, Startropics, Kirby Adventure's, Tetris, Adventure Island, Megaman... and many others.



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Zelda II is amazing and way better than people make it out to be. It only got its reputation as the black sheep in the series years after its release because it doesn't follow the "traditional" 2D Zelda formula. Blaster Master is great, too. But this month is still disappointing: Nintendo promised three games per month and they can't even deliver that outside of Japan.

But I'll keep my hopes up. I still think the NES service is just Nintendo's playing ground for a real classic streaming service. I'd gladly pay 50 bucks a year for a solid collection of SNES, N64, Gamecube, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games. It just makes too much financial sense to do it: They'd easily get over 10 million subscribers for such a service.



Why people mention Mega Man? The whole Mega Man and Mega Man x games are already on Switch.



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Still see more value in it than PS+ quite honestly



The problem with the service isn’t the lack of free games (although that is a bit sad, I’d rath just buy individually any games I wanted). The problem is the lack of games with online features that makes the service necessary. Pretty much just smash, although I guess some would say splatoon as well. Nintendo needs more online games if they are going to have a service charging for online...



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Ganoncrotch said:
Keep in mind this is a service which costs €1.60 per month, exactly how many SNES classic titles were you guys thinking they would bring each month? At 80c per nes title on top of online play in some amazing games I would wager people who use this service aren't feeling too ripped off by it.

It costs in line with a KFC visit for a years sub lol.

Your absolutely right, people should keep in mind this service costs exactly 1,60€ per month too much. 1,60€ for two NES games doesn't sound too bad but compared to other competing services this offering is abysmal.



They're both solid NES games but this service is still a joke. I subscribed to NSO to play Smash online the NES services is just a bonus for me... a very disappointing bonus so far.



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KLAMarine said:

Can't be disappointed if you've never bothered with the offerings in the first place.

 

Don't know of this Blaster Master game but Blaster Master Zero is awesome! I highly recommend it!

Not sure if you're joking but I'll state it for everyone who doesn't know like the OP. Blaster Master Zero is a remake of Blaster Master on NES. The NES game is really good but much harder than the remake due to a limited number of lives and continues.



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The service as it stands right now is a waste of money as far as I'm concerned. The only thing it has going for it is that it's cheap, but it's still paying for practically nothing of real value. Maybe once Nintendo stops this ridiculous dripfeed of 30-year-old titles that everyone who cares about them has already played several times over and starts actually releasing their NES, SNES and N64 classics at a faster pace (several games a week would be a good start) the service might finally have some real value to it.



Louie said:
Zelda II is amazing and way better than people make it out to be. It only got its reputation as the black sheep in the series years after its release because it doesn't follow the "traditional" 2D Zelda formula. Blaster Master is great, too. But this month is still disappointing: Nintendo promised threegames per month and they can't even deliver that outside of Japan.

But I'll keep my hopes up. I still think the NES service is just Nintendo's playing ground for a real classic streaming service. I'd gladly pay 50 bucks a year for a solid collection of SNES, N64, Gamecube, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance games. It just makes too much financial sense to do it: They'd easily get over 10 million subscribers for such a service.

This! in fact I would say Zelda II is better than the following Zeldas at a minimum:

Spirit Tracks, Phantom Hourglass, Skyward Sword

, Wind Waker, A Link Between Worlds, Majora...probably Four Swords, too, but that is a tough comparison since Four Swords is multiplayer.  Of course Zelda II is toug to compare to most of the above games since it is a more intense platforming/ swordfigting experience

Two games still sucks, though, and it would also be best if Ninty started adding SNES games as not everyone wants their games NES hard.

Last edited by couchmonkey - on 10 January 2019