Rundown (9/24/2023) Ai’s Time Warp and Premise Predicament
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s Oshi no Ko lukewarm take
- A body swapping rental service that would destroy society
- The BIG Xbox FTC leak
- Some inane Japanese gaming minutia
Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation
This Week’s Topics:
- Why Natalie cannot be trusted on any major platform
- A wackadoo TSF manga from my magic bag
- TF trials and tribulations
- The inevitable death of Mario Kart 9 (or 13)
- Embracer’s quest to liquidate
- Unity’s endeavor to make things worse for everyone
- A definitional diatribe only Natalie cares about
- Another Nintendo Direct rundown
- A half-assed State of Play rundown
- Wizardry Re;Birth
Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
This Week’s Topics:
- Deliberations of dochy
- A potential king
- Tencent’s continued consumption
- Vampires X the walking simulator guys
- An unfocused ramble on… display technology?
- Another farewell to 𝕏
Rundown (9/03/2023) Let’s Imagine… TSF Mecca
This Week’s Topics:
- The quest for the TSF holy land
- A story of two grandpas finding love in VR
- Natalie’s dream software
- Price scamming from a billion dollar tech company
- Super Mario Bros. 10 looks wünderbar
- The death a developer with great volition
Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
This Week’s Topics:
- Remix Heart Gaiden: The Better Version
- An utterly unhinged school body swap comic
- A gluey acquisition
- Sony buying an audio company
- The worst PlayStation handheld.
- A Mario for a new generation!
- Denuvo is trying to ruin everything!
- Epic Games’ ‘big’ profit share
- The eradication of platform identity
Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality
This Week’s Topics:
- The NEED to turn art into a number
- A BlazBlue manga I read to appease my Cassie
- NetEase is back with another expansion!
- The dastards who screwed over Embracer Group
- The 18.5 year 360 of life and death
- Wishing for the end of modern development schedules
- A body swap formatting dilemma
- Region locking vs. autistic archivists (archivists always win)
Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s professional achievements
- A TSF comic featuring one impossible girl
- A tangent about girls with penises
- Emulation and collection woes
- Further proof that Verde’s Doohickey is an Act Of Plagiarism
- A Rockstar takeover
- The Red Dead let down
- A plethora of Pokémon presents
Rundown (8/06/2023) Nothing Like the First Time
This Week’s Topics:
- The hunt for meaning through new experiences
- A TSF manga that should have been much better
- The dread of going back to older generations of Pokémon
- Musings about Nintendo’s second tablet
- A rema(ke)(ster) of Oblivion
- A semi-regular update on Natalie.TF projects
Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s Plump ROM Hole
- TSF Showcase for Chari & Cassie!
- Tencent’s Techland
- Capcom’s new cane
- The rise of 𝕏
- A bad collection that made Natalie slightly less sane
Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- One of Natalie’s favorite music people dropped a HOT new mixtape!
- A transition related retrospective and analysis
- The return of Natalie’s weekly dose of TSF translated goodness
- TSF Showcase 2023: All You Can Eat! Summer 6 Comic Works Mix
- The power of worker solidarity
- The confusing pricing models for gaming subscription services
Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s latest file hoarding excursion and post-2027 plans
- A legal update on the biggest video game acquisition of all time
- Tencent’s expansion continues unimpeded
- The straight dope on how BAD game preservation is
- The Limited Run Games’ summer showcase
- Delays of all July reviews
Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!
This Week’s Topics:
- Political wafting and revolution promotion
- The legal battle for the future of gaming
- The impending death of Twitter (and the internet)
- A genre terminology diatribe
- Yuji Naka in… Prison Escape
- Getting into some TRUTHS about the Pokémon series
Rundown (7/02/2023) Thanks Cap, You Made Me Write a Novel of Lore!
This Week’s Topics:
- A VD2.0 progress update
- The ‘magic users as oppressed minority’ trope
- Complaining about Nintendo and Switch 2 discourse
- The idea that games should ‘let players be creative’
- A remaster that is doomed for disaster
Rundown (6/25/2023) A Gray Day Is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- Another dope TSF comic I think you should read
- A brief rumination on TSF
- Dissin’ Some Cube-Heads
- A 4,800 word ramble on the latest Nintendo Direct
- The Q3 and Q4 2023 schedule for Natalie.TF
Rundown (6/18/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Later Bitches, I’ll See Ya Next Year!
This Week’s Topics:
- An admission of defeat
- The Embracer Group’s $2 Billion Problem
- The reanimated remnants of Kurayami
- A tepid terminological tirade
Rundown (6/13/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: I’d Rather Be Doing Anything Else!
This Week’s Topics:
- A generation of trained 2 B 2-D game haters
- The big Xbox summer bash
- Fallout X Skyrim X SPACE!
A tray of Ubisoft’s treats- Capcom’s box of festive snacks
Rundown (6/11/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Let The Festivities Commence!
This Week’s Topics:
- The start of the Summer Game Festivities!
- Another preservationist rant
- Persona 3’s Remake and the importance of art direction
- Persona 5 Tactica’s uncanny chibis
Rundown (6/04/2023) Natalie Needs to Sell Her Old Game Collection
This Week’s Topics:
- NetEase established ANOTHER studio
- The death of Vanpool
- Why Redfall was a bad game
- Nintendo’s low effort write-off
- A Leaf classic is getting translated!
Rundown (5/28/2023) The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update
This Week’s Topics:
- That thang between Natalie’s legs
- Bad Brain murders executives
- Embracer’s $2 billion oopsie
- Nintendo kills the 3DS while it stews in its grave
- The PlayStation Showcast Fundown
- A Marvelous pursuit to the current generation
Rundown (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
This Week’s Topics:
- The most intense reaction I’ve had to a piece of media
- The EXP vs XP debate
- A brief dismissal of Tears of the Kingdom
- The death of another gacha
- Activision Blizzard’s lie to pivot to F2P
- The announcement of Mortal Kombat 1
2
Rundown (5/14/2023) Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
This Week’s Topics:
- The extremes of transition timelines
- Keywords’ Continued Expansions
- Game Freak X Take-Two Interactive
- Another Stadia ash kicking
- The two kinds of games streaming
- Defining difficulty
- Natalie’s impatience for the impatient
Rundown (5/07/2023) The Mice Are Nice
This Week’s Topics:
- Pre-Review musings of Mice Tea
- Double Dragon’s latest revival
- A poorly named corporate consolidation
- A chopping of creative companions
- Musings about Genshin IN SPACE!
- The introduction of Cassie’s Corner
Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!
This Week’s Topics:
- The impending TSF Fiesta Party
- NetEase’s continued international expansion
- Cygames’ continued international expansion
- The unionization saga continues
- A linguistic rant
- Saying NO MORE to Nintendo
- The great liquidation of the closet
Rundown (4/23/2023) Spreadsheets Infinitum
This Week’s Topics:
- The continued development of the V3 Re;Works
- A whopping FOUR acquisitions!
- A brief history lesson on the developers of Solatorobo
Rundown (4/16/23) Natalie Complains About Tax Time 2023
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie deals with biannual Tax Hell
- Doubting some hot leaks
- Shrugging off the latest hotness
Rundown (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed
This Week’s Topics:
- Devolver continues to consume their friends
- The Saudi Arabian acquisition saga continues
- Why desktop computers are not going away any time soon
- Something about gamification
Rundown (4/02/2023) Darcy’s Transformation Nightmare
This Week’s Topics:
- A Pokémon TF comic that’s WAY better than it should be
- Pouring gasoline on the corpse of a dead storefront
- Natalie’s latest data hoarding hyperfixation
- The final knife up E3’s tuchus
- Another Cygames Gacha DIES
Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- The BEST TSF idea book
- A Loose Ranma Ramble (inspired by Chari)
- Why it is ethically and logically correct to take digital copies of every delisted Nintendo game
- Bye-Bye Battlefield
- Counter-Strike 2² bay-bee!
- Sonic Origins: The Better But Not Good Enough Version
- Another new Nep-Nep (Feat. BIG MODE)
- Tell this waifu your social security number because Intuit is evil!
- AI is the next generation of game development (maybe)
- Horde for Power – SapphicFuxx Part²²²²
Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie rambles about TSF-Adjacent videos.
- Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 is being delayed to 2024
- Student Transfer Scenario Reviews are coming back in May
- The enticing appeal yet disappointing reality of AI
- One of the most popular games in the world getting better creator rools
Rundown (3/12/2023) Natalie Reviews The First “REAL” TSF Manga
This Week’s Topics:
- A gushing about Boku no Shotaiken (My First Time) by Yuzuki Hikaru
- Austria confirms: loot boxes are gambling
- Budokai Tenkaichi 4 announced
- Dragon Ball
- The JRPG Debate
Rundown (3/05/2023) Natalie Remembered SapphireFoxx
This week’s Topics:
- Natalie Rambles About another TSF content creator
- Natalie goes into frustrating detail about downloading files from the internet
- The continued dread of being a Pokémon fan
- The remaster/remake/revision of a classic visual novel trilogy
- The history of Final Fantasy XV (and Luminous Studios, I guess)
- Why Natalie barely got anything done this past week
Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie Rambles About Some TSF Critiques
- A double dose of acquisitions
- A voyage in subtitling hell
- The delisting (and relisting) of a famous game for SEO
- The director of Resident Evil 4 leaving his company
- A crisis of productivity and purpose
- My next novel becoming a trilogy
Rundown (2/19/2023) Natalie Continues Reading TSF History
This Week’s Topics:
- A loose ‘review’ of one of the earliest TSF manga
- A loose ‘review’ of the first modern body swap story
- The growing budgets of the AAA games industry
- The end of an obscure TSF visual novel
- The end of the Greatest Podcast of All-Time
- Delays due to Natalie’s insanity
Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)
This Week’s Topics:
- The OG Queen of F2M TSF Manga
- Gushing about fetish analysis
- Musings about digital public libraries
- A reminder that AAA games are not the real video games
- Nina Tendo’s biannual digest
- Stanning the number one coke whore
Rundown (2/05/2023) Incest Infinitum
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie Rambles About Incest
- Amazon
buyingleasing the Tomb Raider IP - The downfall of discourse in these modern times
- Three reasons why E3 2023 might be bad
- The end of Halo’s second era
- A (not so) great Xbox delisting spree
- The cancelation of the next Titanfall game
Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives
This Week’s Topics:
- Dragalia Lost’s reverse engineered private server is live!
- Wizard game discourse
- More discussions regarding media that sexualizes children
- The depowering and replacement of an abuser
- Proletariat’s CEO forcing workers to cancel unionization plans
- A game Natalie wants to love… but can’t!
Rundown (1/22/2023) DRM Has Ruined Books
This Week’s Topics:
- Why the digital age makes Natalie hate books
- Analyzing a AAA game budget using BOOTLEG MATH!
- Why The Last of Us (2013) is bad, actually
- Translation purists (the worst kind of anime fan)
- Forspoken‘s awful first 20 minutes
- A remaster of the greatest friendship killer
- The end of Halo as the world knows it
- AVENGERS_EOS
Rundown (1/15/2023) MILK TIME IS ALL TIME!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- An educational breast feeding manga
- Winter 2023 TSF anime
- The 2023 creative writing schedule
- A domestic abuser behind a popular show
- Ubisoft’s managerial failings
Rundown (1/08/2023) Dash & Write!
This Week’s Topics:
- My humdrum life (where I do not go dashing through the snow)
- The first acquisition of 2023.
- A surprise sales success (to westerners)
- PlayStation’s accessibility controller
- How much longer will PS4 and Xbox One games be released
Rundown (1/01/2023) Natalie’s Back Home!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s out of the hospital and back home!
- Another Activision Blizzard unionization
- Mages. declares insolvency
- Natalie read a trans novel
Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!
This Week’s Topics:
- Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
- The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
- A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
- The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
- Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
- The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)
Rundown (12/11/2022) Hormonal Hiatus
This Week’s Topics:
- The acquisition of the originator of visual novels
- Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Yuji Naka’s return to jail
- Nancai Banco’s trademark oopsies
- The Game Awards’ announcements (a 3,000 word ramble)
Rundown (12/04/2022) Hello and Welcome to Natalie Dot TF
This Week’s Topics:
- A recap of the happenings here at the brand new Natalie.TF
- Musings about visual novel presentation
- Trickles of gaming news before The Game Awards next week
Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!
Wherein I discuss: The release of another massive TSF visual novel update. A remaster with a 99% chance of being real. Why the Switch is a tablet! The English release of a long forgotten Japan-only shooter. The re;birth of the queen of TG Captions. Why Natalie does not do video stuff. And the end of Dragalia for the umpteenth time.
(more…)Rundown (11/13-11/19) You Kids Have Fun With Your Pokémons
Rundown (11/06-11/12) My First Exposure to Trans Characters Was Family Compo
Wherein I discuss: Some deep Natalie lore. Some pretty boring acquisition stuff. And modern Americana politics.
(more…)Rundown (10/30-11/05) Trash the Twitter
Wherein I discuss: The downfall of social media. An ample assortment of acquisition anecdotes. And one of the best DS adventure games returning from the otherworld.
(more…)Rundown (10/23-10/29) Erotic Conundrum – 50 Days Remaining
Wherein I discuss: My impending surgery and the erotic conundrums therein. The Re;Birthering of a Witchsome variety. And the TF-ing of Nigma Box.
(more…)Rundown (10/16-10/22) Press-Switch v0.6a Is Out & Student Transfer v7.0 Is Coming Next Month
Wherein I discuss: The Next Releases of two DOPE TSF VNs. My disastrous Q4 2022 schedule. The 2022 Bayonetta controversy. And the return of Silent Hill.
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