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.
(more…)Rundown (10/09-10/15) Tax Hell + COVID
Wherein I discuss: The COVID woes. A Triple Threat of acquisitions. AI art. And ‘Console Gaming on the Go.’
(more…)Rundown (10/02-10/08) Little Ado About Horror
Wherein I discuss: My mundane thoughts on the most popular genre of autumn. An absolutely awful acquisition. The eternal mixing up of re;makers and re;masters. The fifth Super Mario movie. CDPR Expansion. A game that thinks it should be more invasive than a game. One Last Scarlet and Violet splurge sesh. And the surprise Steam release of Chaos;Head Noah.
(more…)Rundown (9/25-10/01) Dope Skinsuit Comic. BIG Inspiration. Inferior Official Distribution.
Wherein I discuss: A sick skinsuit TSF comic. The end of ownership. Saudi Arabia’s continued influence over Gamindustri. Atlus trying to double-kill their own games. The re;birth of E3. The racist tendencies of one of the most lucrative games of the modern era. A peashy PC port. And the end of a non-subscription streaming service.
(more…)Rundown (9/18-9/24) Race Change Confessions
Wherein I discuss: Wackadoo fantasy race issues. The leakage of one of the most anticipated games of all time. Why Twitch is a bad platform. And… that’s about it.
(more…)Rundown (9/11-9/17) Formatting Frustrations 2: Perpetual Aggression
Wherein I discuss: My illiteracy. Nina Tendo’s Maple-some Autumnal Treat. Soh Nii’s Amber-some Autumnal Treat. The re;birth of Yakuza. Oodles of TGS-time video game announcements! And the (hopeful) demise of PSVR2.
(more…)Rundown (9/04-9/10) We Mustn’t Let Dragalia Be Lost!
Wherein I discuss: My Dragalia Lost archival efforts. Tencent gobbling up IPs for China. A showcase from a company I couldn’t care less about. And the long-lived queen.
(more…)Rundown (8/28-9/03) Cute Oppressed Lady Of Uniquely Remedial Styles
Wherein I discuss: The next maiden in the DOPE TSF canon. The (partial) acquisition of Souls. The resurgence of an investment laid in the sand 3.5 years ago. Further Payments and Quibbles. A glorious gacha gutting. The Date of Death of Dragalia. And some pedantic Pokémon prattle.
(more…)Rundown (8/21-8/27) Extra Hard & Extra Wet & Extra Ouch
Wherein I discuss an erotic discovery, a tiny building block in an acquisition empire, the failings of Saints Row 5, another vaporware revival, a re-remake that isn’t much of a remake, and inflation.
(more…)Rundown (8/14-8/20) Natalie’s Changing Her Schedule Again…
Wherein I discuss my new Nigma Box work balance, The Embrace of another neggest of Gamindustri, the resurrection of a thrice-killed corpse, Steam’s purity policy, the return of Bop Louie and friends!
(more…)Rundown (8/07-8/13) Natalie Neumann is a Crypto Scumlord
Wherein I discuss a moral conundrum, an unremarkable acquisition, the hatching of one of the… ten(?) trans characters in games circa 2013, and the OG survival horror series.
(more…)Rundown (7/31-8/06) Blazing Edits!
Wherein I discuss the completion of a beta I’m releasing on time, the encroaching anime apocalypse, Ubisoft’s potential new owners, why Pokémon is bad, DiSCoBoMBs, a ruinous remaster, a Plain-o rename-o, and a new gothic metroidvania action platformer.
Rundown (7/24-7/30) Dragalia is Done
Wherein I discuss the end of Dragalia Lost, a potential PlayStation Purchase, a rocky remake, a boy’s club becoming a real company, and a hoax by a bunch of wasteful modders.
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Rundown (7/10-7/16) Nats & Arts & Crafts!
Wherein I discuss my artistic inabilities, a pair of semi-pleasant acquisitions, Kirby’s cake rolls, and how games keep on dying.
(more…)Rundown (7/03-7/09) I Think Nigma Box Might Be a Slur
Wherein I discuss an cursed discovery, the juicy delights of Anime Expo, a red flag remake, a Black Flag successor a decade in the making, polical assassinations, and… ice cream, for some bloody reason.
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Rundown (6/19-6/25) Communally Distant
Wherein I discuss my lack of communal solidarity, Activision preventing a generation from bimpin’ NWA while sputtin’ sick ish, a devilish disappointment, Sega’s continued remastered rush-jobs, and the erotic toy that is sweeping all nations!
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