Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

• Post published:07/23/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dude Whatever It’s Summer Is Back, Bay-Bee!
• Aiming For Unattractive! (Natalie The Eternal Enigma)
• Espeon is Back With The Lewd TSF Goodness! (Gender.tf is BACK, Bay-bee!)
• TSF Showcase #2023-15 TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru (Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave) by Tansan Protein no kai
• TSF Showcase #2023-16 JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko (High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature) by Marialite
• TSF Showcase #2023-17 Slow Conversion by Onihidden
• TSF Showcase #2023-18 Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite
• TSF Showcase #2023-19 Sexaroids vs. Reseller by Kouji
• TSF Showcase #2023-20 Professional Possession by Imp Underneath
• Screw it, Let’s Talk About the SAG-AFTRA Strike (Capitalism Ruins Everything – Part 37)
• Natalie is Confused by the New Game Pass Subscription Tiers (Xbox Live Gold is Now Game Pass Core)

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Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!

• Post published:07/16/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Falling Down The Helly Tree!
• Microsoft Beat the FTC! (Judge Denies FTC Injunction Against Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard)
• Tencent Continues to Consume! (Tencent Bought Western Support Studio Lucid Games)
• Unsurprising But Sad, Official Game Preservation SUCKS! (87% of Games Released Before 2010 are Not Reasonably Available)
• Physical Games Are Not True Preservation + A Limited Run Games Summary (Limited Run Games’ Announcement Showcase Rundown Intro)
• Shantae’s Lost Chapter Has Been Revived! (After 19 Years, WayFroward is Finishing An Abandoned GBA Game!)
• Natalie Rambles About Clock Tower (Clock Tower (1995) is Getting Localized)
• The Lean, Green, Meme Machine is Back, Bay-Bee! (Gex Trilogy Announced)
• Get Pink, Toss Pigs, Help Dwarves! (Tomba! Is Coming to Modern Platforms)
• Shitposters Extraordinaire Are Making a Zelda CD-i Spiritual Successor (Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Announced)
• The Koikatsu Devs Are Gonna Die! (Illusion Adult Games, Developers of Koikatsu, Are Shutting Down)
• Review Delays!!! (But I’ll Have Something Else Instead)

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Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!

• Post published:07/09/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Have Negative Faith In The United States of America
• The FTC PlayStation & Xbox Showcase (Some Highlights From The FTC v. Microsoft Courtroom)
• Twitter Hit The Shitter and The Internet Is Collapsing! (Natalie Rambles About The Future Of The Internet)
• It’s Time To Show My Ass As A Casual VN Fan (Natalie Wafts About the Tsukihime Remake)
• Grab a Gun And Make The Baddies Go BOOM! (Natalie Rambles About The Name Boomer Shooters)
• Yuji Naka’s Prison Escape! (Yuji Naka Avoids Jail Time And Gets $1.2 Million Fine)
• When Pokéfans Are Stuck, They Should Try Logic (Natalie Rambles About Voice Acting in Pokémon )
• Read, Think, and the Solution Will Come To You (Natalie Analyzes The Broad Financials of The Pokémon Company)

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Rundown (7/02/2023) Thanks Cap, You Made Me Write a Novel of Lore!

• Post published:07/02/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 – World Information Has Been Drafted
• The Most Powerful people Are The Most Common Slaves (Natalie Rambles About Oppressed Magic Users As An Allegory)
• Nintendorks and the Quest To Make History (Natalie Complains About Nintendo Fans – July 2023 Ver.)
• Create or Play (Playing Games Does Not Make You Creative)
• Read Dead Remastered – No Redemption is Possible (Korean Ratings Board Leaks Possible Red Dead Redemption Remaster)

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Rundown (6/25/2023) A Gray Day Is DOPE!

• Post published:06/25/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-14 A Gray Day by Maideneir
• Trans-Sexual Fantasy Ja Nai (What is and is not TSF?)
• The GameCube Handle Was Worthless, Stop Revising History (This Is a Pointless Comment, but I Just Slid It in Here)
• Ah Shaz, I Guess We’re Getting 3 Nintendo Directs This Year! (Rundown of the June 21, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Detective Pikachu 2 ACTUALLY Looks Like It Belongs On 3DS (Detective Pikachu Returns Announced)
• Monster Catching Is Back, Bay-Bee! (Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Announced)
• WarioWare is Back… AGAIN… AGAIN! (WarioWare: Move It! Announced)
• The Pikmin Quadrilogy is Complete! (HD Ports of Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 Announced and Stealth Dropped)
• Collect That Shit Like A Master! (Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 is Lookin’ Good!)
• The Best Star Ocean is Now EVEN BETTER! (Star Ocean: The Second Story R Announced)
• Natalie Hated This Remake Until She Re-Watched The Trailer (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Remake Announced)
• New Super Mario Wonderworld! (Super Mario Bros. Wonder Announced)
• More Mario Coming In 2024! (Nintendo Sorta Announces Two Mario Games)
• Other Nintendo Direct Coolsies (Neat Games That Don’t Warrant Their Own Section)
• The 2023 Schedule – Q2 Update (Natalie Provides Her TENTATIVE Plans For The Rest of 2023)
• A Demon In Human Skin (A Rundown Post-Script)

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Rundown (6/18/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Later Bitches, I’ll See Ya Next Year!

• Post published:06/18/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Welp, Nothing Much Happened!
• The Embracer Group REALLY Screwed Up! (Embracer Group to Announce Restructuring, Layoffs, Closures, and Cancellations)
• To Hell With Our 800+ IPs! We Just Need Lord of the Rings! (Embracer Plans to Exploit the Lord of the Rings License)
• A Brief Recollection of Shadows of the Damned (Shadows of the Damned Remastered Announced)
• You Cringe, But I Don’t (Natalie Explains Why She Dislikes A Contemporary Term Part VI)

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Rundown (6/13/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: I’d Rather Be Doing Anything Else!

• Post published:06/13/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Title Is Hyperbole
• The Rise of 3D Games And Devaluation of 2D Games (Natalie Rambles About Game History – 3D Edition)
• Still Waiting For The Xbox Redemption Arc… (The Preamble Before The Xbox Showcase)
• An Avowed Take (Avowed Gameplay Trailer Released)
• Like A Dragon 8: Infinit¥ Like A Dragon 8 Retitled to Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• I Was Promised a Goddess, and You Gave Me a Kamen Rider Samurai (Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Announced)
• Reincarnation of the Goddess: Re;Fantazio – Metaphor of the Worlds Project Re Fantasy Revealed as Metaphor: ReFantazio
• The Games Industry Really Is Like Clockwork… InXile Announced FPS RPG Clockwork Revolution
• Starfield or Starfail – The $100 Million Dollar Question! (Starfield Direct Happened)
• I’m Not Covering Ubisoft Forward, Because Ubisoft Protected Abusers (Natalie.TF Will Not Discuss Ubisoft’s Games as Games)
• Mega Man Gacha is PRESERVED! (Mega Man X Dive Offline Announced)
• Ace Attorney Trilogy II, Bay-Bee! (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy Announced)

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Rundown (6/11/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Let The Festivities Commence!

• Post published:06/11/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Same Old Song and Dance
• Physical Media is Not Preservation (Everything Digital is On A Physical Device, Ya Dummy!)
• Generic Brand E3 – Let’s Go! (Summer Game Fest Rundown Preamble)
• That’s Not Sonic Mania 2! It’s Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 3! (Sonic Superstars Announced)
• Imagine If You Will… A Land of Sand! (Sand Land Game Announced)
• Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis? More Like Final Fantasy VII: Fuck Corporations! (Get It, Because It’s AC, BC, CC, DC, EC, and Then FC?)
• Not a Rebirth, Not a Remake, Just a Re-Do! Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Got a New Trailer
• Prince of Persia is BACK, BLACK, and 2D! (People Dislike Prince of Persia The Lost Crown Because They’re Racist)
• Persona 3: Reload and Fire Your Evoker Into My Heart, You Bastard! (Persona 3 Reload Announced)
• Persona 5 Tactics but They Made a Typo and an Awful Aesthetic Decision (Persona 5 Tactica Announced)

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Rundown (6/04/2023) Natalie Needs to Sell Her Old Game Collection

• Post published:06/04/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:14 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Do You Sell Old Video Games?
• Oh My God, NetEase! Stop Establishing New Studios! (NetEase Establishes Their Fifth Tokyo-based Studio)
• And the Love-de-Lic Fragmentation Continued… (Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash Developer Vanpool Shut Down)
• Arkane Austin’s Bloody Fall (Redfall Development Deets Just Dropped)
• Nintendo Is Releasing A Shitty Game Nobody Liked Because Fuck It (Everybody 1-2 Switch Announced)
• White Album is Coming Out in English, Bay-Bee! (Another Classic Visual Novel Is Getting Localized)

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Rundown (5/28/2023) The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update

• Post published:05/28/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:30 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update
• Net Ease Into Another Studio (NetEase Opens Bad Brain Game Studios)
• The Embracer Group Screwed Up and Lost $2 Billion in Revenue (The Knights of the Old Republic Remake Was Probably Canceled)
• Nintendo Hates You and They Can Go Fuck Off (Nintendo Made the Nintendo 3DS Harder to Hack)
• Let The Segmented Summer Showcases Begin! (PlayStation Showcase Roundup)
• The Metal Gear Solid Rumors Were REAL! (Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 & Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater Announced)
• Natalie Just Wanted An Excuse to Talk About Dragon’s Dogma (Dragon’s Dogma II Announced)
• Bungie Digs Up A Classic IP To Murder It (Marathon: The Live Service Announced)
• Natalie Rants About Live Services Revision 2023-05-28 (Because Marathon: The Live Service Upsets Me On A Fundamental Level)
• Silly Sony, That’s Not a PlayStation Vita 2! (Sony Announces Project Q Streaming Handheld)
• Marvy’s Next Gen Upgrade! (Marvelous Games Showcase Rundown)

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Rundown (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack

• Post published:05/21/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
• Natalie Complains About Fickle Things Nobody Should Care About (EXP Is A Superior Term to XP)
• Natalie Bemoans Tears of the Kingdom (Natalie Talks About The Latest Hotness – Loz TotK Edition)
• Build A World and Flip It! (Cygames ‘Slows Down’ Production on World Flipper)
• Overwatch 2 Was A Work From Day One (Overwatch 2’s Promised PvE Mode Has Been Scrapped)
• Mortal Kombat Twelve, Sans the Two (The Twelfth Mainline Mortal Kombat Title, Mortal Kombat 1, Announced)

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Rundown (5/14/2023) Transition Speedruns and Slowruns

• Post published:05/14/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:21 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
• The Support Studio Network Grows Even Bigger (Keywords Studios Acquires Hardsuit Labs)
• Project Gear Attempt #6 (Game Freak and Private Division Announce Publishing Partnership)
• Salvaged from Stadia & A Discussion on Games Streaming (Stadia Exclusive Gylt is Coming to Other Platforms)
• Cloud Gaming Vs Remote Play – Battle for Streaming Superiority! (Natalie Rambles About Games Streaming)
• Mild Musings About Game Difficulty (The Trinity of Challenge – As Defined By a Bad Player)
• No Patience For Those Without Patience (Natalie Rambles About Her Plentiful Paratransit-Powered Patience)

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Rundown (5/07/2023) The Mice Are Nice

• Post published:05/07/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Mice Tea Update and Fetish Tangent
• Double Dragon Is Back… For the Fourth? Time (Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons Announced) 
• Plop ‘Em Into The Plaion Pail! (Plaion Merges Deep Silver, Prime Matter, and Ravenscourt)
• Sony Continues Curbing Creative Companies (Sony Shuts Down Pixelopus)
• Another Ramble About The Inevitable Rise of the Genshin-like (Natalie Introduces A New Segment!)
• Cassie’s Corner: Honkai: Star Rail Impressions

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Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!

• Post published:04/30/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Review Plans & Scheduled Hopes
• NetEase Expands With Ease (NetEase Opens A New Studio in Barcelona and Seattle)
• Cygames Expands Beyond The Cyber (Cygames Established Cygames America and Cygames Europe)
• The Unionization Wave Continues! (Sega of America Establishes Union)
• For Validity to Exist, Invalidity Must Also Exist (Natalie Complains About Moral Subjectivity)
• Nintendo Hates Nintendo, So I Hate Them (Nintendo Destroyed A Prolific Fan Site)
• Natalie is Going to Sell Her Old Video Games (And Natalie.TF Readers Could Get a 15% Discount)
• BONUS: SECRET NATALIE LORE

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Rundown (4/23/2023) Spreadsheets Infinitum

• Post published:04/23/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:18 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics: 

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Hyper-Fix The Problems!
• The Hedgehog Snatched Up An Angry Bird (Sega Sammy Acquired Rovio for $773.8 Million)
• Didn’t I Already Talk About This A Year Ago? (Epic Games Acquires Brazilian Mobile Developer Aquiris)
• The Trains Are Under New Management! (Focus Entertainment Acquires Dovetail Games)
• Walk The Fire With A Fiancé (Sony Acquires Firewalk Studio) 
• CyberConnect2: A Retrospective For Context (CyberConnect2 Montreal is Shutting Down in July 2023)

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Rundown (4/16/23) Natalie Complains About Tax Time 2023

• Post published:04/16/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:7 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumako Framing Device GO!!!
• A Supposedly Steamy Sega Sizzle Reel! (A ‘Leak’ of Persona 3 Remake and Jet Set Radio Reboot Footage Surfaces)
• Guess I’ll Talk About The Latest Hotness… (An Obligatory Discussion of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)

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Rundown (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed

• Post published:04/09/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:14 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Version 3 of My Dreams
• Doink Has Been Devolved! (Devolver Acquired Doinksoft)
• The Saudis Snatched Scopely! (Savvy Games Group Acquires Scopely)
• Natalie Remembered The ‘Desktops Are Dead’ Argument (This Has Nothing to Do With the News, and Is Just a Ramble)
• Natalie Remembered The Gamification Predictions (Again, More Completely Unrelated Rambles!)

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Rundown (4/02/2023) Darcy’s Transformation Nightmare

• Post published:04/02/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-13 Darcy’s Breeder’s Guide to Alola Nuzlocke by Jamsnjellies
• Stores Die, Offline Games Don’t (Natalie Rambles About The 3DS and Wii U eShop For the Nth Time)
• All I Want Is 1280×1280 Images of Every Pokémon (Natalie Spent Too Much Time Searching For High Resolution Pokémon Art)
• E3 Is DEAD — NOW AND FOREVER!!! (After Everybody Bailed, the ESA Canceled E3 2023)
• Princess Disconnect!: Re:Die (Princess Connect! Re:Dive’s English Version Ending Service on April 30th)

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Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!

• Post published:03/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-11 One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident by KPmouse 
• TSF Showcase #2023-12 Ranma Video Essays
• Ranma ½ Changed Me by Mathwiz
• The Anime That Cracks Your Egg – Ranma 1/2 & Queerness by ShaggyJebus 
• Atari’s Tentacles Gobbled Up The Dive Boys! (Atari Acquires Nightdive Studios)
• Honor Your Rights, Or Your Rights Don’t Mean Shit! (Natalie Complains About Nintendo’s Continued Destruction of Their History)
• EA Continues to Excel At Executions (EA Announces Delisting of Mirror’s Edge and Three Battlefield Games)
• Valve Is Re-Upping Their Cash Cow (Counter Strike 2 Will Replace Counter-Strike: Global Offensive This Summer)
• Instead of Supporting an Overpriced Sonic Compilation, Sega Is Charging An Extra $10 (Sonic Origins: The Better Version Announced)
• Make My Nep-Nep Grow! (Neptunia: GameMaker R:Evolution Announced)
• Oh Shit Son! It’s Tax Time: The Visual Novel! (Tax Heaven 3000 Announced)
• Unity AI Slipped Under My Radar! Embrace AI or Die For JUSTICE! (Unity AI Announced & More Calls For Revolution and Heroic Sacrifice)
• Video and Recording Is A Nightmare! (Natalie Finished Saving 200+ GB of SapphireFoxx Content)

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Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist  

• Post published:03/19/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-10 A ‘TSF’ Playlist From Charishal
• Boku Girl and the Anxious Body by Pause and Select
• Inside Mari – The Psychology of Gender Bender Manga by Otakukahn
• Jun to Kaoru – The Small Gender Bender Manga That Had Potential by Otakukahn
• Everyone is Wrong about Onimai by Gomi-San
• Is It Wrong To Genderswap Characters? – Art Commentary by Fionapollo
• Are gender swaps ever successful? by Bookborn 
• The Unexplored Ethics of Body Swaps by Council of Geeks
• What the HELL are GENDERSWAP Episodes? by Saberspark
• Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Too Big for 2023 (Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Being Delayed to 2024)
• As Penance, This Bitch Is Going Back to the Scenario Goldmine (Student Transfer Scenario Reviews Will Resume May 2023)
• Looks Like AI is Here To Stay! (Microsoft Continues Going All Out With AI Integration)
• Oh Shit! Fortnite Really is The Next Roblox! (Fortnite Unreal Editor Announced)

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Rundown (3/12/2023) Natalie Reviews The First “REAL” TSF Manga

• Post published:03/12/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-09 Boku no Shotaiken (My First Time) by Yuzuki Hikaru
• Loot Box Debacles Continue (Austrian Court Rules Loot Boxes Are Gambling)
• Natalie Muses Loosely About Dragon Ball 3D Arena Fighters (A New Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi Announced)
• Natalie Rambles About Dragon Ball A Little (Why Natalie Does Not Care About Modern Dragon Ball)
• Natalie Spent All Week Reading Dragon Ball Fan Comics (And She Hates Dragon Ball Super Even More)
• JRPG, WRPG, ConRPG, ComRPG, Action RPG: Genre Meanings All-Out Attack! (Natalie Participates in the Discourse Surrounding The Term JRPG)
• End & Updates: PBF EA is Ret-2-Go, PS 1985 TDA is Next
• ANYWAY!!!

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Rundown (3/05/2023) Natalie Remembered SapphireFoxx

• Post published:03/05/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:16 Comments

This week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-08 Natalie Remembered That SapphireFoxx Is A Thing
• Why Downloading All of SapphireFoxx’s Stuff Is A Hellish Experience (Natalie Spent 8+ Hours Downloading SapphireFoxx Videos)
• Pokémon Presents Dread & Chores (Pokémon Sleep Re-Announced and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC Announced)
• Never Ever Remember To Play 7-17-11 (Never7 and Ever17 Remakes Announced)
• Natalie Rambles About The History of Luminous Productions (Luminous Productions Is Consolidating Into Square Enix)
• Back 2 Crypto Hell (Natalie Has Been Busy With Crypto Tax Work)

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Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques

• Post published:02/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-07 Various TSF Critiques
• Bergsala’s Thunderful Gets Even More Electric (Thunderful Acquires Studio Fizbin)
• Do the Sock Monkey, A2M! (Behaviour Interactive Acquires SockMonkey Games)
• Natalie’s Adventures in Subtitle Hell (Natalie Wasted Her Sunday Subtitling Pokémon Movies)
• A Delisting of One of the Most Culturally Significant Mobile Games Ever (Rovio Delists the Original Angry Birds)
• It’s Time For Shinji Mikami’s Head To Find A New Home! (Shinji Mikami Leaves Tango Gameworks)
• Natalie is Still Pissed She Gave Up Video Games (Elden Ring Selling 20 Million Copies Makes Natalie All Bitter)
• Natalie Got Too Ambitious, So She’s Pulling a The Hobbit (Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Will Now be a Trilogy)

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Rundown (2/19/2023) Natalie Continues Reading TSF History

• Post published:02/19/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-05 Joka he… [To Joca/Joker] by Ooshima Yumiko
• TSF Showcase #2023-06 An Exchange of Souls by Barry Pain
• Missing That Saints (Cash) Flow (Saints Row (2022) Cost $100 Million)
• Did Natalie KILL a TSF Visual Novel? (Cellular Shift Enters an Indefinite Hiatus)
• Natalie’s Favorite Podcast is DEAD! (The Comedy Button Podcast is Coming To An End)
• The Saga of Bandcamp, An Epic Company, Continues… (Bandcamp Songs Are Coming to Fortnite)
• Ends & Updates: Mice Tea Review Delayed Until April & Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update

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Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)

• Post published:02/12/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:70 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-03 Rintarou Panic! is DOPE!
• TSF Showcase #2023-04 About Sex: Understanding the Body Swap and The Transformation Fetishes by Sr. Estranho
• Libraries and Media as a Public Good (Natalie Rambles About Digital Public Libraries)
• Out With The AAA; In With The Old (Natalie Rambles About The State of AAA & Retro Gaming)
• Are First-Party Nintendo Games AAA Titles? (A Bridge Between Two Segments)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 (Rundown of the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Pikmin 4 is Real-er! (Pikmin 4 Gameplay Reveal)
• From Latin With Love 2 – 23 Years Later (Samba de Amigo is BACK!!!)
• Two Dope Looking Remasters Announced After Being Leaked! (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie Announced)
• Yggdrasil Odyssey – OG Remaster! (Etrian Odyssey I, II, and III are Getting Remastered)
• Nintendo Switch Online Still Sucks, But It Has More Stuff Now (GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance Titles Added to NSO)
• Metroid Prime is BACK! (Metroid Prime Remastered FINALLY Releases for Switch)
• As Requested By 500 People, Here’s A Baten Kaitos Remaster! (Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster Announced)
• LEVEL-5 IS BACK BAY-BEE!!! (Developer Level-5 Announces 3 New Titles)
• Fantasy Life III, but with Only One I (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Announced)
• We Ain’t Deca Sports, We Deca COPS! (DecaPolice Announced)
• Layton’s Back, BAY-BEE!!! (Professor Layton and The New World of Steam Announced)
• Paranormal Sights and Big Confusion (Square Enix Announces Horror Adventure Game Coming Out Next Month)
• Boku no Natsuyasumi VII, BAY-BEE!!! Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation Announced
• Atelier Remake Saga Begins! (Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Announced)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 – Das Ende (Other Announcements From the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Ayesha Erotica And The Quest For Moral Purity (Natalie Rambles About Shunning And Moral Perfectionism)

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Rundown (2/05/2023) Incest Infinitum

• Post published:02/05/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:24 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Incest Infinitum
• TSF Showcase #2023-02 Body Swapper by Mukigurikobo
• Tomb Raiding In The Amazon – NOT An Acquisition (Amazon Leases Tomb Raider IP for $600 Million)
• E3 2023 – Without The Big Three (Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox Will Not Attend E3 2023)
• Halo: Unreal Arena (Update on 343 Industries’ ‘Reorganization’)
• 46 Xbox 360 Games Are Getting Delisted! (But You can still Play 44 of them on Xbox One and Xbox Series)
• Titans Fall, and Fall, and Fall… (Respawn and EA Cancel Single-Player Titanfall Project)
• Hot Takes and Discarding Discourse (Natalie Rambles about Something Petty a Few Years Too Late)
• Ends and Updates: February Blitz

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Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives

• Post published:01/29/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost Private Server is LIVE!
• Natalie FINALLY Partakes in The Wizard Game Discourse (The Futility of Fighting The Powerful With Consumer Action)
• The Call to Ban Pedo Comics! (Natalie Rambles About the Sexualization of Minors – Extension 2023-01)
• Roiland Schmoiland, Who Needs ‘Em? (Justin Roiland Is Being Removed From Various Projects)
• Proletariat CEO Felt BETRAYED When Workers Tried Unionizing (Proletariat Unionization Has Been Withdrawn)
• One Look Rush; Two Word Crush (Tango Gameworks Announces and Releases Hi-Fi Rush)

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Rundown (1/22/2023) DRM Has Ruined Books

• Post published:01/22/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: (Natalie Rambles About Buying eBooks)
• DESTROYING The Callisto Protocol With MATHS and LOGIC (The Callisto Protocol Fails To Meet Sales Expectations)
• The Last of Us And A Message of Selfishness (Why Natalie Dislikes The Story of The Last of Us)
• Translators Are The True Terrorists (Translation Puritans Get Peeved By Fire Emblem Engage Localization)
• Forspoken Beginnings (Natalie Discusses Leaked Footage of Forespoken)
• The Definitive Way to Ruin Friendships! (Dokapon Kingdom Remaster Announced for Switch)
• More Like Halo Finite… (Halo Infinite Developer 343 Industries Downsized)
• Even AAA Games Can Suffer From EoS (End of Service Announced For Marvel’s Avengers)

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Rundown (1/15/2023) MILK TIME IS ALL TIME!!!

• Post published:01/15/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:18 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About TSF Anime – Winter 2023
• TSF Showcase #2023-01 Chichi no Jikan [Breast Milk Time] by Shirota Kuronosuke
• Natalie Rambles About Her Creative Writing Releases for 2023
• Ah Geez, Am I Going To Jail, Rick? (Justin Roiland Faces Felony Domestic Violence Charges)
• Skull and Bones and Delay & Ubisoft Underperformanced (Ubisoft Delaying Games After Bad Holiday Line-Up Failed to Sell)

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Rundown (1/08/2023) Dash & Write!

• Post published:01/08/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:12 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Did Natalie Do This Week?
• Let’s (Net)Ease Into Another Acquisition! (NetEase Acquires Support Studio SkyBox Labs)
• Success in the East; Obscurity in the West! (PUBG Mobile Reached $9 Billion in Revenue)
• A PlayStation For All Peoples (Sony Announces Accessibility Controller with Project Leonardo)
• A Decade-Long Generation (How Much Longer Will Games Be Released For PS4 and Xbox One?)

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Rundown (1/01/2023) Natalie’s Back Home!

• Post published:01/01/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:10 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Back Home!
• Rise of the Proletariat (Activision Blizzard Subsidiary, Proletariat, Seeks Unionization)
• Mages. Lost It’s Magic (Science Adventure Developer Enters Insolvency)
• Dread Ye Naught (Natalie Rambles About Dreadnought)

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Rundown (12/25/2022) Boy Functions Terminated – Intersex State Achieved

• Post published:12/25/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:6 mins read
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This Week’s Topic:

• Natalie got bottom surgery and spent a few days at the hospital

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Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!

• Post published:12/18/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (12/11/2022) Hormonal Hiatus

• Post published:12/11/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (12/04/2022) Hello and Welcome to Natalie Dot TF

• Post published:12/04/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:7 mins read
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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

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Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!

• Post published:11/27/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Student Transfer V7 is Good; Review Coming Before December 7th
• These Wolves Ain’t Rebels No More! (NetEase Invests in Polish Studio Rebel Wolves)
• The ‘Kdicarus’ Will Rise Again (Masahiro Sakurai Teases Kid Icarus: Uprising Port)
• There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Hybrid Home Console Handheld’ (Natalie Complains About the Switch’s Classification for the nth Time)
• More Like T.E.X.T. Troopers (E.X. Troopers Has Been Fan Translated)
• AI-licia Erotica (Alicia’s The Great Shift TG Captions is Back!)
• Video Deliberations (Should Natalie Start Recording Gameplay and Making Videos?)
• End & Updates: Goodbye Dragalia Lost…

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Rundown (11/13-11/19) You Kids Have Fun With Your Pokémons

• Post published:11/20/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:18 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: My lack of participation in yet another gaming event. A pleasant acquisition. My age going +1. The revenge of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. And how Mr. Yuji Naka is not “alright.”

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Rundown (11/06-11/12) My First Exposure to Trans Characters Was Family Compo

• Post published:11/13/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: Some deep Natalie lore. Some pretty boring acquisition stuff. And modern Americana politics.

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Rundown (10/30-11/05) Trash the Twitter

• Post published:11/06/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
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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.

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Rundown (10/23-10/29) Erotic Conundrum – 50 Days Remaining

• Post published:10/30/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:12 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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.

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Rundown (10/16-10/22) Press-Switch v0.6a Is Out & Student Transfer v7.0 Is Coming Next Month

• Post published:10/23/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

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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Rundown (10/09-10/15) Tax Hell + COVID

• Post published:10/16/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: The COVID woes. A Triple Threat of acquisitions. AI art. And ‘Console Gaming on the Go.’

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Rundown (10/02-10/08) Little Ado About Horror

• Post published:10/09/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
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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. 

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Rundown (9/25-10/01) Dope Skinsuit Comic. BIG Inspiration. Inferior Official Distribution.

• Post published:10/02/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

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.

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Rundown (9/18-9/24) Race Change Confessions

• Post published:09/25/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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.

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Rundown (9/11-9/17) Formatting Frustrations 2: Perpetual Aggression

• Post published:09/18/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

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.

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Rundown (9/04-9/10) We Mustn’t Let Dragalia Be Lost!

• Post published:09/11/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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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.

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Rundown (8/28-9/03) Cute Oppressed Lady Of Uniquely Remedial Styles

• Post published:09/04/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

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.

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Rundown (8/21-8/27) Extra Hard & Extra Wet & Extra Ouch

• Post published:08/28/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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.

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Rundown (8/14-8/20) Natalie’s Changing Her Schedule Again…

• Post published:08/21/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

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! 

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