Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pride Month and Transition Reflections
- Student Transfer V8 is Out! (Get HYPE!)
- TSF Showcase 2024-25 True Stories From the Time of The Great Shift by Caleb Jones
- Embracer Group Shuts Down Pieces Interactive (Alone in the Dark (2024) Developer Crumbles Into Pieces)
- Nintendo Direct 2024-06-18 Rundown (Nindai Doko? Nindai Now!)
- The Denpa Boys Are BACK! (Live Service The New Denpa Men Announced)
- The Ace Attorney Saga is Now Complete! (Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Announced)
- Toy Zelda is Back… Unfortunately (Natalie Completely Loses The Plot in Her Latest Rant)
- Ho Hi Jamboree! (Mario Party 13: Super Jamboree Announced)
- Beyond The Emerald Beyond | Minstrel Song Successor (Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Announced)
- This Looks Like a Marvelous Mishmash! (Farmagia Formally Unveiled)
- Mario & Luigi RPG is BACK! (Mario & Luigi: Brothership Announced)
- They Downgraded A Remake of an NES Game! (Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake Re-Announced)
- Versus Capcom is BACK! (Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Announced)
- Do I Want This Fantasy To Come True? (Fantasian Neo Dimension Announced)
- Donkey Kong Re-Re-Re-Returns With His First Game in 7 Years! (Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Announced)
- I want 100 Danganronpas, And I’m Not Kidding! (The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Announced)
- It’s Been 7 Years… (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gameplay Reveal)
- I Should Have Talked About This Two Weeks Ago… (Tribe Nine Looks Like The Coolest Shit*)
- Resident Evil… 1996! (PEGI Leaks a Possible PC Release of the Original Resident Evil)
- Limited Run Rundown! (Sonuva Finch! I Forgot This Was This Week!)
- Two PS1 Games, Emulated Decently, For a Premium Price (Fighting Force Collection Announced)
- Fear Effect Reinvented is Dead, Take This Re-Release (Fear Effect Port Announced)
- Limited Run Should Not Have This Power! (The Carbon Engine Was A Mistake…)
- A Good Remaster Example (Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition Formally Announced)
Rundown (10/22/2023) Natalie is a Homeowner
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I’m A Homeowner!
- TSF Showcase #2023-34 Body Switched by Caleb Jones
- Computer Game Design Vs Console Game Design (A Half-Baked Ramble I Spent Too Much Time on to Cut)
- Touch Detective is Back And Localized! (Not To Be Confused With Touch DIC)
- A Crime Against Nature (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Part Luminescent NEVIV)
Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for Quantified Quality
- TSF Showcase #2023-24: BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi
- NetEase Establishes Their 11th Foreign Studio (NetEase Establishes T-Minus Zero Entertainment)
- This is Why You Don’t Make Deals With Saudi Arabia! (Embracer’s $2 Billion Partner Revealed)
- The Xbox 360 Marketplace Will Die in 11 Months (Backwards Compatible Titles Will Be Preserved)
- Games Do Not Take Too Long To Make; Production Values Are Just Too High (Another Natalie Neumann Mnemonic Nitpick)
- Screw Region Locked Purchases! I Just Want Some City Pop! (Natalie’s Been Jiving to Some Anri While Writing Stuff!)
- How The Frick Should I Represent Body Swaps Via Text? (Mind(Body) or Body(Mind)?)
Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!
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)
Rundown (3/19/2023) Natalie Watched A “TSF” Playlist
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)
Rundown (2/19/2023) Natalie Continues Reading TSF History
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
Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)
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)
TSF Series #016: Darling Lust
From the ashes of EOS and the soul of VoRE, a true and terrible pleasure lives once more. It is Venturers of Radiant the 3rd!
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